The Most Powerful Man in the World

The official glanced meaningfully at several of his colleagues, who couldn't help but be silent for a while.Perhaps the official's statement is a bit exaggerated, but it is not untrue. It is not clear to which part of the Jiangnan land is in the hands of others, but don't they have a number in their hearts?

The Songjiang Li family, the Huating Xu family, the Shengze Huang family, the Suzhou Ma family, and the Hangzhou Zhang family are all big families rooted in the south of the Yangtze River. controlled by these clans.

These big families are often worth millions of taels of silver, and they are completely uncrowned kings entrenched in the south of the Ming Dynasty.

These big families control the economy of one party, with thousands of acres of fertile land, thousands of tenants and servants, and even sponsor a large number of scholars and support officials in the DPRK and China as their spokespersons, and gradually formed the Chu Party, Qi Party, Zhejiang Party, Donglin Party Wait****.

The later Daming party struggle was not so much a partisan struggle, but rather a struggle for the interests of the big families behind these parties.

The rich and prosperous Jiangnan has created a large number of wealthy merchants, and large families with powerful clans have emerged, making the Jiangnan area a difficult place to issue government decrees.

When Liu Jin was in power, although he said he was a bit domineering, it did not mean that he did not do practical things.

Liu Jin sent many mine supervisors and tax envoys to the local area to collect taxes. At the same time, Liu Jin investigated the salt tax in the Huaihe River and Huaihe River. He didn't know how many salt traders and officials who depended on the salt tax suffered heavy losses and lost their jobs.

In addition, Liu Jin sent people to sort out the land in the whole country, focusing on the land of the guards.

Not to mention the land, just collecting taxes and checking the Lianghuai salt tax made Liu Jin completely offend the entire Jiangnan and even the world's nobles and officials.

In the entire Jiangnan, driven by these forces that were affected by Liu Jin and suffered heavy losses, countless scholars criticized Liu Jin. In this case, when Jiangnan mentioned Liu Jin, countless people really wanted to tear him into pieces.

Chu Yi came to the Jiangnan Land not only for a tour, but Liu Jin's actions were beneficial to the country. Even if it was him, according to his plans and plans, he would be more radical than Liu Jin in the future.

With Liu Jin in front of him, Chu Yi wanted to see how powerful these forces that control Jiangnan are, and at the same time, to identify which forces are controlling the huge Jiangnan land.

Chapter 58 Chu is here, who wants to kill me?

Chu Yi pondered some memories of Liu Jin. If nothing unexpected happened, the rebellion of King Anhua, which indirectly caused Liu Jin's downfall, would happen in about a year. Why did King Anhua judge that it was because Liu Jin investigated the land corruption in the army. Coupled with some people behind the push, so King Anhua reversed.

During the period, Sun Jingwen, Meng Bin and others entered and exited the residence of King Anhua. King Anhua revolted with the slogan of killing Liu Jin. The consequence was that Liu Jin collapsed because of the crazy counterattacks of these forces, even Zhu Houzhao, who launched Liu Jin to suppress local forces and courtier forces. There was no way to save Liu Jin, who was framed for rebelling.

Huang robes, armors, seals and other items were found in Liu Jin's house. A eunuch actually wanted to rebel. Even a fool could see that this was a framed accusation by some people.

However, these people's counterattacks were too violent. Even if Zhu Houzhao finally had to order Liu Jin to be executed, although Liu Jin had done many evils and died, he should not have been killed in the name of rebellion.

Anyone who is familiar with history knows that after Zhu Houzhao was forced to kill Liu Jin, he realized that he had to master the law, so Zhu Houzhao took the risk of the world to seal himself as a general and tried to hold military power in his hands.

I have to say that Zhu Houzhao succeeded. He favored Jiang Bin and Qian Ning, and was stationed in the military center of Datong.

Zhu Houzhao fell into the river in Qingjiangpu and contracted a cold. He was escorted all the way back to the capital without even seeing his cronies Jiang Bin and Qian Ning. He soon died of illness at the age of [-].

Walking into the long street called Nanjing City, where the most concentrated government offices and yamen are located, you can hear the harsh noise from a distance.

Chu Yi's footsteps paused slightly, while Wang Yangming and Yang Shen, who were walking beside him, focused their attention on the group of people who were standing in front of the government office in the garrison.

These people are very easy to distinguish, and it is certain that at least [-]% of them are literati who are well-known.

His ears were full of foul language. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be really hard to imagine that such a group of scholars could curse people so viciously.

Especially when the words were directed at Fan Heng and Chu Yi, even Wang Yangming and Yang Shen couldn't help frowning when they heard those words, and looked at Chu Yi subconsciously.

Chu Yi looked at the group of people calmly, nodded at Wang Yangming and Yang Shen and said, "Mr. Yangming, Yung Xiu, don't get involved, just watch here."

The two were slightly taken aback when they heard the words, and then reacted.

Chu Yi has a really bad reputation in Shilin now, and the others are nothing but Yang Shen and Wang Yangming, who are scholars. Once they show closeness to Chu Yi in front of these people, it can be expected. These people will never miss the opportunity to slander the two of them.

