Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 140
"You are happy, it's time to relieve me of my troubles." The Supreme Emperor said in a confused manner.

Jia Rui touched the back of his head, not understanding what the Supreme Emperor meant.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean...?"

The Supreme Emperor sighed, and then said: "I am not young anymore, and I don't know how many more years I can live. But every day when I open my eyes, I see beautiful clothes and fine food, and the same scenery outside. I just live like this." What's the point?"

Jia Rui rolled his eyes, and then said: "The Supreme Emperor has been trapped in the palace for a long time, so he is exhausted. It is better to leave Beijing and go south to inspect the people's sentiments and enjoy themselves with the people."

After hearing this, the Supreme Emperor's eyes lit up.

He has lived in the north all his life. If he could go to the south of the Yangtze River to see it, his life would not be in vain.

But he soon hesitated again. You must know that as the controller of the empire, once he takes action, the money he spends can be like a mountain of gold and a sea of ​​gold.

"Do the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Internal Affairs still have money?" the Supreme Emperor asked hesitantly.

In fact, it’s no wonder that the Ministry of Revenue was unable to come up with money or food due to drought in Shandong the year before last. Last year, when the Gansu rebellion was conquered, the Ministry of Revenue ran out of money, so they desperately asked the frontline commanders to fight decisively as soon as possible.

Jia Rui's eyes flashed, and then he said: "I don't know how much money there is in the Ministry of Household Affairs now, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs has saved at least a few million taels, and let the salt merchants pay some tribute. Let's save some more. I want to spend three Four million taels should be enough."

After hearing this, the Supreme Emperor nodded with satisfaction.

"Jia Rui still knows what I am thinking. In that case, when the time comes, we will send a message to Shanxi businessmen to meet me in Jinling."

When he said this, the Supreme Emperor himself also laughed.

Dai Quan, who was standing on one side, only felt a headache at the thought of these two people.

It's okay to be younger and stronger than Jia Rui, but the Emperor is different. How old is he? If you find another one, let's see who will protect you in the future.

"Your Majesty, if you drive, you will be tired all the way, and I am afraid that your Majesty will not be able to see the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River. It is better to take a boat down. This way, your Majesty will be comfortable, you can save time and money, and you won't have to build palaces for your Majesty in all the palaces you pass."

"Okay, Jia Rui, you still have a way. Let's do it like this. Let's take a boat to Jinling and rest directly at the Jinling Palace."

The Supreme Emperor finally became happy and said, "Then let's do it. Dai Quanqian goes to the Ministry of Rites and asks them to prepare it. At the same time, he asks the Ministry of Industry to prepare the ships and the Ministry of Accounts to prepare the silver."

The Supreme Emperor spoke decisively without any hesitation.

Dai Quan, who originally wanted to give some advice, immediately shut up in despair.

Now Dai Quan is completely convinced. Compared with Jia Rui, he is really far behind. It seems that he should carefully hug Jia Rui's lap from now on and stop thinking about what is and is not.

The Emperor was happy and naturally ordered Jia Rui to review the memorial immediately. He asked someone to bring a map and began to draw on the map.

Jia Rui looked at the pile of memorials in front of him. On the surface, he was very troubled, but there was a secret joy in his heart.

During this time, Jia Rui had begun to use the opportunity of reviewing the memorials to spread the emperor's connections.

Many of the civil servants who clearly supported the emperor in the court had been transferred to idle positions by Jia Rui.

People in the court didn't know that Jia Rui was behind it, and thought it was the emperor's intention, so no one dared to speak.

Even the emperor became much more honest during this period than before, and at the same time ordered his subordinates not to make the emperor angry again for the time being.

Jia Rui pretended to be troubled and sat on the small table next to the Supreme Emperor, and began to review the memorials one by one.

The Supreme Emperor is now completely relieved of Jia Rui, except for the most important memorial, he is not reviewing anything else.

Suddenly Jia Rui found a memorial to impeach himself.

This memorial mainly impeached Jia Rui for bending the law for personal gain, and actually allowed his uncle, who had killed people and faked his death to hide his name, to be re-registered.

When Jia Rui looked at the author, his face darkened. Few people knew about his re-registration of Xue Pan. If this matter could leak out, there must be something wrong on the Ministry of Household Affairs.

You must know that Jia Rui has served as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Although it has not been long, no one in the Ministry of Household Affairs dares to confront his former immediate boss.

Jia Rui turned the page forward to look at the drafter of the memorial, and then frowned even more tightly.

It turned out that this was a memorial from a young censor of the Inspectorate.

The Inspectorate was his old enemy. It was not surprising that they would impeach him with a memorial, but where did this news leak out?
Moreover, neither the cabinet nor the emperor made any comment on the matter, and it was handed over directly to the Supreme Emperor.

Could it be that the cabinet was also dissatisfied with him? No one spoke for him, which made Jia Rui very angry.

Jia Rui rolled his eyes, then quickly stood up with the memorial, and then cautiously came to the side of the Supreme Emperor.

"Your Majesty, I cannot review this memorial, so I would like to ask Your Majesty Long Mu to read it."

