Chapter 99: Tuqiongdagger
One armor carries three crossbows, and three armors enter the underworld.
This is a common saying, which refers to privately hiding armor among the people, especially full-body armor. Hiding one armor is equivalent to hiding three crossbows. Armor, that is a capital crime.
Wang Zhigao, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, looked at the file for a long time and said: "The Ming Dynasty Law: All private private individuals such as waistcoats, side cards, fire tubes, artillery, flags, trumpets, and other weapons that should be banned, a staff. Eighty, each item will be added one level. For those who make private works, one level will be added. Each crime will be punished by a hundred sticks, and the flow will be three thousand miles. "
In the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty inherited the Tang system. The law stipulates: Anyone who privately prohibits weapons will have to wait for one and a half years. One crossbow, plus two. A man with one collar and three crossbows can travel two thousand miles. A three collars and five crossbows, twisted.
In the 22nd year of Hongwu, hanging was abolished, and private weapons were replaced with a hundred sticks, which traveled three thousand miles.
The "Regulations on Punishment" of the Hongzhi period revised this crime again, removing crossbows from the list of privately concealed weapons. Only heavy armor and firearms are prohibited, and stipulates the maximum penalty, which is a rod. One hundred means being exiled for three thousand miles, that is, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guizhou and other border areas, and will never return home.
As times evolve, crossbows are no longer prohibited.
Tan Lun was full of surprise and said: "Drilling, rough grinding, perforation, wrong holes, cutting, wrong edges, fine grinding, the armor pieces are completed, and the leather strips need to be woven into a helmet. The inside and outside must be lined with fabric and connected with copper nails. This pair of armor requires at least forty craftsmen and takes a year to build. What does Gu want to do? He hid a hundred pairs!”
Wang Zhigao! Shaking his head, he said: "Gu made his statement to prevent Japanese pirates."
This reason is very appropriate. When the Japanese pirates were at their worst, they also attacked Songjiang Prefecture. At that time, Luo Gongchen led his army to rush to rescue at night. In order to thank Luo Gongchen, the Jin gentry of Songjiang Prefecture built an archway to commemorate him.
The Japanese pirates gradually calmed down in the 41st year of Jiajing. Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou wiped out the remnants, and then gradually settled down.
Ms. Gu said that she prepared armor to prevent the Japanese invasion, which makes sense and can be considered excusable.
This is another metaphysical practice that conflicts with metaphysical cognition. The laws of the Ming Dynasty stipulate that armor and firearms cannot be hidden. However, Japanese pirates are everywhere, and there is smoke thousands of miles southeast. Prepare some armor and crossbows to prevent them. It should be robbed by Japanese pirates.
Zhang Juzheng said quite seriously: "Now that the Japanese invasion is gradually subsiding, the Ming Dynasty also set up a military town in Songjiang Prefecture, stationing more than 3,000 elite soldiers to prevent Japanese invasion. At that time, the imperial court could not stabilize the coastal areas. If It is unethical to refuse to protect oneself. "
"It is better to order every family and every door to return the armor, crossbows and firearms to the public until the end of three months. If there is another investigation and seizure, the weapons will be hidden. What is the punishment for the crime? "
"It should be so." Wang Zhigao agreed with Zhang Juzheng's determination that hiding weapons was indeed a serious crime, but the main contradiction in the southeast at that time was the various social chaos caused by the Japanese invasion. Tan Lun, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, etc., when they were pacifying the Japanese in the southeast, some wealthy households also provided armor to recruit soldiers, and finally completed the pacification of the Japanese.
This time, the Gu family has indeed hidden a lot of armor and crossbows, but it can also be said that it is to prepare for Japan.
Hai Rui said with some disapproval: "The Gu family should be punished for hiding the armor. If you are not punished for the crime, how can you control the people? The law can be lenient, and there are also those who should not be lenient. This This is what Yuan Fu just said to His Majesty. "
"Indeed, there is room for mercy in Gu's private possession of armor, but as the Japanese invasion gradually subsided, Gu still kept it privately at home and did not report it to the court. This is undue leniency.”
