Chapter 140 – Who is not frightened?

“Whether you are supposed to be dead now, or whether you have been robbed by the Ming family,” Fan Xian sat in the carriage, his eyes looking out, and said softly, “In any case, within this period of time, it will be impossible for you to appear in front of the world again, and the courtyard has arranged a place for you to hide properly, waiting for this matter to calms down before coming out again.”

Fourth Master Ming responded weakly and feebly.

Fan Xian glanced back at him and couldn’t help but shake his head, “When you first asked Ming Qi to meet with you, you should have agreed to do so, why did you have to suffer such a shock.”

Master Ming Si gritted his teeth and hissed, “No one could have imagined that this mother and son would actually be so ruthless.”

Fan Xian shook his head somewhat helplessly, “For such a large family to be preserved, it naturally requires many sacrifices.”

Fourth Master Ming fell silent, his hand touching his reddened and tightened pained throat, knowing that he was nothing more than a sacrifice, and didn’t have much qualification to ask for anything.

When the carriage reached the halfway point of its original journey, another vehicle picked up Fourth Master Ming from Fan Xian’s carriage. Only Fan Xian and a few people from Qiyan’s group were left in the carriage, and the seven tiger guards were scattered around the carriage in accordance with Gouda’s arrangement, hiding their tracks.

“My lord, where to next?” The subordinate asked in a low voice.

Fan Xian thought for a moment before saying, “Wait for another half hour, hand in a post into the Governor’s Mansion, I want to see Xue Qing again.” His eyes fell on the subordinate’s face and asked, “Was the cell properly set up earlier?”

The subordinate said in a deep voice, “Yes, and Suzhou House has been putting people to keep an eye on it, the Ming family can’t escape the charge of prison robbery this time, just ……”

“Speak directly.” Fan Xian frowned.

“My subordinate doesn’t understand, if the Ming family wanted to kill Ming Lao Si to plant evidence in the courtyard, there’s no need to do it in such an exaggerated manner.”

Fan Xian shook his head and said, “None of the techniques matter, the key is the timing. Today, the Supervisory Yuan entered the Ming Garden to search, and Ming Laoshi died in the prison, regardless of how he died, and it doesn’t matter how the Ming family arranges the follow-up …… as long as he dies and his body is found, all the gentry and people in Jiangnan will think that I did it.”

He smiled and then said, “The Ming family …… has been waiting for me to be impatient to enter the Ming Garden, so that I can throw out this abandoned pawn. It’s just that now that Ming Lao Si isn’t dead, I’m really a bit curious as to how the Ming family can continue to play this grief card.”

The carriage slowly came to a stop, the morning sunlight of Suzhou City warmly and gently shines on the long street, shines on people’s hearts, and then brushes to the roof of this black four-wheeled carriage, seems to brush away the coldness in the hearts of the people sitting inside.

Figuring that the Mingyuan side was already in an uproar, Fan Xian lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage, and the tiger guards drew near, carrying their steps toward the tall governor’s office.

An official of the Supervisory Yuan had already handed in his name card, and the concierge of the government office didn’t dare to stop him; a master hurried out and welcomed Fan Xian and his party inside.

Still in that study, there was still only Governor Xue Qing and Lord Fan Xian. Fan Xian made his intentions clear very directly and informed the other party that the people from the Supervisory Academy had already entered the Ming Garden.

Upon hearing this fact that had already happened, the corner of the eye of Governor Xue Qing, the de facto number one person in Jiangnan, frowned imperceptibly before sighing and slowly saying, “There are many things that are more desirable than quick.”

Going down to Jiangnan to deal with the Ming family was the established policy of His Majesty, the Emperor of Qing, and Fan Xian was just a concrete implementer, Xue Qing, as the Emperor’s beloved, of course knew the origin of this matter, only that in terms of concrete measures, there was a great difference with Fan Xian.

The court did not set a timetable to collect the Ming family, for the emperor, he believes that his time is still more, there is enough patience will be Jiangnan’s big clans slowly eat into their mouths, so accordingly, Xue Qing does not want to be too hasty to start, has been mainly to soften, so as not to make too much noise, chaotic Jiangnan, shaking the foundations of the rule of the court.

