Jia Minqi's family in the Red Chamber

The Rong family is also honorable, but their contributions were limited when they founded the country. Before the crown prince's father, Rong Jing, the family was almost in decline. Not to mention the title and connections, even the land passed down from the ancestors is only about [-] acres. There are only two left in the town where the ancestral home is located.First off dear

The family background is basically no different from that of a squire, and it is still a squire who is not very rich.Later, at the age of 28, Rong Jing won the champion of martial arts, and his official career was prosperous, and the Rong family embarked on the road of revival.

Jia Min didn't need to look carefully at Rong Jing's resume to know that Master Rong was very different from someone like Grandpa Sun who relied solely on his ancestors.

She said with emotion, "My master is no better in the northwest than in the south of the Yangtze River."

Lin Hai was slightly drunk, but he was very sober, "Jiangnan has been at peace for a long time, even if there are one or two lunatics, there is no need to be timid in dealing with them. But in the northwest, we have to be cautious. Fortunately..." As he spoke, his forehead Paste Jia Min's right face, "Thank you Minmin."

The country name of this dynasty is "Liang".The confidantes of the Liang Dynasty were all in the north, one was Dajin in the northeast, and the other was Xidi, who was dominating the grassland thousands of miles outside the Northwest Pass.

If you think about it carefully, Xidi is much tougher and more ruthless than Dajin.Although Dajin has vast pastures, there is also rich land in the territory. All in all, Dajin's life is good, the people are well fed, and the national power is not enough to lightly start a war against the dynasty.

Xidi is different: if you don’t have enough to eat, you will come to grab it, but if you are full, you will still come to grab it.Of course, at present, Xidi is still committing crimes because she is not full enough to eat.

From the time of Tai~Zu~Ye~Li~, in order to guard against Dajin and Xidi, nine important towns were established, and six of them were aimed at Xidi.It shows Xidi's position in the heart of the ~tai~zu~ye.

It is said that the more than 20 frontier troops stationed in the nine border towns have a detached status and are not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, but are dispatched by the Privy Council.

Privy Councilors and Privy Councilors have always been the confidantes of the Holy One. Jia Min's father, Jia Daishan, returned to Beijing from the northwest and had also been in charge of the Privy Council Envoy's Great Seal for many years.

More than ten years have passed, and many of his father's robes have passed away, but the sons and grandchildren of robes are still there, and most of them serve in the frontier army.If only the lord of the Rong Mansion who has an empty title comes to make friends, he will probably end up with a reply letter that is not salty or not, and the name of brazen clinging.After all, the status is not equal, so how can we make friends.

However, Jia Min, the chief envoy's wife, sent letters to his father's old friends one by one at the beginning of Lin Hai's arrival, and within half a month, he received a lot of replies.

Old acquaintances who hadn't had any contact for several years, all responded.

If they get too close, they will inevitably be suspected of collusion between civil and military forces, but they can send some news to each other at critical moments, so why not do it?

Military generals are relatively simple and honest, but they have self-knowledge. They can’t compare to those civil servants who are full of tongues and old-fashioned officialdom. Therefore, they are very happy to have a friendly civil servant to give them advice behind their backs, even as long as they are appropriate. A reminder is enough to keep them from falling headlong into the pit.

In return, they will also take the initiative to be an ear to the gods.

And the timing of Lin Hai's appointment is good: the winter in the Northwest is not easy.No matter what the fight with Xidi is like, and no matter how intense the battle is, as long as winter comes, they will withdraw their troops, go back to their homes, and find their own mothers.

Otherwise, even with an army of [-], half of its combat effectiveness could be frozen by the cold alone.

In short, after coming to Chang'an for more than a month, Lin Hai has fully understood the situation in the Northwest, as well as the general situation among officials and generals - if there is no letter from his daughter-in-law to "renew~old~love", he would not be able to figure out what he is about to face so easily. ...the hardest task.

Lin Hai leaned on the couch, put his arms around his wife's waist, and said calmly, "Before leaving Beijing, the Holy Majesty told me to pay more attention to civil affairs, and specifically mentioned that I should pay attention to military affairs..."

Lin Hai was the chief envoy, but the Holy Majesty asked him to pay attention to military affairs, which meant that it was the minimum requirement to write a secret report to the Holy Majesty in time about what he saw and heard.

Jia Min said with a smile: "Your Majesty acquiesced in asking for news, so it can be regarded as... passing the Ming Road?"