Hai Rui fired a boomerang and hit Zhang Juzheng based on what Zhang Juzheng had just said. He did not agree with Zhang Juzheng's conciliatory approach.
Ge Shouli also agreed with it and said: "Indeed, if there is no punishment, where is the court's laws, rewards, and punishments? Seeing that there is no punishment, the Jin gentry of Nanya will naturally hide themselves and will not return the crossbow to the public. They should be punished , as a warning to others."
"What does Hai Zongxian think should be done?" Zhang Juzheng looked at Hai Rui and asked.
Hai Ruiyan said concisely and concisely: "Return the fields."
The ministers glanced at each other, showing an expression that this is indeed the case and should be so. Hai Rui did not hesitate to launch a boomerang to attack the leader. Auxiliary and thin mud, the goal is to return the land.
The means of production were confiscated and the land was confiscated.
The main contradiction in the Southeast right now is the encroachment by powerful people and the unemployment of the people. As the largest means of production at present, returning farmland is the best way to alleviate the main contradiction.
Hai Rui looked at everyone and explained: "I was the governor of Nanya. Most of the land they annexed were obtained by annexing them when the Japanese pirates were everywhere. At that time, there were natural disasters and the gentry had justice. Various preferential treatments such as government examinations, taxes, etc. were expected to satisfy the herdsmen, but they took the opportunity to annex the land and went rampant among the villages. "
The land annexation in the fourteenth prefecture of Nanya was the most violent period. , that is, when Japanese plagues arise.
When the main contradiction changes from fighting against Japanese aggression to investigating encroachment and stopping annexation, these fields should be vomited back as they were eaten.
"It makes sense." Zhang Juzheng nodded and said, "The Gu family has invaded more than 2,200 acres of land. Let the Gu family return the land."
"Two hundred and twenty thousand acres of land, one big fish." When Rui heard that Yuan Fu agreed, his face immediately became full of smiles and he said with a smile.
"What do you think?" Zhang Juzheng looked at the court officials and asked.
Wan Shihe hesitated to speak, but did not express his attitude in the end. In the first year of Wanli, the public and private parties of the Ming Dynasty were so poor that people could not survive just drinking from the northwest wind. Nanya invaded and occupied Changtian, which was already an occupation. With nothing to occupy, nothing to annex, and nothing to annex, the imperial tax revenue has completely languished.
After the Jin gentry occupied these permanent fields, they used their own exemptions and the government's appeasement and connivance to evade taxes, which ultimately led to the serious shrinkage of the Ming Dynasty's tax base.
"Since no one objects, that's it." Zhang Juzheng began to put floating notes on the memorial and asked His Majesty to use his seal.
Zhu Yijun looked at it and took out the treasure of Wanli and covered it. With the 220,000 acres of land in Yu Dayou's hands, he could house a large number of prisoners again.
Zhang Juzheng took out a memorial and said: "Nanjing Jiantai Huguangdao Supervisory Censor Chen Tang impeached Nanjing Guanglu Temple Minister and Yingtianfu Yin Gu Zhangzhi. There were many bandits along the river. In only half a month of the twelfth lunar month, there was an accident. For more than fifty years, Gu Zhangzhi was impeached for dereliction of duty, bribery and appeasement. "Chen Tang, a direct line official of the Zhang party, this lengthy impeachment memorial not only talks about Gu Zhangzhi. He did not work hard, did not catch thieves or capture and kill them. He also accepted bribes and tolerated his own gang members, which made Nanjing a smoky city. Within a month, there were dozens of bandits and thieves, and the people were shocked. Gu Zhangzhi could not help but He didn't ask any questions, and because of bribes, he connived at the thieves.
