Looking at the stern-looking imperial guards in front of him, Guan Sheng shouted loudly: "Gather all your equipment and set off!"

The guards in uniforms were even more nervous.

They didn't even inform them of their destination in advance, but asked everyone to bring their equipment. This was almost the first time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, right?

But there is no way. The internal rules of the Jinyiwei are more stringent than the military law. It is said that the first level of the official high school kills people. If Guan Sheng, a member of the Jinyiwei family, does not reveal the destination, all the Jinyiwei captains can only bring all their equipment.

Let’s set off with Guan Sheng.

It wasn't until they walked around and completely surrounded the Xu family's courtyard that all the guards in imperial robes realized what was going on and why Guan Baihu wanted to go to war like this.

The information that Luo Fangbo had heard before was actually correct. The Wenchang number controlled by Xu Zhendong was indeed backed by the Ming Dynasty.

More importantly, Xu Zhendong's relationship in the Ming Dynasty was complicated. The magistrate of Xiangshan County called him brother and sister, and the magistrate of Guangzhou Prefecture was also his guest. In addition, Xu Zhendong's family also had several nephews in the army, one of whom was also a military official.

Having snuck into the position of regimental commander, who knows what the consequences will be if the news is accidentally exposed?

Seeing that his Jinyi Guardsmen had surrounded the entire Xu Family Courtyard, Guan Sheng couldn't help but take a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Break down the door! Get people! Don't let anyone get away!"

The Jinyi Guardsmen who were following Guan Sheng responded with clasped fists, and then several Jinyi Guardsmen came out of the crowd, jogged a few steps and rushed to the door of Xu's courtyard. They shouted in their mouths and bumped into each other with their shoulders.

At the gate of the Xu family courtyard.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, the gate of the Xu Family Courtyard fell to the ground, throwing up bursts of dust. Guan Sheng took the lead directly into the Xu Family Courtyard and shouted loudly: "Jin Yiwei is handling the case!"

As Guan Sheng's words fell, a group of Jinyi guards who followed Guan Sheng also rushed directly into the Xu family compound. Anyone who tried to escape or resisted was directly knocked down by a group of Jinyi guards.

Soon, Xu Zhendong and his family were brought to Guan Sheng.

Xu Zhendong stared at Guan Sheng with an unkind expression, and sneered: "But I don't know how big of a crime Xu has committed, and he actually wants to bother the master of Jin Yiwei?"

Guan Sheng also sneered and asked: "Did you allow someone to forget about the Xingtai Store opposite the Wenchang No.?"

After finishing speaking, Guan Sheng waved his hand and ordered Xu Zhendong to be taken away directly.

This case is really quite big. It can be called the largest corruption case before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the most complex corruption case——

With the Wenchang almost monopolizing half of the sea trade in Guangzhou Port, Xu Zhendong had never embezzled a penny through the Wenchang. He only opened a Xingtai business directly opposite the Wenchang in the name of his distant relative.

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This Xingtai store sells everything on weekdays, but the best seller is a pair of rusty iron nails. The large iron nails are a hundred taels, and the small iron nails range from one tael to ten taels.

For those merchants who bought iron nails through Xingtai Trading Company, Xu Zhendong would speed up the processing of their goods. Those who did not buy iron nails would be processed slowly.

For merchants engaged in maritime trade, the saying that time is money is no joke. If you are delayed for several months because you did not buy rusty iron nails, how much money will you lose?

As for reporting Xu Zhendong... those businessmen were also afraid that reporting Xu Zhendong would attract someone even more greedy, so Xu Zhendong was actually living a good life.

More importantly, except for the rusty iron nails, Xu Zhendong was very well-behaved in other aspects. No matter who invited him to dinner, he always refused, he never accepted the gifts that came to his door, and he was also very fair with the goods of those merchants.

, Those who should be valued at ten taels of silver will never be valued at eight taels. If there is any problem with the goods, Xu Zhendong will not show any favoritism. If the money should be refunded, he will refund the money how to deal with it.

