The Kangping Life of Mrs. Xing in Honglou

Chapter 20

Jia Amnesty, Jia Lian, and Xing Yue saw that they had finally raised all the money, and they were finally relieved. The next step was to pay back the money. The success or failure of this matter, the lives of the whole family depended on it.

"Master, the money has been raised, how do you plan to return the money?" Xing Yue asked Jia She.

"I'll return the money to the Ministry of Accounts today, and I'll go to the court tomorrow to plead guilty." Jia She said as a matter of course, wanting to bite Xing Yue angrily, to return the money to the Ministry of Accounts, isn't that trying to become a target for everyone?Right now, from the emperor's relatives to the officials of Zhima University, they all borrow money from the Ministry of Households, and our family repays the money in a bright light. Isn't this offending the officials of the entire court?In Jia's mansion, only Jia Zheng is a fifth-rank official, and everyone else is in vain. Any one of those royal relatives can kill Jia's family.

"My lord, this is a bit inappropriate. In my opinion, the lord might as well take the bank note and the memorial written by the late emperor, and go directly to the emperor after the court tomorrow. After all, the old lady gave the emperor a milk, and the lord is also the emperor's milk." Brother, even if the Holy Majesty wants to be lenient at court, since the ministers are all present, it is necessary to act in accordance with the law and ask in private. Slaves and masters are all arrogant, and they offend many officials, big and small. They go to the court to talk about this matter, and the mere failure to obey the emperor's order can lead to Jia's family and death.

"What Madam said is true." Jia Amnesty is proficient in common things, but he forgot to think about other things because he was nervous when encountering a major event. After Xing Yueyi said,

Naturally, he understood the truth. Jia Lian himself was a transparent person. Although he was young and had no serious contact with court affairs, so he didn't know what Xing Yue meant, but he understood the world and knew what Xing Yue said was right.

"Lian'er, you go to the yamen tomorrow to order the Mao, stay in the yamen, don't go home, ma'am, the family will depend on you tomorrow." Jia She ordered, and none of the three members of the family mentioned the old lady, nor did they think about it. Then tell the old lady.

Early the next morning, Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian went out to court, and Xing Yue took Yingchun and Wang Xifeng to greet the old lady as usual.

"Did your master go to the court?" The old lady knew that today was the day of the court, and she felt uneasy.

"It's a big court today, and the master will set off at five o'clock." Xing Yue tried hard not to let herself think about Jia She's response in the court, and concentrated on answering the old lady's words. She was never in front of the old lady from the beginning to the end. Mention the matter of going to the account department to pay back the bank today.

Normally, the old lady would laugh and watch her children and grandchildren play, but this time she couldn't get up her spirits at all, so she responded with a few casual words, saying that she didn't sleep well last night, she was really lacking in energy, and asked everyone to go back, and told the girl to let the second master come back After coming to see her later, he waved away the crowd and lay on the bed alone to doze off.

Xing Yue went back to the big room and asked people to hug Brother Cong to her side, leaving Wang Xifeng and Yingchun to talk in the room, calmly waiting for Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian to return, her intuition told her that they would survive this disaster safely .

Back in the palace, after the pilgrimage, the Holy Majesty went to the study to approve the memorial. The Holy Majesty was one year younger than Jia She, and he was wearing ordinary clothes, sitting in front of the desk, wearing the memorial.

"Report to Your Majesty, first-class general Jia Amnesty asks for an audience." The chief eunuch Zaiquan came in from the outside to report.

"Jia Amnesty?" The emperor raised his eyebrows involuntarily. A few days ago, he heard a sentence by chance, saying that the two brothers in the Rongguo Mansion divided the family property, and asked someone to investigate. He knows everything about it.In the past few days, shouldn't Jia Amnesty be raising money? Why did he come today?In just a few days, Jia Amnesty has raised 72 taels of silver. It seems that this meritorious family is quite rich.The Anhui area has just been reported to have been flooded, and the court is in a hurry to spend money, so Jia Amnesty arrived just in time.

"Let him in." The emperor continued to approve the memorial, and there were still a few very important and urgent memorials on the desk that needed to be approved.

"My minister sees the Holy One." Jia Amnesty held the box, lowered his head and entered the upper study room, and paid his respects to the emperor. After a long time, he did not see the Holy One speaking. He peeked and raised his head. The emperor was concentrating on writing the memorial, as if there was nothing at all. I didn't hear his greeting, but I was guilty and didn't dare to say anything, so I could only kneel like this.

Half an hour later, the Holy Majesty finished approving the memorial, raised his head, looked at Jia She who was still kneeling below, and asked, "Jia Qing, what do you mean by coming to see me?"

