The Concubine of the Lin Family in the Red Chamber

Lin Jue reported being ill for two days, and when she returned to the government office, she looked as if she had been ill.Everyone inevitably speculated. After all, now that Lin Jue is the boss of his mother's uncle, and he is ignored by his own uncle, everyone can't help but wonder whether Lin Jue is deliberately pretending to be sick and dare not fight with his uncle who came from the Marquis. .

But seeing that Lin Jue was still smiling and losing his temper, everyone just talked about it in private. He is the serious nephew, so how could it be their turn for outsiders to be fussy.

Lin Jue doesn't fight for power, but spends his days hanging out with Yuanwailang, the principal of the other three yamen, chirping and discussing something.But now everyone is staring at the position above, Lin Jue is so weak and deceitful, the others are paying less attention to him, even if he goes in and out of his room every time, he just turns a blind eye Eye, right to do not see.

Lin Jue is a doctor in the Ministry of Industry, and he has Yuanwai Lang who assists him, and there are three principals and other handymen not to mention.For example, Langzhong, Yuanwailang are all high-ranking, and they often look down on the principals of the lower nine-rank sesame officials. Therefore, these principals often contribute the most, have the least credit, and naturally have the least oil and water.But after all, there is still a mouthful of soup to drink. Many people are content, but it is inevitable that there are a few who are not satisfied.

Seeing that Lin Jue, a fifth-rank official, did not put on airs with them at all, even if this official had no power, they were surprised.After getting acquainted with each other day by day, there must be those who love to chatter, can't hide things in their hearts, or are aggrieved in their hearts, so they leaked a lot of private information to Lin Jue, which benefited Lin Jue a lot.

Satisfied after listening to a handyman complaining, Lin Jue walked back leisurely. On the way, he met Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry who was also strolling around with birds. .”

Qu Shangshu shyly held the general's belly, Qu squinted his eyes and looked at Lin Jue for a while, before he said slowly: "It's the new Xiaolin Ministry of Industry, well, well, young man, work hard and have a bright future."

This is Qu Shangshu's cliché. Basically, when he met his subordinates, it was always such promising words. Lin Jue smiled and thanked him, and accepted the words safely.

Qu Shangshu waved his hand, "Go, go."

Lin Jue said goodbye and left.Qu Shangshu stood on the spot for a while, then moved slowly, continued to walk and walk the birds.

Lin Jue was not in a hurry to gather power, but wandered around every day, which made Jia Zheng nervous for a few days.Seeing that Lin Jue was just wandering around later, he slowly let go of his mind.

Emperor Hongzheng worked hard to govern, and experienced the prosperity and disasters of the first emperor, so he advocated thrift.Except for normal construction, there has never been any major civil engineering.Even so, the Ministry of Industry is also very rich in oil and water.

Emperor Hongzheng didn't like to enjoy himself. The following border city construction, road traffic, bridges and rivers don't need to be built.As long as there is a project, there will be incidents of ink corruption, which cannot be avoided even if one wants to.

The spring has not yet started, and many projects under construction have been suspended, and the ground can only be broken after the spring begins and the civilization is opened.At this time, the accounts of the Ministry of Industry have been closed at the end of the year, and it is the time when it is clearest. After all, Lin Jue has just come into contact with these, even if there are some fraudulent places, it is difficult to find them.However, after the groundbreaking, all the accounts will continue to be used, and the problems will gradually be exposed. Lin Jue has a lot of patience and slowly spends with Jia Zheng.

As the head of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Industry is in charge of all general affairs of the Ministry of Industry.In addition to the construction that it is mainly responsible for, they are also responsible for other general affairs of the Ministry of Industry.Even so, the Ministry of Industry Division is not listed above the other three departments, but instead has a faint feeling of doing miscellaneous work.

In particular, Lin Jue, a Langzhong from the Ministry of Industry, laughed and laughed every day, and more and more people assigned him to do work, and gradually he was able to integrate into the various departments. In addition, he was young, could talk and talk, and had a clever mouth , gradually accepted by everyone.Even the other three doctors, who were wary of him like guarding against thieves before, have slightly changed their attitude towards him.

