In this capital, because there are too many dignitaries and nobles living there, now Master Liu's concubine ran away with the groom, and the son of the prince of Ming'er came back and said that he wanted to be accepted as a concubine.

At the end of the twenty-first year of Linde, one of the gossips that the people of the capital talked about the most was the dowry war between the Linchuan Mansion and the Anyuan Bo Mansion.

For these ordinary people who are not well-informed, they only know that the Anyuan Bofu first sued the emperor's grandfather, saying that the concubine Linchuan was not satisfied with the dowry of her daughter-in-law, and also falsely accused them of embezzling the niece's dowry, and insisted on blackmailing them for 50,000 taels of silver.

They haven't talked a few words about this Linchuan concubine not only likes old men, but also is so greedy for money and likes to blackmail people's silver, and then they heard that the Linchuan concubine ran to the palace that afternoon to shout grievances, saying that her daughter-in-law's dowry was indeed embezzled by An Yuanbo's mansion.

All of a sudden, everyone in the streets and alleys, taverns and tea shops, from dignitaries to ordinary people, was talking about this war for production. Unlike those ordinary people who were concerned about who had swallowed the dowry, the courtiers and nobles were more concerned about how His Majesty the Emperor would decide.

The important thing about these two families is not who is right and who is wrong, but whose family the saint believes is at fault. Just because of this public case caused by private property, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu court argued for several days.

Empress Dowager Sun and the ministers on the right minister's side naturally stood on the side of the Linchuan Palace, while the left minister's side supported her in-law An Yuanbo's mansion. There are also some nobles who saw that the king of Linchuan had just offended the promising king of Yingchuan in the future, so they also stood on the side of the Anyuan Bofu, thinking of giving the Linchuan palace a faceless face, so that the Yingchuan palace could have a good time.

In addition, although An Yuanbo's mansion is also filthy inside, its reputation on the outside is not much better than that of the mother and son of the king of Linchuan. There are many people in the capital who have long been unaccustomed to the unruly behavior of his mother and son, not to mention that because Qin Fei has caused trouble for so many years, he has beaten dozens of gentlemen, and he can be regarded as having made a lot of enemies.

Therefore, in the end, the number of courtiers who supported the Anyuan Bofu side was more than the number of courtiers who supported the Linchuan Palace, and some courtiers were aggrieved by the treatment of the two county kings over the years, thinking that if the court could treat the two county kings well and give them land, the Linchuan Wang's mother and son would not want to use the princess's dowry to pay off the debt, causing this turmoil and losing the royal face.

The Empress Dowager Sun was so angry, don't mention the latter thing first, just talk about this dowry dispute, although she doesn't like the Linchuan Queen Mother and son very much, but in the end it is her relatives, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog, these courtiers dare to help Zuo Xiang's relatives to bully her relatives, can this be endured?

She rushed directly to Emperor Linde, and asked the emperor's son to sentence the Anyuan Bofu for embezzling the dowry of the orphan daughter, and to compensate the Linchuan Palace.

"Mother, now that only one-third of the ministers of the DPRK and China think that the sin lies in Uncle Anyuan's mansion, how can you let your son disregard the will of the people to make this fold?"

"What, you're saying that two-thirds of the people are on the left side?" Empress Dowager Sun began to panic again.

Emperor Lin De frowned slightly, shook his head and said, "A third of them should be there who don't help their relatives!" ”

"What do you mean by helping or not helping relatives?"

"That is to say, among those neutral noble ministers, most of them think that it is your good niece who is slandering Uncle An's mansion."

"These wine bags and rice bags with eyes and beads, none of them have eyes, they can't even tell right from wrong in such a simple matter, the court really raised them for nothing!" Empress Dowager Sun said angrily.

