General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 112 Customs
"Uncle, you go back first, I understand everything you said."

Ning Jue sent Zhang Juzheng away with a blank expression.

Zhang Juzheng looked at Ning Jue with some anxiety.

"Brother Ning, this is a big matter, let's take a long-term plan..."

"roll!"

Sensing that Ning Jue was on the verge of losing control, Zhang Juzheng was hesitant to say anything and had to get up and leave.

After Zhang Juzheng left, Ning Jue walked out of the imperial hospital slowly, and then out of Chengtianmen, directly pushing away the imperial physician sent by the cabinet.

Then he returned to the wounded barracks.

Looking at the wounded soldiers in front of him, Ning Jue walked up to the dozen or so wounded soldiers in Duke Cheng's mansion with a dull expression.

"You gentlemen."

"Bingxian, what's wrong with you?"

Ning Jue mechanically raised his head, looked at the dozen or so people in front of him and asked, "If I say that I have agreed to the change in the imperial court, can you be trusted?"

Hearing this, the few people present stood up with a "chuckle".

"Internal support in the court?! So many brothers have died, you tell me that there is an internal response in the court?!"

Ning Jue sat on the spot.

"But I don't have any evidence. Even if Ning puts his life at risk, he won't be able to defeat him."

The faces of the fifteen servants of Cheng Guogong's mansion were full of fierceness.

"Bingxian just tell us who that beast is."

Ning Jue took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and looked at the people in front of him.

"Tonight, at the door of my house, Ning will go with the gentlemen!"

Ning Jue reserved time for them, and these people immediately understood, and after Ning Jue left, they hurriedly left the wounded barracks and went straight to Duke Cheng's mansion.

They came to hand over their work to the housekeeper of the mansion, and after handing over their work, they would have nothing to do with Duke Cheng's mansion.

Only one person walked up to Mrs. Chen, Cheng Guotai's wife, and knelt down.

"Mrs. Tai, the old man is very kind to me, and the young man has grown up, so I can't cause trouble for the family anymore."

After finishing speaking, the man kowtowed to Mrs. Chen.

The other 14 people also followed suit, kowtowed to Mrs. Chen, got up and left.

When Ning Jue walked out of the house that night.

It wasn't just the 15 people from Duke Cheng's mansion who stood outside his house, but a hundred or so men stood neatly, most of them with minor injuries.

Because they heard Ning Jue's words during the day.

In the wounded barracks, most of them were slightly injured, and only three were seriously injured, because ordinary soldiers who were seriously injured were corpses.

Ning Jue turned his head slightly towards the crowd.

"Ning, the soldiers and civilians who died in the Daixuan Mansion battle, and the people who have no food and clothing in Liangzhe, thank you all!"

To be able to come back alive from the battlefield, they have already put life and death aside.

A group of people went straight to Tao's house, and several soldiers of Wucheng Bingma Division on the way noticed the strangeness of this group of people.

But he didn't even ask half a word.

Because of this point, they can lead so many people to run around from the streets of the capital, no matter who they are, they can't control them.

until finally reaching the destination.

What caught Ning Jue's eyes was a street gate similar to his own.

The tacit understanding among the people present was very good, as soon as they arrived at the door of the house, they directly smashed open the street door of Tao's house.

The moment the street door was knocked open, the entire Tao family was in chaos, and soon some servants with swords and guns rushed towards Ning Jue and the others.

It's just that these people are obviously not the opponents of the old pawn No. [-] who just killed the red-eyed old soldier from the battlefield.

You swung a knife and injured him, and these people didn't even hide, they just came straight to your life, betting that you admit cowardice.

Just when everyone was fighting.

Ning Jue, on the other hand, grabbed a servant.

"Where is Tao Shixian?"

The servant fell to his knees with a "plop".

"The good man, please forgive me, the master is playing chess in the back hall."

Ning Jue walked towards the back hall where Tao Shixian lived with a murderous look. Except for the street door, the decoration of the entire Tao's house was completely different from any house Ning Jue had seen.

It was a kind of nobility coming from the bones.

Right above the hall in the back hall of Tao's house, the four characters "Master Xihuang" hang high.

When Ning Jue knocked open the door, Tao Shixian was still holding a sunspot in his hand.

A round table with a chess board was placed between the two of them, and the butler of the Tao family was sitting opposite Tao Shixian, too frightened to walk.

"My lord, the thieves...ah no, the good men broke in."

Tao Shixian stared at the chessboard and said in a low voice, "Understood, the game is not over yet."

"The little one doesn't dare to play anymore, all heroes, please forgive me!"

The butler didn't care about Tao Shixian anymore, and knelt down in front of Ning Jue and the others and kowtowed repeatedly.

Seeing the housekeeper whose crotch was already soaked in dirty water in fright, Tao Shixian showed disdain from the bottom of his heart.