Hearing His Majesty's majestic voice, Jia She hastily replied: "Report to Your Majesty, I'm here to plead guilty." As he said that, he buckled his head, saying that Jia She has no foundation in his heart right now.

"Apology, oh, what is Jia Qing's crime?" The emperor didn't point out.

"It's all due to the emperor's grace. If you don't manage the family strictly, you deserve death." He said that he took out the memorial left by the Duke of Guo from the box, and the letter of pleading guilty written by himself, and handed it over to Zaiquan Present to the Holy One.

The Holy Majesty naturally knew about this, looked at the memorial, and said: "According to the reply of this memorial, the late emperor granted grace, allowing the descendants of the Rongguo Mansion to pay back 20 taels of silver to the national treasury every year until the treasury is paid off. How can I remember? It has been nearly [-] years since I ascended the throne, but I have never received the money returned by the descendants of the Rongguo Mansion, first-class general Jia Amnesty, did I remember wrongly?"

"Holy Majesty, I did not remember wrongly. It is the minister who owed the emperor's favor. He has not paid back the money in the treasury on time these years. Today, the minister collected the 72 yuan owed to the treasury and came to plead guilty. This is all the fault of the minister. Please forgive me, Your Majesty." Hearing what the Emperor said, Jia Amnesty broke out in a cold sweat and could only kowtow to admit his guilt, and gave the casket to Zai Quan and offered it up.

"Oh? It's all been raised. I thought that the Rong family was poor and couldn't afford to pay back the money owed. It seems that things are not as I thought?" The Holy One flipped through the apology note written by Jia She.

The words of the Holy Majesty made Jia Amnesty confused. He didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse, so he could only bite the bullet and say: "It's all about my failure to live up to expectations.

When his father passed away, he specially entrusted his ministers to return the money and made a rule that every year the money was left over to be returned to the state treasury. Accidentally discovering this matter, he sold his family property, got together the silver taels, returned them to the state treasury, and asked the holy majesty to punish him. "At this point, Jia Amnesty can only take all the responsibility on himself, he can't tell what the old lady did.

"Why do you hear that the old lady presided over the separation of the family a few days ago?" The emperor suddenly asked about the separation.

"Returning to the Holy Father, my father left a message that as long as my mother is here, the family cannot be separated. Therefore, the family has not been separated, but the property has been divided. The minister has to raise money to return the treasury. This is the responsibility of the Chengjue lineage. How can it be used?" The brother's family property is a drag on the brother, so the old lady is asked to preside over the distribution of the property." Jia Amnesty became more and more confused by the Holy Master's question, and told the truth.

"Hmph, you are a kind and righteous person." The Holy One scolded coldly.

A little eunuch came in outside and stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, Prince Rui is asking to see you."

"Let him come in." The Holy One knew what Prince Rui was talking about.

"This time, for the sake of your two generations of ancestors who have made great contributions to the country and society, I will spare you once, but the death penalty is inevitable, and the living crime cannot be escaped. Come, someone will drag the first-class general Jia She out to beat the [-]th board. Let him have a long memory, Zaiquan, you go and watch it carefully." The Holy Majesty only rewarded Jia Amnesty with forty boards, and this was over. After all, the money should have come from the court, and he didn't. He couldn't let him go, and his wet nurse was still alive.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness." Jia Amnesty was overjoyed when he heard these words, he didn't take these forty big boards to heart at all, his wife and children were saved, and the title left by his ancestors was also saved.

When Jia Amnesty was pulled out, he passed by Prince Rui who came in.

"I will see my father." Prince Rui watched Jia Amnesty being dragged out, and came in to pay his respects to the Holy Majesty.

"Get up, are you here for disaster relief?" The Holy Majesty is very satisfied with this son, although his temper is a bit cold, the errands entrusted to him have never been missed, and the errands are handled very beautifully.

"Yes, the treasury is empty, and there is no way to provide 30 taels of silver for disaster relief." Prince Rui replied.

"What, doesn't this household department still have 600 million taels of silver? Why can't you even get 30 taels of silver? You are in charge of the household department and explain it clearly to me." Upon hearing this, the Holy One was furious. He knew that the household department was short of money, but he didn't expect that he couldn't even get 30 taels of silver.

"Father, don't be angry. This is the household information compiled by my son. Please have a look." Prince Rui hurriedly knelt down. Over the years, the tax money on the Jiangnan side has become less and less, from the crown prince to the seventh-rank junior Officials, if they all go to the household department to borrow money, won't the treasury run out of money?

Looking through the memorial, the Holy One learned that the crown prince took the lead and borrowed two silver taels from the treasury, and became more and more disappointed with the crown prince.

