[Red House] Release a concubine and have children

Afterwards, Jia Shishi hesitated, ready to tell the secret that the four princes and eight princes hid each other and used each other as excuses.

But at this time, the maids in the Queen's Palace suddenly came in and spread the word, saying that the wives of the former Zhen Guogong, Xiu Guogong and others also sent posts to the palace through the four county kings. But it was for himself, for the ancestors, and for the whole family to plead guilty to the emperor.

Everyone said the matter was so serious in the post, the queen naturally looked embarrassed after reading the post: "Old Madam, why don't you come back tomorrow? After all, you are just a junior for the sake of Wang's daughter." Entering the palace, although I feel sorry for you, but these few..."

"Empress, the servants entering the palace today are actually for the same thing as them!" Jia Shishi was stimulated by these posts, and knew that if these people entered the palace and confessed their crimes, the Jia family would no longer be the first. Those who pleaded guilty, when the time comes when the queen pursues the case, the Jia family will not be able to please.

So Jia Shishi didn't even have the last trace of hesitation, and before the queen let her speak, he directly revealed the secret that the four princes and eight princes tried their best to hide.

It turns out that the relationship between the four princes and the eight princes is so close. Even after the Jia family and other families were completely defeated, the reason why the remaining people who had to preserve themselves never chose to give up, or the secret turned out to be that the first generation of four When Wang Bagong followed his ancestors to conquer the world, he once discovered...

A gold mine.

No one knows how big that gold mine is.Because after the first generation of Siwangbagong discovered this situation, they haven’t mined much.

Although the people who discovered the gold mine were the first generation of four kings and eight princes, for the first generation of four kings and eight princes, because they followed the country, whether it was during the war or the rewards they received after ascending to the throne They are all inexhaustible wealth, and they have no shortage of gold and silver at all.

And they were too eye-catching in the court at that time. After the throne was firmly established, in order to consolidate their rule, they actually provoked some ministers to fight with each other. Many ministers who had a good relationship during the war, after the establishment of the new dynasty , but because of various reasons such as power, they turned against each other, and finally even started to attack and frame each other.

Under such circumstances, the relationship between the four kings and eight princes is still so good, which is already eye-catching enough. If someone finds out that some of them are acting strangely, I am afraid that the gold mine will be discovered immediately. Then……

The importance of gold to every dynasty is self-evident. If it is known that four kings and eight people share a gold mine, but they do not report it to the court, but decide to treat it as their own private property, I am afraid that all insiders will be liquidated However, the title that was originally won by his life may be handed over to others before it is warmed up, and it may also implicate the entire family.

But if they were asked to hand over the gold mine to the imperial court, they were unwilling.

The few of them discovered this gold mine together, and they also spent great efforts to find out the address. If they want to hand over such a large amount of wealth to the court, none of the four kings and eight princes are willing.

Fortunately, the four kings and eight princes of the first generation were not short of money, and their demand for the wealth in the gold mine was not strong, so after discussing it, they simply handed over their military power, and then decided to treat this gold mine as a secret and treat it as a secret. A capital to revive future generations

Whether it is directly mining the gold in the gold mine, or using the gold mine as a bargaining chip in exchange for fame and fortune, it is a good decision.

Jia Shishi can only be thankful, because she is not at the end of the mountain, so even if she knew the existence of the gold mine, she never thought of risking offending the four county kings and attracting people's attention to the gold mine. Dig it out, and then live again the prosperous life before the house was ransacked.

After the queen heard it, she was stunned.

She and the emperor had indeed guessed that there might be a big secret hidden behind the four princes and eight princes who made the four kings and eight princes of different surnames stay close to each other even when the eight families had already fallen. No matter how rich her imagination is, she can only guess that the original four kings and eight princes once had the idea of ​​conspiracy and took action for it...

A gold mine?This is really amazing!

When the queen heard Jia Shishi say the word "gold mine", she jumped up and stood up from her seat. After hearing Jia Shishi's words, the gold mine hadn't even had time to be mined by them...