This part of the government's bribery and appeasement has had a very bad impact on Nanya. Although it is difficult to investigate, the number of people who have been identified is tens of thousands of taels.
Zhang Juzheng continued: "The River Minister Wan Gong impeached Gu Zhangzhi for his corruption. The Jiangnan Canal stretches for more than 800 miles. Every year, when the canal is opened at the beginning of summer, there is no risk of water flooding the canal. The year before last, the gates were opened in December of the previous year. After the shallow stagnation, the dams cut off the flow, and the Jingkou was closed, tens of thousands of dollars were spent on dredging. A total of 34 battalions were recruited, and 102,000 people were used to dredge. It took 480,000 yuan of silver, but only ten were issued after review. 20,000 silver, Gu Zhangzhi embezzled a huge sum of money, more than 300,000 taels, and complaints filled the road. "
Two memorials pointed out that Gu Zhangzhi was guilty of bribery and appeasement.
The second memorial was very destructive. On the border, the city wall was built, and in the south, it was dredging the river. Gu Zhangzhi took 480,000 taels from the imperial court to dredge the river. As a result, he got more than 30 yuan for himself. Wan Liang!
Dredging the river, everyone will get a little oil and water if they touch it. If it is not too much, no one will actually impeach this matter. After all, since Jiajing, the trend of bribery and appeasement has spread all over the world. The whole world was destroyed, but Gu Zhangzhi directly took away 300,000 yuan, which was a bit too much.
He took away three hundred thousand. In the matter of dredging the river, he could not give the money for the earth, stone and wood, nor could he give the money for recruiting local governments. The thirty-fourth battalion had one hundred and two thousand people, and even They don't care about food, and the government offices in each section of the river are under great pressure. In order to appease the poor coolies, landless tenants, and wandering slaves who have to dredge the rivers to appease these poor people, the government offices in various places are also scratching their bald heads. The construction of the canal did not turn into the canal rebellion in the late Sui Dynasty.
After finally calculating the debt, Wan Gong figured out where the three hundred thousand silver water was intercepted, and a memorial reached Tianting.
Directly pointing to the Gu family in Kunshan.
Zhang Juzheng thought for a while and said: "Gu Zhangzhi should be dismissed on the spot and taken to the capital. Xu Xing can ask questions."
The evidence for these two charges of Gu Zhangzhi is conclusive. If Gu Zhangzhi is not arrested, Come to the capital and cheer up. Who is responsible for the shortfall of 300,000 taels?
“Let’s confiscate the house.” When Tan Lun heard this, he frowned and said, “If you do it a little later, the three hundred thousand will be lost, and I’m afraid the court will have to make up for it.”
I can still get some out of the house now, but if I do it later, I'm afraid the money will have been transferred long ago. The fields can't be moved, but the money can be moved. Gu's actions are faster than the court. For 300,000 taels, even if the household department is sold, it won't be able to make up for it. Such a big hole.
Last year, the imperial court left a total of one hundred thousand taels of silver, which was obtained by drawing points from the galleons.
Ge Shouli’s mood was quite subtle. There were also holes in the Great Wall in Xuan and Dazhou. The holes made by Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei amounted to nearly two million taels, but the imperial court still asked Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei to remove the holes. If the hole is blocked, nothing will happen.
Because Wang Chonggu was holding back the matter of my answer to the tribute, and the capital camp was not strong, there was no way to pursue it excessively, and it was done in a muddle-headed manner.
But Gu Zhangzhi just ransacked his house to repair the holes.
Because the Japanese invaders in the southeast were wiped out, and in the northwest, the Tatars established the Ming Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom. This is the terrible self-respect of the invaders. Ritual, music, and conquests come from the princes, and celebrations, rewards, power, and punishments are not allowed to enter.
Zhang Juzheng will pinch the soft persimmon, but won't Zhang Juzheng stop pinching the hard persimmon? Why should we revitalize the military and build another Beijing camp?
