The Red Mansions

Chapter 195 Wu Wangfu, private chat with the emperor

Jia Zheng took Jia Lian and others to wait for Jia Yun behind the school dormitory.

But he didn't know that Jia Yun was called away at this moment.

At the corner of the street outside Yixue, an ordinary carriage parked there quietly, surrounded by many guards in black clothes.

Jia Yun followed Jin Yiwei's conductor Tongzhi Dongfang Yun to the carriage.

"My minister pays homage to the emperor!" Jia Yun bent down to salute, and the voice of Emperor Longtai came from inside: "Aiqing, don't be too polite, come up and talk."

"My minister obeys the order!" Jia Yun saluted.

After getting into the carriage, Emperor Longtai said to the outside world: "Let's go!"

The carriage moved forward slowly, Emperor Longtai turned his head and said gently to Jia Yun:
"Today's incident happened suddenly, disturbing Aiqing's business, I hope Aiqing will not blame her!"

"I don't dare!" Jia Yun said hastily.

In fact, he was still at a loss up to now, not knowing what the emperor wanted him for.

Emperor Longtai waved his hand, seemed to know what he was thinking, and said:
"Ai Qing must be puzzled in her heart, I am in such a hurry to tell you, what is the so-called..."

Following Emperor Longtai's narration, Jia Yun soon knew the whole story.

It turned out that early this morning, the sixth prince Wu Wang Xie Wenxi vomited after getting up and drinking a cup of tea.

After Jin Yiwei's investigation, he was poisoned by his personal maid.

After the emperor heard the news, he immediately sent the imperial physician to treat him. After half a day of inducing vomiting, he finally saved the sixth prince's life.

However, the residual poison in the Sixth Prince's body was very stubborn. The palace sent several imperial physicians there, and even with a knife on his neck, they all said that it could not be cured.

At this time, the emperor remembered that when Lin Ruhai came back to report on his duties last time, he privately told him that he was poisoned and rescued by Jia Yun.

It happened that the emperor finished handling the government affairs and wanted to go out of the palace to see the sixth prince in person, so he turned around and took Jia Yun with him.

"Ai Qing don't need to be nervous, he can be treated if he can, and if he can't, it's his fate. No wonder others." Emperor Longtai said expressionlessly.

This is big trouble!

Jia Yun hated being involved in the prince's affairs the most, who knew it would come so suddenly.

But the emperor came to invite him in person, this face is enough.

No matter whether he can cure the sixth prince or not, he will come into the eyes of many princes.

If you can't avoid trouble, you can only pursue the greatest benefit.

Jia Yun is not a sloppy character either, she intends to do her best to make Emperor Longtai owe him a big favor.

After making up her mind, Jia Yun followed the emperor's voice and cupped her hands, solemnly saying: "Don't worry, your majesty, I will do my best to save King Wu!"

Emperor Longtai nodded in satisfaction, then fell silent.

As for the poisoning of the sixth prince, whether there is a conspiracy, the emperor will not say, and Jia Yun will not ask.

The less involved this kind of thing, the better.

"If the sixth prince is really saved, I'm afraid I will offend the people hiding behind." Jia Yun pondered in her heart.

Even so, if you are alive and want to do something, you will always offend others.

Currently, for Jia Yun, the biggest backer is the emperor.

So apart from hugging this thigh, Jia Yun doesn't want to hug other people's thighs for the time being.

He doesn't have the habit of being a fool on the fence, that would be unflattering to both parties.

And so far, the emperor has been kind to him.

The emperor's style of doing things is more in line with Jia Yun's appetite. Although the two have not known each other for too long, they have a tacit understanding when getting along.

Therefore, no matter what, when Jia Yun chooses a position, she will immediately side with the emperor as long as her own interests are not hindered.

The carriage ran very fast, but it still took two quarters of an hour to reach Wu Wangfu.

After getting off the carriage, Jia Yun followed the emperor into the palace without having time to look at and appreciate the grand, magnificent and rigorous palace.

In the dormitory, a group of imperial doctors knelt on the ground, all pale and sweating, looking like the end of the world is coming.

Surroundings were heavily guarded, with countless brocade guards standing expressionless.

"The Emperor is here!"

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

Emperor Longtai took Jia Yun into King Wu's bedroom, ignored the concubine, imperial doctor, maids, guards, eunuchs and others who were kneeling on the ground, and went directly to the sixth prince's bed.

"The situation is urgent, Ai Qing will take a look first."

Emperor Longtai glanced at the blue-faced sixth prince, and ordered Jia Yun to say.

Jia Yun pondered for a while, and asked for instructions: "Please also ask the emperor to clear the left and right sides."

"Stay back and wait outside!" The emperor waved his hands and said to the kneeling people.

A group of people did not dare to raise their heads, so they all retreated lightly.

Only the emperor, Jia Yun, Dai Quan, Dongfang Yun and the lying six princes were left in the room.

Next, Jia Yun cleaned her hands and stepped forward to check the situation of the six princes one by one.

