The Concubine of the Lin Family in the Red Chamber

Ever since Lin Jue was promoted to the editor of the Sixth Rank Hanlin, she has stayed with the emperor as an errand, responsible for drafting imperial edicts and distributing cabinet memorials.Most of the idle work is done by him. Although it is more cumbersome, he walks close to the emperor and works in the cabinet, so he is decent.

Lin Jue walks in the cabinet as a sixth-rank editor. Although it is not in compliance with the rules, it is difficult for him to touch the core. Several veteran cabinet ministers turned a blind eye to it.

Now that the crown prince has also entered the cabinet and studied with several cabinet elders about assisting the government, His Majesty the Emperor seems to let go.The emperor did not let go of his power, and he intended to train the prince's ability. While the elders were relieved, they made great efforts to teach the prince.

Although Lin Jue couldn't participate in politics with him, and was mostly instructed to do this or that, he would benefit a lot from listening to him occasionally.

Lin Xiaotanhua is smart and sensible, and at a young age, this made the elders who are used to seeing the skinny children at home feel the feeling of a double world of ice and fire.On the one hand, Lin Jue is very good at being a person, but after working in the cabinet for two days, he has memorized which adult likes to drink what kind of tea, what kind of water temperature he likes, which adult likes to be hungry, and how often he needs to drink Dim Sum, which adult's eyesight is not very good, and he needs to read softly while reading the memorial.Such an attitude, even the most critical leftist, also feels ironic in his heart.

There is a kind of child called other people's children. Other people's children are really outstanding, and their own children are even worse than pigs and dogs.Looking at Lin Jue like this, and thinking about his own mud monkey, it is really painful and happy!

Despite the pain and happiness, Lin Jue still has to work in the cabinet, and the adults can only enjoy Lin Jue's attentive service, while secretly scolding Lin Ruhai for being a naughty person, and then go home and continue to teach their own monkey cubs!

In the winter of Hongzheng's 13th year, a heavy snow that never happened in a century hit the capital.Residential houses in the suburbs of Beijing were crushed one after another, and many people were crushed to death in their sleep. Overnight, widows and lonely people abound.

Prince Li Yiyang was ordered to provide disaster relief and comfort the people. There were many snow disasters in the south, and the household department allocated a lot of money for disaster relief. It was the sixth prince who did it.Although the performance of the sixth prince was not outstanding, there was no major fault. Emperor Hongzheng was quite satisfied.Now that there is a disaster in Beijing, Emperor Hongzheng intends to ask the prince to handle it, so that the prince can understand how difficult the people's livelihood is.

Because the household department allocated a lot of money for disaster relief last time, and this year was not good, Emperor Hongzheng exempted several states and counties from tax and silver. The household department really had no extra money, so Emperor Hongzheng allocated 20 from the internal treasury. Two silver for disaster relief.

The prince asked Lin Jue from Emperor Hongzheng, and Lin Jue recommended Qi Wenzhao to the prince, and Emperor Hongzheng specially approved the two to assist the prince in running errands together.Qi Wenzhao is good at arithmetic, Lin Jue is good at fortifications, with these two people assisting them, doing things with half the effort will be twice the result.

Lin Jue has been doing idle work in the cabinet for a long time. He looks respectable, but in fact he is nothing.After all, the cabinet is a place where qualifications are judged. The cabinet ministers are all from Hanlin, and they don't have any top three honors, so they are embarrassed to say it.The only thing that can be compared to Lin Jue is that she has won the false name of Tanhua at a young age.And how did Tanhua come about? To put it bluntly, what the emperor valued was not his talent, but his age.Think about it, the 15-year-old Tanhualang, don't talk about this dynasty, even if he counts two dynasties, there is no such thing.

So what Lin Jue lacks now is not the emperor's appreciation, but his own qualifications.The more qualifications he has accumulated, the more he can speak in the cabinet.Now the emperor has made an exception and stuffed him into the cabinet. If he doesn't look for opportunities to increase his qualifications, he may only be a part-time job in the long run.How long can the emperor's favor last, he is still young, the emperor of this dynasty can pamper him, what about the next emperor, and the next emperor?

Moreover, as a descendant, Lin Jue is not lacking in talent. It can even be said that he often sees and thinks more deeply and farther.This is not to say that he is more capable than others, but that people in this world are often limited by the times, but Lin Jue can not be limited by this, and when he does things, he shows his difference.

What Lin Jue lacks now is an opportunity.

And the prince just provided such an opportunity for Lin Jue to flex his muscles.

After receiving the emperor's order, the disaster relief trio met first.Prince Li Yiyang is a practical person. He and Lin Jue are already familiar with each other, but Qi Wenzhao is not. But at this time, they can't take care of these things. The three of you will talk about the key points of this disaster relief After reading it again, I felt that there was nothing missing, so I went to work separately.

What is the most important thing in disaster relief?Naturally, it is money, and it is easy to do things with money.Fortunately, the area of ​​the snow disaster is not large. Only the capital city and two nearby counties were seriously affected, and the local governments in other places can make proper arrangements.

Snow disasters happen frequently in winter, and there are past rules to follow. For example, when the sixth prince went to the south to provide disaster relief, he followed the old rules directly.It was the first time for the three of Lin Jue to do business. Although they were hired by the prince, if they failed to do well, they would not be able to hold their heads up.

When a disaster occurs, the government will basically not send out rescuers. The main thing is to rely on the local people to save themselves. The government is mainly responsible for disaster relief after the disaster.

