Red House Shoufu

Chapter 381

In the Longshou Palace, Gao Yongheng Balabala told the whole story to the Supreme Emperor. At the beginning, he jumped and scolded the Pingyang Hou Mansion and other houses for being immoral, but then he died down under the Supreme Emperor's eyes that hated iron and steel.

"So, for such a long time, you can't even get an engagement?"

"Ah? Father, didn't my son just say that Lin Shu didn't want to get in, and Jiang'er and Lin's girl had to be in love to agree to this marriage. No, during this period of time, in Jiang'er's After working hard, the attitude of the girl from the Lin family has softened a bit..."

Before Gao Yongheng finished speaking, the Supreme Emperor looked at him contemptuously and scolded: "The Lin family did not object to Jiang'er's relationship with Miss Lin, and even created many conditions for their relationship. But what about you? Every day is not an eagle Fighting dogs is just listening to music and singing operas, and doesn't care about such important things...Jiang'er has you as an incomprehensible father, he has suffered eight lifetimes of misfortune!"

The Supreme Emperor is so angry, why is this son so unresponsive.

The daughter of the boudoir, the word does not leak out.The Lin family allowed Daiyu to exchange letters with Gao Wanjiang, which was already a great convenience, and it gave the Zhongshun Palace enough face.

As for Gao Yongheng, he really only listened to Lin Shu's words on the scene. In the past few months, he has been watching Gao Wanjiang pick up his own wife from a distance, and has no intention of helping him.

This made other people in the capital think that the palace had a dispensable attitude towards the daughter of the Lin family, which led to today's incident.

"Dai Quan!"

The Supreme Emperor slapped Gao Yongheng on the back of the head, angrily called Dai Quan, and ordered: "Go and fetch the pair of jade Ruyi that King Gaochang paid tribute to during the Longevity Festival, give one to Jianger, and give the other to you." Go to the Lin Mansion and give it to the girl of the Lin family."

Dai Quan was stunned for a moment, and asked: "Saint, what if someone asks the reason for the reward? How should the old slave answer?"

"I want to reward a person, what reason do I have to find?"

The Supreme Emperor stared and said domineeringly: "If someone asks, you can just say that I think Miss Lin is a good child, and my grandson is also a good child! I just like good children!"

The corner of Dai Quan's mouth twitched. The old man is expressing his opinion to the world. Don't compete with me for his granddaughter-in-law, otherwise your child will not be a good boy...

"The old slave understands, this is the arrangement!"

When Dai Quan left the main hall of Longshou Palace, the Supreme Emperor looked at Gao Yongheng who was still in a daze, and he didn't get angry. He slapped him again, and with a slap, Gao Yongheng was clutching the back of his head in a daze.

"Father, why are you beating your son again?"

"Are you still wronged? It's not that you don't know what kind of temperament your imperial sister is. Why provoke her? How many people in Beijing don't know what that little beast looks like. Do you think the Lin family will take a fancy to him agreeing to get married? It's so stupid ,fool!"

The Supreme Emperor raised his hand, and Gao Yongheng immediately shrank his neck and said, "Son, he was so angry that he lost his head. Besides, Yan Kanglei got into trouble again yesterday. He didn't pay the girl in the brothel... after that, he made a fuss. There is a lot of uproar in Dedong City, and the royal family has lost all face. As a real uncle, my son went to discipline him today, which is not too much!"

When Gao Yongheng went to smoke Yan Kanglei, he did it in the name of discipline.

He still had the official position of patrolling the city censor, and it happened that after Yan Kanglei stayed in the brothel, not only did he not pay him, but he also robbed the brothel of several thousand taels of silver.

Such a good excuse, if you don't use it, Gao Yongheng will feel sorry for the great opportunity God gave him.As for Yan Kanglei being his nephew, well, does the king lack a nephew?What this king lacks now is a daughter-in-law!

Gao Yongheng has also figured out the temperament of the Supreme Emperor, and after he said these words, the Supreme Emperor's expression towards him became much better.

"You've done one thing right... If this little bastard hadn't been born in your imperial sister's womb, I would have killed him long ago."

The Supreme Emperor valued the royal reputation more than anyone else, and he liked grandsons like Gao Wanjiang from the bottom of his heart.In contrast, Yan Kanglei, the grandson who was extremely miserable, wished to be hung from a tree and have a thorny whip whipped fiercely.

Gao Yongheng looked at the old man whose attitude was obviously softened, and asked tentatively: "Father, the son is not only for Jiang Er's affairs, but mainly because Yan Kanglei has gone too far. Sister Linchuan is too spoiled. Discipline, if you let him stay in the capital again, I don’t know how many things will happen. Or, send him to Jiubian to grind his temper?"

The Supreme Emperor glanced at Gao Yongheng meaningfully, and said softly, "You are tempering your temper? You can tell your imperial sister yourself."

"Forget it, anyway, it's not my son who has a headache."

"Unbearable!"

