Red House Shoufu

Chapter 125
After the end of the court meeting, civil and military officials walked out of Fengtian Hall one after another.

Originally, Lin Shu was going to wait for Jia She to ask some questions, but he didn't expect Jia She to be called away by the emperor.

"Master Ge, slow down!"

Lin Shu saw Wei Qinghe, the chief minister of the cabinet, was about to step over the threshold, so he quickly grabbed his arm.

"It's Jinyu, why haven't you left yet?"

Wei Qinghe had just walked out of the hall, and the dazzling sunlight outside the hall made him a little uncomfortable.

Lin Shu helped Wei Qinghe move forward slowly, and said as he walked: "Xiaguan originally wanted to wait for his uncle to ask some questions, but unexpectedly he was called by His Majesty."

"You're talking about Jia Enhou, right? He's such an interesting person." Wei Qinghe said with a smile: "The eyes of Duke Xianrong are really bright. No one will dare to provoke Jia Enhou after making such a fuss. People from Rongguo Mansion."

In the past, Jia She could only stay at home and play with women, but now it is different, as long as he is shameless and rolls around in Fengtian Temple, the emperor will take care of him even for the sake of the late Rong Guogong Jia Daishan.

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In the Palace of Qinzheng, Jia Amnesty sat respectfully on the cotton stool, staring at the emperor.

The emperor suddenly asked: "Marquis Jia En, do you also think that I am a mean and ungrateful person?"

"I never think that His Majesty is a mean and ungrateful person..."

Before Jia She could finish his words, the emperor slapped the table: "Then what's the matter with you and Jia Jing? One hides outside the city to practice alchemy and Taoism, and the other hides at home to play with women. Why, I will So it scares you?"

"I'm guilty!" Jia She knelt down with a puff, "Prince... After that incident, there are people who have been watching. If I dare to make a move, the Rongguo Mansion will be reduced to ashes. I dare not, the Rongguo Mansion cannot be destroyed by the minister. hands."

The emperor walked up to Jia Amnesty and helped him up: "Oh, I also understand your situation at that time. Not to mention you, even I am trembling, and if you are not careful, all previous efforts will be wasted."

The two monarchs and ministers sat down again, and Xia Shouzhong served tea to them.The emperor looked at Jia She, who had gray temples, and lamented the impermanence of the world.

"I have received what you asked Lao Jiu to bring. I called you here today because I want you to come out of the mountain again and take charge of Zuo Weiwei's soldiers and horses for me."

Ok?
Jia Amnesty's face was in disbelief, and his eyes widened in shock: "Your Majesty, you let the minister be in charge of Zuo Weiwei? That is a forbidden army of 10,000 taels."

The emperor nodded, and said solemnly: "That's right, it's Zuo Weiwei. There are many people I can use, but only you are the most suitable."

"Is it because of Wang Ziteng?" Jia Amnesty was not a fool, and when he heard the three words most suitable, he thought of what it was for.

When Jia Daishan was in Beijing, he was always the chief general of Zuo Weiwei.Therefore, among Zuoweiwei, Rongguo Mansion's prestige is extremely high.

Wang Ziteng once used the power of the Rongguo Mansion to secure the position of the Jingying Jiedushi.The emperor's power in the army is limited, if he wants to regain control of the Beijing camp from Wang Ziteng, he needs the support of Wu Xun.

Jia She, the contemporary Patriarch of Rongguo Mansion, is an excellent candidate.Although the reputation is not very good, the emperor knows the inside story.Seeing that the Supreme Emperor's body is getting worse day by day, there is not much time left for him, and if he does not act, he is really afraid that those people will kill him into the palace when the mountain collapses.

The emperor said bluntly: "The old thirteen has the support of Wang Ziteng, and has won many generals in the imperial army. Now they want to reach out to Zuo Weiwei. If I don't act again, I'm afraid I won't even be able to sleep well."

Although the emperor told Jia Amnesty the reason, he still hesitated: "The current state of the minister, do you really feel relieved to let the minister lead the army?"

