Jia Cong coaxed the prince to the restaurant and drank him a lot of chicken soup for the soul. The prince also let himself go to drink, and soon he collapsed diagonally across from Situ Cen. Since Mr. Jia had invited the two brothers, he naturally gave him the money for the drinks.
After leaving, he ordered the two guards to watch carefully and not to disturb them, and let them sleep until they woke up naturally. He rolled up his sleeves and left.
When she returned to the horse shop, she saw that Mrs. Qiu was worried about her man and had already come to wait for the letter. Jia Cong did not hide anything, and told her everything he knew. After hearing this, Mrs. Qiu nodded and said, "Mr. Jia said that."
Yes, it’s really not our fault, Acen’s fault.”
Jia Cong said: "Those are just excuses. You can always find them if you look for them. I can persuade the prince, but the key is the first words."
Qiu thought for a while: "Those words sound unusual to me."
Chen Ruijin said softly from the side: "You just think that if your brother cuts off his sleeve and Brother Qi dies at his hands, will you advise him like this?"
Qiu was startled: "My brother has never cut off his sleeves."
Jia Cong clapped his hands: "Look, ordinary people always have some discrimination against Duanxiu Long Yang. If it were anyone else, they would probably advise you in the way of 'who is more important to your brother than that one?'" Princess Shu said before.
By saying this, I took advantage. Although I was begging for mercy, I did not discriminate against Duanxiu. The prince could listen to my words without realizing it. Although we know that there is no fairness in the world, we still hope in our hearts that the world will treat us more fairly.
Furthermore, due to the constraints of his status, the prince cannot act on his own initiative. Even though he vaguely wants to throw Acen to Tianzhu, he may not dare to seriously think about it. I told him first, and he felt better. There is such a thing as mood.
, just let it out and it’ll be fine.”
Chen Ruijin leaned on the pillow and said: "How can the prince be so easily persuaded? Didn't Princess Shu allow that Aunt He to strangle her neck for so long in vain?"
Jia Cong smiled and said: "Don't be unhappy, ladies, if I tell you the truth. Princess Shu probably overestimates the importance of love to the prince. Most women will make this mistake. She is the prince's biological mother and knows her son best.
, so he took this matter too seriously. In fact, even if the prince never fell in love with anyone else after the death of Mr. Yuan, he could not do whatever he wanted with the crown of prince. As an heir to the throne, reason must prevail over emotion.
.If Mr. Yuan had not died, they would have had their own children. He is not Xue Pan and has no freedom. I don’t believe that the prince has never thought of this."
Qiu Shi snorted: "So, if I am killed one day, Situ Cen won't care?"
"He is different." Jia Cong said, "He is not the prince, so he doesn't need to be so sensible." Nai looked at Qiu with a smile, "And you are safer than the prince's concubine." Qiu was noncommittal.
It was quite comfortable to celebrate the New Year in Shu. On New Year's Eve, Chen Ruijin let her go home to celebrate the New Year during the holiday. On the first day of the new year, the child quietly told Jia Cong: "My father cried so much for no reason last night." Jia Cong then found her.
Shen Zhao came to ask.
Shen Zhao sighed: "I think of a big brother in the gold mine, and I wonder what happened to him now."
Jia Cong thought for a while and said, "Mr. Shen, are you interested in writing a commentary story?" Shen Zhao was startled. Jia Cong said, "Mr. Shen has studied and experienced a life of hard labor. Only you can write it.
Others who write articles have not experienced it, and those who have experienced it do not know how to read. Don't underestimate the scripts. Ordinary people will like them better than the Four Books and Five Classics after all. Although your article is well written, it uses a lot of allusions, and it is called poetry.
Even if it is printed, only scholars can understand it."
Shen Zhao said: "What's the use of the common people understanding it? The common people have no right to abolish even sitting."
Jia Cong said: "However, there are many people. They have no rights now. Who knows when they will have rights? Nowadays, compulsory education schools have been built in various countries. When these children grow up slowly, they may become talented. ? Besides, your article is too general. If you can describe it more carefully and make the readers heartbroken, maybe it can be used as "The White-Haired Girl"."
Shen Zhao asked: "What is the white-haired girl?"
"It's also a commentary." Jia Cong said, "Right now it's only published in Taiwan and has not been widely distributed elsewhere. If it can be released together with Mr. Shen's commentary, plus "Two Hundred and Thirty-Seven Wrongful Souls"... …The impact of the three books should be considerable.”
""Two Hundred and Thirty-Seven Wronged Souls" are the wronged souls from the underground prison of the house on Zhuzhi Street?"
"Yes." Jia Cong said, "Those people were also very unjust, just like you." Shen Zhao thought for a while and agreed.
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, more than 200 relatives and relatives gradually arrived. Biuan Mansion was very lively, with people crying almost every day. One day, the grandson of a general who had disappeared early came over. Their whole family was there. He was a great contributor to the state, and his grandfather had fought at the border for many years. The general knelt down under the urn and shed tears for a long time.