When Gao Yongheng didn't know these four words, he was still talking about Yan Kanglei, so he didn't answer the words.

This is when the servant guarding the gate outside the hall came in to report: "Saint, Princess Linchuan is asking to see you outside the hall."

Gao Yongheng shrank his head when he heard the words, and was about to hide in the back hall.The Supreme Emperor kicked him and said, "You will deal with the trouble you caused yourself!"

Gao Yongheng took advantage of the situation and sat down on the ground, hugging the Taishanghuang's thigh and did not let go: "Farewell, Father, Sister Linchuan is too aggressive, son should stay away."

"Go away, go to Taimiao and copy the "Book of Filial Piety" for me for two days. I have dreamed of your emperor's ancestor these days..."

The Supreme Emperor also knew that Gao Yongheng wasn't really afraid of Linchuan, but just didn't want to argue with a woman, and Linchuan was his imperial sister after all, how could a younger brother compete with his elder sister.So he found an excuse to find a place for Gao Yongheng to avoid trouble, but Linchuan had no way to go to Taimiao to find Gao Yongheng's trouble, so after hiding for two days, the matter was over.

……

Since the Supreme Emperor took the throne, the number of times Dai Quan left the palace can be counted on one's fingers.

Especially today, Dai Quan laid out all the guards of honor of the Dragon Head Palace, holding a yellow satin brocade box and wearing a purple-red unicorn robe. in a circle.

"My servant greets Duke Dai, you haven't come to court for a long time, today this is..."

"Hey, little Dezi, it's been a long time. Our family is following the order of the sage to send this pair of jade Ruyi to Prince Zhongshun and Princess Rongjia!"

"Hey, Eunuch Dai, are you going out of the palace on business?"

"Hello, General Chen, our family is ordered to leave the palace. What? What are you talking about? The pair of Yu Ruyi that King Gaochang made offerings to last year, the sage said that Prince Zhongshun and Rongjia County Lord are good boys, and his old man likes good boys." , and it was given. One for each person!"

Dai Quan had not been out of the palace for a long time, and he put up such a battle as soon as he left the palace, naturally many people were curious.

No matter it was the servants in the palace or the soldiers guarding the palace, whenever someone asked An to ask, Dai Quan would explain a few words with a smile.

By the time the team left Dachumen, the news that the Supreme Emperor had rewarded Gao Wanjiang, the eldest son of the Zhongshun Prince, and Lin Daiyu, the head of Rongjia County, had already spread from the palace to the outside of the palace, and almost all the officials in the imperial city who worked in the yamen had heard the news .

Wei Qinghe smiled and said to Qian Qianli: "Who dares to say that our Lord Zhongshun is a dandy? The potential sage broke the game."

"Do you want to remind Jinyu?" Qian Qianli frowned and asked.

I only heard Wei Qinghe say: "No, there are some things that he needs to figure out by himself. Since he is determined to walk a road full of hardships and dangers, this kind of small trouble of bumps and bumps is a rare tempering."

……

When Lin Shu and Gao Wanjiang returned to the Lin Mansion, Wang Lun had already inquired about the affairs of the Pingyang Hou Mansion.

"My lord, according to the news that the villain heard, Yan Lingyuan, Marquis of Pingyang, became seriously ill once every three years in Zhide, and his health was not as good as before. His eldest son, Yan Kangyou, the eldest son of Marquis of Pingyang, has been serving the left and right sides, and he is well-known in Pingyang Mansion as a dutiful son. But the second son, Yan Kanglei, will not pass..."

Wang Lun gave a detailed account of the affairs of the Marquis of Pingyang in Pingyang, Shanxi and the capital, for Lin Shu's reference.

In the end, he also talked about various speculations in the rumors of the people in the capital: "There are rumors in the workshop that when Princess Linchuan gave birth to her eldest son, Yan Kangyou, she almost died of dystocia, so she always felt that the eldest son was unknown and had a very bad relationship with her. In addition, she doted on her youngest son. Yan Kanglei has persuaded the Marquis of Pingyang many times to write a letter to change Yan Kanglei as his son, and this time to ask for a girl should have something to do with changing his son."

In the study, apart from Wang Lun's voice, there was only the rhythmic sound of Lin Shu's fingers tapping on the table.

After a long time, Lin Shu said in a deep voice: "It can't be that simple. Princess Linchuan knows that changing the son of the Marquis Mansion is not based on some kind of favor or other people's support. The system of the country is that His Majesty must abide by it. Just because Yan Kangyou is a filial son, the Ministry of Rites will always be on his side. Your Majesty is afraid of those old masters in the Ministry of Rites, do you think Princess Linchuan will not understand this?"

Wang Lun couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the things about the Ministry of Rites that he had inquired about when he was wandering around the market.

There are two most outstanding aspects of the Ministry of Rites of the Great Chu Dynasty. One is to stand on the side of justice.

Regardless of whether you think they are right or not, in the end they can only be right!
Although sometimes Lin Shu did not agree with some of the views of the Ministry of Rites, it has to be said that the Ministry of Rites' adherence to benevolence, righteousness and morality has largely maintained social fairness and justice.

