The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

On this day, the governor of Guizhou, Bi Chengli, went back to the government office and sighed to the staff: "Today, the imperial palace newspaper was received... Is the empress dowager too old-fashioned? She sold seventeen titles last year. "

The aide said in relief: "At any rate, they were all sold to decent people."

Bi Chengli stumbled and said, "Where is the majesty of the Tian family!"

The staff said: "I think it's not easy in the palace, and there is a great shortage of money."

Bi Chengli said: "At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Tai. say.

At this moment, someone on the beam of the house said loudly: "Master Bi is indeed loyal, the Empress Dowager has never misjudged anyone."

Bi Chengli was shocked: "Who!"

I saw a man in Xuanyi jumping down from the beam, lightly landed on the ground, and bowed to salute: "My lord Bi."

Bi Chengli saw that this man had a full sky, a round earth, a firm expression, and a loyal appearance, so he stroked his beard and asked, "May I ask what the origin of the strong man is?"

The man took out a silver plaque from his pocket, and smiled brightly in front of his eyes: "Xiaguan Liu Quan."

Bi Chengli looked at Huizi's silver medal carefully, and hurriedly cupped his hands: "It turned out to be Liu Qianhu." Then his eyes became suspicious, "Why did Liu Qianhu come to Guizhou?"

Then Liu Quan smiled wryly and said, "Master Bi thinks that there is no one in Jin Yiwei?"

Bi Chengli said repeatedly: "No wonder Liu Qianhu, it's just that I haven't heard from Beijing for a long time."

Liu Quan sighed: "I don't blame Mr. Bi, Beijing has been really difficult these past few years." Then he took another object from his bosom and said, "Master Bi, let's take a look at this again, I think I won't be suspicious of dismissing an official again."

Bi Chengli took a closer look, rubbed his eyes in shock and looked at it again—the real gold medal, just like my own presence, immediately bowed with tears in his eyes: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" He knocked his head three times.

Liu Quan sighed softly, and stepped forward to help each other: "My lord, please get up quickly."

Bi Chengli wiped his tears and said: "The old man was rude just now, I hope Mr. Liu is not to blame."

Liu Quan also wiped the corners of his eyes and said: "The world has become what it is now, Zhongliang is extremely rare."

The two held hands and wept for a while, Bi Chengli invited Liu Quan to sit down.Liu Quan repeatedly declined, "I can't do it."Bi Chengli said: "Lord Liu is an angel, so he should take the seat." Liu Quan couldn't push it, so he had to sit at the top.

Bi Chengli ordered someone to bring tea in, and Liu Quan hurriedly said: "Your official has a secret order, so please don't disturb others."

The staff who had been on the sidelines and didn't dare to make a sound hurriedly said: "Wan Sheng went to get the tea in person, Master Liu just don't worry."

Bi Chengli also said: "This person can keep his mouth shut."

Liu Quan smiled and said: "I know. I have checked Mr. Ma carefully. What about tea? I'm not thirsty, so I don't need it for now." Mr. Ma, the staff member's heart skipped a beat, and hurriedly saluted and went out. door to door.

Bi Chengli asked: "According to Master Liu just said, is there something unspeakable about the empress dowager's sale of the title?"

Liu Quan sighed: "Lord Bi, don't worry, the titles that have been sold over the years will be abolished in the future. The Empress Dowager and Eunuch Dai Quan are afraid that they will be infamous in history, and there is really no other way. Now Even the national treasury is in the hands of King Yan, and the Empress Dowager has no money at all if she wants to do something."

Bi Chengli hurriedly asked: "What is the plan of the Empress Dowager?"

Liu Quandao: "I won't say much, sir. Master Bi will look at this again." He took out two things from his arms.

Bi Chengli saw that it was an imperial decree and an imperial decree.The imperial decree was written by the little sage himself, and he named Jia Cong the "Duke of Fuguo" and ordered him to lead loyal ministers and good generals to eliminate treacherous ministers and vassal kings to save the emperor.Yizhi's handwriting is beautiful, but the Empress Dowager ordered Zhongyi Rongguo Mansion to assist the emperor to sweep away the rebellion and clear the country.He couldn't help being overjoyed: "So, Rongguo Mansion belongs to the sage?! Gong She is really loyal. I knew it when he returned the money from the treasury." Then he was pleasantly surprised, "Isn't the Lord Wang of Liangguang also belonged to the Son of Heaven? people?"

"Naturally." Liu Quan said seriously, "Back then, the late Emperor's health was about to fail, and the princes of all families were ready to move. The Supreme Emperor was afraid that Prince Yizhong would suffer the disaster again. To be on the safe side, he first transferred the prince to Guangdong and Guangxi, and then demoted Jia Lian. Go to Taiwan, and let Jia She go to Qiongzhou to supervise the army." He laughed, "I only tell people that Jia She misses his grandson. Has anyone ever seen the emperor send him to his son in order to fulfill a minister who misses his grandson because of state affairs? And Jiangxi The magistrate is Xie Jing, the uncle of the Seventh Prince."

