Reincarnation of Soul Cultivation 2

Lin Ruhai didn't encounter any difficulties while working in the government office.In other words, after he became the censor of salt inspection, he let the Zhen family know his bottom line in several secret confrontations with the Zhen family, and the Zhen family took a step back because they were concerned that he was the emperor's confidant.The subsequent errands were to draw a line according to the tacit understanding formed between Lin Ruhai and the Zhen family.The Zhen family can earn a little money, and the salt tax paid by Lin Ruhai also satisfies the emperor, so it's enough to keep doing it like this.

The Zhen family had no choice.

They tried every means to make money. Apart from enjoying their own wealth, they mainly used money to support the fifth prince's seizure of the heir apparent.But the Zhen family never had the idea of ​​rebellion, and of course, the Zhen family did not have the strength to rebel.

Since they don't want to rebel, they can't really touch the emperor's bottom line, so the Zhen family has to be cautious about Lin Ruhai, who represents the emperor.

The Zhen family is also very distressed at the moment, they have put everything on the fifth prince for the past few years.

On the one hand, it is naturally because of the blood relationship. The fifth prince is the grandson of Mrs. Zhen and the nephew of Zhen Yingjia. With this blood relationship, the wealth of the next generation of the Zhen family can be guaranteed.

On the other hand, it is because the Zhen family is getting deeper and deeper, and the huge deficit owed to the court has not been repaid, and they have done a lot of illegal things in order to make money.If the fifth prince cannot ascend to the throne, but is replaced by other princes who have no relationship with the Zhen family, then the Zhen family will be liquidated by the court sooner or later.

Therefore, the Zhen family had to go all the way to the dark.

The fifth prince instructed them to teach Lin Ruhai a lesson, the original intention was to let the Zhen family find a way to drive Lin Ruhai out of the position of inspector.

The fifth prince was still very young, even though he was put into the six departments by the emperor, but because he didn't have any reliable counselors around him, most of the officials around him were middle and low-level officials with no vision, so he was not very proficient in government affairs.Besides, because he is the son of a favorite concubine, he is a bit domineering by nature, he doesn't understand the suffering of the people, and he has never done disaster relief work in Beijing, so he takes many things for granted.

Xunyan Yushi is a third-rank official, of course he can't be ranked in the imperial court. There are so many old monks in the imperial court, so there is no place for third-rank officials to show off their power.

But in the local area, the third-rank official can already be called a party member.

For such a local official, the fifth prince would deal with it as he wanted, because the fifth prince had a successful precedent.

During the years when the Zhen family was raking in money, this is how the fifth prince and the Zhen family treated the officials of the salt administration, weaving and tea administration.

At that time, the emperor still had a lot of trust in the Zhen family, and he didn't know that the situation in Jiangnan had deteriorated to this point, and he hadn't sent his confidants to take up key official positions.

That's why the fifth prince and the Zhen family dealt with those officials so easily. They either bribed them with money and beauty, or let them die inexplicably if they couldn't be bribed.

The fifth prince wanted to deal with Lin Ruhai as usual, but the Zhen family was warned by the emperor to cooperate with Lin Ruhai.With the emperor's words so clear, how dare the Zhen family repeat their tricks on Lin Ruhai?

Therefore, the Zhen family only planned to kill Lin Ruhai's only son, Lin Jing, and acted according to the instructions of the fifth prince, but did not really confront the emperor.

Just at this moment, we encountered the epidemic.

Now the epidemic is over.The fifth prince sent another letter to urge them to deal with Lin Ruhai, so the Zhen family had to start planning again.

And all of this can't be hidden from Lin Jing.

During the period when Lin Jing was spreading the epidemic, she left the puppet particles with the Zhen family and their party members so that they could receive news in time and respond at any time.

The Zhen family is still in the old routine, planning to send someone to bribe the servants of the Lin family, and then play by ear.

Lin Jing was also quite troubled.

Except for the servants who are grateful for the kindness of the Lin family and the servants who have a sincere relationship with the master are more loyal and difficult to buy.Other ordinary people sold themselves into slavery because of poverty, or they were born into families.These people can't be said to be loyal, they just do things with monthly money.If these people were lured with a large sum of money, or their relatives and family members were threatened with their lives, it would be difficult to guarantee whether these people would do something in the Lin family under the coercion.

The Lin family can't always have servants have accidents, and then replace the servants, right?

Lin Jing was also annoyed, and decided to teach the Zhen family a lesson.Within two days, Lin Jing made Zhen Yingjia fall down the stairs of the restaurant after being drunk.This fall directly broke his neck, and Zhen Yingjia was out of breath.

Lin Jing's reason for doing this is very simple, that is, when Zhen Yingjia was drunk, he temporarily took over his body with puppet particles, causing him to fall down hard.

When a person is sane, if the body is directed by the puppet particles, he can still find abnormalities, and then Lin Jing has to use the puppet particles to erase a small part of his memory.

People with mediocre intelligence will not notice anything, but smart people may find their own abnormalities. After all, a blank memory is like a person who has been in a daze for a short period of time, doing nothing or thinking about anything.

Lin Jing didn't know if Zhen Yingjia was a shrewd person, so he didn't take any risks, but did something when he was out for a banquet.

What's more, it is more normal to fall to death after drunk.It would be suspicious if he fell to his death while he was sane.

Zhen Yingjia is the core figure of the Zhen family, if something happened to him, the Zhen family might be able to calm down a bit.

Because this incident happened right under the eyes of everyone, the magistrate, some low-level officials and salt merchants in the city also attended the banquet.

