Chapter 1048 The Deterrent Power of Sealing the Boat
Those who can survive and rise in the Ming Dynasty's official circles are all outstanding figures in the world and have various sources of intelligence.
Therefore, all high-ranking local officials know the role of Marquis Zhongyong of the Ming Dynasty and Feng Zhou, the Left Minister of the Ministry of Justice. He is a ruthless man that even the emperor is extremely afraid of, but has to win over!
The key is that he not only has the ability to rescue people, but also has the means to govern the world. Didn't he see that Henan, which was plagued by natural disasters before, had already been governed by him into a prosperous place in the Central Plains in just four years?
Not only has this young man, who has just passed the weak crown, become a third-grade high-ranking official, he is also an out-and-out ruthless person. He suppresses gangs and surrounds Shaoshi Mountain. Is this an act that ordinary people can do?
But not only did he do it, but he succeeded in everything in the end, which is extraordinary.
The White Lotus Sect claims to have millions of followers, and is a more powerful gang than the Cao Gang and the Salt Gang in the south of the Yangtze River. As a result, the elders, protectors, King Kong and other core members of the sect were all wiped out in one battle. In the end, they had to bow their heads honestly and then
Don’t dare to make trouble in his area!
There was also Shaolin. I heard that there was an Arhat in charge, but in the end, wasn't it that the gate of the temple was almost broken down, and in the end, I had to confess my sincerity to the court?
Not only that, this young Jinshi was also a good fighter. When chaos broke out in Henan, the situation had completely collapsed. Feng Zhou was appointed by the late emperor as an imperial envoy to inspect Henan. As a result, he killed more than a dozen rebel leaders in one go, thus establishing a stronghold in the army.
With such a great reputation, his words are more effective than those of military lieutenants and generals!
So he wiped out all the rebels within two months, which is called a military wizard!
The most important thing is that officials who oppose him or are targeted by him will never end well.
The original Henan chief envoy and several prefects with strong backing and support from scholars refused to accept the discipline. In the end, they were all charged with embezzling the royal law, and the evidence of the crime was conclusive and irrefutable.
What's even more shocking is that Feng Zhou not only knocked them down easily, but also used the theater troupe and other publicity channels at hand to directly nail these few to the pillar of shame of corrupt officials and never stand up again, even behind their backs.
Both his family and his master were implicated. The family could not hope to get ahead in the officialdom within a hundred years, and his master was directly sent to a remote place in the countryside by the late emperor to die.
Such ruthless and merciless methods really frightened the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom, but he was able to quickly form a united front, and every time one party launched an impeachment against him, it always failed.
Although the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were powerful, Feng Zhou was one of them. What's more, as he gradually became stronger, many ambitious young officials moved closer to him, and big bosses like Li Xian and Shang Ren also had great trust in him.
It can be said that Feng Zhou has established a huge force!
What depresses many people the most is that although Feng Zhou behaves domineeringly and crazy, he is a rare honest official. In terms of being an honest official, those censors who are full of benevolence, justice and morality may not necessarily be as good as this one.
After Feng Zhou left Henan, returned to the capital, and re-entered the Ministry of Justice, the power he managed showed a dazzling aura.
Once the emperor and his courtiers came to power, many changes occurred in the court when the new emperor came to power. The former emperor used old ministers, and the new emperor used new appointees. Most of the civil servants who took the initiative to impeach Feng Zhou were old, but Feng Zhou was not polite to them at all.
, as long as they are not the elders, they will find opportunities to bring them down. Not only are they themselves unlucky, but the officials who followed them and the descendants who entered the officialdom are also all unlucky. They are either demoted or transferred to Qingxian Yamen and sit on the bench.
It seems that as long as this man is still in court, it will be impossible for these suppressed officials to recover.
At this point, many people feared him like a tiger. Even the old scholars Li Xian and Shang Ren were unwilling to conflict with him openly.
