serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 222 Jia Zheng Gets Beaten
The snowflakes were still falling one after another. Dai Quan and Jia Hu, who were wearing fox fur cloaks, walked along the path beside the Huifang River to the outside of Huifang Garden.

Dai Quan asked Jia Hu as he walked, "Is the craftsmanship of the Xiyi people so powerful?"

Jia Hu glanced at him: "In fact, there are detailed information in the side hall of the Dragon Head Palace, Your Majesty will understand after reading it."

Dai Quan sighed softly: "The miscellaneous people you mentioned understand it, just forget it, let's talk about it later."

Jia Hu shook his head.

Dai Quan stopped in his tracks: "To tell you the truth, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has recruited many Xiyi people from the south. It has cost more than one hundred thousand taels. Unfortunately, none of them have real talents. They are all liars."

Jia Hu: "Oh? Where are they?"

Dai Quan smiled: "Of course I sent them home, I can't raise them for nothing."

Jia Hu glanced at him: "You can go to the Wu family of Guangdong General for this matter. They have dealt with people from Xiyi all the year round, and they have a wide network."

Dai Quan paced away: "I just heard the news that those civil servants who are guarding the spirit in Chen's residence are writing a memorial to impeach you and the head of the country for contempt of imperial power."

Jia Hu was stunned: "Contempt for the imperial power? What's the point of this?"

Dai Quan: "Didn't Your Majesty allocate five thousand silver from the internal treasury to Chen Hao for his funeral?"

Jia Hu was taken aback: "This is also possible?"

Dai Quan smiled: "Old Yang Ge is right, if you don't make a fuss, they won't be reconciled."

"A group of psychopaths."

Jia Hu suddenly remembered: "Hey, why did they even join the second master of the Rong Mansion?"

Dai Quan replied with a smile: "This means that the forest is so big that there are all kinds of birds."

Jia Hu nodded: "That's what His Majesty means."

Dai Quan: "Behind this matter is the Kong family who is fanning the flames. Behind the Kong family is either the Supreme Emperor, King Zhongshun or King Yizhong County. Your Majesty wants you to bear with it, at least not to cause any deaths before the year."

Jia Hu interrupted him: "I understand. As long as you don't kill him, that's what you mean?"

Dai Quan looked at Jia Hu with a smile, then looked around, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty issued a secret decree to Marquis Zhongjing. Even the Chief Assistant doesn't know about this matter, so don't tell it."

Jia Hu was stunned for a moment, then looked at Dai Quan: "Overseas is not all barren land, it's a problem of raising tigers."

Dai Quan shook his head: "Compared to the threat of the Kong family, now we can only choose the lesser of two evils."

After a pause, "This is also an excellent opportunity to eradicate the Nanzong Kong family." After speaking, he moved closer to Jia Hu and whispered a few words.

Hearing his plan, Jia Hu was secretly startled, and took a deep look at him, thinking that this old eunuch is much more ruthless than Eunuch Zhao, and killing people is even more cruel, if the plan succeeds, not only the Nanzong Kong family will be finished, but even the reputation of Yan Shenggong's lineage will also be ruined.

With that said, the two walked outside Huifang Garden.

Dai Quan stopped in his tracks, glanced at Jiao Da, then turned to Jia Hu and said, "Zajia told you such an important matter because I hope you can help His Majesty at a critical time. Zajia thank you in advance." After speaking, he bowed his hands.

Jia Hu turned sideways, "Then I'll trouble Manager Dai."

Dai Quan immediately laughed: "Zajia will update you with the latest news in time."

Jia Hu smiled and waved to Jiao Da.

Jiao Da agreed, and walked over with the breech-loading gun in his arms.

Jia Hu said to Dai Quan: "The blueprint is still in the camp. I will send it to the palace myself in two days." After receiving the breech-loading gun handed over by Jiao Da, he suddenly remembered, "Look at me, I was so busy talking about my own business, I almost forgot about it. This firecracker cannot use the fixed ammunition of self-generating firecrackers, and it is easy to explode."