This was originally a banquet where the salt merchants invited local officials and the Zhen family according to the usual practice.

Originally, Lin Ruhai and his salt government officials should have been invited, but everyone knew that the Zhen family and the magistrate belonged to the same party, and they were somewhat at odds with Lin Ruhai, the inspector of salt.

Therefore, the salt merchants did not dare to invite everyone at the same time, fearing that people from both parties would make a quarrel, and they would offend both parties instead.

Therefore, the banquet for the officials of the Salt Administration was put on another day.

No one was suspicious, thinking that there was some kind of calculation in it, only that Zhen Yingjia was really drunk, so she couldn't walk steadily, and fell directly downstairs.

This incident shocked the magistrate and the salt merchants, and when they found out that Zhen Yingjia had died, they were all terrified.

Although they were not responsible for Zhen Yingjia's death, the Zhen family is not that reasonable. What if the Zhen family blamed Zhen Yingjia's death on them?

Some people who were originally drunk also woke up from fright at this time, and some officials who were playing with their skinny horses didn't care about playing with women anymore, and hurried out of the private room, worrying about Zhen Yingjia's body with everyone.

It stands to reason that this situation should be reported to the authorities.

But the local parents, the official magistrate, were at the scene, and they were still drinking with Zhen Yingjia just now, so does it still need to report to the official?

Among the people who came to the banquet, apart from Zhen Yingjia, the prefect had the highest status.

The prefect didn't want to take responsibility, so he had to.He had to send a servant to Zhen's family to inform Zhen's family of this matter.

Lin Jing's magical strokes brought endless troubles to these people.

After getting the news, Zhen Yingjia's eldest son, Uncle Zhen, and Zhen Yingjia's brother, the second master of the Zhen family, hurried over. They couldn't believe that Zhen Yingjia lost his life just because he went out for a banquet.

But they checked and checked, and it was an accident.

This restaurant was originally owned by the Zhen family, and the manager of the restaurant even married the eldest girl next to Mrs. Zhen Yingjia.This is in his own restaurant, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to have the ability to plot against Zhen Yingjia.

What's more, it happened in full view of the public. Apart from the people who originally attended the banquet, many diners in the lobby also witnessed it with their own eyes. It was indeed an accident.

The hosts of this banquet, the salt merchants, never had the courage to murder Zhen Yingjia, even if they wanted to, they would not be so blatant.

The magistrate and other officials attending the banquet were all officials who were friendly with the Zhen family, and they were regarded as members of the Zhen family.Murdering Zhen Yingjia will not do them any good.

After checking it layer by layer, this was an accident.The Zhen family also had to accept this result.

Those who went to the banquet together were still secretly worried and afraid, worried about what the Zhen family would do to them in anger.

But the Zhen family can't take care of them for the time being.

First of all, it is a big problem to tell Mrs. Zhen and Mrs. Zhen the news of Zhen Yingjia's death.

One of them lost their son in their old age, and the other lost their husband in middle age. They were probably the ones who grieved the most for Zhen Yingjia's death in the Zhen family.

Especially the old lady Zhen is old, she needs to take care of her body carefully, now that she encounters such a tragedy in the world, what if the old man can't stand it all of a sudden and then disappears?What about a stroke?

Therefore, facing the women and children at home is a huge trouble first.

Then there is the inheritance of the family. The second master of the Zhen family does not have too much ambition, and has always been assisting the head of the family at home.It is not a problem for Zhen Yingjia's eldest son, Uncle Zhen, to inherit the position of Patriarch, not to mention that he has the assistance of the second master of the Zhen family.

But Uncle Zhen is still very young, and he can still use his identity as a master to convince others when facing the servants in his family.When facing outside officials, when facing those treacherous salt merchants, tea merchants, and cloth merchants, Uncle Zhen is too young, and it is hard to say whether he can convince the public.

In the past, the power of the Zhen family was all involved in Zhen Yingjia.Although he only has a false position, but with his backs to Mrs. Zhen, Concubine Zhen and the two princes, he pulls the tiger's skin to pull the banner, and wins over a group of officials with real power and positions as party members in Jiangnan.

Zhen Yingjia is cunning and cunning, so she can naturally do this.

But can the young Uncle Zhen do it?

If Uncle Zhen can't do it, or even just can't do it well, the henchmen around the Zhen family and some young people may be dispersed, and it is not impossible to contact the fifth prince directly without the Zhen family.

In that case, the Zhen family would still be rich, but the power in their hands would be lost.

What's more, if the Zhen family is useless to the fifth prince, how much affection will the fifth prince have for the Zhen family?

The Fifth Prince is not Concubine Zhen.Concubine Zhen is the daughter of Mrs. Zhen. She was carefully raised by the Zhen family since she was a child, and her heart is naturally toward her mother's family.But the fifth prince is a prince who grew up in the palace, and the Zhen family is his natal family, so they are outsiders after all.If the Zhen family, a foreign family, would not only be of no help to the fifth prince, but would also be a hindrance. Even the Zhen family couldn't believe how good the fifth prince's impression of the Zhen family would be.

If the fifth prince fails, the Zhen family will be finished.But in this case, even if the Fifth Prince successfully ascended to the throne, how much grace can the Fifth Prince give to the Zhen family when facing a foreign family who did not do much for him to ascend the throne?

So, first of all, Mrs. Zhen's health must not go wrong.

Secondly, Uncle Zhen must be able to stand up, hold all the power of the Zhen family in his palm, and be able to continue to contribute money and efforts for the fifth prince.

These are the great challenges that the Zhen family has to face.

The Zhen family became busy, and Lin Jing could relax for a while.