Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 270 Luo Family

Although for Da Qi, it was very disturbing to have a malicious dog barking at him after a few years, but for the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, all the things that should be done were done, and he was busy. The days when my feet were not touching the ground became free again.

"Grand Governor, there is a letter from Datong!"

The clerk trotted over and handed the letter in his hand to Jia Hui, who was sitting in the side room drinking tea, and then stood respectfully waiting for orders.

"Datong? Oh." After casually glancing at the monogram in the center of the envelope and confirming that it was Cui He's handwriting, Jia Hui took out the letter opener and opened the envelope, took out the letter paper and scanned it.

After a while, Jia Hui breathed a sigh of relief and put the letter on the small table.

There's a clue.

After receiving their orders, Cui He and his wife immediately took action and tried to collect intelligence at a recent upper-class gathering in Datong.

The woman Li Sananniang was in charge of naturally gained nothing, but Jia Hui didn't care. It was already very rare to smuggle salt and iron to let the matrons know about it. Smuggling artillery was a job that would ruin the whole family. The less we know, the better.

However, things went much smoother for Cui He.

With the chatting and inadvertent clichés and a little observation, the suspicion of the Luo family of Shanxi merchants is constantly increasing.

"Go and get the information about Datong merchants and the Luo family." He ordered the clerk, who quickly ran to the archives room to adjust the files.

Jia Hui knew very well what Shanxi merchants were, especially those in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. How could he not be wary of them?

While Yuan Keji was carefully handling the documents, Jia Hui also opened the Luo family's files.

"Grand Governor, the file is here!" The clerk first used a feather duster to sweep the dust off the wooden box on his desk, signed his name on the seal and stamped it with a small seal, and then used a knife to open the seal. , opened the box, took out the files, and placed them in front of Jia Hui's desk.

There was a cousin who worked in the Dudu Mansion before, but he only worked diligently for a while. After he understood the rules of the Dudu Mansion, he stopped working hard and started messing around.

After he got married at the age of sixteen, he moved to Taiyuan City with his bride and set up a stall selling wontons.

Compared with his brother, Yuan Keji is really conscientious. His only shortcoming is that he is too timid.

Since Cui He and his wife formally established Datong's intelligence network, all Shanxi merchants with some talent have been put into files and entered into the archives of Zuojun Dudu Mansion.

"Ah?" Hearing this, the junior official suddenly panicked, "Cousin, no, the Governor, I am just a junior official, how can I overstep my authority to handle the Governor's errands?"

"Stop talking nonsense, just do it if you are asked to do it! Besides, I will look at it again after you have done it. If I do something wrong, I will take care of your skin!" Jia Hui smiled and cursed at the little official, then stopped. Ignoring the clerk's excuses again, he lowered his head and started browsing the Luo family's files.

When the clerk saw this, he could only twitch the corner of his mouth bitterly. He sighed and took the pile of documents away, picked up his pen and started processing it.

Yuan Keji, the chief steward of the Duke's Mansion, is also the son of Jia Hui's uncle Yuan Rong, and Jia Hui's cousin. He has been working diligently as a clerk in the Dudu Mansion for five years.

However, due to the lack of contact with the Taiwei, the person who was the Taiwei's cousin and easier to see became their breakthrough point.

Just hang out, after all, he is the governor's cousin and has a great background, so everyone doesn't pay much attention to him.

Jia Hui was so angry that he hung the man from a tree in the front yard of the Zuo Army Governor's Mansion and broke a whip.

The next day, Yuan Keji, a little cousin, came to take over his brother's job with a pale and trembling face.

Jia Hui felt that he was indeed a talent, so he decided to focus on cultivating him.

However, the real reason why Jia Hui kicked him out and replaced him was none other than that he couldn't understand his own weight and actually promised something in Jia Hui's place!

Soon, the clerk returned to the side room carrying a thin wooden box three inches thick.

Like most businessmen, the Luo family's rise to fame was quite satisfactory.

At that time, several minor officers who had committed crimes wanted to try to follow Jia Hui's path to avoid punishment and find a backer.

The ancestor of the Luo family was from Yangquan. At first, he was just the second son of a wonton family (roadside stall) that had been passed down for four generations in a town under the jurisdiction of Yangquan. Since the wonton stall was only passed down to the eldest son, the ancestor of the Luo family was very popular in many places. When I was young, I knew I wanted to find another way to make a living, and I started saving money early.

