Chapter 245 Presentation (Six thousand chapter rewards from book friend Cherry Tomato Ripe's ten thousand coins reward)
If the emperor and empress truly take power, then everything in the palace will be noticed by all parties.
For example, the Queen dreamed at night that Madam Shen from Ningguo Mansion was starving and freezing in the snow and ice. She felt sad and asked the Emperor to allow her to escort the coffin back to her hometown by water when spring came. So, as soon as it was dawn and the palace gates opened, a team of Dragon Guards went to pick her up with a four-wheeled carriage.
This...
Humph, it sounds so fake! Jia Wen's identity must have been exposed, and the emperor and empress are going to split the Ning and Rong mansions.
The reason for saying this is that the Queen is extremely kind to Madam Shen. The head of Ningguo Mansion and his family of three were away from home for only a few days, and she had people deliver things to Ningguo Mansion twice.
Treat other people's daughters, daughters-in-law and granddaughters-in-law as your own descendants.
Could such a queen allow the Ningguo Mansion to be implicated by the Rongguo Mansion?
So, the censor, who was originally ready to report Jia Lian today, quietly suppressed the idea.
It is not easy to separate the Ning and Rong mansions.
Especially at this critical moment for Rongguo Mansion, I really want to abandon it...
Then the reputation of Ningguo Mansion in the Jia family would surely drop by half.
Would Mrs. Shen do this?
The normal approach would be to refuse to acknowledge it, after all, the news of Jia Wen's death was sent back several years ago.
The concubine that Wohe brought with him... was most likely a revenge by the Jin people who were holding grudge against the Jia family's ancestor for invading Shenyang, and they specifically looked for someone who looked like her.
Second...
No matter whether that Jia Wen is real or fake, if she dies, everything will be solved.
Everyone was waiting to see Shen Ning's reaction when she came back, but they didn't know how surprised she was when she saw the Dragon Guards who came to pick people up at the manor.
At this time, she also suspected that it was because of Jia Wen's incident.
"Mother~"
Jia Zhen and Jia Rong were also very worried.
The carriage sent by the Queen was to pick up Shen Ning, not them.
As Jia Jing's children and grandchildren, although the emperor has allowed them to carry the coffin south when the spring comes, they cannot just abandon their father (grandfather)'s coffin.
"Nothing, it's still cold and snowing, you can go back later."
When the enemy comes, we will fight them; when the water comes, we will flood it with the earth.
When the time came, Shen Ning was in a very good mood.
She also wanted to meet Woher, who had kidnapped Jia Wen.
This human trafficker wants to use Jia Wen to destroy the Jia family, but it depends on whether she agrees.
"Please, sir, let's go!"
Wen Peilan, who served her and protected her, was naturally there too.
The six masters and servants returned to Beijing in a carriage overnight.
Although the weather was cold and the roads were slippery, it was obvious that these dragon guards were eager to bring her back.
Shen Ning simply lay down in the warm carriage and had a comfortable sleep.
After all, she might have a big battle to fight when she returns to Beijing.
The carriage was swaying in the snow, but Woher of Huitong Hall poured himself a glass of wine in celebration.
Sure enough, his strategy worked.
Although the emperor has not summoned them yet, as everyone has discussed, Dazhao is also afraid that they will completely surrender to the Rakshasa Kingdom and then attack Dazhao together.
In this game, the one who is suffering the most right now should be Da Zhao.
"Niang Wen, what do you think your sister-in-law will do?"
Jia Wen: “…”
I haven't seen my sister-in-law for many years, she doesn't know.
But seeing that her sister-in-law disobeyed her brother and insisted on keeping Xiao Yue'er regardless of her life, her heart softened even more.
In fact, she can also be hard on those with hard hearts.
What Jia Wen was afraid of was her sister-in-law who was crying with tears in her eyes and hugging her.
"Your sister-in-law is very powerful now." Wo He smiled at the silent woman, "Old Madam Shi loved her second son so much, but she drove Jia Zheng out of the Jia family step by step, and made the whole family miss her kindness."
She is indeed worthy of being Jia Jing's woman.
If we could capture her and bring her to the Qing Dynasty...
The two princes who have fought with Jia Jing openly and secretly several times will definitely like it very much.
"Niang Wen, your sister-in-law, you have to learn well."
“…”
Jia Wen lowered her eyebrows and sighed softly, "I'm afraid she doesn't even remember what I look like."
