22Encounter with the king
Although it is said that the rough waves in the back almost overturned the small boat of the Jia family, which is not strong, but on the surface, everyone still pretends to be hello, I am good, and everyone is good, and they are peaceful and graceful.
Not to mention, what Jia Shi, Wang Xue's four families were originally the old clan of Jinling, and they were just a group, but now they have fallen apart, and even the families have a lot of problems. Such a Jia Shi Wang Xue Sijia is placed in the circle of magnates in Beijing, and they can't even stir up waves.
It is no wonder that at the beginning, Jia Shiwang Xue's family hugged each other tightly, and the Jia family was deeply favored by the royal family because of the relationship between Mrs. Gu and Emperor Gaozu, and Jia Daishan stayed in the position of the envoy of the Jingying Festival for more than ten years. Such a Jia family, not to mention the minister of civil and military affairs, is that the royal family and even the princes and grandsons have to give three points.
What else does the Jia family have today? Bad reputation, corrupt family style, and chaotic family relationships, and even a faint shadow of rebellion. To put it mildly, now Jia pardon Jia Lian and his son know that they are motivated, even if they return triumphantly this time and get the reward and increase of officials from the imperial court, no one may look up to the Jia family. In-laws and in-laws have always been both prosperous and loss-oriented, and marrying someone like the Jia family is simply because their family is too peaceful and there are too few things.
When the Zhang family heard that Li Kun's child was washing three, Mother Jia gave a post to Wang Ziteng and his wife, and the men of the whole family were not good!
The suspicion of this Wang family's conspiracy was found out by your Jia family, right? Why are you still disconnected from them? Do you think your family is doing too well, and you hope that the above will be angry and slaughter all the men in the family, right?
Jia Yu was not at home. The Zhang family also didn't want the adults in the family to find Jia Jiu directly, after all, he was only eight years old, so they had to let Zhang Ying secretly avoid asking Jia Jiu.
After Jia Jiu listened. sighed and said: "There is a way to hide for the venerable, hidden for the elderly, the old lady made a mistake, it turned out that we juniors should have borne the sin for the old lady, but for our old lady, I can't help it." I don't know who it is, what is it in the ears of our old lady, if someone else's family is involved with the conspiracy, it must be the whole family after playing, the uncle of the Wang family is fine, obviously the saint is in the body. He also said that the prince Teng is a serious uncle, the nephew and grandson of the in-law, and they can't be missing, so that our old lady gave the Wang family a post. At that time, I avoided it, but our old lady was soft-eared. After listening to the flattery of the guest, he finally called me over again. It stands to reason that I have poked out all the affairs of their family, and the Wang family should hate me to the core. Who would have thought that when Mrs. Wang Ziteng heard me in front of our old lady, her face could not hide her disgust and hatred. When I turned around, I was given such a big Nanzhu necklace! To tell the truth, if it weren't for the fear that the prince would make a stumbling block for my father, I would have turned my face with them in front of the old lady, where would I be so aggrieved! ”
When Zhang Ying heard this, she couldn't help but feel sympathy: "Who said that it must be your old lady's fault, maybe it's the ghost idea of the Wang family." ”
Jia Jiu said: "When I think of my father and my brother not coming back for a day, and when I think of this prince Teng not stepping down for a day, my heart is blocked. I wish I could give birth to my wings and cut down all those Yidi in the border pass now, so that my father and brother can come back. and do not need to be held hostage by the king's house. ”
Zhang Ying listened and patted Jia Jiu on the shoulder, but couldn't find the right words to comfort him.
That kind of empty words didn't help Jia Jiu at all, and Zhang Ying also knew very well that Jia Jiu only wanted to get the exact news of his father and brother at this moment, and empty comfort would only make the other party more anxious.
Thinking like this, Zhang Ying decided to tell Jia Jiu a more reliable news.
