The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 326 Justice
Jia Rong was indeed in a much better mood. He didn't even eat and went out to have fun.

While the women in Nuanxiang Palace were having their meal in a depressed and awkward manner, Jia Rong and a group of women from the Jiaofangsi were having fun in the steaming bathroom.

Milk was used for bathing, and in order to produce cowpox, the cause of smallpox immunization, a cattle farm was specially set up in the suburbs of Beijing.

The milk in it is used by Jia Rong to make milk powder, and he also uses it for bathing.

There is a large pool of milk that is white and flawless, and the beauties playing in it are all beautiful girls in their teens.

Jia Rong sat by the pool and ate. He did not usually take a milk bath, sometimes he used clean water, but there would be underwater dancers performing water dance gymnastics.

Most of the time it was a flower petal bath, and the Xia family in the capital city specialized in supplying flowers for the royal family and the palace.

Jia Rong and Xia Jingui had no feelings for each other, and after he surrendered, he asked the mother and daughter to help him raise his child.

While eating the fish soup made in the kitchen today using a white jade bowl, he casually watched the singing and dancing performances of the beautiful women in light gauze skirts and with graceful figures.

Current technology is not capable of producing silk stockings, and Jia Rong has never thought about it, so he has never paid attention to it.

But there are boots and stockings.

Jia Rong found that he preferred to see girls wearing calf-length boots rather than stockings, revealing a large area of natural beauty under their skirts and knees.

The function of stockings is to make the legs look long and clean, but Jia Rong directly chose those beauties with long and clean legs that did not need any modification, so naturally he felt that stockings were not important.

The white-bellied beauties lined up in a row and soon knelt down together while dancing, moving on their knees in the dance area of more than 400 square meters, swaying their graceful bodies like willows and moving their knees to show off their curvaceous figure.

Jia Rong was eating and only glanced at it occasionally.

When the meal was over, the maids left with clean bowls and plates.

Jia Rong sat on a chair and watched the dance performance. He said, "It's time to stop."

The dancers quickly stopped their performance and crawled to a place three meters away from Jia Rong and knelt down.

In order to prevent the appearance of assassins, these people are absolutely not allowed to approach the Holy Emperor Jia Rong unless they are allowed.

Even when kneeling to express gratitude, one must maintain a safe distance of three or four meters, and must be in a kneeling position with the body in a position where it is difficult to exert force, and there must be no place to hide.

A female teacher wearing pink lace underwear stood two meters away from Jia Rong and watched him report the situation.

"Your Majesty, except for me, the forty-nine girls here today have all been trained for more than three years and are all virgins. Please review them, Your Majesty!"

All the women said in unison: "Your Majesty, please inspect us!"

Jia Rong was in no mood to review this, so he casually said, "In addition to those who have been slaves for generations, there are also many women who have been recruited in the past ten years or so. Are there any of you who entered the Imperial College after I ascended the throne?"

The girls looked at each other and didn't dare to speak.

The pink-robed girl replied, "Your Majesty, there are three people who joined the Jiaofang Department after the Holy Emperor ascended the throne."

Jia Rong became interested. "The three of them came forward and spoke. I usually don't pay much attention to these things. Tell me why you entered the Jiaofangsi. It's difficult for me to correct the other mistakes of the emperor, but I can correct my own mistakes. If you have any grievances, I can help you make the decision."

Soon three women crawled out and knelt nervously three meters away from Jia Rong.

The three women were wearing black, purple, and orange underwear.

The woman in black was older, about twenty-four or twenty-five.

"Your Majesty, I am the granddaughter of the leader of the Third Division case. My family has brought this upon themselves and deserves death. Thanks to your majesty's kindness, I was able to study singing and dancing at the Jiaofang Division. Thanks to your majesty's shelter, I have not been humiliated over the years. I thank your majesty for your grace and am willing to work like a slave for you for all my lives to atone for my sins!"

The woman in black was implicated in the Three Masters Case. Over the years, the imperial court has always been ruthless towards those involved in the Three Masters Case.

If Jia Rong hadn't protected them, many of their accomplices and disciples would have died with them.

Most of the men in the nine clans were killed, and even the older women did not escape. The imperial court was determined to wipe out the entire clan and not let any one survive.

The younger one was protected by Jia Rong.

Jia Rong felt somewhat uncomfortable and sighed, "It's all in the past. Are you the only one in your family now?"

The woman in black answered carefully, "There are also mother, second aunt, third aunt, fourth aunt, sixth aunt, seventh aunt, more than ten aunts, and more than twenty sisters."

Damn, are there still so many?