"Let's confiscate the house." Ge Shouli was the general secretary responsible for impeaching officials. He did not hesitate much and agreed with Tan Lun's idea and copied it.
Hai Rui strongly agreed with the house confiscation and said with a smile: "Copy."
Why did he provoke Zhang Juzheng! Who in the world doesn’t know that Zhang Juzheng will definitely retaliate?
Hai Rui suggested, Zhang Juzheng took the lead, and the emperor approved the Nanya farmland return case. He returned the farmland obediently, and maybe even got some ship bows from the court. He suddenly changed from a local rich man to a maritime businessman, and he had to go through all the trouble. , splashed some dirty water on Song Yangshan, Wang Daokun and others, which made them angry, and now even their home was ransacked.
Zhang Juzheng is a follow-up official who knows how to adapt. He just wants to get things done, realize his own governing program, and return the world to the little emperor, not with holes in it, not in a complete mess. If the Jiangnan Jin gentry agreed to Xu Fan's suggestion, they would keep their heads down and switch from enclosing land and draining the people's power to becoming maritime merchants.
Zhang Juzheng will definitely agree, and will also ask the emperor to issue a commendation, praising the gentry of the Ming Dynasty for being sensible and understanding of righteousness. The country suffered a huge financial loss and the world was trapped in annexation. The gentry of Jiangnan took the lead in returning the land and Returning the occupied Changtian to the imperial court was a model and an example for the Jin gentry in the world. If the Jiangnan Jin gentry wanted some privileges in maritime affairs, the imperial court would definitely agree.
Unfortunately, Xu Fan was stripped of his official status and exiled to Jizhou, and now the Gu family has been confiscated.
"Is there anyone else who wants to speak for the Gu family?" Zhang Juzheng looked at Wan Shihe. Whenever this person hurt the interests of the Jin gentry, he would jump out and talk about the etiquette and the laws of his ancestors. , now this is a major case of confiscating the property of a ungrateful and ungrateful gentleman.
Wan Shihe immediately shook his head and said: "Copy! You must copy! It's a shortfall of 300,000 taels!"
Wan Shihe also had a memory, having been scolded so many times. , If we don’t change our thinking, I am afraid that the Minister of Rites will not be able to serve for a few days, and he will not be able to die well.
"Okay." Zhang Juzheng smiled and wrote his opinion on the floating ticket.
When Zhu Yijun signed the seal, he also took a special look. Luo Sigong's father, Luo Bingliang, did things properly. After seizing the armor and the crossbow, he had already teamed up with Nan Bing to surround the Gu family without explaining anything clearly. The family's money came from, and they didn't even give them a bite to eat. They had roughly sorted out Gu's property, which amounted to about 780,000 taels of silver and more than 220,000 acres of land.
In other words, Luo Bingliang has actually captured the Gu family in Kunshan. Whether the person dies or not depends on the court. However, don’t even think about taking away a cent of the money and land. You have to dig three feet into the ground. I have to dig it out for you too.
All the officials and gentry in the world were afraid of Tiqi, just because they were afraid of this place. During the Jiajing period, when Lu Bing was the commander of Tiqi, it was the time when Emperor Jiajing's power was at its peak. Everyone was afraid of Tiqi. When Tiqi handled the case, he showed that he was ruthless and unscrupulous.
"What Xu Fan said makes sense. How much small fish can you eat to be full? A big fish can make you burp. This year, the Ministry of Household Affairs can have a little more balance. According to the ancestral law, the income will be confiscated. The national money is seven, the internal money is three." Zhu Yijun picked up the ink pen and changed the division to 73 cents instead of 55 cents, and then printed it.
The Minister of Household Affairs, Wang Guoguang, was quite surprised. He confiscated the proceeds from the confiscation of the house. According to the ancestral law of the Yongle period, all the money was returned to the internal funds. However, at that time, the internal funds were public funds, and all rewards were given out of the internal funds.