Zhang Ying cleared her throat and said, "Don't worry." The court is going to be reconciled again, and it may not be long before your father and your brother will return. ”
Jia Jiu was stunned for a moment, then grabbed Zhang Ying's arm and said, "When is it?" ”
Zhang Ying said: "This matter is not in a hurry, in the end, it is also the princess of the heavenly family, how can this marriage be sloppy?" It will be next year at the latest......"
"I'm not asking about this, but when did you bring up this matter of kinship?" Jia Jiu abruptly interrupted Zhang Ying's words.
Zhang Ying was taken aback by Jia Jiu and said: "I heard my father and mother talk about it on the second day of the ninth lunar month, and I don't know when it was brought up in the court." ”
Jia Jiu said angrily: "Confused! It's too late to weaken Yidi now, but hurry up to send money, food and women to those Yidi! Do you want to send it even to craftsmen! What do those old men think?! Is Yidi's knife not sharp enough, or are there not enough people who dislike Yidi, or are there not enough people in my Daqi who died under Yidi's horses?! If it were me, let alone the princess, I wouldn't even give a copper plate! With this money, train the troops, update the ordnance, and subdue the entire grassland in the future! At that time, the princesses didn't have to worry about throwing their lives on the vast grassland at a young age, and the people of Daqi could also recuperate. ”
Zhang Ying said: "You said it so simply. How did you know how powerful those barbarians were! ”
Jia Jiu said: "The reason why those Yidi people are so powerful and repeatedly violate my border pass is that they rely on a large number of horses, one person and three riders, and come and go like the wind. If you want to subdue them, you must either be faster than them, or you will limit their space for movement! If the grasslands are all my walled cities, and their horses can only run into the muzzles of our guns no matter where they go, do we need to be afraid of them? Could it be that their horses were able to run over the heavy cities to our Daqi land?! ”
Zhang Ying said: "Where can it be so easy? There are a few more people who are willing to go to the north to live such a hard life. Didn't you hear what those Di people in the capital said? ”
Jia Jiu said: "Those Yidi are all lazy people! Do they know how to farm or do they know how to weave? It is to give them thousands of miles of fertile fields and 10,000 acres of fertile land, and they also say that they have nothing, saying that God only gives them two noses and one mouth! You say that horses are strategic materials, but what is the price of cattle and sheep in the Jingshi! Take our family, for example, our old lady uses cow's milk to steam lamb every year. According to our old lady, 'this is the medicine of our old people, something that has not seen the light of day', and our old lady has to steam lamb with at least one guest of milk every year. Take this for example. There are many elderly old ladies and old ladies in the families of the powerful people in Beijing, and this alone is tens of thousands of silver a year! Moreover, like our family, there are many people who dislike pork cheaply, and the whole family is up and down, this pork is not only for worshipping ancestors. Almost no one uses him, but chicken, duck, fish, and beef and sheep are very popular. If nothing else, let's just say that we are in the old lady's house. Eat at least one sheep and half a cow every day! Judging from the ledgers, before the separation, our family had to eat at least 1,000 sheep and 300 cows a year! It's that there are false reports here, but how many powerful people are there in Beijing. How many people are cheap pork and like cattle and sheep? This alone can raise at least two large tribes of tens of thousands of people! Want me to say. The adults in the court are also stupid, such a large amount of income is actually cheaper for outsiders. Instead, our own soldiers are fighting hungry and defenseless, and even our own people are starving and cold! ”
Jia Jiu crackled and said a lot, raised his eyes, but Zhang Ying was gone, and when he lowered his head again, he saw that Zhang Ying was already kneeling on the ground. Even Zhang Ying and her maid-in-law knelt far away.
The cold hairs on Jia Jiu's back stood up all of a sudden.
He couldn't think about who was behind him, he just turned around. Then he knelt down with a poof. His knees slammed heavily on the bluestone slab on the ground, making a crisp sound. Jia Jiu didn't have to guess to know that his knees must be blue.
