The Hulk of the Red Chamber

Lin Ruhai was indeed in trouble, and it was not an ordinary trouble.

There are too many people involved in the Salt Administration. From top to bottom, I don’t know how many people took money from it, voluntarily or secretly acted as the umbrella of the Salt Administration. Lin Ruhai wants to thoroughly investigate the Salt Administration. It's a matter of taking people's jobs.The salaries of officials in this dynasty are said to be low or high, but if ordinary officials have no extra money, even if they can support a family, they still have to communicate with each other, so they can be fooled at will, of course. , These cannot come from the salary, which requires the filial piety of those businessmen and officials.Lin Ruhai wanted to clean up a group of salt merchants, and the number of officials involved was a shocking number, many of whom were high-ranking officials in the central government. What made Lin Ruhai even more troublesome was that there were many wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. It's all related, now Lin Ruhai is almost unable to move an inch.

Lin Ruhai had to ask for help now. He lifted the cover that he had been covering all the time in the industry. There had been a discussion over there to deal with him. It was really nothing to deal with him in private. Since the Holy Majesty asked Lin Ruhai to do it, Lin Ruhai naturally followed a few of the Holy Majesty's people , One is protection, and the other is surveillance.However, those salt merchants are also well-versed, and now they simply want to deal with Lin Ruhai from the official side. With their ability, they fabricated a few Lin Ruhais for accepting bribes, privately selling salt, and even more serious crimes. It's not too difficult to splash it on Lin Ruhai.

In the court, the Holy Majesty didn't have much friendship with Lin Ruhai at first, but now he just treats Lin Ruhai as a pawn, charging into the battle. Lin Ruhai is not afraid of death, but he can't die with a stigma on his back. It's all over.After all, the Lin family only has Lin Daiyu's bloodline. If Lin Ruhai dies unjustly, Lin Daiyu will become an official slave at that time. Although the Jia family can make her live comfortably, it is absolutely impossible to help her run around. There is no chance of justice.How could Lin Ruhai be reconciled, he would no longer have any children in this life, Lin Daiyu was his lifeblood, for Lin Daiyu's safety, he even made up his mind, how could he let his only daughter suffer for the rest of his life without seeing his father and daughter for several years.

Lin Ruhai didn't dare to waste time, so he decided to write a letter to ask for help. The Jia family had nothing to look forward to, let alone the matter of love and affection. In terms of real power, the Jia family is not as good as a seventh-rank county magistrate!Even if you have the heart, you can't do it, let alone people may not have the heart!

Looking for a high-ranking person who can speak in the center, naturally, Lin Ruhai quickly thought of the historian, in fact, it was Shi Ding's house. He had been dealing with Zhongjinghou's mansion for a while, and at the beginning it was just taking care of him. The historian's business, and later, Shi Ding was also within his ability, which gave Lin Ruhai some convenience in Yangzhou.However, firstly, Lin Ruhai is not clear about whether Shi Ding is willing to intervene in this matter. Secondly, Shi Ding is in the cabinet, and there must be people like spies around him. What special relationship does Shi Ding have, which is taboo.Therefore, Lin Ruhai directly edited the book and gave it to his old friends in Chang'an. When he wrote to Zheng Xuejian, he thought that the Zheng family and the historian were married, so he secretly asked Zheng Xuejian to connect with him in the letter. Yayi, it happened that Shi Hong Xiumu came, so he rambled about Lin Ruhai, and asked Shi Hong to go back and tell Shi Ding that as long as Shi Ding found something wrong with the court, he would naturally think that Lin Ruhai met Lin Ruhai. It's time for trouble.

Keeping Lin Ruhai is what the Holy Majesty needs to see. There are not many people available to the Holy Majesty now, and Lin Ruhai is a smart person. Otherwise, he wouldn't have to make a fuss about the salt administration because of the Holy Majesty's hint.Anyone with a discerning eye knows this, if Lin Ruhai is stigmatized, or even dies because of it, the Holy Majesty will also bear a bad reputation. Lin Ruhai has offended many people, but there are also many people who have made good friends in Qingliu.Although Qingliu has little power, they may not be able to accomplish anything, but they have a way to make you unable to accomplish anything!Even if the Holy Majesty is trying to win over the Qingliu faction, he can't let Lin Ruhai be so unlucky!

In addition, the Shi family and the Lin family are barely relatives, so Shi Ding finally made up his mind to pull Lin Ruhai.In his opinion, the best result is to keep Lin Ruhai and let Lin Ruhai make a small contribution, then leave his post and return to Beijing. It's good to be scared.The shortcomings of the salt administration cannot be solved by Lin Ruhai alone.

After discussing with his staff, Shi Ding directly edited a letter and sent it to Yangzhou through the historian's business route, and asked the historian's manager there to secretly hand it over to Lin Ruhai, so that Lin Ruhai could temporarily stabilize the situation in Yangzhou , it is best to get the handle of those salt merchants colluding with officials, so that he can operate easily and play by ear.

The attack on Lin Ruhai came extremely quickly and ferociously.

