Chapter 2060
Regarding the hypothesis put forward by Jin Ming, Xu Yuxing has actually been thinking about similar issues more than once in the past two days. That is, if this group of people was not exposed, but acted according to their original plan and used muskets to assassinate Xu Xinsu, what would happen next? What will happen.
If something happens to Xu Xinsu, there will definitely be a certain degree of chaos in the area under his control. If it is found out in the subsequent investigation that the Jin Yiwei is related to this, then the Xu family will probably no longer be willing to serve the Ming Dynasty as a courtier, and rebellion will be a high probability situation. Even without the support of Haihan, the armed forces controlled by the Xu family will definitely fight under the banner of revenge for Xu Xinsu, and the outbreak of war in Fujian will be inevitable.
"In fact, there is no need to wait for the situation assumed by Lord Jin to happen. The evidence we have now is enough to trigger a war." Xu Yuxing responded in a deep voice: "We can only understand the Jin Yiwei's behavior in Zhangzhou City as this. The order came from some treacherous ministers who deceived the emperor and issued the order privately. The purpose is to plunge the southeast of the Ming Dynasty into chaos. Naturally, our Xu family cannot just sit back and watch the treacherous ministers take over. We must raise troops to punish the traitors to protect the emperor! "< br>
The implication of Xu Yuxing's words was that he wanted to raise troops under the banner of "Qingjun side", and any sound made by the imperial court may be interpreted as "treacherous ministers control" by the Fujian side. A large-scale civil war initiated by Fujian will be difficult avoid.
Of course, the Qing emperor's side is not a good deed to safeguard justice. This statement has been a common reason for local armed forces to launch rebellions in history. The Seven Kingdoms Rebellion in the early Western Han Dynasty was the first time this slogan was publicly raised. The Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty was also a rebellion launched by An Lushan on the grounds that the Qing emperor was sidelined. In the Yuan Dynasty, Polo Timur also led an army to invade the capital of the Yuan Dynasty in the name of the Qing monarch.
The cases of Qing emperors in this dynasty are well known to the world. After the death of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, his grandson Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne and was known as Emperor Jianwen in history. Zhu Di, the king of Yan who was based in Peiping, was quite dissatisfied with Emperor Jianwen's policy of reducing vassal states, so he raised troops to invade Nanjing under the banner of the Qing monarch, and overthrew Emperor Jianwen from the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. This Qingjun side operation was only more than two hundred years ago, and many materials are still available. Xu Yuxing wanted to use this as a reason to raise troops. In fact, the threat was already very obvious.
Even if Sun Yongjun didn't know about the cases of the Qing emperor's side in the previous dynasty, as an officer of the Imperial Guard, it was impossible for him not to know about this famous case in this dynasty. When he heard Xu Yuxing mention the "Qingjun side", he naturally thought of the Jingnan battle during the Yongle period of this dynasty. However, this was the emperor's family matter. I don't know how many people died because of it back then. No ordinary person would dare to talk about it openly. Xu Yuxing said that he would raise troops for this reason, which obviously meant that he had thoughts of rebellion.
Sun Yongjun knew that what he did would have extremely serious consequences, but he always believed that his purpose was not to stimulate the Xu family to rebel, but to use special means to dismantle the Xu family's privileges in Fujian in a short period of time and let them Being unable to rebel seems to be exactly the opposite of the situation threatened by Xu Yuxing. If the Fujian Xu family really rebelled because of this incident, then the Jinyi Guards would not be able to stop Xu Xinsu's army.
Seeing that Sun Yongjun was still silent, Xu Yuxing continued: "If your original intention was to benefit the Ming Dynasty, it is not too late to stop now. Our Xu family has no intention of betraying the Ming Dynasty. We just want to find out who is behind this plan." It is intended to disrupt the Ming Dynasty. Our Xu family is not the enemy of the Ming Dynasty. The people behind sending weapons to the Jinyiwei and instigating you to cause trouble in Fujian are the ones who really want to cause trouble in the Ming Dynasty!"
Xu Yuxing had discussed with Jin Ming the reasons for Jin Yiwei's involvement before. Both of them believed that it was unlikely that Jin Yiwei would collude with foreign enemies to initiate rebellion, because the power of this special institution came from the emperor. If the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty led to the failure of the regime, Steady, Jinyiwei will also be directly impacted.