Because it happened in the outskirts of Beijing, and it was the disaster relief money from the emperor's internal treasury, there was no need to exploit it layer by layer, and it was time to flex its muscles.If this opportunity is not used well, Lin Jue wants to hammer himself to death.

The three princes worked together in a division of labor. The prince took an overview of the overall situation to appease the people, Qi Wenzhao was in charge of mobilizing rice, grain and cloth, and Lin Jue was in charge of post-disaster reconstruction.

Because the heavy snow fell in the middle of the night, people were sleeping soundly. When the roof collapsed, many people were still asleep, and countless people were crushed to death and injured.

Fortunately, the sun cleared on the second day, but it was okay to have sunshine during the day, but at night, the weather was dry and cold, and the victims had nowhere to live. If they stayed outside, many people would not be able to wake up the next day. Come.At this time, the land is already frozen solid, and it is impossible to dig a hole to keep out the cold. What Lin Jue means is that besides the civilians in the left and right suburbs, there are some villages and gardens of royal relatives. Can these people be mobilized to vacate some of the farmhouses for the time being? These people live.

Many people agreed with Lin Jue's proposal because the disaster victims could not be allowed to enter the city, lest someone would take advantage of the chaos and make troubles and disturb the people's hearts.But when it comes to action, there are very few people who respond.

□□ The Daoist Temple, where the emperor concubine Chen brought her hair to practice, was also in the suburbs of Beijing. Lin Jue originally wanted to place some of the women's family members and children there, but it was not easy to do it when the mountains were covered by heavy snow, and the nunnery also suffered Although the disaster is not serious, it cannot accommodate too many people.

My own hot spring village is really far away from Beijing, and it is really inconvenient for the victims to go there. The Marquis of Jingzhong is noble, and only two of them are very suitable.One is the hot spring village of Prince Zhongshun, and the other is the farm of Chen Lin, the mother's family of the Empress Dowager Chen.

When they heard that it was these two families, the three of them fell silent.

Needless to say, Prince Zhongshun is the elder of the crown prince, he himself does not come out ahead, and the crown prince is not easy to open his mouth to make demands.The relationship between the Chen family and the prince is delicate, but we can start from Chen Yejun. After thinking about it, it was Lin Jue who went to find Xie Jinxuan, and Xie Jinxuan entrusted Beijing Wang Shuirong to find Chen Yejun.

Although Chen Yejun belonged to the Chen family, he was a loyal imperial party. When Lin Jue came to Beijing, he also found the secret book of his family, otherwise how would the emperor know who he was.Chen Yejun is the helm of the current generation of the Chen family, but he is not close to the sixth prince or the crown prince, he has always remained neutral and impartial.

If it wasn't really helpless, Lin Jue didn't want to find Chen Yejun's way.With Chen Yejun's political sense, he would never refuse this request.And Chen Yejun represented the Chen family, and the victims would not be grateful for the prince's arrangement, but would praise the empress dowager Chen for her kindness. This is not what the prince's faction would like to see.

Lin Jue is now inclined towards the crown prince, so he has already expressed his concerns. Fortunately, the crown prince has taken the overall situation into consideration, and will not still be thinking about the struggle for power at this time, but he made a choice in a short time.On the contrary, Lin Jue admired the prince even more in his heart. Only when he was in front of the big right and wrong, could he see whether a person was worthy of being a master.

Chen Yejun was not wordy, he understood the purpose of King Beijing's visit, and immediately agreed to resettle the victims in his own farm.It had already been delayed for a day, and many frail old people among the victims had froze to death.Cotton clothes and food are still being requisitioned, and what Beijing can mobilize is very limited, and many still need to be requisitioned from other places.

The victims moved into the Chen family's farm, after all they had shelter from the wind and cold. As night fell and the weather turned cold, no one froze to death.Because it was difficult to mobilize food, all the food stored in Beijing could not be taken out, so Qi Wenzhao mobilized noble merchants to donate food and materials.Yonghe County Wang, Pingyang County Wang Beijing, and several princes and nobles responded first, and many nobles followed afterward.Among the merchants, the Xue family of the imperial merchant was the first to act. Many family members were dispatched to help the government distribute supplies, and they also donated a lot of overstocked old fabrics. Although the styles were old, they were all serious and good things.

Under the leadership of the Sixth Prince's Concubine, Princess Pingyang County, Jingzhong Gaoming also donated money and materials.The Sixth Prince and Concubine steamed a lot of steamed buns by herself, and the servants in the mansion carried them to the farm of the Chen family, and asked the Sixth Prince to distribute them in person. Suddenly, the wisdom of the Sixth Prince and the Sixth Prince's Concubine spread among the victims.

Lin Jue heard about it, but smiled coldly.They have always acted in the name of the emperor when they do things, even if other nobles donated food and materials, none of them said what about themselves. The sixth prince and his wife are very good, and they are afraid that others will not know. , He actually came to serve porridge for the victims in person as a majestic county king.

Emperor Hongzheng is different from his father Emperor Qiande, Emperor Hongzheng spent nearly ten years investigating the character of the crown prince before formally appointing the crown prince, and Emperor Hongzheng was very clear about the matter of establishing the crown prince.Did the sixth prince think that he could change Emperor Hongzheng's mind by winning the hearts of the people?It is too small to underestimate the wisdom of the emperor.

Sure enough, after Emperor Hongzheng heard about the excellent performance of the sixth prince and his wife from Empress Chen, instead of showing any joy, he gave Empress Chen a cold look, "If you have that time, why don't you go to the Ministry of Officials to talk to him?" Grandpa should study hard and have nothing to do during the day, so why not make trouble."

Emperor Hongzheng walked away, and Empress Chen gritted her silver teeth.