Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

The same thing happened again and again in Xungui and Shijia. In the end, it was no longer a question of which family and which family, but a big melee between two different classes.At this point, no one can stop the two sides. Even if there are still some people who are calmer, if everyone around them can't calm down, no matter how calm they are, it will be useless.

Now the old emperor is not in good health and has signs of a stroke. After going to court a few times, he was even more uncomfortable with anger. In desperation, he could only hand over a large amount of government affairs to the prince Situ Sheng. Situ Sheng who has moved into the East Palace is not at all. To be polite, he directly used his position to mobilize a large number of nobles and officials of the family to positions that were not chief officials, such as Yuanwailang, and chief secretary, and then replaced their immediate bosses with officials under his control. No matter how the people below look like, he will be the one who reaps the benefits in the end.

Because these officials who made trouble were not chief officials, the influence caused was not without, but it was not enough to shake the normal work of the court.Thinking about it this way, it is a good thing that the Jia family has not been relegated. It is quite useful to use them as gunmen. As for whether the gun will feel pain, why would the person holding the gun care?

Situ Hui, who was finally released from confinement after the Yong Wang Lian Palace changed, his head doubled when he saw this situation. He could clearly see who was behind the scenes, but no matter how rational he was, Can't stop a scuffle of this scale.A slap can't be slapped, and the melee is not just the aristocratic family's forces. The nobles over there have already rushed up in spite of their skin and face. No matter how you look at it, it's an endless situation. The opponent has no intention of stopping at all. He Doesn't stopping here mean dying?As for calming down the hot-headed Xungui, it is very difficult. The Xungui and the aristocratic forces are originally opposing enemies. It is absolutely impossible to compare your heart with your heart.

After the San Francisco rebellion, the old emperor's small actions weakened the power of the family at different levels. Situ Hui was severely reprimanded by the old emperor and even put into confinement, which severely hit the morale of the family. Now he just wants to hide his strength and bide his time After recovering his strength, he rushed over like a mad dog and bit him madly, which made it even worse and made it even more difficult.

The situation on Xungui's side is not very good. Although the last black hand of the palace change was finally identified as the fifth prince Situ Yi, the eldest prince Situ Xu also participated in the palace change and committed the crime of treason. These nobles were implicated A lot of people went in, but finally the old emperor was merciful and didn't take them all down, but their power has shrunk greatly, and now they just need to take a good breath and slow down, who knew that the aristocratic family would rush forward so relentlessly Grab the site, how can it work!The uncle is not as brave as he used to be, and he is not something you weak and hypocritical families can bully, everyone copy guys, go!

All of a sudden, the impeachment papers of aristocratic families or nobles floated on the old emperor's Longshu case like snowflakes. The astonishing number of them was comparable to that of the election of the prince, or even better.The basic model is that noble family A sues noble family B for corruption, noble family B sues noble family C for extravagance, noble family D does not let noble family D take his wife as his concubine, and noble family D bites noble family E's lack of self-cultivation... a series of series There are some truths and some falsehoods, some real and some false, and there are more crimes counted out than one.If you want to check every piece, Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice will not have to do anything else this year and next year, and these officials will not be enough to check.The old emperor simply scanned these memorials, pretending not to see them, and suppressed them first.Anyway, he is also happy to see the struggle between Xungui and the family. Let them bite each other first, and he will have time to clean up one by one when both sides are almost bitten.

The chaos in the court reflected in the Rongguo Mansion is not just chaos.Jia Zheng's promotion made Jia She's quiet for a few days, but with the Chu family's bullets, Jia She became energetic again.Counting from the death of Jia Zheng's son Jia Baoyuke, the old man Jia Daishan, this old and unrefined old dandy, what kind of filial piety period and Aunt Zhao's chaos led to the birth of a child? The royal family participated in the rebellion, and now the censor has been provoked and the whole family has been implicated... Wait, wait, etc., they have made more than 30 crimes, and they are not inferior to the fighting power of the Chu family censor. In short, it is In a word - he and Jia Zheng must separate!

