Taking advantage of the chaos, he slipped out of the Emperor's bedroom, Yanguangyuan.
Chen Si called a waiter and followed him to the place where the boards were made.
It's not that he wanted to be beaten, the main reason was that the brothers were beaten, and he slipped away. This is not good and can easily lead to estrangement.
Although they are already separated enough.
A huge set of ceremonial guards rushed towards him in a hurry. Yiyong looked at it, and when he saw the chariot representing the imperial concubine, he and the young eunuch hid together, stood on the road, and bent down salute.
It stands to reason that when the owner of the chariot sees a prince saluting him, he should stop and return the salute.
But the owner of this guard of honor obviously had no such intention. Instead, he ignored the prince who was saluting towards him and hurriedly ran towards the Xiyuan.
Just when he passed by the prince, he seemed to feel a pair of angry eyes scanning his body.
After the honor guard went away, Yiyong straightened up.
"Is that a guard of honor for Princess Zhen?"
Yiyong said while looking at the honor guard going away.
"Your Majesty has good eyesight, which is exactly what Princess Zhen does as a guard of honor."
The little eunuch behind him bowed and replied.
"I know, let's go."
"yes."
King Zhongxin is considered dead, and now the only support for Concubine Zhen is the Zhen family. And the Zhen family only relied on the old lady. Once the old lady left, the Zhen family would just be an ordinary big family in Jiangnan.
They can no longer bring themselves to face it.
No matter, let her stare at him a few times and he won't lose any flesh, so let's stare!
. . . . . .
"Hahaha, Brother Lu, I'll give you a bowl! Do it!"
"Dry!"
On the bank of the Qinhuai River, in a large private room on the third floor of a restaurant.
Jia Hui is receiving Ruda who has come from afar.
Knowing that Luda was not a womanizer, Jia Hui specially arranged the banquet in the most elegant restaurant along the Qinhuai River, without even calling a girl.
They just invited a Pingtan troupe who specially performed at the banquet to come over and tell the story of Du Shiniang in Wu Nong's soft language.
"The graceful and charming Du Shiniang feels sorry for herself and is in Pingkang.
She is like a fallen flower with no owner, dancing in the wind, with flying catkins and a few lines of tears. "
After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.
With your stomach full, now is the time to drink and chat.
Jia Hui took the initiative to persuade him to drink, but Luda seemed to be in low spirits, as if he was just giving himself face.
Seeing this, Jia Hui put down the wine bowl.
"Brother seems...not in a good mood today."
Seeing Jia Hui put down the wine bowl, Luda sighed, drank all the wine in the bowl, and then put the bowl on the table.
"Hey, brother, tell me, isn't this a prosperous time? Why are there so many people displaced and forced to sell themselves into slavery?"
After Ruda finished speaking, he picked up a piece of squirrel and mandarin fish meat with his chopsticks and ate it, as if he wanted the sweetness to wash away the depression in his heart.
"What happened to my brother?"
Jia Hui lowered his head and took a spoonful of crab roe tofu into his mouth.
"Brother, you also know that a few days ago, I killed a birdman who whipped a servant to death in the street."
"Well, I know. Not only was he beaten to death, but he was smashed into two pieces with a steel rod!"
The person who was playing and singing suddenly broke out in cold sweat and played harder and harder.
Jia Hui glanced at the man without saying anything.
"Brother, do you know that this is not the first time that my brother has encountered him? Ever since he entered the Jiangnan realm, he has encountered this kind of cruel and murderous servants almost everywhere he went.
At first, my brother thought it was a servant who had stolen something from the master's house or something, so he didn't take care of it.
But who knew that that man was just whipping his slaves for fun! This is great! After asking around, I found out where the man lived. That night, my brother climbed over the wall, cut off the head of the owner, and hung it at the city gate! "
"Hey, it turns out that the case of Huainan's Huo family was done by you, brother! I was wondering who was so good at it!"
Ruda also smiled and said nothing.
jump!
Played the wrong note!
The Pingtan artist broke out in a cold sweat and didn't dare to play anymore. He didn't dare to move. He just sat on the chair and shivered.
How generous! Encountered two gangsters!
Jia Hui looked coldly at the Pingtan artist who stopped playing and singing.
The good mood of seeing my brother was completely disturbed by the wrong words that sounded bad!
"Get out, get out! This guy can't play the pipa well, so what's the point of showing off!"
Jia Hui waved his hand towards the Pingtan artist with a disgusted look on his face. The man was relieved, hugged his pipa and fled out of the box.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
"Haha, I'm afraid he thinks our brothers are gangsters who came down from the mountain! Brother, do you want to take a gamble?"
Jia Hui opened the folding fan, placed it in front of her chest and flapped it gently.
"Oh? What are you betting on?"
Ruda became interested.
"I guess this person will definitely tell the shopkeeper after he goes downstairs that there are two gangsters meeting in the private room on the third floor!
