Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 101 Drinking
Taking advantage of the chaos, he slipped out of the Emperor's bedroom, Yanguang Courtyard.

Chen Si called a servant and followed him to the place where the boards were laid.

It wasn't that he wanted to be beaten, it was mainly because the brothers were all beaten, and he just slipped away.

Although they are separated enough now.

A huge set of guards of honor rushed towards him in a hurry, Yiyong looked at it, and when he saw the walking chariot representing the imperial concubine, he and the little eunuch avoided their positions, stood on the road, bent over salute.

It stands to reason that when the owner of the chariot sees a prince saluting himself, he should stop to return the salute.

But the owner of this guard of honor obviously had no such intention, but ignored the prince who was saluting towards him, and hurriedly ran towards the West Garden.

It's just that when he passed by the prince, he seemed to feel a pair of angry eyes sweeping over his body.

After the guard of honor walked away, Yi Yong straightened up.

"That's Concubine Zhen's guard of honor, right?"

Yi Yong looked at the guard of honor going away and said.

"Your Majesty's good eyesight is exactly the guard of honor of Concubine Zhen."

The little eunuch behind him bowed and replied.

"Understood, let's go."

"Yes."

King Zhongxin is abolished, and now Concubine Zhen's only support is the Zhen family.And the Zhen family is just relying on the old lady. Once the old lady leaves, the Zhen family will just be an ordinary big family in the south of the Yangtze River.

They are no longer enough to make themselves face up to it.

Forget it, anyway, let her stare at him a few times and it won't lose a piece of meat, so let's stare!

. . . . . .

"Hahaha, brother Lu, I respect you a bowl! Do it!"

"Dry!"

On the banks of the Qinhuai River, in a large box on the third floor of a restaurant.

Jia Hun is receiving Lu Da who came from afar.

Knowing that Lu Da is not a womanizer, Jia Hun specially arranged the banquet in the most elegant restaurant along the entire Qinhuai River, and no one called her.

I just invited a Pingtan troupe who specially played at the banquet, and told the story of Du Shiniang in Wu Nong's soft language.

"The slender and romantic Du Shiniang fell in Pingkang with self-pity.

She is like falling flowers dancing with the wind, with flying catkins and scattered tears. "

Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

The stomach is full, now is the time to drink wine and talk
Jia Hui took the initiative to persuade him to drink, but Lu Da seemed not very interested, as if he was just trying to save face.

Seeing this, Jia Hun put down the wine bowl.

"My brother seems to be... not very interested today."

Seeing Jia Hun put down the wine bowl, Lu Da sighed and drank all the wine in the bowl with his head raised, before putting the bowl on the table.

"Hey, brother, tell me, isn't this a prosperous age? Why are so many people displaced and forced to sell themselves as slaves?"

After Lu Da finished speaking, he picked up a piece of squirrel mandarin fish meat with his chopsticks, as if he wanted the sweetness to wash away the depression in his heart.

"Brother, what happened?"

Jia Hun lowered his head, took a spoonful of crab roe tofu and ate it into his mouth.

"Brother, you also know that my brother just killed a bird man who whipped and killed servants in the street a few days ago."

"Well, I know, it's not just beating to death, it's smashing people in two with a steel rod!"

The one who was playing and singing suddenly broke out in cold sweat, and played harder and harder.

Jia Hun cast a glance at the man, but said nothing.

"Does that brother know that this is not the first time that my brother has met, since he entered the border of the south of the Yangtze River, almost every place he goes, he can encounter this kind of torture and murder of servants.

At first, my brother thought it was the servants who stole the things from the master's house or something, but he didn't care.

But who knew, that man was just trying to flog the servants for fun!This is not bad!After inquiring around, and knowing where the man lived, my brother climbed over the wall and went in that night, cut off the head of the owner, and hung it at the city gate! "

"Hey, it turns out that the case of the Huo family in Huainan was handled by you, brother! I wonder who is so good at it!"

Ruda also smiled, but didn't speak.

jump!
Played the wrong note!

The Pingtan artist was in a cold sweat and didn't dare to play any more. He didn't dare to move, but just sat on the chair and shivered.

How special!Met two thugs!

Jia Hun looked coldly at the pingtan artists who had stopped playing and singing.

The good mood of seeing my brother is all disturbed by the bad sound of the wrong sound!

"Get out! This Lao Shizi can't play the pipa well, what kind of art do you want to sell!"

Jia Hun waved his hands at the Pingtan artist with a disgusted expression on his face, and that person felt relieved, hugged his pipa, and fled out of the box.

The two smiled at each other.

"Hehe, I'm afraid he regards our brother as a bandit who went down the mountain! Brother, do you want to take a gamble?"

Jia Hun opened the folding fan, placed it in front of his chest and fanned it gently.

"Oh? What bet?"

Ruda became interested.

"I reckon this person will tell the shopkeeper after he goes downstairs that there are two thugs in the box on the third floor!

