The Red Mansions

Chapter 483 Jin Yang: Would you like me to help you?

Chapter 483 Jin Yang: Do you want... Ben Gong to help you?

Jinyang Princess Palace

Just when Jia Heng had a secret meeting with Qi Guaner from Zhongshun Palace, King Zhongshun, accompanied by Zhou Shun, the Chief Historian of the Palace, boarded a carriage, escorted by the guards of the Palace, and came to the Princess Palace to visit Jinyang long princess.

It was mid-noon, the sky was gray, and in the flower hall, King Zhongshun was wearing a python-dragon-pattern robe, sitting upright in the hall. The teacup on the tea table beside him had not been touched, obviously waiting for the arrival of the eldest princess of Jinyang .

It's just that with the passage of time, about a cup of tea time, I gradually became impatient, and I just suppressed it forcibly.

At this moment, the sound of ringing bells came through the curtain.

King Zhongshun's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly looked around, only to see a graceful and graceful beauty appearing in front of his eyes, with a bright and beautiful face, like a painting.

King Zhongshun narrowed his eyes, and thought to himself, Jinyang is becoming more and more charming as he gets older.

Accompanied by Lianxue and other female officials, the eldest princess of Jinyang stepped out from behind the curtain, looked at King Zhongshun, and said with a sweet smile: "Brother Wang came to visit, it's really radiant, I heard that Brother Wang suffered some injuries years ago. The injury, I don’t know if the body is getting better or not?”

King Zhongshun got up and was looking at the eldest princess of Jinyang. When he was asked about the injury on his body, his expression was a little unnatural, and he replied: "It's much better, sister Jinyang. I haven't had the chance to visit, but today I have some free time, so I came to see Miss Jinyang."

Princess Jinyang smiled and said: "Brother Wang is too polite, I should be the younger sister who went to visit Brother Wang. During the first lunar month, Concubine Wu still came and walked around."

After exchanging pleasantries, the two parties sat down separately.

"Brother Wang is here for something?" Princess Jinyang raised the teacup and asked with a smile.

King Zhongshun looked up at the bright beauty, smiled and said: "Sister Jinyang, as a brother, you don't have to go to the Three Treasures Palace. Now the emperor's auspicious land, the Gongling Mausoleum has been mostly completed, but there are still many stones. The wooden materials need to be purchased, and the craftsmen have a huge shortage of money and silver, so they still need the help of Jinyang girls, can you borrow some silver taels from the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

The so-called borrowing of silver is a euphemism, and most of them are borrowed but not repaid.

Princess Jinyang frowned when she heard the words, and said in a cold voice: "Brother Wang, people from the House of Internal Affairs came over last year, and the shops under my hand also helped provide a lot of civil and stone materials. I still owe money on credit. Of course, Brother Wang is in dire straits. It’s okay if I can’t pay for it for a while. These are all to share the worries of my father. As a daughter, I have nothing to say. Not long ago, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said Ships are needed to transport timber from the deep mountains of Guizhou, and I also asked my staff to actively prepare ships to help transport... Brother Wang, as far as I know, the Ministry of Households allocates money to Ji Rang, which exceeds one million taels per year. There are also allocations of money in the government, so how can we still use the money from the side, and borrow from the side, it is not in line with the system."

This King Zhongshun repeatedly borrowed manpower and material resources from her subordinates for the purpose of building the imperial mausoleum. She couldn't refuse, but now she went ahead and borrowed money.

It's just that she is sure that she has no face, so it is not easy to explain this matter to the emperor brother.

King Zhongshun made a wry smile and said: "Sister Jinyang, you don't know that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has not been well-off in the past few years. All kinds of royal estates and tea estates have been affected by natural disasters in various provinces, and the harvest has been sluggish. In the past two years, The important affairs of the imperial court are one after another, disaster relief and poverty relief, and money wasted. The Chonghua Palace can’t be short of money at any time. As the elder brother, the person in charge, the money is tight, and now there is no money on hand. , Jinyang sister, you and I are both nobles of the royal family, and we should be filial to our father, right?"

At this moment, King Zhongshun is holding the banner of filial piety to suppress the eldest princess Jinyang.

