Chapter Twenty-Four: The Storm Rises (I)
Both the Lin family and Lin Yan understand that things after Lin Yan entered the palace will not be smooth sailing.
However, only three days after the ceremony, with the Yang family, a wealthy family in the northwest, going to Beijing to sue the Shaanxi Commander Lin Ying for forcibly seizing and occupying the Yang family's horse farm and granary, and with the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Lord Yu Shi Lu, impeaching Lin Ying for lawlessness and lax management of the army, a vigorous impeachment of the Lin family spread throughout the court, and then the complaint against Lin Ying in the northwest for bullying the people in the northwest was also placed in front of the emperor's case.
The situation continued to develop, and then some people began to propose in the court that Lin Ying had committed several crimes by bullying the monarch, and should be dismissed from his post and investigated, and escorted back to Beijing to await trial.
The whole incident, whether it is impeachment or asking for another queen, seems to be disorganized, each with a hammer in the east and a hammer in the west, without a focus, but in the dark, it seems that there is a hand pushing these people forward, putting the Lin family into a situation of exhaustion.
At this time, in the Li family's Funing Hall, the people from the Lin family's big, second and third rooms gathered together and discussed the way to deal with it with solemn expressions.
Everyone's expressions were not very good, and Zhuang's brows were even more deeply wrinkled, worrying about her husband and her daughter's affairs on the other.
After all, Lin Yong is a person who has experienced strong winds and waves, and he is still calm at this time, and comforts Li and Zhuang: "Mother and third siblings don't need to worry too much, let these villains jump up and down, the most important thing is the emperor's attitude." The emperor has not spoken at this time, at least it shows that he still trusts the Lin family. ”
Li Shi frowned, and said with some anger in his voice: "I'm afraid it's the Wu family's handiwork this time, they are smart this time, except for an in-law Lu Guangtian involved, the rest seem to have nothing to do with their Wu family, and outsiders look at it and feel that they have not fallen into the well this time." ”
After the death of the original spouse, Lu Guangtian, the right capital of the Imperial Palace, remarried the girl of the Wu family's third room. Lu Guangtian is over fifty years old, and the girl in the third room of the Wu family is in her twenties, it is the old husband and young wife, a pear tree pressed begonia, three years ago when the two got married, it also became a good conversation in the capital.
The Wu family gave birth to a son for Lu Yushi two years ago, and I heard that Lord Lu loved this young son very much, and was planning to pass over the eldest son and let the younger son inherit the family business.
Li "snorted" and said: "A good imperial history, not good to be loyal to the emperor, but mixed with the Wu family's snake and rat nest, I think he also dug his own grave." ”
The status of the imperial history has always been special, "correcting the impeachment of the hundred divisions, identifying the wrongs, admiring the various ways, and being the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven", which is the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven. Since they are the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven, how could the Son of Heaven allow other voices to be mixed in. So throughout the ages, Yushi has been the confidant of the Son of Heaven, but he can only be the lonely minister of the Son of Heaven.
Lin Yong said: "Let's ask the third brother what is going on first, only empty ground can come to the wind, no matter how powerful the Wu family is, it is impossible to make things out of nothing, it must be that the third brother has made a mistake in his actions, which makes people seize the handle." ”
Zhuang Shi said at this time: "I know about the occupation of the Yang family's horse farm and iron factory, after the autumn, some Hu people colluded with mountain bandits to disturb the realm, and the military salaries and military supplies in Beijing have not come, so the third master can only negotiate with the Yang family and other rich families in the northwest, hoping to buy their horses and grain." However, the Yang family joined other wealthy families to sit on the ground and raise the price, proposing a price three times higher than the market. The third master was furious, and let people directly requisition their horses and granaries, but that was also given silver. As for bullying the people and looting the people's fat, it is completely out of nowhere. Mother, second brother, you also know the third master's temperament in your hearts, sometimes your temper is violent and impulsive, but you will never be able to do anything to bully the people. ”
Li said: "I look at the Yang family, I'm afraid it has already colluded with the Wu family." ”
Lin Yong said: "There may not be collusion, Wu Chongjing is in charge of the household department, and he has been delaying military supplies on the grounds that the household department is not enough money, as long as he gives the Yang family a few words, the businessman will make heavy profits, so he will naturally take the opportunity to sit on the ground and raise the price." As for the matter of the subsequent complaint, I am afraid that the Yang family was annoyed and angry under the strength of the third brother, so he got involved with the Wu family. ”
Li said: "Since they are the first year of junior high school, we will be the fifteenth, and the Lin family is not so easy to bully, as far as the Wu family's daily behavior is concerned, it is really not difficult to find a few things to impeach." They have people in the court, but we don't have them. ”
Lin Yong already had a way to deal with it in his heart, but at this time, when he saw Lin Yan who was silently bowing his head and contemplating, his heart moved, and he asked Lin Yong: "Yuanyuan, what do you think we should do now?" ”
Lin Yan understood that this second uncle wanted to test her.
She lowered her head and thought about it, and then asked him rhetorically: "Second uncle, what kind of person do you think the emperor is?" ”
Lin Yong was a little surprised, but still answered her question: "Wise and wise, the city government is very deep." After thinking about it, he added: "It's a Ming Jun." ”
Lin Yan said: "Then such a son of heaven must not love the courtiers who make trouble for him, right?" ”
Lin Yong said: "Naturally. ”
Lin Yan frowned and thought for a while, as if hesitating what to say next, and was silent for a while, before continuing: "Two days ago, there was a dispute between a maid named Cherry and a maid named Lychee in my yard, in fact, the cause is simple, the two of them are responsible for cleaning the porcelain ornaments in my house together, Cherry loves to be lazy on weekdays, and likes to push the work to Lychee, in the long run, Lychee felt uncomfortable, and asked Cherry to work with her that day, but Cherry didn't care, and even spoke disrespectfully to Lychee, so the two had a dispute, They even pushed and fought, making my yard a mess.
It seemed that Cherry's fault was greater, but when I dealt with it, I slapped them with fifty boards each, and both of them were fined three months' wages and three days without eating. ”
Lin Yong asked, "Why is this?" ”
Lin Yan said: "It's very simple, I don't care who is right and wrong between the two of them, I only care if they do what I have explained." There are so many maids and women in my yard, with different temperaments and personalities, and there will be a little contradiction more or less, if they have a conflict, I will go to break the lawsuit for them, then I, the master, don't have to do anything, just give them a lawsuit and be busy for a day.
I naturally know that Lychee has been wronged a lot on weekdays, but I let her be a third-class maid leading the second-class maid every month, and the silver reward at four o'clock and eight festivals is usually twice as heavy as the cherry, and I have already compensated her, so I don't want her to find trouble for me again. ”
Looking at the emperor from this, I am afraid that his thoughts are also the same, you all give me the loyalty to keep to yourself, and don't cause trouble for me.