People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 501: People from local families are still very sensible!

The old man couldn't believe that his own grandson would say such words to him.

Even if I had thought about sending him to the court to replace me, I shouldn't have treated myself like this.

He actually still wanted it and pushed himself directly to the bottom of the cliff. Why was that?
The old man also asked his own doubts, "Does this mean you have to treat your own grandfather like this just for your so-called position in the Imperial Guard?

Even if your grandfather wants to send you to the court, have you ever thought that your grandfather also educated you well since you were a child.

I also don't want you to follow in your grandfather's footsteps, so I told you to be a good person and study hard since you were young. It was you who didn't seize the opportunity, and now you want to blame me?"

The old man is very angry now, he has never seen anything like this. Even if he is an ordinary person, he should not say such cruel words.

Such a person will never be respected by others anywhere in the future. Such a person is so terrible that he even dares to push his own grandfather off a cliff.

Who would dare to cooperate with such a person?

So the old man could only teach by example: "My grandson, even if you work in the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty in the future, you can't do things like this.

Have you ever thought that once you do this, who will dare to work with you in the future? Who will stay away from you when they hear that you have done such a thing?
Don't think that the Jinyiwei people really hope that you will push your grandfather off the cliff. If you really do such a thing, everyone will stay away from you."

But after hearing what he said, his grandson smiled and said, "You said so much because you are afraid of death. I am confused. You are already eighty years old. Why are you still so afraid of death? There are very few people in this world who can live to eighty. You have lived a good life. When you were young, you lived a life of debauchery and never did anything good. Now you are eighty years old and have lived a long life. If it were me, I would not say so much and I would not be afraid of death."

When the old man heard his grandson say that he had not done anything good, he felt a little embarrassed.

After all, you are the elder, and his grandfather at the same time. If you don't respect your elders like this, you will respect others when you work for the Jinyiwei in the future. You are just a small centurion now.

"Grandpa doesn't know what you Jinyiwei are thinking, but Grandpa wants to tell you a truth. If even your relatives don't respect you, no one will respect you anywhere."

Hearing what the old man said, the grandson smiled slightly and said, "Okay, old man, you can't say so much. It's useless for you to say all this nonsense here. Let me tell you this. The reason why we are talking here and the reason why we can still be so calm is because I, your grandson, really didn't intend to push you off the cliff."

After hearing this, the old man breathed a sigh of relief. People at this age are really afraid of death. Even though he is almost eighty years old and is now seventy-nine, just a few days away from eighty, as long as he is alive, he will be afraid of death, especially people like him who have lived to such an old age are even more afraid of death.

Hearing that his grandson didn't want to kill him now, he breathed a sigh of relief but was still blaming himself in his heart. If he had known that this bastard was such a person, he should not have let him send him here.

But on second thought, he figured out one more thing: it seemed that it was his eldest son who arranged for his grandson to be his coachman.

Could it be that the father and the son had already been bribed? So he asked tentatively, "Have you and your father also become grasshoppers on the same rope?"

"Old man, it seems that you have never done a good thing, you are not a good person, you have a problem with your brain, and..."

Hearing that his grandson had been here all along, and had been saying bad things about him, the old man couldn't hold back his face: "I said, can't you say a good word? I am your grandfather after all, your own grandfather. How can you insult your own grandfather like this?"

The grandson laughed out loud, "Is this your style? You are a person who will never let anyone say anything bad about you.

Look, now you have exposed your true identity, haven't you?
If you ask me, it’s enough for you to just stay like this. There’s no need to pretend to be profound. In fact, you can’t pretend to be profound.

To tell you the truth, as soon as I joined the Imperial Guard, I told my father about it and he was very supportive.

why?
Because he saw your fate and it was not good. Why should you contribute your whole life to the family and then be guarded against by the family?

It’s not that good, my father and I just don’t like it, so my father agrees.

This is what my father and I did to tell my uncle that he should not think he can do anything now that he is the clan leader.

My father and I have done a lot for our family. Don't you think I am a playboy?

But I still brought a lot of prospects to the family, just like now, without me, the Jinyiwei and the Ming Dynasty would not treat us as a first-class family.

