Zhang Juzheng is always so patient, which is what makes Xu Jie most regretful. If Zhang Juzheng could be more adventurous, Xu Jie or Nanya Jinshen would not be in such a dilemma.
But Zhang Juzheng is just like this step by step.
"Why did Zhang Juzheng target the Gu family in the first place?" Xu Jie said with emotion: "Because the Gu family controls the entire Nanya grain route, which means that the Nanya people want to use grain prices to provoke the influence of poor coolies. It is basically impossible to become a powerful person."
"Fighting without defeat, as long as we hold the grain road, the ground in Jiangnan will not be in chaos, and the situation of fighting without defeat can be maintained."
"You know those poor coolies, when they are hungry, they will become ferocious, as if there is no one in the world who can stop them; as long as you can give them a bite to eat, they will become docile; If we give you another piece of clothing, they will be grateful; if you give us another pair of shoes, they will be so determined that they kneel on the ground and call us great philanthropists.”
Xu Jie found that Zhang Juzheng was much more difficult to deal with than before. All this was caused by the theory of contradiction. Zhang Juzheng was already powerful enough in the past, but now there is a gap between Zhang Juzheng and them, the gentry and court officials. An unbridgeable gap.
Zhang Juzheng, who has become more powerful, is indeed very difficult to deal with.
To seize the grain road is to seize the most prominent contradictions, that is, to seize the stomachs of the people.
Xu Fan looked happy and said quickly: "Then why don't we give the poor coolies, tenant servants, and wandering bandits a bite to eat, a piece of clothing, and a pair of shoes? Instead, let the imperial court do this big thing. Good people! The imperial court has won over people's hearts, what should we win over?"
Xu Jie sneered and said: "Giving free money to the poor, what is it but a crime? Can people's hearts be used as money? Just like you said, when civil strife breaks out, you can only give a little bit of rice, and then you can do it." You can send people's gifts out of the country and let them go to other places to make trouble."
"After the imperial court suppresses the rebellion, we can invade the acres."
Xu Fan was stunned. He could only say that Jin Shen had his own standards and style of conduct.
"Father, the imperial court asked us to return all the armor, bows and crossbows to the imperial court. Can we hand it over?" Xu Fan took a step forward and asked.
"How can we not pay? Our Huating Xu family wants to pay, the Jin gentry in Nanya want to pay, and then Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangxi and Guangxi areas. This matter is Zhang Juzheng's conspiracy." Xu Jie leaned on the chair, He rubbed his fingers very quickly, thinking about countermeasures.
"Armor and powerful crossbows are not the point." Xu Jie stretched out his hand and said, "A hundred pieces of armor and a thousand crossbows are enough to guard homes and courtyards, but can they conquer the world?"
Xu Fan thought for a moment and said, "Emperor Cheng Zuwen?"
Emperor Cheng Zuwen, Zhu Di, had less than fifteen pieces of armor, eight hundred men, and not even a thousand crossbows when he raised his army. Didn't he still conquer the world?
Isn't this a ready-made example? Still from the Ming Dynasty.
"Just be angry with me! Just be angry with me! You have to make me angry to death!" Xu Jie stood up and slapped the table, pointing at his son with great anger and said: "I'll forget it if you make me angry to death!"
"Emperor Cheng Zuwen is a special case, a special case! In history, have you seen any vassal king who entered the capital and became emperor? Which one? Name another one!"
"I'm furious!"
"Father, calm down, calm down." Xu Fan hurriedly poured a cup of tea for Xu Jie and said with a smile: "Go on."
Fortunately, Xu Jie was in good health, otherwise he would have been pushed back by his son at this age if he was so contradicted. He said angrily: "What did you say just now? Ah, yes, armor and a powerful crossbow are not the point. Those little armors and powerful crossbows can only protect the homes and courtyards, but cannot cause rebellion at all."
"Zhang Juzheng, the poison lies in the matter of differentiation." Xu Jie frowned and said, "The hemp rope is broken at the smallest point. Zhang Juzheng is now very powerful."
