Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 249 Troubled
After a while, Wangcai hurried back.

"Uncle, this is the old lady from Rongguo Mansion. She is going to Baolinghou Mansion."

When Jia Rui heard that it was Jia Mu, he quickly got off his horse. Under the leadership of Wangcai, he quickly walked to Jia Mu's car.

"Jia Rui has met the old lady."

Following Jia Rui's words, the car curtain was lifted, and Yuanyang's face was revealed.

After that, Yuanyang helped the old lady Jia Mu to the front of the car.

Jia Rui took a look and found that Jia Mu's eyes were red and she seemed to have cried just now.

Jia Mu forced a smile and said, "It's Brother Rui! You just came back."

"Yes, I just came back from the cabinet. Old lady, where are you going?"

Jia Mu sighed and wiped the tears from her face.

"My nephew sent a letter saying that he was not well and asked me to see him for the last time."

Speaking of this, Jia Mu's tears flowed out involuntarily again.

Baoling Hou Shi Nai was Jia Mu's biological nephew, and his father was Jia Mu's biological brother.

The relationship between the two families is indeed very close.

Jia Rui was also surprised when he heard this. Although the ten-flavor soft gold powder he had given could make people weak, it would not be fatal?

"Old lady, I only heard in court that Baoling Hou Shi Nai had a stroke, but it wasn't like he died?"

"You don't know, the Supreme Emperor took pity on the Shi family and sent several waves of imperial doctors, but these doctors have not found the cause of the disease so far. The family members feel that they are useless, and now they have begun to prepare the coffin."

Jia Rui didn't expect it to develop to this point.

Jia Rui could only sigh, pretending to be very sad, and comforted Jia's mother with a few words.

After that, Jia Rui stepped aside and let Jia Mu's bike go first.

After returning to the Dingxi Hou Mansion, Jia Rui changed his clothes under the service of Xue Baochai, then sat on a chair at his home, comfortably received the tea sent by Brother Ying, and took a satisfied sip.

While Jia Rui was drinking tea, he said to Xue Baochai, who was packing Jia Rui's clothes: "Rongguo Mansion should be quite chaotic these two days, otherwise you can take sister You back."

Xue Baochai actually wanted to take Xue Baoqin back for a long time, but Jia's mother refused to let him go, so she delayed it.

"What's going on over there?"

"I don't know what illness Baoling Hou Shi Nai has. He can't get out of bed anyway. When I came back just now, I saw the old lady going to take a look."

Xue Baochai put down the clothes in his hands and said, "If this is the case, then the old lady's side will really be in chaos. It would be better to take my sister back."

In the afternoon of that day, Xue Baochai took people to Rongguo Mansion.

Since Jia Mu had already gone to Baolinghou Mansion, Xue Baochai went directly to the Grand View Garden.

Originally, Xue Baochai wanted to take a detour to Xue Baoqin's residence, but met Ping'er halfway.

From Ping'er's words, I found out that Xue Baoqin and the sisters were all in Luxue'an.

So the two of them went to Luxue'an together.

I saw that Lu Xue'an had placed a lot of iron stoves, iron forks, and iron wires, apparently preparing to barbecue.

When Li Zhi and others saw Xue Baochai and Heping'er coming, they held their hands and never let them leave.

Xue Baochai was not in a hurry at first, so he started playing with the sisters.

For a moment, the aroma of barbecue was filling the Luxue Temple. Sisters, one by one, we were eating and playing with the barbecue.

The laughter of the girls spread far and wide in the Grand View Garden, which made Xue Baochai, who had been busy with family affairs, feel a little bit relaxed.

After a while, Wang Xifeng, who had not shown up until now, came unexpectedly. She was a rare guest.

Since Wang Xifeng gave birth to a boy, she has focused most of her attention on her child and saving money for her child.

Therefore, he was somewhat alienated from his sisters at home. This time, Li Zhi had already sent his maid to invite Wang Xifeng, but she did not come because she was busy and just sent Ping'er to say something.

Now she saw that Ping'er had not returned for a long time, so she stopped by to take a look.

Sister Feng walked in wearing a cloak and said to everyone: "Don't let me see if there are good things to eat. I will give you the money when I give you money in the future."

After hearing this, Li Zhi quickly stood up and took Sister Feng's hand, saying: "You are such a busy person, you can't even invite me. When you come, you just talk."

After finishing speaking, Li Zhi sent Wang Xifeng to Xue Baochai's side.

Xue Baochai didn't care, but Wang Xifeng always felt a little awkward, so she smiled and sat on Tanchun's side.

Xue Baochai was so clever. Wang Xifeng's actions immediately aroused her suspicion, but Xue Baochai just remembered it in her heart and did not show it.

For a while, the sisters drank wine, and then someone asked who wanted to write poetry.

When she heard that she was going to compose a poem, Wang Xifeng immediately gave up. "I'm a big guy who can't read a bunch of words. Aren't you making things difficult for me? Okay, I won't eat."

As he spoke, he quickly stood up, grabbed Ping'er and started to run away.

Tanchun and others couldn't help but pull her away when they came over. Fortunately, Ping'er provided cover and allowed Wang Xifeng to escape.

