86_86438 But Lin Hai guessed that most of Hu Zhong's banknotes were with his son, and used words to scare him. He thought that this person would have to think about it for three days and five days; but he really loved his son like crazy. I heard that the child might be afraid.
I couldn't hold my breath because it was not safe. I immediately asked to see Lin Hai the next morning. It was obvious that he had not slept all night. He read a book at midnight.
Lin Haizheng was having breakfast with Daiyu. When he heard the news, he couldn't help but sigh: "A person lives his whole life, and even when he dies, he only thinks about his children."
Daiyu also felt a little regretful: "What a pity, this person has gone astray."
Lin Hai glanced at her with a smile and asked hypocritically: "Yu'er thinks he's pitiful and I'm fine, can I spare him this time?"
Daiyu hurriedly waved her hands and said: "It can't be done. It doesn't matter if he was deceived by others or his guilt is not serious. Now he has thought about it carefully and still wants to assassinate his father. It is sincere and intentional. Although his feelings are
It's pitiful, but I can't bear the injustice of the law."
Lin Hai nodded happily: "If you don't break the law because of love, my Yu'er is really good." He secretly regretted in his heart that if his daughter was born as a boy, she might really be as talented as Xiao He.
Then he came outside and ordered Hu Zhong to be brought up.
It turned out that Hu Zhong's 10,000 taels of silver, apart from the 500 taels he secretly left to his parents to get a free household for his family, was exchanged for a mere 100 taels on his wife, and the rest was equally divided among his three sons.
He had a son. He didn’t say where he was now, and Lin Hai didn’t bother to ask.
I just heard him say that the banknotes were from Sitong Bank. Each one was a thousand taels, ten in total. He studied each one carefully for a long time and remembered it very clearly. Last night, Situ Pan sent a painter to
Waiting here, many banknotes were prepared as a model. Hu Zhong described in detail what the banknotes left to his children looked like, with patterns, marks, and the initials Linlin. After the painter finished drawing, he showed them to Hu Zhong.
After repeated revisions, he finally nodded with satisfaction: "That's it."
Then he immediately sent people and paintings to Prince Xian's Mansion. Situ Pan sent people to Sitong Bank in the capital to inquire about the news. Not long after, news came back from the other end. The stack of banknotes were all issued by the capital and the shopkeeper who handled them.
Now that he has gone back to his hometown for the New Year, he has no choice but to wait for him to come back. Situ Pan is afraid of the long nights and dreams, so he immediately sends people to look for him in his hometown. Lin Hai has left it alone for the time being.
On this day, Jia Zheng was discussing with Qing guests about various matters related to the coming of the new year. Suddenly someone came and said: "A large carriage has come to Prince Xian's palace and several people want to see the master."
Jia Zheng was puzzled. In the past year, he had heard that Dafang's two nephews had a relationship with the wise king, but they did not have any contact with him in the palace. As he thought about it, he ordered "please come quickly" and hurriedly came out to take a look.
At that time, it was Prince Xian's Palace Chief Historian who hurriedly took him to the hall and offered him tea.
The chief historian smiled and said: "I am here because of the king's order to thank you for saving our prince's friend with your bravery, bravery and wisdom."
Jia Zheng was uneasy at first, but he was overjoyed when he heard this: "This is happening!" He quickly said, "Call Baoyu out!" Before he spoke, he thought something was wrong and hesitated, "It's just that the child is weak, but I made a mistake?"
The chief historian said: "Your Majesty was playing with friends yesterday, when a gentleman was in danger, and his bodyguard was tricked and temporarily left his side. Thanks to Your Majesty for saving him. That gentleman is a friend of our prince, and he is now living in our house. Your Majesty
I am very grateful to you, sir, and I came here to express my gratitude."
Seeing that the Chinese New Year was about to take place and the ethnic studies were on holiday, Jia Zheng just thought he was a treasure and went out for a stroll again. It was not known how he saved someone by some strange combination of circumstances, so he kept speaking modestly.
After a while, Baoyu came slowly. Jia Zheng looked at him and said with a smile: "Come and meet the Chief Historian of Prince Xian's Mansion."
The chief historian said he didn't dare, but when he came up, he bowed to him first: "This must be Mr. Huan, he is indeed very handsome."
