The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 309: Terribly strong

If you want to punish corrupt officials, you must first know who is the richest.

As the emperor, it is not easy for Jia Rong to know these things.

The emperor is high above everyone else and if he wants to obtain intelligence he has to rely on his subordinates. However, if his subordinates investigate too thoroughly it may alert the enemy.

Jia Rong doesn't like asking his subordinates for help, after all, that would make him unhappy.

There are corrupt officials everywhere, and the biggest problem is whether they want to kill them or not.

Jia Rong quickly called Wang Xifeng again.

Wang Xifeng walked in with a smile on her face. She was told to come over by a palace maid. At this moment, she thought she was going to be moisturized, and her face and heart were filled with joy.

Jia Rong was not in a hurry about the corrupt officials. The things were always there and he could take action anytime.

It's your money anyway, you can't run away even if you want to.

"See Your Majesty!"

Wang Xifeng knelt down and saluted.

As an imperial concubine, Wang Xifeng naturally likes to maintain and formulate some rules.

On the contrary, it was Jia Rong's cancellation of various rules that made Wang Xifeng feel that it was disrespectful and would give a bad impression to the children.

Jia Rong looked at Wang Xifeng who was kneeling on the ground. Although he knew Wang Xifeng's character very well, sometimes he had to speak in advance to avoid hurting anyone by mistake.

"I am going to investigate whether the Ministry of Internal Affairs has engaged in corruption, bribery, counterfeiting, or transferring funds under false pretenses. Are you involved?"

Wang Xifeng's charming and affectionate expression just now froze in an instant. She looked embarrassed and restrained, and could not help but lower her head.

Jia Rong looked at Wang Xifeng, "Look at me! Tell the truth!"

Wang Xifeng had to raise her head and look directly at Jia Rong, confronting him.

"Your Majesty... I have no involvement in the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The main reason is that the people there usually give me a lot of gifts, and they also send me and my sisters any good things. I don't know the specific details."

Jia Rong sighed, "You are indeed one of them. I told you a long time ago that you should just be a concubine and be content. Why do you have to take care of so many things?"

Wang Xifeng looked at Jia Rong awkwardly and did not dare to make any excuses.

Jia Rong knew very well what kind of person Wang Xifeng was, and he had no intention of arguing with her from the beginning.

"Get up. We will have to check regularly from now on to avoid breaking the rules, just like your maid caused trouble before."

Wang Xifeng said happily, "I thank your Majesty! Thank you so much for your grace!"

After kowtowing, she was pardoned. Wang Xifeng quickly and happily sat on a chair at the side. It was obvious that she had no regrets for what she had done.

Jia Rong was too lazy to discipline these people. After becoming emperor, his happiness dropped drastically and many wonderful things were missing from his life.

"I will be in seclusion for a while. Let me finish some of the things I have at hand first. You can continue to live here during this period. There is no rush at Fengzao Palace."

Wang Xifeng wanted to live with Jia Rong, of course. "Yes! As ordered! Everything is up to the emperor! Everything at home and outside the home must be decided by the emperor!"

Jia Rong suddenly thought of his second uncle Jia Lian.

"I wonder what Jia Lian is doing recently?"

Jia Rong started talking about something that Wang Xifeng didn't want to mention.

Wang Xifeng didn't want to talk about the past, as she always felt it was unlucky.

"Why is Your Majesty talking about this?" Wang Xifeng sighed with emotion, and then said honestly: "I have always thought about this matter before, probably when Your Majesty was not yet a Duke."

"When we were little, the three of us, Ping'er and the harp were playing together in Ningguo Mansion, and I fell in love with His Majesty at that time."

Wang Xifeng blushed and said, "But it was because the emperor looked down on me at that time, and my family would not allow me to be a concubine, so I married into the eldest wife's house in Rong Mansion."

"After that, I thought I would be a good second wife, but I didn't expect to end up being the second wife of the emperor~"

Jia Rong smiled, and for some reason his mood became much better.

"If you knew from the beginning that I would eventually become the emperor, I'm afraid your family would be terrified. Informing on me would be the least of your crimes."

Wang Xifeng smiled and said, "Yes, at that time, no one could have dreamed of such a good thing. Even the Duke wouldn't have dared to think of it. Who could have thought that the emperor was not an ordinary person?"