Without me, the family would be like other families where the patriarch would be controlled.

So according to this, my uncle should repay me well. "

After hearing what his grandson said, the old man was stunned again: "You mean to say that the Ming Dynasty has already taken control of other families, and the patriarchs of other families have actually been secretly controlled?"

The grandson nodded, "You guessed right. Do you think the other families in Sanfuqi will agree so easily? It's not that simple. For example, you are eighty years old. Will you agree to let the Ming Dynasty control our family?
Even if you were buried in the dirt up to your neck, you would not be happy, not to mention that the patriarchs of other families are all strong and powerful, and they are unwilling to hand over power obediently, so you have to resort to some means.

The method is very simple. After a dandy boy like me becomes a member of the Imperial Guard, I can just put a knife on the clan leader's neck in the middle of the night, and then hand over their seal to undermine the clan leader's power. At that time, the Imperial Guard will inevitably invade, and then the entire family will be controlled."

When the old man thought of this, he felt his hair stand on end.

I really didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty's methods would be so cruel. On the surface, they used colonial means to tell the civil and military officials of Srivijaya that the Ming Dynasty would take over in the future. In fact, secretly, the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei had already begun to act.

He has even already controlled many families, and from now on these families can only follow the lead of Daimyoji.

These families were already very powerful in Sanfuqi. If they supported the daimyo one-sidedly, would other small families or even other civil and military officials dare to fart? It turned out that this was how the Ming Dynasty played.

After figuring this out, the old man couldn't help but admire Da Ming.

"I am almost eighty years old, and I have never seen such a swift and decisive approach. Now I have seen it, and I understand why people like you have become loyal dogs of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty is so powerful, and it is right that people like you will be loyal to it."

The grandson didn't care at all about the old man's words. Even if the old man said he was a loyal dog, he didn't care. As long as he could gain power, as long as he could get rid of the title of a playboy, as long as he could accomplish something truly great, everything would be worth it.

He had even thought that if they could really do as the Jinyiwei commander told him, they could go to Yingtianfu, the center of the world. He thought it was worth it even if he had to abandon his family and his career, and even betray his ancestors.

In fact, there was one thing that the grandson did not tell them, that is, before the current naval review ceremony began, this group of dandies who had been brainwashed by the Jinyiwei first came to the naval base to see the other side's red cannons and fire their guns.

They even personally lit the seal of the red cannon and pulled the trigger of the gun under the instructions of the Jinyiwei and the navy.

When the red cannon made a deafening roar and when the quick shots pierced their hearts from more than a hundred meters away, their hearts were greatly shocked.

It was not until then that they finally realized that no matter how their country developed, it would never be able to surpass the weapons of the Ming Dynasty.

It was not until then that they realized that following the Ming Dynasty was the only way out, otherwise they would become victims of these artillery and guns.

The old man sighed and asked, "Now that you've told me so much, how do you want me to cooperate with you? As long as we can protect our family, I will do it, but you must give me a promise that our family will not be controlled like those families you mentioned."

The grandson smiled and said, "Don't worry, the reason why I'm working so hard to climb up is that I want to retain a little dignity for our family. I don't want to be like other families, who were controlled in the end and had to be led behind like a dog.

What I want you to do is very simple. The reason why we have this opportunity is not only because your grandson and I have worked so hard to provide information, but more importantly, our family is the largest family in the entire Sanfuqi.

You are now 79 years old, and you are the only representative of your generation. If you stand up and call for other families to follow the Ming Dynasty and stop messing around, it will have a great effect. That's why we don't really have control over it."

So Daming thought about it this way. He thought about it carefully and thought: This is right. After all, he is now an authority among the major families in Sanfuqi. Living longer means authority. This is an eternal truth.

If an authority like me stands up and tells everyone that we will cooperate with the Ming Dynasty in the future and not get involved in other people's affairs, then the Ming Dynasty's rule in Srivijaya will face less resistance.

After figuring out his role, the old man asked again: "What will happen if I, the old man, resolutely don't do this? Besides pushing me off the cliff, you should have other alternatives."

