Chapter 383: Evil
The reason why Xia Shouzhong said bad things about Jia Ke in front of King Zhongshun was because he had always held a grudge against Jia Ke, and he used the Emperor Taishang to almost beat him to death in the Golden Palace, Xia Shouzhong has always held a grudge and is ready to retaliate at any time, but it is only because Jia Ke's power is getting bigger and bigger, so he forbears, and now he has an opportunity that he naturally can't let go, that is, he can't give Jia Ke substantial damage, and it's good to add some blockage to Jia Ke.
For the Emperor Taishang, Xia Shouzhong didn't dare to hold grudges even if he had a hundred courages, so he put all his hatred on Jia Ke.
Now that the king of loyalty asked, he also confessed to him. even added fuel and vinegar to it and said a lot of bad things about Jia Ke, just thinking about letting King Zhongshun and Jia Ke face off against each other.
King Zhongshun is not without brains, he naturally knows that there is water in what Xia Shouzhong said, and I am afraid that he will not be able to believe it all. But the general process should not be wrong, like this kind of thing, with his identity, as long as he casually inquires in the court and understands, Xia Shouzhong does not dare to lie to him on these issues.
The more he thought about it now, the more angry he became, and he even remembered the events of the past. If it weren't for Jia Ke's eight-hundred-mile expedited back then, I'm afraid he would be the one sitting on the Jinluan Hall now.
It was because of this eight-hundred-mile rush that he was disgusted by the Emperor Taishang, and he lost the opportunity to become the emperor. I didn't expect that now he would let himself lose such a large amount of silver. For a while, new hatred and old hatred came to my heart, and the root of the hatred of King Zhongshun was itching, if Jia Ke was in front of him now, I couldn't wait to bite him to death.
But the loyal king, after all, is the one who almost became the crown prince. He knew that Jia Ke's power was not small now, and if he had a hard fight with Jia Ke, he might not have much chance of winning?
After sending Xia Shouzhong away, King Zhongshun took a turn around the palace hall and immediately came up with an idea. He can't deal with Jia Ke, can't he deal with Jia Ke's family?
At that time, as long as he stands still, Jia Ke has no way to take him even if he is in power. After all, he is still loyal to the king, as long as Jia Ke does not rebel, he can't openly fall out with him without evidence.
King Zhongshun called the chief eunuch beside him, "How much silver do we still have in the inner treasury of our palace?" ”
"Back to the prince, our palace now has about more than five million taels of silver."
As soon as King Zhongshun heard this number, his face turned into the bottom of a black pot, if this is the case, after buying 5 million quintals of grain, he is afraid that he will have to drink the northwest wind. Now King Zhongshun hates Jia Ke even more.
But he couldn't disobey the emperor's will, so he could only grit his teeth and say: "You immediately send someone to Jiangnan to buy five million quintals of grain and send it to the grain storage warehouse of the household department." ”
This eunuch knelt on the side just now when Xia Shouzhong was delivering the decree, so he naturally knew what was going on. I know that this time it is a disaster to avoid disaster. This is still what the emperor did for the sake of the face of the deceased old concubine, if he changed people, now he will either give death or be confined.
The eunuch immediately returned: "Don't worry, the servants will do it, and promise to deliver the grain within two months, and never delay the prince." ”
King Zhongshun nodded, and then said to him: "You go and check, who is in the family of Jia Ke, the Minister of Military Aircraft?" What have you been up to lately? Be sure to find out and report back to me. ”
This eunuch is a confidant of the king of loyalty, and he immediately understood the meaning of the king of loyalty, but he was a little hesitant in this matter, and he also knew something about Jia Ke, this person was a powerful minister when the emperor was in power, and now the emperor is in power or there is no way to take him. If there is no secret that no one knows, he will not believe it.
He has been in the imperial family for so many years, and he has never seen the emperor be able to tolerate the ministers, if the emperor can tolerate it, it means that the emperor has no way to take this minister.
This just illustrates the situation of the emperor and Jia Ke today, and now the king of Zhongshun wants to go against Jia Ke, and if he doesn't make trouble, he will be burned. As a confidant of the loyal king, he felt that he still had an obligation to remind him once.
"Lord Wang, this Jia Ke is different from ordinary characters, if something happens, I'm afraid even the emperor won't be able to protect us."
King Zhongshun said with a gloomy face: "This king naturally knows how powerful this Jia Ke is, but this time this king is not ready to fight him to the death, as long as he teaches him a small lesson, and temporarily out of this king's heart, it will be fine." As for the enmity between him and this king, when my emperor's brother is in control of the situation, I will let his nine clans take their lives to vent my anger. ”
The eunuch put his mind at ease, as long as he didn't fight with Jia Ke, he didn't dare to be too embarrassed to be loyal to the king if he wanted to come. So he bowed down and took his leave, and arranged these things for the king of Zhongshun.
When the king saw the eunuch go down, he could no longer hold back the anger in his heart. He smashed everything in the room that I could smash, and I sat weakly in my chair, my eyes bloodshot.
He has been holding back all these years, just waiting for the opportunity to regain his own throne, as for the relationship between the emperor and him today, what are these in front of the imperial power?
But seeing that the position of the emperor today is becoming more and more secure, he becomes more and more depressed. Now he can only use this Jia Ke, as long as Jia Ke falls out with the emperor, then he still has a glimmer of hope to re-ascend the throne.
