In the pear blossom courtyard, the pale moon is pouring over the clouds and the rain has just passed.
With a pillow of light coldness, I dreamed of entering Xiyao Trail Mountain.
The flowers are deep and people are quiet, and the curtains are locked to keep the fragrance clear and the day will last forever.
The red medicine is on the stem, and the jade table is graceful in the spring breeze.
A light rain overnight moistened the morning, and the palace servants in the Dragon Head Palace were cleaning the petals blown away by last night's wind and rain. By the Taiye Pond, two cats, one big and one one, were lying on the bank ready to go, aiming directly at the brocade playing in the water. carp.
Dai Quan helped the old man out of the Huangji Palace, and the slightly earthy breeze blew in his face, which made him sober.
Liu Ji looked far away at the sky beyond the red walls and green tiles, and suddenly told Dai Quan: "This year's rain will be more than last year. Although it is helpful for spring planting, we must be careful about the early summer floods. You can ask someone to tell you Fourth child, ask him to send people to wander around the Yellow River embankment..."
"Ah ah ah ah ah……"
The cat was walking the cat. The mighty general and the cat were having fun when they suddenly saw Liu Ji leaning on the railing and looking into the distance. He flicked his long tail and dragged Jia Cong towards the front of the hall.
The half-grown cat was as strong as a calf, and even though the little fat man had been using medicinal diets and medicinal baths since he was a child, he couldn't hold him back.
By the time the big cat ran to the Emperor, Jia Cong had turned into a mud monkey.
Jia Cong looked at the golden gradient tattoo on the flower arm that was rubbing against the leg of the Supreme Emperor. He rushed over and pulled off his big head, grabbed his ears and lectured: "You are a licking dog... No, you are a licking cat." ! You licking cat, it’s useless for me to be fed and walked by you these days. As soon as I saw the saint, you threw me, the shit scraper, aside."
The tattooed man was indeed very confident. He tilted his head and looked at the little fat man in front of him and muttered for a long time. The big cat's long tail swung around. Finally, seeing how pitiful he was, he turned over to expose his belly and howled. Two sounds.
The big wet eyes flashed twice, as if to say: Shit shovel, come and masturbate, masturbate twice and you will feel better!
Who can say no to a big, hot cat?
Sure enough, a soft belly can solve a thousand hatreds. The little fat man stroked the cat with satisfaction, showing a crazy expression.
The palace servants brought in rocking chairs, spread them with soft blankets, and scented tea. The Emperor went up, and the entire Dragon Head Palace became relaxed and elegant.
"Little fat man, did you finish your homework yesterday? Come back and let me hear it."
Hearing the old man's words, Jia Cong's face immediately fell.
He quietly turned over his sleeves to reveal the cheat sheet on the inside, took a glance at it, and then started to recite it.
"It is said that when a country is in peace and order, the people will be filial when the superiors are old, the people will be fraternal when the superiors are old, and the people will be sympathetic to the orphans but the people will not be doubled. This is the way of a gentleman.
Uh... If you hate something from above, don't do it to someone below. If you hate something from below, don't do it to someone above. If you hate something from the front, don't do it in order of precedence. If you hate something from behind, don't do it to the past. If you hate something from the back, don't do it to the past. To the left; if you do evil to the left, do not give it to the right; this is called the way of justice..."
Daishan's grandson is indeed as virtuous as him, Tao!
Liu Ji pretended not to see the little fat man peeking at the cheat sheet, and suddenly interrupted the recitation and asked, "Tell me what does this mean?"
It’s beyond the scope!
Jia Cong's body stiffened, and he replied with a dry smile: "Master Saint, I just memorized it... uh, yes, I just memorized it."
"Is it? lol."
Liu Ji raised his hand and pulled Jia Cong's sleeve, turned out the cheat sheet contained in it, and threw it away. The results of Jia Cong's hard work for half an hour last night were gone in the wind.
….
The Supreme Emperor chuckled and said, "Keep carrying it."
Old man, you don’t have martial ethics!
The little fat man was now a Muggle, and he continued to recite hesitantly: "The "Poetry" says: 'Happiness is only a gentleman, the parent of the people.'"
Those who love what the people like and hate what the people hate are called the parents of the people.
"Poem" says: "Jiebi Nanshan, meow meow meow meow." Hehe Shiyin, meow meow meow meow..., uh...meow meow meow meow..."
Snapped!
Liu Ji listened to this string of meows, raised his hand and slapped the little fat man on the head.
"Go back today and copy this article ten times!"
Then he started to tell Jia Cong again
Lesson: "The so-called principle of justice is to emphasize the role of example by setting an example. As Confucius said to Ji Kangzi, the virtues of those in power are like the wind, and the virtues of the common people are like grass. As long as the wind blows on the grass, the grass will grow. Fall with the wind."