In the 42nd year of Longsheng, Princess Linchuan tortured the Supreme Emperor for a long time, and the Supreme Emperor had no choice but to change Yan Kanglei as Pingyang Hou Shizi.

At that time, Qi Bohan, who was the minister of the Ministry of Rites, led the Ministry of Rites, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the officials of the Sixth Division, and almost overturned the entire palace.

At that time, the Supreme Emperor was also angry, and the two sides refused to give in to each other. This directly led to the court not going to the court for a month. It was not until there was a military disaster in the coastal areas of the South China Sea that the Supreme Emperor gave in for the sake of the overall situation, and then let the Ministry of Rites give up.

Of course, Yan Kanglei's closest chance to be the son of the world disappeared in such a hasty manner.

Even His Majesty the Supreme Emperor of Tian Khan can't handle those people in the Ministry of Rites. Just relying on Princess Linchuan and being married to the Lin family can change the centuries-old etiquette system of the country?how is this possible?

Lin Shu didn't think he had such a great ability to compete with the Ministry of Rites, what's more, he didn't think Yan Kanglei was a thing at all, how could he marry his younger sister to such a family.

He asked Wang Lun: "Then what about the other families? Why did Qiqi suddenly start thinking about our family?"

Wang Lun took out a piece of information from his bosom, flipped through it and handed one of them to Lin Shu: "My lord, this is the latest situation of Yingchuanbo Mansion, Nanyang Bo Mansion, and Feng Enbo Mansion. The villain asked people to check. After looking at the contacts of these three companies in recent years, I found that they were all involved in smuggling in the north and maritime trade in the south. By the way, Princess Linchuan also has connections with Jiangnan maritime merchants. Sent from the south by the canal."

"Haimao? You think highly of these people too!"

If it is said that Lin Shu doesn't know much about smuggling in the north, then Lin Shu knows the situation of maritime trade very well.

The establishment of the Shibo Department is inextricably linked to Lin Shu's idea of ​​writing to the emperor at that time, and the entire Dachu maritime trade is carried out through several major Shibo Departments.

Maritime merchants big and small, Lin Shu and Lin Shu, who have been registered with the government, have known about it, definitely not including Yingchuan Bo Wu's family, Nanyang Bo Liu's family, and Feng Enbo Zhou's family.

Three years ago, the imperial court established Songjiang and Quanzhou Shipbuilding Departments. Almost all the maritime merchants in the south of the Yangtze River who had been involved in smuggling went to the government for filing. After all, the imperial army was staring at them with knives outside the city. It's better than being dead.

Since then, except for the maritime merchants related to the pirates, the rest of them have gone the way of Shibosi.Since these three companies have not registered with the Shibo Department, it is likely that they are connected with pirates.

"The benefits of maritime trade really make these people not afraid of the majesty of the law, and like to take risks!"

Lin Shu sighed, and told Wang Lun: "In the past few days, you should put the other things on hand first, and focus on investigating these three... and the situation of Pingyang Marquis Mansion. Including how they came up with our idea, Must find out."

"Master, there is something that the villain doesn't know whether he should say..."

Wang Lun's hesitation to speak made Lin Shu curious. According to Wang Lun's temperament, if there was any gossip, he would have been unable to bear it.

"Tell me, seeing how uncomfortable you are, I feel uncomfortable too!"

"Well, the main reason is that the villain doesn't know if it's true or not..."

Wang Lun smiled wryly and said, "The villain was in the Jade Building two days ago... Well, the villain was working in the Jade Building. I heard from that sister that someone in the palace revealed the contents of a copy of the uncle."

Lin Shu asked alertly, "What book?"

"About the new coup law! The villain didn't find out the specific content. I originally planned to check it out in the next two days..."

hiss!
Lin Shu took a deep breath, if he had a copy of the business tax reform, then he might be in big trouble.

Moreover, if this matter is true, each family suddenly begged to marry Daiyu, I am afraid that Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is aimed at Peigong, whether it is to find out or prepare to threaten him in the future, he needs to investigate carefully.

……

The garden of the Lin Mansion is exquisite and there is almost no shortage of flowers in all seasons. There is a thick stack of books on the stone table in front of Daiyu.

These are the latest scripts that Gao Wanjiang found everywhere, especially the latest volume of "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio". Although it is a bit scary, his sister Gao Yunwan said that it will definitely satisfy Daiyu.

Daiyu skillfully brewed the tea and handed a cup to Gao Wanjiang who was sitting opposite.She looked at Gao Wanjiang's black eyes, and almost laughed out loud. She suppressed her smile and managed to maintain her ladylike appearance before asking, "Is there anyone in this capital who dares to fight His Royal Highness? The wound on this face..."

　Warmly celebrate the successful holding of the No. 20th Communist Party of China!

　　There is still an afterthought to write today, so I will stop here first, and continue tomorrow!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)