Emperor Lin De said lightly: "Mother, not only do they think like this, but the son is not without such thoughts in his heart, the Jin family has even done that kind of immoral and corrupt behavior, and now she is in debt, and she will do things to blackmail other people's money, I am really not unusual." ”

Seeing that her son was going to sing against her again, Empress Dowager Sun hurriedly threatened: "What do you think in your heart, I don't care, in short, if you dare to favor the left side in this matter and don't help your mother's relatives, this palace will go on a hunger strike to show you!" ”

Although Empress Dowager Sun's threat has been used many times, out of filial piety, Emperor Lin De is reluctant to do so, and he has to agree first, but if he wants to rule that the fault is in Anyuanbo's mansion, most of the ministers in the court headed by Cui Xiang will not agree first. Although Empress Dowager Sun has tried her best to promote her nephew Sun Chengqing to compete with Cui Chenggang in recent years, Cui Zuoxiang has been the first person in the DPRK and China for so many years, and his power has been tilted towards the government and the opposition for nearly 20 years, and his power in the DPRK cannot be ignored.

So this royal lawsuit lasted for more than ten days, during which both parties tried their best to prove their innocence with all kinds of evidence. An Yuanbo's Mansion showed a bunch of account books and documents, and Concubine Linchuan asked Zhou Caiwei to write a letter to Empress Dowager Sun in person, telling the truth about it. It's just that no matter what kind of evidence the two of them list, they can always be singled out by the other party for a bunch of inaccuracies, and they are noisy in the court.

Seeing that this matter has been lively for so many days, many gambling houses in the folk have even opened gambling games to bet on how the emperor will judge this lawsuit, and although many people believe that the Linchuan concubine intends to blackmail, they all bet that Emperor Lin De will definitely follow his relatives.

But no one expected that Emperor Lin De's final verdict on this lawsuit was beyond everyone's expectations. His Majesty the Emperor didn't care about who owed whom and who wronged whom of the two families, and directly said, "It is difficult for Qing officials to decide family affairs, and above this court, how many military affairs cannot be taken care of, how can you have spare time to care about your parents!" ”

In addition to ordering An Yuanbofu to return the 9,000 taels of dowry silver to Princess Zhou within three days according to the IOU, the rest of the marriage ordered their two marriages to discuss and settle it in person. actually simply pushed it clean and let the two of them make trouble in private.

Concubine Jin saw that her holy cousin was actually not helping each other, and her son still didn't know which wilderness he was wandering around, so he sent out more than a dozen groups of people who were stunned and couldn't find this highness, and her niece had a strange disease of spitting centipedes, and she was still recuperating in bed. I had to bring a few mothers-in-law and maids to Anyuanbo's Mansion every day to reason with them.

Although she is also sharp-toothed and sharp-mouthed, she is a good quarrel, but she only has one mouth, and no one comes to help her say a few words, so she is a little lonely. Second, although the eldest lord of Nabo Mansion didn't say much, every word was straight to the point, and she often didn't know how to deal with it.

Because the saint had sent a message that the nine thousand taels of silver owed must be paid off within three days, Mrs. Luo had to take some of the gold and jade artifacts she had accumulated over the years to the pawnshop or pawn or sell them, and scraped together nine thousand taels of silver and handed them to Concubine Jin.

Concubine Jin was happy for one night, and when she went to collect the debt the next day, she found that although they welcomed her into the gate, they closed her outside the second gate and did not let her in.

The eldest lord of the Zhao family stood on the edge of the second gate and talked to her about a good freshman call, saying that since the Linchuan princess Zhou married into the Linchuan Palace, she only knew that she had a husband's family, and there was no more her uncle's family in her eyes. Such an ungrateful woman, since she no longer has the uncle of An Yuanbo Zhao Mansion in her heart, then the Zhao family will no longer recognize her as a niece, what kind of blood and family affection, since then a sum of money has been written off, and everyone will be strangers in the future.

