Chapter 138 Jing Ming
Politics and business above the struggle, in fact, often have a common point, that is, whenever it seems to be at the end of the mountain, as if the darkness of the flowers, just when the oil is cooking, who knows instantly will be turned into a piece of cold fall in the autumn.
Kyoto on the Ministry of households in the fight, Xinyang and the East Palace thought that the clear pulse, captured the Fan family’s biggest handle, proudly, Sen Sen Ran shot, straight to let the Fan family’s square emblem for the master, who knows that at the end of the day, is a reverse toss, the loss of a large number of strength for no apparent reason.
Then on the Jiangnan, Fan idle hand holding the Qinzhi Ming sword, clearing the treasury, the palm of the transit division, through the summer Qufei hedge to the Ming family silver root shrinkage, and then through the lawsuit, successfully put the Ming family into chaos, and then through the huge Supervisory Yuan help, in the world all around for the Ming family, the momentum is aggressive, it seems that at any time may be crushed into a mess of broken pieces of the Ming family.
But just at such a moment, who would have thought that so many shocking things would happen.
“My people are going to enter the garden.” Fan Xian slammed the table, his eyes as cold as hooks as he looked at the person in front of him, and said word for word, “Lord Xue, I’ve been waiting for ten days, and I won’t wait any longer today.”
The one sitting beside him was naturally the most powerful one in Jiangnan, the Governor of Jiangnan Road, Lord Xue Qing, and at this moment, the place where the two of them were having a secret talk was precisely inside the study of the Governor’s Mansion.
Junshan Club’s accountant, that is, Ming family’s big housekeeper Zhou someone, has been checked out by the Supervisory Board, is hiding in the Ming Garden. Whether it was for the assassination before the Jiangnan Residence or Fan Xian’s strong interest in the Junshan Society, the Supervisory Yuan had enough reasons to kill in the Ming Garden and pull out that person.
However, after all, it was the Ming Garden, one of the three major gardens in the world, and it represented the interests of countless people in Jiangnan, the lives of countless people, and the spiritual support of countless people.
So even if Fan Xian wants to send people into the Ming Garden search, but also have no choice but to go to the Jiangnan Governor’s Office and Xue Qing ventilation, as long as Xue Qing is willing to nod, what the Ming family, what the Jiangnan gentry, Fan Xian in fact is not how to care.
It is a pity that time is short, so there is no way to send Dabao to Wuzhou first, naturally, it is also impossible to know clearly from the mouth of his father-in-law, Xue Qing this person’s bottom line in the end is what.
Fan Xian had to enter the Governor’s Mansion very directly, and made this proposal which looked a bit appalling.
And Xue Qing’s attitude was clear.
You want to search the Ming Garden? Yes.
To ask the Governor’s Office to send an officer to assist in the search? No way!
Jiangnan Governor is naturally not afraid of offending the Ming family, but he knows very well in his heart, the Ming Garden is like a door, the first few months, himself and Fan Xian outside the door to clean up the Ming family’s industry, tossing the spirit of the Ming family, and did not touch the Ming family’s foundation, so the other side of the retreat and forbearance to show weakness and beg for perfection, but once the official government stepped into the Ming family’s that high threshold… …
This means that the struggle has been killed to the core, both sides tore their faces, is the end of your death.
The court of the Qing Dynasty naturally doesn’t care about overturning a rich merchant family, even if this family is the number one rich family in the Qing Dynasty. But the problem is that the Ming family directly and indirectly support more than 100,000 people, but also affects the lives of most of the people in Jiangnan, the Ming family do not even need to fight back, as long as this momentum, the stability of the entire Jiangnan will become a big problem.
Governor Xue Qing coldly looked at the young man beside him, thinking that you are the Lord of the Qinzhi, when the time to Jiangnan into a mess, you can pat your ass and leave, after returning to Beijing, there is His Majesty the Emperor, Chen Dean Fan Shangshu, these people for you to support you, but how to do it yourself? Is it possible to throw all the mess after the incident to yourself alone?
If Jiangnan is unstable, how can he do his job as governor?
So when Fan Xian extremely courteous to come to the Governor’s mansion, Xue Qing exceptionally resolute refused the two sides to collaborate on the case request, his words are very clear, since the mysterious Junshan will be the beginning of the Procuratorate to find out the problem, since it does not involve the local government, their own people in the periphery of the Procuratorate for the cleanup is possible, but directly into the Mingyuan, this kind of messy things, he refused to do.
This is the way of an official, Xue Qingming knew that Fan Xian was not sure about the chaos that might come out of the search of the Ming Garden, so he dragged himself into the water, so how could he be willing to just obediently give in?
