Heir of the Red Chamber

Chapter 80

The pre-emptive copying of the Zhen family is not the end of all the chaos after the new emperor ascended the throne, on the contrary, the sudden collapse of the Zhen family is more like an introduction.

Within ten days after Zhen's house was ransacked, the subordinates of Lin Ya, an official at all levels who "returned home at night" with his family members, arrested more than a dozen people, and some even ignored their wives and children.

In addition to these things that he knew he couldn't hide, Lin Ya also had to check the accounts of granaries, water transportation, and silk weaving throughout the south of the Yangtze River.If it weren't for the fact that the guards in various places were still relatively calm, and the only school lieutenant who showed signs of a change was killed on the spot by Qian Tangguan, Lin Ya would have been even more busy.

But no matter how busy he was, Lin Ya was keenly aware of something wrong.

Since he came to Jinling City, he has not received any residence report.To be precise, none of the big and small yamen in Jinling City has any.

If the family didn't know that he was in Jinling, it would be fine if there wasn't a word or two, but the court's residence report was never given to anyone.

Once the Di Bao is published, it should be circulated all over the world, and given the status of Jinling City, at least one copy should be sent every ten days.

No news doesn't necessarily mean good news, it can also equate to great disaster, or deception.

Lin Ya once had a frank and honest talk with Qian Tangguan.

Although he took control of Jinling City and even the entire Jiangnan by secret decree, he used soldiers under Qian Tangguan.A soldier who licks blood with the tip of a knife is not something that can be easily controlled by a mere imperial decree. Lin Ya, who once worked hard in the northwest to win the hearts of the soldiers, knows this best.

Tangguan Qian is also the only person in Jinling City who has the ability to hide all the mansion newspapers before Lin Ya sees them.After all, only he himself knows what the sage's secret decree to Tangguan Qian is.

At that time, Lin Ya was sitting on the grand teacher's chair with a relaxed posture, and his expression when he expressed his doubts could be said to be calm, but Tangguan Qian knelt down on the spot when he heard it.

But Tangguan Qian insisted from beginning to end that he never did anything behind Lin Ya's back.

Then the only possibility is that Jingzhong never sent any news to Jinling City.Coupled with the posthorse that was supposed to pass through Jinling, the entire southeast has lost contact with the capital.

Thinking of his family members who stayed in Beijing, Lin Ya had nightmares that he could not remember clearly for several nights, fearing that one day he would wake up and receive unacceptable news.

So much so that even though he was in Zhongling Yuxiu's rich and noble town, Lin Ya's life was even more difficult than in the flying sands of the Northern Desert.

On this day, Lin Ya was looking through the newly found criminal evidence of the Zhen family presented by his staff when Tang Guan Qian, dressed in black helmet and armor, suddenly strode in, holding a plain uniform in his hand.

Lin Ya's pupils shrank, and his heart skipped half a beat. He stared desperately at Qian Tangguan for a long while before he saw that his arm was also wrapped with a white cloth, and his beating heart fell back to its original place.

"What's the matter?" Lin Ya opened his mouth, and his voice was slightly hoarse.

"Master Lin," Qian Tangguan said on his knees with a solemn expression, "Old Saint, he has collapsed. The report from the residence has just come from the middle of Beijing."

The death of the Supreme Emperor is a landslide, and Lin Ya's grade should also wear white.

As he spoke, Tangguan Qian raised his hands above his head, beside his snow-white plain clothes was the residence newspaper that was many days late.

Lin Ya took a deep breath, and was waited upon by someone to fetch some brightly colored objects on the bed, and changed clothes before taking the mansion newspaper and reading it carefully.

The first sentence in the head is naturally the news of the death of the old sage.

It clearly states that the old sage was poisoned to death by the daughter of the Zhen family. "I am guilty of the concubine Zhen's, who bears the grace of the saint, but resents her heart, and commits the most heinous and rebellious thing."

Counting ten times eloquently, she counted the various crimes committed by the concubine Zhen Gui who was once the crowned harem, and finally ended abruptly with "suicide by taking poison, cutting off all her honorary titles, and being demoted to low status".

The once popular fourth prince Chu Rongqi also fell into the situation of "deeply ashamed of his mother and asked to be confined in the mansion" because of his biological mother and younger brother's "poisoning" the old sage one after another. door step.

This is the real end of a change of throne.

The other news on the Mansion Newspaper, whether it is that Prince Teng died of illness while patrolling the border, whether it is true that the sage gave him a posthumous title, or that the nobleman Zhen's family was named a concubine, are all insignificant in comparison. .

Lin Ya looked at it and wanted to applaud Chu Ronghua from the bottom of his heart.

Although he did not personally experience the sudden changes in the capital, the contest between Chu Ronghua and the old sage must have been extremely thrilling, so the capital suddenly interrupted the correspondence with other places.

Now that the dust has settled, the Zhen family has taken the blame for everything.

The Zhen family is full of ungratefulness and ambition, not only covering the sky in the south of the Yangtze River, but also wanting to murder the Supreme Emperor. Chu Ronghua is justified in killing the Zhen family.

The remaining fourth prince, Chu Rongqi, even if he was not under house arrest, would have completely lost hope of having such a mother who could be called a traitor.

And Chu Ronghua didn't even punish the innocent.Concubine Zhen Gui has always been said to be the younger generation of the family, Zhen Gui, who stayed in the harem well, and was named a concubine because of her meritorious service in conceiving the emperor's heir.

Who can not say that today is generous and just?The concubine Zhen's family is Chu Ronghua's benevolent and wise plaque.

Lin Ya sighed, and ordered people to take down the mansion newspaper, while he and Qian Tangguan personally arranged a mourning for the old saint.

Two days later, the Lin family's family letter and the imperial decree from the palace arrived.

Naturally, the imperial decree is parallel, four and six, hundreds of characters long, and it is nothing more than Xuanlinya escorting the Zhen clan back to Beijing for trial, Qian Tangguan and others are promoted by half a rank.

The family letter is only a few words, with iron and silver hooks, which can be seen in Lin Ruhai's handwriting.

"Your wife is pregnant, Jia's family has copied it, and I look forward to returning."