Mingshi

Chapter 1007
"Hey……"

The two of them scrambled to the front of the old lady, calling out: "Grandma, grandma..."

Xu Luqing said in a concentrated voice: "You two are here to take care of grandma, I'll go out and have a look."

"Brother..." Xu Kun and Xu Ying looked at Xu Luqing in fear, Xu Luqing snorted coldly and said, "Don't worry, the Xu family won't fall!"

Xu Luqing hurriedly came to the gate, and saw a group of soldiers with swords and guns standing outside the gate, as well as a group of officials.Luo Xin stands in the center, with Hu Zongxian on his left and Zhang Juzheng on his right.Xu Luqing couldn't help but tremble in his heart, he didn't expect that Hu Zongxian would personally lead the army to surround the Xu Mansion.Taking a deep breath, just as Shi Li was about to speak, he heard Luo Xin say:

"The emperor has a decree!"

Xu Luqing swallowed back what he wanted to say, and then bowed his hands like Luo Xin again and said:
"Please invite the imperial envoy to come in and let the officials arrange the incense case."

"No need! It's urgent, just take the order here."

When the words fell, Luo Xin had already unfolded the imperial decree in his hand, Xu Luqing's face sank like water, this Luo Xin was definitely intentional, at this time there were many people watching around the Xu Mansion, Luo Xin just wanted to make the Xu Mansion publicly ashamed.But Luo Xin had already unfolded the imperial decree, so Xu Luqing had no choice but to kneel down, and the surrounding soldiers and officials also knelt down, and Luo Xin recited the imperial decree in a serious manner.

The meaning of the imperial decree is very clear. First, it reprimanded the Xu family for being greedy, which shook the foundation of Daming's finances.This crime was serious enough that Xu Luqing's clothes were soaked.

Then he still scolded, scolded the Xu Mansion for stealing and plundering, which made the reputation of the Xu Mansion and Xu Jie's reputation rotten.It caused the surrounding people to point and point at Xu Luqing, which made Xu Luqing feel like a knife piercing his heart.

The last is the punishment of the Xu Mansion. First of all, the Xu Mansion is ordered to complete the transaction with the vassal state, but after this transaction, the Xu Mansion is not allowed to conduct sea trade for generations.

Secondly, under the supervision of the Jin Yiwei, the Xu Mansion will return the stolen property, and must compensate those businessmen who were robbed by the Xu Mansion according to Jin Yiwei's statistics.

Finally, if the Xu Mansion does not cooperate, the Xu Mansion will be ransacked.

What else can Xu Luqing say?
From the tone of the imperial decree, he could tell that Emperor Jiajing was really angry.Moreover, the letter from Xu Jie arrived one day earlier, telling Xu Luqing that even if it was a sale of the property, he had to cooperate with Luo Xin honestly to pass it.Even if Luo Xin is blackmailing, he can only endure it.We'll wait until this level passes.

Xu Luqing got up from the ground, cupped his hands towards Luo Xin and said, "I also invite Mr. Luo to come to the mansion for a cup of tea."

Luo Xin said indifferently: "On the one hand, digging the financial foundation of the gate, on the other hand, stealing people's property by stealth, entering such a despicable and dirty house, dirty my feet."

After saying that, he flicked his robe sleeves and turned to leave. After getting into the carriage, he said to Liu Shou:
"Lord Liu, you stay here with Jin Yiwei. The sea trade is imminent. Within ten days, the Xu Mansion must complete three things. First, return the stolen property. Second, compensate the loss of the merchant. Third, organize A good source of goods for trading. If it cannot be done within ten days, Jin Yiwei will immediately take over the Xu Mansion, sell off the property of the Xu Mansion, and Jin Yiwei will use the sold property to complete the three things."

"Leave it to me!" Liu Shouyou said darkly.

Xu Luqing was still gnashing her teeth angrily just now, because what Luo Xin said just now that Xu's mansion dirty his feet was really too hurtful.From then on, the Xu Mansion will become a joke of Shilin, and its reputation will really stink.In today's world, what is more important than the reputation of a literati?

However, when he heard Luo Xin's arrangement for Liu Shou, he felt as if he had fallen into a hole in the ice.Cool from the inside out.

"Lord Luo, where are we going?"

Seeing Luo Xin's resolute actions, Hu Zongxian felt a trace of fear in his heart.When I worked with Luo Xin in the southeast before, I thought Luo Xin was very powerful, but it was not enough to scare Hu Zongxian.However, he found that Luo Xin returned to the capital for a period of time, and then returned to the southeast, which made him even afraid.

"Ship Department."

"Lord Luo." Zhang Ju stepped forward and said, "Let's go to the magistrate's yamen."

"No need! I'm here this time to solve the problem of the Shibo Department, and I live in the Shibo Department."

Except for Liu Shouyou who stayed with Jin Yiwei, everyone followed Luo Xin back to Hangzhou overnight.Luo Xin asked everyone to go back and moved into the Shibo Division by himself.

It was past midnight at this time, Luo Xin took a bath, and while Luo Xin was taking a bath, Xu Shixing had already arranged for his servants to prepare dinner.After Luo Xin finished taking a shower, Xu Shixing also finished washing, changed his plain clothes, Luo Xin also changed his plain clothes, the two of them sat at the table, Xu Shixing was about to say something, but Luo Xin waved his hands and said:
"Don't say anything, eat, starve to death."

Xu Shixing nodded. In fact, he was also very hungry, so the two of them lowered their heads and began to eat.Two quarters of an hour later, the two of them each ate three bowls of rice, and then the food and drink were removed and tea was replaced.

"Lord Luo, I failed to live up to what I entrusted." Xu Shixing's face was full of shame.

Luo Xin nodded and said: "Ru Mo, you haven't done enough to guard against the inevitability. You must eliminate the Xu Mansion from the very beginning. You are still thinking of luck. This is the root cause of your failure."

"I understand, but I didn't expect the Xu family to be so greedy. After all, Xu Jie is also the chief assistant of the cabinet. How could this be?"

Luo Xin was silent for a moment and said: "Ru Mo, your thinking is a bit biased. Xu Kun and Xu Ying are greedy and want to earn more money. But Xu Jie hasn't fallen to that point yet. He won't be out of money because of money. to do such a nasty thing."

"Then he..."

"He wants to control the Southeast. Everyone knows that whoever controls the Shibo Division and Maritime Trade will control the Southeast. How to control the Shibo Division? You have only one way, which is to control the Daming Maritime Trade. Once Xu Jie has mastered the Da Ming Ming Haimao has mastered the finances of Ming Dynasty. At that time, he can use his power to the public, and there is no official who can fight with him. I can't do it, and Gao Gong can't do it. Even, he can threaten His Majesty based on this."

"This..." Xu Shixing was dumbfounded in shock.

Luo Xin said seriously: "What Xu Jie wants is power, not money."

Speaking of this, Luo Xin smiled again: "Of course, if you really master the Daming Maritime Trade, Xu Jie will naturally receive both power and money."

"He... has such ambitions?"

"Accident?" Luo Xin said indifferently: "Don't you ever have the idea that scholar-bureaucrats and the royal family rule the world together?"

"I……"

"Don't deny it, this is the ideal that every scholar never forgets. Every scholar hopes that he was born in the Song Dynasty, and that era was dominated by scholars. Therefore, scholars in Ming Dynasty are fighting for this ideal. From this point of view , Xu Jie is not all for self-interest, he also has the idea of ​​seeking to realize his ideals for the world's scholars. It's just that his methods have gone on the wrong path, and they are not upright enough."

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(End of this chapter)