Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

Qianqing Palace, Yangxin Palace.

"Is the old concubine okay?" After finishing the day's government affairs, or in other words, having finished handling all the memorials that had been decided by the Supreme Emperor, Emperor Yuan Xi suddenly asked his companion.

"The imperial doctor said I'm afraid it will only last a day or two."

This was the only major event in the palace recently, so Dai Quan, the eunuch in charge, was naturally very aware of it and responded immediately.

"You think it's more important to live or to die. When the empress dowagers and empress dowagers of the former Han Dynasty were still alive, the emperor had to give them some face. He didn't dare to kill them all, but waited for them to die.

Haha, I deserve the autumn wind to sweep away the fallen leaves.

And this old lady is probably not as good as them.

After all, she is just a concubine.

In a few months, if I take action against the Zhen family, do you think the Supreme Emperor will stop me? What's the reaction? "

Emperor Yuan Xi did not expect Dai Quan next to him to dare to say anything. He was just talking to himself at this time, but it was true that he had the idea of ​​​​taking action against the Zhen family.

If the four princes and eight princes provided his father with military and security guarantees, then the Zhen family provided his father with financial support. Without money, it is difficult to move forward for everyone. Even the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. .

If you want to accomplish many things, you must either give them money directly or indirectly, such as by giving them power and letting them try to make money after they get the power. The Zhen family, which controls the Jiangnan Salt Administration and Silk Weaving Mansion, and also engages in maritime trade, is the Emperor's biggest money bag. If the Zhen family can be wiped out, it is basically equivalent to breaking off an arm of the Emperor, and a large amount of gold and silver at his disposal can be recovered. .

As early as the first year after he ascended the throne, Emperor Yuan Xi had plans to attack the Zhen family through the Salt Patrol Censor and take back control of the salt administration and salt tax. Unfortunately, the foundation was unstable. The Salt Patrol Censor he sent was soon killed and left for a new one. One person dies.

Finally, as a last resort, Lin Ruhai, the son-in-law of the Jia family among the four princes and eight princes, was sent to serve as the salt inspector.

Only by pretending to compromise can the situation be considered stable.

"If His Majesty is fast enough and can extract several million taels of assets from the Zhen family, even if the Supreme Emperor stops it, the force of the stoppage should not be too great.

At most, the lives of the entire Zhen family can be saved..."

Dai Quan was undoubtedly much more courageous than Emperor Yuan Xi had imagined, and this answer hit home even more.

He always felt that the Supreme Emperor only had some feelings for Old Concubine Zhen. As for the rest of the Zhen family, he was just a practical tool, or in other words, for the sake of Old Concubine Zhen, he gave them a chance to be dogs.

As a dog responsible for making money, he would make a hundred taels but only give his owner twenty or thirty taels, or even less. However, he had accumulated countless assets without his owner knowing.

Once informed, how can one not be angry?
The Zhen family is the dog, and the Supreme Emperor is the master.

Of course, the Supreme Emperor may also know that the Zhen family is corrupt, and may even think that if the water is clear, there will be no fish, so he should work for him to get some benefits, just turn a blind eye, but it is difficult to know the exact amount of corruption. .

As long as enough assets are copied.

I imagine that the Supreme Emperor would also break through his defenses and have murderous intent.

"This is a good idea, and if you can really steal millions of assets and tell the world, you have to at least seize the title. Otherwise, how can you convince the public?"

"Send someone to watch the Zhen family carefully and investigate their assets. At the same time, you must not give them the opportunity to transfer their assets. In addition, you should also investigate the salt merchants in Jiangnan. If the Zhen family's assets are not that many, just grab more. Several salt merchants were merged into the Zhen family’s assets.”

Now that he was ready to take action against the Zhen family, Emperor Yuanxi would not allow any more mistakes. In the past few years, his game with his father had been a complete failure. Now he could not afford to fail again. Otherwise, how could he convince the ministers?

This turnaround must be fought beautifully.

Only victory is allowed, no defeat is allowed.

If he loses again, his imperial prestige in the hearts of the ministers will be even less. Therefore, even if the process requires some shady means, he must ensure that the plan is implemented perfectly.

"promise!"

After Dai Quan agreed, he immediately went to make arrangements.

……

At the same time, in the Yuji Palace and the Palace of Eternal Life, the Supreme Emperor was sitting by the window, looking at the palace where the old concubine Zhen lived not far away. After a long silence, he sighed:

"Birth, old age, sickness and death, no one can escape!"