"Oh!" Bi Chengli clapped his hands, "These places are actually connected together."

"That's right." Liu Quan nodded and said, "And these places are not places that attract people's envy. Even if there is any eventuality, it is better to preserve the foundation. However, the princes of each family have to send spies to these places. , Many things are difficult to do. If there is an omission, the lives of the empress dowager and the little sage are in the hands of King Yan."

Bi Chengli sighed: "It's really not easy."

"If you want to restore the orthodoxy, you must have money and soldiers. The world has been divided, and Rong Guogong is also a clever woman who can't cook without rice. Although their mansion is rich, the foundation of the early years has been returned to the treasury. There is no choice. The Empress Dowager discussed, he is an eunuch anyway, so let him take the blame. It is a plan to "sell the noble". The Empress Dowager laughed and said, how can you bear the infamy alone? The Ai family is a female stream anyway, so I will carry it with you Right. Therefore, the first person to buy a title is Duke Rong Jia She."

Bi Chengli thought about it for a long time, and the Empress Dowager really had no other way to get money, and there was no way to wipe out the feudal prince with empty words.It's just... "Even if these sold titles are abolished in the future, the court's prestige will still be hurt."

Liu Quan said in a low voice: "Could it be that if you don't sell the title, will the court still have dignity?" Bi Chengli was startled and sighed dejectedly.Liu Quan continued, "In addition to money, the army is also indispensable. To have an army, you must have a territory. But the world has been divided, and there is no way to get his own territory for the saint. There are also some big guards around the empress dowager." , the leader is General Zhou Ji. Now, he has led dozens of Ouchi guards to Nanyang, intending to seize the Malay Islands from the Westerners. The place is about [-] times the size of Guizhou. Don't let me immigrate."

Bi Chengli's eyes lit up: "What does the Empress Dowager mean?"

Liu Quan smiled and said, "Since the situation is chaotic, why not get out of it?"

Bi Cheng thought about it for a while, nodded again and again, cupped his hands and said: "The empress dowager is a hero among women, and she is not as good as an official."

Liu Quandao: "It's just that General Zhou has only some guards, and the Nanyang Islanders are barbarians after all. Sir Bi, the Empress Dowager sent an official here to ask Sir Bi for help. Waiting for Master Zhou and all the elders Once the internal guards get the island, they will send news back that the people who migrated there can get the land, just like King Wu and King Yan waited in Dongying."

Bi Chengli hurriedly said: "The Empress Dowager wants the officials to help immigrate to that island?"

Liu Quandao: "That's right, only when you have people can you have soldiers. The saint is still young, so he can wait a few more years."

Bi Chengli pondered for a long time, then nodded slowly: "... I understand. It is indeed a feasible way."

Liu Quan said softly: "By the way, Master Qi, the governor of Yunnan, is also one of his own. Miss Zhou, a female pirate who just captured Java, is also a bodyguard."

Bi Chengli suddenly remembered that the general Zhou Ji he mentioned just now was also surnamed Zhou, and he was probably related to this female pirate.The old man made a calculation in his mind——Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Nanyang, surrounded the Central Plains half a circle. He was overjoyed and saluted deeply in the direction of the capital: "The sage is wise!" Then he and Liu Quan exchanged a smile.

Liu Quandao: "There are still some things. Now Mr. Wang opens the school to cultivate talents for the saints. Mr. Bi can do the same here." He then spoke in detail, and Bi Chengli listened carefully.

On the other side, Gong Kun wrote Liu Hu's letter to the Empress Dowager, Jia Cong's letter to Jia Huan, and Jia Amnesty's letter to Jia Zheng all the way to Beijing, first to Rongguo Mansion.Jia Amnesty's letter was withheld and not delivered, and Gong Kun's letter was addressed to a very small noodle shop in an alley in the north of the city.

Guessing that the Empress Dowager still has some great experts in her hands, Shi Li went to visit the next afternoon in person.Sure enough, the owner of the noodle shop, the proprietress, and the waiters were not ordinary people, so they looked left and right curiously.He was young, and besides, there were no spies staring at people like this, so those few pretended to be nothing.

Shi Li had just eaten a few mouthfuls of noodles when someone shouted outside: "Is Boss Wang here?" The boss responded.Someone came in, wearing the uniform of Jia's Horse Company, and said, "There is a letter from Boss Wang."

Boss Wang hurriedly said: "Thank you, master, for your hard work." Nai wiped his hands on the apron, took the letter, and asked the messenger if he wanted to drink some water.

The messenger said: "Thank you, there's no need. There are still a lot of letters. Don't rush, I can't finish them before the sun goes down." He turned and left.