At this time, the usually dandy old master Jia also had a flash of light, and he didn't know what method he used to find Jia Zhen from the Ningguo Mansion, the head of the Jia clan who had drifted away from them, and the two of them came to find Mother Jia together. Shi Shi, it is clear that it is not easy to dismiss, and he will definitely score.

Grandpa Jia She sat down in the hall and put down his teacup. He looked like he was looking for a good deal, but the words in his mouth were not so pleasant, "Old lady, it's not that I, Jia She, can't tolerate me. Second brother, Jia Zheng really can't tolerate the heads of our Jia clan." He sighed sadly, "You take the time to ask the servants outside, who in the whole capital doesn't know that my second brother has become the head of the court. It's a laughing stock, a mere fifth-rank member of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang, can throw a brick in this capital and hit an official who is older than him. Just such a small official with a little sesame and mung beans has provoked more than a dozen officials. For impeachment, I am afraid that even their memorials will be placed on His Majesty's Longshu case, and they are waiting to be convicted."

"Last time I said that I wanted to separate the family from him. Your old man didn't agree with anything. He said that the whole family would break up as soon as we left. But now, the second child doesn't know how big a crime he has committed. I heard that His Majesty is in court. The hall is furious, if it is really pursued, I am afraid that we will not even need to divide the family, our entire Jia family will suffer a great crime, and maybe we will be sent to the mine like my prodigal niece I went to dig stones. Oh, by the way, didn’t the second daughter-in-law Li’s father die after being involved in treason and demoted to a commoner? Does the old lady also want the entire Jia family to die? Is it the same as that Li Shouzhong?"

After all, Shi Shi did not go outside. Although he knew that someone had filed a memorial to sue Jia Zheng during the court, he thought it was just a trivial matter. Thinking back, there were many people suing Jia Daishan in the court, but The results of it?Jia Daishan was still his Rong Guogong and a first-rank official, but the person who sued him did not know if he was dispatched to Hainan to eat bananas.There are still quite a few officials in the court who are related to the Jia family. Didn't the Chu family who falsely accused Jia Zheng also be impeached by them?It can be seen that this matter is not a big deal, but why did the boss say that more than a dozen officials took part in the Jia administration?What exactly is going on?

"Old lady, don't you know?" Jia Zhen was obviously talking about something, but she was gloating in her heart. At the beginning, the Rongguo Mansion made their Ningguo Mansion miserable, and almost dragged their whole family into the water. Now the feng shui turns, it can be counted. It's unlucky to go to their Rongguo Mansion. "I heard that Yuanwailang, the second uncle of Zheng, has a somewhat unclear official position, and he has offended the Chu family for no apparent reason. Who is the Chu family? That is Prince Shun's mother's family, hundreds of years old. Now the Chu family has united with the Yang family, Liu family, Cui family, Zheng family... more than a dozen big and small families together threatened the second uncle Zheng, and even the remaining few families of the four princes and eight princes were also dragged into the water Yes. The whole court was going to be turned upside down because of Second Uncle Zheng alone, and His Majesty was also angry on the spot, and immediately dismissed the court meeting and drove back to the palace. During this period of time, I wish I could have more than a dozen books every day Ben's memorial was to sue Second Uncle Zheng, and even the Rongguo Mansion had been implicated. If it wasn't for the fact that the Jia family was still in court and there were still a few people who were willing to speak out, the Jia family would probably be questioned by the emperor. "

Jia Zhen's words were a little exaggerated, but now the aristocratic family and nobles are the same thing, as long as any official with real power or title is counted, and none of them is left behind, they will all be sued by the aristocratic family.As the fuse of all the incidents, Jia Zheng and Chu Chen were of course not immune, and one-fifth of all bullets were aimed at them.Officials from the Chu family charged the Jia family with 36 crimes, ranging from disobeying orders, giving birth to children in filial piety, disrespecting elders, bullying men and women, and forcing good men into slavery. A few chickens with aubergines is also a big mistake, saying they are extravagant.The censor of the Jia family returned 72 charges to the Chu family. In addition to the ones mentioned above, even using hundreds of ducks to make duck tongue soup for a meal has become a crime...that is, the emperor has no interest in reading these recently. A mess of memorials, otherwise there would be no one knows how many imperial edicts have been issued.

