Xian Sun of the Ning Mansion of the Red Chamber

Chapter 276 Conspiracy
"Royal father, since the sons and ministers took charge of the household department, they have always put state affairs as the most important thing. They only want to share the worries of the father, and dare not think about it. The father also knows that there is a shortage of food in Dagan and the disaster in the north. Several provinces in Liaodong have a population of nearly 10 people who have recently settled in Liaodong, as well as the Nine Borders Military Food and the Thirteen Warehouses in the capital.”

"Because of this, my son's mind has been focused on how to raise more food. Last night, Zhou Mo went to the son's mansion overnight and said that the grain was robbed. He brought it with him, as well as Hexi Wuchao. Guan Tiju's autographed letter, my son thought to himself, the grain was related to the national capital, and Zhou Mo's words were so logical, and there were testimonies from relevant people, that he believed it to be true for a while, and without personally verifying it, he also prepared a memorial overnight , ready to impeach Jia Ying at the court meeting today."

"But now it seems that it was a villain who caused the trouble, and my minister was concerned about it, so he was in chaos. I didn't notice it for a while, and I was caught in a trick. As for Zhou Mo's case, I didn't know about it, and I didn't participate in it. Please look into it clearly."

After all, Yang Yi bowed her head, but her brain was spinning rapidly, thinking about how to deal with it next.

Jiade stared at his son, wondering what was going on in his mind, before he said after a long time: "So, this matter has nothing to do with you?"

"With regard to Zhou Mo's matter, I dare not shirk. The emperor trusts the emperor, so he handed over the household department to the son. It is the son who neglected his duty. He failed to discover Zhou Mo's wolfish ambitions early and failed his father's trust. Please Father punishes."

Now that the matter has come to this point, no matter how he tries to evade it, it is impossible to clean himself up. In this case, it is better to admit his mistake generously and retreat to advance.

On Zhou Mo's side, he knew that he couldn't protect himself, and he was the only one who could save his wife and children. I'm afraid he was waiting for him to send someone to see him. Before that, he was not afraid of what he would say. As for the others, Not knowing the inside story, the only thing to worry about is Yuan Maolin, the magistrate of Xuzhou, but it is a hundred miles away, so it is not an urgent matter.

Lack of strict governance is a problem of ability, but if you just shirk it, it is a problem of attitude.

"This is the household department that you help me take care of? You can't manage a small household department well. How can I trust you to give you a heavier burden in the future?"

Knowing a son is like a father, Jiade is as clear as a mirror about his son's tricks, if not, he would not hesitate to establish a reserve.

He didn't worry about his sons fighting, but today in the court, the affairs of the household department made him lose face.

As a king, you should do the right way instead of using some shady means.

At this moment, Yang Yi's heart was full of the phrase "heavier burden" in Jiade's mouth, and he threw aside those words of reprimand and warning.

"Father really still has my heart for me." Yang Yi said secretly in her heart.

But then he began to panic again, worrying whether this incident would lower his weight in the eyes of his father, or whether his father believed his words to a certain extent.

"My father's lesson is that my subjects are willing to be punished. Please don't get angry and take care of the dragon's body."

"You are the prince of Daqian, the son I have high hopes for. You can't be led by the nose in what you do. Let's see who you use!" Jiade said again.

"Go back and find out what happened, and see how much Zhou Mo was greedy that day, how many times he did such things, and who else was involved."

"Bold and outrageous, extremely rampant, even dare to change my mind about grain."

"Severely punished!"

Companion to the king is like companion to the tiger, the emperor is angry and lays down millions of corpses.

Jia De didn't kill anyone, but even so, facing the aura of her father, Yang Yi felt a little difficult to breathe.

However, what Jiade said was good news for him. What he was most worried about before was who would preside over Zhou Mo's case.

"Father, please don't worry, my minister will deal with it fairly and will never tolerate it."

Jia De on the throne seemed to have thought of something, and said, "Forget it."

"This matter happened in the household department, you still have to avoid suspicion, so that you can give an explanation to the officials and the world."

"Dai Quan, call Li County King back to Beijing and let him preside over the case."

"The slave is leading the order." Dai Quan bowed.

Yang Yi's heart sank, but she didn't dare to object to the decision made by his father.

Yan Huasong and Jia Ying walked out of the palace gate.

"It's dangerous to move the sword forward. If Yuan Maolin hadn't been confused, you would be the one who was in danger."

The two have the status of master and apprentice. During Jia Ying's stay in the Ministry of War, teachers and students got along well and built a lot of friendship. At this time, Yan Huasong couldn't help reminding.

"What the adults said is that there is nothing the students can do about it. There are so many victims outside the city who are just waiting for this batch of food to save their lives. In desperation, the students can't think of any good way. The students are betting that they are in such a situation. In a short period of time, it is impossible to do things seamlessly, even if there is no fire in the Tongzhou warehouse, the lie will be exposed sooner or later."

In any case, the matter is over, and Yan Huasong didn't want to bother about it, so he asked instead:
"When two tigers fight, one must be injured. The situation is not yet clear, and you are young. You just need to be more patient. In the future, you will always have a place in the court. Why are you in a hurry?"