Jia Rong was in a good mood after being praised, and he opened his hands. As soon as he raised his hands, Wang Xifeng quickly stood up and twisted her waist to sit next to Jia Rong, allowing Jia Rong to touch her body at will.

"It's summer now, why are you still wearing so much? There are no other men in the harem, and even the male guards are patrolling outside. I can't even put my hands in you wearing so much."

Wang Xifeng joked, "Your Majesty, how can you not have women around you who can touch you? My waist is thick. If Your Majesty feels uncomfortable with touching me, you can just call some women in cheongsam to touch me."

Jia Rong would not allow Wang Xifeng to be so domineering, so he directly pressed Wang Xifeng on the dragon throne and fulfilled her wish!

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After satisfying Wang Xifeng, Jia Rong looked for intelligence sent from various places to understand the movements of the Jia family.

Jia Lian does business in Songjiang Prefecture. He now has more than ten children and more than ten wives and concubines.

Jia Yun assisted Qin Ye in managing the weaving house in Suzhou, and his wife Xiaolu gave birth to a son and a daughter for him.

Xue Ke traveled back and forth between the capital and the Northeast. He was still in charge of the medicinal materials business and also did some small business. His wife was a lady from a scholar's family, and his concubine was Ying'er, Xue Baochai's maid.

Wang Ziteng's son worked in the Ministry of War. Although he was not qualified to attend court, he was young and it was a good thing for him to become an official without taking an exam.

Jia Zheng was still in charge of the Jiangning Weaving House and was also responsible for teaching the eldest prince poetry, calligraphy and literature.

Many other members of the Jia family just disappeared.

It was because Jia Rong did a lot of wrong things when he was young, and he solved some of the messy things, which led to... the Jia family becoming better.

Jia Rong was sorting out the intelligence information about his family and suddenly began to reflect on himself.

"What did I do wrong?"

“I didn’t do anything wrong?”

"Have I always been a good person?"

"A good person... a good person will be praised by everyone, not scolded by everyone... That's right! I am a good person now!"

"Really? All emperors are good people?"

Jia Rong's thoughts became increasingly confused, and he gradually lost track of things.

Fortunately, Jia Rong quickly calmed down and continued to reason with himself.

Soon, after thinking for more than an hour, Jia Rong realized a truth.

“Whether it’s the Renaissance or technological progress, they are inseparable from philosophy or theology.”

"Let's put the issue of corrupt officials aside for now. Philosophy is what should guide us the most now!"

"We must establish a correct ideology, an ideology that is centered on me."

Jia Rong quickly found something to do.

In fact, he has never cared about corrupt officials. Now he no longer cares about those people and starts to pick up his pen to continue writing his "Shengrong Poetry Collection".

Sheng Rong: The relationship between the monarch and his subjects is more like that between husband and wife, with economic dependence and political interaction. Sometimes I hope they can just do their duty and take care of their family and children, but some people can't control their mouths and are greedy and lazy.

Jia Rong suddenly had a burst of inspiration. He realized that famous quotes alone were not enough to write about, so he began to concentrate on writing a book and wrote a stunning work called "On the Ruler, Ministers, and Husband and Wife of the Holy Dynasty"!

Chapter One: How husbands and wives meet, how rulers and subjects choose each other, and how to enter the selection pool.

Chapter 2: Husband and wife are connected by mutual recognition of each other’s value.

Chapter 3: Husband and wife live together, understand and respect each other, and hold a big fist together.

Chapter 4: Inseparable, the honeymoon period of couples, the rising period for both parties, and also the development period of national and personal careers.

Chapter 5: Common contradictions, suspicion and accumulation of contradictions
Chapter 6: Couples quarrel, problems that arise, and types and causes of common problems.

Chapter 7: Husband and wife stay calm, mainly focusing on resignation, dismissal, removal from office and transfer, and different analyses are given for different situations.

Chapter 8: Offspring. Past achievements are important criteria for whether an official can be rehabilitated and whether he can benefit future generations.

Chapter 9: Cheating, several common major mistakes.

For Jia Rong, cursing and killing people bring the same pleasure, and writing books and doing all sorts of random things can also bring incomparable happiness.

Not to mention the wives and daughters of the princes and nobles, Jia Rong is now terribly powerful! !

(End of this chapter)