"Ha! Haha, hahahahaha!
Good, good. So I'm a fool after all. I'm a fool.
My reputation, my wife, my child, my grandson!”
Jia She understood and cried.
Jia She felt as if his heart had been torn apart.
All these years, he had thought that Grandmother Jia did not like him because of what she had done during his grandmother's funeral and what he had done in the future.
He didn't expect his mother to always want him to have no descendants.
"As for why I told you to cut ties with the four dukes and twelve marquises, it's also related to your title.”
"Look at how powerful the four dukes and twelve marquises are. It would be fine if you didn't contact each other, but it's wrong for you to be friends for generations.
Other than the four kings with different surnames, which of the eight dukes and twelve marquises had not been demoted by the Retired Emperor?
The best preserved ones were those of Niu Jizong, who was still an Earl, the other viscounts, barons, and third-class generals.
Your Ning and Rong Manors can't even become Barons. In the past, your Ning and Rong Manors were known as the number one people below the Barons.
The two families joined forces to become the head of the eight dukes.
Besides, how many of the twelve marquises still had titles?
This is because Retired Emperor is dissatisfied with your alliance and wants to weaken you.
He didn't even know that he was in danger elsewhere.
Do you think that Jia Lian will still have a title even if he is with the four bastards?
Now that His Majesty was in need of manpower, when else could he not express his goodwill?”
"Forget about how much credit your ancestors have made for the Dayu Dynasty, that credit was also made by your ancestors.
Moreover, he had received enough rewards.
He's already treating you guys very well now.
It's already a great show of affection for you to cross the line and hang the Duke's plaque. Otherwise, your families would have been confiscated and exterminated long ago.”
Yuan Ye patted Jia She's shoulder and said.
"That's right. If you want to go, you should be willing to give up. Since you're unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous.
The glory of the past should also be gone and there was no need to remember it.”
Hearing Yuan Ye's words, Jia She was completely open-minded.
"But, how should I pay back the money?”
Jia She then said with a bitter face.
"That's easy. If you buy all the antiques you usually buy, you should be able to sell them for tens of thousands of taels.”
Yuan Ye said.
"My antiques cost me more than a hundred thousand yuan.
Moreover, there were still some that could be sold for more than 200,000 taels.
However, this was still far from enough.”
Jia She answered worriedly.
"We can settle the accounts with a few accountant like this and make the second branch spit out all the money that they embezzled from the public. This way, we can also gather more than 200,000 taels.
If the rest were to be spat out by Lai Da and Lai Er, they might not only be able to pay off the money owed to the Ministry of Revenue, but they might also have a lot left.”
Yuan Ye thought for a moment and suggested to Jia She.
"How much money can this servant have?"
Jia She shook his head and said disdainfully.
"You're wrong. As far as I know, the masters of your Jia family have to call Lai Da and Second Master Lai.
Moreover, Lai Da and Lai Er are much wealthier than your Rong Mansion.
The Lai family has done a lot to tarnish the reputation of Rongguo Manor and Ningguo Manor.”
Yuan Ye shook his head and said to Jia She.
"What? Master calls me master? How arrogant are they?”
"And they are actually richer than my Ning Rong Mansion.
How much money have they embezzled from my Jia family?”
Jia She was shocked when he heard that.
The master called this servant grandpa, and this servant was not only richer than the master's family, but also tarnished the Jia family's reputation. This made Jia She even have the intention to chop up the Lai family.
"You don't even know this?
Really, I can see that it would be strange if your Jia family doesn't perish in the future.”
"However, this Lai family is Grandmother Jia's confidant. They are Grandmother Jia's eyes and power to control the Ning and Rong residences.
Back then, the Lai family had done many shady deeds for Grandmother Jia.”
Yuan Ye shook his head, feeling that if the Jia Clan didn't perish, the heavens would really be blind.
Such a master really only knew how to enjoy himself and didn't care about anything else.
She didn't even know that her house was rotten.
Just like in the original novel 'Dream of the Red Chamber', Wang Xifeng was so poor that she began to sell her dowry. Madam Wang, Grandmother Jia, and the masters of the Jia family kept asking for money from Wang Xifeng.
Even when Wang Xifeng bought her gold collar for 200 taels of silver to give to the person who asked for money, Jia Lian still wanted Wang Xifeng to use it as a dowry in exchange for 200 taels of silver for himself to spend.
And Yingchun was even worse off. The servants who served her stole her jewelry and sold it for gambling money, and when they lost, they came back to make a big fuss with her. She even tried to protect them if she could.
It was also because of his weak personality that this servant became more and more arrogant and despotic.
"Thank you for informing me, Milord. Jia She knows what to do.
Tomorrow, I'll go find the Shuntian Prefect to settle the family matters.
This time, I want to completely fall out with them.”
Jia She thanked Yuan Ye with a sullen face.
"No, you have to wait for my news.
After the court session tomorrow, I will impeach the Prince of Dongping and Jia Zheng.
After the court session, let Shuntian Prefecture Magistrate bring people to support you.
Anyway, your Jia family's face has long been thrown into your mother's hands.
You don't need to care about your face now. Moreover, you've never wanted face before.
That's it."
Yuan Ye said to Jia She.
"Good! Thank you."
Jia She nodded and agreed.
"Uh…Wait, Your Excellency is still going to impeach the Prince of Dongping?”
Then, Jia She reacted and asked Yuan Ye in disbelief.
"Of course, I'm now the arch-enemy of Xungui Group. Today, I brought people to seal up the Moon Pavilion, so how could I not strike first tomorrow? Otherwise, I'll be waiting for Dongping Junwang to take revenge.
We can't let him take the initiative."
Yuan Ye said matter-of-factly.
Jia She looked at Yuan Ye blankly after hearing that and thought," Good heavens, he still didn't let Yuan Ye off even though he had caused trouble. He wanted to beat him to death with a stick. He must never offend Yuan Ye in the future.
"Alright, you can go back first.
The Prince of Dongping would probably arrive soon.”
Yuan Ye patted Jia She's shoulder and said.
"Alright, then I'll take my leave first. When the Jia family's matters are settled, I must come to the Jia family to honor them.”
Jia She stood up and bowed to Yuan Ye.
"Don't worry.
I will definitely go."
Yuan Ye agreed with a smile.
After that, Jia She left the private room through the back door.
At this moment, it was quiet outside.
"Milord, we found the girls 'contracts, thirty thousand silver and two hundred thousand silver.
Five thousand gold taels and ten thousand gold taels.
There was also their account book, which clearly stated that the Moon Pavilion's income in the past five years had exceeded ten million taels of silver and one million taels of gold.
Furthermore, they were all sent to the Prince of Dongping's Mansion.”
After Yuan Ye came out, Ishikawa brought the account book, silver notes, gold notes, and the contract to Yuan Ye and reported.
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