Daiyu's wife in the Red Chamber

The cause was not an accident in the Wei family, but an unforgivable mistake committed by King Mingti and his subordinates.

There was a refugee rebellion in Zhili this autumn, and Zhili was very close to the capital, but the news did not report to the capital until last month. Emperor Longyan of Changtai was furious, and immediately sent Wei Ruolan to lead troops to put down the rebellion.

The place of rebellion is only two days away from the capital, and one day is enough to hurry.

Emperor Changtai always valued Wei Ruolan's courage and loyalty, unlike other people who always have scruples and lack of honesty, he also ordered him to investigate the root cause of the rebellion. Officials brought large sums of money and food to relieve the disaster. After more than half a year, there must be a reason for the sudden rebellion of refugees.

Wei Ruolan took the order to go there, and when she arrived at the local area, she set up battles openly and investigated secretly, but found out a huge corruption case, because the local officials colluded with each other, increased taxes and corvees privately, and embezzled disaster relief money and food. Emperor Tai had ordered people to exempt the disaster area from paying taxes for three years. Unexpectedly, these officials ignored them and ordered the people to pay taxes. As a result, the people were in dire straits, and under the instigation of a few refugees, they took farm tools and attacked the local yamen, wealthy households, etc.

It would be fine if it was an ordinary corruption case. Unexpectedly, Wei Ruolan found out that a large part of the money and food went missing. After several days of investigation, it was discovered that someone was raising soldiers here in a large farm. The excuse was to protect himself, but this The batch of nearly 2000 people has armor, weapons, horses, food and grass, and strict discipline. They are definitely not the mob of refugees.

Since they were a mob, they were naturally taken down by Wei Ruolan very quickly. According to the order of Emperor Changtai before his departure, the chief culprits were punished, and the followers were punished according to the severity of their crimes. Most of the property they plundered returned to the original owner. The main thing enters the official.

The wealth of local wealthy households is not a reason to allow refugees to plunder. Although there are people who do evil, there are also people who are willing to do good.

When suppressing the rebellion, Wei Ruolan had taken down all the top and bottom officials, and ordered soldiers to guard his family members so as not to abscond. This matter is not under his control, and Emperor Changtai will send someone to deal with it. freed.

Wei Ruolan, on the other hand, focused on the matter of secretly raising soldiers, and found out that the big farm was actually owned by the Wei family. When the family was separated, this big farm with about six or seven thousand acres was allocated to Uncle Wei. There was a lot of food, but in the next two years, Mrs. Wei sold the property on the grounds that the government could not make ends meet and had to sell the land, and then transferred it to her own name.

When the Wei family was involved, Wei Ruolan should avoid suspicion, he only took down the private soldiers, and he returned to Beijing after reporting to Emperor Changtai and others to take over the investigation. It's his biological father, this is an unchangeable bloodline.

Daiyu and Wei Ruolan parted for half a month, like every ten or three autumns, looking forward to his return with great difficulty, but found out this news.

Therefore, after checking Qiaojie's homework, Daiyu didn't have the intention to let her play. She just picked some fresh melons and fruits for snacks and ordered her to take them back to honor Jia Mu and Jia She and his wife, and then gave some to Jia Lian and Baoyu.

Not long after Miss Qiao left, Wei Ruolan got home from get off work, took off her crown and sighed, "This is not a small matter."

Daiyu didn't like the servant girl serving in front of her, so she took the official robe he took off and hung it on the hanger, and exchanged the shoes with him, and said doubtfully, "It's not a trivial matter to keep private soldiers, but I don't know what the Wei family is involved in." To what extent? I don’t understand, who gave you the courage to raise private soldiers? Who doesn’t know that anyone who raises private soldiers will be punished as treason.”

Ordinary people have a nursing home and servants, and they also have the ability to guard the house and watch the night, but raising soldiers is a big deal. For officials as high as Wei Ruolan, there are only one hundred soldiers. The number of princes and princes has been reduced today. to five hundred.

Wei Ruolan sneered, he didn't have any deep hatred for Mrs. Wei and Wei Yuan's mother and son, the one he hated was Uncle Wei, and he didn't have any intention of taking pleasure in other's misfortunes at this time, but said indifferently: "It's nothing more than unwillingness. "In the old days in Wei Bo Mansion, Wei Yuan was honored by gold and jade, and he thought that his future prospects would be far superior to him, but now it is the opposite. Wang, it was nothing more than taking risks, trying to win the merits of the dragon and overwhelm himself.

Daiyu pondered for a moment, then shook her head and said, "It doesn't look like their handwriting. No matter how daring the eldest wife and mother are, they shouldn't be ignorant of the law that they can't keep private soldiers. It's human nature, but it's not in line with common sense to accuse yourself of a crime before you get rich."

