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

Chapter 310 Tragedy at sea in Suzhou!
After hearing Zhang Wenshao's words, Zhang Wenshao's family members were stunned at first, and then jumped up excitedly.

"Yes, yes, yes. Chen Yuanyuan is so favored. With her speaking up, I'm sure His Majesty won't make things too difficult for us!"

"Hahaha, I didn't expect that these skinny horses would be put to such great use!"

"Of course. These skinny girls are very concerned about them. They have been kept in seclusion for more than ten years and never shown to the outside world. Not to mention other people, even I have only seen them once from a distance."

"Dad has a really good eye for arrangement!"

"If Chen Yuanyuan can save our family's lives this time, all the money we've spent on them over the past decade will be worth it!"

"..."

Zhang Wenshao's family was extremely excited and chattered about a bright future.

At this moment, their best hope for the future is just to be able to stay alive.

……

After the fall of Nanjing, Gao Shun led his army to Suzhou as a matter of course.

In Suzhou, the imperial army occupied the entire city of Suzhou with almost no hindrance.

The fate of those landlords and nobles who did not escape was naturally self-evident.

Gao Shun naturally did not let go of the officials in Suzhou city, and they were immediately arrested by the soldiers of the Xianzhen Camp.

There was just a slight twist when arresting an official.

"My father is the father-in-law of the emperor. I don't know who dares to touch us!"

In a villa, a dozen men, women, old and young stood together, looking around with a fierce look on their faces, at the soldiers of the Xianzhen Camp who were holding shining sharp knives.

The person who shouted was Zhang Wenshao's son. Although he looked arrogant, he was extremely panicked in his heart.

Zhang Wenshao stood in front of everyone with an expressionless face, his heart beating fast and his trembling right hand, revealing his inner nervousness.

For many things, no matter how sure you are in your heart, no matter how many times you have deduced it in your mind, when you really face it, you will still feel nervous, anxious, and uneasy.

Fortunately, Zhang Wenshao's son's words finally worked.

They surrounded Zhang Wenshao and his family, but stopped hesitantly and turned their eyes to the leader of their team.

The identity of father-in-law of the emperor involves His Majesty.

They have no say in such an important matter.

The leader of this team can't make the decision.

So he chose to report the matter and let the person in charge make the decision.

"You keep them all under guard. I will report the situation to General Gao Shun and then deal with it."

"Yes!"

After the team leader gave the order, he quickly went to Gao Shun's command post and reported the situation to Gao Shun in full.

After hearing this, Gao Shun couldn't help but frown, feeling a little undecided.

After all, this involved the emperor's family affairs, and they did not dare to interfere or deal with it hastily.

After thinking it over, Gao Shun said, "Let's put them under house arrest in the yard first. Don't touch them, but don't let them run away either."

"Yes, my lord!"

After the team leader took the order and left, Gao Shun immediately recorded the incident, and then ordered someone to rush the secret letter along with the latest battle report to the capital!

In the Suzhou villa, Gao Shun's orders were strictly carried out.

Zhang Wenshao and his family are not in danger of death for the time being, but they have also lost their freedom of movement.

And they are always under high pressure, which makes them extremely irritable.

Some people began to regret not boarding the ship to Southeast Asia, and some people had already begun to complain that Zhang Wenshao did not board the ship but chose to stay.

"Dad, does your method really work? Why do they still want to put us under house arrest?" "We are not really going to die here, are we?"

Zhang Wenshao's son's face was pale and his lips trembled uncontrollably.

"That's what I told you. We should get on the boat. It will definitely be the right thing to do if we leave here. We won't die!"

"Now we are at the mercy of others. Whether we live or die depends on other people's moods. It's terrible!"

"Yes, we should have left last night, we should have left..."

Zhang Wenshao's wife was in tears and shed tears silently.

Only Zhang Wenshao remained silent and did not speak.

And the facts soon proved that Zhang Wenshao's choice yesterday was correct.

That afternoon, a fisherman near the coast was fishing when he suddenly felt that his fishing net was unusually heavy.

The fisherman was delighted, thinking he was lucky today as he had caught a big fish.

However, when the fishing net was about to be pulled out of the water, it was so heavy that he could not pull it no matter what he did.

With no other options, the fishermen chose to hang the fishing nets on the boat and then try to row the boat towards the shore.

Fortunately, the big fish in the fishing net didn't seem to struggle along the way, and obediently let him drag the fishing net to the shore.

But when the fishermen finally dragged the fishing net ashore with all their might and saw what was in the net, they were so frightened that their faces turned pale, their legs went weak, and they fell to the ground.

"Ahhhhh!!!!"

The fishermen's screams resounded through the sky. While shouting, he ran away quickly using his hands and feet.

"Someone's dead! Someone's dead!"

Inside the fisherman's fishing net was a corpse that had turned white and swollen from being soaked in sea water!
The news that fishermen had salvaged a dead person from the sea spread throughout Suzhou and attracted Gao Shun's attention.

The reason was simple: the body was wearing the standard official uniform of the Ming Dynasty with a peacock embroidered on the chest, indicating that he was a third-rank official of the imperial court!
After identification, it was found that this person was Han Shoushan, the right councilor of the Nanzhili Provincial Administration Commission, a third-rank official.

Because of this incident, Gao Shun specially dispatched 300 Ming navy soldiers to carry out salvage operations in the coastal area of ​​Suzhou.

During the Hongwu and Yongle periods, the Ming Navy was the undisputed number one navy in the world, invincible and never defeated.

But now, after a hundred years of continuous suppression and targeting by the civil officials in Jiangnan...it’s better not to mention it.

At least, the job of salvaging corpses can be assigned to them.

Three hundred Ming navy soldiers were incredibly efficient in the salvage work in the coastal areas of Suzhou.

Almost every moment, new bodies were pulled out of the sea.

I don’t know whether it’s because the Ming Navy has good salvage technology or because there are simply too many corpses in this area of ​​water.

After only three hours of salvaging, more than two hundred bodies were fished out.

These corpses are all familiar faces to the people of Suzhou.

"This is Mr. Yang, this is Mr. He, this is... this is Mr. Wu, right?"

"Tsk tsk, what a tragic death! His eyes are bulging out."

"Yeah, my body is all swollen, what a sin..."

"..."

The people on the shore pointed at the corpse on the beach, their tone full of gloating, without a trace of sympathy.

The Ming navy, which had been busy all afternoon, also stopped salvaging at this moment.

It was not because all the bodies in the sea had been fished out, but because it was so dark that one could not see clearly.

When the sun comes out tomorrow, they will continue salvaging in this sea area.

(End of this chapter)