Scholar and old attack

"Master Jiang, Xu Changming escaped from the tunnel."

Just when Jiang Jingyuan's mouth was dripping with bright blood, and when he was vengeful, someone from outside came in to report.

Jiang Jingyuan stood up from the ground with a jerk, a few sharp rays of light appeared in the red and swollen eye sockets, like the bone-chilling cold in winter, and like Shura who came out of hell.

Just a look scared the subordinates who came in to report. He staggered unconsciously and stuttered, "Jiang...Jiang...Master?"

"Pursue, chase the whole process, and blockade the four cities in the east, west, north, and south. I think he can't escape too far."

With a hoarse voice, Jiang Jingyuan's eyes were like a sharp sword, piercing the sky of the night, chasing the ghosts and ghosts in the night.

"Yes."

The Yulin Army received Jiang Jingyuan's words, saluted and ordered them to go down.

That night, the people in the capital did not sleep well.

Hearing the uniform footsteps outside the door all night, as well as the knocking on the door from time to time, set their hearts on edge.

Before dawn, the capital became noisy.

Xu Changming was cruel, he set fire to his study, escaped from the secret passage of the study, and did not bring his wife and children with him.

Until dawn, the Imperial Forest Army did not find Xu Changming's whereabouts.

Jiang Jing Yuanku's legs were already numb after sitting all night, he lifted his head stiffly to look at the brilliance of dawn, Gujing Wubo's eyes revealed a brilliance.

"The darkness will pass, and the dawn will always return."

"My lord Jiang, let Xu Changming escape. The guards at the four city gates in the southeast, north and west have already been controlled by Master Yuan. It's useless to catch Xu Changming even if the gates are closed."

The commander of the Yulin Army came in and reported to Jiang Jingyuan, speaking with a very lonely expression, as long as Xu Changming was caught, it would be a great achievement.

Jiang Jingyuan turned his thumb slightly, lowered his eyes and pondered, "Understood, let's open the city gate, don't delay the daily life of the people."

Knowing that he has already scared the snake, the person must have been picked up by the insider in the capital long ago, and he couldn't find it in a short time.

And many people in the capital rely on opening the city gate to do business. If the city gate is not opened for a day, the people will be in panic all day long.

"Yes."

The commander of the imperial forest army was unwilling, but His Majesty had a password to tell them to listen to Jiang Jingyuan, so he had to obey.

Jiang Jingyuan staggered up from the ground and sat all night, the blood in his feet was not flowing, and he was already numb to the point of being unconscious.

Seeing that Jiang Jingyuan's center of gravity was unstable and he was about to fall to the ground, the two imperial guards guarding outside the door quickly stepped forward to help him, "Master Jiang, please take care of yourself."

Although they didn't know what happened, they knew in their hearts that Master Jiang was sharing the worries of the emperor and the common people in the world, so they didn't want Jiang Jingyuan to be overworked and exhausted.

"I don't mind, just help me move my muscles and bones."

Jiang Jingyuan walked around the room, waited until the blood flowed from his feet, and then went out to find Yuan Changjian, and the two went into the palace to report to His Majesty.

Along the way, I saw a group of officials who had just left court.

The officials received the news last night that the capital is blowing up!

But they were busy going to court and didn't have time to inquire carefully. When they entered the hall, they saw the emperor's face was gloomy, and they didn't dare to ask anything. They didn't dare to say anything.

All the officials who were able to enter the early court were not fools. If such a big incident happened in the capital, they were afraid of getting burned, especially if Jiang Jingyuan and Yuan Changjian were not here, something big must have happened.

It's Jiang Jingyuan again!

When all the officials saw Jiang Jingyuan, they felt emotional at the same time. Since Jiang Jingyuan became an official, the capital city has never been peaceful. One wave after another, whether it is a blessing or a curse.

All the officials avoided Jiang Jingyuan and Yuan Changjian. Jiang Jingyuan touched his nose. How scary is he?

Seeing this, Yuan Changjian chuckled, "Master Jiang seems to care about other people's opinions."

Jiang Jingyuan shook his head, looked down at the clothes on himself and Yuan Changjian, and smiled, "I mean, the other officials let you and me go, it turns out that our clothes were stained with a lot of blood. "

Both of them were wearing crimson official robes. They fought another battle last night, and a lot of blood was splashed on their bodies. At this moment, the blood had dried up and turned brown, staining their clothes, which looked a little scary.