"You two...are not familiar with each other?"
This is different from what he found.
The three concubines of Rongguo Mansion are very close to those of Ningguo Mansion.
"…It's just a favor."
Jia Wen sighed again, "She is a clan wife. Even if Brother Jing didn't inherit the title, with Jia Zhen around, she is still a clan in name only. What's more, my elder sister, my third sister and I are married far away in the frontier. Our stepmother doesn't want to pay attention to us, and our second brother and his wife, who are the head of the family, don't want to pay attention wife to us either. If we don't communicate with our brother and his wife from the next room who are willing to greet us out of respect, our husband's family will be even less likely to be interested in us."
This? Woher frowned.
What Wen Niang said makes sense.
No matter how bad the Ningguo Mansion is, it is still a Duke's Mansion.
The Duke's Mansion may not be able to deal with others, but it is easy to deal with a few minor officials on the border.
"In that case, Jia She is a loyal and honest man."
Jia Wen: “…”
She didn't know whether he was loyal or not, but Jia Wen was grateful that her eldest brother rushed over to save her when her third sister was in the most difficult time.
Although her third sister Wen Niang did not come out to see her when she went to the Jia family for the second time, as a concubine's daughter, she could understand.
After all, the third sister returned home after a divorce, and it was a great blessing for her stepmother to tolerate her.
She also has a pair of children. Having the protection of the Duke's Mansion is completely different from not having the protection of the Duke's Mansion.
Therefore, wanting her third sister to meet her for a second time at the Jia family was actually making things difficult for her.
"But it's useless for him to be honest. It seems that his son is not very honest."
It is said that he did not even go home these days, but stayed directly in the Ministry of War, busy with dispatching military supplies all day long.
Those things are what the Qing Dynasty needs most today.
However, according to several people planted by the Qing Dynasty in Dazhao, he sent a lot to Wang Ziteng in the south.
This was something Wocher couldn't tolerate.
What kind of war could there be in the south of Dazhao? No matter how those clowns act, they can't cause any big trouble.
It is the Rakshasa Kingdom that is truly the most aggressive.
"Come to think of it, your family likes to pretend to obey but actually disobey!"
Just like Wen Niang, she looks honest on the surface, but no one knows what she is thinking in her heart.
The Han women who were snatched back from the south not only killed several generals, but also killed one of his cousins. As a result, now when people sleep with a woman, they have to strip her naked before they dare to enjoy her.
"Alright, I don't want to see you dead anymore, get off now!"
Instead of letting Jia Wen make me angry, I might as well think carefully about Mrs. Shen.
What was the emperor of Dazhao originally? If she hadn't taken the initiative to return the silver to the treasury and donated silver...
Wohe deeply hated that Rakshasa came at the wrong time.
Even if it was a year earlier, there was a power struggle within Dazhao, and the old emperor was still clinging to power. As long as it was managed well, Dazhao could still be their back garden.
At worst, you can at least help a prince, seize the military power to fight against the Rakshasas, and compete with the emperor.
It's so hateful now.
Emperor Da Zhao was in power, young and strong, and was ambitious at the time.
The destiny is not with the Qing Dynasty! This pot of wine that was supposed to be used for celebration suddenly turned into cold and bitter wine.
…
In Ningguo Mansion, Jia Yue was crying loudly.
Qin Keqing held her and shook her from east to west, but it didn't work. Jia Wen took over and shook her from west to east and from east to west, but the little one just kept crying and kept looking into her mother's room. It was obvious that she missed her mother very much.
What to do? The one who can coax her the best is Youshi. The little girl likes her sister-in-law, but after her sister-in-law is not at home, the little girl wants to hug Youshi when she sees her. She sticks to her very tightly, which made Youshi almost stretch her waist today. Jia Wen and Qin Keqing don't dare to let her see Youshi again.
"Grandma, why don't you bring my little aunt to the West Mansion to find the aunts!"
The little aunt also likes her sisters.
It's a pity that Cousin Mei went to Mantou Temple, otherwise she would have been fine.
To my aunt, she and her great-aunt were not as close as her cousins who she saw every day.
"Okay then, we'll go over there now."
Jia Wen also felt very sorry that her daughter was not at home. She was afraid that Xiao Yue'er would hurt her throat from crying, so she wrapped her up tighter on the spot and went to the West Mansion.