Whenever I think of Feng Zhou's ruthlessness, the governor of Jiangnan, several governors and the general soldiers are scared to death. Their butts in Jiangnan are not clean. If they are targeted by Feng Zhou, the big boss of the criminal department, because of Min Gui's incident, it will be a shame to lose their official positions.
, the whole family is so unlucky.
The governor of Jiangnan was angry and sent a message to the generals stationed in various places to ensure Min Gui's safety. Otherwise, he would no longer be an official and would go home directly to wait for the court to liquidate him.
Several governors did not dare to neglect, and greeted all the prefects and yamen in various places in the south of the Yangtze River. If something happened to Min Gui in any jurisdiction, they should just get out and don't expect to get away with it.
For a time, because of Min Gui's personal safety, the Jiangnan officialdom was in chaos, and those officials with ulterior motives were so frightened that they were sweating coldly.
Unfortunately, Min Gui's behavior touched the collective interests of Jiangnan's major salt merchants, and the officials' strict restraint had no effect at all. On the contrary, it aroused their ferocity.
The big salt merchants who had strong backers secretly contacted Min Gui and prepared a big gift for Min Gui who was patrolling around. They must kill this "unmannered" guy to avoid getting in the way and causing trouble for them.
For a time, a strange atmosphere enveloped the land of Jiangnan, making some people with a keen sense of smell feel extremely uneasy, as if something big was about to happen.
Min Gui, on the other hand, continued to patrol around carelessly, as if he didn't find anything wrong at all...
On this day, Min Gui and his colleagues inspected a coastal county.
Looking at the reminder letter someone sent urgently, his face was full of disdain.
"It seems that some people are determined not to die until they reach the Yellow River!"
He gently put down a few pieces of thin letter paper and muttered to himself nonchalantly: "Do it, do it, the harder you do it, the faster these salt merchants will die!"
Only those who have observed Feng Zhou for a long time will know how powerful he is!
Rescued twice!
Civilian chaos in March
Four years to bring Henan to a prosperous time!
Not to mention killing demons, defeating Shaolin, and dealing with peerless swordsmen.
Of all the people present, no one knew Feng Zhou's temper and methods better than him. If there was another wave of Japanese pirate attacks, an army would probably arrive, and those salt merchants would be in good hands.
In the afternoon of that day, a group of armed gangsters suddenly sneaked into the county town, cutting people and grabbing money whenever they saw them, causing chaos in the county town.
Min Gui happened to be at a nearby government office with his bodyguards and a group of comrades from the Criminal Department. Hearing the chaos outside, he immediately rushed out with the local magistrate. When he saw the vicious gangsters killing people, he burst into laughter and rushed towards the government office.
He also shouted nonsense words such as "Kill the dog official to plead for the people" to confuse the audience.
What made Min Gui and his party even more speechless was that because of his arrival, the hundreds of garrison soldiers who came to protect him were so frightened that their faces turned pale and their hands and feet were weak. They didn't even have the courage to fight with the gangsters, and they didn't know which one.
The bastard yelled, "Run away," and immediately the garrison, whose number was nearly three times the opponent's, dispersed in one fell swoop.
"It's over, it's over..."
The local county magistrate was so frightened that he sat down on the ground and was so frightened by the smell of urine that he kept muttering "It's over".
Damn it, what kind of soldier or officer is this?
Min Gui was speechless. He glanced at his fellow Jinshi companions and threatened, "If you dare to be so unruly, don't blame me for not being considerate of my colleagues and letting you return to Beijing to continue your waiting list!"
At this time, several members of the Ministry of Justice who were also frightened did not dare to fall to the ground. If they were really driven back to Kyoto to continue their waiting list, they would be completely doomed in the future.
"Master Min, these guys are pirates from the coast!"
At this time, a middle-aged man whose clothes were shabby and patched several times but was clean came to Min Gui's ear and whispered a reminder.