Chu Yi did not let them participate in it, just for the sake of their reputation.

Hearing this, Wang Yangming shook his head with a smile. He himself is a person who pursues freedom and frees himself. Let him go against his heart and choose to watch from the sidelines. Wang Yangming asked himself that he could not pass the test in his heart.

"Could it be that the overseer doesn't treat Shouren as a friend?"

Yang Shen also said at this moment: "Yang has already been regarded by them as a henchman of the overseer. Since this is the case, it will be as they wish."

Just looking at the firmness in the eyes of the two, Chu Yi knew that the two of them had made up their minds, and he nodded slightly and nodded towards the two of them.

At this moment, the gate of the official mansion in the garrison was pushed open, and most of the people poured into the mansion.

The crowd was stunned for a moment, and suddenly someone in the crowd shouted: "Kill Fan Heng, kill Fan Heng!"

Chu Yi and Wang Yangming didn't expect such a change. Seeing that these people were about to rush into the government office, Wang Yangming couldn't help but worry: "Professor, Eunuch Fan, he..."

There was a contemptuous smile on the corner of Chu Yi's mouth. Fan Heng was definitely someone who was helpless. It wasn't so easy for these scholars to kill Fan Heng.

In the blink of an eye, a group of people rushed into the mansion. Chu Yi and the others walked to the entrance of the mansion, and they saw a mess on the ground, and the noise came from the mansion.

Many of those officials from the six yamen in the distance were excitedly watching those scholars rush into the garrisoned officials, and suddenly found that Chu Yi and his party had entered into the garrisoned officials.

Chu Yi coldly glanced at the information about Liubu Yamen, then turned around and said to Cao Shaoqin: "Let people take good care of the gate, only allow entry, not exit!"

Those officials in the distance were panicked by the inexplicable glance of Chu Yi, and someone said, "Who are they, it seems that they have a lot of background!"

As a person in the officialdom, he naturally has a set of his own ability to recognize people, and it is obvious that Chu Yi and his party are not simple.

An official with a look of forty or so, with a bit of twilight, shrank his eyes when he saw Chu Yi's figure, and suddenly exclaimed: "Chu...Chu Yi, he is Chu Yi! "

Someone next to him said subconsciously: "Mei Shilang, who do you think he is?"

Shilang Mei said in a trembling voice, "Chu Yi, Eunuch Chu Yi, the eunuch of the Dongchang Official School, the Governor-General of the Imperial Commission, Lord Chu!"

Immediately, all the eyes around him turned to Shilang Mei, and then reacted to look at the back of Chu Yi who walked into the guarding official's mansion.

"Hey...he turned out to be Chu Yi's castrated...the killer!"

"It's over, it's over, something big is going to happen!"

"No, Huang Shilang and those scholars, go to Master Tongbing Shangshu and Wei Guogong. We must not let Songyang's bloody murder happen again in Nanjing City!"

Immediately, several young officials rushed out of the Liubu Yamen.

Hundreds of literati swarmed into the government office in the garrison, and soon saw Fan Heng with a shocked expression and several eunuchs in the spacious front hall.

Fan Heng thought that these people were just tossing around at the door at most. As the saying goes, out of sight is the only thing. He has the right to assume that these people do not exist.

However, he really didn't think that these people would dare to attack the government office, or even break into the government office, just like they were going to kill him.

Fan Heng's temperament has restrained a lot in recent years, but this does not mean that Fan Heng is easy to bully.

Thinking that he was in charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor in the deep palace of the inner world, and he didn't know how many lives he had in his hands, but at this moment he was blocked in the government office by a group of scholars.

Fan Heng could only hear a sharp scolding: "Our family is the eunuch who was appointed by the emperor to guard Nanjing. You and others have trespassed in the government's yamen and attacked the officials of the court. The Songyang murder is not far away, don't you take a warning? ?"

It's okay not to mention the Songyang blood case, Fan Heng mentions the Songyang blood case, and suddenly a scholar shouted: "The thief, you dare to mention the Songyang blood case, I will kill you, the old thief first, and kill Chu tomorrow. thief……"

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

Suddenly, there was a burst of applause, and a voice was heard: "That's good, the Governor is here, who wants to kill me?"

The sudden sound made everyone stunned, and everyone looked at the person who came.

I saw Chu Yi, Wang Yangming, Yang Shen, and Cao Shaoqin, and other Dongchang stall owners, looking at them one by one.

An old man frowned, took a step forward, and shouted at Chu Yi: "Seeing that you are also a scholar, you should know about the Songyang murder case. Are you the same as everyone else, who came to kill Fan Heng, the castrated thief?"

A group of scholars stared at Chu Yi and the others, while Fan Heng was stunned for a moment after seeing Chu Yi, and then his face showed a bit of surprise, he quickly stepped forward and bowed his hands to Chu Yi: "Fan Heng has seen it before. Appoint the Governor of Chu!"

Several large and small eunuchs also hurriedly bowed to Chu Yi.