"In the world, people's hearts depend on what they say and what they do. The key is to see what you say, what you advocate, and what you do. The power of examples is infinite, and the power of leaders is immeasurable. Therefore, those who govern a country must have the right rules... …”
This lecture lasted for an hour. The old man's vast experience was unmatched even by his teacher Xu Jin.
The emperor drank all the tea in the cup and concluded: "There are no more than five points in governing a country in a peaceful world. First, a gentleman should have the right rules; second, if you gain the crowd, you will win the country, and if you lose the crowd, you will win the country. The country is lost; thirdly, virtue is the basis of wealth; fourthly, only benevolent people can love others and hate others; and finally, the country does not benefit from profit, but benefits from righteousness."
Jia Cong listened extremely seriously and kept nodding.
The Supreme Emperor suddenly asked: "Just like your father-in-law Lin Ruhai, this time I asked him to go south to implement the new salt policy. What do you think it is for?"
Jia Cong thought for a while and replied: "Eliminate the shortcomings of the salt administration, crack down on unscrupulous salt merchants, and increase the court's annual income."
"wrong."
The old man shook his head and said leisurely: "Actually, my idea is very simple, let the common people afford salt!"
People cannot lack salt, but the price of salt is so high that many people can only buy green salt, earth salt and nitrate salt.
Green salt is okay, at least it won't poison people. But soil salt and nitrate salt are different. They are prepared from alkaline soil in saline-alkali land or from nitrate soil.
The salt produced by these two methods has complex composition. It is not complete table salt (sodium chloride), but a variety of salts containing sodium, such as sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, and Sodium chloride etc.
The quality of this kind of local salt is definitely not as good as pure table salt, and sometimes it can kill people. But there is nothing the poor people can do. After eating a little bit, they can still farm and work in the fields to feed themselves and survive.
Why did Liu Ji go to Jiangnan six times in the first place? One of the biggest reasons was to intimidate the salt merchants in Huaihe and Zhejiang provinces. Unfortunately, the method of making salt limited the production of salt. Deterrence by force would only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
It wasn't until Lin Ruhai's explanation of the salt-drying method that he regained hope.
"Brother Cong, when the price of salt is at its lowest, one pound of salt can buy twenty pounds of grain, and when it's the highest, it can buy more than a hundred pounds. In my fifty years of imperial rule, I have seen so many people who are bloated, dizzy and unable to walk. .”
….
Liu Ji's deep eyes were full of fighting spirit, and he said firmly: "I, the price of salt must be brought down. The king is the boat; the common man is the water; water carries the boat, and water capsizes the boat. The common people How can I feel at ease if I can't even afford salt?"
The Lord of Daxia, who was worthy of being the emperor for fifty years, was able to give up the huge temptation of salt tax.
Jia Cong's opinion of the old man was further improved. He stood up, straightened his clothes, and worshiped: "The saint, the saint, the wise, the benevolent, I wish to congratulate you on the Great Xia!"
Liu Ji waved his hands indifferently: "As a king, this is how it should be. In order to eliminate the threat of the desert and stabilize the overall situation in Jiangnan, I allowed the salt merchants in Huaihe and Zhejiang to live freely for so long. I am already ashamed of all the people in the world. Yes. This time, let your father-in-law deal with this group of monsters for me."
…
Lin Ruhai has been away from Beijing for more than half a month, and he should have arrived in Yangzhou by now. Because Jinse was pregnant, it was even more impossible for her to go south with her. Although the old lady was a little depressed, she still agreed to Lin Ruhai's request and left her in Rongguo Mansion to take care of her.
The two mansions of Ning and Rong, which had been cleaned by Jia Jing and Jia She, were much cleaner now. Wang Xifeng specially cleaned out the guest courtyard near her own yard and let Jinse and the Lin family's servants live in it.
When Mrs. Feng Sheng died of illness in Jinling, the Ministry of Rites sent people south to pay her respects.
Ding You, the Zhen family, was completely eliminated from the position of president of Jinling Tiren Academy. The emperor decreed that the Longjin Guard Jinling Town Fusi was established to take charge of thousands of Longjin Guard offices in the three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Fujian.
The position of governor of Jinling Town finally fell to Jia Lian, who was still in Pingwo, Zhejiang.
Don't look
This position is only a fourth-grade military attache, but I can't stand it. This is the Dragon Guard, the emperor's own army. Moreover, the imperial edict stated that the Jinling Town Fusi only had to be responsible to the Emperor and the Dragon Guard Commander.
The flowers are blooming and falling, and the wind blowing into the study through the window gradually brings the heat.