"The Jin gentry in Nanya are not monolithic, sharing honor and disgrace, but are full of contradictions, and each family is different. For example, the three families in Songjiang Mansion, the Gu family, the Xu family, and the Shen family, are actually happy to Those who exchanged fields for ships to sail southward to the Western Ocean, because Songjiang Shipping Company is closer to us."
"But there are some places where the gentry are not happy."
"Now the imperial court is asking each family to hand over their armor and crossbows, just to confirm the list."
Xu Fan asked in a low voice: "What list?"
"List of houses to be searched." Xu Jie said solemnly: "Look, the already unstable Jin gentry, Zhang Juzheng came directly to the center and immediately divided them into two groups. One group was willing to hand over their armor and crossbows. Yes, one faction is unwilling to hand it over."
"Then Zhang Juzheng led this group of people who were willing to surrender and attacked the small group who refused to surrender."
"After that, Zhang Juzheng had many tools in his hands, and he could divide the Jin gentry again, such as returning land and exchanging ship guides. One group was willing to change, and the other group was not willing to change. Then Zhang Juzheng continued to lead this group of people who were willing to change, and attacked Those few are unwilling to change.”
"It goes on and on like this, little by little, and this thing is done before you know it. Zhang Juzheng really deserves to die, he played this contradiction so well!"
Xu Fan seemed to be quite surprised and asked: "Is Zhang Juzheng so powerful?"
"That's right, don't look at who taught the students." Xu Jie said with some pride. No matter what, Zhang Juzheng could not deny the basic fact that Zhang Juzheng was his student of Xu Jie.
Xu Fan immediately said: "In the 32nd year of Jiajing, Zhang Juzheng wrote a long letter and parted ways with his father. His father even angrily cursed him as a traitor. This does not look like his father's student. This is just appeasement. The evil started with my father."
"Let's go quickly. Luo Qianhu has been waiting for a long time." Xu Jie was so breathless that he didn't fall over. Out of sight and out of mind, he immediately waved his hand and told Xu Fan to get out!
roll! roll! roll!
Xu Fan knelt down again, kowtowed and said: "Father knows that Zhang Juzheng is powerful, and he also knows that Zhang Juzheng is more powerful than before. He also knows that Zhang Juzheng now has the support of His Majesty, and the person standing behind him is the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, a member of the imperial power. Support will be more powerful than great."
"The little emperor even refused to let Zhang Siwei return to the court, which was a hindrance to Zhang Juzheng."
"Father, stop trying to block the car with your mantis arm. You can't stop it. We are making money honestly, and our Xu family can still be stable. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Without children and grandchildren, how can we survive forever?" Where to move?"
"My child, let's go, please take care of yourself, father."
Xu Fan kowtowed again, then stood up, left the study step by step, and followed Luo Bingliang out of the Xu family's old house.
Xu Jie sat in the old house for a long time. His son's official status was cut off, and the Xu family was pushed to the forefront. Xu Jie's eyes were uncertain.
Luo Bingliang sent Xu Fan on the road to exile, including Xu Fan's wife and children, a total of more than a dozen people. With so many prisoners, Luo Bingliang gave two hundred households and fifty southern soldiers to accompany them.
The reason why so many people are accompanying him is not because he is afraid that Xu Fan will run away. Even if Xu Fan is asked to go to Jizhou by himself, he can go and will not run away. The reason why so many people are accompanying him is because Luo Bingliang is afraid that someone will attack Xu Fan on the road. .
Xu Fan's reputation was not the end of the pursuit. Many criminals would die on the road to exile.
Luo Bingliang sent Xu Fan away and immediately rushed to Kunshan. A big fish had been caught here. Now it was time to eat the fish. Luo Bingliang had his own way of knocking out, peeling off the scales and disemboweling the fish.
When he arrived at the Kunshan County Government Office, Luo Bingliang first interrogated Gu Shaofang. Gu Shaofang, the biological son of Yingtian Governor Gu Zhangzhi, who was elected in the first year of Wanli and who was going to take the imperial examination in the second year of Wanli, was imprisoned in the Kunshan Government Office and was guarded by Tiqi.
Luo Bingliang did not use the punishment, but asked Gu Shaofang to sit down. The court had not deprived Gu Shaofang of his honors, so it was against the rules to torture a person.
