Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

Three days later, Jiang Yuan finally received Lin Jun's answer.

I have to say that Lin Jun's writing style is just that. No wonder this person is so talented and he passed the exam twice. His ranking in the imperial examination almost fell to the bottom. It's all because his writing level is lagging behind. The whole article can only be regarded as reluctantly in terms of literary level, but the content is original and quite interesting.

As expected, Lin Jun was not deceived. He first explained the tyranny/government of Jie, Zhou, Qin II, and Yan II, and then compared the benevolent governance of the three emperors of the Jing Dynasty. Derby five emperors, only the strongest, not stronger.Skimming hundreds of words of flattering words, this Lin Jun suddenly changed the subject and put forward his own point of view, "The way to strengthen a country lies in clear laws, good rewards and punishments for rape, and eternal life." In summary, his article is In a word, the country should be governed by law and the world should be governed by the system.

First clarify the legal system, then announce it to all women and children, and finally manage it strictly according to the established laws. Those who violate the law must be punished, and those who abide by the law must be rewarded. After that, the law must be continuously improved every day to achieve Time changes and laws change, so a country will not be so chaotic that there will be major problems for hundreds of years.As for what will happen hundreds of years later, Lin Jun said: "A sage can strengthen the country, but not follow the law; he can benefit the people, but not follow the rules." That is to say, when the sage governs the country, as long as it can make the country prosperous, he will It is not necessary to follow the old laws, as long as it is beneficial to the people, it is not necessary to follow the old etiquette.If you are poor, you want to change, and when you have to change, there is no need to follow the old system. As long as it is beneficial to the country, it should be done, and as long as it is beneficial to the people, it needs to be changed. This is his point of view.

Although Lin Jun didn't propose specific laws and systems in the article, it can be said that the point is so far, but Jiang Yuan thinks that he can write here. If he really has the ability to complete a set of legal systems by himself, then he is not a talent. It's evil.Writing to this point is enough to clarify his specific ideas, and how to implement them later requires the cooperation of those in power.I have to say that Lin Jun has a very good idea, he is lenient and strict, and he is smart enough to not leak any details. He is very good, very good, he is a smart person.

Jiang Yuan tidied up briefly, packed the "Five Strategies" together with the questions he had raised during this period of time and the answers submitted by Lin Jun, and personally sent them to the palace and handed them over to Situ Sheng.Situ Sheng was used to Jiang Yuan recommending talents to him every once in a while, so he picked up the stack of letterheads filled with answers and looked at them. He lifted his spirits after only one glance, and read the ten questions in a row. After several answer sheets, Situ Sheng grabbed the "Five Strategies" and flipped through it, his eyes lit up, and he was full of praise from time to time.

"Wonderful, wonderful, Qingyuan, where did you find this person? This person is truly a genius!" Situ Sheng flipped through the author's name, "Oh, this Lin Jun is indeed a man of great talent. This person must be reused."

Jiang Yuan briefly reported Lin Jun's life experience and his contribution, and then said: "This person is a legacy of Lu Ye, with a treasure inside, but although his idea is very good, will it be applied to reality? I don't know. The minister is just testing his mind, as for whether he can do things, His Highness has to come down to test."

Situ Sheng understands Jiang Yuan's thoughts. There are different types of capable people. Some people can talk but can't do it. Some people can do it but can't think. People who can talk and do and think are still a minority of the minority. .Lin Jun has an idea, and he said it well, but I don’t know if he will apply it in practice. After all, thinkers and doers are two different things. Thinkers are far-sighted enough, but if it is to be implemented in practice, can it be better? Coordinating the relationship between colleagues, I don't know if the plan can be done safely.A person who can only think is a good candidate for a counselor, but what Situ Sheng really lacks is not a counselor, but a comprehensive talent who can think and do. Only such a person can become his right-hand man like Jiang Yuan.

Situ Sheng thought for a while, and said: "Then let him go to the Ministry of Households as a foreigner, and let him spend the first half of the year in the four departments of officials, households, workers, and criminals. If he does well, he can be of great use." gone."