I bet this shopkeeper will go to the police to arrest us. "
"Catch us? Why?"
"Hehe, because the reward of 50,000 taels from the Huainan Huo family is still hanging at the yamen door! The few words my brother just said will definitely make the shopkeeper take the risk!
Think about it, how much money can you make as a shopkeeper in a year? Haven't they all been taken away by the owner?
But this reward is different. If my brother is really the murderer of the Huo family, how can he get more than 30,000 taels after spending 50,000 taels on various things?
This money can be used to sell thousands of acres of good paddy fields around Jinling City! If the shopkeeper still wants to do business, this money will also be his confidence! "
Jia Hui fanned herself, picked up the tea cup with her right hand and took a sip.
"Hey, let me bet on the shopkeeper's skill!"
"Oh? Brother, do you have a reason?"
Jia Hui leaned forward, as if he was all ears.
"This restaurant relies on its reputation. Why did you build this private room? Isn't it just to have a place where we can talk without being disturbed?"
If the identity of the customer in the private room on the third floor could even be revealed, then who would come here with any identity in the future? "
"Of course the master will not allow it to be revealed, but the person in charge now is the shopkeeper! Can he just use the money to buy a house and change his place of origin? Isn't that more comfortable than being a slave?"
Jia Hui put down the teacup and retorted towards Luda.
"But the owner is not a vegetarian! He will definitely send people to cook the shopkeeper's food to protect the reputation of his restaurant.
By the way, there are still tens of thousands of taels of silver! With just these tens of thousands taels, the owner will definitely take action! "
Speaking of this, Ruda showed a rare expression of frustration.
"It's just like what my brother met in Luzhou. The shopkeeper caught a wanted criminal and received a reward of nine thousand taels, and the prefect also asked the owner to let him go. The shopkeeper was as happy as something!
But within three days, the shopkeeper was found dead at home. He had been stabbed four times in the back and hung by his neck from the beam.
When the prefect came to see it, he actually said that he had hanged himself! This was obviously money collected from the owner’s family! "
Ruda hammered the table angrily, causing soup to splash all over the floor.
"Later, my brother sneaked into that family's yard in the middle of the night, and happened to see the owner's family gathered around to look at the reward money stolen from the shopkeeper!"
"Wait a minute, how did brother know that those were rewards?"
Jia Hui was a little confused.
"Oh, the box containing the silver looks exactly like the box the shopkeeper brought out of the government office. Even the paint fell off in the same place. This must be the same box!"
"That's it, okay. Then what?"
"Brother pulled out the knife and jumped into the lobby. The white knife went in and the red knife came out! Send the whole family on their way! After killing them, brother jumped over the wall and ran away!"
Ruda showed off proudly.
"this……"
Jia Hui didn't know what to say, so she could only give him a thumbs up.
"It turns out that the murder of the Huang family in Luzhou was also committed by my brother..."
"Hehe, the Sa family is called doing justice for the sky!"
Jia Hui and Lu Da smiled at each other, picked up the wine bowls, touched them, and drank them all.
"We've been talking for a long time, so brother, do you still want to gamble?"
"Bet! Brother Hui is betting that the shopkeeper will call someone to come, right? Then brother is betting that the shopkeeper won't come!"
Ruda also put his head closer.
"Sure, the loser will be given ten taels of silver!"
"It's a deal!"
Jia Hui stretched out his right hand and high-fived Luda, thus the bet was concluded.
The two brothers laughed again and took another drink from the wine bowl.
Putting down the wine bowl again, Ruda fell silent.
Jia Hui picked up the chopsticks again, picked up a piece of dried shredded chopsticks and put it on the rice. He added another spoonful of soup, mixed it and ate it.
"Brother, tell me, in Daqi's Jiangnan, why are there so many masters who insult their servants? My brother has traveled all over the country and seen a lot, but he has never seen a place like Jiangnan where people are bullied like this!"
Ruda raised his head and looked directly at Jia Hui's face with a serious face.
Jia Hui finished the last bite of rice, put the bowl back on the table, picked up a towel and wiped his mouth, raised his eyes and looked at Luda.
"Probably because they are used to treating others as superiors for a long time. They no longer regard slaves as the same people as themselves..."
Jia Hui put down the towel in his hand and said to Ruda.
"How long have you been a master?"
Ruda seemed to understand something.
"Yes, this can be regarded as a...stain on my Daqi..."
"How do you say this?" Ruda asked.
Jia Hui thought for a while,
"This starts from the founding of the country. Brother, you should also know how quickly Taizu conquered the world, right?"
"Seven years."
"Yes, seven years is too fast. There are good and bad things. The good thing is that some places are surrendered by the wind, such as Jiangnan. It can be regarded as a place where surrender was made very early.
Mainly for the sake of the Jia family and the Shi family in Jinling. With our two families taking care of them, their children will have a place to serve as officials. At that time, there was an urgent need for manpower, and Taizu didn't care so much. He hired as many people as he wanted.