Luo Bingliang said rather gently: "There are now 1,500 Southern soldiers in Kunshan, and the deputy commander-in-chief Chen Lin is personally in charge. When the Japanese pirates made trouble, you were still young and you didn't know. I can tell you that these 1,000 soldiers If the five hundred Nan soldiers were to fight Japanese pirates, they could probably defeat more than fifteen thousand."
"Last year, under the command of Yu Shuai, he conquered eighteen villages in one day. The one-eyed Ah Liu of Jinniutang was known as the reincarnation of the True Monarch Erlang. His village name was Xiaotian. More than 4,000 people gathered together to build a stronghold and set up guns and boats. They were extremely majestic. Two, five hundred southern soldiers defeated it in one day, and even the stronghold was burned by him."
"Do you still need me to explain to you in detail the combat power of our Ming Dynasty Southern Army?"
"No, no need." Gu Shaofang waved his hands repeatedly. He knew that the Nan soldiers were fierce, but when Yu Dayou divided his troops to attack eighteen villages in one day in Nan Ya, he still pulled the knife with a knife, which opened the eyes of the Jin gentry in Nan Ya and awakened them. Deep in their memories, the fear of being dominated by Japanese pirates.
The Japanese pirates were already very ferocious, but these southern soldiers were more than ten times more ferocious than the Japanese pirates.
Luo Bingliang said quite accurately: "So, don't expect that someone will rescue you or help you. Your father has been taken to Xu Xing, the capital, for questioning. Whatever I ask, you answer."
"Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't answer. I will find out. The court also wants your attitude. See if your family still has any respect."
"Where is the hidden silver?"
Gu Shaofang's eyes were a little dodgeful, and he quickly shook his head and said, "Tiqi confiscated all the 780,000 taels of silver in the family!"
"If you don't tell the truth, forget it." Once Luo Bingliang heard Gu Shaofang speak, he seemed too lazy to ask any more questions.
Not to mention that Gu Shaofang was also unlucky. He was a candidate for the new imperial examination. According to the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, he went to Beijing to take the imperial examination for the first time. The court gave him travel expenses to take the imperial examination. Originally, Gu Shaofang was going to Beijing to participate in the Spring Festival, but his father Something happened.
If he had already entered Beijing, Gu Shaofang would still be able to avoid jail this time due to his identity.
Luo Bingliang said with a smile: "If you don't say it, your father will say it, your mother will say it, and the servants in your family will also say it. Is the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen a good place? That great talent explained Jin, I threw it into the ice and snow in the middle of winter, poured a bucket of water on it, and everything was explained."
"And this earth torture, do you know how to do it? Shave the person's hair clean, then smear the person with honey, and bury the person in the soil. The bugs in the soil bite the person and it hurts and itches. The key is this itching. I can’t scratch it yet.”
"If you haven't told me yet, just scrape off the scalp and pour honey into it. The ants will be crawling around under the skin, tsk tsk."
Luo Bingliang just wanted to scare Gu Shaofang. The soil punishment of Beizhen Fusi was to smear honey and bury it in the soil, then expose the head and pry open the scalp. The honey couldn't get in and the ants couldn't crawl in. He was just scaring people.
Anyone who has killed a chicken knows that what Luo Bingliang said is simply unrealistic.
But Gu Shaofang has been studying since he was a child. The gentleman is far away from the kitchen. Gu Shaofang has never killed a chicken. A fishy smell of urine came out. Luo Bingliang knew that Gu Shaofang was frightened.
This is to beat the head of this key person until he is dizzy, and then start to peel off the scales.
Luo Bingliang's expression became greedy, and his face became fierce as he said: "I'll ask you one last time, except for these 780,000 taels, which are for the imperial court, where is this hidden silver? Tiqi brothers are going south. I must make some money, tell the truth, and give you some preferential treatment, otherwise I will find out and give your whole family the punishment of death!"
