[Red Mansions] The promotion of the female history of salted fish

Fortunately, although the plague this year was a big one, the situation in the capital had probably calmed down before the Chinese New Year.After Situ Hui's Qianqing Palace was lifted, the first time he entered the harem, he didn't come to see Zhang Guiren, who had been taking care of him all this time, but went to the Queen's Kunning Palace.

"Your Majesty came just right,?" Yang Peishan had already taken off the armor on her nails, and was testing the temperature of the water in the tub prepared by the maid.Seeing Situ Hui coming, he took the prepared towel from the hand of the waiting maid and wiped it twice. Looking at the sky outside, he couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional, "Your Majesty has worked hard." Situ Qiyu was able to help with some trivial matters, but there were still a lot of things backlogged. Situ Hui left the Qianqing Palace, worshiped the Empress Dowager, and started to make up homework frantically.So Yang Peishan really did not expect that he would come here today. The water in the tub was used for her own bathing after she asked the small tea room in Kunning Palace to boil. She did not expect that the water in the pot would be received by Situ as soon as it boiled. The news that Hui is coming to Kunning Palace.

Yang Peishan dried her hands, stepped forward to take off Situ Hui's coat, asked the maid standing aside to wash it off, and then stepped forward to untie Situ Hui's hair.

Situ Hui looked at the grapefruit leaves floating in the bathtub, and smiled at Yang Peishan, "The empress has a heart. During this time, many things in the harem are inseparable from the empress' care,? I know the empress' difficulties." When he got the epidemic, he asked the queen to live and die with him?Situ Hui is not that boring.Not to mention the palace affairs of the harem, such a large-scale epidemic spreads indiscriminately, even the majestic Emperor Situ Hui was brought down, not to mention the ministers and imperial wives in the capital.After ordinary people are infected with the epidemic, they can be resettled in a specially built isolation point in the suburbs of Beijing. It is enough to send a doctor from the imperial hospital there. But what should the ministers and imperial orders do if they are infected with the epidemic?You can't be completely like the common people, locking up other people's houses to prevent them from going out, and you can't let the servants of this family go wherever they want. When dealing with this kind of thing, it is very important to grasp the speed, and it is necessary to combine strength and softness. The eldest prince is now I haven't married a concubine yet, so isn't Yang Peishan the task of comforting the minister's wife?

It's hard for Yang Peishan to do a good job.You know, this kind of thing that involves life and death is not the same as giving rewards to the ministers who live in the capital during the Chinese New Year every year. When it is really a matter of life and death, it is strange that the people below are willing to be completely obedient and not think carefully. Woolen cloth.

Yang Peishan called in the maids and eunuchs who were waiting on her, and when she heard what Situ Hui said, her eyes curved downward, "Fortunately, His Majesty recovered quickly, the concubines have been with sisters-in-law and younger sisters in the clan all these years, even if they recognize The wives of Gao Ming don’t know much about it. Concubine Shu and Concubine Xiande, whose natal family has old relationships with many other families, have helped the concubines a lot in soothing people’s hearts.” It’s rare that the Jia family didn’t hold back this time— —Of course, it may also be because no one in Jia’s family got this epidemic—they did a good job in cooperating with the First Prince’s order.

Now that the epidemic has basically subsided, Yang Peishan is in a cold sweat thinking about it. Fortunately, the Yanshan camp is still in the hands of the emperor himself, and the people in the capital who are confident that they have some cards will not dare to move around. The epidemic in a place is terrible.

Situ Hui leaned against the edge of the bathtub, and was pressed comfortably by the eunuch behind him. Hearing this, he gave a soft "hmm", "Since you have completed the errand you sent, then you should reward me, this time I won't rob you."

Seeing that he was really tired these days, Yang Peishan smiled slightly and stopped talking.

Because the epidemic has just subsided, there are still many follow-up issues that need to be dealt with, and the Empress Dowager passed away in this epidemic, the New Year's banquet this year is even simpler than last year.If it wasn't for the fact that Situ's annual banquet had certain political significance, Yun Ling doubted that this year's annual banquet might not be held.

The previous dynasty was still busy with political affairs during the Chinese New Year, and the concubines in the harem were not too busy during the Chinese New Year. Although they gave each other New Year gifts, they did not visit more than they did during the New Year.It just so happens that Yunling has never been very impatient with the custom of concubines visiting during the Chinese New Year. This year, she simply learned some window grille-cutting skills from Nanny Lu from Zhongcui Palace. Unfortunately, the final product and the ones from Nanny Lu were still the same. There is a lot of difference, but paper-cutting itself is a process that practice makes perfect, Yunling is not so frustrated.

It's hard for Nanny Lu to think of words of praise for such a window grille, "Your Majesty's hands are very steady, but the lines you cut out are a little stiff when turning, just practice more. The servant has taught Many people have unsteady hands because they repeatedly cut a place, and there are many burrs on the first work, and the window grille of the empress is very good for beginners."