Lin Jue didn't take it seriously, what he did in the past, what he still does now, he doesn't use his status to oppress others.

When the spring came and the weather was getting warmer, Li Yibai was ordered by the emperor to go to Huangzhuang to investigate and make preparations in advance.Every year at this time, the emperor would take the empress and princes and important ministers to the Huangzhuang in person to plow the land in person to persuade the world to cultivate and mulberry.This is also an old practice. It is just a meaning to bring the empress and princes to the fields. Is it true that the emperor can actually help the plow to plow the land?

Li Yibai saw that Lin Jue was just doing some idle things in the Ministry of Industry every day, so he took advantage of his position to directly "borrow" him out, and the return date...to be determined.

As an accompanying official, Lin Jue was not qualified to go to the ground with the royal family and important ministers, so she lowered her head and secretly raised her eyes, watching the excitement from the sidelines.Speaking of which, plowing the fields in spring was already a rule during the reign of Emperor XXX, and it was said that plowing the fields was just for show.The soil was finely screened, and it took hundreds of farmers more than ten days to touch it one by one, just to save the emperor's plowing effort.

After three pushes and three backs, Emperor Hongzheng handed over the plowshare to the prince, and the prince continued to plow the field with several adult brothers.After the emperor plowed by himself, he went to the ridge, and his father-in-law Hu had already put on a thick cloak. After all, the spring was cold, and the suburbs were still a bit colder than those in Beijing.

After climbing up to the plow viewing platform and watching the princes and ministers plowing the land, the emperor sang and wished again, which meant to persuade farmers to teach farming and mulberry to show that the royal family attached great importance to farming.

After a while, the empress and the noble ladies of the royal family came to deliver food in coarse linen clothes with baskets, all like peasant servants.Lin Jue looked ridiculous. If these royal people were not so extravagant and wasteful, the people's lives would naturally be better. At this time, they were acting hypocritically, like acting. No wonder the emperor's own farming was also called "acting farming".

Li Yibai doesn't know Lin Jue's thoughts, but this is also a common practice. It happens every year, and when a practical prince ascends the throne, he will inevitably act like this. Could it be that he really changed the rules of his ancestors? Then it is not the ancients.It's that they can't do whatever they want, let alone the prince who has been influenced by the Confucianism of rites, righteousness, filial piety since childhood.

The so-called "February [-]nd, the dragon raises its head, the emperor plows the land and the officials drive the cattle, the empress of the palace comes to deliver the food, the ministers throw away the seeds, the spring plows and the summer cultivates the world, and the five grains are plentiful and peaceful in the autumn." Such farm proverbs, I have really seen it today. , It's not a waste of time.

Eunuch Hu beside Hongzheng Emperor had already prepared a thick cloak and cloak, and servants around the others also brought warm things, but when it came to Li Yibai, it was prepared by Lin Jue.Lin Jue listened to Li Yibai's words and secretly prepared them. He said that no one knew how to prepare them, and he couldn't prepare them blatantly, so he asked Lin Jue to prepare them for him secretly, and put them on when he was free.Seeing that this was not the case at all now, Lin Jue couldn't help turning black.

Li Yibai approved the clothes happily, took the cloak from the servants in his house, shook it, and put it on Lin Jue, and Lin Jue's face became even darker.But Lin Jue didn't want to make things too much, after all, the royal family are all human beings, so it's not good to be seen.Taking advantage of the gap when Li Yibai put on his clothes, he pinched Li Yibai's armpit fiercely, this place hurts the most when pinched, Li Yibai groaned, and finally endured it.

Emperor Hongzheng was sitting on the viewing platform, and the empresses, concubines, concubines and ladies were cooking in person, no matter how unpalatable the food was, the princes and ministers who shared the food had to eat it all, as a sign of thrift.

