Red Mansion Royal Cat

Chapter 513: Master Zheng’s Highlight [Good Luck in the Year of the Dragon]

Spring water flows across the creek bridge, and my soul seems to disappear as I lean on the railing.

The Red Sleeve Move is indeed extremely enchanting, but at this moment in Pinglan Pavilion, the five pairs of naked enchanting people are almost scared to death.

Jia Cong and Baoyu were full of doubts. They looked up and down at Huan Ge'er, who was dressed neatly, holding chicken legs in his hands and with a greasy mouth...

"So, you went to the brothel to eat chicken?"

uh~
Jia Cong really had the urge to hit someone at this moment. So he had just returned home and had not had time to change his clothes when Baoyu dragged him here, just to watch this guy eat chicken?

Also, he was short of food and drink at home, so he came to the brothel to eat!
Baoyu didn't know whether to be relieved or angry. His expression changed several times, but in the end he smiled bitterly.

Forget it, at least my brother isn’t possessed by a demon!

He stopped Jia Cong who was about to beat someone up and advised: "Forget it, Cong brother, as long as he is fine. Let's go home first. If our father finds out, it will cause chaos at home."

He was most familiar with this matter. With Master Zheng's temper, he would never listen to your explanation about whether you really ate chicken or some other "chicken". As long as they came to the brothel, they would take Baoyu and a big stick...well, they would get beaten anyway.

Baoyu couldn't help but feel a dull pain in his buttocks. He wanted to pull the two people away, but when he turned around, he saw a dark face.

"Ah! Father..."

"Ah! Second Uncle..."

"Ah, Dad, why did you come just now?"

Ok?
Jia Cong and Baoyu looked at Jia Huan in amazement at the same time, only to see that Huan's face was anxious with a hint of resentment.

"Dad, hurry up, they haven't left yet, your son is here to stop them for you!"

Master Zheng's face flushed. He first glared at Baoyu with a look of disappointment, then looked at Jia Cong with a strange expression. He opened his mouth, and after a moment he sighed and said, "Blame me, blame me. I didn't keep an eye on you. I let you run to such a filthy place. And Huan'er..."

Jia Cong felt that he did not quite understand what was being said. Then he saw Master Zheng pulling his youngest son to his side and slapping him on the head.

"You bastard, your second brother did such a shameful thing, and you didn't stop him in advance, and you even wanted to complain... Come back with me, I will beat you two to death today..."

"Ah, Dad. What are you talking about?"

After being slapped, Jia Huan was stunned for a moment. After a pause, he pointed at the five pairs of naked bodies covered with quilts in the balcony and said aggrievedly: "Dad, you are wrong. It's not my second brother, it's them. I am talking about them!"

……

In the tenth year of Yuanyou, Jia Zheng received a total of 77 petitions from the people, impeached as many as 108 unjust officials, and corrected a total of 52 unjust cases. He was revered as an honest official by the people.

On the first day of February in the eleventh year of Yuanyou, the emperor, mindful of his impartiality and high moral character, promoted him to the rank of Jiayi Grand Officer, Zizhi Yin, Direct Academician of Longtu Pavilion, and Left Vice-Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate.

At this point, the second master of Rongguo Mansion finally became a third-rank official, and was the third biggest "troll" in the dynasty, and all the civil and military officials in the court looked at him with awe.

According to unreliable information, Master Zheng is very likely to be the head of the Censorate in the future. The "prime" Chief Censor of forty is really young and can outlive all the censors of the same rank.

The Chief Censor arrived at the brothels and pavilions, and the place, which was filled with enchanting red sleeves just now, was now like the judgment hall of the King of Hell. At least half of the guests dared not breathe, and were timid and wanted to cover their faces.

The Daxia Code stipulates: "Any official who has sex with a prostitute shall be punished with 60 strokes of the cane, and the matchmaker shall be punished with one less punishment. If the official's descendants have sex with a prostitute, they shall also be punished in the same manner."

During the reign of Emperor Taizong, an imperial decree was issued to regulate the issue of students in official schools staying with prostitutes: those who committed crimes such as accepting bribes, committing adultery, stealing, taking prostitutes to drink, marrying wives and concubines during mourning, etc., would be sent to the imperial academies in the two capitals by the southern and northern Zhili provinces, and to the Confucian schools in the vicinity by the various provincial governments. If they served as civilians for a full day, their stipends would be recovered. If they committed minor crimes and were sent to be officials, their stipends would not be recovered.

As the country becomes more stable, prosperity arrives.

The drama of "talented scholars and beautiful ladies" became increasingly popular in the palaces of Qin and Chu. During the reign of Emperor Zhaowu, visiting prostitutes became something that some so-called talented scholars showed off, which made the retired emperor very dissatisfied. He issued a decree to the whole country that if a student visited a prostitute, he would be flogged at first. If he did it again, his official title would be taken away.

But it is said that an imperial edict is difficult to leave the Forbidden City, and the effect of this imperial edict from the old saint only remained on paper.

Unless someone specifically wanted to find something to hold against someone, no one would care about what happened in a brothel, including the censor who played the brothel every day.

