The Second Master Lian of the Red Chamber

Since the crown prince was abolished and killed himself, the third prince has always claimed to be the No. It has become a party, and it looks impressive from the outside, and there are many followers.I heard that in the past six months, because of the filial piety commended by the Holy Majesty to the Third Prince at the end of last year, among the new magistrates in the south, there are members of the Third Prince's party.

Unexpectedly, the situation changed suddenly overnight, and there was no news that the high gate in Beijing was closed. The third prince and several dignitaries who depended on him were jailed for treason, and all the mansions were ransacked.Wang Jiayuan also posted posts to relatives and friends he had made for Mrs. Wang Ziteng's birthday, but he had no choice but to let it go when such a thing happened.

According to private news, when the Third Prince was dragged off the bed by the sergeants of the Shenji Camp who sneaked into the city at night, he entered the palace without even a pair of trousers and disheveled hair. The emperor's crown clothes and seals that were picked up were smashed and bloody.Except for the concubine who was included in the genealogy, the grandson and granddaughter of the whole palace were imprisoned in place, and the rest were imprisoned overnight, and they were directly sentenced to severe punishment. It is said that some concubines could not bear the punishment and committed suicide in prison.

The third prince saw that he was either imprisoned or sentenced to death, and the life of the other princes also became sad.The Holy Majesty imprisoned one of his sons, but his suspicions about the other sons became even more serious. Even the Ninth Prince, who was still young and had not been knighted out of the palace, was reprimanded for no reason. The sons knelt before the emperor to plead guilty, but they didn't even see the Holy Majesty's face.

Although the sixth prince, Yang Yuan, had never been in close contact with the courtiers on weekdays, and the concubine's mother's family was not obvious, he couldn't hold back his side concubine, Wang Xifeng, who had an uncle, Wang Ziteng, who was in charge of the military power in the capital.This time the matter of looting the Three Princes' Mansion was not even leaked to Wang Ziteng, on the contrary, Tete was transferred from the camp outside Beijing to the Shenji camp, which clearly showed his fear of the Wang family and Yang Yuan.The fight for power and profit in the court is the most uplifting and stepping down, now that he has smelled the will of the Holy Majesty, how can he not stomp on a few feet to show his loyalty, and Yang Yuan, who has suffered many rows at the court meeting, is so angry that he cursed in private.This side concubine was bestowed arbitrarily by the Holy Majesty Gan Gang, but now she thinks of suspecting that they are forming a party.

Fortunately, Yang Yuan never vented his anger casually, the palace was calm, and the activities of the Wang family remained the same as before. Wang Xifeng held a lively birthday party for the little princess last year. Mrs. Wang Ziteng and Mrs. Wang Zisheng said whenever they met The prince and concubine are kind, and their niece is doing very well.

It's a pity that evil people have their own bad words. The good thing that Wang Xifeng, the niece of Mrs. Wang's family, is living a happy life, has gradually changed in the mouths of the servants of Rongguo Mansion.I don't know where it started, someone connected Wang Xifeng's current fortune with the marriage that the two families gave up at that time, and said with certainty that if it wasn't for the marriage, the eldest daughter of the Wang family would be like the miserable girl He. , lost his life in a daze at a young age, and wanted to take the opportunity to bring up the story of Jia Lianke's wife again.

In her previous life, Jia Lian also heard that the servants in the mansion secretly arranged for Wang Xifeng. Later, she also realized that Mrs. Wang was afraid that the husband and wife would not have a good reputation, and she might have contributed to the flames behind.It's just that Wang Xifeng has married into the royal family in this life, and her rank is much higher than Mrs. Wang's. I never thought that Mrs. Wang would dare to gossip about the Tian family.

Persuading Jia Amnesty, who wanted to kill the servant, Jia Lian turned his head and let people whisper the words into Jiamu's ear, which really aroused Jiamu's fury.Although Jia's mother also felt that Jia Lian's fate was not good at the moment, she was afraid that she would punish her relatives and friends, and she wanted to find a wise man to resolve the matter, but Wang Xifeng is now a serious prince and side concubine, and she and her own men Put it in one place and talk about it, do you think it will grow too long?No matter how disfavored the Sixth Prince is, he will not be humiliated by their family.

Without Dafang saying a word, Mother Jia called Mrs. Wang herself, and scolded her so badly that she blushed, and even Baoyu was driven out of the yard, and ordered people to come together. Ercha, he killed the leader who spread the rumors, and kicked out several people. After a good rectification, he finally suppressed these lies in the mansion, and prevented the outsiders from talking about it all over the city.

It's just that the servants of Jia's family are used to laziness. They have married each other and kept in touch with each other for several lifetimes.Within a month, these words reached Yang Yuan's ears.

