Daiyu's wife in the Red Chamber

At this moment, Jia Amnesty restrained his panic and began to defend himself against the charges on the notebook.

As early as when he was concerned about copying Lai’s family’s wealth to pay off his debts, he was afraid that what the family did would hurt him, so he ordered Jia Lian to secretly investigate the evidence that would be charged against him. A few pieces were brought with me, and she said plausibly: "If you say that the humble minister is not strict in running the family, and the humble minister pleads guilty, it is because the family has a big business, and the servants under him have different ideas. The minister is uncontrollable, the mansion is passed down from the ancestors, and now it is the residence of the younger brother, and the regulations have not been modified according to the title. However, the minister refuses to say that the minister is taking the lawsuit, exploiting the profits, hiding the property of the offender, etc. I have never done this before, so how can I plead guilty? Not to mention the crime of conniving at home slaves to bully men and women.”

Emperor Tai knew all these things in his heart long ago. After hearing Jia She's words, there was a smile in his eyes, and he pretended to be solemn on his face, and said: "Although you don't admit it, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has already proved it." Exactly, how do you explain it?"

Jia Amnesty said respectfully: "I wonder which censor is the one who speaks so convincingly?"

Emperor Changtai ordered him to go out, Jia She took a closer look, it was not someone else, but Jia Yucun. Promoted to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Jia She secretly hated Jia Yucun for being ungrateful, and was also afraid that he would push the case of the stone nerd to himself, so he hurriedly said, "It turns out that it is Mr. Jia Yucun, who has a good relationship with the younger brother and has a close relationship with our house. Could it be because of the stone?" In the case of the idiot, I can't see Mr. Jia's behavior and not being in touch with Mr. Jia. Mr. Jia holds a grudge and puts these false charges on me? Even if it is impeachment, the evidence of the crime should be conclusive, but I don't know that there are all the evidence. where?"

Jia Yucun was confident that he won the favor of Prince Zhongshun, and no longer had to rely on the gradually declining Jiawang family, full of satisfaction, he did not look down on the Jia family who was against the Zhongshun Palace, and was annoyed at the sound, saying: "Naturally, the evidence of the crime is conclusive. What's more, the case of the stone nerd was committed by the lower officials under the orders of the elder, as evidenced by the fan that the elder took."

Jia She sneered, saying that he couldn't justify anything else at the moment, but he had been thinking about this matter for several years, and said, "I don't know when I gave the order to Jia Yushi? Who did I send? Is there any letter to explain it?" Is it Jia Yushi who said that the stone nerd owed the official money and copied the fan as the official price and gave it to me? I knew nothing from the beginning to the end. If I really wanted to bully the weak and snatch the fan from the stone nerd, how could I propose 500 yuan? I asked him to buy it at the price of two silver coins? Why bother to let the dog save his life? At that time, I was afraid that if I returned the fan, it would bring him a disaster, so I left it with me for a few days, and then I returned it to him. If you don't believe me, the Ministry of Criminal Justice can go and investigate for yourself. The stone nerd was beaten that year, and after all the root cause of the disease is left behind, and now he is recuperating at Mr. Quanzi's place."

Twice repaying the shortfall in money and food, and arguing several times in front of Jia Mu, Jia Amnesty had already developed a sharp tongue, and before Jia Yucun could refute, he quickly said: "Speaking of the reason why I dare not make friends with Jia Yushi , it’s not all because of this incident, but an old Jinling case, which shows that Jia Yushi is a man. Our family did not write a letter about that case, and Jia Yushi did it without authorization.”

As he spoke, he told Yinglian's origin, experience, ending, etc., and finally said: "If you are so ungrateful, how can you have a close friendship? No matter whether there is a crime in our family, our family has never neglected Jia Yushi. , looking at his actions now, I can't help but feel chills."

Although there were many people who despised Jia Yucun for impeaching the Jia family, they didn't know about the gourd case. After hearing these words, the public was immediately stirred up.

What Jia Yucun hated the most in his life was that when others mentioned his poverty, he would see Jia Amnesty tell the whole story like a bean in a bamboo tube, especially when he was rescued by Zhen Shiyin and watched his only daughter in distress coldly. He didn't have the time to think about how Jia Amnesty learned of these secrets, but trembled with anger and said, "Blood! This is blood!"