One possibility they agree with is that officials at a certain level of Jinyiwei hope to eliminate the current situation of local separatism in Fujian by solving key figures in Xu Xinsu's group, thereby eliminating the hidden danger of Xu Xinsu establishing his own business. During this process, the mastermind behind Zhengfuji appeared, provided Jinyiwei with weapons and action plans, and encouraged them to take action in Zhangzhou.
Of course, the process may be more complicated. Zhengfu Ji and Jinfa Hao under the name of Jinyiwei have long had business relationships, so maybe the two companies have already had a close relationship, and only recently began to plan and implement some things other than normal business. thing. The reason for their cooperation and the purpose they want to achieve may not be as simple as overthrowing Xu Xinsu's military separatist regime in Fujian or messing up the situation in Fujian.
Xu Yuxing believed that Jin Yiwei's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty imperial power should not be affected by the situation in Fujian, so in his opinion, this might become a breakthrough in the interrogation. He would rather spend more time than try to use persuasion to disintegrate this Jin Yiwei. The psychological defense line of hundreds of households. But he was not even sure whether this method would be effective.
Sun Yongjun finally responded at this time: "There is no basis for what you say. These are things that cannot be verified. You can say whatever you want."
If Sun Yongjun remained silent, it would be difficult for Xu Yuxing to guess his thoughts, but this opening would inevitably expose his guilty conscience.
Xu Yuxing immediately responded: "The circumstances I just mentioned are not unverifiable. Haihan State has been pursuing the case for several months and has obtained a large amount of personal and material evidence. The investigation launched in Zhangzhou came from other places We will catch the true master of Zhengfu Ji whether you do it or not. But if you refuse to cooperate, leading to chaos in Fujian, civil war in the Ming Dynasty, and the destruction of all living beings, your descendants will definitely be killed. A contribution from Baihu! ”
Jin Ming noticed that the expression on Sun Yongjun's face was no longer as cold and stiff as when he was first brought in. It was obvious that some of the information he heard here still touched him. Jin Ming decided to add more fuel to the fire. Bachai: "Sun Baihu, you have to understand one thing. What you are risking your life to do will not achieve the purpose you expected. On the contrary, the result will turn you and your colleagues into manufacturers." National traitors in the civil war, no one will think that what you are doing is beneficial to Ming Dynasty. Please think clearly and stop being a tool for others to mess up Ming Dynasty!”
Sun Yongjun raised his head and looked at Jin and Xu, his face full of pain, and said in a trembling voice: "Did we...really do something wrong..."
It is not easy to persuade someone like Sun Yongjun to give up his original position, but as long as his motives can be accurately judged, he can use his words in a targeted manner. Fortunately, both Jin and Xu had rich experience in interrogation. This unrehearsed singing and harmony actually achieved quite good results.
And the information they obtained intermittently from Sun Yongjun's mouth was indeed not in vain in the past two days in Zhangzhou City, and pointed out a new direction for the subsequent investigation work.
The interrogation of Sun Yongjun lasted for several hours, during which they stopped many times to let Sun Yongjun eat and drink water to replenish his strength. However, Jin and Xu were afraid that the other party's mentality would change and they did not dare to leave before the interrogation was over. They could only stay here. I ate something whole in the dim interrogation room. It wasn't until it was getting dark that the interrogation finally came to an end. Both Jin Xu and Sun Yongjun were very tired at this time, as if they had completed a major exam.
Xu Yuxing asked someone to temporarily take Sun Yongjun into custody and provide him with good food and drinks. There was still a lot of unverified information about this person, so we must not let anything happen to him. Jin Ming will go back to his residence to draft a report message to inform Sanya of the progress of the investigation in Zhangzhou as soon as possible, and at the same time ask for instructions on the next step.
Xu Yuxing, on the other hand, has to rush back to the Xu Mansion with the newly released confession to report to Xu Xinsu the results of today's interrogation. The reason why he was so anxious was because the information Sun Yongjun gave contained a lot of content related to the Xu family. He must first seek Xu Xinsu's opinion before conducting subsequent investigations.
Although the city of Zhangzhou has been turbulent in the past two days, people are being arrested everywhere, and the martial law enforced by the city defense army has not been lifted yet, Xu Xinsu is very safe. When Xu Yuxing rushed back, he was playing chess with Dong Yanyun in the study chat.
"Since there is new news, let's get down to business first. The game of chess will be played again tomorrow!" Xu Xinsu threw the chess pieces back into the chess basket, indicating that Xu Yuxing could start reporting: "That Jinyiwei Baihu What interesting things happened?”
