Red Mansion: I am Jia Lian

Chapter 183: Clear Flag
When he was alone, Jia Lian's face showed melancholy. After traveling for many years, I still don’t understand the operating rules of this world thoroughly enough, so many things I do will become uncontrollable and lead to my helpless ending.

To put it bluntly, in my previous life, I had been in the lower class society for a long time, and there was a huge cognitive bias.

This is often the case. If you do more, you will make more mistakes, if you do less, you will make more mistakes, and if you do less, it will be better.

There is another possibility that "hanging" is at work, always developing in places that Jia Lian can't think of.

People are like this. Things that they have not seen before are often not compensated by their IQ, not to mention that Jia Lian does not have a high IQ.

Youshi came again, this time he didn't stay long, he just told Jia Zhen what he meant. After hearing this, Jia Lian just smiled bitterly and shook his head.

You thought he looked down on Jia Zhen, so she reassured her: "If a man can't stand outside, how can he be the lintel of his family?"

The implication is that the Jia family has reached the point where they want to borrow the power of the Wang family, and you will be affected many times in the future.

Youshi, who was born in a small family, understands reality best, otherwise he would not be able to do things like watching his two sisters mess around and ignore them.

When Guixiang came in, Youshi put down her things and left. Before Ansheng could wait for a while, Jia Rong rushed in again.

The buttons for Welfare Lai Yaxing were exactly the same. The three shopkeepers seemed to have disappeared from the world, as if they had never appeared before. Their families were also missing. Perhaps, these dozens of people have been buried in some unknown place.

An even more outrageous thing happened. After a fire, all the accounts of Welfare Laiya Branch were completely burned.

The development of the situation is divided into two lines. The progress of Jia Lian's assassination case reached a deadlock after the death of the leader Mei Ju and the whole family.

The result of the matter was that Jia Lian passively stood at the center of the storm. What a fool.

More than a hundred Juren were arrested, and the final result was that the Ministry of Rites removed them from their titles. All the graduates of the Imperial College dropped out of school and went home, unable to take the imperial examination in the future.

After Emperor Chenghui got the results, he didn't say a word of his opinions. He picked up a pen to sign and seal the report.

After summarizing all the information, Jia Lian came to the conclusion that Xia Shouzhong hated Dai Quan to death.

After a few random words, Jia Lian sent Jia Rong away.

The three-court joint trial, which has always been inefficient, handled this case particularly efficiently. In less than ten days, the case was settled. From the cabinet to the six ministries and nine ministers, everyone worked together and worked closely together to resolve the case as quickly as possible.

They danced and shouted: "It's so happy, it's so happy."

Emperor Chenghui did not ignore the confessions of several cabinet ministers, but directly responded: The cabinet is responsible for the general direction, and the responsibility for specific issues does not rest with the cabinet. In other words, there is no so-called handle left in the emperor's hands.

Jia Rong talked about the cigarette business. The Xue family was very cooperative. They prepared enough tobacco leaves as required and arranged the production place. Now they are recruiting people for training and preparing for mass production. Jia Rong also took over all the cigarette making machines. He is very clean now and is waiting to start selling goods and make a fortune.

Jia Lian read his plan and found that it was generally qualified. He was indeed talented in business.

From this action, it can be seen that the cabinet ministers are sincere in their hearts while expressing gratitude.

In terms of the outcome of this struggle caused by Jia Lian, Emperor Chenghui benefited, but not much.

Prince Xiao Zhongyi was called to the Xishan Royal Manor because he wanted to spend the summer with the Emperor.

Faced with such a good opportunity, the emperor chose to let go gently, and he was called the magnanimous king.

Lieutenant Long, who was on duty that night, showed no reaction, and eight bodies were found in the fire scene.

All clues were cut off as quickly as possible, and the case could not be further investigated.

Jia Lian responded with silence, unable to tell Jia Rong, "I chose to side with the emperor, but I didn't intend to be the vanguard." 】

Jia Lian, who no longer had hope for the development of the situation, stayed at home with peace of mind, spending a lot of time reading newspapers every day, listening to the latest news, and summarizing and analyzing it. Scientific methodology can really guide people's work.

Anyone with a little bit of experience as a Beijing official can see that the Supreme Emperor and Emperor Chenghui handled similar incidents completely differently. During the time when the Supreme Emperor was in power, he often chose to leave things unaddressed in situations like this, which gave him more leeway.

Jia Lian's biggest gain during this period was that he became known as a disaster star in officialdom.

Jia Lian was supposed to continue to observe politics, but ended up taking leave early, which was really dumbfounding.

From this incident, Jia Lian once again made a small summary. The power struggle is between high-level officials and try not to show off. This is the case with cases like the Welfare Lai Yahang case. After decisively cutting off the clues, everything is over.

