My Red Mansion Career

Chapter 220 Only blood, hard work, tears and sweat can lead to victory.

On the street in front of the Xunyan Censor's Mansion, the beaten students fled in all directions, and many even lost their shoes in the panic.

The students were running around in the chaotic streets, and the musketeers, holding musket butts, chased the helpless students and beat them until they cried for their fathers and mothers.

In the chaotic scene, some people were wailing and some had their heads bleeding.

The street was in chaos, and some curious passers-by who came to watch the excitement were also dragged into it, shuttling back and forth between the musketeers and students.

"Something big happened...something big happened..."

Those who were observing secretly were all frightened by this scene. The new imperial envoy dared to beat the students of Meihua Academy. This was a major event that had never happened in Yangzhou in the past hundred years.

"Let's go... we can't stay here anymore, go back and report to the head of the family!"

At this moment, I don’t know how many people were frightened by this scene...

"Hahaha……"

In a mansion covering an area of ​​dozens of acres, Ding Shoudao, who received the report from his men, was so happy that he looked up to the sky and laughed.

“As the old saying goes, if you want to destroy a person, you must first make him crazy.

When I asked the students from Meihua Academy to block the door, it was just to add to his trouble. I never thought that this boy would be so bold as to beat up the scholars. He was ostracizing himself from Yangzhou... no, ostracizing himself from all the scholars in Jiangnan! "

After finishing speaking, Ding Shoudao's face flushed with excitement, and he spoke louder: "Go and notify other merchants immediately. From now on, if anyone dares to open the door for business, I will make him unable to stay in Yangzhou City." !

In addition, no matter how many people are gathered for me, they will all block the door for me.

Also, before informing the students in other academies about this news, I would like to see how those students would react when they heard that the people from Plum Blossom Academy were beaten? "

"Here!"

In fact, the news that the students from Meihua Academy were beaten spread far faster than anyone expected.

When the students from the two major academies, Anding and Yizheng, which were as famous as Meihua Academy, heard the news, they immediately became excited.

Although the other two academies and Plum Blossom Academy are usually in competition, their positions are consistent on the issue of safeguarding the interests of scholars.

In the eyes of these students, the noble scholar's seed was actually beaten by a group of lowly Qiu Ba. This simply offended their instincts. In an instant, the students of the two major academies became excited.

Yangzhou is a famous big city in the south of the Yangtze River, with a permanent population of hundreds of thousands.

The whole of Yangzhou suddenly became turbulent. Starting from the morning, shops in Yangzhou began to close and all sales stopped.

The people in the city were frightened and panicked, and started a panic buying trend. By the afternoon, before all the shops were closed, the price of rice had soared to three taels of silver and one stone.

Under the contagion of panic, the prices of various goods in Yangzhou city, such as cloth, salt and tea materials, also skyrocketed. In the end, there was no market at all.

Soon, the strike spread to Huai'an City, Fengyang City, and even Suzhou Prefecture, and panic buying became common everywhere.

The entire Jiangnan area was in depression, and the people were panicked and didn't know what was happening.

Not only that, a huge wave of petitioners began to appear in Yangzhou City.

They invited officials and cried to the prefects, governors and other government offices, demanding that Dingding Yuanbo Jia Yu's attempt to amass money from merchants in the name of reforming the salt tax be stopped.

The streets of Yangzhou were crowded with wailing people, and various anonymous posters were posted everywhere.

On that day, the Anding and Yizheng academies in Yangzhou declared a strike. Hundreds of students marched to the governor's office and petitioned Suzhou Governor Lan Renxian to oppose Dingyuan Bo's extortionate expropriation and competition with the people.

Governor Lan Renxian came out to speak to the students, claiming that he also disagreed with the reform of the salt tax and would definitely persuade Ding Yuanbo to change his mind.

The prefect Luan Tili also followed Lan Renxian, claiming to the crowd that Dingyuanbo's theory of changing the salt tax was purely a rumor, and he would definitely persuade Dingyuanbo to take back his life.

At this time, someone shouted loudly, "Fellow folks, why don't you go and ask Uncle Dingyuan in person!"

"Yes... Let's go together... Let's go together..."

Looking at the crowds swarming towards Xunyan Censor's Mansion, Lan Renxian and Luan Tili showed successful smiles on their faces.

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In the Xunyan Censor's Mansion, Jia Yu, who had just finished breakfast, was talking to Lin Ruhai, Aunt Mei, and Daiyu.