At this time, Grandmother Jia already knew that the Queen had sent someone to pick up Shen Ning.
The old lady was indeed worried that the emperor and empress would give up Rongguo Mansion because of Jia Wen and let Shen Ning come back in order to divide the two mansions.
"What's that noise outside?"
She seemed to hear a child crying.
"…Madam, it was Third Aunt and Miss Qin who brought Fourth Miss here. She was crying loudly."
What? Jia Mu, who had been lying on the couch and looked listless, sat up all of a sudden. "Quick, bring the child over here. It's so cold. Let Yingchun, Tanchun and the others come over as well."
She also knew that she couldn't coax the child.
As for Yingchun and Tanchun, I could see them every day when I went to school.
"yes!"
Yuanyang and Amber quickly got up, one went to pick someone up, and the other went to the backyard to look for someone.
Soon, Jia's mother's yard became lively.
Jia Yue, who was crying very hard, looked at Yingchun approaching with her hand stretched out, and her mouth turned red with grievance.
"Hey, my second sister is here, we can't afford to lose money!"
Yingchun hugged the poor little sister and felt heartbroken.
"Look, what did the third sister bring you?"
When Tanchun heard her little sister crying, she stood up and grabbed the little rabbit she had just cut, "Where is the little rabbit? Don't cry, don't cry."
Jia Yue sobbed as she took her sister's little rabbit. She held the paper rabbit's ear and pulled it hard. One of the rabbit's ears fell off on the spot.
However, the little girl stopped crying all of a sudden.
She looked at the paper rabbit with one ear missing curiously, then stretched out her little claws.
"Oh, I knew it..."
Tanchun tapped her little nose and said, "Shishu, go and get all those little things you cut."
"Yes, yes, as long as you can coax him."
Grandmother Jia touched her little hand and confirmed that it was warm, then she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I miss you so much, go cry to your mother tomorrow."
"Grandma, my aunt is not..."
"The Queen sent someone to pick him up early this morning."
Grandmother Jia touched the happy little Jia Yue and said, "She dreamed that she suffered, and she asked the emperor for mercy, saying that she would return to the south by water when spring comes and flowers bloom."
Huh? Everyone in the room was surprised.
"Oh, we cried for days in vain."
Sister Feng, who came running, smiled at her sister-in-law, whose face still had traces of tears, and said, "You must make sure she remember this. When you talk to us about this in the future, tell her about it."
"Is this what a sister-in-law should say?"
Yingchun was speechless.
"It's okay, Yue'er will cry," Tanchun said with a smile, "As long as she opens her voice, the second sister-in-law will have no choice but to raise her hands in surrender."
"Look, have you hit a wall?"
Grandmother Jia was amused by them. "It's fine if you just hang around with me on weekdays, but you want to hang around with your sisters..."
"Oh, old lady~"
Wang Xifeng stamped her feet, which made Grandmother Jia laugh even louder.
Looking at these children, the old lady felt more confident.
Shen was a person who loved children, and just looking at these children, she would not easily make a division.
Therefore, her return might help the Jia family find another way out.
That night, Jia Yue stayed in Yingchun's room, and even Tanchun, Daiyu and Xiangyun squeezed in.
The four little sisters, with their youngest sister, first played hide-and-seek on the kang using two quilts. Later, because Grandmother Jia was afraid that they would get cold, she added another quilt.
Fortunately, the kang was big enough, and even with three quilts spread out flat, it wasn't crowded.
Jia's mother's backyard was filled with laughter.
The next day, Shen Ning's carriage finally drove into the palace when the emperor was leaving court.
The Queen was already waiting.
Of course, there was Jia Lian even earlier.
At the side of the corridor, Jia Lian, dressed in official uniform, stood tall and looked very handsome.
Seeing her get off the car, he hurried over to help her, "Aunt, you're back."
His voice was a little shaky and he seemed to be feeling guilty.
Eh? Guilty?
What bad things have you done?
Shen Ning glanced at him calmly.
Jia Lian's heart trembled.
We had agreed at the beginning that the wooden spear should be sealed.
Or he could spend a few years in the equipment manufacturing bureau, become familiar with the masters there, and then slowly inspire them.
But now, he just gave it to the emperor like that.
I haven’t told Brother Zhen and my aunt yet.
"Tell me, what bad thing did you do?"
Shen Ning glanced calmly at the palace servant leading the way.