Jia She said: "It turns out that you also know the word spitting blood. Now that you know it, why do you force those crimes on my head that I have never committed? It is a pity that what I said is all the truth, which can stand the verification of the world. "

The two were tit for tat, some people laughed in their hearts, some people watched with their eyes, Duchang Taidi listened with gusto.

The case of Prince Yizhong has not yet been settled, and several remaining cases are still under trial. Emperor Changtai originally wanted to wait for the case of Prince Yizhong to be concluded before taking care of the people in Ning Rongguo Mansion, but Jia Yucun could not wait. First come to impeachment, in order to make meritorious service, except for the one who stole from the main hall, the rest are all on Jia Amnesty's head.

Although Jia She is not a clean and honest official, he has done a few bullying things in the past few decades, fortunately, they are all minor offenses, and he has never killed anyone. These few years are still his duty , no big deal.

Therefore, Emperor Changtai opened his mouth and said to Jia Amnesty: "I will definitely send people to find out the truth about what Jia Yushi did. Whether it is favoritism, bending the law or taking a concubine as a wife, there are court laws and regulations to judge. As for Jia Yushi Shi's impeachment of Qing's family is a serious matter today, since I have given you the opportunity to defend yourself, you must not miss it."

Jia Amnesty shouted Long Live, grateful to Dade, and really put aside the argument with Jia Yucun, still knelt down on the ground, and said: "As we all know, the old mother of the high hall is still alive, the order of the Duke's wife is still there, and the humble minister does not live in the Rongguo Mansion." In the main courtyard, another black oil gate was opened in the east courtyard, and a separate place was opened. Moreover, the imperial court did not take back the mansion built by imperial edict. In that year, the imperial concubine and empress returned home, and the old garden where the ministers lived were merged into the relatives. The villas and the Grand View Garden were all built according to the regulations, and there was nothing in violation of the regulations, so this argument is a crime of exceeding the regulations."

After arguing one point, Jia Amnesty made persistent efforts and said: "When I was able to be the master, I also took care of the Lai family and Zhou Rui's family early on, and filed all the incriminating evidence in the yamen, and later sold many servants of the family, etc. This argument allows the slaves to bully the weak and bully the weak." It is also the crime of male dominance over women. As for the major crimes of befriending foreign officials, taking over lawsuits, exploiting large profits, and hiding the property of criminal officials, I don’t know where I got it. The minister is incompetent, has no real job, has no connections, and has no ability to help others. How to make friends with foreign officials? The second is that the humble family comes from a humble background, has a rough and timid nature, and the eldest daughter-in-law is sensible and sensible. But he also read the imperial court regulations early and dared not do illegal things. The husband, wife and daughter-in-law of Weichen have never done things such as extortionate money, hiding the property of criminal officials, etc., but Gouzi did a few cases for others when he was young. However, those few cases have old files that can be checked, but the sufferer begged to come to the door, fearing that the chief would judge the case indiscriminately and pervert the law for personal gain, so the dog took a post to speak out for them and ordered him to deal with it fairly. Except for major events, the humble nei have never entered the court, and they don't know what it means to send news to the palace."

It was Jia Zheng who made friends with foreign officials. When Jia Yucun was a foreigner, because he settled the case for Xue Pan, he often communicated with Wang Ziteng and Jia Zheng. Wang Ziteng was Jia Zheng's brother-in-law, so he naturally had close contacts. He came and went more frequently, and he didn't have much friendship with his in-laws, and Jia Zheng found many jobs for others, such as Jia Yucun and Fu Shi.

Mrs. Wang hid the properties of the Zhen family and the Shi family, and kept them directly in Mrs. Wang's room. She also did the usurping when she was young. What I did later, the rest were done in the old days. I was afraid that I was worried about the retribution of the underworld, so Mrs. Wang ate fast and recited Buddha every day, so she stopped.Thus, usury and champerty are two things of the past, which have not been heard of in recent years.

Passing the news and things of the palace, these are obviously the things that Mrs. Wang does. She alone can go in and out of the harem on the second and sixth of each month, meet Yuan Chun, exchange internal and external news with Yuan Chun, or send money to Yuan Chun to manage the harem. wait.These two things were guessed by Jia She in his mind, but he was not quite sure, after all Mrs. Wang never spread these things to outsiders.

However, even though Jia Amnesty knew in his heart that these serious crimes were the fault of Jia Zheng and his wife, he could not speak out in front of the court, so as not to be blamed by others, so he pretended not to know and asked Emperor Changtai to send someone to investigate.