Starting yesterday, Lin Ruhai started to have a high fever, with her body temperature reaching 39 degrees.

Chilling all over and shaking, Jia Yu knew that this was because those leeches sucked toxins from his blood that day and also brought some germs into his body.

And after years of toxin attack, Lin Ruhai's immunity and physical condition were extremely poor, and he couldn't bear the slightest infection.

It would be difficult for Lin Ruhai to survive alone.

Jia Yu tried to give Lin Ruhai cephalosporin and antipyretic drugs, but in fact he did it with the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

Perhaps it was because people of this era had never been exposed to penicillin. After taking cephalosporins and antipyretics, Lin Ruhai's high fever subsided quickly.

This also made Dr. Wang exclaim that it was unbelievable. According to Cui Ce, Lin Ruhai only needs to undergo two courses of treatment every ten days or so. Most of the toxins in Lin Ruhai's body can be removed, and the rest will depend on conditioning. .

Since the toxins in the body were removed and the high fever subsided, Lin Ruhai's mental state has also improved a lot. Today she can get out of bed and walk a few steps on her own.

Seeing that her father's condition is expected to recover, Daiyu's mood has improved a lot in the past two days, and even her smile has become much sweeter.

When Lin Ruhai finished the last mouthful of rice porridge, Aunt Mei wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and then asked the maid on the side to take down the bowl and chopsticks.

Lin Ruhai took another sip of tea and then said to Jia Yu: "Think twice...your move the day before yesterday was too risky.

The students of Plum Blossom Academy are not so easy to mess with. In the more than seventy years since the founding of the Xia Dynasty, there has never been an incident where a court official beat an academy student in the street.

Lan Renxian and Ding Shoudao will definitely make a fuss about this matter. Maybe the plan to impeach you has already been launched by now. "

Jia Yu smiled faintly, "Those students are here to cause trouble, and trying to persuade them to leave with good words is simply a daydream.

For those people, violence is the most effective and the only feasible way. "

Lin Ruhai said helplessly: "But do you know that if you beat me like this, the entire literati in Jiangnan will regard you as an enemy, especially the other two academies in Yangzhou will also share the same hatred with you."

"Actually, my son-in-law has already considered these things."

Jia Yu said slowly: "My son-in-law has been in the officialdom for less than two years, and he has already been made a marquis by your majesty. Where does this come from?

It's not because His Majesty knows that my son-in-law is actually a lonely minister in the court.

Throughout the court, the civil servant group and the son-in-law never dealt with each other very well, and the Xungui Group only had some exchanges of interests with the son-in-law.

The only person I have anything to do with my son-in-law besides Rongguo Mansion is my father-in-law.

It is precisely because of this that His Majesty can safely hand over the Five Cities Military and Horse Division and Huben Camp to his son-in-law. This time His Majesty sent his son-in-law to Yangzhou. To put it bluntly, he was here to do His Majesty's dirty work.

Jiangnan was a prosperous literary style, and salt merchants formed a group to fight against the imperial decree. Without a ruthless person, it would be almost a pipe dream to deal with those salt merchants.

You said, if my son-in-law doesn't use some thunderous means, how can His Majesty rest assured? "

"It seems you understand." Lin Ruhai glanced at Jia Yu in surprise, then glanced around and sighed after making sure no one was around.

"As the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Think twice. Since you want to take the path of being a lonely minister, I will say nothing more. I only hope that you will think twice before you act in the future."

Daiyu on the side couldn't help but grabbed Jia Yu's arm: "Brother Yu, you have offended all the literati, and your life in the court will be difficult from now on.

What should you do if you lose His Majesty's love and protection in the future? "

Jia Yu laughed, patted the back of Daiyu's tender hand and comforted her: "Don't worry, Yu'er, your husband is not that stupid, and he won't go all the way to the dark side.

If things really come to a head, the worst we can do is throw away our family business in the Central Plains and start over somewhere else. "

"Starting over, it's not in the Central Plains. Where else can we go?" Daiyu asked puzzledly.

Jia Yu just smiled and said nothing. Due to the limitations of the times, Daiyu and even Lin Ruhai and his daughter did not know much about places outside the Central Plains.

But Jia Yu, who came from later generations, knew very well that the world was very big. Even if the Central Plains could no longer stay, there were plenty of places to settle in Southeast Asia, Wanwan, or Nanyang.

