The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 512 Murder Prince Teng and Jia Yuanchun

God Bless the Son of Heaven ordered everyone to donate silver taels, which generally went smoothly.In less than ten days, more than 60 silver coins were received.The first batch of 50 taels for San Francisco has already begun to be sent to Hunan.

The emperor promised that the second batch of 50 taels would be shipped within ten days.

Of course, there are also some families who can't afford 1 taels of silver at once, so they have to raise funds in installments, first pay part of it, and then borrow the rest.

There are also some families who don't want to make friends, hoping to fish in troubled waters, so they drag it over. However, this trick seems to be of no use.Because Jin Yijun and the palace guards are waiting at home, as long as they don't pay the money, they won't leave.

This donation event ended with complaints from the major families.Many of these families have already seen the serious crisis hidden and began to think about the way forward.

Rongning and Ningfu were the first to pay the money, thanks to their good financial situation.Although a large sum of money was spent on building the provincial hospital, the two governments quickly recovered from it.

The recent banditry in the south and this silver donation activity have made the Jia family aware that the court will experience a period of intense turmoil.

In particular, Luo Hanlin's proposal to seize the property of some illegal families made the Jia family aware of the crisis.

In the past few days, the old lady summoned Jia Amnesty, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen and Jia Lian to discuss countermeasures.

What Jia Lian meant was that all the masters of the family withdrew to Beihai.However, Jia Amnesty, Jia Zheng and Jia Zhen disagreed.

For a while, the old lady lost her mind.

Today's discussion, however, is still the same as the previous two days, and there is still no result.

At this moment, Jia Ping hurried over from outside.

He didn't even see Li, so he broke in directly.

"It's not good, something happened to my uncle."

The uncle mentioned by Jia's mansion refers to Wang Ziteng, and the uncle refers to Lin Ruhai.

"Brother Ping, why are you so flustered, talk about it if you have something to do."

The old lady didn't hear clearly for a while.

"Uncle Wang is gone. He was gone in Tongzhou three days ago, and he just reported his funeral today."

"It's all nonsense. Didn't you come back to be a grand scholar? How could you say that it's gone? It must be the wrong news."

Jia Zheng couldn't believe the news.

"The news just came out from the palace that he caught a cold on the road, so he asked a local doctor to see a doctor. He took the wrong medicine. After going to bed at night, he didn't get up in the morning."

All of a sudden, there was no sound in Rongxi Hall.

This side has not slowed down yet, Xue Biao also came in.

"Uncle is gone."

Seeing that no one answered him, Xue Biao was taken aback.

"Could it be that you already know?"

"understood."

Jia Lian said something softly.

At this moment, another person hurried in from outside, it was Wang Ziteng's younger brother Wang Zijing.

"I'm here to let you know that my brother passed away three days ago."

As he spoke, Wang Zijing couldn't help but shed tears.

Before they could comfort Wang Zijing here, they heard a commotion outside.

The people in the house went out to take a look, and saw several eunuchs, the leader was the only remaining eunuch Zhou among the original four eunuchs.

"I came here specially to inform you that Concubine Jia Guifei died of a sudden illness last night. The funeral will be held in three days. Let's make arrangements."

After finishing speaking, without a word of extraneous words, he turned around and left.

"What did he mean?"

The old lady still didn't get over it, and Jia Amnesty, Jia Zheng and the others burst into tears at this question.

"The eldest girl is gone too. She fell ill and died last night!"

"Ah, big girl..."

Before the old lady could finish her sentence, she fainted to the ground.

The news of Wang Ziteng and Jia Yuanchun's death quickly spread throughout the two mansions, and immediately, there was a wail of mourning everywhere in the two mansions.Even the passers-by who passed by the door heard the voice and stopped to watch and inquire.

The news that Prince Teng and Concubine Jia, the two flags of the four great families of King Jia Xueshi, died successively caused a huge repercussions in the imperial capital.

For a time, there was a lot of discussion among the people, and the big families felt creepy.

While no one publicly questioned it, privately it was very strange.

The common point of view is that these two men died far from normal.

As for the reasons, there are various theories.

Some said it was the emperor who killed chickens to scare the monkeys, some said it was the two families who disrespected the emperor, some said it was the ministers who eliminated dissidents, and some said it was the infighting in the palace.Others said that the emperor was concerned about the property of the two families.

In short, it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity from the false, and there is no consensus.

In the past few days, Jia's mansion is full of gloomy clouds.First sent off Wang Ziteng, and today sent off Jia Yuanchun, after returning, the masters consciously gathered in the old lady's upper room.

Below the old lady, Jia Amnesty and Mrs. Xing, Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang, Jia Zhen and Youshi, Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng, Qin Keqing, Li Wan, Aunt Xue, Xue Biao and other masters, as well as Aunt Zhao, were all present.

Surprisingly, the old lady was very calm today, even with a kind smile on her face.

"Now you should know, why did I send Baoyu and the girls away? This emperor has no place for our Jia family, and the emperor can't tolerate us anymore. We should go too."

"Unexpectedly, my Jia family has been loyal and good for generations, and now it has come to such an end. There is no place to keep the master here, but there is a place to keep the master. From then on, we will make a clean break with this court."