All of a sudden, the entire government office was completely quiet, and there was only the sound of the big and small eunuchs respectfully paying homage to Chu Yi.

With a swish, a group of literati who were originally no more than ten feet away from Chu Yi retreated in unison like a snake or scorpion, and even a scholar in the back accidentally fell and was stepped on, screaming in agony.

Headed by Huang Shilang, there was even more fear in his eyes. He took a few steps back, but his legs couldn't help trembling. In the blink of an eye, there was a fine cold sweat on his forehead.

[Well, the ticket, the reward is very small! 】

Chapter 59 The past is repeating itself!

These people knew all too well how Chen Qi and others were beheaded by Chu Yi, so in their minds, Chu Yi was a lunatic and a butcher.

Although none of the people present knew Chu Yi, but just by looking at the reactions of Fan Heng and the other eunuchs, they knew that the young man who suddenly appeared was the legendary murderous director of the East Factory, Chu Yi.

In this world, I am afraid that no one dares to pretend to be this one!

Chu Yi nodded slightly, bowed his hands to Fan Heng and said, "Mr. Fan, I haven't seen you for a long time, everything is fine!"

It can be said that Fan Heng is the one who is in the most comfortable mood at the moment. Before, he was really forced to the corner of the wall. Let’s kill these scholars who rushed into the guarding government. I’m afraid he will also risk his own life. .

If he doesn't do something harsh, I'm afraid that after this day, the majesty of his so-called Nanjing garrison eunuch will be gone.

However, just when he didn't know what to do, Chu Yi suddenly appeared, and he felt at ease all of a sudden.

Although it is said that his qualifications are older than Chu Yi, and even Chu Yi was promoted by him in the past, but when it comes to influence and power in front of the emperor, he is far worse than Chu Yi, and naturally he does not dare to take it.

He heard Fan Heng say: "I didn't expect the Governor to come so quickly, but today's event made the Governor see a joke!"

Speaking of which, Fan Heng said to Chu Yi, "Master, please follow me into the hall to talk!"

Chu Yi glanced at the literati on the side with a half-smile but said: "Chu wants to take a break, but ah, some people are shouting that they want to fight and kill Chu, Chu is uneasy. what!"

Chu Yi's sudden appearance really startled these people, but Huang Shilang has stabilized his mind at this moment, looking at the hundreds of literati behind him, he suddenly became bold.

He is not Chen Qi, and these literati who are present are not the disciples of those academies, and this is not the place in the Central Plains.

He Huang Shilang is famous all over the south of the Yangtze River, and he is a famous person. Many of the literati present are of good background, and even many of them have the support of those big families behind them. More importantly, this is Nanjing City.

With such thoughts flashing in his heart, Huang Shilang's original fear of Chu Yi gradually disappeared, replaced by infinite confidence.

I saw Huang Shilang stretched his chest hard, pointed at Chu Yi and said, "Is your eunuch Chu Yi?"

Many people present immediately widened their eyes, Fan Heng's face was stunned, and his eyes couldn't help showing a bit of excitement, while Cao Shaoqin, Chu Fang and the others were murderous in a flash, staring at Huang Shilang.

Wang Yangming and Yang Shen, who were standing on the side, suddenly changed their expressions when they heard Huang Shilang's words.

Although they have not been with Chu Yi for a long time, they can also see Chu Yi's temperament. Maybe Chu Yi can't be considered a prime minister who can punt a boat, but he is not the kind of person with a small stomach.

But this does not mean that Chu Yi has no temper. Huang Shilang even pointed at Chu Yi and called the eunuch directly. Didn't he know that this was a great insult to Chu Yi?

If you put yourself in the shoes and think about it, I am afraid that they will get angry when they are in Chu Yi's seat.

On the contrary, the literati standing behind Huang Shilang looked at Huang Shilang with respect and excitement, as if inspired by Huang Shilang.

Chu Yi smiled slightly, and rubbed the jade wrench on his finger with one hand, making people unable to hear the slightest emotional fluctuation and calmly said: "It's just down here, I don't know what to call this old man?"

It is said that the few officials from the Sixth Department of Nanjing went straight to the residence of the Minister of War and the residence of the Duke of Wei.

In Nanjing City, the Minister of War, Wei Guogong, and the garrison eunuch, these three are the three most powerful existences in the entire Nanjing City.

The officials in the six yamen were afraid that the Songyang bloody incident would be repeated in the garrison, but they did not have the courage to touch the bad head of Chu Yi, who was the director of the East Factory.

In the entire Nanjing city, perhaps only Feng Ji, the Minister of War, and Xu Fu, the contemporary Duke of Wei, could stop Chu Yi from committing murder.

When the little official who went to the residence of the Minister of War, learned that Feng Ji, the Minister of War, was not at the mansion on official business, he could not help but lamented.

On the contrary, the little officials who went to Wei Guogong's mansion finally entered the Guogong's mansion.

The ancestor of Wei Guogong Xu Qi was Xu Da, the first military minister of the Ming Dynasty.