Chapter 111: Plea
A strategy to conquer Japan?!
What a good strategy to deal with Japan.
After seeing Jia Zheng off, Wang Ziteng felt very upset.
He never thought that Shen would come up with such a shameless strategy to deal with the Japanese, but if it were implemented... it would indeed be a good way to solve the problem once and for all.
Hiss~ Wang Ziteng couldn't help but think of the possibility of the Wang family snatching a title.
The Wang family once managed maritime affairs, and to this day, the story still circulates in their hometown of Jinling that the East China Sea lacks a white jade bed, so the Dragon King came to ask for the King of Jinling.
Although the Wang family had declined rapidly after the maritime ban, there were still many old family members in Jinling who had experience in sea sailing.
No, we have to call all those people back.
Thinking of this, Wang Ziteng shouted, "Someone come."
When he wanted to use this opportunity to restore the Wang family's glory, Jia Zheng, who had left the Wang family, was in an even worse mood.
There's something wrong with my uncle.
He forgot that he was also a military officer. Military officers fear that the world will not be in chaos. If the world is not in chaos, they will have no room for advancement.
Bang! In the carriage, Jia Zheng slapped the small table fiercely and said, "Let's go to the Imperial College instead."
The relative-in-law, Lord Li, is a civil official, and his son Jia Zhu also has a lot of ideas. He decided to go there first to see his son and then look for the relative-in-law.
The wheels of the carriage moved forward. Shen Ning, who was returning home from Rongguo Mansion, took a nap and finally saw Haodaer.
"Mother!"
Jia Zhen looked like he hadn't rested well, with some dark circles under his eyes, but he was still in good spirits. "The pirates' ship is parked at Tongzhou Wharf. My son has already asked Xing'er to return it to our family. We'll come back later..."
"How many boats are there?"
Shen Ning was still very satisfied with Jia Zhen's sharpness.
After all, she asked him to go to Tongzhou, not Tianjin.
It's rare that he finds something wrong, and he can have his own ideas.
"One!"
"Do you know how old?"
"We don't know yet, but their horses were all pulled off the ship, so they must be big."
Treasure ships that travel by sea are never small, with the smallest being at least thirty-two zhang in length.
Their starting prices are usually upwards of ten thousand taels.
Their family had picked up a fortune in silver for nothing! "Hurry up and send someone to investigate, and then..."
Shen Ning thought for a moment and said, "Present it to the Emperor."
Jia Zhen: “…”
"Where did the Japanese pirates come from? Do you think the government won't investigate? Do you think you're the only one concerned about their ships?"
From Tongzhou to the capital, there are many people who are more powerful and influential than the Jia family.
"Take the initiative and hand it over to the emperor. You might even get some hard-earned money, but if you delay any longer... you might be impeached by the censor."
"Mother……"
Jia Zhen was reluctant to let her go, and was about to persuade her to leave when a maid came to report urgently, "Madam, sir, Steward Wang from the Nan'an Palace is here, and he wants to see you to discuss something."
"Did you hear that? Where's the King of Nan'an?"
Shen Ning waved her hand, "People have already smelled the smell and are here. If you don't want to make wedding clothes for others, then hurry up."
"Then... my son is gone."
Jia Zhen went to the Nan'an Palace with a depressed look on his face.
Shen Ning sighed softly and said to Qing Ping, "Go, knock on the door of Ning'an Hall and ask Jiao Da if everything is ready."
"yes!"
Qing Ping left in a hurry, and Shen Ning leaned on the soft cushion. "My aunt will bring the two children to the mansion tomorrow. Qing Zhu, go pick out a few good sets of those small jewelry and let me take a look."
Lin Changan’s is just average, but Xiao Daiyu’s, she wants to choose it herself.
She could still look for one for her daughter later, but for Daiyu, she wanted to give her the best now.
"By the way, has the gold lock that I asked Luo the goldsmith to make not been made yet?"
Shen Ning asked the goldsmith Luo, who was famous in Kyoto, to make six golden locks for her. Each golden lock had a blessing on it. In short, she would never let Xue Baochai use the golden locks to make trouble.
