Red Mansion Royal Cat

Chapter 309 The Fisherman

Ningrong Jia's family has a total of [-] clan members since the founding of Ningguo and Rongguo.In addition to Ning Rong personally sending Bafang in the capital, there are also twelve families living in Jinling Mansion, their ancestral home.

Whether it is the eighth house under the West Corridor or the twelve house in Jinling's ancestral home, with the blessings of Ningrong and Rongfu, the Jia clan's life is the worst, and they have never been hungry or cold.

During the holidays, as long as the juniors surnamed Jia go to Rongguo Mansion to kowtow to the old lady, they will be rewarded with a silver key, cloth and satin.

It can be said that although the old lady is sometimes confused and sometimes shrewd, the reputation of benevolence is widely spread in the clan and even in the capital.

And things like reputation are really useful sometimes.

For example, this day Jia Cong finally ended his foot restraint career, and went out through the side door to go to the West Corridor.

I didn't want to go out and hadn't walked a few steps when I heard a scream from the second floor of the teahouse not far ahead.

When Jia Cong walked up to the second floor of the teahouse out of curiosity, he saw a group of people forming a circle, raising their feet and stomping on it...

"Brother Cong, this is an assassin who wants to assassinate you."

"Third Uncle Cong, this bastard has been wandering around the west corridor for several days. My nephew has long since discovered that he is sneaky, so I let my brothers keep an eye on him. Sure enough, just as you left the house, he took out this..."

Jia Cong took a closer look, and it turned out to be a crossbow.Made of dark fine iron, the arrows shone with a strange green light.

"Brother Xuan, be careful, the arrow is poisonous!"

Jia Cong reminded, and Jia Xuan was so scared that she almost fell to the ground.

After Jia Shixi took it, he checked it carefully. The hand crossbow should be specially made, and there is no marking of the Imperial Army's standard equipment.

"Stop kicking, people are dead!"

Crash, the surrounding crowd dispersed immediately, and Qi Qi turned his gaze to Jia Cong.

"It wasn't kicked to death, it was a dead man with poisonous pockets hidden in his teeth, and he committed suicide by taking poison after being caught."

Jia Shixi squatted on the ground and performed a simple autopsy: "The calluses on the tiger's mouth are very thick. He is a practitioner. There is even a dagger hidden in his boots, and poison is also applied. He is a cruel man. Young master Xuan, next time you encounter such a thing, don't be reckless, it's too dangerous."

what?
"It's not an emergency. I'm afraid he will hurt Third Uncle Cong. And I used this, and with a snap, I opened the ladle for him, without giving him a chance to resist."

Jia Cong looked at the itchy and proud Jia Xuan showing off with a slingshot, the corners of his mouth twitched.

Ever since he used a slingshot to save his family at Iron Net Mountain, I don't know how many brothers in Jia's family have played with slingshots.

Moreover, this group of men who are not short of money are all made of refined iron. If you want to attack people, it is enough to go to the county government prison.

"Brother Xuan, don't be reckless next time. This time I was careless and didn't dodge. If I get scratched by this man's poisonous arrow, I won't even have time to cry."

Jia Cong stood on tiptoe, patted the shoulder of his nephew, who was ten years older than him, and said gratefully but earnestly: "Sister-in-law Qi is just a son like you, it's fine. If you encounter similar things in the future, come to the mansion early and tell me. Don't you like playing with knives? I will go to the palace in a few days and see if I can get you a good knife."

Jia Xuan was overjoyed when she heard that: "Really? That's great, nephew, thank you third uncle!"

"Really, really... Everyone saved my life today, let's go, let's go to Nanchifang City to have a drink and have fun!"

With a wave of Jia Cong's hand, the group of Jia brothers on the second floor of the teahouse suddenly cheered.

A group of people was mighty, killing towards Nanchifang City.Before leaving, Jia Shiyi took a special look at the two people who almost left the teahouse together, and secretly ordered Erlang to follow.

After Jia Cong finished inviting the guests and returned to Rongguo Mansion, the soldiers had already thrown Wuming who died in the teahouse to the Long Guard.

Holding a plate of fruit, he ate it with relish and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Jia Shixi handed over a letter: "It's a dead man from Dongping County Prince's Mansion..."

"As expected."

Jia Cong took the letter and read it, and Jia Shixi continued to report: "Coveral Governor Cao arranged for someone to follow, and the people of Young Master Xuan were also secretly reminded by the Long Guard. This person was actually hit by the flying needle of the Long Guard's dark guard when Young Master Xuan opened the ladle."

Ok.

This is also expected, a creature like a dead man is not easily attacked by a young man like Jia Xuan.

"Dudu Cao said, let the third master try not to leave the mansion recently. His Majesty came to fish, and the guards of the Dragon Guards follow the dead men of Dongping County's mansion every day these days. They intend to follow the vines and catch all the dead men trained by the Qian family. They have already found some clues."

"Then don't go out. Since our majesty is interested in fishing, let's quietly be the bait and see if the fish your majesty catches is big or not."