Shi Shi didn't know what to do when he heard this.After all, she is just a concubine, no matter how much her father and brother like her, they just tease her like teasing a cat and a dog. She is familiar with the way, but she is more courageous than the sky in official affairs, but her means can't keep up with it at all.She dared to bet casually on the matter of seizing the heirloom, but if something happened, she could only ask the Wang family of the historian for help, and then she didn't know what to do.Now Wang Ziteng, the head of the Wang family, has not returned from his inspection tour of the border, and the Shi family has completely broken up with the Jia family. What should we do?

The Shi family still didn't want to separate the family, but Jia Zhen insisted on one sentence. If there is no separation, then the family will be divided. In order not to let Jia Zheng implicate the entire Jia family, he asked the clan elders to open a ancestral hall to drive Jia Zheng out of Jia. Clan.

Is this okay? !Shi Shi has seen the downcast state of Jia Du after she was forced to drive him out of the clan. How could she let Jia Zheng suffer like this?Besides, if Jia Zheng is really driven out, who can she rely on in the future?

Shi's reliance on life and death was about to be shameless, and the two sides could only take a step back and reached a new agreement.The general meaning is to divide the family but not the mansion. The property of the public, the farms and shops in various places, including the warehouses, are divided according to the rules of the capital except for the things in the storehouses. The mansions are not divided. Before it's gone, let Jia Zheng continue to live in Rongguo Mansion for the time being, just choose a courtyard for him to live in.

Jia Amnesty rolled his eyes, and felt that it was not pleasant to force Jia Zheng to leave the government at this time, so he agreed.But he was not so generous, he gave Jia Zheng a lot of land, he just left the Pear Fragrance Courtyard that the old man used to recuperate to Jia Zheng, and even built a wall to seal the small door leading to the mansion from the Pear Fragrance Courtyard.Anyway, Rikain has a corner door leading to the outside, isn't it the same way to get in and out?As for coming to the Rongguo Mansion, I'm sorry, you have to come out of the corner gate and then come in a carriage through the gate. It has nothing to do with him if it's inconvenient. It's not that he, the old man, lives there. Do you still want him to come and ask?

Jia Zheng gritted his teeth, and Mrs. Wang's eyes almost bleed. Jia Zhu, who is not in good health, is coughing so much that her lungs are about to pop out. Li Wan supported him and couldn't see clearly what she was thinking. Her father was dead. Yes, these days she has been rubbed by Mrs. Wang, a girl who is like a flower is now withering day by day, her eyes have become calm day by day, revealing a gloomy and dead air.Jia Huan and Jia Lan are still young, so they don't know what happened.Although Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhou are concubines, they are still servants. At this time, there is no room for speech.Jia Baoyu was not there at all, and was forcibly kept by Mother Jia and refused to let him out. He finally found an opportunity to snatch someone from Mrs. Wang, and of course he would not let him out again. He was tricking him into coaxing his cousin Jia Xichun. Well, don't let him go out at all.As for Jia Tanchun, at her age she understood some things, but she was still full of panic. She wanted to grab Mrs. Wang's hand tremblingly, but she was almost thrown by Mrs. Wang, and was hurriedly hugged by the wet nurse.

It was just after the new year, and the cold capital city was still covered with snow. Jia Zheng's family thought they were desolate and moved into the Lixiangyuan in the back.The Rongguo mansion has completely become Jia She's world, and the housekeeper's wife has also become his daughter-in-law Wang Xifeng, the little Wang family. I can't laugh so proudly.

