The eldest son of the red mansion

Chapter 370
Let's talk about the long history of Nan'an County Prince's Mansion, after getting Jia Ke's post and the silver sent by Zhou Rui.Immediately go to see Sun Xuan, the eldest son of the old Nan'an king, who is now the head of the Nan'an king, and now the first-class prince.

At this time, Sun Xuan was reading a book and sipping tea in the flower hall. When he saw that Chang Shi came in, he asked, "The people from Rongguo Mansion have left?"

Chang Shi hurriedly said: "If you go back to the lord, the people from the Rongguo Mansion have already left." After he finished speaking, he escaped from his arms and handed over Jia Ke's greeting card.

Sun Xuan took it over and took a look, only to see that it was written in big gilt characters: Marquis Wuyang, Minister of Military Aircraft Jia Ke worships.

The long history then continued: "The Rongguo Mansion has already sent the silver back. It seems that the person caught this time is a relative of a slave in the Rongguo Mansion. Otherwise, the three heads of the Rongguo Mansion will not be able to work in succession." Submit the post."

This long history is to remind Sun Xuan that enough is enough. The Rongguo Mansion has already gone through all the family members who can be dispatched. If the fight continues like this, it will really anger that Jia Ke. They are now in Nan'an. The county prince's mansion may not be able to withstand it.

What's more, Jia Ke's direct dispatch of troops to Beijing during this time has already frightened the heads of the various dignitaries' mansions. Even these housekeepers are also worried, really afraid that Jia Ke will seek to usurp the throne.

Now the entire plenary meeting in the capital has understood Jia Ke's power, and they dare not offend him.Now that Jia Ke sent the post, they only wanted to calm things down, so how dare they go against Jia Ke.

Moreover, Jia Ke's strength in the court during this period of time is indeed a little scary.

In Sun Xuan's heart, he looked down on Jia Ke very much. A bastard was born lowly, but because of some credit, he saved Jia by chance, and then he was able to rely on the favor of the Supreme Emperor to rise to a high position and rule the court. He is just a jester. .

Now that the emperor is in power and the Supreme Emperor retreats to the harem, I am afraid that Jia Ke's good life will not last long. Although both parties are descendants of four princes and eight princes, they cannot be lenient at this critical moment of making decisions for family inheritance.

That's why Sun Xuan disregarded friendship some time ago and used a small conflict to let the world see that their Nan'an County Palace and Rongguo Palace have been torn apart.

Sun Xuan also understood that this time he had formed some petty enmity with the Rongguo Mansion, but the two parties still restrained themselves, since the other party had already given in.I can't continue to embarrass myself, otherwise I will be slapping the faces of the three heads of the Rongguo Mansion.At that time, there will be no end to death.

To be honest, Sun Xuan is still somewhat afraid of the power of Rongguo Mansion. If he didn't want to stand in line before the matter became clear, he wouldn't dare to confront Rongguo Mansion so blatantly.

Sun Xuan wanted to play with this and said to Chang Shi next to him: "Since the Rongguo Mansion has handed over the post and compensated Baiyin, then forget about it. Go to Shuntian Mansion and tell them to let him go."

That Chang Shi cupped his hands and agreed, "I would like to follow my lord's order, and I will do it next time."

After saying this, Chang Shi left the small flower hall.

After Chang Shi left, Sun Xuan's face became gloomy. Although he had shown a confident look in front of Chang Shi just now, he was not worried. Although he was optimistic that the emperor's power would win, if Jia Ke finally desperately A gamble, there is no chance of a comeback.

Sun Xuan could have sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight, and then continued to enjoy his peaceful life, but he wanted to inherit his father's throne again, so he had to fight desperately.

Now on the surface, the Rongguo Mansion was subdued and sent him money, but this made him even more worried.What kind of person Jia Ke is, even the emperor dares to push back head-on, let alone his small Nan'an County Prince's Mansion.

If Jia Ke relied on his power and directly ordered the governor of Shuntian Prefecture to release him, he would feel a little relieved.But Jia Ke made people send a greeting card and returned the money.

This does not mean that Jia Ke is magnanimous, on the contrary, Jia Ke has already written down this hatred, thinking about when to give them a big one in the Nan'an County Palace.That was what really worried Sun Xuan.Now he was a little scared in his heart. After thinking about it, he decided to go to the back and talk to his mother, let her have time to walk around the Rongguo Mansion, say something nice to the old lady over there, and ease the relationship. In case no one speaks up when Jia Ke settles accounts later.

Besides, after Zhou Rui visited Nan'an County Prince's Mansion for a few days, Shuntian Mansion actually let Leng Zixing out.This surprised Zhou Ruixi, and he thought to himself that the uncle's post seemed to be useful, but it was true after thinking about it, the uncle is now the foreman of the military aircraft department, and he is different from the two masters in the family.

But she said that since Jia Ke sent the post to Zhou Rui's family, she didn't pay attention to this matter again.Now he has started to fight against Wen Chen in the court again.