When Gu Shaofang heard this, he was startled and said immediately: "There are also 110,000 taels of hidden silver in my uncle Chen Chuanshi's pigsty. He didn't even know that his father buried it before his uncle built the pigsty! "
Luo Bingliang is lying. Luo Bingliang will do the accounting together with the 110,000 taels of silver hidden under the pig pen and send it back to the court. Even if Lu Bing is the Tishuai and the Jin Yiwei is in fierce flames, the Tiqi will not take it when they are handling the case. Tiqi was already separated from the emperor by a palace wall and succumbed to Dongchang. If he took any more money, he would only decline further.
Luo Bingliang's son Luo Sigong is a member of the Holy Family in Long. Who in the world dares to slap the little emperor, leaving bruises one after another?
Zhang Juzheng, the master of the Ming Dynasty, did not dare to raise his ruler to slap the little emperor!
Luo Sigong not only dared, but Luo Sigong had been practicing martial arts almost every day for the past year!
The reason why Luo Bingliang deceived like this was based on his rich case-handling skills. To do things for the court was just an errand, but to make money for himself, he must use all his means. No matter how much money he fished out, it was all his own, so he naturally used his heart.
One is to run errands, and the other is to make money for myself.
When Gu Shaofang heard that Luo Bingliang had made money for him, he explained the whereabouts of the money without saying a word.
Luo Bingliang nodded and said: "Today at noon, I will give the Gu family something good to eat and drink. We will set up a banquet for two taels and a jug of wine. If we don't find any money..."
"hehe."
Luo Bingliang showed a cruel smile, which made Gu Shaofang tremble in fear.
Gu Shaofang was taken away, and Zhang Cheng walked in. He looked at Luo Bingliang. After looking up and down, Zhang Cheng said with emotion: "Ten thousand silver was used to buy wine for the brothers. I pretended I didn't see it."
Luo Bingliang shook his head and said: "Not a cent will be lost, and everyone will go to the capital. When you eunuchs were drawing points in Yuegang, why didn't you think of leaving some money?"
Zhang Cheng said with an enigmatic smile: "How do you know our family has no money left?"
"Don't you dare. If you take something you shouldn't take, our ancestors will skin you and throw you into the well." Luo Bingliang said cheerfully.
Zhang Cheng was silent for a moment and said, "What if our family divides the accounts with Zhang Jin, Luo Gongchen and others?"
Luo Bingliang smiled even more and said: "Zhang Jin will give the money to the ancestors when he returns home, then peel off your skin and throw it into the well. It's fine."
"Luo Qianhu really doesn't get enough food and salt!" Zhang Cheng also laughed.
If Luo Bingliang took these ten thousand taels of silver, the credit for this mission would be immediately offset. This would be extremely good news for the eunuchs in the palace.
Luo Bingliang looked at Zhang Cheng and said: "Okay, Zhang Dajue, let's not play tricks here. We are fighting against wolves. The eunuchs of the Qianqing Palace and the eunuchs of the Chief of Ceremonies are vying for the position of the ancestors. Si and Dongchang are also fighting for the right to investigate, and to be honest, we are all fighting for the Holy Family."
"Tishuai wants to choose one of me and Zhao Mengyou to recommend as Tishuai. Zhao Mengyou's son is also training in the palace, and Zhao Mengyou is also a martial arts scholar, so he has an advantage."
"Is power or money more important? We are all foxes of thousands of years. There is no point in scheming. It is important to complete the errands assigned by His Majesty."
In the Ming Dynasty, which designed its system around the imperial system, whether power or money was more important was not a question at all. Power was the most important.
"Qianhu thinks that Gu Shaofang has vomited all his vomit?" Zhang Cheng stopped playing tricks. We are all old foxes on errands. Together, they have eight hundred minds, and they all read His Majesty's contradictory words. There is no need to continue talking nonsense. If you have the courage, be greedy for ink. As long as you are not afraid of the punishment of Yuan Fu and the emperor, take it boldly.
Luo Bingliang sneered and said: "No, this is the fish that has lost a layer of scales and has not been disemboweled."
"A layer of fish scales has been removed. What kind of excuse is this?" Zhang Cheng asked in surprise.
"I can't tell you the method passed down by Lu Tishuai easily." Luo Bingliang was very precious and refused to share Lu Bing's method of eating fish. If you have a slippery hand, you can hold it.