Wei Ruolan praised: "You can see it too? It can be seen that there is no malicious speculation because of the discord between the two families. Yes, it is true that they did not do it, but it is also related to them. In the end, they cannot escape the responsibility."

As he spoke, he told Daiyu the details of what he had already investigated.

It turned out that after Wei Yuan had an accident in the Guozijian, Mrs. Wei looked for ways to make him come back. Later, seeing that the king of Mingti county appreciated Wei Yuan very much, she dedicated this Zhuangzi to the palace of the king of Mingti county.

According to common sense, the transfer of Zhuangzi's ownership is considered the property of Mingti County Prince's Mansion. Mrs. Wei, who has been in charge of the house for 20 years, naturally understands the way of doing it, and she also has this intention. Afraid of the crime of accepting bribes, the county prince's mansion said that it had received her filial piety, so it will not be registered for the time being.

Mrs. Wei wholeheartedly flattered Mingti County Prince's Mansion without any objection, and in order to show her loyalty, she withdrew her staff from Zhuangzi and replaced them with the servants in charge of Mingti County Prince's Mansion.

"That's not right, the servants who were replaced were not from Mingti County Prince's Mansion." Wei Ruolan sighed, and the twists and turns made him a little dizzy. The above is the wife-in-law who is in charge of the Prince's Mansion of Mingxiao County, and he has always been close to his brother-in-law, but the eldest wife thought he was from the Prince's House of Mingti County."

Daiyu was stunned, staring at Wei Ruolan with bright eyes, seeing his wry smile on his face, she couldn't help blurting out: "So, in name, Yangbing has nothing to do with Mingti County Palace?"

Wei Ruolan nodded slightly, the king of Mingti had always been more careful than the king of Mingxiao, and he did everything without leaking.

If it wasn't for Emperor Changtai who had a group of people dedicated to inquiring, it would be impossible to find out the secrets, because the chief steward who is now taking over Zhuangzi has never had any contact with the palace of Mingti County.

Daiyu wondered, "How can I listen to orders if I have no contact?"

"According to his brother-in-law." Wei Ruolan replied, and seeing Daiyu's puzzled eyes, she explained: "The brother-in-law who is in charge is a spy placed by King Mingti in the palace of Mingxiao County. The soldiers were all conveyed by him to his wife and uncle, and the latter always thought it was an order from the palace of Mingxiao County."

Speaking of this, Wei Ruolan brought up the previous incident again, and said: "No wonder when I caught the chief steward, he kept saying that the king of Mingxiao County ordered him to do this. Because I knew it was the eldest wife's farm, and I felt that Impossible, after all, Yuanyuan is the Chief Historian of Mingti County Prince's Mansion, how could he take the risk of giving his family's farm to Mingxiao County Prince's Mansion to raise private soldiers? It's a pity that I no longer cared about this matter in order to avoid suspicion, so I didn't know the truth until today."

Obviously, Wei Yuan is an abandoned child.

Or, from the very beginning, he was the abandoned son of Mingti County King's Mansion, otherwise why Mingti County King didn't use someone else's Zhuangzi, but Mrs. Wei's filial Zhuangzi, and he was not willing to transfer the ownership.

Sure enough, Wei Ruolan was discussing the matter with Daiyu, while Wei's house was being raided over there, and Mrs. Wei and Wei Yuan were both imprisoned.Two or three servants of the Wei family escaped by chance, and slapped the back door of their house in a panic, bluntly saying that they wanted to see Wei Ruolan. See if someone is chasing you.

The servants reported to Wei Ruolan and Daiyu, the husband and wife frowned in unison, almost predicting their intentions.

Wei Ruolan said coldly: "Lead them to the front hall, I'll listen to what they have to say, and then ask a few soldiers to wait for orders inside and outside the hall, and after I finish asking, I'll send them off to the officials." He and Mrs. Wei's mother and son have no relationship at all, so how could they agree to their plea for help?This is a serious crime of treason, and it is a blessing not to implicate him.

The servant promised to arrange it by himself.

Wei Ruolan was still dressed in homely clothes, when she reached the front hall, she asked what was the matter, and she really came to ask for help. The old woman in front of her was crying, she knelt down on the ground and kowtowed, begging: "I don't know why, it's good All of a sudden, officials came to ransack the house, begging Uncle Lan to save our wife and uncle for the sake of the same surname and branch!"

This woman is Mrs. Wei's confidant and companion, and in the Wei family, relying on Mrs. Wei's power, she has always shown off her power. When Wei Ruolan was young, she often pointed and scolded in front of Wei Ruolan, and she was extremely unbearable.

Wei Ruolan didn't listen any longer, and said indifferently: "Conspiracy is a serious crime, and it often affects the nine clans. Today, the Holy Majesty allowed me to take a vacation to avoid suspicion and accept investigation. If I have too much time for self-care, how can I save others? Not to mention the idea of ​​raising private soldiers." The land is exactly the Zhuangzi in Zhili under the name of the eldest lady. Is this called innocent? Come, send them there, hand them over to the guards over there, and tell them the reason why they came to me. Let them take care of it, and don't escape a few people and ask for help from other people's homes."