Since even the niece of the Zhou family is gone, then the Anyuan Bofu and the Linchuan Mansion naturally have no in-law relationship, especially an in-law like her who is blackmailed by her in-laws, it is really better to have nothing, and it is best not to communicate with each other in the future. If the concubine of Linchuan still wants to slander the Lai Bo Mansion to the end, just go to the Yamen of the Shuntian Mansion to sue the official, everyone will go to court, and the people in the Anyuan Bo Mansion will never step into the gate of the Linchuan Mansion again, and please don't come to the door again to disturb the peace.

After Mr. Zhao finished speaking, he waved his sleeves to send off the guests, and ordered the concubine Jin to be so angry that the subordinates she brought shouted and scolded outside the gate of Zhao's mansion for a whole day, and she went into the palace in a carriage to find her queen aunt and cry.

I don't know if it's because she has persistently gone to the Empress Dowager Sun to cry and plead these days, and the next morning in the court, Emperor Lin De suddenly issued two more wills, the first of which listed several mistakes of the current Uncle An Yuan, Zhao Mingji, in addition to a scolding, the other 400 acres of meritorious land originally given to An Yuanbo were taken back 200 hectares as a punishment.

This second decree is to give 10,000 hectares of Yongye land to the two county kings of Yingchuan and Linchuan, saying that it is another gift, but in fact, it is just a real land of 10,000 hectares given that year. In addition, Emperor Lin De found another excuse, saying that the king of Linchuan was extremely filial to his uncle, and gave him an extra 5,000 hectares of land.

In addition, the father of the Linchuan princess Zhou, the late Taifu Zhou Zhen, was brought out and praised a lot, saying that it was in recognition of his father's previous efforts to hand over most of the family property to the national treasury, and the Zhou family gave back the land that the Zhou family had dedicated to the court a few years ago to Princess Zhou, which was regarded as a dowry prepared by the court for the daughter of the hero.

It's just that although this holy decree was issued, it was not sent to the Linchuan palace to announce the decree, but asked the king and princess of Linchuan to enter the palace in person to receive the decree and thank you.

These two wills shocked a bunch of people's jaws again. It turned out that Emperor Lin De did not ignore the dowry war between the two families before, but openly and impartially helped each other, but secretly he was punished and rewarded, and in the end he still supported his nephew hard because of his personal feelings, and he did not find anything wrong, and he didn't tell the truth at all.

All the ministers felt that Emperor Lin De's hand was quite beautiful, and they couldn't imagine that this son of heaven had sat on the dragon chair for so many years, and finally had some imperial atmosphere.

It's not that the ministers underestimated Emperor Linde, it's really what he has done in the past few decades, and it is all a mistake to praise him with the four words of inaction, which is more appropriate than the four words of mediocrity and incompetence.

This can't be blamed on him, after all, he is the prince of the concubine, and this throne is not his turn to sit, and the upbringing he has received since he was a child is only how to be a prince who enjoys wealth and nobility, not an emperor who rules the four seas. Even though he later put on a yellow robe and sat on the dragon chair, he never got into this imperial way. Either listen to his mother, the Empress Dowager Sun, or listen to the left or right minister, occasionally do it himself, and the ideas he takes are all mediocre, but this time it is a little impressive.

After all, this kind of dowry lawsuit, it is not good to really decide who is who in front of the emperor. No matter how Emperor Lin Dedi judges, there will always be one party who feels unconvinced. Second, if Emperor Lin De really took care of this case, I am afraid that in the future, when the nobles of the capital divide their families, marry their daughters, and marry their wives, when they encounter this kind of dispute over family property and dowry, they will all sue the emperor, then whether this hall is the court to discuss national affairs or the county government to take care of trivial matters at home?

Therefore, when Emperor Lin De's first decree came down, some ministers were quite impressed in their hearts, thinking that the saint was not confused this time, and when they saw the two holy decrees of punishment and reward, many ministers silently sent the word "wise" to Emperor Lin De in their hearts. Only a few people with bright eyes and bright hearts began to speculate in their hearts about Emperor Lin De's three wills to deal with this dowry lawsuit, which master gave him advice behind the scenes?