Jia Cong was kind, so he put away the letter and went to Rongxi Hall.After telling the old lady about it, the grandparents and grandson made up their minds and sent someone to the Tai Hospital to invite an imperial doctor in the afternoon.

……

The Mrs. Tai of Rongguo Mansion was "ill" again, which even alarmed the palace.

Empress Dowager Cao gave a lot of supplements and medicinal materials, and people from Ningrong and Rongfu, including Jia Zheng, went to the yamen to sue for sickness.

The days of looseness on the inside and tightness on the outside continued until the winter moon, when the cold wind blew through the capital, and when the Rongguo Mansion began to burn stoves and kangs, a major event that shocked the government and the public suddenly broke out in the capital.

On the eleventh night of the winter moon, the Dragon Guards raided the palace of the Dongping County Prince, and the fighting subsided in the middle of the night.All the prefectures in the square spent the night tremblingly, and the Jingyang bell rang in the palace before dawn on the second day.

Jia Lian didn't return all night, and when the bell rang, he slowly returned to the house, and dragged Jia Cong out of the warm bed: "Hurry up and change into court clothes, there is a great event!"

Jia Cong fell into a drowsy sleep, his mind still not very clear.

He rubbed his eyes, but he didn't notice that Jia Lian was wearing armor with blood on it.

"Big happy event? Second sister-in-law is pregnant again?"

Snapped!
A slap on the head immediately woke up Jia Cong a lot.

I only heard Jia Lian say: "The Qian family is finished. Yesterday Cao Dudu called me over and mobilized a large army to raid the palace of Dongping County. Although the Qian family got the news from somewhere and fled ahead of time, from now on, there will be no Dongping County king in Great Xia!"

This is really a happy event!

Fire dragons had already been set ablaze in Fengtian Hall, and Jia Cong looked at the Wu Xun standing around him. At this time, only Qi Wenhua, king of Xining County, was left among the four kings with different surnames.

There are only three or two big cats and two small cats in the Eight Dukes and Twelve Marquises, and the only one who can be regarded as a big boss is Prince Teng who is standing in front of him.

"Qian Kangshi colluded with the Jurchens and conspired against the law. I have ordered the search of the palace of the Dongping County Prince, arresting the Qian family and others."

boom!
There was an uproar in the hall, and Liu Heng looked extremely angry. He threw the stack of papers in his hand under Majesty Dan with a clatter, and roared: "The Qian family has been in cahoots with the Jurchen, Goryeo and even the Japanese kingdom for a long time, but you don't know anything about it. The Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Dali Temple, the Dragon Guard...the imperial court has so many monitoring offices, but there is no news at all.

"Your Majesty, please calm down for the crimes committed by the ministers!"

"Calm your anger? I can calm my anger, but where does the stability of the country and the stability of the people come from?"

Liu Heng flicked his sleeves suddenly: "Wang Ziteng..."

"The minister is here."

Suddenly being called, Wang Ziteng immediately stood up and bowed in response.

"Qing is in control of the nine provinces. He also inspected Liaodong before and told me that everything is fine in Liaodong. Now that the Jurchen has rebelled, she secretly helped Qian's rebellion and escaped from the capital. You can go to Liaodong. When will Jurchen be leveled and Qian's rebellious beheaded, will you come back?"

Wang Ziteng thought in his heart that it was not good. It is true that he is in control of the nine provinces, but he doesn't have many soldiers under his command.

Now most of the troops in Liaodong are under the command of Jing Wang Liu Yi, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan.

Moreover, Liaodong is not his home field. If he goes to Liaodong, his nine-province control may become a fish on the chopping board and be slaughtered by others!
Seeing Wang Ziteng's delay in responding, Liu Heng snorted coldly: "What? Wang Aiqing, don't you want to go?"

Wang Ziteng resisted forcefully, his face was full of loyalty.

"The minister, Prince Teng, leads the decree!"

"The situation is urgent, Wang Aiqing don't delay, let's go now."

Liu Heng didn't send troops, and he didn't say that he gave the king's order flag, and didn't even give him a tiger charm for dispatching troops, so he let the prince vacate Beijing and go north.

Several martial arts families who are close to Wang Ziteng almost all took a deep breath and shrunk their necks quietly.

Wang Ziteng knew that this matter was unavoidable, if he hesitated at all today, maybe his home would be the next one to be copied.

He bowed and promised, and then he resigned from the palace and hurried back to his residence to arrange his departure from Beijing.

Before the storm in the hall was over, Liu Heng aimed his spearhead at the Prince's Mansion of Xining County.

"King of Xining, I heard that a stone turtle was dug out in Hexi, engraved with 'Xuanwu came out of Hexi, Xining will be the king of the world.' Qi Aiqing thinks, how should I deal with this matter?"

Plopping, Qi Wenhua knelt down without hesitation, and there were three thuds: "Your Majesty, the Xining Palace is loyal to His Majesty and has never changed his mind. Someone is setting up this minister!"

"Qian Kangshi also said such things to Father Huang, and the Huo family that sank into the canal, too!"

