The Lonely Family in the Red Chamber

Tu Jingnian was also very worried. After so many years of running the business, the younger brothers also had a lot of say in the court. For example, some people recruited by the Zhen family had already entered Yushitai. All ages are disgusting.These people are best at looking for faults with a magnifying glass. Let alone picking bones from eggs, they can pick out a live chicken!In particular, they have the privilege of gossip. Anyway, as long as you don't annoy the emperor, you can talk nonsense. Therefore, since the birth of Yushi, he has become the vanguard of party struggles.Anyway, if you want to smear your opponent, just ask Yu Shi to find fault and impeach him desperately.

Since the Zhen family has put a few censors on stage and spent a lot of money to support them, these people will naturally play their role.Therefore, soon, many people set their sights on the East Palace and Prince Gong's Mansion.

First, there was the censor who impeached the prince to live a luxurious life. The East Palace used all kinds of colored glass windows, glass mirrors, and a special greenhouse, which violated the laws of the four seasons and provided vegetables and fruits for the East Palace all year round.Emperor Chengqing was extremely annoyed. Ever since Tu Jingnian mass-produced the glass, let alone the imperial palace, even ordinary wealthy households were willing to replace the screen windows in their homes with various glass windows. The inside of the imperial palace was just for privacy. In order to meet the demand, the ordinary flat glass was replaced with various blown fancy glass, and it also underwent special treatment to make it tougher, so as not to break with a slight touch.

What Tu Jingnian enjoys, let alone the imperial palace, in Chang’an City, there are a few officials who don’t have it, what kind of luxury is this?Therefore, when Emperor Chengqing turned around, he asked someone to copy the censor's home, and passed the list of their family's property to the courtiers, and directly sarcastically said: "I have heard a sentence before, three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes Yin, I can't imagine that being a censor is the same. As far as I know, you guys used to have the most wealth, and your family only has seven or eight hectares of land. Unexpectedly, now you are a censor, and your family is huge. It is fertile land near Gyeonggi and south of the Yangtze River, there are nearly a thousand hectares, you guys are good at making money, it is really a shame that I didn't arrange you to the Ministry of Households!"

What Emperor Chengqing did was actually quite unruly. For this kind of thing, someone had to impeach those censors first, and then handed it over to the three divisions for a joint trial, and then sentenced the house to be confiscated. But he is the emperor, so he naturally has privileges. You can clean up the people first, and then show the evidence.

In the first wave of tentative confrontation, several censors who were pushed out to explore the road were defeated. Not only lost their official positions, but were also exiled by ransacking their homes.But the Zhen family obviously didn't just stop at this step. The so-called three people became a tiger. Emperor Chengqing would not believe it the first time he said bad things, but he would believe it the second time. It's true. At that time, even these unsubstantiated things will become the crime of the prince's downfall.

Therefore, after a while, some people began to impeach, some officials of Zhan Shifu, some of Cheng'en Gongfu, and some of He's family. In short, anyone related to the East Palace was included in their impeachment.

Naturally, Tu Jingnian can't sit still, he can't spend all his time playing tricks with these people, and arguing with the court. Originally, he wanted to wait until he came to power before cleaning up the Zhen family, but now he can't, he still has to act first To be strong.

Naturally, Tu Jingnian would not play lip service with the Zhen family, he would do something practical if he wanted to.

The Zhen family has swelled in power over the past few years, and many low-level officials who have no hope of progress have simply climbed into the big tree of the Zhen family. What's more, as the momentum of the Zhen family is getting bigger and bigger, many people actually think that the Zhen family is still a big tree. There is a [-]% chance of winning. Therefore, even some big families, with the concept of hedging their bets, have established a relationship with the Zhen family. In addition, some of the poor-born scholars who have been recommended by the Zhen family over the years and funded, Even if the Zhen family is not considered the Zhen Banchao, they can influence almost [-]% of the courtiers on the surface.

It's just that Emperor Chengqing didn't pay attention to this kind of power. If he noticed, even if he favored the Zhen family, Emperor Chengqing would be shocked.

Of course, Tu Jingnian couldn't directly tell Emperor Chengqing what was going on with the Zhen family. Emperor Chengqing had to suspect that Tu Jingnian had some selfish intentions, and suppressed his younger brother while he was still alive.

Tu Jingnian had been looking for an opportunity to make a move, but the opportunity came soon.

Since the Song Dynasty, the south has become the economic center of the entire Central Plains and a place of heavy taxation.Of course, this does not mean that the south has always been peaceful.Over the years, because Tu Jingnian opened factories and workshops in densely populated areas to take in farmers who lost their land, this also led to more and more serious annexation of land in the south, and the Zhen family even relied on their own power to occupy a large number of people. The fertile land, Zhizao Mansion is now following the lead of the Zhen family, so naturally no one will report it, and they will whitewash the peace one by one.