The room suddenly became silent as if a kite had entered the forest.
Half a day later, Baoyu replied with a bow: "Sir, are you here to look for Huan'er? How about I call him?"
Jia Zheng then remembered that there were two possibilities for "young master", and he quickly ordered, "Quickly go and call Huan'er."
Yesterday, Jia Huan carried a lot of food and playthings from the Lin Mansion back to the courtyard to present treasures to Aunt Zhao. She was making her laugh uncontrollably. Suddenly, a useful boy next to Jia Zheng ran in and kowtowed with joy: "
Congratulations, Third Master! There is an official from Prince Xian’s palace who wants to thank Third Master. He is outside right now, and I want you to come over quickly."
Aunt Zhao was immediately overjoyed: "The people in Prince Xian's palace thank you?"
Jia Huan smiled and said, "It's just a trivial matter." He quickly changed into his clothes for meeting guests and hurried over. The boy couldn't stop flattering him all the way.
When they arrived in the hall, Jia Huan first saluted Jia Zheng. Jia Zheng stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Huan'er, come quickly, this is the Chief Historian of the Wise King Qiansui's Mansion." He also noticed that the material of his clothes was a bit bad.
, frowned, thinking to himself that someone in the house was treating him lightly.
The chief historian bowed to Jia Huan again and said, "On behalf of our prince, I have come to express my gratitude to Mr. Jia for his righteousness in saving people yesterday."
Jia Huan returned the courtesy and waved his hands again and again: "It's none of my business. It was Yao'er brother who was fighting those people all the time. I only used walnut cake to block them. I really don't have any merit."
The chief historian smiled and said: "Master Jia is too modest." Then he presented a long gift list, which made all the servants click their tongues - such a big gift.
After they left, Jia Zheng hurriedly asked what was going on.
Jia Huan said: "It's just that yesterday afternoon when I was out walking with Cong'er, I met someone fighting. Something went wrong. Both sides of the fight rushed towards an unrelated passerby at the same time. Originally, we wanted to hide...
In fact, it was Brother Yao'er who was helping the guards fight, and Cong'er and I just watched from the side. I didn't want anyone to suddenly come here to take action, so I was carrying the walnut cake I bought outside, and I just raised my hand to block it.
Then that person was caught by other guards." He really didn't lie.
Jia Zheng twisted his beard and said with a smile: "Of course this is your blessing." He disliked Yao'er very much and thought that Prince Xian's palace had thanked the wrong person, so he just made the mistake. He was even more happy. He wanted him to have less contact with Jia Cong.
, and thought that the boy was really a blessing, and I could not guarantee that I would get some benefits from being together with him in the future, so I just let it go. In fact, they also had a gift for Jia Cong, which was no less than Jia Huan. No one dared to tell him.
This incident immediately reached Mrs. Wang's ears, and she was so angry that she bit her teeth: "You little bitch, that was someone else's work, but he took it without shame!" Aunt Zhao was very happy to hear this.
He was running around in the house, spreading his word to everyone he saw, and he was getting more and more depressed.
On the other hand, Situ Pan came to the palace and told the emperor that someone had advised him not to lend money to misers casually. The saint laughed and said, "You didn't ask him when he will pay back the money?"
Situ Pan said, "No need to ask. I'll have it after checking their second house's accounts."
The saint nodded.
Unexpectedly, three days later, I received a note from the Rongguo Mansion to return the 800,000 taels of silver owed to the treasury!
It turned out that Jia Huan could even go to the streets to save the friends of the wise king. Mrs. Wang suddenly felt that life was difficult. She was used to being flattered, and she could not live in such a lonely life. However, she knew how much money she had squandered, and more than that.
Eight hundred thousand taels. On that day, Jia Mu said that she would pay back the money owed to the second house and buy and sell the other two houses. Although Jia She did not agree, she could ask Jia Mu to make the decision. Now that the house is the only one with the largest house, how can Jia Mu do it?
Sitting still? Therefore, she gritted her teeth and took some money from the private treasury, borrowed some from Aunt Xue, collected 800,000 yuan, and handed it to Jia Zheng with tears in her eyes.