The garden gradually took shape. The eldest son was away and Jia Zheng was not good at worldly affairs. The younger son not only had to accompany the old man in the palace, but also studied with Xu Jin. Almost all the trivial matters at home fell on the master.
Fortunately, Jia Jing was still there to help, and finally nothing big went wrong.
"This Hu Laominggong is indeed worthy of his reputation. Brother Jing, look at this... the main hall is full of royal style, and the surrounding courtyards are like pearls dotted in the royal garden."
After a general tour of the Provincial Family Garden, which was beginning to take shape, Jia She was very satisfied with the garden created by Shan Ziye.
He turned over the account book in his hand and sighed: "So far, it has only cost 230,000 taels of silver. With about a hundred thousand more, our garden will be completely built. I heard that the Zhou family spent 500,000 taels of silver." It’s ten thousand taels, and that’s it, I haven’t even seen half of the pillars standing up yet. Hey!”
"Brother Pardon, raise another 200,000 taels of silver and send it to the Ministry of Revenue, and our family will pay back part of the silver we owe!"
Jia Jing roughly estimated the money of the two houses and made a plan in his mind. He raised the corner of his mouth and said with a chuckle: "Your Majesty is worried about money. How can the Ningrong Jia family not do their best to share your worries?"
Fighting means fighting for money. Wen Tongxuan went to the Qinzheng Hall every day to behave and wallow in money, and the emperor almost couldn't help but beat him out with a big stick.
There is no money in the household department, how can I have it in my inner treasury?
….
Jia Jing had calculated that the emperor would be severely short of money. Although two hundred thousand taels was not much for the shortfall of the household department, it would definitely warm the emperor's heart.
Your children and grandchildren are working hard for the country in the south of the Yangtze River, while the old people in Beijing are still trying their best to raise money for you. Your Majesty, do you think our Jia family are loyal ministers of our country?
With the pacification of the Japanese pirates in the south of the Yangtze River, the children of the various families who followed the Forbidden Army southward did not make many meritorious deeds, but suffered many casualties. However, the Jia family made quite a splash.
First, Jia Lian became famous in one battle, and then Jia Rong accidentally destroyed the food and fodder for the Japanese reinforcements...
Speaking of Jia Rong's credit, he really got it. Jia Rong, who was originally arranged to transport grain and grass, led 500 miscellaneous soldiers to escort him by boat to the island east of Dinghai.
On this island, one of the Zhoushan Islands, there are two thousand soldiers of Dinghai Zhongwei stationed. After Jia Rong went to Jiangnan, because he was not brave enough, he kept doing the work of collecting grain and escorting it, but he did it well.
Unexpectedly, when I went to sea this time, I encountered a Japanese pirate force of nearly 10,000 reinforcements.
Fortunately, it was heavy fog at the time. After quietly killing a straggler Japanese pirate boat, Jia Rong saw that she was trapped in the middle of the Japanese pirate fleet. She gritted her teeth and asked the officers and soldiers to pretend to be Japanese pirates and sneak into the grain and grass team.
There was a fire at night, and the Japanese pirates who were docked on a small island watched helplessly as their grain and fodder ships were burned to the ground.
With the help of the sea breeze, the fierce fire oil even ignited the ships near the rear grain and grass ship. In one night, not only the grain and grass were gone, but also hundreds of people and horses were burned to death. As for the missing people, there were as many as a thousand people.
After the Japanese pirates reacted, they finally realized that someone from the government had sneaked into their team.
Unfortunately, by that time Jia Rong had already taken advantage of the cover of heavy fog with five hundred soldiers to gallop towards Dinghai for more than 20 miles.
The fire burned all the food and fodder for the Japanese reinforcements. Now, let alone supporting the accomplices huddled in Ningbo Prefecture, it was a question of whether they could safely dock.
After all, if the officers and soldiers can burn their own food and grass without anyone noticing, they have the ability to sneak into their own ranks and cooperate inside and outside.
The Japanese pirates who had been getting together immediately fled hundreds of miles away and fled back to their base camp. Ningbo Mansion was finally successfully recaptured by the army. The Japanese pirates huddled in the city either died or surrendered, and were all sent to dig river channels.
When Liu Heng saw the detailed battle report sent by Jiangnan, he said with laughter and tears: "The mighty general Jia Rong is quick-witted and dares to do it. He has been granted the title of Captain of Qingche and Longxiang Guards for Thousand Households..."
In this way, Ningguo Mansion finally had hope again.
see. Jia Jing went to Xuanzhen Temple outside the city and severely beat his son who was "refining alchemy and cultivating Taoism", and then took Jia She to drink wine all night.