The ancestor of the Luo family was from the late Liang Dynasty but not yet that late. At that time, he was the father of the later master. In the early days of Aizong, the ancestor of the Luo family was still a teenager and started his own entrepreneurial journey.

After Jia Hui found out, he just shook his head, cursed "Rotten wood cannot be carved" and then ignored him. After all, although he was dawdling around, he was dawdling around after doing his job well, so Jia Hui just turned a blind eye.

Holding the file in hand, Jia Hui casually handed a pile of unprocessed documents to the clerk: "Well, these are 'light' matters that I haven't dealt with yet. You can handle them first."

So after spending about two thousand taels of property in bribes, the man patted his chest and promised to help them get it done, and asked them to go back to the inn to wait. He then turned around and returned to the Governor's Mansion, intending to help them run a business. two.

Then there was nothing more. The entire Dudu Mansion belonged to Jia Hui. When that person went to the person in charge of such a matter in private to talk about it, the official in charge agreed on the surface, but in fact, as soon as he left, he went straight to the festival hall to report. This issue.

However, the craftsmanship that is only top-notch in the town is not very good in Taiyuan, the provincial capital. There was no eye-catching craftsmanship, and there were no regular customers for the first time here. The stall of the ancestor of the Luo family only lasted eight months before it dried up.

My wife also ran away with someone!

Seeing that his career was not going well and his family was falling apart, his dream of starting a career eight months ago was buried deep in his heart. The most urgent thing was to find a job that could satisfy his needs. The belly is most important.

So he joined the Hong family's shop, the largest grain merchant in Shanxi at that time, as a clerk.

Because he could write and calculate accounts, he soon caught the eye of the head of the Hong family who often visited the store and made him the accountant. After a series of tests, he found that he was a conscientious person who never cheated or cheated, so he was prepared to focus on training him. , he was promoted to the shopkeeper of a shop within a short period of time.

A few years later, the ancestor of the Luo family had a house, money, and even a daughter-in-law. She was the concubine of the head of the Hong family, and she was considered a lady of the family. Compared with her ex-wife who ran away with someone before, I don't know how much better she was. where it goes!

Similarly, since he has become the son-in-law of the Hong family, he is one of the Hong family's own, and can naturally eliminate smuggling, the Hong family's most profitable business.

Smuggling salt, iron and grain towards the Mongol and Uighur tribes!

It has to be said that the ancestor of the Luo family is also talented. He only followed a few caravans and visited all the Mongol tribes that the Hong family had come into contact with before he could lead the group to do business alone.

Seven years passed like this. I thought that this kind of life could go on like this forever, and eventually the Luo family would grow and become a vassal family of the Hong family. However, since it was written "however", then something unexpected would happen.

Aizong increased taxes.

Once this decree, which directly led to the disintegration of Great Liang, was issued, the whole world exploded in an instant, and countless heroes, heroes, demons and monsters gathered their troops and began to beg for their lives.

The Hong family originally did not want to get involved in the dynasty's struggle for hegemony, but the third son of the family was unwilling to be left alone. He sold all the property assigned to him in the family to his sister-in-law, the ancestor of the Luo family, and then started a wave of His journey began as soon as the troops arrived.

Less than half a month later, the Hong family received news of his death. He was beheaded by General Hua Wei Ming, the son of Wei Chaoqing, the Shanxi pacifier at the time.

What is rebellion? The great crime of killing the nine tribes!

Before the Hong family could react, a group of cold soldiers rushed into the Hong family fiercely, slashing and killing everyone they encountered. The huge Hong family was just gone.

As for the ancestor of the Luo family, he felt that something was wrong when his unreliable brother-in-law sold off the family property to him, so he took his wife, children and young people back to the mountains of his hometown in Yangquan to take refuge. Wei Chaoqing also felt that the son-in-law of a mere concubine had turned over. Without any trouble, the Luo family managed to escape.

It was not until the Battle of Tongguan that Wei Chaoqing and Wei Ming and their sons led the Jin army into Guanzhong. After King Qin was trapped and killed by Jia Yuan in Qishan, the ancestor of the Luo family returned to Taiyuan with his own property, using his father-in-law's connections and the savings he had accumulated over the years. With his connections, he started business again, including smuggling.

Even smuggling is still the bulk of the business. In order to better control this smuggling route, the Luo family even moved out of Taiyuan City and moved to Datong.

To this day, the Luo family continues to stand tall in Datong.

The only regret is that the Luo family does not seem to have the talent for reading, and there is only one candidate in the whole family.

After reading the whole article, Jia Hui didn't feel anything was wrong with the Luo family. Is Cui He confused?

