Chapter 488: Who is the financial backer of Ming Dynasty?
"The Left Behind Department has blocked the nine gates and eighteen water passes of Fengyang City. It is impossible to make such a decision without authorization."
"Especially when His Highness Taisun is in the city."
"So this matter must be His Highness's order."
"..."
"If this is the case, what is your highness doing? To kill? Who to kill?"
"Eunuch Zhang and Eunuch Wu were both killed in the Imperial City of Zhongdu. How many other people in the Imperial City were implicated and killed?"
In the palace of Duke Xinguo, which was full of silk clothes, in the side hall in front of the funeral, Mrs. Hu of Xinguo was sitting on the upper hand. Tang Xie, Tang Li and the male concubines of the palace were all present.
The news from Fengyang City was very scattered, and news from all places were sent back together. This made everyone in the Tang family unavoidably need to peel off the cocoons and sort out everything clearly.
Tang Li glanced at Xinguo's wife Hu above, and then at Tang Xie.
Finally, I looked outside the door and saw no one coming back to deliver the letter.
He said in a deep voice: "The imperial city of Zhongdu is surrounded by emotions, which will inevitably last for a long time. Your Highness must have discovered something when he entered the imperial city today, so he severely punished the eunuchs and servants.
In this case, they will naturally ask all the bureaus in the central capital to blockade Fengyang City and track down the Xiao Xiaoxiao who are hiding everywhere.
If the child's guess is correct, His Highness will send someone to tell us and others to calm down and not be nervous. Everything will be enforced by the imperial court impartially."
Tang Li has been in Yingtian for a long time, and now he is the governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion. He is deeply trusted by the royal family and is in charge of the Beijing army together with many meritorious officials above the court.
Although he is only a concubine of the Tang family and has no chance to ascend to the throne, he has already had a place in the Tang family.
Mrs. Xinguo, Mrs. Hu, looked over but said nothing.
Tang Xie sat on Tang Li's hands and immediately said, "In this case, Duke Xin's office doesn't need to do anything?"
Tang Li nodded, then shook his head.
Under the instruction of Tang Xie's puzzled and eager eyes.
He said: "According to Your Highness's character, we and others can just stay still. But ministers must be loyal. We are the heirs of martial arts. After hearing this, we can act according to our instincts."
"
Tang Li didn't say what to do, but looked at Tang Xie.
Ms. Hu looked outside the door.
I saw the steward from Tangfu outside rushing back.
Some of the stewards of the Tang family had followed Tang He into battle to kill the enemy in the early years, but when they got old, they stayed in the house and took up stewardship.
This manager thinks so too.
Rushing back from outside the mansion, he went straight into the side hall: "Old Madam."
Mrs. Xinguo, Mrs. Hu, nodded: "What is the situation outside."
The manager didn't delay in getting things done, and told what had happened before in order in a concise and concise manner.
Everyone in the hall couldn't help but be silent for a moment.
Tang Li was right.
Mrs. Xinguo, Mrs. Hu, looked at Tang Li with a smile on her face: "Lao Wu, tell me what our family should do now."
Tang Li declined and said: "I think the fourth brother has a plan, so why not ask the fourth brother to talk about it."
After pushing Tang Xie forward, Tang Li stopped talking.
Fengyang Tang and Yingtian Tang may still have to be distinguished in the future.
Mrs. Xinguo was a little hesitant, but still looked at Tang Xie obediently: "Fourth, what have you decided on what to do?"
Tang Xie was reminded by Tang Li's words before, so he immediately said: "My family can just use the word "loyalty" at this time. I think other families in the city think the same way at this time.
Since he wants to be loyal, my son and Lao Wu will gather the servants and servants at home and go outside the imperial city to protect His Highness the Grand Sun and the palace wall."
The so-called domestic servants in Tang Xie's mouth were all old soldiers who followed Tang He in the army and retired due to various reasons.
Most of these people were injured in the army and had nowhere to go, so they all ended up in the Xinguo Duke's Mansion.
This is how the generals who made great achievements in the Ming Dynasty came to be.
Tang Li nodded silently at Tang Xie's move. This was what he thought, and what the Tang family should do at this moment.
No matter what happens in Fengyang City today, every family in Huaiyou's meritorious service should stand up clearly and stand by the side of the emperor's grandson.
Even if this is a useless move.
Mrs. Xinguo's eyes were somewhat solemn, and she looked at the Tang family members present.
Finally, Mr. Hu turned his attention to Tang Xie and Tang Li.
"Go ahead."
"Don't lose the face of Duke Xin's government."
Regardless of whether we agree or not, with the passing of Tang He, the Xinguo Duke's family has now reached the second generation, and the people who speak should be the sons of the second generation.
Tang Xie and Tang Li immediately stood up and looked at their adult brothers in the hall.
Tang Xie's eyes signaled Tang Li to speak.
Tang Li didn't refuse at this time. He looked at the brothers present and said in a deep voice: "Those who are above fourteen will follow me and my fourth brother out of the house. The rest will stay at home."