Princess Jinyang frowned, and said: "Brother Wang, if you say that you are offering money for your father, Huang Xiuji, I shouldn't refuse, but the imperial court has its own rules, since the Ministry of Households allocates money, how to use it?" The silver next to it? Of course, Brother Wang told Brother Huang like this, as long as Brother Huang nods, even if I go bankrupt, I will do my best for this matter."

In this feudal dynasty where the family, the country and the world were respected and the ancestors were respected, the construction of imperial mausoleums has always been a major national policy. In the case of Emperor Longzhi's Gongling Mausoleum, it has actually been built since the reign of Longzhi, but there were several short-term stagnation in the middle, which is nothing more than national property. With embarrassment, but even in the most difficult times, no private donations were accepted.

No matter what Emperor Chongping said, as the son of heaven, he was rich all over the world, and as an elder brother, it was impossible for Princess Jinyang's mansion to pay the silver to beat his own sister.

King Zhongshun's complexion changed, he heard some "threats", smiled, and said: "Jinyang sister misunderstood, it's not that Jinyang sister was asked to pay the money, but that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has reduced the income of the past few years. , I don’t have a lot of money, since the Princess Mansion doesn’t have much money to borrow, then forget it, but if the closed gambling shops in Dongcheng can be resold to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will also be able to make an extra income and alleviate the urgent need.”

After all, King Zhongshun still came to those profitable gambling houses in the East City.

Since ancient times, gambling houses have been a lucrative business, so how can King Zhongshun let go of such a profitable business?

The problem now is that Jia Heng doesn't drive in the capital himself, and won't allow others to drive.

In other words, Jia Heng didn't think about whether to use gambling as a variant to replace the casino business.

Princess Jinyang Liu Ye raised her fine eyebrows, her red lips parted lightly, her voice was as cold as broken jade, and she said: "Brother Wang, don't you know that the Wucheng soldiers and horses have posted a notice that gamblers are idle on the ground in Shenjing. It is a nuisance and trouble, so for the time being, the east and west cities are not allowed to open gambling houses, if Brother Wang wants to make a living with these ideas, you can go to the Wucheng Bingma Division to ask, but there is no need to talk to me."

King Zhongshun picked up the teacup, was drinking tea with his head down, and coughed lightly.

Zhou Changshi immediately understood, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs wanted to set up gambling shops in the east and west cities to make a living for your mansion's chief guard, Jinyi commander Xia Houying, and Wucheng soldiers and horses. Commanded by the two cities in the east and west, they will be jointly seized."

Under the beautiful eyebrows of the eldest princess of Jinyang, her phoenix eyes stood upside down, her pretty face was covered with frost, she glanced at Zhou Changshi, and said in a cold voice: "Who are you? I have the right to talk to you when I talk to Brother Wang?"

Zhou Changshi's complexion changed slightly, he cupped his hands and said, "Your official made a slip of the tongue."

However, what has to be said has been said.

King Zhongshun put down the teacup, twisted his beard under his chin, and said: "Sister Jinyang, the people below don't understand the rules and do things on their own, please forgive me."

Princess Jinyang narrowed her eyes, not knowing that this was also talking about her subordinates.

King Zhongshun continued: "But speaking of it, Jia Ziyu, who is now mentioning Wucheng Bingmasi, if I remember correctly, was recommended by my sister to the Holy One. He and his sister have a very close relationship, and my sister can even be regarded as his benefactor. , if you can help to mention this matter, I won’t make trouble here anymore for my brother.”

Princess Jinyang chuckled, and said: "Brother Wang really thinks highly of me, Jia Heng is now a minister of military affairs, and Wen Guozheng, where did I instigate him? Brother Wang, you might as well send a letter to the emperor, Chen Knowing this matter, I said that I want to run a gambling shop to make a living, see what the emperor means, why do you make things difficult for me?"

Hearing this, King Zhongshun's face became a bit ugly, and he said with a smirk: "Then I'll play Ming Shengshang as a brother, and I won't bother you today, so I leave."

My heart is really displeased, a widow who lives alone treats him so arrogantly?

King Zhongshun turned pale and led Zhou Changshi away from the Princess Jinyang's mansion.