The next day, someone from the post office brought a bulging letter to the inn where he was staying. The general opened it and found a booklet with a short message attached. The letter read: Your ancestor and your family are in prison. Next door in the middle. Anyone who has secrets but has no trace of them, the late emperor ordered the imperial guards to arrest them in the underground prison, where eunuchs who were good at torturing people were tortured and interrogated. The confessions of the ancestors were recorded in the book.
The general hurriedly opened the book and read it all at once. He couldn't help but feel chills running down his back - his grandfather had secretly hidden some trophies and listed them one by one. He also took the credit of his subordinates several times and secretly rescued his friends who were prisoners of war before hiding. Somewhere. It also said that his aunt and a monk had a private daughter. His grandmother did some tricks to fool his uncle, and he thought it was hers.
The general was shocked and didn't know whether the book was true or false. He originally wanted to find a famous temple in Chengdu and ask an eminent monk to pray for his grandfather, but he didn't dare to stay after seeing this letter, so he hurried back the next day.
When he arrived at his hometown, he first went to see his aunt. At first, the aunt denied it in every possible way, but then finally admitted that he had an affair with the monk. He then asked to see his father and asked if his grandfather had ever concealed an imperial prisoner. His father was shocked: "How did you know that?"
The general asked: "Is the child still there?"
His father sighed: "Everything was fine at first, but the foster home suddenly caught fire and the whole family was burned to death."
The general took a few deep breaths and asked in a trembling voice: "When did it happen? Was my grandfather still at home at that time?"
His father thought for a while: "There has been no trace of his old man for more than half a year. Does the court know about it?"
The general then slowly took out the letter, paper and booklet from his arms. His father was shocked after reading it, and immediately shuddered, holding the booklet tightly with both hands. The general kicked over the coffee table in front of him: "What a black-hearted court." !”
Like this general, every family member who came to pick up the urn jar of their ancestors received letters and confessions from their ancestors, and all of them hurried back to check the authenticity. After checking one by one, the secrets contained in the confessions were all true. There was a man who was originally a bandit and donated money to the government. The money he robbed in the early years was hidden somewhere. Even his descendants didn't know it, but it was written in the confession. His relatives hurried to the place where their ancestors hid the treasures to dig, but naturally they found nothing. More than a hundred of them were all extraordinary people, and there was not a single family that did not come to receive their ashes. Naturally, every family had a confession booklet. The current head of each family put the booklet on the desk and shuddered: The Tian family is so cruel and shameless. Sin can also take people's lives, and it is impossible to guard against it.
When the confession was only half over, Jia Cong asked the King of Shu to resign and go back to Taiwan. Before leaving, he met with the prince once and said, "I know that the Kingdom of Shu must be busy rectifying the officialdom. What happens after the rectification is completed?"
The prince smiled and said, "What does Mr. Jia want to say?"
Jia Cong said: "I just want to know if you will imitate the policies of Lu State and Guangdong and Guangxi. Those are good things. Whether the prince knows it or not, you two brothers must know it. I believe that Acen must have known it when he first came back.
I told you."
"I said it." The prince sighed slightly, "My father still has some concerns. The prince said, the people can let it go, but they cannot let it be known..."
Jia Cong raised his hand: "That's not right. It's 'if the people can do it, let them know it; if they can't, let them know it.' Let me put it this way. Guangdong and Guangxi are getting better and better now. The thieves and bandits in Guangdong and Guangxi have nowhere to hide, and they all fled to Jiangxi.
Now Jiangxi is suppressing bandits. Although it is troublesome, the King of Yan has sent generals and heavy troops, and they will be able to suppress them sooner or later. There are many people who have fled from Jiangxi to Shu."
The prince said: "I can't tolerate bandits either."
"That's all, I didn't give the example well." Jia Cong thought for a while, "The prince only thinks about what will happen to Guangdong and Guangxi in the future."
The prince was puzzled: "What will happen in the future?"
Jia Cong said: "Although Wang Ziteng is not selfish, he has no other ambitions. However, Guangdong and Guangxi are becoming more and more peaceful and prosperous. Peace attracts people to immigrate. There are many people from your country in Shu. Who wants others to have none?"
Bandits? If you are rich, you can buy many sophisticated firearms, and if you are richer, you can raise more elite soldiers. How long can Wang Ziteng live when he is old? His son Wang Ren is a dandy with no future. And the more promising a person is, the easier it is to control him.
." He said slowly, "If one day Wang Ren becomes independent, there is nothing I can do."
The Crown Prince's face moved slightly, and he thought for a long time and said, "Wang Ren doesn't have that ability."
Jia Cong said: "If the strength of Guangdong and Guangxi is much higher than that of other countries, even if he himself does not have that ability, his subordinates do. And Wang Ren is very easy to persuade, so I will deceive him."