The empress could not wait any longer, and asked someone to invite the emperor to Fengyi Palace directly.

Who in Daxia didn't know that Emperor Yonghe's hair was almost graying because of the emptiness of the treasury. For this reason, he dealt harshly with corrupt officials, and if he didn't pay attention, he might directly ransack his home?A gold mine, not to mention a treasury, even ten treasuries, it can directly fill it up!

The exchange rate between gold and silver is amazing.

When Emperor Yonghe heard that the secret hidden by the four kings and eight princes turned out to be a gold mine, how could he control the memorial in hand?Immediately got up, and led the people directly towards Fengyi Palace. Before entering the door, he couldn't wait to ask: "Zitong, is it true what you sent someone to say just now? The four kings and eight men really know about a gold mine." address?"

Before the queen could speak, Emperor Yonghe saw Jia Shishi kneeling on the ground.

The queen laughed, and hurriedly got up to salute, but was interrupted by her direct wave: "The queen doesn't need to be too polite."

After speaking, he passed the queen and sat directly on the low couch, then restrained his expression, and looked at Jia Shishi seriously on the ground: "Old Madam Jia, is what you told the queen true? You know that if you lie, That is the crime of deceiving the emperor, but you will be punished by the nine clans. You should also know that I hate you country thieves and ghosts who receive court salaries but do nothing real. If you dare to deceive me, I will absolutely I won't worry about the emperor's mood to spare you."

Jia Shishi's heart trembled, and he quickly kowtowed: "Your Majesty, what the women said is absolutely true, I dare not lie a single word."

Only then did Emperor Yonghe show a somewhat happy expression.

He raised his hand and quickly let the queen who was standing beside him sit next to him, and then he had leisure time to interrogate Jia Shishi slowly: "Do you know the exact location of the gold mine? Did Jia Daishan tell you?"

Jia Shishi nodded again and again: "The two sons in the family, the eldest son is not a good-for-nothing, he really can't bear the heavy responsibility. Although the second son is talented and educated, he is a bit pedantic, so when the Duke was dying, he only told the woman about it. "

After she finished speaking, she opened her mouth and reluctantly revealed the address of the gold mine.

Emperor Yonghe raised his eyebrows, but he didn't complain about Jia Zheng's "talent", but turned to look at the queen, "I heard that there are still many people who want to see the queen? The queen asked Jia Shishi to be taken down first, and then See you together."

The queen nodded, and signaled to the nuns beside her to take Jia Shishi down, and then asked people to invite the head wife of the former Duke of Zhen's mansion to Fengyi Palace.

Emperor Yonghe was wondering why the four county kings with different surnames hadn't sent anyone in yet, so he heard the personal eunuch next to him come in, saying that it was the guards outside the palace gate who came to report, saying that the four county kings with different surnames were kneeling in the palace at the moment. The thorn outside the door pleaded guilty, and invited the emperor to go and have a look.

As soon as the words fell, Jia Shishi raised his head with a worried face, and his heart was full of worries.

Plead guilty?The emperor will not place all the blame on others because of the actions of the four county kings, will he?

Emperor Yonghe was taken aback for a moment, then sneered: "Apologize? We county kings are really good at acting."

However, as the only four county kings in the Great Xia Dynasty, the four county kings in the southeast, the north, and the west are quite special. Then the words of the narrow-minded emperor will be spread.

Although Emperor Yonghe didn't mind people knowing that he was a narrow-minded person, such deeds are likely to be recorded in the history books. In order not to leave a reputation for being harsh on ministers in the history books, he should go and have a look.

Thinking in this way, Emperor Yonghe got up unhappy: "The queen must remember to ask clearly about the location of the gold mine, and there must be no mistakes."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the Queen to nod, she directly led the people out of Fengyi Palace.

The empress has always put Emperor Yonghe at ease in her affairs, and her subordinates often contacted people around Emperor Yonghe, and under their influence, they also learned a lot of language skills and means of interrogation.After the person was brought into the Fengyi Palace, the queen directly asked people to separate them and interrogate them individually, and then compared all the testimonies obtained with each other, and finally got the location of the gold mine without any surprise.