"If Marquis Jia En can't even manage to bring a guard and horse, then the prince and the emperor did not believe in the wrong person back then? Well, this matter is settled like this. I will let the cabinet draw up an order in a while, and you go back and make preparations." Bar."

The emperor directly set the tone, and Jia Amnesty had no choice but to bow and accept the order: "I would like to obey His Majesty's will, and I will go back to prepare and take office as soon as possible."

"Go ahead, take control of this elite army for me as soon as possible..." The emperor gave Jia She a few words and let him leave the palace.

After Jia Amnesty left, Xia Shouzhong asked puzzledly: "Your Majesty, forgive me for talking too much. After all, the concubine Xian was born in the Rongguo Mansion. Now that General Jia is in charge of Zuo Weiwei, isn't it... a matter of foreign relatives, which is not allowed." Don't guard against it."

The emperor smiled, opened a memorial and began to review it.He wrote a reading word casually and threw it aside.

"Big Companion, compared to the elite soldiers of the two important towns on the Nine Sides, which one do you think is more frightening, the position of General Zuo Weiwei, which is almost a false title?"

Xia Shouzhong thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "Your Majesty is wise, it's the servant who is worrying too much."

The land of Shaanxi and Gansu has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.It borders the Central Plains in the east, the Western Regions in the west, the grasslands in the north, and Sichuan and Shu in the south.

Jia Amnesty handed over all the troops of Rongguo Mansion in Yansui Town and Guyuan Town to the emperor, directly adding two towns of elite soldiers to the emperor's command.

At the same time, let the emperor pinch the vital point of the Xining County Prince's Mansion, that is, the grain road.Without the supplies from the Central Plains, relying only on the harvest in the Hehuang Valley, the tens of thousands of troops under the command of the Prince of Xining, even had an extravagant hope of filling their stomachs.

Moreover, if Jia Amnesty takes over Zuo Weiwei, even if it is only in name, with the Rongguo Mansion's signboard, he can at least collect half of his loyalty.

Waiting for the emperor to continue to deploy his troops to Zuo Weiwei, at most two years, the emperor will be able to completely control the elite Zuo Weiwei, one of the twelve guards.

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But when Lin Shu returned to the cabinet, Wei Qinghe asked the clerk to send him a lot of notes.

"Ge Lao said that these are memorials of water conditions in various parts of Henan, let Xueshi Lin read more."

Lin Shu nodded and signaled the scribe to step back.

Then he opened several of them and looked at them. Most of them were requests for help, and the amount of gold and silver needed ranged from 1 to [-] million.

"This group of people, are they crazy about money?"

If Lin Shu didn't know the inside story, he would really have been deceived by the tragic scene depicted by this group of people.

Henan is really miserable, but it is definitely not to the extent that the central government needs to allocate funds again.Last month, the Ministry of Household Affairs just allocated 1 million taels of silver to the chief envoy of Henan Province. How long has it taken for the people affected by the disaster to eat up the 1 million taels of silver?

He took out a piece of paper and began to extract useful information from this pile of memorials for comparison.

For example, Kaifeng Mansion, Henan Mansion, Luoyang Mansion, and Weihui Mansion were all severely affected, and there were even a large number of beggars under the rule of Weihui Mansion.Zhang Jing, the prefect of Weihui Mansion, asked the emperor to allow Weihui Mansion to open the Changping warehouse and open the warehouse to release grain.

Lin Shu's eyes suddenly focused on a memorial: "Since the end of April in the eighth year of Zhizhide, the Henan government has been raining cats and dogs for several days, and the embankment of the Yellow River has burst several times... By the time the officials and the people worked together to block the breach, the flood had already reached its peak." Thousands of people are homeless."

Lin Shu picked out several memorials, opened them and lined them up, staring at the water level reported by the upstream Henan Mansion and the downstream Kaifeng Mansion.

"It's strange. It has been raining heavily upstream for several days, but the water level downstream is not as high as upstream, and the sea is even calm. Could it be that the water that came up from the sky was taken back by God again?"

　I was too sleepy to keep my eyes open, so I fell asleep. If there is a typo, I will correct it tomorrow.Good night!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)