When the man who hanged himself heard what he said, he smiled bitterly and said, "If the Sun family is still here, there is certainly hope of recovering the money. But, the Sun family is all gone!"
At this point, there was a helpless expression on his face again, and he added: "If the Sun family hadn't suddenly ran away, we wouldn't have known that we had been deceived!"
In other words, it is precisely because the Sun family is a family of officials and has a very high reputation in Zizhou. After all, it is very rare for a family to have successively produced Jinshi scholars. It is a scholarly family! This is why they are convinced.
Hearing what he said, Zhu Cixiang couldn't figure it out again, so he frowned slightly and asked: "Leave? Where can I go? I have a family with me, and I still can't find out where they are hiding? Report them."
If you get into the government, you will naturally go after it!"
Fang Zhenghua, who was standing next to him, took out a kettle and a water cup from somewhere. After pouring the water, he felt the temperature before respectfully handing it to the Crown Prince.
When Zhu Cihong saw it, he took it and took a sip before returning it to Fang Zhenghua.
The man who hanged himself was a little surprised when he saw this scene. He felt that the noble man in front of him was so grand! Not only were there many servants and guards, but he also had chairs, tea, etc. when he went out. He really knew how to enjoy it!
But he didn't know that at this time, Fang Zhenghua was thinking: His Highness the Crown Prince's way of handling things is still a bit immature. He has been asking about every little thing for a long time, but he has not grasped the key points on this matter.
It can be dealt with in just a few words.
Perhaps, this is the reason why the Emperor asked His Highness the Crown Prince to come out for training!
"It is true that we have found out where the Sun family is, but the government is powerless to arrest them!" The man who hanged himself had a look of helplessness on his face as he replied to Zhu Cihong.
When Zhu Cihong heard this, he immediately couldn't understand. He immediately raised his voice and shouted loudly: "In the whole world, is it the king's land? Where did the Sun family escape to? The government can't even arrest them?"
Before he realized it, Fang Zhenghua, who was listening next to him, suddenly thought of it. Suddenly, he frowned and thought to himself: It's really hard to catch!
Sure enough, the man who hanged himself replied to Zhu Cihong: "They went to the vassal state of King Ding and had already sailed out to sea from Dengzhou."
Dengzhou is not far from Zizhou. After boarding the boat from there, we headed south along the coastline, passing through Dongfan to the Zhou Kingdom in Nanyang and then to Dingguo.
Zhu Cixi was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and this idea immediately came to his mind.
At this moment, the man added: "The Sun family is either a Jinshi or a member of the Juren family. I heard that they have been highly used by King Ding. After going to Dingguo, they will be high officials in Dingguo."
Having said this, he showed a look of helplessness and said: "There is nothing we can do about Zizhou Yamen!"
Not to mention that the person has left, even if he has not left, the local officials in Zizhou probably would not dare to mess with the senior officials of Dingguo. After all, King Ding is the biological son of the current emperor, not an ordinary vassal king!
Not to mention, everyone is gone now!
After Zhu Cihong heard this, he frowned and said in a deep voice: "The court cannot ignore such behavior!"
Intuitively, he felt that something was wrong!
"Hey!" After hearing this, the man who hanged himself sighed and said, "In fact, there has been a precedent for this kind of thing. Who dares to do it against the imperial court's grand chess?"
Hearing this, Zhu Cixiang felt strange again, and immediately asked: "What do you mean by this?"
"Didn't the imperial court want to send all the vassal kings overseas? And when the vassal kings were sent overseas, they recruited people as subjects at home. Therefore, some people had done sneaky things before and then went to the vassal country.
Yes!" The man sighed and said, "Otherwise, with so many vassal kings going overseas, how could so many people follow them?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Cixi understood it even though he was young and had no experience.
If there were only one or two vassal kings who wanted to vassal overseas, as long as the conditions given were suitable, they should be able to recruit some people at home to go overseas.
However, now it is necessary to seize all the domestic vassal kings overseas. If each vassal king wants to establish a vassal overseas, of course he must use the people of the Ming Dynasty as the basis of his rule to govern the vassal country. Otherwise, he must use those who cultivated the country through slash-and-burn farming.
Aborigines, can this vassal country still have a future?
Therefore, in this case, each vassal state needs a large number of Ming people. The later the vassal king comes, the harder it is to recruit a sufficient number of Ming people. In this way, no matter who they are, the vassal state will need
, because there is no choice left.
The Sun family of Zizhou was a family of officials. It was not unimaginable that King Ding knew about such learned people and wanted them to be appointed as high-ranking officials to govern the country.
Thinking about this matter, Zhu Cixiang's face became a little ugly. Because he thought that if this went on, those Chinese people who went to the vassal country might do something illegal before leaving, and then pat their butts and leave.
Leave without being held accountable!
