General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 152
Just after Zou Wang was taken into the county government, the people cheered for him, but the scene of the city's resumption of the city did not appear.

The shops that had already opened were closed again, and the closure was more thorough than before, and some merchants were even packing up and preparing to move out of the county.

At the same time, a cruise ship departed from Jinling and went straight down the river to Wuxi.

"Ke finally doesn't have to interrogate Zou Donghu."

"It's just an abandoned child."

Gu Kexue picked up the teacup and called out Ning Jue who was about to go to the county government prison, and Ning Jue also stopped and looked at Gu Kexue with his arms around his shoulders.

"Oh? What's the old man's opinion?"

"Businessmen in the city continue to strike, obviously someone else is trying to force you to kill Zou Wang."

"If you don't kill Zou Wang, just let him go so obediently, who in Wuxi city would dare to cooperate with the court to measure the land?"

"If Zou Wang is killed, the land will not be delayed..." Gu Kexue stretched out his finger and pointed to the sky: "The spring plowing is at the right time, and if something goes wrong with the Zou family's 30 mu of land, although the harvest will not be lost, but the production can be reduced." Inevitably, how do you pay the royal rations?"

Ning Jue looked at Gu Kexue and put up a thumbs up and said with a smile: "The old man is indeed wise."

"Assignment and acceptance."

"If this year's Wuxi's imperial food is cut off, the government and the public will inevitably rise up and attack Ning. Ning can also use the window of the court to criticize Ning to quickly finish Wuxi's fields. It's just that there is such a big commotion in Wuxi, the emperor always It’s for some face, the people of Wuxi can at least be exempted from the imperial grain for one year, and the fields that the court needs can be trimmed.”

"Wuxi is a big county in the rich county. Although there is a mess, the people will still be able to survive until next year."

"It's nothing more than someone's ear from Death Ning."

Gu Kexue raised his head in surprise.

"What does Ke end mean?"

Ning Jue nodded at Gu Kexue.

"Since this girl has been raised by the Gu family for ten years, please ask the old man to take care of her for a few more years. After all, she also knows about the old man's Wuxi."

After Ning Jue finished speaking, Gu Qingnong's pipa sound stopped abruptly not far away, and he glanced at Ning Jue in a daze.

Gu Kexue frowned.

"You left this old man to help you handle Wuxi affairs, just to return this girl to this old man?"

"It's not all right. If I don't do this, I can't rest assured, can I?"

From the perspective of outsiders, all these things in Wuxi were done by Ning Jue alone.

Ning Jue is not afraid of death, it doesn't matter.

But if the news of this matter is leaked, let the people of the world know that it is Gu Kexue who led the way for the court.

I'm afraid that someone will try their best to wipe out the Gu family from Wuxi.

If you can't deal with the emperor, you can't deal with your Gu family?
It's just to find a few Japanese pirates to come ashore from Wuxi.

Gu Kexue can also kill and silence, as long as Zhu Xizhong has a mouth.

"Where is Ke going?"

"Slash Zou Wang!"

Gu Kexue glanced at Ning Jue in disbelief.

Ning Jue has already walked towards the back office.

Gu Kexue got up and wanted to chase after him, only then remembered that he couldn't show up in Wuxi.

"Can Mr. Cheng give you orders?"

The servants of Cheng Guogong's mansion looked at each other, hesitating to speak, seeing the appearance of these servants, Gu Kexue felt relieved, and hurriedly waved to everyone: "The old man knows that Chenggong told you What's more, hurry up and do your errands!"

"Here!"

Ning Jue changed into an official uniform and took Zou Wang out of the county government.

"Zou Wang coerced Wuxi merchants to go on strike to resist the new law. This official is now acting expediently. Xiao Wang is the leader to reassure the people."

"Mr. Zou, let's go."

Hearing Ning Jue's voice, Zou Wang was dumbfounded.

"Ning Kezhong! How dare you kill me without even interrogating me?!"