Looking at the back of the two leaving, Princess Jinyang's jade face was like frost, the cold light flickered in her phoenix eyes, and there was a bit of anger in her heart.

When you come to the door, you are clearly bullying you, and you have no tricks yet.

Even if it is a family of ordinary people, there are frequent discords between brothers and sisters, what about the royal family?

"Your Highness." Lianxue said cautiously, "Should I call Master Jia over now?"

Princess Jinyang took a deep breath, her beautiful eyes sparkled, and she said softly: "Since he has made arrangements before, just wait patiently. Don't keep urging, otherwise it will upset people."

Said, no more words, returned to the backyard with Lianxue and a group of female officials, but just entered the courtyard of the rockery covered bridge, heard the sound of the piano coming from a distance across a high wall of green vines.

"Is this Yuan Chun playing the piano?"

Princess Jinyang paused for a moment, looked around, and asked Lianxue who was beside her with great interest.

I don't know if it's her illusion, but from the piano music, I can hear an inexplicable sense of resentment.

Who is this complaining about?

interesting……

Lianxue also had the same rhythm, heard the words, also looked at the place where the music was coming from, and said softly: "It should be."

"Let's take a look with me." Princess Jinyang was annoyed by the matter of King Zhongshun just now, and right now she just happened to talk to Yuan Chun, so she had the right to relax.

While speaking, Princess Jinyang, accompanied by Lianxue and several other female officials, came to Yuanchun's courtyard.

This is a courtyard with a front porch and a rear porch, surrounded by buildings on the left and right. There is a rockery piled up in the courtyard, and vines and vines are planted under the surrounding flower walls.

In the wing room, Yuan Chun was sitting behind a small table, stroking a dark red zither with both hands, when he heard the sound of footsteps coming from behind the screen, the sound of the zither could not help but abruptly.

With curvy brows and plump cheeks, he raised his eyes to look at the beauty, and saw that there was a faint look of hesitation between the frowning eyebrows of Princess Jinyang, and he couldn't help but feel it, and asked: "Your Highness has Worry."

Princess Jinyang smiled and said, "Yes, it's the same as you."

Said, sat down at Xiudun not far away, took the tea from the maidservant next to Yuan Chun holding the piano, and said softly: "Just now King Zhongshun came over."

"Huh?" Yuan Chun asked with concern on his face, "What is Prince Zhongshun doing here?"

Princess Jinyang said in a cold voice: "What else can I do? It's nothing more than trouble. I was sent back by my palace just now, so don't pay attention to him."

Yuan Chun thought for a while, with a look of relief on his face, he said softly: "Your Highness, I asked Brother Heng yesterday, and he said that everything is ready, and I only owe Dongfeng."

Because the "Battle of Red Cliff" has not been written in the Three Kingdoms script, so the story of Zhuge borrowing the east wind has not yet become a household name.

In fact, Yuan Chun was somewhat unclear about Jia Heng's words, but seeing his well-thought-out appearance and the four words "everything is ready", he could read some outlines.

"Oh?" Princess Jinyang was stunned for a moment, feeling a little happy, and hurriedly asked: "Yesterday, did he really say that?"

Yuan Chun nodded, and said softly: "Just yesterday, I asked Brother Heng, and that's what he said to me."

Princess Jinyang's Yurong was slightly stunned, her starry eyes flashed, and all sorts of speculations were already welling up in her heart.

Secretly thought, could it be that he has already obtained the key evidence, if that is the case, it may be some time before the mobilization.

Now that he has made a plan, he put down the matter of King Zhongshun for the time being, and turned to look at Yuan Chun with his beautiful eyes shining with curiosity, and asked: "Yuan Chun, I just saw that there is a deep hatred in the sound of your piano. love, for some reason?"

Yuan Chun's face changed slightly, and he said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness misunderstood, and there is no deep hatred."

Princess Jinyang smiled lightly, her lustrous eyes seemed to see through the girl's heart, and she said softly: "Actually, if you don't tell me, I can guess some, but because of... the romantic feelings?"

She also understands the rhythm, the qin music just now, in which the hatred is mostly due to the relationship between men and women, but I don't know who the person involved is.