Fortunately, Li Yibai arranged for Zhou Xiang to let the cook prepare the food in advance, and when the nobles go, just go to the water to cook it.What do the royal ladies do, they don't touch the spring water with their ten fingers, even if they occasionally flatter the emperor and make soup for the emperor, it's just that the servants prepared the ingredients in advance, they put them into the pot, added water, and There are special people watching the fire, where are these really happening.Even those who have one or two meetings can only cook some exquisite food. I'm afraid I have never seen this big pancake with earthen corn bread.

This is also the usual practice in previous years. The emperor's share was small, but he ate it up after a few mouthfuls, but the other ministers had to eat it up. It is inevitable that some people are used to fine rice and fine noodles. I felt my throat was strained, so I poured it hard with tea.

Lin Jue had a good time watching the excitement, and the coarse grain pancakes made of cornmeal were hard to swallow.

Among the crowd, there are also those who can eat whole grain noodles to their heart's content, even Emperor Hongzheng can't help but take a second look, this person is none other than Zuo Xiangye.

After everyone finished using it, Emperor Hongzheng smiled and said: "I asked Zuo Aiqing earlier why he could eat such coarse rice and mixed noodles to his satisfaction. My wife can support a large family by weaving day and night, but I, who has read sage books, have become rice bugs in the family. When it comes to work, I am not even as good as the eldest son in the family.' Do you still remember Aiqing? "

Prime Minister Zuo stood up and bowed with a smile: "Why don't you remember? The old minister still remembers that His Majesty rewarded the old minister with a hundred taels of gold at that time, and every year since then, the family is still rich. Old wife Every time I think of Your Majesty, I am always grateful and grateful, and now I still go to the Buddha every day to offer incense and pray for Your Majesty."

Emperor Hongzheng was delighted to hear that, he had just ascended the throne back then, and the officials in the court still disobeyed him, but he did his best to support Zuo Xuan, Lin Ruhai, Chen Fang, Zhao Jian and others, and now these few people except Lin Ruhai have passed away, the others are also As the minister of the humerus, it is not in vain to waste my painstaking efforts.

Thinking of Lin Ruhai, he thought of Lin Jue. Seeing Lin Jue standing behind Li Yibai, he smiled and called him over, and said to Zuo Xiang: "I heard that the Lingshi is actually related to Lin Qing as an aunt and nephew. I have never heard of it before."

Zuo Xuan's heart trembled, and he said: "This is also an old calendar. My wife and Mr. Lin are considered to be relatives of Wufu, but it was not mentioned at the beginning of the year, and then it became more and more indifferent. If Mr. Xiao Lin didn't come Visiting in the mansion, the old officials will forget that there is such a thing."

Lin Jue also cupped his hands and said: "It turns out that I came to the door with the cheek. It is really inconvenient for the Lin clan to come to the capital because they are all offshoots and they are all in their hometown. My sister is not engaged. There are no elders present, so I can only be generous. The face came to the door. I haven't moved around these years, and now I have to ask to go to the mansion if I have something to do. Even if Mr. Zuo doesn't say anything, the minister will be ashamed to death. Mrs. Zuo is kind, and she pities the brothers and sisters who have lost their mothers and mothers, so they don't say anything So I agreed, and after a few visits, I recognized Mrs. Zuo as my aunt, which is also my luck."

Emperor Hongzheng also knew the inside story, but as an emperor, what he hated the most was that his subjects communicated behind his back.Especially Lin Jue, originally Lin Ruhai's orphan, Lin Ruhai's assassination has not been brought to light until now, so Emperor Hongzheng inevitably felt sorry for Lin Jue.It's just that it doesn't matter how honored and favored he is, but Lin Jue is making good friends with the prince while contacting important officials in the court, and his sister is also married to the palace, which makes Emperor Hongzheng feel less pity.Now hearing Lin Jue's words without concealment, most of the doubts in his heart disappeared, and he asked again if Lin Jue was still used to waiting for words in the Ministry of Industry.

Lin Jue had to answer one by one. Listening to Lin Jue's words, Emperor Hongzheng knew that he had not yet controlled the Ministry of Industry and that he had already turned against Jia Zheng, so he let Lin Jue back with satisfaction.