The Legend of the Long Room in the Red Mansion

Ning Shan didn't know that her younger sister's post caused many girls to worry about her. He is now focusing on cultivating his confidantes. Seeing that he has become a servant, he is only one level away from being the master of a book. It's time Pick some like-minded colleagues to form a united front.Since ancient times, solitary ministers have rarely had a good end, so naturally he would not let himself fall to that point.What's more, the two people who are in court now, whether it is the Supreme Emperor or the present, are not worthy of his loyalty, so they naturally want to make plans for themselves.

Now among the six ministries, the Taishanghuang's cronies and current confidantes are all fighting for power. Generally speaking, the Taishanghuang has the upper hand in the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Households, while the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites have more people today. There is also Dali Temple. , Guanglu Temple, Taipu Temple, Taichang Temple, Honglu Temple, etc., all have their own masters, and they fight equally.There are also some people like Ning Shan who do not help each other, or stand on one side on the surface, but they are biased towards one side in private. Those who are on the side, and those who immediately change the wall when they are about to lose, the number of such people is not very small.What Ning Shan wanted was to win over the latter two types of people, at least if she had any proposals in the future, it would be good if someone agreed with her.

In the struggle between the Supreme Emperor and the present, the focus is nothing more than money, power, and soldiers, so the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of War are particularly important.Ning Shan knew that these three divisions were too eye-catching. Now that she is the servant of the household department and has a younger brother in one division, she doesn't plan to form cliques in the household division. The old relationship with my family in the military is maintained, as long as we keep in touch not far or near.The Ning family's confidant generals were originally mostly in the northern border, but after Ning Shan became a marquis with military achievements, now fearing that the Ning family will have too much power, he just broke up the original troops and divided them into various armies. Now a part of the northern border is reserved, and the west coast The son also sent people, and there were many tribes in southern Xinjiang, and there were soldiers under the original Ning family's flag. Even the strategic places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack, such as Ping'an Prefecture, were also stationed by the personal guards led by Ning Shan.Although the emperor's actions were arranged for the dragon chair under his seat, it was also in line with Ning Shan's wishes. Now that he goes to war, he can quickly win the hearts of the soldiers wherever he goes, which is the best.

Today, he has never led a soldier, has not even received relevant education before enthroning, and has not read all six books. He is a master who only knows about the stability of the throne and competes with the Supreme Emperor.On the contrary, the Supreme Emperor, although he is not an immediate emperor, has been in the court for many years and knows a lot, but he only believes that Ning Shan is his own, so he never reminded the emperor that he should not split up the troops he has brought with him for many years. .Ning Shan was born into an aristocratic family that fought in the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms for many years, and did not respect imperial power at all. She always led troops as her own soldiers. Thinking back to when Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty led to civil unrest, each family raised troops to lead the army. The most important thing is the royal army, and it's not who leads who counts. Therefore, when he took over the old man Ning's old department, he focused on educating the idea of ​​"the general will not accept the order of the emperor outside", so that his subordinates will not be too afraid of the imperial power and only recognize the general. .

It's just that this method of subduing the army is still easy to use, and it's not safe to take it to the court. Because Ning Shan was young, she never served as an official in the court in her previous life, and she was only educated at home about everything in the court. A few breakups were due to the disagreement between the two emperors. If the emperor was dedicated to management, he would have discovered something wrong a long time ago, so how could he be able to study the imperial court while recalling it.

The Hubu Shangshu's name is Qian Jin, and his name sounds like a Hubu Shangshu. He is not from a traditional noble family, but there is an old aunt in his family who is the harem of the Supreme Emperor and gave birth to a prince. Brother, I have just become king now.Qian Jin has been in charge of the Household Department for the Supreme Emperor for many years. As soon as he ascended the throne today, he was instructed to take part of the Household Department's money to honor the Supreme Emperor.Originally, when he saw that Ning Shan was thinking about supplementing the national treasury with money, and regarded him as the emperor's confidant, he was very repulsive, but then he saw that he had never hindered himself from fabricating names to embezzle funds for the emperor, so he felt a little confused, and he didn't mind. Know where Ning Shan is from.

Qian Jin couldn't help testing Ning Shan, and ordered him to do a few things. The first thing was to let him take the money from the sale of the Ministry of Industry to various gardens from the emperor to the national treasury, so as not to let him fill up his private house now.Ning Shan agreed without saying a word. In addition to managing taxes and finances, the Household Department also manages land and household registration and other matters. Ning Shan found out the memorials from Shaanxi and Gansu provinces and told the emperor that there was a drought this year and the harvests in the two places were poor. The treasury needed money to buy food. Ship it over.Hearing this, he was very worried now, he finally got a private house, how could he just take it out like this, how could he be reconciled, so he said: "Didn't you just recover the owed money this year? Why don't you use it?"

Ning Shan said: "The national treasury has been empty for many years, and it is only now that the debts have been paid back. Now it has been put into the treasury, maybe kept in case of emergencies, there is no reason to use up the treasury. The Ministry of Industry has sold many Wood, earth and rocks, this income can just be used for the famine in Shaanxi and Gansu."

