In the next two months, the entire capital was shocked by the plot of a novel.
From the emperor's relatives and high-ranking officials to the traffickers and slave laborers, they were all attracted by the wonderful content of the novel "The Richest Man in the World", or it would be more appropriate to say that they were shocked.
The description of the collusion between officials and businessmen and the extravagant sexual desires of Yangzhou salt merchants should not be too shocking.
After pig trotter Liu Dafu became the boss of the salt gang, his subsequent private salt business was not smooth sailing. More importantly, as the scale of private salt smuggling expanded, it began to violate the interests of the real salt merchants. Naturally, there will be threats from the government and regular salt merchants.
of terror.
During this period, the bloodshed, intrigues, and struggles for interests were all frightening and terrifying.
At the same time, every node of the interests exposed was related to money in units of ten thousand taels or even one hundred thousand taels, making the listeners and readers' eyes red with envy.
No one would have thought that for just a medium-sized salt gang, the interests involved in smuggling private salt would be so terrifying. What if it were a regular salt merchant with government endorsement?
I’m afraid the benefits involved every year are in the millions of taels!
Not to mention ordinary people, even the emperor's relatives and high-ranking officials, anyone who was not involved in the salt industry was jealous.
Compared with the endless and astonishing profits of salt profits, their efforts to use their power and risk all kinds of infamy to annex land, expand their business territory, and plunder are more like a joke.
At this time, no one came forward to guide public opinion, claiming that this was just a novel, and implying that anyone who believed it was a fool.
At the same time, Wang Ziteng, the scapegoat, faced even more terrifying pressure. In a short period of time, various impeachment memorials were flying like snowflakes. Hearing this, this guy's face turned green with anger.
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"Have you heard, Third Young Master? The second wife was severely scolded by her uncle at her parents' house. After she came back, she stayed in her room and refused to leave. It is said that she cried in anger!"
At noon that day, the little maid followed Jia Cong to the main hall of the General's Mansion to have dinner. During the break, she secretly whispered gossip.
"You little girl, where did you hear such rumors?"
Jia Cong said amusedly: "How did you know about the second wife's affairs?"
"You're not the sister who went back to my uncle and grandpa's house with the second wife!"
The little maid's answer made Jia Cong despair of the government's sense of secrecy. He dared to spread such a shameful thing. What else could the family members in the government dare not say?
"Does the third young master know why the second wife was reprimanded by my uncle?"
Obviously, Jia Cong's deterrence was not enough, and the little maid's gossip was too strong. After a while, she came over and whispered: "I heard that the uncle of the Wang family was impeached recently and his life is not easy. The second wife is now
I ran to ask my uncle to fulfill his promise, which made the Wang family's uncle angry!"
Tsk!
Sure enough, good things don’t go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles!
Glancing sideways at the little maid with a gossipy face and bright eyes, Jia Cong said angrily: "How do you know about the things outside?"
"Third Young Master, don't look down on others!"
The little maid suddenly became unhappy, and pouted and said dissatisfiedly: "I have very good information channels. I know the sister from the old lady's side, the sister from the second wife's room, and the sisters from the second wife's staff. I have a good relationship with them.
Woolen cloth!"
Jia Cong was surprised, didn't he think that the little maid next to him was still a hidden public relations expert?
The little maid Lingque obviously came to talk about sex, and regardless of whether the young master Jia Cong wanted to listen or not, she said with a smile: "I heard from the old lady's sister that the uncle of the Wang family is currently being attacked by political enemies in the court, and the momentum is quite high.
It's so powerful that even the old lady was alarmed and asked the second master to pay attention at all times!"
Without waiting for Jia Cong to say anything, she continued: "By the way, Mr. Lian was also warned by the old lady. I heard that even the Shi family has been receiving frequent messages recently. It seems that the uncle of the Wang family is not in good condition.
optimism!"
As he said that, his delicate and young face barely made a look of 'sadness', but his big eyes flashing with the fire of gossip betrayed his thoughts at this moment.
"This matter is all you need to hear, but don't spread it indiscriminately!"
Jia Cong also didn't expect that Wang Ziteng, a scapegoat, would be so unlucky. Although he was amused, he could only hope that this guy would be lucky.
However, judging from the reaction of Prince Chu in recent days, the situation should not be bad, otherwise he would have had to give a warning in advance.
However, when he saw the little maid looking so excited, he got angry and warned her, asking the little maid not to follow the nonsense, otherwise the consequences would be quite serious.
Jia Cong nipped the trouble that the little maid might cause in the cradle, but he didn't pay much attention to it and just treated it like a joke.
Not to mention that the Crown Prince of Chu, who had been getting along quite well recently, did not warn anyone, but the unlucky person involved, the scapegoat Wang Ziteng, didn't even make a sound. As the instigator, he had nothing to say, so he just waited and waited.
As for the old lady’s overreaction, it can only be said that the Rongguo Mansion has been marginalized for a long time and will panic when something happens. The Shi family’s situation is similar.
At this time, Mr. Zheng Er and Lian Er are both full-level officials of the fifth rank. How much real information can we find out?
At the moment, what we should do is to ask Wang Ziteng about the situation there and be prepared to be implicated, instead of having the 'bystander' Rong Guofu get into trouble before Wang Ziteng has a problem.
Fortunately, Lin Ruhai was quite reliable. When Jia Cong returned home in the evening, he heard accurate news from the maid Ling Que and the nanny Li: Uncle Lin came to the house in the afternoon and didn't know what he said to the old lady. Rong Qing
The uneasy atmosphere in the hall has mostly dissipated.
What else can be said?
Jia Cong thought about it with his buttocks, but it just calmed the old lady's uneasy mind. The current situation in the court actually did not put much pressure on Wang Ziteng.
Although he has not met Lin Ruhai in person, old housekeeper Lin recently sent several small notes with words of comfort and consolation. Obviously Lin Ruhai could see clearly.
Maybe I didn't expect that the novel "The Richest Man in the World" would cause such a big stir, and Wang Ziteng, the unlucky guy, became the scapegoat.
But whether it is the general trend in the court or the public opinion, it is even more unfavorable to those who are panicking and desperate to impeach Wang Ziteng.
Since everyone, including the court officials, believes that the novel "The Richest Man in the World" was deliberately written by the scapegoat Wang Ziteng, it is worth pondering that he encountered an unprecedented impeachment storm.
Have some of the plots in the novel offended the sensitive nerves of the parties involved?
Launching an impeachment storm at this time directly exposes certain existences. It can be said that the gains outweigh the losses...