"In the half of my life, this old man has seen many amazing and talented people. Compared with them, I am far behind in terms of ability and talent. But after passing half a century, I realized that those colleagues who once made me look down, Now I don’t know where I am now, but a mediocre man like this old man is a second-rank official. If he is lucky enough, he can still think about it and leave a mark in history after a hundred years.”

Jia Ying understands that what Yan Huasong said to leave a mark on history is not aimless.

In terms of seniority, in Jiade's reign, except for a few cabinet ministers, he was also ranked in the platoon, and Jia Ying knew that Jiade's impression of Yan Huasong was not bad, and his personal resume was not at all. During this period, Daqian won successive battles, reappearing the image of a prosperous age.

The Jiade Dynasty was not only a prosperous age, but also a world of great controversy.

Born in such an era, a person in such a high position as Yan Huasong is destined not to be ordinary, this is the general trend.

Just like the saying that people often say, pigs can fly to the sky when standing on the wind, and the former Shangguan in front of him is not as mediocre as he himself said, but wiser than most people.

I only heard Yan Huasong continue to say: "The old man can come to this day because he always reminds himself, don't have hope, don't try luck, don't live in complacency, forget the harm when you don't see the benefit, and know the death if you want to survive. To be an official and a man , that’s probably all.”

Jia Ying stopped, and looked at Yan Huasong beside him with surprise in his eyes. He didn't expect that the other party would say this to him.

The reason why Jia Ying regarded himself as Feng Hengshi's disciple was not because Feng Hengshi had taught him much, but because the other party had introduced him into the officialdom and handed him a stepping stone.

But now, what Yan Huasong just said just taught him the truth of being an official without any secrets.

When getting along with Yan Huasong, although he has always called himself a student, this student is not a student.And the other party is only maintaining a superficial teacher-student status with him, and the relationship is not far or close.

But after today, he may have another mentor, who is a master and student, not a teacher and student.

"Students thank the teacher for teaching." Outside Miyagi, Jia Ying bowed solemnly.

Power is the easiest way for people to get lost. The truths Yan Huasong said seem simple, but how many people spend their lives may not be able to see through it. Wake up, who would be willing to withdraw from this piece of prosperity and beauty.

No matter what kind of plan Jia Ying had in mind, this kindness must be accepted.

Yan Huasong also stopped in his tracks, chuckled, waved his hands and said, "When you get old, you talk too much, just don't think I'm too busy."

At this time, the servants of the Yan Mansion came over carrying the sedan chair. Yan Huasong lowered himself into the sedan chair. When the curtain of the sedan chair fell, a word came out:
"Take care of yourself, get up the sedan chair, and go home."

He has been cautious and disciplined all his life, to be able to tell Jia Ying such a confidant's opinion is already a violation of his past principles of dealing with things, no matter how much, it is impossible.

Jia Ying also understood this point. After watching the other party's official sedan go away, Jia Ying got on the horse.

Who knows, the gains and losses he cares about are not above the officialdom from the beginning to the end.

"Xi'er, go home."

bang.

Prince Zhao's mansion is full of dark clouds, everyone in the mansion is terrified, for fear of touching the master's brow and being punished.

"This is your so-called plan, to make this king lose face in front of his ministers, and the father left this king alone to admonish him."

"My lord, calm down." The staff member named Yuqing bowed his body at this time, his forehead was covered with dense sweat.

"Quiet your anger, calm your anger, what else can you say besides this sentence."

Yang Yi was distraught, she had already lost her usual sense of control, and the floor of the house was covered with fragments of precious porcelain.

"Yang Bi, the son of a servant girl, can also compete with the king, and the emperor will call him back to Beijing to preside over Zhou Mo's case. However, in just half a year, he first brought the governor of the customs office and the Jiangnan navy to the court. In his hands, he is now trusted by his father, and after another year and a half, I don't have to fight, and I can go directly to the East Palace to pay Yang Bi a peace."

"If I had known today, I shouldn't have easily let Jia Ying take Xu Wenyu away. The court ladies and foreign ministers communicated, and even the emperor could not keep him. I remember that this was your idea at the beginning, and I asked this king to win over Jia. Ying's."

At the beginning, after learning about the relationship between Jia Ying and Xu Wenyu, Yang Yi ordered someone to investigate the relationship between the two. Naturally, it was not difficult to find out the relationship between the two, as well as the meeting in the palace.

Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that Xu Wenyu's entry into the palace was originally a transaction between Jia Ying and Jiade.

"My lord, Lord Chu is here."

Yang Yi glanced at the mess all over the floor, and ordered to the servant: "Please invite the servant to the outer study, and this king will go there later."

"Come here, clean up the room."

After finishing speaking, he flung his sleeves and walked out the door, leaving only Wu Yuqing who was stunned on the spot, hesitating again and again, but still followed.

"Yucai is here."

Chu Dayou, who was waiting in the living room, saw Yang Yi coming in, hurriedly got up and saluted, "My lord."

"Mr. Yuqing."

Yang Yi nodded and said, "Yucai sit down."