"What a coincidence! When you went to the West Palace, the owner of Hongyun Gold House sent you six gold locks."
Qingzhu entered the inner room and quickly brought back a large box. After opening it, there were six blue-burned jade boxes with gold locks inside. "Look, they are all very beautiful."
Shen Ning raised her hand and took one, "Yeah, very beautiful."
Opening the blue jade box, the gold lock inside was exquisite and unique, with "Longevity and Happiness" on the front and "Longevity of Nanshan" on the back! The handwriting was simple and vigorous, as if it was written on the gold lock itself. Shen Ning liked it as soon as she saw it, "This has a good meaning, give it to Miss Lin."
The little girl's body looked better than in the book.
However, Shen Ning felt that it was quite good that the little girl did not lie down when entering the mansion and did not call a doctor immediately after the long journey from Jiangnan to the capital.
After all, little Daiyu at that time had already lost her brother and her mother, and was in mourning.
If it were other children, they would also be nervous if they followed a strange cousin and ran so far to their grandmother's house, a place they had never been to before.
It's normal to have some deficiencies on your face! "Yes!"
Qingzhu and other maids clearly felt that their wives really liked the cousin, "Then Madam, choose another one for our daughter."
Shen Ning continued to flip through the pages, "This is auspicious and auspicious, with flowers and a full moon, for the eldest daughter of the West Mansion."
Although she is going to get married, she is still a girl of their generation.
"May everything go well for you, and may happiness spread as far as the East Sea to welcome the spring for the second young lady."
Jia She should have some feelings for this daughter, so he couldn't sell her off again, right? Shen Ning decided to treat the little girl better so that Jia She would not dare to look down on this daughter.
"The flowers are in full bloom, and good things come to the third girl one after another."
Shen Ning was looking for her biological daughter, "Well, the house is rich and the butterflies are beautiful, give them to our Yue'er."
There is one left, so keep it and give it to whichever one you like later.
"Madam, you made a great choice."
Although it doesn't feel as good as everything going well and flowers blooming and prosperity, but, the wife smiled so happily when she saw this, so let it be! Anyway, the four girls are still young and can't protest for the time being.
But they didn't know that what Shen Ning chose for Jia Yue was the greatest blessing she could give her.
In the Red Mansion, this child never received love from anyone, so he didn't know how to love, and eventually he became a monk.
Here, she hopes that her little daughter will have a harmonious family and a happy life! …
In Shoukang Palace, the retired emperor, the emperor, and Lord Dong tasted the new salt that Jia Lian had made and were all very excited.
The inferior salt was turned into high-quality refined salt. The process looked simple, which was really great! "Do you have any particular control over the temperature?"
Dong Xiaoquan noticed that Jia Lian's method of cooking the worst bitter salt was slightly different. He also tasted the once bitter salt and found that it was no longer bitter and should be classified as top-grade salt, so he couldn't help but ask about it.
"yes!"
Jia Lian couldn't explain the principle well. He followed his aunt's letter. "The reason why this salt is bitter is because there is a substance in it that is poisonous, but its solubility is higher than that of normal salt. Therefore, when boiling the water again, the precipitated salt must be removed in time before it precipitates out."
At this point, he paused, "If we delay, the poison will settle like salt, and then when we eat it, it will still be bitter and poisonous."
"I see!"
The Emperor and the Retired Emperor looked at each other. Now that they knew this, it would be easier to have professionals research it. "Jia Lian, you've worked hard."
The old man was very happy. This kid was down-to-earth. "Isn't the military department's arsenal short of a Langzhong?"
He looked at the emperor's son.
The emperor nodded quickly, "Yes, the doctor of the Wukusi, Lord Li, lost his mother last month, and he has to return home to observe mourning for three years."
This man belonging to Prince Jin is staring at him.
Anyway, his people can't be snatched away.
"That's fine. Go back and draft an edict." The emperor looked at Jia Lian and said with a smile, "Give this position to Jia Lian!"
"yes!"
"minister……"
When the emperor looked at him with a smile, Jia Lian knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I thank the emperor for his grace. Long live the emperor! Long live the emperor!"