Jiao Da asked again: "How many ammunition are there in the box?"

Jiao Da opened the ammunition box to have a look, and replied: "There are five paper-cased ammunition left."

Jia Hu thought for a while: "You go to the palace with Director Dai."

Jiao Da understood, and replied: "Yes."

Dai Quan was taken aback for a moment, then laughed: "You are worried about miscellaneous family!"

Jia Hu said seriously: "This thing is powerful, you'd better be careful." Handed the firecracker.

A wry smile crossed the corner of his mouth, he took the firecracker from Jia Hu with both hands, Dai Quan said to Jiao Da, "Let's go."

Looking at the figures of Dai Quan and Jiao Da who were gradually disappearing in the heavy snow, Jia Hu smiled, maybe he could do business with Shui Rong again.

Thinking of this, he turned and walked towards the backyard.

Before reaching the backyard, Jia Hu stopped.

Lin San who was following behind also stopped.

A sedan chair for four people was parked outside the gate of the courtyard, and four young servants from Rongguo Mansion were standing beside the sedan chair, rubbing their hands and breathing heavily.

Jia Hu walked over: "What's the matter?"

The four servants of the Rong Mansion came back to their senses, and hurriedly saluted: "Greetings to the second master." After saying that, they opened the sedan chair curtain.

It turned out to be Jia Zheng who came out, but only the left wing of the hat remained on his head, and a long piece of official robe was torn on his body. Fortunately, his face was fine, and Jia Zheng's greatest wealth was preserved.

Jia Hu asked, "What's going on? What happened?"

Jia Zheng sighed: "Something went wrong. Nearly a hundred people lined up at the left gate of Chang'an and entered the palace to hand out the memorial to impeach you...and me."

Jia Hu: "Did they fight?"

Jia Zheng blushed and did not answer.

A young servant replied: "The master just went to Chen's house."

"Presumptuous!" Jia Zheng became furious and scolded Wuming.

Jia Hu rolled his eyes: "Say."

The young man glanced at Jia Zheng first, and then said: "After coming out of the yamen, the master went to the Chen Mansion to offer incense to Chen Hao. It was nothing at all. Although the Chen family said that they had a bad attitude, they still agreed with the master to go to the temple to offer incense. They didn't want people from the Kong family to come, say a lot of ugly words, and stir up the flames. As a result, the old lady of the Chen family and Mrs. Chen grabbed our master and called him to compensate their husband and son. Later, all the female family members of the Chen family surrounded us and the master forbade us to go forward. gone."

Looking at Jia Zheng, Jia Hu sighed silently, and said, "To tell you the truth, you are the only one from the honorable lineage to offer incense to Chen Hao. None of the officials from our faction, not even one of the military officers in Beijing, went to offer incense to Chen Hao."

Before he could say a word, he saw a person staggering towards this side in the snow, that person approached, it turned out to be Lin Zhixiao.

Lin Zhixiao panted: "Second master, the prince's son of Nan'an County, Chen Ruiwen, the hereditary third-rank Megatron general of the Duke of Qi's mansion, Qi Jianhui, the second-class hereditary male of the Xiangyang Marquis's mansion, and Lin'an Bo and others have all come, clamoring to see the second master, Lin'an Bo and others, their expressions are not very good."

At this moment, Lai Sheng came over in a hurry and said, "Second Lord, Li Mingbo, governor of Shuntian Prefecture, Li Hao, the right deputy capital censor Li Hao, and Wang Wentao, the secretary of the general administration, are all here, saying that they have something urgent to see."

Everyone was shocked again when they heard the words.

Jia Hu sighed, looked at Jia Zheng, said: "Okay, it's my turn to 'wipe my ass'.", and then strode towards the front yard.

Jia Zheng's face turned green and then yellow, he hesitated for a moment, then hurriedly followed.

(End of this chapter)