Daiyu of the Red Chamber owes no one

Emperor Jiangyou heard the news that Jia Miao had already arrived, but he was not in a hurry. As usual, he went to the upper study room to listen to political affairs for half a day, or a whole day if there were many political affairs.Today, in the period of national filial piety, Emperor Jiangyou can still be so diligent. Who would not say that Emperor Jiangyou is wise among civil and military officials who are truly loyal to the emperor and patriotic?Only those who deceived others and used their power for personal gain felt that Emperor Jiangyou was not as easy to fool as Emperor Ding'an, and it was inevitable that they felt worried in their hearts.

He also said that in the Huo family, Grand Concubine Nan'an was slapped by several old eunuchs, shame and anger came second. Grand Concubine Nan'an only felt that Emperor Jiangyou dared to beat herself so confidently, how dare he not be afraid of Huo Yan?Therefore, Concubine Nan'an had to ask Huo Jiong to write a secret letter to inform Huo Yan about everything in the capital, and also ordered Huo Jiong to inform Huo Yan, to hold on to the military power, and not to return to Beijing easily.

Huo Jiong followed suit one by one, but he was young and energetic, thinking that his cronies had always done things properly, and because his mother was humiliated and beaten, he was angry, and his words were inevitably disrespectful.

The road along the West Sea is far away, and it takes several months to go back and forth.But Jia Miao was arrested and brought to justice before the Huo family's letter was delivered to Xihai Yanzi.

After interrogation, it turns out that Jia Miao is Starscream's proud disciple. After Starscream obeyed the law, Jia Miao planned to avenge his master with all his heart.It was also because Emperor Jiangyou, who was still the prince at that time, only valued Daiyu and never paid attention to other women. Jia Miao appeared several times, but Emperor Jiangyou never looked at Jia Miao on the only way back to the East Palace. Jia Miao was gone. It was the second best thing to attack Emperor Jiangyou when the opportunity was right, which triggered the poisonous poison on Emperor Ding'an.If Emperor Jiangyou was a perceptive person, he would only need to step forward and say a few words before he would be poisoned.

Emperor Jiangyou was listening to the trial, and he almost laughed out loud when he heard Jia Miao's expression of her true intentions full of displeasure.Jia Miao was quite pretty, but compared to Daiyu, she was as straight as cloud and mud. Since she also wanted to use her beauty to approach and plot against herself, she hadn't looked in the mirror for a long time.

After the interrogation, Jia Miao was about to be executed, but was stopped by Yan Luo of Thousand Hands.Emperor Jiangyou asked Mr. Luo why he stopped him?Luo Mishang whispered in Emperor Jiangyou's ear for a while, Emperor Jiangyou listened, nodded his head, and then said slowly: "In that case, let the demon girl Jia Miao be burned to death."

At the beginning, when Jia Miao heard the word Wenzhan, his face was full of ruthlessness, his expression was determined but he showed no signs of fear.When he heard that Emperor Jiangyou was going to change beheading to fire, his face changed abruptly, and he couldn't hide his frightened expression.After hearing the verdict changed, Jia Miao immediately yelled and cursed all kinds of obscenities. She didn't have the womanly demeanor of everyone in the past half a year, and she didn't deserve that pretty face.Those unsavory words were even worse than those of the shrew in the market, making people feel that their ears have been polluted.If Emperor Ding'an was still alive and saw Jia Guiren like this, he might not favor Jia Miao and let her take advantage of it, which would have cost his life.

It turned out that when Starscream entered the palace as a maid, she had a huge conspiracy.From then on, Starscream began to cultivate Jia Miao's bearing and manners.After a few years, Jia Miao's actions and gestures have become like everyone else's, so when Concubine Nan'an sent her to the palace, no one suspected that she was a woman from the Gu sect.

As for why Luo Mishang suggested that Emperor Jiangyou change Jia Miao's sentence to fire, Jia Miao fled for several months. If she knew that she would die, she would use herself as a vessel to inject Gu poison into her own blood. Splash, I don't know how many people can be hurt.