It was so noisy that the sun set in the west.When Xue Baochai saw that Shi Chen was no longer looking for him, he smiled and said to everyone: "I still have something to do in my house, so I have all gone back. Baoqin, Xiangling, you two should also pack your things and go back to the house with me!"

Xue Baoqin and Xiang Ling naturally didn't say much. They stood up and wanted to pack their things.

But Jia Baoyu was unwilling.

These two sisters are very lovely. Now that they are leaving, of course he has to stop them.

"Don't leave in a hurry, just stay with us for a few more days."

Xue Baochai smiled and shook his head and said, "Your family is busy these days. I will bring them back in two days."

Everyone was very surprised when they heard this and didn't understand what Xue Baochai meant.

Seeing that everyone was still stupid, Xue Baochai quickly explained: "I heard from our Lord Marquis that Bowling Marquis Shi Nai seems to have had a stroke and is not well. Today the old lady went to visit him in person."

Everyone became quiet when they heard this.

Jia Baoyu said at this time: "It's terrible. Isn't that girl from Xiangyun going to cry to death this time?"

Lin Daiyu suddenly interjected from the side, "Do you remember your sister? Which of us is in your heart?"

Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu stayed together for such a long time, and Lin Daiyu just said a word, and he knew that Lin Daiyu was unhappy and jealous.

So he didn't care about anything else. He leaned next to Lin Daiyu and kept saying good words to apologize.

Xue Baochai took advantage of this time and quickly took the people to leave. He was really afraid that Jia Baoyu was up to something and wanted to leave the people behind.

After Xue Baochai came back with Xue Baoqin, he directly arranged Xue Baoqin next door to the yard where he lived.

Xue Baoqin was a little reluctant at first. After all, his brother-in-law often came in. If he encountered an inconvenient time, wouldn't it hinder his reputation?

She told her brother what she said. She originally hoped that Xue Biao would talk to Baochai and find another yard for her.

As a result, Xue Biao said to him: "We are all relatives of the same family, why should we care about this?"

"Besides, this is in the inner courtyard of the Marquis's mansion. Who knows these things?"

Xue Baoqin lost his mind after a few words from Xue Baochai, so he stayed in the yard next to Xue Baochai.

Besides, Jia Rui has been so busy these days that even the cabinet affairs have been delayed by him. His main energy is now focused on discussing crimes.

This is a big business that brings in money. As long as it is completed, all the officials in the world will be in his pocket.

Of course, among so many officials, there will always be some who are honest and clean.

However, Jia Rui was not prepared to win over these officials, because they were eyeing the orthodox emperor and would not have any interaction with him, a sycophant.

More than ten days later, Jia Rui, Shen Wence, and Qin Shun finally figured out the crime settlement system.

Of course, when the announcement is made to the world, it is naturally not possible to stipulate how much money is required for any crime. This requires the ministers below to have their own eyes.

If you hand over a large amount of silver, your crime will be given a lighter sentence, or you may even be exempted from the crime.

If you don't hand over the money, you will of course be fined.

When Jia Rui handed the memorial in his hand to the Emperor, the Emperor kept smiling.

Because the Emperor not only saw the recovery of Ryukyu, he even saw the inner treasury full of silver.

In this way, even if he is no longer around, future emperors can calmly carry out whatever big things they want to do.

After thinking of this, the Supreme Emperor looked with satisfaction at Jia Rui, who was standing next to him in fear.

What is this kid thinking?He came up with such a cunning idea.

In fact, this is not Jia Rui's invention. Jia Rui is greedy for heaven.

He was borrowing the idea of ​​his predecessor, the corrupt official Heshen, from another time and space.

At that time, Emperor Qianlong's internal treasury was empty, and he had no money even if he wanted to go to the south of the Yangtze River. It was He Shen who came up with the method of negotiating for sins, which made Emperor Qianlong's internal treasury quickly plump up.

Qianlong made several trips to the south of the Yangtze River in his later years, spending a huge amount of money. If the funds were allocated from the treasury, the treasury would probably go bankrupt.

However, thanks to Heshen's crime-discussing silver system, Qianlong's internal treasury was not emptied, and he actually made a large sum of money in the end.

Of course, the crime-discussing silver system also dealt a huge blow to the Zhengzi system of the Qing Dynasty, and the money would eventually be distributed to the common people.

However, in the other world of Dream of Red Mansions, such concerns are much less common.

Because, the Emperor's Imperial Army and the spies of the Intelligence Department are spread throughout the empire.

Every move of those officials is under the supervision of the Supreme Emperor. If these officials go too far, the Supreme Emperor's decree may be delivered to these people through the Jinyi Army before the imperial envoys can impeach them.

A few days later, the newly minted crime settlement system was announced in the morning court.

This time, it really caused an uproar.

The knowledgeable people in the court, the righteous gentlemen, deeply hate the system of penal funds.

At that time, there were fifteen or six people kneeling in the main hall. There was even an old man who hit his head against a pillar and wanted to die as a remonstrance.

The Supreme Emperor seemed to have been aware of this situation for a long time, so after the announcement, the Supreme Emperor left without caring about the chaos in the court.

(End of this chapter)