Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

In order to ensure that the training can be completed smoothly, Jia Lian specially formulated a reward and punishment system. If a soldier falls behind and the corporal leader ignores it, the corporal leader will deduct the current month's salary.

On the contrary, if the recruits can complete the training and not fall behind, Jia Lian will reward the corporal leader Jia's secret medicinal wine.

This will greatly mobilize the enthusiasm of veterans and recruits.

In fact, Jia Lian used desalinated spiritual spring water to help these soldiers with weaker physiques temper their physiques.

According to the current situation of these recruits, Jia Lian adopted a step-by-step approach. From the beginning, he only needed to insist on a two-hour rush march without falling behind, to requiring two hours to complete the sixty-mile rush march, and five days later, he required to run eighty miles.

Half a month later, another 300 people successfully completed the emergency march training.

Jia Lian prepared them in the same way and separated them to practice lightness climbing.

For a whole month, Jia Lian stayed in Xishan, eating and living with the soldiers.In order to temper the bodies of the remaining [-] soldiers, they bought medicinal materials out of their own pockets and concocted more than a thousand catties of medicinal wine.

One month later, the remaining 300 people all successfully completed the training and became the official Imperial Forest Army.

Eight hundred new recruits were recruited, and within one month, all of them were qualified to stay in the post, and Feng Tangmi reported to Beijing again.

Emperor Qianyuan was very ashamed after reading the secret book, and asked Feng Tang why Jia Lian paid for medicine and wine privately.

It turned out that the Ministry of War owed the military expenses of the Yulin Army. Because of time constraints, Jia Lian had no time to file a lawsuit with the Ministry of War, nor even to complain to Emperor Qianyuan. In order to solve the problem quickly, Jia Lian had to pay out of his own pocket.

Emperor Qianyuan became angry immediately, and first called King Xi Jun, who was in charge of the Ministry of War, to scold him: "I trust you to hand over the Ministry of War to you, but now I ask the chief officer to train the army for the court at his own expense, I am ashamed." Already!"

King Xijun was scolded, so of course he went to the Ministry of War to scold the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the Minister of the Ministry of War was also wronged.

The household department was also very wronged. The money that Emperor Qianyuan promised to allocate to the household department from the internal treasury had not been seen for a long time.

In the past few years, the Jiangnan area, which is a major taxpayer, has suffered from either drought or floods. The imperial court has reduced or exempted taxes every year, and Emperor Qianyuan agreed to allocate funds from the internal treasury.As for how to fill Emperor Qianyuan's internal treasury, only Emperor Qianyuan knew.

Following all the way, the head of the internal treasury was escorted to Emperor Qianyuan.

Emperor Qianyuan was furious: "How dare you obey my orders, and you dare to be greedy for the money I gave to the Imperial Forest Army?"

The head of the internal treasury immediately shouted for injustice: "Your Majesty, the servant did not even get a tael of silver into his pocket."

Emperor Qianyuan patted the table: "Then where did you say the money went?"

The main channel: "The emperor ordered the restoration of Chuxiu Palace and Yikun Palace, so, therefore..."

King Xijun and Minister of the Ministry of War immediately lowered their heads to their chests, not daring to look at Emperor Qianyuan's flushed old face.

It was the draft at the beginning of the year. In addition to accepting concubines for the sixth prince and the seventh prince, Emperor Qianyuan himself conferred twelve royal wives in one go, to make up for the large number of concubines who died because of Dai Quan's tyranny last time.

Among them were two people with beautiful voices, and Emperor Qianyuan loved him very much. He was overjoyed and canonized one Jieyu and the other Zhaoyi. Jieyu was conferred in Yikun Palace, and Zhaoyi lived in Chuxiu Palace.At that time, the beauty was in her arms, her mind was dizzy, and with a swipe of a pen, the palace was rebuilt.

There is nothing wrong with repairing the palace, but there is no money.

The manager has a very active mind.Jiang Zhaoyi and Zhang Jieyu met Emperor Qianyuan on the pillow every day, and he dared not offend him.Jia Lian is far away in Xishan, so he embezzled the money of the Imperial Forest Army.

When Emperor Qianyuan heard the words, he was so angry that a mouthful of old blood stuck in his heart, and an inkstone flew out and smashed the head of the chief executive's forehead with blood flying.

"I, that I drank too much that day."

Prince Xi nodded, expressing his understanding.