Thinking about it this way, and looking at the beautiful woman with a beautiful face, I also feel a little bit emotional.

In her 20s, at the age of Chunhua, it should be the year of leaving the cabinet, maybe she has someone she likes?

As soon as these words came out, Yuan Chunyu's face changed slightly, she was frightened immediately, and her heart was already in panic.

Princess Jinyang waved her hand, at some point, Lianxue greeted all the nuns, and slowly exited the room.

And Baoqin also left the wing room.

Princess Jinyang joked with a smile: "You can tell me, which family is it? Are you so tired that you worry about it and hide your heart?"

Yuan Chun said anxiously: "Your Highness misunderstood, there is nothing wrong with it, it's just a momentary recollection, not because of romantic feelings."

"Hey, it seems that you don't think of me as your own." Princess Jinyang said quietly, looking at the girl opposite, and said softly: "This palace is ten years older than you, but it's not enough. Call it a sister."

Yuan Chun stared at the beauty, and pursed her cherry lips.

Secretly thought, if you are with brother Heng, maybe it is reasonable to call me sister.

Seeing that Yuan Chun did not answer, Princess Jinyang had some guesses in her heart, picked up the teacup, and said softly: "It is said that you have not been out of the palace for a long time, and there seems to be no one who can be bound by love, but why are you so entangled... ..."

She was born in the royal family and has been in the family for many years. This kind of thing has been seen a lot. In a big family, the elder brother or younger brother of the same clan is too outstanding, and the sisters of the clan get along day and night, and fall in love with each other.

Even if it is the royal family, there are fewer such things?

Then the entanglement and confusion in the piano music can be inferred one or two.

Yuan Chun's heart skipped a beat. At this moment, a heart gradually rose to his throat. He just wanted to get up and leave, but his delicate body was so weak that he couldn't move. He also faintly wanted to hear what the princess wanted to say What.

Princess Jinyang suddenly raised her beautiful eyes, stared closely at Yuan Chun's pretty face, and asked, "But because of... Ziyu?"

Yuan Chun was startled, and the sound of "Ah" was clearly a result of being told to break his mind and be at a loss.

Why did she suddenly call out.

"Your Highness, you... have misunderstood." Yuan Chunyu said with a slight change in his eyes.

Princess Jinyang smiled lightly, and said: "You don't have to hide it from me. I haven't seen anything in these years. I don't think it's strange that you fall in love with him."

She had noticed a long time ago that Yuan Chun sometimes looked at that man with different eyes.

"Your Highness, don't talk about it." Yuan Chun was ashamed and said angrily with star eyes.

Secretly, of course you take it for granted that the two of you did such a thing.

Princess Jinyang smiled and said, "It's really difficult."

Although the two have no blood relationship, even if they have the same surname, they are the same surname in the eyes of outsiders.

Yuan Chun bowed his head, feeling shy, and dared not answer.

"Would you like... Ben Gong to help you?"

Just when the girl was feeling ashamed, Princess Jinyang's voice sounded in her ears with a strange magic power, and she said with a smile.

Yuan Chun: "..."

This...how to help her?

Princess Jinyang Qiushui's bright eyes flashed, and she said with a light smile: "Okay, I won't tease you anymore, you can make up your own mind."

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Yamen of the Ministry of Industry

In the evening, the sky was gloomy, because it just rained last night, and the stone steps in the government office were washed cleanly.

Qin Ye was about to leave the yamen and planned to go home, but was called into the Siwu Office by a clerk, and said that it was Mr. Pan, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, who asked him.

In the past few days, with the gradual deepening of the Beijing inspection, although Qin Ye is still sitting on the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry, he also knows that Pan Bingyi intends to fire himself on the grounds of "old age and serious illness", but because his son-in-law said earlier, Simply waiting for the trial of the Ministry of Officials in Beijing.

Standing in the official hall, Qin Ye cupped his hands towards Pan Bingyi, the servant of the Ministry of Industry who was sitting behind the table, and asked, "I don't know why Mr. Pan called the officials here?"