"That's no problem." Yuan Changjian seemed to lack a muscle, he didn't care about other people's eyes, let alone his own image.

For a while, Jiang Jingyuan, who was usually eloquent, also suffocated Yuan Changjian.

The two reported what happened last night to the emperor, and as expected, the emperor Longyan was furious, and asked the court to try his best to arrest Xu Changming and dig three feet to find him.

But no matter if it was the Son of Heaven, or Yuan Changjian and Jiang Jingyuan, all three of them knew that Xu Changming might not be able to find him in a short time.

But it doesn't matter whether he comes out or not, Jiang Jingyuan won't make him feel better.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, a total of 9000 taels of gold and [-] million taels of silver were found during the search of the Xu Mansion this time. Other gold, silver and jewels are still under investigation, and [-] grassland horses and horses. What is your majesty's plan?"

Jiang Jingyuan saw that the emperor was furious, so he decided to tell him something that made him happy.

Sure enough, the emperor's hands trembled slightly, and his voice trembled, "How much did you say?"

Even Eunuch Fu, who had always been calm, tilted his body slightly. It's just that Mr. Jiang was joking for such a small Xu family to have such money.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, what I said is true. Under Xu's house, there is a basement as big as Xu's house, which is densely packed with gold, silver and jewels. Count the gold and silver, and the others are still being counted."

Of course Jiang Jingyuan knew what the money meant to the emperor. The national tax only collects 600 million taels of silver a year, but a small Xu family has hundreds of millions of taels hidden in it. What a shock.

A country is no richer than a merchant.

The emperor was still in shock, Jiang Jingyuan continued, "Your Majesty, I have also studied why the Xu family is rich."

Hearing Jiang Jingyuan's words, the Son of Heaven came back to his senses slightly, "Speak."

"I, Ming, have never paid much attention to sea transportation. I thought that overseas is a wild place, and there is not much trade, but what your majesty doesn't know is that although overseas is a wild place, there are also rich places. They have countless furs. , countless minerals, countless gold and silver, and even some countries regard gold, silver and jewelry as worthless ornaments."

Jiang Jingyuan didn't drink a drop of water all night, and his voice was very hoarse as he talked.

The Son of Heaven actually poured a glass of water for Jiang Jingyuan himself and stuffed it into Jiang Jingyuan's hand. Jiang Jingyuan was so thirsty that he drank it without thinking twice.

Only Yuan Changjian and Eunuch Fu looked at each other in blank dismay, but thinking of the overseas world described by Jiang Jingyuan, they didn't care about these trivial matters, and wanted to hear him continue to describe.

"There are even countless cattle, sheep and horses in some barren hills overseas, and fertile land that can be planted three seasons a year. If all these are utilized, the prosperity of my Ming Dynasty can be imagined."

Jiang Jingyuan knew that in ancient times, people were limited by their vision, and thought that what he could see was the best, and more people couldn’t leave their homeland. The superiority of a big country made him feel that there could be something good in wild places overseas, so he missed so many good opportunities. .

"Is this really the case overseas?"

None of the people present had ever been overseas, but they just heard the people below talk about how desolate overseas and how uncivilized people are, and they all gave them a cross in their hearts.

But now they heard that the overseas countries described by Jiang Jingyuan were different, and their hearts began to beat.

Of course, Jiang Jingyuan knew that they would not easily believe his words, so he gave another heavy blow, "Of course, Your Majesty, please look at the Xu family. The Xu family is just a small merchant engaged in shipping, but they have only been together for a few years. so much wealth."

"The Xu family..."

The emperor murmured, in fact, he didn't remember when the Xu family started to engage in shipping. How could the king of his country remember such a trivial matter.

"In the 11th year of Xuande, Xu Changhui, the eldest son of Xu, went to sea for the first time and brought back a cargo. After selling it to make money, he went to sea again. There was no news. After 14 years of Xuande, he was sent back by his servants, saying that he was infected at sea. He died from the wind and cold, and then his younger brother Xu Changming took over the elder brother's business and made the shipping as strong as it is today."

Jiang Jingyuan spoke easily, but there was no warmth in his eyes.

The emperor didn't pay attention to his eyes, but blurted out, "The Xu family's son was dead when he returned from going out, why did the Xu family dare to take over the shipping business?"

