The Rise of Ning Mansion in Red Mansions

Chapter 32 Waiting for the time to act
The sound of firecrackers bid farewell to the old year, and another year is approaching.

The wealthy families in Shenjing are all bustling and preparing their things.

On New Year's Eve, ancestors are worshiped, on New Year's Day they visit relatives and friends, and in the first month of the year, guests are thanked for the banquet.

The Jia family lived up to expectations, but it made another joke in the cold winter!

The people in Shenjing were all happy and wearing new clothes, supporting the old and the young, looking forward to having new melons to eat.

According to the Jia family's usual practice of worshiping ancestors, although the head of the Ningguo Mansion was the chief priest, Mrs. Jia Daihua died young and did not remarry. Therefore, it was Jia's mother who took the lead in passing down the dishes in the main hall.

But, this time is different.

After Jia Daixijue took over the Ningguo Mansion, he falsely conveyed Jia Daihua's will and promoted Aunt Xing to a higher position. She received an extra fifteen taels of money per month and had the right to take charge of the inner residence of the Ningguo Mansion.

However, he was blocked by Jia Jing and his son and was not allowed to enter the Jia family tree in Jinling.

However, Jia Dai asked the court to grant him a royal decree, but the queen refused to do so, and so far there has been no result.

This is where things get serious!
Jia Dai was unreasonable, but remained in a stalemate, refusing to give in.

No matter who in the Ren family tried to persuade him, he just didn't agree. Mother Jia was ranked ahead of Aunt Xing.

snort!
Who taught the Jia family's ancestral hall to be in their east mansion? They don't compete for steamed buns, but for words!
Jia Jing and Jia Zhen don't have the ability to kneel down and lick Xifu. That's their business, but I won't lick it!
In order to save trouble, Jia Dai took a few guards with him on the pretext of preparing to go south to deliver funeral objects, and then moved to Guiningzhuang in the west of the city. While training his soldiers, Jia Dai waited for Jia's mother to surrender.

Guiningzhuang is no other place. It is located thirty miles west of Shenjing, only a hundred miles away from Zijingguan in the northwest, and pillowed by Yanshan Vanguard Commander's Office in the south.

It is close to the royal hunting ground, and dignitaries often come here to hunt, which is convenient for Jia Dai to make friends with them.

Guiningzhuang was where Ning Guogong used to train troops and also used to house the old soldiers in the mansion. It owned 10,000 acres of flooded and drought-rich land and more than 3,000 Dingkou. It was a famous village in Shenjing.

After separating from the second house, Guining Village was transferred to Jia Dai's name and belonged to his eldest house.

In late June, when Wang Ziteng was appointed as the governor of the Beijing camp, Jia Dai took control of the remaining two guards of the commander's camp and stopped taking action, leaving the Yanshan guard where Sun Huai'en was to serve as a front for his cheap uncle.

In fact, the Jingying camp run by Jia Daihua and the Jingying camp run by Ning Guogong are completely different things and cannot be compared with each other.

Although the inheritance of titles in the Wei Dynasty was developed based on the lessons learned from the previous Ming Dynasty, it had its own characteristics.

In order to prevent the nobles from getting bigger, if their descendants have not achieved military merit, they can only take the title of general, captain of Fengche, and lieutenant of Xiaoqi, just like the titles of the Wei clan.

In this way, these founding figures and the Wei emperor became one family.

They may sound good in name, but high-ranking titles such as duke, marquis, uncle, son, male, etc., will be reduced to ordinary empty officials within a few generations.

Without a job and power, I can only receive a little viscount salary for nothing, and receive spring and autumn sacrificial silver from Honglu Temple every year. I sit back and watch the decline of my ancestral business, and there is nothing I can do!
The allusion that Wei Taizu calculated the people's hearts and released Zhao Kuangyin's military power over a cup of wine can be said to be a new trick. It is neither hated nor loved by the world.

This is how Jia Daihua's first-class general title came to be.

When he was young, he worked hard and wanted to imitate his ancestors and make achievements on the battlefield. Jia Daihua followed the King of Beijing County to send troops several times, but he was not as lucky as Jia Daishan.

