Jia Lian's original plan was to directly defeat Shen Yi.

Although according to intelligence, Shen Yi should not be seriously involved. But after all, he has served as the envoy of the town government for many years, and he is in charge of the Jinyi Mansion in the entire south of the Yangtze River, which can be regarded as deep-rooted.

If the Nanzhen Mansion Division enters Jinling again, I'm afraid Shen Yi will become the destroyer. Although it is a grasshopper shaking the tree, it is not as good as getting rid of the pest in advance.

Because of this, Jia Lian did not give Shen Yi any good face in Jinling. But now, seeing that those people have been unscrupulous to this point, Jia Lian decided to give Shen Yi a chance.

After receiving Jia Lian's order, Gao Wantong immediately ordered someone to do it. He stayed in the Lin Mansion and continued to wait for Jia Lian's instructions.

"Brother Gao should also go back, when I finish dealing with the affairs of the Lin Mansion, I will go to the Thousand Households Office and talk to Brother Gao in detail."

Jia Lian naturally wouldn't let Gao Wantong stay in the Lin Mansion. He is the in-law of the Lin family, and he is also sent by order. It was nothing for him to stay in the Lin Mansion.

But a pure Jinyi Mansion thousand households stayed in Lin Ruhai's Mansion for a long time, and it was not good for Gao Wantong and Lin Ruhai for a long time.

sent Gao Wantong away, and Jia Lian came to Lin Ruhai's outer study.

"Uncle, there is no one else now, you can tell me the cause and effect of the incident in detail."

Lin Ruhai nodded, knowing that this was about to get to the point.

"That's a long story. I was reinstated in Yangzhou in the winter of the tenth year of Yong'an from my hometown in Suzhou.

At that time, Emperor Taishang Long was weak and in urgent need of cultivation, and His Majesty was already the prince of the prison country. Later, in the summer of the twelfth year of Yong'an, the emperor abdicated and His Majesty ascended the throne, and I began to seriously rectify the salt affairs in accordance with His Majesty's will.

Including a series of measures such as raising the salt tax, strictly investigating illegal salt, and strictly controlling the introduction of salt, all of which were originally paved for His Majesty to implement the Longzheng New Deal in the future.

At first, it was fine, but as the salt business progressed, the salt merchants became more and more fiercely resistant. even to the point of using characters from the rivers and lakes to assassinate them.

If it weren't for the fact that Your Majesty allocated a few masters from the CRRC Mansion to me, and I also have a team of people in my own hands, I'm afraid that your aunt and I would have met with an accident a long time ago.

I was going to send your aunt and your cousin back to Beijing and ask the old lady to take care of them. But your aunt firmly disagreed, saying only that the family should share blessings and difficulties. ”

Jia Lianxin said, I'm afraid that my aunt thinks that the Rongfu in Beijing is now controlled by the second sister-in-law, and she will be uneasy when she returns to Beijing.

"Uncle's new policy, I don't inquire. I just want to know, these few times, what suspicions does my uncle have? ”

Lin Ruhai was silent for a while, and said: "Yangzhou salt merchants are known as the eight major families, but in fact, three of them have been abolished by me because of their resistance to the new policy. They naturally hate me to the core, but they hate even more than the other five families who have taken over their territory and power and the new three who have taken over their positions. Besides, they no longer have any property, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to afford to hire so many masters of the rivers and lakes.

Among the other five, the Qi family is the largest, but Qi Yong, the old lady of the Qi family, was a friend of Emperor Taizu back then. Since the twenty-second year of the Apocalypse, when I took Yangzhou, I have always supported the imperial court.

So I haven't touched the Qi family either, and the rest are the Bai family, the Su family, the Yang family and the Chen family, these four families are the most suspicious. ”

Jia Lian nodded, similar to the information he saw in Shenjing, the martial arts family, the Xu family and the Zhuge family that were abolished by Lin Ruhai have been confiscated and exiled to Qiongzhou.

Maybe after many years, a few guys like Hu Jinghui will pop up. But in just a few years, I am afraid that there is no such force to attack and kill Lin Ruhai.

Then the remaining four will become the biggest suspects in this case.

However, Jia Lian couldn't directly do it to the four families, the reason was very simple, he was authorized to investigate the case of the Yangzhou military garrison selling arms without permission. It is not easy to overstep one's authority.

But this is not a matter, Jia Lian feels that as long as we can distinguish who is our enemy and who is our friend. The rest is pretty good to do.

What's more, Jia Lian would not plan to single-handedly crush the eight-headed sitting tiger in Yangzhou like Lin Ruhai. That's not a smart thing to do.

If you want to break the stagnant water in Yangzhou, the best thing to do is naturally to pull one faction and fight another. The Qi family is self-contained, transcendent and extraordinary, which can not be counted.

The rest of them, even if they are all involved. It is also impossible to liquidate them all. After all, Yangzhou salt merchants are rich in the world, and salt affairs are even more related to the stability of the world and cannot be moved lightly.

Jia Lian knew that this time he was afraid that Emperor Longzheng sent him to check and fill in the gaps for Lin Ruhai. Lin Ruhai is an expert in governance, but he is probably not good at conspiracy.

Anyway, although Jia Lian didn't know why Emperor Long Zheng would send him such an errand. But once the stage is set up, this scene might as well be sung. And Jia Lian has absolute confidence to sing well.

When Lin Ruhai and Jia Lian were talking in the study, in the backyard of the Yamen of the Salt Courtyard, in a small courtyard covered by bamboo forests, Lin Daiyu, who was not yet six years old, was very depressed with her head in her hands.

"Daddy is really bad, his mother's life and death are uncertain, he actually hid in the study with his cousin and talked for half the night."

Although she is only more than five years old, her precocious personality and the things she has experienced since she was a child have made Daiyu mature early.

She knew that her father was doing something big, a good thing. And some bad guys have already started to attack their mothers and younger brothers in order to stop their fathers.

I heard that Cousin Lian, who came from Shenjing, had brought a female doctor who was cleaning her mother's wounds. Daiyu went to the main house where her mother lived early to check.

"Mrs. Gu's injuries have been controlled, as long as she takes her medicine on time, she will be able to wake up almost tomorrow by this time.

I was right next door, and when the medicine was ready, he came and called me, and I came to feed the medicine myself. ”

Daiyu, who had just arrived at the door of the main room, heard a nice voice in the room, giggling, and her mother's personal maid Biluo explained the precautions.

Daiyu was very sensible and did not disturb the doctor, but sneaked into the room to look at her mother and withdrew.

But the more Daiyu thought about it, the more wrong it became, why would the female doctor with a nice voice be very cautious and ask her to be notified before giving the medicine. Could it be that the sister was worried that someone in the house would do anything to her mother's medicine?

Thinking of this, Daiyu couldn't sit still anymore. got up directly and ran to Lin Ruhai's study.

"Eldest Miss, the master has instructed that no one should disturb his conversation with the young master."

At the door, Lin Zhong, the housekeeper of the Lin family, came out of nowhere and stopped Daiyu, who was about to break in.

At this time, Daiyu was still the eldest lady of the Lin family with both parents, and Lin Ruhai and Jia Min had always spoiled her, so they were naturally not afraid of the housekeeper at home.

I saw her put her two little hands on her waist, and said in a milky voice: "I have something important to tell my father, Uncle Zhong, get out of the way." Otherwise, you can't afford to be guilty. ”

Lin Ruhai and Jia Lian had already heard the voice and walked out, looking at Daiyu, who was fierce and fierce, the two glanced at each other and smiled.