The empress, who got the will of Emperor Kangqing, did not hesitate to start the big cleanup. Because of the large number of accounts and the large number of people involved, the matter has been investigated for more than a month. It is also thanks to the queen's foresight that they were separated and imprisoned before, and the anxiety and fear of the unknown for many days had already made them mentally sluggish and vulnerable, and some spineless ones were recruited without punishment, and even said many other things in the panic. There is a person who opens his head, and the mouth behind him is no longer difficult to pry open, and finally it becomes a scene where you push him and he pushes others.

When Emperor Kang Qing learned about it, he was really furious, and all the criminals were removed from their posts and sent to prison pending trial; Removed from the post of Minister of the Seventh Prince's Internal Affairs and fined him for one year. Sponsored by the Criminal Department and co-led by Dali Temple, the matter was thoroughly investigated.

Looking at the life of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials mentioned in the compromise, Emperor Kangqing's anger ignited from the bottom of his heart. It is said that under the world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. No master would like to be kept in the dark by his own minions, especially he, the ruler of the whole world, was actually deceived by this minions.

Look, I have to use tribute before me, and the rare things in the palace and the food are common in these people's homes. There are also sweeping lawsuits, disregarding people's lives, robbing women, and exploiting heavy profits! Which is not a capital offense!? Even these can be settled, what are the Criminal Department and Jingzhao Yamen doing!

The Li family, originally Emperor Kangqing still remembered that he was the queen mother's foreign family to avoid his crimes, but now, it is too embarrassing for him. Thinking of the words of the Queen Mother a few days ago, she was afraid that the old man had expected this a long time ago, and she also knew that he would take care of his feelings for many years, so she mentioned a few words.

These royal relatives and nobles have been blessed with the emperor's grace for many years, so they have their current status, but they are not grateful, but they have done such an illegal thing, they really don't know whether they are alive or dead.

Anyone who is betrayed by their own minions will not be comfortable, especially the emperor. Now his minions actually dare to steal his things, according to the folk saying, they are thieves! An emperor who can't even take care of family affairs is qualified to talk about governing the world, and this depends on how the subjects of the world treat him as the emperor.

The Son of Heaven was furious, and millions of corpses were ambushed.

The two four-rank officials involved in the internal affairs were executed, their family property was confiscated, the men were enslaved, and the women were put into the workshop; Others, who were less greedy for ink, were sent into exile by the whole family. And Shi Qi's father, whom Jia Min met at the Shi family last time, was also assigned to the frontier, because the Shi family was maneuvering in it, so his family members were not assigned together, and Shi Bang helped his family return to Jinling.

As for the Li family, Emperor Kangqing left some affection, removed Li Yuan from his post and investigated, and Li Jiang was dismissed together.

It's just that in the end, they still disappointed Emperor Kangqing. Li Yuan embezzled millions of taels of money during his tenure in the interior, and his younger brother Li Jiang embezzled several hundred taels after he was appointed to Jiangning Weaving, leaving a huge deficit. And the Li family's property was confiscated, and there were more than 10 million! This time, even if Emperor Kangqing didn't want him to die, the ministers of the court and the central government would not agree.

In the end, the brothers Li Yuan and Li Jiang were sentenced to death, all the property of the Li family was confiscated, and the rest of the men in the clan were decelerated. The whole family was demoted to a concubine and could not be hired for the rest of his life.

After the queen learned about it, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, in fact, the sage nepotism is very "benevolent" and his usual means in court and politics are far from the same, although the Li family is not allowed to be hired now, but in a few years, it is possible to restore her path to the throne for the sake of the queen mother's face. Fortunately, I found the Queen Mother before and told the Queen Mother about the Li family's crimes one by one, otherwise the Li family would be able to escape.

However, the result of this matter is still quite satisfactory to her, after all, the internal money has been cleaned up, and the Li family, which has a suspicion of her mother's family, has also been removed. The biggest gain is that she has been respected by the saint, because she brought up this matter and asked the prince to participate, and also let him know a little bit about the suffering of the world, and he actually became thrifty in his daily life. The saint was also very satisfied with the change of the crown prince, and he knew that this move was more sacred by staying in her palace for a long time.

As for whether the next emperor will be her son, it is too early to say, although the saint and the crown prince are now filial piety to the father and son, it is difficult to say ten years later, and then it will be the opportunity for her and her son.

Taking a step back, it will really be the crown prince who will succeed to the throne, she is also the queen mother, and now she has a good relationship with the prince, and she can protect her children in the future to be an idle rich person, and these moves can kill two birds with one stone.