So he can really be an official? And he is a rich and idle official.
As a descendant of a military family, Jia Lian knew how rich the Armory was.
“Get up!”
Prince Jin was tripped by his own mother. When he rushed over from a distance, he saw the Emperor personally helping Jia Lian up.
Seeing their smiling faces, he knew he was late.
But, do you think that he can do nothing about it? Prince Jin walked over with a smile, "Father!" He saluted the emperor first, then bowed to the emperor, "Your Majesty, what's going on here?"
Huh? It looks like salt.
He looked at the plates and felt something was wrong. "Is this salt?"
"Well, it's salt, good salt."
The emperor was still smiling. He watched Dong Xiaoquan and Jia Lian pay their respects to the Prince of Jin, and then said, "Lin Ruhai has done a great deed in Jiangnan that benefits the country and the people and will be remembered for generations to come." He turned to the emperor and said, "You should approve all his memorials that day, right?"
"……yes!"
The emperor was very happy.
He had been waiting for this day for a long time. "Lord Lin was selected by father and sent to Jiangnan," he flattered father sincerely. "He and father are a thousand-mile horse and a good horse trainer. There are many thousand-mile horses, but there are few good horse trainers. My son... my son still needs to learn from father."
“Hahaha~”
The retired emperor also thought so, but since it was the emperor's son who took the initiative to publicize it, how could he be omitted from the history books?
The old man felt comfortable from head to toe and laughed out loud, "For an emperor, knowing how to use people well is the most important thing." He taught his son on the spot, "Just like Dong Xiaoquan, who is stubborn, ruthless, and vicious, and likes to be serious about everything. If you put him in the position of the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, even your brother, the Prince of Jin, would have to be honest in front of him, hahahaha..."
King Jin: “…”
Dong Xiaoquan: “…”
"Father, Master Dong is going to be angry."
The emperor smiled and said, "My son is also very honest in front of him."
“Hahaha~hahaha~~~~”
"Father!"
Prince Jin stepped forward and said, "Master Dong, I just remembered something. There are thirty corpses in front of the Shuntian government office. It is said that they were brought back by the Jia family from Tianjin. The Jia family reported that they were Japanese pirates, but how could the Japanese pirates come to our capital?
Also, shouldn't the Jia family report the encounter to the government? Why did they just beat and kill the people themselves?"
The point is not the bandits and Japanese pirates, but the fact that the Jia family actually killed people privately.
The children of the Jia family had long since stopped serving in the army, so how could they kill so many bandits? The King of Jin hoped that the Emperor and the Emperor could be more alert and not be fooled by the appearance of the Jia family.
Prince Jin looked at Jia Lian and said, "You are a member of the Jia family. Do you know what is going on?"
"…Reply to your Majesty's words."
King Jin looked at him with evil in his eyes.
Jia Lian was nervous but cautious. "Those people are really Japanese pirates. They are foreign aids invited by Li Haifeng, who escaped from the Li family. They attacked us at the border of Tianjin and Cangzhou. We wanted to report to the authorities, but we couldn't spare any help under such circumstances!"
He recounted what happened that day when he encountered the bandits.
As for why my father and elder brother Zhen rushed to pick people up, it was mainly because Aunt Min had been away from home for many years, and everyone in the family, from the old lady to the aunt in the East Mansion, was worried about her. In addition, someone from the Li family had escaped outside, so they were also worried, so they rushed to pick people up.
"So there are still ships carrying those pirates in Cangzhou?"
Prince Jin was very good at grasping the key points and continued to ask him.
"This... I am not sure, but Your Majesty can send someone to check it out."
"The caravan disguised by Li Haifeng..."
King Jin looked at him with a playful look, "Where are you now?"
"Most of the goods from Li Haifeng's disguised caravan were sold in Tianjin to compensate all those who died and fought bravely against the enemy."
Jia Lian said frankly, "They are mainly hunting us, so we don't have much stuff. The few valuable items that are hard to sell are now in the government office in Tianjin. I..." He hesitated for a moment, "I also bought a few coral rings and hairpins at the purchase price."
He looked at the Emperor and the Retired Emperor with grievance, "I bought it too cheaply, I..." He searched his body, "I am willing to pay the difference."
