Let’s talk about the long history of Nan’an County Prince’s Mansion. After getting Jia Ke’s post and the silver sent by Zhou Rui, he immediately went to see the current head of Nan’an County Prince, Sun Xuan, the eldest son of the old Nan’an County Prince, who is now the first-class Duke.
At this time, Sun Xuan was reading a book and drinking tea in the flower hall. When he saw Chang Shi coming in, he asked, "Is the person from Rongguo Mansion gone?"
Chang Shi hurriedly said: "If I go back to the Lord, the people from Rongguo Mansion have already left." After he said this, he escaped from Jia Ke's arms and handed it over with both hands.
Sun Xuan took it and took a look and saw it written in big gilded characters: Marquis Wuyang, Minister of Military and Aircraft Jia Ke pays his respects.
The long history then continued: "The Rongguo Mansion has sent the silver back again. It seems that the person caught this time is a relative of a slave in the Rongguo Mansion. Otherwise, the three heads of the Rongguo Mansion would not be able to work continuously.
Submit the post."
Chang Shi said this to remind Sun Xuan that enough is enough, Rongguo Mansion has already passed through all the heads of state who can be dispatched. If the fight continues like this, it will really make that Jia Ke angry, and their current Nan'an
The county prince's palace may not be able to withstand it.
What's more, Jia Ke directly sent troops to Beijing during this period, which has frightened the heads of various powerful houses. Even these housekeepers are on tenterhooks, really afraid that Jia Ke will plot to usurp the throne.
Now the whole plenary meeting in the capital has understood Jia Ke's power and no one dares to offend him. Now that Jia Ke has sent a message, they just want to calm down the trouble and how can they dare to go against Jia Ke.
Moreover, Jia Ke's strength in the court during this period is indeed a bit scary.
In Sun Xuan's heart, he looked down upon Jia Ke very much. A bastard was born in a lowly position, but he was able to rise to a high position and take charge of the court with the favor of the Supreme Emperor thanks to some merits and chance. He was nothing more than a jester.
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Now that the emperor is in power and the emperor has withdrawn from the harem, I am afraid that Jia Ke's good days will not last long. Although both parties are descendants of four princes and eight princes, they cannot be merciful at this critical moment of making a choice for family inheritance.
Therefore, Sun Xuancai disregarded friendship some time ago and took advantage of minor conflicts to let the world see that their Nan'an County Prince's Mansion and Rongguo Mansion had been torn apart.
Sun Xuan also understood that this time he had some small feud with Rongguo Mansion, but both parties were relatively restrained. Since the other party had already given in, he could not continue to embarrass himself, otherwise he would be attacking the three heads of Rongguo Mansion.
His face is gone. When the time comes, he will fight to the death.
To be honest, Sun Xuan is still a little afraid of the power of Rongguo Mansion. If he hadn't wanted to take sides before the matter became clear, he would not have dared to confront Rongguo Mansion so blatantly.
Sun Xuan wanted to play with this and said to Chang Shi next to him: "Since Rongguo Mansion has handed over the post and compensated the silver, let this matter be forgotten. You can go to Shuntian Mansion and tell them to let him go."
The Chang Shi raised his hands and agreed, "I would like to follow your father's instructions. I'll do it next time."
After saying this, Chang Shi left the small flower hall.
After Chang Shi left, Sun Xuan's face became a little gloomy. Although he had acted confidently in front of Chang Shi just now, he was still worried. Although he was optimistic that the emperor's power could win, if Jia Ke finally fought to the death
Even if you give it a try, there is still a chance of a comeback.
Sun Xuan could have sat back and watched the tiger fight and continued to enjoy his peaceful life, but he wanted to re-inherit his father's throne, so he had to fight to the death.
Now, on the surface, Rongguo Mansion was submissive and sent him money, but this made him even more worried. What kind of person was Jia Ke? Even the emperor dared to resist him head-on, let alone his small Nan'an County Prince's Mansion.
If Jia Ke relied on his power and directly ordered Shuntian Prefecture Yin to release the man, he would be a little more relieved. But Jia Ke had someone send him a greeting card and return the money.
This does not mean that Jia Ke is magnanimous. On the contrary, Jia Ke has already remembered this hatred and is thinking about when to give them a big one for the Nan'an County Prince's Palace. What really worries Sun Xuan. Now there is something in his heart that he does not have.
I was scared, so after thinking about it, I decided to go back and talk to my mother, so that she could have time to walk around Rongguo Mansion, say a few nice words to the old lady there, and ease the relationship a little or two, so as to avoid Jia Ke having to settle accounts with his wife in the future.
No one spoke.
Besides, a few days after Zhou Rui visited Nan'an County Prince's Mansion, Shuntian Mansion actually released Leng Zixing. This made Zhou Rui overjoyed, thinking that the uncle's post seemed to be effective, but thinking about it, the uncle is now a military aircraft.
The foreman of the office and the two gentlemen at home cannot speak in the same light.
But he said that Jia Ke had not paid attention to this matter since he gave it to Zhou Rui's family. Now he has started fighting with the civil servants in the court again.
