The Second Master of the Red Chamber

Chapter 275 Bargaining
Different from the private discussions of the sisters and others, the atmosphere in Weiyang Palace was tense.

Princess Zhaoyang snuggled up to the Queen Mother, and kept using her eyes to please the Queen Mother, telling her not to get angry.

The queen mother glared at Zhaoyang angrily.

She is really a good granddaughter who was raised by myself. Letting you meet him alone is to let you show off your charm and make him willingly marry into the royal family. Fortunately, you were bought by the enemy in less than half a stick of incense?

Where is the face of the palace?
I did all this for you!
The queen mother was very angry, not only angry with Jia Lian, but also angry with her heartless granddaughter.

But looking at Zhaoyang's innocent and flattering expression, the hand that was held by Zhaoyang finally pulled out, and patted the back of her hand lightly, giving her a comprehensible but indescribable expression.

After all, Zhao Yang grew up beside the Empress Dowager, he was familiar with the Empress Dowager's temperament, and he seemed to realize something when he saw this, and he stopped entanglement after he smiled.

After finishing Zhaoyang, the Queen Mother looked at the person kneeling behind the bead curtain a few feet away, with a serious expression, and said coldly:
"Jia Lian, you are so courageous. For more than ten years, no one has ever dared to refute the will of the palace face to face!"

"The minister is guilty."

Jia Lian pleaded guilty.

"Humph."

The queen mother snorted coldly, "I don't understand, what's so good about Mrs. Wang, how can she compare to my Zhaoyang?
Are you really going to fight against Bengong for a shallow and stupid woman? "

"I dare not..."

"I know that, regardless of status, talent, virtue, or knowledge, the Wang family cannot compare with His Highness Zhaoyang.

However, she is the minister's married wife.

The sage has said that a wife of dross will not go to court.

I have been educated by sages and sages since I was a child, and I have learned the way of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. Now it is even more fortunate to have received high officials and honors from your majesty.

If for the sake of his own wealth and honor, he can even divorce his wife who has not made a big mistake, wouldn't he be a villain?Doing such an act is really a breach of His Majesty's trust in his ministers. How can he face the world in the future?Not to mention being loyal to the emperor and serving the country. "

Jia Lian's statements were sonorous, as if they were words from the heart.

But for the Queen Mother and others, seeing and hearing such things a lot, naturally they are not so easy to be infected.

Especially Princess Zhaoyang, she almost subconsciously looked at the standing glass mirror in the corner.

Jia Lian continued to talk about four things in which she was better than Wang, including talent and insight, but she lacked the item of "appearance".

This made her feel a little hurt.

Since she was a child, she has lived among flowers and applause, and her appearance is also universally praised. At least among the noble ladies of the royal family, there are few who can be said to be better than her.

Appearance is just like Wen Dao, there is no such thing as number one, everyone has their own aesthetics.

Obviously, in Jia Lian's heart, he would rather admit that the Wang family is inferior to her in all aspects, but he is unwilling to admit that his appearance is inferior to her.

However, this was Jia Lian's unintentional words. If he questioned him at this time, he would definitely not admit to this cunning and hateful person.

The queen mother is not as tricky as Zhaoyang's angle, she didn't hear this, she just became more and more angry.

"You said she didn't make any mistakes? Sure enough, you are also a fool. I'm afraid you don't know it yourself. During the year when you left Beijing to go to the border, the Wang family secretly colluded with the Xiangyang Houfu and other family members to make loans. thing.

Since the time of Taizu in this dynasty, there has been a strict order prohibiting private lending, and any family of military officials and nobles violated it, and the crime will be aggravated.

Based on this alone, this palace is enough to cut off his imperial order, and even sent him to prison.

So, how dare you say she didn't make a mistake? "

The so-called private loan refers to lending to the common people without reporting to the government.

Just like later generations, it is difficult to approve official loans, and those big banks that are qualified to lend money generally do not lend money to the poor, so private private loans have been repeatedly prohibited.

In fact, this is a bad government, with strict laws and loose enforcement, or even no enforcement at all.

It has evolved to the present, in all the cities of the Great Wei Dynasty, where gambling shops, brothels and other places, lending is rampant, and the government hardly cares about it.

This is why Wang Xifeng and those honorable families dared to meddle.