To be more clear, when handling a case, after knocking the other party unconscious, he deceives and tries every means to get the other party to confess some problems.
This creates the possibility of further breakthroughs, and the next step is to disembowel them.
Lu Bing was able to secure the position of Tishuai back then, and he was also able to step on Dongchang and ask the eunuchs to kowtow to him. This was not only because Lu Bing had a close personal relationship with Emperor Sejongsu, but he was also a good hand at running errands.
Soon, the news came back that 110,000 taels of gold and silver had been seized, which was also stolen money.
Luo Bingliang began to disembowel him, and with the newly recovered stolen money, Luo Bingliang was greedy and began to pursue further. He interrogated several people in detail, and dug out another 90,000 taels of silver without using severe punishment.
At this point, Zhang Cheng thought that Luo Bingliang had reached his limit. However, Luo Bingliang opened Zhang Cheng's eyes and let Zhang Cheng know what it means to eat everything and wipe it clean.
"Exercise punishment." Luo Bingliang looked at Gu Shaofang who had been raped and slipped back, and said to Tiqi.
"I'm a judge, you can't torture me!" Gu Shaofang panicked immediately! His biggest confidence was that he was exempted from punishment because he was a judge, but Luo Bingliang even accepted his money, and yet he still wanted to be punished!
Luo Bingliang said: "We are Tiqi. Tiqi handles cases. You can't punish you even if you are a judge? What good thing are you thinking about?"
"Let's do the burning first. Lift the bronze tripod up and stuff our Gu Juren inside."
"Fire...fire...fire...torture?" Gu Shaofang was frightened and asked dully.
Luo Bingliang said very thoughtfully: "Throw you into the copper tripod, fill it with oil, then close the lid and lock it, expose your head outside, and then start burning firewood. When will you explain and when will you fish the person out?" Come out and call down the oil pan. Does Gu Juren have anything else to ask? No, let's get started."
"Qianhu, Qianhu, whatever you want to know, I will tell you everything, I will tell you everything!" Gu Shaofang was already frightened. This damn punishment of five poisons, Tiqi is a group of human Shura, this is a human being Any tricks you can think of?
Luo Bingliang still said very gently: "I want to know the number of armored crossbows in each shop in Nanya. I don't know Gu Juren. Can you provide some clues? I don't need to be too clear. I just want to know where the armor and crossbows are made. By the way, I want to know how many armored crossbows each household in our Nanya has."
Gu Shaofang hesitated. Instead of immediately loudly arguing that he didn't know and begging Luo Bingliang for his life, he hesitated.
This hesitation made Luo Bingliang overjoyed. He immediately stood up and said: "Bring up the bronze tripod!"
"I said, I said! I said!" Gu Shaofang immediately chose to surrender. He had no choice but to surrender, otherwise he would be in trouble.
Soon the Tiqimen grasped important clues. This melon-vine method was not Lu Tishuai's method, but the method of Ji Gang, the commander of the Jinyi Guards during the Yongle period.
Jinyiwei has been working in the outer court for more than two hundred years and has been handling cases for more than two hundred years. Like the Xu family, Shen family, and Gu family, Tiqi has accumulated quite a wealth of criminal experience. Dealing with Gu Shaofang is really like pinching a snail with three fingers and holding a handle in his hand. Grip.
Luo Bingliang got the important clues and immediately started sending people to spread the message.
Zhang Cheng said in amazement: "Luo Qianhu is really amazing."
"Not as powerful as my son. He dared to hit Your Majesty! I almost broke this traitor's legs, but this traitor still only listened to His Majesty's words, as if I wanted to harm him." Luo Bingliang said about his son Luo Sigong, that is, he has a headache Incomparable.
Fortunately, Tishuai was afraid that he would be seriously injured during the sparring, so he had everyone wear protective gear. Otherwise, Luo Sigong would really beat the little emperor to death. The Luo family would not be able to kill anyone even if they were eighteen generations of ancestors.
But if you wear protective gear, it will still hurt for several days.
