My Red Mansion Career

Chapter 223 Analysis of pros and cons

"The rent will be reduced to 20% to 30%?"

Lin Ruhai's expression suddenly became awe-inspiring, and he quickly stopped him and said, "No... Two or three percent is too low. Think twice and you can't act recklessly."

The landlords in Daxia now generally pay about 50% of the rent to their tenants, and 45% of the rent is considered conscientious. The more evil landlords even receive 60% or even 70% of the rent.

If, as Jia Yu said, the rent is reduced to 30% or even 20%, he will definitely become the target of public criticism.

After all, if a white pig suddenly appears among a group of black pigs, you can only imagine the consequences with your knees.

Jia Yu thought for a while and realized that what Lin Ruhai said did make sense.

The capture of those salt merchants this time will at best offend the merchants selling salt in the south of the Yangtze River. But if the tenant rent is really reduced to 20%, it will offend all the landowners in the world.

Didn’t you see that Lao Ma, who came to China in later generations, only slightly raised the wages of workers, which caused the usually sanctimonious businessmen in the country to collectively break their defenses and complain about his "malicious" salary increase.

It seems that the characteristics of merchants have been the same from ancient times to the present.

Sighing helplessly, Jia Yu could only say helplessly: "Okay then, we will only charge 40% of the rent."

"Forty percent is barely feasible."

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"Father, do you also want to go back to Shenjing?" Upon hearing this, Daiyu's pretty face immediately showed a look of surprise.

Jia Yu knew that he had taken things for granted. Of course, he understood that the implications of renting were too great. Before he had absolute rights and strength, he should not try to fight against the landlords in the world.

As for liaison with pirates, have they done anything?

Especially for the students who went on strike, they were even more terrified. Jia Yu suppressed them in the name of colluding with salt merchants and pirates.

For five thousand years in China, the only person who has the ability to completely change this phenomenon is the teacher.

After saying that, he looked at Daiyu and showed a kind smile, "Besides, I have to watch our precious daughter get married with my own eyes."

Lin Ruhai nodded, and then solemnly warned: "Think twice, you have to remember that renting is not like selling salt. The interests involved here are too great, let alone you. Even His Majesty does not dare to change at will. You Understand?"

Lin Ruhai laughed and touched her hair: "You kid, you always talk stupid things.

Jia Yu's thunderous attack shocked everyone, and also shocked the entire Yangzhou and even the salt dealers in the south of the Yangtze River into silence.

"Father..." Daiyu was so ashamed that she threw herself into Lin Ruhai's arms and twisted her body like a baby, making Lin Ruhai burst into laughter...

In the face of absolute force, all conspiracies and opposition forces disappeared like a whirlwind.

Daiyu quickly denied it, then sat next to Lin Ruhai, held his arm and said coquettishly: "My daughter just hopes that she can live like this with her father, Aunt Mei and Brother Yu, and never have to go back to the capital again."

After thanking Lin Ruhai, he said a few words to Daiyu and then left.

Lin Ruhai smiled lightly, "My father has stayed in Yangzhou for more than ten years, and there has been such a big commotion this time. If I stay any longer, I am afraid some people will not be able to sleep."

But you don’t have to worry. After the matter in Yangzhou is settled, you can return to Yangzhou with Sansi. My father estimates that it won't be long before the decision to transfer my father back to Shenjing will be issued. "

Seeing her daughter pouting at Jia Yu's leaving figure, Lin Ruhai laughed and said, "Yu'er, Sansi is a person who does great things. As the woman behind him, you can't hold him back."

No one expected that a count who came down from Shenjing would be so unscrupulous, swinging his bloody butcher knife at businessmen, students, local rogues and private salt dealers at the same time.

In just three days, the Huben camp had taken complete control of Yangzhou and more than ten surrounding counties. During this day, countless people were frightened, especially those merchants who went on strike and students who went on strike.

"My daughter doesn't have one."

There must be some, but not many people have done it.

But that's not the problem. The big problem is that any of them did it.

In recent years, people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas have been like crucian carps crossing the river to do business privately. It is not easy to find a few people who go overseas to do business privately.

As long as someone has done it, then there is a crime.

Because this means that Jia Yu did not accuse them wrongly.

The sea ban was a national policy set by Taizu Taizu of Great Xia. Is it wrong for Jia Yu to arrest the students who were engaging in adultery with pirates?

Of course, this is the politically correct thing to do, and no one can blame him.

Since some of the students who went on strike and demonstrated colluded with salt merchants to hoard salt and liaise with pirates, then if they acted together with these people, all the students and merchants who went on strike would be suspected of being spies.