He is sincere.Emperor Qianyuan was cuckolded, outsiders don't know, but King Xijun knows it all.It is really a blessing that the poor emperor brother can regain his glory now.How can you be harsh on him and persuade him to restrain himself?

Emperor Qianyuan stared at the Shangshu of the Ministry of War with unfriendly eyes: "The silver brought back by King Xijun, I remember giving 200 million to the Ministry of War?"

Jin Shangshu bowed his waist and clasped his fists: "Reporting to Your Majesty, Your Majesty said that he wants to strengthen the capabilities of sea warfare in the sea. One million of that batch of silver has already been invested in the Naval Shipbuilding Office. The remaining 100 million will be partly repaid from the previous loan from the private sector. The remaining 100 , General Beijiang Wei reported that there was a change in the Northern Xinjiang Tatars, and they asked for a batch of new weapons to prepare for war. He asked for 30 military expenses, but I only gave them half. The remaining 30 and 15 silver have already been sent People are making all kinds of weapons for the Imperial Forest Army, and [-] silver is allocated to the Imperial Forest Army as a year's military salary."

Jia Lian's army of 200 men, among other things, only [-] silver is not enough for the military salary.Today, Jia Lian's army uniforms are not yet uniform, and the Imperial Forest Army now wears all kinds of clothes.

Emperor Qianyuan felt ashamed when he thought about it.

He frowned and asked: "The sea-going ship needs to be rebuilt? What about the Wang family's fleet?"

Shangshu said: "The Wang family's sailors can indeed help us train for sea navigation, but their ships are merchant ships without forts, and their speed is not as fast as pirate ships, so they are not suitable for combat at all."

Emperor Qianyuan frowned: "How have they survived all these years at sea?"

Jin Shangshu said: "they pay protection fees to the people, and the pirates generally don't chase them. Moreover, the fleet is used for business, and there are hundreds of thousands of income every year, which greatly eases the military salary in the sea. On this point, Wang Jiagong must."

Emperor Qianyuan nodded, but said: "Then, how much money does the Imperial Forest Army need to be fully armed?"

Jin Shangshu said: "They need five hundred shotguns. Our level of looting is limited, the success rate is very low, and the waste is great. It takes 1000 taels of silver to make one, and this alone is 50 silver. All weapons need to be made of refined iron, which is another big sum.”

Emperor Qianyuan muttered to himself: "Money, money, money, we must try to get money!"

King Xijun stepped forward and said: "My brother has two methods. One is to bring up the old matter again and continue to collect debts. The group of people who took refuge in the father last time can kill them. To fundamentally change our taxation system, the whip method of the previous dynasty is very practical, but it is difficult to implement because it touches the interests of the rich and powerful."

Emperor Qianyuan sighed: "The big landowners are all meritorious families, like confiscated historians, a little prince, who actually occupies an area of ​​[-] mu, does not pay taxes or food, can't finish it, and is tricked by a woman to rebel, You said it was ridiculous but not ridiculous!

"What can I do? Their merits are in the country, and the war is imminent, so I can't offend the meritorious deeds."

King Xijun said: "Then let's rescue the emergency first, and then collect the debt again."

Emperor Qianyuan circled around: "The last time the Ministry of Households took the lead, it was disturbed by the emperor. Who can withstand the pressure of the emperor this time?"

The king of Xijun handed over his hands and begged for orders: "My younger brother is willing to take the lead, but my younger brother wants to borrow the Xiaoqi camp and let them assist my younger brother in collecting debts."

Emperor Qianyuan raised his eyebrows: "You won't come up and search the house, right? This seems to be..."

Prince Xi waved his hand: "No, my ministers are civilized people, and they just cut off their connection with the emperor."

Emperor Qianyuan smiled immediately: "This idea seems to be good."

The next day, the courtiers who entered and exited the palace found that a check was added to the entrance of the palace, and officials whose families owed debts canceled the right to enter the palace to meet the saints.

Afterwards, all the debtors were invited to the Ministry of Households to drink tea. King Xijun personally received these officials above the fourth rank and asked them when the promise to repay the debt in batches made two years ago would be fulfilled.

At that time, it was agreed that if the debt could not be repaid on time, the house would be searched to pay off the debt.There are written records of these, and King Xi ordered the servants with a smile on his face to give them their respective letters of commitment.

