Jia Qiang returned from Changfu and didn't stop when she passed by Dongfu because she saw Lin Zhixiao waiting there again...

He went straight to Rongfu and to Rongqing Hall.

Sure enough, the whole family was there.

Seeing Li Wan waiting in the foyer under the building, Jia Qiang felt a little guilty. After all, I had just given her a big mouth. However, this attack was originally to save the old man.

Seeing that Li Wan saw him coming, Jia Qiang excitedly called inside: "Brother Qiang is back!"

Jia Qiang complained: "Why are you waiting here? Even though it's spring, the night is still a bit cold."

But Li Wan smiled and said: "It's amazing. The old lady urged me as soon as I had a cup of tea. I ran out before I sat down, so I just waited here. Isn't it that I finally waited for someone?"

Li Wan is not a stunning beauty like Daiyu, Baochai or Feng Jieer, nor is she a seductive and charming woman like Keqing.

Although she was born a beauty, her strict upbringing seemed to have made her forget her appearance and turned into a woman who only remembered her duties.

When Jia Zhu was still alive, she took care of her husband, raised her children, and served her uncle. After Jia Zhu died, all her hopes fell on Jia Lan, and she had nothing else to ask for, just like a gaunt tree.

However, Jia Qiang felt that she was not really a pure-hearted person.

At least in terms of money, her desire for gold and silver is no less than that of Sister Feng.

The reason why Sister Feng looked down on her was that although Sister Feng was greedy, she was generous in chewing and using.

Li Wan attached great importance to money, but was very stingy in spending.

After Jia Qiang looked at her, she found it a little interesting, but after thinking about it, she decided to conceal the fact that Li Shouzhong was beaten.

Li Wan felt a little flustered when Jia Qiang looked him over. He touched his face and asked, "Brother Qiang, is there anything wrong?"

Jia Qiang sighed and said, "Just now, I saw Li Jijiu."

Hearing this, Li Wan was startled at first, then his expression changed drastically, and he said in panic: "Brother Qiang, my father...he..."

Jia Qiang shook her head and said, "Don't worry, aunt..." Before she could finish her words, she saw Yuanyang opening the new red felt curtain and coming out. She smiled and said, "Why don't you go in? The old lady is about to come out."

When Jia Qiang heard this, she entered with the restless Li Wan.

Yuanyang followed Jia Qiang and whispered: "The old lady is very tired today. Good Lord, please don't make her angry today, okay?"

When Jia Qiang heard this, she stopped and looked back at Yuanyang. Under the lantern, she saw that Yuanyang had an oval face, a high nose with a bobbin hair, a few small freckles on both sides of her cheeks, and a pair of shy but brave eyes.

She is really a pretty maid as beautiful as a green onion.

Jia Qiang leaned back, making a threatening gesture.

However, Yuanyang was not afraid. Although his eyes shrank, he bit his plumper lower lip and straightened his body forward to show that he was not afraid.

However, Jia Qiang is sure that she went to wear a bra...

Curling her lips and smiling at Yuanyang, Jia Qiangfang turned around and stepped inside.

Yuanyang wrinkled her nose at his back, pursed her lips slightly, and then followed him inside, returning to stand behind Jia Mu.

"Brother Qiang, what should I say? What should I say?"

"Brother Qiang, can you get back the coupon signed by the master?"

When Jia Mu saw Jia Qiang, she stood up excitedly and asked repeatedly, her face full of worry.

Jia Qiang nodded and said: "It's already burned...Old lady, if you ask me to tell you, you'd better not care about these things in the future. It's useless to worry and fear without saying anything. It won't hurt your mind and body."

Hearing this, Mother Jia shed tears and said, "If only you could worry less, why would I do this? Although you understand the truth, you are the one who can do the most trouble! No matter what, sooner or later, I will let you Jia family men do it." You are so angry that I can go see the Duke."

Jia Qiang didn't know what to say. Mrs. Wang, who was waiting beside Jia's mother, couldn't wait any longer and asked, "Brother Qiang, what's going on? Is the master okay?"

It was related to Jia Zheng and even the fate of the entire Rong Mansion, so she couldn't help but worry.

Jia Mu couldn't care less about her grievance and hurriedly asked: "Yes, what is the situation?"

Jia Qiang said expressionlessly: "Chang Song, the doctor of the Ministry of Industry, was instigated by Wei Ming, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, and came to induce the second master to sign, in order to let the world see that the fathers of the concubines around the emperor were opposed. Your Majesty, isn't it that the Emperor has become more and more a loner who has betrayed all his relatives? Fu Shi was sent by Prince Zhongshun to trick the second master. Prince Zhongshun knew that this gang of losers would be defeated. He happened to know that Fu Shi secretly hated him for failing to seek an official position, so he promised He gave him an official position as long as he could get the Jia family involved in this major case.

Although the two sides had different original intentions, they both had the idea of ​​​​letting the Jia family die without a burial place. They also asked the master to write his name first on the joint letter, and the second master actually wrote it. , they didn’t sign it themselves. By the way, there was also one other person who signed it, namely my aunt’s father, and hundreds of supervisors from the Imperial College!”

"ah?"

Now, even Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang knew how terrible the situation was.

Li Wan was so frightened that he covered his mouth with a plain embroidered handkerchief and shed tears, his eyes full of fear.

Jia Qiang waved her hand and said: "Chang Song, I have captured Fu Shi and put him in prison. He has written a confession and signed a pledge for his crimes. In addition, although Li Jijiu is a little stubborn, for the sake of his aunt, he will I didn't take him to jail, I just sent him home to watch him and make sure he didn't do stupid things again. As expected, the book with the names of hundreds of Imperial College students was sent to the palace, and the Li family's house would inevitably be ransacked. The consequences of being exiled, even losing one's life, are nothing. However, it's okay for now."