It was also Luo Mishang who had traveled all over the world for a long time and was used to observing words and expressions. Seeing that Jia Miao was sentenced to beheaded, she was not only not afraid, but was extremely ruthless, so she wondered if she had any other tricks?Luo Mishang suggested that Jia Miao should be sentenced to fire torture instead. It was just a trial. After all, Jia Miao was young.Because of this panic, he was sentenced to be burned at the stake and executed on the spot.Gu poison has been refined from various poisonous insects, flowers and plants since ancient times, no matter how powerful Gu poison is, there is no one who is not afraid of fire.

Also speaking of Nan'an Prince's Mansion, Nan'an Grand Concubine, mother and son waited for several months before they got a reply from Nan'an County King Huo Yan.In Huo Yan's reply letter, he asked Concubine Nan'an and Huo Jiong to send cronies to count and pack the gold and silver, and choose the opportunity to transport them out of the capital, which would be of great use to him.Concubine Nan'an thought that she needed money and food to recruit soldiers and horses, and saw that there was a unique mark of the Nan'an Palace on the letter paper, which could not be faked, so she never became suspicious. Huo Jiong went to an unremarkable pawn shop in the south of the city overnight to check the warehouse.

Relying on Empress Huo's power, the Nan'an Palace used the means of buying and selling officials to search for several years. After all, they knew that the emperor's surname was not Huo, and these gold, silver and jewels were not blindly hidden in the Nan'an Palace's treasury.Most of the people living in the north of the capital are princes and nobles, and there are only some poor merchants in the south of the city. Even if this Yujia pawn shop is in the south of the city, it is not considered a large scale.Moreover, the owner of Yujia's pawn shop is surnamed Yu, originally from Shanxi, a businessman who has filed a record in Shuntian Prefecture, and has complete qualifications and certificates.

But Yujia's boss Yujia's pawn shop is actually a confidant of the old Nan'an king when he was still leading the army in Xihaiyanzi.The man surnamed Yu had committed a capital crime, but the old King of Nan'an rescued him. From then on, Boss Yu has been loyal to the Huo family.In the past few years, the Huo family has bought and sold gold and jewelry from officials, except luxury ornaments, screens, vases, ironware, etc., which have been sent to the Nan'an Palace treasury, and other real gold and silver are placed in Yujia's pawnshop treasury, and no one will let it go. People are suspicious.

Both the mother and son of Nan'an Taifei knew that once the gold and silver left the city, their family would be on the road of rebellion.But looking at Emperor Jiangyou's thunderous means of enthroning for less than a year, his family may not end up well, so it's better to give it a go.So even knowing that this matter is of great importance, Huo Jiong still plans secretly.

Only this day, Huo Jiongzheng was instructing his confidantes to pack the money in the warehouse of Yujia's pawn shop, and spread cloth outside. If the box was opened for inspection, it was only a box of cloth.But I could hear the noise of people outside.When Huo Jiong sent people out to check, it turned out that a foreign merchant pawned a Longquan sword at a pawnshop.The outsider insisted that the jewel inlaid on the sword's scabbard was missing, but the shopkeeper refused to recognize it, and the two sides argued.

Huo Jiong has always been a bully, but how dare he argue with others during this period?After hearing the report from his confidant, he had to order someone to tell the shopkeeper to calm down.But the outsider was also stubborn, he decided to distinguish clearly from the shopkeeper, and started yelling, asking passers-by and neighbors to judge him.When everyone looked at it, they saw only a precious sword. The scabbard was inlaid with gemstones of various colors, each of which was brilliant and brilliant. It was hard to find even one of them.

