Now that things had come to this point, the families who had borrowed money did not want to return the money, and the imperial court was also embarrassed to force the money because it had been spent on the Retired Emperor.
The matter of both sides sticking to their own words had been dragged on, and now it had become a bad debt.
However, Jia Lian had already started paying back the money. Originally, he didn't want any interest, but Jia Lian had even taken the initiative to pay an additional 200,000 taels of silver as interest. How could the family who owed the money not be angry?
This was clearly forcing them to pay back the money!
After the Minister of Revenue, Liu Wen, reported the one million taels of silver to the Emperor, the Emperor was overjoyed.
He directly issued an edict to praise Jia Lian, not to mention giving him a promotion.
He had promoted Jia Lian, a Tongzhi official, to the fifth rank of the Imperial Censor Zhongcheng, becoming the highest official in the Imperial Censor's Office.
He also had the qualifications to participate in court affairs.
Jia Lian had donated an official position, and it was all thanks to the first-class general merit on Jia She's head that Jia Lian could donate an official position.
In the Great Jin Dynasty, there were official titles such as dukes, marquises, uncles, and sons. Below the titles were lords.
In the past, the Rong and Ning Manors had been dukes.
Now, he had been demoted to a noble.
However, the direct descendants of noble families still had special privileges. They could get an official position with money.
However, this censor was different from a donated official. This was a proper official of the imperial court.
Of course, the position of the censor was also a position that people hated. The censor was different from other censors. For example, Lin Ruhai was a salt inspector. This was a fat position. His official position was not high, but he was extremely rich.
In everyone's eyes, the Imperial Censorate was a group of censors, who did not dare to do anything else and waited for others to make mistakes.
No matter how powerful the other party was, if you made a mistake, I would dare to impeach you.
This was because the future of the Imperial Censorate relied on impeachment to accumulate achievements.
And Jia Lian was the leader of this group of officials.
However, in the eyes of others, the Imperial Censorate was a censor, but not in Jia Lian's eyes. In Jia Lian's eyes, they were just a group of official keyboard warriors.
With this position, who would dare to offend me?
If you offend me, I can make the Imperial Censorate exaggerate your small mistake by ten times or a hundred times.
If this was used well, the Great Jin Dynasty could be described as a forbidden country.
…
"This time, the total amount of money obtained from the slave's house was 1.36 million taels of silver. Among them, there were many property deeds and shops…
Moreover, this time, we even found out that it wasn't an imperial gift from our residence.”
"These gifts were all given to Grand Master (Jia Daishan).
If these things are sold out, it will be a big crime for our Rong Mansion!”
In Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng's room, Wang Xifeng was holding the account book and reporting to Jia Lian.
He said this with a lingering fear.
What she had never expected was that this group of servants were so bold that they even dared to steal the items bestowed by the emperor.
"Moreover, these slaves have done many evil things outside using the name of Rong Mansion.
But they have done a lot of dirty work for our Rong Mansion. If we don't copy them this time…"
"We still don't know that the Shuntian Prefecture's yamen has already filed the case. They probably didn't announce the case because they were waiting for our family to fall and deal a fatal blow to our family.”
Wang Xifeng added.
She really didn't expect that just by seizing the servants in her house, she could collect so much evidence of their Rong and Ning Manors from the Shuntian Prefecture's yamen, and this was even from the Shuntian Prefecture's yamen.
Perhaps the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court also had quite a number of them. The key was that they actually did not receive any news. If all of this was announced, wouldn't their Jia family be destroyed?
"These are all given to you by the Shuntian Prefect.”
Jia Lian wasn't surprised to hear this because he had already thought of this.
"Yes!"
Xifeng Wang nodded with a pale face.
"This Shuntian Prefecture's yamen doesn't only collect evidence of our crimes.
Look at this. If we don't break off our relationship with those old relatives, sooner or later, we'll be implicated by them.”
Jia Lian pulled Wang Xifeng into his arms and spoke to her with an enigmatic expression.
Hearing Jia Lian's words, Wang Xifeng's delicate body trembled and her heart became even more afraid.
In the past, she had set her eyes on the Rong Mansion and wanted to be a butler.
How could he have thought so much?
"Don't be afraid. I'll support you.”
Feeling Wang Xifeng's fearlessness, he couldn't help but comfort her tenderly.
"It's my great fortune to have you.”
Listening to Jia Lian's comforting words, Wang Xifeng felt a sense of security.
She hugged Jia Lian and said coyly.
"In the future, you only need to care about the matters at home. As for the Old Lady and Second Lady, you don't have to pay your respects. Let the First Lady pay her respects to the Old Lady. Oh right…"
"When there's nothing to do, let Yingchun work for you. This child is naturally timid and careless.”
"With her personality, she wouldn't dare to tell us even if she was bullied by the servants.
And Aunt Min's daughter, Dai Yu, you stay by my side.
With them around, we can relieve our boredom."
"If I'm nurtured well, I'll still be a help to you.”
Jia Lian continued to tell Wang Xifeng.
"Alright, I'll listen to Second Master."
Wang Xifeng listened to Jia Lian's arrangement and smiled.
Now that Jia Lian was her backbone, she would do whatever Jia Lian asked her to do.
…
"Just now, I calculated that the money that the second branch gave us is a total of 3,894,632,400 taels of silver and eight wen.
Among them, there are 37,638 hectares of land deeds, 138 shops, and 360,000 stones of grain…"
"There are thirty-eight thousand pieces of cloth, many items bestowed by the emperor, and six carriages of antiques, calligraphy, and paintings.
This is enough to return our money, grain, land deeds, shop deeds, cloth, and all kinds of valuable things.”
"But there are still many antiques and precious herbs that are gone.
These things were not very valuable, but they were worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.
I went to talk to Madam Wang, but she said that they couldn't take out a single coin from their room.”
The next afternoon…
Wang Xifeng kept checking the accounts with Jia Lian with the account book and abacus.
As she spoke, her beautiful face could not hide her happiness.
With so much money and land deeds, what was there to worry about?
With these, would she have to do illegal things to support her family?
"No, not even if you lack a penny.
If they didn't have the money, they could borrow it.
No matter where the money comes from, it must be made up for.”
"In addition, the direct descendants of the masters in the family will receive thirty taels of silver every month. They will also receive four sets of clothes and bedding for each of the four seasons of the year.”
"For the children of concubines, twenty-five taels of silver a month. There are two sets of clothes and bedding for each spring, summer, spring, and winter.”
This book is provided by FunNovel Novel Book | Fan Fiction Novel [Beautiful Free Novel Book]