Regardless of the attitudes of the girls of the Jia family towards the marriage between Lin Ruhai and the Leping county magistrate, one thing is certain.Princess Rong'an and the mother and daughter of Leping County are definitely not in the noble and noble camp headed by the Jia family and the Zhen family.

Because of this marriage, the Zhen family's reputation has been ruined, and the Jia family has also lost the Lin family's in-laws. No wonder they would be happy!

Since you can't win over, then just face it.

Soon, someone appeared in public at the court meeting, impeaching Lin Ruhai for ignoring the cheapness of the valley, hurting the peasants, and wasting manpower, material and financial resources.

Isn't this a joke?In the feudal era, which dynasty disliked having too much food? !The emperor was still worried that he could not produce enough grain as treasury reserves.

The matter finally ended with the censor being dismissed from office.In Ningshou Palace, the Supreme Emperor, who got the news, was feeding the goldfish in the fish tank, and said slowly: "Now this court is getting more and more outrageous."

Left and right dare not answer.

The Supreme Emperor felt more and more disappointed.

Before he abdicated, there were several ministers waiting in the royal study at any time, all of them were talented, not only good at government affairs, but also good at speaking.Where is it like it is now, there are slaves on the left and right, so boring.

Thinking about it this way, the Supreme Emperor felt more and more boring.

He threw away the fish food in his hand, and said, "Where's Duanhui? How about her?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Princess Duanhui is normal. Her Majesty's Zhuangzi is still crowded with people, only one..."

"what?"

"At the beginning of spring this year, Princess Duanhui hired many caravans and brought back a lot of wool from the desert."

"Weaving?"

The Supreme Emperor immediately understood.

Clothing, food, housing, and transportation are closely related to people's livelihood, and will also bring huge wealth.And here, clothing, that is, the profit of the textile industry is even higher than that of food. The reason is that the food preservation technology in this era is limited, and the value preservation period of clothes is often more than ten years.

Therefore, when the emperor heard about wool, he thought of similar cotton and linen, and then thought of spinning.

"Yes."

The Supreme Emperor smiled and said: "Duanhui lives up to its name. Very good."

Zuo Zuo didn't dare to speculate on his thoughts anymore.

"How much profit can Duanhui make from wool?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the summer grain on the princess's farm has not been collected yet, so I don't know right now. However, the servant girl heard that the princess spent 22 taels of silver this year just to buy wool. If things go on like this, the servant girl is worried that the people are chasing profit, and no longer Instead of cultivating crops, every household raised sheep.”

The Supreme Emperor gave the eunuch a satisfied look.

Even the people around him knew it, he thought, someone in the court should have noticed it, right?When will it happen?

Although he has already disliked the Zhen family, the Supreme Emperor still wants the Zhen family to give full play to its remaining value before it completely collapses.

The Zhen family once again failed to live up to the expectations of the Supreme Emperor.

They did not criticize Miaoyu.

For the Zhen family, Miaoyu was deeply favored by the emperor and continuously brought new income to the treasury. Now the emperor's court can operate normally, thanks to her timely payment of taxes every year.If one day her taxes are late, even the cabinet will be in trouble, let alone the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Knowing that if the princess is to be favored, if she wants to bring down the princess, she must face the emperor first, no wonder the Zhen family would make such a fuss!In their view, unless the emperor was wary of Miaoyu first, they would not be able to benefit from it, but would bring new troubles to their Zhen family.

They would rather catch Lin Ruhai's braids, for example, attacking Lin Ruhai's deliberate pursuit of the popularity of sweet potatoes, which caused cheap rice to hurt farmers on sweet potatoes.

The Zhen family did exactly that.

When Miaoyu handed over one-third of the first batch of woolen threads to the state treasury as taxes for the textile workshops in the first half of this year, there was another quarrel in the court.