It was a matter of family and life, Jia She was very eloquent, if he could make an excuse, he had reason and evidence, if he couldn't, he asked for a strict investigation.

After hearing this, Emperor Changtai nodded. He knew more about these things than Jia Amnesty. He looked at the officials below and said, "I heard what Jia Qing's family said made a lot of sense. What do you think?"

Before the others could speak, Jia Yucun had come out and said: "General Jia's words are not true. When the Zhen family and the Shi family committed crimes, they both transferred their property and sent it to Rongguo Mansion. As the head of the family, how could General Jia not know it?" ?Leveraging and taking advantage of lawsuits are all done in the name of Rongguo Mansion. Who knows who doesn't know? If not in the name of Rongguo Mansion, how could those officials who decide cases and directors obey their orders? It is the old case of Jinling, Shi In the case of the idiot, I also obeyed his orders."

Jia Amnesty ignored him, and said to Emperor Changtai: "I am incompetent, and I am willing to accept the crime of lax family governance."

Because Wei Ruolan married Daiyu, Chen Qi, Chen Lin, etc. were not easy to speak, but Xu Jie, the imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, didn't worry about it. He didn't like Jia Yucun at all, and he heard what Jia Yucun had done , even more disdainful, said: "Even if it is an impeachment case, the truth should be found out before the sentence can be sentenced. Since General Jia denies it, then please ask the Criminal Ministry to find out the truth. "

King Nan'an agreed: "Xu Du's censor is right. Everyone knows that the Rongguo Mansion has not separated. The housekeeper's housekeeper and director go out to socialize. The mistress has never been General Jia's wife. It cannot be because General Jia attacked the ancestral official. Son, put all the crimes on General Jia's head. After all, such an old family is flourishing and has many direct branches. Perhaps some people rely on their power to do evil without permission. General Jia lives in the small east courtyard and is concealed. It wasn’t impossible in the past.”

The king of Nan'an always remembered that after his defeat, all the families avoided and Sister Feng took his sister to go to his home to comfort his mother. Besides, he had nothing to do after thinking behind closed doors. What he did in the past year was indeed no major fault, that's why he took the action of fighting for Jia Amnesty today.

Prince Zhongshun grinned and interjected, "Let's leave the case of Jia's family to my minister, who will definitely urge the Ministry of Punishment to investigate clearly so that no one has any doubts."

Jia She was shocked, who didn't know that his family had no contact with Prince Zhongshun's mansion, and it would be easy for Prince Zhongshun to try to favor others.

After hearing this, Emperor Changtai said: "You have the heart to take care of it, but you and the Jia family are not on good terms. Some people must say that you are avenging private revenge. You don't need to worry about it. Just take care of the case of Prince Yizhong. The Jia family's case will be handed over to you." Criminal Ministry, find out the truth as soon as possible."

Xu Mao, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments hurriedly came out, hesitatingly said: "If you want to find out, you have to search his home and look for evidence, especially the property transferred by the Zhen family and the Shi family, as well as the bills for profiteering. If you are afraid, you must be afraid." Right now, the Rongguo Mansion has moved away all the evidence, and it may not be possible to find it, just like the Zhen family and the Shi family, they all moved things away before the officers and soldiers who confiscated the house arrived."

Jia Amnesty waved his hand and said: "Xu Shangshu, don't worry, when I went to court, I told my dog ​​and my daughter-in-law to guard the door. People in the family are allowed to enter and not to leave, and outsiders will check everything they bring in and out before letting them go. "

Among other things, the belongings of the Zhen family and the Shi family are all in Mrs. Wang's room. In order not to be convicted, they are likely to be transferred out or transferred to the warehouse. Mrs. Wang's room is the evidence of Mrs. Wang's crime, which will bring disaster to Jia Zheng. , in the warehouse, he has to bear it alone, and he has to guard against it no matter what.He didn't expect to be here at first, but it was Sister Feng who reminded him and hurriedly ordered Jia Lian to take care of it.

Prince Zhongshun also smiled and said: "I am afraid that when General Jia goes up to defend himself, the Ningrong and Rongfu will follow the example of the Zhen family and the Shi family. Check the items one by one, and let them go after asking why."

When Jia Amnesty heard this, he was covered in cold sweat.

Xu Mao felt relieved when he heard that Emperor Changtai had already made a move. He was originally a minister of the Ministry of Rites. He was the one who delivered the decree to Lin Ruhai before his death. Emperor Changtai saw that he was a diligent and upright official. The minister of the Ministry of punishment is in charge of everything.

