Queen of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

In the inner study, Lin Ping, who was ordered by Lin Ruhai to chat with his brother-in-law when he was in danger, was actually a bit speechless now. The two chatted a lot about poetry and songs, and Lin Ping also picked up some things. After my sister was fine, I was able to talk to my brother-in-law.

But in the final analysis, this is not serious content, and because of the interests of face, the two have to express their emotions as if they are eating puffer fish, and then they are actually eating dried salted fish. I have to say that if Lin Ruhai does not appear again, dried salted fish will be gone. To eat finished, and then the scene will be cold.

As soon as Lin Ruhai entered the study, he said, "Come on, let's go see your sister."

Immediately, a smile appeared on Lin Ping's face, showing twice as many teeth as the usual conventional smile, and he ran away after talking to Kant.

Lin Ruhai saw his son's neat movements, smiled slightly, and sat next to Kant.

Kant came to see Lin Ruhai today, one is to return the door, and the other is to test it out. It would be the best if we can reach a strategic and consistent goal.

The emperor's son, if he said that he didn't want that position, he would be deceiving himself and others, but the situation is different now. Kant felt that he seemed to be far away from the great position.

In history, there are many people who snatch the throne from brothers, uncles, grandpas and grandchildren, let alone a queen, so it depends on man.What's more, the father-in-law opposite him has already been the prime minister of the three dynasties, and he is also the confidant of the first two. According to his age, if he can live longer, it is not impossible for him to survive another term.

Kant also reads history books. There are two opportunities to grab someone else's throne. One is when the emperor has just come to power and has not yet gained a firm foothold. The other is waiting to catch someone else's pigtails. , there is no need to worry about it so much.

Kant has carefully calculated his family fortune, and he has strength!But it is not rich, so foreign aid or think tanks are necessary.

The two sat down facing each other. Kant first remembered the late emperor, and then praised Lin Ruhai's knowledge, the way of being an official, etc., and then said: "It is indeed a great fortune to be able to marry a girl from the Lin family."

This tall hat Lin Ruhai was very happy, he smiled and said: "Your Highness is a dragon and phoenix among people, so you don't have to be too modest." After a few words of probing, Lin Ruhai said again: "Your Highness is married and is His Majesty's younger brother. One day, the prince will go to the court to listen to the government, and the prince must make plans early."

When the main show came, Kant was startled, and said: "I still need to ask Mr. Lin. Among the six ministries...the three ministries of the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the Ministry of War are of great importance. When Xiao Wang first entered the court, His Majesty might not let me go to these three ministries." a place."

Lin Ruhai nodded. This is a euphemistic way of saying it. Everyone knows that when the late emperor was still alive, he showed that he read a lot of Kant books well, and praised him many times in front of courtiers. If His Majesty can still send him to these three The benefits of building relationships and real power, it can only be that His Majesty was possessed by the late emperor.

How can a son be eccentric, let alone a brother who once won the favor of his father.

Lin Ruhai said: "There are also the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Industry."

Kant felt that Lin Ruhai wanted to test him, so he continued, "The Ministry of Punishment can't control life, but it can control death. If you can really go to the Ministry of Punishment, you must be able to make a name for yourself. The Ministry of Industry is in charge of civil engineering construction, river embankment and dam construction. Wait, there are many trivial matters, but it is also a good place to benefit the country and the people. As for the Ministry of Rites, although it has the responsibility to take charge of the imperial examinations, but..." Kant glanced at Lin Ruhai opposite, and did not continue.

Lin Ruhai smiled and said: "But in fact there is an examiner in front." When the late emperor opened Enke the year before last, it was Lin Ruhai who was the examiner and presided over the examination. It can be said that all the examiners became his disciples, although Later, there will be a palace examination to put a layer of emperor's disciples on these Jinshi, but now that the late emperor has gone, those gangs are either editors and concubine scholars with qualifications in the Imperial Academy, or have been released as officials Lin Ruhai was responsible for the new Scholars. In the previous Enke, a total of 120 three candidates were admitted after the palace examination.

