The Heart of the Red Chamber

Wei Ruolan's death revealed to a certain extent the fact that it was time for the emperor to close the net on those aristocratic families with impure and unfaithful minds.

In addition to working in the household department, Wang Ren also worked as a miscellaneous errand in the cabinet. For Wang Ziteng's sake, the cabinet elders also took good care of Wang Ren. When Sima walked in the cabinet, Wang Ren was taken aback, and this person's promotion was too fast.

Jia Yucun was recommended by Lin Ruhai to Jia Zheng back then. After the Jia family operated a bit, Jia Yucun was able to go to Jinling Yingtian Mansion to serve as the magistrate. He became the censor of the left capital.

Jia Yucun is a person who is very good at making money, and he is well versed in the rules of officialdom. With the protection of Jia's family, and his own means and talents, he soon got mixed up like a fish in water.This person came to power by relying on the Jia family, but he did not give the Jia family face at all when he became the censor. He was regarded as a knife in the emperor's hand. Whoever the emperor wanted to deal with, he would go up and stab the knife first. Having been the censor of Zuodu for only a year or two, he has impeached more than two wealthy families, most of them are either in-laws of the Jia family or old friends of the Jia family, and he has offended many people.No matter whether he can defeat the other party or not, he has successfully established an image of not fearing power, and won the emperor's favor. As a result, he was promoted several times within a year, and just sat on the position of Da Sima, one of the three princes. superior.

Although the current Sangong is not as good as before, he is still quite powerful. Jia Yucun can be regarded as full of ambitions now. When he met Wang Ren by chance, he put on a posture of being friends with each other, but now he seems to be using Qiao as a big brother. The vice-instructor looked like a late-learner, and he didn't have that much respect for the old cabinet ministers, even Chen Jingyi, who was the chief assistant, didn't even think about it, no matter how much the emperor valued him, he could compare to his own relative Uncle?For no reason, people think that this person is crazy when he succeeds.

Of course, at first Wang Ren didn't know that he was Jia Yucun. After all, his name was Jia Hua. At first Wang Ren thought it strange that someone named the child a lie, but later he was called Mr. Yucun. I just remembered that this is Jia Yucun who took up a lot of ink in the Red Mansion.

The only vague impression Wang Ren had of Jia Yucun in the original book was the part about Xue Pan's trial. Therefore, Wang Ziteng felt a little contemptuous of Jia Yucun's committee. After this person learned of the favor, no matter what, the Jia family's kindness to Jia Yucun can be said to be as heavy as a mountain. If it weren't for the Jia family's relationship in Jinling, Jia Can Yucun be good and outstanding in the evaluation of the Ministry of Households year after year?Who knew that when they entered the capital, they would turn their faces and deny people. If they were recruited by Jia Yucun, even if they were involved in something, they would be disgusted. They would have to wonder if they were ordered by the Jia family. It doesn't matter much in the hall. They don't know what's going on, and they don't come to apologize to explain the situation, and draw a clear line with Jia Yucun. Therefore, many people are at odds with the Jia family now. I'm afraid that if something happens to the Jia family in the future, these People can only applaud behind their backs, and there is absolutely no reason to lend a helping hand.

Jia Yucun entered the cabinet, and made a fuss again. He immediately grabbed the Zhen family and refused to let him go. He also regarded himself as the censor, impeaching the Zhen family for corruption, perverting the law, indulging slaves and committing crimes, colluding with foreign officials, and monopolizing lawsuits. Disregarding human life... He was charged with all kinds of messy crimes, except that the Zhen family rebelled.

The Zhen family was also unlucky. Ever since Zhen Wei entered the cabinet, the Zhen family had moved to Beijing. This was not on their own territory, and they were still facing the emperor who was the king of a country.In particular, it is not a matter of a day or two for the emperor to clean up the Zhen family. He is still thinking about the disrespect of the Zhen family and the matter of colluding with Prince Yizhong and his son, as well as the large sum of money that disappeared inexplicably. But it's been a long time.

Without the Supreme Emperor, who would give the Zhen family any face? Trying to rescue him, but his arms are not enough to twist his thighs. Now that the emperor is in power and Gan Gang is arbitrary, whoever dares to stand up at this moment, I am afraid that even himself will be cleaned up, so he has to find another way. Beg for a lighter sentence, as long as people are alive, there will still be time for recovery in the future.However, soon, these people found that even this seemingly modest wish was difficult to realize.

The Zhen family's affairs were very troublesome, and there were many crimes. The Zhen family, a century-old wealthy family, had always been arrogant and used to it.The Dali Temple is going on trial here, and there is a group of people who come to complain about grievances. They are all tenants of the Zhen family. The leader of the family opened his mouth first, saying that it was a disaster year, and the rent was increased, and the family could not afford it. , please wait a few days for the steward in Zhuangzi, but he was beaten out by the steward with a large stick, severely injured his father on the spot, and died in the middle of the night when he returned. People rushed to their house and took away all the valuable things in the house. His old mother wanted to stop her, but she was kicked out directly, hit the corner of the table, hit her head and bled, and she didn't survive for a few days just went...

The other few are similar. Those stewards not only increase the rent, but also use big fights when collecting the rent. They usually come to the door to fight the autumn wind when they have nothing to do. committed suicide, and others had no choice but to commit themselves to becoming concubines...

