The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 253 Loyalty and Filial Piety Establish the Holy Religion

Jia Yuanchun, Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun, Aunt Xue, Xue Baochai, Youshi, Li Wan, the old lady and others were chatting in the room.

Twenty minutes after Wang Xifeng went out, her maid came back running.

Seeing this, Jia Yuanchun quickly asked, "What happened? Was Sister Feng scolded again?"

The maid smiled and said, "My lady, it's not a bad thing. When I came back, my lady was serving the emperor. I heard that she had just watched the singing and dancing and dealt with some other things, and then she called the master over to be intimate with her."

Jia Yuanchun breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that Wang Xifeng wouldn't cause trouble again.

If Wang Xifeng gets into trouble, it is not her business and it will definitely implicate other people.

Nowadays, no one knows where they might have made mistakes, especially the women in charge, who are more or less aware that they have done a lot of things wrong.

Lin Daiyu smiled and said, "Who knows, Qiao'er may have another brother or sister in a while."

Qiao'er was also playing here, and was sitting in the distance looking over.

"I want a younger brother. Jia Yan doesn't play with me recently."

Qiao'er is ten years old now. She has started to grow her hair and has learned a lot of things.

Ping Er smiled and said, "Your brother is busy learning things."

The old lady sat on the main seat, wearing a festive golden-red brocade dress.

Nuanxiang Tower is warm in winter and cool in summer. In summer, a lot of ice is used according to royal standards, and palace maids hold fans and fan the ice buckets.

There is also water flowing inside, which can take away excess temperature and then seal it up again in winter.

Coupled with some specially left out vents, the temperature here is comfortable and even a little cool even in the hot summer.

The old lady asked, "Why can't I see the eldest prince recently?"

The eldest prince refers to Jia Ben, who is Jia Rong’s eldest son.

Jia Rong had a son at the age of seventeen. Jia Ben is now eleven years old and is also a son with high hopes.

At present, there is no crown prince and no queen. Although it seems that this may be Lin Daiyu's child, it is too early.

No matter what, the eldest prince has advantages over the other princes.

When Jia Yuanchun heard this topic, she felt worried, just like a modern mother who is worried about her children's education.

"He is already eleven years old. Baoyu has already been ruined by others at his age. I dare not let him have too many women around him, so I let him and the other children go to the palace to study. The rules there are stricter, and there are teachers from the Hanlin Academy who can be consulted."

Jia Rong didn't like to use eunuchs, and most of the people around him were female officials and palace maids.

Jia Rong can play as he pleases, but his son cannot.

Since ancient times, women have been the source of all evil. As mothers, Jia Yuanchun and Wang Xifeng both became like Lady Wang in this respect. Even when they looked for palace maids, they only used those who looked ordinary and seemed honest and obedient.

As for those who are charming and beautiful, he would never keep them, as that would definitely delay his attempt to seduce his son who is in his teens and is at the age when he loves to play.

Even the charming and coquettish Qin Keqing would never tolerate a woman like herself in such a matter.

Only male parents will look for pretty female teachers, female parents will only report them.

With the example of Jia Baoyu, the old lady and many people were opposed to giving young children too many maids.

After the old lady thought about Jia Baoyu's incident, she felt that this matter should be treated with even more caution.

"There are many eunuchs in the palace. If the emperor doesn't use eunuchs, then those eunuchs have nowhere to go. Ordinary people don't dare to use eunuchs."

"In my opinion, it would be a good idea to let the princes live in the palace. The Holy Palace is full of beautiful maids who cannot marry the emperor. If they want to seduce the princes, they are just playful kids, so why would they think so much?"

This playfulness does not mean playing games, but playfulness with women.

Jia Yuanchun nodded and said, "I'll talk to the master tonight and let the older children live in the palace. Our house is really crowded now. Besides, the palace is almost deserted now. It's not good to have it too quiet."

Shi Xiangyun asked curiously, "Is the assassin really dead?"

Li Wan said, "He must be dead. He hasn't come out in almost a year. Besides, the master has been looking for the assassin for almost 20 years. He should be dead by then."

