Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

It is actually very easy to eradicate the Baolinghou historian, as long as the old emperor makes up his mind, it is actually just a matter of one sentence.

Yes, it is as simple as a sentence, but the difficulty is how to make the old emperor willingly make up his mind.

Since ancient times, some emperors may have great talents when they were young, but when they passed the passionate and ambitious prime of life, the older they got, the more they wanted to leave a good reputation in the history of the ages, so they gradually became soft-hearted, lest the history books give themselves Gain a reputation for cruelty.But they don't know that their "kindness" to officials and nobles is their inhumanity to the common people!It is inhumane to the whole country!

The collapse of Bowling Hou's historian can be described as earth-shattering, but it was flat and silent.For ordinary people, this incident is just adding some chatter in the tea shed. The so-called ancient and modern things are all jokes.But for the nobles, especially the Jia family, it was like a thunderbolt.When Jiamu Shi heard the news, she became dizzy for a while, and almost fell to the ground with black eyes.

In this era, a woman's power in the back house must be supported either by her husband and son, or by the support of her natal family, relatives and friends.

But now, Shi's husband, Jia Daishan, is dead, and she is still mad at her.The eldest son and her have long been divorced, and there is only a little face left.The second son went out of the house again and did not live next to him. Although he could see him every day, he was separated by a floor.Now that such a tragedy happened to her natal family again, she would have nothing to rely on in the future.

Yes, it is true that the Baolinghou historians have drifted away from the Jia family because of her private sale of sacrificial fields, but it is because of the broken bones and tendons. As long as she is still surnamed Shi, as long as she is not expelled from the shrine The clan is still a part of the historian family and will be blessed by the family.

As long as there is the protection of the family, no matter how impatient the daughter-in-law Xing is, she still has to respect her and be in awe of her. She doesn't dare to argue with her too much, for fear that the historians will find trouble for her.

But now?The historian has been convicted of ransacking his home and has completely collapsed.There is no one left in the whole family, and she, a married woman, has not been greatly implicated, but there is the example of Princess Yang of the Shun Palace who is there, even if she refuses to become a monk, there will still be people in the Jia Mansion in the future. What power is there?

From a certain point of view, Jia Mu and the old emperor are somewhat similar. Power is more important to them than anything else. They can sacrifice everything for power. Even their own descendants are not as powerful as momentary power important.

Losing power and the position of the old lady is definitely more painful than killing her.Jia's mother walked step by step, from a little concubine who needed to look at her aunt's eyes to the official wife of a super-grade Duke, from a timid daughter-in-law who followed the rules to an old lord who can toss her daughter-in-law.Now her decades of hard work are about to go to waste, but she has no way to save the situation. She can only watch her stepping into the abyss step by step with wide eyes. How can she not make her heartbroken?

Even though it was heartbreaking, Jia's mother did not dare to complain.

The historian was ransacked and exterminated because of the crime of collaborating with the enemy. If she dared to complain, wouldn't she say that she was dissatisfied with His Majesty's execution?Didn't it mean that she was involved in the heinous crime of treason?If this is the case, not to mention her being an old lady, the entire Jia family will be implicated, and even be ransacked and wiped out.

... No, no, the emperor is very kind, and there is nothing wrong with His Majesty's handling.Without involving people other than the historians, it is already His Majesty's magnanimity to be able to stop the three clans and punish the nine clans. If she bumped into her head-on, wouldn't she be crushed to pieces?

She can't die, she can't die!She has to live, she has to enjoy a rich life, and she has to control the power of the Jia family to be her old lord!

That is to say, but Shi's spirit was sluggish. She was supported by the mandarin duck and lay down on the bed, covered with a soft and warm quilt. What should I do...

For Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng, this heavy hammer was hard enough.

Mrs. Wang, the second bedroom, always talked about the matter after she became the county magistrate in the past. She thought that with the meritorious protection in the family, it didn't matter even if the sky was pierced. How could anyone dare to convict her? ?Back then, she didn't show it on the face of loan sharking, but she didn't take it seriously in her heart. At most, she just remembered the slap of Jia She, and she didn't think it was a thing at all.She has done all the things of champering lawsuits, how big can a usury be?She also secretly ridiculed that the members of the Jia family were ignorant and did not know how to use their power.

But when it came time for the historian to be executed, Mrs. Wang was also very frightened.

It's fine for other people to know the basics, but this Bowlinghou historian has been their relative for many years, so how can they not know what's going on?

That historian was a marquis who was personally conferred by Emperor Gao for his great achievements when the country was founded, and he still inherits the title of marquis until now.It is not an exaggeration to say that the family is full of dignitaries and dignitaries. Compared with the Jia family, it is much stronger than the Wang family, and it is not much worse than the Wang family, but what about now?