Fortunately, when they saw Jia Lian, they were tactful enough to give them space to talk and quickly walked forward.
"The Russians are attacking," Jia Lian whispered, "The Russians' muskets are quite powerful. My nephew... I was impulsive and told the emperor about the wooden musket you made."
Shen Ning: “…”
She thought it was because of Jia Wen.
It was a gun?
Hiss~ Of course! Isn't the Jia family afraid that the emperor will be suspicious?
But no matter how suspicious he was, as long as the Jia family was not in the army, as long as he could drive the Russians out, take back Outer Northeast, and defeat the Tatars again, making them completely surrender... it didn't seem to be a big deal.
"Aunt~"
Jia Lian heard his aunt's deep breathing, and his voice began to tremble, "You..."
“Shut up!”
These days, she flipped through the fragment of "Han Yu Tong ~ Di Wei" that Rong Ge'er got, and the more she read, the more uncomfortable she felt.
The Qing Dynasty brought disaster to the country.
Therefore, Empress Dowager Cixi said in the late Qing Dynasty, "Measure the material strength of China and win the favor of other countries." She also said, "The Qing Dynasty is not China, and the pigtail cannot be removed. If the pigtail is removed, China will not perish, and the Qing Dynasty will perish."
In her book Two Years in the Qing Palace, De Ling, a female writer in the Qing Dynasty, mentioned that her father told her that they were not Chinese, but they were the masters of the Chinese.
Therefore, they were incompetent in dealing with foreign countries and had to cede territory and pay compensation.
However, they were able to spend more than ten years on civil war and fighting the Taiping Rebellion.
The number of people who died directly and indirectly in that war reached hundreds of millions.
Shen Ning’s modern history is not very good, because every time he reads it, he gets angry.
After entering the society and working, an older sister said that her daughter didn’t want to take history classes anymore, because modern history was so infuriating. She said that you have to study hard, this is the account book.
At the time, she felt it made sense, so she went home and read it more, but she finally gave up out of anger.
However, although it was abandoned, some research was still done. According to the book "Population and Modern China: Since 1850", the Taiping Rebellion caused a population loss of at least 100 million in China, and the direct death toll reached more than 70 million.
According to the household registration numbers recorded in the "Ministry of Household Register", China's population dropped by 40% during this period, with an absolute loss of 160 million people.
Although the two figures are different, both show that the Taiping Rebellion caused extremely serious population losses and casualties.
So Mr. Sun Yat-sen said, drive out the Tartars and restore China! Now...
"That gun was originally intended to be donated by my aunt."
Shen Ning straightened her back and gave Jia Lian a smile, "Now that you are one step ahead, Auntie has to thank you."
Jia Lian: “…”
His original uneasiness and anxiety were all gone at this moment.
"Hurry up and tell me, has the gun started to be made?"
Shen Ning asked him while quickening her pace.
"not yet!"
Jia Lian shook his head hurriedly, "My nephew only told the emperor that you are very interested in guns and once made an extremely powerful wooden gun. But if the concept of that wooden gun is used in our current firearms, it will definitely suppress the Luosha people and make them unable to raise their heads."
Pah~ Shen Ning raised her hand and hit him, "The Queen asked me to come back because of the gun?"
“Is that so?”
"Then why don't you go home and find Jiao Da?"
Shen Ning kicked him without caring about his image, "Tell him to hurry up and take all my guns. Take Shen Judao with you. He made it, and he knows how to tell those masters."
"yes!"
Jia Lian ran away in a flash.
Shen Ning followed the palace servants and strode towards Kunning Palace.
The palace servants didn't say anything when they saw that Jia Lian was missing.
When Shen Ning rushed to Kunning Palace, the emperor, who had received the news, had just put down the secret file he had not finished reading and arrived.
The emperor did not see the real thing that Jia Lian mentioned.
But he believed in Mrs. Shen.
All along, Ningguo Mansion has brought him nothing but luck and fortune.
It was difficult for him to find a reason himself, but it was easy enough to ask the Queen for help.
Besides, the Queen also wants Shen Ning to take the more convenient waterway.
It is so much faster to travel by water, and you can avoid so much bumpy ride.
"Your Majesty, long live the emperor! Long live the emperor, long live the emperor!"
"Mrs. Shen, please get up quickly!"
The emperor's voice was very gentle, "You are here to pay a visit to the queen, right? Look, she's coming." When he saw the queen coming out, his face was full of smiles.
