Brothers Zhen Yingjia and Zhen Yingyu also found it incomprehensible.
Feng Ziying was so popular that everyone knew that he was the leader among the young scholars in the North, and his advisor was Qi Ge Lao, the official minister, and Qiao Yingjia, the censor of Youdu, was also his benefactor, the 22-year-old minister of the Ministry of War. .
Moreover, after achieving great achievements this time, he will definitely be promoted after returning to Beijing.
At this time, it is unbelievable no matter how you think about it being affected by indulging in female sex.
Although they had all heard of Feng Ziying's reputation as a womanizer, no matter how coquettish and womanish she was, she should have a certain temperament.
Li Shouzhong has obviously insulted the ministers of the cabinet and must be punished. However, at this time, you went to take Li's second wife, which is obviously a slap in the face of the ministers of the cabinet.
What woman deserves you to do this?
His appearance is comparable to that of Diao Chan Zhaojun, or is that square inch of land inlaid with gold and silver?
Zhen Yingjia and Zhen Yingyu don't believe that Feng Ziying is so ignorant of the general character. Otherwise, he would not be in this position. They can only say that he is too arrogant, or he is used to a life without women. He really needs to leave in a moment. No woman left.
But no matter how you look at it, these reasons feel a bit far-fetched and unreasonable, but this is what he did, and he was still a pimp in Jia Yucun.
"We don't know the specific situation now, but the Li family's children are indeed living in Feng Keng's temporary residence in Jinling City." Zhen Yingjia shook her head, "Li Shouzhong really put on a good show in front of us."
"Father, second uncle, what about the Tang family? Isn't there any news from the third uncle?" As the eldest daughter of Zhen, Zhen Baochen has been in the Ding family since she got married, and she has some knowledge of the Zhen family's business.
The Zhen family, the Tang family, and the Ding family are connected as one, and they cannot be separated. The Ding family is connected with themselves, while the Tang family is their third uncle Zhen Yinghui. Zhen Yinghui was promoted from Hangzhou Tongzhi to Qianhua prefect. , he remarried the Tang family's legitimate daughter.
"Ten days ago, news came back that the situation in Zhejiang and Zhejiang was not very good. Lao San's acquaintances in Beijing said that the imperial government's finances were exhausted and they were very dissatisfied with Nanjing for using up all three years of taxes from Jiangnan. Even Tang Binyin and Miao Changqi were in the cabinet. We are under siege. To tide over the difficulties, the imperial court must either recollect the Jiangnan taxes for the past three years or find another way..."
Zhen Yingyu pondered and said: "It is obviously impossible to re-collect taxes for three years. It will definitely trigger a civil uprising in Jiangnan. The compromise is to collect one more year of taxes, but it will also cause a lot of trouble, and there is no specific way to find another way. But the third child is very worried that the court, or even Tang Miu and others, will ask Jiangnan gentry and merchants to purchase more national bonds and apportion them one by one..."
"Impossible, how can we eradicate the issue of increasing the purchase of national debt? The national debt has to be repaid after all, with interest!" Zhen Yingjia's eyes were cold, "Find dozens or twenty scapegoats, and just put some charges on them, and then Their family property was wiped out in one fell swoop. Didn’t they have everything? Didn’t Feng Keng also play this trick in Beijing and have a smooth time? How many people were involved in the Jingcang case and their families were destroyed? "
"Father, do you think Feng Keng will follow this method in Jiangnan and use this method to deal with our Zhen family?"
Zhen Baochen bit her red lips deeply with her teeth, Wangxian's nine-ring bun was trembling, and a string of purple-red beads on the green emerald bamboo-patterned hosta gently swayed, adding a bit of wealth, but her clenched pink fists exposed her The tension and fear at this time.
"I'm afraid it's not our family, the Zhen family, the Zhou family, the Hu family, the Tao family, the Tang family, the Ding family, huh, they think they can escape by pushing our Zhen family out?" Zhen Yingjia sneered again and again, "How can the imperial court?" Just come here for the two to three million silver? That would be an underestimation of the appetite of the people in the imperial court."
"Then father, what should we do?" Zhen Baochen took a deep breath, "Isn't the Tang family very well-connected? You can't just sit back and wait for death, right?"
When Zhen Baochen was in the Ding family, he also heard from the Ding family that the Songjiang Tang family not only had strong financial resources, but also had a wide range of connections. Songjiang scholars were extremely influential in the court. The Lu family and the Dong family were both prominent families. They are also in-laws, a fact that even the Ding family laments.
"I have arranged to send 50,000 taels of silver to the Tang family before, and I am about to send another 200,000 to the Tang family. I ask the Tang family to make use of both the Dong family and the Lu family. Only in this way can our Zhen family
There is still a glimmer of hope, but I'm afraid that the Tang family won't accept it. "
Zhen Yingjia let out a long breath and rubbed her temples painfully.
"Now everyone is observing the actions of Sun and Feng. It will take at least half a month for the people from the imperial court to arrive in Nanjing. And when they arrive in Nanjing, they must listen to Sun and Feng's opinions first. Sun Chengzong is very concerned about Jiangnan Qing Dynasty. The situation is not familiar at all. Now I basically rely on Feng Keng’s opinion. Basically, it’s whatever Feng Keng says, so as a father..."