Emperor Changtai trusted him very much, but his words were formidable. He was too close to the Wei family, and he just returned from suppressing the rebellion. He took a month off and came back to work after the dust settled, so as not to disturb him from those people.

Before Wei Ruolan had time to tell Daiyu about this, someone from the Wei family came to the door.

There were only three servants in total, and the guards of the Wei family handed them over to the guards who were blocking the Wei family. Prince Zhongshun, who was in charge of this matter, smiled and waved his hands: "Go back and tell Yuan Fang, this king knows, and he will definitely not Another omission."

The matter was related to Ming Xiao County King and Ming Ti County King, so Emperor Changtai ordered Prince Zhongshun to deal with it.

Prince Zhongshun and Wei Ruolan had a long history of friendship, and because of Emperor Changtai's intentions, he would ask people to send news to Wei Ruolan when dealing with him, so that Wei Ruolan would know everything without going out.

The news that Wei Ruolan told Daiyu before was all obtained from secret investigations, and the case will not be deceived in the open, so after King Zhongshun followed Mrs. Wei to investigate the case clearly, Emperor Changtai scolded Mingxiao County Wang Qi's heart could be punished, and he scolded the king of Mingxiao County, his face turned pale, tears flowed, he prostrated himself on the ground, saying that he was innocent, and he did not do this.

Of course, Emperor Changtai knew that he was innocent in this matter, but he was not innocent in other matters. If it comes to forming a party for private interests, the king of Mingxiao County should be the first, and the officials who pocketed this time are related to him. If it weren't for the millions of taels of silver he was greedy for disaster relief, how could King Mingti have an opportunity to take advantage of it?

After scolding King Mingxiao, Emperor Changtai scolded King Mingti again, and the zip fell on the head of King Mingti, and his skin broke out immediately.

The king of Mingti County fell silent. He didn't expect the matter to be revealed so quickly. He acted so cautiously and cautiously. Even the stewards of Mingxiao County's palace were settled before the branch office. It was delivered by an outcast, how did Emperor Changtai find out?Is it because Mrs. Wei honored Zhuang Zi to herself?He had obviously arranged for a steward to pretend to fill his pockets and sell Zhuangzi to the wife-in-law who was the steward of Mingxiao County's palace.

It cannot be sold without a title deed, but servants have their own methods. They don't need a title deed, they only need to harvest the oil and water from the harvest when they are in charge, so the risk is small.

Emperor Changtai seemed to have expected King Mingti's thoughts, and smiled coldly. Fortunately, he has capable people under his command, otherwise he would definitely be concealed.Now that he is in his prime, he deeply resents the following sons for staring at his throne wrongly. The most intolerable thing is raising private soldiers. If raising private soldiers today, wouldn't it be a palace change tomorrow?

Therefore, through the big case of treason, Emperor Changtai imprisoned the king of Mingxiao County in the mansion, and then abolished the title of King Mingti, and also imprisoned him in the mansion. As for the people under their hands, they couldn't escape. Each has severe punishment.

The entire city of Chang'an was filled with blood and blood.

When the officials of the previous dynasty changed, the harem was also unstable. The empress had already ordered Concubine Wu Gui and Concubine Qi Shu to be grounded, and only sent two new little maids and two new little eunuchs to serve. All the eunuchs were taken away for inspection, the empress dowager was furious, and personally led people to stop her, and was finally invited back by Emperor Changtai.

If the fate of the prince and concubine is like this, one can imagine what will happen to the mother and wife families.

Daiyu and Wei Ruolan stayed behind closed doors from the very beginning, but there were always people asking to see her, so Wei Ruolan took Daiyu out of the capital and went to live in Zhuangzi in the eastern suburbs, leaving a piece of peace for herself.

No matter how stormy it is outside, the village is always quiet and warm.

Uncle Wei returned to Beijing at this time. He had been filial piety for three years and suffered a lot, but in order to keep his reputation as a filial son and avoid others mentioning that his mother died because of him, he had to endure it. He hurried back to Beijing, trying to find another way out, but he didn't know that something big happened when he entered Beijing.

Mrs. Wei and Wei Yuan and his wife were both arrested and awaiting punishment. How could Uncle Wei escape?Prince Zhongshun had already sent someone to take Uncle Wei, but probably missed it on the way, so Uncle Wei arrived in the capital safely.

When he was thrown into prison and Wei Yuan's room, Uncle Wei felt regretful for the first time.

He regretted it, regretted adopting the talented Wei Ruolan to his second brother, regretted leaving Wei Yuan, a useless son who was dedicated to causing trouble, regretted not treating Wei Ruolan kindly, causing his own accident and Wei Ruolan did not come forward.