Wanli 1592

Chapter 874 Marching into Songjiang Mansion

The property of the Xu family in Huating was taken by Xu Jie's two sons, Xu Fan and Xu Kun, when Xu Jie served as the cabinet's second assistant and first assistant.

They wantonly annexed land in their hometown, reaching the point of 24 mu, and some people said it was 40 mu. All in all, the Xu family is the largest landlord in the entire Shanghai area, and the best and most fertile land belongs to them. luxurious.

Later, when Gao Gong came to power, this big stick second only to Hai Rui caught Xu Jie and he would not let him go. He sent Hai Rui as the governor of Yingtian to Huating to fight tigers, and chased and beat the Xu family. Who is Hai Rui? Everyone in the Ming Dynasty knows that everyone knows that it is the No. [-] big stick in the Ming Dynasty.

Is it okay to take office?
The interrogation twice in three days made the Xu family exhausted, Xu Jie couldn't resist, Hai Rui caught the loophole and handed over the incriminating evidence to Gao Gong.

Gao Gong was even worse, and directly assigned Xu Fan to the army. Xu Jie never thought that he had misjudged Gao Gong, let alone that Hai Rui, whom he had saved in front of Emperor Jiajing, was a white-eyed wolf who was stupefied. Take a bite out of yourself.

Later, Xu Jie had no choice but to start exerting his strength in the imperial court. He remotely controlled Zhang Juzheng to abolish Hai Rui, knocked down Gao Gongdou, and made Zhang Juzheng the chief assistant. Only then did Xu Fan be rescued and the Xu family was saved. 24 Thousands of acres of land and wealth.

Therefore, it is said in the history books that Xu Jie's late festival will not be guaranteed.

This incident was too big, too many people knew about it, and there were many people who were ridiculed and dissatisfied. Xu Jie was outraged by the public, and later Zhang Juzheng was outraged by the world's imperial scholars, so even if he always obeys and respects Confucian historians can't hide anything for Xu Jie, the "loyal venerable".

It's all written down.

Even after the death of Yan Shifan and the fall of the Yan Party, the eldest granddaughter Xu Jie promised to betrothed to Yan Shifan's son as a concubine was poisoned by Xu Fan. After he learned about it, this scandalous incident of smiling and nodding was also recorded in "Wanli Wild It has been handed down from this wild history.

What's even more ironic is that Xu Fan's eldest daughter was never married as an adult until she died. She was betrothed to Yan Shifan's son as a concubine when she was young. Yan Shifan died before she was an adult. In this way, he was poisoned by his grandfather and father.

Of course, there are still doubts about the authenticity of the unofficial history, but such a rigid routine reminds people of many women who were sacrificed under the ancient dynasty and pro-policy.

It can be seen how cold-blooded this "forbearance hero" Xu Jie who "toppled Yan Song and restored the crisis situation of the Ming Dynasty" was a cold-blooded political creature.

This is true for the blood of direct relatives, so one can imagine how many people's land was embezzled by the Xu family's 24 mu of land and wealth in the densely populated South Zhili area, how it was operated, and how many people were shed. Blood and tears came to make their family prominent and prosperous.

It is conservatively estimated that there are also three or four thousand families who lost their land and were torn apart because of this. The wives and children were scattered and their families were broken up.
They have never cared about the life and death of the people at the bottom. They only have their own enjoyment and privileges in their hearts. No matter how many books they read and how much knowledge they master, they are just fighting for their own selfish desires.

The Xu family was just a regular example of the great gentry class of that era.

No matter how great Xu Jie's achievements and reputation are, it can't cover up his family's exploitation and oppression of the lower class people and numerous crimes. Scholars praise Xu Jie's achievements in overthrowing Yan Song, but who will care about the people under the Xu family's atrocities? blood and tears and bones?

It's time for these sanctimonious hypocrites to pay for the sins they have committed.

