Jia Min's Counterattack

"Min'er's poems are getting better and better! Not to mention, among the noble ladies in the capital, in terms of talent, if you want to be ranked second, no one will dare to be the first!" Princess Jiayue excitedly He opened his eyes wide to see Jiamin, and felt a little gloating in his heart after seeing the joke.

Xiang Xiaoqin didn't expect Jia Min to be so talented, she also smiled and echoed Jia Min's amazing talent like everyone else.He scolded himself for being careless in his heart, and actually underestimated Jia Min.

"You only know that Miner's younger sister is good at writing poems, but you don't know that she is best at playing the flute. She is a perfect match with Mr. Lin's flute and qin!" Xie laughed.

"That's right! Master Lin is also here today. Wouldn't it be wonderful to let them play together? Go and talk to Master Lin!" Jiayue clapped her hands and immediately sent someone to the male guest's side.

Xiang Xiaoqin originally wanted to take this opportunity to make herself famous and create momentum for her being selected in the general election.Now she regrets that she targeted Jia Min, she really can't afford to lose money.Not only did she fail to become a blockbuster herself, but she also put on airs for Jia Min.

On the male guest's side, Li Jifan asked Lin Ruhai after hearing the maid's return, "Would you like to sing a song with my brother and sister here, so that we can open our eyes?"

Lin Ruhai also wanted to play a duet with Jia Min, so he nodded in agreement.Li Jifan asked someone to fetch a guqin, and asked someone to send the Xiao to Jia Min at the hostess.

The female soldier was waiting for news. At this time, a maid brought a flute on a tray and said, "Master Lin is ready."

Jia Min picked up the flute, played with it for a while, and tried the sound test again, and then the song "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms" began to play, and soon Lin Ruhai also joined in. Melodious and ethereal, the two voices are lingering over the lotus pond.With the tacit cooperation of the husband and wife, the song that should not be suitable for the occasion makes people feel comfortable after listening to it in this hot summer day.The song "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms" became famous for a while, and many people imitated their qin and flute ensemble, but no one could surpass the two of them.

In July, the rain on the capital side increased. It rained heavily for two consecutive days, causing some places in the city to flood the houses, and the heavy rain did not show any signs of weakening.Although the heavy rain washed away the heat, but the continuous rain made me feel wet and sticky.

In the main courtyard of the Lin Mansion, Jia Min was leaning on the imperial concubine's couch, reading a book and eating grapes at the same time.

"Ma'am, Yu Zhuangtou from the Zhuangzi outside the city is here." Dongmei came into the room and said.

"Something must have happened to come here in such a heavy rain, let him go to the side hall in the front yard." Dongmei led the order and went out.

Jia Min sat on the grand teacher's chair in the side hall, with a screen in front of him, and Yu Zhuangtou kowtowed to Jia Min behind the screen.Jia Min knew that he must be in a hurry, so he asked, "Yu Zhuangtou came here in a hurry, what happened?"

"Returning to my wife is a matter of great urgency. Yesterday afternoon, a man came up from our village. The villagers work on the pier during the slack season to make money. According to him, the Grand Canal burst its embankment the day before yesterday, flooding the entire Xiaoli Village, and most of the boats docked at the pier capsized. He happened to go up the mountain to cut Chai was not drowned."

"Is this true?" Jia Min asked anxiously.

"It's absolutely true. This servant has already climbed over the mountain to Xiaoli Village to see it this morning. It is now a mess."

Jia Min frowned as she recalled her previous life. She had no impression that Xiaoli Village had been flooded.There must be something wrong here. "Yu Zhuangtou, you did a great job in sending the news in the rain, Dongmei, reward him with 100 taels of silver."

Yu Zhuangtou hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, "Madam, do you have any other orders? The slaves must rush back to the village as soon as possible, and keep an eye on the tenants for watering the fields."

Jia Min asked Dongmei to prepare some portable food for Yu Zhuangtou, gave him a new coir raincoat, and let Yu Zhuangtou go.

Jia Min wrote a letter, including what Yu Zhuangtou said.Then, she summoned the shadow and let the shadow be delivered to Lin Ruhai immediately.

Lin Ruhai in the palace was busy sorting out some imperial edicts that had been drafted, when a little palace lady secretly called him by the window.Lin Ruhai checked outside the door, found no one, and walked to the window. The little maid didn't speak, but handed a folded letter to Lin Ruhai, and then ran away quickly.