I only heard a very familiar voice above my head: "It's all flat." I came here to meet the teacher today, but I didn't want to hear anything interesting. ”
As a king who has reigned for more than ten years, to the emperor's ears, Jia Jiu's words inevitably seem too immature. But seeing that Jia Jiu is a girl, and she is only so young, the emperor will naturally not deny it completely. At least, many new officials and officials who have just been admitted to the Jinshi can't say such things.
The emperor asked the teacher, Zhang Xixian, the former head of the household department, to sit on the Taihu Lake stone with a cushion first, and he also sat on the side very casually, and then looked up at the two little girls in front of him.
At first, the emperor thought that the two girls who were discussing military affairs under the willow tree were the children of the teacher's family, but when he saw that one of them was wearing a real gold nine-cockroach bead bracelet that he had given him, he realized that he was mistaken.
The emperor coughed twice and said, "It turned out to be you." I can't imagine that the Jia family can still raise a knowledgeable child like you, it's really rare. ”
In the emperor's heart, the girl of the Jia family is just like Jia Yuanchun, who is empty of beauty, full of straw in her head, and is bent on fighting for power and power, yearning for wealth and wealth. It's that Jia Jiu stayed in the palace for a period of time for his parents to sue the emperor, and the emperor also had a good feeling for Jia Jiu during that time.
It is not a good feeling for any king to be calculated and drugged. The emperor desperately wanted to toss and toss to vent the anger in his heart.
The problem is that Jia Yuanchun went home, Jia Zheng was sitting on a cold bench, and it was impossible for the emperor to directly find them to vent his anger. As for Wang Ziteng, he still has some use for the emperor, so the emperor is angry at Jia Yu and Jia Lian. It can be said that the appointment of Jia Yu and Jia Lian, and it can be said that they were assigned to leave the capital in general, was entirely because of the emperor's anger. In the emperor's heart, those two waste snacks dissipated their anger, and by the way, they hung out Jia Zheng and Jia Yuanchun, and it was really good to catch these guys who dared to calculate themselves.
This is the emperor's original idea, when Jia Jiu opened the black history of Wang Ziteng, the emperor certainly wanted to believe Wang Ziteng, but now his trust in Wang Ziteng has almost been eroded.
Since the prince's nieces and nieces are able to spit out the word rebellion lightly, and his niece and nephew do not have the slightest fear of me, then I continue to believe that this person is just digging his own grave. So let's dispose of it together.
This is the emperor's current state of mind, that is to say, Jia Jiu did not guess wrong at all, that is, the emperor was provoked and wanted to destroy the Jia family and the Wang family in order to erase his black history.
The emperor is probably the most involuntary and capricious position in the world.
Jia Jiu didn't know the emperor's thoughts, and he couldn't feel the emperor's hostility towards him - if the emperor's feelings were so lightly perceived by Jia Jiu, a little girl, then he wouldn't have to mix in this world. Because he was killed twenty years ago, and now the pines and cypresses on the grave are all tall - Jia Jiu honestly kowtowed to the emperor and thanked the emperor for his praise.
The emperor asked Jia Jiu to get up. Let the two children sit down with a small pestle that was brought in - it has already snowed, and then let the teacher's children kneel on such cold ground, if the kneel is broken, I am afraid that he will not be the first in his heart, but if the teacher's children continue to kneel on the ground and reply, I am afraid that it will cause chaos to the teacher.
The emperor said: "I heard you talk about it very lively. Why, won't you talk about it now? ”
Zhang Ying and Jia Jiu glanced at each other, and then said respectfully: "Long live the words." These are just the shallow opinions of courtiers and other little girls. Which is right and which is wrong, the court has its own ministers and princesses to judge, where is there room for courtiers to talk more. ”
The emperor said: "Now the princesses of the right age in the palace, except for me, Duanyi Guifei and Duankang Guifei, the two princesses left are only the three eldest princesses of my father. If I can't find a reason to object, I can't refuse the request of the hundred officials. This is inevitable. Do you really have no idea at all? ”
Zhang Ying said: "Long live." Since your lords have made this decision, I think there is a reason why you are young, and how can you compare to your knowledge? ”
The emperor said, "You really don't have any ideas? ”
The emperor's face was directed at Zhang Ying, but his eyes kept sweeping towards Jia Jiu's body.