Anyway, it was just a few taels, and the transaction was concealed enough that even Jin Yiwei had been keeping an eye on him for several months before slowly finding some extremely subtle clues.

It wasn't until Xu Zhendong's account books were dug out from the Xu family compound that Guan Sheng discovered that Xu Zhendong had unknowingly accumulated millions of taels of net worth, and the officials involved with Xu Zhendong were even more powerful.

There were as many as a hundred, including the Chief Envoy of Guangdong and officers of the Sixth Army.

With the copy of the account book handed over by Guan Sheng, Chen Cheng, the inspection censor of the Guangdong Censorship Office, and Liu Xiangyuan, the supervisory censor of the Guangdong Metropolitan Procuratorate, were also numb, and in the end they had no choice but to report the matter.

After getting the news, the leaders of the Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate brought the matter directly to Zhu Jinsong - the officer involved in the Sixth Army could no longer be handled by the Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate alone.

Got it!

Immediately afterwards, a group of investigators from the Yushitai, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Fifth Military Governor's Office began to have a headache.

Is Xu Zhendong greedy?

You can say he is greedy, you can also say he is not greedy.

If Wenchang No. was not a firm directly under the management of the Customs Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs but an ordinary firm, then Xu Zhendong's matter wouldn't even be a big deal.

To be precise, Xu Zhendong's behavior can only be regarded as using power for personal gain.

However, the crux of the problem is that Wenchang Hao is not an ordinary business, and Xu Zhendong involves too many officials.

After repeated interrogations, it was discovered that the problem was getting bigger and bigger. The big bosses had no choice but to put the problem into Zhu Jinsong's hands again.

Zhu Jinsong threw the question to the Ministry of Punishment without hesitation——

Does the Ming Law have any provisions for this situation?

Of course there are regulations.

Since the laws of the Ming Dynasty have stipulations, it is natural to deal with them in accordance with the provisions of the laws of the Ming Dynasty. Those who should be peeled off should be stripped, their homes should be searched, and those who should be exiled should be exiled. By the way, their names must be announced in the pavilion of their hometown.

The crime also makes it impossible for three generations of descendants to hold official positions.

As for the matter involving some officers from the Sixth Army of the former military governor's office, this is not a problem at all in Zhu Jinsong's opinion.

First of all, the military system of the Ming Dynasty is more similar to the military system of flower growers. The nonsense about holding heavy troops is simply not true.

Secondly, Zhu Jinsong himself is the emperor who was beaten on horseback. As long as Zhu Jinsong, the Ming Emperor, can still breathe, no one will dare to mess with the generals who lead the troops below. Even if someone dares to mess with them, they can mobilize a few soldiers.

?How many people can you coerce?

Don't say that legal principles are nothing more than human relationships. Since you don't care about legal principles, there is no human relationships to talk about.

By the way, it can also serve as a reminder to other officials in the world, so as to prevent some bastards who don’t have the skills to make the same mistake again.

All officials are in need of discipline.

Especially with the arrival of Luo Fangbo and Jiang Wubo, Lanfang's complete annexation has become a foregone conclusion. In the future, the Ming Dynasty will definitely send some officials to Lanfang's Chief Envoy, and Lanfang is isolated overseas, and it is not the only one in the country.

If a good port doesn't inoculate these officials in advance, I'm afraid they really have the ability to turn Lanfang into the second Jiaozhi.

Of course, for Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, Xu Zhendong's nonsense was not a big deal at all. What really gave Zhu Jinsong a headache was the matters surrounding Lan Fang.

Zhu Jinsong was not worried that Luo Fangbo would be affected by Xu Zhendong's incident, but he was worried about the situation in Lanfang and Jiugang.

Lanfang has a port, and the old port, which was used as a large supply base for Zheng He during his voyages to the West, also has an excellent port.

Now that Lanfang has returned to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty must of course develop Lanfang's port.

Then here comes the problem.

After the Jiugang Xuanwei Department was taken back and changed into the Jiugang Chief Envoy Department, what should the old port do?

Abandoning it would definitely be impossible, and vigorous development would easily conflict with the port of Lanfang.