But rules on paper are still rules, not to mention that the person sitting here is the iron-faced Jia Zheng, who is in the limelight.

This person had just impeached the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Metropolitan Censorate, Lü Yang, a few days ago. Just because Lü Yang's nephew accidentally knocked over a commoner's vegetable stall while riding a horse in the capital, Master Zheng impeached Lü Yang for not managing his family properly...

The first shot of the new year was to fire his immediate boss. Who wouldn’t be afraid of such a ruthless person?
"Second Brother Bao, Third Brother Huan is really bad!"

Jia Cong nudged Baoyu's elbow and muttered quietly, "He actually thought of asking Second Uncle to come to the brothel to block people. I have to say, this kid is getting more and more sinister."

Baoyu glanced at the row of people being dragged by the patrolling imperial guards, swallowed his saliva, nodded, and then shook his head quickly.

"There's nothing wrong with what Huan Ge did. It's not like Huan Ge asked these people to have sex with prostitutes..."

How to say this?

Baoyu didn't know how to comment on this. It was these guys' fault for provoking Jia Huan for no reason.

It turned out that the cause of this matter was a piece of gossip that had been circulating recently, that the second daughter of the Wang family in Ningyuan Marquis's Mansion was discussing marriage with Jia Huan, the illegitimate son of the second branch of the Rongguo Mansion.

In order to leave for the east of Beijing to conquer Japan with peace of mind after the summer harvest, Wang Ziteng focused all his attention on the marriage between his daughter and Jia Huan from the Rongguo Mansion.

Although his wife, Dong, was imprisoned in a Buddhist temple because of the incident at the Yingchuan Palace, Wang Ziteng's management of the rear house was not very reliable, so Dong contacted her parents' home.

The Dong family still has considerable influence in the capital. When they saw that their niece was going to marry the illegitimate son of the Jia family, they immediately became unhappy.

Soon, rumors spread in Beijing that Wang Ziteng was willing to sell his daughter in order to curry favor with the extremely popular Jia family...

She is the legitimate daughter of a marquis and a princess, but she has to marry a son born out of wedlock!
This kind of thing was indeed inconsistent with the current concept of marriage, and immediately a "evil wind" swept through the capital, mocking Wang Ziteng for selling his daughter.

Of course, for Lord Wang, he never cares what others say, he only looks at the results.

The Dong family's plan to use public opinion to force Wang Ziteng to cancel his engagement with the Jia family failed, but it also aroused Jia Huan's hatred.

This kid had no love or hate for his cheap cousin's wife. He simply spent more than ten days and hundreds of taels of silver to set up this scheme because he was angry about being called a toad.

Among the five young men who were frightened weak by Jia Cong's kick on the door today, one was the direct descendant of the Zhangzhou Dong family, the beloved grandson of the current head of the Dong family, and the "great talent" of the Imperial College, Dong Jinhui.

Dong Jinhui has been in Beijing for two years. In the past, he often visited the Ningyuanhou Wang family. After all, it was his aunt's home, so there were fewer taboos in the interactions.

There is no need to say much about Wang Xiluan's appearance. Considering Wang Xifeng's peerless beauty, Wang Xiluan can't be much worse.

Dong Jinhui had been thinking about his cousin for a long time, and had originally planned to ask his father to come to Beijing to propose marriage after he passed the next provincial examination.

But I didn't expect that a third son of the second house of Rongguo Mansion would appear in the middle of the process, and he was born out of wedlock...

Therefore, after receiving the request for help from his aunt, he immediately discussed with the elders in the capital and came up with the bad idea of ​​using public opinion to force Wang Ziteng to cancel the engagement.

During this period, he even took action personally many times, spreading the story that Jia Huan was a toad wanting to eat swan flesh in the Imperial College, restaurants, teahouses, and brothels.

The most interesting thing about this matter is Jia Huan’s bold move.

Not only did he not bear any grudge against Dong Jinhui for the slander and insults he had received, but he also made an effort to make friends with him and stood together with him in opposing Wang's act of selling his daughter. He also took out the pocket money he had saved for many years and invited Dong Jinhui and his friends to go out and have fun.

With the help of "money diplomacy", Jia Huan became friends with Dong Jinhui and others in just over ten days, and made an appointment with them to work together to find a way to cancel the marriage.

Today, all the money that Dong Jinhui and others spent on prostitutes was paid by Jia Huan, and Master Zheng was also called by Jia Huan. It seemed that the fame and fortune of Dong Jinhui and others were about to be ruined by Jia Huan.

Incidentally, seven imperial officials and twenty-one official students with honors who were blocked by the patrolling imperial guards in Hongxiuzhao were also tricked by Jia Huan.

Master Zheng has already figured out the whole story. All he can say is that his youngest son is really full of evil intentions. As a gentleman, Zheng would never think of such a trick.

But since my son has done so much, it would be hard to end this drama if I don't continue. As a father, I always have to clear up the trouble for my son. Sigh, I am so tired!
Master Zheng glared helplessly at his youngest son who was making mocking faces at Dong Jinhui, then turned away and snorted coldly.