According to the ancestral law during the Jiajing period, it was 50-50, so as not to worry about the uneven distribution of disadvantages, everyone had half and half, reluctantly, but the emperor's little hand pulled it, and it was 73-50.
His Majesty’s little hand gestured, something must have happened.
As expected, Zhang Juzheng took out another memorial and said: "Songjiang commander-in-chief Yu Dayou, Chen Lin, Song Yangshan, Wang Daokun and others wrote: The land of nine provinces on the thoroughfare of Songjiang Prefecture is a deep-water harbor. In the past, our Ming Dynasty During the Yongle period, he sailed southward to the Western Ocean from Liujiagang in Taicang, Suzhou, and made seven voyages. The state and civil affairs were in sufficient supply, so he requested an order to open the sea and set up the Songjiang Shipping Department, with a capital city, three good ports, and three shipyards. His Majesty heard that , sent an order to His Excellency Wenyuan to discuss this matter."
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Wang Guoguang understood immediately! No wonder that before the court meeting, the little emperor talked about the Aoshan fireworks, which was basically to express a position, that is, the court and the palace should increase revenue and reduce expenditure. In order to save money, even the Aoshan fireworks that started during the Yongle period were stopped. This was to save money.
Then opening up the sea means open source.
The reason why the little emperor was willing to change the fine from confiscation to 70-30 was because he was eyeing Kaihai. This could be regarded as bribery, and he used money to silence the court's opposition to Kaihai in advance.
After all, the income from the Yuegang City Rating House is divided 50-50 between national funds and internal funds, which is the bulk.
"The Ministry of Revenue has no objection." Wang Guoguang immediately stated his position. The Ministry of Revenue is also poor and cannot make ends meet every year. He, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, is also in a state of distress. Now that the emperor is willing to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, it is great, even if the little emperor does not Wang Guoguang would also agree to change the forfeiture to a 30-70 draw.
The finance minister of the empire looks at the empty national funds every day. Anyone who asks for money has to sigh and say that there is no money. This is not a long-term solution.
"The Ministry of Punishment has no objection either." Wang Zhigao made his second statement. Yuegang has been practicing this for a long time. As long as the Hongmao Fan is not given land, the Hongmao Fan will not be able to take root, and it will not have a worse impact.
Zhang Han, the Minister of Civil Affairs, thought for a while and said, "Mr. Yuan Fu handled it well!"
Tan Lun thought for a while and said, "As everyone knows, I have been a governor in Fujian. At that time, I had been proposing to open the sea, even for Yuegang. I had to make a special report, saying that it would only open a little bit, which would not help at all. The Ministry of War also agreed with the Songjiang Shipping Department. If there was a conflict, Yu Long would shake the southeast. , I think everything will be fine.”
The Japanese pirates had better make a comeback. They could kill them all in the past, and they can be killed now. It is best to kill the southeastern gentry, wealthy businessmen, and other people behind them. Quan tycoon, kill them all together!
Kill, kill, kill! Kill him until his blood flows like a river, kill him cleanly.
Tan Lun was born as a Jinshi, but the thing he did most in his life was killing people. Tan Lun did not have the patience of Zhang Juzheng. If Tan Lun was in power, he would not do things like Zhang Juzheng, using a dull knife to cut flesh a little bit. Instead of taking the path of broad opening and closing, being disobedient, shouting, and full of contradictions, contradictions? What contradiction?
If you just kill the opponent completely, wouldn't there be no conflict?
Of course, Tan Lun also knew that he couldn't do that. After Song Huizong pacified Fang La, in order to make money, he directly killed one out of ten middle-aged families. As a result, the people were divided. Later, Song Dynasty Huizong was captured by the Jin and put in a cellar.
Tan Lun knew that he was not suitable for running a country.
Four of the six departments have no objections. This matter will be considered to have passed the court discussion. As long as the little emperor issues the seal, it will be considered legal.
It’s just that Zhang Juzheng is also willing to listen to objections. After all, every objection can reduce some detours.