Being well-connected is also a kind of talent.

"It's clear that there is something in the words."

"Pay attention to the Rong family?" Seeing that her husband nodded immediately, Jia Min said calmly, "If you want me to say, since the Sun family became the old man, even if the old man became the servant of the military department, he finally let go of the military power. The Sun family It becomes a big mouse in the grain depot, we have enough beams and granaries, some mice are annoying but it doesn’t matter.” She leaned closer to Lin Hai, her voice was very soft, “The Rong family is different.”

It took only a little more than two years from the governor of Gansu to Rong Jing, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu today.

It must be known that the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu is more inclined to military affairs in terms of duties, and has the right to mobilize food and pay, lead troops into battle, and command during wartime. If the Rong family has a second heart, it will be a disaster. city ​​walls.

How could this make the Holy Majesty not take precautions?But if he had no appreciation and trust towards the Rong family and Rong Jing, he would not have chosen his family's daughter to be the crown prince, let alone promote Rong Jing to the rank of governor.

Lin Hai responded: "When I came out from the Holy Majesty, the teacher told me to stand firm first after taking office, and then I should pay more attention to Mr. Rong."

The Holy One is diligent in government and loves the people, rewards and punishes fairly, and is recognized as a wise king.Under the Holy Majesty's hard work, the world has been peaceful for more than [-] years. The civil servants in Daliang may not love money, and the generals may not be afraid of death, but there are many civil and military officials with integrity.

Elder Zhou Ge, Lin Hai's teacher, reminded his disciples that it was more out of publicity: Rong Jing... Let him seize the opportunity, maybe he will turn against him!

Only when the husband and wife are facing each other, Lin Hai tells his wife all the teacher's views.

Jia Min almost wanted to applaud Mr. Zhou Ge: Rong Jing was indeed reversed in his previous life.

Using the prince's name as a banner to eliminate traitors, he not only supported his own self-respect, but also sent a small group of scouts to harass... He didn't understand that it was his family who rebelled, but in action We have done enough.

It's a pity that most of the scenes reflected in the water mirrors in the underworld are concentrated in the capital, and Jia Min can only learn about the northwest affairs from the side: I only listened to the elder Ge's report to the sage, and the Rong family~big~jun hasn't followed the sixth prince. The elite soldiers confronted each other, and the Rong family became inexplicably cowardly again... Jia Min felt that perhaps it was not Rong Jing who was so cowardly, but other members of the Rong family.

Rong Jing is the only official in the Rong family, and the rest of the clan are no more than six or seven small officials... But every family has a hard-to-read scripture, Mr. Rong can control one, two, but he can't control each other behind him. A large group of people in the mind.

Think about it, when Sun Er's private treasury was searched, didn't the Rong family also send a team of elite soldiers to catch a leak when no one was prepared?

With Rong Jing's head, it's not hard to understand, the Sun family collapsed, and the vacant seats must be filled by the Rong family, why bother to go all the way to the south of the Yangtze River for money?Kong angered the Holy One and the Prince.

What's more, the Rong family is not short of money. After Rong Jing made his fortune, relying on various filial piety and opening many shops in the northwest, as well as the caravans established with many colleagues to and from the countries in the Western Regions, his family is now worth at least one million.

The Lin family's million-dollar property was accumulated over several generations.

Jia Min silently sighed for a while, and then asked after regaining consciousness, "What is the master's plan?"

Lin Hai pondered for a long time before saying, "East Palace...the future is unpredictable."

The Rong family is the crown prince's mother family, and making the proud disciple look after the Rong family shows that Elder Zhou Ge doesn't have much confidence in the crown prince.

This is the second time that the master has made a serious statement that he is not optimistic about the prince.When Jia Min heard this, she also sighed softly, "The East Palace is indeed a bit irresponsible."

However, the two imperial princes returned to the capital with a lot of evidence and imperial convicts. The prince never went to the Holy Majesty to plead guilty and admit his mistakes. After the old grandpa Sun passed away, the prince neither pleaded for mercy nor dealt with the Sun family. Instead, he left everything to his father. .

With the appearance of a good son who listens and respects, the emperor can't even scold him.

From Jia Min's point of view, no matter what the prince thinks in his heart, this is too irresponsible.