In fact, when he took a first glance, he had already confirmed that the poison that the sixth prince was poisoned was exactly the same as the poison that Lin Ruhai had.

It is a kind of Miaojiang Gu poison, a chronic poison.

Logically speaking, the sixth prince's condition seems to have been poisoned not long ago, and the reason why he fell ill was because his constitution was allergic to the Gu poison.

Maybe even the person who poisoned him didn't expect this kind of situation to happen.

After figuring out the situation, Jia Yun got up and whispered a few words to the emperor.

Emperor Longtai's pupils shrank, and he pressed his voice to confirm: "Aiqing's words are true?"

Jia Yun nodded slightly with a serious expression, indicating that there was nothing wrong.

"Can it be cured?" Emperor Longtai quickly adjusted his mood, took a deep breath, and asked.

Jia Yun cupped her hands and replied, "It can be cured, but it is more troublesome."

"It's not too much trouble, as long as you can get rid of the poison in the emperor's body, you can tell Dai Quan directly if you need anything." Emperor Longtai waved his hand in relief.

Jia Yun pondered for a moment, and said: "Now I need a set of gold needles, and I will write another prescription, grab a few doses of medicine, let the King of Wu take it, and then see the effect."

Dai Quan on the side hurriedly bowed his head and said, "Your maidservant is going to get the golden needle now."

There are golden needles ready-made, and there are so many imperial doctors outside, almost everyone has golden needles.

When Dai Quan was going to fetch the golden needle, Jia Yun came to the desk, took a piece of paper, and after grinding the ink, wrote a prescription with a pen.

"Although Aiqing is young, her calligraphy is steady and sophisticated, and she has achieved vivid expressions while following the rules of the ancients!" Emperor Longtai took a look at the running script written by Jia Yun, and commented:

"Although there is no grand momentum, it has the style of Jin and Tang calligraphy, gentle and elegant. It is very rare to learn from the ancients but not stick to the ancients. It is very rare to be alone with new ideas!"

Jia Yun's calligraphy is modeled after Wen Zhengming's calligraphy.

As a representative of the Wumen School of Calligraphy, his calligraphy attainments are extremely noble and straightforward, and he is most suitable for writing in front of the emperor.

Jia Yun blew on the ink and said a few words of modesty, when Dai Quan came in and handed him the gold needle.

Jia Yun took the golden needle and gave the prescription to Dai Quan, asking him to prepare it as soon as possible.

There must be no shortage of medicinal materials in a place like Wangfu.

Then, just like when she was treating Lin Ruhai, Jia Yun took off King Wu's shirt, helped him to sit up, asked Dongfang Yun to help stabilize King Wu's body, and then began to give acupuncture.

After a while, King Wu's body was covered with golden needles.

King Wu, who was in a coma, was sweating all over his body, his face twitched, and his face changed from blue to red at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he became blood-colored.

As the last golden needle fell, King Wu spat out black blood on the ground with a wow, exuding a strong stench.

After vomiting blood, King Wu also woke up immediately. In a dim moment, seeing the emperor looking at him worriedly, he was about to stand up and salute, but was stopped by the emperor.

"Xi'er, don't move, it's important to recuperate." Emperor Longtai said in a gentle voice.

Jia Yun at the side made a cup, handed it to Dongfang Yun, and said:
"Serve King Wu to wash his mouth. Besides, we can't stay in this dormitory. It's better to live in a room with plenty of sunlight and good air flow."

After seeing King Wu rinse his mouth, Emperor Longtai looked at Jia Yun curiously, and introduced with a smile:
"This is Jia Yun and Jia Aiqing. This time, Xi'er, you can wake up so quickly, thanks to Jia Aiqing for rejuvenating."

King Wu had heard about Jia Yun for a long time.

After all, Jia Yun is now the censor of the capital patrolling the city, and the governor of the patrolling camp.

Recently, the expansion of the patrolling battalion has been in full swing. Anyone who is a Beijing official with a little understanding of government affairs will be familiar with it.

The King of Wu cast a grateful look at Jia Yun and said, "Thank you, Mr. Jia, for saving my life. I will definitely come to pay my respects after I recover from my illness!"

"King Wu is welcome." Jia Yun said politely.

King Wu pursed his lips and didn't say anything more.

After waiting for a while, Dai Quan came in with the medicine, and Jia Yun began to methodically remove the gold needle from King Wu's body.

"Take a bowl of this medicine every morning, noon and evening, and I will come over tomorrow to check on King Wu's condition." Jia Yun urged.

Emperor Longtai asked: "How long will it take for the poison in King Wu's body to be completely eradicated?"

"Because the king of Wu was poisoned just now, there is not much poison in his body. If there is no accident, I will give another injection tomorrow, and it will be completely eradicated!" Jia Yun clasped her hands and replied.

Emperor Longtai asked doubtfully, "Don't you need to steam it in a steamer?"

The reason why he was so impressed with Jia Yun's medical skills was because Lin Ruhai said that Jia Yun used fumigation to detoxify.

