After the Rebirth of the Red Chamber

Whether it is a prince or aristocrat or a commoner, there is one thing that is absolutely indispensable every Chinese New Year.

That is to go to the banquet.

As for honorable officials above the fourth rank, there is one more thing that cannot be shirked, nor dared to shirk.

That is the palace banquet.

Fortunately, today is a benevolent monarch. Since he ascended the throne, before closing his pen every year, he will make a special decree:

—— On New Year’s Eve, only the royal family and princes are entertained in the palace, so that honorable officials can watch the new year with their families.

As for the clan princes, do they want to stay in their own home with their wives and children to watch the new year?

Hehe, if you have the ability, speak out!

On the first day of the new year, Jia Jing woke up early in the morning.

He is a fourth-rank guard of the East Palace. There are not many guards like him in the palace, so he is naturally not included in the palace banquet.

Even the pilgrimage to the Hall of Supreme Harmony on the first day of the new year was nothing to him.

The reason why he got up so early was because he was worried about Jia Daihua, he was afraid that if he stayed up half the night last night and got up so early again today, something bad would happen if he was tired.

Needless to say, on this day, Jia Daihua wore court clothes to worship in the palace in the morning, and had to change into regular clothes to attend the palace banquet in the afternoon.

At the banquet, he had to flatter the saint, and at the same time, he had to praise his son to the saint without any trace.

After this day, it can be described as physically and mentally exhausted!

Fortunately, this is the last time this year, and at the first court meeting after the first tenth day of the new year, Jia Daihua will present the booklet, Gao Lao Zhishi, and pass the title to Jia Jing by the way.

In this way, Jia Jing can attend the Shangyuan Banquet on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The New Year's Eve ceremony between relatives and friends was arranged by Xu, and it had already been finished the year before last.

During the Chinese New Year period, their family only needs to take the greeting cards and pick the right people to have a banquet.

Of course, for Jia Jing, the most important banquet this year is naturally his in-law's Li family.

All in all, after Jia Jing finished attending the Shangyuan Palace Banquet as the third-class Marquis of Ning, the new year finally began.

This time, he was only demoted by two ranks, from the first rank to the third rank, which was beyond Jia Jing's expectation.

However, this is a good thing for him, and he doesn't think so much about it.

Of course, the Marquis is a super rank, after becoming a Marquis, Jia Jing is no longer suitable to be the guard of the East Palace.The sage sent him to the Ministry of War to fill in the vacancy of a fourth-rank doctor.

The Ministry of War has always been the base camp of nobles. Putting Jia Jing in the Ministry of War is like putting the fish in the water and the mouse in the rice bowl.

It can be seen that the sage still has a good impression of Jia Jing.

But I don't know if it's a coincidence or on purpose, less than half a month after Jia Jing joined the military department, the sage arranged the fourth prince to the military department as well, with a "walking" vacancies.

The fourth prince's biological mother was Concubine Cheng. Concubine Cheng, like Concubine Duan Gui, was an old man who entered the palace with the Empress Yuan, and was two years older than the saint.

Now that she is older, she no longer thinks about competing for favor, and eats fast and recites Buddha every day. Although she is a high-ranking concubine, her presence in the harem is extremely low.

This fourth prince could not study since he was a child, but he was a good bow horse. When he was seven or eight years old, he yelled at the saint that he wanted to be a general.

Of course, at that time, the child was still young, and the concubine Cheng still favored him, so the saint naturally laughed and praised him casually, thinking that his son had ambitions.

Over the years, the fourth prince's talent in reading still made the masters who went to the study stunned and stared at him, but when it came to bowing horses and shooting, he was always brilliant.

It's just that he likes shooting and hunting too much, so he takes a group of people to hunt in the woods on the outskirts of the city from time to time.

For this reason, the censors frequently accused him of "excessive hunting".

But he still did his own thing, and never thought of changing it.

And the saint's attitude towards things has always been vague, every time he reprimanded a few words without pain, but never stopped the censor from intervening with him.

It can be said that the fourth prince, he is a generous ancestor.

Putting such an ancestor in the Ministry of War is still a position of "walking", which can be light or heavy, large or small, and makes the Ministry of War feel like facing a big enemy for a while.

Of course, this also has an advantage for Jia Jing.

That is, the running-in period between him and his colleagues in the Ministry of War was greatly shortened.

Originally, he was a person who won the fourth rank when he first arrived, which is equivalent to being parachuted into the Ministry of War, which would definitely shake the interests of some people.It's the same even if Jia Daihua Zhishi was the minister of the Ministry of War before.

Once the emperor and the courtiers, this principle applies everywhere.

When Jia Daihua was in the Ministry of War, there must have been some henchmen staying behind.

But the new minister of the Ministry of War has already taken office, and he must cultivate his confidants.