Jia Min's two elder brothers, who were the heads of their families, did not take any responsibility, nor did his nephew Baoyu, so the Rong Mansion in his previous life ended up being confiscated. One of the two elder brothers was exiled and the other resigned. Love eventually became a monk.

Thinking of the tragic ending of her natal family in her previous life, Jia Min couldn't help but whispered, "If the king of a country doesn't take responsibility, what will happen?"

Is it possible that when you become an emperor, you have to pass on to others when you encounter embarrassing things?In fact, there is no matter that can be pushed before the Holy One to make a decision that is not difficult and does not involve the fate of thousands of people.

Not to mention that Dajin and Xidi are now eyeing each other!The Daliang Kingdom is also full of talents, the emperor is not stable on the throne, and there is absolutely no shortage of ruthless people who want to "replace him with their own bodies". The dynasty changes and the world is chaotic, and it is the common people who suffer.

Lin Hai took it for granted, "The teacher is worried about this."

Lin Haixin said: At a young age, for the prosperity of his family, and for the people to live and work in peace and prosperity, the prince must be torn off the throne.

Jia Min and Lin Hai have a very tacit understanding, "The master is a capable minister, and a capable minister is most afraid of a faint king..."

Lin Hai smiled and said, "Minmin praised me so much." After thinking for a while, he said, "The attack on the Sun family is also the result of a discussion between the elders of the court. There are a lot of vacant official positions in Jiangnan, and they have to be replaced one by one. Originally The teacher also asked me if I would like to return to the Beijing Gang, I thought twice and came to the Northwest."

Lin Hai is the youngest among all the great officials in the world.And the youngest often means that the official performance is slightly insufficient.

The Northwest is a good place to make contributions, but the capital will be disturbed in a few years because of the fighting of several princes, so Lin Hai wrote a letter to the teacher when he was still in Hangzhou, explaining his views in detail.

As expected, Mr. Zhou Ge exchanged the chief minister of Zhejiang for the chief minister of Shaanxi from another elder, as well as a little extra...

Unexpectedly, after Mr. Zhou Ge's discussion here, when he wanted to give his favorite disciple a letter of approval, the sage first revealed: He also wanted Lin Hai to go to the northwest.

After hearing the anecdote from the master, Jia Min couldn't help laughing, "Jane is in the emperor's heart...but it's different. Once the Holy Majesty speaks, Mr. Zhou still needs a little extra."

This is just a joke.During Lin Hai's tenure in Zhejiang, he recommended several young talents to his two teachers.The two teachers naturally rewarded such caring disciples.In fact, the "additional head" Zhou Ge begged for was also intended to be sent to Lin Hai.

Lin Hai also smiled, "I have to feel sorry for the teacher. It's not easy to settle the matter of the Sun family within a year, and there must be frequent actions in this year."

After all, manpower and time are needed for trial, conviction, assessment and transfer.

Jia Min understood, "Isn't the master's helper here yet?"

It is true that there will be helpers arriving one after another, but the ready-made ones should not be ignored.Lin Haidao: "It just so happens that there are not many things to do in winter. I didn't have many contacts in the past, so I didn't know that Mr. Shi is quite extraordinary."

The Master Shi here is the current Commander of the Shaanxi Capital, Shi Xiangyun's uncle Shi Nai.Seeing Shi Nai, Jia Min had to call him cousin.

In the future, a historian with two lords will be the only one among the four big families of Jinling Jia Wang Shixue that not only did not lose the name of the ancestors, but became more and more prosperous.

The master is willing to be close to his family, and Jia Min can't wait for it. After thinking about it for a while, she thought of how to give charcoal to the Shi family. "The property of the Shi family is not what it used to be." The whole family is the same, they have titles when they are empty, but they don't have the official position to support their titles. A big family can't make ends meet, and after one or two generations in a row, they are not far from failure.

Seeing the master nodding, Jia Min continued, "My cousin's family is not very rich now, it doesn't matter whether it's giving charcoal in the snow or making trouble, just drag him to earn money."

Lin Hai said cheerfully, "Thank you for your hard work, Minmin."

Shi Nai and Shi Ding really didn't mean to treat their niece Xiangyun harshly.

Both of Xiangyun's parents died, and it's not unusual for her to be awkward and sensitive, but she complains that she can't take charge at home and has to work until late at night... That's because Shi Ding and Shi Nai brothers really don't have a lot of money.

Moreover, Jia Min admired the two cousins ​​of the historian not only because of their outstanding vision and foresight, but also because they were not greedy.