It was just a word from the Son of Heaven, and it completely collapsed, leaving nothing left.The dead are extremely miserable, and the living are worse off than dead. How can this kind of tragic situation be around them, can it not be frightening?

For the first time, Mrs. Wang felt the horror of imperial power and the strictness of the law.Didn't you never see family raids and family exterminations in the past, San Francisco riots, winter solstice palace changes, didn't they kill heads rolling and blood flow like rivers?But this time, it was more direct and ruthless than any other time before, directly inserting into her heart, hurting her soul.

In the past, the Zhen family was on the same level as the Jia family, and they had been relatives for many years, but after all they lived in Jinling, which was too far away from the capital.The daily communication is nothing more than New Year's etiquette and occasional letters. Their communication is still far away, and they can numb themselves, as if they can't see anything.

The Dongping County King and Nan'an County King are too lofty, and the difference in level is too far away on weekdays. They are separated by more than one floor or two, so there is really no sense of substitution.Even if they are seen being ransacked and beheaded by the whole family, as long as they are not hooked up with the Jia family, they can still ignore them, and at most they can only sigh a few words.

But this historian is too close, they are almost the same as the Jia family.Does the suffering of the historian herald the future demise of the Jia family?How can such psychological hints not make people feel chilling? !

It is true that ransacking the family and exterminating the clan is a serious crime, but if the distance is too far, some people will not have much fear of this one.It wasn't until they saw such a tragic situation happening around them with their own eyes that they could draw out the fear that had been hidden from the deepest part of their hearts, so that they would not dare to continue to numb themselves...

With the extinction of Dongping County King, Nan'an County King, the century-old Yang family and the Baolinghou historian, I don't know how many dignitaries and Shixun have been severely hammered.However, human nature always forgets to eat and not to fight, and they don't know how long the pain in their hearts will last in their minds, and whether these people will relapse and lead themselves to the On the same path to extinction as these fallen.

Lin Daiyu is still very young after all, although she has matured a little due to her relationship with Jia's family, but she is just a little girl who doesn't know the world.She only knew that the old lady's natal family was ransacked and exterminated by the emperor, but she didn't understand what it was like to feel the pain of a family being destroyed.

During the few years she lived at home in Yangzhou, both her father Lin Hai and her mother Lin Jiashi were always worried and worried. I can feel the fear hidden behind my parents.

She has a good memory and still remembers that when her mother was still alive, an official from Beijing once visited her home and had a long conversation with her father.After he left, my father became sad and sighed, and my mother sent her back to the room directly, not allowing her to ask any more questions.

A few days later, many boxes and decorations were escorted out of the house and disappeared without a trace.She remembered asking her sick mother what was going on at home.

How did Lin Jiashi answer back then?

Jia Min was silent for a long time, and then slowly said in an irrelevant way: "Yu'er, you must remember in the future that the affairs of the royal family are absolutely untouchable. Imperial power... is the most powerful thing in the world." Now, looking at the gentle wind and drizzle, once it touches it, it will be thunderous. Don't touch it, otherwise you will be smashed to pieces..."

Jia Min herself didn't know why she said these things to her young and ignorant daughter. She probably felt that her life was not long at that time, so she planned to tell her something in case she would make a mistake. Under the same error.

Daiyu felt that she seemed to have seen the imperial power that her mother talked about back then.She still doesn't know what imperial power is, but she seems to know what it represents. It can make everyone panic, and it can also eradicate all obstacles from the root.

She can feel the entanglement and pain of everyone around her, and she can also feel the bumps and sway of Jia's house.Everyone here seems to be sitting on a small boat in a storm, and it seems that a little force will capsize the boat they are sitting on, fall into the water and drown.So all the people didn't even dare to breathe, but they still kept their faces straight, pretending to be indifferent.

Daddy, my mother's family is not as good as you said, Yu'er is so scared here, can Yu'er go home?

Although such a big thing happened in Qianxiang country's head, the main hostile force of the Jing Dynasty was still designated as the northern barbarian country.

Before defeating the Northern Barbarian Kingdom, one hair would affect the whole body. No one wanted to waste precious opportunities to prepare for war and money and food for a Qianxiang country that was far away from the land and had no decent resources.

Situ Sheng's approach was to order the expulsion of people from Qianxiang Country nationwide, whether they came to Dajing for business or students who came to the Central Plains to study advanced cultural ideas, they would be deported immediately upon discovery.Those who dare not leave will be executed on the spot!

The patrolling ships at sea have the right to take the initiative to attack as long as they see the ships of the Qianxiang Kingdom in the offshore area. If they encounter the merchant ships of the Qianxiang Kingdom, the soldiers are allowed to plunder without handing them in.