After Tang Li finished speaking, Tang Xie said: "Let's go!"
In a short time, nearly a hundred servants armed with swords and guns had gathered outside Duke Xinguo's mansion.
The imperial court banned weapons, but swords and guns were never included in this list.
When the sword and gun were in hand, the expressions of all the servants in Duke Xinguo's mansion who used to be kind to everyone changed drastically, showing a coldness and desolation that would keep strangers away.
Tang Xie and Tang Li, along with their brothers who were over fourteen years old, bowed their hands to these old soldiers who had followed Tang He all their lives, and then led the entire team to rush outside the Imperial City of Zhongdu.
And at the same time.
The meritorious families of Huaiyou who were still standing in Fengyang City also sent out their troops one after another.
Dozens of people, hundreds of people.
Almost every family mobilized in full force and headed for the imperial city under the leadership of the male leader.
In the city, the raids and killings led by the Jinyi Guards and Secret Guards were still continuing.
Thanks to the training of Zhang Hui, a member of Jinyiwei's prison camp, Jinyiwei now has a team that has mastered the most mature torture techniques.
Whenever a hidden pile is knocked up in Fengyang City, these people can pull out the people involved in the shortest possible time, and spread out like vines, causing the hidden people in Fengyang City to rise.
The rats have no way to escape.
Everyone in the various government offices in the city marveled at the efficiency of the Jin Yiwei, and they were even more frightened by the fact that there were so many Shuoshu gangsters lurking in Zhongdu City.
Fortunately today, it was His Highness Taisun who discovered this matter, so that such a thunderous sweep of Zhongdu was carried out. If it had not been picked up in the long run, no one knows what kind of turmoil would occur in Fengyang City, Zhongdu in the future.
The inspections and killings in the imperial city have gradually stopped.
In the square in front of the palace behind the Youshun Gate, even though the autumn air was brisk at this time, Qiu Fengzhen, the prefect of Fengyang, was already sweating profusely.
The group of royal guards did not say anything about their crimes. After checking the identities of the captured Imperial City servants, they stabbed them in the neck and spilled their blood on the spot.
There are more and more corpses in the square, and fewer and fewer people are alive.
Qiu Fengzhen was covered in cold sweat and trembling with fear.
finally.
Someone brought tables and chairs and put up a cover for the grandson.
Zhu Yunxi sat down, turned the white jade finger on his thumb, and looked at Fengyang Magistrate kneeling on the ground with a faint look.
"Prefect Qiu, do you know what these people did wrong?"
Qiu Fengzhen shook her head, moved her hands on the ground and turned her head towards the grandson: "Wei Chen... Wei Chen..."
Zhu Yunxi sneered: "Prefect Qiu has been in Fengyang for many years. As a local official, he can let the imperial city of Zhongdu be encroached on by thieves. Do we still have to wait for those people to evacuate the ancestral home of my Zhu family?"
"Wei Chen doesn't dare!"
Qiu Fengzhen fell to the ground, no one dared to excuse herself.
In the distance, an officer and soldier waved the embroidered spring knife in his hand and sent away the last identified imperial servant.
Zhu Yunxi sighed, leaned back on the chair, and looked down at Qiu Fengzhen with his eyes downcast: "There is something I just got today, and I haven't opened it yet to look at it. I wonder if Magistrate Qiu can do it for me and take a look at those things.
What?"
After he finished speaking, Sun Cheng had already asked someone to carry the wooden box that he had brought from Can Can Man's house, and it landed in front of Qiu Fengzhen.
The box dropped with a clang.
Qiu Fengzhen's shoulders shook again.
He slowly raised his head and looked at the red-painted wooden box in front of him, as if he were looking at an abyss that could swallow a person, his eyes filled with fear.
Qiu Fengzhen raised her head and looked at Zhu Yunxi, who was sitting on the chair, and then at Mr. Gao Ge and the young Chief Bai beside him.
Zhu Yunxi didn't speak, he was just waiting quietly for the Fengyang prefect's choice.
But Bai Yuxiu was a little curious. He also wanted to know what secrets were hidden in the box that the crippled man took out.
Gao Yangzhi coughed slightly and his eyelids sank: "Prefect Qiu, why are you hesitating now, Grandson?"
The youngest cabinet minister of the empire also spoke.
Qiu Fengzhen became increasingly frightened.
"I accept your order!"
He let out a low breath, slowly puffed up his chest, stretched out his hands tremblingly, and approached the wooden box that hid the big secret.
The lock on the box has long been opened, but the box has never been opened.
Qiu Fengzhen's hands were already on the upper edge of the wooden box.
He took a deep breath and held the lid of the wooden box high with his arms.
There was a creak.
The wooden box was finally opened.
Bai Yuxiu on the side immediately stretched her neck silently, stood on tiptoe and looked into the box.
The eyes of everyone around him were also directed at the box.
Qiu Fengzhen was in the middle. Her knees on the ground moved forward a few times. She reached the edge of the box and lowered her head to look into the box.