You don't have to do it yourself, hand over the money to those underground organizations, and you can get back the principal and interest every month, which is the best way to manage money.

Most of the noble families in Beijing are more or less involved.

It's just that Jia's family is a couple, with pride in their bones, so no one has done this before.At least the heads of the two prefectures did not do this.

Until the appearance of the bold king Xifeng.

Originally, this was nothing, but it was a crime when it was brought to the table, let alone from the mouth of the Queen Mother, it was a serious crime!Jia Lian knew about Wang Xifeng's tricks a long time ago. In the carriage before, Wang Xifeng couldn't bear the pressure and his persecution, so he finally confessed honestly.

In this era, women's crimes are much less tolerant than men's crimes.

If Jia Lian wanted to protect Wang Xifeng, she had to solve this matter so that the Queen Mother would have no excuse to deal with her.

That's why Jia Lian deliberately said that Wang Xifeng hadn't made a big mistake, but was deliberately guiding the Queen Mother.

With a sad voice and remorse, he kowtowed and said, "This humble minister is guilty!"

"Through the matter now, the humble minister does not dare to lie to the Queen Mother anymore.

It turned out that the family was struggling at the beginning, and the minister discussed with Zhuo Jing to use this method of lending money in order to alleviate the family's difficulties.

This matter was a momentary interest for the humble minister, and the minister knew that he had committed a crime, so he asked the Queen Mother to punish him. "

As soon as Jia Lian said this, the three women with extraordinary identities in the inner hall were stunned.

Aristocratic families, princes and relatives, mistakes and crimes are common things, as long as they are not brought to the table, it is nothing, it is impossible to avoid it, it is just begging for mercy, opening up channels, turning big things into small things .

If someone is really holding on to it, just find a scapegoat.

Like Jia Lian, it's still rare for someone to be impatient to carry the matter on himself as soon as the incident is released.

So they can't adapt for a while.

After all, it was the Empress Dowager who knew more about the situation, Qingli's face darkened immediately upon hearing this.

When she came back from the Prince's Bieyuan that day, she couldn't wait to have someone investigate Jia Lian.

Later, he wanted to betroth Jia Lian to Zhaoyang, so he asked people to investigate Wang Xifeng's black information.

She even went out of her way to verify that Wang Xifeng did this after Jia Lian left Beijing, so such a stupid thing probably had nothing to do with Jia Lian.

She had no intention of touching Jia Lian, and she didn't even want to do anything to Wang Xifeng, she just used it as a sharp sword to make them obedient.

Who knew that Jia Lian would directly take this matter onto himself!
The Queen Mother could easily understand Jia Lian's purpose...

Is that woman really that important to him? !

The queen mother became more and more angry.

Even felt angry.

"Jia Lian, do you know the consequences of what you do?
You are the successor of the Rongguo Mansion, and what you do represents the Rongguo Mansion.

If you are determined to shoulder this matter and oppose Bengong, I don't mind, let Rongguo Mansion be removed from Beijing. "

For the first time, the queen mother's words made people feel a biting chill.

Even Zhaoyang could see that the queen mother was different from before, and she was really angry.

Yuan Chun couldn't stand anymore, he quickly knelt down and said, "Queen Mother, please calm down."

While begging the Queen Mother, Yuan Chun turned his head and said to Jia Lian, "Brother Lian, why don't you confess your mistake to the Queen Mother..."

Jia Lian didn't expect that doing so would anger the Queen Mother instead.

The reason why he dared to bargain with the Queen Mother was because he judged her general character based on the Queen Mother's several actions, and the Queen Mother obviously remembered the matter of struggling to save her that day, so he was so patient with him.

But Jia Lian was not afraid, the queen mother was not the biological mother of Emperor Ningkang, and she had never been involved in politics, so she said that she wanted to disturb the Rongguo Mansion, but it was just a momentary remark.

After all, even if the Empress Dowager wants to clean up the Rongguo Mansion, it is not a matter of raising her hand, she needs to go through the Supreme Emperor or Emperor Ningkang.And the queen mother is a person who wants face, how can she say that she will destroy her benefactor's family just after saving her.

Are you afraid that the Supreme Emperor or Emperor Ningkang will squint at her?

So just give her a step down.

(End of this chapter)