Chapter 244 Oh no, sir, the Jin Yiwei is here!
The news that the Jin Yiwei Qinglong destroyed the statue of Yu Qian and wiped out the entire Yu Shen family caused a huge sensation in Qiantang County.
Naturally, Yu Yang, Yu Hao and others cannot get into the eyes of these established noble families in Jiangnan.
Yu Shen was executed by Zhu Youtang, which was no secret to those in the privileged class.
But the problem is that the message sent by Qinglong's smashing of Yu Qian's statue is too shocking.
Does this mean that Zhu Youtang is going to settle old scores and take action against the Yu family in Qiantang?
If the Yu family is finished, won't those who are attached to the Yu family also be destroyed?
For a time, all the big landowners and businessmen in Qiantang County were in danger.
Sure enough, Qinglong did not stop after clearing out the Yu Shen clan, but continued to kill the Yu family in Qiantang and Yu Yunzhong's old house.
Qiantang is more than 500 miles away from Nanjing. If you hurry up, you can reach it in one day.
Nanjing.
Zhang Peng's house.
Just when Qinglong led his troops to clean up Yu's old house, Yu Yunzhong was making connections in Nanjing city.
"Master Zhang, the only person who can save the Yu clan now is you."
"My grandfather and Yu Shen are all people who have made contributions to Jiangnan!"
"Now that things have come to this, Zhang Shangshu, you can't just ignore death!"
Yu Yunzhong sat in front of Zhang Peng, the Minister of War in Nanjing, crying like a resentful woman.
Although he is the governor of Yingtian, he is of little use as a governor when encountering this kind of thing.
Only by calling on these six ministers of Nanjing can we hope to survive the crisis safely.
A few months ago, when Xu Pu and Liu Daxia were imprisoned, it was Zhang Peng who made the final decision and played the Annan card, successfully allowing Xu Pu and Liu Daxia to be released from prison safely.
However, Zhang Peng's hard work was nothing more than a bamboo basket, and Xu Pu and Liu Daxia died in the end.
Although they died later, their death conditions were also more miserable!
Zhang Peng looked sad and was in a dilemma.
"I know, I know, who among all the people in Jiangnan doesn't miss Yu Shaobao?"
"It's just that I can't help it. Yu Shen is dead, Xu Pu is dead, Liu Daxia is dead, the Supreme Emperor has been restored, and Annan's cards have been played..."
"This time, we in Jiangnan suffered heavy losses. It can be said to be a complete defeat."
"It's not easy to keep Nanjing unaffected. Even if I want to help you, I can't do anything!"
What Zhang Peng said was true. After this coup, southern officials were defeated at the court.
The most important cabinet, originally there were two people from Jiangnan in it, and there was even a chief minister.
But now, there is no one from Jiangnan left in the cabinet.
Among the six, there were originally three in Jiangnan, but now only one is left.
This kind of defeat has never happened since Emperor Taizu founded the country.
The most important thing for the Jiangnan Civil Service Group now is to stabilize its base in Nanjing.
As for other things, they no longer dare to hope.
But Zhang Peng's explanation did not satisfy Yu Yunzhong.
Yu Yunzhong is sure that the difficulty Zhang Peng talks about is just that the profits are not in place.
So he gritted his teeth and offered a generous offer that no one could refuse.
"I know that Zhang Shangshu is difficult to deal with, so I prepared a small gift for Zhang Shangshu to show my affection."
"The Yu family's ship will go to sea in two months. This time, our Yu family is willing to use the profit of one ship to express our gratitude and support to Mr. Zhang."
"As long as the Yu family can survive this difficulty, in the next ten years, all the profits from this ship will belong to you, Mr. Zhang!"
Sure enough, as soon as Yu Yunzhong finished speaking, Zhang Peng's eyes immediately showed a greedy look.
A whole boat's profit!
And it’s ten years of profit!
The price offered by Yu Yunzhong made Zhang Peng so excited that he was stunned for a long time without saying anything.
Seeing that Zhang Peng was silent and his eyes were full of greed, Yu Yunzhong was secretly happy.
But just when he thought Zhang Peng was about to agree, Zhang Peng showed a look of reluctance on his face, sighed and shook his head.
"Yu Fuyin, the offer you made is really hard to refuse."
"But it's not that I don't want to save him, it's that I don't have the ability."
"If Jinyiwei really takes action against us, it must be His Majesty's intention. Anyone who protects you is going against His Majesty..."
"In this situation, who do you think dares to go against His Majesty?"
"Yu Fu Yin, I really can't do anything. Please go back."
