Jia Min's Counterattack

The result of the treatment of the Tatar king was finally concluded before the new year. The emperor issued a decree to give each of the Tatar king and Tatar princess a glass of poisoned wine, but left them with a whole corpse.However, there is no news about the treatment of the Tatar princes. It is strange that nine people died at the same time in the prison where the Tatar princes were held overnight, leaving only the eldest prince, the fourth prince and the sixth prince. The three princes are gone.One day later, the body of the eldest prince was brought out of the prison, and three days later, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, only the sixth prince was left alive among the Tatar princes.

The emperor's first imperial decree after the opening ceremony on the first day of the Lunar New Year was to let the sixth prince return to Tatar, and to marry the nine princesses of Daming to Tatar for marriage.Such a sudden imperial decree shocked the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and many veteran officials directly remonstrated: You can't make peace with the Tatars!However, the emperor insisted on going his own way. Several powerful people in the court, such as Prince Yan, Jia Daishan, Wu Cheng, etc., did not raise any objections, so those courtiers who opposed it were nothing more than thunder and rain. They all died down!

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At the same time, Jia Min and Lin Ruhai took their two sons, Lin Lang and Lin Xuan, and their nephew, Jia Lian, back to Lin Ruhai's hometown, Suzhou City.Over the years, the Lin family would go back to the old house in Suzhou to celebrate the new year, and would also attend the ancestor worship ceremony of the Lin family.

This year, Lin Lang is about to leave Daming and go to Linjiadao. It is said that Lin Lang is worshiped by a master outside the world, and he wants to follow his master to go to sea to practice.In the Lin family in Suzhou, this is the first descendant to worship the immortal gate. Of course, this ancestor worship ceremony is much more grand than in previous years.

After the ancestor worship ceremony, the head of the Lin clan held a grand banquet in the Lin clan's ancestral hall, and invited all the respectable people in Suzhou City to the banquet, and made public the news that Lin Lang had entered the immortal sect.

Lin Ruhai and Jia Min originally didn't want to make it known to everyone, but the patriarch of the Lin clan insisted. Whatever valuable things the Lin family produced, they could have a provenance!On the other hand, it also sent a message to the emperor, that is, the Lin family is not short of money, and the Lin family is not without a way out. If it is impossible, it is okay to go to sea and seek refuge with Lin Lang!

Both Lin Ruhai and Jia Min were very afraid of Aunt He who was now controlled by the emperor. They didn't know what kind of strange poison was in this Aunt He's hands, and they didn't know who the emperor would use these poison to deal with!

Lin Ruhai didn't tell Jia Min about his guesses about the emperor, fearing that Jia Min would be in a state of anxiety all day long if he knew about it. Now that's not the case, and Lin Ruhai doesn't want to give up the Lin family's hundreds of years of wealth in Daming.

However, Lin Ruhai planned to spend some time with Jia Min in the past few years to visit several other Lin family's secret places, and take all the treasures hidden there into Jia Min's space.Lin Ruhai also planned to gradually sell some of the other humble family properties, and in the end there were only Zhenxiufang and Qiwuzhai, two properties that had never revealed their real owners.There is also a land caravan going to western countries via the northwest, and a water caravan going from Ningbo seaport to the capital.No one knew that these two caravans belonged to the Lin family, and besides earning a lot of gold and silver for the Lin family every year, they also played an important role in delivering news.Of course, there is also the sea-going ship business of the Lin family, which has always been mistakenly believed to be owned by nobles from some overseas country, and this business will continue to do so.Even if one day the Lin family is forced to flee overseas and live on Lin Family Island, these properties in the Ming Dynasty will ensure that their descendants can return home.

Jia Min didn't realize Lin Ruhai's plan at all. After she heard Lin Ruhai mentioned that she would take Jia Min to a secret place of the Lin family every year to retrieve the treasures of the Lin family, she was a little puzzled at first, but then she felt that no one The place can be compared to your own space, which is safer and more secretive. I think that Lin Ruhai must have decided to make a special trip to get it back because he was afraid that someone would covet the Lin family's secret treasure again!Now that Lin Ruhai, the head of the Lin family, has already made his decision, Jia Min didn't ask any more questions, and readily agreed to Lin Ruhai's decision!

When worshiping the ancestors today, Jia Lian also came to the Lin's ancestral hall, but outsiders were not allowed to be there during the ancestor worship ceremony, so Jia Lian kept saluting outside the ancestral hall.When he was in the Rongguo Mansion in the capital, he would also participate in the ancestor worship ceremony on the first day of the Lunar New Year every year, but there were not many members of the Jia family in the capital, so the ancestor worship seemed relatively deserted!Now watching Suzhou Lin's ancestor worship opened Jia Lian's eyes, and he asked Lin Ruhai about some things he didn't understand.

"Uncle! My nephew saw that the ancestor worship of the Lin family in Suzhou today is very different from that of our Jia family. There are many ceremonies and etiquette. This is the first time my nephew has seen it. I wonder if there is any explanation for it?"

Lin Ruhai smiled and said: "Suzhou Lin family has been following Zhou Lilai to run the family since our Dongjie Lin family moved to Suzhou and merged with the Lin family in Suzhou. All the descendants of the Suzhou Lin family have been taught according to Zhou Lilai. , for hundreds of years, no matter how the dynasties change, the Zhou rituals have been used until now. What you see today when you worship your ancestors is strictly in accordance with the Zhou rituals, and it is not surprising that it is different from your Jia family. In fact, many aristocratic families continue to use Zhou rituals, such as the Wang and Xie families in Wuyi Lane in Jinling."

"Then why hasn't Zhouli been used by all the families?" Jia Lian was still very puzzled.

"Because our land was once invaded by foreigners, the rule of the Yuanmeng people dealt a great blow to our culture. After a hundred years of infringement, some important classics have been submerged in history, and future generations have no way forward. , I can only draw on the gourd!" Lin Ruhai said.

"It's such a pity! It's no wonder that these aristocratic families can produce talents in large numbers. They survived the war and preserved their precious culture. With such a heritage, why worry about their descendants not becoming talents?" Jia Lian Not without emotion.

"That's right! The most precious things preserved in these big families are the slips, and these slips are completely inaccessible to outsiders. Those so-called orphans and rare books that are living among the people are just the tip of the iceberg!" Lin Ruhai thought of it as he spoke. Most of the orphan copies in Jia Min's space have never appeared in the Lin family's collection.