The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 218 The Honest Man Who Wants to Be Canonized

The imperial study was quiet.

Jia Rong appeared at the door and walked straight in.

There were several university scholars in the study, and they all came to discuss things.

"Your Majesty! It was too late when I went there. The King of Beidai had been dead for three or four days, and the Crown Prince died. I tried my best but could only save the old concubine, the princess, the princesses and nearly two hundred other people!!"

Jia Rong knelt down with a sad face, apologized to the emperor, and said that he was incompetent.

The emperor's expression was not bad, and he quickly said, "Brother, please get up. I have heard that you have been treating the Dai Wang family without sleep for the past half month."

"It is all thanks to my brother that so many people survived this time. I also have a piece of good news to tell you, brother."

Jia Rong stood up and asked curiously, "Is the emperor pregnant again?"

The emperor laughed out loud when he heard this.

"Thanks to my brother's tonic, three more of my beloved concubines are pregnant!"

Jia Rong showed a strange expression. This guy ate so many supplements. Will his health be okay in the future?

Forget it, it’s enough if he can leave behind a few children. If he can’t be cured, they will say that he has been playing too much as a eunuch.

The emperor felt even more pleased when he saw that Jia Rong could not guess anything good.

"Good news from the south! My army fired at the island dwellings of those barbarians. One hundred shells made those barbarians flee in panic. Now we have landed on Luzon Island, and the barbarians are all following us!"

Jia Rong said, "Congratulations to the emperor for expanding the territory and enhancing the prestige of our country! Why not send someone to fight the nearby enemies as well? If they lose, we can just send someone else."

Jia Rong is a wicked guy, and the emperor is also a wicked guy. He refused to let people go home until the first wave of people were sent away.

"My royal brother is right. Apart from a few hundred people who died from acclimatization and illness, the army was not seriously injured."

The emperor decided to let the people on the front line continue fighting!

"Brother, which one do you think is better to continue fighting?"

Jia Rong said: "We can go north and attack the small countries in South Vietnam. If they are willing to pay tribute with various treasures, we will naturally spare them. Otherwise, we will attack them."

The emperor's eyes lit up, "What a great idea! Let them pay tribute with precious treasures and beauties! And also money and food!"

Jia Rong is much more moral than the emperor.

"Your Majesty, since the people below have won the battle, they should be rewarded. We should first give some rewards to the meritorious soldiers and let them return to Guangzhou to send the money home. It will not be too late to collect the money then."

"I just got some money from the King of Northern Dai, and I'm willing to use it to reward the army."

The emperor had no objection to this. He had no shortage of money or people. Especially after he discovered that as long as he had firearms, cannons and large ships, he could go out and mine and make money, he cared even less.

Anyway, I thought the first batch of people would be defeated and killed, but now I have prepared a lot of people to continue to send.

He won't stop until the whole thing is gone, and soon people will continue to die.

Jia Rong had no intention of fighting. It would be fine if he went out by himself, but it would be boring to just pay money to read the battle reports.

The emperor was very happy today and waved his hand!
"Tomorrow I will host a banquet for all the civil and military officials in the court! To celebrate the great victory on the front line!"

Several university scholars understood the emperor's happiness.

The retired emperor never lost a war, but they were all narrow victories, and none of them could be considered a great victory.

This time, the emperor not only expanded the territory, but also directly occupied the main island with overwhelming combat power. He is indeed much more promising than the emperor grand.

Generally speaking, a normal dynasty would not have nothing better to do than attack a poor overseas place that is out of reach.

But Jia Rong was always looking for trouble, and the emperor was very upset after he ascended the throne, so he just beat him.

I even felt that I would lose at the beginning, but I didn’t care. If I lost, I would just change the door and play again easily.

Now that they have finally conquered it, it is naturally a great achievement, and everyone praised the emperor for his wisdom.

Seeing that everyone was so happy, Jia Rong bowed and said, "Your Majesty! I have something to report!"

The happy ministers all lowered their heads.

Including Wang Ziteng from the Ministry of War.

Jia Rong is a loyal person, but whenever he gets serious, it's usually not a good thing.

The emperor was also a little scared and asked carefully: "What do you want to report, my brother?"

Soon Jia Rong took out a small piece of clothing from his arms, which looked like a woman's bellyband.

"Your Majesty, this is the poisonous clothing I got from someone who died of illness in the Dai Wang family. It has pus from the vicious festering smallpox on it."

The cowpox virus was obtained from several dairymen who raised cattle in the prince's family, and they deliberately said it was the smallpox virus.

The palace not only has servants who raise cows and milk them, but also a wet nurse who specializes in feeding the prince who is over 40 years old!
You can get human milk, let alone cow's milk.

Of course, the bellyband was indeed a treasure found in the prince's beloved concubine's boudoir, and the virus was obtained from the nanny. Now the two are combined into one.

Several old ministers were so frightened that their legs went limp, and some even quickly stepped several steps away from Jia Rong.

Wang Ziteng shouted anxiously: "Protect the emperor!!"

Jia Rong frowned and looked at Wang Ziteng.

The emperor also frowned and looked at Wang Ziteng.