But I heard the outsider say: "My ancestral sword is called Seven Stars Chasing the Moon, and the hilt is a beautiful jade the size of a bird's egg, which is crystal clear. The seven gems in the scabbard are inlaid in the shape of a Big Dipper, and the hilt is facing the beautiful jade on the hilt. , everyone who doesn't believe me can go forward and check to see if what I said is true? I was unlucky yesterday, and my money bag was stolen on the street. , He said that when I found my friend, I took the money and came to redeem the sword. In just one day, the top quality ruby ​​on the scabbard disappeared, everyone, if you don’t believe me, take a look.”

Saying that, the outsider held the sword in his hand and stretched it forward, facing the crowd with the sword lacking gems.When everyone looked at it, they saw only a precious sword with six precious stones on the scabbard, inlaid with red gold filigree. The workmanship was exquisite, obviously it came from a famous master.The six gemstones have different colors, but they are crystal clear and dazzling, and each piece is worth thousands of gold.There is a small groove in the middle of the red gold filigree close to the hilt of the sword. As expected, there is no gem. It can be seen that the imprint is still new, and the gem has been lost not long ago.

The surrounding audience looked at it, and they couldn't help discussing it. The pawnshop manager only heard someone in the crowd say: "This guest officer's words are not deceptive, there is clearly a gem missing there. This pawnshop is too dark." , It took only one night to steal a piece of jewelry." Others also agreed, all pointing to the black heart of the pawn shop.

When the shopkeeper wanted to distinguish, the outsider said: "Everyone knows that pawnshops are the most deceitful. If you give them something that is likely to be new, you have to write your item on the pawn ticket. It’s tattered and tattered, just to lower the price. If my sword was missing a gem yesterday, I don’t know how they wrote it on the pawn ticket. Why don’t you take a look at the pawn ticket, it’s clear. It says a Longquan sword, a piece of inlaid white jade, and seven colored gemstones, why only one night later, there are only six gemstones."

When some literate people in the crowd came forward to look at it, they saw that it was clearly written on the ticket.Everyone accuses the pawn shop of being a black shop more and more loudly.

Huo Jiong knew that it was not a good thing for the pawnshop to be busy at this time, so he hurriedly ordered the shopkeeper to compensate according to the price.But when the shopkeeper wrote the pawn ticket yesterday, he stated that one gem was missing, and now there are seven gems written on the pawn ticket.The shopkeeper knew that the outsider was intentionally causing trouble, but since the boss was ordered to do so, he couldn't say anything, so he had to tell Boss Yu the truth, and at the same time came out laughingly to discuss with the outsider, how much should a gem be compensated for?

After Boss Yu heard the truth, he didn't dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly told Huo Jiong.Unexpectedly, the outsider wanted to make trouble deliberately and insisted on his original gem. Because there was a message from Boss Yu on this end, it was delayed again and again.

After listening to Boss Yu's explanation, Huo Jiong secretly thought it was bad: Huo Jiong knew that he might have leaked the news somehow, and he didn't know who was instigating the outsider, so he hurriedly ordered Boss Yu to seal the warehouse, got up and wanted to escape through the back door.But I heard from outsiders that the servant next to the foreigner has reported to the official, and the official has surrounded Yujia's pawn shop at this moment.

Huo Jiong broke into a cold sweat from fright, but knowing that he couldn't escape, he first hid in the basement dug out by Boss Yu.When the audience outside saw the official messenger coming, they dispersed.

But he said why the official dispatch came so quickly. It turned out that Emperor Jiangyou had a master counterfeiter who could fake letters and imitate handwriting.Concubine Nan'an received the letter from Huo Yan asking her to prepare the money to transport out of the capital, and the pawn ticket in the hands of the outsider just now, all came from this person, the Huo family and the shopkeeper of the pawnshop, and they did not see the letter and the pawnshop. Pawning is a forgery.The so-called shipping out silver taels is nothing more than leading the snake out of the hole.The mother and son of the Nan'an concubine really fell into the trick, and personally brought the officials to find the Huo family's private treasury of gold and silver.

Those who came to surround Yujia's pawn shop were not Shuntian government officials, but officers and soldiers from the Beijing camp, led by the dragon guard Liu Xianglian.

