Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 208 Daming's father is on the rise again!

Looking at the group of Jinyiwei captains with awe-inspiring expressions, Guan Sheng ordered again loudly: "Take all the equipment and set off!"

All the captains of Jinyiwei were even more nervous.

Not even telling the destination in advance, but let everyone bring all the equipment, this is almost the first time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty?

But there is no way, Jinyiwei's internal rules are stricter than military law. As the saying goes, the first level of officials crushes people to death. Set off with Guan Sheng.

It wasn't until they circled around and completely surrounded the Xu Family's compound that all the captains of Jinyiwei finally understood what was going on, and also understood why Guan Baihu made such a big fuss.

The information that Luo Fangbo had inquired before was actually not wrong. The Wenchang number in charge of Xu Zhendong was indeed backed by the Ming court.

More importantly, Xu Zhendong's relationship in the Ming Dynasty Hall is intricate. The county magistrate of Xiangshan County calls him brother and brother, and the prefect of Guangzhou Prefecture is also his guest. In addition, Xu Zhendong's family also has several nephews who joined the army. If you got into the position of regimental commander, if you accidentally leaked out, who knows what the consequences will be?
Seeing that the captain of Jinyiwei under him had surrounded the entire Xu family compound, Guan Sheng couldn't help but take a deep breath, and said in a deep voice, "Break the door! Take people! Don't let anyone get away!"

The Jinyiwei school captain who was following Guan Sheng clasped his fists in response, and then several Jinyiwei school captains rushed out, trotted a few steps, and rushed to the gate of Xu's courtyard. On the gate of the Xu Family Courtyard.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, the gate of the Xu Family Courtyard fell to the ground, kicking up waves of dust, while Guan Sheng led the way into the Xu Family Courtyard, shouting loudly: "Jin Yiwei handles the case!"

As Guan Sheng's voice fell, a group of Jinyiwei school captains who followed Guan Sheng also rushed into the Xu family compound directly. Anyone who tried to escape or resist was directly brought down by the group of Jinyiwei school lieutenants.

Soon, Xu Zhendong and his family were brought to Guan Sheng.

Xu Zhendong stared at Guan Sheng with an unfriendly expression, and said with a sneer, "But I don't know how much crime Xu has committed, and he wants to bother the master of Jin Yiwei?"

Guan Sheng sneered in the same way, and asked back: "Could it be that you, Xu, forgot the Xingtai Company opposite the Wenchang Company?"

After finishing speaking, Guan Sheng waved his hand and ordered Xu Zhendong to be taken away.

This case is really a bit big, it can be called the largest corruption case before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the most complicated corruption case——

In the case that the Wenchang almost monopolized half of the sea trade in Guangzhou Port, Xu Zhendong never used the Wenchang to steal a penny, but opened a Xingtai company directly opposite the Wenchang in the name of his distant relatives. .

This Xingtai shop sells everything on weekdays, but the best sellers are rusty iron nails. The big iron nails cost 100 taels, and the small iron nails range from one tael to ten taels.

For those merchants who bought iron nails through Xingtai Company, Xu Zhendong would speed up the processing of their goods, and those who did not buy iron nails would deal with them slowly.

For merchants engaged in maritime trade, the saying that time is money is not a joke. If you delay a few months because you did not buy rusty iron nails, how much money will you lose?
As for reporting Xu Zhendong... Those businessmen were also afraid that if they reported Xu Zhendong, they would attract a more greedy person, so Xu Zhendong lived a very healthy life.

More importantly, except for rusty iron nails, Xu Zhendong is very disciplined in other aspects. No matter who is invited to dinner, he will always refuse, and he will never accept gifts from the door. He is also very fair to the goods of those merchants. If there is any problem with the goods, Xu Zhendong will not be partial, and if the money should be refunded, he will be dealt with as he should.

Anyway, it was only a few or two dozen taels, and the transaction was concealed enough that even Jin Yiwei had been watching him for several months before slowly finding some extremely subtle clues.

