Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 43: Making a fortune
Jia Rui came out of the palace and returned to Longjingwei. Then he took out a dozen shopkeepers from the dungeon without saying a word.

Then he gathered all the scribes and petty officials under Long Jinwei, and in Long Jinwei's yard, all the more than a dozen shopkeepers were beaten to death with sticks.

These clerks and petty officials of Long Jinwei looked at the blood all over the floor and the shopkeeper who lost his life in the wailing, and they were all sweating and their legs were weak in fright.

It turned out that Jia Rui was warning these people, don't eat inside and outside, otherwise no one can protect them if something happens.

Then, Jia Rui ordered the government officials in Long Jinwei to attack everywhere and began to raid the homes of these dozen shopkeepers.

He made quite a fuss this time. After all, this was a matter of ransacking a house. Soon someone from Shuntian Mansion came over to inquire.

However, the servants of Long Jinwei are considered to be the lowest-level people in Long Jinwei, but when they come out, there are only five people and six people.

Facing the people who came to inquire from Shuntian Mansion, they simply said, "Long Jinwei is doing something."

Those people from Shuntian Mansion disappeared immediately.

Long Jinwei may not seem to be showing off, but he is a close associate of the Supreme Emperor, and it is beyond the control of the small Shuntian Mansion.

In this way, after a day of ransacking the house, at night, the people below finally sent the list of copied items to Jia Rui.

Looking at the list sent up, Jia Rui felt a little trembling.

It wasn't that he was scared, but excited.

He never thought that these shopkeepers would dare to be so bold.

Countless gold, silver and jewelry came out of their homes, and all kinds of curios, calligraphy and paintings were kept in boxes.

Not to mention that Jia Rui didn't care much about it, but if he really played calligraphy and painting, it would be more than 15 taels of silver, and more than [-] taels of gold.

With so much money, how can Jia Rui, who is miserable both in modern times and in the world of Red Mansions, not feel excited?
But when Jia Rui thought about it, he couldn't keep all the money by himself, he had to manage it from top to bottom.

He walked around the house a few times, and then the lifesaver brought 5 taels of silver and followed him to Dai Quan's mansion outside the palace.

As a result, I went in and asked, Dai Quan was on duty in the palace today, not at home.

Jia Rui didn't care about this, but gave 5 taels of silver to his housekeeper, telling him that it was a tribute to Eunuch Dai, and Eunuch Dai knew the origin of the money.

Dai Quan's housekeeper was naturally familiar with this kind of thing and completed the handover very smoothly.

After that, Jia Rui returned to Longjingwei.

Next, Jia Rui began to throw money wantonly in Long Jinwei.

Everyone in the Long Jinwei, whether it is the Long Jinwei who is on duty, or the Long Jinwei who is absent at home, or even the scribes and government servants, everyone has benefits.

This time, the rain and dew were even, making Jia Rui's position in the Dragon Guard quickly stabilized.

After doing this, Jia Rui took another inventory and found that there were still 6 to 1 taels of silver and [-] taels of gold left.

Jia Rui took out the remaining 1 taels of money and put it in the treasury of the Dragon Guard, which was considered as the future operating expenses of the Dragon Guard.

With the remaining 5 taels of silver and 1 taels of gold, Jia Rui accepted it with a smile.

At night, Jia Rui asked a few government servants to carry seven or eight boxes and quietly returned to his house on Ningrong Street.

After the boxes were carried to the living room, Jia Rui dismissed the government officials.

As for Jia Dairu and Mrs. Wang, who had already fallen asleep, they both put on their clothes and got up when they saw such a big commotion from Jia Rui.

At this time, Jia Rui had secretly transported 1 taels of gold back to his bedroom and hid it under the bed.

It's not that Jia Rui is greedy for money, it's mainly because he needs the money to improve his kung fu, only in this way can he become stronger quickly, so that Jia Rui can feel a little bit safe in this world with gods and gods.

But even so, more than 6 taels of silver (1 taels of which were Ma Qi's compensation) still frightened Jia Dairu.

"You bastard, where did all this money come from? You couldn't be extorting and taking black money, right?" Jia Dairu trembled a little when he spoke.

Think about it too.

In order to raise the 3000 taels of silver that Jia Rui asked for, their family almost went to the point of selling their land.

The usual annual expenditure of the family is only 20 taels.

Although Jia Rui said some time ago that he would get some money back, he thought that it would be only two or three thousand taels and it would be over, but he never expected it to be dozens of times as much as he imagined.

Even Mrs. Wang, who usually loves Jia Rui, is a little flustered now.

"Brother Rui, return the money quickly before anyone finds out." Mrs. Wang said anxiously while wiping her tears.

Seeing that the two old men were frightened like this, Jia Rui quickly explained.

"Old Master and Madam, don't worry, there is no problem with the source of the money, and the palace also knows about it."

Jia Rui didn't explain it in detail, he just clicked.

After all, Jia Dairu had some knowledge, once he heard about the way of the palace, he immediately felt relieved.

After relaxing, Jia Dairu felt that his legs were a little soft and his body began to shake. Fortunately, Jia Rui was beside him and supported Jia Dairu. Otherwise, if he fell, the old man might have to lie on the bed for a while. It's time.

The old man is a little dazed now.

He had never seen so much money in front of his eyes in his entire life.

The old gentleman was flustered by the bright light.

It took him a long time to calm down, and then he pretended to stroke his beard, "A gentleman loves money, and you get it in a proper way. You are now an official of the court. If you want to get money, you must do it in the right way. Don't be corrupt like those people." To accept bribes is to live up to the emperor's grace."

As for Jia Rui, he could only bow his body and listen respectfully.

The old man Jia Dairu seemed to be addicted to talking, and he showed no sign of stopping after quite a while.

Jia Rui looked helplessly at the grandmother next to him, which meant to ask the old lady to save him.

Mrs. Wang immediately gave her grandson a reassuring look.

"Okay, ok, muttering, you can't stop talking once you start talking, you've been talking all your life, don't you think it's annoying?"

Seeing that Mrs. Wang interrupted his words, Jia Dairu was a little angry, but he was always afraid of guilt, so he just returned an angry look and stopped talking.

Mrs. Wang now has a smile on her face. She sat there looking at the money piled on the ground, and said with a smile:

"I found a matchmaker yesterday, and I'm going to ask for marriage early tomorrow morning. Now that I have this money, our family is confident enough."

Jia Dairu listened to Mrs. Xie's words and quite agreed.

Even though Jia Dairu always talked about passing down his poems and books to his family, he seemed to look down on the Xue family. In fact, this was due to his inferiority complex.

"Our house is a little narrow, and it will be hard to live in it after your wife comes in. Now that we have money, why not buy the houses of the surrounding tribesmen, and then expand our house. What do you think?" Jia Dairu asked Jia Rui excitedly.

If Jia Rui was just an ordinary official, it would be better to expand the house by himself.

But now Jia Rui doesn't want to waste this money.

Because with his current position in the Supreme Emperor's heart, he will soon be able to earn a title.

By then, my house must have been built by the Ministry of Industry in accordance with the standards, so there is no need to spend this wasted money now.

"Grandpa, from my grandson's point of view, it would be better to give it some time. Now that I have just become an official, I suddenly started to build a large-scale construction project. This is a bit hard to say."

When Jia Dairu heard this, he immediately patted his forehead with his hand, "I was negligent, Rui Geer has just become an official, let's build a house, let others see how much money Rui Geer has been greedy for."

Sitting here, Jia Dairu made a final decision, "Then this house will not be repaired for the time being, and you two will discuss it after your daughter-in-law comes in."

(End of this chapter)