Jia Rong no longer felt guilty and asked curiously, "How many people are there?"

The woman in black replied, "There are more than 500 people, the oldest is 40 years old, and the youngest is a posthumous child who is 4 years old."

Jia Rong frowned, "Five hundred, all women? Are there so many young women in the Third Master's family? I thought those three old men didn't have many people."

The woman in black replied, "My great-grandfather had eight young concubines, and the rest of his descendants numbered more than a thousand. The five hundred or so people now are the remainder after some of them have aged and faded."

The three masters are all first-rank officials, the kind that brings blessings to the entire family and village.

This high-ranking official had committed a capital crime, which was more serious than treason, and the civil and military officials in the capital were using even more ruthless efforts to capture him than they were to capture traitors.

Anyone who dares to shield him will be sentenced to death. Even the royal family and the left and right prime ministers dare not show the slightest sympathy, otherwise they will be besieged and impeached by the ministers.

Among the relatives in a large family, there are definitely more women than men, and most of the women are good-looking.

For example, this was the case with the Zhen family before. There were few men but a lot of women.

The final 500 or so people were selected from tens of thousands of people who lived a life of luxury. They must be pretty good-looking.

"Those three people have indeed committed an unforgivable crime punishable by death. I am also the enemy who murdered your father."

Jia Rong suddenly wanted to know if the three old men had daughters or granddaughters. It would be nice to call them over to play with them.

The woman in black quickly said, "Your Majesty, calm down! Those three villains deserved to die. If it weren't for the Holy Emperor who eliminated them, there would never be peace in the capital and the world! Thanks to the Holy Emperor who killed those villains, the Holy Dynasty has regained its peace!"

"I know that I have committed serious sins. Thinking of the royal nobles who were killed by my ancestors, as well as the royal relatives of the Holy Palace, I feel guilty. I only hope to be a slave to the emperor for generations to come to pay for the sins in my blood!"

Jia Rong thought for a moment, "Speaking of it, hundreds of people, including the emperor, princes, dukes, marquises, etc., died. If you count some unimportant people, there are tens of thousands of people. It caused chaos in the world, and indirectly affected millions of people."

“I couldn’t bear to hurt innocent people, so I protected weak women like you. The remaining members I killed were only about 10,000 or 20,000.” The woman in black kowtowed quickly, “Your Majesty is unparalleled in benevolence. I am deeply grateful!”

"Raise your head and speak." Jia Rong looked at the woman who was indeed crying with excitement and sighed, "Speaking of which, my father was also beaten to death by your grandfather."

The woman in black became nervous and frightened.

Jia Rong, however, was more wise than everyone thought. He quickly sighed and said, "You have been punished for your crimes. You just need to atone for your sins. What are your family members doing in the Jiaofang Bureau?"

The woman in black was even more grateful. He could even let go of the hatred for his father's murder. He was more than just a saint!
"Reporting to His Majesty! Apart from those who are good-looking and proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, who are learning singing and dancing in the Jiaofang Bureau, the rest are mostly doing work in the laundry room and embroidery room, doing laundry, collecting clothes, sewing, making clothes and shoes, and many are working as maids, serving tea and water and running errands."

Jia Rong asked, "Those three old men are your great-grandfathers. Are there any young women like daughters or granddaughters serving in the palace?"

The woman in black replied, "Yes, there are some who are more beautiful and knowledgeable than this humble slave, but because they are the daughters and granddaughters of the three old devils, they are all arranged to receive guests in the foreign teaching house."

Jia Rong asked, "Have you received any guests?"

The woman in black replied, "We have never received any guests. The Foreign Teaching House has long been closed to people who are not members of the royal family, and they are not allowed to take private jobs. However, those people do not have a good life either. They are poor and destitute every day. Even when they perform on festival days under the order of the emperor, they are often pelted with eggs and stones in revenge. There are people everywhere in the capital who want to kill them."

Jia Rong nodded and sighed, "Those three old men are the worst. They have offended everyone in the capital who can be offended, and forced the prominent families in the capital to wear mourning. It is normal for those men, women and old ladies to vent their anger on them."

"But I will also give them a chance to redeem themselves for their crimes. It's just right that you can gather everyone together after you go back. In addition to the Neijiaofang, which is a department with a job title, you can form a palace slave singing and dancing troupe with those guilty women. The treatment will be the same as that of the lowest-ranking palace maids."

The woman in black thanked him and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty! Long live the Holy Emperor!"

Jia Rong felt that it was still a little short of the mark, so he continued, "Slaves must have two tattoos, one light and one dark, to show their identity. I'll think about how to deal with them later. You summon them to the palace first."