Ning Jue didn't answer Zou Wang's words at all.

"Push the criminal out and behead him!"

"Here!"

Two Lieutenants Feng Guo stepped forward and dragged Zou Wang out of the cell.

"Don't touch me, I want to see Elder Yan Ge and Elder Xu Ge!"

Rao is rich as an enemy, and Rao is powerful, and this moment has really come.

It's just flesh and blood.

The moment he was dragged out of the prison, Zou Wang no longer had the demeanor of giving advice in the past.

The whole person was dragged to the execution ground.

"Ning Jue! If I die, do you think you can still live?!"

"Someone in the court wants your life!"

"Bang!" Ning Jue suddenly slapped the gavel.

"That's great, I'm just wishing for it! Procrastinate and verify your integrity!"

"Here!"

Until the moment he was dragged away, Zou Wang's expression completely changed, and he looked at Ning Jue almost pleadingly.

"Ning Kezhong, Ning Qianxian... I still have silver, silver, women, how much do you want, we can discuss it."

Proof of identity is an essential procedure.

It is not only to confirm the criminal himself, but also to register all the old injuries, new injuries and physical characteristics of the criminal before execution, so as to prepare for emergency inspection.

"Don't test it, everyone, I have silver, 3000 taels, no, 3 taels..."

Before Zou Wang finished speaking, someone knocked Zou Wang unconscious with a palm.

The family member of Duke Cheng's mansion also stepped forward and whispered in Ning Jue's ear: "Qian Xian, last night outside the city there were gentry hanging beams at home."

"Whoever hangs the beam will cut the land first. If the court takes one step back, they will have to take two steps forward."

"Here."

While the two were talking, "Zou Wang" in the distance was already spattered with blood three feet.

Merchants in Wuxi stopped the strike after seeing Zou Wang beheaded.

Looking at the restored Wuxi City, Ning Jue waved his hand and said loudly, "Get out of the city! Continue to harvest the fields!"

I have sentenced the people, I have settled the fields, and all my worries have been dealt with.

I can't survive this time, right? !

Not long after Ning Jue took the royal family out of the city, Zou Wang's two sons, Zou Laihe and Zou Laipeng, had "fighted" all the way into the city for their family property.

Many villages in the lower reaches brought hoes and other agricultural tools directly to the Zou family's village.

The business empire that Zou Wang had built all his life was on the verge of collapsing.

The people in the city couldn't stop their tongues when they saw this scene.

They didn't understand why the Zou family, who was able to suppress the bullying of the Minister of Rites a few years ago, became like this overnight after Zou Wang's death.

That is, in the afternoon of that day, in a painted boat on Dongli Lake.

Zou Wang woke up leisurely, but what he saw was a thin middle-aged man with a white face and beardless.

"Mai, Eunuch Mai?"

Mai Fu held the teacup and looked at Zou Wang who was paralyzed on the boat and couldn't help but smile.

"Hey, Yuan Zou is awake?"

Zou Wang looked around for a while, then simply got up from the deck, and kowtowed heavily.

"Thank you, Eunuch Mai, for saving your life."

"I can't say thank you, you, just wait and see, when we see clearly, when will we go ashore."

Speaking of this, Mai Fu paused, and then said with a smile: "Mr. Zou might as well pick up all those troubled natures and consciences and expose them to the sun."

Right now, Mai Fu throws Zou Wang into the lake to feed the fish and doesn't even need to bear the slightest responsibility.

His life was in Mai Fu's hands, so Zou Wang naturally didn't dare to say more.

After all, there is no shame in recognizing the principles of heaven everywhere.
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Overnight, the story of the Zou family brothers "fighting" for the family property spread all over Wuxi.

Wuxi Huashi and Wuhu Ruanshi both appeared in Zhongxiangtang with a lot of cash at the same time.

When Ruan Bi and Hua Linxiang met, they understood each other's intentions with just one look.

"Haiyue... you are? Ah, haha."