After this incident, not only the internal government, but also the court was a lot quieter for a while.

Afterwards, Emperor Kangqing made a special decree for this kind of thing to happen again: people of the same clan and people who are in-laws of each other are not allowed to serve in the same Jin.

Emperor Kang Qing looked at the account book in his hand with a smile, this is the silver money obtained after the raid of several houses, a total of more than 24 million taels, more than 30% of last year's treasury income, and more than enough grain and grass to cope with the border garrison, he does not have to worry about the next year's military sound. And nearly half of the money contributed by the Li family, heh, he really deserves to be his favorite minister, and finally gave him such a big gift.

After this incident, Jia Yu also changed from the sixth-grade principal to the fifth-grade outsider, and the saint specially summoned him to the Heart Cultivation Hall to let him do a good job. This extra meaning is to let him take a good look at the internal treasury to prevent corruption from happening again, and he rewarded the Rongguo Mansion in other names.

Jia Amnesty was promoted, and the Jia and Zhang families were very happy. After all, it is only sixteen and is a five-grade product, which is really called a year without for. Even the children of scholarly families are still studying for the imperial examination at this age.

Mrs. Zhang took Zhang Qiong's hand and said happily: "It's really good, my uncle's promotion this time shows that he has a sacred heart, and I don't worry about you suffering when you marry." ”

Although the two have been married, they are still a little shy when they mention Jia Yu and Zhang Qiong, and they are very moved when they see their mother really happy for her. In the face of her mother's concern for her marriage, she could only comfort her, and never dared to show the slightest sorrow to annoy her parents, but the more she learned about Jia Yu, she gradually looked forward to the days after marriage.

"Mother."

"It's really what there is to be shy about, it's all about the people who have been married." Seeing her daughter's shy face, Mrs. Zhang laughed.

In the study, Zhang Changgong was also talking to his three sons about the court, "Why do you think the saint was promoted to an official of pardon this time?" ”

The eldest son, Zhang Xuan, said first: "Father, the son thinks that the sage has wantonly eliminated the internal officials, and it should be related to the Rongguo Mansion. ”

Zhang Changgong was relieved to see that his eldest son noticed this, so he said, "Oh, how do you say this? ”

"According to my son's understanding, the saint got angry on the day he saw Rong Guogong, and the next day he asked the queen mother to check the account book, if there is no connection between them, it is impossible, but whether this is related to Jia Yu The son has not yet figured it out." Zhang Xuan said.

"It's good that you can connect the two things, the affairs of the court are meant to be seen and thought more, and there are many times when you look at things that are not related, there is often some kind of connection. You have to do more and talk less, and think more when you are in office, you know? ”

"Yes, my son understands." Seeing his father's teachings, the three of them were busy answering the way.

"I'm afraid this matter is inseparable from the Rongguo Mansion Inspector Slave, but who noticed the Rongguo Mansion Slave?" Zhang Changgong wondered.

"Father, didn't Rong Guogong take someone to investigate?" Zhang Shi said, isn't it all said this outside, how could my father ask such a question?

Zhang Changgong looked at his second son and sighed: "Rong Guogong is heroic and straightforward, and his decisiveness in killing is a typical martial artist's temper, and he will not pay attention to this kind of inner house matter." Rongguo Mansion has also been taken care of by the Duchess of Rongguo, and the old lady has long been in retirement, thinking about it, how can there be such a clear person in this Rongguo Mansion? ”

"Father, son thought of one person, the concubine of the Duke of Rongguo. The son corresponded with Jia Yu, and heard him talk about this sister several times, this woman was unusually intelligent, sensitive and studious. ”

"Rong Guogong's young daughter is only nine years old," Zhang Changgong asked, "Forget it, no matter what, this Rongguo Mansion is good for our Zhang family, and Jia Yu's promotion is also a good thing for your sister." ”

The three brothers of the Zhang family all nodded and said yes, their Zhang family and Rongguo Mansion have become in-laws, one is honored, and the other is damaged.

After the old lady regained the Rongguo Mansion, she looked at those account books, and she couldn't look down on Jia Shi's family, obviously looking like a very shrewd person, but she was so confused in the housekeeper, and she was so deceived by those minions for more than ten years. After consideration, the old lady reformulated the rules of Rongguo Mansion, and the monthly money in those places with oil and water was reduced by 20%, and the places without oil and water were increased by 20%, and this time the housekeeper and the old lady also took Jia Min with her to study.

Because of the old lady's words, Jia Min began to learn housekeeping.

