The result of the disposition of the Tatar king was finally settled before the Chinese New Year, and the emperor made a decree to give the Tatar king and the Tatar princess a glass of poisoned wine each, but left them a whole corpse. But there was no news of the disposition of the Tatar princes, but strangely enough, nine people died in the prison where the Tatar princes were held overnight, and only the eldest prince, the fourth prince, and the sixth prince, were left. A day later, the body of the eldest prince was brought out of the prison, and after another three days, on the first day of the new year, only one of the Tatar princes was left alive.

The emperor's first decree after the opening ceremony on the first day of the Lunar New Year was to let the six princes return to Tatar and marry the ninth princess of Daming to Tatar and relatives. Such a sudden decree shocked the civil and military capitals of the Manchu Dynasty, and many old ministers bluntly admonished: You can't make peace with the Tatars! How could the emperor insist on going his own way, and several people who were very powerful in the court, such as Prince Yan, Jia Daishan, Wu Chengxiang and others, did not raise objections, so those courtiers who opposed it were just thunder and rain, and when they saw the general trend, they all died down!

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At the same time, Jia Min and Lin Ruhai took Lin Lang and Lin Xuan's two sons, as well as Jia Lian's nephew, back to Lin Ruhai's hometown of Suzhou City. Over the years, the Lin family will return to the old house in Suzhou to celebrate the New Year, and they will also participate in the ancestor worship ceremony of the Lin family.

This year, Lin Lang is about to leave Daming and go to sea to Linjia Island, and the external saying is that Lin Lang worships under the door of a master outside the world, and wants to follow his master to go to sea to practice. In the Lin family in Suzhou, this is still the first descendant to worship the immortal gate, of course, this ancestor worship ceremony is much more grand than in previous years.

After the ancestor worship ceremony, the patriarch of the Lin clan held a feast in the ancestral hall of the Lin family, invited all the people with heads and faces in Suzhou City to come to the banquet, and made the news that Lin Lang had entered the fairy gate public.

Lin Ruhai and Jia Min originally didn't want to do something like this, but the patriarch of the Lin clan insisted, and after the couple discussed, they also felt that this could be regarded as an explanation of what Lin Lang was going to do next, even if their Lin family came up with something valuable, they could have a source! On the other hand, it also gave the emperor a message, that is, the Lin family is not short of silver, and the Lin family is not without a way out, so it is really okay to go to sea to join Lin Lang!

Lin Ruhai and Jia Min are very jealous of Aunt He, who is now controlled by the emperor, and they don't know what strange Gu poison is in the hands of this Aunt He, and they don't know who the emperor will use these Gu poisons to deal with!

Lin Ruhai didn't tell Jia Min about some of his speculations about the emperor, for fear that Jia Min would be worried all day long if he knew, and now that he has not reached that point, Lin Ruhai does not want to give up the Lin family's hundreds of years of family background in Daming.

However, Lin Ruhai plans to take time out of the past few years to go to several other Lin family secret places with Jia Min, and collect all the treasures hidden in them into Jia Min's space. Lin Ruhai also plans to sell some other inconspicuous family properties gradually, and in the end only the two industries of Zhenfang and Qianwuzhai that have not exposed their true owners are left. There was also an overland caravan to the West via the northwest, and a waterway caravan from the port of Ningbo to the capital. No one knew that these two caravans were the property of the Lin family, and in addition to earning a large amount of gold and silver for the Lin family every year, they also played an important role in delivering news. Of course, there is also the Lin family's sea ship business, which has always been mistaken for being owned by the nobles of an overseas country, and this business will continue to be done. Even if the Lin family is forced to flee overseas and live on the Lin family island one day, these industries in the Great Ming Dynasty will ensure that their descendants can return to their homeland.

Jia Min was unaware of Lin Ruhai's plan, and after she heard Lin Ruhai mention that she would take Jia Min to a secret place of the Lin family every year to retrieve the Lin family's treasures, she was still a little puzzled at first, and then felt that there was no place that could be safer and more secret than her own space, thinking that Lin Ruhai should also be afraid that if someone coveted the treasures of the Lin family's secret land again, she decided to make a special trip to retrieve it! Since Lin Ruhai, as the head of the Lin family, has already decided, Jia Min didn't ask anything more, and readily agreed to Lin Ruhai's decision!

When worshipping ancestors today, Jia Lian also followed him to the Lin ancestral hall, but outsiders were not allowed to be there when the ancestor worship ceremony was held, so Jia Lian had been worshipping outside the door of the ancestral hall. When he was in Rongguo Mansion in the capital, he would also participate in the ancestor worship ceremony on the first day of the Lunar New Year every year, but there were not many people in the Jia family in the capital, and the ancestor worship seemed relatively deserted! Now that he has seen the ancestor worship of the Lin family in Suzhou, Jia Lian has opened his eyes, and there are some things that he didn't understand, so he went to ask Lin Ruhai.

"Uncle! The nephew saw that the ancestor worship of the Lin family in Suzhou today is very different from the ancestor worship of our Jia family, and there are many rituals and etiquette The nephew is still seeing him for the first time, I don't know if there is anything to say about it? ”

Lin Ruhai smiled and said: "Since the Lin family of Suzhou moved into Suzhou from our East Street Lin family and merged with the Lin family here in Suzhou, they have always begun to follow Zhou Lilai to govern the family, and all the descendants of the Suzhou Lin family are taught according to Zhou Lilai, for hundreds of years, no matter how the dynasty changes, Zhou Li has been used to this day." What you see when you worship your ancestors today is done in strict accordance with the Zhou rituals, and it is not uncommon to be different from your Jia family. In fact, many families are following the Zhou rites, such as the Wang Xie family in Wuyi Lane, Jinling. ”

"Then why hasn't Zhou Li been used by all families?" Jia Lian was still very puzzled.

"Just because our land has been invaded by foreigners, the rule of the Yuan and Mongolian people has dealt a great blow to our culture, after a hundred years of infringement, some important classics have been submerged in history, and future generations have no way forward to follow, so they can only draw a scoop according to the gourd!" Lin Ruhai Road.

"What a shame! It's no wonder that these families can produce talents, they can survive the war, and preserve those precious cultures, with such a heritage, why worry about future generations? Jia Lian also said with emotion.

"Yes! The most precious thing preserved in these big families is the book slips, and these books are not accessible to outsiders at all, and the so-called solitary and rare books that are scattered among the people are just the tip of the iceberg! As he spoke, Lin Ruhai thought of the lone books in Jia Min's space, a large part of which had never appeared in the Lin family's collection.

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