Liu Heng didn't get too entangled in this issue, but said coldly: "The four kings with different surnames are divided into the east, west, north, and south of Daxia. The royal family has never treated you badly. I don't want the Xining palace to follow in the footsteps of the Huo family and the Qian family one day!"

dong dong dong...

Qi Wenhua broke out in a cold sweat, and kowtowed to show his loyalty: "I will bear in mind your Majesty's teachings, and I will definitely not learn from those chaotic officials and thieves, it is a debt of grace!"

……

The Prince's Mansion of Dongping County betrayed Daxia, and this turmoil swept the entire capital.

After the Dragon Guards searched the palace, they found a large number of letters. After screening, a large number of Dragon Guards left from the four gates and rushed to the distance.

Not many mansions were confiscated in the capital, and the Qian family had already offended the Second Sage since the year before last, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that they couldn't make friends with them.

Those that can be broken have been broken long ago, and those that cannot be broken have also secretly explained the relationship between the two governments to the emperor.

"Jia Xiaosan, how is your reading going?"

The emperor, who had finished approving the papers, put down the vermilion pen in his hand, and suddenly came over and tapped Jia Cong's head, who was wandering around and staring blankly.

Jia Cong, who had come to his senses, quickly replied respectfully: "Ah? Your Majesty, the teacher said that I have already passed the government examination, but there are still some shortcomings in policy theory. Recently, I have given me a lot of homework and asked me to go around the city more often to understand the people's sentiments. He said that only by traveling thousands of miles can we have something to say in policy theory. Otherwise, it is empty talk and gold jade."

"That being the case, I have given you a task..."

Liu Heng walked up to the dragon case, found a memorial and handed it to Jia Cong: "This is a memorial submitted by Shuntian Mansion yesterday. Since the 35th year of Zhaowu, there will be a large number of refugees flocking to the capital every winter. I have ordered the crown prince to take charge of this year's relief. You are an official of the East Palace, so go with me."

Jia Cong only glanced at the various data recorded on the memorial, then closed it and bowed to promise.

I don't want Liu Heng to continue to say: "I don't just ask you to assist the prince to help the refugees. The most important thing is to find out why these refugees arise and how to eradicate them, rather than simply releasing food for relief. Fangshan County has the most refugees. When the household department's food arrangements are in place, you and the prince will go to Fangshan."

This time, Jia Cong's face became more dignified, and he bowed down and said: "The minister Jia Cong leads the order, and will definitely investigate this matter and share your worries!"

Jia Cong, who had left Qinzheng Hall, hadn't taken a few steps before he was called to the East Palace by Prince Liu Hong who had been waiting for a long time.

Liu Hong said straight to the point: "Mr. Qingteng secretly investigated Fangshan County. Because it is adjacent to Xishan, there are many relatives of the emperor and nobles in Beijing who are staking land in Fangshan, threatening and luring people to donate land at a low price or even free of charge. They even dug up the dry river embankment this summer, flooding most of Fangshan and causing natural disasters to force people to sell their land to survive. This time, we will go to Fangshan as the first stop to see who dared to make such a funeral at the feet of the emperor. Madness."

Jia Cong already had the answer in his heart. The teacher is really generous, and he was able to promote such a big action in such a short period of time.

Not only can it cover up its purpose of investigating the Wang family, but it also uncovers the scandal of those unscrupulous dignitaries staking their land in one fell swoop.

Is this the teacher's second shot at land annexation?

Jia Cong dealt with the confident and righteous crown prince for a while, and rushed to Xu's mansion as soon as he left the palace.

Xu Jin has been waiting for him in the mansion for a long time, and he threw Jia Cong a large stack of account books as soon as he entered the study.

"These things are the statistics of the classification, ownership and abnormal transactions of the land in the states and counties of Gyeonggi these days. You take it and take a good look. Before the end of the year, you have to make a detailed and useful strategy, how to alleviate the problem of my land annexation."

what?
"Fight the local tyrants and divide the land."

"The fields of the world, the people of the world work together!"

Snapped!
Xu Jin couldn't help giving his apprentice a slap on the head.

"Your family is a local tyrant. You want to kill yourself and divide your own fields? Also, it's a good idea to farm all fields under the same roof, but it's not realistic."

Jia Cong scratched the back of his head. The best solution for land annexation is actually the GM of the land of the previous great-grandfather, nationalized it, and then implemented the household contract responsibility system.

But this method has no soil for implementation at the moment.

The Central Plains dynasty has always attached great importance to farming, and the common people regard land as the most valuable thing. As long as they have money, the first thing to do is to buy land.

Alas, this really gave Jia Cong a headache. Looking at the thick stack of account books, he asked his teacher bitterly: "The student has thought about this, and he has also imagined several ways in his mind. But teacher, the student has always had a question. Reformers have never ended well. The teacher wants to set off a wave of reform again and again, so don't you worry about following in the footsteps of Lord Shang?"

Monthly ticket recommendation ticket

　The weather changed suddenly, the temperature dropped sharply, and I developed a fever after being exposed to rain.

　　My head is dizzy, so I will stop here first and continue tomorrow.Good night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)