Yu Yunzhong was completely dumbfounded at this time. Even this condition could not impress Zhang Peng. Zhang Peng had made up his mind and just stood back and watched!
Yu Yunzhong was so anxious that he kept talking: "How come there is nothing we can do? Japanese pirates!"
"Those Japanese pirates will obey your words. You can let the Japanese pirates kill all those royal guards, and then..."
"Yu Fuyin!"
Before Yu Yunzhong finished speaking, he was interrupted extremely rudely by Zhang Peng.
Zhang Peng's face was serious, his face was dark, and his brows were furrowed. He suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice: "Yu Fuyin, you can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense!"
"I am the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty. Those Japanese pirates are afraid of me before it is too late? How can they obey my words!"
"Yu Fuyin, you are trying to taint someone's innocence out of thin air!"
Some things are like this, you can do them, but you can't say them.
Although everyone knows it well, if anyone talks about it on the table, they have broken the rules.
Yu Yunzhong was anxious to get angry and blurted out on impulse.
Now after being interrupted by Zhang Peng, his eyes immediately became clear, and he realized that he had said the wrong thing.
Yu Yunzhong patted his mouth gently, and said with a cautious smile: "Look at my mouth, I will fart. Master Zhang, please don't take it to heart!"
"What I mean is, we can attack Jin Yiwei first, and then blame him on the Japanese pirates!"
Zhang Peng's face has turned cold: "I'm sorry, I can't do what you said."
Yu Yunzhong was anxious: "No, Mr. Zhang..."
"Come, let's see you off!"
Zhang Peng patted the armrest, stood up and returned to the study.
Yu Yunzhong still wanted to stay, but he had been stopped by the servants in Zhang Peng's house.
"Yu Fuyin, my master is resting, please."
Yu Yunzhong's face was ashen. After taking a deep breath, he stopped lingering, turned around and took his servant out of the Zhang family's mansion.
Yu Yunzhong's trip to Nanjing was very unsatisfactory and hit a wall at every turn.
Zhang Peng is already the fifth high-ranking official who has been rejected by him. Others include Zhang Sheng, the Minister of Household Affairs, and others.
Yu Yunzhong did everything he could.
Yu Yunzhong asked everyone who could.
But it was useless, the general trend was established, no matter how powerful the Yu family was, no matter how rich the family was, they could not compete with the emperor of the Ming Dynasty on their own.
Yu Yunzhong sighed, and his originally straight back seemed to become a little bent.
"Master, which one should we go to next?"
The old housekeeper beside Yu Yunzhong spoke carefully.
Yu Yunzhong shook his head and said somewhat desolately: "I'm not looking for you anymore, I'm not even looking for you anymore."
The old housekeeper was shocked: "Ah? Then... what should we do?!"
Then, he cursed angrily: "These officials are really hateful!"
"I usually eat from the master, drink from the master, and take the master's money." "Now when something goes wrong, I try to evade it in every possible way. It's so shameless!"
Yu Yunzhong waved his hand and took a deep breath: "Okay, stop talking."
"Since you won't save me at home, then we at home will save ourselves."
"Master and ladies, have you all come to Nanjing?"
The old housekeeper hurriedly returned: "Go back to the master, the steward at home is quite smart and takes the master's words to heart."
"When I heard that those royal guards had smashed the statue of Yu Shaobao, I rushed to Nanjing with my family and money."
"A total of eighteen carriages will reach Nanjing tonight."
"Okay."
Yu Yunzhong nodded, a trace of determination flashed in his eyes.
"When the young master and his wife arrive, let everyone board the ship and prepare the goods as soon as possible. We will go to the Old Port Xuanwei Department in advance!"
If he can't afford to offend him, can he still not afford to hide?
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Leaving the Ming Dynasty and running away secretly was the last escape route Yu Yunzhong left for himself.
The entire Yu family, after more than 40 years of accumulation, already has six ships that can sail to the Western Ocean.
Yu Yunzhong planned that when he was desperate, he would take the wealth accumulated by the Yu family for decades and run to the Xuanwei Division of Jiugang.
At this time, the Jiugang Xuanwei Division had already escaped from Ming Dynasty's control with the help of Yang Shiqi.
A wanted criminal like him is absolutely safe in Old Port.
With his huge wealth, he was able to live the rest of his life freely and freely in Old Port.
"Yes, sir, I'll do it right away!"
After the old housekeeper accepted the order, he walked towards the port.
Normally, in order to catch the southeast monsoon, the smuggling fleet along the coast of the Ming Dynasty usually leaves the port of Nanjing in June and goes to the old port of Xuanweisi in Nanyang.
