The Founding of the Red Chamber

The imperial capital is in a hurry, and the one who is most anxious to get angry is Emperor Zhaode.

Emperor Zhaode didn't care about his mother's relatives at this time, and scolded Rong Si, "Isn't Rong Si worth one for a hundred! What did he do in Muzhou Mansion!"

The cabinet said nothing.

When Emperor Zhaode lost his temper, he still had to talk about protecting the city.

Bai Xiang advocated closing the nine gates and letting the imperial guards guard the city.Bai Xiang's approach was quite urgent, and he said, "Guan Shangshu is an expert in warfare, according to Guan Shangshu, what should we do?"

When Old Master Lin died in battle in Muzhou Mansion, it was Guan Tingyu who tried his best to turn the tide and keep the barbarians out of Muzhou Mansion. Because of his military exploits, Guan Tingyu was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War and was in the cabinet.Guan Tingyu said, "There are [-] soldiers from East and West camps outside the city, and the Jizhou army can also come to rescue you. As long as we defend the imperial capital, the barbarians will not besiege the city for too long, but right now we don't know how the battle in Muzhou Mansion will be? Also, what route did the barbarians take when they came here? Xu Shangfei in Jinzhong has ruled the army for many years. Drive straight in, approaching the imperial capital. Right now, please send the east and west battalions to come to guard."

Emperor Zhaode immediately ordered someone to fetch the tiger talisman. He was not a decisive emperor. On the contrary, at a critical moment, Emperor Zhaode was far more clear than ever. He asked Guan Tingyu, "Is there still enough food and grass?"

Guan Tingyu said, "Daying, the imperial capital, will have food and grass for half a year."

Emperor Zhaode breathed a sigh of relief, handed over the tiger talisman to Guan Tingyu, and said in a deep voice, "Whether it's the imperial guards or the two battalions of soldiers and horses, they are all deployed by the Qing family."

Guan Tingyu took the order seriously.

Because Guan Tingyu presided over the battle, Lin Jing was able to go to the city wall to take a look through Guan Xiaoer's relationship.

Lin Jing didn't want to see how difficult the people's livelihood was, or how the war was going. He just went to see how miserable Rong Si was.Yes, this General Rong was captured alive by the barbarians and brought him all the way outside the imperial capital, intending to ask the imperial court for a large sum of money to redeem him.

At this moment, Emperor Zhaode didn't have to worry about the whereabouts of Fourth Cousin Rong, who was waiting for the ransom outside the city.

Emperor Zhaode wished Rong Si would die, but unfortunately, the barbarians believed that Rong Si represented a large ransom, so how could Rong Si die.The noble concubine Ronghuang in the palace begged even harder, "I just ask Your Majesty to save fourth brother for the sake of blood relatives."

The key point is that the Royal Concubine Rong Huang didn't cry alone, she also dragged the second prince to cry together.

Emperor Zhaode couldn't see his son like this, so he ordered the second prince to be carried away first, and said, "Send it to the noble concubine, and let the noble concubine take care of it for now." Emperor Zhaode trusted him so much, seeing that Concubine Rong Huang and the second prince were making such a fuss, Emperor Zhaode naturally cared about his son first.Among the concubines in the palace, Emperor Zhaode's favorite is undoubtedly the concubine Zhen, but Emperor Zhaode believes that the most reliable is undoubtedly Concubine Kong Guifei, so the second prince will be handed over to Concubine Kong Guifei to take care of him immediately.

It's just that the Ronghuang noble concubine is willing to obey, Ronghuang noble concubine holds the child tightly and does not let go.The palace attendants saw that Emperor Zhaode was expressionless and didn't seem to be showing mercy, so they immediately rushed forward, coaxing and persuading the crying second prince to the imperial concubine's palace.

Emperor Zhaode said to Concubine Rong, "You are also tired, so go back to the palace to rest. Let Concubine Kong Guifei take over the affairs of the palace for the time being. The affairs of the court are up to me and the cabinet, so you don't have to worry about it."

Emperor Zhaode's face sank like water, and the imperial concubine Ronghuang dared not say a word.After the palace people persuaded Concubine Rong Huang to return to the palace, Emperor Zhaode slowly sat on the dragon couch, speechless for a long time.Seeing this, the confidant waiter thought about offering tea, and Emperor Zhaode suddenly said, "When the queen mother was here, I never worried about the harem."

The servant thought for a while, then said cautiously, "The empress dowager and the late emperor will protect your majesty."