"Bitch, you can't do great things, so get out."

"The little one will get out of here, and out of here."

The butler turned his head and left Tao's house, but Tao Shixian pointed at the water man in the courtyard.

"Heroes, there is a silver cellar below, and there are ten thousand taels of silver in it. Are you willing to share it?"

"Bah, old man! The matter has come to this, do you think it can be solved with money?"

Tao Shixian shook his head.

"No, no, I don't want everyone to let me go, but Tao feels that if you don't leave, you will be taken away by the people from Wucheng Bingmasi."

"Tao is over half a hundred years old, Ning Ke is enough to kill Tao with his hands."

"Let's not talk about his mother's rhetoric..."

But Ning Jue took out a dagger casually, inserted it on the round table in front of Tao Shixian, gritted his teeth and said, "Take the money and go! Everyone go!"

"Ning Bingxian!"

"Didn't you understand?! I asked you to share the money, so hurry up!"

Only then did Tao Shixian speak from the side: "One hundred taels of ingots is very easy to divide, each person can just take one ingot and go away, don't have enmity with anyone, don't have enmity with silver."

Only a family member of Cheng Guogong's mansion stood up, looked at the people behind him and said: "Everyone, I will help Bing Xian watch outside, you go first, if there are official servants coming later, there will be too many people to leave."

After this person said, everyone left the courtyard to get the silver and leave.

And only Ning Jue and Tao Shixian were left in the back hall.

"You and I have been friends for a long time, is Ke finally willing to help Tao finish this game of chess?"

Ning Jue stared at Tao Shixian coldly, gritted his teeth and said, "If you want to procrastinate, I advise you to save some time."

Tao Shixian still shook his head, but threw the chess piece back into the chess jar.

"Ke finally thought too much, and Tao didn't report to the officials, so let me guess what Ke finally wanted to hear."

"Are you wondering why Tao didn't panic?" Tao Shixian glanced at Ning Jue's expression, and then continued to speak with a smile: "Brother Ning was able to find this place, it must be that Li Tong found Tao from somewhere. identity."

"After all, it was Tao who made a mistake in chess, and Li Tong showed his flaws, and only Li Tong could reveal his flaws."

Ning Jue didn't know how deep the water was on the court hall, but he knew that once Li Tong's side was exposed, it meant that his last line of insurance was broken.

Tao Shixian's crimes cannot be cured if there is no evidence, but the Tao family can no longer hide when the court opens the sea, and those powerful families who used to cling to the Tao family will scatter like birds and beasts.

It is useless for Tao Shixian to run away, there is still a bigger net waiting for him in Jiajing.

"Then you want to quibble?"

Unexpectedly, Tao Shixian laughed as if he was afraid that Ning Jue would not kill him: "Why should I quibble?"

"That's right, I answered, it was I who let it in from the Xuan Mansion."

"You admit it?"

Ning Jue never expected Tao Shixian to admit it so happily.

"Why don't you admit it? I can't just sit back and watch the Tao family run out of water."

"Then the people of the Xuan Mansion deserve it?!"

"A group of untouchables will die when they die. They don't know how to educate them. They are like weeds. In another 20 years, the nine borders of Ming Dynasty will be densely populated. What a pity! I only hate my father when he was governor of Liangguang. He, Guo Xun, is double-faced, taking money from my Tao family, but he doesn't handle human affairs! And he, Lin Fu, doesn't even give the Xie family face."

"Kill it, if it's bad, I'll kill it right away!"

"Guo Xun?" Ning Jue frowned, and looked at Tao Shixian with some doubts, while Tao Shixian looked at Ning Jue excitedly.

"At that time, there was a barbarian from far away looking for righteousness. Guo Xun and Wang Hung, the two reckless men, actually fought a naval battle in Tuen Mun and drove Yi Di out. They are clearly here for business..."

Tao Shixian didn't finish his sentence.

Immediately outside the door came a "dang clang".

The silver ingot in the hands of a servant of Duke Cheng's mansion fell to the ground.

"You mean, it was your father who put Frangji on the shore?!"

Tao Shixian turned his head in surprise, and saw a big man standing outside the door staring at him with scarlet eyes.

"Yeah? I'm talking to Ke Zhong here, do you have a share in talking? There's no rules at all, get out."

"It was your father who put Frangji on the shore...Okay, okay!"

Before Ning Jue could open his mouth, the big man charged forward, grabbed the dagger in Ning Jue's hand and stabbed Tao Shixian in the chest.

While stabbing, he couldn't help cursing angrily: "Old bastard! I can finally kill you with my own hands today!"

"I'm from Tuen Mun! That Fulangji man brought people ashore, forced my father to build a castle for them, beat my father to death on the castle, and bought people from our village as slaves."