The old lady smiled and said, "It's better for them to die! It's really a good thing for that beast! In my opinion, all nine generations of their clan should be exterminated! Kill them all!"

Jia Yuanchun nodded and said, "Yes! They should all be killed! That beast has killed at least 10,000 people in the past 20 years. Many of our relatives have been killed!"

"Your Majesty only killed three bandit leaders. It was too easy for them!"

Lin Daiyu did not say anything. Although none of her relatives were killed by the assassin, many relatives of Xue Baochai, Wang Xifeng and others were killed.

Besides, the emperor's father, Jia Rong, and the three previous emperors all died at the hands of that assassin.

Every family in the court, including civil and military officials, had to wear mourning clothes four or five times because of this assassin.

The entire royal family and nobles in the capital were eager to torture those three old men to death.

When everyone was recalling the various heinous crimes committed by the assassin in the past twenty years, a female official wearing a low-slit cheongsam came in.

The female officials only needed to kowtow and kneel before the emperor, and bow their heads and salute everyone after entering.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent two quilts, which were made of scriptures copied by Western Buddhas and gold silk from Tianshan. Since Your Majesty is busy, I sent them here for you to receive first."

When Jia Yuanchun heard that it was a Buddhist scripture quilt, she knew that it was probably something that belonged exclusively to the emperor, and it was also the kind of daily necessities that could be buried with the emperor.

"Send it up."

"Yes."

Soon the palace maids came over carrying two golden quilts.

The quilt is extremely finely crafted, even more exquisite and delicate than the royal quilts used by everyone today.

Moreover, there are no embroidery of dragons and phoenixes on the quilt. It looks more like a wall with a book with densely written scriptures on one side.

The inner side is covered with pure white plush, which feels like touching a warm lamb.

There are two quilts, one is a winter quilt and the other is a summer quilt.

Summer quilts are as flexible as fur and hang easily on the arms like a down veil.

The old lady reached out and touched the golden scripture lines on the winter quilt, her eyes filled with envy.

It would be great if I could cover myself with a blanket like this when I die.

The old lady had this idea, but she didn't dare say it out loud. She could only look at it a few more times and feel this sacred and noble scripture quilt with her hands.

The old lady, who had passed her eightieth birthday, was also arranging some funeral affairs. The family was not short of money, and the assets were managed by her only son Jia Zheng, so there was no need to worry too much about such matters.

Jia Lian lived a good life in the south and was taken care of by the emperor, so he had no intention of taking advantage of the old lady's things.

The burial was easy, but at most she was the wife of a duke, and was not qualified to be buried with these exquisite items.

Except Jia Rong, no one was qualified to use burial objects of this level.

Whoever uses it will die, and the whole family will suffer.

Jia Yuanchun and several other women nearby naturally noticed the old lady's love for the quilt.

Older people can be frugal in many things, but sometimes they care a lot about burial matters, and the older they get, the more superstitious they tend to be.

But no one had the courage to be filial to the old lady.

Not to mention them, even Jia Zheng wouldn't dare to be so filial.

This is not an ordinary scripture and quilt, but a tribute presented by the enlightened monks of the Buddhist country to the emperor of the holy dynasty.

At night, Jia Rong saw that the quilt he usually covered himself with was replaced with this quilt that looked like books on the wall, and he immediately frowned.

"What the hell is this?"

Jia Rong's tone and attitude clearly showed his displeasure.

Soon, the female official in charge of Jia Rong's bedroom knelt down and said, "Your Majesty! This is the Infinite Life Sutra quilt that India offered as tribute. It was just dried in the sun today and I'm going to change it for Your Majesty!"

Jia Rong didn't like it, "Put it away and change it to something else."

"Yes!"

The female official quickly took several palace maids wearing high-split cheongsams to change the bedding.

Jia Rong sat on the side and watched several beauties cleaning him with their butts sticking out, and his mood soon improved.

Nowadays, there is no need to worry about the limit on the number of women. Having three thousand beauties in the harem is no problem.