It wasn't until Xu Zhendong's account book was dug out from the Xu family compound that Guan Sheng discovered that Xu Zhendong had unknowingly accumulated a net worth of several million taels, and that the officials involved with Xu Zhendong were even richer. There were as many as a hundred, and officers from the Chief Envoy of Guangdong Province and the Sixth Army were also involved.

Holding the copy of the account books handed over by Guan Sheng, Chen Cheng, the inspector of Guangdong Yushitai, and Liu Xiangyuan, the inspector of Guangdong Metropolitan Procuratorate, were also paralyzed, and finally had no choice but to expose the matter.

And after getting the news, the leaders of Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate directly brought the matter to Zhu Jinsong—the matter involved the officers of the Sixth Army, and Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate alone could not handle it. up!
Immediately afterwards, a group of investigators from Yushitai, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies began to have a headache.

Is Xu Zhendong corrupt?

It can be said that he is greedy, and it can also be said that he is not greedy.

If Wenchang was not a firm directly under the management of the Customs Department of the Ministry of Households but an ordinary firm, then Xu Zhendong's matter would not be a big deal.

To be precise, Xu Zhendong's behavior can only be regarded as using power for personal gain.

However, the crux of the problem is that Wenchang Company is not an ordinary firm, and Xu Zhendong has involved too many officials.

Trials came and went, and the more the trial found, the bigger the problem was, the bigwigs could only stab the problem into Zhu Jinsong's hands again.

Zhu Jinsong threw the question to the Ministry of Punishment without hesitation—

Does the Daming Law have any provisions for this situation?

Of course there are rules.

Since there are regulations in the Law of the Ming Dynasty, it is natural to deal with them in accordance with the regulations of the Law of the Ming Dynasty. Those who should be stripped of their skins and real grass, those who should be confiscated, their homes should be confiscated, and those who should be exiled must be announced in the village pavilion of their hometown A crime, and by the way, three generations of children and grandchildren will not be able to be officials.

As for the matter involving some officers of the Sixth Army of the former military governor's mansion, this is not a problem at all in Zhu Jinsong's view.

First of all, Ming Dynasty's military system is more similar to that of flower growers, and the so-called bullshit theory of holding heavy soldiers in hand is simply not true.

Secondly, Zhu Jinsong himself is the emperor on horseback. As long as Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, can still breathe, no one will dare to toss about the generals who lead the troops below. Even if someone dares to toss, they can mobilize a few soldiers. ?How many people can you coerce?
Don't say that legal principles are nothing more than human feelings. Since you don't care about legal principles, you naturally have no human feelings to talk about.

By the way, it can also remind other officials in the world, so as to save some bastards who don't have the numbers to make the same mistakes again.

Officials and gentlemen are all undisciplined.

Especially with the arrival of Luo Fangbo and Jiang Wubo, Lanfang's complete internal attachment is a foregone conclusion. In the future, Ming Dynasty will definitely send some officials to Lanfang's chief envoy, and Lanfang is alone overseas, and it is the upper echelon. Good port, if you don't vaccinate these officials in advance, I'm afraid they really have the ability to turn Lanfang into a second cochin.

Of course, to Zhu Jinsong, the great Ming emperor, Xu Zhendong's fart was not a big deal at all, and what really gave Zhu Jinsong a headache was Lan Fang's internal affairs.

Zhu Jinsong was not worried that Luo Fangbo would affect Neifu because of Xu Zhendong's incident, but was worried about the situation of Lanfang and Jiugang as a whole.

Lanfang has a port, and the old port, as a large supply base for Zheng He when he sailed to the West, also has an excellent port.

Now that Lanfang belongs to Daming, of course Daming must develop Lanfang's port well.

Then the problem is coming.

After the Old Port Propaganda Department was taken back and changed to the Old Port Chief Envoy, what should the Old Port port do?
Abandoning it is definitely impossible, and vigorously developing it will easily conflict with Lanfang's port.

