Ming Dynasty: A mere unruly commoner is rebelling against the heaven?

Chapter 143 Puzhou Zhang family is reduced to ashes!
Looking at the Jinyiwei who were as fierce as wolves and tigers, rushing towards them.

Wang Ze finally remembered what it was that they had deliberately ignored before.

That is the style of the current Ming Emperor.

The plan they conspired was not perfect, but it was definitely effective.

He could use his power to force the imperial envoy from the court to retreat, while not leaving any handle or evidence behind.

It would be very difficult for the imperial court to find out about these two families.

If it were any other emperor, the plan would most likely have succeeded.

But the person they met was Zhu Youtang.

When Zhu Youtang did anything, did he ever need evidence?

Zhu Youtang’s theory is that after something happens, whoever benefits the most is the one who did it.

No evidence or reason is needed, just arrest the person who benefits the most on the spot.

Even if he really didn't do it, since he has gained real benefits, he should be killed anyway.

Zhu Youtang was very busy and had neither the energy nor the time to play those petty games like solving crimes.

Zhu Youtang only analyzed interests: whoever benefits will be responsible, it’s that simple.

Why did the former Minister of Revenue Ye Qi want to abolish the Kaizhong method and replace it with the Zhese method?

It is because under the provisions of the Kaizhong Law, Shanxi merchants benefited the most.

Once the system is changed to the color-discount system, Shanxi merchants’ greatest geographical advantage will be gone, and Huizhou merchants will become the biggest beneficiaries with their strong capital advantage.

Where is Ye Qi from?
I am from Shanyang, Nanzhili!

During the Ming Dynasty, Huizhou, like Shanyang, belonged to Nanzhili.

Ye Qi is really doing this to benefit his family!

Historically, Ye Qizhen abolished the Kaizhong method and implemented the Zhese method.

And the business group that benefited the most was indeed the Huizhou merchants.

It was from the Zhese Fa that the Huizhou merchants began to emerge in the Ming Dynasty and eventually became one of the three major business groups.

But now, Zhu Youtang single-handedly prevented the implementation of the Zhese System, and suppressed the signs of the rise of Huizhou merchants.

Therefore, when Ye Qi first implemented the Zhese system, there must have been a large number of Huizhou merchants behind him who contributed money and effort.

If the color reduction method was really implemented, the first thing Zhu Youtang would do was to take action against the Huizhou merchants!

Of course, Zhu Youtang was able to do this because he had 30,000 absolutely loyal and obedient factory guards.

If it were any other emperor, without the help of the system, they might have been able to survive.

But under Zhu Youtang's command, if you dare to use these clever tricks, the only outcome will be death!

In the Zhang family compound, the Jinyiwei arrested a large number of members of the Zhang family, causing screams in the Zhang family compound.

"No! Don't catch me! I don't know anything! I don't know anything!"

"Ahhhhh!!! Please! Let me go! Let me go!"

"It's none of my business! It's none of my business! If you want to arrest someone, arrest them, don't arrest me!"

"..."

Screams and pleas for mercy were heard all around, making this century-old mansion completely restless.

Puzhou County Magistrate Wu Yong panicked and crawled under the table. The Jinyiwei drew his sword and chopped the table in half with one blow.

The tip of the Xiuchun Knife fell right between Wu Yong's eyebrows.

Wu Yong looked at the tip of the knife right in front of him and was so scared that he stood there in a daze. Then he felt warmth in his lower body, and then a cold wind blew and it became chilly.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Wu Yong came to his senses and burst into tears in fear: "It's none of my business! I know nothing!"

"I'm just a county magistrate! I can't control anything! I can't do anything!"

"Please don't kill me! I don't want to be an official anymore! I will never be an official again!"

Wu Yong himself is as timid as a mouse, otherwise he would not dare to show his face and just pretend to be dead at home.

Now, seeing the gleaming sword right in front of his face, knowing that he could die at any time, he was so frightened that he lost his mind and started talking nonsense.

The Jinyiwei who was in charge of the arrest did not say a word. They tied Wu Yong up with ropes on the spot and waited for him to be brought to Beijing for trial.

After seeing the Jinyiwei, Hou Wei, the captain of Puzhou Qianhu Division, had only one thought in his mind.

Run quickly!
Run back to the guardhouse!

There were still hundreds of personal soldiers loyal to him there, and he absolutely could not stay here and wait to die.

If things finally come to a point where there is really no room for maneuver, the worst that could happen to him is that he could take these personal soldiers and escape from Puzhou.

The Ming Dynasty is so big, and he has hundreds of personal soldiers. Where can he not eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks?
run!
Must run out!
This is what Hou Wei thought and did.

The first thing he did was to run to the right door of the Zhang family compound.

Hou Wei is a hereditary commander of a thousand households. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, so naturally he is quite fast and strong.

But the Jinyiwei were faster than him. In the blink of an eye, two Jinyiwei caught up with him from the side and tried to stop Hou Wei from escaping.

"court death!!!"

"Get out of my way!!!"

When Hou Wei saw the two Jinyiwei coming to stop him, he roared angrily and threw a flowerpot on the railing next to him at the Jinyiwei.

A Jinyiwei swung his sword and the flowerpot exploded.

Another Jinyiwei threw the Embroidered Spring Sword in his hand and stabbed Hou Wei's leg accurately.

"what!"