Although Jia Zheng was annoyed that she had been caught corrupting public accounts, he was not reluctant to part with her for the sake of Yuanchun's concubine. Moreover, he was used to being a wealthy and idle person, and did not care about money, so he immediately wrote a memorial in a eloquent manner.
, signed his name alone. He thought that the money came from his own house and had nothing to do with the big house. If he handed the money out in an upright manner, firstly, he would alarm the big house and insist on sharing the credit. Secondly,
He didn't want to offend his old relatives too much, so he wrote to ask someone from the Ministry of Household Affairs to come to the house to pick it up.
Two days later, the Ministry of Revenue first sent a fast horse to Rongguo Mansion to inform them that they were coming. They also asked in detail how many silver ingots, how many silver notes, and how many people they would bring. Jia Zheng answered them one by one. Taking advantage of this moment, Jia She went to the Taiping Escort Bureau.
After leaving, Jia Zheng had already prepared the money and was waiting in the Hall of Rongxi. He also heard that Lao Shangshu came to pick it up in person, so he even more tidied up his clothes and prepared tea and snacks. After waiting for a while, he heard someone coming and going from outside: "Master, Hu
Minister Lao Fu and your Excellency led the people from the Ministry of Revenue into Ningrong Street."
Jia Zheng hurriedly said: "I will go to the door to greet you personally!" Then he straightened his clothes and shook his sleeves again, coughed, and hurriedly walked to the main door. It happened that the people from the Ministry of Revenue had already arrived, so he hurriedly opened the door and stepped forward.
He went out with straight steps. He saw many officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and people who came to move things outside. Shangshu Laofu and others were standing among them. Then he bowed to the ground and said: "I have been ignorant of politics for many years, but I don't know what I owe to the country."
, capital crime, capital crime!”
Lao Fu and hurriedly helped him up and sighed: "Master Jia, you are so loyal and good!"
Jia Zheng straightened up with tears in his eyes before he was about to speak. He was suddenly startled: he saw his nephew Jia Lian, wearing the official robe of a fifth-grade household minister, Wailang, who was of the same rank as him. He was looking at him and grinning, and he came over.
Li: "Second uncle, we have already prepared the preparations yesterday. Let's ask the boss to go in and get the money." Jia Zheng stared at him for a long time and was speechless.
It turned out that Jia Zheng's official position was too low and he was not allowed to enter the palace, so the matter could only be submitted to the public. However, he was afraid of the resentment of his relatives, so he did not say much when he handed it over, so the "repaying the money" was also included in the public documents.
The saint's desk has a mountain of various papers all year round, and yesterday it was not his turn to read them. Today, the saint just picked them up casually, glanced at them a few times, and caught the words: "The eight hundred thousand taels of silver owed by the Rongguo Mansion to the national treasury will be returned immediately."
I was overjoyed! I didn't even read the flattering words at the back to express my loyalty. How could I pay attention to whose famous money was written below? I immediately ordered someone to call Lao Fuhe, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, to come in and ask him to lead people to collect the money.
At first, Lao Shangshu thought he was asking for money again, so he went into the palace with a sad face. But when he heard that it was raining money from the sky, his legs and legs were trembling with excitement, and he kept shouting "Long live, long live!"
The saint suddenly remembered that he thought Jia She would wait until their accounts were checked before repaying the money, but he never thought he would repay it in such a hurry? Could it be that he wanted to do something for Jia Lian before the end of the year? But how could I do it?
Is it too obvious? Just give me a hint first. So he ordered Lao Shangshu: "Let your Yuanwailang Jia Lian go with you. It is their family who wants to pay back the money."
A flash of understanding flashed in Lao Fuhe's eyes, and he bowed and said, "I understand!"
Because he rushed back to the household department to call all the people, he said loudly and joyfully: "Colleagues! Just now the saint announced that I am going to the Daming Palace for a big happy event." Everyone asked what was going on, and he made a special announcement to Jia Lian.
He bowed, and Jia Lian was so frightened that he quickly returned the salute, saying he did not dare.
Lao Fuhe said: "As we all know, the court has been having a hard time in the past few years. In the early years when the old saint was in power, the treasury was quite full, so the old sage granted a favor and allowed the courtiers to temporarily borrow money from the treasury to serve as ministers.
