The Red Mansions

Chapter 105 In the Daming Palace
Jia Heng was silent about Jia's mother's "playing rogue".

Jia's mother said: "Brother Heng, I know that you have been wronged. Since you recognize yourself as Ningguo, don't say anything about expulsion. I have also been deceived. You know, you can't write two Jias in one stroke." Words, blood is thicker than water, breaking bones and connecting tendons, if you don't breathe, I will apologize to you..."

Jia's mother is also going all out at the moment, and she is going to salute Jia Heng as she speaks.

Jia Heng's complexion darkened, and he hid aside. If he accepted this gift, he would really know how to advance or retreat, and things would boil over.

But it also shows how far Jia's mother has been forced.

It's really urgent.

Jia Heng hid aside, with a solemn expression, and said with great emotion: "Mrs. Rong Guotai, Heng has always admired your high morals and prestige, so I dare not accept this gift. Whether it is a self-talk or a real thing about the expulsion, let me resign from the honorary table. I will present all the texts above, the sages say, the brilliance of a gentleman, beheaded in the fifth generation, and Ning Guo took the title, although there is no fifth life, it has been a hundred years, blindly sheltering under the shadow of the ancestors, it is meaningless."

After finishing speaking, he handed the form to Dai Quan, cupped his hands and said: "Eunuch, the emperor's will is mighty, and I dare not disobey it, but please bring this form."

Dai Quan nodded, took the memorial, and said, "Jia Ziyu, don't worry."

This eunuch who is in charge of the security of the internal investigation factory knows a little more about Jia Heng's background through the secret spy information, the young hero, Jane is in the heart of the emperor.

Dai Quan then glanced at the members of the Jia clan, and said: "It's getting late, the miscellaneous family has returned to the palace to report their orders."

After speaking, without further words, he turned around and took the inner guard with him, and left in a hurry.

All of a sudden, only members of the Jia family and Jia Heng remained in the courtyard of the Jia family's ancestral hall.

Jiamu's face was slumped, and she murmured: "Resignation from the noble table..."

Jia She, who was on the side, gave Jia Heng a cold look, and said, "How can the Holy Majesty agree? The imperial edict after sympathizing with the meritorious officials has been clearly issued at home and abroad, how can it be changed? Mother, I said that this person is acting like a good boy because of the cheapness. Don't you believe me?" .”

As soon as these words came out, Jia's mother's face changed, she looked up at the young man with suspicion in her old eyes.

Yes, how to change the edict issued by the emperor?

Jia Heng didn't say much, just glanced at Jia She, and was too lazy to explain.

That's why he insisted on not accepting it. What's the use of this title other than being famous?

Jia Amnesty talks now, and he will still say it in the future. Even if one day, he has achieved something, the members of the Jia clan will still say that it is all because of this title.

And after this incident, this title really became a hot potato for him.

Because people's hearts are ghosts, they don't look at what you say, they only look at what you end up with in the end.

If he finally accepts the title again, there will be some dark-minded people who will criticize him as treacherous and loyal, hypocritical and cunning.

"The Son of Heaven will not be ignorant of the secrets here. If the Son of Heaven wants to use me, if he doesn't even consider this concern, then don't blame the emperor for treating his subjects as worthless, and the ministers for treating them as enemies." Jia Heng thought, Without further words, he turned and left Ningguo Mansion.

Jia Zheng sighed and said, "Mother, the patriarch has left, what should we do now?"

Jia Mu said: "Since the imperial decree has been issued, he has now taken over the title. It's a foregone conclusion. It can't be done if he doesn't recognize it."

Jia She's eyes darkened, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said: "Ning's family property must never fall into the hands of such people! Rong'er and Qiang'er have sorted out the deeds of the fields, houses and shops in Ning's mansion. , go to the West Mansion, don’t leave him a little, give him an empty Duke’s Mansion, and see how he turns around!"

Jia Zheng, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing: "..."

Sister Feng glanced at Jia Amnesty, and thought to herself, as expected of you, my lord, who can still come up with such a trick?
Jia's mother's face was blue and red, and she couldn't speak for a long time. Finally, she sighed and said, "Why do you want to leave two or three percent of the farm and shop and let him live a good life? It's our Jia family who can't help him. .”

Well, Mother Jia is still benevolent.

The farms and shops in Ningguo Mansion all earn tens of thousands of taels a year, leaving [-] to [-] percent, which is actually quite a lot.

It's just that Jia Zhen spent a lot of money in her previous life. Not only did she spend extravagantly on clothes and utensils, but she also married several wives. In addition, the Lai family was corrupt, so she didn't make much money in a year.

Sister Feng smiled and said: "The old ancestor is kind-hearted, I think that Uncle Heng is not ignorant, [-]% to [-]% is enough for his family to eat."

Seeing the people in the West Mansion in front of you sharing their property, You Shi felt a sense of absurdity in his heart.

Her husband is still in prison!

On this side, Jia Amnesty was already in a hurry, and he summoned Jia Lian, Jia Rong, and Jia Qiang to count the properties in Ningguo Mansion.

Not mentioning the fact that the Jia family was separated for the sake of the nobles and wealth, there was a lot of wind and clouds, but it was said that Dai Quan took the form, rode on his horse, and returned to the Daming Palace.