And Emperor Yonghe didn't give in too much.

Probably because he knew that Jia Shishi and others had already told Emperor Yonghe the secret of the gold mine, so the county king did not hesitate at all after waiting for Emperor Yonghe, in front of all the guards, eunuchs and other ministers who heard the news , Said the location of the gold mine.

Then, they kowtowed directly to Emperor Yonghe and pleaded guilty, without giving Emperor Yonghe a chance to interrogate at all.

Emperor Yonghe looked up and looked around for a week, and saw that the faces of the other ministers were shocked at first, and then hesitant, as if they wanted to intercede for a few people

It is normal to say that, after all, in the eyes of these ministers, although the four county kings concealed the existence of the gold mine, it was their ancestors who chose to conceal it at first, and each of their ancestors also obeyed their ancestors' will and chose In order to conceal the location of the gold mine.As descendants, could they still go against the choice of their ancestors?

What's more...

The ministers present are not without selfishness. After all, they are all ministers of the royal family, and they are naturally closer to the four county kings. As long as everyone thinks why the four kings and eight princes chose to hide the gold mine, they will subconsciously excuse them in their hearts.

Although these ministers do not have such wealth as gold mines, they cannot guarantee now or in the future that they will not have unexpected wealth.Who is willing to hand over all the unexpected money to the court when they really get it?

What's more, didn't the four county kings say before that although they discovered gold mines, after so many years, the four kings and eight princes only mined gold mines once or twice?

Emperor Yonghe looked at the county kings kneeling on the ground with thorns on their backs, and then at the ministers who seemed to be hesitant to intercede for the four county kings.

After all, in the face of such a ruthless and cruel emperor like Emperor Yonghe, the ministers would naturally worry about the consequences of offending him. To the four county kings today.

Emperor Yonghe had a smile on his face, and after looking around for a week, he forced all the ministers to hang their heads.

After a long time, he opened his mouth and said: "Come on, take the four county kings down first, let people go to the address mentioned by the county kings to see if there is a gold mine, and then come to discuss how to punish these daredevils." The criminal who concealed the existence of the gold mine."

When Emperor Yonghe said the word "criminal minister", he deliberately emphasized his tone, which made everyone present feel terrified and did not dare to say another word.

When Wei Yan and Gu Xueshi heard that the four county kings had imitated Lian Po and entered the palace to plead guilty, they immediately left the office and went outside the palace gate.When the two rushed to the gate of the palace, Emperor Yonghe hadn't come yet, so they almost saw all the reactions of Emperor Yonghe.

When the four county kings were taken away, other ministers resigned one after another, while Wei Yan and Gu Xueshi stayed.

Emperor Yonghe was quite tolerant towards his confidants, seeing the two staying curiously, he didn't say he wanted to drive them away, but raised his hand and brought them into the palace to discuss the matter together.

When the monarch and his ministers came to the imperial study, the confessions of Jia Shishi and others had already been sorted out and sent to the emperor's table.

Emperor Yonghe had expected the content above, and he grabbed it and threw it to the two of them: "Everything you want to know is on it."

After receiving the testimonies, the two of them glanced at Emperor Yonghe and saw that he didn't care, so you and I went through all the testimonies one by one.

Wei Yan spoke first: "I didn't expect that the four princes and eight princes really have a common secret, instead of each other holding each other's handle. Moreover, I never thought that this secret would be a gold mine."

This is really shocking.

Emperor Yonghe nodded, and immediately his eyes were full of sarcasm: "Don't say you don't know, I don't know, and the father probably doesn't know."

He smiled, and a bit of malice suddenly appeared in his mind, "I don't know what kind of expression my father will have when he knows that the four kings and eight princes he has always relied on have concealed such a big secret from him."

Thinking about it before, if not for the reputation of being tolerant, for the reputation of the monarch and his ministers, for... for various ridiculous reasons, how could Daxia become riddled with holes?

