Time flies quickly, half a month has passed.

Lin Chong left half of the men and horses in Yangzhou, and lived in the Jiangbei barracks where he lived before, and then took the remaining half of the men and horses straight to Huai'an and lived in the barracks of Cao Bing.

Although the Caoyun Yamen didn't know why Jia Hui asked Lin Chong to come to Huai'an with five hundred people and did nothing, but after Lin Chong was responsible for the food and salary out of his own pocket, he didn't care about them anymore.

Hu Jiu, who went to the Linzi Military Bureau to get equipment, also got the equipment with the assistance of Deming, and now it has been transported to Linqing, and it is about to be loaded and transported to the south.

The reorganization of the Jiangnan battalion is also being carried out in an orderly manner with the cooperation of the former deputy chief soldier and the current acting chief soldier Feng Tai. The list of soldiers who are ready to be eliminated has also been prepared, just waiting for news from the White Lotus Sect.

The officials involved who were about to be expelled were also escorted to Luoyang by Tan Ji, waiting for their lightest exile and the highest three tribes.

For example, General Hu Shen, there is nothing else waiting for him, only the Yi three clans.

For Jia Hui, everything has been going well recently. Just wait for the White Lotus Sect to rebel.

Then defeat them on the battlefield.

。。。。。。

Regarding the Xue family, Jia Hui's impression of them is actually quite complicated.

At the beginning, Jia Hui was actually preparing to use the Xue family to deal with the Jiangnan family. If it weren't for the fact that the Jiangnan family no longer recognized the Jia family, otherwise Jia Hui would not have contacted the Xue family. Jia Hui can get things done properly with the Jia family's own strength.

However, it backfired, after the main branch of the Jia family, Ning Rong's second line, was completely northbound and the Zhen family dug up the wall for decades, although the Jia family was nominally a Jiangnan family, but in fact, the only power in Jiangnan was Jia Shiwang, the Xue family, and a few in-laws who could not go up or down, and even broke down.

The former is Jia Hui's Yuejia Li family, and the latter is Jia Yu's step-family Xing family and Jia Zhen's continuation You family next door.

In fact, this kind of gradual separation from the local faction is not only the Jia family, but also the rest of the founding nobles who still exist to this day. There is no other reason, it's just that everyone lives in the capital all the year round and separates from their hometown.

A lifetime of distrust will arise, and once distrust arises, it will be detached. People won't always accommodate you, and you're only the most powerful in the group, so let you be the talker.

But we're not that weak. Now that you're like this, it's clear that you're no longer ready to mix with us, and although our strength isn't strong enough to support this stall, we can find someone else to come over. is also a local, the same in-law, and the same court dignitary, if you don't lean on him, do you still want to wait for you to change your mind?

It's just that we want to continue to hold your stinky feet, but the national conditions of Daqi don't allow it!

That's it, let's go to someone else.

Jia Hui understands this very well, and he will do the same.

But understanding is understanding, and things still have to be done. Among the many Jiangnan families, the only one who has enough strength and can use it with confidence is the Xue family.

Although in terms of identity, the Xue family, who are imperial merchants, is inconspicuous in the Jiangnan family, where they have officials, they have been royal henchmen since the founding of the country, and they work with the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven. With this, even if the Jiangnan family doesn't like the Xue family, they have to bring them with them when they do things. Therefore, the Xue family can also speak loudly in the Jiangnan family.

The original plan was to use the Xue family to win over and divide, and then break them one by one, during which all kinds of bad things will happen, the most important thing is the court, and the court will really win if it wins.

However, things are going in strange directions.

Jia Hui found that a group of them had been calculated by the White Lotus Sect. Whether it is collusion with cults/religions or collusion with thieves, this group of people will not be able to escape. The handle of the knife arrived at Jia Hui's hand in an almost free way.

Coupled with the upcoming slave rebellion, Jia Hui didn't even need to use his knife, as long as the slaves delayed for a few days after the incident, the servants themselves could kill the master's family.

It's a good thing, and I don't know how much effort I saved. But everything that had been done to the Xue family before had become useless.

But the promises are all promised, if you regret it, then Jia Hui doesn't have to mix in Daqi anymore.

Things have developed so far, and it has become a way out for the Xue family in the future, and they have a top-level noble son-in-law, and a court is a thigh and a big backer who is not more reckless than the kings.

However, he paid almost nothing, just paid a little bit of the bad reputation of selling his daughter to the powerful as a concubine, but as a money bag in the small circle of the four families in Jinling, can the Xue family not know what Jia Hui is like?

