When the words came out, Mrs. Wang was frightened, and Jia's mother was also cold, and Jia Yu and Jia Zheng, who rushed to hear the news, couldn't help but get nervous. Jia Yu clamored to return the Zhen family's gift quickly, and Jia Zheng said:

"Since Your Majesty wants to raid the Zhen family, the Zhen family must have committed a big crime. ”

"A clean white family like ours shouldn't have anything to do with such a family. ”

Jia Lian's face was as usual, but deep down he was helpless.

The two masters of Jiafu looked panicked, how can such a bearing support Rongguo Mansion?

But one of them is Jia Lian's father, and the other is Jia Lian's second uncle.

Judging from the etiquette, he couldn't help them at all.

However, when Jia Mu heard that the will to raid the Zhen family was about to be made, she was also very surprised, and said:

"The Zhen family is our old relative, and the gift from his family is said to be for me on the surface, but in fact, it was for me to send to the palace for the eldest girl. ”

"I didn't expect that there was such a reason, and I was almost hidden by his family!"

As she spoke, she said with some fear:

"Fortunately, Lian'er knew it early, if it was past the twenty-sixth day when the family members of the Jiaofang entered the palace to wait, I would send this gift to the eldest girl to the palace. ”

"When the mother is sent to the queen mother and the emperor, if she is asked about the source, won't she be harmed!"

"Lian'er, you have really made a great contribution this time!"

While praising Jia Lian, Jia Mu sighed that there were so many people in Rongguo Mansion, but there was no top matter, there was also a first-grade general, and a fifth-grade student and politician, but as a result, the Zhen family was going to be raided for such a big thing, and they couldn't hear a little rumor, and they had to rely on the juniors to pass on the news.

"Old lady, eldest master, second master!"

"The Zhen family was raided because of the shortfall, should we pay it back first?"

Jia Lian then said that Rongguo Mansion owes 1.8 million taels to the Ministry of Households, Jia Lian has been in the General Administration Department for two years, and his experience is extraordinary, coupled with Sister Feng's ears and eyes, he is no longer the junior boy who will only follow the second room to do chores.

After knowing the fate of the Zhen family, Jia Lian thought of what Lin Zhao had hinted at him at the beginning, and was worried that Rongguo Mansion would be robbed of his family, and wanted to take the initiative to repay the loan.

Now that Rongguo Mansion is controlled by the second room, thinking about Leng Zixing's antique shop, Jia Lian only needs to think about it carefully, and he can guess that the second room has money, but the public middle school is only afraid that it is empty.

Therefore, he wanted to use the repayment to knock on the second room.

But he also knows that most of this will not happen.

After all, Rongguo Mansion is a century-old mansion, and the affairs of the entire family are not up to him. When Jia Lian heard that Jia Lian wanted to repay the debt owed by the household, he immediately scolded Jia Lian and said:

"You have so much silver, don't you use it to honor Lao Tzu, what do you give it to the household department?"

"The silver we borrowed was all spent on the driver, when did the court say that we wanted to pay it back?"

"If your words are known to other people in the capital, they still don't know how to scold us!"

scolded Jia Lian without knowing the severity, worried that after this kind of news spread, it would annoy other nobles and make it impossible for Rongguo Mansion to gain a foothold among the nobles in the capital.

Jia Lian was scolded by Jia Yu, and he had long been used to it, and he was completely on the sidelines.

As for Jia Zheng, although he felt that Jia Lian's proposal was somewhat reasonable. But thinking that the big house and the second room were not separated, if Rongguo Mansion returned the silver owed, he would have to pay the silver. Therefore, the eyes look at the nose, the nose looks at the heart, and they do not say a word about it.

It was Jia Mu, because she had seen more, so she didn't rush to make a decision, but asked Jia Lian:

"Lian'er, you are in the General Administration, you have many eyes and ears, what do you think of Your Majesty, do you want us nobles to return the arrears that we took over that year?"

This is true, but the emperor really wants to arrange for the household department to track it down, do you use this sentence to push it back?

Besides, now even people like the Zhen family are going to be copied, and the matter of checking the deficit has reached the last moment in the local area. If it goes any further, this fire will burn to the capital!

"Wait, the will of the imperial court, this household is the uncle of the Lin family. Although the uncle next door is upright, he is a nostalgic for the old love, how could the emperor let him force my Jia family to repay the debt? In this way, Rongguo Mansion can survive for a while, and some things need to be arranged as soon as possible!"