Both Emperor Chenghui and Jia Lian had a general direction in mind.

Judging from the results, Emperor Chenghui's side had a small victory. The last time the Supreme Emperor used the debt settlement case to overwhelm Emperor Chenghui, he has basically lost the situation now. The two sides are in a delicately balanced situation.

The seventh day of July was the day when Jia Lian's "jail" ended.

No one thought beforehand that Jia Lian was really just staying at home, he was so self-conscious.

Jia Lian, who had not gone to work for a long time, suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. After cleaning up, he happily went out to the Ministry of Works.

When he arrived at the place, he was stopped by the doorman and said: "Mr. Jia, today is Women's Day and it is also a holiday. If you come here a little later, the younger ones will have left. By the way, the new Minister from the Ministry of Industry will do it for you. Okay, I’ll give it to you for the government appraisal. I will hand it over to you directly.”

Menzi took out a document bag from inside, and Jia Lian was a little embarrassed after taking it, actually forgetting about the holiday.

"Is the new Minister Guo Lord?" Jia Lian asked intentionally or unintentionally, and the disciple paused: "It has nothing to do with the villain."

I opened the envelope and looked at it. There were appraisals issued by Emperor Chenghui and appraisals issued by Guo Shangshu, both of which rated "excellent". The result was not too surprising. Judging from the disciple's attitude, Mr. Guo must have carefully explained that Jia Lian would never be allowed to enter the headquarters as a government official again. There was also a document attached. The [Research and Development Department] was assigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Jia Lian had the title of head of the [Research and Development Office] of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It was really out of fear of causing disaster that the Ministry of Industry gave up its fight with the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the [Research and Development Department].

When the holiday is over, it will be Jia Lian's own business where he wants to observe the government. Anyway, two months have passed since the half-year period of observing the government. I believe other departments are already making preparations to nip the problem in the bud.

Jia Lian held the document bag and sighed melancholy: "Is it all my fault when something happens? When was it my fault?" Zhu Zhu, who had been responsible for delivering information these days, said from the side: "Master, if it were someone else, I’m afraid there won’t be any trouble when I meet you.”

Jia Lian was silent again after hearing this. Yes, if he were an ordinary person, he would really not cause any commotion.

"Now that we're out, let's have some fun today." Jia Lian planned to go out for the day, but was immediately stopped by the general behind him, who pulled the reins and said, "Sir, it's really inconvenient for you to go to crowded places."

Looking back at the house behind him, the number of people increased to ten, and Jia Lian decided to be considerate of everyone.

In fact, there are twenty people, divided into two shifts, on odd and even days, to ensure that Jia Lian has at least ten generals with him when he goes out.

In order to qualify for this ranking, the generals held a private battle to determine the winner, and only the winner was qualified.

There was no way around it. Last time when the welfare came, the generals received five rewards. First, Jia Mu rewarded them once, and then Jia Min also rewarded them. Jia Lian did not receive any rewards, but paid them in the name of labor fees, and Jia She followed suit. Once, Jia Zhen from Dongfu also rewarded him. It really means that everyone has an income of at least fifty taels.

There is also an explanation for Jia Zhen's matter. Long Jinwei, who always eats people without spitting out their bones, actually sent someone to deliver 30,000 taels of silver notes to Jia Zhen. It was like a miracle. Jia Zhen didn't even dare to hope that she could get some money back, but she didn't expect Captain Long to send it to her.

After some false excuses, the excuse given was very reasonable. Long Jinwei almost ate the huge tooth in one bite. There were five hundred thousand taels of silver in the cellar, and they were all moved back to the inner treasury. The remaining items were sold off, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs spent 500,000 taels to buy out the manpower and property of Yahang. This is considered a cheap sale.

Therefore, Long Jinwei gave thirty thousand taels to Jia Zhen, which was not considered a big deal. In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't give it, no one dares to ask Captain Long for money. But Xia Shouzhong insisted on giving the money, and Jia Zhen had no choice but to accept it. Then he took out 10,000 taels and asked You to give it to Jia Lian.

Jia Lian only received 5,000 taels, leaving the remaining half to You as private money.

The situation is like this. Everyone knows that it is the property of Prince Xiao Zhongyi. For the sake of the Supreme Emperor, no one has used the welfare to come to Yaxing. The industry finally fell into the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was very flexible.

On the way back, Jia Lian was stopped by classmate Xia, who asked him to come up and talk to him at home.

Jia Lian was very emotional about this: "It's you, don't think I am unlucky."

Classmate Xia smiled and invited Jia Lian to take a seat before replying: "Who dares to say that you are unlucky? It must be his problem and has nothing to do with you. As for me, since you recognized me as your friend, not only have you not been unlucky, but you have been You're lucky. My uncle also asked me to say thank you. If it weren't for you, he wouldn't have an excuse to clean up the Dragon Guard."