The solution to the stiff lines is very simple, that is, ask Yunling to draw large and small circles on a piece of paper, and then cut them out along the lines.The palace was afraid that someone would be injured when using the scissors, so the blades of the scissors were very short. When Yunling was doing needlework, she didn't feel that such scissors were inconvenient. When she was learning paper cutting, she realized that such scissors were simply heretical. It was really embarrassing. Nanny Lu can cut things so similarly.

Later, Yunling also gave up those window grilles with a high degree of difficulty, and focused on cutting some simple patterns, such as blessing characters or plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, to comfort herself that the efforts during this period were not in vain.To be honest, the window grilles that Yunling cut out can only be said to be quite satisfactory, but when Zhang Guiren came to greet Yunling in the main hall, he saw the pair of blessings that Yunling cut out, Yunling thought about this The things are consumables anyway, and there are many other tricks as gifts.

Anyway, Yunling still had a lot of inventory, so after sending away Zhang Guiren, Yunling sent some to Zhao Guiren and Xiao Meiren.Because this year there is still a national filial piety, the blessing characters and window grilles are either gold or blue, and they have a special flavor.This thing is considered as Yunling's idle and boring thing to pass the time, and it can be treated as a joke if it is given to the people in Zhongcui Palace, but it is not easy to send it to other places, so in the end, there is still a lot left in Yunling's warehouse .

Qi Yue and Qi Duo finally had their annual "winter vacation".Yunling felt that when these two children reached the age of going to court, they would definitely not feel dissatisfied because they changed from students to social animals, because they never enjoyed more vacations than social animals when they were students. I don't know if I should sympathize for a second.

Qi Duo's self-control is a little stronger, and after returning to Zhongcui Palace, he also completed the homework assigned by the masters of the Shangshufang step by step. I ran back and forth to the place where I usually stay several times, and I didn't know what fun I came across.

Probably because today is the first day of the holiday, the servants following Qi Yue didn't remind Qi Yue to go back to the house to finish homework, and they all followed Qi Yue.Yun Ling was even more busy fighting with the circles on the paper, and when she saw Qi Yue having fun, she just assumed that he was being disciplined and did not bother him.

Then, the next day, Yunling paid the price for not disturbing her the day before——in the early morning of this day, just after Yinshi, Yunling was lying on the bed and sleeping well, when she heard "boom, boom, boom" coming from outside the bedroom. The sound was as if someone had knocked three times with a copper basin on the outside of the canopy bed where Yunling was sleeping, and it was the kind that a person with quite strong arms used all his strength.

When the sound just rang, Chuncao Haoxuan, who was watching Yunling at night that day, yelled out. Thinking that Yunling was sleeping on the bed, she forcibly endured it.Unexpectedly, there will be two follow-up sounds. This time, not only Yunling, but also many court ladies who were standing outside heard the movement. They didn't dare to come in to disturb Yunling, but they couldn't help feeling anxious, and it took a long time before they chose one. The one who was a little more courageous took two steps forward, pressed against the door of Yunling's inner room and whispered, "Does your empress have any orders?"

Yun Ling had already sat up from the bed, Chuncao stepped forward and raised the curtain so that Yun Ling could see what was outside the bed curtain.

"Oh," Yunling wasn't quite sober yet, but she understood the time now, and beckoned to the people waiting outside with a wooden face, "Come in, take this out." She said, Her finger pointed to a sandalwood-framed clock on a side table.

The thing is like this, even though she has been in this world for more than ten years, Yunling is still not used to the way of counting the twelve hours of the day.After becoming a concubine, Situ Hui sent many rewards, among which Yunling liked this Western clock the most.Although the dial has been changed to Zichou Yinmao according to the habits of Daliang people, it is still somewhat familiar after all, so Yunling asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to remove the function of the clock telling the time, and the clock has been placed on the clock since then. in my own bedroom.That kid Qi Yue stayed in her bedroom for a long time yesterday, Yunling guessed that there was no one else but that kid.

I asked the next day, as expected.I just don't know where Situ Qiyue's excellent mechanical talent came from. The Ministry of Internal Affairs even broke up the gears that tell the time. It was discovered the next morning.

Seeing that his mother didn't blame himself, Situ Qiyue himself felt embarrassed first, "My son just wanted to take it apart to have a look, so he put it all back together, but when he picked it up, he didn't know where it was wrong. Or... son... Let's see, maybe we can remove the sound of the timekeeping?"

Yunling heard that boys will start to be interested in machinery and gears when they reach a certain age. Looking at Qi Yue's performance, there is some truth to this statement.She held her forehead and waved at the brat, "If you want to play, just play with it."

Qi Yue's eyes lit up, and he came up to beat Yun Ling's shoulder again, looking very embarrassed.