"Thank God!"

"Thank God!"

Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang and Li Wan recited the Buddha's name.

Jia Qiang waved her hand and said: "That's all for today, but I can't make sense with the second master. It depends on the old lady. Madam, what do you do? This time, I took a huge risk and attacked two civil servants. , I still don’t know how I will be blamed tomorrow. I think I am not indebted to the responsibilities that the clan leader should fulfill. But, there will never be a next time. I will not ruin my future by wiping the butt of a stupid person. .”

After saying that, Jia Qiang bowed to Jia Mu, flicked her sleeves, and turned to leave.

After Jia Qiang left, Jia's mother trembled angrily and said: "That scoundrel, if he dares to seek death again, strangle me first! Let him kneel in the ancestral hall, and he won't be allowed to go anywhere tomorrow! I want to understand more." That’s right, let’s get up again later! You’re already a lot older... what a sin!”

…

At the beginning of the next day, long before dawn, Jia Qiang got up from the empty bedroom.

After washing, he didn't go to the kitchen, so he went directly to the front yard and had breakfast with Shang Zhuo and other guards.

Sharing joys and sorrows together has been regarded as a show by most people in the past life. Instead of being moved, they would laugh at it and give the other party a stinky sock in their heart...

But now, a marquis can eat with a group of soldiers without any scruples. The touch and respect of being treated as a family member are truly deep in his heart.

It can be regarded as an unintentional move...

After eating, the group went straight to the Bingma Si Yamen in Dongcheng.

"By the Emperor's decree, the Army and Horse Division of Zhundong City has been expanded to two thousand. Due to the special period, military expenditures do not need to go through the Ministry of War, but can be received directly from the Ministry of Household Affairs."

"When people are promoted from helpers to full-time employees, those who perform well on weekdays will be given priority."

"The other thing is that now in the entire Shenjing City, the only one who can mobilize soldiers and horses is the Soldiers and Horses Division."

"Weren't there a few powerful people who were sitting on the throne before, and behind them were several princes and senior ministers from Jingchu? Weren't they afraid of alerting the Supreme Emperor, so they didn't move?"

"This time, clear them all! The proceeds from the raids will be used to expand manpower. According to the past ratio, two thousand regular troops will require at least ten thousand casualties. We can't support that many people, but we still need eight thousand!"

Although Emperor Long'an agreed to him, if he could get more money, he could expand the army and horse divisions of the other four cities as well.

But Jia Qiang is not a fool. He even knows how to give up the position of commander of the infantry army. How can he create tens of thousands of troops in Shenjing City?

Expanding the Dongcheng Army and Horse Division to 10,000 people is exactly a red line.

Less is not enough, too much is taboo.

Gao Long originally came from the military, and at first he looked down on scummy places like Bingmasi Yamen. Are those shabby soldiers called soldiers?

But I didn't expect that in just a few months, such earth-shaking changes would occur.

Now, he wants to take charge of an army of ten thousand people on behalf of Jia Qiang!

Although after these ten thousand people were dispersed to various parts of the capital, they could not make a few splashes, but they were already a hundred times stronger than when he was in the frontier army.

Gao Long looked at Jia Qiang and smiled: "It's really different now."

Jia Qiang smiled and reminded: "Don't be careless at all. Military discipline must be stricter!"

Then he looked at some of the soldiers around him, especially the dozens of people who had fought their way out together under Camp Liwei and said, "Other barracks, even the 12th regiment camp and the frontier army camp, have never been like this.

We have paid enough wages, and you all know this. But the Bingma Si Yamen has never deducted a penny of the brothers' hard-earned money. I, Jia Qiang, will never drink the blood of my brothers! But, I did it.

, you must also be worthy of me. Nowadays, there are people everywhere in the court who are staring at me. If the military discipline is not strict and I make mistakes, they will impeach me and want my life! I won’t say more about where to go.

It's up to you. I'll just say one thing. If you really violated military discipline and were ordered to march, don't blame me for not being brotherly."

Most of the surrounding soldiers were dog-slaughterers. Those who could get close to Jia Qiang, except for the old brothers, were basically from Taiping Street.

Hearing Jia Qiang's words at this moment, everyone wished they could rip their hearts out!

After getting down to business, Jia Qiang chatted with them for a while, told a few jokes, and finally called a few soldiers who had family difficulties and patients to talk to the side and found a famous doctor for them.

The worries were solved, but they were told to keep quiet...

It was not until Maozheng that Jia Qiang said goodbye to more and more soldiers and soldiers who crowded into the Yamen to blow water. He was about to go to the palace to cry.

Everyone else must also return to their respective duties.

Gao Long saw Jia Qiang out of the yamen gate, looked at the reluctant expressions of the soldiers around him, and said with a smile: "The Marquis is born to live in a military camp!"

Jia Qiang laughed and said, "There will be more in the future."

After that, he got on his horse and rode towards the imperial city under the escort of a group of people!

…

Daming Palace, Yangxin Palace.

The main hall is brightly illuminated by candlelight. Outside the hall, in the Immortal Pagoda Buddhist Hall, the copper bells on the Amitayus Pagoda are ringing with the morning breeze, echoing in the hall like bursts of Sanskrit sounds.

However, even the sound of Buddha and Brahma could not calm down the anger in Emperor Long'an's heart at this moment. His face was frighteningly dark. The palace servants in the Yangxin Palace did not even dare to breathe, but they kept thanking God in their hearts because Queen Yin

here.
To be continued...