I bet the shopkeeper will report to the officials to arrest us. "

"Catch us? Why?"

"Hey, because the reward of 5 taels from the Huo family in Huainan is still hanging at the gate of the yamen! The few words my brother said just now will definitely make the shopkeeper take the risk and get a vote!
Think about it, how much money do you earn a year as a shopkeeper?Haven't they all been taken by the master?
But this reward is different, if my brother is really the murderer in Huo's house, how can I get more than 5 taels if I spend 3 taels in various management?
With this money, thousands of acres of fine paddy fields can be sold around Jinling City!If the shopkeeper still wants to do business, the money is also his confidence! "

Jia Hun fanned himself, picked up the teacup with his right hand and took a sip.

"Hey, then brother will bet on the shopkeeper's inability!"

"Oh? Brother, do you have a reason?"

Jia Hun leaned forward, pretending to be listening attentively.

"This restaurant relies on its reputation to eat, why did it build this box? Isn't it for a place where people can talk about things without being disturbed?

If even the identities of the customers of the boxes on the third floor can be exposed, who will come here in the future? "

"Of course the master won't allow it to be revealed, but the shopkeeper is in charge now! Can he just use the money to buy a house to notify the government and change his hometown? Isn't that more comfortable than being a slave to others?"

Jia Hun put down his teacup and retorted to Lu Da.

"But the master's family is not a vegetarian! They will definitely send people to make this shopkeeper's work, in order to maintain the name of their own restaurant.

By the way, there are tens of thousands of taels of silver!With these tens of thousands of taels, the master will definitely do it! "

Speaking of this, Lu Da rarely showed a depressed look.

"It's like what my brother met in Luzhou. The shopkeeper caught a wanted criminal and got 9000 taels of reward, and the magistrate even let the master let him go. The shopkeeper seemed so happy!
But within three days, the shopkeeper was found dead at home, stabbed four times from the back, and hung from the beam by his neck.

The magistrate came over to take a look, and even said that he had hanged himself!This is clearly taking money from the master's family! "

Lu Da hammered on the table angrily, and the vegetable soup splashed all over the floor.

"Later, my brother sneaked into that family's yard in the middle of the night, and happened to see the master's family gathered around to watch the bounty stolen from the shopkeeper!"

"Wait, how did brother know that those are bounties?"

Jia Hun was a little puzzled.

"Oh, the silver box looks the same as the silver box that the shopkeeper brought out from the government office. Even the paint is peeled off in the same place. It must be the same box!"

"That's it, okay. And then?"

"Brother drew out the knife and jumped into the lobby, white knife in and red knife out! Send that family on the road neatly! After killing brother, he jumped over the wall and ran away!"

Ruda showed off proudly.

"This……"

Jia Hun didn't know what to say, so he could only give him a thumbs up.

"It turns out that the case of exterminating the Huang family in Luzhou was also done by my brother..."

"Hey, Sajia is called doing justice for the sky!"

Jia Hun and Lu Da smiled at each other, picked up the wine bowls to touch each other, and drank it all together.

"After talking for a long time, brother, do you want to gamble?"

"Bet! Brother Hui bet that the shopkeeper will call someone to come, right! Then brother bet that the shopkeeper will not come!"

Ruda also brought his head closer.

"Success, loser will give ten taels of silver!"

"A word is settled!"

Jia Hun stretched out his right hand, and high-fived Lu Da as an oath, the bet was considered fulfilled.

The two brothers laughed again, and picked up the wine bowl to drink again.

Putting down the wine bowl again, Ruda remained silent.

Jia Hun picked up the chopsticks again, picked up a piece of dried shredded chopsticks and put it on the rice, added another spoonful of soup, mixed it and ate it.

"Brother, tell me, in Jiangnan of Daqi, why do so many masters insult servants? My brother has seen a lot of people traveling all over the world, but I have never seen a place where people are bullied like Jiangnan!"

Lu Da raised his head and looked directly at Jia Hun's face with a serious face.

Jia Hun took the last bite of rice, put the bowl back on the table, picked up a towel to wipe his mouth, raised his eyes and looked at Lu Da.

"Probably because they are used to being masters for a long time. They no longer treat the servants as people like themselves..."

Jia Hun put down the towel in his hand and said to Lu Da.

"How long have you been a master?"

Ruda seemed to understand something.

"Yes, this can be regarded as one of my Daqi's... blemishes..."

"How do you say that?" Ruda asked.

Jia Hun thought about it,
"This starts from the time of the founding of the country. Brother, you should also know how fast Taizu conquered the world, right?"

"Seven years."

"Yes, seven years, it's too fast, there are good and bad. The advantage is that some places are surrendered, such as this Jiangnan. It can be regarded as the land that surrendered very early.

Mainly because of the face of my Jinling Jia family and Shi family, with our two families taking care of them, their children will also have a place to be an official.At that time, there was an urgent need for manpower, and Taizu didn't care about so many people, and hired as many people as they joined.