Wang Ziteng quickly shouted to the emperor: "Your Majesty, be careful!"

Just as he was about to approach the emperor, his hands were grabbed by the eunuchs standing below the Golden Throne Hall.

The middle-aged eunuch standing next to the emperor shouted angrily, "How dare you! How dare you be so disrespectful in front of the emperor! You have offended the emperor!!"

Wang Ziteng was controlled, and suddenly realized that he could not do what Jia Rong could do.

He is not qualified to protect the emperor...

Even if you want to be loyal, the emperor will look down on you.

Beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down Wang Ziteng's forehead.

"I deserve to die! I was anxious at the time and wanted to protect the emperor. I beg the emperor to forgive me! I deserve to die!"

Wang Ziteng quickly kowtowed and begged for mercy.

The emperor raised his hand and said, "Stand out. I have already had smallpox and will not get it again. Besides, how could my brother harm me? Don't make a fuss here."

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wang Ziteng kowtowed quickly, then quickly stood up and retreated out of the hall.

Jia Rong ignored Wang Ziteng who was making a fuss about his loyalty and continued, "Your Majesty, since last year, I have seen tens of thousands of people die from smallpox."

"I was about to forget about it, but I didn't expect to encounter this poison again this year."

"I have been tossing and turning in bed in the Northern Dynasty Palace for a while now. I have also seen people in the palace and the city with festering bodies and scratching themselves until they bleed because of the itchiness. I am in great pain."

"These days I have been thinking about how to deal with the smallpox poison. Finally, I came up with the idea of using poison to fight poison. First let people be infected with smallpox, and after they are cured, they will not be infected again."

The Prince's Grand Tutor angrily said, "Absurd! Is Prince Zhongxiao planning to bring another smallpox epidemic to the capital? By then, more than a few thousand or tens of thousands of people will die!"

The emperor has always disliked the people in his prince's mansion, especially since the great emperor had said not to listen to these useless people. "Brother, don't blame yourself. No doctor has been able to cure the smallpox poison for thousands of years. When I was ill, I checked the palace records. Every year, there are records of people dying from smallpox, some in the hundreds, some in the thousands. Throughout history, there have been more than tens of millions of people."

Jia Rong held up the woman's bellyband and said righteously, "Your Majesty, please understand! How dare I risk the lives of the people of the capital? This time, I plan to use my Zhongxiao Palace as a prison after I return, starting with my son! Let him get smallpox and test the poison on himself!"

Everyone was shocked, especially the emperor and several civil servants.

The Grand Master quickly said, "Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, so why would the King of Zhongxiao test the poison on his own son?"

Jia Rong clenched the woman's bellyband in his hand, "They will inevitably encounter smallpox sooner or later. Now is the time for them to grow up. It is much better to encounter smallpox earlier than later. The body will recover faster."

"Besides, I survived smallpox the first time I encountered it."

"The second time we met in the palace, I did my best to save the lives of the emperor and the queen."

"The third time we met in the Dai Palace, we tried our best to save hundreds of lives."

"After facing smallpox three times, I have a rough idea in my mind. I ask Your Majesty to let me go home and rest for two months to see if I can find a way to save the people of the world!"

The emperor sat quietly on the supreme throne, and even several court ministers who had always disliked him were full of admiration for him.

Seeing that the emperor was silent, Jia Rong shouted, "Your Majesty! Please allow me to go back and test the poison behind closed doors! I pray for peace for our descendants forever!!"

The emperor was speechless for a moment, and soon leaned weakly against the dragon throne.

"Approved... Regardless of success or failure, the land of Luzon opened up this time will be granted as the fief of King Zhongxiao."

The rest of the people had no objections, and they didn't even have any idea what this small overseas island was that was taken over by just over a thousand people.

The emperor himself had no idea. He just thought it would be easy to conquer. Besides, this place produced medicinal herbs, so it was most suitable to reward Jia Rong.

It would take three or four months to travel there by land and water, and it would be easy to get acclimatized to the local climate and water. Besides, it is a place where overseas barbarians live, so the other princes would definitely not want it.

Hainan was already a place where criminals were exiled, so one can imagine how miserable life was further south.

Of course, the emperor would not let Jia Rong go to be a fief, but would just give Jia Rong more ways to make money.

Jia Rong quickly returned to work, and soon every household in the capital knew about Jia Rong's performance in the court.

Jia Yuanchun, who had just finished her confinement, was shocked when she found out about this and quickly took Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun to the front yard.

"master!!"

When Jia Yuanchun saw Jia Rong asking people to carry things into the yard, she knelt down in front of Jia Rong.

"Master! Why are you so cruel!!!"

Jia Rong knew why she came.

"What's wrong? If I'm not sure, why would I take the risk of my own son? If you don't want to, don't let Jia Ben and Jia Shu come. Let Jia Jian come. It happens that Fengjie had smallpox when she was a child. She is not afraid of it. She can help me take care of Jian'er."

The crying Jia Yuanchun stared at the smiling Jia Rong.

Jia Rong comforted her, saying, "Get up. I've had smallpox, so it's no problem. You can take the girls home to rest. I can also take care of the children at home during this period. If I don't take care of them now, if they get the highly toxic smallpox in the future, I won't be able to save them."