Every time he thought of entering the treasury after he ascended the throne, and seeing the empty scene that seemed to be able to run horses inside, Emperor Yonghe only had complaints and blame for his revered father in his heart.He is a very responsible person, but his father is not like that.

Wei Yan and Gu Xueshi looked at each other, and finally Wei Yan who was closer to Emperor Yonghe said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this is not good. The Supreme Emperor was sick in bed, and was fainted by... Tell the Supreme Emperor about this, it may not be good for the Supreme Emperor's body."

In fact, what he wants to say is that if you do this, I am afraid that you will directly piss off the Supreme Emperor.

After all, the Supreme Emperor had been fainted once by his most beloved youngest son. At that time, the imperial doctor said that the Supreme Emperor must be allowed to rest, and he should not be allowed to have too violent mood swings, otherwise the body of the Supreme Emperor, I am afraid...

Fortunately, Emperor Yonghe was only talking angry words. Although he didn't have much father-son affection for the Supreme Emperor, he didn't want to bear the reputation of being an angry father.

Wei Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked: "Your Majesty, since you already know the location of the gold mine, do you need me to lead troops to protect the gold mine immediately and prevent others from approaching? After all, Dongping, Xining, etc. The four county kings announced the location of the gold mine in public, and I am worried that if the gold mine is not protected quickly, it is inevitable that some daring people will go to the gold mine to steal it."

Emperor Yonghe nodded: "It is true that people should protect the gold mine as soon as possible." After a pause, he sneered and said, "If you find someone who dares to attack the gold mine, kill him on the spot, no matter what the identity of the other party is There is no need to report to the court."

Wei Yan took the order and quickly retreated.

After the people left, Emperor Yonghe looked at Bachelor Gu: "I will never release the four county kings including Dongping and Xining within half a month. I've made the arrangement, and I'm afraid there are many omissions. You should take the opportunity to send people in to investigate. It's best to find evidence that can bring down all four of them in one fell swoop. I don't want to let this kind of courage force me to treat them lightly The criminals are dangling under the nose."

Gu Xueshi's expression paused, and his expression became more serious: "This humble minister takes orders, and I will definitely live up to my emperor's entrustment."

Emperor Yonghe raised his hand: "Go down!"

During this period of time, Fu Li was busy with matters related to Wang's hotpot restaurant.

First of all, of course she wanted to appease Shopkeeper Qi.Fu Li first told him the truth about shopkeeper Qi's family's successive accidents, and told him about the murderers who killed his family and the real murderer behind the scenes.

Wang Xifeng has been arrested and taken into Dali Temple. No matter how much shopkeeper Qi hates her, she can't do much. She can only try to attack the shops under her name, not only Wang's hotpot restaurant, but also Wang Xifeng's other dowry shops. All of them were tossed enough by the shopkeeper Qi to contact the previous contacts. The business in the store, which was still booming, plummeted, and even the Wang family hotpot restaurant, which only relied on "loyal customers" to make money, closed its doors because of the shopkeeper Qi's relationship.

It was also at this time that Fu Li really realized that in the capital city where a single plaque could hit a third-rank official, as the shopkeeper Qi, no matter how honest and deceitful, it is impossible for him to be completely helpless. contacts.

Leaving aside other shops, they are the most common shops after all, and it is too easy to target them.

But Wang’s Hot Pot Restaurant will close in such a short period of time, it’s because the shopkeeper Qi bought a small official with money, and then it broke out that the ingredients in Wang’s Hot Pot Restaurant were not clean and not fresh at all, and then the people in the yamen With someone, he directly took away the shopkeeper and chef of Wang's Hot Pot Restaurant.

Both the shopkeeper and the chef were taken away, so naturally the store would not be able to continue.

But this is actually not the most serious thing. After all, the customers of the Wang Family Hot Pot Restaurant are seriously counting. Every time they come to the restaurant to eat, they are gathering people to smoke and drug. Now that the Wang Family Hot Pot Restaurant is closed, these customers have no food. Fortunately, because the amount of food eaten into their stomachs has never been large, even if these guests feel uncomfortable, they can barely hold back.