So for Fan Xian today straight into the government office, said into the bright garden, Xue Qing’s mood naturally not good to go, he just never understand, Fan Xian in this hurry to do what? He was obviously less than 20 years old, so what was he afraid of if it took a few years?

His chest another trace of anger, understand Fan Xian this move, is to force himself to follow the boat to take the knife, the Supervisory Board has entered the Mingyuan, if both sides will be up, as Jiangnan Road Governor, no matter how, is to ensure that a side of the peace, that should be out of the force naturally.

Some days ago, Xue Qing had not let go, because he felt that he did not have too much certainty in dealing with the Ming family, and he was also afraid of the winds in the capital, and now that he had been put in the way by Fan Xian, his anger grew, and he said in a deep voice, “If you cause trouble, who will be responsible for it?”

Fan Xian thought quietly for a while and said seriously, “There shouldn’t be any trouble.”

Xue Qing coldly looked at him and said, “It is not that this official is generous, but how to count is also one of your elders …… This thing, you do not do enough carefully, the Ming family has been showing weakness for a small half a year, waiting for you to bully him, and now you have already bullied into the door, where will they miss this opportunity. ”

Fan Xian shook his head, “After entering the Ming Garden, what can they do?”

Xue Qing slightly lowered her eyes and said, “The Ming family keeps a thousand private soldiers, and although the court has always known about it, it has always turned a blind eye because of the feats they’ve accomplished for the court.”

It wasn’t difficult for a large clan of tens of thousands of people to raise a thousand private soldiers under various names, but Fan Xian couldn’t help but sneer as he listened to these words, “Was it a merit for the court, or was it a merit for the Junshan Society?”

Hearing the three words Junshan Society, Xue Qing fell silent, in Jiangnan under his rule, such a mysterious and unlimitedly powerful organization had actually appeared, it could not be said that it was a dereliction of duty on his part, and His Majesty, the Emperor, had already sternly reprimanded him in the secret letter he sent.

Xue Qing understood that Fan Xian was using the big name of the Junshan Society to pressure himself, so he could only shake his head hopelessly and say, “Where exactly are your calculations?”

Fan Xian was silent for a while and spoke, “The Ming family was preparing to kill Ming Lao Si and plant it on the Supervisory Court, and this was stopped by me.”

“In the Suzhou Mansion?” Xue Qing was slightly startled, and then he realized why Fan Xian looked confident at this moment.

“A thousand private soldiers, but as long as the Ming family doesn’t dare to uncover the flag and rebel, I’ll only send forty men in and they won’t dare to move a bit.” Fan Xian continued with a smile, “Don’t they like to play retreat for advance? I’ll see just how far they can retreat.”

Xue Qing said with his eyes half-closed, “You really don’t dare to move? You’re not holding an imperial decree.”

Fan Xian said tit-for-tat, “I don’t have an imperial decree, but I do have the Son of Heaven’s sword.”

Xue Qing said indifferently, “The Ming Garden as long as the spelling of a few more deaths, the mood of a tune, and directly buried your forty Supervisory Yuan secret agents in the middle of the Ming Garden, it is not an impossible thing …… Ming Sword? Ming Yuan can find enough excuses to argue that they didn’t know about this, and only thought that it was little Lord Fan of the Supervisory Yuan who was trying to kill and take over the property, and they were forced to fight back …… Don’t forget that the Ming family has done an excellent job of laying the groundwork in these past few months, and that when this happens at this point in time, everyone under the sun is going to believe them.”

This sentence poked at Fan Xian’s heart, if the Ming family was really pushed into a corner, it wasn’t like they couldn’t do such crazy things. With the foundation of the Ming family in Jiangnan and the help of the capital, they can completely tear their faces off with Fan Xian, and the Supervisory Yuan entered the Ming Garden first, so both sides are just fighting a battle, and the public opinion will also completely fall on the side of the Ming family.

However, to Xue Qing’s surprise, Fan Xian didn’t seem to care about this at all, and there wasn’t a single fluctuation of emotion on his handsome young face.

Xue Qing couldn’t help but frown.

Fan Xian finally opened his mouth, the corners of his lips with a faint self-deprecation: ”The Ming family is waiting for me to make a move, why wouldn’t I be waiting for the Ming family to make a move, as long as they tear their faces …… If they really dare to move my men, no matter what, I’m going to plant them in a revolt, no matter if the people of this world believe in it or not, I’m going to have to place this hat planted on the head of that old undead, Ming Lao Taijun.”