The emperor was still reluctant to use the private treasury, the Supreme Emperor's private treasury did not give him a penny, if he had no money in the private treasury, no one would listen to him, so he said: "Jianghuai and other places have always paid a lot of grain taxes, wait for the autumn harvest this year, The food money that has been transported here will just go there.”

Ning Shan frowned when she heard it: "When the autumn harvest arrives, the famine in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces will break out. How can we deal with it now? We need to transport food and money before that, so that the famine will be relieved before it arrives." A bad harvest is the best policy. As for the tax, silver and grain stored in Jianghuai, it will naturally be kept in the treasury to prepare for natural disasters after next year."

Shanxi and Gansu provinces are located in the northwest, and have always been dry and rainless. Almost every year, the harvest can barely fill the stomach. It has never been a tax-heavy province, but it does not cause famine every year. The support has also passed, and the emperor thinks that they will survive this year, and they still don't need Beijing and China's help.

Ning Shan also knew that the land in these two provinces was barren and the climate was not good, and there were poor harvests every year. He was used to it from top to bottom. He just couldn't understand that the emperor would rather keep a large sum of money than Take it out to help the people.Even if this year's famine can still be survived, after all, many people will starve to death. He does not take the lives of the common people in the world as the most important thing. In a year of disaster, the common people can't go on and rebel?

Of course, Ning Shan can't say that if there is no support this year, there will definitely be a catastrophe, and Shaanxi and Gansu will definitely rebel, but the general rule is under her own rule, since there is a surplus, why not prevent it first?It's just that he won't go to death to remonstrate because of such things. Anyway, he has already told the emperor, and he has found a way. If he doesn't listen, he can't do anything.Then I went back and reported to the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs.

He just felt that since he failed to accomplish this task, the Secretary of the Household Department must find an excuse to reprimand him, but unexpectedly, he was actually satisfied, as if as long as he did it, it didn't matter if he didn't succeed.He even turned over to comfort him and said: "The place is drought every year, and every year I cry for help from the middle of Beijing, but I have been ignoring them all these years, and they have come here. You are still young, and it is good to serve the people wholeheartedly, but you have to take care of yourself first. Let's not learn from those people who are trying to catch fame and reputation, who are always admonishing and admonishing to the death, delusional to leave a name in history, that is Yushitai's job, we will not compete with them."

Ning Shan naturally wouldn't do that kind of thing, but Qian Jin's reaction was really beyond his expectation, and it was hard to deal with it at the moment, so she just echoed a few words, showing a frustrated and decadent demeanor, depressed for a few days, Thanks to Qian Jin's concern, she wanted to invite his family to drink from time to time, but Ning Shan refused several times, saying only to avoid the suspicion of forming a clique for personal gain, so she resigned firmly.Qian Jin believed more and more that he was just a stupefied young man who had been in the army for more than ten years and had a dark look at Chaotang, rather than his current confidant, the nail of the An □ □ Household Department, so he was willing to use him more when things went wrong. Don't give the right servant a chance to face the saint.

Ning Shan also felt much more relaxed after unexpectedly solving the big trouble of her immediate boss.Most of the people in the same line as Qian Jin are the favorites of the Supreme Emperor. Just look at who he deals with, and you will naturally understand the distribution of factions in the court.Ning Shan simply followed this pattern to find out the emperor's confidantes. In these two parties, he avoided all the loyal ones, and told Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian to avoid them too.But both said they hadn't been courted at all.Ning Shan thought about it, yes, when repaying the loan before, Jia Amnesty almost offended the four kings and eight princes, and Jia Lian was still the boss, the main team member who came to collect the bills, who still likes these guys now?Let them develop freely, as long as they don't stand in line.

After all, there are more than two current captains, the Taishanghuang and the current one. The other sons of the Taishanghuang who are still alive, as well as the sons who have grown up today, are all showing their talents. I hope that my father can secure the throne and quickly canonize myself as the prince. In addition, the Supreme Emperor who still wants to regain power and the throne is still trying to come up with big moves. Today, the four parties compete, there are many parties, and the turmoil is disturbing. Up and down is a puddle of muddy water.Ning Shan was afraid that the silly dad and stupid brother would be fooled into standing in line, and if they didn't stand correctly, it would be a big trouble.Unless it was absolutely necessary, he didn't want to be the first to rise up.Since ancient times, the first bird is easy to die first. If there is a day when the world is in chaos, he can get things done by just fishing in troubled waters. There is no need to run out to attract attention.

Although Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian were obedient and didn't want to stand in line, the entire Jia family liked to follow the dragon's merits. Now that the nobles in their family have no sons, they wanted to find a deep-rooted dragon son first to occupy the spot. Their nobles gave birth to sons, so they naturally supported their grandsons.Anyway, this kind of change of course started from the time of Jia Daishan. The Rongguo Mansion has been familiar with it for a long time, but their family has never been very good at gambling. Turning around and looking for the next family, the morals are so low that even the slaves of the three surnames are ashamed of themselves.