The events that were about to happen spread like a hurricane through the entire capital through word of mouth.
As soon as Jia Zheng returned home, he hurriedly took the invitation to the palace to invite the imperial physician. The old relatives who were impeached by Jia Lian originally wanted to go directly to the Rong Mansion to punish them, but before they could leave, they were invited by Liu Wen Du to settle the accounts for them with interest.
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"Aiyo, my Second Master, I'm really admiring you more and more.
350,000 dans of grain. If you cut off our relationship with Rong Mansion, you will become an important official of the imperial court. Moreover, you will be the assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel.”
"In the future, even if we don't have these miscellaneous relationships, no one will dare to look down on our family.
They even have to suck up to us.”
"If you ask me, even if I had to spend a million taels of silver to exchange for this official position, I would still burn incense.
Back then, if Master Zheng of the second branch knew that he could be promoted by doing this, he would probably spend more money than you and do more ruthless things than you.”
Wang Xifeng sat by the bed and kept stroking the official robe of the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Personnel on the bed. She liked it no matter how she looked at it.
He looked as if he couldn't put it down.
However, his mouth was chattering non-stop as he praised Jia Lian.
Just this title alone was worth the money and food their family had paid.
Moreover, they had made a huge profit.
"That's not even close. I'm telling you, based on the way I like you now, I might be able to enter the cabinet and rule the world when the time comes.”
Jia Lian looked at Wang Xifeng's inexperienced appearance and felt very proud.
In the past, the Rong Mansion only had money, connections, and the title of Lord, but no one in the Ningguo Mansion had any real power or official position.
As a member of the Ministry of Works, Jia Zheng didn't have much power, so he didn't have much use for it.
Therefore, the previous Rong Mansion was just a silver spear and a wax-like head. The name that was used to coax people was an empty shell.
Now that Jia Lian had become the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, it was different. This Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Personnel had a huge power to intimidate the officials of the world.
With this title alone, he became an existence that the officials did not dare to offend and fawn on.
This official position was much more powerful than Jia She's first-class Divine Might General Lord.
Jia She, a first-class Godly General Lord, had no power, only a little privilege.
However, when it came to war, he could transfer this title to a first-grade military officer to lead troops to fight.
However, even if Jia She was like this, the Emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom would probably not turn Jia She's title of Lord into a military officer.
Therefore, Jia She's title was also an empty shell.
Only people like dukes, marquises, and uncles were real nobles.
In the grand scheme of things, having a fief was in the same circle as the emperor and the royal family, and there were many privileges.
In the past, the Rong and Ning Manors also had fiefs, but Jia She and Jia Zhen's fiefs were taken back when Jia She and Jia Zhen inherited their titles.
If the two of them had fought for a bit, the fief would not have been taken back if a baron or viscount had been present.
One had to know that the land rent and taxes in the fief belonged to the title holder.
Losing the fief meant that the Rong and Ning Manors had lost their main source of income.
However, everything was different now. With this official position, would the assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel be afraid of not having money in the future?
"Look at what Second Master said. Regardless of the title or the Lord, with your current official position, none of the old relatives who have broken off their relations can compare to you.
If they were not convinced and came to find him, Second Master, you could suppress them with just a word.”
Wang Xifeng praised Jia Lian with a smile.
In her heart, she was constantly glad that she did not object to Jia Lian's donation.
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"This damned Jia Lian, he's a disobedient animal. All of this should have been mine. He spent my money to seek his own future.
He's not human."
In Rongxi Hall…
Jia Zheng lay weakly on the bed, but his mouth could not help but curse Jia Lian viciously.
He felt that he had never been so angry in his life.
He almost died of anger.
"Old Master, why are you so angry? Although he has been promoted, he has also offended all the people he has offended.
His arrogant and despotic appearance would only last for a few days.”
Madam Wang was comforting Jia Zheng at the side.
Although she was comforting him, the anger in her heart was no less than Jia Zheng's.
She was even angrier than Jia Zheng.
After all, she had worked hard for so many years to accumulate the wealth of Rong Mansion. God knew how much she had paid to control Rong Mansion.
But now?
Everything was gone…The key point was that she had eyes all over the Rong Mansion. Until now, she still did not know where Jia Lian's 200 loyal thugs came from.
Not only were these thugs skilled, but they were also good at investigating cases. Moreover, each of them was a rare talent.
Madam Wang couldn't understand why there were so many people like this who were so loyal to Jia Lian.
Madam Wang had tried many times to persuade this group of people to defect, but none of them had succeeded.
In fact, with their existence, he could even rope in a servant in the Rong Mansion and the servant would disappear from the Rong Mansion forever the next day.
This made Madam Wang, who had witnessed the power of the Jinyiwei elite, tremble more than once.
If she had eight or ten of such subordinates, would Jia Lian have been able to make her fall so hard?
"Hmph, what's the use! This family was about to be ruined by him.”
Jia Zheng angrily turned his head and said with a heart full of pain.
"It's their First household's fault that he ruined the relationship in our residence, it has nothing to do with our Second household.
When we are free, we will prepare a generous gift and specially treat those old relatives to a meal to win over their feelings.”
"Tell these old relatives that we are not on the same side as the First household. If we want to punish the First household, our Second household is willing to be the vanguard.”
Seeing this, Madam Wang sat beside Jia Zheng and told him.
At this moment, it was a fool's dream to want to disintegrate the First household's idleness from within the family, so they had to contact external forces to deal with Jia Lian.
She was very smart and ruthless, but she was a woman after all. She only had her eyes on the Rong Mansion and never thought about the future of the Rong Mansion.
In her mind, if she sent her own daughter to the palace to be the imperial concubine, she would win.
Now, the daughter of the imperial concubine sent to the palace was being held by Jia Lian.
"That's right, everyone says that Jia Lian, that beast, offended him. What does it have to do with our Second household?
We can use them to take down that bastard Jia Lian.”
Hearing Madam Wang's words, Jia Zheng also woke up with a start.
Then, he gritted his teeth and said with a vicious expression.
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"Second Master, Old Madam invites you over.”
On Jia Lian's side, Grandmother Jia's maid Yuanyang came over and bowed respectfully to Jia Lian.
"Did the old lady hear about what happened today?”
Jia Lian asked Yuanyang mockingly.
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