When he was young, when he saw an acquaintance pass away, he would sigh at most and feel no fear or worry in his heart. But not anymore. Now that he is old and frail, every time he sees an acquaintance die, he will feel that death is approaching him. , there is no way to avoid it!
He began to fear death and contact with death.

After a long time, the Supreme Emperor left the window and walked to the desk: "Oh, I'm afraid the Zhen family can't be saved."

How can a person who has been an emperor for decades be deceived so easily? He actually knows many things very well, and he also knows that he has been controlling the power of the government and other operations, which makes his son very dissatisfied, but there is nothing he can do, and I really don’t dare to completely delegate power while I’m still alive.

After all, only when you have power can you control everything. Once you lose power, it's hard to say what will happen.

Duke Huan of Qi who starved to death is a lesson learned from the past!
As his right-hand man, the Zhen family would naturally be willing to keep the Zhen family if they could, but when Old Concubine Zhen was alive, he could still use Old Concubine Zhen to nurture him, just like his biological mother, Old Concubine Zhen. The concubine interceded on behalf of the Zhen family, and he had no choice but to comply. To allow him to disobey the old concubine Zhen would be to put him in an unfilial position and deny her protection.

But once Mrs. Zhen died.

This shield is undoubtedly equivalent to disappearing directly.

It was not a last resort for him to protect the Zhen family.

How can I put it, if Old Concubine Zhen is still there, even if the Zhen family is impeached for doing some illegal things for him, he can still use Old Concubine Zhen to help intercede and save the Zhen family, and The most scolded by others is the old concubine Zhen, what a scourge!

Old Concubine Zhen was blamed for all the infamy she received in private.

And the Supreme Emperor might even get a reputation as a filial and benevolent person. It could be said that he got all the benefits and good reputation, while the Zhen family was responsible for doing the dirty work.

Old Concubine Zhen also carried it on her back.

And once the old concubine Zhen dies, the emperor's trick will naturally not be able to continue. After all, there can't be any ministers impeaching the Zhen family, and then the emperor can use the old concubine's dream last night to intercede for the Zhen family as a prevarication.

Once sheltering or protecting the Zhen family would affect his reputation, the Supreme Emperor would not be willing to do it.

That's why he felt so emotional at this time.

And has begun to think about how to squeeze out the oil before the Zhen family completely collapses, and if the Zhen family collapses, which company should be supported next to make money for him.

It can be said that Emperor Yuan Xi really overestimated his father's feelings for the Zhen family, not to mention that the Zhen family he was planning to deal with had become his father's abandoned son.

At this moment, the downfall of the Zhen family seems to have become an inevitable result of the tacit understanding between father and son.

……

Let’s talk about Biyuan Palace and Cuixia Palace. She was just an old concubine, so she was naturally not qualified to live in Ci'an Palace or Cining Palace. At this time, having a palace to live in was already pretty good. After all, the other old concubines of the late Emperor who were alive all lived in the same palace.

Nowadays, except for the Queen Mother who lives in Cining Palace, all the concubines of the Supreme Emperor also live together.

The original place must be given to the new emperor's concubines.

Bai Sheng, who had used the Turtle Breath Nourishing Technique to stabilize his physical condition without worrying about sudden death at any time, quickly began to analyze the situation based on his original memory.

But the more I analyze it, the more ominous I feel.

"I remember in the original book, not long after the death of Mrs. Zhen, the Zhen family was ransacked, and I didn't hear that the Supreme Emperor offered any help or shelter. The Supreme Emperor was probably still alive at that time. It seems that the Supreme Emperor was not reliable.

Oh, no, it was the friendship that I thought it was.

It doesn't feel that reliable.

By the way, before the Zhen family was ransacked, they sent people to transfer assets. Some of the gold and silver were sent to the Jia family, which was taken over by Jia Zheng’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wang. Later, the Jia family was ransacked, and this seemed to be one of the charges, but When the Jia family was ransacked, the Supreme Emperor should have died. "

"The new emperor is very unfriendly to Xungui!
In the short term, as long as I am alive, there is a high probability that the Zhen family can be saved. But in the long term, it is really hard to say. If we cannot save the life of the Supreme Emperor, we will probably only be able to survive the death of the Supreme Emperor. They ransacked their homes together and were companions on the road to exile.

But doing this is ultimately treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.

I can't live forever, and help the Supreme Emperor live forever. The new emperor can bear it for three to five years, but if it takes more than ten or twenty years.

I'm even afraid that the new emperor can't help but poison us to death! "

Bai Sheng knew very well that no emperor wanted to be a puppet all the time. The difference was that some emperors were capable enough to become masters and had real power from then on, while some were not capable enough and were exposed in advance and were poisoned to death.

