dream of red mansion

Chapter 386 Too Rich

"Qing'er, don't be rude to Master Cui."

Fang Shou listened to Jia Qing actually saying that Cui Wenlong was a crippled man, so he rushed to speak before Emperor Zhengqing.

"Yes." After Jia Qing answered, he didn't seem to want to let Cui Wenlong go, but continued to look at him and said:

"Master Cui, if the two armies are facing each other, and the enemy's general defected and was hunted down because of civil strife, our general happened to meet him. Then, should our general arrest him directly and kill him, indicating that the two sides are at odds? Or save it, and then use the Huairou policy to keep it for your own use?

If this general chooses the former, just to cut off a head in exchange for credit, in my opinion, how stupid it is! "

Cui Wenlong understood what Jia Qing meant, but he still had the idea of ​​arguing with Jia Qing: "The general doesn't know whether this traitor is a real traitor or a fake traitor, and he doesn't know how useful this traitor is to him. It is worthless, just to be on the safe side, kill it, you don’t have to worry about being cheated and damaged, and you can actually kill a general of the enemy, this is not wrong.”

As soon as Jia Qing heard this, he knew that if Cui Wenlong led the troops, he must be a conservative who only wanted to be innocent and not to be meritorious.

"If you can't judge the truth, you are incompetent! You can't judge the truth, and you don't try to find the truth, but you waste the opportunity to change the situation for the sake of so-called security. This kind of general, in my opinion, More deadly than a general who lost his city and land!

If the city is lost, it can be regained.Once a good opportunity is lost, it can change the direction of a war!

As the saying goes, if one general is unknown, the entire army will be exhausted!

For example, this time, if we didn't get the news in advance, how can we ensure that all the top leaders of the White Lotus Sect will be wiped out?If it can't be done in one battle, with the huge staff base of the White Lotus Sect, how much time will it take, and how much manpower and material resources will be spent by the court to suppress it?

Now, more than a month has passed since the encirclement and suppression of the White Lotus Sect. According to Zhan Min, the entire White Lotus Sect seems to have disappeared completely, and it has hardly caused any trouble to the Jiangnan land and the court. Doesn't this just show that as a coach, he knows how to seize opportunities the importance of it? "

Cui Wenlong was speechless, although he still didn't quite agree with Jia Qing's point of view, seeing that he even used his own credit as a bargaining chip, it was hard to argue with him.Because, this time, Jia Qing and Feng Tang's task was indeed completed beautifully, which not only saved Emperor Zhengqing a lot of trouble, but also improved Emperor Zhengqing's prestige in the court and the public invisibly.

After all, during the eight years of Emperor Zhengqing's reign, the country was almost stable, except for the battle between the strong and the weak three years ago and almost lost.That time, it was a matter that greatly damaged Emperor Zhengqing's prestige, because Shi Ding was the general who was personally appointed by him to command the Northern Expedition.

Although it is not a great feat to wipe out the White Lotus Sect, the victory lies in the fact that the victory was too beautiful and straightforward. I have not seen that even He Shanbao and his group have no qualms about Emperor Zhengqing not discussing with the court and directly setting such an important state matter. Do you want to talk?

Seeing that Cui Wenlong no longer spoke against him, Jia Qing laughed.This set of arguments, but he had thought about it on the way here.

"Hmph, it's just sophistry! Could it be that you knew a few years ago that I would send you to encircle and suppress the White Lotus Sect? Don't think that we don't know what you were thinking at the time."

Before Jia Qing's smile fully bloomed, he listened to Emperor Zhengqing.It was just this last sentence that made everyone in the hall couldn't help but snicker.

In fact, they had discussed it before Jia Qing came, and they discussed at that time that Jia Qing probably resorted to this method of hiding the beauty in a golden house because of his lust!
Jia Qing didn't seem to hear the last words of Emperor Zhengqing, and said: "Although I don't know that His Majesty will send me to destroy the White Lotus Sect, I know that the court will liquidate the White Lotus Sect sooner or later!
That being the case, the more we know about the White Lotus Sect, the less losses the court will suffer in the future.At that time, even if I don't go there in person, I can still tell the court what I have learned about the White Lotus Sect, isn't it the same?

Besides, this is not a difficult task, so why not do it? "

In the end, Jia Qing felt that he was a good general and virtuous minister who was dedicated to serving the public and taking precautions.

"Okay, keep your words in the court tomorrow morning, and tell the officials. Look, here, it's all about following Wang Xianjue, impeaching you for colluding with the White Lotus Sect, and calling for arresting the thief. "

Emperor Zhengqing pushed through the pile of booklets that were piled up separately on the Tuiyu case, there must have been nearly twenty copies!

"Okay, tomorrow I will go to the Golden Palace in person and explain to them, and I won't embarrass Your Majesty."

To put it bluntly, for a courtier like Jia Qing, if the emperor doesn't want to deal with you, as long as he doesn't encounter problems that make the emperor even troublesome, generally nothing major will happen!But if the emperor wants to mess with you, then just wait, maybe one day you push down an old lady on the road, and it will be one of the crimes you go to jail for!

Didn't you see that after Jia's mansion began to decline, Wang Xifeng took away the money hidden by the Shi family after raiding the house without knowing the severity. There are others who are much older." Therefore, even Jia Lian knew how to scold her, saying: In the past, even if someone sued us for treason, we were not afraid, but now it is different.
What's different?The weight in the emperor's heart is different.

The defendant is not afraid of treason, which shows that nobles like Jia's family enjoy the great honor in the country!This is true in the Jia Mansion, and it is naturally even more so in Jia Qing today.

"Alright, get up too!"

Sure enough, Emperor Zhengqing did not intend to use this to discuss Jia Qing's crimes.Because, a guilty minister is not qualified to stand and speak in front of the emperor.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Jia Qing got tired of kneeling early, and got up quickly after hearing this.

"How is Lin Ruhai's illness?"

Jia Qing thought, if you want to ask about Lin Ruhai's condition, why don't you ask Imperial Physician Zhang instead come to ask me?But he said: "Master Yifu's body is very weak, and he still has a sword wound on his body. This time, he has pretended to be sick for such a long time, and his body is even weaker. Now I am afraid that he can only rest in his hometown. .”

Emperor Zhengqing's face remained unchanged, obviously he also knew about Lin Ruhai accepting Jia Qing as his adopted son.Suddenly, Emperor Zhengqing changed the subject again and said, "Tell me, what do you think about going to Jiangnan for business this time?"

The land in the south of the Yangtze River has always been the place where Emperor Zhengqing's power is weakest, because the civil servants there are too powerful, so he wants to know more about the situation there.He has no chance to go to Jiangnan, and all the information can only be read from the notebook.

Jia Qing said: "How can I have any idea, the only feeling is that the salt merchants in Yangzhou are really too rich!
To be honest, Wei Chen thought he was quite rich before, but compared with these salt merchants, Wei Chen instantly felt that he had become a poor person. "

Cui Wenlong smiled and said: "The richness of the salt merchants has been a long-standing thing. Everyone who has been to Yangzhou is shocked by its extravagance, and General Jia is not the only one."

Emperor Zhengqing raised his forehead, and the wealth of salt merchants in Yangzhou has been formed since the time of the Supreme Emperor.That's why he sent Lin Ruhai, the late love minister, to take charge of the Yangzhou Salt Class at the beginning of his enthronement.

(End of this chapter)