Chapter 13 (3) The unfolding of great changes

As the saying goes: "The wall falls and everyone pushes it away", and it is also said, "The drum breaks and the people beat it."At this time, the Rongguo Mansion, at home and outside, underwent tremendous changes, and the pillars of the mansion fell down one by one.In the past, the enemies who had stood still, the accomplices who threw stones, and the double-dealers who waited for the opportunity to defect, all attacked together.There are foreign enemies outside the mansion walls, and there are internal evil spirits inside the mansion walls-the danger of "suddenly the mansion collapses" does not take a long time to become apparent, but is judged immediately.Jia Amnesty's crimes were reported one by one.

After the death of Jia's mother, he tortured her privately, framed Yuanyang for the crime of "rape" and "stealing", and killed her alive. He bought antiques by force, ransacked someone's house, and forced the owner to death. His daughter-in-law, Wang Xifeng, took three thousand taels of bribes and married a bad guy, causing both men and women to commit suicide. She also dispatched the government to frame the plaintiff, Zhang Hua, and sent people to ambush him to kill him. Jia Zheng's son harbored actors in the palace, and his son "raped his mother and maidservant" so that the daughter threw herself into a well and died.

Jia Zheng privately repaired the mansion garden, harbored the daughter of a criminal family, pretended to be a nun, and sheltered and connived, degrading public morals. A series of true and false accusations and deeds were exposed and played. Of course, it is also implicated in the Shangdong Mansion. Jia Zhen dared to use the coffin of the convicted Prince Yizhong when he buried his daughter-in-law!This is linked to the murders of Second Sister You and Third Sister You... Also, the family relationship between the Jia family and the Zhen family... There are also "sins" that we can't figure out for a while, and they happen concurrently!

This is like the common saying in storytelling and singing opera: "The sage heard the play, and Long Yan was furious", which is not false at all.Ordered by the emperor, search the house for questioning! When the above mentioned Zhen's family was convicted, it had already been said: the ransacking of the house at that time was really a severe, terrifying and cruel political trick.The official files of the Qing Dynasty clearly recorded that a family of wives and concubines hanged themselves because of the ransacking of their homes, and the children were "terrified to death"!

Although the end of the Rongguo Mansion may not be as extreme as that, it is not difficult to deduce the general situation of its tragedy[Note]. ~~~~~~~~~~【Note】Scraping the house means "sweeping the house", everything is not allowed to be tampered with, it is listed in the detailed booklet, sealed up, and awaits disposal (sell it off), not like some scripts "Smash everything you see", and the population is also included in the ranks of officials or sold off.