Hua Linxiang said in a low voice with some embarrassment: "Liangchen, isn't it a bit... ugly for you and me to act like this?"

Ruan Bi said in a low voice when he heard the words: "I'm in a panic, you can follow me later, they still have to thank us."

Just as the two were whispering, the two brothers Zou Laihe, dressed in sackcloth and filial piety, also appeared.

"Second uncles, my father has just died, so please forgive me for being rude."

"Nephew, don't be too polite." Ruan Bi then said angrily, "I heard that Nan Ningke finally sent people to abandon the East Lake in the city, and it will take seven days before the body can be collected. It's getting hot day by day. There is a whole corpse in East Lake!"

Zou Laihe also said in grief and indignation: "The younger generation doesn't know how my Zou family offended Ning Jue, my father..."

As he spoke, tears welled up in Zou Laihe's eyes. After thinking for a while, the two brothers fell to their knees.

"My father passed away in a hurry, and the inheritance is very involved. I hope the two uncles will help me a lot!"

Ruan Bi and Hua Linxiang's eyes lit up, and they hurried forward to help them.

Ruan Bi, who helped Zou Laihe up, sighed softly:

"You two virtuous nephews, needless to say about the properties of the nobles in Beijing, let's just follow the old rules." Hearing this, Zou Laihe's expression gradually calmed down, and Ruan Bi's words changed, and he continued: " It’s just that those Donghu left behind when he was alive… the old man means that they should be sold as soon as possible!”

Ruan Bi said these words earnestly, but Zou Laihe's face changed drastically.

"Ruan Shibo, my father has made arrangements before his death, the Zou family business..."

Zou Laihe didn't finish his sentence.

Hua Linxiang immediately said: "Nephew, that's not what you said. We are all from Xishan. There are some things that good ministers don't know. Don't we know?"

"Don't the two nephews know how this family business in East Lake came about back then? Now that the court's new law is raging, everyone is innocent and guilty!"

"But Mr. Guipo..."

Ruan Bi threw the teacup in his hand on the coffee table with a resentful expression, and then pretended to suppress his anger, and said bitterly: "Guipo died well back then, and before he died, Guipo still had the title of foreigner, a member of the household department of the imperial court. Well, Nan Ningke is coming in a menacing manner, and the Zou family is already in great danger!"

He was intimidated by Ruan Bi.

Zou Laihe and Zou Laipeng immediately lost their minds.

When Zou Wang was around, he was naturally able to control the million-dollar wealth of the Zou family.

"I also ask Shi Bo to save my two brothers!"

"Oh, nephew, what are you talking about?"

"My relatives and friends, old and old, all look to my brother and stay away. Only the two uncles are willing to come to the door. If anyone can take over the property of the Zou family, it must be the two uncles!"

How could Zou Laihe not know how Ruan Bi and Hua Linxiang's calculations were going.

The fact that these two people came to the door today means that these two families have settled for the Zou family.

You have to sell it if you sell it, or you have to sell it if you don’t sell it.

The Zou family has no choice.

Might as well rely on a good attitude to leave more.

Hearing this, Ruan Bi got up and paced around, and finally went to Zou Wang's memorial tablet and put on three tall incense plants.

"Donghu, don't blame me, I am also doing this for the two nephews, for the Zou family."

Hua Linxiang was also desperately winking at Ruan Bi.

He signaled Ruan Bi not to be so anxious and take his time, after all, it was too ugly to spread the word.

Then Ruan Bi turned around, supported Zou Laihe and said, "Don't worry about the silver, let's take a detailed inventory of Donghu's family property before his death."

"In short, let Xishan be in chaos first, and avenge the murder for Donghu first."

"The matter of silver is not too eye-catching. Let's go around for a few more years, and you will use your tricks to the outside world, saying that those family properties have been ruined. Whoever covets the Zou family's family business, let them go with those nobles in Beijing. People ask for it, and save trouble in the future.”

"Little nephew, thank you two uncles."

(End of this chapter)