The problem is, the farmer's land is gone, who can he turn to if he wants to continue to buy land?The first to bear the brunt are some landowners. They strive to get rich because of diligence and thrift. After several generations of management, some land can still afford long-term labor and short-term labor, and even tenants. However, there is no official in their family, which also leads to, Such a landowner, apart from having some right to speak in his own village, has no ability to resist the government at all.

The Zhen family has multiplied a lot over the years, and, for people these days, there is no concept of investment at all. If you buy a shop, unless it is to collect rent, there will be gains and losses. If you buy land and rent it to tenants, then What natural disasters and man-made disasters, but also those tenants are unlucky, for them, the rent that should be collected has to be collected, a little reduction, it is also their kindness.

What's more, for the development of the family, the Zhen family has to buy a lot of sacrifice land, and the income from these sacrifice land will become the foundation of the clan's sacrifice, running schools, and raising widows and elderly people.Therefore, the number of fertile land in the Zhen family has been increasing almost every year in these years. In particular, because each house in the Zhen family has selfish intentions, the stewards are also used to scraping oil from the owner's money. This also led to the fact that the Zhen family Most of his shops are not that profitable. Naturally, the Zhen family would rather have a more secure property.

In order to buy those fertile lands at a low price, the Zhen family has done a lot of evil things, anyway, it is nothing more than bullying. There are not many people who are willing to accept the conditions of the Zhen family honestly for the first time, whether it is a steady stream of small money, or a one-off slightly larger small money, anyone with a brain knows how to choose.

The problem is that the Zhen family is not willing to give you the right to choose. As soon as you show that you are not willing, all kinds of bad things will happen immediately. Even if you are beaten to death by vandalism, you can’t resist. Once you resist, people will lie down on the ground, and you are finished. At the beginning of the year, there are no items such as lost wages, mental damage, etc., but you can make up enough expenses to make you bankrupt. Now, you have to sell the land if you don’t sell it. Don’t count on the previous price. I can only sell the land at a price that is almost free. If I am unlucky, I will have to bear a buttock of debts, and I will never turn over in this life.If you go to court, hey, what kind of family is the Zhen family, what kind of place is the Yamen, as long as you dare to file a lawsuit, your family will be destroyed in an instant.

The Zhen family had a lot of things like this, and as a result, they were kicked on the iron plate.

There is a saying that the emperor's family also has a few poor relatives.The Zhen family took a fancy to the 30 mu of land owned by a small landlord in the countryside of Jiangning. There are less than ten people, including some long-term workers in the family, there are less than twenty, and I haven't heard of any important relatives in this family, so I used the previous tricks as before, and the family is fine. People, but their bones are very hard, and they refuse to let go. The old lady at home was pushed down by the hooligans. The old lady broke her spine and became paralyzed. The head of the family was annoyed and directly sued the government. As a result, the local officials directly beat him up, threw him into a prison, and forced him to draw a charge on the confession that he owed a thousand taels of official silver.Not only that, the steward saw the pretty girl of that family, and wanted to take her as a concubine by force, but she refused, and directly raped her. As a result, the girl jumped into the well when she woke up, and her body was swollen when she was fished out. .

In less than half a month, the family was ruined. The head of the family wrote a suicide note and asked his old servant to secretly send it out. After that, he asked the mother-in-law to cook the last meal, and mixed arsenic into the meal. The whole family died cleanly, but none of them died in peace. The people who came to collect the corpses had nightmares for half a month.

The family is not dead, and there is a son who is studying outside.His son was born to study, and his mind was extremely alert. His father was afraid that he would delay the child in this countryside, so he entrusted the child to a good friend of his, and sent him to study at White Deer Academy. Be a professor.Because the child wanted to become a blockbuster, he planned to study for a few more years, and when he returned in the year of the provincial examination, he was admitted as a scholar in one fell swoop, so he didn't go back for many years.As a result, he suddenly received the father's suicide note from his loyal servant, and was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.

What kind of people are there at Bailu Academy? The head of the mountain is still a bachelor who became an official in the past. Except for those who are from wealthy families, those who study here are extremely talented.The son of this family has studied in Bailu Academy for so many years and made many friends. After everyone knew the reason, they couldn't help empathizing with him, and they all gave him advice.Some people knew about the style of the Zhen family, so they told him not to rush back to attend the funeral. They were afraid that the Zhen family would have the idea of ​​cutting the weeds and eradicating the roots, and some people would also be a little dirty with the Zhen family. As a result, a group of young and vigorous people came out He came up with an idea, told him to temporarily change his face, hide his name, and go to Beijing to beat the Dengwen drum and sue the imperial court.

Moreover, they were worried that this matter would not bring down the Zhen family. In order to avoid being bitten again, these people collected a lot of crimes against the Zhen family, found an old litigator, and wrote a vicious complaint. Then let him mix in a caravan going to the capital for business, and mix in the capital.

During the court meeting that day, Emperor Chengqing was listening to his courtiers singing their praises when the Dengwen drum rang.