Survive in the world of Red Mansions

Ever since it was decided to conduct a joint trial of the Zhen family, the Taishanghuang no longer saw the current emperor, but today's daily morning and evening appointments have never been interrupted.The Supreme Emperor also knew that he couldn't do anything about his son now, but what could he do? Now that he was so sick that he couldn't get up, he could only see his son.

There are quite a few people who know about the conflict between the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor, but even so, the Emperor does not want to give people the opportunity to talk about it. In terms of daily filial piety, it is absolutely best to ask doctors for medicine.For my father, who is coming to the end of his life, no matter how much he has wrong, no matter how many schemes he has for his son, no matter how bad he is, the position he is sitting now is also the father's heir. For him, he should thank him for this, so he didn't want his father to be too resentful towards him.

In modern times, it is just a single corruption case, because it takes a long time for the evidence to speak, and it takes a long time to investigate and collect evidence alone. It is normal for such a case to be tried for a year or two without a final result, but here, Kings are above the law.Although it is said in ancient and modern times that the prince broke the law and committed the same crime as the people, but how many people can really do this.Because everyone knew that the emperor was going to take the opportunity to clean up the Zhen family, so the whole three-division trial was carried out very quickly. The entire Zhen family was thrown into prison, the house was ransacked, and finally convicted. The whole process was completed in less than a month.

When the Zhen family was searched, in addition to the Secretary of General Administration, the Forbidden Army, and the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, when Lin Hai got the list of the properties of the Zhen family after the ransack, even if Lin Hai was mentally prepared, he was still copied from the Zhen family. Surprised by the huge wealth.Lin Hai thought to himself, if the emperor saw this property list, probably the resentment towards the emperor's insistence on cleaning up the Zhen family would dissipate a lot.

Lin Hai was still wrong. After seeing the list of the Zhen family’s confiscated property, the emperor’s resentment did not dissipate a lot, but the resentment towards Er Yu’s cleaning up of the Zhen family was completely dissipated. No matter the old lady Zhen's kindness to him when he was a child, or Zhen Guiren's love for him, none of them can resist the anger of seeing this property list.

Nearly 200 million taels of silver and 15 taels of gold were copied from the treasury of Zhen's family, and there were countless fertile farm shops, houses and villas, precious medicinal materials, brocade cloth, furs, various pearls, gemstones, and jade ornaments. All the officials and soldiers who ransacked their homes in the past made a small fortune.Lin Hai roughly estimated all the properties copied from Zhen's family, which definitely exceeded tens of millions of taels of silver, and there were many things that even rich people might not be able to buy.

This astronomical amount of property was copied from the Zhen family, but at the same time the Zhen family still owed the state treasury millions of taels of silver. Looking at these, the Supreme Emperor felt that his painstaking efforts had been eaten up by dogs. Protecting them, is this how the whole Zhen family repays themselves? !Unforgivable, so abominable!

But in the end, the emperor still looked at the old lady Zhen's face, and did not exterminate the Zhen family, but beheaded all the men who were in charge of the Zhen family, and kept the other men for three thousand miles, and all the women were demoted to slaves There was no objection to the emperor's decision. Anyway, the Zhen family was completely defeated, and it made little difference whether they died or not.

Not to mention how much the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor hate the Zhen family, but it is an indisputable fact that the Zhen family was raided once and the treasury was enriched. It also happened to relieve the increasing military expenditures of the household department due to the war in the southwest. .

In the past, the properties obtained by raiding houses like the Zhen family were sold at low prices. Most of the people who had the opportunity to buy these properties, such as farms and shops, were princes, nobles, and aristocratic families. Only a small part can be purchased by ordinary people.

In modern times, Lin Hai took advantage of his family's influence to do business, but it cannot be denied that he was a successful businessman, so Lin Hai did not dispose of the huge amount of property copied from Zhen's family this time. .Instead, after obtaining the consent of the emperor, Lin Hai sorted the property copied from the Zhen family into categories, and slowly released it in several batches for people to buy.