One of the creditors was the eldest son of the princess mansion. He stood up suddenly and sneered: "At the beginning, my father died to quell the rebellion in northern Xinjiang. Why, now that my parents are not here, we are bullied and have nothing to rely on, right?"

King Xijun looked at this cousin and sneered. He was the one who led the crowd to make trouble last time.King Xijun decided to take him under the knife this time, otherwise the debt collection this time might come back in vain.

King Xijun sneered: "Both parents died? What do you want to say? Say I bully orphans? May I ask you to live longer this year? You are 45, and you are still young? Talk about your parents, your debts are owed by your parents? You You can tell that the sum is owed by the princess consort, and this king will carry it for you!"

Chen Rongquan's cheeks twitched when he heard the words, but he stood up and walked out without giving up: "Hmph, why should someone else bear my debts, I want to go to the palace to see the emperor."

King Xijun smiled and said, "I'm sorry, please pay the debt first, and then enter the palace." Then with a wave of his hand, the two classes of yamen servants quickly fought horizontally, blocking the door tightly.

Chen Rongquan's face turned pale immediately: "You guys, you are bullying too much. I will never give in." King Xijun said, "Come on, go to the consort's mansion in Xicheng and tell them that the concubine is a guest in the household department. When will the Chen family collect all the money from the household department, and when will they come to pick them up. Oh, don’t forget, tell the Chen family that the food expenses of the household department are [-] silver a day, don’t forget, otherwise, General Chen will I can only sleep in the lobby at night."

Now it is only May, late spring, and the nights are especially cold.

Chen Rongquan felt cold spontaneously when he heard the words.But the duck is dead mouthed, the tiger will not be defeated when it dies, and sits in the courtroom with eyes closed and pretends to be dead, but refuses to let go of the debt.

Seeing this, King Xijun hated him deeply, and quickly left the household department, ordering his soldiers: "Go and call the Tongzheng Envoy."

When I was young, it was Feng Ziying who came from the Secretary of the General Administration.

King Xijun didn't think it was disobedient, and threw out a case file: "A few years ago, Chen Ling, the eldest son of Chen, spoiled his concubine and killed his wife. That spoiled concubine killed his wife. Didn't his father-in-law sue him?"

Feng Ziying nodded: "There is such a thing, but later it was run by the Chen family, and the criminal department did not dare to accept the Xiong family's case. The Xiong family was just a scholar. At first, the eldest princess fell in love with the Xiong family's noble family style, so they got married. As a result, Chen Ling disliked that the girl was too disciplined and uninterested, so he took the combed kiln sister back and made a couple, and sent his wife to persuade him, but he actually pushed the woman into dystocia, killed two people, his father-in-law sued him, and he turned red lips Ya falsely accuses his wife of being unclean with the servants at home, what a beast..."

Feng Ziying scolded a few words, and then remembered that King Xijun was the uncle of the Chen family, and then stopped embarrassingly.

King Xijun didn't think it was disobedient: "I remember her father was a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, where is he now?"

Feng Ziying said: "Since the death of his daughter, he has been squeezed out by the Chen family, and he can't stay in the bureaucracy. The Chen family wants to push him out of the capital to avoid future troubles. Who knows that he would rather stay in the capital than to be demoted. It happened that he and At that time, the Guozijian sacrificed wine in the same year, so he voluntarily demoted to the Guozijian to become a doctor of the Five Classics. The Chen family did not dare to openly offend the scholars all over the world, so he escaped the persecution of the Chen family. It is just that the family life is difficult. His wife because of her daughter When he died, he came to ask for justice, but was beaten and slapped by Chen Lingni. After returning home, he died of exhaustion. One son was 20 years old and he was not married. He wanted to study and become an official, and seek justice for his sister and mother."

King Xijun said: "You go and tell him, this king will make the decision for him, and ask him if he dares to go to the Ministry of Punishment to file a lawsuit with the Chen family."

Feng Ziying went to the Xiong's house, but when she came back, her face was full of confusion. It turned out that the son of the Xiong's family met Chen Ling the day before, and the two had a conflict. , A few ribs were broken, and now the Xiong family is in dire straits.

Feng Ziying went to Xiong's house. Xiong Changhao learned of Feng Ziying's intentions and said that he had no choice but to try to heal his son's leg. He couldn't kill his son because of his daughter!