Boss Wang sleeved the letter and put it inside.Before Shi Li's noodles were finished, Boss Wang ordered his staff to buy some condiments.The clerk quickly agreed, Boss Wang calculated the money carefully with him, and he ran away with his pockets.The more Shi Li looked at it, the more curious he became, and he tried a few words with Boss Wang, and told him not to be soft or hard, but to come back.After eating the noodles, Shi Li reluctantly left, and Boss Wang relaxed a little.

Little did they know that there was a seller of candied haws at the north and south ends of their alley.Because the guy was running to the south when he went out, the candied haws seller in the south carried the candied haws and slowly followed the guy for a while.Naturally, he was not as fast as the buddy, who disappeared soon after.So he sat at another alley and sold candied haws.The guy didn't come back until the sun went down, empty-handed, and I didn't see him buy any condiments.

After the guy had disappeared, a dandy walking his dog came out of nowhere, and led the dog slowly to the place where the guy had just walked.Taking advantage of the afterglow of the setting sun, the dog sniffed the ground, spread its four legs and followed the man on the way to buy condiments, chasing all the way to the backyard of a family near the Forbidden City.This house was originally a foreign house bought by an old eunuch in the palace.Because the old eunuch is dead, now he is living with a nephew.

Two days later, Shi Li went to eat noodles again, and dragged Jia Huan along.Both boys used words to flirt with Boss Wang, and Jia Huan still acted like "I have money".Boss Wang thought it was funny, so he still sent them away in a neutral manner.

Jia Huan didn't give up, and went again the next day.When he was full, he bowed his hands to Boss Wang and said, "Hero! Don't tell lies in front of real people. My brother has been learning martial arts since he was a child, and he has the brightest eyes. He said that all of them are rare masters." I don’t know why all heroes retreated to the green forest. Wouldn’t it be a pity if all this skill was wasted? The younger generation’s uncle is the owner of the Taiping Escort Bureau. Our Escort Bureau needs talents like you heroes most. Why don’t you come? Come here to show your skills? If you committed something earlier, the hero doesn’t have to worry. As long as it’s not a rebellion, the rest of the lawsuit is easy.”

Boss Wang immediately realized that he might have made this young master a gangster, he couldn't help but chuckled secretly, and said: "This young master is thinking too much. We are just ordinary grassroots, so we have nothing to do with the green forest."

Jia Huan clapped his hands with a smile and said: "Forget it, forget it, don't mention the past. Although it has nothing to do with the green forest, the three martial arts are always true. Our Taiping Escort really loves talents. Don't heroes think about it?"

Boss Wang said: "It's very good for a small family to live in peace." Jia Huan persuaded him for a long time, but Boss Wang naturally refused to agree.

Unexpectedly, Jia Huan got involved with them, and they quarreled endlessly every day, and Shi Li often followed them.Boss Wang was annoying, but they had to eat noodles every time they came, so he couldn't drive them out; Shi Li even clamored to fight them a few times, so naturally no one would fight him.Only five or six times later, Boss Wang gradually became acquainted with the two of them.

The two of them were eating noodles again that day, and Jia Huan snorted, "My father is hard to guard against! Yesterday Haoxuan promised me to Mr. Zhang's daughter."

Shi Li laughed "puchi", and wondered: "It's not a girl from a small family, why didn't you tell him?"

Jia Huan stuffed a piece of noodles with chopsticks into his mouth, swallowed it, and said, "My old man, you don't know! I like brother Baoyu the most, and I don't want my daughter-in-law to be higher than my second sister-in-law. After thinking about it these days, I don't know I don’t know how to talk to him and he will agree.”

Shi Li sneered and said, "Your family's phoenix egg can only write a few sour articles, what's the use. It's up to your family's old lady to marry a lady from the Shi family."

Jia Huan sighed: "There are no partial parents in the world." But he ate his noodles with his head down, and fell silent.Shi Li also sighed along with him.

After eating the noodles today, the two of them smugly persuaded Boss Wang to work in the Taiping Escort.Boss Wang asked: "I just heard you two talking, it seems that Mr. Huan's marriage is not going well?"

Jia Huan said with a bitter face: "It's not only not going well, but I don't know how to start. That's my own father, and it's not easy to force it." Nai said, "My fourth sister helped me find a woman. A few years ago, I I have flattered their family several times, and my birth status is much higher than that of my brother's wife. My old man..." He shook his head, "I can't even mention it. Now that the filial piety of grandma is finally over, I still want to marry a wife."

Boss Wang wondered: "How can there be such a reason to despise someone with a high family background?"

Jia Huan said softly: "I'm a concubine, and no one has ever disliked me. If it wasn't for... I wouldn't be able to get it anywhere." He sighed heavily again, and didn't have the energy to pry others anymore, so he took the veil Wiped his mouth, said goodbye and left.