People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 75 The first time I went ashore to destroy the family, it was the official family that was destroyed! The harvest is huge! The chief minister is crazy! !

The process of confiscating a house is too troublesome. It is easiest and most convenient to pretend to be a "Japanese pirate" and put all the bad reputation on the head of the "Japanese pirate".

The most important thing is that without this notoriety on his head, the resistance to reform in the future will be much smaller.

On the night of the second day, Chen Han had arrived in Ningbo.

Just after midnight, the garrison outside Taizhou City received Li Rusong's rat code.

These people were bribed and received the secret code given by Li Rusong and others.

The guards at the east gate of Taizhou City were quietly removed.

Li Rusong was overjoyed and led three thousand "Japanese pirates" into Taizhou City, shouting.

The people in Taizhou City were frightened, thinking that they would be bloodbathed.

Many people picked up the carrying poles, hoes, and kitchen knives at home and prepared to fight to the death.

Unexpectedly, those "Japanese pirates" roared past their home, but did not break into their home. Instead, they headed towards the most prosperous area.

Then in the dark night, there were horrific screams.

The door to the huge manor of the Feng family, the most famous bully family in Taizhou, was knocked open.

Then the "Japanese pirates" filed in, rushed in, and killed people on sight.

The Feng family was quickly killed.

All property was removed.

When the officers and soldiers reacted and came to stop them, they saw a mess on the ground and a courtyard full of corpses.

The head of the Feng family, a fat man weighing more than 200 pounds, never thought until his death that "Japanese pirates" would loot his home.

He just went to a meeting a few days ago, and the president made it clear.

Even if everyone has grudges privately, they must now unite to the outside world and drive Chen Han out first.

How come the "Japanese pirates" came to my home first when they came ashore?

After Li Rusong and the others left, the people soon learned that the Feng family had been ransacked.

Although many people died, which should have been worthy of sympathy, many people secretly enjoyed themselves at home.

Without him, because the Feng family is rich and domineering.

The surrounding people suffered more from them than the Japanese pirates.

Moreover, this family has been standing in Taizhou for decades and wears the same pants as the local government.

If someone in their family commits something, the local government will either cover it up or let it go.

Most of the fertile land in Taizhou has been annexed by their family, and they don't have to pay taxes.

The people were filled with hatred, but no one had the ability to deal with them.

But I didn't expect that the "Japanese pirates" would do them a big favor today and get rid of the biggest scourge in Taizhou.

After Li Rusong and others ransacked the Feng family, they immediately retreated and quietly moved again according to the Japanese pirates' usual strategy of shooting and changing places.

When it was daylight the next day and the officials went to explore the scene of the victim, they saw the mess all over the ground. They were so miserable that they felt angry and anxious.

What makes him angry is that he is missing a God of Wealth. After all, every year his government office does not know how much benefit it can get from the Feng family.

What's urgent is that "Japanese pirates" appear in the surrounding areas, so you have a heavy responsibility.

Fortunately, only one family died. Although there were more than a hundred people in the family, this family did not do good deeds and could be regarded as a harm.

If you suppress it yourself, the people will only cheer and applaud, and they will definitely not spread it randomly, and it will be easier to deal with.

But he still quickly reported it to the governor.

After Li Rusong and the others finished looting, they immediately returned to the island by boat. After taking inventory, they found that the harvest was huge.

There were a lot of land deeds. After cleaning them up, I found that the Feng family was really powerful.

The farmland alone amounts to 112,000 acres, distributed in Taizhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo and other places.

The real estate includes more than 20 silk shops, restaurants, teahouses, and dental shops in the downtown area.

As for the silver taken out from their cellar, there were more than two million taels and a huge amount of 60,000 taels of gold.

When they came back, they carried hundreds of boxes alone.

Each person weighed forty or fifty kilograms, which made the soldiers panting from exhaustion.

In addition to silver and gold, there are also jade, jewelry, calligraphy and painting.

Added together, it is estimated that there are as many as five to six million taels of silver.

Li Rusong was so surprised that he was amazed.

It’s amazing that a big family has amassed so much money in just a few decades.

Ningbo Mansion.

Chen Han, who had just arrived in Ningbo, quickly received a letter from Li Rusong.

When he saw that after wiping out the Feng family, he actually found out nearly six million and two hundred silver in income, he was also surprised.

It seems that these families are really wealthy.

The wealth they possess is staggering.

This family has been in Taizhou for decades and nearly a century, and has accumulated so much wealth in three generations.