Jia Lian smiled and said, "Well, congratulations to Duke Xia."

Classmate Xia whispered: "Not only did my uncle get an advantage, but Eunuch Qiu also took the opportunity to purge some old people in the palace. The matter was related to treason. No matter how calm it is outside, the palace is destined to be bloody." Speaking of this, Classmate Xia lowered his voice again and said, "That one is the biggest profiteer."

Jia Lian was shocked when he heard this. He didn't expect that classmate Xia could say this. He really regarded himself as a friend, otherwise who would dare to judge the emperor easily, not to mention that he was related to Xia Shouzhong and a die-hard imperialist.

"Brother Xia, be careful what you say." Jia Lian looked solemn. Naturally, Student Xia understood what Jia Lian meant and smiled without saying anything.

Jia Lian lowered his head and thought for a while, then combined with the information collected before, he came up with a rough outline.

"People are dying one after another, so blatantly. Aren't you afraid of being liquidated in the future?"

Classmate Xia explained: "Why do we care? We are just trying to survive by cutting off our tails. In this matter, you are the biggest variable."

Jia Lian fell into silence, gradually sorting out the invisible connections.

"Do you lose half by surrendering?"

"That's pretty much what it means, that is, the one in the Xishan Imperial Manor is still alive, otherwise he would not have a good death. My uncle said that you must be able to understand the saint's difficulties." Student Xia really shouldered the responsibility and brought out such a sentence.

If the outcome of the struggle was known in advance, Jia Lian would naturally be swayed, and Emperor Chenghui could not help but be worried. After all, the four major families have the same interests, and their relationships are intricately linked, and they have great influence in this dynasty. Even if Jia She's generation fails, the foundation of a double-gong family is there, and their choice will have great weight in this contest between two generations of emperors. The emperor's worries are not unnecessary in anyone's opinion.

"Look up to Jia." Jia Lian replied calmly. He couldn't have no temper at all. After all, he was only sixteen years old.

"Don't dare to belittle yourself. Today's Brother Jia can influence Prime Minister Zhang from afar, and he can influence Taiwei Wang from a distance."

Classmate Xia was quite sincere. Usually when things like this got to the point, he would have said everything.

If Jia Lian was angry and made the opposite choice, it would really be a waste of money.

Fortunately, the character that Jia Lian always created was to support whoever became the emperor. Emperor Chenghui was also very favored, so the possibility of misunderstanding was unlikely. Emperor Chenghui just didn't need to take risks. Let someone explain it without losing anything. What.

Declining classmate Xia's invitation to stay for dinner, Jia Lian chose to go to Zhang's house and walked in without stopping at the door.

One of the servants took the first step and reported the matter quickly. When Jia Lian walked around the corridor and passed the second gate, Zhang Wu was already waiting at the Chuihua Gate.

"What's going on today?" Jia Lian stepped forward quickly and saluted quickly: "I've met the master's wife."

"The teacher is worried that you are upset, so he asked me, the teacher's wife, to greet you and comfort you. He is just bullying you as a sensible and filial child, so he did this and blocked your mouth in advance." Zhang Wu His words came from the bottom of his heart.

Jia Lian looked at Mrs. Zhang Wu with a warm feeling in her heart, and the remaining traces of depression disappeared.

"Teacher and wife treat me no better than my own son." Jia Lian shed tears naturally as she spoke, turning her head to wipe them away.

Seeing this, Mrs. Zhang Wu thought to herself, Ting En is really good at judging people, Brother Lian is a person who values ​​friendship, I will meet him first, the best effect will be achieved. He reached out and touched Jia Lian's head: "Silly boy, you and the teacher have been tied together for a long time. We trust each other with our lives."

Telling the truth is the most touching thing. No matter how much you talk, it will fall on deaf ears.

The Zhang family treated each other with sincerity, and Jia Lian was deeply moved.

After entering the study room, he met Zhang Ting'en. After being greeted, Jia Lian came forward and stood with his hands down, as if listening to his lesson.

Seeing that he was not arrogant or impetuous, Zhang Ting'en nodded with satisfaction: "I was a little reckless beforehand, and it caused quite a stir. Your Majesty was a little angry during the whole process, but the result was very good. This is the principle of heaven and earth." ”

Jia Lian has also thought clearly these days, and stepped forward to express his position very decisively: "The poisonous arrows have not been able to get rid of me, which is probably their biggest omission. They should not do similar actions in the future, and it will be useless. So. , Your Majesty can no longer leave the palace as easily as in the past, the teacher must keep a close eye. "

After receiving this clear-cut statement, Zhang Ting'en said with a look of relief on his face: "Yesterday, His Majesty also said that there should be double happiness, and there is no one who is wiser than Your Majesty. This is true!"

(End of this chapter)