After closing the file and placing it on the small table, Jia Hui lay down on the pillow, tilted her head and began to think.

Ok?

Jia Hui raised his eyebrows.

The current doctor in the Ministry of Works Yu Heng's Qing Li Department seems to be from Yangquan, right?

"Self-denial."

"Ah, the Grand Governor?" Yuan Keji, who was handling the paperwork carefully, was startled. He thought he had made some mistake, and stood up with a "crash" and almost overturned the small table.

".I won't hit you, why are you so afraid?" Seeing his little cousin's timid appearance, Jia Hui rubbed his head with a headache.

"Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh" Yuan Kenji smiled a little cautiously, then lowered his head and did not dare to look at Jia Hui.

There was nothing he could do. The way his eldest brother was beaten to a bloody pulp by this cousin a few years ago was so scary that he couldn't sleep peacefully for several days. Even after five or six years, whenever he saw When Jia Hui died, the bloody body that had been beaten would pop up in his mind unconsciously.

"Tsk, forget it." Jia Hui shook his head and ignored him. Anyway, in the governor's mansion, this kind of cautious temper is not a bad thing.

"Who is the current Minister of Civil Affairs, Yu Heng, of the Ministry of Works? Where is he from?"

"Yu Heng, a doctor in the Qing Li Division." Yuan Keji thought for a moment, "Does the Governor refer to Wei Chen, a doctor in Wei? I remember that he seems to be from Yangquan, Shanxi."

"Right." Jia Hui nodded, thoughtfully.

Although the Luo family has moved to Datong, it does not mean that they have lost contact with their hometown in Yangquan. The heads of the Luo family in the past generations will return to Yangquan to retire.

Therefore, there might be some connection between the Luo family and Wei Chen!

"You go to Xiu Yi's place to see Tan Ji later and ask him to investigate the relationship between the Luo family and Wei Chen. Just say that I suspect there is any connection between them."

"Wei!" Yuan Keji responded quickly.

"Well, let's go." After thinking about it, it seemed that there was nothing else that Yuan Keji needed to do, so Jia Hui waved his hand towards him. Yuan Keji understood, and quickly saluted Jia Hui, and then grabbed something from the small table. He left the side room with his belongings.

Jia Hui checked the document that Yuan Keji had just processed and found that there was nothing wrong with it. Then he stamped it with a big seal, put on his big cloak, held the document and threw it to a clerk, then skipped work and went home.

Very happy tomorrow!

. . . . . .

September 24th, the third year of Qingtai, is a good time to get married.

Today is the day when Xue Baochai was officially carried into the county palace and became the concubine of the Taiwei.

Although it is completely inferior to the splendor and scale when Jia Hui married Li Wan, she is a noble concubine and an old relative after all. Even if it is not as good as that wedding, it is still necessary to do a ceremony to give the Xue family dignity.

The Duke's mansion is decorated with lights and colorful decorations, it's so lively!

Even the old lady who had almost lost contact with Jia Hui was dressed very festively today and came to the county government residence with a smile on her face to visit her six great-grandchildren.

"Old Ancestor, Aunt Xue is going to be our aunt?" Jia Jingyu, the eldest daughter of the Prince's Mansion, looked at the old lady with wide eyes and excitement on her face.

These days, in order to build a good relationship with everyone in the county government, the Xue family used their money skills to integrate into the general environment of the county government smoothly, and even became very popular!

Of course, it also has something to do with the fact that Xue Baochai is a noble concubine and her status in the family is second only to the mistress Li Wan.

Although Yue Liduo was a good concubine and well-loved, her mother's family was not prosperous and she even had to rely on the county government to make a living. She was still a little unsatisfied in front of Xue Baochai, the eldest daughter of the Xue family.

Even the children like Jia Ying also took advantage of it and Xue Baochai secretly stuffed them with a lot of gold and silver leaves. One by one, they all became Xue Baochai's sit-down boys.

Li Wan was very helpless about this. After several consecutive collections, he failed to completely clear them all, so he had to give up.

The children are also lucky enough to have their own little treasury.

"Yes, Miss Bao will soon become our new aunt." The old lady held Jia Jingyu in her arms and said with some emotion.

He saw that Xue Baochai was a very good girl, with good looks, a good family, a quick mind, and a clever mouth. Although it might be due to family tradition, her behavior was a bit off-putting, but this did not affect her being a good girl. , Naihe.

What a sin, why was that little bastard chosen six or seven years in advance?

(End of this chapter)