In this way, in the early years of Daqi, one of the biggest hills in the officialdom, the Jiangnan Department was born. "

"That is to say, in fact, the big families in the south of the Yangtze River survived the troubled times basically unscathed?" Lu Da was a little shocked. In his hometown, there had been no rich families from the previous dynasty. It is said that they had died in the early years of the founding of the country clean up.

"Yes, at that time Jiangnan really brought too many things to Daqi. Money, food, talents, civilian husbands, and even Jinling had a military bureau that was not damaged!

To put it bluntly, if there was no Jiangnan back then, Daqi might not have been able to..." Jia Hun still didn't finish his sentence.

Ruda fell silent.

"Although Taizu took only seven years to conquer the world, the actual troubled times started from the Henan Uprising that year, and lasted for 12 years until my great-grandfather Rong Zhongwu conquered Chang'an and put an end to the Liang Dynasty!"

Jia Hun drank another cup of tea.

"Probably because of Beiyuan's threat, this troubled world is far more tragic than the previous generation, and everyone wants to end the troubled world as soon as possible, so the intensity of the war is far more than it is now.

Take the Tongguan decisive battle between my great-grandfather and Liang Ting.

The two sides have invested a total of 90 troops, and they are actually ninety soldiers!

Da Qi decided to divide Liang into three ways, and the way was to use Shangshu to order the younger brother of Mr. Shi to set off from Taiyuan, cross the Yellow River through Longmen and enter Guanzhong.

Along the way, Ningzhuang Sugong of my Jia family led the army to attack Wuguan.

My great-grandfather led the troops of the headquarters and confronted the main force of the Liang army at Tongguan.

The three-way soldiers and horses totaled 50.The headquarters is 30, and the divisions each receive [-].

The original intention is to hold back the last main force of the Liang army, as long as any partial division can break into Guanzhong, then we will win. "

Jia Hun stopped, and Lu Da was fascinated by it, he quickly picked up the teapot, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Jia Hun.

Jia Hun took a few sips of tea and nodded.

"The plan was good, but when it was implemented, something went wrong.

Heroes emerged in troubled times, and when they arrived at Baibi City, the partial divisions of the Jin Dynasty were met by Wei Ming's heavy cavalry, now known as the "General Flower". Shi Yuanshan abandoned the army and fled, and finally surrendered to Wei Ming.One hundred thousand partial divisions were wiped out.

The whole battle situation almost collapsed because of him. The old man Shi, who was supposed to be the number one meritorious service in Dingqi like Xiao He, was implicated by him in this way, and in the end he only got the title of Marquis of a county.

At the same time, the South Road partial division was also blocked, and was firmly nailed to Wuguan by the [-] Liang army.

There is no way, nearly [-] Liang troops are gathering in the direction of Tongguan. My great-grandfather made a decisive decision and stormed Tongguan!

The 30 Qi army and the nearly 40 Liang army were squeezed into the narrow place of Tongguan. A total of 150 cannons were fired at each other. You came and I fought for seven days. Until the eighth day, our army led from Niutouyuan The equipment went uphill and passed through the twelve cities, and then conquered Tongguan...

According to post-war statistics, nearly 30 people were killed by the two armies in this decisive battle.

For the Liang army, the Guanzhong Plain is behind them, their wives, children, and children, and they must guard it desperately.

For my Qi army, it was the capital of Emperor Dog. The veterans at that time were full of hatred for Emperor Liang, and nearly 17 lives were lost before Tongguan was broken and Qianliang was destroyed. "

Jia Hun put down the teacup that had been drained.

"Actually, the intensity of the Tongguan decisive battle can only be ranked among the top three in that troubled world.

Can you understand how the entire Central Plains was beaten up?
To say that it is a ruin is a bit of an exaggeration. At this time, Jiangnan has become the most important money bag of the entire country, and any policy that will affect the taxation of Jiangnan will not be implemented.

Not to mention cleaning up the Jiangnan family.The industries in their hands are an important part of the tax revenue of the entire Jiangnan, not to mention how much the output of these industries will play a role in post-war recovery.

Even so, it wasn't until 20 years ago that the empresses of my dynasty could barely recover to the level before the troubled times..."

"This is the main reason why Taizu didn't take action against the Jiangnan family."

Jia Hun looked at Lu Da who bowed his head and said nothing.

In fact, what is more important is that the supporters of the Jiangnan family at that time were my Jia family and Shi family...

Jia Hun didn't tell Lu Da this sentence.

There was silence in the box.

Lu Da picked up the wine bowl again, and drained the wine on his own.

"That…"

"My lord, this is the room, this is the room! My lord, there are two thugs in this box, and they themselves said that they were responsible for the case of the Huo family and the Huang family!"

　So what, my lord, I'm going to have myopia surgery tomorrow, and I may have to take two or three days off. Don't worry, everyone, after I recover, I will definitely have two updates for three days in a row!
　　Also please bear with me, thank you!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)