Chapter 303: Intercession
Finally arrived in Jinling.
Xing'er, who was sent back last year, came to meet them early.
The layout of the old house in Jinling City is almost the same as that in the capital. If there is any difference, it is that it is a little bigger, especially the garden at the back, which is nearly one-third larger.
But it is also true that there is no royal family in Jinling, and the Jia family is the top powerful family.
"Mother, mother~~~"
Jia Yue, who had just learned to walk, staggered over.
As soon as Shen Ning saw her, she couldn't help but laugh.
There is a saying, how does it go, oh, 'The person who smiles when he sees you, the person who makes you smile when he sees you. '
She is very happy that there is someone in this world who makes her smile the moment she sees him.
"This is our home, home~"
Shen Ning held the little girl's hand and taught her to say the word "home".
Home, what a simple and ordinary word! But Xichun in the Red Mansion seems to have two homes, but neither of them is her home.
So at such a young age, he resolutely chose to become a monk.
“Hehe~”
The little girl tilted her head and smiled, but she refused to learn to talk from her.
"Little lazy bastard!"
Shen Ning tapped her little nose, "Wait, let your sisters treat you in the future."
"Sister~~"
Jia Yue obviously missed her sisters as well, and looked around when she heard that.
Unfortunately, there is no sister, only the eldest nephew who came in in a hurry.
"Grandma, little aunt~"
Rong Ge'er strode in, "Grandma, how many people do you think have been arrested in Jinling during this period?"
How many people were arrested?
Shen Ning was slightly stunned, and then reacted, "Japanese pirates?"
"yes!"
Rong Ge'er nodded vigorously, "We caught six."
Six?
Shen Ning frowned, "Have you checked what they are doing in Dazhao?"
"It's all reselling!"
Rong Ge'er said directly: "They and several shopkeepers of the Xue family did business with the Portuguese. The funny thing is that the business has nothing to do with the Xue family, but there are dividends for the Wang family."
Shen Ning: “…”
How normal!
The Wang family is the root cause of the downfall of the four major families in the Dream of the Red Chamber.
"Then how did you get caught this time?"
Shen Ning was slightly curious, “Does Wang’s family here care?”
"The Jinling prefect was afraid because of what happened to Prefect Qi, so he asked them to leave the country as soon as possible, but they relied on the Wang and Xue families and didn't leave. Xing'er was afraid of accidents, so he took our family's letter to them, and the prefect put them in jail."
Rong Ge'er was particularly indignant. "The Wang family and the Xue family are both in charge. I've been running around for them these past few days. I just asked the two grandfathers from the ninth and tenth rooms to ask Dad to intercede for me."
"Didn't your father beat up those people?"
A hint of murderous intent flashed in Shen Ning's eyes.
The Jia family has prospered for a hundred years. There are twelve branches of the family. If any one of them rises up, the Ning and Rong mansions will certainly lend a hand.
In the Red Mansion, the relatives in Beijing think all day long about how to gain benefits from the Ning and Rong mansions.
The people who are originally from here are the same kind.
After Mr. Ning and Mr. Rong became rich, they invested a lot of properties here because they thought of returning to their hometown one day.
In the capital, Jia Zhen would distribute New Year's goods to his clansmen at the end of the year. The same thing happened in his hometown, but it didn't go through him.
But now, the Ninth and Tenth Houses are worried about the life and death of the Ningguo Mansion because of outsiders...
"I have already asked you to leave the house."
It’s not easy to hit people when you just get back.
Rong Ge'er said: "But my grandson feels that they will come again tomorrow."
Many female members of the clan wanted to come and pay a visit today, but he and his father temporarily rejected them on the grounds that their grandmother was tired.
"Come if you want to. Since you are relatives, why shouldn't you go?"
There was a flash of contempt in Shen Ning's eyes.
This is Jinling, Jinling also has another name - Nanjing.
You want to be a traitor, right? She will let those traitors know why the sun is red.
Shen Ning suppressed her temporary anger and waited for tomorrow.
In fact, the twelfth branch of the Jia family has not been at peace these days.
Ever since Chen Ning reorganized the school and drove Jia Dairu out of the capital, many of the older generation here have been saying that she was too arrogant.
But they only said these things in private.
After all, they are the eldest branch of the family, and with Jia Jing and Jia Zhen around, they dare not reveal anything.
By the time Jia Jing died, she had already become a first-rank lady.
Even if you play with crickets in private, it's only at home.
The Wang and Jia families in the capital had a falling out, but here, there was no way to turn things around.
They are all married to each other.
Therefore, they had never interacted with each other in Beijing, but in Nanjing, they were very close to each other.
The ninth and tenth families, one has a favored daughter who married into the Wang family, and the other has a beloved young son who married a daughter of the Wang family.