Once the court really pursues the case, these crimes will be like dirt in their crotches, either feces or feces. Even if the court shows mercy without losing their lives, they may also lose their career.

Many people may be proven innocent after interrogation in the future, but in the eyes of the world's suspicion, they may live their lives wearing the label of colluding with profiteers and pirates. For scholars who regard face as their life, this is more difficult than Killing them is even more painful.

As loud as their righteous business slogan of asking for life for the people was back then, the slap they received back now is so painful.

These students now are more worried about their own future and lives. These days, I don’t know how many people are so scared that they can’t sleep.

Jia Yu only used a little thunderous means to reduce all the resistance forces to ashes. The originally powerful "righteous businessmen" petitioning for the people also became a joke.

The raids on Ding Shoudao's eight major salt merchants also made more people re-examine Jia Yu's methods.

After thinking about it, everyone was shocked to discover that this was a master who acted irrationally, relying on the fact that he had a large army and the emperor's will to do things without any scruples.

At this time, a shocking news also spread in Yangzhou.

The wife and children of Lin Ruhai, the censor of the Salt Patrol, were secretly poisoned by the salt merchants. He himself was also poisoned. Fortunately, your Majesty sent a doctor from Shenjing to snatch him back from the hands of the King of Hell.

This time, the reason why Jia Yu attacked those salt merchants was to avenge Lin Ruye.

As we all know, from ancient times to the present, gossip spreads the fastest. In just three days, the eight major salt merchants poisoned the whole family of the Salt Patrol Censor who was unwilling to join them for their own personal gain.

The news that Jia Yu avenged her uncle and led an army to Yangzhou to kill the salt merchants spread throughout the streets and even spread to the entire Jiangnan.

"Crack...crack..."

In a dark cell, a strong man with a gloomy face kept waving the whip in his hand.

On a wooden railing against the wall, Ding Shoudao was stripped down to a pair of underwear and beaten to a bloody pulp.

Ding Shoudao had been beaten so hard that he no longer had the strength to moan. For him, who had been pampered since childhood, the whipping he received tonight was the most terrifying punishment he had ever seen in his life. After another whip, the strong man finally stopped, sat down with a grin, picked up the bowl on the table and took a sip of water.

He looked at Ding Shoudao's eager eyes and said jokingly: "I have to say, you are one of the few people who can survive a night under Master Bao. Master Bao, I even admire you a little bit.

But it doesn't matter, I still have a lot of good things that I haven't used yet. I hope you can withstand it in the next three days and three nights. "

After saying that, Mr. Bao took down a package from the wall behind him. He opened the package in front of Ding Shoudao and took out the gadgets one by one.

There are more than ten kinds of torture instruments including tweezers, small hammers, sharp knives as big as little thumbs, bamboo sticks, pliers, etc.

Moreover, these torture instruments all have dark red rust stains, which makes people feel heartbroken just by looking at them.

Mr. Bao picked up a pair of tweezers and stretched it out in front of Ding Shoudao, and said as if to show off: "Look...this tweezers are actually very fun. It will only cut out a piece of meat the size of a rice grain from your body every time, and We only want the flesh under your armpits because that's where it hurts the most.

Look at these bamboo sticks again. They can be easily nailed into the gaps between your nails and then completely separate your nails.

Also, look at these pliers. I usually use them to crush people's fingers and toes. They say ten fingers are connected to the heart. Maybe you don't have a deep understanding of this sentence.

It doesn't matter, you will feel it later..."

"Stop talking...I said...Isn't it okay even after I said it?"

Before Mr. Bao finished speaking, Ding Shoudao, who had been tortured all night, finally collapsed.

At this time, he no longer had the calmness and ruthlessness of the past, and he cried until tears and snot flowed out of his nose.

"Hehe... couldn't you have said this earlier? It would have saved you the pain of last night."

Seeing Ding Shoudao finally collapse, Mr. Bao was overjoyed and whistled, and soon two scribes came in.

They came and sat down in front of Ding Shoudao. Master Bao brought a table and placed it in front of them.

Then the visitor took out pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and after getting ready, the interrogation began...

"Sir, this is the confession of Ding Shoudao and the salt merchants. He also told the story of his correspondence with Lan Renxian and other Yangzhou officials over the years, as well as the hiding place of the account books."

Looking at the thick stack of confessions sent by Wu Yunchun, Jia Yu immediately flipped through them. After reading a few pictures, Jia Yu was overjoyed.