The affairs of the military department in the six departments are too professional, and it is not something that ordinary people can take over if they want to. From this person's "Military Policy", it can be seen that he is only good at recruiting and managing soldiers, and he is completely a layman for leading troops, so the military department does not need to went.The practice of the Ministry of Rites is completely in accordance with the regulations. As long as you follow the regulations, you will not make mistakes. You cannot exaggerate or reduce. There is no place to display your talents. Going there is nothing more than a matter of seniority and years of experience. There is no need for him to go there. wasting time.As for the remaining four ministries, they control most of the specific work in the country. Being able to do a good job in these four ministries shows that the person has no problem in practical work, and even if he is sent to a local office immediately, he will not make a mistake.Moreover, the four-part rotation can also cultivate his comprehensive ability. After all, this person is young and has no contact with specific jobs. There are only advantages and no harm in going to the four parts to exercise.

In this way, Lin Jun's itinerary for the next two years will be settled. Situ Sheng, the crown prince of Jianguo, will make him change from a reviewer of the Imperial Academy of the seventh rank to a member of the household department of the fifth rank, Wailang. Not to mention the promotion of the official position, just by transferring him to the household department that His Royal Highness used to be directly in charge of, it can be seen that His Royal Highness attaches great importance to him and expects him.Is this his luck?

Even if he was as calm as Lin Jun, he couldn't help being stunned in the dilapidated house.Today's Jing Dynasty pays most attention to the idea of ​​"great revenge". No matter which school of Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, or Mohism advocates the concept of revenge, the so-called "ten generations of hatred can still be avenged" is the truth.What's more, people in this day and age like to vent their anger and sit back and forth. Even the benevolent emperor likes to punish the three tribes of the barbarians and the nine tribes. In such a trend of revenge, Jiang Yuan is willing to let him go lightly. Recommended him to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and personally built him a ladder to the sky, this... this...

Although Qi Huangyang said in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" that "do not avoid relatives when you raise them internally, and do not avoid enemies when you raise them externally", there are many people who "do not avoid relatives" over the years, and none of them "does not avoid enemies". No, Jiang Yuan's grandeur is still beyond his imagination.After thinking about it, Lin Jun finally found his father, Lin Yi, and advised him to completely sever contact with Lin Hai and even the Lin clan.Anyway, there are few mutual connections, so let's just cut it off. Since they have never been helped by the Lin family, there is no need for them to be implicated by the Lin family because of their unnecessary blood.Jiang Yuan will definitely clean up Lin Hai. Their family has already received Jiang Yuan's kindness, so there is no need to get involved in the whirlpool.

Lin Yi is obviously a son of the Lin family, but he worked as a servant in the old house of the Lin family in exchange for food to support himself. The kindness the Lin family has shown them is nothing more than their birth, so inheriting this surname and continuing to pass it on is already repaid. Ende, do you want their family to be destroyed like the Lin family?

You can still live if the sky does evil, but you can't live if you do evil yourself.What happened to Lin Hai was far more serious than what happened to his grandfather raising scholars. This is not something that can be settled by demoting officials, punishing them, or even confiscating their families.If it weren't for the fact that the old emperor and Situ Sheng really didn't have a suitable candidate to take over the top wax position, Lin Hai would have been convicted and punished a long time ago.The water in the Lin family's pond is too deep, one foot would die if one stepped into it, it's better to keep away, lest the city gate catch fire and harm the fish in the pond.

The spring breeze has passed, and early summer is coming.Situ Sheng was encouraged by the news of the successful trial building of the Jiangnan Shipyard. Jiang Yuan also felt that the development of sea-going ships promoted by His Royal Highness is of great significance to the control of the future sea area and the development of the Maritime Silk Road, even if it is only preliminary. Success is also gratifying.As soon as Lin Jun stepped into the household department, Yangzhou reported a funeral to the Rongguo Mansion in the middle of Beijing before he could sit still. Jia Min, the fourth daughter of the Lin family's wife in the Rongguo Mansion...is gone!

Jia Min's health has not been very good these years.When she got the news of her father Jia Daishan's death, she was pregnant with the child, and almost became popular because of it, so she had to rely on anti-fetal drugs to forcibly keep the fetus.Afterwards, she first gave birth to Lin Daiyu as an advanced mother, and then she became pregnant again and gave birth to a boy. Older mothers are a big problem. Even in modern times, it is easy to cause pregnancy-induced hypertension and other diseases. In ancient times, it was even more serious. There is no solution.Although the two pregnancies were separated by a few years, her body was completely destroyed.