Although she is still young, Mama Gu also mentioned it to the old lady a few times openly and secretly, Jia Min is very smart, and she is usually more sensible than children of the same age, she should be taught to take care of the house as soon as possible, the old lady is old and energetic, and it is naturally a good thing to have Jia Min to help, and this housekeeping thing must be learned sooner or later.

The old lady was afraid that Jia Min's health would not be good, so she would teach her to take care of the accounts first, and then come to the housekeeper to practice after a few years when her health improved. But because he received Jia Shi's housekeeping this time, and listened to Mama Gu's many persuasions, he also took it to heart, not only thinking about teaching Jia Min to be a housekeeper now, but also letting Mama Gu pay attention to finding a good embroiderer. You can't just learn those piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, as a girl in Rongguofu, there are naturally girls to do large pieces of needlework, but embroidering a handkerchief and underwear or something, it is still necessary to learn. In the future, I will find my mother-in-law's needle and thread, and I will have to take it.

Jia Min has learned these things in his previous life, so when he was in school, when his husband was away, he had already replaced his desk with a book of mountain and river travels compiled during the two Jin Dynasty periods.

In her previous life, she had been trapped in the inner house, and now she is particularly fond of this kind of book. I thought I would be able to visit it when I had the chance. The chances of that being the case were slim, but she could now take some solace from the book.

The two girls who followed her to class were the most impatient with these things, Shui Yun fell asleep every day when her husband was lecturing, and Cai Lan actually started needlework because of the bright light in the study. When Mr. first found out, his brows were furrowed, but Cailan didn't lift his eyelids at all, and finally sighed heavily, and he didn't care anymore.

Jia Min also mentioned to Jia Daishan many times that he didn't want to take classes with his husband, but Jia Daishan didn't agree at all, coaxing her to say the benefits of studying, but Jia Min couldn't tell her that she could do anything, as long as she went to class every day. Fortunately, the gentleman didn't care about her, as long as it was

Jia Min just needs to complete the assigned tasks every day.

The old lady asked her to learn housekeeping and needlework this time, and the class with her husband became once every two days, which made Jia Min very happy.

On this day, a woman dressed in simple and simple clothes took a team of little girls into Rongguo Mansion.

The old lady asked them to wait in the hall where the grandmothers were resting outside the second gate. Previously, most of the minions who committed crimes were released out of Rongguo Mansion together with the whole family, and there were many people in each master's place, and there were also many people in each courtyard, so it was natural to add people to the house.

The nurse and the three first-class girls in Jia Zheng's room were all sent out, and several first-class girls around his wife also reached the age of release in a few years. Jia Min is also missing two second-class girls. Now buy a girl, first hand it over to the housekeeper to learn □□the rules, and then distribute it everywhere, so that you won't be in a hurry.

The old lady told Jia Min in detail the reason for doing this as she walked. Jia Min nodded while thinking, but did not speak.

When I entered the courtyard gate, it was not as crowded as Jia Min imagined, only a few housekeepers and grandmothers who I had seen on weekdays were sitting and chatting in the hall. Seeing the old lady bring Jia Min in, the housekeepers and grandmothers immediately stood up and saluted.

Don't look at such a trivial matter as buying a girl, but because some of them will be placed in the courtyard of Jia Min's masters in the future, the people below naturally dare not be sloppy. Mama Chen was already in charge of the people in the inner courtyard was dispatched, and only one person was supposed to be in charge of buying girls on weekdays, but because Jia Min was learning to be a housekeeper with the old lady, the old lady took her out to see it in person, and she should pay attention to the future.

The old lady asked Gu Niangniang to tell Mama Chen to come according to the previous rules, and then she and Jia Min went behind the curtain.

In a short time a woman of thirty or forty years old entered, followed by a group of little girls. The second and thirtieth people didn't make a sound at all when they came in, and they stood neatly, and the black pressure filled the hall that was not too big. The little girls' eyes were lowered, and no one dared to look up.

The old lady nodded slightly, and did not speak, but just watched Jia Min's reaction.

"Say hello to all the grandmothers." The tooth woman was wearing a turquoise plain jacket, which looked particularly refreshing. With a smile on his face, but his small eyes narrowed into a slit, but his whole face seemed to be full of joy, "Last time you told me that you wanted to buy some little girls, I paid attention to these and learned some rules." The little girls behind her were of all ages, and though the clothes they wore were all washed and white, they were all clean.

Ya Pozi said another car of praise, and Mama Chen's face did not change, but she sat on the chair and buckled the teacup with the tea lid, and did not speak.

