Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 358 Making trouble

After separating from Xue Baochai, Jia Rui first went around to the cabinet.

When he walked in, he found that his rival Chen Guozi was not there, and only three other people were working hard there.

These three people are now in pain and happiness.

With Chen Guozi gone, the three of them will naturally have to share Chen Guoxin's workload. However, for these three people, this is not a pain, but a joy.

Where did Chen Guozi go?

Naturally, he was arrested by the Supreme Emperor to preside over the funeral of Concubine Zhen Tai.

Therefore, this old guy no longer has time to come to the cabinet. He is so busy in the concubine's palace every day that he cannot even come back at night.

Jia Rui couldn't feel happy all day long without seeing Chen Guozi. Now he was muttering to himself, should he find some errands for this old guy in the future so that he would never return to the cabinet?

While thinking about Jia Rui, he sat down on his seat, then picked up the memorials piled on the table and started flipping through them one by one.

In this way, Jia Rui fished until almost noon. When he saw that the time was almost up, he stood up, turned around and went straight to the Dragon Head Palace.

The atmosphere in the Dragon Head Palace is very tense now. The eunuchs and maids who come and go all wish they were invisible.

Because of the death of Concubine Zhen, the Emperor's temper was very irritable, and he would offend the Supreme Being even if he was not careful.

Let's just talk about yesterday. After beating the princess who had her ninth son to death, the Supreme Emperor beat to death two more eunuchs when he came back.

Think about it, in this situation where they could die at any time, it would be strange for those palace maids and eunuchs to be careless.

However, Jia Rui did not encounter this situation. No matter how angry the emperor was, he could always be more cheerful when facing Jia Rui.

Therefore, the maids and eunuchs of Longshou Palace are all looking forward to Jia Rui's arrival. As long as Jia Rui comes, they can feel a little relieved.

No, Jia Rui just appeared at the gate of Longshou Palace. The eunuch watching the door saw Jia Rui as if he were a living ancestor.

"Master Hou, you are finally here."

The eunuch's voice sounded like he was crying.

It's really scary.

Yesterday, when the Supreme Emperor came back, a eunuch who was guarding the gate did not pay attention and crossed his legs a little. The Supreme Emperor found him and beat him to death.

Jia Rui looked at the eunuch's crying face, smiled slightly, and patted his shoulder, "Don't be afraid, just hold on for a few more days and it will be over."

But the eunuch who opened the door didn't believe it at all.

He has been in contact with the Supreme Emperor longer than Jia Rui, and he knows the status of Concubine Zhen in the Supreme Emperor's heart.

The concubine has passed away, and it is strange that the emperor can recover for a while.

However, Jia Rui didn't care what he was thinking, and walked to the main hall with square steps. Naturally, a eunuch came in to report. Later, Jia Rui got the words and entered the main hall carefully.

When he entered the main hall and took a quick look, he saw the Supreme Emperor sitting on the kang, sighing, as if he had aged ten years after not seeing him for a few days.

Seeing this, Jia Rui felt his heart beat a little.

The Supreme Emperor's health was not good to begin with, but he managed to regain his composure with the help of his own Yang Finger.

However, this time the death of Concubine Zhen gave him a huge blow, and his energy was gone before his eyes.

If this situation continues, the Supreme Emperor may not be able to survive for long.

But this time Jia Rui was not as guilty as last time, because he was already using the power of the chief assistant to secretly develop a huge network of relationships.

The main purpose of this network is all the military leaders in the imperial court.

Now almost all the generals in the important towns on the nine sides are Jia Rui's people, and even a large part of the generals in the interior are leaning towards Jia Rui.

Although Jia Rui no longer had any worries, Jia Rui still felt a little uncomfortable seeing the Emperor like this.

Let's be honest, since Jia Rui entered the court, the Emperor treated Jia Rui better than his own son.

Faced with such a friendship, if Jia Rui didn't care about the body of the Supreme Emperor at all, he wouldn't be worthy of being a human being.

Jia Rui walked quietly to the side of the Supreme Emperor and said, "The Supreme Emperor, you must pay attention to your rest. Don't let the dragon's body be damaged. Otherwise, what should we ministers do?"

The Supreme Emperor looked up at Jia Ruiyi and barely smiled, but in the end the smile quickly disappeared.

"I'm fine, I'll be fine in a few days." The Supreme Emperor said with some regret.

Jia Rui opened his mouth and didn't know how to persuade him. In fact, nothing he could say could make the Supreme Emperor let go.

Zhao Jin next to him was also a little worried about the Emperor's health.

You must know that these people are the confidants of the Supreme Emperor. If the Supreme Emperor is healthy, they will naturally use their full strength to reach the sky. Once the Supreme Emperor is gone, it will be good if the successors can keep their eunuchs alive.

Therefore, the people who least want anything to happen to the Supreme Emperor now are Zhao Jin and Qin Shun.

"The Emperor, please have a cup of ginseng tea!" To be honest, Zhao Jin handed a cup of tea to the Emperor.

The Supreme Emperor just glanced at Ginsengcha and lowered his head again.