The south of the city where Yujia's pawnshop is located is not a place where wealthy people live, so the houses are extremely densely built.When Yujia's pawn shop was never exposed, these poor houses were naturally an excellent cover.But also because of this, Yujia's pawn shop has a simple structure, no huge basement, and no spacious and complicated organs, so it is very easy to check.It didn't take much effort, Liu Xianglian led people straight to the warehouse, and took out boxes and boxes of gold and silver.He also took away the account books of Yujia's pawn shop.

Yujia's pawnshop is just a humble small pawnshop, and the account books are very limited. The gold and silver stolen by the Huo family did not dare to be directly charged to the account, so Yujia's pawnshop's accounts can be seen at random. The origin of the huge amount of gold and silver is unknown.Boss Yu couldn't tell the origin of these huge amounts of gold and silver. Naturally, Liu Xianglian ordered the gold and silver to be transported to the household department for investigation, and Boss Yu was also sent to prison pending trial.

Huo Jiong hid in the basement for a day, and returned to the palace after all the officers and soldiers had left. Concubine Nan'an had already obtained the millions of dollars embezzled by the Huo family over the years, and they had all been transported to the household department.When the mother and son met each other, Huo Jiong was still frightened with an ashen expression on his face, and had not yet recovered his human color.Concubine Nan'an retreated, Huo Jiong said to Concubine Nan'an: "Mother, the officers and soldiers came so fast yesterday, I always feel that we have been betrayed, and I don't know if Lao Yu is unreliable."

Concubine Nan'an thought about losing all the gold and silver she had searched for for so many years, and her heart ached for something.He could only say: "My son, you can't talk nonsense. If Lao Yu has a problem, who in our family will end up well? That boy Yongjun will not let you go back to the palace without arresting you. Fortunately, we have already written Send a letter to your elder brother, tell him to hold on to the military power and not to return to Beijing, as long as your elder brother still has military power in his hands, we will not be afraid of anything."

The mother and the son were still in shock, for a while they were terrified of something, that the officers and soldiers were going to raid the house, and for a while they said to themselves that there was nothing serious about it, it was just self-consolation.Just as he was talking, the steward outside replied loudly, "Toffee, the servant has something important to report."

Concubine Nan'an's mother and son stopped talking and ordered someone to ask.

The steward said: "Concubine Tai, the county king has returned to the capital, and today he will enter the palace to meet the emperor, and he will come back to pay his respects to the concubine after he has a face-to-face."

Concubine Nan'an heard this, she swayed, Huo Jiong hurriedly supported her, and Concubine Nan'an did not fall down.But Nan'an Concubine and Huo Jiong were in a cold sweat: Emperor Jiangyou was so confident that he beat the concubine and stole the Huo family's gold and silver. Could it be that he knew that the Prince of Nan'an would return to Beijing?But my mother and son clearly wrote to tell Nan'an County King to hold on to the military power and don't want to go back to Beijing. Why did he come back again?

But he said that in the study, Lin Ruhai was reporting to Emperor Jiangyou.Lin Ruhai said: "Go back to the emperor and tell me that Yujia's pawn shop was stolen yesterday, and I sent someone to count it overnight. The total amount of gold and silver is equivalent to 380 taels of silver. Now it has been transported to the treasury. It was locked layer by layer and sent to guard day and night."

Emperor Jiangyou heard this, and snorted, "Father has been in power for the past few years, they have been too arrogant. Calculated, they have to search for 80 million silver coins every year. Two big weddings have been held in these years. Two visits to the country for funerals, together with various disasters in various provinces and the use of silver on the four frontiers, cost a lot of money. Now the national treasury is only more than a million taels. The Huo family's private treasury is several times more than the treasury money. It is really rich. Okay. A Yujia pawn shop, 'Yujia' is 'Huo', they are blatant and do not avoid suspicion."