Here, I saw those chief judges who said they were willing to make decisions for them. On the other hand, more people took the opportunity to sue. Some people who had a grudge against the Zhen family took the opportunity to attack the Zhen family and searched for evidence of the Zhen family. A large number of people did not know if it was true. The fake sufferers were all brought to Dali Temple, where they complained for their grievances, asking Master Qingtian to decide for them and bring the Zhen family who ruined their family to justice.

All kinds of absurd crimes made the presiding judges dumbfounded. Although many of these were done by domestic slaves, if they did not have the support of the master, those slaves would not be so courageous. Even the chief eunuch next to the emperor didn't think so much face.

"The Zhen family is over this time!" Chen Yejun sneered as he looked at the crowd of onlookers on the third floor and the third floor outside the gate of Dali Temple.

Wang Ren didn't expect that the Zhen family would be so unlucky before. Jia Yucun made a move, but half of the officials of the imperial court couldn't get along with the Zhen family. I heard that the Zhen family has offended so many people? Doesn’t it mean that their family relationship is pretty good?”

Chen Yejun said in a low voice: "Have you forgotten what happened before? At the beginning, the Zhen family turned their backs on the water in advance. In order to surrender to the emperor, they bit out most of the people who had something to do with that person. Whose family has no relatives or old friends? The Zhen family has committed public wrath! No, now the emperor is clearly going to clean up the Zhen family, if we don’t take this opportunity to clean up the Zhen family, can’t we wait until the Zhen family recovers and bite them again?”

Wang Ren was dumbfounded, as expected, this kind of thing is difficult to have both sides, if the Zhen family had surrendered, and had not played tricks with the emperor, and handed over all the greedy money to the emperor, the emperor might not be able to forgive, but what about the Zhen family, While surrendering, he also thought of other ideas. It seemed to be pleasing to both sides, but in fact it was not pleasing to both sides. Now that it has reached this point, it is just self-inflicted!

Wang Ren looked at the tea in the cup with some distaste, took a sip reluctantly, shook his head, and sighed: "Poor people must be pitiful! Speaking of which, I heard that the Zhen family seems to have hidden their property? Knowing the truth that money is something outside the body, this is really a man dying for money, and a bird dying for food!"

Seeing that Wang Ren didn't like the tea, Chen Yejun quickly asked the waiter in the tea shop to bring him some plain water, and promised him a lot of money for the tea. Then he said: "This is also human nature. They always think that the emperor will miss the old love." , it won’t kill the Zhen family. If you get out of the prison but have no money, how can you live on? By the way, speaking of it, have you seen Zhen Baoyu from the Zhen family? He looks like the Jia family That Jia Baoyu came out of the same mold, and his temperament was similar, if it wasn't for Zhen Baoyu who was two years older, others would have thought these two were twin brothers!"

Wang Ren became interested: "Really? It's not surprising that people are similar, but even their temperaments are similar, but that's really strange!"

Chen Yejun twitched his lips: "They both have the temperament of a standard dude, greedy for sex, loathing fame, and the most rare thing is that the two of them flirted with those maids and so on, and they said the same thing!"

Over here, gossip about what must be told between the two Baoyu, and over there, I heard the excitement in front of the gate of Dali Temple. I asked someone to find out that someone came to sue Zhen's family again, saying It was the third master of the Zhen family who forcibly took over the women and forced her to be a concubine during the period of national filial piety. The concubine was pregnant, and the Zhen family was afraid that people would find out. Knowing that it was almost five months old, they forced a bowl of medicine down, and the result was It was the father of the dead daughter who caused two deaths, and the person who came to sue at this moment was the father of the dead daughter, and the person who was betrothed by the daughter before, the cousin of her aunt's family, who was still crying there at the moment!

Wang Ren listened, and sighed in his heart, what is self-inflicted crime, you can't live, these crimes are listed one by one, and they are already included in the unpardonable crimes, not to mention that there are so many accumulated, this immortality makes people feel that God is not open !

The case of the Zhen family has been on trial for half a year, and the files are piled up to almost a whole room. Seeing that no one has come to complain, it is not ruled out that the sky is high and the road is far away. I am willing to waste time on this kind of thing. Except for the crime of treason and treason, the Zhen family has almost all the crimes that can be found in the law. No matter how many more, it will not affect the ending. The two chief officials discussed together, drafted a scripture, and prepared to close the case.

The emperor also knew some of the farce trial process these days, and now he felt relieved when he saw the notes, and he directly replied: Si Yilu will handle it!Well, the meaning is to make an allowance for Zhen's family's inability to use the Internet, so do whatever you want!

The case of the Zhen family has finally come to an end. All the respectable men of the Zhen family outside the Zhen family have been sentenced to death, except for the question of the method of death. Whether life or death depends entirely on luck, and those who are more miserable are those who were castrated and sent to the palace as rough envoys. In this era, it can be said that there is no room for turning around.

Among the female relatives, some were given to death, and some were exiled into the army, and most of them became official slaves. If there is no accident, the children and grandchildren will all be of low status.

The Zhen family, this time it can be said that it is completely over.Later, Wang Ren heard that the offshoots of the Zhen family were afraid of being implicated, so some of them decided to stand on their own, rebuilt the genealogy, and even changed their surnames, never mentioning the old affairs of the Zhen family. Splendor and glory are all forgotten in the dust.