Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 14 Analysis
Jinniuling is only more than 100 meters high, and the terrain is not dangerous. Ma Wu and others chose to occupy Jinniuling because there is a spring on the mountain, and there is a flat land near the spring where they can build houses.

As for the officers and soldiers encircling and suppressing Ma Wu and others, they are not worried. There are too many such hills around Jinniuling. The officers and soldiers came to round up and round up the place. Catch so few people in so many mountains.After all, it is impossible for the government to dispatch tens of thousands of troops for dozens of thieves. If only a thousand officers and soldiers are sent out, it is useless.

In fact, the government had known for a long time that there was such a group of bandits in Jinniuling, and sent troops to encircle and suppress them several times, but each time they returned empty-handed.The houses on the mountain were extremely simple and simple, and the officers and soldiers burned them down, and they were rebuilt within two days of turning around.

The officers and soldiers stopped coming after a few empty runs. Who wants to catch a few bandits all over the mountains and plains like a rat?

The officers and soldiers hadn't come for a long time, and Ma Wu and the others also tidied up the leaky thatched hut, and now it looks like a decent house.

It was late at night when Li Jing and others arrived at Jinniuling. Although Jinniuling was not high, it was a mountain after all, and more than ten carriages had to be pushed up the mountain in the end.When Li Jing and the others arrived on the mountain, everyone was exhausted.

Ma Wu asked people to clear out two rooms from the house near the back of the mountain, one for the female family members of Shen's mansion, and the other for Mrs. Shen, and the rest of them found a random corner and lay down with their clothes on.

Although Li Jing also felt tired, he didn't rest right away.

He called Ma Wu and asked Ma Wu to arrange manpower and go down the mountain to inquire about news after dawn.

Unexpectedly, Ma Wu had already made arrangements, saying that when he returned to the mountain, he would leave a few brothers in Xiaomazhuang, and if there was any trouble, he would report back immediately.

Li Jing was taken aback, and immediately looked at Ma Wu differently. It seemed that the bandit had been working for a long time and understood the role of intelligence.

Ma Wu seemed to see what Li Jing was thinking, and said with a hey smile, "Brother, to be honest, we suffered a loss once before, and after we robbed things, we were so happy that we didn't expect the official messenger to come early the next morning, brothers Unprepared, I was arrested several times. After that, every time I finished a business, I would leave a few brothers outside to watch the wind. Not to mention, after this arrangement, and the neighbors helped to inform the news, our place nothing happened again.”

"Take a bad lesson and learn to be good once." Li Jing said with a smile.

While the two were talking, the three Shen Zheng brothers opened the door and came in.

"Master Shen, second master, why didn't third master take a break? Take your seat quickly, I said fifth brother, master Shen is here, can't you serve some tea?" Li Jing laughed.

"Just kidding, just kidding, it's good for us old men to drink some water, how can we know how to drink tea? Three masters, I'm sorry, I'm neglecting you." Ma Wu said with a smile.

"It's okay, we are presumptuous to disturb you late at night, and we dare not bother Fifth Master." Shen Zheng clasped his hands.

"Sit down! The three of you came here late at night, and I can guess the general meaning. The three of you want to ask me what to do in the future?" Li Jing continued without waiting for Brother Shen Zheng to answer: "I know how big the Shen family is. Many, the family business in Lin County is probably just a drop in the bucket. To be honest, no matter who it is, it is very difficult for anyone to part with such a large family business. Originally, I wanted to discuss with the three masters tomorrow. Since you are here, I Let me tell you what I think."

"Please speak!" Shen Zheng said solemnly.

"Before I talk about my thoughts, let me talk about the recent conflicts between the Shen family and the Xu family. I don't know what grievances and grievances there were between your two families before, but I am sure of one thing. If there is a conflict, Xiong Dan is just putting the conflict between your two families on the table." Li Jing said here and looked at the Shen brothers.

Shen Zheng knew that Li Jing hadn't finished speaking, so he didn't answer, just waiting for him to continue.

Li Jing smiled: "The Shen and Xu families are rich and powerful families. Why did the Xu family provoke the Shen family? The so-called innocent man is guilty of the crime. Because the Shen family is too rich, the Xu family wants to take the Shen family away." The family ate it."

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "But how can we eat up such a giant as the Shen family? The Xu family has government support in Lin County, and although the Shen family doesn't see any official power in Lin County, they can earn such a huge fortune." I would never believe that there is no official backing. I reckon that the Xu family can suppress the Shen family only in Zhangde and Weihui. Apart from these two mansions, the Xu family may have nothing to do with the Shen family. That is to say, if we start from the front, the Xu family will not be able to defeat the Shen family at all, so we can only think of other ways."

When Li Jing said this, he looked at Shen Zheng and saw that Shen Zheng was expressionless. Li Jing continued: "The only weakness of the Shen family is Mrs. Shen. Mrs. Shen is getting old, and he wants to be buried in his hometown in Lin County after a hundred years. I live in Lin County. This time, Mrs. Shen was ill and was in urgent need of bear bile, so the Xu family’s opportunity came. I think the Xu family must have bought all the bear bile from all the pharmacies in the surrounding prefectures and counties to blackmail the Shen family. Of course, the Xu family also knows that it is impossible to get the Shen family to transfer all the property to the Xu family with a few bear bile. , let your Shen family’s daughter marry the Xu family’s son.”

