Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 18 Soul Absorbing Talisman

Time flies quickly, and half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, Jia Rui also became familiar with his working environment and became familiar with his colleagues.

After getting familiar with the environment, I finally understood the power of the official position of Captain Long.

He is almost the Emperor's personal guard and the spokesperson of the Emperor. Even the Emperor's personal guards have to take a detour when they see Captain Long.

It's a pity that the Longjing Lieutenant can only look majestic and has no real benefits. There will be no officials from other provinces to send them ice and carbon tributes.

As for what is Bing Jing Carbon Jing?
Local officials can get a lot of money by expropriating the common people. Isn't there a saying, "Three years to clean up the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver."

But you officials in the capital don't have this convenience. After all, you are at the feet of the emperor. If you make too much trouble and let the emperor know about it, I'm afraid you won't even be able to save your head, let alone the official.

But the gentlemen who are officials in the capital have a lot of entertainment and live a luxurious life, what should we do?

So Bing Jing and Carbon Jing appeared.

Bing Jing and Tan Jing became the names used by local officials to bribe officials in the capital.

Bingjing refers to the cost of letting Shangguan buy ice to cool off in summer, and carbon respect refers to the cost of buying carbon for heating in winter.

Although it is called ice respect and carbon respect in name, it is not really to let Beijing officials and Shangguan buy ice and carbon, but a euphemism.

Whenever winter comes, officials from all over the country, in the name of Beijing officials buying charcoal for heating, pay tribute to their patrons one after another. This is called "charcoal respect". There is a poem to prove it: "The auspicious snow is falling in the nine layers, and the office staff hangs colored lanterns." Frequently knock on Zhumen's door to offer a warming stove, and make jade into a fire pit to melt charcoal red."

When summer comes, there is another way to cool down the summer heat for the officials in the capital. They once again offer gifts and filial piety, which is called "ice respect".There is also a poem that proves: "The red sun is scorching like fire, and the master in Beijing is shaking his brocade fan. If you want to spread your wings in the clear sky, I will bring cold jade to match your waist."

These means of making money are not what Jia Rui can have now. Therefore, the position of Long Jinwei may seem prestigious, but in fact it is still relatively poor.

There are also wealthy dragon captains, but these dragon captains are all candidates and they don't come to stand guard at all.

On this day, the Supreme Emperor was tired of staying in the Longshou Palace, so he ordered his people to start preparing a chariot for him. He wanted to take a walk in the imperial garden of the palace.

But Luanjia is ready, but the sun, moon, dragon and phoenix fan are missing.

The Supreme Emperor waited impatiently, seeing this scene, he was furious.

"Whose fault is it?"

Everyone below listened too much to the words of the Supreme Emperor, all of them lowered their heads, and no one dared to answer.

When Jia Rui, who was standing in the team, heard the words of the Supreme Emperor, he suddenly thought of a similar plot.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong once wanted to travel, but he also found that the yellow Luo umbrella he was traveling with was missing.

Emperor Qianlong at that time also shouted angrily, "Whose fault is it?"

All the members stared at each other, at a loss.

But then there was a person who became famous because of this sentence. This person was none other than He Shen, the powerful minister during the Qianlong period.

Regardless of the fact that he was only a third-class guard at the time, he actually shouted in the team: "The guardian of the code cannot shirk his responsibility."

Because of this sentence, Emperor Qianlong began to appreciate Heshen, and then Heshen rose all the way, becoming No. 1 under Emperor Qianlong of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Even Emperor Jiaqing sometimes had to look at Heshen's face.

Now the Supreme Emperor also asked this sentence, so isn't this giving credit to himself?

If I could really become as successful as He Shen, it would be a God-given opportunity.

Now Jia Rui has been blinded by the prosperity in front of him.

He couldn't help but shout out He Shen's words in the team.

"Those who keep the code cannot shirk their responsibilities."

Jia Rui's words made the already quiet square in front of Longshou Palace become even more silent.

After listening to Jia Rui's words, the Supreme Emperor on the imperial steps did not give him an official promotion like Emperor Qianlong admired Heshen, but an angry look appeared on his face.

The eunuch beside the Supreme Emperor was none other than Dai Quan.

Dai Quan took a quick look and saw that it was Jia Rui who was speaking, which gave him a sudden shock.

He thought to himself: This brat is too courageous, he dared to speak nonsense in front of the Supreme Emperor.

However, he received more than 1000 taels of silver from Jia's family. If this matter continued, he would have to be exposed, so Dai Quan hurriedly took a step forward and waved to the guards below.

"Drag this little brat out of here."

The Supreme Emperor sat there and listened to Dai Quan's words, his face finally calmed down.

Jia Rui, who was standing below, was completely stupid now. He didn't expect that he and He Shen were the same people but had different fates. He would become famous with just one word, and he would be dragged out with just one word. Look at this, there will be no good results after this. eat.

It was at this time that two Captain Long stepped forward, snatched Jia Rui's weapon, and then one of them grabbed Jia Rui's arms, trying to push him out.

In fact, with Jia Rui's current ability, these two dragon guards are not enough in front of him.

But Jia Rui didn't dare to resist, so he could only let the two dragon guards drag him out.

But halfway through, Jia Rui suddenly realized that if he was dragged out like this, he would have no chance of glory and wealth in this life.

It seems that today we have to take a risky move.

Seeing Jia Rui's heart move, a panel appeared in front of him, then Jia Rui's eyes flicked rapidly, and finally landed on the topmost Dementor Talisman.

After this, his mind was disturbed again.

The one thousand and three taels of silver under the panel immediately disappeared by 1000 taels.

At the same time, a radiant spell appeared in Jia Rui's mind.

At this time, Jia Zheng was about to be dragged out of the Dragon Head Palace. He knew that he could not delay any longer, so with a thought, the talisman was immediately connected to the Supreme Emperor standing on the imperial steps.

The Supreme Emperor suddenly felt a confusion deep in his heart, as if something wanted to forcefully penetrate into his heart.

At this moment, a cloud suddenly rose in the sky, and then Jia Rui felt a dark and yellow aura descending from the sky, directly falling into the body of the Supreme Emperor.

As soon as the black and yellow energy entered the Supreme Emperor's body, Jia Rui felt that the spell he had sent into the Supreme Emperor's body was broken with one blow.

Immediately afterwards, he felt a trance in his mind, and there was a mouthful of blood that was about to spurt out.

That is to say, Jia Rui practiced the Dragon Elephant Prajna Kung Fu, and his system was different from ordinary people, so he temporarily suppressed the bleeding.

But Jia Rui also knew that his plan this time had failed.

Unexpectedly, in this world of Red Mansions, dragon energy actually exists.

Just now, Long Qi found out that someone was trying to control the emperor, so he reacted back, causing Jia Rui's Dementor Talisman to collapse completely with just one blow.

Jia Rui was completely desperate now.

The next hurdle, I don't know if I can get over it, even if I get over it, I'm afraid I'm just an ordinary person from now on, and his wish for prosperity and wealth cannot be realized.

(End of this chapter)