Every time Jia Daihua led his troops to fight against the Hulu, he always lost his troops and generals, and returned in defeat without any victory.

The last time, at the Liaodong border wall, he fought against the Eastern captives. Jia Daihua's entire army was wiped out, and he only escaped with his own life. He was punished by the imperial court.
If Jiao Dazhong hadn't pulled him out of the pile of dead people and walked in the snow for three days and three nights, drinking snow water when he was thirsty and eating horse meat when he was hungry,
After traveling for five hundred miles, the master and servant escaped from death and returned safely to the pass.

At this point, Jia Daihua never led his troops out again, but stayed in the mansion with peace of mind, waiting for Ning Guogong to pass away and he to inherit the title.
In the future, Jia Daihua concentrated on walking among the nobles, was good at dancing, and exchanged interests with each other. Only then did Jia Daihua secure his position as the Jiedushi of the Beijing Camp.

It is also for this reason that in the hands of Jia Daihua, the good Jingying camp developed into a domestic slave of the powerful people in Shenjing, who could be driven at will.
The soldiers could not survive and many fled.

In the suburbs of Shenjing, the public security is deteriorating, and there are often violent bandits running through the mountains and forests to rob business travelers. This is why things happened.

The only ones that can be controlled by the Jia family now are the four guards of the Shuai camp. The other guards in the Beijing camp all work on their own, with the support of noble men behind them.
Those who deserve to drink the blood of soldiers drink the blood of soldiers, and those who deserve to be enslaved should be enslaved. No one dares to offend them.

The current Wang Ziteng, not to mention the three things he did as a new official, was to vigorously reform the Beijing camp. He is just a pawn on the roster. Except for the Yanshan defenders, he can't command anyone.

Now it seems that the idea of ​​Emperor Taikang trying his best to take back the military power of the Beijing camp through Wang Ziteng is simply childish and ridiculous.

On the other hand, his opponent, the Supreme Emperor, was scheming, slow and slow, making decisions before taking action, and striking at the vital point!

After he recovered from his illness, the first thing he did was to meet with the nobles and powerful soldiers in the Shoukang Palace, and reward his family members in various names, including Jia Dai.
Later, the Dragon Guards were set up, and all noble disciples could apply.

Sure enough, Jiang was old and hot, so the Supreme Emperor used a little trick and hit him with a combination of punches. Those old ministers who were sitting on the wall and watching, crawled over.

Jia Dai had been in the capital camp for nearly two years and had already figured out the inside story. In order to avoid being used as a spearman by Emperor Taikang and Wang Ziteng, he handed over the responsibility of staying in the camp to Sun Huai'en.
I am happy to hide in the dark, sit and watch the snipe and clam fight, waiting for the right time to regain the family property!
That's right, Jia Dai has long regarded Jingying as the property of Ningguo Mansion.

On that day, the cold wind was howling and dark clouds were pressing overhead. Jia Dai ordered people to set up a three-story high platform in the camp in the middle of Guining Village, with farmers standing under the platform in a military posture.

These farmers are none other than the servants Jia Dai purged from Ningguo Mansion.

Anyone who is familiar with Dream of Red Mansions knows that the Ningrong and Rong mansions have flourished for more than half a century, and the two mansions have a prosperous population. The Ningguo mansion alone has 1,300 male and female servants.

For example, the money is one ounce of silver per month, not counting food and drink, which is one thousand two hundred taels of silver.

And, how much is his salary?

Annual salary, seven hundred and twenty taels of silver!

Based on this, how can we support these "ancestors" in Ningguo Mansion?
Therefore, when the family was separated, he only left two hundred male and female servants to serve in the huge Ningguo Mansion. The rest were either sent to Jia Jing and his son, or rushed to Guining Village.

However, these people are used to living with their master in Ning Guo Mansion, how can they endure hardship?

No, just six or seven months after returning to Ningzhuang, he had already caused so many troubles, which made the people in the village complain, and all the complaints were brought before Jia Dai!
Jia Dai gathered them together and personally supervised the military posture. First, he punished these unruly slaves to establish their authority.
Second, teach them the rules.

(End of this chapter)