Is it good to earn blood?

But no matter what, now because of various things, the Jia family and the Xue family are very embarrassed.

One wanted to take advantage of the other party and agreed to the marriage, but found that it was not useful at all.

One was mentally prepared, prepared for heavy bleeding, and sold a daughter, but in the end, he found that he was useless at all, but got almost all the benefits.

Until now, even if the two clansmen from the two sides are embarrassed to greet each other.

Not to mention Jia Hui, who was sitting opposite each other in the main hall of the Xue family, and Xue Qin, the head of the Xue family.

The teacups were about to be cracked by Jia Hui, and he didn't know how to speak.

It stands to reason that the Xue family has eaten so many benefits from themselves, and they should be uncles in front of them, so what is right to say.

Seeing that the second cup of tea was in the stomach, and the maids came in to pour the third cup, Xue Qin took the initiative to speak.

"The Metropolitan Governor is here this time, do you have something to tell the Xue family? The Xue family will definitely do their best to help. ”

Oh, you know, it's called dominance, and in this case, opening your mouth first is a fall.

"Since the uncle of the Xue family has opened his mouth, then a certain family is not welcome, here is a list."

Jia Hui took out a few pieces of paper from his arms and handed them to Xue Qin.

Xue Qin hurriedly leaned over, took it with both hands, put on his glasses and began to read carefully.

This、This is not a list!

Xue Qin's eyes widened, and he looked at Jia Hui who was drinking tea leisurely with a stunned expression, lowered his head again, and raised his head again.

"Grand Governor, things have come to this point?" Xue Qin asked Jia Hui tremblingly.

What is written on the paper is nothing else, it is the evidence of the rebellion between the White Lotus Sect and the servants of various families.

As the eyes and ears of the royal family in Jiangnan, Xue Qin, who often conducts intelligence work, is very sure that this is true intelligence!

"Indeed, if you are in and out of the mansions, you should have noticed how they treated their slaves, right? The resentment in the hearts of these slaves did not reach the point of rebellion, and they even had some meaning of resignation. However, the White Lotus Sect's preaching to them greatly aroused their resentment and anger at the injustice of fate. The conflict between the master and the slave has reached the point where it is now a sword and a soldier.

The whole Jiangnan is like a powder keg now, but whenever there is a spark splashed into it, it is a big mess. And the White Lotus Sect is the seed of the spark."

Syllable!

Jia Hui put down the teacup that had been accidentally cracked by herself, took out a handkerchief from her arms and wiped her hands.

Seeing that the teacup was split in half, Xue Qin's face remained unchanged, but his heart was like a knife inside.

This is the last posthumous work of Master Wu Xiu in Jingdezhen, a one-of-a-kind tea set worth 10,000 taels of silver! That is, it will be used when entertaining the most distinguished guests of the Xue family, and it is locked in a secret room on weekdays!

Now, without a teacup, the whole set is incomplete, and the value is at least halved

Distressed!!

"Fortunately, our Jia Shi Wang Xue family has always been kind to the servants, and they are not stingy every month, and it is estimated that few of our children will run out to do big things. The only thing to guard against is not to be picked up by thieves running from outside. ”

After all, the value of the tea set is not comparable to the slimness of the road ahead, Xue Qin leaned on the back of the chair weakly, rubbing his forehead. It would be nice to say anything else, but the rebellion of this servant made him a little unaware.

There are also a lot of servants of the Xue family! If there is really a hot-headed stab in the back, he will die of a terminal illness, but what if he hurts a pair of children in his own family?

"Dadu Governor, it's still the same sentence just now, if you have an order, the Xue family will not hesitate! Tell me! ”

"Okay, I want you to mobilize all your forces and give me a careful look at the entire Jiangnan! Whenever there is any trouble, I want to know! ”

Jia Hui came here for the Xue family's intelligence network all over the country, especially throughout Jiangnan.

It's not that embroidered clothes can't be done, but the identities of the embroidered agents are generally not high and weak, acting alone, collecting too little information, and the general value is not high.

The Xue family's intelligence system is different, it exists in the form of a shop, and thanks to being a businessman, every shopkeeper of the Xue family has been selected and tested before becoming a shopkeeper. The collection and aggregation of intelligence is very rich in both theory and experience. Even the little guys of the Xue family are all capable people who are good at inquiring about information, and they are reserve shopkeepers.