Someone criticized Lin Ruhai for quick success and quick profit, and forgot that the cheapness of the grain hurts the peasants, so they impeached Lin Ruhai in public at the Golden Luan Hall.At that time, Lin Ruhai had not yet entered Beijing, and there was a commotion in the Golden Luan Hall.

If it weren't for the fact that disrespect in front of the imperial court was a felony, even if the emperor didn't show up, it would be an excuse for political opponents to attack, and they would have rolled up their sleeves to fight.

However, no matter how noisy the court was, under the auspices of Lin Ruhai, the sweet potatoes from Jiangnan were continuously transported to Beijing one after another, and then Miaoyu hired people to dry the sweet potato flour to make sweet potato vermicelli.

There is no way, there are more and more refugees in Gyeonggi, if they don't find a livelihood for them, let alone Miaoyu, even the emperor can't sleep well at night.

Countless secret reports were sent to the emperor, and the emperor had a gloomy face for the whole month.

The queen first proposed to reduce the expenditure in the palace to share the emperor's worries, but Miaoyu handed in a perfect answer early.But other people made the emperor not so satisfied, especially the Jia family.I heard that the Jia family had been looking forward to Jia Yuanchun's visitation again since September, and the emperor was in a bad mood. Even if Miaoyu handed over hundreds of thousands of catties of wool thread as taxes, it only made him feel a little better.

The emperor was in a bad mood, because he knew that the Zhen family was waiting for him to develop Miaoyu, and he also knew that the current treasury was empty, and a considerable part of the salaries of civil and military officials had to be handed over by Miaoyu. Taxes to pay, resulting in the country's dependence on Miaoyu's Zhuangzi.

Just as the Zhen family expected, the emperor was indeed taboo, but the emperor also knew that Miaoyu's wealth was in his hands before the influence of the Supreme Emperor disappeared completely, and before the influence of the Zhen family and Jia's family of old nobles and nobles completely collapsed. A very important card here, he cannot self-destruct the city wall.

It's just that the circle of the capital is so big, and soon, the latest income of Miaoyu this year spread throughout the entire circle of power.

Wool, rabbit fur, purchased by the Ministry of War.

People talked about it a lot. Miaoyu's total income changed from 50 taels to more than 100 million taels, and then to millions of taels. Ten thousand taels!

Concubine Yizhong was terrified, and hurriedly submitted the application. She didn't want to, and she didn't know what went wrong!In the past, every time she submitted an application, the palace never refused to accept it, but the palace did not approve it twice in a row.

Concubine Yizhong passed out.

Princess Rong An heard that she asked to see the Supreme Emperor directly, and then spread the news to the palace, but unfortunately, instead of directly reaching the emperor's ears, she was brought in front of the Supreme Emperor.

Princess Rong An looked at her father whom she had feared since she was a child, and said, "Is it the father?"

The Supreme Emperor's mood immediately resembled that of a Lushan waterfall: "Why did you say Zhen?"

This daughter is really not pleasing.

"If it weren't for the father, who would not allow the emperor's wife to enter the palace?"

The Supreme Emperor's eyes narrowed immediately.

"You should pay more attention to Le Ping."

"Leping will become Lin's mother, and Huang's wife is also Lin's mother. Huang's sister-in-law fainted, and Lin was very worried. Leping felt the same way, and her daughter just passed away today."

The owner of Leping County is not yet 30 years old this year. In another era, she is still very young, and she has no problem marrying anyone. But in this era, people generally think that she married Lin Ruhai because of her high status!

Correspondingly, the attitude of Princess Rong'an's mansion is very low. Princess Rong'an is very caring and pampering to Lin Daiyu, and there is only one reason for her to do so. She hopes that after the marriage of County Princess Leping, Can live a good life - Lin Ruhai can treat her well, and the relationship with her stepdaughter Lin Daiyu can be good.

The Supreme Emperor stared at Princess Rong'an for a long time before saying: "You go back to reassure your sister-in-law. Duanhui, very good."

The Supreme Emperor gave an unprecedented explanation.