The second day of February is getting closer and closer, and Jiang Yuan's son is about to turn one year old. Although according to the rules of the Jing Dynasty, it should be called two years old at this time, but it is time to catch up.

Jiang Yuan himself has never caught a week. When he was one year old, Jia Di and Jiang Shi were so poor that they could hardly even eat. How could they have the leisure to do something for their son, but Jiang Yuan is very elegant. Watch your son catch Zhou.He didn't believe it either, but it was just fun to watch. Anyway, it is said that everything caught is auspicious, and it is still very interesting as a ceremony.

The so-called grasping Zhou, also known as Nian Zhou Ji Zhu, was originally not a custom in the north, but a habit of people in the south of the Yangtze River.According to the customs of the south of the Yangtze River, the first stage of children's life is for making new clothes and decorating the bathroom. Men use bows, arrows, paper, and pens, while women use knives, rulers, needles, and thread, and add food and clothing and treasures to play with. , put it in front of the child, and observe what it takes from its intentions, so as to test the greed, honesty and foolishness.Later, the Taizu of the Jing Dynasty recruited troops from the south of the Yangtze River and set his capital in Jinling. Many honorable and important officials were from the south of the Yangtze River, so these customs were passed from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital. Many families were willing to let their children come and play for a while.

Grabbing Zhou at this time is not as important as it was in the Ming and Qing Dynasties of the previous life, but the children still have to entertain guests on their first birthday.Jiang Yuan doesn't like to throw banquets very much, but at his position, it is impossible to push people thousands of miles away.Banquets for high-ranking officials are not as simple as just eating, and high-ranking officials' treats are not as easy as just accepting bribes. Although Jiang Yuan is not a well-known upright official like Fang Yue, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, he is not short of money.There are a lot of shops and manors under his name, and the property robbed from San Francisco is still in the warehouse to be ashes. Why do you need so much money? Put it in the coffin as a funeral and wait for the grave robbers to dig it up...

That is to say, but officials' banquets also have the function of conveying news and connecting feelings. Many officials even use his banquets to show that they have defected to Prince Situ Sheng. As His Royal Highness's number one confidant, Jiang Yuan wants to It's useless to be clean, you still have to have a big feast honestly.

The old emperor hadn't abdicated yet, so Situ Sheng couldn't recruit his courtiers with a big fanfare, otherwise it would be easy for the old emperor to be jealous.Most of the people in Situ Sheng's hands were generals, but there were not many high-ranking civil servants in the court. If Situ Sheng explicitly recruited the civil servants in the court, the old emperor would feel even worse.Although Situ Sheng has become the crown prince, but the crown prince still has the word "chu" on his head. Before becoming a "king", there are still many constraints, and it is not a big mistake to be careful.

In any case, the news that Jiang Yuan wanted to entertain guests and friends had already spread throughout the official circles in the capital.Who is Jiang Yuan?If you don't know, don't mess with the officialdom.The deeds of this person have inspired many people to go to the imperial examination room, and attracted countless people to go to the battlefield to make military exploits. Now he is an important role in controlling the real power in the court, Princess Changning's son-in-law, Lord Guanying.He doesn't have a birthday, he doesn't accept money, and he doesn't entertain guests. He can't get along even if he wants to make a relationship. Now he rarely wants to hold a banquet. I don't know how many people in the capital are looking forward to the early arrival of February [-] so that they can go to Guanyinghou The government went to a banquet to establish a relationship with Jiang Yuan.

Some people are happy and some are sad.Jiang Yuan's posts were spread widely. Officials above the third rank in the capital had received his invitations. Except for close subordinates and relatives and friends, it was difficult for him below the third rank to receive invitations from him, a senior official of the second rank. How can you hope that others will post it when you post it on the pole yourself.There are a lot of officials in the capital, and throwing down a blue brick can hit a person in an official robe. I don’t know how many people try their best to sneak into Guanyinghou’s mansion, but there is one family who doesn’t know what to do...