Fang Congzhe returned to his house and said to Mrs. Liu:
"You have people go to Jiangnan quickly to bring a letter to Shihong, and ask him to warn Feng Quan, Ruan Dacheng and others to fulfill the imperial decree to the letter!
We cannot be bribed by the Jiangnan gentry, those who deserve to be killed must be killed!
Don't be greedy for any benefit that should be given to the people and the court!
Whatever His Majesty tells them to do, they must do it. Otherwise, if they are found to have deceived the Emperor, I will not protect them!
Let Shihong remember that our Fang family must be different from other powerful gentry, and our Fang family must have His Majesty in our eyes! Otherwise, in the future, the Fang family will be the next to be executed. "
Ms. Liu was quite surprised after hearing this. She didn't expect that her husband would suddenly mention this when he came back.
Mrs. Liu therefore asked: "What did your Majesty tell me today? Why did you suddenly remind Shihong and others of this?"
"I have to remind you that the Jiangnan gentry are the richest gentry in the Ming Dynasty, and now that the court is too strict with them, they naturally have to use money to bribe Feng Quan, Ruan Dacheng and others. After all, if confrontation is not possible, they can only bribe them!
People like Feng Quan and Ruan Dacheng are not really ethical people. Otherwise, they will be bribed by these Jiangnan gentry with huge sums of money, and then do something that is not in line with the court's purpose. "
Fang Congzhe replied.
When Mrs. Liu saw that he didn't explain specifically what the emperor had said to him today, and only said why he did this, she didn't ask any more questions and just replied: "Okay! I'll get someone to write to Shihong right now!"
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"Students, please kowtow to the platform!"
Suzhou.
Xu Shaoquan and a group of Jiangnan gentry met Feng Quan after spending 30,000 taels of silver. They changed their previous attitude and knelt down to Feng Quan respectfully.
Feng Quan naturally knew that Xu Shaoquan and other Jiangnan gentry came to see him, which meant that the Jiangnan gentry had completely surrendered to him, began to recognize his power in Jiangnan, and attempted to use bribery to win over him to deal with the court.
And because of this, Feng Quan was very proud of himself.
After all, it is indeed difficult to make the Jiangnan gentry surrender to you.
This kind of thing only happened when Hai Rui was the governor of Yingtian.
Therefore, Feng Quan just said with his hands behind his back: "Everyone, get up. What's the matter? You suddenly mobilized so many people to ask for an audience with me?"
"The students and others are mainly here to present letters of apology on behalf of Mr. Mu Zhai and Mr. Xianshi. Before this, I, the Jiangnan scholars, had offended many people in Taiwan. Now that I think about it, I really regret it. Mr. Mu Zhai and Mr. Xianshi also We are very repentant, so we and the Jiangnan scholars have made an agreement, and we sincerely ask you, Zitai, for the sake of the sincerity of our Jiangnan scholars and people, to let go of the criminals in the Wailing Temple! If Zitai can be spared, we are willing to donate one million Two pieces of silver for you."
Xu Shaoquan started talking.
One million taels? !
Feng Quan had to admit that these Jiangnan gentry were really generous.
"This matter is not something I can decide. It still depends on Mr. Xiaoge's wishes."
But Feng Quan was not someone who lost his mind when he heard the huge bribe of one million taels of silver, so he just replied like this.
"Students and others understand. Therefore, please make Taiwan and tell Mr. Xiaoge that if Mr. Xiaoge is willing to show mercy, we are willing to donate three million taels to Mr. Xiaoge alone!"
Xu Shaoquan started talking with a smile.
Feng Quan's heart skipped a beat. He had to admit that these Jiangnan gentry were really spending a lot of money.
"It seems that you Jiangnan gentry are really rich!"
At this time, Fang Shihong came out in a wheelchair.
Xu Shaoquan and other Jiangnan gentry hurriedly knelt down again: "I have met Mr. Xiao Ge, and the students and others did not expect that your distinguished master would be here. It is really presumptuous. I don't know if the money the students and others raised just now is as you want. If it is not enough, students and others will I’ll add another five hundred thousand taels later! Or, can you give me the number?”
In order to save Qian Qianyi, Ye Maocai and others, Xu Shaoquan and other Jiangnan gentry really decided to spend a lot of money to rescue them.