Princess Rong An was also taken aback, then kowtowed obediently, and left the palace.

This matter soon spread to the ears of the Zhen family and the Jia family, and the two families immediately held a family meeting, and the Zhen family even came to the Jia family to inquire about the news.

It's just that the Jia family didn't give any useful news.There is no way, who made Jia Yuanchun unfavorable at all, now anyone in the palace who is a little bit of a name dares to go to the Jia family to blackmail, how can such a Jia family, such Jia Yuanchun, give useful news to the Zhen family?

As for King Beijing, it was even more so.

King Beijing Jing knew very well in his heart that while he opened a poetry club and made friends with literati, he earned himself the title of a virtuous king, and at the same time left the palace with the impression of being a clique.That's why he was tricked.All the talents and beauties, and all the knowledge about Mu Shaoai are all fake.The second daughter of the Zhen family is going to discuss marriage with the Lin family, and of course such a thing has been reported to him, and this kind of thing is the easiest to spread rumors.In the end, he was definitely not clean, and he got a bad reputation for hooking up with his wife and sister.

By then, half of his reputation as a virtuous king will be ruined.

What else can King Jing do?In fact, he knew better than anyone else that even though he was a member of the small group of four princes and eight princes, it was because of the early surrender of military power by the Beijing Palace that the royal family took special care of him and gave him dignity.But he was too close to the Zhen family before, so close that he was tabooed by the royal family, that's why this happened.

The King of Beijing Jing himself had troubles and had nowhere to complain.

He didn't choose his concubine himself, but Princess Zhengui was very powerful back then, so she took a fancy to him, a king with a different surname who had no prince.He also admitted that he didn't try hard to refuse at the time.But as the son-in-law of the Zhen family, it is inevitable for him to get close to the Zhen family!

Do you want him to be picky about the wife that the media is marrying, and to be rude to his father-in-law?

King Beijing now has a feeling of sympathy with Jia She - Jia She was also arranged by the Supreme Emperor to become the accompanying student of the deposed prince.

Really a lesson from others.

However, King Beijing Jing is not a good person.He quickly alienated Jia Baoyu and the Jia family. At the same time, he chose to keep silent about many things to the Zhen family.When the Zhen family asked him for information, he either pretended not to know, or gave out a bunch of nonsense that seemed to be a lot of nonsense.

The Zhen family lost their money immediately, so they could only figure out their own way.

The matter of Concubine Yizhong and Miaoyu naturally fell into their eyes.

After several discussions, the Zhen family had a feeling that the moon was shining when the clouds opened!

Concubine Yizhong became ill because she couldn't see the princess!Is this not evidence? !

The Zhen family quickly launched the next operation.

In fact, the Zhen family felt very sorry, why didn't Concubine Yizhong raise a little emperor's grandson?If they are the grandsons of the emperor, they can open the house, and they can deduct the name of raising private soldiers from the mother and son.But now?The princess is in the palace, and the people who do things are the Chief of Rites and the guards of the Princess Mansion, and these guards are all military officers directly under Long Jinwei. They obviously obey the orders of the Princess Mansion, but in fact they directly Commanded by the palace.Even if they want to accuse the princess of raising private soldiers, they also have to consider whether the emperor is willing to accept such an argument.

Therefore, the Zhen family could only take a step back and vividly publicized how many people Miaoyu had raised in Beijing.

They know that if such words are passed around, the taste will definitely change in the end.

No, Miaoyu's Zhuangzi responded very quickly.Those Yangming students immediately let out their words, to the effect that there were a lot of cadavers in the imperial court, who just took their salaries and did not work, and even emptied the national treasury, making it impossible for civil and military officials to pay their salaries.The emperor had no choice, so he borrowed the name of Princess Duanhui's mansion to buy such a Zhuangzi, in order to resettle the refugees and prevent corrupt officials from intercepting relief funds for the victims.