The cause of the matter is that now Xuanfu and Liaodong and other places have begun to collect tariffs from the merchants in the past, so the top figures of the various merchant gangs are very angry.

So they united and mobilized the forces in the court to impeach the Jiedu envoys at the two border gates.

But these impeachment papers were all rejected by Jia Ke, and the reasons were very good. The current military salary at the border gate is only [-]%, if you don’t let them get rich, why don’t you let them fight for you hungry?

And this time, several ministers of military aircraft from the military aircraft department also stood by Jia Ke's side, after all, they also knew the situation at the border.It is much better for the soldiers under him to find something to eat than for them to fight for pay.

As a result, a custom has been formed at the border. All merchants who leave the customs must pay a customs clearance fee, and this trend not only exists in Xuanfu and the two towns of Liaodong, but has even slowly spread to the entire Nine Borders.

To be honest, there are hints from Jia Ke, otherwise, those generals at the border would have the courage to dare not offend the bosses of these business gangs.

This made these businessmen who went out to do business complain, and finally they inquired.Only then did I know that it was because the imperial court did not allocate military salaries to these border guards, and these elite soldiers at the border could only find food for themselves.

In particular, the reason for the shortage of silver taels this time is that 300 million taels of silver disappeared inexplicably.

Those who can take charge of one side in the business gang are all good people. How can such a little trick be fooled by these big bosses who cheat each other every day.

So the merchants began to express their dissatisfaction with the court and the emperor's move. This time, through their spokespersons in the court, they asked the emperor to pay the border soldiers in full. Blood and tears.

After seeing these memorials, Jia Ke laughed so hard that she couldn't keep her eyes open.This time he didn't detain them, but directly wanted to send these memorials to the emperor in one go. He wanted the emperor to see how many people he had offended, and let him deal with them by himself.

However, Liu Yu, Minister of Military Affairs and Officials, disagreed with Jia Ke's opinion. He knew that once these posts were sent to the emperor, the emperor would be in a dilemma.It is really not good to deal with it, and it will not work if it is not dealt with, so he advocates directly withholding all these memorials at the military plane, and finally summarizing these opinions and writing an order and handing it to the emperor.

Although Jia Ke is the head minister of the Military Aircraft Department, he is outnumbered after all.Under the insistence of several other ministers, Jia Ke agreed without much resistance.After all, this is not a crucial matter, and there is no need to make the already unsettled court even more turbulent.

In fact, they just didn't play, and the emperor knew about it.

Xia Shouzhong summed up the situation these days and personally sent it to the emperor's case.This is what Xia Shouzhong must do every day after he takes over the secret guard of the imperial court, especially the information about Jia Ke is the most important thing.

But for some unknown reason, there was very little news about Jia Ke in these intelligence reports, most of which were trivial matters. As for how Jia Ke controlled the army and gave orders?Who are Jia Ke's cronies?And the information they knew was almost all about the situation when Jia Ke was in Xuanfu Town.

As for Jia Ke's current situation, the hidden guards couldn't find out anything at all.

The emperor had already lost his temper several times because of this incident, and Xia Shouzhong also urged his subordinates several times to keep a close watch on Jia Ke and make sure to know his every move.But things are not as simple as he thought.

No matter how hard the dark guard tried, he would return in vain.

During these days, Xia Shouzhong clearly felt that another force was interfering with his investigation of Jia Ke.

That power is very mysterious and very powerful.The secret guards of the imperial court under his control cannot be concentrated on Jia Ke alone because of too many things.So the reverse is at a disadvantage.

That made Xia Shouzhong also understand that Jia Ke might have an organization dedicated to protecting his information.

What Xia Shouzhong reported to the emperor this time was not only this matter, but also the fact that the three largest business gangs in the world have united to admonish the emperor these days.Although this matter is not as serious as Jia Ke's problem, once the three business gangs unite now, their offensive will be very fierce and fast.

The attitude of these people has clearly expressed their dissatisfaction with the emperor, and these business gangs have been living with the emperor peacefully all these years because the emperor has not violated their interests.But now that the emperor has stopped paying military salaries, it is tantamount to violating these business gangs indirectly.

Especially the Shanxi merchants among them, these talents are the leaders of the three major merchant gangs.They not only opened ticket offices to all parts of the country, but also controlled almost the whole country's tea transactions, as well as trade with border customs.

When the other two major merchant gangs were in business, a large part of them relied on the ticket numbers of Shanxi merchants to operate.

Otherwise, they would have to run around the country with a large amount of silver, which would not only be unsafe, but also time-consuming.When they arrived at their destination, the cucumber dishes were cold.

So this time Shanxi merchants took the lead, and the other two major merchant gangs followed suit.The emperor must open the internal treasury to make up for the food and wages at the border.

Because those frontier soldiers don't care how powerful you are in the court?If they don't collect taxes, they will be hungry, so those people in the business gang have nothing to do with these big soldiers.So all the firepower can only be concentrated on the emperor's side.

(End of this chapter)