In this way, in the early years of the Qi Dynasty, one of the largest officialdoms, the Jiangnan Department, was born. "
"That is to say, in fact, the big families in Jiangnan survived the troubled times basically unscathed?" Ruda was a little shocked. In his hometown, there were no wealthy families from the previous dynasty. I heard that they had died in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Clean.
"Yes, Jiangnan at that time really brought too many things to Daqi. Money, food, talents, civilians, and even a military war station in Jinling that did not cause any damage!
To put it bluntly, if there was no Jiangnan back then, Daqi might not be able to..." Jia Hui still didn't finish his sentence.
Ruda fell silent.
"Although Taizu only took seven years to conquer the world, the troubled times actually started with the Henan Uprising. It lasted for twelve years until my great-grandfather Rong Zhongwugong conquered Chang'an and Liang and ended the troubled times!"
Jia Hui drank another cup of tea.
"Probably because of the threat from Bei Yuan, the tragedy of this troubled world is far more severe than that of previous generations. Everyone wants to end the troubled times as soon as possible, so the intensity of the war is really much higher than it is now.
Let’s take the decisive battle of Tongguan between my great-grandfather and Liang Ting.
The two sides have invested a total of 900,000 troops, a solid 90 soldiers!
Da Qi decided to divide the Liang Dynasty into three groups. On the other side, Shangshu ordered Grandpa Shi's younger brother to set out from Taiyuan, cross the Yellow River through Longmen and enter Guanzhong.
Along the way, Ningzhuang Sugong of my Jia family led his army to attack Wuguan.
My great-grandfather led his troops to confront the main force of the Liang army at Tongguan.
The total number of soldiers and horses in the three groups is 500,000. The headquarters is 300,000, and the partial divisions each receive 100,000.
The original intention is to hold back the last main force of the Liang Army. As long as any partial division can enter the pass, we will win. "
Jia Hui stopped, and Ruda was listening with fascination. He quickly picked up the teapot, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Jia Hui.
Jia Hui took a few sips of tea and nodded.
“The plan was good, but when it was implemented something went wrong.
Heroes emerge in troubled times. When Jin's partial army reached Baibi City, they encountered the 18-year-old Wei Ming, who was now known as the "Flower General". The whole army of 100,000 partial troops was wiped out.
The entire war situation almost collapsed because of him. Old Taigong Shi, who was originally supposed to be the number one contributor to Ding Qi like Xiao He, was implicated by him, and in the end he only got the title of Duke.
At the same time, the southern division was also blocked and was pinned to Wuguan by 40,000 Liang troops.
There was no other way, nearly 100,000 Liang troops gathered in the direction of Tongguan. My great-grandfather made a prompt decision and stormed Tongguan!
300,000 Qi troops and nearly 400,000 Liang troops were crowded into the narrow place of Tongguan. A total of 150 cannons fired at each other. We fought back and forth for seven days. On the eighth day, our army came from Niutou. Yuan took his equipment uphill and penetrated the twelve connected cities, and then conquered Tongguan...
Post-war statistics showed that nearly 300,000 people died in this decisive battle between the two armies.
For Liang Jun, the Guanzhong Plain is behind them, and their wives, children, and children must defend it with all their lives.
For our Qi army, it was the capital of the Dog Emperor. The veterans at that time were filled with overwhelming hatred for Emperor Liang and sacrificed nearly 170,000 lives before they could break through Tongguan and destroy Qianliang. "
Jia Hui put down the drained teacup.
“Actually, the intensity of the decisive battle at Tongguan was only among the top three in that troubled time.
Can you understand what the entire Central Plains was like after being beaten?
Calling it a ruin is a bit of an exaggeration. At this time, Jiangnan has become the most important money bag in the entire country, and any policy that will affect Jiangnan's taxation will not be implemented.
Not to mention cleaning up the Jiangnan aristocratic families. The industries in their hands are an important component of the entire Jiangnan tax revenue, not to mention how much the output of these industries plays a role in post-war recovery.
Even so, it was not until twenty years ago that the people in our dynasty could return to the level before the troubled times..."
"This is the main reason why Taizu did not take action against the Jiangnan family."
Jia Hui looked at Luda who lowered his head and said nothing.
In fact, what's more important is that the Jiangnan family's backers at that time were my Jia family and the Shi family...
Jia Hui did not say this to Luda.
Silence fell in the box.
Ruda picked up the wine bowl again and drank all the wine by himself.
"That…"
"Sir, this is it, this room! My lord, there are two gangsters in this box, and they themselves said that they were responsible for the cases of the Huo family and the Huang family!"
So what, gentlemen, I am going to have myopia surgery tomorrow, and I may have to take two or three days off. Don’t worry, everyone, I will definitely update twice in three days after I recover!
Please bear with me, thank you!
(End of chapter)