The longer the Emperor lives, the greater the conflict between the Emperor and the new emperor will be, unless the Emperor is willing to delegate power, but the Emperor is obviously not a person willing to delegate power.

So, one of the two must die.

Otherwise it will be difficult to stop.

Moreover, in this era of feudal imperial power, whether a person or a family is clean has little to do with whether or not their home will be confiscated. Isn't Yue Fei and Yu Qian clean?
But he died in the end...

It is true that if the king wants his minister to die, he must die.

A good reputation cannot change a person after death.

So Bai Sheng thought for a long time and finally summed up three ways. One is to raise hopes. By providing high-yielding and improved varieties and a series of things that will greatly help people's livelihood, they can increase their family's reputation without reaching a level comparable to Kong Sheng's. , it would be nice to have a Half-Saint.

At this level, as long as they don't rebel, generally no emperor is willing to take the risk and raid their home.

Just like the Kong family and the Zhang family, the descendants of the two families have done so much evil and harmed so many people. It is not an exaggeration to punish them according to the law, and cutting them to pieces is not an exaggeration. fine.

For example, Kong Hongxu, the 61st generation of Yanshenggong, violated more than 40 women from good families and killed four defenseless old people. In the end, he only got his title and sent him back.

Another example is Zhang Yuanji, a great master of the 46th generation, who often raped and raped women, killed more than 40 innocent people, and was only beaten dozens of times and sent to the army.

After arriving at the place, I went back within a few days.

The position of Da Zhen was still inherited by his son.

Of course, Bai Sheng wanted to raise his hopes, not so that the Zhen family would do evil and not be punished. Moreover, without hundreds or thousands of years of accumulation, it would be difficult to have such a transcendent status. However, the family's reputation is sufficient, and it is indeed possible to avoid it to the greatest extent possible. His house was confiscated by the emperor and he was exiled.

Tough and shameless like Zhu Yuanzhang.

He didn't dare to do anything to the Kong family. The most he could do was to ban the Zhang family's identity as a heavenly master and become a real person.

The main risk is that if Yang Wang is not careful, he may feed the ambition of the clan members, and may also be feared by the emperor. He needs to restrain the clan members and control his temper.

The credit must be divided and assigned to people of different tribes.

One person cannot take all the credit.

The second method is life-span inducement. By helping the Supreme Emperor to prolong his life, and even helping the new emperor and others to prolong their life as well, he can gain a transcendent status.

If they ask for something, they can naturally keep their family.

But we don't rule out the possibility that if we encounter someone who is sick, we will resort to tricks and extortion, or even exterminate the entire clan to ask for the secret recipe.

There are certain risks.

How to let the Zhen family have the ability to help others live longer without being taken away is also troublesome. If it is not necessary, or they are already in danger of having their homes confiscated, this choice is the next best thing.

As for the third method, that is to simply usurp the throne directly. If you become the emperor yourself, you will naturally not have the risk of having your house confiscated.

However, these three paths are not considered stable...

"The original work is lost. The first eighty chapters do not talk about the final outcome of the Zhen family, only about the confiscation of the family and the fall. The next forty chapters talk about Zhen Baoyu passing the imperial examination and his father returning to his original position.

But after all, it is a dog's tail, written by others.

It cannot be taken for granted.

Forget it, it’s better not to think about a continuation of the original work, lest it affect your judgment. You must try to carefully investigate the real situation of the Zhen family, as well as the specific attitudes of the Supreme Emperor and the new emperor, and then think about which path to choose and deal with it. Home raiding risk! "

After all, the original person has not left the palace for decades. The understanding of external information, or the situation of the Zhen family, mainly comes from the oral accounts of several clan members.

There are many aspects that they won’t tell the original person.

So the situation of the Zhen family in the original memory.
In fact, it is relatively one-sided and shallow.

In addition, although Bai Sheng has seen Red Mansions, it was many years ago, and the description of the Zhen family in the original work is relatively obscure and sparse, and has little reference value, so he made plans rashly based on this information.

It is obviously not appropriate and difficult to consider thoroughly.

So in the end, Bai Sheng put all the three plans he had thought up into place for the time being. Anyway, as long as she didn't die, the Zhen family should be safe for the time being, so there was no need to be too anxious and just take it slow.

If that doesn't work, there is still a trick to prolong life.

At least we can strive for another ten or eight years.

After thinking about this, Bai Shengcai continued to practice the Turtle Breath Nourishing Technique with peace of mind, and after dawn the next day, he energetically greeted the palace guests to get dressed and have breakfast.