The grandson said bluntly: "If you are determined not to cooperate, you will definitely be eliminated, and then my father will replace my uncle and become the patriarch of our family. My father will raise his arms and tell other families not to act rashly.

Of course, this effect may be greatly reduced, but it is feasible. "

After learning all this, the old man finally sighed: "Okay, to be honest, you have such ability. You can get a big name at this time. This big ship is worse than losing our family. Grandpa, I am willing to cooperate." The grandson did not expect that the old man was so easy to talk to. He immediately teased: "Grandpa just heard that you wanted to die rather than surrender, so why did you suddenly decide to cooperate? This makes me, your grandson, feel very strange. You should continue to be tough."

The old man smiled slightly: "Didn't you say it before? I am almost eighty years old, and I am most afraid of death. Now that the Ming Dynasty has taken control of the entire Sanfuqi, I am forced to stand up and tell everyone that there will be plenty of opportunities for revenge in the future.

But now you have become a member of the Jinyiwei, should I continue to pretend to be a fool? It is better to let our family continue to survive like this, no matter who becomes the king. For us, it is just a matter of time. Those who know the current situation are heroes. "

The grandson laughed out loud after hearing this.

……

At the celebration banquet, when Xia Yuanji learned from the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard that all the top families in Sanfuqi were now controlled by the Ming Dynasty, he felt very happy.

He raised a silver wine bowl and clinked glasses with the Jinyiwei commander: "Let's drink this!"

The commander quickly and politely drank a glass with him, and then said: "Grand Commander, from now on, all our actions in Sanfuqi will be subject to your arrangements and commands.

In the future, we hope that the Grand Commander will give us, the Jinyiwei, more guidance. Although we have come here from thousands of miles away, we will definitely adhere to the style of doing things that we did during the Ming Dynasty.

We will definitely complete all intelligence gathering tasks and will definitely provide you with absolutely accurate information.”

Hearing what the Jinyiwei commander said, Xia Yuanji was very pleased: "You are doing very well now. The reason why I can act with purpose and make these local civil and military officials speechless is that the Ming navy is powerful, and the second is that you have organized all the intelligence very carefully.

Only then can these guys be rendered speechless and be shocked.

Without your intelligence gathering, even if I talk my mouth off, I would be like a skilled cook without rice. Therefore, your intelligence gathering is of utmost importance, and your burden is comparable to that of the Ming Navy.

In the future, you must collect more information outside the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, I admire you for recruiting local playboys as our spies for collecting intelligence.

To be honest, I never thought that such important information was collected by those seemingly disgusting dudes."

Lan Yu was also very impressed. Before they arrived at Sanfuqi, they knew that a large number of Jinyiwei had already arrived in Sanfuqi to collect intelligence.

The reason they were able to fight so smoothly here was also because the Jinyiwei had great ability in collecting intelligence, which helped them understand the situation in Srivijaya and Majapahit in advance, otherwise it would not have been so smooth.

So Lan Yu also toasted the Jinyiwei commander and said, "Come on, Lao Liu, you must drink this cup. I and other rough men like us can only lead troops to fight, but it is rare for us to collect intelligence as well as you.

At first we were completely in the dark about this place, and had no idea what it was like. If you hadn't come here in advance to gather intelligence, we would have come in with only one foot in the door and left in disgrace."

Wang Bi interrupted and said, "What the Marshal said is correct. This place is very different from our Central Plains.

The weather was hot and humid. If the Jinyiwei hadn't gathered intelligence and we hadn't been prepared to bring a lot of valuable goods with us, it would have been impossible for us to march and fight in that dense forest.

The bad weather alone was enough to destroy all morale.

Fortunately, the Jinyiwei helped us arm the local people in Sanfuqi in advance, and let them help us solve a lot of logistical problems, otherwise the situation would be unimaginable.

Therefore, rather than saying that this battle was a great achievement for the Ming Navy, it should be said that the Jinyiwei showed their prowess overseas.”

Jinyiwei Commander Lao Liu did not take all the credit for himself. Is that good?