Why do you say that every official wants to be an examiner when he grows up, even the assistant examiner is overwhelmed, because once these students pass the exam, they will form an alliance, and the examiner will assume the title of a teacher in name , Respect the teacher, that's not a joke.

Kant felt that his narrow-mindedness had not deceived Lin Ruhai, so he said in a much softer voice: "Those who are incompetent and not good at work in the royal family have all gone to the Ministry of Rites."

"Where does the lord want to go?" Lin Ruhai asked seriously.

Seeing that the person on the opposite side became serious, Kant also said solemnly: "The Ministry of Punishment, or the Ministry of Industry."

Lin Ruhai smiled ambiguously, and said, "My lord, don't forget that there is still an errand." After speaking, he stood up and said, "It's time, it's time to eat."

Kant still wanted to ask, but Lin Ruhai didn't want to. He had to wait until Lin Kai brought him back, and then he went to ask Dr. Zhang carefully. Earlier, he ignored a detail. The emperor's pulse was sent along with a letter from home, maybe they really have any evidence in their hands?

Wanyu felt comfortable eating this meal.

But no, there are so many rules in the palace, even the patterns on the bowls that the prince and concubine should eat, let alone how many dishes are served every day. Of course, the dishes in the palace are also very good, and there is a small kitchen. It's hard to agree with everyone, and it's specially made to cook separately for the masters who have an idea. It's just that the small kitchen doesn't take public accounts, and secondly, Wanyu is really embarrassed to order every day.

Before getting married, Lin Ruhai confessed to Xianren for two years. He is the emperor's younger brother anyway, and he is still an adult. Does the emperor keep a grown-up younger brother in his palace for the new year?The emperor's designation is much more anxious than the young couple, maybe after the new year, you will be released from the palace to open the house, and then you can do whatever you want, no one cares.

Moreover, Wanyu just refused Kant's request to have sex in the name of keeping filial piety for the late emperor, and ordered food in the small kitchen after telling others. Order two less eye-catching things to satisfy your hunger.

Wanyu felt comfortable eating, but Kant was a little absent-minded, he was still thinking about the errand that Lin Ruhai said.It's just that his main job now is to drink with his father-in-law, so he can only calm down temporarily and have a good meal with the young and old of the Lin family.

After a meal, it's almost time.

Wanyu said: "Let's wait a little longer?" Her tone was flattering, "I figured it out just now, it only takes less than a quarter of an hour to get from the palace to the house, if I wait, the driver will go faster, as long as I can catch up in the future If you go back before the hour, you won't break the rule of returning to the palace at noon."

"Okay, let's go after drinking this cup of tea." Kant was still hesitating, but Lin Ruhai said, "Do you want to gain the reputation of riding a horse in a busy city?"

Although Lin Ruhai sent his daughter away with a stern face, he felt quite uncomfortable. He stood outside the gate and watched the carriage go away. He sighed and turned back to the inner study. Now he has more important things to do.

Sitting opposite Kant, Wanyu felt that he was absent-minded, and asked, "What did my father tell you just now?" When they got into the carriage, Lin Ruhai whispered something in Kant's ear, which seemed to be only a few words It looked like this, but Kant was visibly shocked, and he didn't recover for a long time.

"Repair the imperial mausoleum." Kant was immersed in his own thoughts, and said it without thinking.Of course, Lin Ruhai's original words were not to build the imperial tomb, but his original words were "don't build the imperial tomb".

The first emperor died within two years of his reign, and the imperial mausoleum was naturally still a pit, so the first emperor's catalpa palace probably had to stay in the funeral palace for several years until the imperial mausoleum was repaired before it could be buried.Of course, there is now an imperial tomb that has been repaired, which is the place where the Supreme Emperor is. If the Supreme Emperor is still awake, maybe he can lend his tomb to his beloved son to use first, and then wait for two years or something.

Anyway, it's best if you don't use it for a lifetime.