The Supreme Emperor was stunned for a moment, then took the memorial from Jia Rui's hand, looked at it carefully, and threw it aside casually.

"Is this true?"

"I don't dare to lie to the Supreme Emperor. If there is such a thing, please punish the Supreme Emperor." Jia Ruizhi said that you admitted it so readily, but he has already realized that a conspiracy has fallen on him.

Even if you suppress the memorial now, or refuse to admit it, someone will eventually hand the evidence to the Supreme Emperor. Instead of doing this, you might as well admit it honestly.

"What do we, the monarchs and ministers, have to say about punishing crimes and not punishing them?"

After the Emperor finished speaking, he said to Dai Quan who was standing aside: "In the future, there is no need to send such mindless memorials to impeach Jia Rui in front of me, just keep them in mind."

Jia Rui, who was standing carefully below, felt relaxed all over.

But Dai Quan only felt his eyes dazzled. What does the Emperor mean by this?Is this going to give Jia Rui a gold medal to avoid death?

Therefore, Dai Quan asked cautiously: "Does the Supreme Emperor mean to invent the decree?"

The Supreme Emperor thought for a moment and then said: "Forget it if you know this. In addition, just record my words in the internal file and write an imperial edict to Jia Rui."

The Supreme Emperor meant that he could not invent the decree. That would be too much. It would be enough if only a few people in Longshou Palace knew about it.

"The servant understands."

After giving the instructions, when the Supreme Emperor saw Jia Rui, he still stood there honestly and shook his head gently.

I thought: Jia Aiqing is too honest, but it was just a small thing that scared him like this.

"Okay, it's none of your business anymore, go ahead and review the memorial."

Jia Rui stepped aside with secret joy and continued to review the memorial on the small table.

The rest of the memorial was nothing serious. Jia Rui quickly finished reviewing it, then put it on a tray and sent it to the Emperor.

"Is there anything serious?"

"Back to the Supreme Emperor, this year Duoyan's three tribes came to Beijing to pay their respects. From the memorial sent to me, it seems that they want to get married."

The Supreme Emperor was stunned for a moment, and then raised his hand. Jia Rui immediately understood and quickly picked out the Lifanyuan share from these memorials and sent it to the Supreme Emperor.

The Supreme Emperor opened it and saw that it was indeed what Jia Rui said, and Jia Rui also gave his approval: it was still a routine practice to select girls from the clan to marry into the Duoyan Tribunal.

The Supreme Emperor nodded lightly. Although Jia Rui didn't have any personal opinions this time, he generally followed the old rules and there was nothing wrong.

The Supreme Emperor placed the memorial on the table, raised his head and thought for a moment, then said, "I seem to remember that you transferred Song Jian of the Gansu rebels to the north of the capital some time ago?"

"Yes, it was a memorial submitted by the minister and approved by the Supreme Emperor."

"Then what do you think of these cavalry compared to the prairie cavalry?"

Jia Rui smiled, and then said confidently: "I have also seen the nomadic cavalry in the grasslands in Gansu and Shaanxi. They are indeed brave and good at fighting. However, Song Jian's cavalry is not bad either. Although they are all Han people, due to Gansu Ma Zheng Because they grew up on horseback, when they left Beijing to go north this time, the Ministry of War gave them more equipment, so I think they can fight twice as many prairie cavalry."

"Okay, in that case, let Song Jian take his cavalry and send the envoys from Duoyan's Third Division all the way to Beijing."

Jia Rui's eyes flashed, and he understood what the Supreme Emperor meant. He wanted Song Jian's cavalry to intimidate the three Duoyan tribes.

Although the three tribes of Duoyan had surrendered to the imperial court at the founding of the country, they had always been in a semi-independent state.

After decades of development, the strength of Duoyan's three divisions has been restored, and there is even a hint of expansion.

This time, I just want the Duoyan Tribe to take a look. The imperial court also has elite cavalry. You should stay here in the border grasslands. Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude.

"Then I'll write it down now and send it to the Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Commander's Office for them to issue orders to mobilize troops."

"Okay, that's it."

After finishing speaking, the Supreme Emperor focused his attention on the map in front of him. It seemed that he was not too worried about the Duoyan Trilogy.

The reason why Song Jian was asked to intimidate him was to prepare for a rainy day.

Jia Rui quickly picked up the memorial again, returned to the small table, finished correcting it again, and then walked back to the Supreme Emperor.

The Emperor didn't look at it for a moment, and just waved his hand.

Jia Rui quickly stepped aside and put the memorial in his hand together with the other memorials. Then with a wave of his hand, the little eunuch below naturally picked up the memorial and walked out.

There was nothing else to do, Jia Rui left the main hall of the Dragon Head Palace until the Supreme Emperor was about to have lunch.

At this time, a eunuch hurried over and said, "Master Jia, you have forgotten something."

Jia Rui looked up and saw that he knew this man. It was Zhao Jin who was going to Gansu to deliver the order.

Looking at his hand, he was holding a bright yellow imperial edict!
(End of this chapter)