"Come here, take all of them to the Censorate, and ask the Northern Zhili Education Commissioner, the Imperial College Priest... and the elders of these people to come to the Censorate to pick them up!"

……

With the spring breeze of February blowing on his face and the warm sun shining on him, Jia Cong felt that it would be best to lie down on a recliner in the peach blossom forest at this time.

But this scene was so wonderful that Jia Cong no longer felt tired. He happily followed Master Zheng to the Censorate with Baoyu.

Baoyu holds an official position, and Huan Lao San is one of the parties involved in the case of prostitution, so he can naturally go to the Censorate to watch the fun.

But Jia Cong...

The two soldiers at the door couldn't decide whether they should stop the "commoner" Jia Cong. Finally, they looked at each other and thought, forget it, just pretend they didn't see it!
Just like that, Jia Cong bowed to the two of them and followed the large group into the gate of the Censorate.

"Prepare for execution!"

Lord Jia Zheng, the Left Vice-Censor-in-Chief, led a group of people to crack down on pornography and seized the famous Hongxiuzhao in the capital. The entire Censorate was alarmed.

Thirty-three people were spanked at the same time, what a generous act!

Thirty-three benches were placed in front of the main hall of the Censorate. Lu Yang looked at the thirty-three prostitutes with different expressions, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

It is indeed illegal for officials and students to visit prostitutes.

But you, Jia Zheng, have made such a big deal out of it that you have disrupted the unspoken rules of the court.

Yes, Jia Zheng, you have indeed not been there in the past two years, but did you go less often before? For example, among the Ning, Rong and Jia families, which one of you went less often?
You beat up these thirty-three people today. Will we still be able to go to "listen to the music" tomorrow?

Lu Yang had a lot of complaints in his heart, but he couldn't say these words to others.

"Master General, what should we do? This matter cannot be made public, otherwise it will cause big trouble."

A certain censor asked the Chief Censor in a troubled manner, and Lu Yang held his forehead and said, "What can we do? They are being dealt with according to the law, and these people will not escape the sixty strokes of the cane. I just hope Jia Zheng can be smarter and not do things too extreme."

If you ruin someone's life, you will cause jealousy.

What's more, during the period of the imperial inspection and major plans, I'm afraid that this time the imperial inspection and major plans will have to pay attention to the movements in the brothel.

Oh, what a headache!
Lu Yang didn't want to be bothered by it. He glanced from a distance at Jia Zheng who was ready to execute the person. Finally, he gritted his teeth and went straight back to the duty room.

Forget it, let him do whatever he wants. Anyway, Lu Yang has a fierce tiger in his family and never goes to that kind of place.

If the matter gets out of hand, what does it have to do with him, Lu Yang?
Snap, snap, snap...

In the Censorate, there were sounds of clapping of boards and wailing, followed soon by crying and cursing, but none of these could affect Master Zheng.

He had already started a confrontation with several elders of prostitutes, including Dong Jinhui's uncle, Dong Guangzhong, the right minister of the Ministry of Public Security.

The sound of beatings and his nephew's crying outside made Dong Guangzhong very upset. At the same time, he was disgusted with Jia Zheng's stubbornness and pedantry.

Are there such people in the world?

You yourself don't go to the brothel, but you want to cut off other people's way to ecstasy!
"Censor Jia, do you really want to do this to the extreme?"

Seeing that Jia Zheng was unmoved and insisted on completing the sixty beatings and also depriving his nephew of his fame and cutting off his path to the imperial examinations in accordance with the two imperial edicts from Emperor Taizong and the Saint, Dong Guangzhong finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to threaten with a cold face.

"How many people in the officialdom have not been to that place? You, Jia Du Yushi, have been there many times. Why do you want to bring this matter to the fore? What good will it do you to block other people's paths? Is it just for fame? Does Jia Du Yushi really want to make an enemy of the officialdom in the world?"

This sounds like there is nothing wrong with it, but Jia Cong sneered in his heart.

What is the world's official circle?
Few serious people in the officialdom would linger in places of brothels.

They are studying hard, preparing to be called before the palace one day and become the emperor's disciples.

On the contrary, those who are not very good at studying but can occasionally write a few eccentric poems will go to places of entertainment to show off their talents and take money to listen to the flattery of singing girls and dancers.

Bang!
Master Zheng smashed the teacup in his hand to the ground and waved his sleeves.

"What a great scholar community! If the people in the scholar community don't think about how to study hard and become talented, and work for the country and the people, but only want to go to the place of fireworks, then this kind of scholar community should not exist!"

Master Zheng was really angry this time. He had read the books of saints for decades, and regarded the words of saints as the golden rule. He was determined to be a gentleman, but gradually he found that the saints' children in his dreams were not good enough...

Alas, such scholars and gentry are simply bringing shame to our ancestors!
I saw Master Zheng suddenly shouted: "If the officialdom is so unbearable, I will sweep away all the evil spirits and rebuild the officialdom for the sages!"

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　Others celebrate the New Year while I write ~
　　Lao Miaomiao would like to wish all readers a happy new year, good luck in the Year of the Dragon, happiness to the whole family, and all the best!
　　I’ll stop here tonight and continue tomorrow. Good night!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)