The establishment of the Shibo Department must not circumvent the ancestral laws, especially the ancestral laws that completely banned the sea during the Jiajing period. This matter still needs to be argued. Respecting the heaven and the ancestors is the ancestral motto.
Wan Shihe did not object to the opening of the sea. He said with emotion: "In the early days of Hongwu, Gui Yanliang said in "The Twelve Essentials of Taiping Administration": The way to control the barbarians and Di is to put defense first. The next best thing is conquest, provocation, and greed for small profits. The barbarians pay tribute and sometimes fail to obey. When they come to cultivate their civility and virtue, they send envoys to explain it. They will be fearful of power and have virtue, and they will all obey. Why bother? The troops are diligent and far away!”
“Taizu followed it and established a country that would not be conquered for fifteen years.”
Huairou and the foreigners were conquered, and all the countries came to court, this is Hongwu. The main reason and goal for establishing the tributary country's trade system during the 1940s was because the main contradiction at that time was different from now.
At that time, the Song Dynasty had been destroyed for a hundred years, and the Ming Dynasty was newly established. All nations needed to come to the dynasty to increase cohesion.
What Wan Shihe said was also the three principles of Ming Dynasty’s foreign relations.
First, for Rouyuan people, trade is a means to achieve diplomatic goals rather than an end;
Second, emphasizing culture and morality, the most important thing is to make the foreign countries fear power and be virtuous, and achieve cultural advancement. To become a king, rather than to rule by force;
Third, light conquest, the method of conquest by force will only be used under forced circumstances, and it is enough to achieve partial political restraint.
For example, during the Yongle period, the Annan Kingdom was conquered to establish Jiaozhi. The Liyue Dynasty in Jiaozhi had repeatedly provoked and set up an ambush to ambush the five thousand soldiers who escorted Chen Tianping back home from the Ming Dynasty, and the fight would not have been possible.
Wan Shihe said with a strange expression: "The contradiction at that time was that the Ming Dynasty was newly established, and it urgently needed the direction of all the people, and also needed to recuperate and recuperate, so it had the goal of welcoming people from far away, serving foreign guests, and having all nations come to the DPRK. "
"The same was true during the Yongle period. At that time, there was no peace in the world, and the countries on the seashore were restless and needed to show off their power. That's why they made seven voyages to the Western Seas, and the Ming army showed its majesty. "
< br>"The sky is constantly changing, the earth is constantly changing, people are constantly changing, and the Tao is also constantly changing."
"In the Kaihai years of Jiajing and Longqing years, the contradictions changed again, which is probably what Tan Sima said: Yuzhi If you are lazy and strict, the value will be thicker, and the crowd will become more popular. If there is no fornication, then snatching will follow, and this is the meaning."
The contradictions are changing, the goals are also changing, and the means are also changing.
Contradiction dominates the cyclical development of all things.
The strict maritime ban during the Jiajing period and the opening of the sea during the Longqing period are in line with the characteristics of the development of things. Tan Lun made it very clear in "A Note on Unfinished Matters in the aftermath of the Japanese Ping Dynasty". The deeper the conflict, the more people will gather to protest, and the more private trade is prohibited, the more life will be taken away.
"Ah, Wan Shangshu also reads the theory of contradiction?" Feng Baoda asked in surprise: "I thought you regarded it as a heresy and refused to read it. So, it seems that Wan Shangshu also read it? "
"I am a scholar!" Wan Shihe argued loudly, his face turned red with anger.
Feng Bao said with a smile: "Ah, yes, yes, it looks a bit like it now."
Feng Bao was so angry that he would not pay for his life, and this strange energy of yin and yang really penetrated his heart with a knife. Wan Shihe both studied and was scolded.
What words, what words are these! What is like! He, Wan Shihe, was born a dignified Jinshi! That is the scholar of the Ming Dynasty who was rolled out by thousands of troops!
