Chapter 110
Jia Lian was born with a pair of affectionate eyes, although they were a little darker and he looked thinner, but what kind of person is the emperor?
He had also experienced storms when he was young.
You can tell at a glance that this child is sunburned, with some peeling on his chin.
As for the hands...
A smile flashed in the eyes of the retired emperor. "I heard that you took two servants to the Li family and extorted his entire family?"
"……yes!"
Jia Lian's forehead was covered with sweat. "I...I received a letter from home and was angry for a while, so I went to Li Haimu, the head of the Li family, to ask for an explanation."
"Weren't you afraid then?"
The emperor's eyes were always smiling.
Through Jia Lian, he seemed to see the Jia Daishan of the past.
He was a guy who had left his parents and brothers and dared to fight a group of people alone.
They were so young back then! "Don't be afraid! They dare not do anything to me in this bright and clear world."
Although his aunt had written to him, asking him to be careful, it was too much for a small Li family far away in the south of the Yangtze River to dare to treat their Jia family like that.
Jia Lian said: "Even if they want to harm me, my uncle can't just ignore me."
"Hahaha, you are really honest."
What did Jia Daishan say back then? Dare to hit him? Just wait for his elder brother to lead his men to defeat them!
"Someone, please take a seat!"
The emperor was in a very good mood. "Come, tell me and the emperor, how did you make those 300 kilograms of salt? As soon as you arrived in Yangzhou, your uncle threw you into the salt field. Didn't you ever think of taking a break?"
National affairs are serious matters that must be handled rigorously.
The retired emperor still supported the idea of taking over several islands from Japan without spending any soldiers.
But even if he got support, he would still need to find a few more ministers to discuss the issue thoroughly.
By then, I don’t know how much I will have to think about.
So now, he just wants to relax.
By the way, let's listen and see carefully whether the salt... is as good as Lin Ruhai said in his memorial.
"minister……"
The Emperor and Lord Dong watched him hesitate for a while, and the tips of his ears became darker than before. They were speechless, but also felt a little amused in their hearts.
"I wanted to be lazy, but I was afraid that my uncle would look down on my aunt because of me."
Jia Lian had no choice but to speak out his difficulties, "Jiangnan is too far from home. If he treats my aunt badly, my aunt will have no one to cry to."
"Hahaha, so you just work honestly?"
"Three hundred kilograms of salt, I think, it will be enough once the work is done."
Who knows, I will have to do experiments in the end? "Then tell me how you made salt in the beginning, how you made salt later, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"yes!"
He knows the answer to this question.
Jia Lian began to talk incessantly, and when he got excited he even gestured with his hands.
Their conversation made Lord Dong, who was waiting to talk about Japan, very anxious. He tried several times to bring up the emperor and change the subject, but he didn't expect that the emperor, like the emperor emeritus, was looking at Jia Lian with great interest, waiting for him to speak.
Oh~ No wonder he is the emperor and can remain stable here with the emperor emeritus until now.
Sure enough, he is not as good as Ye.
Dong Xiaoquan warned himself to learn the emperor's Qi-cultivation skills, but he didn't expect that the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong.
Although he was an official in the capital, he knew that salt was a big problem for the people in some remote and poor areas.
Salt comes in different grades. The lowest grade is cheap but slightly poisonous.
This is also the main reason why people in those places generally have short lifespans.
But none of them could solve this problem.
There is only a limited amount of salt produced by salt fields across the country every year, and the quality varies. Of course, the rich buy good salt, and the poor buy bad salt.
It is even more impossible to ban slightly toxic salt with the power of the state. If it is really banned, many people will have no salt to eat.
If you don’t have salt, you will die.
"Wait, wait~"
Dong Xiaoquan finally couldn't help but interrupt, "Master Jia," he knew that this kid donated a fifth-rank Tongzhi position last year, "Words are not enough, can you demonstrate it to the emperor and the emperor on the spot?"
"sure!"
Jia Lian's eyes sparkled, "If you don't believe me, you can go buy some of the worst salt."
My uncle said he was not afraid of hard work, but he was afraid that the emperor and the retired emperor would just ask a few questions and then send him home.
Although salt is a small commodity, it affects millions of households. If he accomplishes this task, even if there is no reward in the end, there will definitely be a record of him in the history books a hundred years later.
Although he considers himself a playboy, Jia Lian is not the kind of person who does nothing but flirt with his concubine.
So, the palace servants in Shoukang Palace started to move, and the emperor supported the retired emperor and watched the boy work.