"My mother took me and the folks in the village for six months to come to the capital to sue. No yamen dared to accept our lawsuit. If it weren't for the old man, I would have starved to death on the streets of the capital! You say they Is it for business?!"

Several blood holes appeared on Tao Shixian's chest not long after, although the blood was pouring profusely, although there was doubt in his eyes, the corners of his mouth were like offerings that had just completed a sacrifice.

In the end, Tao Shixian exhausted all his strength and watched the big man squeeze out two words from the corner of his mouth with a smile on his face.

"Untouchable."

Tao Shixian's final expression was as if he had finally taken the last step.

Hearing the servant's scolding, Ning Jue, who was standing aside, had a rough understanding of the history of Tao and Xie's fortunes.

At the end of Zhengde, Wuding Marquis Guo Xun headquartered Guangdong and Guangxi, and Wang Hung inspected the sea roads in Guangdong.

After Jiajing was changed to the Yuan Dynasty, after Guo Xun returned to Beijing to take charge of the [-]th Regiment Battalion, he told Jiajing about the burning, killing and looting of Folang robots in Waihai, Guangdong, at the mouth of the Pearl River. The so-called Tuen Mun naval battle began when the Ming Dynasty imitated the Folang cannon.

But after the Tuen Mun naval battle, Wang Hung, Guo Xun and others were transferred to the north one after another, and the Guangdong Zuobu political envoy was also replaced by Xie Di, Xie Qian’s younger brother Xie Wenzhenggong, and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi became Tao Shixian’s old son Tao Xie. , Franco was able to go ashore again, and this was the story of the big man in front of him going to Beijing to sue the imperial court.

It is destined that no one will dare to accept this case, even if it is accepted, it will be useless.

At that time, Jiajing, who was not even firmly seated on the throne, was busy asking Xie Qian to re-enter the cabinet to help him stand. Who would dare to impeach the younger brother of the chief minister of the cabinet?
The old foxes can ignore the small people on the edge, but it is impossible for the small people to avoid the influence of the temple even if they spend their whole lives.

The big man looked at Tao Shixian who had been stabbed into a sieve on the ground, and then gasped heavily and burst into tears.

"Father, our family's revenge has been avenged!"

Hearing the man's cry, Ning Jue swung the things he could get at Tao Shixian's body in turn.

a bit.

Twice.

Ning Jue's expression became more and more numb.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, only Ning Jue knew what happened afterwards.

The people in Tuen Mun did not allow the Frangji people to gain a foothold in Tuen Mun. In the end, the Franji people chose a sparsely populated peninsula not far from Tuen Mun.

And the name of that place is Macau.

Even Ning Jue knew that this was most likely the inevitable result after Zhu Houzhao's death.

After the Fulang machine bet heavily on Jiang Bin and lost everything, he was introduced by the Japanese pirates in the southeast and colluded with Tao and Xie.

This is how Xie Di and Tao were transferred to Guangdong and Guangxi.

The waves from the great navigation crashed head-on into Southeast Shijia's arms.

Until the end, Ning Jue was on the spot panting, and then picked up the silver ingot thrown away by the man from the ground.

"Run for your life."

"It has nothing to do with this." Ning Jue took a deep breath, and then said: "Go home, I will bear the blame."

"Bingxian, I killed people, it has nothing to do with you."

"It's okay, this is what the court owes you."

The big man hesitated for a moment, finally got up, took the silver ingot silently, then got up and disappeared in the Tao's house.

Ning Jue wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Contemptuously kicked Tao Shixian's body on the ground, then took a sip of tea from the teapot beside him.

It's just that after drinking tea, Ning Jue noticed that Tao Shixian's cuff revealed a framed playbook, as if Tao Shixian had prepared it for him to see.

Ning Jue picked up the notebook on the ground.

But it was discovered that it was a memorial that Weng Wanda was going to write to the court, but it hadn't been sent to the cabinet yet.

When Ning Jue saw through the blood stains the contents of the memorabilia, he discovered a misunderstanding that Manchu civil and military officials had always had.

The Ming Dynasty is no longer the Song Dynasty. Not only the families of the Ming Dynasty are going to sea privately, but also the families of various countries are also going to the sea privately. The Shibo Department, which can only serve the official trade, cannot solve the problems of the Ming Dynasty.

The Shibosi will only be one eye of the court stretching out to the sea, and only the giants like Tao and Xie who are hiding in the sea can be seen.

What Daming needs is a brand new Yamen.

A government office that has never existed since ancient times, only closed but without a city.

This government office will make all powerful families who go to sea, no matter how big or small, have nowhere to hide.

This memorandum did not give a name to this relevant government office without a city.

They are all referred to as the governor's salary.

And this governor's office will also get a brand new name in later generations.

--customs.

Tao Shixian wanted to drag everyone into trouble!
(End of this chapter)