Of course, this is not because Xu Shaoquan and others really care about the life and death of Qian Qianyi, Ye Maocai and other Jiangnan gentry, but they use this method of rescuing Qian Qianyi and Ye Maocai to lure Fang Shihong, Feng Quan and others into the water.
Because they have failed to recruit Xiao Jingao, Man Gui, Zhao Shujiao and others.
Therefore, they can only choose to surrender to Fang Shihong and Feng Quan, and bribe them with heavy sums of money to lure people from the small party such as Fang Shihong and Feng Quan into the water.
"My father guessed it right. You people are really evil. Until now, you still don't have His Majesty in your heart, and you don't really take His Majesty seriously!"
Fang Shihong only said this, then turned his wheelchair and left here, leaving only one sentence: "Send off guests!"
Seeing this, Feng Quan had to ask someone to send Xu Shaoquan and others away.
Xu Shaoquan and others were naturally disappointed. They did not expect that even after spending so much money, they could not drag Fang Congzhe's son into trouble.
At this time, Ye Chuchun, who had followed Xu Shaoquan, even lost his mind and shouted excitedly: "Wait a minute!"
Fang Shihong stopped and looked back at Ye Chuchun.
Ye Chuchun shouted directly: "Five million taels! Add Bing Jing and Tan Jing 500,000 taels every year! How about that? Fang, even if your father can be the chief assistant like Yan Song for decades, he will not be able to make so much money. Right? Are you so afraid of being discovered by Dongchang? At worst, if we offer another three million taels, will your father-in-law, Yuan Fu, still use these three million taels to bribe the people in Dongchang?! Or should I say, Chao Doesn’t the Son of Heaven really favor and trust your Fang family, so he will not spare your Fang family and break his own arm because your Fang family embezzled millions of taels of silver?”
Fang Shihong laughed, then said coldly: "This is not a matter of money! Besides, my father is not Yan Song. If you continue to say that my father is Yan Song, believe it or not, I will be the first to kill you!"
"Feng Quan, let them go!"
Fang Shihong shouted loudly as he spoke.
Therefore, Feng Quan hurriedly asked people to drive Xu Shaoquan, Ye Chuchun and others away.
Ye Chuchun, Xu Shaoquan and other Jiangnan gentry were naturally puzzled. They wondered why Fang Shihong was still not moved even though their bid was so high.
"Mr. Xiaoge, this is five million taels, which is quite a lot."
As soon as Feng Quan said this, Fang Shihong stared at him and said with a smile: "You can collect the money and then release Qian Qianyi and the others, but if the incident happens, don't blame our Fang family for not protecting you!"
"That's not what I meant."
Feng Quan smiled.
Fang Shihong took out a letter: "There is a letter from my father. Ruan Dacheng has read it. Please read it again. It is my father's wish to not be bribed by the Jiangnan gentry!"
Feng Quan looked up.
Ruan Dacheng said at this time: "Mr. Xiao Ge, Yuan Fu is too cautious. With Yuan Fu's current status, collecting some money is nothing."
"My father is not cautious. He is the person who knows His Majesty best and knows what to do best. He is also the most experienced person in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. We must listen to what the old guy says! It doesn't matter if you want to do business in Jiangnan to make money. We can The family can protect you, but the public funds belonging to the court and the people and the bribes from the Jiangnan gentry must not be taken! Listen to the old guy! Don't look down on your majesty!"
Fang Shihong replied.
Feng Quan and Ruan Dacheng could only agree. After all, their current power rested entirely with the Fang family.
And because of this.
Qian Qianyi, Ye Maocai, Zhang Pu and others were successfully taken to the execution ground and prepared to be tortured.
"Fang Shihong and Feng Quan refuse to accept cash?!"
When Ye Maocai learned about this from Ye Chuchun, who had come to visit him, he stood up from the prison car in shock.
"Really?! Are we really going to die?!"
Zhang Pu also stood up from the prison car in horror and looked at Ye Chuchun.
Ye Chuchun nodded solemnly: "Yes! Thief Fang is determined to be his lackey of the Zhu family. I even told him to give him five million taels of the Fang family! He also pays half a million taels every year! But they still don't agree! They want to kill all of us Jiangnan gentry!"
"Thief Fang! You must die a happy death!"
Qian Qianyi, who had been silent all this time, had to suddenly curse because of this.
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