"According to Sun Yongjun's confession, not long after the Jinfa branch was opened in Zhangzhou, someone from Zhengfuji came to the door, hoping to cooperate with Jinfa and buy and sell some Nanyang products. And Zhengfuji gave the following information The trading conditions were very tempting. They traded a large amount of Spanish silver coins of unknown origin to Jinfahao, who then went to the bank to exchange them for official silver. Jinfahao would charge a certain percentage of the handling fee and the rest. Then return it to Zhengfu Ji through the bank.”
Xu Yuxing paused and said: "Zhengfuji should have confirmed that Jinfahao's backend was actually using Jinyiwei's special identity to complete money laundering through transactions."
Xu Xinsu nodded and said: "There must be a plan to lure him with benefits. He must be giving benefits in exchange for Jin Yiwei's trust."
"That's right." Xu Yuxing continued: "Since the middle of last year, Zhengfuji has been hinting that the people of Jinfa can purchase weapons and equipment from the Spaniards in Nanyang. Although Jinyiwei cannot recruit troops in Zhangzhou, if It’s not impossible to secretly train a musketry team. The key is that they must have a justifiable reason to take the risk.”
"If I'm not mistaken, the last reason they found was to use weapons against me." Xu Xinsu said unhurriedly.
Xu Yuxing responded: "Father expected it to be true. The people from Zhengfu Ji persuaded Jin Yiwei in this way. They told Sun Yongjun that as long as they could complete the assassination of important people of my Xu family in a short period of time, they could rely on the privileges of Jin Yiwei. , first took over the command of the local army, and then quickly dismissed the civil and military officials of my direct descendants of the Xu family, and then transferred troops from Fuzhou to find a reason to arrest all people related to the Xu family, thus completing the purge of my Xu family. When the time comes, not only will the court not blame them, but they will be rewarded by the emperor for solving the biggest hidden danger on the southeast coast. ”
Xu Xinsu couldn't help but sneered: "Those people in the capital are eager to take away the property that my Xu family has worked hard to accumulate over the years with just one decree, but they are afraid that they will make us angry and force us to directly rebel. If only they could Killing hundreds of men in the Xu family in one fell swoop would be able to fulfill their wish, but it’s a pity that they can only think about it, and it’s just a quick show of words!”
Xu Yuxing said: "My child thinks the same way. The dozens of Jinyiwei people who want to start an uprising in Zhangzhou City are just asking for death. Even if there are Zhengfu Ji secretly assisting, they still can't make any waves. But this If the lunatic really does something like this, our Xu family may be forced to raise an army.”
Dong Yanyun said: "After all, what is the origin of this Zhengfu Ji? Is the middleman that the Haihan people are looking for this Zhengfu Ji?"
"It's probably them." Xu Yuxing said: "Sun Yongjun said a few days ago that he left Zhangzhou City to go out on business, but in fact he went out to sea with Zhengfu Ji's people to meet one of their big shopkeepers. This A shopkeeper told Sun Yongjun that as long as Jinyiwei succeeded in Zhangzhou, Zhengfuji could supply them with the weapons and funds they needed for a long time in the future. The exchange conditions proposed by Zhengfuji were... to deny the Haihan people entry to the ports in Fujian and expel Fujian. All Haihan agencies in the country ”
"This group of people have made so many preparations to expel the Haihan people from Fujian. It seems that they have a deep feud with the Haihan people!" Dong Yanyun couldn't help but sigh after hearing this.
"How can the Haihan people be easily expelled from Fujian? They think things are too simple!" Xu Xinsu said with a disapproving look: "It is true that the Haihan armed fleets stationed in Penghu and Kaohsiung are not deployed. If the situation worsens, The fleets from these two places can arrive at the coastal ports of Fujian within a day at the earliest. Whoever has the bigger fist will have the final say in expelling the Haihan people... I'm afraid they are dreaming of Spring and Autumn Period!"
Xu Yuxing said: "Perhaps these people actually know that things can't be done, and they deliberately raise such difficult questions to make Jin Yiwei feel that this cooperative relationship is real and credible. After Sun Yongjun returned to Zhangzhou City, he learned the so-called musketry tactics in Zhengfu Ji , but we found the Jinfa No.1 at this time. If the clues were broken here, they might be able to find a chance to sneak out after hiding in the city for a few days, but the sky net is still sparse. It goes without saying that he only survived one more day hiding in Zhengfuji, and he still failed to escape our capture.”
(End of chapter)