Even if the Son of Heaven does not leave the palace, he knows that the sea is very risky, why the Xu family is not afraid.

Jiang Jingyuan lowered his eyes, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and bit his lower lip lightly, trying to suppress his emotions very well, "It's because Xu's eldest son has worked so hard to open up a new road after three years overseas. On the road of sea transportation, I earned a boatload of gold, silver and jewels, and I became greedy."

Jiang Jingyuan bit the blood out of the still unhealed lips, and rolled the blood back into his mouth with the tip of his tongue. The strong smell of blood rushed into Jiang Jingyuan's entire mouth.

"Xu Changhui has been away for three years. This time he went to sea, he expected that he would not come back in a short time, so he entrusted his wife and children to his younger brother Xu Changming to take care of him. Xu Changming promised well, but turned his back and forgot what Xu Changhui said. It was clean, and money was sent back from time to time at sea, but he did not notify his wife and children, and took all the money away."

Jiang Jingyuan paused as he spoke, and then continued, "After all, paper can't contain fire, and Xu Changhui will come back after all, but Xu Changming is well aware of his brother's nature, as he knows that he abused his wife and children, he will definitely not let him go." But this time, his brother also brought a boatload of gold, silver and jewels and the sea route that has been opened up, and he, Xu Changming, wants it too."

"So Xu Changhui was killed by poison, and the briber lied that Xu Changhui died of a cold at sea, and then joined the Xu family clan to drive his wife and children out of Xu's house."

Jiang Jingyuan's teeth were chattering at the end. If he hadn't found the correspondence between Xu Changhui and Xu Changming last night, he definitely wouldn't have known what was in it.

"So that's how it is." After hearing this, the Son of Heaven just lamented how vicious Xu Changming was, but he was not much better than Xu Changming when he was born in an emperor's family, so he was just lamenting.

"This Xu Changming is really a hypocrite. If his brother treated him meanly, he would have thought so, but his brother was not mean to him. In the end, he did such a rebellious thing for the sake of money. He deserves to be killed."

It was Yuan Changjian who complained for Xu Changhui.

"Your Majesty, I want the Ministry of Household Affairs to take over the shipping business. Since the sea is so rich, I have absolutely no reason to watch the money go to merchants."

Jiang Jingyuan buried all the pain deeply, and forced himself to discuss the matter of shipping with the emperor.

"Very good, very good, so the matter of shipping has been handed over to Jiang Aiqing, I believe Jiang Aiqing will not let me down."

The Son of Heaven immediately became pleasantly surprised. He was worried about whom to find to be in charge of shipping, but Jiang Jingyuan took the initiative to take it over. Such a long-standing problem was easily solved.

Jiang Jingyuan didn't give up, and continued, "Although overseas is a wild place, there are also pirates, sea bandits, small tribes, and large tribes on the sea. Your Majesty allows the Ministry of War to cooperate with our Ministry of Households."

"allow."

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Coming out of the palace, Jiang Jingyuan looked at the scorching sun outside and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Master Jiang, this time, our Ministry of War has accepted your favor, but what you said you gave to the Ministry of War today."

Yuan Changjian is also a stubborn person, but he has not forgotten what Jiang Jingyuan said yesterday, and everything matters.

Regarding Yuan Changjian's stubbornness, Jiang Jingyuan just smiled, "Master Yuan, everything should be ready, come with me to the household department to get it."

"I hope Lord Jiang won't break his promise to me again this time." Yuan Changjian looked much better. This time the household department got such a large sum of money, and he had to plan and plan to get some benefits for their military department.

Jiang Jingyuan didn't know the little Jiujiu in Yuan Changjian's heart, so he brought Yuan Changjian to Hubu. Sure enough, Hubu's arsenal had already prepared [-] pairs of weapons and armor.

"Master Yuan, everything is here, please have a look."

Jiang Jingyuan pointed to dozens of large baskets in the courtyard and asked Yuan Changjian to inspect them.

Yuan Changjian casually lifted the cloth covering the basket, revealing a pair of bright long knives inside. Each weapon was the same as the weapons equipped by soldiers today, but different, compared to the ones forged with iron. Much finer.

"Is this forged from refined iron?"

Yuan Changjian's eyes were shocked, and he lifted most of the covering cloth with lotus steps, and all he could see were weapons forged with refined iron.

