Chapter 19: The Empress Dowager of the Red Chamber (19)

Tu Minghui was a little dumbfounded when he heard this:

"Wang, she is a woman, she is so bold, no, how can she be an ordinary woman with such courage, could it be that there is someone behind the manipulation? Jia Zheng or Jia Amnesty? ”

From the point of view of the law, whether it is a lawsuit or usury, it is an extremely serious crime, if it is really harsh and severe, these two crimes alone are enough to sentence the death penalty, as well as the sale of sacrificial fields, although this situation is not a crime, but if it is known by the clan, no one will say anything to kill on the spot with the clan rules, because this is digging the roots of the clan, as for accepting the gold and silver assets of the family that has been raided, it is at least a crime of covering up and resisting the will, which is not light.

No matter how Tu Minghui looks at it, he feels that it is not a woman who has the courage to do it, and he thinks that there may be other people behind the plot.

Wei Xiang smiled bitterly and said helplessly:

"Your Majesty, you are ignorant and fearless!

Ignorant people are fearless, I heard that the Wang family has always believed that women are virtuous if they are not talented, and the four books and five classics, laws and the like have never been learned, and even the female precepts are not very learned, so the Wang family probably really doesn't know how big these sins are!

And the Wang family is still very greedy for money, according to our investigation, her housekeeper has been greedy for no less than 100,000 taels of silver from the Jia family over the years, and most of the 100,000 taels of silver were sent to the palace and given to the female official named Yuanchun in their family, I heard that it seems to be used to dredge up the relationship! ”

Tu Minghui was stunned for a long time, he really never thought that there was such a thing as ignorance and fearlessness, but it was also the same truth, and after a while, his voice was a little hoarse and said:

"A woman in charge of the housekeeper can be greedy for so much silver because of greed, how much silver do you say the internal affairs government will be greedy, and how much money will the household department be greedy?

How many people in this world should be greedy?

Then Jia pardoned the money, and used the silver objects in their public treasury, the public treasury was clean, but everyone's private treasury was already full of harvest, and it was still the same within a family, not to mention a country, the treasury was empty, and the ministers and nobles were full of food! ”

From the point to the surface, from a classic case to the overall situation, Tu Minghui's associative ability is still quite good, all of a sudden from the situation of the Jia family to the whole country, the Jia family has a total of three or five masters, everyone is still desperately trying to use the money in the public account, their own private treasury can not be moved, and also from the public treasury to pick up the silver to fill in their own private treasury, it really shows the greed of human nature to the fullest, the family is still like this, why not the country?

When Tu Minghui was talking to himself, Wei Xiang next to him had already knelt down in fright, not daring to speak, if he provoked the emperor to completely raid the Internal Affairs Office because of his three or two sentences, this news would spread, and he was afraid that he would offend all the officials and eunuchs in the Internal Affairs Office.

Ten lives will not be enough to fill at that time.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs never uses a knife to kill.

"Stop kneeling, get up!

Tomorrow, I will take the time to check the situation in the Internal Affairs Office, and see how the tens of millions of taels of silver in the palace are used every year, the Jia family's total annual expenses are less than 30,000 taels, and the Wang family can still collect nearly 10,000 taels of silver, and the internal affairs office spends tens of millions of taels of silver every year, who knows how much silver they can save, give me a strict inspection!

Households, you can't control the households, let's talk about it! ”

Tu Minghui never believed in human nature, as the daughter-in-law of the Jia family, the Wang family could still be greedy for so much money in charge of their own property, not to mention that the Internal Affairs Office was not the royal family in charge of the royal silver, who knew how much he would be greedy, Tu Minghui intuitively felt that it would not be less.

What should Wei Xiangneng do? You have to jump into the pit you dug yourself, the emperor has given orders, can he still resist the decree and disrespect? You can only do it!

"No!"

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Next

The officials of the Ministry of Rites, who Jia Yu had been waiting for for half a month, finally came to the door, and he still came to the door in person with the plaque of General Yipin.

By the stable, oh, no, it's Jia Yu's yard, Zhang Hongyun, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, has already arrived, and is standing at the entrance of the courtyard and says:

"General Jia, don't come unharmed!

I didn't expect General Jia to have a bad reputation on the outside, but he was a courtesy inside, by the will of the Holy Lord, the plaque of the first-class general has been brought to you, you see, can you change it? ”

"Yes, I can, I'm tired of Lord Zhang coming in person, please sit down, please sit down!"

Jia Yu and other officials of the Ministry of Rites have been waiting for half a month, and now they finally see it, but they are not very excited, he has had a very difficult time in the past half a month, and he is called over by his mother every day to reprimand, and sometimes he doesn't want to go home.

At this time, the officials of the Ministry of Rites are life-saving!

"Sit, the official won't sit!

General Jia wrote on the fold to the Holy Lord that he would strictly investigate the overreach, so we are doing things according to the will of the Holy Lord today, and there may be some conflicts at that time, and I hope that General Jia will understand the matter and not stop it.

Nowadays, this Rongguo Mansion is formulated according to the specifications of the Guogong, replaced by the first-class general's mansion, and the courtyard in the mansion has to be sealed two-thirds, because the courtyard of the first-class general should not be so big, only one-third of the courtyard of the Rongguo Mansion, and the Rongxi Hall is only qualified to live in the Guogong, and the first-class general is not qualified to live, General Jia is still more polite in this regard, and today the official will also help General Jia seal the Rongxi Hall by the way!

By the way, the official may also need to check the private treasury of the people in the house, because there may be some royal gifts in the private treasury, which are not available to you now, what grade can be used with what level of things? General Jia himself should have points!

Just in case, the official has invited several adults from the household department to work together, and also asked General Jia to prepare the list of private treasury, and we will check it according to the list at that time, especially the things given by the emperor. ”

Zhang Hongyun, a civil official, didn't want to say anything more to these military attachΓ©s, so he straightforwardly explained what he was going to do later, without any detours, for fear that he would not understand.

"It should, it should!"

Jia Yu's face did not show any dislike, but smiled very happily, the yard was sealed, anyway, he couldn't live in so many yards, and the yard was sealed, so he had a chance to drive out the second family, as for Rongxi Hall, he had never lived in it anyway, and if it was sealed, it was sealed, he couldn't live in it, and no one wanted to live in it.

It's just right to be sealed, and it can be regarded as an outlet for evil anger.

Zhang Hongyun looked at Jia Yu's happy look, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and his dislike for Xungui also gave birth to a crack in his heart, although most of Xungui are not good things, but this Jia Yu's bad luck and misery are really unlucky and really mixed.

is still pressed by Jia's mother when he is old.