What catches the eye is an ingot of gold bricks, and what is revealed is a priceless jewel.
However, on top of these piles of treasures, there are stacks of complex patterns with clear markings. The lowest ones are green ink papers with a thousand taels of silver.
After just a cursory glance, Qiu Fengzhen estimated that this stack of paper was worth far more than one hundred thousand taels of silver.
However, these were not what surprised him the most.
On the top of these things, there is a small wooden box, which attracts Qiu Fengzhen's attention.
He raised his head and looked around, seeing no one speaking, he swallowed carefully and opened the wooden box with his hands.
Letters one after another were immediately exposed to everyone.
Respect to the king of Guangling County in the Ming Dynasty!
Qiu Fengzhen's hands trembled and she hurriedly spread out the letters.
In the catalogue, the titles of the letters are all for the Prince of Guangling County.
These are letters to a useless person!
In an instant, Qiu Fengzhen finally understood why Fengyang City was in such turmoil today.
But, how is the cripple now?
Qiu Fengzhen had a suspicion in her mind, but she quickly suppressed it.
"Prefect Qiu can review these letters for us."
Zhu Yunxi, who had never spoken before, spoke quietly and stared at the letters with faint eyes.
The white jade finger ring has been quietly hidden in his sleeve.
Regarding the origin of the name of the Ming Dynasty, there have been various controversies circulating among the people over the years.
In terms of the court’s public statements.
The name of the country of Ming Dynasty naturally comes from the "Book of Changes".
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, six people came into being, riding on six dragons to control the sky.
This is the Chinese character of the Qian hexagram in the "Book of Changes", which corresponds to the name of the Yuan Dynasty. It is also the "Da Zai Qian Yuan" in the Qian hexagram, which means that the Ming Dynasty replaced it.
On this basis, there is also the meaning taken from "the mountains and rivers are about to reach the land of China, the sun and the moon are heavy in the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty", which shows that the Ming Dynasty is the orthodox bloodline of the Central Plains.
In addition to this official explanation, there is another dramatic, more eye-catching and hotly debated statement.
Mingjiao.
Mingjiao came from outside the region and was forced to turn into an underground religious society after the Tang Dynasty. Later, it merged with the underground religious societies in the Central Plains over a long period of time and became the source of long-term local uprisings and rebellions.
In the early years of the country, there were atrocities in the Yuan Dynasty and the world was in chaos.
Everyone knows that Emperor Hongwu, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, defected to the Red Scarf Army under the name of Guo Zixing in his early years.
And where did the Red Turban Army come from?
There is a record: Kill the white horse and the black cow, swear an oath to heaven and earth, and plan to raise an army, using the red scarf as the name.
This is the origin of the Red Scarf Army, and it is about Han Lin'er.
And where did the soldiers and horses under Han Lin'er come from?
You must know that Han Lin'er comes from a rebellious family, and his family is engaged in rebellion.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Han Lin'er's father, Han Shantong, while working as a farmer, spread rumors in Henan and Jianghuai areas that "the world is in chaos, Maitreya Buddha is born, and King Ming is born".
At that time, the Yuan Dynasty was corrupt, the court was in turmoil, and the people were in dire straits. The rumors released by Han Shantong were naturally welcomed by the people for a while.
Later, Liu Futong, Luo Wensu and others gathered around Han Shantong, waiting for an opportunity to plan an uprising. For a time, rebel armies from all over the country responded.
People such as Xu Shouhui, Guo Zixing, Sun Deya, Zhang Shicheng and others all emerged at that time.
However, many rebel armies took the birth of King Ming as a righteous cause and gathered the people to form armies and horses to fight against the Yuan Dynasty.
In a sense, Mingjiao has created a mass base to a certain extent.
Therefore, the people are more willing to believe that the Ming Dynasty was able to conquer the Central Plains and establish a new dynasty only with the support of the Mingjiao as its financial backer.
However, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it seemed that the imperial court tried to burn bridges against the Ming Jiao, the former financial backer.
In the early years of Hongwu, the imperial court issued an edict banning all underground religious societies.
Especially the White Lotus Sect, Daming Sect, and Maitreya Sect under the Ming Sect, they are even determined in the form of legal prohibitions.
In the past few years, the imperial court promulgated many laws such as the "Da Ming Law·Etiquette", the "Regulations of the Zhao Dynasty King's Chapter", "The Cardinal's Penalties for the Crime of Witchcraft", etc. to combat the prohibition of the Ming Cult and its related underground societies.
exist.
In short, no one can explain clearly how the Ming Dynasty got its name and what is the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Mingjiao. Except the emperor himself can explain it.
But what cannot be changed now is the court's severe crackdown on the White Lotus Sect and other entities.
Qiu Fengzhen opened letters one after another and kept reading the contents. Sweat dripped from her forehead like rain.
After a while, Qiu Fengzhen felt that her mouth was dry and her throat seemed to be on fire.
He raised his head in fear and looked at the emperor's grandson who had an incomprehensible expression.
"Your Highness..."
"These...these...are all written by White Lotus Sect thieves!"