The story of Jia's mother's sale of sacrificial fields spread from the capital to the south of the Yangtze River. It is said that like a mother, like a daughter, this incident completely ruined her reputation. How could the blow not make her heartbroken, and she really couldn't afford to fall ill.

This is not a big deal, but last year's winter solstice, the piercing treasonous incident first caused her natal family to fall into chaos, and then her husband Lin Hai was also involved, and both Jia and Lin were almost forced into it. In a desperate situation, one side is the husband's family, the other is the mother's family, and both sides are involved in the unforgivable crime of ransacking the family and exterminating the genocide. How can she not worry about it?

After finally spending countless silver to save the Lin family, his already weak body couldn't hold it up this time. He fell down and couldn't get up again. After half a year of serious illness, he passed away. Compared with the original book, It's still a few months early.

When Jia Min was seriously ill and was bedridden, the Jia family was still thinking about how to kill Jia Yuanchun so that he could get rid of the crime of treason, but they just sent two letters to check on his illness.After Jia Yuanchun's affairs were over, Jia Zheng was pushed to the cusp of a war between noble families, and the entire Rongguo Mansion was involved, fighting desperately with the family, and did not pay attention to Jia Min's condition.Then Jia Amnesty clamored to separate the family from Jia Zheng, and finally the family was separated. The situation calmed down a bit, and Jia's mother was too busy to forget about Jia Min.Who knew that the news of her daughter's death was received at this moment? !

Mother Jia's life is not very good these days, her youngest son who has always been "loved very much" was driven by Jia She to live in Lixiangyuan, and it is very inconvenient to see his mother every day and have to go in and out of the gate.The housekeeper has also changed from Mrs. Wang to Wang Xifeng, the eldest wife's granddaughter-in-law. Although both of them have the surname Wang, and Wang Xifeng has a bright temperament, can talk and be funny, but she is from the eldest family after all.This Wang Xifeng's eyes are very sharp, and she can see clearly who she should be attached to. When the second house was in charge of the house, she was busy with Mrs. Wang every day. Now that the eldest house is in charge, she goes directly to Jia She and Xing's courtesies. There is only one thing in her mind. How can we not let her feel lost when all the weight is placed on her, an old lady?

Thanks to the bullets of the aristocratic family, the arrogance of the Rongguo Mansion has become a great sin.Jia's mother used to pay a lot of attention to meals. Tofu should be served with ham, and when it comes out of the pot, the ham should be discarded and only tofu should be eaten. A plate of eggplant should use more than a dozen chickens, and a bowl of soup should use dozens of chickens. Fish brains.She was born as a concubine, so it was inevitable that everything went wrong when she was in her natal family. After she got married, she had to serve her in-laws and it was difficult for her to be independent. When her in-laws were boiled to death, her husband also died, so it would be her turn, an old lady, to enjoy herself. .She alone has to eat dozens of taels of silver every day. How can she know how to write the word thrift?

Thinking about Guo Jing first meeting Huang Rong in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Huang Rong deliberately ordered dozens of dishes and cooked them twice, using dozens of chickens and ducks, but it only cost 19 taels and four cents. This amount of money is enough for an ordinary family to spend for several months, but it is not enough for Jia Mu to eat for a day.Now that extravagance is considered a crime, Jia's mother's treatment immediately plummeted. She still dare not call Jia pardon them for being unfilial. Which is more important, the national law or filial piety? Is she going to violate the national law and drag her son into the water?Her reputation is already bad enough, if the trouble continues, will it be Jia Amnesty or her?

At this time, Jia's mother could see it clearly. In terms of Jia Zheng's current crisis, he could only do this in his life. Not to mention Jia She has a son Jia Lian. Even if Jia She and Jia Lian died, it would not be Jia's turn. Zheng came to attack the noble.If she really made a fuss about Jia She and lost his title, then the Rongguo Mansion would be finished, and neither the emperor nor the crown prince would retain the Jia family's title.When Jia Zheng loses his backing, he will not be able to lose his official position?If the two sons are finished, she will not be able to be the old lady, and her glory and wealth will be gone.So Mother Jia didn't dare to say a word, and she could only stand up to the decline in salary.She still looks aggrieved, now every meal is not chicken, duck and fish in turn, so she still has the face to say that her life is miserable?

