Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 505 Temporary Calm
Jia Rui nodded, and then told Lao Li: "Concubine Jing is pregnant with the emperor's flesh and blood, so she must be careful to avoid making mistakes."

"I understand, I will go and arrange it myself."

Jia Rui nodded with satisfaction, and then focused his attention on the memorial on the table in front of him.

Jia Rui picked up a book at random, opened it and looked at it, and found that the top one actually talked about the affairs of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom.

It turns out that a religion appeared in the Southern Barbarian Kingdom during this time, which was probably the fear of the Emperor of Heaven.

Originally, people below would not trouble Jia Rui about this kind of thing, but for some reason, this religion has developed very rapidly, and has even achieved absolute status in some small states and counties.

At this time, the officials in the Nanman Kingdom realized that something was wrong, so they hurriedly gave a memorial to Jia Rui.

After Jia Rui read it, he smiled coldly. How could such a little trick be hidden from him? It was just using the name of religion to gather people's hearts and try to escape from his control.

In Jia Rui's opinion, this is a proper rebel.

So Jia Rui immediately wrote in the memorial, "The evil cult is running rampant and must be eradicated immediately. You must not be benevolent as a woman."

After finishing, Jia Rui threw the memorial aside and stopped paying attention to it.

In fact, those who joined this so-called new religion in the Southern Barbarian Kingdom were in remote areas or islands far away from the mainland.

Because all the prosperous areas are areas under Jia Rui's absolute control, the people here have been brainwashed by Jia Rui. They all regard Jia Rui as the emerging master.

Especially those warriors treated Jia Rui well after he took control of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom. Now these warriors are even more devoted to Jia Rui.

Therefore, there is no room for development of these cults on Honshu Island. They can only go to remote areas to develop their forces secretly.

Because these areas were the areas that desperately resisted Jiarui, they were the most severely affected. Therefore, there were some people who resented Jiarui in these areas and used this religion to vent their dissatisfaction.

Jia Rui's order appeared on the desk of the Governor of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom at extremely fast speed within half a month.

The current Nanman capital is called Zhou Jin.

He was originally one of Jia Rui's generals, and he took over as the governor of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom not long ago.

After receiving Jia Rui's reply, he immediately gathered the Nanman garrison and the Nanman warriors who had taken refuge with Jia Rui. There were a total of more than 100,000 people, and they rushed directly to the four countries of Kyushu.

Because these two places are the fundamental places for the development of cults and are also the hardest-hit areas.

It should be said that the people in these areas were originally very tough, and because they were brainwashed by the cult, in the subsequent war, they were on par with the encirclement and suppression army.

Of course, this was only temporary. As time went by, the perfect material supplies on the side of the imperial army showed their advantages.

In addition, most of the lower-level warriors are actually loyal to Jia Rui. After all, as Jia Rui takes control of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom, the treatment of the warriors is much better. It is several times better than when the Southern Barbarian King and General took control. .

Therefore, even if the geographical environment is advantageous, in the unfamiliar Kyushu and Shikoku, samurai at the bottom are flocking to vote.

Under this situation, the cult's living space was slowly compressed, and finally it was besieged in a small mountain col.

In this small mountain col, there are actually nearly 100,000 devout believers gathered, and they are all die-hard supporters of the cult.

Among them are wealthy businessmen, ordinary people, and even some nobles.

But now they all have the same identity, that is, supporters of the cult and traitors to the imperial court.

Next, Zhou Jin did not attack immediately, but began a month-long siege. Since this is a small mountain col, the besieged cultists had no source of food at all. At the beginning, they still carried some food, but as time went by, the already limited food was consumed. .

At the end of the hill, Yi Zi and Shi appeared.

It was under this situation that Zhou Jin made the final attack, breaking through the opponent's defense in just one day, and then started a massacre.

There were nearly 100,000 people, but not one of them walked out of this mountain col.

Even after hundreds of years, this mountain col was a forbidden area of ​​​​the Southern Barbarian Kingdom.

People nearby said that they could hear ghosts crying and howling in the mountain col at night.

But this has nothing to do with Jia Rui. After Zhou Jin put down the rebellion in the Nanman Kingdom, a memorial was sent to Jia Rui.

Jia Rui was very happy that Zhou Jin could take quick action. You must know that Nanman Country is his private territory and an important source of wealth for him, so there can be no mistakes.

Jia Rui just happily approved Zhou Jin's memorial, shared it with the meritorious personnel, and even rewarded many warriors of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom.

Many low-level warriors became nobles due to their bravery in fighting, and owned their own small fiefdoms.

Just as Jia Rui finished writing the last word, a cup of tea was delivered to Jia Rui.

Jia Rui looked up and saw that it was Aunt Zhen holding the little emperor.

The little emperor is now lying in Aunt Zhen's arms, looking at Jia Rui with innocent eyes.

I don’t know if it was due to physical reasons, but Aunt Zhen has never been pregnant. This time she came to the palace to take care of the little emperor. She was a little perfunctory at first, but as time went by, Aunt Zhen already regarded the little baby as her own. of flesh and blood.

No matter where Aunt Zhen goes now, she will definitely hold the little emperor in her arms.

Regarding this situation, Jia Rui didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

Because Jia Rui knew that the little emperor would not end well in the future, and Aunt Zhen would be sad when the time comes.

But Jia Rui still didn't point it out. If Aunt Zhen can be happy for a while, let her be happy for a while.

"Why are you here?" Jia Rui asked with a smile.

"I heard from the people below that you haven't even eaten lunch and have been working on this batch of memorials, so come here and take a look."

Jia Rui looked outside in surprise and found that the sun had already set in the west. He was so absorbed in reviewing the memorial that he didn't even notice that lunch had passed.

Jia Rui glanced at Qin Shun, who was standing next to him with a low eyebrow, unhappily, "Why didn't you remind me?"

Qin Shun said very aggrievedly: "Master, I have reminded you several times, but you have dismissed me."

Only then did Jia Rui remember that Qin Shun had indeed reminded him, but at that time he was absorbed in reading the memorial, so he angrily reprimanded Qin Shun.

Although it was his own fault, Jia Rui didn't feel any guilt at all, "Humph! It's better that you didn't take things seriously, otherwise, why would I have missed lunch."

Qin Shun stood there, aggrieved and didn't know what to do.

Aunt Zhen smiled slightly, then patted Jia Rui's arm gently with her hand, "Don't blame him, it was Qin Shun who sent someone to inform me from behind that I came here."

(End of this chapter)