Yunling stretched out her hand to touch his neatly tied hair back and forth twice, feeling a little helpless, "Go."

Seeing that she didn't look angry, Qi Yue poured another cup of tea for Yunling, and then ordered the little eunuch who was following behind to carry the clock and run to his room.

Yunling looked at him as if he had found some new toy, and smiled helplessly.

It's not the same situation as Yunling's mother and son playing beautifully. I don't know if the so-called "mood during the New Year has an impact on the luck of the year" is true. After recovering, I felt that the life in the palace was not going well, even the new year was not good. Then, before the first month of the seventh year of Yuanyou had passed, someone from Jingzhao Mansion beat Dengwen Drum, because the time was so coincidental that even Situ Hui was startled.

"It is said that the family is a tenant in the south, and the old couple has only one single seedling left. The single seedling stayed at home well, but one day 11 years ago, it was suddenly taken away by the government, saying that it had committed a murder. Guilt." Some time ago, Yang Peishan often ordered her female officers to go to the palace gate to meet with the guards, and now it is even more convenient to inquire about news outside the palace.

Yunling was a little surprised, "Then this couple has been suing for the past 11 years?" Could it be that they have been sued level by level, but are other officials not trying it?Yunling couldn't help but hear the drumbeat of Pingju "Sister Yang's Complaint".

Yang Peishan shook her head, "I don't know about this, but since the Dengwen Drum is played, Jing Zhaoyin will definitely send someone to investigate."

It is reasonable to say that even if the matter in the south is investigated, it should not be so fast.But Jing Zhaoyin didn't know which great god was standing behind him, and he actually checked the details of the couple who came to the capital to complain in just half a month.Yunling has never heard of any discrepancies with the rumors, probably they all match up.

The old couple's family originally lived in Jinling. Jinling is not only the capital of a province, but also a place that Situ Hui has focused on rectifying over the years. Hearing the grievances of the old couple, he was very angry. Who is the governor.

Unexpectedly, the official who locked up the people at will in the past has been promoted step by step, and he is now Da Sima Jiahua.

This Mr. Jia said at the beginning that "the government never went to the people's house to lock up the people at will", implying that the subordinate officials made their own decisions, and it was not an order issued by him, the governor.

Later, Jing Zhaoyin found the subordinate staff who had worked in Jinling back then, and there were four people who went to lock up the son of that family, and one of them still had the lottery issued by Mr. Jia.Now that I can't deny it, and I have been implicated, Jia Hua doesn't care about "family friends" or "same clan", so Jia Hua said that he is extremely innocent in the court, "It turns out that someone used power to oppress others, and the minister couldn't do it at that time." No way."

As if he was afraid that his words would not be trustworthy enough, Mr. Jia also took out the letters he had exchanged with others.The letter was not one, but a stack.At the court meeting, it was passed to the adults of the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and Yushitai to see, and there was the seal of the "senior official" on it, which can be said to be very credible.

Yun Ling didn't pay that much attention to this matter, she didn't have much impression of Da Sima Jia Hua.Because Situ Hui has always felt that the positions of Zhongshu Sheng and Da Sima are too powerful, and he has been working hard to distribute the work of these people to more people over the years.For example, Situ Hui has been promoting the Bachelor of Attendance since he ascended the throne. Another example is that after Situ Hui learned that the army was empty-paid the year before last, he transferred part of the duties of the chief minister to the Ministry of War.

However, Yunling heard that although this great Sima was not from Wu Xun's family, he was on the same side as those people in the court, so she had some heart to watch the excitement.However, Yunling never expected that this excitement would be quite serious after it really broke out.

The reason lies in the "senior official" bitten by Da Sima Jia Hua. This adult who was identified by Jia Hua can actually be regarded as Jia Hua's superior up to now.who?Lord Teng, the ruler of the nine provinces.

From the previous dynasties, when the children of rich and noble families committed crimes, some families could not bear to let their children be punished, so they bought a good citizen with money to serve their children's sentences.This kind of behavior is called "catching white ducks" by many officials in "insider slang".This kind of thing is usually what you want—yes, most of the "white duck" who was caught is also willing, and the reason is that money is touching people's hearts.Some people can't save 100 taels of silver after being busy all their lives, but if they are punished for three years in exile for the young master, maybe they can come back after three years?This deal is simply not too cost-effective.

Later, this kind of transaction even developed to the extent that the death penalty can also be bought and sold with money.Still the example of 100 taels of silver mentioned above, some people can risk their lives, as long as they leave the money to their wives, children or parents.In this way, the children of the rich family escaped the death penalty, and the poor family had the money to survive, which is also an ironic "win-win".