Compared with his own master who has a rich family and is not greedy, it is even more rare for the Shi family cousin to have no money and be able to abide by his integrity.

The couple discussed it properly, and it happened that Jia Min received a message from Mrs. Shi Nai the next day.

Being bored at home was very boring, so Jia Min took Daiyu and Brother Pian to sit at Shi Nai's mansion: Mrs. Shi Nai invited her to the house this time to have tea alone to reminisce about the old days.

Mrs. Shi Jia really wanted to get close. When they met, they sat down and asked each other about their family members, boasting about their children, and then took the initiative to bring up the topic, "We have been in Ren Xiao for half a year. It is fine with our master, but I have not even recognized the family members of the master's colleagues. Woolen cloth."

When a new official takes office, the three fires will be set aside first, but once the subordinates come to visit the new boss, the wives of the subordinates will also come to meet the boss's wife.

Jia Min asked curiously, "How did you say that?"

Mrs. Shi Jia chuckled, "The wives from the families who often come to flatter me are very concerned about my two girls, and they even specifically mentioned a few good men from Northwest China in front of me. I inquired carefully and found that they are all close to the Rong family. "

Both Shi Ding and Shi Nai were married to the daughters of generals, and they were not good at speaking in a twisting manner.Just listening to these two sentences, Jia Min knew that Shi Nai's appointment would not be happy for many of his subordinates.

Don't forget that Shi Nai, the commander of the capital, was hand-picked by the Holy One.It must be known that Lin Hai's elder brother, when Zhou Li took office, even though most of his subordinates were bribed by Sun Er, no one jumped out early to make things difficult.

And knowing that Shi Nai was new to the post, he would bully his family's unfamiliarity with the place of birth, and then plan their children's marriage, which is even more despicable than Sun Er.

Mrs. Shi Nai said it politely, and when Shi Nai met Lin Hai, Shi Nai finally couldn't help but vomit bitterness: Shaanxi Metropolitan Commander was paid half of his salary!

Lin Hai understood: No wonder Shi Nai's subordinates had strange attitudes after he took office.

Shi Nai bluntly told the truth, but in fact he came to Lin Hai asking for help. In this case, even if he wrote the paper truthfully and handed it over, Rong Jing or the crown prince might come forward and withhold it, and it might not be delivered to the Holy Majesty, but Lin Hai was different. Can close the report.

But Lin Hai's secret book is not like the censor, who can hear about it.

So Lin Hai persuaded: "Hold on to the evidence first." Persuading Shi Nai away, he discussed ideas with Jia Min when he returned to the mansion.

Jia Min learned from the water mirror that when Xidi came to attack next year, Rong Jing calmly commanded and killed more than a thousand enemies... If this credit can be given, it is best not to fall on Rong Jing - the prince's father-in-law is comparable to the prince Uncle is more dangerous.

She then said: "I believe that my historian's cousin will not make rumors out of nothing. Even if there are one or two deviations in the facts, why don't you let the lord know the truth first? To avoid the shocking results of the real inspection, the sage is not prepared."

In fact, she really didn't expect the Shaanxi capital to be so corrupt that half of the salary was empty.If the frontier army stationed at the pass has the slightest mistake, the Shaanxi capital... can't be counted on at all!

Lin Hai listened to the words, and plunged into the study for a whole night, and the next morning, a secret letter was quickly sent to the capital via the post road.

After seeing the secret book, the sage thought for three days: he has cut off the Sun family, and he can't move the Rong family again in a short time, or he will simply abolish the prince.But Rong Jing has been in the Northwest for over ten years, and it is indeed time to give him a beating, and then give him another place.

From Mi Zhe's point of view, Rong Jing's business in the Northwest is not bad.

The Holy Majesty sneered in his heart, and summoned the sixth prince, Yin Hao: let him go to the northwest as an imperial envoy to preside over the preparations for the war, and the "big cleaning" of the exit next spring.

The sixth prince took orders, and when he got home, he asked the concubine to pack up his things, while he went to the second brother's house to ask for a plan.

The second prince really saw it clearly, "You don't need to give Rong Jing too much face, but don't tear yourself apart."

Hearing that the sixth prince was coming to the northwest, Lin Hai put his arms around Jia Min and said, "Your Majesty really cares."

The author has something to say: I have no choice but to say that coding in the middle of the night is the most efficient...