Jia Rong looked at Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun. "The ancients emphasized leading the troops in battle. I have had smallpox and encountered it many times at close range. I have gained a lot of experience."

"You have seen how I treat my family, how could you joke about your own child's life?"

"Take Yuanchun back and rest. In the future, pregnant women should not come near me. Do not come in or out here without my permission."

Seeing that Jia Rong was about to do something big, Lin Daiyu said solemnly, "Dayu knows that Brother Rong is now going to do something big for the country and the people. Please take good care of yourself, Brother Rong."

Shi Xiangyun nodded and said, "Yes! How about I come over to help big brother?"

Jia Rong smiled and said, "That's good. You are in good health, healthier than Daiyu. Besides, I can't take care of so many children by myself. Let Daiyu and Yuanchun take care of the garden."

Looking at Jia Rong's expression and hearing what Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun said, Jia Yuanchun couldn't help feeling ashamed of her actions.

"I misunderstood you, Master. I have been with you for sixteen years, but I always cause trouble for you."

Jia Yuanchun blamed herself very much, Jia Rong smiled and said: "It's okay, this is all human nature, it's normal for you to worry about the child, I have thought about this a long time ago."

"Don't worry, just let Jia Yan come over first. Ling'er and Qiao'er have both been there before, so we won't be scared if there are several children together."

After hearing this, Jia Yuanchun felt even more guilty and took the initiative to say, "Let Jia Ben come over. He is also the master's son and should do something. If he can get rid of smallpox in advance, I will feel more at ease in the future."

Jia Rong nodded in agreement, quickly arranged various matters, and let Jia Yuanchun and others go back. He then took a few boys and girls to live in the closed courtyard.

Everyone was very worried in the first few days. The girls often discussed things in the front yard, and even the emperor kept sending people to inquire about the news.

Later, when I heard that several children had acne, I became even more nervous and didn’t even have the heart to celebrate my birthday.

By the time it was almost April or May, the children were all born safely, with a few acne scars left on their arms and buttocks.

Jia Rong quickly brought Jia Liang into the palace.

During the morning court session, under the gaze of all the civil and military officials in the Golden Palace, Jia Rong asked Jia Jian to take off his trousers and roll up his sleeves to reveal the acne scars on his shoulders.

The emperor walked down from the throne and looked at the acne scars on Jia Jian's arms and buttocks with a smile.

"Brother, why are the acne scars on your son's body so light?"

Jia Rong replied, "Your Majesty, if you have had smallpox once, you will not get it again. Even if it is a milder form, you have already had it. So I visited thousands of people who were poisoned by smallpox and found some with mild symptoms to vaccinate my son, so that he can avoid the real smallpox."

"Although it sounds simple, I have made all kinds of preparations and thought about all the consequences."

"This time the poison test was successful. In the future, the emperor's children can also be vaccinated in advance when they are four or five years old, just like Lian'er, to prevent the royal heirs from dying of smallpox again."

The emperor was deeply moved, and looked at the child next to him, "I know how hard it is, who is the father of your son?"

Jia Rong replied, "He is the son of Wang Xifeng, the daughter of the Wang family. In the future, he will still be named Jia, inherit the Ning Mansion, and worship his ancestors."

After hearing this, the emperor had an idea. He quickly reached out and touched the head of the flat-headed child who had not yet grown hair, then returned to the podium with a smile.

"Decree! Jia Jian, the descendant of Duke Ningguo, has made contributions to the country and is to be granted the title of fifth-rank county baron, and his mother is to be granted an imperial decree!"

Jia Rong was not happy at all.

I plan to be canonized for my contribution to curing smallpox!!!

"No!" Jia Rong decisively rejected the emperor's reward for his son.

The emperor and others looked at Jia Rong, "Why not?"

Jia Rong said quickly, "Your Majesty! Now that the Duke of Ningguo is gone, my descendants will inherit both the Rongguo Mansion and the Ningguo Mansion, as well as the Zhongxiao Palace and the land of Luzon. I beg Your Majesty to revoke your order!"

The emperor smiled and said, "Brother, you don't have to worry about these little things. Now there are more than a dozen pregnant concubines in my harem, and brother has found a way to prevent smallpox. Now I am only nineteen, and there will be hundreds of descendants in the future. They will inevitably be divided up by then."

"My royal brother only has four branches, what does that mean? Besides, it's just inheriting the mansion. My royal brother has worked hard and made great contributions over the years, and he has served me wholeheartedly. How can I be that kind of mean and ungrateful person?"

Jia Rong wanted to be canonized for his achievements, but the emperor never thought that anyone would dare to think about being canonized while alive, so he directly awarded the achievement to his son.

On the way back, Jia Rong was very unhappy.

As expected, he did not say that cowpox was correct. Otherwise, even if the prevention technology of smallpox was popularized, he would not get the corresponding reward for saving millions of lives. It might not even be as important as saving the emperor's life.

Damn it! It's all my fault for being so selfless!

They don't take my contribution seriously and bully honest people!
(End of this chapter)