"Where is the bronze tripod?" Zhang Cheng asked about the bronze tripod. He also wanted to see the skill of using the oil pan.
"If Gu Shaofang asked, I wouldn't be surprised. But if Zhang Dajue asked, I would be confused." Luo Bingliang looked at Zhang Cheng with strange eyes.
When Zhang Cheng thought about it, he immediately understood and said with emotion: "What Luo Qianhu taught me is that you still have to study. If Gu Shaofang doesn't study, he doesn't understand."
"Indeed, if you don't study well, you won't be able to do well. Gu Shaofang didn't study well, so he was deceived by me." Luo Bingliang said in agreement.
There is no copper cauldron at all, and there is no oil pan. Even the punishment of the Five Poisons is a character created by Beizhen Fusi. The serious punishment of the Five Poisons is not that terrible, and it is not that terrifying. There is not even a piece of soldering iron.
Because contradiction exists among all things, harmony and balance also exist among all things.
The Fusi Yamen in Beizhen is opposite the Liubu Yamen. Once the Tiqimen tortured civil servants with honors and official status, they would be criticized verbally and written by Yanguan. The Yanguan could even force the emperor to be extremely passive. The Tiqimen handled the case. , it should also be maintained within a range.
Ji Gang threw Jie Jin into the ice and snow, and a bucket of water froze to death. Ji Gang was later punished with death. If there are conflicts, there will be struggles, and if there are struggles, there will be a cycle of progress. This is the most important point of the theory of contradiction, and it is also the current current situation.
Beizhen Fusi generally would not use punishment easily, but it was enough. Even if Gu Shaofang didn't explain, the Tiqi could handle the case properly. If they didn't have this ability, how could they be worthy of the prestige of the Tiqi for two hundred years?
Soon, a list of the number of armor and crossbows hidden in each household was sent to Yingtian Mansion.
Yingtian, the governor of Song Yangshan, once again announced the announcement, asking every household not to take chances. The imperial court has actually grasped the number of armor and strong crossbows in their hands. If you take chances, the Gu family will end!
The armor of the Ming Dynasty, as shown in the "New Book of Jixiao", mainly uses cotton armor as an example. Cotton armor is also divided into three, six and nine grades. The lowest grade is made of cloth sewn with cotton like a jacket. Only the upper body of the cotton armor is seven. It weighs a pound, but it is not heavy when it rains, it is not rotten by mold, and it cannot be seriously injured by a shotgun.
The Jijia recorded in Ji Xiao's new book is this kind of low-cost cotton armor that can protect against arrows and lead.
For medium-sized cotton armor, a cotton armor is worn over a pierced armor, and a thick cotton cap is worn outside the helmet.
Heavy armor is cotton-iron composite armor, also called cloth-covered armor. After two layers of cotton cloth wrap the iron armor pieces and sew them together, the inside and outside are fixed with copper nails (nail bubbles). This is heavy armor.
This kind of heavy armor is strictly prohibited by the imperial court, as long as the origin of the Gu family can be found out, and then the number of armors on the ground of Nanya can be found out.
According to Tiqi's inspection, there are two main types of armor leakage.
The first is the leakage of weapons from the imperial court. These armors are all imperial armors, but they were leaked out in various ways, such as the fire dragon burning the warehouse, such as the five ghosts transporting them; the second is private manufacturing, which type The workshop is difficult to find, but with the clues provided by Gu Shaofang, it is easy.
Xu Jie finally came to Nanya, handed over a greeting card, and asked to see Song Yangshan. Song Yangshan met Xu Jie in his private house.
"Long time no see, Master Xu's style remains the same." Song Yangshan bowed first and met Xu Jie.
Song Yiwang of Song Yangshan and Xu Jie came from the same sect. They were both direct disciples of Nie Bao, a disciple of Wang Yangming. They were brothers in the same sect.
"Junior and junior students have separated." Xu Jie looked at Song Yangshan with mixed emotions. He originally thought that Song Yangshan, as the governor of Yingtian, would be able to tolerate the Xu family, but it turned out that Song Yangshan was not kind at all.