Therefore, King Zhongshun has been holding back for this period of time, just to watch the emperor and Jia Ke lose both, and then he will rise up in one fell swoop to clean up the mess.
originally thought well, but things were developing according to his ideas, and Jia Ke and the emperor were fighting.
Unexpectedly, now there was another incident with the grain storage road, and the emperor asked him to take out 5 million loads of grain. It seems that the emperor has already sensed his thoughts, and this time he asked him to pay 5 million loads of grain to teach him a lesson.
This time, the emperor let go of King Zhongshun, it seems that the previous love has been almost consumed, if there is any more news, I am afraid it will not be so easy to pass.
King Zhongshun was annoyed at the thought of this, but turned over and sneered when he thought about it. Your emperor is powerful, and there is a Jia Ke standing next to him, and it is not certain who will kill the deer when the time comes.
What King Zhongshun thinks now is that as long as the emperor falls, there is still a need for someone in the court to be that puppet. Whether he is in the same position in terms of identity or status, as long as he becomes the emperor first, and then slowly fights with Jia Kemo, it is also possible to reign in the world again.
Besides, Jia Ke knew when he got the household department to start raising food that those people in the household department had begun to break the wealth and eliminate the disaster, but this was exactly Jia Ke's intention, as long as he could get the food together and stabilize the situation, he couldn't control how the household department raised food.
It's just that Jia Ke never expected that he would offend King Zhongshun because of this time. Let the evil wolf of King Zhongshun start to pay attention to Rongguo Mansion.
Just when the emperor was passing on the edict of the loyal king, the current military aircraft department was discussing another matter.
On this day, Lei Ying, the secretary of the military department, couldn't wait to say to Jia Ke as soon as he arrived at the military aircraft department: "Lord Jia, some time ago, the emperor ordered the Xiao cavalry battalion to march north and camp between Xuanfu Town and Miyun, and Lord Jia decided when to let them go. ”
"Lord Lei, didn't I say it a long time ago? The soldiers and horses did not move, the grain and grass went first, as long as the army's grain, grass and silver were prepared, the army could set off at any time. Jia Ke said confidently that he had long been unimpressed with these little tricks of the emperor.
"Lord Jia, these days, I have prepared military rations and salaries for the army, as long as it is determined that the day of the army's departure, I will immediately send these materials to the barracks." Lei Ying, the secretary of the military department, hurriedly caught Jia Ke's words, as if he was afraid that Jia Ke would regret it.
Jia Ke is a little puzzled now, he knows the food and salary in the court, I am afraid that there is not so much grain in the treasury of the household department, and the reward for the silver opened by the army, because the emperor has privately withheld 3 million taels this year, the silver everywhere is very nervous, where did they raise all these materials so quickly.
In fact, the grain and silver used this time were allocated by the emperor from the inner treasury, after all, if you rely on the household department, I am afraid that these troops will not be able to leave the capital next year.
The emperor discussed with Lei Ying, in order to let the Ruijian camp go north as soon as possible and reduce the pressure on entering the capital, the emperor reluctantly allocated nearly 1 million taels of silver from the inner treasury for the food and silver needed for the Ruijian camp to go north this time.
After Lei Ying got the emperor's 1 million taels of silver, he did not dare to delay and immediately ordered the people of the military department to go to Jiangnan to purchase grain.
In order to raise food as soon as possible, they did not go to various places to collect grain and grass, but used Lei Ying's life to force the gentry to make up 500,000 loads of grain within three days.
The local gentry were also full of complaints when they got the news, and every one of these gentry was a human spirit. They have their own sources, and they have received news from the beginning of the spring of this year that there has been no rain in the north for several months, and it seems that there is a problem with this year's harvest. Only then did they stock up on some grain and grass, ready to transport them to the north to make a lot of money when there was a drought.
But Lei Ying made such a fuss, causing them to lose at least six or seven hundred thousand taels of silver. But Lei Ying is originally from Jiangnan and represents the interests of many gentry in Jiangnan, so this time he can't dismantle his platform no matter what, so the major gentry reluctantly scraped together 500,000 denier of grain.
The officials of the Ministry of War who went to Jiangnan to do business got the grain, and immediately set out to transport it to the north, and they did not take the slow Grand Canal, but took a sea boat as far as Tianjinwei.
Just yesterday, the food had arrived. Only then did Lei Ying gather all the food and the 500,000 taels of silver that he was going to be rewarded.
Now Lei Ying is also planning to send Jia Ke's elite army away like a plague god. Otherwise, it is really hard to go to the battlefield, and it is impossible to allocate 1 million taels of silver to 50,000 people. This is completely blocking Jia Ke's mouth, with so much food and silver, you have to leave if you don't leave.
Therefore, I can't wait to come to Jia Ke today and let him give orders, hoping that Jia Ke will open his mouth and let these troops go north as soon as possible.
Jia Ke looked at Lei Ying's serious face and wanted to laugh a little, they were afraid that they didn't know how to control the army, thinking that this would weaken their strength.
They want to reward the Ruijian camp with these silver coins, I am afraid that they will have to use them in the end, but this time they got these silver coins, and they can't help but give them some face, so they said: "Lord Lei will transport these grains, grass and silver to the Ruijian camp." When the time came, I was rewarded, and within three days I sent the camp north to guard against the Tatars. ”
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