"Your Majesty~"
The queen who came to greet her glanced at the emperor. When Shen Ning was about to kowtow to her again, she quickly pulled her back and said, "Sister, you are too polite. I am really annoyed."
Therefore, Shen Ning could only pretend to be helpless and performed a blessing ceremony, but in fact she was very happy that she didn't have to kneel down.
It is really uncomfortable to kneel down with my old arms and legs.
"Come on, let's go in and talk."
The queen was in a very good mood. As she walked, she asked, "It must have been a long journey. Do you want to take a break?"
"I wasn't tired in the carriage."
Shen Ning knew what the Queen meant, which was to ask her if she wanted to go to the bathroom.
Fortunately, she had considered this early, and after arriving in Beijing, she found an inn and washed and changed her clothes.
"That's great."
The emperor and empress sat down and gave her a seat. The palace maid served tea. The empress said bluntly, "Sister, do you know why I asked you to come back?"
"……Um!"
Shen Ning looked around, and the Queen understood and waved her hand for everyone to leave.
"I just met Lian'er, and he told me."
"Where is he now?"
The emperor likes people who are straightforward.
He had limited time and really couldn't afford to ramble on.
"Didn't the emperor want to see the gun?" Shen Ning smiled, "I asked him to go back and get it."
“Okay, okay!”
It's not a pleasant feeling to have enemies on all sides.
The Rakshasas, the Jin people, the Tatars, and even several small countries in the south all wanted to rush in and take a bite of Dazhao.
The main reason for this is that the Jin people rushed in at that time.
In recent years, they have actively formed marriage alliances with various Tatar tribes in order to invade again.
"Mrs. Shen, what do you think the gun...is likely to cause this?"
"That gun has the inspiration of the Five Thunder God Machine in it."
Shen Ning said: "It's just that the Five Thunder God Machine rotates the barrel, and my gun rotates the wheel that holds the gunpowder."
Then she asked directly, "Do you have a pen?"
Pa pa~ The emperor clapped his hands, and Liu An came in quickly and brought her paper and pen in a short while.
Shen Ning was not vague at all and drew it on the spot, "The Five Thunder God Machine is too bulky. One person needs to support and rotate the barrel, and another person needs to aim and shoot. But this gun is different. The wheel is filled with gunpowder, and it can fire six shots in a row just by rotating it.
Moreover, it is loaded from the rear..."
She drew the six holes on the wheel and said, "Your Majesty, please look, loading our gunpowder has always been a very troublesome thing."
After installation, you need to use a chisel to tamp it down.
"Last year, when I was in danger, I was able to kill the black men with the missionary's musket. The main reason was that I had packed the gunpowder and lead bullets separately. When I needed them, I could take out one portion immediately. The hole on the wheel of this gun is where the gunpowder is loaded.
On the battlefield, if bulk loading is too slow, perhaps we can wrap the gunpowder and lead bullets in paper shells so that they can be loaded quickly."
The queen didn't quite understand at first, but after seeing what she had quickly drawn and listening to her well-organized explanation, she immediately understood.
She was like this, so how could the emperor, who had personally studied the gun, not know? "Mrs. Shen is very talented!"
It turns out that he is the one who brings him good luck.
The emperor was very excited and said, "You should have presented these earlier."
“…I wanted to present it as soon as I made it.”
Shen Ning was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "It was just that the King of Jin was staring at me so hard that I was a little afraid that he would say that the Jia family was researching this thing with ill intentions."
Anyway, Prince Jin is dead.
It was normal for the Jia family to be afraid of being bitten again after they came out of the army.
"So, I showed this gun to Jia Lian. He is the doctor of the armory department. He can provide proper guidance to the master who makes guns in the future."
The emperor nodded.
He understood the Jia family's caution.
Jia Lian was loyal to his emperor and patriotic. When the Russians were coming to kill him, he did not bother to guide his gun-making master, but reported it directly to him, which won his heart.
"Then Mrs. Shen should also know about Jia Wen's matter?"
"yes!"
Shen Ning nodded, and as she spoke, she lifted her robe and knelt down, "Your Majesty, I ask the emperor to make a decision for the Jia family. That Wo He abducted a girl from the Jia family as his wife and threatened the Jia family. He..."
"I can't punish him now!"
The emperor knew what she was going to say, but he could only refuse, "Da Zhao must help them drive away the Rakshasa first."
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