The couple who filed the complaint insisted that their son was a white duck that was captured by the government, and that the family had never sold their child for money.The government doesn't need to investigate carefully, just look through the files of Jinling back then, and you can see Lord Wang Ziteng's nephew. The head of the family is not a low-key person in the capital!Especially after the eldest daughter of the Jia family named the Concubine Xiande, the Patriarch of the Xue family often regarded himself as "Concubine Xiande's cousin".

Hearing that the child was not the couple who sold it for money, most of them believed this statement, not to mention anything else, the folks still value incense, this couple has only one son left, if they can discuss If so, I'm afraid that the old man would rather be that "white duck" himself, and he doesn't want to hand over his son, right?

Yun Ling felt a little strange when she heard this, "Since there are so many people who are willing, why don't Lord Wang and Lord Jia make things clean?" Instead, they used their power to force a scapegoat, and now they have to go to Beijing to sue the imperial court. degree of condition.Besides, what are the conditions of the tenants?People who plan food in the soil even rent the land from others, how can they have the confidence to go to Beijing to sue?

It's not that Yunling looks down on simple working people, but in Daliang, it's normal for people to be poor and short-sighted.Not to mention that the child was taken away by the government office lock in Fucheng, or beaten to death by the son of the county grandpa's family in the street, many people may not dare to sue.If the couple were staunch people, what were they doing when the child was first locked up?From Jinling to the capital, it took only two years to get there by foot.

Yang Peishan shook her head, "It's hard to say who else is behind, anyway, after the old couple heard that the child had died, they passed out in the Jingzhao lobby."

Sure enough, Yang Peishan also felt that this was not a simple case of going to Beijing to appeal for grievances.No one cares about the state of the old couple now.Yushitai has already quarreled because of this incident. According to Yushitai Zuodu Yushi, if this case is not severely punished, the implied meaning is to encourage all officials to ignore human life, and let them despise the court's majesty. event.

The head of the Xue family who had always been very high-profile was naturally sent to prison, and even Wang Ziteng and Jia Hua, who were in charge, were not spared from the situation alone, and were temporarily suspended by Situ Hui to rest at home.

As the saying goes, it is easy to add icing on the cake, but difficult to give charcoal in the snow.Especially in officialdom, there are many people who make trouble.On the fifth day after Wang Ziteng was kicked home for self-reflection, someone went up and impeached Wang Ziteng, saying that he was greedy for military pay before, all because of Wang Ziteng's persuasion. When he went to a key place in the army, he agreed to Wang Ziteng's idea only because of his "ignorance".

The person who submitted the memorial was the son of the Wu Xun family who was corrupted by the military salary and Situ Hui cut off his first-class title the year before last. Although he has no real position in the court, he can still deliver the memorial to the imperial court.

If the previous involvement in catching white ducks allowed the prince to drink three glasses of wine and return to officialdom after being demoted two ranks, then the things described in this note cannot be passed so easily.Perhaps inspired by Jia Hua, the adult who submitted the memorial also sent many letters along with the memorial.

Situ Hui had long suspected that Wang Ziteng was involved in the incident of empty pay, but suffered from lack of evidence.Now that there is evidence, there is no problem in letting professionals interrogate.

"There's a high probability that we won't be able to guarantee it at the end of the festival." Yunling understood the ins and outs of the incident, and felt that it was very unlikely that Mr. Wang would want to dust himself off and stand up.If Wang Ziteng, the military officer with the greatest real power in the martial arts family, resigned, no matter how many connections those martial arts families had, what would be the use?When these people can't bring benefits to others, and only rely on the little affection of their ancestors, it may be no problem to ask others to help with a little effort, but it is impossible for others to put them on an equal position as allies up.

This is the real bottom line.

Now that the matter has progressed, Yunling feels that she probably knows the pit where Lord Wang is buried, and who dug it down with the first shovel.

That night, Situ Hui lived in Yongshou Palace, and Zhou Guiren, who was waiting to see Xiande Concubine's jokes, tore off two veils.Even Yun Ling, after hearing the news from Yu Liu, couldn't help casting admiring glances at Si Tu Hui.

It should be said that Situ Hui was very polite to Mr. Wang. Although he ordered the people below to try the case, he did not send Wang Ziteng to prison, but tidied up a private house and came out.After the final confession was received, Situ Hui took Wang Ziteng's official hat logically.

People in the officialdom have cold tea. If there are still some people who can stay in the capital after they become official, then the dismissed officials will definitely not be able to stay in the capital after they retire.Wang Ziteng is worthy of leading the army for many years, and he is also decisive. Not long after the verdict came down, he said that he would take his old wife back to Jinling, the ancestral home.It's a pity that being directly dismissed from the top military generals in the country received too much blow. Halfway through, Wang Ziteng had some symptoms of depression. Seeing Jinling was in front of him, he caught the cold again.Wang Ziteng was born as a military general, and he already had many hidden wounds on his body. Because of this disease, he was caught all at once, and he died before he reached Jinling.