Jia Yun twitched the corners of her mouth, shook her head and replied, "Go back to the emperor, no need, King Wu's situation is different from Master Lin's. Master Lin was poisoned into the lungs at the beginning, and the stubborn poison cannot be eliminated without fumigation!"

Emperor Longtai nodded half-understood, then asked:
"Aiqing saved King Wu's life this time, what reward do you want?"

"Back to the emperor, I would like to ask the emperor to reward you with ten catties of Mansong tea." Jia Yun answered.

At this time, he is not in a hurry to ask for other rewards, and he is not in a hurry to ask for official position or money for the time being, but needs the favor of the emperor to stay there.

If the emperor is allowed to make his own decisions, it is estimated that the starting point will be gold, silver and jewelry.

So when the emperor asked, Jia Yun followed the words to implement the reward, so as not to let the favor go away.

Emperor Longtai was startled, he didn't expect that Jia Yun didn't refuse like other courtiers, but directly agreed.

What surprised him even more was that Jia Yun only needed ten catties of Mansong tea for such a great contribution in saving King Wu.

Emperor Longtai shook his head and said with a smile: "The reward is too little. Although I am not too rich, Aiqing is equivalent to saving King Wu's life today. How can I only get this little reward and not give up the rules."

"When I return to the emperor, my ministers will pay more attention to Mansong tea." Jia Yun bent down again and insisted.

Emperor Longtai smiled dumbly, waved his hands, and said: "Come on, let's go, since that's the case, I will write down Aiqing's achievements first, and then look for opportunities to reward Aiqing later."

"As for Mansong tea, it will be delivered to your home before evening."

Jia Yun smiled and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Soon, Dai Quan called the concubine and maids to come in, and helped King Wu go to another bedroom with plenty of sunlight and good air flow to rest.

Jia Yun accompanied the emperor until King Wu fell into a drowsy sleep before leaving the palace.

On the carriage, Emperor Longtai rubbed his brows and told Jia Yun:
"Jia Aiqing, the patrol battalion must have combat power as soon as possible. I have many important events, and I desperately need the army of the patrol battalion to overcome obstacles. Do you understand what I mean?"

Jia Yun clasped her hands and replied: "I obey the order, I will definitely step up the training of the patrol battalion, try to let the patrol battalion have the power to fight first before the end of the year!"

"It's the Shenji Battalion. It is estimated that after three months, they can be pulled out to suppress the bandits. With a little tempering, they can become an army."

This is the case with thermal weapons. As long as soldiers can skillfully manipulate firearms and use tactics skillfully, they can quickly form combat power.

Other arms such as cavalry, infantry, crossbowmen, swordsmen and axemen, which mainly use cold weapons, are not easy to form an army so quickly.

After hearing this, Emperor Longtai pondered: "The Shenji Battalion formed an army quickly and with great lethality, but it cost too much money. Right now, our internal treasury can barely support the expenses of the Shenji Battalion of five thousand households. No more can do it!"

The budget is limited, and we can't just focus on the Shenji Battalion, other arms are also very important.

If Lin Ruhai hadn't brought in so much money this year, even if he wanted to expand the patrol camp, it would be impossible.

But even so, it was still a bit difficult for him to support an army of tens of thousands of people.

Of course, there is also a reason why Jia Yun set a somewhat high salary for the army.

But what Jia Yun said is also right, since a lot of money has been spent, it is only valuable to train this army into an elite army where one counts as ten.

Although Emperor Longtai felt sorry for the silver, but for the sake of the future, he had to spill the silver that hadn't been warmed up in large quantities.

Jia Yun took the opportunity to remind: "At present, the internal treasury budget is limited, so we can only do this first."

"However, the expansion of the Shenji Battalion and the vigorous development of firearms are the trend of future military development and the trend of the times. If necessary, the emperor should pay more attention to the firearms manufacturing bureau."

Emperor Longtai glanced at him, shook his head and said with a wry smile: "It's not that I don't want to pay attention to the firearms manufacturing bureau, but sharpening knives does not miss woodcutters. At present, the government is in chaos and the officialdom is corrupt. If you don't sort it out, no matter how much you do, it will be zero."

"What's more, as you told me last time, it is necessary to vigorously develop all kinds of artillery and build sea-going ships, all of which require all the efforts of the whole country to be done, so Ai Qing needs to be more patient. "

The last time Jia Yun mentioned a few words to him when he was eating and chatting at the patrolling camp.

A dynasty with a prosperous economy, strong national power, clear politics, people living and working in peace and contentment, and a stable territory, and the general development direction of the army.

At that time, after he heard it, he initially thought that Jia Yun was trying to be unconventional.

But after returning to the palace, he thought about it carefully and found that what Jia Yun said made sense.

If Dazhou really had such sea-going ships, so many advanced firearms and elite troops to control firearms, no matter whether it was the Tartars on the northern grasslands or the bandits wandering along the coast, it seemed that they would be able to calm down quickly.

However, the premise of all this is that he, the emperor, can truly take power...

(End of this chapter)