In the past, properties like this were sold for only three or four floors of the original price, or even [-] to [-] percent, so those official families rushed to buy them.The prices this time are [-]% to [-]% of the original price, and some particularly good prices can reach [-]% of the original price. Although there are few people from aristocratic families to buy, many merchants are really interested.Lin Hai didn't care who came to buy it, as long as he paid the money.

There are still a lot of follow-up matters about the Zhen family, but they have generally been dealt with.This time the Zhen family fell, the one who benefited the most should be the emperor, who copied the Zhen family and enriched the national treasury and the emperor's private treasury, but one of them was also a beneficiary of the Zhen family's downfall.In the case of the Zhen family, Jia Yucun pursued the Zhen family so hard that the emperor greatly appreciated him, and after the case of the Zhen family was over, he was promoted to a second-rank official.

When Jia Yucun first arrived at the Metropolitan Procuratorate last year, he was just an ordinary censor. In just a few months, he was promoted to the second rank of Youdu Censor.In the eyes of many people, Jia Yucun is a smart and ambitious person, but at the same time he is a villain, because he has benefited from the Zhen family case, and now he is like a mad dog, wanting to bite anyone who catches him a mouthful.Now the emperor wants to use him, which makes many officials who despise him, even if they don't punish him, they can only keep a respectful distance from him. They really dare not offend him, for fear that he will pounce on you and bite you at any time.

When the Zhen family was ransacked, the Jia family kept silent, but at the same time they couldn't believe it. They couldn't imagine that the Zhen family, a century-old wealthy family, would be ransacked like this when Zhen Yingjia had just been promoted to the cabinet.During that time, the men in the Jia family who only knew how to eat, drink, and play on weekdays also put aside their desire to have fun, for fear that the Zhen family's affairs would implicate their own family, but after the Zhen family's case was over, the Jia family was not affected. Under any influence, the members of the Jia family began to live a life of drunkenness and dreaming. Lin Hai couldn't help sighing after seeing it.

Back from hunting in Iron Net Mountain, Lin Hai was in the household department. First, he was busy with the army to fight for food and grass in the southwest. After that, Zhen’s family was raided and many other implicated families were raided. Lin Hai led a group of people from the household department every day. Check and count these properties, and register and sell these copied properties.Every day he was busy until very late before returning home. Lin Hai couldn't help but lament that being the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs was really hard to do. When he was the boss for his own company, he never racked his brains and worked so hard like now.

After all these affairs finally came to an end, I was able to leave the Yamen early today. Lin Hai thought that his son would be on vacation at the Imperial College tomorrow, and he was too busy to pick him up during this time. Today, he happened to pick him up when he had time.

As soon as Lin Rui came out of the courtyard of the Imperial College, he saw Lin An who was waiting in front of the car that came to pick him up. He quickly walked a few steps to the car, jumped on the car with one hand, and shouted at the same time: "Father, you Here you are, aren't you busy today? Don't you go to the Yamen in a sedan chair these days, why haven't you seen your sedan chair?"

"There are so many problems. There is a car waiting here, so I let the bearers go back first. I am too busy these days, son, are you okay in the Imperial College?"

"It's good, I'm used to it now."

The two father and son haven't had a good conversation together for some days. Today, they sat in the car together and slowly chatted about some things that happened recently.

Lin Daiyu knew that Lin Rui came back from the Imperial College today, and now that her father came back at the usual time, she hurriedly ordered the kitchen to prepare meals, and her father and younger brother could wash up and eat later.

After the meal was finished and the dishes were removed, the little maid brought new tea. Lin Daiyu looked at Lin Rui several times and hesitated to speak.Seeing Daiyu like this, Lin Hai asked, "Daiyu, is there something wrong with you? Otherwise, why do you keep looking at your brother?"

"I want to talk to Dad about Cousin Yingchun, brother, why don't you go back and rest?"

When Lin Rui heard that it was something related to Yingchun, he immediately became interested, "I'm not tired, why did I have to rest so early? Besides, it's about cousin Yingchun, what can't I listen to?"