As the richest emperor, since the tax system was changed, the money collected has increased by one or two times than before, and tens of millions of silver have entered the national treasury. How could he care about supporting a few hundred more women?

Anyway, even if the emperor doesn't raise it, someone else will.

Of course, Jia Rong took other people's money, supported his own woman, and had children for everyone.

Jia Rong, who was spending the summer at home, not only assigned the task of assessing female students to the idle women at home, but also developed medicinal materials and gave advice to his pharmaceutical factories and tobacco and alcohol factories.

Matters concerning firearms and manufacturing had long been handed over to his subordinates, and even the pharmaceutical sector was gradually being delegated to the Royal Hospital.

Jia Rong, who had less and less work, did not like being with women all day long. From the age of ten to now, Jia Rong had actually never been obsessed with women.

He has never even shown his full strength to please any woman.

In terms of enjoying skills in bed, the women at home are not as good as the female slaves like the Princess of Jinling and the Queen who can be played with casually.

Jia Rong doesn't want to be bothered by women all day long, so the women in his family don't know his true strength.

The wicked Jia Rong soon found what he wanted to do.

Something more fun than hanging out in the middle of the night.

In early August, the weather is clear and cool.

Jia Rong, who had been in seclusion for many days, went to court again.

There are ten thousand people attending court today.

After Jia Rong sat down, ten thousand people stood or knelt down and kowtowed at the same time.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

Jia Rong looked at the State Hall, which was almost full of people standing and sitting.

"I have been in seclusion for the past two months, but there is something urgent."

Jia Rong did not call for them to stand up. Instead, the Left Prime Minister knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, there has been no urgent matter in the past two months."

"Yingtian Prefecture is experiencing a severe drought, and disaster relief has been provided."

"There were many cases of bandits robbing military supplies in Shuntian Prefecture. They were all from the same village. The village has been pacified and more than 50 people involved have been arrested and are awaiting the emperor's decision."

Jia Rong casually said, "Send the Imperial Inspector to take a look. If it is confirmed to be true, kill him directly and return the land to the public."

Zuo Ying responded, "Yes."

Soon, officials began to talk about issues such as retiring due to poor health, personnel appointments, corruption, or explosions in factories due to improper operations.

In modern times, there would be a lot of big things, but to Jia Rong, they are all unimportant little things.

After the small matter was resolved, Jia Rong talked about his big matter.

"The saints said that education is very important."

"Now that I have established a holy dynasty, I naturally need to educate the people and establish a holy religion."

Several old ministers realized that Jia Rong was looking for trouble again.

The cabinet minister asked, "Your Majesty, what is the holy teaching?"

Jia Rong smiled and said, "Buddhism, Taoism, and the Holy Religion are not about ghosts and gods. They just leave a small courtyard of 200 square meters in each county and build a Holy Religion building."

"We just need to tell the wives and children in the county how to properly recuperate and give birth, or give them a few eggs every month, sing songs together, and hold funerals according to the court rules."

"In the future, I will distribute some money to the elderly, women and children in various places. If this money passes through the various officials, I am afraid that there will be only a few copper coins left. Therefore, I will use the saints to preside over the distribution. The saints are local celebrities and are of the ninth rank."

"The Holy Church is not a powerful department, nor does it control the military. Its main purpose is to educate the people, and to teach them to be polite in everything from birth to old age to sickness to death. This will eliminate the harm of those evil spirits, Taoist witches and sorcerers!"

Jia Rong saw that the others were silent and it was obvious that they did not support him.

Jia Rong then said, "I founded the country on loyalty and filial piety, so that the people can have children and descendants, and the elderly can be buried with dignity after death. This is the way of loyalty and filial piety! Those who agree, stand up and sit down or kneel. Those who disagree, stand up! ”

Jia Rong quickly gave everyone no choice.

With the voluntary statement, Jia Rong's distribution of eggs and the establishment of the holy teachings of weddings, funerals, midwives and medical care were thus decided.

The emperor has shown his loyalty and filial piety, how can we reason with him?
(End of this chapter)