Instead, he raised his glass and said to the two people, "The reason why we were able to collect such accurate intelligence this time is thanks to Wang Asan and his eldest brother-in-law."

Wang Asan and his elder brother-in-law were also at the celebration banquet at this time.

Originally, both families were Han Chinese living in Srivijaya. Because of the invasion of pirates, their families were destroyed, so they went north to seek help from the daimyo and provided information that there would be a war between Srivijaya and Majapahit, and that there was no unity within Srivijaya.

This was a great opportunity, so the Ming navy came here, occupied Srivijaya and Majapahit. The contributions of both of them were very great.

Seeing that everyone was looking at them, Wang Asan and his brother-in-law felt a little embarrassed.

Wang Asan even said, "Now that we have achieved our great revenge and gained the rule of the Ming Dynasty here, it is my greatest honor. I am worthy of our ancestors for having contributed to such a great event."

After hearing this, Xia Yuanji immediately said to the two of them, “The Jinyiwei has reported your contributions many times, so Bendu has decided to completely rule the entire Sanfuqi.

You two will lead the first group of Ming Dynasty scholars who land in Sanfuqi to lobby in various places in Sanfuqi and publicize our Ming Dynasty's policy of ruling Sanfuqi.

You understand the local area, are proficient in the local language, and have been doing business on the ground for many years. There should be no one more suitable than you. "

Wang Asan and his elder brother-in-law had already received a promise from the Ming Navy that they would be given official positions after they conquered Sanfuqi.

At that time, they actually didn't have much interest in being officials. After all, their main occupation was business. But now that even the Grand Commander thinks so highly of them, what else can they say?

He immediately raised the wine glass to face Xia Yuanji, Lan Yu and Jinyiwei Commander Lao Liu, drank the wine in it and said loudly: "Since the Grand Commander and the Deputy Commander think so highly of us, we will never let you down and will definitely implement the national policy of our Ming Dynasty here."

The two of them seized the opportunity.

Because if no daimyo came here to conquer the whole of Srivijaya, they might just be small businessmen in their whole lives, and they could only be second-class citizens in Srivijaya.

After all, they are outsiders and are not respected by the locals.

But now the situation is reversed. After the daimyo conquered this place, they became first-class citizens overnight. Moreover, they have lived here for generations and are quite familiar with it. This is their opportunity.

So sometimes life is like a roller coaster, and there may be huge changes between life and work. No one can tell what kind of changes will happen in the end, and no one can guarantee that people will be successful in their lives, or that they will not be able to turn around after falling into a trough.

……

Under the leadership of the Bolu family, the leading local family, the old man they respected the most, Bayas, who was nearly 80 years old, finally made his debut.

Many officials originally thought that this old man would definitely rebuke loudly, and that the Ming Dynasty’s rule here would definitely lead them.

One day in the future, Sanfuqi will be recovered. But what I didn't expect was that the first thing the old man said was: "Let's not make unnecessary sacrifices. We should sit down and negotiate with the Ming Dynasty. We should try our best to get good conditions in this negotiation."

At first, many people thought that this might just be a temporary solution, so they listened without objection. However, what the old man said next made many people unable to sit still.

“We old guys may be buried in the earth in a few years, so we should not cause trouble for the young people.

I said before that if we have ten years or so to take advantage of the development of the Ming Dynasty and grow stronger, we can overthrow the entire Ming Dynasty. But now I have discovered a huge misunderstanding.

That is, we may never be able to pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty. We will never be able to grow into giants like them. Therefore, for the sake of our descendants and our race, I want everyone to cooperate with the various national policies of the Ming Dynasty. We should learn the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, the system of the Ming Dynasty, the writing of the Ming Dynasty, and their language, so that our descendants can read the Four Books and Five Classics, and then enter the official career through the imperial examination. "

When the old man said this, everyone felt something was wrong. What was going on?

This is different from what I discussed before.

But after a quick glance, I found that all the family representatives had a blank look on their faces. It seemed as if a muscle had been pulled out of them and they didn't dare to refute. This was very strange. What was going on?

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(End of this chapter)