Going through the Red Mansions quickly means going against the system.

Mr. Zhang took a serious look at Jia She's serious look and said nothing. He took Jia She's memorial and said, "I know, I will read it. You can go back first."

Mr. Zhang thought, what kind of war can you want to do? Since he took over the throne, he has suffered three setbacks.

One time was to thank him when he first conquered the throne. One time was when his eldest wife thanked him for being granted a title, and the other time was when he married a second wife and begged for a title for his new wife. It can be said that Jia She has never done anything serious, so he is not as good as Jia Zheng.

This time, it's probably something trivial like this again.

Seeing that Shangguan had already accepted it, Jia She couldn't urge him to look quickly. He looked at the hall of the Ministry of War, which he hadn't been to for many years, sighed, and left.

The current Ministry of War is an unpopular government office. There are two or three kittens, and you can tell at a glance that these people are here to provide for their retirement.

Because there had been no fighting in the court for nearly fifty years, the Ministry of War was felt to be useless.

During the reign of Taizu, the Jia family was still in charge of coastal defense, and the four princes and eight princes who were granted titles due to the war still had their own errands.

As a result, when he arrived at Taizong, he was worried that there would be too many generals and would find trouble, so he conferred the title of Jia Daishan on a weak prince like him to make a fuss. It seems like he is being pampered to the fullest, but in fact he is just poaching himself.

Civil servants in North Korea and China are able to spit at military generals. Just because there are generals who want to do practical things and want to use the army to wipe out bandits in the country, they are pointed in the nose and scolded by civilian officials for causing trouble and having bad intentions.

No wonder all the generals in the court now act as if they are mute.

As far as Jia She knew, there were bandits causing trouble both inside and outside the country, but the civil servants just seemed invisible and ignored them. As long as they didn't rob them, they just ignored them. I have the illusion that "the king and the scholar-bureaucrats rule the world together", and I feel that they manage it very well.

Jia She looked at the busy traffic outside, and then thought about being ravaged and trampled by Beihu twenty years later, and he was filled with emotion.

This world is indeed quite wealthy, but it is also quite deformed. Some people can enjoy themselves without doing anything, while others are struggling and praying for a chance to survive.

If there were no natural disasters, it could still last for a few more years, but the times are not good.

Since the birth of Jia Baoyu, natural and man-made disasters have become more serious. The first big drama to welcome Jia Baoyu's arrival is the earthquake in Jinling, the royal ancestral land. This will lead to no harvest in the Jiangnan granary for three years, and there will be more bandits. It is a pity to watch in court. No, they just continue to fight among themselves and suppress other forces.

It's time to add fuel to their fire.

In the following days, there was no news about the memorial. Jia She had already made preparations. Seeing this situation, he went to deliver it every day, and finally became familiar with the managers of the Ministry of War.

So he spent a few taels of silver, put his memorial in the memorial that had been annotated by the Minister of Punishment, and was sent to the imperial city.

It was still four months before Jia Baoyu was born.

"Hey, how come there is something about Jia She here?" Emperor Taizong was very surprised to see an unfamiliar name.

Of course he knew who Jia She was, but he had only seen this kind of person three times.

"I'm afraid it's another one about thanking you. It's boring." The emperor didn't even read it, threw it aside, and continued to read other quotes.

He is over sixty years old and has long been mentally exhausted. If he hadn't really been unable to let go of his power, he wouldn't have been worrying about state affairs at such an old age.

After commenting for a while, it was just empty words of greetings, and he felt relieved. It’s the Chinese New Year, so don’t you have less things to do? He has also gone from worrying that his subordinates were concealing state affairs and not reporting it to the current calm demeanor.

State affairs should indeed be like this. If something happens every day, it will appear that the emperor is incompetent.

"It seems we can stop work for the New Year."

Finally finished, Emperor Taizong washed up, had some refreshments, and then went back to the harem to rest. When he was about to get up, he found Jia She's folding book in the corner.

Well, today is the fifteenth, and he wants to go to the Queen of the Middle Palace. He has long been tired of looking at her old face, and he didn't want to go in the first place.

"Go and tell the queen that I am busy with official duties and will not go today."

As he said that, he picked up Jia She's folding book and sat back down.

I originally thought that Jia She would not be able to say anything meaningful, but as a result, it turned out to be exactly what he was thinking.

Originally, the dynasty was passed down to him, and most of the people in the dynasty were veterans. A group of people rely on their ancestors' efforts to conquer the world, and they just want to rest on their laurels for the rest of their lives.

When he was young, he worked hard to govern, hoping to do something big. He even imitated Taizu and made several southern tours. Finally, the country was stabilized. The ministers in the court reported that such behavior was a waste of national power.

As he watched the money in the treasury dwindling, he acquiesced. From then on, he was locked up by the ministers and could no longer see how people's livelihood was outside.

In fact, whether the people are good or not, can he not see it when looking at the treasury? If it is good, why is the treasury still empty?

Now I saw Jia She's memorial saying that his family owed money to the treasury for many years, and he felt deeply uneasy. He also knew that the court was in difficulty, so he sold his concubine at home to save some money so that he could repay the treasury's account first. .

"This is a strange way to cry for poverty."

Emperor Taizong laughed. He knew that Jia She was not doing his job. I recently heard about Jia She selling concubines to military executives, but I didn't expect that he would do it himself.

"Your Majesty, Rongzhen, was not sold to the army, but to the wealthy businessmen of this dynasty, hahahaha, this slick guy~"

Emperor Taizong had long wanted to get the money back from the court ministers, but he was afraid of the reputation of being disrespectful to the court ministers, so he never did it.

Originally, I thought it would be left to the prince to do it after he succeeded to the throne, but Jia She also reminded him.

"The longer this account is left, the worse it becomes. I am a direct descendant of Rongguo Gong, and I have to spend my family's money on the servants of Jia Mansion, just because I am not as capable as my second brother..."

"When they look at the money at home, they will regard it as belonging to their family. If it is money that has been spent, why would they want to take the initiative to pay it back?"

"It's true. All the money in the treasury is regarded as their own. They don't even know how to pay it back when they borrow it. I want to build an imperial mausoleum for future use, but they all say they have no money!"

The emperor became more and more angry as he thought about it, and he happened to be inspired by Jia She, so he came up with an idea overnight.

The queen here was still waiting for the emperor's arrival. She heard the eunuchs say that the emperor was not coming, and she was very disappointed.

She wasn't paying attention to the emperor. Since the prince is already so old, her position in the middle palace has always been very secure. However, although the prince was also in the palace, she had no news about him unless he came to pay her respects.

She heard that the prince was so anxious that he fell ill because of the loss of his fourth son. She was anxiously trying to find someone to ask, but she managed to survive until the fifteenth day, but the emperor didn't come again.

The queen angrily threw the beads in her hand and began to think of other ways.

"Eharu, go and ask who wrote the book. If you do this, you will cause trouble for the emperor. Can't you tell the emperor to have a good rest?"

When Huichun reported that it was Jia She's excerpt, he couldn't help but sneered: "I said, it turns out it's his family. I was thinking who could have such a big face and dare to trouble the emperor, that is, people like them The shameless deadbeat dares to stop taking me seriously because of Concubine Zhen, huh~"

"Huichun, please ask the old lady of the Jia family to come over to my place for a gathering sometime. If I don't call her, she won't come. We're all divided."

"Yes."