Although it is actually a good thing that these evil-minded, cock-crowding, dog-robbers and thieves left the Ming Dynasty. However, the people of the Ming Dynasty had to bear the disasters before they left!
Thinking like this, he raised his head and looked at the person in front of him and asked: "How many people did the Sun family deceive this time?"
"More! Why not more? People around Zizhou believed in their Sun family, and they were all fooled. It was just more or less money they got defrauded!"
After Zhu Cixiang heard this, he thought seriously for a while and said: "If you die, you will have nothing. Only by living can you have what you want. Money, you can make it again if you don't have it. There are many opportunities in Ming Dynasty now."
Yes. In addition, your matter may not turn around, you can wait and see."
It was obvious that he had made a decision in his mind before he said this. Then, without waiting for the man to reply, he stood up and turned around and left.
When the captain of the Imperial Guard saw him, he immediately cleared the way and cleared away the chairs. However, after a while, the hanged man was the only one left in the temple.
After such a conversation, he no longer had any thoughts of seeking death. When he heard the sound of horse hooves and walked out of the temple gate, he saw the backs of more than a dozen horsemen.
The servants and guards, all riding tall horses, surrounded the noble young master and left.
Looking at this scene, he was very curious: "What is the origin of this noble young master?"
After riding for a while, Zhu Cixiang, who had been silent for a while, suddenly turned to Fang Zhenghua and said, "Let's stay in Zizhou for a few days and ask about everything about the Sun family!"
"Yes, young master!" Fang Zhenghua agreed immediately after hearing this.
Afterwards, he drove his horse a little behind, turned around and gave orders to a military officer in imperial robes beside him, and gave His Royal Highness the instructions.
Zhu Cixiang's plan was not to let the man who hanged himself do whatever he wanted. He would first verify it himself before speaking.
In addition, he felt that there were some doubts about this matter. No, he told Fang Zhenghua again: "Since the Sun family is a family of officials, why don't they stay in the country and go to Dingguo? Really?
Go, why are the whole family going together instead of just one or two of them? Check them all to see what’s hidden!"
Generally speaking, for those who want to go overseas, it is impossible for the whole family to go together. Most of them are based on random ideas.
This is especially true for aristocratic families. Their foundations, connections, etc. in the Ming Dynasty will be lost because the whole family goes overseas together. The price paid is a bit high.
Besides, in Dingguo, although one could become a high-ranking official, the people there were indigenous and very primitive, so life was definitely not as comfortable as in the Ming Dynasty.
Ordinary people, living a hard life at home, can understand why they go to a feudal country to become a master. However, a family of officials...
In short, Zhu Cixiang felt that there was something hidden in this.
After all these investigations, if what the man who hanged himself was finally proven to be true, Zhu Cixi decided that he must report this matter to his father. This was not directed at his brother Ding Wang, but at the issue of the vassal king's vassalship.
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At night, when he went to the inn in Zizhou City, Fang Zhenghua had collected the information Zhu Cixi needed and reported it to him.
The man who hanged himself did not lie.
The Sun family is indeed a family of eunuchs in Zizhou. They defrauded an unknown amount of money and have already gone to sea.
The reason why the Sun family did this was because for some unknown reason, the Sun family's career in the country was not going well.
Now the person in charge of the Sun family is Sun Zhixian, a Jinshi during the Tianqi period. Because he hugged Wei Zhongxian's thigh, he was criticized by the Hanlin Academy and was later dismissed for his crime.
In the early years of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen cracked down on the eunuchs and re-employed members of the Donglin Party. Naturally, there would be no such thing as Sun Zhixian. It can even be said that his eldest son was unable to win the Jinshi after he was elected, and it was because of him
implicated.
Later, fifteen years after Chongzhen, both the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party were appointed. One of the most representative was the Nanjing Political Envoy. For this reason, Sun Zhixian was encouraged and went to the capital to serve as an official.
, but I don’t know why, even though the court urgently needed officials to serve as exiled officials, and even sent out officials, Sun Zhixian found nothing, including his son.
Fang Zhenghua speculated that Sun Zhixian had despaired of the Ming Dynasty officialdom, so he moved his family overseas to become an official in the Dingwang fiefdom. Before leaving, he set up a stock scam and defrauded a large sum of money.
money, and then went to sea to escape.
As for what the man who hanged himself said, it is quite common for people to steal, molest, and even kill people and set fires before going to overseas vassal states.
Regarding such a matter, when the feudal king was involved, the prisoner even ran away to the feudal state, and the local government was helpless. Most of them chose to make the big thing trivial, make it trivial, and make peace with the matter.
Local officials who are more responsible will post local lists of people who are going to the vassal state to remind local people to pay attention to dealing with them. However, it is impossible to guard against it, and the most common thing is the crowing of chickens and theft by dogs.
After listening to Fang Zhenghua's report, Zhu Cixiang thought about it for a long time. In addition to writing it in his diary, he also specially wrote a memorial and immediately sent it to the capital.