No wonder the Southeast has already entered the primary stage of capitalism.

Just look at these wealthy gentry and you will know.

No wonder these people are trying to protect their overseas smuggling business.

Because this is their source of wealth.

At the same time, it also explains why in historical records, the silver flowing into the world from South America and Japan finally gathered in the Ming Dynasty.

With so much silver, whose hands is it in the end?
You can imagine.

This also explains why there was so little silver in the Ming Dynasty's treasury.

Because a large amount of silver actually flowed into the hands of these wealthy gentry.

After the wealthy gentry owned a large amount of silver, they did not flow it into the market, but buried it underground.

The Feng family took out more than two million taels of silver alone.

And how many such families are there in the southeast?

There are not even one thousand but nine hundred.

Then this number is very, very huge.

You must know that even during the Wanli period, the imperial court's annual treasury income was only about 20 million taels.

But just by plundering one Feng family, I got more than two million taels of silver.

Together with other properties, the total is nearly six million taels.

How rich is this?

After reading it, Chen Han smiled from ear to ear. This business is so profitable.

Hahaha……

Hahahahahahaha...

Then he worked harder to appease the local people who had been harmed by the Japanese pirates before.

Let the Ningbo government allocate 50,000 taels of silver to support the people.

The magistrate of Ningbo Prefecture took out so much silver, which made his heart bleed.

……

Zhejiang Governor's Yamen.

When the official document was handed to the governor of Zhejiang, he was shocked.

"What's going on? Aren't you talking about a small fight?
Didn’t you say we only kill common people?
How did he get killed by a rich man?

Feng family! The Feng family is a big local family in Taizhou, and they send as much as one hundred thousand taels of silver to our governor's office every year.

How could they be wiped out so easily? "

The staff member who sent the letter was also very strange.

"Zhongcheng, it stands to reason that the Feng family is also a member of the Southeast Chamber of Commerce, and they have a secret code.

And even if those Japanese pirates didn't know that the Feng family was a member of the Southeast Chamber of Commerce, they should still understand what kind of family the Feng family was.

So there is a fundamental difference between a high-rise compound and an ordinary person's home, so how can you admit your mistake?

The Southeast Chamber of Commerce has long restrained Japanese pirates and does not allow them to harm the powerful. This matter is strange. "

The governor of Zhejiang nodded and it was indeed true.

Then another staff member said, "Lord Zhongcheng, do you remember that just over a month ago, more than 200 members of the Sun family were accidentally killed by Japanese pirates?

After investigation, it was found to be the fault of their own people in the southeast. "

The governor of Zhejiang asked: "What's going on?"

The staff member replied: "I heard that there is a company that specializes in smuggling silk. Outside the Southeast Chamber of Commerce, some people are secretly smuggling silk, and the price is lower than them.

When they found out, they used the hands of Japanese pirates to destroy the Sun family. "

The governor of Zhejiang was so angry that he grabbed the tea bowl next to him, smashed it to the ground, and cursed: "What a bastard! What time has it been, and they are still engaging in internal strife!"
Don’t you know that this Chen Han is going to kill all of us when he comes down? "

The staff quickly comforted them, "Sir Zhongcheng, now is not the time to be angry. We have to beat them. We can't let them act like this."

The governor of Zhejiang nodded.

"Immediately take my letter to the Southeast Chamber of Commerce and ask what is going on with the Southeast Chamber of Commerce?

Also, call the chief envoy Zhao Meng'an and the capital commander Zhou Kui quickly! "

"Yes!" The staff hurriedly went to do it.

……

The chief envoy is the Yamen.

When the Zhejiang Chief Minister also received the news, he was so shocked that he took a few steps back, and then burst into tears.

Why is he crying?

Because this Feng family is his biological uncle.

His biological mother is the second young lady of the Feng family.

The reason why he rose to prominence in his forties and reached the position of chief envoy of Zhejiang Province was because his grandfather's family contributed a lot.

Over the years, my uncle's family has made a lot of money through smuggling, and they have been using money to help him open up connections in the officialdom.

As for himself, he also took advantage of the convenience of managing the Zhejiang vassal treasury to hand over a large number of official transactions to his uncle's family.

With such collusion between officials and businessmen, his uncle's family was able to get opportunities before others and make a lot of money.

This is an example of political and business families achieving mutual success.

But I never expected that in one night, more than 300 members of my uncle's family would be killed. Not even a dog survived, and all their property was robbed.

The chief envoy of Zhejiang lay on the ground and cried heartbrokenly.