Pan Bingyi sat behind the table and looked at Qin Ye. Although his hair was gray and his face was old, he was hale and hearty. Langzhong, last year in the government office newspaper in the central part of Beijing, there was a summary of the materials used for the construction of the official government office, and there were a lot of extravagance and waste, how do you explain it?"

Qin Ye frowned, and said: "Master Pan, all expenses are expected to be estimated and sold, and the Ministry has also reported to the government, and there are detailed accounts to check. If you think something is wrong, you can send it to check. "

When Pan Bingyi heard the words, he felt a little displeased, and said, "Mr. Qin, I'm just conducting routine interrogation. After the official department has passed the trial, you will be unanimously official. These must always be handed over to the government."

At this moment, the dispute between the two immediately attracted the officials of the Ministry of Industry who had left the Yamen and wanted to go home.

Everyone stretched their necks and stared at the two who seemed to be arguing.

Some people had an obvious attitude of watching the show on their faces.

"Zhang Lingshi, I heard that Qin Langzhong's son-in-law is the one from Ningguo Mansion? That holy family member is upright, Master Pan..." In the side hall of the official hall, a palm guard asked in a low voice.

Ling Shi, surnamed Zhang, also lowered his voice and said: "That is a general, no matter how hot he is, he still can't control the Ministry of Industry."

"It's not that he is still the Minister of Military Aircraft, the holy family is upright, and he is nearby to serve the holy majesty. As long as he speaks a word or two in front of the holy majesty, Mr. Pan will not..."

Ling Shi, surnamed Zhang, laughed lightly: "Even if it's a minister of military affairs, it's better to be in charge of the current officials. Besides, military generals can't meddle in the affairs of the ministry."

"It's the reason, or Zhang Lingshi's profound knowledge." Na Zhanggu whispered.

Such whispering voices resounded quietly under the eaves of the corridor and among the scribes in the official building.

While Qin Ye and Pan Bingyi were arguing, another minister of the Ministry of Industry, Lu Chengan, walked out from the side, smiled and smoothed things over and said, "Master Pan, what's the matter, they're all gone, and they haven't left yet." ? I see it's going to rain."

Seeing Lu Chengan approaching, Pan Shilang had an unnatural smile on his face, and said: "It's nothing, I just told Qin Langzhong that the various expenditures of the government office and palace last year were suspected of being extravagant and wasteful, so I just asked a few words."

He had previously been hinted by Prince Zhongshun to dig a hole for Qin Ye to jump into.

But this Qin Ye was conscientious, no matter how critical he was, he couldn't find too many mistakes and omissions, so he could only routinely find faults, and then talk to the prince later, it's just a matter of authority.

Lu Chengan rolled his eyes, and said with a smile: "Since it was last year, I have reported the details for verification. If I want to do a detailed investigation, I will ask the staff of the Bureau of Information and Evaluation to call someone to read it. This is about to lock the hall. Master Pan, why don't you go back together?"

Pan Shilang nodded, and no longer held on to Qin Ye, but said sternly: "Qin Langzhong, although you are waiting for investigation because of your old age, the affairs of the Ministry still have to be attended to before the Ministry of Officials issues a letter." Be careful."

Qin Ye narrowed his old eyes, looked at Pan Bingyi, cupped his hands and said: "My lord's words, I have written them down. If there is nothing wrong, I will take my leave first."

"Go." Pan Shilang waved his hand.

Looking at Qin Ye's leaving back, Pan Shilang looked at Lu Chengan who was at the side, and said in a low voice: "Master Lu, some people rely on their son-in-law's power to ignore superior officials."

Lu Chengan smiled, and said: "Qin Langzhong has been in the ministry for many years, and he has never made any mistakes in the matters he is in charge of. Mr. Pan should think carefully about it."

This is the reason why he didn't want to go to the Palace of Zhongshun the day before yesterday. Prince Zhongshun regards the Lord of Ningguo as an enemy, and Jia Zheng of Rongguo Palace and this Qin Ye are relatives of the Jia family. People go to death to offend, why bother.

In fact, Pan Bingyi may not have such thoughts, but people cannot help themselves in the officialdom, even if they know it is unreasonable, they still have to resort to some small tricks to flatter the powerful.

(End of this chapter)