In Daming Palace——

In the study room of the side hall, Emperor Chongping, dressed in a bright yellow crown suit and with a dignified demeanor, had just had his lunch. Sitting behind the table, he summoned several cabinet elders to discuss side matters.

Emperor Chongping's complexion was not bad, not as severe as before.

It turned out that it was because of Kang Hong and Shandong Admiral Lu Qi's timely reinforcements that the rampage of the Donglu cavalry was slightly curbed, and they were suppressed in Zhuozhou and Gu'an, and the corruption in Hebei was initially eased.

Emperor Chongping looked calmly at Li Zan, a scholar in the Hall of Martial Arts, Minister of the Ministry of War, and said: "What Li Qing said just now is not unreasonable. Prefectural and county regiments practice the method of rural bravery, guarding in prefectures and counties, and acting as horns of each other. At that time, if there are police in one place, more will come to rescue, or the enemy cavalry will fall into the mud and cannot move."

This is a strategy proposed by Li Zan, a scholar of the Wuyingdian University, that is, all the people in Hebei become soldiers and give full military autonomy to the prefecture and county levels.

Now that the Eastern Cavalry is full of iron cavalry, then the prefectures and counties will recruit Hebei warriors who dare to fight, form a village brave group to practice, and protect the hometown.

Yang Guochang, the chief minister of the cabinet, frowned, held an ivory jade wat, bowed and said: "My lord, this policy consumes a lot of money and food, if it is only raised by the local gentry, there is a possibility that clans and localities will raise private soldiers. "

He thinks that this policy is really a policy of harming the country, and the Chu Party is harming the country!

Li Zan was from Hunan. This scholar was born in Jingchu. He was tall and thin, with a thin face and a beautiful beard.

He is good at military strategy and good at planning military affairs. After he was released from the Imperial Academy, he successively served as a political envoy in Henan, a political envoy in Henan, the governor of Henan, the right deputy capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the governor of Guizhou as a servant of the Ministry of War. Shangshu, transferred to the center.

Chen Han also imitated the Ming system, and set up a governor at the provincial level, often with the title of the right deputy capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so the governor is often called Zhongcheng.

Li Zan was regarded as a courtier whom Emperor Chongping admired when he was hiding in his residence.

Li Zan said with emotion: "The prefectures and counties raise their own military rations, and the Ministry of War will sue them and have the right to dispatch them temporarily. After they are successful, they will be given generous salaries of coins and silks. In this way, the Ministry of War does not charge a soldier a single salary, but collects tens of dollars." Wan Zhi died, why did Yang Ge not allow it?"

Yang Guochang was in charge of the household department, so he was naturally sensitive to money and food, so there was a wave of debate just now, and Li Zan's explanation was not inappropriate.

"Then why don't you recruit soldiers who dared to fight in Yanzhao into the army, and be ordered by the imperial court? After all, it's still your military department," Yang Guochang asked back, and Cang said: "Rites and music can't be conquered by the emperor. If things go on like this, the beginning of chaos!"

In his view, this is a policy that harms the country and disrupts the government.

"They are rewarded by the emperor, and the name and utensils are held by the emperor. One word can be given, and one word can be taken away. How can they mess up the government? Advance and retreat are dispatched, and their own military department writes. Why do you say that the conquest does not come from the emperor?" Li Zan's complexion Indifferent, argue hard.

Yang Guochang said in a deep voice: "The history is clear and full of blood and tears. The local soldiers and horses are self-raised, and the states and counties are in charge of their own affairs. The disaster of the Tang Dynasty is not far away."

At the beginning of the Huangchao uprising, the place was smashed into pieces, and the Tang court center was unable to destroy it, so it could only loosen the ties of the local vassals. Since then, the center has gradually stopped Chang'an.

As far back as the Three Kingdoms period, when the yellow scarves were a disaster, Liu Yan, the son of the emperor at the time, also proposed to Emperor Ling the policy of restoring the prefectural herdsmen, and Emperor Ling agreed to loosen the ties on a large scale.

The relationship between the center and the locality can be said to have run through the feudal dynasty of the prefecture and county system. The Song Dynasty learned from the lessons of the former Tang Dynasty and collected personnel and financial power in the central center. It's a back and forth on this issue.

Even later generations have discussed the ten major relationships, the relationship between the center and the place.

The original text reads: "Consolidate the unified leadership of the central government and expand local power."

To put it bluntly, it is an objective problem in itself to give full play to the autonomy and enthusiasm of local governments while taking into account the prestige of the central government and to make orders consistent.

Especially at the end of the dynasty, the central state machinery was malfunctioning, class conflicts were sharp, and peasant uprisings were surging. If the localities were not loosened, the peasant uprising army could not be wiped out.

Local separatism, martial arts in power.

But now Yang Guochang obviously thinks that letting local officials and gentry organize group training is a test on this issue. Once this opening is opened, how will the next step be to drill and order these group training? Is it necessary to give more power to the northern states and counties?
At that time, there were thieves and bandits in the provinces, states and counties of the world from time to time, should we also give them power?
Li Zan said in a deep voice: "I am not a great man from the previous dynasty. Now that the country's military affairs are not strong, I want to follow the example of the former Han and implement expedient measures in Hebei and other places."

Yang Guochang shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that once this case is implemented, the world will be in chaos."

(End of this chapter)