Thinking in his heart, Jia Lian didn't say it, but just said to Jia's mother:

"What does Your Majesty mean, where do we dare to speculate as courtiers?"

"It's just the silver owed by the Zhen family, and I heard that a lot of it was owed when he took over the car. ”

"Now that the Zhen family is going to be raided because of the silver debt, those of us who also owe the money to take over the driver's money, I'm afraid we will have to pay it back. ”

Jia Yu interjected: "But the stick is the first bird, although our Rongguo Mansion owes a lot of silver, even if we have to pay it back, we have to wait for others to pay it back, and then we will prepare." ”

When he said this, seeing that everyone was nodding, he looked at Jia Zheng: "But the Zhen family's gift is too hot, and it has to be returned no matter what, this matter must be decided!"

Jia Mu nodded: "The second family's family, we can't accept the Zhen family's things, hurry up and return them." I'd rather that if something happened to them, our family would give up some money, and we wouldn't be guilty of our family at this time. ”

"With the mother in the palace, even if something happens to the Jia family, our second room will be worry-free. ”

Thinking of this in her heart, Mrs. Wang took everyone's words as a deaf ear, and only smiled at Jia's mother: "Ancestor, rest assured, my daughter-in-law also knows in her heart, how can they let them drag down our family? The property entrusted at that time was not considered to be our family's concealment of stolen goods, at most it could only be regarded as our family helping the Zhen family save a sum of money. Besides, I also wrote very clearly on the bill, these belongings were prepared by the old lady of their family in order to give their family's Baoyu to Beijing to come to Beijing, and they first deposited it with us, and then they agreed to take it out when they asked our family to do Baoshan, so that it would not drag down our family. ”

Jia Mu was relieved: "That's fine." In this way, there is no need to return this thing for the time being, wait and see, if the saint confiscates the bill and asks people to come to our house to move things, you are not allowed to stop it, and you can move it to others as much as you want; if the saint does not check it, it can be regarded as a little back road for the Zhen family for the saint to see in the face of the old saint. When the rumor of this matter passes, you will send things to others, so that they can also have a way to live, and it will not be in vain for our relatives. ”

Jia Lian listened on the sidelines, glanced at Sister Feng, and knew that the matter was irreparable.

It's all burning eyebrows, and the elders in the family are still calculating for trivial interests, which is really chilling.

Seeing that the matter is irreparable, I am afraid that the crime of harboring stolen goods in the house will not be able to escape. Jia Lian and Sister Feng sighed in their hearts, but they still had to endure the discomfort in their hearts and accompany their smiling faces.

After a careful discussion, the three of them sent everything they could to the house in the name of sending a bed to Xichun and Sister Qiao, and asked Lin Zhao to help, so that he made the first complaint, just to accumulate a little more credit, and in the future, this crime will not involve himself and the children.

The affairs of the Zhen family were dealt with quickly, and Emperor Xiaode ordered Prince Zhongshun to host it, the assistant director of the three divisions, and Jinyiwei went to Jiangnan to deal with it in person.

It only took more than a month, and it ended before the Dragon Boat Festival. The method of disposal is also very simple and rude, all the men who are officials are beheaded, both men and women who are innocent are not enslaved, all the family property is copied, and the old mother of the Zhen family reads that she breastfeeds the emperor, and gives a Zhuangzi pension. The same is true for a bunch of officials in Jiangnan Province who were involved in the Zhen family.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, Lin Ruhai and his wife finally arrived in the capital.

After coming from the dock from the house, countless relatives and friends came to meet, and finally coped with it, and went to face the saint, and when they came back, the family finally had their own leisure.

The family was happy and shared the joy of family, and in private, Lin Zhao asked: "Since Your Majesty has arranged for my father to serve as the secretary of the household department, I think I must have explained the matter of investigating the arrears." ”

Lin Ruhai nodded and said, "Yes, since Your Majesty has arranged for me to serve as the head of the household, the matter of the arrears of the nobles can only be put aside for a while, because Your Majesty intends to concentrate on dealing with Jinchuan this year, and there can be no instability in Beijing." ”

Lin Zhao nodded, and he also admired Emperor Xiaode's wrist in his heart.

One by one, boiled frogs in warm water, these nobles have completely fallen into his hands, let him rub them.

Sure enough, it's eloquent.

"Speaking of which, my father has already met the saint, and it will take a few days to report to the household department, but I have to visit a few other relatives?"