Moreover, Jia Yu has not been idle for more than a year. He has already sent people to secretly build ships, and even started to enclose land somewhere in Southeast Asia. Whenever he senses something is wrong, he will take his family and run away with oil on their soles.

"Sir, something is wrong. Just two-quarters of an hour ago, many people began to gather in front of our house. It seems that someone is going to cause trouble again."

While several people were talking about things, Zhao Qiubai hurried over and reported the bad news to Jia Yu.

"Have you seen clearly? Who are they?" Lin Ruhai asked in a deep voice.

"According to the villain, there are students from the academy, businessmen, ordinary people, and even a lot of green-skinned scoundrels mixed in."

"How could this happen? Doesn't the government care about it?" Aunt Mei said angrily.

Daiyu held the hand of Aunt Mei, a kind-hearted woman, and said dumbfounded: "My good Aunt Mei, don't you know, the people from the government have already been mixed up with them, maybe these people are the government Maybe he gave it secretly."

Jia Yu stood up calmly: "Father-in-law, you, Aunt Mei, and Yu'er are resting here. My son-in-law will go out to take care of things now and come back later."

As soon as he stood up, Lin Ruhai said leisurely: "Think twice...have you decided to see blood?"

Jia Yu paused, "Father-in-law, there is a proverb from the Western Yi people, only blood, toil, tears and sweat can lead to victory.

Victory cannot be achieved by weakness and prayer. Today, my son-in-law will share these words with you. "

After saying that, he walked towards the door without looking back. Just as he walked to the door, Lin Ruhai's voice sounded from behind again.

"What if those people mobilize the Jiangnan camp to embarrass you?"

Jia Yu paused in her steps and turned around with a disdainful smile, "That's exactly what I want... because my son-in-law's Huben camp has also arrived in Yangzhou and is on standby more than ten miles outside the city."

After saying that, he strode away without looking back.

In fact, when Emperor Changping ordered Jia Yu to take the Huben camp down to the south of the Yangtze River, he understood what Emperor Changping meant.

Emperor Changping asked him to lead his troops south, making it clear that he wanted him to kill people.

To put it bluntly, Emperor Changping wanted him to be a knife...a killing knife.

As for what will happen to this knife after killing someone...I'm sorry, this is not within the scope of his consideration.

When Jia Yu strode to the door, she saw more people than the day before.

In the middle are hundreds of students. They can be recognized at a glance because they are all wearing blue gowns and Confucian scarves that only students can wear.

Behind these students were many common people and merchants, and even many green-skinned and scoundrels with a violent temper.

At this time, these students had already rushed in front of the escorting musketeers. Gu Ji, who was sweating profusely, was leading the musketeers to resist the impact of these people.

Jia Yu even saw some scoundrels mixing in the crowd, throwing stones, bricks and other objects at the musketeers. Some of the musketeers were already getting injured.

Seeing this, Jia Yu's face was already full of anger. He looked around again and found that there were two or three people in the distance looking here. He knew that those people were all spies sent to investigate the situation.

And when people saw Jia Yu walking out of the gate, wearing a python robe, they became even more excited.

The students even started yelling at Jia Yu.

"Jia Yu, a traitor to the country, brutally harmed me, a Yangzhou scholar, and you will not die a good death!"

"Everyone... today is the day to eliminate the traitor for the country. We will step forward together to eliminate this traitor to the country and set the course of the government!"

"Everyone, come on!"

There began to be a commotion around, and soon someone started throwing stones at Jia Yu.

Jia Yu didn't talk nonsense, and then he dodged the flying stones and strode to the stage of Xunyan Censor's Mansion and shouted: "I will only say this once...disperse immediately.

Otherwise, don’t blame me for being ruthless! "

"Bah! Dog Officer...you are here to harm us Yangzhou people!"

"Yes...kill this traitor!"

Along with several angry curses, several rocks flew towards Jia Yu.

After Jia Yu dodged the rocks, her eyes were extremely cold.

At this moment, a sound like a roaring mountain and a tsunami suddenly came from the east: "Wan Sheng!"

As the sound echoed through the sky, the entire crowd immediately fell silent.

Then the ground seemed to tremble faintly, as if there was the sound of a large group of people marching in order.

The sound of neat footsteps was getting closer and closer, and the students who were making trouble looked at each other in confusion: "What's going on?"

"It's not good...Hu Ben camp has entered the city!"

A shrill voice then sounded...

(End of this chapter)