The main source of income and daily necessities for the people of Qianxiang country comes from the trade between Qianxiang and Dajing. Now that one end of the trade is forcibly blocked, the trade immediately becomes unbalanced.

Only Jingchao merchants sell supplies to Qianxiang Country, and merchants from Qianxiang Country are not allowed to enter Jingguo business. Even if there are cases of successful smuggling and smuggling through luck, it is a drop in the bucket after all, and the profits obtained are undoubtedly a drop in the bucket.

The trade imbalance immediately made life difficult for the people of Qianxiang Country.Specialties and fruits that could have been sold to Yasukuni for high profits are now rotting in the ground and cannot be sold at all.However, merchants in Yasukuni took advantage of this opportunity to loot, and the supplies they sold became more and more expensive, and even became several to ten times the original price.

Qianxiang Country was hit by a strong wind this year, and the grain was blown to the ground by the strong wind as soon as it grew, resulting in no harvest.Under the same circumstances in the past, the citizens of Qianxiang Kingdom needed to buy a large amount of food from Yasukuni to survive the disaster year.

But now the merchants from Qianxiang Country's own country are not allowed to enter Dajing at all, and the merchants coming from Dajing are becoming more and more ruthless one by one.They seem to have discussed it a long time ago, and everyone said the same thing - do you want food?No no.But at such a price, do you like to buy it or not, and you are not willing to sell it if you don’t buy it!

What kind of price is it?

A stone of grain costs a tael of silver!This is simply sky-high!

Even after deducting the damage and consumption of shipping by sea, the grain is too expensive to sell!

We must know that the weather in Dajing is good this year, and the country has a good harvest of grain. Even if the price of grain after the autumn harvest has been stabilized by the government, it has risen a lot, and it is only seventy yuan per stone.Now the prices offered by these merchants are more than ten times the purchase price!A tael of silver is only sold for a stone. Isn't this price a steal? !

The income originally obtained from Dajing was abruptly cut off by the court, and now they have to spend sky-high prices to buy such expensive grains. This group of Jing people is completely worse!

All the Jingchao businessmen said, do you like to buy or not, anyway, the uncle has food, so don't you worry about not being able to sell it?

Several island countries next to Qianxiang country are also suffering from famine. Who is not selling it to?Isn't it the same to sell them?It's a big deal to make an extra trip, and it doesn't take much trouble.

Seeing these Yasukuni merchants put on such a face, Qianxiang Kingdom immediately relented. These people only brought a little food this time, and it would be useless even if they robbed them. If they offended them, they would have no food.If you buy it, you can buy expensive and deadly food, but what can you do if you don’t buy it?Are you starving to death?

This group of grain dealers sold the grain at a high price and were not honest, and secretly spread news in Qianxiang's country by taking the opportunity of selling grain.They said that it was because the lord of the Qianxiang Kingdom sent someone to assassinate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Dajing Dynasty, which led to the disaster of banning trade and skyrocketing food prices.They sell grain like this under the order of their own country's court, otherwise they wouldn't be so ruthless.

Although these words are true, they are not so plain to the ears of the people of Qianxiang country.This undoubtedly planted a seed in the hearts of the people who depended on the sea trade with Dajing to survive. Although this seed has not germinated yet, when the time comes, it will cause a turmoil beyond everyone's imagination.

It was Lin Jun's suggestion to expel the citizens of Qianxiang, but it was Jiang Yuan's strategy to unilaterally cut off trade and raise food prices.

In this era, there is no such thing as economic war, and no one has seen the power of the economy. In this era of robbing resources by force, and in a period when there is no check and balance between major powers, such "peaceful" wars as economic war basically do not exist. of.But at some point, this cross-generational approach can still be effective.

Although Jiang Yuan, the former owner of the security company, doesn't quite understand the invisible gunpowder between countries, he still has a general idea.

For a country with a large population and low grain production like Qianxiang Country, as long as the grain is pinched, it is equivalent to pinching its seven inches.This is not a modern society with developed logistics and commercial globalization. If you can’t buy it in one country, you can buy it in another country.

As far as the current navigation technology and shipbuilding technology are concerned, Qianxiang Country basically has no choice.

Buy food from the Wa country?Japan itself is suffering from famine!

Buy from Korea?With the current ships of Qianxiang Kingdom, it is impossible to travel so far in the open sea to buy grain on a large scale in Korea.Otherwise, there would be no need for the historians to transport the assassins, they would be able to transport the assassins to the vicinity of the capital by themselves.

Do not buy food from Yasukuni?Hmph, if you don’t buy it, you’ll starve to death!