Lin Daiyu turned her head to look at Lin Hai. Lin Hai looked at Lin Rui's face full of interest, and obviously didn't want to leave, so she said, "There is nothing you can't hear about your cousin welcoming the Spring Festival. If you want to hear it, you can listen to it."

Lin Daiyu glared at Lin Rui before saying, "Cousin Yao's sister-in-law came over today to inquire about cousin Yingchun."

"Why, intending to conspire with your cousin Yingchun? This is a good thing!" Lin Hai immediately reacted when he heard Daiyu's words.

"Yes, he is the eldest son of the Qian family, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry. The former wife has been dead for more than two years, and he has not found a suitable step-wife." Lin Hai was a little strange, "I know Qian, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, but he If the eldest son of the family marries a wife, even the stepwife can have another choice, how could he think of looking for a girl from the Rongguo Mansion?" As the eldest son, there should be a better choice.

"I have heard some things about my grandfather's family outside, so I made it clear to my cousin that the second sister is good at everything, but she is too weak-tempered to manage the family. My cousin said that the Qian family is Hearing some rumors from Rongguo Mansion, I heard that the second girl is gentle and soft-tempered, so I came to inquire about it because of this. Because the girls of the Jia family seldom go out, I don’t know if this is the case, and I want to meet them first, but there is no suitable person to introduce them. , Later, I thought about the relationship between the Yao family and the Lin family, so I specially asked Biao Yao to ask me if my second sister's temperament is like this.

The eldest son and grandson of Qian Shilang's family are all 12 years old this year, and they are already engaged. She is the niece of the former wife's natal family, so the stepwife you want to find should be soft-tempered. Wife is the director of the family. Now the Qian family is Mrs. Qian's housekeeper. In the future, they want to hand it over to the granddaughter-in-law directly. They are afraid that they will not get along well with the granddaughter-in-law if they find a bad one, so it is not easy to choose a stepwife. "

Lin Hai and his son looked at each other. This candidate is really good. Yingchun's character is such that even if she is given the chance to host Zhongwei, it will be difficult for her to do well. "Sister, this candidate is not bad."

"Is it not bad? I just think the age difference is too much. The man is in his early thirties, and he has wronged the second sister too much. But then I thought, the second sister is 17 years old this year, and no one in the grandfather's family thought of it." Showing the second sister, is it possible that she has been raised in the mansion to become an old girl? Now, if she becomes an old lady, the eldest son and step-wife of the minister of the Ministry of Industry should be good, so I will say it according to the actual situation. I don’t know if the Qian family is satisfied. Satisfied? Dad, can you inquire about the situation of Qian's family's son and grandson, and if it happens, let the second sister be mentally prepared."

"Okay, Daiyu, don't worry about it. Baoyu is the only one in your grandmother's heart. She doesn't care about the other children and grandchildren. The success of this matter depends on the two of them. I will help to find out. If the conditions are good, I will try my best in the middle."

Lin Rui waited for Lin Daiyu to leave, then smiled at Lin Hai, "Father, do you think Yingchun should just find such a family and take the title of wife, and the housekeeper and director don't need her to touch her, and she has a weak temper, so I won't Unrest in the house? Sigh, I don’t know what to say about the Rongguo Mansion, girls from other families, not to mention that Yingchun is so big, even Xichun should be engaged.”

"The Qian family seems to have this intention, but the most important thing is to see if they live well after marriage. No matter how much you sympathize with these girls, there is nothing you can do. Their own parents and elders are not in a hurry, and we outsiders can How about it, there can only be someone like today, and I can help you out of it."

"Father, after finishing the Zhen family's business, you should be able to relax a bit, right?"

"It's possible to be free, but it's impossible to be free. How can the position of Shangshu be so easy to sit? If you think about the life of the Minister of Finance of the country, you will know how I am now! The dinner is almost digested, go to activities Let's get active."

"All right!"

The author has something to say: I will correct the typo tomorrow, everyone should go to bed early!