"Master Jiang..."

Yuan Changjian didn't know what to say at this moment.

Jiang Jingyuan smiled faintly, "Lord Yuan, the soldiers in the frontier are the pillars of our Ming Dynasty. Since there is going to be a war in the frontier, our household department has to do our best."

"This..." Yuan Changjian actually felt a little moved.

He has dealt with the Ministry of Households for many years, and every time there is an emergency in the frontier, he would push his hand to the Ministry of Households, and he would always have to fight in front of the emperor to get something out of the Ministry of Households.

But this time Jiang Jingyuan not only agreed readily, but also acted very generously. He said that he would give [-] equipment.

Yuan Changjian's eyes were reddish, and he couldn't express his gratitude, so he could only murmur, "It's a great blessing for me to have Mr. Jiang in the household department."

"It's my great Ming's blessing to have Mr. Yuan in the Ministry of War." Jiang Jingyuan also replied.

After the Ministry of War sent someone over to hand over the weapon, Yuan Changjian, who had always been steadfast, wanted to treat Jiang Jingyuan to a meal to express his gratitude, but he swallowed the words after seeing the busy Hubu.

Mr. Jiang is dedicated to the country, so he should not like socializing.

Xu Shuizhou arranged manpower for emergency processing, and finally printed [-] copies of the newspaper before Xiangwu.

Find good children to sell newspapers in the streets and alleys.

At this moment, there are still many people who don't know what happened last night. They just know that the soldiers standing on the third floor and the third floor outside the gate of Xu's house, smelling the burning smell in the air, are thinking that something happened to Xu's house last night.

The people were discussing and discussing, some said that the Xu family was stolen by thieves in the middle of the night, and some said that the Xu family was stolen by thieves last night and caught fire.

In short, no one said anything wrong with the Xu family. In the hearts of the people, the Xu family was a family of great kindness, and the official family should be oriented toward the Xu family.

Just when there was a lot of discussion in the streets and alleys, a few children dressed in gray cloth but neatly dressed, carrying a small cloth bag on their backs, holding a densely printed piece of paper in their hands, yelled loudly,

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, selling newspapers, the Xu family in the south of Beijing colluded with the grasslands for 30 years and slaughtered more than 100 million soldiers in our country."

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, selling newspapers, the Xu family in the south of Beijing and the grassland have secretly communicated with each other for 30 years, and they are really a house of great evil."

For a while, there were children's tender and clear voices in the streets and alleys. The matter about the Xu family in Jingnan was like a heavy hammer hitting people's hearts.

They just said that some little thief would even dare to steal from the Xu family. Now that they heard about the collusion between the Xu family and the grassland, they couldn't react at all.

"Hey, kid, you can't talk nonsense, do you know what the Xu family does?"

But even so, some people still refused to believe it, and blocked the children selling newspapers fiercely.

The kid who sold the newspaper was not afraid of him, raised his innocent face, and said sincerely, "I'm not talking nonsense, all the content in our newspaper is written by the newspaper office officer under the household department, every sentence is true, If you don’t believe me, buy a copy and see for yourself.”

After hearing this, the man was a little shaken. They believed that the Xu family was authentic, but they were also willing to trust the government. Since the newspaper was made by the government, it would be no harm to buy a copy.

"How much is a copy?"

"Two copper plates."

"Have one."

This scene was played out in the streets and alleys. People who could read read newspapers after they bought them, and those who could not read bought newspapers and asked those who could read to read them.

Daming Kyoto Daily

Uncover the shocking secrets of the Xu family for 30 years.

When the newspaper was spread out, such a line of words appeared, and everyone's eyes followed.

The article explains in detail how the Xu family went to the grassland to communicate with the music in the past 30 years.

It turned out that as early as 30 years ago, when the Xu family's business failed, someone was cooperating with the grassland in the arms business in exchange for the temporary prosperity of the family.

However, what the Xu family did was extremely secretive at that time, and only the side branches were doing it. It wasn't until 25 years ago that the former right prime minister He Yunhai investigated that the Xu family had an affair with the grassland, and the Xu family's direct descendants didn't know about it.

However, capitalizing on the enemy is a serious crime for punishing the nine clans. The Xu family did not want to take this responsibility, so they did not do anything, and discussed with the grassland that the Prime Minister You and the grassland colluded to judge the country to completely eradicate the Prime Minister You and his family.