Jia Amnesty thought of his wife, daughter, grandchildren, etc. How could the officers and soldiers who ransacked the house attack him?He hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed a few times, and said with a painful expression on his face: "If the crime lies with the minister, the minister is willing to accept it, but if it is not the fault of the minister, after the house is ransacked, the wife, mother, daughter-in-law and others of the minister will be fined." What face is alive in this world? I implore Your Majesty to be lenient."

Emperor Changtai thought for a while, and he decided to let Jia She go, and said: "The Qing family has not been convicted of any crimes, and it is different from others, even if the family is not strictly governed, it will not be ransacked, but it seems that the Qing family has committed a serious crime. So let's order people to go in to pass the letter, let the female relatives wait in one place, and then order the soldiers to go in and search the room. There was a mistake in returning something when I committed a crime.”

As he spoke, he said to Xu Mao: "Both Ning and Rong's mansions act like this. During the raids, first arrest Jia Amnesty, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen and others involved in the impeachment case, and release them after they are found innocent."

Xu Mao obeyed the order, not to mention Jia Amnesty, he had already taken off his crown when he defended himself, so he was full of gratitude at this time and voluntarily took him into custody.

Prince Zhongshun's mansion was never at peace with Jia's family, so Prince Zhongshun volunteered to lead troops there, using the excuse that Ningguo's mansion had contacts with Prince Yizhong, after all he is currently in charge of Prince Yizhong's case, Emperor Changtai warned: "Don't mess around. "That's why he was ordered to lead the troops.

Next, Prince Zhongshun led the troops to search the Ningrong Second Mansion, Xu Mao followed behind to collect evidence, with Emperor Changtai's order in front, the officers and soldiers gave the female family members of the Jia family this dignity, and ordered the female family members to avoid it first. When Jiamu went to the house, she was not allowed to enter or leave, and the jailer's mother-in-law of the punishment department was ordered to guard it, because she was afraid that the officers and soldiers would bully these female relatives without any scruples.

Since Xu Mao was in charge of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, he has long been experienced. On the one hand, he ordered people to search for evidence, and on the other hand, he ordered people to count the servants of Jia's family according to the roster, in order to seek witnesses. Guarded by officers and soldiers, irrelevant people are driven out.

Both Xue's family and Miaoyu were evicted. The former went back to the old house in Beijing in misery, while the latter was taken back to the Muni Court by Jinghui.

It is worth mentioning that when Prince Zhongshun and Xu Mao arrived at Rongguo Mansion, they went to the courtyard where the warehouse was located. Jia Lian was confronting Mrs. Wang's confidant in front of the warehouse. In the act of sending the property into the warehouse, both sides insisted on their own opinions and refused to back down. The officers and soldiers came in and seized it on the spot.

Prince Zhongshun ordered someone to open the box and rummaged through it a few times. It turned out that it was a jewelry item transferred out by the Zhenshi family. It was registered in the account books of the Zhenshi family. We worked hard."

Xu Mao took a look and asked Jia Lian, "Where did these things come from?"

Jia Lian greeted Prince Zhongshun respectfully, and then replied: "This is from the second wife. For some reason, it will be put in the inner treasury suddenly today, but we have never seen these things before, nor are they The things in the house were not listed in the accounts, so the subordinate officials stopped them. As for the internal treasury, they were all gifts from daily exchanges of favors, nothing more than silk, satin, silk, fruit and wine, and nothing else, all of which were listed in the account book. The origin is clear, please look into it with your lord and lord."

While ordering people to investigate, Prince Zhongshun said to Jia Lian, "Your father does not admit that your family has hidden the property of the Zhenshi family in your house. It seems that your uncle's family did it?"

Jia Lian said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, Jia Yan doesn't live here. I really don't know about it. Although I know it, I tried to persuade my aunt twice, so I was so angry that I moved back to the East Courtyard. Before I had time to tell Jia Yan and Jia Ci, Someone has impeached Jiayan, and Jiayan has to go to the court to defend himself, these princes and adults will find out if they ask someone to ask."

Speaking of this, Busy pretended to be surprised to explain the lie that he didn't know the origin of the things, and said: "I said, how did my aunt put these things into the inner warehouse so neatly, it has never been done before, so it turns out that it contains the hidden belongings of prisoners. "

Prince Zhongshun glanced at him, laughed, and ordered someone to continue the search.