"Okay... With these confessions and account books, I want to see how Lan Renxian can still quibble?"

"Sir, there is a situation."

Just when Jia Yu was about to show the confession to Lin Ruhai, Zhao Qiubai walked in with his head still wrapped in gauze.

I saw him cupping his hands towards Jia Yu: "Sire, according to the news received by Tan Ma, Jinling's Jiangnan Camp has been dispatched and is now heading towards Yangzhou. It is expected to arrive in Yangzhou in seven or eight days."

"Jiangnan Camp? Yongyi Bolu Peiyi?"

When he heard the name Jiangnan Camp, Jia Yu's brows immediately wrinkled.

Although Lu Peiyi, the governor of Jiangnan Camp, was also a noble, his title was different from the founding nobles such as Ningrong Ergong, Zhenguo Gongfu, and Li Guogong.

Lu Peiyi was granted the title of earl after the Tiewen Mountain Incident. During the Tiewen Mountain Incident, the former crown prince led his troops from the Eastern Palace and those loyal to the Supreme Emperor to kill each other in a bloody battle at Tiewang Mountain.

Although the former prince was defeated and committed suicide in the end, the emperor also suffered heavy casualties on his side.

After this war, the Supreme Emperor, who had some distrust of the founding nobles, awarded a group of new nobles to check and balance those founding nobles.

Why was it that the last time the Beijing camp was almost completely wiped out during the Battle of Tongguan, the Supreme Emperor only dealt with one Tan Qingyun and then remained silent, nor did he kill the civil officials involved in the case?

The reason is very simple, because the Supreme Emperor has long known that after so many years of peace, the Beijing camp is no longer the invincible army that defeated Yuan and Meng in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

These nobles who were promoted after the Iron Network Mountain Incident are the Supreme Emperor's true core and trump card.

Lu Peiyi, who was the governor of Jiangnan Camp at the time, was the person who participated in the Battle of Tiewan Mountain.

Jia Yu felt a little dizzy when she thought of this...

"I didn't expect that Mr. Lu would actually get involved with these salt merchants in Yangzhou. It's a bit difficult to handle now." After seeing the confession sent by Jia Yu and the news of the troops sent by the Jiangnan camp, Lin Ruhai couldn't help but sigh. .

Jia Yu also expressed his doubts: "Father-in-law, what's going on with this Lu Peiyi?

He had neither an imperial edict nor an official troop deployment document from the Ministry of War. How could he dare to send troops privately?

Once the court investigates him, it will be a serious crime of beheading. "

"My dear son-in-law, you don't know something."

Seeing Jia Yu looking puzzled, Lin Ruhai explained: "Jiangnan Camp and Jiangbei Camp were the heavy troops deployed by the Emperor in Jiangsu and Zhejiang during his five years in Shenwu.

The main camp in the south of the Yangtze River is for infantry and cavalry, and the camp to the north is mainly for the navy.

The original intention of the Supreme Emperor to create these two camps was to suppress and intimidate all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, and at the same time to prevent Japanese pirates along the coast.

For this reason, the Supreme Emperor also gave these two camps special privileges. In critical moments, they could be dispatched to counter-insurgency without an imperial edict or an official document from the Ministry of War. All they had to do was explain the reasons in a post in the future.

These two camps have never used this privilege for decades. I didn't expect that the Jiangnan camp would use it for you today. I don't know whether I should congratulate you or say you are unlucky. "

Looking at Lin Ruhai's half-smiling eyes, Jia Yu was a little bit dumbfounded: "Father-in-law, aren't you worried that this old guy Lu Peiyi will really kill your son-in-law?"

"Do you still need me to worry about you?"

Lin Ruhai said angrily: "If Tuo Tuo Bu Hua's hundred thousand troops can't stand up to you, then it's crazy that this old man Lu Peiyi can really defeat you.

But that's what I'm worried about. You're not going to attack Lu Peiyi lightly or harshly. If you really beat up Lu Peiyi and cause heavy losses to the Jiangnan Camp, the Emperor will never spare you. "

Jia Yu's eyes widened: "This old boy Lu Peiyi is definitely in cahoots with those salt merchants. Are you still going to speak for him?"

Lin Ruhai just said lightly: "It depends on the owner to beat a dog. Don't forget that Lu Peiyi is the Emperor's man.

You are really going to inflict heavy damage on Jiangnan Camp. Believe it or not, within half a month, the imperial edict summoning you to Beijing will be delivered to you immediately.

Then you will definitely be demoted, and maybe you will be imprisoned? "

(End of this chapter)