What Emperor Zhaode could never say was not that when Empress Dowager Lin was around, he never worried about the harem.In fact, when Empress Dowager Lin was here, there were occasional disturbances in the affairs of the harem.However, Emperor Zhaode at that time had never felt such a sense of isolation and helplessness. At that time, Emperor Zhaode, no matter in the harem or court, he always felt that he was the emperor who stood upright in this world.He has been in charge for many years, and he doesn't think that he still needs the assistance of his aunt, but now, he is so lonely and hesitant.He would think, if that person is still there, how can he be in a land of few people!

Emperor Zhaode's mind, no one can understand.

After all, everyone's mind was on fighting the barbarians, who would have expected that His Majesty would miss the Queen Mother Lin who had passed away for a year?Everyone in the world knows that Emperor Zhaode has mediocre feelings for his aunt.

Guan Tingyu didn't think about taking money to redeem Rongsi at all. It's not that Guan Tingyu didn't take His Majesty's cousin seriously, but that the barbarians didn't bring Rong Si out to ask for money at the beginning. Barbarians are not stupid. It's two armies at war.After all, although the barbarian is called a barbarian, they are very clear in their minds. If they can attack the imperial capital, there will be no benefits. How can they be paid for by a few pennies.If you can't make it, you can exchange it with Rong Si.At this time, the court did not know that Rong Si had fallen into the hands of barbarians.At this time, the entire emperor was under martial law, and all the generals in the formation obeyed Guan Tingyu's command and condemnation. Even Lin Yi also participated in the battle to defend the imperial capital and went to the battlefield.Shu Jingyun followed, and Lin Jing took over the family affairs. Anyway, since the barbarians arrived under the imperial capital, the government schools have not started classes.

Lin Jing also recorded all the information he heard about how Guan Tingyu fought against the barbarians.The other thing is that the servants of Lin Jingling's family live in seclusion, and there is nothing to go out now, and the streets are under martial law.Moreover, Lin Jing was not optimistic about Rong Si for a long time, and spread the news that the Muzhou Mansion would surely die at the hands of Rong Si.Let's talk about Lin Jing, there are some being mean, but if you listen carefully, there is always a reason for it.He didn't just say it for no reason, he believed what he said, so Lin Jing had a lot of things for food and drink, especially food, which was quite abundant.

It's because of Lin Jing's friendship, Concubine Xie, Yue's Xia family, Lin Jing's friends, Lin Jing reminded them, but Lin Jing didn't know whether they listened to him or not.Anyway, the Lin family's food is extremely sufficient.Although there is food in the house, the Yue family still ordered the servants to be more frugal, her own rules were reduced first, and the servants only had to eat rice and white noodles.How many families in the imperial capital are now short of food due to the sudden war, such as the Lin family, there are quite a few families that feed their servants.

For example, the Yue family came to the Lin family to borrow food within a few days.

Mrs. Yue came here by herself, and asked her daughter if there was enough food.Yue said, "Listen to Fourth Uncle first, this thing won't break, so I'll prepare some."

Only then did Mrs. Yue talk about borrowing food in embarrassment, and Yue was dumbfounded, "Our family doesn't have enough food."

Mrs. Yue felt a little embarrassed, and said, "It's not all about your sister-in-law. I told her to buy more food. She goes in the left ear and out the right ear. We have a lot of families, and everything is cheap in the imperial capital. Buy it once a month. This damn barbarian, if he wants to die, it will be too short to attack the city at this time."

The Yue family can't just watch their mother's family starve to death and ask their mother how much food they have left. Mrs. Yue is also a person who wants to save face.No, it doesn't matter whether the fine grains eaten by the masters or the servants eat, the bottom will come.The Yue family thought for a while, and said, "Mother, brothers, nephews and nieces have more or less here. It's just the servants, I'm afraid they have to prepare some coarse grains to wrap their stomachs."

Mrs. Yue naturally knows the current situation in the city. During this battle, when the two battalions from the east and the west arrived, Guan Tingyu first collected grain, and the food from the grain shop in the city was collected in sevens and eighties. Borrow food.Now there is really money and nowhere to buy it, so I opened my mouth with my daughter.Mrs. Yue said, "It's a blessing to have coarse grains. I heard old people say that it is common for people to starve to death in times of famine. Now that they can still eat enough, it's because they are praying to Buddha." Asked for some rations, said, "Your second sister can't be the master in her husband's family. Her husband's family doesn't treat daughter-in-law as a human being. Their old lady said that women only eat two meals a day, and they don't have to eat at night."

The Yue clan was so angry that he scolded the Liu family for being mean, and hurriedly prepared a ration for the second younger sister, and asked her mother to deliver it to the younger sister.Yue's heart became ruthless, and he said, "Tell the second sister that I gave it to her, and tell her to take care of herself.