Jia Rong said, "After you enter the palace, don't use the previous generational titles to address each other, so as to avoid unpleasantness. You don't want to have any disputes with your previous family. From now on, whether you are aunt or mother and daughter, you should address each other as sisters."

The woman in black said excitedly: "Yes! Your humble slave obeys your command!"

Jia Rong was satisfied and looked at the other two women.

"What crime has your family committed?"

The purple-robed woman felt that her family's crime was tens of thousands of times smaller than the Third Master's case, and quickly replied, "Reporting to the Holy Emperor, my father was confiscated and executed because he acquiesced to the construction of a tobacco factory by a wealthy businessman in the territory."

Jia Rong was furious and said, "This is a capital crime! I have long said that tobacco and medicine are my business. You are corrupt and accept bribes, and steal state secrets. You deserve to die! Good death!"

The woman in purple was so frightened that she dared not speak.

Jia Rong was still furious. "If I hadn't cancelled the reception of guests at the Foreign Teachers' House, I would have made women like you know the miserable fate of those women your father spent his days in debauchery! Some people just won't change their bad habits, and you accomplices will never realize your mistakes until you die!"

The purple-robed woman kowtowed hurriedly, "Your Majesty, please calm down! Your Majesty, please calm down!"

Jia Rong snorted coldly, planning to have fun with her later for avenging the people!
"What about you? How did you end up in the Jiaofangsi? I want to hear whether you have been wronged or not!"

The orange-clothed woman was the youngest, only fifteen or sixteen years old. She said pitifully and fearfully, "Your Majesty, my humble father was involved in treason and rebellion... and he was not wronged."

Jia Rong frowned, "Plotting rebellion? Didn't the two stupid princes in the west do that this year?"

The orange-clad woman quickly replied, "Your Majesty, I was originally the daughter of a wealthy merchant under the King of Zhou. Because my family members killed officials and rebelled, I was sent to the Jiaofangsi four years ago."

It turns out that they were killing officials and rebelling... I thought it was a big deal.

Jia Rong said casually: "Who would kill an official for no reason, especially in the territory of the stupid King Zhou? Now King Zhou is long gone. I will help you investigate tomorrow morning. If your father was forced to do so, I will clear your name and severely punish King Zhou and the local officials to avenge your father."

The woman in orange clothes looked at Jia Rong gratefully, tears streaming down her face. "Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty! Long live the Holy Emperor!"

Jia Rong said, "Okay, I feel comfortable after chatting for a while. You all go take a shower and come over to serve me later."

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Fifty women quickly went to the nearby shower, began to take off their clothes and sit down to take a bath, helping each other to wipe their backs and wash their bodies.

Jia Rong also entered the warm pool to take a bath. Although it was summer now, it was also nice to take a hot bath.

In addition to the women in Neijiaofang, there are more than a hundred beauties in the bathroom.

Just for bathing, there are nearly two hundred beauties serving me every day.

It takes a lot of money to support these women who do nothing but serve men.

Jia Rong has always been very strict about collecting taxes.

On the one hand, he had too much money to spend, and on the other hand, Jia Rong felt that those people were too comfortable and he felt uncomfortable.

Jia Rong tries every means to make the people around him short of money, and when they become corrupt, Jia Rong will choose suitable targets to target.

Imposing taxes on the scholar-official class was also something Jia Rong had decided long ago. Because of his military power and reputation, and the fact that everyone had a lot of money at the beginning, no one opposed it.

But I will definitely oppose it in the future.

Jia Rong has plenty of time to waste with them.

After soaking in the water for a while, two noble ladies came over and helped Jia Rong wash his body.

Jia Rong opened his eyes and looked at the two new ladies.

"Who are you two?"

The 30-year-old noblewoman smiled and said, "I am the princess of the King of Japan."

The lady in her twenties also said shyly: "I am the sister of the King of India, Princess Taj."

Jia Rong put his arms around the two beauties, smiling and saying, "So you are family. I will check your bodies to see if you are healthy."

The two women naturally knew how to have a physical examination. When they were sent here, their families told them what to do.

"Yes... Thank you, Your Majesty." The Princess of Japan was more experienced and took the initiative to stick close to Jia Rong.

It was Princess Taj's first time, and she was a little hesitant, but she had always had a good impression of the wise and powerful Supreme Emperor. Plus, she understood the significance of serving Jia Rong to the royal family, so she started to learn from him.

Jia Rong soon began to live a happy, wonderful and comfortable life.

(End of this chapter)