Then it was returned. But after so many years, the national treasury is empty and no one has repaid the money." He yelled, "Actually, many people who owe money can afford to pay it back. It's just that there are many people who don't want to pay it back.
Just don't offend anyone and don't do this." He raised his hands to the sky, "I only suffered the imperial court and the Holy One."
When Jia Lian heard about it, he had already guessed that it was about repaying the money he owed. But last night he had discussed with Jia She that after the New Year, the accounts were settled and the second house wanted to pay the money back to Tan Mo. He said it now.
, why do you seem to want to pay it back immediately?
Lao Fuhe went on to say: "Rongguo Mansion understands righteousness and is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, so he has just given the sage a break." At this point, his voice trembled and he shouted, "Immediately return the eight pieces of silver owed to the treasury by the former Rongguo Duke."
One hundred thousand taels!"
"Wow~~" everyone exclaimed in the lobby of the Household Department. In recent years, the Household Department has suffered the most from the lack of money. How can we not be ecstatic when we first heard about so much silver? Next to Jia Lian was his boss Zuo Shilang Liu Fan.
He was so surprised that he held Jia Lian's shoulders and shouted, "Mr. Jia, thank you very much!"
Jia Lian was shaken back and forth by him, but his heart was clear: Jia Zheng must have tricked his father behind his back and wanted to monopolize this power! But he didn't know that it was the saint who told Jia She about this, and he secretly felt lucky for himself.
The one who happened to arrive was the Ministry of Household Affairs. He pretended to be humble and said, "It is only natural to pay back debts. My father and I were completely unaware of this matter. After all these years, it was my uncle who first brought it up.
Yes, my father was shocked. Now even my second uncle did it, and neither my father nor I dare to take credit for it."
Everyone coaxed: "Master Jia is too modest, your father is the head of the household -"
Laofu Heyin said: "The sage has a decree, Mr. Jia, you will go with me to your mansion to get silver."
Jia Lian laughed and said, "You've already got all the discounts, but the saint is still afraid that our family won't give you any money?" The whole audience roared with laughter.
Jia Lian smiled and said goodbye to all his colleagues, and followed Lao Fu and others back to Rongguo Mansion.
As soon as he arrived at the door, before notifying him, he first asked the concierge about Jia She: Sure enough, his father was not in the house! He hurriedly came to Lao Fu and said: "My father heard the boys in front of him urgently reported that he saw me in the household department.
Among them, I found an excuse to sneak out through the corner door on the south side, and now I have invited my second uncle to host it. This is to avoid suspicion, otherwise I will not be able to pay back the money to my son!"
Lao Fuhe was an old Confucian. When he heard this, he said "Oh!" and repeatedly clapped his hands and praised: "Originally, Mr. Jia represents the imperial court, so there is no need to be like this. The pardoner is so careful and polite! Rare, rare!" and sighed,
"The people in the market still say that your father is vulgar, but it turns out that everyone's words are worth the money and the bones are wasted."
Jia Lian laughed softly and said: "Actually - my father is really a bit vulgar."
Lao Fuhe glared at him: "How brave! He said bad things about his father."
With a smile on his lips, Jia Lian hurriedly handed over his hands: "Sir, please calm down. I will not dare to do this anymore."
Lao Fu and his wife were in such a good mood that they could not be angry. They stood at the door, twirling their beards, waiting for Jia Zheng to come out to greet them.
When Jia Zheng came out and saw Jia Lian, he immediately realized that he had forgotten to serve in the Ministry of Household Affairs. Unfortunately, he regretted it too late. He had no choice but to lead them in with a smile on his face. When everyone in the Ministry of Household Affairs arrived at the Rongxi Hall, they found that they had
There were more than a dozen boxes full of white silver ingots, and a large pile of ringing silver notes.
Lao Fu and Xi were so angry that they signed a document with Jia Zheng in court. In the past, the Rongguo Mansion had borrowed 800,000 taels of silver from the national treasury, and it had to be repaid!
Jia Lian also smiled from ear to ear, invited his brothers to drink tea and snacks, wiped his mouth at the end, took the money and banknotes, and went back to the household department with great vigor despite the flattery of his colleagues.