As the old saying goes, the palms and backs of the hands are all flesh. It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to abolish the port of Jiugang because of the port of Lanfang, and it is also impossible to abolish the port of Lanfang because of the port of Jiugang.

In this way, the old port and Lanfang port must have their own focus, and it is best to complement each other.

In addition to the problem of the port, there is another problem that is very troublesome - whether it is Lanfang or Old Port, there are a large number of indigenous residents on both sides.

It’s hard to say what’s going on over there in Old Port, but the indigenous residents of Lanfang…

It was the later Yin Monkey.

To say that Zhu Jinsong could accept Yinhou to become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty is even more ridiculous than Brother Mazi coming from the Zhenglan Banner.

So Zhu Jinsong was thinking about how to get only the land instead of the monkey.

You have to think of a reliable statement or method.

In addition, there is another more pressing issue before Zhu Jinsong.

Ryukyu King Shang Hao also wanted to include it.

This matter has to start with King Shang Ning.

Ever since King Shonin, the seventh king of the second Sho clan dynasty of Ryukyu Kingdom, was forced to sign the "Fifteen Articles" with Satsuma, Ryukyu has been in a state of "two vassals of Tomorrow (Satsuma Domain)".

In the 41st year of Wanli, King Shoning was forced to cede the Amami Islands to Satsuma Domain.

The problem is that Satsuma only won the people of Ryukyu, but he failed to win the heart of Ryukyu.

Including what many Japanese scholars have said, the fact that most people in ancient Ryukyu learned to use Japanese characters is a real lie.

Fei Xin, who accompanied Zheng He on his voyages to the West and served as general advisor, recorded in "Xingcha Shenglan": The handsome men who accompanied the ministers and ordinary people were ordered to study Chinese books, so as to preserve the history and general affairs for the future.

Use; the rest is just learning calligraphy from Japanese monks.

Translated, only Ryukyu nobles and particularly outstanding people are qualified to learn Chinese characters, which will be reserved for future officials. The remaining ordinary people are not qualified to learn Chinese characters and can only learn Japanese from Japanese monks.

The Ryukyu Shang family had always wanted to seek help from Ming's father, but in the late Wanli period, the three major conquests almost emptied the entire treasury. Coupled with the continuous natural and man-made disasters and the establishment of captives in Liaodong, Ming could only choose to ignore it.

When the Ming Dynasty came to Liangliang, Liuqiu once again wanted to seek help from the Qing Dynasty. Needless to say, what kind of bird the Qing Dynasty was like. Even in the most tyrannical years, the Qing Dynasty never cared about the life and death of Liuqiu, but just smiled and accepted it.

He accepted Ryukyu's tribute and said nothing about helping Ryukyu recover.

But after Zhu Jinsong killed the Qing Dynasty, Ryukyu King Shang Hao, who was already on the verge of despair, saw hope.

Daming’s father is angry again!

Unfortunately, when Shang Hao wanted to send people to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and asked the Ming Dynasty's father to help him restore the country, Satsuma forcibly moved Shang Hao and other Ryukyu royal families to Satsuma Domain.

Until the Ming Dynasty signed the "Seven Articles of Friendship for Tomorrow" with Japan.

After the signing of the "Seven Articles of Friendship for Tomorrow", the current Tokugawa Shogunate Tokugawa Iesai and the current Japanese country Temoh Kanehito reached an agreement and decided to turn Satsuma into Akita.

In the name of the shogunate and the Emperor, Tokugawa Iesai and Kanehito Temō moved the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain from Kyushu Island to Ezo Island.

The Ryukyu King Shang Hao, who was under the custody of Satsuma, was naturally released.

The Tokugawa family was not stupid. Since they had decided to declare vassal status to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for the opportunity for the Japanese country to survive, they naturally could not offend the Ming Dynasty's father for the sake of Ryukyu.

Then, Shang Hao quickly sent people to the Ming Dynasty, intending to seek complete internal annexation - the outer vassal was still not stable enough after all, and he might be bullied again someday?

It's safer to stay at Daming's father's house!
Chapter completed!