"My family Ding Xingwang, even if we marry our daughter, at most we can give some dowry, so why don't we give all the family property to the Xu family?" Shen Yi interjected.

"There are thousands of people in the family, and only one person in charge. The Shen family is now in charge of the uncle, right?" Li Jing laughed.

"Yes!" Shen Yi and Shen Qing replied.

"If my uncle goes away, I wonder if the family business will be passed on to your brothers? Or to your children?" Li Jing continued to ask.

"Of course it is passed on to the children! How can we as uncles compete with the younger generation for the family property?" Shen Yi and Shen Qing said anxiously.

"That is to say, if there is no son, can it be passed on to the daughter and son-in-law?" Li Jing asked.

This question is not easy to answer, although a son-in-law is half a son, but after all, he is from a family with a foreign surname.If Shen Zheng was not present, then Shen Yi and Shen Qing would naturally say that they cannot give it to their son-in-law.But now that Shen is present, how can I say this, isn't it clear that I am bullying my niece?
"I have a son." Shen Zheng said suddenly.

As soon as Shen Zheng's words came out, Shen Yi and Shen Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly praised the elder brother for being clever, and he settled the adoption matter early yesterday morning.

"Master, this son was adopted in the last two days, right?" Li Jing said with a smile.

"How do you know?" The three brothers Shen Zheng asked in surprise.

"It's very simple. When Ma Wu robbed us last night, I remember that there was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy next to the uncle. He first ran to the second master's wife to call his mother, and was later reprimanded by the second master. The old man's wife is next to his mother. If I guess correctly, the young man should be the biological son of the second master. He has just been adopted by the uncle, and he is not used to some things. Therefore, when the family was frightened by the thief, the first thing he thought of was Go to comfort your biological mother first. Am I right?" Li Jing said with confidence.

Although Li Jing is a modern person, he grew up in the countryside.When he was a child, he saw someone adopting a child in the countryside.After a child is adopted by someone else, they are separated from their original parents and can no longer be called father and mother.

There are so many exquisite things in modern times, let alone ancient times?
Li Jing's occupation made him used to analyzing problems from certain details, so he could tell from the change in the boy's title that this was Shen Zhenggang's adopted son.

When Li Jing knew that Shen Zheng's son was adopted, he immediately understood that the Xu family wanted to marry the daughter of the Shen family by force, and then seized the Shen family's property.

"Gao Ming, I did adopt this child yesterday morning, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the dispute between the Shen and Xu families?" Shen Zheng praised and continued.

"You just adopted a son, but the Xu family doesn't know about it? He only knows that you have a daughter. Did his family threaten you with bear bile? Ask you to marry your daughter to his son?" Li Jing smiled and continued Said: "You issued a notice to buy bear bile at a high price. It is said that there must be a brave man under a heavy reward, and I am this brave man. You already know what happened next. Because I beat the family members of Xu's family, he went to the Yamen to pay for it. Let's put a crime on it, and we will pull you in."

Shen Zheng thought over Li Jing's words carefully, nodded and said, "I didn't expect you to be so thoughtful at such a young age. Shen admires it. But what you analyze are all things that have already happened. You can tell me what we should do in the future." Didn't say it."

"The Shen family has a lot of wealth, and I think there must be a lot of people coveting the Shen family's wealth! There is the Xu family coveting in Lin County, which one is it in Kaifeng? What about other places? They want to bite off a piece of meat from you even if there is nothing to do on weekdays." , now that your family is charged with crimes, do you think these people will let go of such a good opportunity?" Li Jing said.

The Shen brothers thought about it, and indeed, as Li Jing said, there are indeed quite a few people coveting the Shen family's property.

"You mean to give up all of the Shen family's property?" Shen Zheng questioned.

"The chaotic world is approaching, and it should be interrupted, and it will be chaotic!" Li Jing said.

"What? You said that chaos is coming? Is there going to be chaos in this world?" The Chen brothers asked in unison.

"Yes, I don't know if you have noticed that the weather has been getting colder and colder in recent years, and there have been large-scale famines in many places. There should have been a large number of refugees fleeing." Li Jing said.

Shen Zheng thought for a while and nodded, "That's true."

"I'm afraid this situation will become more and more serious in the future. There will be more and more people without food in the future. What do you think these people will do?" Li Jing continued.

"Rebel!" Ma Wu said casually.

Ma Wu became a bandit because he couldn't eat, and Li Jing asked that without hesitation.

The Shen brothers were silent when they heard this. They also knew a little about the current situation. There have been disasters in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong and other places in recent years.In the imperial court, eunuchs were in power, disrupting the government, and those ministers were even more intriguing and forming cliques for personal gain. No one thought about what to do with these victims. If it continued, the victims would rebel if they wanted to.

Of course, people like them will never be unable to eat, but they are afraid that those who cannot eat will rob them.

In troubled times, people's lives are like nothing, and they can't even eat. Are you afraid of beheading?

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