The cause of the matter was that Xuanfu and Liaodong and other places began to charge customs duties from passing merchants, which made the leading figures of each business gang very angry.
So they united and mobilized the forces in the court to impeach the military envoys at these two border areas.
But all these impeachment arguments were rejected by Jia Ke, and the reasons were very good. The military pay at the border is only 60%. If you don't let them make some money, why don't you let them starve to fight for you?
This time, several military ministers from the Military Aircraft Department also sided with Jia Ke. After all, they also knew the situation at the border. It was much better to let the soldiers under them find some food on their own than to have them pay.
As a result, a custom was formed at the border that all merchants leaving the customs must pay a customs clearance fee. This trend not only existed in Xuanfu and Liaodong towns, but also began to slowly spread to the entire Jiubian.
To be honest, there are hints from Jia Ke. Otherwise, those border generals would not dare to offend the bosses of these business gangs, even if they are extremely courageous.
This made the businessmen who went out to do business complain. Finally, when they inquired, they found out that the reason was that the imperial court did not allocate military pay to these border soldiers, and these elite border soldiers had to find their own food.
In particular, the reason for the shortage of silver taels this time is that 3 million taels of silver disappeared inexplicably.
Those who can take charge of a business gang are all talented people. How can such a little trick be hidden from these big guys who are cheating on you every day.
So the businessmen began to express their dissatisfaction with the move of the court and the emperor. This time, they used their spokespersons in the court, like the emperor's Zhezi, to demand full military pay for the border officers. The slogan was very good, and the soldiers could not be allowed to
Bleeding and tears.
After seeing these memorials, Jia Ke laughed so hard that he couldn't even open his eyes. This time he did not withhold them, but directly wanted to send these memorials to the emperor. He wanted the emperor to see how many people he had offended.
Let him deal with these people himself.
However, Liu Yu, the Minister of Military and Aircraft and the Minister of Civil Affairs, disagreed with Jia Ke. He knew that once these posts were sent to the emperor, the emperor would be in a dilemma. It was really impossible to handle them well or not, so he advocated sending these posts directly.
All the memorials should be kept at the military aircraft office. Finally, these opinions should be summarized and written down and handed to the emperor.
Although Jia Ke is the head minister of the Military Aircraft Department, he is outnumbered after all. With the insistence of several other ministers, Jia Ke agreed without much resistance. After all, this is not a crucial matter, and there is no need to worry about it.
This caused the originally unpeaceful court to become turbulent.
In fact, even if they didn't report it, the emperor also knew about it.
Xia Shouzhong summarized the situation of the past few days and personally sent it to the emperor's case. This is what Xia Shouzhong must do every day after taking over the secret guard of the imperial court, especially the information about Jia Ke.
heavy.
But for some unknown reason, there is very little information about Jia Ke in this intelligence. Most of them are trivial matters. As for how Jia Ke controls the army and how he gives orders? Who are Jia Ke's cronies? And who are Jia Ke's cronies?
The information they knew was almost all about Jia Ke's situation when he was in Xuanfu Town.
As for Jia Ke's current situation, the secret guards couldn't find out anything at all.
The emperor had lost his temper several times because of this incident, and Xia Shouzhong also urged his subordinates several times to closely monitor Jia Ke and be sure to know his every move. But things were not as simple as he thought.
No matter how hard the secret guards tried, they returned in vain.
Xia Shouzhong clearly felt during this period that there was another force intervening in his investigation of Jia Ke.
That power is very mysterious and very powerful. The imperial guards he controls have too many things to do and cannot focus on Jia Ke alone. Therefore, they are at a disadvantage in turn.
That made Xia Shouzhong understand that there was probably an organization under Jia Ke that was dedicated to protecting his intelligence.
In addition to this matter, Xia Shouzhong reported to the emperor this time that in the past few days, the three largest business gangs in the world have united to advise the emperor. Although this matter is not as serious as Jia Ke's problem, but now they
Once the three business gangs unite, their offensive will be very fierce and fast.
The attitude of these people has clearly shown their dissatisfaction with the emperor. Over the years when the emperor has been in power, these business gangs have always lived peacefully with the emperor because the emperor has not violated their interests. But now that the emperor has stopped paying military pay, it is tantamount to indirect violation.
These business gangs.
Especially the Shanxi merchants, these talents are the leaders of the three major business gangs. Not only do they open ticket accounts all over the country, but they also control almost all the tea trade in the country, as well as the trade with border customs.
When the other two major merchant gangs were doing business, a large part of their operations relied on the ticket numbers of Shanxi merchants.
Otherwise, they would have to travel around the country with a large amount of silver, which would not only be unsafe, but also time-consuming. By the time they arrived at their destination, the cucumbers and vegetables would be cold.
Therefore, Shanxi merchants took the lead this time, and the other two major merchant gangs also followed suit. The emperor must be asked to open the internal treasury to replenish the food and wages at the border.
Because the big soldiers at the border don't care how powerful you are in the court? If they don't collect taxes, they will go hungry. Therefore, the people in the merchant gang have no way to deal with these big soldiers. So they can only concentrate all their firepower on them.