But on the second and third day, these customers couldn't take it anymore, they all came out of the house one by one, and then went to the Wang's hotpot restaurant to knock on the door, urging the shop to open quickly, and quickly serve the hotpot to them come up

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But without the shopkeeper and the chef, even if the Wang family hot pot restaurant wants to open, there is no other way, right?

On the contrary, because the expressions and actions of these customers urging the store to open were too scary, their eyes were red, their bodies twisted and they yelled, which really scared the passers-by who passed by Wang's Hot Pot Restaurant.

Then the story was spread widely, and a lot of ordinary people gathered around the shop to watch the excitement.

Soon, the family members of these guests whom Fu Li sent for also rushed over.Seeing the various behaviors of their family members in front of the store, these people hurried forward to stop them, but they were pushed to the ground by the red-eyed family members.

These people couldn't control it immediately, and burst into tears on the spot. At the same time, they still didn't forget to follow Fu Li's instructions and cry out all the things these people did at home in front of passers-by.

It was also at this time that everyone discovered to their horror that these customers of Wang's Hot Pot Restaurant came to eat almost every day, and some of them were even from very poor families. Savings that can even save lives at critical times, even at the expense of selling iron, come to the store to eat hot pot every day, rain or shine.

Almost all the customers will change their temperaments when they meet Wang's hot pot restaurant, and they will be even more emotional when it's meal time, not like themselves at all.Some of them even went to theft for a bite to eat, some of the strong ones even committed robbery, some of them had a bad temper, and the selfish people would even treat them when their family members blocked them. It's a big fight.

If there are only one or two cases of this kind of thing, everyone can still regard it as a joke and a good story, and take it as evidence that the hot pot of Wangjia Hot Pot Restaurant is really delicious, and respect it even more.

But suddenly there are so many similar situations, and each customer's behavior is so exaggerated, even the most stupid person can realize that there is something wrong with Wang's hot pot restaurant, and at the same time, he has fearful thoughts about it.

Many people even speculated whether this Wang's hot pot restaurant was bewitched.

At this moment, the people Fu Li arranged to hide in the crowd suddenly shouted: "The chef of the hot pot restaurant is now locked up in Jingzhao Mansion Yin. If you want to eat hot pot, you may have to go to Jingzhao Mansion Yin." People have to bring it back."

Just such an ordinary sentence made those customers who were almost stuck outside the gate of Wang's hot pot restaurant go crazy, and they all flocked in the direction of the yamen.

Seeing this, the others followed them and ran towards the Yamen.

Suo Xing Fu Li had anticipated today's situation, and had already notified the governor of Jingzhao. When these people came to the yamen, the officers and soldiers who had been guarding outside the door immediately came out and sent all the abnormal guests with "" At the same time, according to Fu Li's instructions, they were all tied up with ropes, and their teeth were stuck with sticks to prevent them from biting when they were struggling. hurt myself.

After everyone was arrested in the prison, in order to appease the families of these people, the people in the yamen came out and explained why these people became like this.

It was also at this time that everyone knew why Wang's hot pot restaurant still had so many customers after the name change, and most of them became repeat customers in the store. Even after eating three or four meals, they could never leave the hot pot in the store.

It turned out that it was all because the owner of this shop added harmful poppy husks to the hot pot base, and poppy is a plant that is addictive and makes people can't live without it.

Although the poppy can't kill people immediately, but looking at the performance of those people, all the common people who have witnessed those people are all respectful of the poppy plant.

After this matter was reported to the palace, Emperor Yonghe couldn't help frowning: "I forgot before that the Wang's hot pot restaurant has already harmed many people with poppies."

He originally wanted to hide the poppy, but looking at the common people who had already been victimized, it was obvious that he couldn't do it.