Lin Ruhai hurriedly got up and persuaded: "The emperor calms down, the so-called sky net has been restored, the Huo family will always be caught, they searched for the money, it was originally the filial piety of corrupt officials, we came here once, they just helped the emperor collect it first That's all."

When Emperor Jiangyou saw Lin Ruhai stood up to answer again, and all the palace people were sent outside the study, Emperor Jiangyou hurriedly stood up and said: "My son-in-law said that when there are no outsiders, father-in-law doesn't need to treat his son-in-law with the courtesy of a monarch and a minister." Son-in-law. Father-in-law is standing like this, wouldn’t it be a shame for son-in-law?”

After Lin Ruhai heard this, he hurriedly said that he didn't dare, and he was also puzzled: Emperor Jiangyou was very respectful to himself when he was still the crown prince, so that's all, why would he be more respectful to his father-in-law after he became the king of a country after he ascended the throne?It's strange that Concubine Nan'an said such disrespectful words about Emperor Jiangyou being the son-in-law of the Lin family.Only Emperor Jiangyou treated him like this, which shows that he treated Daiyu very well, Lin Ruhai felt relieved.

Weng and son-in-law discussed for half a day, how to let Li Han take the imperial decree to Xihaiyanzi to temporarily take over the military power, and how to transfer the Jiangnan guard Ran Feiming to the northern border.Thinking that the king of Nan'an County had just arrived in the capital, Li Han should have also arrived at Xihai Yanzi.If Wei Ruolan persuaded General Wei again, and General Wei and Li Hanli should cooperate with each other, Xihai Yanzi's military power would be easily taken over. If General Wei was obsessed with his obsession, he must be sincere to Nan'an King Huo's family, and he would have to use some means.But no matter what, when King Nan'an returned to Beijing this time, he would never want to go back to Xihaiyanzi again.

The two played a game of chess and deduced that after the tiger was transferred away from the mountain, every link of Li Han's sneaking in was extremely well-planned, and there was nothing wrong with it, that's why Lin Ruhai came out of the palace.

However, it is said that Emperor Jiangyou summoned the King of Nan'an County to return to Beijing to mourn the funeral on the grounds of Emperor Ding'an's death.After the King of Nan'an came back to Beijing, the first thing he did was to go to the royal ancestral hall to offer incense in front of Emperor Ding'an's mausoleum, and then went to the upper study room to meet the new emperor and report on the military situation along the West Sea.

The king of Nan'an County went to the study room to kneel down three times and kowtow nine times to Emperor Jiangyou. Never given a seat.Seeing such a situation, the king of Nan'an County beat a drum in his heart.

The king of Nan'an stood at the bottom, only to see that the cousin in front of him was wearing a white dragon robe, which was filial piety.But seeing that his face is like a crown jade, he has a natural royal demeanor.The new emperor had never asked Xihai Yanzi about the military situation, and Nan'an County King didn't know how to speak. There was a moment of silence, and the air seemed to freeze.

Emperor Jiangyou didn't speak or move, but Emperor Jiangyou didn't do anything, and Nan'an County King felt an uncontrollable fear rising from the bottom of his heart, straight down his spine.

After another meeting, Emperor Jiangyou waved his hand and said, "Take it." Liu Xianglian said yes, and then shot like lightning, with a knife resting on the neck of Nan'an County King.

Although Nan'an County King has been in the army for a long time, he did not expect such a change.Moreover, when entering the palace to meet the saint, you are not allowed to bring weapons. Liu Xianglian is very skilled in martial arts, and she is also a guard with a sword in front of the imperial court.

The king of Nan'an County had no choice but to shout: "Your Majesty, this king has always been loyal to the king and served the country, guarding the frontiers, and dedicated to his duties. What has this king done wrong? As soon as the emperor came to the throne, he treated meritorious ministers like this. Wouldn't it make hundreds of people Official chill?"

Emperor Jiangyou didn't say anything, and threw a stack of letters in front of Nan'an County King, who immediately turned pale.