"From tomorrow onwards, the business here should be stopped, and those that should be sold will be sold, and those that can't be sold will be sold if they are discounted. Except for the housekeepers and servants at home, they should be sold. Everything was sold."

"From today onwards, you start to pack your things, don't bring too much, and pack lightly. Aunt Xue, Brother Pan and Girl Bao are not here now, so you should go with me."

"Where are we going?"

Although everyone already knew the truth, Aunt Xue still asked.

"Go to Beihai, brother Ming's place. Brother Ming has prepared a house for us there, so we will go there to spend some rest. If the imperial capital is better in the future, we will come back. If it is not good, we will not come back. gone."

"I understand your intentions, and you are reluctant to stay here. Actually, I don't want to leave either. But it's nothing special if we really leave. Didn't we also come from Jinling at the beginning? Wherever we go, there is home."

"Brother Lian, where should Ping go now?"

"He said he will travel day and night, and according to the date, it's time to arrive in Shengjing."

"Brother Lian, you have arranged your itinerary for the next few days, and we will set off in seven days. Let's all go back to Zhang Luo, and don't go to relatives and friends, so as not to leak the news."

"Mother, must we go?"

Jia Zheng still had illusions.

"Hmph, are you still thinking about it? If you don't leave, I'm afraid that we may go to prison one day. This matter is settled like this. If anyone doesn't want to leave, he can stay by himself, and he will not belong to the Jia family from now on." people."

"I'm just talking, of course I have to go."

Everyone dispersed silently and began to prepare separately.

On the second day, Xishan Camp.

Shi Liu and Shi Song waited in front of Princess Chang'an's door just after breakfast.

The door opened and Lichun came out.

"Your Highness calls you in."

The two entered silently, both kneeling on the ground.

"Two Battalion Commanders Shi, what are you doing? Why do you have to do such a big ceremony? Get up quickly."

"Your Highness, we have something to ask for."

"What's the matter, get up and talk."

"We are leaving, we can no longer help His Highness train troops."

Chang An sighed, and after a while, he stood up slowly.

"But for the sake of Lord Wang and Concubine Jia?"

The two of them didn't say anything, it was a tacit agreement.

"Some rumors are not credible. The Jia family and the Wang family have worked for my family for generations. Brother Huang will not do such a self-destruction of the Great Wall."

"Your Highness, the grassroots don't dare to be suspicious, but now that there is something at home, we really can't serve His Highness here. Please, for the sake of Chief Min, please allow us to leave. Now let Your Highness know, our brothers will gone."

With that said, the two got up and left the house.

Lichun followed and wanted to keep him, but he saw more than 20 other instructors had already gathered together with their horses.Seeing Shi Song and Shi Liu coming out, he followed them out of the camp.

When Lichun returned to the house, he saw Chang'an standing by the window, silent.

"Your Highness, they are all gone."

"Oh, I found them with great difficulty, and now they are lonely again. Now that they are gone, how will the soldiers continue to practice? Did they say where to go?"

"I heard Shi Liu say that he is going to Jia's residence."

"Jia Mansion? Call Zuo Linliang, let's go."

"Your Highness, where are you going?"

"Go to Jia's mansion."

"What are you going to do there?"

"Don't you think I should explain it to them?"

"Your Highness, even if they try to explain it, they may not believe it. This matter has been widely spread outside the world, and even the emperor may not be able to argue with it."

"He can't argue? Why does he need to defend? Without his instruction, who would dare to attack Wang Ziteng and Jia Guifei? Do you think I am a fool, I can't even see such a thing?"

"Maybe the emperor has unspeakable suffering?"

"What unspeakable suffering does he have? Lord Wang has worked so hard, and Concubine Xiande keeps her own place in the palace and never causes trouble. Such a person can't be tolerated. If there is any change in the future, who else will help us?"

"Your Highness..."

"Look at the people around her now, Luo Qihua, Luo Musheng, Li Yuan, Jia Yucun, Hou Xiaolian, Shi Guangzhu, Sun Tongren... where is there a good thing?"

"Scholar Lu said he was sick and returned home, Master Ji returned home when he was old, Beijing Wang Fu was at home, Xiu Tonggui was exiled, Liu Changfeng was sent to Jiangsu, Zhou Tong was sent to Shaanxi, He Jialin and Luo Fengshan were transferred to civil servants. If you have some skills, Those with good moral character have left one by one. How can the government not be chaotic if you are far away from gentlemen and close to villains?"

"There are also those three families. Now that the wolf ambitions have been exposed, the emperor still calls them brothers and sisters, and keeps giving them silver taels. Isn't this just breeding tigers?"

"If things go on like this, people's hearts will be exhausted, and in the future there will only be a lonely family."

In fact, Lichun had already seen and remembered these things, but he couldn't say them out.

"Let's go. When we arrive at Jia's mansion, tell them. If anyone of them can see Chief Min, he will explain to Chief Min at that time. Don't let the matter go to waste."

"Hey, if Chief Min knows this, how would he feel?"

"How do you feel? How do you think he would feel?"

After Chang'an said that, he went out and took Lichun and Zuo Linliang to Jia's mansion.

(End of this chapter)