That's why the prime minister sentenced the country 25 years ago.

Later, the Xu family may have tasted the sweetness of doing business with the grassland. Originally, it was only a side branch doing business with the grassland, but later it developed that the direct line also did business with the grassland.

Having learned the lesson of being found with clues this time, they were more cautious, and even put the armory in the capital, under the eyelids of the emperor.

It wasn't until Master Jiang from the household department found out, that's why the scene last night happened.

Although most of the members of the Xu family have been arrested, Xu Changming, the head of the Xu family, still escaped. At the end of the article, everyone is urged to report to the government if they see Xu Changming's traces.

The article is wonderfully written and fascinating, not only can people read it into it, but even people who read it can beat their chests and feet.

The Xu family they were so proud of turned out to be such a person behind their backs, and Judgment really couldn't tolerate it.

Public grievances arose, and the common people were furious. It was in vain for them to praise the Xu family on weekdays.

There were also those who complained for the former right prime minister, but the former right prime minister He Yunhai was a bit old after all, and not many people still remembered him.

Although the people of Ming Dynasty were poor, they still had some backbone. When they thought about how they had been buried in the dark for so many years, they urgently needed to vent their anger.

Of course, the way to vent their anger is still the same old way of throwing mud and vegetable leaves at Xu's house.

The people in the household department who were still counting the properties of the Xu family were dumbfounded, "Everyone is in the prison of the Ministry of punishment, and they can't see the mud thrown here."

An official picked at the vegetable leaves on his body, "It's not because our feelings regard us as the Xu family. If it weren't for seeing that there are so many gold and silver treasures here, I wouldn't want to come here."

"Hurry up and finish cleaning up, and go back and explain to Mr. Jiang. Mr. Jiang said that everyone will be rewarded after returning this time, but the premise is that we don't take a single cent." Someone interjected again.

The others hurriedly said they didn't dare, but Jiang Jingyuan was well-known, the well-known God of Wealth, he could only go in and out, and anyone who touched his things would end badly.

After hearing what the newspaper boy said, the officials who were in the basement all went to buy a newspaper one after another. They were still confused about what happened last night.

After reading the newspaper, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, thinking that at most the Xu family was investigated by Jiang Jingyuan for bribing officials. After all, Jiang Jingyuan loves so much money.

Unexpectedly, such a big fish was dug out, and the case of sentencing the country also involved the wrongedness of the former Prime Minister You. They hadn't heard any news about such a big event beforehand.

As expected, Jiang Jingyuan was indeed worthy, if he didn't make a move, he would have already shaken the capital.

No matter how much discussion there is in the capital, the sky in the Jiang family is a bit gloomy at the moment.

Especially when He Yuzhu knew the truth about their family being ransacked and beheaded back then, he cried out of breath.

She said that her father was devoted to the country, so how could he collude with the grassland? It turned out that the Xu family did something good behind the scenes.

No wonder when she married into the Xu family, the Xu family refused to give her a genealogy, and did not allow her to step into the gate of the Xu family. It turned out that someone had a guilty conscience.

"Is it because Minghui doesn't know about this?"

He Yuzhu had cried enough, and after venting all the anger of these years, he looked at Jiang Jingyuan with red eyes.

Jiang Jingyuan nodded hesitantly, wondering if he should tell the truth to He Yuzhu.

Jiang He Yuzhu seemed to know something, and smiled bleakly, "Minghui was probably killed by them too. Back then, Minghui insisted on marrying me, and the Xu family thought that Minghui had spent too much money to redeem me. Because, he refused to accept me, after marriage he would take the risk to go to sea to earn money, it turned out that everything was not because of the money, but because we were too stupid."

He Yuzhu said in the end, her voice became a little ethereal, because she and Minghui both thought things too much and simply.

The room was quiet for a while, He Yuzhu talked to himself for a while, then wiped the tears from his cheeks, and asked, "How did Minghui die?"

"Died of dysentery at sea." Jiang Jingyuan's voice became deeper.

"Dysentery, dysentery, dysentery." He Yuzhu murmured, and finally laughed like crazy, "Hahahahahaha, that's how it is, that's why they won't tell me the truth."

Chen Xiuxiu, who was listening silently, raised her eyes when she heard the word dysentery, showing a fierce look.

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