The prince was silent for a while and said, "Why doesn't he go to North America with King Yan?"
Jia Cong hummed: "Does he have any future?"
The prince smiled and said, "Where is Mr. Jia?"
Jia Cong said: "I don't have the energy. All my energy is spent on preventing your uncles and brothers from fighting a civil war." The prince shook his head and smiled. Jia Cong took a breath, stood up and said, "They say learning is like sailing against the current.
If you don't advance, you will retreat, and the same goes for governing a country. If you don't advance, your neighbors will advance, and you will retreat." He bowed to the ground.
He had just walked to the door when the prince sighed behind him: "I'm afraid I won't."
Jia Cong asked curiously: "Why does the prince refuse?"
The prince said: "I'm afraid the merchants have too much power and may overwhelm the government."
Jia Cong thought for a while and said: "According to the laws of economic development, sooner or later there will be such a day. If someone encourages Wang Ren to stand on his own in the future, he will probably be a bourgeois. If the prince doesn't know what a bourgeoisie is, go to Taiwan and buy two books. Ah.
Cen has seen it."
The prince said: "Acen told me."
Jia Cong said: "Acen is right." He waved his hand, turned and left. The prince sat alone and thought for a long time, and then ordered someone to invite Situ Cen to come over.
In the afternoon of the next day, Situ Cen ran to Jia Cong's horse shop. Without saying a word, he picked up a pen and wrote a lot of book lists, threw them to Jia Cong and said: "Send me some books!"
Jia Cong took a look and saw that they were all from Taiwan. He frowned and said, "How many books are these? How many dozens of books?"
"Don't worry about trivial matters." Situ Cen said, "My brother wants to see it."
Jia Cong snorted, glanced at the book list and said, "Actually, his eldest daughter is with us, and she can read all these books."
Situ Cen sighed: "I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until that time. What you said is very true. Wang Ren's temperament... Once Wang Ziteng dies, it's hard to say whether he will be able to stand on his own. Guangdong and Guangxi are already much stronger than Shu."
Jia Cong patted him on the shoulder: "It's good to have a sense of crisis." Then he put the book list away.
Seeing that they were about to leave, the Crown Princess sent Chen Ruijin a generous gift. Years ago, she had recognized the "illegitimate son" in her name, so she asked Chen Ruijin to bring many things to her "son". Gifts and other things,
They were all handed over to the horse dealer to be sent back to Dajiala. Now that spring was just about to come, Jia Cong and his wife were slowly and leisurely traveling around the mountains and rivers.
About half a month after they left Chengdu, a new book from "Longmen Bookstore" came on the market. The title was "Two Hundred and Thirty-Seven Wrongful Souls". This bookstore was more capable than the Zhonghua Bookstore in Rongguo Mansion. That bookstore in Shu Kingdom
There are more than 200 ashes in jars. Zhonghua Bookstore only knows their names and places of origin, but they don’t know why they were imprisoned in underground prisons. However, Longmen Bookstore knows. The confessions of the ancestors received by more than 200 relatives, Longmen Bookstore simply prints
It became a whole book. Naturally, not all the confessions were printed, and things like stealing from monks were hidden. Therefore, there are many "twenty-nine words omitted here" and "twenty-nine words omitted here" in the book.
"Fifty-eight words". There is a note next to it: Many of the confessions contain personal matters. I have omitted them for fear of damaging people's reputations.
Everyone is curious. The story of this underground prison has spread all over the country, and people in the market are speculating every day, which has already whetted their appetite. As soon as this book came out, it was sold out. It is full of secrets, and many people are local powerful people or literary circles.
The leader is also a good person among the people, and the officials are satisfied. However, everyone in the Tian family knows about arresting people for no reason.
The common people all respect the emperor. They usually go to the theater and listen to reviews. Often, people who have been wronged and wronged come to Beijing to complain to the emperor, alarming the emperor and ordering honest officials to review the case. Finally, the evildoers are punished and the good people are cleared. And this book "Two Hundred and Thirty-Seven Wrongful Souls"
In "Records", it is clear that the villain is the late emperor. The introduction to the book clearly states: "The late emperor suspected that he had the blueprint of the treasure ship, so he specially ordered the royal guards to secretly capture him in the brothel, torture him and interrogate him. In the end, he could not find the plan. And he could not be released for fear of harm.
Heaven’s face.”
There is no justice in the Heavenly Family, and the scholar-bureaucrats know it. But few ordinary people, farmers, industrialists, and merchants understand it. This book has been spread all over the world, and it has exposed the shameless and cruel methods of the Heavenly Family in front of ordinary people. And the perpetrators are
This is the late emperor. The late emperor was originally a wise king. If a wise king is like this, how much more a cowardly king? If he had not been released from the underground prison, wouldn’t these two hundred people have died unjustly in vain and never see the light of day? The whole country is in an uproar. Wait for any prince to notice this book.