The in-laws begged him to do something, and his children encouraged him...
Shen Ning did not deny that there were people over there who could be human beings, but if they wanted to be human beings, they could just go back to their own country and be human beings. This land did not need them.
The next morning, just after breakfast, the tribesmen arrived one after another.
And they are basically one family at a time.
However, the men were entertained by Jia Zhen and Rong Ge'er in the large hall outside, while the female guests were entertained by Shen Ning in the flower hall here.
Different from the bustle outside, in the flower hall, everyone was just drinking tea and talking about things in Rongguo Mansion.
They didn't even dare to mention Princess Rong.
Shen Ning was waiting for them to talk nonsense so that she could use her ultimate move.
But even the old ladies from the ninth and tenth rooms were unusually polite to her at this moment.
Shen Ning was stunned for a moment, then thought of her reputation, and quickly treated them with a warmer attitude.
She held back her temper yesterday and didn't call Jia Zhen over to scold him, all for the purpose of using her big move today to discipline some of the so-called relatives here.
hateful!
Even the children are unusually well-behaved with her.
Shen Ning gradually became impatient.
Finally, I couldn't resist any more and served tea to chase them away.
At this moment, the little maid ran in and said, "Madam, Master wants to drive the masters of the ninth and tenth rooms out of the house, and ask the wives and grandmothers of the ninth and tenth rooms to leave as well."
ah? Shen Ning glanced at the ladies of the ninth and tenth rooms.
The two old ladies from the ninth and tenth rooms hurriedly stood up, and the expressions on their faces suddenly turned into pleading ones.
"Sister-in-law!"
Wang, the daughter-in-law of the tenth room, bowed hurriedly and said, "I beg you to show some mercy, sister-in-law. Among the Japanese detained by the government this time, there is one who saved my father's life. He is an honest businessman and has been with my family for many years..."
"Wang family or Jia family?"
Shen Ning interrupted her words lightly.
"...both the Wang family and the Jia family."
Wang looked at her mother-in-law and said, "Mother-in-law~"
The legitimate daughter of the Wang family in Beijing, married her elder sister to the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion and gave birth to two sons and one daughter. The daughters all married into the marquis's mansion and became marquis's wives. As a result, this sister-in-law slowly turned her into that.
Xiao Wang was really scared.
The old lady from the tenth room was unsure, but before she came, the Wang family sent her two shops, a farm and five hundred taels of silver.
In this way, the property of the ten families was increased significantly.
For the sake of her children, Yao, who was actually not much older than Chen Ning, hurriedly said, "My niece, Ito Rui is really a very honest businessman. If you don't believe me, go ask around. There are few people in Jinling City who don't know him. He can't be an assassin, and you can't generalize, right?"
"Yeah yeah!"
The old lady of the ninth room quickly agreed, and as she spoke, she looked at the sisters-in-law of the fifteenth and sixteenth rooms with a smile, "Fifteenth sister-in-law, sixteenth sister-in-law, please say something!"
We usually play mahjong together and have a very good relationship.
Just when the fifteenth and sixteenth rooms were in trouble, the ninth old master outside was already shouting, "Why don't you leave? What are you waiting for? Who are they? What are we? Do you have to be chased away with a broom? Ugh~"
He spat fiercely, "You rely on your status to bully the people in your clan, not knowing what is good and what is bad. Who do you think you are?"
Bang! When Chen Ning stood up, she swept the cup next to her to the ground.
"Someone come here,"
She raised her voice and called out to someone, "Get that self-righteous thing out of here."
Several Qi Youding, who had received the order long ago and were waiting, rushed over with brooms in hand and threw dirt at the Ninth Old Master.
"Ms. Shen, you are so brave and powerful."
The Ninth Old Master jumped up and down, "I am your uncle, Jing'er..."
"Are you going to look for my Jia Jing, Old Master Jiu?"
Shen Ning walked out of the flower hall and the hanging flower door in a few steps, and looked at the jumping man, "I want to tell you that he was forced to death by the Japanese pirates. If you want to ask him for an explanation, then go and die."
“You, you, you…”
The ninth old master was furious.
He is getting older and now he is very cautious about it.
But against Chen Ning...
The old man looked at her imposing manner and felt a little breathless for some reason. He shouted at Jia Zhen who had also come over, "Zhen'er, are you still the head of the family?" He was a grandfather and Jia Zhen was a grandson. Even if Jia Zhen was the head of the family, he was still superior to him. "Just let a woman..."
"Jia Zhen, don't let me look down on you."
Shen Ning's voice was cold, staring at Jia Zhen.
Jia Zhen's forehead was covered with sweat.