On the one hand, he is crying because this is his closest relative;
On the other hand, without the help of the Feng family, it would be equivalent to breaking off one of his arms. It would be difficult for him to rise further.

The chief envoy shouted: "Japanese pirates! Japanese pirates! Japanese pirates! I am incompatible with you!"

This is when the knife pricks his hand and he realizes it hurts.

"Let the commander come here immediately!!"

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there was an imbalance between civil and military affairs. In local areas, civil servants generally restrained military commanders.

Therefore, even if the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief Envoy are of the same rank, the Commander-in-Chief still has to listen to the Chief Envoy.

It didn't take long before the commander-in-chief came over.

Seeing the Chief Minister crying like that, he knew that the news must have been conveyed.

He also received news just now that the Feng family in Taizhou had been wiped out.

The Feng family in Taizhou is the home of the chief minister's uncle.

This is a big deal.

But he was secretly happy in his heart.

Just over a year ago, Japanese pirates sacked a village in Taizhou, killing more than 400 people.

That was also an unjust case created by the Southeast Chamber of Commerce in order to resist the chief minister Gao Gong and others, and implemented the prototype of a whipping method.

But at that time, the chief envoy should have provided compensation, and should have allocated military salary to the officers of the guard station, so that the officers and soldiers could go to exterminate the Japanese pirates.

But he didn't care at all and even made some sarcastic remarks.

It is said that if the unruly people die, they will die. What does it matter?
Just a few hundred of their lives can be used to resist the imperial court's reforms. What a good thing.

But he never thought that just one year later, more than 300 people in his own uncle's family were killed.

This is called the reincarnation of heaven.

At this time, the commander felt that being a northerner was beneficial.

Although I have some property in the southeast, most of my family members are still in the north.
He only had his closest relatives around him, and he even had a son who was sent back to his hometown to take care of his grandparents. Even if the Japanese pirates came ashore, they would not be able to damage his foundation.

After he arrived, he saw the chief envoy like this and became concerned: "Master Fantai, why is this?"

The chief envoy yelled: "Pretend to be your mother!! Don't you know? How on earth do the officers and soldiers of Taizhou Guard do their jobs?"
Are they all losers? How could we let Japanese pirates kill civilians? "

When he cursed like this, all the commanders pretended to be dumbfounded, "Master Fantai, I wonder what you mean by this? No one wants the Japanese pirates to come ashore!"

"You...you..." The chief minister's face turned green with anger. Since there were outsiders around him, he had no choice but to wave his hand: "All of you, get out!"

After all the waiters and staff had gone out, the chief envoy jumped up and cursed: "I'm sorry for you, you stupid bastard. The Feng family is my maternal uncle's family.
More than three hundred people, no one escaped, they were all killed!

All the family property was robbed, so what did Taizhou Wei do for food? "

To be able to make a polite and elegant person jump to the point of swearing.
You can imagine how angry the Chief Envoy is now.

More than 300 members of his uncle's family were killed and all their property was robbed, which made him feel distressed.

If only the property was still there after the person died, he wouldn't feel so distressed.

Because these properties must be his.

But what they didn't expect was that all their property was robbed.

This made his heart ache.

Especially when he saw the indifferent look of the commander-in-chief, the chief envoy was even more furious.

It means being as angry as you want.

"Zhou Kui, let me tell you, don't think that I don't know your tricks.

It was agreed that the Japanese pirates would only kill ordinary people, not landlords and wealthy people.
Now please explain to me, what is going on?

Why did those Japanese pirates only kill my uncle’s family but didn’t do anything to the people around them?
If you don't give me an explanation, I will let you die. "

The commander of the capital looked innocent: "Sir, those are all Japanese pirates. Who can control their whereabouts?

At that time, we received a note from the governor, telling the officers and soldiers in Taizhou to open their mouths and let the Japanese pirates enter the city.

We also followed the governor's order and opened our mouths and turned a blind eye.

But who would have thought that after the Japanese pirates entered the city, they directly identified the Feng family for murder and arson.

By the time our officers and soldiers went there, it was already too late. All the people had been killed, all the property had been emptied, and all the dogs in the house had been killed. There was nothing we could do.

Our Taizhou Guard officers and soldiers are also on duty. Everyone is thinking about the future of several southeastern provinces, and everyone wants to drive Chen Han away.

They promised to cause riots, but they couldn't do it without sacrificing some people. This time they just accidentally sacrificed people from the Feng family.

Just ask them to be more careful next time. "

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(End of this chapter)