Lin Ruhai shook his head: "Those who need to be visited are all in arrears, so it is best to go to relatives after taking office, but your family affairs have to be put on the agenda, your mother has nagged several times, and she likes that girl Xue very much." ”

Lin Zhao's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but smile.

Sure enough, people need to be trained.

When he first arrived in Yangzhou, Lin Ruhai was only full of enthusiasm, and he was essentially a scholar.

But after so many years, he has become a feudal official. Show your wrist in every move.

As long as he shows his means in the position of the head of the household, he will be unstoppable from entering the cabinet.

......

On the second day, Jia Lian and Sister Feng came over early with Xichun, Sister Qiao, and Jia Wei, bringing a post from Rongguofu.

Sister Feng's house and the Lin family are very close, and they know everything.

Lin Ruhai and Lin Zhao received Jia Lian in front, and in the back house, Jia Min and Daiyu received their daughters.

Everyone said some news in Beijing, and it was inevitable that they also talked about the Zhen family, Sister Feng sighed: "The Zhen family turned out to be such a rich family, the four mothers-in-law who came to visit our family that year were no worse than the ancestors of ordinary rich people's families. The daughters of the Zhen family and the innocent children and grandchildren are better, the old lady misses the old love, and orders the second master of Lian to buy it, and then asks the prince of Nan'an to help, eliminate their slavery, and give them a gift to help them return to the south. It's just that these envoys are all out of the things sent by the Zhen family in the warehouse, but after these are done, they say that the tens of thousands of taels of silver that the Zhen family deposited in our house in the old years are gone. ”

Sister Feng sneered: "But where can they hide it from me? Those who bought the Zhen family are only two thousand taels, and the gift to the prince of Nan'an was sent by me personally, and it is more than 10,000 taels of silver, and the gift of the female dependents is only one hundred taels, and the man is only one person two hundred taels, the old lady Baoyu of the Zhen family remembered that he was similar to Baoyuchang, loved the house and Wu, and gave an extra five hundred taels of silver, and a dozen or so people were only three thousand taels of silver. I don't look like it, they are a weak female stream and children, the biggest man is Zhen Baoyu, only he is similar to the Baoyu in our family, spoiled, where can he afford it? That Zhen family girl is famous for her beauty, this group of people with so many silver taels on the road, it is tantamount to a sheep into the tiger's mouth, Mama Li and I mentioned it, I asked the ancestors to do good things to the end, and let Lin Zhixiao take people to escort them all the way back to the old lady of the Zhen family. ”

Hearing this, Jia Min nodded and said: "For so many years, Feng Yatou has been a bodhisattva and has the style of a doer, Lian'er can have a daughter-in-law like you, it really burns high incense." ”

Sister Feng hurriedly said: "Oh, my good aunt, don't make fun of me, I was tricked at the beginning, and I almost even buried Sheng'er, and I dare not be vigilant there." ”

Jia Min naturally knew about this, but just sighed and didn't say anything.

After chatting for a while, Sister Feng took a sip of tea and moistened her mouth, and suddenly remembered one thing, and said to Jia Min: "Auntie, the land in Jiangnan is fertile, and Jinyiwei is the executor of this raid, and the house wants to ask my cousin to help buy the property." I wonder what my cousin's rules do about this?"

Although Lin Zhao was ordered by the emperor to be hung high from the position of Jinyi Weidutang, but after all, he is the left governor of Jinyi Wei, and he is the commander of Jinyi Weidu, what kind of question do you really want to ask, is there a long eye in Jinyiwei?

Jia Min said with a smile: "Jin Yiwei set off for Jiangnan yesterday, and the auction plan for the confiscated items has already been decided before he left. When I listened to Brother Zhao chatting with the lord in a trance, he said that all the houses, shops, land, and articles should be bought and sold at market prices this time, and His Majesty told the Jinyi Guard to execute, the Dragon Guards to supervise, and the Prince and Prime Minister to be loyal to the Prince. Feng Yatou went back and told the old lady about the situation, this time is not trivial, if it is really good, it is better to prepare more silver. ”

When Sister Feng heard this, she sneered and said: "The old lady doesn't care about this, but the eldest lady and the second wife have a lot of ideas, but where can they give up the money? Only now that there are three checks and balances, they know that their minds have been wasted, and they can't complain about anything anymore. With that, he sent Mama Li and Xiaohong back to talk back.

Jia Min and Daiyu also sighed at the same time, but didn't say anything.