They were knowledgeable and knew a little about the process of purifying refined salt. Jia Lian's method really worked. It could save a lot of firewood for boiling salt and a lot of labor. This alone was enough to promote it.
Not to mention Lin Ruhai and his newly found salt field.
If this is done, the price of salt can be lowered in the future.
Ordinary people can also afford better salt.
The emperor attaches great importance to this.
After all, this was an experiment in his palace.
Time passed slowly under their great patience, but in the capital, the news that the Jia family had killed thirty Japanese pirates who were in collusion with the Li family and captured Li Haifeng alive was spreading like wildfire.
Bang! Prince Jin kicked over a chair. "What a bunch of idiots."
He actually dared to go to Tianjin to rob people. Who is he looking down on?
By doing this, Li Haifeng not only destroyed his Li family, but he also inadvertently helped the emperor expand the war situation.
"Such an important matter, what do we in Jiangnan do?"
He walked back and forth in the room, "Find an irrelevant person and find a way to go to Shuntian Prefecture Prison and ask Li Haifeng to shut his mouth. The main branch of the Li family is gone, but he still has three relatives and old friends."
"……yes!"
The servants went downstairs to do their work.
"Someone come!"
"The servant is here."
"Check for me again, why Jia She and Jia Zhen picked up people one after another, whether they received any news before they went to pick up people, and who gave them the news, check it all for me."
He won't be able to sleep or eat unless he gets to the bottom of it.
The Jia family was clearly not doing well, so why did they act so quickly this time? "And Jia Jing! Go check if he's been dishonest at Taixuan Temple."
Prince Jin turned around again, "Oh, right, the most important thing is Lin Ruhai. He has been in Jiangnan for a long time. Let's find some bad luck with him in Jiangnan."
With Lin Ruhai around, it is unlikely that there will be any problems with the salt tax.
If he were the emperor, he would also use him.
But he is not the emperor.
He doesn't need a stable court.
Stable - means that he has no chance at all.
He needs a chance.
"Write a letter to my uncle and ask him to think of some solutions for me."
His uncle is a local tyrant in Jiangnan.
His uncle was more capable and resourceful in dealing with Lin Ruhai than he was.
"yes!"
Another servant hurried away.
At this time, Wu Rubao hurried in from outside, "Your Majesty, I received news that Jia Lian has entered the palace and has been summoned by the Emperor for almost an hour."
What?
Prince Jin turned around suddenly, his eyes sinister, "Do you know why he entered the palace?"
"I haven't found out yet."
Wu Rubao had no choice but to check as soon as he received the news.
I thought it was just a small matter, but I didn't expect that he hadn't come out of the palace until now. "But the Jia family seems to be very patient. He has been in the palace for such a long time, but they are not anxious at all, and they haven't sent anyone into the palace to inquire."
King Jin: “…”
"Your Highness, do you think we should discuss this with the Concubine Dowager?"
Wu Rubao's original intention was to ask Concubine Zhen to help find out, but the Prince of Jin couldn't wait any longer, "I will go and see it myself."
His mother had been overly cautious all her life.
If she had made a fuss at the beginning, or even said a few good words for him, the throne would never have been thrown away by her father like that.
"Someone, prepare the car!"
While he was calling out loudly, he also hurried out.
Wu Rubao sighed and could only turn back dejectedly.
In recent years, the emperor's position has become increasingly stable, and their princes have become increasingly difficult to serve.
But his whole family is with the prince, he...
He silently rushed to the God of Wealth Casino.
Nothing in this world is reliable, but money is the only exception.
At this time, in fact, it was not only Prince Jin who was angry and felt that the Jia family was not the same. Other people of some prominence could not help but re-examine the Jia family and reconsider their relationship with the Jia family.
Jia Min's return represents Lin Ruhai's attitude.
Although he is also considered the emperor's man, the emperor obviously values him.
With Lin Ruhai as a powerful external aid, the Jia family...seems to be able to still interact as before.
At least we can't offend them.
The thirty corpses in Shuntian Prefecture finally calmed down some people who had some uneasy thoughts.
"master!"
While Wang Ziteng was waiting anxiously, the servant of the Wang family hurried in to report, "We have checked it out. In addition to Li Haifeng, there is indeed a Japanese who was captured alive."
"What about the dead? Their injuries..."
Wang Ziteng didn't care about the living Japanese, he cared about the dead. "Were they all killed in one blow, or were they killed after a fierce battle by overwhelming numbers?"