He suddenly felt that his mother wanted to beat him again.
But the affairs of the Ninth Old Master really have nothing to do with him! "What are you still standing there for? Hit me now."
He shouted at Qi Youding and others.
"Not to the extent that..."
The tribesmen nearby gathered around him and tried to plead for mercy, saying, "We are all family!"
No matter how powerful the direct branch is, it will only take a few days.
They just turn around, pat their butts and leave, and never bring anything back for eight or ten years.
Instead, they should support each other.
"Ms. Shen, you should also say less."
The fifteenth master wanted to make peace with each other, "Ninth brother, you..."
"The broom can't move it, where's the stick?"
As his mother's face became increasingly grim, Jia Zhen yelled with a stick, "Don't give me any bullshit. My father was killed by the pirates. My mother, sister, son, and I almost died in the hands of the pirates in Xuzhou. Anyone who pleads for me now will be my enemy."
He kicked away a member of the tribe next to him and shouted angrily, "People from the ninth and tenth houses, get out now."
After hearing his words, Qi Youding and the others no longer had to worry. Even if there was no stick, it would still be very painful to hit someone with a broom. The Ninth Old Master cried out "ouch" several times and had to walk out quickly.
"Did you hear that?"
Shen Ning turned to look at the women, "Please ask the people from Room 9 and Room 10 to leave our house."
Xiaodong and the others hurriedly stepped forward, staring at them eagerly, "Please!"
Ninth and Tenth Rooms: "..."
What else can they say? The men ran closely behind the Ninth Old Master, and they hurried to catch up.
"Zhen'er, go to the prefectural government and tell Prefect Yang to investigate all the actions of the Japanese in Dazhao. All those who colluded with them and committed illegal acts should be imprisoned."
Chen Ning said coldly, "Da Zhao does not need people who are greedy for money, and the Jia family does not need it even more. The ninth and tenth rooms are not allowed to touch anything from my Ningguo Mansion from now on."
"yes!"
When Jia Zhen responded loudly, all the maids and servants bowed.
…
In less than a day, news of what happened in Tianjin prison spread to the capital.
Only then did the emperor understand why soldiers were called "soldier ruffians".
Jin Muchuan’s move was amazing.
Jia She is really not capable of this! No wonder even someone like Jia Zheng could drive him out of Rong Xi Tang.
“…What if someone is in poor health and dies?”
After reading everything the emperor shared, the queen couldn't help laughing but also felt a little worried.
"Don't worry, these people know how to fight in moderation." The emperor smiled, "As long as the two chief officers are fine, the other servants will die."
Those Japanese still want to take advantage of him?
Just because they come together with the Rakshasas, there is almost no possibility of a peaceful resolution.
In fact, it might be better to make a bigger fuss and discourage some people from having such thoughts.
"Then...when do you think it would be appropriate to keep them locked up?"
If he needed to be locked up for a longer period of time, she would ask Princess Rong to summon a few members of the Jia family and give them a hint.
"Wait a minute, no rush!"
The emperor hasn't made up his mind yet.
In the court, no one has reached a consensus yet.
Anyway, he is not in a hurry now.
"You are not in a hurry, but the Jia family... may withdraw first to prevent any accidents."
This is not impossible! Jia She is not very courageous.
Although Jia Lian is a man who gets things done, he has a lot to consider in his position.
“Well, that’s a problem.”
The emperor thought about it, but before he could make up his mind, Liu An had already come running in with a memorial, "Your Majesty, Jia Zhen has a memorial."
Jia Zhen?
Another fold?
The emperor and empress were both worried that something had happened again.
The emperor took the memorial and read it quickly.
The more he read, the happier he became. He quickly put the memorial into the Queen's hand and asked Liu An, "Where is the thing?"
"It was sent to the Ordnance Bureau."
I dare not bring that thing into the palace.
Liu An was very dedicated in this regard.
As a eunuch, all honor and disgrace depend on the emperor.
To be honest, many eunuchs in the previous dynasty were actually derelict in their duties.
There were too many emperors in the previous dynasty who died inexplicably.
"Let's go and take a look!"
The emperor was very excited.
He couldn't wait to see the treasure that Fireworks Li made as soon as possible.
Since it was sent up by Jia Zhen, it must have been tested.
"Your Majesty, bring a few more people."
The queen hurriedly called out from behind.
"Don't worry, I know what's going on!"
The emperor waved his hand and strode away.
At this time, at Tianjin Wharf, two ships were parked pitifully.
Bazel Ackerman and Iris Roberts, who were unable to get ashore, became increasingly anxious.
It's been two days. Isn't it said that the port here is very close to the capital, and that several round trips are possible in a day?
They sent out translators again and again, hoping to go ashore for purchases.
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