But now the Supreme Emperor obviously doesn't recognize anyone, and even the Empress Dowager is gone, so no one dares to be the master, so one imperial tomb is still empty, and the other is rushing to work.

Building the imperial mausoleum is a major event. Basically, the first project the emperor built was not a river embankment, a dam, or an imperial palace, but an imperial mausoleum.In this project, apart from the Ministry of Punishment, which has few opportunities to participate, the remaining five departments, together with the Qin Tianjian and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will be watched from beginning to end.

For such a large project, apart from the fact that the owner of the mausoleum sometimes has to supervise the work, it is also common to send the prince and grandson there for a year or so from time to time, so why doesn't Lin Ruhai let him go?

Kant wished he could get in the carriage and drive back, shaking Lin Ruhai to make him speak clearly.But don't say that he can't go back now, even if he goes back, Lin Ruhai can't say one, two, three, after all, he himself is waiting for news.

And not to build the imperial mausoleum is a suggestion to Kant. This suggestion has a premise that the first emperor was killed by Kang He.If the first emperor was killed by Kang He, then the first thing he did when he came to power was to consolidate the regime, for example, kill a few uncles or brothers who were very competitive, and he would be the emperor and courtiers after he came down.If this is the case, even Lin Ruhai himself will not be very safe.

Wanyu now doesn't know anything about the murder of the late emperor, but because she lived in an era of information explosion in her previous life, as soon as these three words came out, she felt that it was not good news.She thought for a while and asked, "Father asked you to ask for an errand to repair the imperial tomb?" Even though she said so, the obvious suspicion in her tone showed that she thought it would be a hard job to repair the imperial tomb.

Kang Deming realized that although Lin Ruhai couldn't be asked now, the person sitting opposite was his own daughter, and what he said, he also didn't think it was a good job to build the imperial tomb. "Master Lin told me not to repair the imperial tomb. It's just... I'm not sure that I will take turns to oversee the work with my brothers in the future."

Wanyu nodded, since his father didn't let him build the imperial tomb, "I also read a lot of books in my father's study earlier, and some of them went to build the imperial tomb and became the guardian of the tomb directly after repairing it. I just lost my head because of unfavorable supervisors or smuggling wood..."

Kant's complexion turned pale, and Wanyu subconsciously choked back a sentence "You are the emperor's younger brother". To be honest, this sincere sentence is not a comforting sentence. All pit.

It's not that Kant has never seen this in the book, but... After all, it is the tomb of the late emperor, and it is related to the royal Fengshui. Your Majesty is the son of the late emperor, or the son of the first emperor, and he is born closer to the late emperor than them. Not so...

Kant was tangled all the way where the news about Lin Ruhai came from, and Lin Ruhai was also tangled in the study, and Lin Kai hadn't come back yet.

Lin Kai went out at the end of Chen Shi in the morning, and now it is the first quarter of Shen Shi, and three hours have passed.He obviously came back in less than an hour when he sent someone out last night, so something went wrong!

Lin Ruhai was fidgeting, and had the urge to send someone out again.And if something happened to Dr. Zhang, wouldn't it mean that he was really involved in the court secrets?

It wasn't until the second quarter of Xu time, when it was already dark, that Lin Kai returned to the Lin Mansion.As soon as he came in, he said: "Master, I'm late. I heard from the waiter at the inn that the old man didn't sleep last night, and he was tossing all night. The shopkeeper was afraid that he would suffer from hysteria and affect his business, so he reported to the official. Now he has been arrested. The foot soldiers who commanded the yamen took them away."

Infantry commanding the yamen?It's not considered exceeding their authority, they are also in charge of the security of the capital, they are just the shopkeeper's reporter, why not someone from Shuntian Mansion?What's more, an old man who is over seventy years old, why bother to use infantry to lead the people in the yamen.

Lin Ruhai let Lin Kai go down first, and told him not to go out for two days in the mansion.

The foot soldiers commanded the yamen, and many of them were the former second prince, and now the Qing prince's subordinates.Lin Ruhai felt a little regretful, she should have told her about it when her daughter came in today.