"Get up, take this box and put it in the treasury. Relieve the disaster first, and we'll talk about the rest later." The Holy Majesty signaled Prince Rui to open the money box Jia Amnesty gave him.

Prince Rui opened it, and inside was a wad of bank notes, a total of 75 taels.

The Holy Majesty saw Prince Rui's question, so he showed him the two memorials that Jia Amnesty handed over. After reading it, Prince Rui said: "Father, there is no record in the household department that the Rongguo Mansion owes 100 million silver." Prince Rui Having been in charge of the household department for many years, he can be sure that the household department does not have this owed money.

"The Ministry of Households has no record of the Rongguo Mansion borrowing money. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the treasury was short of money, and the pensions for the soldiers were very little. Among them, Rong Guogong's subordinates suffered the most casualties. The life of the soldiers was miserable, and when they gathered to make trouble, they discussed with the first emperor, and the Rongguo Mansion paid for the compensation for the soldiers, but at that time the Rongguo Mansion didn't have that much cash, so the late emperor embezzled a batch of antique calligraphy and paintings from the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Rong Guogong sold 100 million taels of silver to pay for the soldiers. In order to stop the mouths of other generals, Rong Guogong wrote the 100 million taels of silver to the first emperor. Later, after Jia Daishan attacked the prince, he knew about the IOU , and paid back the money with the booklet." The Holy Majesty told Prince Rui the origin of the money.

"The household department should still have the record of misappropriating that batch of things. Take the money and get rid of it. Make it more secret." He took out a box from the drawer under the desk case, opened it, took out a piece of paper, and gave it to Rui. Prince, said: "Tomorrow, you will personally return this IOU to Jia She himself."

After Prince Rui left, His Majesty said: "Check it out, how did Jia Amnesty manage to get this money together in such a short period of time?"

"Your Majesty, First General Jia Amnesty has finished his punishment, and now he is still kneeling outside." Zai Quan came back and reported.

"Why is he still kneeling outside? Tell him to go back, so as not to obstruct my eyes and dirty my place." The Holy One said impatiently,

"Wait, no third person is allowed to know about today's matter, let the imperial hospital send a highly skilled imperial physician to show Jia Qing."

Outside the palace, the long follower beside Jia She received Jia She who was bruised and bruised. He was shocked and didn't know what to do. He helped Jia She get into the carriage. That's the end of the matter, the wife and children have no worries, and the title left by the ancestors is also preserved, I just feel that this meal is worth it.

Back home, Jia Amnesty got out of the carriage, grinning at Xing Yue, expressing that nothing had happened.Others thought it was weird, maybe the master was beaten stupidly, or why he was reprimanded by the Holy One, instead of being annoyed, he was very happy.

Seeing Jia She's smile, Xing Yue knew that the matter was over, and ordered his servants to carry Jia She back to her courtyard. After Jia She returned home, the imperial doctor from the imperial hospital arrived on the back. , took the medicine, sent the imperial physician away, and sent everyone out. Xing Yue sat by the bed and looked after Jia She.

"Ma'am, this matter is over. The Holy Majesty is thinking of our ancestor's merits, and only rewarded forty slabs. Our ancestor's title is also preserved. We can live in peace in the future." Jia She smiled happily.

"Yes, master, this is really good news, but the master has suffered." Xing Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief, the biggest crisis since her rebirth was finally over.

"For the lives of the whole family, it's nothing to suffer from this idea." Jia Amnesty said while pulling Xing Yue.

"Master, I have been tossing and tossing so far in the morning. I must be hungry. Now the master is injured and needs to take medicine. In order not to ruin the medicine, I can only use some porridge." Xing Yue ordered the little girl to bring the porridge and feed it. Jia She has a bowl of porridge and waits for Jia She to lie down before going out.

As soon as she left the bedroom, she saw Zizhu waiting for her at the door. Zizhu whispered something in Xing Yue's ear, and Xing Yue walked out. There was a lot of noise at the gate of Xing Yue's courtyard, and a group of women were clamoring to see her. Master, this is Wang Xifeng blocking the door and not letting him in.

"Madam is here, madam, how is Master?" "We want to see Master?" As soon as Xing Yue appeared, these concubines and aunts came to Xing Yue.

"Enough, what are you making noise here, go back to your own room and stay in your own room. If you are really worried about the master, you can eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha in the house to pray for the master. If you let me know who would dare to make trouble while the master is recuperating , no matter who it is, sell them all, and get out quickly." Xing Yue was annoyed by these people, and directly asked these people to go back to her room to reflect, and these people didn't say anything when they saw Xing Yue getting angry. said.

"Lian'er, daughter-in-law, you go back first. When Lian'er comes back, you ask him to come, the master wants to see him." After speaking, he turned and returned to the courtyard.