And the old people of the Ministry of War, for their own future, will try their best to embrace the thigh of the new minister.

Even Jia Daihua's former confidantes, in order to avoid suspicion, would not get too close to Jia Jing, if they were willing to mention one or two things secretly, they would have a conscience.

Therefore, it has been half a month since Jia Jing took office as the commander of the Ministry of War, and every day he enters the Yamen, he is still sitting on the bench.

Even though he was not proud of his status, he came early and left late every day, and read the file quietly when he was left out, but many people were still waiting and watching.

Because, the new minister of the Ministry of War is none other than Qi Guogong Chen Qi.

However, the relationship between the Duke of Qi's Mansion and the Mansion of Ning Guo's has always been indifferent. Since the third prince's attempt to win Jia Jing failed, the two families have become even more hostile.

Originally, Jia Jing was ready for a long-term battle, but the fourth prince came.

As far as the Ministry of War is concerned, when the saints let a prince into the ministry, it is clear that they are trying to seize power. They naturally have to work together to let the fourth prince know how powerful he is and how to behave.

As for Qi Guogong Chen Qi, although Jia Jing did not vote for the third prince, he could not be forced to favor the fourth prince.

So, miraculously, as if overnight, the solid ice around Jia Jing melted quickly. Jia Jing, who had been sitting on the bench for half a month, got an errand.

——Overhaul the frame of the saint when he was on tour.

Seriously speaking, this errand is still a bit greasy.

Since it is the frame of the saint when he is on tour, it must not be commonly used.

No matter what it is, once it is left for a long time, it is inevitable that something will go wrong.

Something is wrong, so it needs to be fixed, right?If it is repaired, you can apply for a grant from the Ministry of Households, right?

After the money is settled, how to use it is very talkative.

Jia Jing is not going to be a saint, besides, under his command, there are Yuanwailang, chief officer, chief bookkeeper and clerk under his command.

He was planning to work hard in the Ministry of War, and the driver's department didn't have much oil and water. Finally, he had such an opportunity. If he didn't make people feel fishy at all, who would work hard for him in the future?

Therefore, Jia Jing just took control and fixed everything that should be repaired.

For other things, he turned a blind eye to it.

Of course, Shi Yan, the left servant who assigned this fat job to Jia Jing, naturally also had a part of filial piety.

This is the first time Jia Jing has dealt with conflicts of interest among his colleagues since his lifetime.

He suddenly felt quite bored.

Could it be that he will spend the next many years like this?

He began to miss those Taoist scriptures that he could not get home in the future, those things that he had already made up his mind not to touch in his life.

He had thought that he had re-adapted to everything as a son of a family.

However, it was only at this time that he realized that the temptation to burn alchemy and refine mercury had never dissipated.

Those who he used to think were just the rise and fall of the family that kept pressing him down, but it was just that he didn't meet these ropey dogs that bored him.

After leaving the Yamen and returning home, he locked himself in the study, thinking over and over again the scene of the collapse of Jia's mansion in his previous life.

His son, his grandson, all died on the road of exile. There was not even a broken mat to wrap the corpse, and the corpse was eaten up by wild dogs.

His bloodline in the Ningguo Mansion was completely cut off.

He thought: The reason why God asked him to do it all over again was because he thought he was not worthy to meet his ancestors, right?

But what was wrong with him?

It was the sage who assigned him the Ningguo Mansion to the crown prince, and his father, Jia Daihua, also complied with the holy will, and got him to the crown prince's east palace as a bachelor's servant.

If he is not loyal to the crown prince, the sage will be the first to spare him.

Like Ningguo Mansion, there are more than one.

After all, everyone is loyal to the emperor.Who would have thought that it was his loyal monarch who would make them miserable?

The sage carefully cultivated the prince and devoted himself to supporting the prince.

At the end of the day, the crown prince became powerful, but he suddenly realized the beauty of power, and he was unwilling to give these things to the crown prince.

Yes, the saint regretted it.

Therefore, they all became wrong.

"Hahahaha..." Jia Jing couldn't help laughing, and he didn't know whether he was laughing at the saint's backlash, or at his own inability to recover.

Zhang Gui, who was driven out of the door, heard the crazy smile inside, and his heart was anxious. He looked at Qing Bi who was also worried, and said in a low voice, "Let's go in and have a look?"

"The uncle said, don't let us disturb." Qingbi hesitated, "Why don't I go back to my wife?"

"Stupid!" Zhang Gui glared at her, "Don't forget, we are all uncle's people, and we must respect him in everything."

Qingbi felt extremely wronged: "Of course I am against the uncle, but if the uncle is like this, we can only worry about it. If something happens to the uncle, who can afford it?"

Zhang Gui also understood this truth.

But Zhang Gui understands better that the uncle has always resisted his wife's control of things around him.

Therefore, no matter what Qingbi said, he just didn't agree to go back to his wife.