Fortunately, this incident broke out after the secrets of the four kings and eight princes were dug out, otherwise it might not be so easy for him to dig out the secrets of the gold mine from these people

It is precisely because Jia Shishi and others did not know the extent of the harm caused by poppies that they did not take Wang Xifeng's crimes to heart at the beginning, and because of their practice of referring Wang Xifeng to Dali Temple A lot of speculations were born, and they even connected it with their own secrets, and then revealed flaws, making them really sure that there is indeed a big secret hidden among the four kings and eight princes.

Emperor Yonghe probably guessed that Fu Li was responsible for the incident, but he was not angry. After all, it is absolutely impossible for him to let the Wang Family Hot Pot Restaurant continue to open, but as long as the Wang Family Hot Pot Restaurant closes, the current situation will Absolutely will happen, there is no way to avoid it

Unless he had someone directly kill all the customers who were already addicted to poppy in Wang's Hot Pot Restaurant, so that the secret of poppy's addictiveness would not be exposed to everyone.

However, after this period of development, the Wang family hot pot restaurant has accumulated at least four to five hundred customers. If so many people are killed, even if he is the emperor, it is impossible not to reveal a little bit of information.

After thinking about it, such a situation was completely unavoidable, so Emperor Yonghe did not pursue whether Fu Li made a move.

After Emperor Yonghe learned of this, he directly called all his confidants into the palace to discuss a solution, and finally decided to lock these people in prison cells for detoxification, and at the same time sent people to all parts of the country to destroy all poppies All pharmacies, medical centers, and fireworks restaurants where poppies might be hidden were all raided.

But the most important thing is that Emperor Yonghe issued a mansion report to let people convey the dangers of poppies to all parts of the country.

Almost everyone felt that after this operation, the poppy plant and its processed products would disappear in Daxia as quickly as possible.

Many people even felt that Emperor Yonghe's move was too grand, and there was really no need to be so nervous

After all, poppies have only been found to harm people in the capital. As long as the poppies, crows, and tablets in the capital are searched and destroyed, there will be no poppies, crows, and tablets in the entire summer.

But what everyone did not expect was that after Emperor Yonghe issued this order, some ministers in the Huguang area actually sent news that opium, a processed product of poppy, had been circulated among local officials, gentry and famous families. It has been popular for a long time, even among the high-ranking and powerful classes, and many people in the local area are scrambling to smoke this kind of thing. It has been a long time and they have already become addicted.

Moreover, some officials in the Huguang area even found out that the merchants who sold opium and tablets to these people were actually overseas foreigners.

Because of the special nature of the opponent, the officials in the Huguang area who wanted to confiscate opium and tablets were not only blocked by these foreigners, but also blocked by the churches that had taken root in the local area and those officials and gentry who smoked opium and tablets.

In short, there was no way for them to follow the emperor's order to make opium and tablets disappear in the local area.In order to keep the opium and film dealers, some of them even did not hesitate to attack the officials who insisted on doing it. Among them, the most stubborn official was killed, and his family members were not spared.In order to prevent them from suing, these people even forced everyone to take opium and pills. In order to protect themselves, they had no choice but to take opium. I hope the emperor will not blame you

This is thanks to Fu Li telling the queen that opium and opium can be given up. Otherwise, it is not certain whether these addicted officials have the courage to report the matter to the court.

But since Fu Li has already told the queen, the queen has also told the emperor, and the emperor has not forgotten to record this matter in the mansion report, then the current result is normal.

It's just that even if these officials are loyal, they can only ask the emperor for help in the face of the more powerful government and business forces.

After hearing this, Emperor Yonghe was furious: "Someone go and call Wei Yan, I will definitely take off the heads of these people who endanger the Daxia community, and make them regret it!"

"There are also those foreigners with malicious intentions, I will definitely deport them, so that they can never set foot on the land of Daxia again!"

When Wei Yan entered the palace, what he faced was Emperor Yonghe who was so angry that he seemed to be ready to kill at any time.

He had already heard a lot of news on the way here, and was mentally prepared for why Emperor Yonghe summoned him into the palace, but...

"This minister is willing to share His Majesty's worries, but if this minister leaves, the emperor may have to send someone to take over the defense of the gold mine as soon as possible."