In front of the Governor all the way, talking about such a perversion of the law, Fan Xian’s boldness could not be described as great, but the next words were even more chilling to Xue Qing.

“Naturally, no one believes that they will rebel.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “But once they do, the black riders that have been staying in the north of Jiangnan will come over, and I will kill all the people in the Ming Garden, and as long as all the people in those six rooms are dead, who will cry out for them? The people of Jiangnan or the gentry of Jiangnan?”

He continued calmly, “Even if they cry out for justice in Kyoto, so what? Even if we fight in the imperial court, so what? The people of the sixth house I killed clean, only Xia Qufei is left alone, at most add the embellishment of Ming Lao Si, the Ming family’s property the court will still get their hands on it …… As long as the purpose is achieved, it doesn’t matter if the means are dirty.”

He turned his head and stared at Xue Qing’s eyes, “I believe that if forty or so people die in my Supervisory Yuan, and I transfer the Black Riders to Suzhou, you won’t still stop me, right?”

The pupils of Xue Qing’s eyes shrunk slightly, if things really went that way, and the Supervisory Yuan threw forty or so officials in, and he himself still had to forcefully stop the Black Riders from going south …… I’m only afraid that the Supervisory Yuan would really go berserk, and if he annoyed that old man in a wheelchair, he would probably not have a good ending even if he was a governor all the way.

Looking at Fan Xian’s gentle and pure eyes, Xue Qing had no reason to have a chill in his heart, and had a whole new understanding of the young official beside him, the original Fan Tisi of the Supervisory Yuan is really a murderous and powerful character, the younger generation does things, and is really crazy enough.

“What about you?” After slaughtering the Ming Garden, Fan Xian naturally didn’t have much to show for it, but Xue Qing never believed that the hallowed young Lord Fan would gamble with the Ming family on this store.

“Me? At most, I’ll be in addition to all my titles, de-officialized, and relegated to the status of a commoner,…… and then not be exiled for 3,000 miles?” Fan Xian seemed to be thinking about his own end, and laughed, “It’s not like Lord Xue doesn’t know that I’m a man who can go anywhere in the world.”

Xue Qing couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh, “Then the forty men you sent into the Ming Garden …… are all outcasts?”

Fan Xian closed his eyes and shook his head, “Otherwise, I’m only talking about the worst possible outcome, but I’m sure that with the sophistication of the Ming family’s mother and son, they certainly wouldn’t have chosen so …… So I’m curious as to how exactly the Ming family is going to cope with this?”

“It’s like playing cards, I don’t see that I’m going to win this hand, but I’m curious as to which card the other side is preparing to play out.” He opened his eyes and smiled, “At some point, I am somewhat of a gambler’s general curiosity.”

“This official …… is also starting to get curious.” Xue Qing’s eyes danced slightly as he said, “I hope that your judgment is not wrong, and that the Junshan Society tent surnamed Zhou is still in the Ming Garden.”

“Don’t worry,” Fan Xian cheered for this Lord Governor, “I have people in the Ming Garden.”

Xue Qing frowned, wondering who exactly Fan Xian had buried in the Ming Garden, and given his status, it was naturally inconvenient for him to ask, so he shut up and stopped speaking. The two Jiangnan official leaders, just like this silent sitting in the study, waiting for the news from the Mingyuan side.

Did not wait long, the news came, the Governor’s Office of the master to Xue Qing’s side whispered for a while.

Xue Qing fell silent, then looked at Fan Xian and sighed, saying, “The cards that the other side has played seem to be out of your expectations …… I’m going to start mobilizing my troops.”

Fan Xian frowned slightly.

Xue Qing continued with a bitter smile, “The deployment of troops …… is for the safety of your men, not in defense of you slaughtering the garden.”

Xue Qing knew that he didn’t need to go into detail with him, and with a face full of residual shock, he hurriedly left the study.

Fan Xian stood up and heard the story from the mouth of the Qiyan team official outside the door.

The news from the Supervisory Yuan should have been a bit quicker than the Governor’s Office, but because, after all, the people were inside the Governor’s Office at this time, the transmission of information was instead slower.