As far as the news received by Xu Jie was concerned, if Zhang Juzheng had not repeatedly written to Song Yangshan, asking him not to brag too hastily, in the sixth year of Longqing, Song Yangshan would have investigated the occupation and the return of land, and he was very ready to take action on his senior brother.
"No matter how close our personal relationship is, or how you address me in private, since you are here for official business, please call me Governor, and sit down." Song Yangshan did not answer his junior brother's words, but stated the rules.
When working, call your job.
Xu Jie said sincerely: "Junior brother, are you determined to follow Zhang Juzheng to death? If Zhang Juzheng falls, your reputation will be ruined by then. Please wake up."
"He can't even protect himself. How can he protect you? I know it was Yuan Fu who gave the order. You have to obey. I can't make it difficult for you."
"What does Zhang Juzheng want? Doesn't he just want money? Or the tax on the 70,000 hectares of land? I can convince the Jin gentry in Nanya that the tax on the 70,000 hectares can be paid."
Song Yangshan was not happy when he heard this. He shook his head and said: "The war of cloth, the war of corn, and the war of force have existed since ancient times."
"Teacher Xu, were the Japanese gentry in Nanya, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangxi pacified the Japanese gentry? If so, then what the court did was unethical, but it was clearly the imperial court that worked hard to pacify the Japanese and restore peace to the world. How can you listen to Taishi? Master, what do you mean, should I accept this gift?"
"Now I still ask you to hand over the armored crossbows. If you don't hand them over, your house will be ransacked. I have a list of things you can use. Xu has more than thirty armors and three hundred crossbows. I thought Taishi Xu was here to hand over the armored crossbows."
Song Yangshan's words are a bit rude. Does the imperial court need to pay taxes to raise troops?
The Jin gentry only wanted to clean up the trouble in front of the family, but also took the opportunity to drink human blood. The world finally regained some strength under the auspices of the imperial court, and refused to return life and death, and cared about it in every possible way.
If the imperial court has no taxes, how can the world be at peace? The war is fierce and dangerous, and the whole world suffers from it.
"Song Yangshan, don't forget what happened to Hu Zongxian back then!"
"Zhang Juzheng is now rectifying Hu Zongxian's name and giving him a posthumous title. He will deal with me now, and he will deal with you tomorrow. He doesn't even look down on me as a teacher, but how can he look down on you, an uncle? He wants to engage in bribery. The disadvantages of appeasement start with me, and you will be next!" Seeing that the discussion failed, Xu Jie's tone immediately changed and he talked about the past.
Song Yangshan impeached Hu Zongxian in the 41st year of Jiajing, and Hu Zongxian stepped down.
Hu Zongxian was imprisoned again in the forty-fourth year of Jiajing reign because of a handwritten letter written by Hu Zongxian, falsely conveying an imperial edict.
And this forged imperial edict was Song Yangshan's perjury.
Xu Jie saw Song Yangshan's expression changed drastically and knew that Song Yangshan was beginning to get entangled.
Xu Jie's expression changed from fierce to gentle, and he said with a lot of heart and soul: "Now Zhang Juzheng, Wang Daokun, and Shen Yiguan, seeing that you are able to handle the investigation and handling of embezzlement, they are relying on you. Once you are done, they will settle old scores with you immediately." !”
"We brothers come from the same sect, why should we fight against each other? Why don't we discuss it with the court? If the court wants taxes, can't we just pay them?"
Song Yangshan struggled with his face. He clenched his fists and looked at Xu Jie. If Xu Jie had produced the forged imperial edict, then Hu Zongxian's case would not be an unjust case, but a typical case of persecution.
By then, will Song Yangshan be alive?
He, Song Yangshan, also had a hand in the forgery of the imperial edict and the unjust death of Hu Zongxian!
"Don't think about it. Zhang Juzheng can't protect you in this case. Even the most powerful officials in the world can eat you up. You have no way back for a long time. What kind of loyal minister and good minister are you doing now?" Xu Jie urged again, his tone even louder. He said gently: "The court wants taxes, we will pay them, don't bother."
Please give me a monthly ticket, wow! ! ! It may or may not happen tonight, but I will try my best to have it.
(End of chapter)