But in order to escape for his life, Yu Yunzhong couldn't wait any longer and had to leave two months in advance.
……
Qiantang County.
Yu Yunzhong's residence.
In the extremely luxurious courtyard, dozens of corpses were lying in random directions, blood spattered on the white walls and flowing on the bluestone courtyard tiles under their feet.
Some of these corpses were members of the tribe who were related to Yu Qian, and some were servants who tried to prevent the Jin Yiwei from enforcing the law.
There were dozens of maids and servants of the Yu family, squatting in the courtyard, shivering.
These servants were more obedient and did not stand up for the Yu family, because those who dared to stand up for the Yu family were already dead.
Qinglong stood in the courtyard, his face frighteningly dark.
Suddenly, a guard covered in blood rushed out from the backyard: "Second Master, there is no one in the backyard!"
The next moment, another guard in golden clothes rushed out from the side hall: "Second Master, we have also searched the side hall, and there is no one there!"
Qinglong turned around with a gloomy expression, scanning the servants in the courtyard with a pair of sharp eyes.
A few hours ago, they came from Yujiazhuang to Yuzhai in Qiantang City.
But what surprised Qinglong was that Yu Yunzhong, the current head of the Yu family, was not found in the house.
At the same time, Yu Yunzhong’s wife, children, mother and other immediate family members were not found.
Some, only servants and distant relatives.
After Qinglong first cleared out the Yu clan members, he then asked his Jin Yiwei to carefully search the Yu family compound.
In the end, nothing was found, so Yu Yunzhong ran away with his wife, children, and children!
This was a major mistake in Qinglong's work. Qinglong was anxious and in an extremely bad mood.
"Say, where have everyone gone!"
Qinglong glanced at the servants, frightening them so much that their faces turned pale and they became incontinent.
"I don't know, we really don't know anything!"
"The master left a few days ago, and the young master and his wife also left last night!"
"Don't kill me, I'm just a maid, I really don't know anything!"
"..."
What they said was not lies, and Qinglong didn't expect to be able to ask anything useful from these servants.
Qinglong turned around and gave orders to his subordinates.
"Check!"
“I have to dig three feet into the ground to find Yu Yunzhong!”
"We must not let them escape!"
The Jin Yiwei behind Qinglong immediately took orders.
"Yes, Second Master!"
Subsequently, three hundred Jin Yiwei launched a rigorous search and investigation in Qiantang County.
Soon, they got the news from a watchman that Mrs. Yu and the young master's carriage were heading towards Nanjing city.
That night, Qinglong led three hundred Jin Yiwei and rushed towards the city of Nanjing again!
……
Ying Tianfu.
Nanjing Port.
Although since Xuanzong, the Ming Dynasty has never sailed to the West again, and there is no record of long voyages.
However, ports large and small along the southeast coast are still operating normally.
Its main function is to serve the internal sea transportation of Ming Dynasty.
For example, the wood used to build the three main halls of Fengtian was transported from the south to the north through these ports.
At this moment, Nanjing Port is extremely lively. The laborers coming and going are sweating and moving boxes of goods to the ship.
In previous years, such lively scenes usually occurred in June.
At that time, it was really crowded, with people and goods coming and going in an endless stream.
But now, because the Yu family set sail early, this busy scene was staged two months in advance.
"Be careful. If you break something, you won't be able to afford the compensation if I sell it!"
"Oh! Slow down, slow down! This is filled with porcelain from Jingdezhen. If you dare to break one, see if I don't skin you!"
"Elevate this box. It contains Suzhou embroidery. If you dare to get it dirty, I'll beat your ass!"
"..."
The servants of the Yu family arrogantly directed the laborers to carry the goods, and often insulted and threatened them.
Yu Yunzhong stood on the deck, settling his wife, children and children.
"Master, why did you call people here in such a hurry all of a sudden, and why do you have to go into the sea with these servants?"
"This boat is dirty and smelly. Is this a place for people to stay?"
Mrs. Yu Yunzhong, who was beautifully dressed, asked Mrs. Yu Chen.
She frowned in disgust as she looked at the people walking around and the simple environment.
Yu Yunzhong frowned irritably: "Don't ask so many questions, now is an extraordinary time, we..."
Yu Yunzhong was talking when suddenly the sound of roaring horse hooves came from the shore.
Immediately, the old housekeeper of the Yu family rushed under the boat, panicked, and shouted to Yunzhong with fear on his face: "It's not good, master!"
"Jinyiwei! Jinyiwei is here!"
(End of chapter)