Mrs. Yue was also very angry when she mentioned the Liu family, another in-law's family, and said, "At first I thought the Liu family was a scholar's family, but I didn't expect it to be so pedantic. Your father was wrong." Thinking about it, the eldest daughter's marriage is a good one.

The Yue family asked people to prepare food, and left his mother for lunch.Mrs. Yue was a little embarrassed when she saw Lin Jing at lunch. Although she blamed the eldest daughter-in-law, in the end, her family didn't take Lin Jing's words to heart.Lin Jing didn't feel anything, because his elder brother was not at home, and Mrs. Yue came over. After all, he came to accompany his mother.The Yue clan also briefly told his uncle about the food for his natal family. Lin Jing said, "The imperial capital is in chaos right now, and people are eager to get a pancake. After a while, send a few guards to go back with my mother-in-law."

Mrs. Yue was both ashamed and grateful.

The Yue family also said, "If it wasn't for the reminder from my fourth uncle, I really didn't expect this." He asked his mother, "It's so dangerous outside, why did my mother come here alone?"

Mrs. Yue said, "I brought enough servants with me when I came here. It's not a big problem. It's just that it's not the same as before. Several grain shops have been thieves, even there are soldiers patrolling, and there are fights on the street from time to time over grain. It's the Liu family, Mr. Liu is the most elegant, the peacocks raised in the garden at first disappeared without a hair."

Both Lin Jing and the Yue family were speechless, and it looked like they were being eaten by the Liu family themselves.

Mrs. Yue has come to borrow food, we can see that in the current situation of the imperial capital, the mansion of Xie Guogong is the most embarrassing to all officials. Xie Guogong left [-] days of rations, and the rest of the food was donated to the court for military use.Xie Guogong was so virtuous and upright that he moved his ex-son-in-law Emperor Zhaode very much.Lin Jing is so noble, his family has food, but he didn't donate it, he gave it to his clan.It was Mrs. Yue who came to remind Lin Jing of food. He went to look at those clansmen whose families were in trouble. Some of them were really hard. There are many places.Why did Guan Tingyu requisition food? After requisitioning food, the first thing to do is to recruit soldiers. In addition to soldiers fighting in battle, the logistics are all done by the conscripted people.As long as they are called, they will be provided with three meals a day to keep them full.With Guan Tingyu holding the food, the recruitment went very smoothly.

There are those who do the hard work, and there must be those who help.The duties of these small stewards are humble, regardless of their rank, and they are a bit tiring, but they are still better than those of hard-working soldiers.Lin Jing made a count of these difficult family members, and told his elder brother and Mr. Shu when delivering meals to his elder brother that these clan members were not seeking official positions, but just acting as small stewards.After Lin Yi and Shu Jingyun discussed it, the children of officials and nobles in the city naturally look down on such small errands. However, these clansmen have ordinary livelihoods, and relying on ethnology, they also know some words, so the two discussed to give it to them. arranged.

At present, it is a matter of employing people, and small things must be done by someone. Rather than accepting relief from the clan, those with a little ambition would rather take a job. At least they can earn enough food and clothing for themselves, and it will also lighten the burden on the family. How unwilling.

Of course, Lin Jing also mentioned them once. This is probably the first time for these tribesmen to do things. Lin Jing said, "Neither need to be bullied, nor do you bully others. Now is the time for war, let alone in the army. What a ghost. Yesterday General Guan made an inspection tour and beheaded a dozen people. One of them was the fifth-rank grain officer. His head is still hanging outside the grain and grass camp. But don’t be bullied and keep silent. Since you are of the same clan, you should watch out and help each other. "

It has to be said that after this incident, the prestige of the Lin family brothers in the clan was suddenly revived.

Even the second grandpa, who has always been a little dependent on the old and sells the old, also went to the Duke's mansion to praise Lin Jing once, praising Lin Jing for his benevolence and righteousness.

Lin Jing is indeed very stable. Since the Queen Mother Lin passed away, Lin Jing's old childishness seemed to disappear overnight. He is reliable and clever. The clansmen also felt that it was the same to ask our fourth master to discuss something.

Lin Jing was in charge of the affairs of the family. He also delivered meals to his elder brother Lin Yi every evening, mainly to visit him. The Yue family could feel at ease knowing that her husband was safe.It was when Lin Jing was delivering meals every day that he learned about Rong Si. After fighting for half a month, the barbarians failed to set foot in the imperial capital.The imperial capital city is the center of the imperial court. Knowing that the imperial capital is in danger, the Jizhou government has sent troops to rescue it. No matter how strong the barbarians are, it is impossible for them to stay near the imperial capital for too long.

In this way, Rongsi brought out the spoils of war to bargain with the court and discuss peace talks.