This time, he and Xu Mao were eye-opening. Except for the silk and satin items that are usually used for gifts in the inner warehouse, the other warehouses are empty, but the things in each room are full of valuables, which is shocking. head.Because Jia's mother had already separated from her family, which is well known to the world, and she was old and sick, and there were all female relatives in the room, so she didn't check her upper room.

As the head of the family, the things belonging to the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren in the East Courtyard are not as good as Mrs. Wang alone. There are 40 million things in her house alone, which are quite out of control. The total number of Chinese echelons is also 20 million.

It took two or three days, after searching and interrogating, and with all the witnesses and material evidence, Jia Zhengyifang took all of them into custody and punished them.

Jia Zheng had been taken into custody a long time ago, so Mrs. Wang, Jia Baoyu, Jia Huan, and Jia Lan's uncle and nephew were the only ones imprisoned after the Rongguo Mansion was sealed up. Li Wan and Xue Baochai were female relatives. Set up a lower house for detainment, and ordered the prison maid to guard it, while Mrs. Wang was the most guilty, and she was sent to the prison temple to be guarded alone.

Compared with the panic of Mrs. Wang, Li Wan's mother and son, and Jia Huan's mother and son, Baoyu's face was bleak, but he did not forget Jia's mother. Wan takes care of the ancestors."

When Baoyu encountered this misfortune, Jia's mother passed out immediately. When she woke up, she could not move her whole body, her mouth was crooked and her eyes were slanted, and she could not speak.

There were only Mrs. Xing, Sister Feng, Xichun, Sister Qiao, and brother Xuan in the room, not a single maid. Sister Feng was worried about Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian, and at the same time begged their mother-in-law to pull out a hairpin with a big pearl on her head. Fengchai took off the gold bracelets with jewels inlaid on her wrists and gave them to them, and said with tears in her eyes, "At least please hire a doctor for us."

But the mother-in-law didn't dare to take it back, she went back to Prince Zhongshun, and indeed invited the doctor over, but she did her best.Immediately, Prince Zhongshun sent an order to guard them no longer, but the officers and soldiers in the mansion could only leave after the case was concluded, so he ordered them to move to the East Courtyard and not to wander around here.

When Sister Feng learned that Jia Lian had not been taken into custody and that the East Court had been unsealed, a stone fell from her heart.

Although the east courtyard is not sealed off, there is a kitchen available, but all the food and other supplies are in the granary of the Rongguo Mansion, and cannot be used. Fortunately, Daiyu sent someone to send over silver taels, clothing, food, medicine, etc., and the imperial physician was with her, so the urgent need was resolved. .

It has been many years since there was a huge profiteering and arranging lawsuits, and there is no note or letter left. Even if there are confessions from Mrs. Wang and her confidant and accompanying room, the witnesses of the day must be searched before the case can be settled.Hearing this letter, the former Chang'an garrison of Zhang Jinge's case came to file a complaint and seek justice for his son-in-law who died in vain.Xu Mao accepted it naturally. After a month, the investigation was clear. After the case was closed, Emperor Changtai of the Ming Dynasty made the following verdict: Ningguo Mansion committed serious crimes, and the evidence of the crime was convincing. It was confiscated, and the servants of the family sold it on the street together.Although Jia Amnesty in Rongguo Mansion did not commit any major crimes, because of lax family management, the upper and lower members of the mansion relied on their power to commit all kinds of crimes, so they cut off their titles, took back their mansions, fined them [-] yuan, and released them back home.The old files of Jia Lian's previous sweeping lawsuits still exist. He was dismissed from office, fined five thousand dollars, and the property in the father and son's house was returned, but all the servants were sold to anger the people.Jia Zheng of the Rongguo Mansion made friends with foreign officials, arranged his confidantes to become officials in the court, connived at his wife's overreach, exploited them with huge profits, arranged lawsuits, hid the belongings of criminal officials, and passed on news from the palace. Women and others were dismissed from their posts and exiled together with their wives as slaves in the northern Xinjiang army.

Emperor Changtai issued another decree of grace. Jia Zhu's wife, Li Shi, had been a widow for many years and was not included in the sale, nor was her dowry confiscated. Jia Lan, Jia Baoyu, Jia Huan and Jia Baoyu's wife Xue Shi were young. I don't know what happened, and I promised to redeem for the people, but the property was not returned.