Of course, these are limited to the Jiangnan area, and the shopkeepers of the Xue family shops outside Jiangnan are all ordinary, no different from ordinary people.

In the territory of Jiangnan, the intelligence network of the Xue family will not fall behind even if it fights with the East Embroidery Factory, and even slightly wins in some places.

These are all things that the Xue family has spent a hundred years to barely take shape.

The most important thing is that if you want to rebel, you must prepare materials, even if you can rob them, but you also have to have the capital to do things, you can't let them fight with well-dressed soldiers who are well-dressed and well-equipped to eat and drink gruel, right?

It doesn't make sense!

As long as the White Lotus Sect makes preliminary preparations, the shopkeepers of the Xue family will be able to discover them through the changes in market prices and material mobilization, and even grasp the progress of their rebellion, which the secret agents of Xiuyi and Dongchang can't do.

"Yes, my Xue family will definitely work hard to deal with this matter!" Xue Qin solemnly assured Jia Hui.

"Well, let's just open my eyes and experience the power of the legendary century-old secret agent family!"

It's done, since Jia Hui has given an order to the Xue family, the so-called embarrassment of the two families is gone. It's still how to get along with each other, anyway, the main lineage can't involve side branches.

The atmosphere returned to harmony, and Jia Hui and Xue Qin began to discuss some details.

A sound of light footsteps came, it was not the maid who came to renew the tea before, Jia Hui turned his head to look over.

A little round-faced girl walked in with a small tray of teapots and several teacups.

Looking at this well-dressed dress, it should be Xue Baochai if you don't take any surprises, right?

"Dad" saw a foreign man sitting in the lobby, even though Xue Baochai already knew that this was his future beloved, he couldn't help but stand crampedly beside Xue Qin, lowering his head and not daring to look at that person.

"Haha, Baochai, my son, this is Grandpa Jia Hunjia, the Duke of Dunhuang County."

Xue Baochai endured his shame and walked cautiously to Jia Hui.

The eleven-year-old girl already has some concepts about marriage, and she is usually generous and generous in the face of the man she will be with for a lifetime in the future, and she has lost the sophistication of the people on weekdays.

"Baochai meets grandpa." Xue Baochai bowed down.

"Hehe, the younger sister of the Xue family doesn't have to be polite." Jia Hui looked at Xue Baochai in front of him with a smile.

How to put it, precocious puberty has little to do with physical development. The fish-like body is still a child's look, but this little round face makes Jia Hui look very kind.

Maybe there is still some baby fat, anyway, Jia Hui didn't see the pointed chin written in the book of his previous life.

The Jia family's ancestral round-faced gene is really domineering, and the Xue family also married the Jia family in the early years, and it hasn't changed shape after several generations.

The facial features are also very exquisite, the eyebrows are slender and beautiful, curved like willow leaves; The eyes were big and bright, sparkling like two pearls; The nose is high and straight, slightly upturned, and looks very delicate; The lips are rosy and plump, slightly raised, giving a gentle feeling.

As for anything else, the eleven-year-old yellow-haired girl can't see it yet.

The first impression is not bad, she is a gentle and generous girl.

After looking at it a few times, Jia Hui withdrew his gaze at Xue Baochai and groped around his waist.

Xue Baochai endured his shame, changed Jia Hui with a new teacup, poured tea again, and turned around to flee as if he had to return to Xue Qin to refill his tea, and was about to escape from the lobby.

"Slow."

Jia Hui's voice dragged Xue Baochai back like a soul hook.

"When we first met, I didn't know what to give.

Folding fans, jade pendants, daggers, pick one. ”

Jia Hui put the things on the table and motioned for Xue Baochai to choose one.

And there are such gifts?

The father and daughter of the Xue family didn't react for a while, but in the end, Xue Qin was a cunning man with rich experience in going south and north, and he often encountered some different customs when he went out to do business in his early years, and Jia Hui could only be regarded as a little unexpected.

The first time I met the woman who asked her to pick a gift by herself, I was a little surprised.

Xue Qin lightly touched Xue Baochai's arm, and Baochai came back to his senses.

Xue Baochai thought about it carefully, and finally chose the dagger inlaid with rubies.

Seeing that Xue Baochai chose it after thinking about it, Jia Hui nodded slightly.

Very good, with a clear understanding of who you will be in the future.

The doorwoman.

Today's first and second shifts will be around 8 p.m.

The preparations are almost over, and the big event begins!

(End of chapter)