As the old saying goes, the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat. It is impossible for Ming Dynasty to abolish the port of the old port because of the port of Lanfang, and it is also impossible to abolish the port of Lanfang because of the port of the old port.

In this way, the old port and the port of Lanfang must have their own emphasis, and it is best to complement each other.

In addition to the problem of the port, there is another problem that is very troublesome-whether it is Lanfang or the old port, there are a large number of indigenous residents on both sides.

It's hard to say what's going on in the Old Port, but the aborigines in Lanfang...

It was later the Indian Monkey.

To say that Zhu Jinsong can accept Yinhou as a commoner of the Ming Dynasty is even more bullshit than brother Mazi who was born in Zhenglan Banner.

So Zhu Jinsong was thinking about how to get only land and not monkeys.

You have to think of a reliable rhetoric or method.

In addition, there is another more urgent problem in front of Zhu Jinsong.

Ryukyu Wang Shanghao also thought about enclosing it.

This matter has to start with King Shang Ning.

Since King Shang Ning, the seventh king of the second Shang Dynasty of the Ryukyu Kingdom, was forced to sign the "Fifteen Articles" with Satsuma, Ryukyu has been in a state of "two vassals of Tomorrow (Satsuma Domain)".

In the 41st year of Wanli, King Shangning was forced to cede the Amami Islands to Satsuma.

The problem is that Satsuma only got people from Ryukyu, but failed to get Ryukyu's heart.

Including what many Japanese scholars have said, the fact that most people in ancient Ryukyu learned to use Japanese characters is a real nonsense.

Fei Xin, who once accompanied Zheng He on his voyages to the West as a general instructor, recorded in "Xingcha Shenglan": The children of the attendants and the handsome people of ordinary people are ordered to study Chinese books, so as to store the knowledge of future history and general affairs. Use; the rest, just learn the calligraphy from the Japanese monk.

The translation means that only Ryukyu nobles and particularly outstanding commoners are eligible to learn Chinese characters, and keep them as a reserve for officials to be fired in the future.

The Ryukyu Shang family has always wanted to seek the help of Daming's father, but in the late Wanli period, the three major expeditions almost emptied the entire treasury, coupled with the continuous occurrence of natural and man-made disasters and Liaodong's construction of captives, Daming could only choose to ignore it.

When it was cool in the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu wanted to think about Daqing's help again. Of course, there is no need to say what kind of bird Daqing is. Even in the most tyrannical years, Daqing never cared about Ryukyu's life and death. He received the tribute from Ryukyu, but did not mention anything about helping Ryukyu restore the country.

But after Zhu Jinsong killed the Qing Dynasty, Ryukyu Wang Shanghao, who was already on the verge of despair, saw hope.

Da Ming's father got up again!

It's a pity that when Shang Hao wanted to send people to Daming to pay tribute as soon as possible, and asked Daming's father to help him restore the country, Satsuma forced Shang Hao and other Ryukyu royal families to Satsuma.

Until Daming signed the "Seven Articles of Tomorrow's Friendship" with Wa.

After the signing of the "Seven Articles of Friendship for Tomorrow", the current Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Iezari, and the current Japanese country Soe Huang Kanehito reached an agreement and decided to turn Satsuma into Akita.

In the name of the shogunate and Emperor Tim, Tokugawa Iezari and Tim Huang Kaneto moved the Shimadzu clan of the Satsuma Domain from Kyushu Island to Ezo Island.

Ryukyu Wang Shanghao, who was guarded by Satsuma, was also released naturally.

Tokugawa Ieqi is not stupid, since he has decided to declare himself a vassal to Daming in exchange for the chance of Japan's survival, he naturally cannot afford to anger Daming's father for the sake of Ryukyu.

Then, Shang Hao hurriedly sent someone to Daming, intending to seek a complete internal attachment - after all, the foreign domain is still not safe enough, maybe one day he will be bullied again?
It's safer to stay at Da Ming's father's house!
Then, it was Zhu Jinsong's turn to have a headache.

(End of this chapter)