After all, Jiang Yuan is not an expert specializing in economics, he can only provide a general idea, but when he handed over the idea to His Royal Highness, and after discussion with the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, these officials who specialize in managing the national income immediately said Came up with one hot idea after another.These strategies may not be precise enough, and compared with the economic and trade giants of the later generations, they are simply a world of difference, but in this era where there is no concept of economic warfare, these methods are enough to force Qianxiang to vomit blood.

Jiang Yuan made no exception that the Qianxiang Congress became the first country in history to fall into an economic war. It was because the economy and trade of the Qianxiang Country was too dependent on Dajing.As long as Dajing can control all the trade of Qianxiang Kingdom step by step, after Qianxiang Kingdom cannot do without the merchants of Yasukuni, is it not a matter of the imperial court wanting to round it up and flatten it?

The merchants who went to Qianxiang country to sell grain were nominally grain merchants of Dajing country, but in fact, the Ministry of household and the whole country stood behind them.The food price of these two grains of silver is just a temptation. Once the huge benefits let these hungry wolves taste the freshness, then the hornless and immobile sheep in Qianxiang Kingdom can only wait to be squeezed dry. A little profit, and then suffered the fate of being dismembered...

It's really scary, it seems that some monster has been released...

Jiang Yuan evoked a smirk, he would not admit that it was because the time was too boring to gloat.However, the war against the Northern Barbarian Kingdom will continue to wait, so it is no wonder that he wants to vent his anger on the Qianxiang Kingdom.

On the ninth day of September, the Double Ninth Festival, climb high and look far away, enjoy chrysanthemums and eat crabs.

Foreigners rarely appreciate this kind of creature with teeth and claws. Those Europeans and Americans also eat sea crabs, but they seem to ignore the deliciousness and juiciness of freshwater crabs. However, Jiang Yuan, a purebred Chinese, likes crabs very much. of.A Zhuangzi under Guanyinghou's mansion produces crabs. When the season comes, Zhuangtou drives a carriage and personally sends several boxes of female crabs to the mansion, just to let the masters have a fresh taste.

The box was specially made, with thick wooden boards on the outside, a layer of tin inside to insulate the heat, ice cubes in the middle, and a small hole at the bottom to facilitate the flow of water from the ice cubes, so as not to corrode the wooden box. Slows down the rate at which ice cubes melt.The crabs are still alive and kicking when they are delivered from Zhuangzi to the mansion. There is no problem at all, and they are no worse than the refrigerators of later generations.

This thing is the wisdom of the ancient people. I heard that there was a similar thing in the Zhou Dynasty. The name is Bingjian, which is equivalent to the ancient refrigerator. Jiang Yuan was amazed to see it.

Crabs are steamed or boiled, or fried or deep-fried, and there are several ways to eat them.With a few delicate side dishes and a pot of warming old wine, it is the best family feast for the Double Ninth Festival.

Jiang Xuan is already able to eat by himself, and Jiang Yuan does not allow anyone to feed him, fearing that something wrong with his pet, and he will become a useless playboy in the future, so he only puts him on a special high chair and asks him to hold a small spoon to feed himself. Scoop the porridge in a bowl to eat.

The child looked down at the porridge in his bowl, then at the abundant dishes on the table, pouted in dissatisfaction, and shouted that he wanted to eat too.

"Do you want to eat? Can you peel crabs?" Jiang Yuan teased him with a smile, and handed him a steamed crab for him to hold by himself.

The little child held a big crab by himself. After looking at it for a long time, he didn't know how to eat it, and felt that it was not easy to bite anywhere.He tried to take a bite, but only got a hard shell. The child didn't cry, but just handed the crab back to Jiang Yuan with his mouth flattened, and said softly, "Daddy help me."

Hearing the soft voice of the tiger-headed and tiger-nained son, Jiang Yuan's heart almost melted, and he took the crab with a smile and helped him take it apart.He was sensible, the child was too young to eat more of this cold food, so he only dug out a spoonful of crab roe and put it in a small plate in front of Jiang Xuan, and refused to give the rest.

Xiao Jiangxuan carefully put the crab roe into his mouth with a spoon, and showed a big smile in satisfaction, "Thank you, Daddy!"

"Good son." Jiang Yuan touched his son's little head, looked at his wife who was serving him wine, and smiled very gently.

In the past two lives, he seems to have no fate with his parents. Every time his parents left him early, the lack of family affection did not make him indifferent, but made him yearn for his own family affection even more.

This little child carried his two lives' desire for bloodliness, so it aroused his tenderness.He doesn't feel that being a loving father is a weak thing, and he doesn't feel that he will lose the motivation to move forward if he is bound.On the contrary, it is precisely because he has become a father and has a complete family that he feels that he has more responsibilities and that he has more goals in his heart.

This world is no longer irrelevant to him, even for his blood, he wants to create a better world!

He wants to conquer a large territory and leave it to his son to gallop the world!