"It's strength in numbers."
The servant said honestly, "Many of them have bruises all over their bodies." At this point, he paused, "But the point may not be this. I heard that the caravan led by Li Haifeng has a lot of things, and now they are all in the hands of our son-in-law."
Jia Lian is the son-in-law of their Wang family.
"I also heard that the pirates landed at Tongzhou Wharf."
His eyes lit up a little. "What do you think? Should we remind our son-in-law to seize the pirates' ship as soon as possible?"
Wang Ziteng: “…”
He nodded slowly, "Where is Jia Lian now? Send someone over and tell him that Master wants to see him."
He broke his leg and his second brother nearly lost his life.
As the son-in-law of the Wang family, Jia Lian cannot just turn a blind eye.
"By the way, let's go meet Feng'er and your old aunt."
The Jia family split up.
When he received the news, Wang Ziteng stayed in his room for three days. His palms and backs were sore and he couldn't make a decision.
Of course, if we really talk about it, my sister is closer to me and my niece is less so.
However, his sister has her own ideas, and there are many things that he, as her brother, can only discuss with her.
But it’s different for my niece.
His third brother had passed away long ago, and Feng'er grew up in his home, so for many things, he just had to give orders.
"yes!"
"Tell the old aunt that I know all her grievances, but Feng'er is not an outsider. They should be together in the Jia Mansion to support each other. They should not be laughed at by outsiders."
"yes!"
"Go ahead!"
Wang Ziteng closed his eyes and waited for his nephew-in-law to come over.
But after a while, the niece's husband did not arrive, but the brother-in-law came instead.
He was very unhappy to see Jia Zheng.
This man is really a good-looking guy who is actually useless.
"Why didn't Lian'er come?"
Wang Jin lowered his head, "My uncle has gone to the palace. My aunt said it might take a long time. I went to see my old aunt. Master Zheng Er happened to be there too. He insisted on coming to see the master. I had no choice."
Wang Ziteng: “…”
So angry!
He didn't want to talk to that nerd at all.
Every time he spoke, Wang Ziteng felt like he was so angry that he couldn't eat a meal.
That fool, if you tell him one thing, he can tell you another. If you really tell him another thing, he won't know what to tell you.
When he was a child, he looked quite smart, how come he has become like this now? Wang Ziteng had a toothache and a stomachache, "Forget it, please!"
Don’t look at the monk’s face, look at the Buddha’s face.
For the sake of my sister and three children, I'll just meet him! "Brother!"
After he drank half a cup of tea, his uncle let him in.
The expression on Jia Zheng's face was not good.
"Sit down!"
Wang Ziteng pounded his leg, "You know my leg is inconvenient." He sighed, "I asked Lian'er to come here just to ask him about Jiangnan. You are the elder, so you don't have to run around for him like this."
"Lian'er is in Jiangnan, following Brother-in-law Lin, and everything has been going well."
Jia Zheng said, "Here..." He hesitated for a moment, "Last night I received news that they had killed the Japanese pirates. The eldest sister-in-law from the East Palace asked me to accompany her to Shuntian Prefecture."
What? Wang Ziteng's lazy body suddenly straightened up. "What are you going to do?"
The Jia family split up mainly because Shen forced them to do so.
The old lady of the Jia family loved the second wife so much in the past, but she never cared about her at all.
Wang Ziteng is now particularly concerned about Shen Ning.
"Would you please punish me severely, Master Dong?"
"more than!"
Jia Zheng saw his uncle's anxiety, but he was not anxious anymore. "My eldest sister-in-law is very generous." He picked up the teacup, blew on the tea leaves, took a sip, and then said, "She! She actually took this opportunity to offer Lord Dong a strategy to deal with the Japanese."
Wang Ziteng: “…”
Originally, seeing that Jia Zheng was slow, he wished he could pry open his mouth.
now……
"Strategies for dealing with the Japanese?" Wang Ziteng frowned. "She has a lot of correspondence with Jia Jing of Taixuan Temple, right?"
He knew Jia Jing's abilities.
"It should have nothing to do with Big Brother."
Jia Zheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother, you will never tell Lord Dong about such a serious matter through her mouth."
If it is the eldest brother's idea, he should be given it! If not, it can be given to Zhu'er!
What can I do for Shen? "My sister-in-law said it was her strategy to deal with the Japanese pirates. She came up with it out of anger when she heard that the Japanese pirates attacked my sister and her friends."
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