But when Fan Xian heard what happened in Mingyuan today, he still couldn’t stop the same as Governor Xue Qing, a shocked look appeared on his face, and his mouth slightly opened as he sighed, “Jedi, even more Jedi than …… what I did.”

He was ready to swear to vent that ridiculous feeling deep inside himself, but finally held back, shook his head with a bitter smile, his face gradually tended to calm down, and then issued instructions.

“Have Deng Ziyue withdraw everyone back.”

“Do not hit back, do not curse back.”

That official from the Qiyan group led the order and left, and Fan Xian followed suit and walked out of the main entrance of the governor’s yamen. Only to see a busy scene inside the Yamen, most of the officials who did not know the inside story looked at each other in dismay, not knowing why the Governor-General chose this time to inspect the city’s governance, and why he called out to all of the city’s military officials to come into the palace for deliberation at this time.

Fan Xian was naturally qualified to participate in the deliberations, but he knew that it was not appropriate for him to stay in the Governor’s Mansion any longer today, and that the storm that was about to come would naturally be a pain for Lord Xue Qing to appease, while he himself should go and do something else.

After getting into the carriage, Fan Xian rubbed his brow, and suddenly said to Tiger Guard Gouda without a head or tail, “In fact, many times, how a thing will go, all just depends on the order of the dead.”

Gouda froze, not understanding what Lord Titus was talking about.

Fan Xian scratched his head and said, “Obviously I want him to die, but if he snatches himself before I let him die, we …… have some problems instead.”

“Who died?” Gouda asked with a frown.

“That old grandma in the eyes of our people in Jiangnan, the Ming Family’s Old Taijun who has saved the lives of so many poor people, I don’t know how many poor people she has saved.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “Because she couldn’t stand the insults of the Supervisory Court entering the garden and the many days of bullying by Lord Little Fan, she hanged herself in anger this morning.”

Elder Taijun Ming committed suicide?

Gao Da was in shock, although he had come from Kyoto, he knew what kind of prestige and status this old ancestor of the Ming family possessed in the entire Jiangnan.

“To die to make a point.” Fan Xian laughed and cursed, “Ming Qingda is also really ruthless, even more so than his mother.”

In fact, Elder Taijun Ming did not want to die.

This was of course a piece of nonsense, no one in this world wanted to die, even if Elder Taijun Ming was already dying, the breath of life had flowed outwards for a number of years, she had enjoyed enough in Jiangnan, but she still did not want to die.

Ming family in Jiangnan’s reputation is very good, open store put porridge, funding students and other good deeds do not know how many, the Ming old lady in the people’s mind, like the clouds of some kind eyes of the old fairy general, wrapped in a sweet honey, light brilliant clothes, so that today’s folk in Jiangnan, and even in some remote places, there are people have begun to set up a shrine to the old lady of the Ming family.

Ming Lao Taijun obviously did not connect the life shrine and her own hair life expectancy, nor did she think that, with the shrine all set up, how many more days can …… or should she still live? Her entire mind had recently been focused on dealing with the pervasive bullying of the Supervisory Yuan, and she had long ago drawn up a plan accordingly.

In this beautiful morning, heard that the inspectorate spies into the garden search, the old woman face angry, scolded: “Ming garden after the completion of the repair, where there is the government search thing? Even if the Governor General enters the house, he still has to be courteous, these bastard things from the Supervisory Yuan!”

The small courtyard she lived in was far away from the deepest part of the Ming Garden, so she couldn’t hear the clamor of the inspectorate’s search in front of her, but this sense of humiliation still made her very angry, and she narrowed her eyes and said, “You’re just going to let our family be bullied like this?”

Standing beside her was the nominal contemporary master of the Ming family, the eldest son of the eldest house, Ming Qingda, his face slightly gray, knowing what his mother meant by that, he whispered back, “The people have already gone, it’s just that …… the oldest four are also brothers after all.”

Ming Lao Taijun coldly, disgustedly looked at his son, thinking that not ruthless how to become a big thing? How can under the strong offense of the Supervisory Yuan, so that the self family can survive and endure until the day when the capital turns over?

“Be ruthless.”

Elder Taijun Ming lectured.

Ming Qingda glanced at his mother’s wrinkled face, a filial smile appeared on his face and he answered.