When Zhao Jin and Jia Rui saw the Supreme Emperor, they stamped their feet anxiously, but there was nothing they could do. Qin Shun on the side was still smart. He rolled his eyes, then flipped through the small table on the side and found a memorial.

He came to the side of the Supreme Emperor, first looked at Jia Rui apologetically, and then said to the Supreme Emperor:

"Your Majesty, yesterday the Censor of Zuodu of the Censorship Station sent a memorial to impeach Mr. Jia. It was sent directly to this slave without going through the cabinet."

After hearing this, the Supreme Emperor became somewhat energetic. He regarded Jia Rui as his own son. If Jia Rui and he were not related by blood, he would have wanted Jia Rui to rule the empire in his place.

Now I heard that someone dared to impeach Jia Rui, and I was very angry.

The Supreme Emperor took the memorial from Qin Shun's hand, picked it up and turned it over, while glancing at Jia Rui.

Jia Rui naturally knew that this memorial was about Jia Lian, so he impeached himself.

However, in order to distract the Supreme Emperor, Jia Rui still pretended to be very guilty and glanced at the Supreme Emperor.

The Supreme Emperor laughed angrily at Jia Rui's sinister look.

However, in the eyes of the Supreme Emperor, Jia Rui looked like a son who had made a mistake and faced me.

Because of this, facing such a sinister Jia Rui, the Supreme Emperor was not only not angry, but also a little happy in his heart.

Is Jia Aiqing still close to me? The Supreme Emperor thought so in his heart.

The Supreme Emperor read the entire memorial, and then threw it on the table. Zhao Jin, who was next to him, quickly took the new ginseng tea from a palace maid, placed it in front of the Supreme Emperor's table, and removed the old cup of tea. .

The Supreme Emperor picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, then asked Jia Rui: "Do you know why they impeached you?"

Jia Rui pretended to be dumbfounded and rolled his eyes, and then said depressedly: "I haven't made any mistakes during this time. Who would have thought that these people are always looking for trouble for me when they have nothing to do."

"You didn't make any mistakes? Then let me ask you, what happened to Jia Lian?" The Supreme Emperor looked at Jia Rui with disdain while drinking tea.

Jia Rui opened his mouth, then lowered his head and muttered: "Isn't it because you couldn't stand the hard work and gave up your official position and ran back? You said these people have nothing to do every day and just focus on these trivial things."

The Supreme Emperor was really laughed at by Jia Rui this time, "A trivial matter? You regard it as a trivial matter to abandon your official position and flee back to the capital without any reason. If every official is like Jia Lian, I don't even know when my head will move."

Jia Rui lowered his head and said nothing, acting as if he was being scolded.

The Supreme Emperor shook his head gently. There was nothing he could do about a scoundrel like Jia Rui, but for some reason, the depression in his chest disappeared.

"Okay, okay, I don't blame you. Who do you show that pitiful look to?"

After hearing this, Jia Rui immediately put away his pitiful look and said proudly with a smile on his face:

"I know that the Supreme Emperor will make the decision for me."

The Supreme Emperor finally laughed.

"I'm telling you, you can't escape the death penalty. After all, that Jia Lian committed such a big thing, he must give an explanation to the people of the world. You are the chief minister of the cabinet, what do you think is the appropriate punishment?"

Jia Rui blinked, and then said tentatively: "How about asking Jia Lian to pay a few thousand taels of silver?"

"You can fool me, but can you fool those envoys?"

Jia Rui curled his lips, and then said seriously: "What do you think about being exiled to Baoding?"

The Supreme Emperor laughed angrily, "Then you might as well exile him to Zhuangzi outside the city."

Jia Rui immediately hit the snake and put it on the stick, "That's really great. I'd like to thank the Emperor on behalf of my cousin."

"Thank you, thank you. I'm just joking. Are you really going to exile your cousin to a farm outside the capital?"

Jia Rui glanced at the Supreme Emperor innocently and finally lowered his head, not knowing what to say.

Alas, I have to wipe his butt myself, the Supreme Emperor thought to himself.

"Let's do this! Exile cannot be changed. Think about it yourself and arrange a place for him that everyone can accept."

After hearing this, Jia Rui rubbed his head, thought for a long time, and finally said tentatively: "Why don't we exile him to Lanzhou?"

The Supreme Emperor glanced at Jia Rui, and then understood what the other party meant.

It is not news that Jia Lian's sister is engaged to Zhou Lang, the son of Gansu Jiedushi, and the Supreme Emperor naturally knows about it.

However, out of his trust in Jia Rui, the Supreme Emperor naturally did not think that there would be any threat to the imperial power.

"Okay, that's it."

After the Supreme Emperor finished speaking, he winked at Qin Shun. Qin Shun immediately asked someone to prepare a small table. He knelt in front of the small table and wrote an imperial edict with a few strokes.

After writing it, I asked the Supreme Emperor to take a look at it.

The Emperor didn't look at it and pointed directly at Jia Rui, which meant that he wanted Jia Rui to see what needed to be added or subtracted.

Qin Shun quickly delivered the imperial edict to Jia Rui.

Jia Rui looked at it casually, then thought for a moment and said to the Emperor: "Emperor, do you think three years of exile is a bit short? How about adding a few more years?"

(End of this chapter)