Yang Yuan didn't mind the fact that Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng were almost engaged.At that time, it was just that the two families had been in touch with each other for generations, and the elders had some thoughts, and they never mentioned it seriously at all, and they didn't change the Geng Tie.He was angry with the behavior of the Jia family, and he was also secretly annoyed that his marriage was not properly protected, and he didn't resent that his own powerful arm should be made up by his family.

It must be known that fate is mysterious and mysterious, and people in the world often prefer to believe it when it involves their own bodies.Jia Lian's family is not bad in character and appearance, and there were some good families who wanted to get married before, but since the rumor of Jia Lianke's wife was widely spread, almost everyone changed their tune and stopped talking about getting married, obviously because they feel sorry for their own family girl.Even if there are those who still move forward, the family style is a bit bad.

Yang Yuan hesitated to compensate Jia Lian for another good marriage, but Jia Lian himself didn't care.Not only did he persuade Jia Amnesty at home to give up the bad idea of ​​immediately finding a matchmaker to talk about a marriage to save face, but he also told Yang Yuanming that he had no intention of doing this at the moment.Seeing that the major events they have planned for the past few years are about to come to a close, it is better to concentrate on external affairs than to be on guard against some kind of God's will to take care of the housework.Establish a career before starting a family, so as not to harm others or yourself.

Seeing that Jia Lian insisted on this, Yang Yuan stopped talking. Jia Lian, who was full of anger, took advantage of the time when His Majesty was staring at the Fifth Prince. The famous head went out of Beijing to play around, and went to Ping'an Prefecture openly and aboveboard.As soon as he arrived in Ping'an Prefecture, within half a month, he became a close friend with a confidant of Liu Shoubei in Ping'an Prefecture, and was recommended to the garrison's yamen. Idle staff.

People who heard about this outside said that young sons are fun to play, and some said that Liu Shoubei was so light-boned that he dared to order someone like the Young Master of the Duke's Mansion. They all thought Jia Lian was just young and didn't know the severity .Occasionally, someone would test him out, observe secretly several times, and realize that Jia Lian was just eating, drinking, gambling and watching theaters every day, so he couldn't help but despise him in his heart.

In the winter of the second year, the ground dragon in the northwest of Ping'an Prefecture turned over. The local officials pleaded guilty and helped the victims. People flocked to temples to burn incense and worship Buddha.Unexpectedly, the tone of the officials, big and small, had not been relieved, and some mountain people who had fled from the refugees kowtowed to death on the city wall, yelling at the corrupt officials to silence them and opening silver mines privately before they died.

The whole city was in an uproar for a while, and the magistrate almost hanged himself. Later, seeing that it was really impossible to cover up the matter, he reported it tremblingly, which really caused a shock in the government and the public.

The news of the existence of silver mountains in Ping'an Prefecture was reported to the court by the local clan when the court was established, and they were rewarded for it. The towns in the south of Ping'an Prefecture have always been heavily guarded, and most of the silver in the treasury came from this place.It's just that I didn't expect someone to open another silver vein under the eyes of the court, and it was not until this time that it was issued through the earthquake.

While ordering people to secretly investigate the origin of the mountain people who committed suicide, the Holy One sent people to seal up the silver mine in a big way.The private opening of silver mines is a form of conspiracy, and a group of imperial guards from the capital who came here under the imperial decree will naturally not be lenient. Mobilize soldiers and horses to deal with one or two, lest someone take the opportunity to instigate a civil uprising.

Jia Lian ate at Liu Shoubei's house, so naturally he had to follow Liu Shoubei's family around the prison. Fortunately, he didn't have an official position, knew nothing about Liu Shoubei's private affairs, and had someone as a guarantor. He was not sentenced, and after staying for ten days, he was acquitted and released after the investigation.

Liu Shoubei was suspected of treason and had his whole family executed. When Jia Lian was about to return to Beijing, he met He Shoubei's eldest son who came here to exchange value. The two couldn't help sighing about the past. After staying for a longer period of time, I got to know a lot of local powerful gentry, and those who had some friendship and were never locked up in Beijing naturally became closer.

When the dust settled, the Eighth Prince went to the Imperial Mausoleum to accompany the Third Prince. He Shoubei's parents and sons were also ordered to guard the newly opened silver mine. After opening a commercial road leading to the grasslands in the north, Jia Lian took Shi Shiran with several carloads of precious furs collected from various places, and held a bank note in his arms. He stopped and stopped all the way, eating and drinking, and slowly went south Return to Beijing.

After walking to the south of Yunqing Prefecture, the official road was closed.Jia Lian counted the days, and sure enough, when the day came, a courier from Beijing flew up with a bright yellow banner on his back, and posted the imperial list, announcing the news that the world's sage passed on the sixth son, King Ping.