Get involved in the fight for the right to inherit the throne, and if you don't advance, you will retreat. And this retreat will most likely mean falling into an abyss. When the prince committed suicide in front of the palace, the Ning and Rong mansions fell into silence for several years and almost fell out of the martial arts circle in the capital.
Ning and Rong have already failed once. If they fail again, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as Shen Ji, or it could be a catastrophic disaster involving confiscation of homes and destruction of families.
Jia She hesitated, especially with a caring boy like Jia Cong at his knees, he didn't want to take risks.
Jia Cong, who had his head rubbed by his father, seemed to have sensed his father's thoughts. He raised his face and said, "Dad, our family has no choice. The heads of the Ning and Rong mansions in the past dynasties were all the governors of the Beijing camp. That's it." It was only a few years ago that I was replaced by the Wang uncle. Our family has too much influence in the capital. No matter who wants to go further, they will try to take advantage of our family. My eldest sister is still in the palace!"
boom!
Jia She felt a thunder in his head, and his originally hazy mind suddenly became clear.
Yes, among the Jia family, one family, two princes, four princes, eight princes, and twelve princes, the influence of the Jia family in Jingying and Jiubian is stronger than any other family. No matter who comes to power, they will never give up the fat of the Jia family. .
That year, the prince passed away suddenly, the old dragon gradually grew old, the new emperor's throne was unstable, the princes were competing for the throne, and the situation in the court was complicated. The heads of the two houses of the Jia family had to take the initiative to retire because they were old ministers of the East Palace. Even the previous governors of the Beijing Camp were handed over to Wang Ziteng...
"Dad, to be honest, don't be angry. When you handed over the position of Jiedushi of the Beijing Camp, you became a toothless tiger. Now even a wild dog can bare its teeth at our house!"
After Jia Cong said these words, he immediately turned into a good baby. He sat on the bed with his hands on his hands and swayed his short legs to play.
"Toothless tiger..."
At this time, Jia She seemed to be getting anxious. Compared with his cousin Jia Jing, Jia She had a much poorer grasp of the situation in the DPRK.
But after all, he was the successor trained by Jia Daishan himself. Under the gradual guidance and reminder of Jia Cong, a fake child, Jia Enhou, the former East Palace companion, seemed to be back.
…
"Dad, do you want to tell uncle about Sister Lin?"
"Don't cause trouble first. Girl Lin is doing well at home. What is there to say?"
Although Jia She has not yet fully figured out how to resolve the Jia family's crisis, he knows that the most important thing now is to pull his brother-in-law Lin Ruhai out of the whirlpool.
Compared with the four founding nobles, the four great families of Jinling, and the old relatives of the Jia family, Jia She trusted Lin Ruhai, his brother-in-law, more.
Being reminded by his son today, Jia She had some regrets today.
When his father died of illness and he was imprisoned at home, his cousin Jia Jing went to practice Taoism outside the city. Wang Ziteng used the excuse that the four major families were united. In order to maintain the glory of the four major families, he borrowed 200 soldiers trained by his father Jia Daishan from the Jia family, and asked Jia She to write to Jiubian to tell the Jia family's soldiers in Jiubian. Nearly half of his connections were in the hands of Wang Ziteng.
In the next year, Wang Ziteng's successes in Datong were reported frequently. Not only did he rise from a miscellaneous general to a second-grade hussar general, but he was also transferred back to the capital a year later and took over the position of the Jiedushi of the Beijing Camp from the Jia family. Even the title of Duke of Taiwei Controlling County, the ancestor of the Wang family, was re-confessed.
On the contrary, the Jia family's soldiers who followed Wang Ziteng on the battlefield were all killed or injured. Two hundred people left the capital, and only twenty or thirty disabled old soldiers came back.
It was also from that time on that Jia She hated Wang Ziteng deeply. Although his son Jia Lian married a daughter of the Wang family, Jia She had a cold attitude every time he saw Wang Ziteng.
Your Prince Tengxian is so powerful now, but you came to power on the blood of my Jia family. Two hundred personal soldiers and nearly half of the connections ended up getting nothing but empty words and care. Bah!
Jia She cursed secretly in his heart and continued to write a letter to Lin Ruhai.
"Dad, the old lady is obviously planning to make the two Yu'ers a couple. Why don't you tell your uncle about such a big thing?"
Jia Cong hugged Jia She's legs and squeezed in until he got into Jia She's arms and looked at the letters on the desk.
After Jia She put down the pen, he lightly patted Jia Cong on the head: "What? Do you want Lin Yatou to be your wife? It's not impossible. I'll mention it to your uncle right now..."
"What the hell..."
Jia Cong blushed and quickly explained: "I mean, the second aunt doesn't like Sister Lin, and I have noticed several times that the way the second aunt looks at Sister Lin is extremely scary, like...like...well, I can’t describe it, it’s scary anyway! Also, Sister Lin’s health has gotten worse and worse since she came to our house. Every time Dr. Wang comes over, she only talks about nonsense like just recuperating. I see Dr. Wang. I don’t know how to treat people at all…”
On this point, Jia Cong was not talking nonsense.
Although Wang was well hidden, Jia Cong saw Wang's fleeting appearance several times and wished he could eat Lin Daiyu's eyes.
Wang?
Jia She couldn't understand what his son was saying, and asked doubtfully: "A few days ago, I heard from Aunt You that she had given Lin Yatou a lot of ginseng and Yangrong pills? What? These pills are useless? "
"I don't quite understand, but Huan Laosan told me that he once overheard his second aunt asking Mother Zhou to secretly replace the high-quality ginseng that uncle sent to the house with inferior ginseng that was about to lose its medicinal properties. …”
Snapped!
Jia She was really angry now!
He slapped the table so hard that the ink in the inkstone splashed onto the white paper.
It's true that Jia She was a feudal patriarch who favored boys over girls, but that didn't mean that he really wanted to see someone tease his niece like this.
Moreover, Mrs. Wang is digging for the foundation of her family. Her niece is her brother-in-law's only flesh and blood. If he dies in Rongguo Mansion, where will he put his old face? How will the Rongguo Mansion and the Lin family get along with each other in the future?
Don’t forget Lin Ruhai’s official position, from a third-grade Yazhong doctor to a royal censor of Yangzhou Salt Patrol, the noblest among the nobles, not to mention Lin Ruhai’s friends of the same age in the court...
Mrs. Wang is indeed a stupid woman!
"How brave you are!"
Jia She stood up anxiously and paced back and forth in the tent. This matter was really difficult to handle. The power in the family was firmly in the hands of the old lady, and he couldn't find any evidence. Who would believe it based on the words of a child?
"Dad, why don't we send Sister Lin back to Jiangnan? I heard from the second sister that on my aunt's memorial day in June, Sister Lin would secretly hide in no one's place and burn paper money for her aunt in a hurry. The old lady didn't like these things, Lin My sister doesn’t even dare to publicly pay homage to her mother.”
Jia Cong remembered the scene when Dai Yu came to Beijing three years ago, and once again put the last stone on Jia She's remaining sanity: "Dad, my aunt died of illness. Not only did our family not give my aunt a vegetarian diet, but also Sister Lin In those three years, I didn't observe filial piety because the old lady didn't like it. The second aunt was in charge of the house, and the chaos in our family's rules became a joke in the capital. Yesterday, my son met the Minister of Rites, Zhang Shilang, just because I greeted him. They said that I was the last person who knew etiquette in Rongguo Mansion, and my son’s face was very hot at the time!”