This contradiction says that once you read this and understand it carefully, it is like climbing out of the cesspit and washing yourself. It will be difficult to jump back into the cesspit again.
This is already the second year of Wanli, and we are still practicing the traditional Confucianism of the third generation of Fa. It is indeed a bit decadent! If you don’t talk about contradictions, I think it’s heresy, even if you just try to harmonize your knowledge with your actions and your conscience, that’s fine!
“The imperial court only had 100,000 silver left last year, but it was much better than the Jiajing forty years, when it lost more than two million silver that year. In the end, Yan Ge came to the throne and the temple owner took money from internal funds. This shortfall was filled." Wang Guangguang sighed as he talked about the past.
The Yan Party fell in the 41st year of Jiajing. Emperor Jiajing found out that Yan Shifan asked for bribes from Prince Yu's palace.
In the forty years of Jiajing, the imperial court fought with the Tatars in Datong, Xuanfu, and pacified the Japanese in the southeast. There was no peace in the world. The imperial court spent a lot of money and could not collect taxes. It lost nearly two million that year. Two years ago, Yan Song entered the palace in the 40th year of Jiajing and asked the emperor to withdraw the money from the internal funds.
Emperor Jiajing thought that by killing Yan Shifan and confiscating the Yan family, he could make up for the shortfall in the palace. As a result, Xu Jie confiscated Yan Song's home until the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, and then gave it to Jiajing. The emperor has one hundred thousand taels of silver.
Zhu Yijun heard Wan Shihe's statement and said with a smile: "When Dayu controlled the water, it was better to block the water than to dredge it. The people of the world lived by the sea and depended on the sea to eat. The imperial court set up a city to pay the government. It made money and was not shabby. . ”
The material base determines the superstructure. The Ming Dynasty was poor.
Without money and food, nothing can be done. If you don’t have rice in your hand, you will be called a chicken, but the chicken will not respond.
The matter of the Municipal Shipping Department has passed the court discussion, and the specific handling will be left to Yu Dayou, Wang Daokun, and Zhang Cheng.
Zhang Juzheng's offensive came to an end temporarily. He used the Gu family's secret possession of armor and ordered Nanya to return the fields; he used Gu Zhangzhi's bribery to appease the government and ransacked the entire Gu family's homes to scare the monkeys; through Xu Fan's suggestion, he discussed Songjiang The matter of the City Shipping Department.
When Zhang Juzheng launched an attack, how should Nanya Jingentry respond?
It took fifteen days to get from Bei Ya to Nan Ya. It was a little late because of the snow. However, the imperial court strictly ordered all the powerful houses in Nan Ya to hand over their armor and armor. Gongnu's decree still caused an uproar.
At this time, in the Xu family's old house, Luo Bingliang was waiting outside the door with a knife.
Xu Fan was wrongly accused. Luo Bingliang knew and collected a lot of witness, physical evidence, and documentary evidence to prove that Xu Fan did not appear in the prostitute's house that day.
On the day Xu Fan committed the murder, Xu Fan quarreled with Xu Jie in the old house of the Xu family and fell asleep immediately afterwards. Xu Fan could provide sufficient alibi. Xu Fan had something on his mind, and it involved himself. It was a matter of life and death for his family, so how could he have the time to look for flowers and flowers?
Luo Bingliang escorted a number of witnesses to Xuxing in Beijing for questioning. As for whether Xu Fan will be convicted of the crime, this is not something Luo Bingliang can decide.
This is a major frame-up case, but the court has already dealt with it. It is said that he was exiled to the border military town, but he went to Jizhou, which was meant to protect him. Nanya will inevitably set off a huge wave during the return of the land. If Xu Fan continues to stay in Songjiang Mansion, he will not be able to protect the Xu family, let alone Xu Jie.
Zhang Juzheng sent Xu Fan to the north and placed it in Jizhen, which can be regarded as leaving a line of incense to the Xu family. Even if the Xu family is overthrown, there will not be no descendants, and it can be regarded as the last of Zhang Juzheng's disciples. A friendship.