The tooth woman glanced up at Mama Chen, and the smile on her face deepened: "Well, you are always a busy person, I won't delay your time, you choose yourself." If you like it, you will sign the deed immediately. If you don't like any of them, I'll send you another batch tomorrow, don't you think so? ”

Mama Chen raised her head and glanced at the little girls standing in two rows below.

As far as Mama Chen saw this, the more than 20 little girls standing also expressed their expressions. Some boldly raised their eyes to look at Mama Chen, some buried their heads deeper, and some even trembled with fright.

Mama Chen smiled.

"We have cooperated for so many years, I naturally believe in Aunt Tian's vision, otherwise I wouldn't just look for you."

With this smile, the atmosphere was much more relaxed, and Tian Yapo also breathed a sigh of relief, and the smile on her face was no longer floating on the surface: "Who in the capital does not know the authority of Rongguo Mansion, the lady and wife in this Rongguo Mansion are the most bodhisattva-hearted, and they treat people well, and it is also their creation to be able to be on an errand in Rongguo Mansion." It is said that the girl from this Rongguo Mansion is better than the young lady from the small family. To be honest, it's also thanks to Mama Chen who has been taking care of my business. ”

When she smiled, the two horizontal lines on her face squeezed upward, and her eyes that instantly became smaller made Tian Yapo's facial expression look a little flattering. She said this sincerely. First, Rongguo Mansion is an official family, since she can send people to Rongguo Mansion, her big family naturally thinks that □□she is a good person, and she is a little more decent than others in this industry.

Second, Rong Guofu is generous, and often a business is enough for her family to chew for more than half a year. Seeing the expression on Mama Chen's face, Tian Yapo guessed that this business was a success, and the smile made her eyes narrow.

"What are the ones who sold the death deed, take a few steps forward." Mama Chen asked.

The neat line was disorganized in an instant, and almost half of the people stepped forward.

Mama Chen intently observed the people who said they wanted to sign the death deed, and asked Tian Yapo to let the others stand outside the courtyard, so as not to appear crowded in the hall.

Those dozen girls look at me, I look at you, there is some unwillingness in their eyes, and even one of them is crying urgently, regretting why they didn't sign the death deed in the first place, this Rongguo Mansion is a god-like place for them. Tian Yapo's face sank, and she said, "You guys haven't waited outside the courtyard yet, follow me out." Those little girls followed Tian Yapo away.

There are still eleven little girls left, and Mama Chen let them line them up, which is convenient for Jia Min and Jia Min behind the curtain to see.

"The fourth on the left-hand side, Mama Chen raised her head and glanced at Mama Chen when she spoke, her eyes were still spinning, and it can be seen that she will not □□ points in the future." The old lady whispered to Jia Min behind the curtain, "The last one on the right, I was trembling with fear just now, although I look honest, but being too timid is sometimes not a good thing." ”

Lin Lin Lian saw a little bit of the way out from the small movements of those little girls. Jia Min actually understands all this, she has survived the family for decades in her previous life, but she feels that it is much worse than the old lady. I listened to the old lady's instructions and looked at the expressions of those little girls, so I looked at it seriously.

Mama Chen asked one by one. It's nothing more than what is the name, family situation, parents are available, how many relatives are there, why do you sign a death deed, and so on. Some of those girls couldn't squeeze out a word for a long time, some answered in a slurred manner, and some answered like a stream.

It's just that when she heard a little girl say that her name was "Qiao'er", Jia Min finally couldn't help but stand up from the chair.

"Min'er, what's wrong?" The old lady hurriedly put down the teacup in her hand, took Jia Min's hand and asked.

"It's nothing, I just remember that I haven't practiced calligraphy today." Jia Min coped vaguely, and then heard the voice outside, "I still remember that my younger brother was sick, and my mother took us to borrow money from my uncle, but my uncle had already moved away." My mother had no choice, so I listened to the eldest lady next door and asked me to go to a big family to be a girl, so that I could exchange money for my younger brother's treatment. ”

That girl looks about the same age as Jia Min, obviously this thing is the same as that Qiao'er in her previous life, but she doesn't have that straightforward temper, and she speaks a little slurred.

"No, this kid is also a miserable person, and he is still smart on weekdays. I saw that she was fine, so I brought her with me today. Tian Yapo, who entered the door, immediately answered Qiao'er's words.

Mama Chen didn't say anything, she still asked the little girl on Qiao'er's left. Qiao'er hung her head and obediently stepped back into the crowd.