It had already been ten days, but Xue Qing still refused to relent, and Fan Xian’s heart began to grow irritated.
After leaving the governor’s office, Fan Xian got into the carriage, frowning and propping up his jaw, and began to froze.
Deng Ziyue looked at the adult two eyes, said softly: “People have been sprinkled in the Ming garden door staring, that Ming four masters heard in suzhou house also did not suffer, when to enter the Ming garden to arrest people, we do it ourselves……. In fact, it does not necessarily have to be the governor’s office to help with, but I’m afraid that we have to lose some manpower. ”
The Ming Garden naturally has its own fighters, even powerful private armies, Fan Xian had once looked at that garden from afar, and knew that with a little bit of modification, that garden would become a fortified castle, and if the manpower of the Inspectorate wanted to force an attack without the help of the Black Riders, it would be a very difficult thing to do.
And if Xue Qing did not nod his head, it would naturally be impossible for the Black Riders to penetrate deep into the land of Jiangnan’s prosperous state cities.
“It’s not difficult to enter the garden.” Fan Xian shook his head with a bitter smile, “As long as the Ming family isn’t prepared to rebel, and the Supervisory Yuan takes a handwritten letter from me, the Imperial Commissioner, and enters the garden to search, could it be that they still dare to stop them?”
“What castle armament, it’s all fake, Ming Lao Taijun doesn’t dare to transfer a single person.”
His face grew cold, “But to enter the Ming Garden to take someone, there are two problems. One is that we don’t really know how many experts of the Junshan Society are here, and that Big Steward Zhou who knows the inner workings of the Junshan Society, if he hasn’t been silenced yet, will those experts protect him away from Suzhou. The second is that things can not be too big, the Ming family has been showing weakness for a few months, the atmosphere of sadness to create an incomparably thick, especially after that Ming fourth master was caught into the Suzhou House, the Suzhou House has been locked up and not released, and the rumors spreading outside are getting more and more bizarre ……”
Deng Ziyue listened quietly on the sidelines, knowing what the Lord Titus was worried about, now the whole of Jiangnan is in the legend, the Supervisory Yuan under the command of Fan Xian, oppressing the Ming family, intending to dominate its family property, will soon evolve into a story of murder and seizure of property.
The name of the court to deal with the Ming family has not been rationalized. Therefore, in the area of Jiangnan, from the gentry to the people, they all began to stare at Fan Xian with that kind of fear and loathing, and the reputation that Fan Xian had created in Kyoto for the past two years had been greatly tainted.
“Ming Qingda is a smart man.” Fan Xian frowned and said, “This hand of retreating to advance is indeed beautiful. It looks like they are giving in and we still have to push forward step by step, falling in the eyes of the world, there is always a tendency to be emotionally inclined, and their Ming family’s roots in Jiangnan are extremely deep, and their ability to mobilize civil opinion is much stronger than our own eight offices.”
From know Zhou big housekeeper hiding in Ming garden after, the supervision courtyard inner treasury transit department on the Ming family’s attack is more and more fierce, the Ming family hair industry non-stop by the harassment, gradually have the western mountain sunset of the image, looks pathetic incomparable.
“Public opinion is a very important thing, and so is reputation.” Fan Xian sighed, “If I continue to suppress the Ming family like this, not to mention that the people will resent me, even those royal merchants that Xia Qufei contacted will be afraid of the imperial court, and who knows, they will not be the second Ming family.”
“What causes me the most headache is.” He shook his head, “The situation in the capital is unclear to us right now, I don’t know, if the action is too big, too many people die, and too many rumors are made, will it make people in the capital find an excuse to transfer me back to the capital.”
In today’s unsettled situation in Jiangnan, Fan Xian was unwilling to return to the capital, especially if he had to be subjected to the constraints of those ladies in the palace after returning to the capital, not a situation he could accept.
Car to Hua Yuan. After speaking briefly with the Third Prince, he took Deng Ziyue and a few of his close confidants into his study, spread out a map on the large desk, and began to meditate.
After Fan Xian thought for a while, he pointed his finger at a certain state city on the map and asked softly, “Has the news from Quanzhou come back yet?”
The concubine of the Ming family’s first young master, Ming Lan Shi, had her hometown in a village next to Quanzhou, and the Supervisory Board had already ascertained that the concubine’s elder brother was the very person who had been in charge of the pirate business for the Ming family on the East China Sea, robbing the family’s own merchant ships. That pirate leader, has been colluded by the Ming family military people to silence, and the concubine has also disappeared, in the words of the Ming family, is to go home to save their relatives.
