When Zuo Guangdou saw the people from Dongchang coming to his place, he did not make any resistance. He only said to Yang Huan, the head of Dongchang: "I didn't want to return the labor to Yang Huan! Please come."
With that said, Zuo Guangdou came to Dongchang.
As soon as he arrived at Dongchang and saw Wei Zhongxian, Zuo Guangdou just smiled and said, "Eunuch Wei, do you want to ask questions according to the order?"
When Wei Zhongxian saw what Zuo Guangdou said, he felt much better and started to laugh. He thought to himself that he didn't have to spend so much time trying to persuade him, so he said, "Zuo Yushi is a sensible person after all, so we won't talk nonsense. Your Majesty, you want to know who brought this news?"
Zuo Guangdou cupped his hands and replied: "I dare not hide this from the emperor! I learned about this from Mr. Xiu Wu's disciple Xu Shilin."
Wei Zhongxian nodded, and then said: "Then please Zuo Yushi, please be aggrieved for a while and stay here until our family returns to the emperor. If nothing happens, the emperor will only order our family to let you go back."
"Thank you, father-in-law."
Zuo Guangdou replied with a raised hand.
Zhou Shunchang and Lian Guoshi, who were still panting on the bench, were horrified and secretly said: "Is this the end? No need to be beaten?!"
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"Dongchang also found out that Xu Shilin, a student at Nanjing Imperial College, secretly instigated this matter. Therefore, I think Zuo Guangdou is not lying!"
Wei Zhongxian took the initiative to analyze it after reporting it to Zhu Youxiao.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao smiled lightly: "It seems that Zuo Guangdou is quite sensible."
With that said, Zhu Youxiao said again: "You are the admiral of Dongchang. Please continue to express your views and how you think this matter should be handled."
Wei Zhongxian had been prepared for a long time. He just waited for the emperor to ask him, and immediately replied: "From my perspective, it is impossible for Xu Shilin, an ordinary prison student, to have such a bad intention to harm the mother of a high-ranking official in the imperial court. He is probably behind this." It’s his family leader Li Sancai who is instigating this!”
Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked, "I asked your Dongchang to monitor Li Sancai long before this. How is the monitoring going so far?"
"Go back to your Majesty, keep an eye on me."
Wei Zhongxian replied.
Zhu Youxiao therefore nodded: "Then secretly arrest Xu Shilin and Li Sancai first! Zuo Guangdou and Zhou Shunchang are imprisoned in the imperial prison first, lest they communicate with Li Sancai after being released! Although Li Sancai is not He may be directly involved in this matter, but he must be arrested first!”
"My slave obeys the order!"
Wei Zhongxian replied immediately.
Zhu Youxiao knew Li Sancai.
He knew that Li Sancai was a wealthy businessman from Tongzhou and one of the leaders of Donglin. He once engaged in party strife with Gu Xiancheng in the late Wanli period, and also resisted the tax inspectors when he was a local official.
What Zhu Youxiao remembers most about Li Sancai is that he used the golden nanmu specially used by the royal family to build his own residence.
This made Zhu Youxiao have to admit that Li Sancai was a very courageous person.
According to Zhu Youxiao's knowledge, even the "History of the Ming Dynasty" said that Li Sancai "could not be honest by nature, so he was ruined by everyone."
Therefore, what Zhu Youxiao can confirm is that Li Sancai is a corrupt official, and he is a very courageous corrupt official who does not take the royal majesty into consideration.
Therefore, after Zhu Youxiao appointed Wei Zhongxian to control Dongchang, he asked Wei Zhongxian to strengthen Dongchang's power while closely monitoring Li Sancai.
However, Li Sancai naturally would not have thought that he, a person who had been dismissed and returned home, would have been targeted by the newly enthroned emperor.
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"Sir, all the gentlemen in Beijing and Donglin have learned about this news. Now the news of the death of Xu Guangqi's mother Qian has been spread all over the capital. Next, we are waiting for the news from the Di newspaper whether Xu Guangqi and Ding You have returned home or are the emperor. Seize love."
Xu Shilin spoke to Li Sancai at this time.
Li Sancai glanced at him and said: "The next thing has nothing to do with us. Xu Guangqi's family was suddenly able to export so much cotton yarn to the sea and give the emperor three million taels of silver. How are you investigating now? Do you know the secret?" The details?"
After saying that, Li Sancai continued: "What I can't figure out the most right now is this. Why did the Xu family suddenly and unknowingly take out so much cotton yarn, and why did they willingly give most of the profits to the emperor! If we don't figure this out, if the Xu family is gone, there will still be a Zhang family, a Wang family, and a Li family, because this undoubtedly shows that the emperor has an imperial magic that can make a noble family willing to be his lackey!"
Xu Shilin said: "The younger one has been asking them to inquire carefully, but the younger one has also discovered something is wrong. Although the Xu family's cotton yarn production has increased a lot since last year, the number of spinners has not increased much. "
When Li Sancai heard what Xu Shilin said, he stood up immediately: "What are you talking about! The Xu family didn't recruit yarn workers aggressively?"
Xu Shilin nodded: "Yes, only his Xu family and a few relatives and neighbors have worked for him, and he has not recruited yarn workers from outside."
"Impossible! It's impossible for his own family and a few relatives to produce such a large amount of cotton yarn!"
Li Sancai said, "Unless the Xu family masters new spinning skills!"
"My lord is wise! If this is true, this new spinning technology is too terrible. The Xu family has increased cotton yarn production so much, but they have not increased the number of spinners. Almost one person can spin as much yarn as Seven or eight times the usual amount! If they really have such powerful spinning skills, I don’t know why they would be willing to give up the benefits of such good spinning skills to the emperor, unless the emperor gave them the skills."
Xu Shilin analyzed it.
"Emperor?"
Li Sancai murmured.
After Li Sancai read it, he knocked on the table and said: "Before the emperor came to the throne, there were rumors of good carpentry work. Now that I think about it, it should be the emperor himself who has mastered the new spinning secret. Otherwise, the Xu family would not have suddenly More cotton yarn can be produced with the same number of people.”
As he spoke, Li Sancai suddenly threw the tea cup in his hand to the ground: "That's how it should be! There's no other possibility!"
Li Sancai was so excited that he said: "The emperor actually used such strange and cunning skills to deal with our scholar-bureaucrats who have won the world's favor! Fortunately, I thought he used some brilliant emperor's skills! To make a Jiangnan nobleman be so obedient and dedicated A huge sum of three million taels! It’s really abominable! Abominable!”
Li Sancai became furious.
"Carpentry, Lu Ban's skills, he actually thought of using this trick to deal with us! And he actually relied on this to get the Xu family and the dignified Jiangnan nobles to pay him three million taels! Sun Chengzong was also willing to make money for him! "
For a moment, Li Sancai was so angry that he vomited blood: "When has this miraculous skill ever caused us, a scholar-bureaucrat, to suffer such a big loss?!"
"We can't let the Xu family benefit from this strange skill, and we can't let the emperor benefit from this strange skill. You should immediately send people to Jiangnan to mobilize other noble families in Jiangnan, or find a way to prevent the Xu family from having this kind of skill." We have to find a way to get the Xu family to offer their uncanny skills, otherwise we, the scholar-bureaucrats, will not be able to gain exclusive business profits!"
Li Sancai spoke excitedly.
"Yes! I'll send someone to do it right now!"
Xu Shilin hurriedly left here after hearing this.