Hearing the words, the king of Xijun felt that he was confused, and ordered the imperial hospital to send an imperial doctor to Xiong's house. After the imperial doctor came back, he said that the child of Xiong's family was not optimistic. The key was not the leg injury. Xiong Zhiyuan also suffered internal injuries and coughed up blood from time to time.

Duke Xi suddenly hated: "This man is really insane!"

Feng Ziying's heart moved: "There is one person who can probably help the Xiong family!"

King Xi hurriedly asked, "Who is it?"

Feng Ziying said: "Dr. Du, it's a pity that he is the full-time imperial physician of the three saints, and no one else can invite him."

King Xijun smiled: "It's not necessarily true. I'm doing things for him, so he should pay me back a favor."

Feng Ziying's eyes lit up when she heard the words: "My lord is saying, Jia, Captain Jia?"

Prince Xi nodded: "Yes!"

Feng Ziying shook her head: "He hasn't been home for two consecutive months. He's so busy all day long that his wife doesn't even come home."

Prince Xi smiled: "You don't accept the imperial decree?"

Feng Ziying stared: "Pretending to be an imperial envoy? I dare not."

King Xijun snorted coldly: "Who is pretending to be? This king has given an order from His Majesty to ask everyone to wait and give the necessary cooperation to King Xijun when necessary!"

Feng Ziying immediately clapped her hands: "I'm going to Xishan right now, sir."

"I am waiting for your good news!"

"Don't worry, I will fulfill my mission!"

When Jia Lian heard what happened to the Xiong family, he was filled with righteous indignation. The Imperial Forest Army has not yet started formation training.Jia Lian also decided to go down the mountain to help the Xiong family.Seeing the ferocity of the Chen family, Jia Lian immediately thought of Sun Shaozu.

Sun Shaozu flattered the third prince, and was implicated this time. Although he was not tortured like Hou Liwen, he was also imprisoned.

Because the matter of the third prince did not know if it would repeat itself, Jia Lian let him go for the time being.As a result, Sun Shaozu's mother and sister approached Rongguo Mansion and asked Rongguo Mansion to help Sun Shaozu for the sake of the Sun family's refuge.

Today, Sun Shaozu has been dismissed from the position of hereditary commander, and he is sent to northern Xinjiang, and will leave soon.

When Feng Ziying came, Jia Lian was reading Jia She's private letter. Jia She probably took money from the Sun family again, and told Jia Lian to help if he could.

Therefore, if Feng Ziying didn't come, Jia Lian would also go down the mountain to settle the old debt of Yingchun.

Jia Lian first went to the Ministry of Households to meet King Xijun and understand what the Chen family was doing. When he learned that Chen Rongquan was born in a princess mansion and had a hereditary title on him, he immediately thought of a person and asked, "This person is the same as Feng Shengjun." What is the relationship with Wei Chen Rongan, his son Chen Yejun is an official in the Shotgun camp."

Prince Xi nodded: "Chen Rong'an is the second son of the son-in-law."

Jia Lian was surprised: "Why is there such a big gap? Chen Yejun has a stern face, but he is very capable and has a good reputation."

King Xijun said: "The dragon has nine sons."

Jia Lian asked: "My lord cleans up Chen Rongquan, won't this Chen Rongan have any ideas?"

King Xijun sneered: "Chen Rong'an is different from your second uncle, he was kicked out of the mansion naked, that's why he went to Xishan to join the army, but the emperor couldn't see it, so he forcibly shared half of the princess' dowry with him. "

Jia Lian didn't know what to say, Jia Zheng took whatever he wanted in the Rong Mansion, and squandered it at will, anyway, it wasn't his money that didn't feel bad, but the Chen family was different.

Jia Lian laughed and said, "It's true that every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite."

King Xi suddenly remembered the purpose of finding Jia Lian: "Let's gossip, go to the palace and invite Mr. Du."

But Jia Lian said, "Let's go to Xiong's house first. If it's really a bruise, my ancestor's secret medicine should be more effective than Mr. Du's."

King Xi was busy ordering people: "Send Master Jia to Xiong's Mansion quickly."

Feng Ziying hurriedly begged for orders: "The next official knows the way, I'll go."

King Xi Jun cupped his hands: "I can't leave here. When this matter is over, I will be the host and invite everyone to drink."

Jia Lian said, "Please order this meal."