Every time he thought about this, Xie He couldn't help the anger and killing intent in his heart. With Xiao Ruxun's instructions and the support of the army, Xie He decided to do something big and completely abolish the Xu Jie family, so as to start his own life. legend.

Now that he has decided to hand over his whole body to Xiao Ruxun, Xie He is not afraid of anything. Anyway, he has a lot of lives in his hands. After killing so many local tyrants, there is no way out. Party members, in the big era, small people don't have much choice.

Xie He has no plans to choose anything, he just wants to go one way to the end, he wants to see what is at the end of the road.

So he took the first five outstanding subordinates who stood out and were dubbed "Five Tiger Generals of the Land" by the members of the working group to follow Zheng Ying's army to Songjiang Mansion. The resistance is weak and powerless, and it will collapse at the touch of a touch.

Huzhou Prefecture and Jiaxing Prefecture were captured on November [-] and November [-] respectively. It took only ten days. There are quite a few people in the southern army.

Kill them all.

Zheng Ying commanded the gunners to fire the cannon, looked at the big households who were shattered by the bombardment, and then commanded the iron cavalry to step them into the mud and cease to exist.

He wanted to match the name that Xiao Ruxun changed for him, Eagle, a cruel predator soaring in the nine heavens, powerful, cold-blooded, without the slightest sympathy or soft-heartedness for its prey.

Huzhou Fu and Jiaxing Fu are not firmer than Hangzhou Fu, that is, the difference between tender tofu and old tofu, which also breaks when you slap it.

The resistance on the surface is over, but the undercurrent is still raging. The big households who are extremely dissatisfied with the Zhennan Army's iron-blooded methods are preparing for the second round of action, but before they are ready, the Zhennan Army comes to their door.

To be precise, the ones who came to the door were not neatly dressed armored soldiers, but ragged mud legs with red eyes and hatred in their eyes.

Those mud legs who have been deprived of their land wealth and survival value.

The brutal revenge begins.

Zheng Ying also led an army of [-] troops into Songjiang Mansion, and formally launched an attack on the back gardens of the southeast gentry without making any contact.

On November [-]th they occupied Zhujing, captured Jinshanwei on the same day, and put an end to the largest official resistance force in Songjiang Mansion. Then the two armies began to march towards Huating, which was the old lair of the Xu family.

At this time, it has been 15 years since Xu Jie passed away, and it has been six years since his eldest son Xu Fan passed away. Xu Fan’s eldest son Xu Yuanchun also passed away two years ago. Xu Youqing, Xu Fan’s eldest grandson, is the person in charge of Xu’s parents’ house at this time. Xu Youqing, the official Yin Jinyiwei, was once favored by Zhu Yijun because of his extraordinary handsome appearance. The two had an affair, which was recorded in "Wanli Ye Huo Bian".

After Xu Yuanchun passed away, Xu Youqing returned home to handle housework as the head of the house. However, within two years, great changes occurred in the court. Zhu Yijun abdicated, the new emperor ascended the throne, and Jin Yiwei collectively took refuge in Shen Yiguan. Xu Youqing was once very surprised.

But he himself didn't want to have any more entanglements with the imperial court, so he stayed at his hometown in Huating to live his own life, and from time to time he called the second- and third-bedroom families to discuss family affairs. The past of Zhu Yijun's "favor" has been difficult to get rid of.

But soon, he could no longer sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, because the Zhennan Army navy attacked Zhenjiang Mansion and Nanjing, captured the accompanying capital of Ming Dynasty, and cut off the grain road of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and then the Zhennan Army set off from Burma The Northern Expedition swept half of the south of the Yangtze River in just a few months, and the merchants who came back from the south reported news of the upcoming war in the Ming Dynasty.

Afterwards, Jinyiwei spies approached Xu Youqing to ask him for information. Xu Youqing told these Jinyiwei spies what he knew out of old friendship, and then he didn't know what happened.

But he began to pay close attention to the matter.

(End of this chapter)