During the court meeting, several censors first appeared directly on the list, and Lin Ruhai took bribes, secretly sold salt, and exploited salt households... All in all, a lot of crimes were charged on Lin Ruhai, one by one. He also speaks convincingly, wishing he could just say that Lin Ruhai is rebellious, heinous and unforgivable, ten thousand deaths are not enough to absolve him of his crimes.

Lin Ruhai's connections over the years also played a role. Some people whom Lin Ruhai entrusted also stood up. They didn't say anything about evidence or evidence, and directly used the data of Jiangnan Salt Administration to pay salt taxes over the years. Anyway, Lin Ruhai Since Ru Hai took office, the salt tax has been rising steadily. Even if the national treasury is not much better because of it, it will not be stretched for everything.Moreover, what about Lin Ruhai's corruption and bribery? The Lin family is also the founding hero of the country. The family has been rich for more than 300 years. Why should he be corrupt and accept bribes? He didn't even go to my aunt's place very much. How much money he embezzled, couldn't it be brought into the soil to enjoy after death!

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be said in the court, and both sides insist on their own words, and each has evidence. Therefore, the Holy One simply made a mess, saying that there is no real evidence, so there is no need to talk about it.

Since those people wanted to rape Lin Ruhai, they only had this means. The next day, someone complained at the gate of Dali Temple. The person who sued was a beggar in ragged clothes. Crashed to death at the gate of Dali Temple.The bitter master who appeared out of nowhere is said to be a Yanhu in Yangzhou, and he sued the Xunyan Censor for exploiting the Yanhu. Their family couldn't survive, so they went to the Xunyan Censor's Office to file a complaint, but they were arrested by the Lin family. The servants beat them violently, and several of them lost their lives on the spot.

This incident is simply a joke. To these salt households, their superiors are not salt officials at all, but salt merchants. Lin Ruhai is waiting to take advantage of those salt merchants, so how could he kill the salt households? It is so absurd thing happened.

Because at the feet of the Son of Heaven, even if the people sued the officials, Dali Temple had to accept the case if someone died.

After the court, the Holy One returned to the imperial study room, swept the things on the imperial case to the ground, and asked in a cold voice: "What's going on?"

"According to my subordinate's order to conduct an inspection, that person is definitely not from Yanhu. Judging by his physical appearance, he should be a desperado on the street!" Kneeling and reporting back, "It should be those salt merchants who found someone to frame Mr. Lin!"

"Has there been any news from Yangzhou?" The Holy One asked through gritted teeth.

"Returning to the Holy Lord, there is news from Yangzhou that it is said that the Chen family was stolen and several books were lost, among which should be the evidence that the salt merchants colluded with officials!" The man lowered his head and said the news, "It's just It is not yet known who did it. Master Lin and the people from Yangzhou are all investigating. Those salt merchants are worried that the account book will fall into the hands of Master Lin, so they plan to act first! In addition, Zhen Tiren recently I'm walking around, looking for the post of patrol salt censor!"

The holy majesty slapped the imperial case fiercely, which was made of authentic rosewood. With this slap, the blood in the palm of the holy majesty's hand showed obvious color. He suddenly didn't realize it, and gritted his teeth and said: "The Zhen family has not been in charge of the salt government for long enough. Is it long? In order to let the Zhen family pay off the shortfall of taking over the family, the emperor gave the Zhen family control of the salt government for 12 years. Who knew that the Zhen family was not greedy enough, and used the salt government to amass money, not to mention the deficit. There are more and more, it is time to ransack the family and exterminate the family!"

The person below didn't say a word, the old lady of the Zhen family was still there, she was the emperor's closest wet nurse, if it wasn't for this relationship, the Zhen family would be over!Whether it's because of love for power or nostalgia for the past, the Supreme Emperor has always been soft-hearted towards the elderly. Although it is almost recognized that the royal family has no family affection, but under the current situation of the Holy Majesty, it is impossible to turn his face. In that case, it would be very difficult It is possible that both sides will suffer, and others will take advantage of it. Therefore, no matter what happens, what the Holy One can do is to hold his nose and admit it, while patiently waiting.

The Holy Majesty is patient, he waved the man down to arrange the affairs in Yangzhou, and he didn't ask the servants to serve him, he picked up the notebooks, pens and inks that had fallen on the ground, the inside of the inkstone was originally to prevent the inkstone from drying out , left some ink, and now it was all spilled on the carpet in the study, he pretended not to see it, pulled a few pieces of paper, wiped off the ink splashed on the table, rubbed the ink himself, took a The stack of paper came out, and he began to draw circles on it, with a serious expression on his face, he wrote very hard, the ink on the stack of paper almost seeped into the table, but he still wrote on it with all his strength.

And Lin Ruhai had already received a message from Shi Ding with a pigeon: "Your Majesty intends to keep it safe, don't worry!" Then, another letter came, explaining what happened in the capital in detail, and asked him to get it quickly. Besides those salt merchants' tricks, he will work on his side. As long as Lin Ruhai is sure to get out and don't let the Holy One hold grudges, he can let Lin Ruhai enter the Beijing court to debate, and take the opportunity to resign from the post of patrol salt censor and stay in the capital.

After Lin Ruhai finished reading the letter, he burned the letter paper with a candle, and felt relieved. He looked at his aging face in the mirror, and finally made up his mind——