"What do you want to make up for? This is what you deserve."
The emperor's face turned cold. "When a general is on the battlefield, he may not obey military orders. Prince Jin, don't you even understand this principle? If you had to ask for instructions on everything, how could we have the present day of Da Zhao?"
On that day, the four kings and eight dukes fought on different fronts, and it was all up to them to make the decisions.
"Li Haifeng's caravan is the spoils of war of the Jia family."
The reason why he was able to fight so smoothly back then was because his father never cared about those small amounts of money and property.
When the country is in trouble, the four kings and eight dukes each contribute their efforts.
now……
The retired emperor's eyes were stern. "Why? The King of Jin doesn't want the Jia family to take down the pirates, but he also wants the pirates to kill the descendants of our meritorious officials of Dazhao?"
How long has it been since Jia Zhen was assassinated? The Jia family has already withdrawn from the army.
It is just as the prince said back then, the Jia family is the most trustworthy. Among the four kings and eight soldiers, they are the ones who retired from the army most cleanly.
But even if they retreated completely, a woman from the Jia family could still be outraged by the Japanese pirates and offer a plan to the country on how to deal with them.
This is the foundation of a family of military honors.
If she hadn't seen and heard so much at the Jia family, how could Shen know all that? "My son wouldn't dare!"
Prince Jin was so frightened that he knelt down on the spot, "Son... I was wrong, please calm down, father!"
“…”
The emperor looked at his son, his expression did not ease, "Since you know your mistakes, then go back home and reflect on your mistakes for three months."
Three months was enough time for the emperor to complete the salt field and Japanese control issues.
"Go ahead!"
"…I will take my leave now!"
The King of Jin was very sad and dejected, so he got up and left.
Although he always knew that his father favored old ministers, Jia Lian was already someone else's grandson.
He is his beloved son.
How could this happen? "Jia Lian, you get up too."
The retired emperor looked at Jia Lian, who was a little frightened, and felt very emotional.
The two branches of the Jia family, Ning and Rong, still support each other like their ancestors did. Compared with the royal family, it is really...
The retired emperor felt a little pain in his heart, as he knew that the emperor and the Prince of Jin were just superficial.
In the court, Prince Jin's men have been trying to trip up the emperor.
The other princes were all over the place, only considering their own interests, helping Prince Jin today and the Emperor tomorrow.
As for the Jia family, they remained the same as always. Even when they were not in the court, Jia Lian could tell the truth about the silver bills that the Li family presented as a filial gift, and he would present them to them. This was very rare.
"Dai Quan!"
"The servant is here."
"Take out the silver that Jia Lian presented in the palace and return it to him. He earned it with his own ability."
"The Emperor..."
Jia Lian had just stood up when he knelt down again, "Your Majesty, spare my life. If I take it home, not only will my father beat me, my aunt will also beat me. Even the eldest aunt in the East Palace will definitely punish me and send me to the ancestral hall."
They'll really knock him.
"That day I took the silver, beat someone up, and went home to tell my uncle. My uncle had originally suggested that I hand it over to the treasury, and I also said so in front of the elders. I took it home again. You know, my father has never had such a good thing. He would definitely have no objection to handing it over to the treasury, but if I wanted to take it myself..., he would definitely be angry with me and find a way to beat me!"
His father can really do it.
Moreover, on the way back to Beijing, Jia Lian felt that his father was looking at him with an unfriendly eye.
After all, when my aunt-in-law punished people, my elder brother Lianzhu went to kneel in the ancestral hall.
He was the only one who escaped.
"Grand Emperor, Your Majesty, I…"
“Puff~”
Seeing that he was really scared, the emperor couldn't help but burst out laughing, "Father, please forgive him. As for Jia She..., I heard that he is a bit of a bad guy."
The Emperor: “…”
The old man was left speechless by Jia Lian's simple words of plea.
What do you mean my father never encountered such a good thing? He has no problem handing it over to the national treasury, but he wants to fight if he takes it for himself? This kind of behavior...
Hiss~ The emperor has a toothache, it's really like the Jia family.
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