This girl looked like she was kneeling there with her head down and the children of the Zhang family replying, but her ears were straight up, and when she mentioned that she couldn't refuse the hundred officials. The girl twisted the hem of her dress, obviously angry. Let's put it this way. He must have his own ideas about harmony.
So what kind of ideas will he have, and will he be able to surprise himself?
Zhang Ying's expression and expression are good, in the eyes of the emperor, she is just an ordinary little girl, but this girl of the Jia family, obviously he has considerations in his heart, but he doesn't know what the reason is, so he hesitates and doesn't dare to open this mouth.
How do you get the words out of his mouth?
The emperor was in a state of interest.
The emperor and Zhang Xixian could guess the reason for Jia Jiu's hesitation, but it was just because he was afraid of being regarded as the second daughter of the Wang family. To be honest, if the Wang girl hadn't done it against the army and let the soldiers of Daqi go to the battlefield hungry, he would not have fallen into the later situation. Back then, the Emperor Taishang still admired this woman's methods, and said that if this woman was not in a bad state of mind, Daqi would usher in a real prosperous era. It can be said that whether it is the emperor or Zhang Xixian, including a considerable number of civil and military ministers, they are not so disgusted by women meddling in certain things, as long as it is beneficial to the country, as long as the selfishness of the person who makes the idea is not so heavy that it harms the interests of the country.
Jia Jiu was still hesitating.
Obviously, what he said in front of those girls that day was not his nonsense, but the real fear in his heart, the emperor's murderous intent towards the Jia family. Because only if the emperor has murderous intentions, the Jia family may fall to the point of "the vast white land is really clean", otherwise, in a flourishing family like the Jia family, there will always be one or two disciples who become talented and finally bring Zhongxing to the family.
I don't know when the emperor killed his family, but Jia Jiu is very sure that with Jia's mother, it is impossible for his family and Jia Zheng and Jia Yuanchun to be completely torn apart, even if the two families have been separated. Because Jia Zheng still lives in his own home, if Jia Zheng does something, not many people in his family will believe him if he doesn't know.
In such a situation, in order to keep one's home, it is necessary to make the royal family feel that it is useful, and it cannot be irreplaceable.
So, that's where it gets interesting.
Should I fully show what I know, or should I keep some of it and hide behind the door to minimize my influence? However, it is clear that nothing will be said now.
Thinking like this, Jia Jiu left his seat again, bowed on the ground, and said, "Long live, the courtiers are young, and they are not as familiar with the affairs of the border as the ministers. Thinking about the comparison of the strength of my Daqi and Yidi, the ministers of the DPRK and China can say that it will not be repeated for three days and three nights. The courtiers believed that what was important was not the absolute strength of the two countries, but how to turn their disadvantages into advantages and give Di people enough blows. I don't know the opinion of the courtier, do you agree? ”
The emperor looked Jia Jiu up and down carefully several times, and said, "It seems that you have really done your homework." So let's talk about it. ”
Jia Jiu said: "Long live, I'm afraid it's not suitable to talk about this here." ”
The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Jia Jiu's eyes, only to see the men and women of the Zhang family and the maids and servants of the Zhang family standing or kneeling around.
Zhang Xixian said with a smile: "Long live, now it's winter, the days are short and the nights are long, and the weather is getting colder." It was fine in the afternoon, but it was cold to the bone. The old minister is old and can't stand the wind anymore, why don't you ask Long Live to move the old minister's study? ”
The emperor happily agreed, and was the first to stand up and walk towards Zhang Xixian's study. And the daughters of the Zhang family also took the opportunity to retreat, leaving only Jia Jiu alone.
Before leaving, Zhang Ying gave Jia Jiu a look, but saw that the kid lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, so he didn't notice him at all.
Zhang Ying was stunned for a moment, and then relieved.
Also, if you change yourself, you will also be able to deal with it with all your heart. (To be continued......)