After the three of them were silent for a moment, Yang Yi took the lead and said, "Yucai, you are also present in the court today, what do you think?"

Chu Dayou pondered for a long time, before he asked: "I take the liberty to ask the lord, what happened to Zhou Mo?"

Yang Yi looked at Wu Yuqing on the other side, and said with a smile: "Why, Yucai wouldn't think that the case of Zhou Mo and others using grain for personal gain was instigated by me, right?"

Chu Dayou hurriedly replied in panic: "I don't mean that, I'm just worried."

"Hey."

Yang Yi waved her hand and said, "No need to say too much, I understand Yucai's worries."

"Brother Yucai, the prince didn't know about this matter, he was just being confused." Wu Yuqing also said, but she was interrupted by Yang Yi before she finished speaking.

"Yucai, until now, the king will not hide it from you. The batch of grain that Zhou Mo and the others intercepted was indeed from the customs office. I know about it."

"However, you should understand my thoughts. I only aim at that person, but I will never abolish the public for personal reasons and do such things as ruin the foundation of the ancestors. Moreover, I agreed with Zhou Mo at the beginning that this batch of grain will enter Beijing Finally, it will be put into storage, part of it will be sent to Liaodong, and the rest will be used for river work and disaster relief.”

With that said, Yang Yi sighed and said, "It's because this king is too credulous. If you think about it carefully, there are still many doubts about Zhou Mo's words that day. If you want to pretend to be grain and enter the capital, how many passes will you need to get through to reach the capital?" Afterwards, the food was not stored in the big warehouse of the household department, but was stored in a selected place, and now it seems that this is not the first time that Zhou Mo has done this kind of thing."

"It's the fault of this king who knows people and doesn't know."

Hearing this, Chu Dayou gradually let go of his doubts. What he was most worried about was that Prince Zhao's Mansion would participate in the whole process. It didn't matter if he used some means to fight for the reserve position, but he could do something but not do anything. At no time should one deviate from the kingly way.

"Your Majesty left the prince alone, but who can you tell me to preside over this case?" Chu Dayou asked again.

"This is exactly what this king is worried about. Father is going to call Li Junwang back to the palace to preside over Zhou Mo's case."

Wu Yuqing also interjected: "My lord, should I give Zhou Mo a message now, let him say what he should say, what he shouldn't say, and don't get involved indiscriminately. My subordinates remember that Zhou Mo also raised a concubine in Xicheng , that woman also gave birth to a son for him. Now the Zhou mansion is probably surrounded by the embroidered guards. It is not easy for us to intervene, but the prince can help him save the pair of mother and child, so that the embroidered guards will not be found out. .”

Yang Yi nodded, and said: "You, Yuqing, will handle this matter. The Commander of the Embroidered Clothes Guard, Zhao Quan, I have met with you a few times. If you hold my name card, he will give you some face." of."

Wu Yuqing was overjoyed, as long as the prince is still willing to entrust the matter to him, it means that the trust is still there.

"Zhou Mo, I'm not worried. The prince also said just now that apart from this incident, Prince Zhao's mansion didn't know about his deeds. He is also a person who has been in the officialdom for a long time, so he won't say anything nonsense. I am worried. What's worse is that someone will hold on to this matter and pour dirty water on our side, and the prince will be passive at that time." As a bachelor's attendant in Prince Zhao's mansion, Chu Dayou has been tightly tied to Yang Yi's car. On the chariot, he had to think about Yang Yi.

"Yucai is right, he was too passive. Unfortunately, Feng Jicai has been traveling south for a long time, but no news has come back. If we can grasp some information about Jia Ying, we will be able to contain him."

After speaking, he looked at Chu Dayou again and said, "Yucai, you and Jia Ying came out of the Imperial Academy together, and you should know him better than we do. What do you think?"

Chu Dayou couldn't help but sigh in his heart, after all, he had come to this step.The former colleagues and friends are now their own masters.

After being silent for a long time, Chu Dayou still opened his mouth and said: "My lord, it is more difficult to get rid of Jia Ying. Don't forget, my lord, it has only been three years since he became an official."

Hearing Chu Dayou's words, Yang Yi's mood became even worse. How could Yang Bi be able to get Jia Ying's help? He has only been an official for three years, but regardless of his official position, his position in the heart of his father is no less than that of a household. Minister of the Ministry.

"In the meaning of cultivating talents, we can only wait for death?"

"My lord, Jia Ying is not alone."

"how to say?"

"It's been a short time for Jia Ying to enter the officialdom. It's almost impossible to take advantage of him, but Jia's family has been in Beijing for hundreds of years. The prince must know what kind of temperament the noble family has. Trapped in the noble family In such a quagmire, it is difficult to mention cleanliness, and there is no shortage of things we want."

"It's just that it's still too late?" Yang Yi understood what Chu Dayou meant, and since he had nowhere to attack him, he decided to attack those around him.

Chu Dayou fell into hesitation in this matter. Although the two are not on the same road now, they have met after all. If he takes this step today, he will really be an enemy rather than a friend in the future.

"There is such a thing at the moment."

(End of this chapter)