There was no further words to follow, because both Zhen Baochen and Zhen Baoyu heard Zhen Yingjia's gnashing of teeth and almost roaring words. They wanted to go to Jia Yucun to attack Jia Yucun in person, and sent their sisters to Feng's house. In addition, they also had to give 300,000 taels of silver, and even Jia Yucun had to give fifty thousand taels of silver just to help with the matchmaking.
Fifty thousand taels of silver, which is almost the total wealth of ten middle-class households in Jiangnan, but it just wants to help the two of them move into Feng Ziying's mansion.
This humiliating behavior is only slightly better than the Distribution and Distribution Department, but it still requires fifty thousand taels of silver to be given to the matchmaker.
Raising her head, Zhen Yingjia rubbed her cheeks with both hands, "Bao Chen, Bao Yu, it's not that my father and your uncle are ruthless and shameless, but you are the daughters of the Zhen family and you have seen the behavior of the Ding family with your own eyes. Bao Chen, you married into After so many years in the Ding family, Ding Zhongzhen divorced his wife simply because of the impending disaster, without even saying a superfluous word. I don’t even think that the Ding family did anything wrong. If it were Ding Deyi who was the father, he might have done the same thing. When something like this happens, any major issue that affects the life and death of hundreds of people in a family must not be emotionally acted, and emotions can be put aside, but can only be acted upon in a direction that is beneficial to the interests of the family..."
Zhen Baochen was shocked by his father's words. He didn't know how to judge and answer his father's words for a while.
"Maybe my father is indeed a little unbalanced. I can't even predict how the court will deal with our Zhen family next. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought, but as the head of the family, my father doesn't dare to take this risk. ." Zhen Yingjia held her forehead with one hand in pain and pressed the other hand on the headrest of the chair. "Bao Chen, what do you think we should do as a father? Let's wait and see what happens. Maybe the situation is not what we thought. Is it bad? Or should we imagine the worst case scenario, take action in advance, and save the Zhen family at all costs?"
Zhen Baochen was also at a loss, not knowing how to answer his father's helpless and tormenting self-questions.
She didn't expect that this trip back to her parents' home would turn into such a tragic situation.
Before, she had been sighing for her sister. She felt that Baoqi had married the wrong person. On the surface, she looked very glamorous. She married the prince of Beijing County and became the princess. Who would have thought that the change between the north and the south would mean that the prince of Beijing County fled south. When he arrived in Jinling, he left his sister in the capital city and was eventually exiled to Shaanxi.
Although I just married a prominent local family in the south of the Yangtze River, the Ding family is also considered a wealthy family in Huizhou. They have no worries about food and clothing. The Ding family has a close relationship with the Zhen family. I can go back to my natal family to stay for a while every year. My husband's family treats me very much. She was also quite respectful, so she was very satisfied and sighed that she must marry the right person when marrying.
But in the blink of an eye, he turned into a clown.
Her husband actually divorced her, and her father and uncle actually discussed sending her and her cousin to Feng's house to be concubines to that Feng Keng!
Zhen Baochen couldn't even imagine what kind of status he and his cousin would have if they were sent to Feng's house. How different was this from being sent to the Jiaofang Department and turned into prostitutes?
Perhaps the difference is that you only need to serve one man when entering Feng's house, but you have to face different men every day in Jiaofangsi.
But for a once rich and noble girl like herself, she has been reduced to a situation where even being a concubine is a luxury. How can she not make people feel despair and sadness?
"Father, didn't Jia Hua become the prefect of Jinling on the recommendation of Wang Ziteng? Besides, he can also be related to the Jia family. Can't father find out some information from him?" Zhen Baochen also paid attention at this time. A lot more, "Didn't you say that he helped Li Min and Li Qi move into Feng's house to be Feng Keng's concubine? This shows that the relationship between Jia Hua and Feng Keng seems to be unusual."
Zhen Yingjia shook her head and smiled bitterly, "Jia Hua, before, he nodded and bowed to his father.
He was begging for mercy, but now he is arrogant. I went to see him twice, and he was neither cold nor hot. He always talked about how the court was doing and how the cabinet was doing, and he didn't even say a word to me..."
Zhen Baochen's expression changed slightly, "Father, is he really behaving like this?"
Zhen Yingjia glanced at her daughter, who had always been quite quick-witted, with some doubts. "Well, that's true. He keeps talking about him and refuses to answer directly. What's wrong?..."
Zhen Baochen took a deep breath, "If this Jia Hua is really close to Feng Keng as his father said, and is even willing to find a woman for him, then he must know Feng Keng's intentions and plans, but he did not say it clearly , I don’t deny it, it can only mean that this guy is deliberately delaying time..."
"Bao Chen, are you saying that he is paralyzing us and delaying time for the court?" Zhen Yingjia was horrified and couldn't help but said, "Isn't that true? I have a good relationship with him, what good will this do to him?"
"People are unpredictable. Maybe betraying our Zhen family can help him gain more recognition from Feng Keng?" Zhen Baochen clenched his fists, "Father, uncle, I'm afraid the situation is really bad, even worse than you imagined. Maybe We really have no choice, the court is going to attack our Zhen family."