Jia Lian went to Xiong's house, and now the Xiong's family rented a house in front of the Guozijian. Xiong Changhao's salary was meager, and the family relied on supplying rice paper for the Guozijian to make ends meet.

Jia Lian checked Xiong Zhiyuan's injuries. Although there were many bruises on his body, fortunately Xiong Zhiyuan's lungs were not seriously injured. The reason why he vomited blood was because his throat was pinched, the blood flowed into his stomach, and then he vomited.Although it will not die quickly, it will be fatal if it does not stop bleeding for a long time.

Jia Lian took out the family's hemostatic pill, mixed it with spiritual water and fed it to him, left two more pills, and said: "If you vomit blood again in the middle of the night, take another one."

After the two said goodbye and went out, Feng Ziying grabbed Jia Lian in surprise: "Oh, brother, go back quickly, you didn't tell him anything?"

Jia Lian smiled: "Tomorrow his son is well, so he will naturally come to beg us."

Sure enough, in the early morning of the next day, Xiong Changhao went to the Rongguo Mansion and begged to see Jia Lian. Jia Lian ordered someone to take him into the mansion, but when he saw Jia Lian, he straightened up and knelt down.

Jia Lian hurriedly got up and helped him: "Master Xiong, get up quickly."

But Xiong Changhao stubbornly kowtowed and said: "Master Jia, it is a trivial matter for you, but it is indeed a life-saving grace for me. I will not hide it from you, if the child does not escape this time, I will not live. I can't handle them. Just hanging on the door of Chen's house with a rope, I just want to see if my whole family dies at the hands of Chen's house, can the imperial court still tolerate and raise traitors!"

Jia Liansheng tugged hard, and finally pulled him up: "Don't get excited, your son has a life, so it won't happen."

Xiong Changhao bowed again and saluted: "I don't want to thank you for your kindness. The little old man still has important things to do. After this matter is over, the little old man's life will belong to the adults."

Jia Lian hurriedly declined: "It really doesn't have to be like this."

Xiong Changhao handed his resignation and left.

Sister Feng said, "What a weird person."

But Jia Lian said: "He is poor, but he is arrogant. I really can't bear to kneel down to me today."

But Sister Feng said: "He is not kneeling on you, he is kneeling on his son's life."

Here Jia Lian and Sister Feng are still arguing, while Xiong Changhao is already beating the grievance drum with the paper on his head.

Before Huang Shangshu went to the yamen, he suddenly heard the sound of the grievance drum from the front yamen, so he hurriedly dressed and ordered the yamen servants to call the director of Weishengtang.

Xiong Changhao was known by Huang Shangshu. It was Huang Shangshu who took over his case three years ago, but was later suppressed by the emperor himself.

Seeing Xiong Changhao again now, Huang Shangshu put down the gavel, frowned and sighed: "Brother Xiong Nian, I know your injustice, and everyone knows it. I can accept the case and try the case, but I don't have Bao Zheng's pride. The emperor is tearing his face."

But Xiong Changhao said: "I will sue, and my lord will try and decide the case. I don't blame my lord for whether I can get revenge as I wish."

Upon hearing the words, Huang Shangshu threw down the 'holding' sign: "Come here, someone now sues Chen Ling in the son-in-law's mansion for murdering his wife, rebelling against his mother-in-law, and ordering his slaves to beat his wife and brother to serious injury. There must be no mistake in going to the consort's mansion to arrest the criminal."

The head of the police team picked up the lottery and led the police to gallop away.

There was a sound of grievance drums here, and King Xi immediately let out a mouthful of saltiness, and threw away the teacup: "Let's go, let's go to the Ministry of Punishment to see the excitement."

There are only a few steps between the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Punishment. The king of Xijun arrived at the Ministry of Punishment in a short time.The following Chang Shi hurriedly shouted: "The king of Xijun is here!"

Huang Shangshu was shocked when he heard the words, and hurried down to greet him.

But King Xi waved his hand: "You try your case yourself, and this king will watch the fun."

Huang Shangshu was busy ordering people to move the Taishi chair, King Xi sat down, looked at Xiong Changhao and said with a smile: "You little old man is so old, it's hard to stand up, give him a seat."

Huang Shangshu hurriedly ordered someone to sit down.

But Xiong Changhao was a stubborn person, he bowed his hands and declined: "The humble minister came to the court to fight a lawsuit, not to be a guest."