In fact, this statement has been made a few years ago, but few people said it. Now that Yangming's disciples have started to publicize it on a large scale, someone nearby immediately echoed: "I heard someone say this the year before last."

Then there must be a third person who said when and where he heard it from someone.

Originally, the Zhen family wanted to separate the emperor and Miaoyu by flattering them, but they didn't expect that the hatred would soon be fixed on those who owed a large sum of money to the state treasury. .

That is to say, in this year, the autumn grain had already been collected into the treasury, and Lin Ruhai also went to Beijing. After entering the palace to report on his duties, he took the marriage leave and was preparing to get married. The emperor brought up the shortfall again in the Golden Luan Hall.

The court immediately exploded, and the crying and poverty were intertwined, just like the previous few times.

As a large debtor, the Jia family naturally got the news.Whether it is Jia Mu or Mrs. Wang, neither of them cares.Because this kind of thing has happened several times, and it's the same every time: first, the emperor raised a reminder to pay the deficit, and then everyone cried for poverty, and then the officials of the household department personally came to the door to urge the payment, and when it was about the same time, the four princes and eight princes The headed old minister went to the Taishang Emperor's house to cry, and the deficit matter was naturally left alone.

This kind of thing has happened many times. Mother Jia thinks that it's just a repeat of the past, and she doesn't take it to heart at all.

Mother Jia is like this, not to mention Mrs. Jia Zhengwang and his wife. On the contrary, Jia Jing, who is avoiding the Taoist temple, got the news, made an exception and returned to Ningguo Mansion on this non-festive day, asking Jia Zhen to clean up the family property and return the deficit. .

Where would Jia Zhen want to be? !In his opinion, Jia Jing has become a monk, and the title of Ningguo Mansion has been seized by him. All the things in Ningguo Mansion are his.

But a filial piety was pressing on his head, and he had no choice but to watch the officials from the Ministry of Households come to the door and take away [-]% of the things in the warehouse of their Ningguo Mansion.

When Jia's mother got the news, she slapped the kang table in front of her hard on the spot.

She was very angry, thinking that Jia Jing was deliberately against her, but Jia Jing was not Jia Zhen.Jia Mu herself knew very well that Jia Jing was the patriarch of the Jia clan, and she was used to not paying much attention to her, which was the reason why Jia Mu and Jia Jing were separated.

Jia's mother thought that Jia Jing didn't regard her as an elder, and she was not polite or educated.

But she never had anything to do with Jia Jing.

In fact, Jia Jing has nothing to do with Jia's mother.He is the patriarch of Jia's clan. In fact, he had the responsibility and the obligation to restrain Jia Mu's arbitrary behavior. However, Jia Jing is also very familiar with Jia Mu's methods. He knows what it means to restrain Jia Mu, and he is also very clear now. What will it take to restrain Jia's mother.Back then, Jia Jing hid, why should he get involved in these things now?

Therefore, after repaying the deficit, Jia Jing left Ningguo Mansion again, but this time he did not leave alone, he also took Xichun with him.

Jia Jing passed Xichun to Jia Amnesty without telling everyone. During the period of waiting for the household registration procedures, Jia Jing took Xichun with him and taught him many things. Some Xichun understood at the time, and some she did not understand. But I remembered them all.

Then before the Chinese New Year, Xichun was sent to Jia Amnesty.

Jia Jing not only explained a lot to his daughter, he also met two people.

Jia Jing knew that Jia Zhen had been rotten from the root, and his grandson Jia Rong had also been abolished, so he could only pin his hopes on others.

Jia Jing met Jia Qiang and Jia Yun, and also confessed a lot.He didn't give his body to these two children, because he knew that giving things would easily bring disaster to these two children.He privately gave the two children a roll of 3000 taels of silver bills.

After repaying the shortfall and explaining the funeral, Jia Jing counted the days, avoided Lin Ruhai's good life, and celebrated the New Year's Eve, and then waited for the news that the imperial concubine was seriously ill. Swallowed the long-prepared golden pill.

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