Hou Wei cried out in pain and fell to the ground, while reaching for the Embroidered Spring Knife that was stuck in his leg.

But the Jinyiwei flashed and rushed behind Hou Wei.

The Jinyiwei grabbed the knife and cut the tendons of Hou Wei's feet quickly and efficiently.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!!"

Hou Wei let out a heart-wrenching cry, and black blood flowed from his feet.

Another Jinyiwei came and tied up Hou Wei with a rope and took him back. Compared with Wu Yong and Hou Wei's embarrassment, Wang Ze, who was just a businessman, showed much more backbone than them.

As Zhang Ning said before, the higher the risk, the higher the return.

The Wang family has been able to develop into what it is today, all thanks to the successive heads of the Wang family, who were bold and careful, and never hesitated in doing things.

The smuggling business that the Wang family was engaged in in the north was a capital crime punishable by death.

Since Wang Ze took over the Wang family's business, he has been running it carefully until now without making any mistakes. He then successfully handed it over to his son Wang Yao.

Unexpectedly, in the end, there were no problems with the business in the north, but there was a problem with the land in the Puzhou old nest, which implicated the entire Wang family!
"Toki Ye! Life!"

Wang Ze let out a long sigh, picked up the wine glass and took a sip of the wine.

The next moment, the Jinyiwei pressed him to the ground and tied him up with ropes!

Zhang Ning and Zhang Yi, on the other hand, fled around the courtyard in panic, calling for the Zhang family's servants to come and rescue them.

Being caught by the Embroidered Uniform Guards means death. At this critical moment of life and death, the Zhang father and son could not care about anything else as long as they could stay alive.

"Someone is coming! Someone is coming quickly!"

"Come on, everyone, stop them!"

"Stop them! Don't let them come over!"

"..."

Zhang Ning actually gathered some servants who were loyal to the Zhang family.

They were holding wooden sticks, hoes, steel forks and other weapons, and they rushed towards the Jinyiwei with their heads held high!

The Jinyiwei had a blank expression on his face and drew his sword to kill!

Anyone who stands in their way will become a dead body.

“Ugh! Aaaaaah!!!”

A cold light flashed, and a loyal servant fell down screaming, holding his bleeding neck.

The Jinyiwei killed several people in a row, and the blood dyed the bluestone slabs on the ground red.

The disappearance of several lives in the blink of an eye immediately frightened the Zhang family servants who tried to stand in front of the Jinyiwei.

They shrank back and dared not come forward.

The Jinyiwei continued to move and ran quickly towards the Zhang father and son.

"Ahhhhh!!! Don't kill me!"

"Help! Help! Murder! Murder!"

"Murder! Someone help! Save me!"

"..."

Once the blood comes, all the so-called loyalty will disappear in an instant.

At this time, none of the Zhang family's servants cared about the life and death of the Zhang father and son. They were lucky enough to be alive.

The Jinyiwei quickly stepped forward, pinned down the Zhang father and son, took out ropes, and tied them up separately.

Even when he was tied up, Zhang Ning was still shouting.

"You can't catch me!"

"You have no evidence!"

"Let me go! Let me go now!"

"You have no evidence, no evidence!"

"..."

The Jinyiwei tied up the Zhang father and son in no time and brought them back to Qinglong.

"Second Master, the Zhang family's father and son have been caught!"

Qinglong looked at the two people struggling on the ground and nodded slightly.

Suddenly, Qinglong asked them, "By the way, have you brought the Zhang family tree?"

Qinglong had followed Mou Bin and confiscated the property of Zhou Shou, the Earl of Qingyun.

When Mou Bin entered the mansion of the Earl of Qingyun, he first took the Zhou family genealogy, which left a deep impression on Qinglong.

Now Zhu Youtang's order is to confiscate the property of Zhang and Wang and bring the entire family to the capital for execution.

At this time, how can we not use such a good thing as family tree?

"Replying to Second Master, not yet."

"Okay, then I'll go to the ancestral hall and get the Zhang family tree myself."

After Qinglong finished speaking, he randomly pointed at a servant of the Zhang family who was lying on the ground and asked him to take him to the Zhang family's ancestral hall to get the family tree.

Zhang Ning and his son, who were tied up like dumplings on the ground, were so angry that their eyes widened and they were terrified after hearing Qinglong's words!
"you dare!"

"Come back! You are not allowed to go!"

"Come back soon! Forrest Gump! Don't take him to the ancestral hall!"

"Uhhhhh!!!"

Qinglong stepped on Zhang Ning's mouth and said in a disgusted tone: "Shut up! Shut up!"

Forrest Gump was already so frightened that he didn't have the courage to disobey Qinglong's order.

Trembling, he brought Qinglong to the ancestral hall in the backyard and took out the Zhang family genealogy.

After Qinglong flipped through a few pages, he nodded with satisfaction and handed it to a Jinyiwei.

"Take this and arrest people, and be sure not to miss anyone on the family tree!"

The Jinyiwei quickly bowed and accepted the order: "Yes, Second Master!"

With the family tree, the Jinyiwei's arrest work became much clearer.

According to the records in the family tree, they arrested members of the Zhang family compound.

The entire Zhang family compound was filled with the screams of the Zhang clan members!
The Zhang family, which had been entrenched in Puzhou for hundreds of years, was wiped out in an instant!

(End of this chapter)