Lin Ruhai closed the window and quickly opened the letter to read.When he read the contents of the letter, he first frowned and recalled whether there was such a thing in his previous life, and the answer he got was the same as Jia Min's.He closed his eyes and thought for a long time, he felt that the problem should be the third prince.Lin Ruhai found several imperial edicts from the Ministry of Industry and went to the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, when I was drafting the imperial decree just now, I found that the Ministry of Industry did not seem to allocate money to the canal on the capital side this year."

The emperor stopped the pen in his hand, raised his head and asked: "Isn't there? I remember that the money should be transferred before the beginning of spring. There should be no accidents on the canal in the capital, or else it will threaten the people in the entire capital."

The emperor held his forehead and wanted to engrave it for a long time, "Shi Youfu, go and call Shen Wenyi for me."

Shen Wenyi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, Lin Ruhai's uncle, soon arrived at the imperial study, and the emperor directly asked, "Did you allocate money to strengthen the dam this year?"

Shen Wenyi was taken aback, and thought for a long time before he thought, "My Majesty, the third prince has been in charge of the canal on the capital side since last year. The Ministry of Households is sending money directly to the third prince, without going through the Ministry of Industry?"

"Why didn't you go through the Ministry of Industry?" The emperor's face was very ugly, Shen Wenyi lowered his head, unable to answer for a long time, he suspected that there was a big problem. "It's been two years, tell me why you didn't go through the Ministry of Industry."

"It was ordered by Prime Minister Wang Xianrong, and I dare not hide it!"

The emperor was very angry: This is how all the money in the treasury of my country has been squandered.Needle dropping can be heard in the imperial study room, but Lin Ruhai, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Engineering, is as silent as a cicada.After a long time, the emperor said, "You step back first, and you can do whatever you want in the future! Do you understand?"

Shen Wenyi even claimed it was, secretly sweating for Wang Xianrong.

After Shen Wenyi left, the emperor glanced at Lin Ruhai and said, "Tell me, what happened."

Lin Ruhai has been thinking with his mouth tightly pressed, and when he heard the emperor's question, he raised his eyes and looked at the emperor, "I found that there was no record of transferring money to the canal on the capital side in the past two years, so I suddenly remembered that my wife has a Dowry Zhuangzi is very close to Xiaoli Village on the other side of the canal wharf. In the beginning of spring, I accompanied my wife to Zhuangzi, and I heard from Zhuangtou that my income has decreased in the past two years. After careful inquiry, I found out that Zhuangzi’s The tenants would go to the side of the canal to build embankments during the slack season in winter, and earn some money to subsidize their families. But no one has been there for two years now.”

After hearing this, the emperor remained silent for a long time, and finally waved his hand feebly to let Lin Ruhai go.

"Oh, the children have grown up, and their hearts have grown up!"

"The emperor is in the prime of his life, the prince is smart and sensible, and never causes trouble."

"Old stuff, you also learn to say half of it, and keep half of it."

"The slaves are telling the truth!"

"Okay, you go to the Third Prince's Mansion to deliver the decree in person, asking him to study at home and avoid all errands. Then go to Wang Xianrong's house and tell him to let him be an official within a month."

The next day, the third prince resigned from his post on the grounds that he was still young and had to study hard.Three days later, Wang Xianrong became seriously ill, and half a month later, although Wang Xianrong's illness was almost cured, his health was not as good as before, so he simply proposed to quit his job.The emperor persuaded him to stay three times, and at Wang Xianrong's insistence, he finally agreed to let him take office.This is a later story.

The emperor has already sent people to look at the canal, and he also knows the tragic situation in Xiaoli Village.He sighed, and ordered Jing Zhaoyin to deal with it as soon as possible, so as not to cause a plague.

"Shi Youfu, I really should kill them. But I won't do it, and I don't want others to laugh at me. I didn't expect that I established the crown prince so early, and after spending a lot of time teaching the crown prince and other princes, there will still be some people who will not be reconciled. You will still make mistakes." The emperor's tone was very lonely.

Eunuch Shi didn't know how to respond to this, so he had no choice but to remind: "It's time for the emperor to eat dinner!"

The emperor glanced at Eunuch Shi, "I'm going to Qifeng Hall today, I want to see the queen."