After the Xu Fan case, when Zhang Juzheng and Xu Jie meet again, they are the real enemies.
Luo Bingliang stood with a knife in his hand, waiting for Xu Fan to say goodbye to his old father.
Xu Fan knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, tears streaming down his face. He didn't know what to do to save the Xu family.
"When you arrive in the north, just listen to Zhang Juzheng's words. I am a disciple who is ruthless, but in the end, he only cares about a piece of incense and love. Even if he says that he is deprived of his official status and exiled, he will also save your life." Xu Jie put down his hands. He took the tea cup and said, "I know you blame me and hate me. That's the end of the matter. You and I, father and son, don't need to say more."
Xu Fan stood up and said with a frown: "Father, do we also have armored crossbows hidden in our house?"
"Yes." Xu Jie sighed, nodded affirmatively and replied, "On the ground of Nanya Who in the house of a powerful person has not ordered this thing? Otherwise, those landless tenants, wandering slaves, and mountain bandits would have robbed the powerful person's home.
Xu Fan wiped the tears on his face and sighed: "The imperial court issued a strict decree requiring each family to return their armored crossbows. How to deal with it?"
"No? Gu family The house will be confiscated immediately, and the chickens will be killed to scare the monkeys. If you don't hand over the crossbow, it will be a death penalty; if you hand over the powerful family to return the land, if you resist and disobey the order, it will be death. You can't even resist."
< br>"Left and right are waiting to die."
Xu Jie looked at Xu Fan with a solemn expression and said: "This is struggle, life and death."
The nature of contradiction is extremely combative. , obviously the struggle is not a dinner party, it is bloody and requires bloodshed, and the imperial court is powerful and the powerful are weak.
Xu Fan raised his hand and said eagerly: "Father, admit it, return the crossbow, and ask the court for a ship guide. I have heard the decree. The court wants to build a shipping department in Songjiang, and the main thoroughfare to Songjiang Prefecture is nine. Province, this is a good place. As long as it is managed a little, it will be hundreds of times better than a city of ten thousand houses. Not to mention that it will last forever, it will be prosperous for at least five generations."
Xu Jie stood up. , walked up to Xu Fan, slapped the dirt on his clothes, took a good look at Xu Fan and said: "You, you still don't understand, I will admit it, but there are some people who won't let me recognize it, I know You don’t mean that I am stubborn.”
“After arriving in the north, I no longer have a father to rely on. I have to tolerate everything and don’t cause trouble. The friendship between me and Zhang Juzheng has been broken. The future will depend on you. Just go on your own.”
"If I die, remember, your Majesty, Zhang Juzheng, and the court are not your enemies who killed your father, do you understand?"
"I will not kill Boren, Boren will die because of me."< br>
Xu Jie could not express his meaning clearly because he had not yet read Zhang Juzheng's public and private theory. Once he read it, it would suddenly become clear. All he knew now was that he had no way out.
The person who really killed Xu Jie was himself, the powerful man on the ground in Nanya. No matter whether Xu Jie did it or not, he was bound to be at the forefront of the storm of cleaning up Nanya's annexed land.
“Why, the imperial court wants to set up a shipping department in Songjiang Prefecture. We Nanya Jin gentry can use this to go to the sea. If we don’t make money, we have to dig it in the soil. "Yes, why is this?" Xu Fan couldn't understand why these gentry couldn't think differently.
Xu Jie said with a smile: "Occupying acres of land can last for eternity, but hereditary inheritance can't be done, but it can't be done in business. There are profits and losses in business. Nothing can make a family more prosperous than land. Prosperity, isn't it?"
Xu Fan said with mixed emotions: "People can't live forever, how can any family be able to live forever and be hereditary?"
< br>"In the old days, the swallows in front of Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people."
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(End of this chapter)