Of course, Jia Lian and Jia Rong were not the only ones who made meritorious service in the war against Japan. For example, Feng Ziying, the son of Shenwu General Feng Tang, also achieved the military feat of beheading eight people. With his father's skill, he went from a white body to a sixth-grade Zhongxian Colonel.
The things that Wu Xun in the capital often talks about recently have gradually shifted from the gardens of various noble relatives to the sons and daughters who are about to return to the capital to receive rewards.
Some laughed and some cried, including poor Mr. Bao.
Jia Cong had just returned home from his teacher Xu Jin that day when he heard that the yard was in a mess.
….
"Take the jade! Get the big stick! Tie it up with the rope! Close all the doors! Anyone who sends a message inside will be beaten to death immediately!"
Um? Second uncle is going to hit Baoyu again?
Quickly walking around the screen wall, I saw a mess outside the front hall. Baoyu was pressed on a bench by two muscular servants, and the maids and servants on the side were begging the second master.
Jia Zheng's face was as angry as gold paper, and he shouted: "If someone persuades me again today, I will give him and Baoyu this crown and other belongings! I can't help but be a sinner and shave off these troublesome hairs on my temples." Go, find a clean place to go, and avoid the sin of humiliating your ancestors and giving birth to a rebellious son."
Baoyu's mouth was now tightly gagged. While struggling, he saw Jia Cong walking in and whimpered for help.
"Second uncle, what's going on? Why did you take the treasure again and want to beat me?"
Jia Cong quickly stepped forward, pushed the two servants who were holding Baoyu down, bowed to Jia Zhengzuo and said, "Second uncle, second brother Bao has always been well-behaved and sensible. Why do you get so angry?"
Jia Zheng saw that his nephew was wearing a gift from the emperor. He had a golden crown and a jade belt, which looked very majestic. He took another look at his only remaining legitimate son, and couldn't help but feel sad.
He sighed and sat down on the chair, tears streaming down his face.
"What sin did I commit in my previous life? Today I am so humiliated for not being strict with my children... I, Jia Cunzhou, have insulted the Jia family's family tradition. It is better to go back. It is better to go back..."
hiss!
Jia Cong might as well take a deep breath. The second uncle was so heartbroken at this moment. What on earth happened?
Seeing that Jia Zheng couldn't say anything useful, he turned to look at Ou Jinglun, a retainer who had been following Jia Zheng.
"Mr. Jinglun, what happened? Who dares to insult my second uncle?"
Ou Jinglun glanced at Jia Zheng, who was in deep sorrow and couldn't extricate himself, and then at Baoyu, who was lying on the bench and whining, and sighed: "Mr. Zheng went to Princess Deqing's mansion to attend the poetry meeting today, but Prince Dongping... alas, Prince Dongping said that he saw Mr. Bao and an actor acting close to each other in the theater, and said that the Jia family has a good family tradition and actually raised a good... manly brother!"
Jia Cong frowned and looked at Jia Zheng. He saw that his second uncle was already angry and ashamed. He lifted and put down the stick in his hand. Finally, he shed tears and sighed: "I am incompetent and can't teach you such evil... If Brother Zhu were still alive, why would I have ended up like this, being humiliated in front of all the distinguished officials in the capital!"
Baoyu's face was covered with tears, he kept shaking his head, and kept whining from his blocked mouth.
Jia Cong removed the rag that blocked Baoyu's mouth, and before he could take a breath, he asked in a deep voice, "Brother Bao, please tell me the truth. Is what Qian Kangshi said true?"
"Uh-huh... I didn't, I didn't. I went to the theater to listen to a play before. Qi Guan and Jiang Yuhan are famous actors in the capital. I like to listen to plays, and I became friends with them as soon as I went there."
Baoyu felt extremely wronged, so she cried and explained to Jia Cong: "A few days ago, I went to the theater with Ruolan and Liu Er Ge to listen to a play. It was Qiguan's birthday, so we drank together to celebrate it. During the dinner, I met Prince Dongping, and he also invited I met Qi Guan and talked about going to the palace to sing a song for his concubine one day..."
Baoyu has a wide range of friends and has never been shy about his background. It is normal for him to become friends with an actor.
Jia Cong confirmed again and again and asked the servants and maids who had been following Baoyu. Finally, it was confirmed that he and Jiang Yuhan were indeed innocent.
As for what Qian Kangshi said, he simply used this matter to disgust Jia Zheng, or rather
Come to disgust Ning Rongjia's family.
"Second Uncle, it seems that you mistakenly blamed Second Brother Bao."
Jia Cong helped Baoyu up and said solemnly to Jia Zheng: "Brother Bao has always been obedient. What big trouble has he caused in these years? How many noble sons in the capital can compare with Brother Bao in terms of money?" Kang Shi’s actions are provoking trouble!”
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