In any case, when Jia Min died, someone had to be sent to the funeral. Their Jia family used to be ignorant of etiquette, but it is different now. One of the complaints against Jia Zheng is that he dared to give birth to a child in a filial piety without abiding by etiquette. The entire Jia clan was watched closely by the family, so if they did something against etiquette at this time, wouldn't the memorials be like snowflakes all over the Longshu case?

The Rongguo Mansion, which is very honest, has been obediently guarding the great merit for nine months, and dare not slack off in the slightest. Jia pardoned Jia Zheng, Wang's family, Xing family, including Jia Lian and his generation, honestly wearing the great meritorious attire. The red lanterns at home were also replaced with white ones, and the bright colors were quickly withdrawn, and I dared not have chicken, duck and fish, for fear that the censors would stab the emperor to eat along with the whole family. Hang down.

The funeral errands, Jia She, Jia Lian and his son volunteered to lead them, and now the whole capital is staring at the Rongguo Mansion. In such an atmosphere, who knows who is there, every move is watched by others, there is a big problem with flies It can be said to be the size of an elephant. Leaving the capital can just escape the sight of so many people. It would be a fool not to leave.

The two of them went to the south of the Yangtze River with a lot of money, leaving only Jia Zheng to suffer in Beijing.The emperor did not convict him, and he still sat comfortably in Yuanwailang's position, but now he is greeted with all kinds of contemptuous looks whenever he goes out, and even the most humble official doesn't take it seriously when he arrives at the Yamen. In his eyes, the boss would not say anything to him except reprimand, and other colleagues looked at him like a ghost.Walking on the street, even a scholar who has not been caught by everyone dares to spit at him, and even a carriage can't stop the disgusting eyes around him.He simply said he was sick and squatted in Lixiangyuan, and only talked about poetry with the Qing guests every day, as if the outside world didn't exist, and he anesthetized himself and indulged in the hypocritical praise of the Qing guests and couldn't extricate himself.

Mrs. Wang's life is also difficult. Since she separated and moved to Lixiangyuan, she has never received invitations from those honorable wives.It turned out that people thought she was the wife in power in the Duke's mansion, but now she has become the wife of a fifth-rank official. How can anyone look at her highly?It would be fine if Jia Zheng was willing to live up to his expectations, but Jia Zheng is a wimp. He has a temper at home and dares to scold anyone, but he has no skills when he is outside. He is being teased by others. Madam's situation?Now Mrs. Wang is unwilling to go out. She always feels that when others see her, they laugh at her in their hearts. Who can understand such a sense of loss when the majestic headed wife is reduced to a small courtyard with the whole family and servants?

Jia Zhu's health was not good, and she wished she could lie in bed for ten months out of a year. Li Wanguang was too busy taking care of him and his son Jia Lan, so he had no time to take care of his in-laws.

Because of the crime of giving birth in filial piety, Jia Zheng was very angry with Aunt Zhao's mother and son. In his eyes, he himself was the most polite, so the one who was wrong must be seducing his Aunt Zhao.In a fit of anger, he drove Aunt Zhao's mother and son to the farm under his name in the outskirts, and he didn't bother to care about their life or death.As for Tanchun... Mrs. Wang is not even the wife of the family now, so she is not in the mood to use her to show her kindness, but just throw it aside and let this little girl live worse than a servant.Jia Zheng was also angry at Aunt Zhao because of her, and it was as if she hadn't seen it when she saw it, so the servants in the whole yard didn't take her seriously, and all the valuable things in the house were divided by the servants, and they were left alone. She couldn't eat three meals a day, but she was just struggling to survive.

Today's Rongguo Mansion is lifeless, like an old horse whose lifespan is coming to an end, lying on the ground, unable to even bark, that kind of eerie silence makes people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts, covered by the twilight breath Can't hide it.