This aspect of the Procuratorate knew, of course, that this was a lie, but who could puncture this lie?
“That concubine did not return to the village.” A member of the Qiniandi group reported, “There were also no signs of mountain bandits along the way, so she should have been silenced in Suzhou.”
Fan Xian nodded, this was something that had long been expected, and of course it was not a surprise, and asked directly, “The key is in that village. Since it’s that pirate’s hometown, there must be people who followed him to the island as bandits, and those relatives must have some knowledge about this matter. Since the Ming family blood-washed that island, those villagers aren’t still foolish enough to stand on the side of the Ming family.”
A trace of shame flashed across the face of that Qiyin team member as he said, “That village is already empty.”
Fan Xian frowned, the village was empty? There was no need to ask for any more reasons, since it was empty, it naturally couldn’t be separated from those dirty tricks.
“Where are the families here?” His fingertip was still pointing directly at Quanzhou, frowning as he asked, “The officials of the Ship Division who followed the ship were killed by those pirates, when will those family members come to Suzhou Prefecture to report the case?”
Another Qiyanian team member answered in a deep voice: “Most of those family members have gone back to the mainland, only some still remain in Quanzhou, but the people around went to try and ask, those family members got a large amount of compensation, for the pursuit of the pirates’ heart has faded, the key is …… the Ming family is really good for them , they simply do not believe that the Ming family will collude with the pirates.”
Fan Xian was stunned, then said with a slight sneer, “Of course it is not collusion, the Ming family is a pirate.”
Immediately after that, he asked a few more questions about the previous arrangements, all of which received not-so-fabulous answers, which made him realize that when he had cut down the Cui family in Kyoto, in the days when Yan Bingyun had been planning to conspire against the Ming family, the Ming family had also made sufficient preparations, and had actually not left too many loopholes.
Fan Xian sat down on the somewhat cold chair, holding a bowl of warm tea in his hands and lost in thought there.
His subordinates looked at Mr. Tisi, silent, not knowing what to say.
Going the right way, it seems difficult to bring down the Ming family in a short period of time, but to use the obscene means of the Procuratorate, after all, Jiangnan is not elsewhere, always have to be concerned about the reaction of the people, and really make all the people walk on the street, the Procuratorate is not a good ending.
Thinking about it, Fan Xian began to be annoyed at Xue Qing’s wavering, if the Governor of Jiangnan stepped in, and then follow up from the back, one in the light, one in the dark, a red face, a white face, this thing may be much simpler.
However, Fan Xian does not have too much frustration, because he is clear, in the struggle between the court and the Ming family, the Ming family can only ever stand on the side of passive defense, Fan Xian has plenty of time to play slowly with the Ming family, the reason why he is eager to enter the Ming Garden, the key is that he wants to find out the role of the Junshan Association.
In the fight with the Ming family, he could keep trying to beat the other side, even if he couldn’t do it once, he could still have a second time after resting for a while. But not the Ming family, this big family could not be defeated even once, once defeated, they would be painted.
“Get ready.” Fan Xian lowered his eyes slightly and spoke, “Be ready to enter the garden at any time to arrest people.”
After hesitating for a while, Deng Ziyue said, “Not waiting for Governor Xue to take a stand?”
Fan Xian sneered, “When I do things, I’ve always disliked following in other people’s footsteps. After waiting for ten days, I gave Xue Qing enough face. If I take matters into my own hands at this time, he shouldn’t blame me for being ruthless.”
“What about the comments of the people in Jiangnan?”
“Discussions? That I oppressed the Ming family? I went in gently, I didn’t beat a single person, I didn’t kill a single person, how did I oppress?” A hint of a smile flowed out of Fan Xian’s face, “Besides, I’ve figured out that reputation is something that is broken in Jiangnan, and I’ll just slowly pick it back up later.”
Fan Xian waited for ten days, not because he wasn’t sure that he could go into the Ming Garden to catch Butler Zhou, not because he was simply concerned about arguments, and not because he wanted to wait for Xue Qing to take a stand, but more importantly, he was waiting for news from Kyoto.
After the tender of the inner treasury, he knew clearly that the faction of the Princess in Kyoto, will launch an offensive against the Ministry of households, he waited for the result of this matter.
Things in Jiangnan, but the chief in Kyoto, the situation in Kyoto one day is not clear, Fan Xian in Jiangnan is not good to start.
On the second day, the willow tops above the birds chirping, three fast horses in the cover of the morning color rushed into the city of suzhou, the guards of the city magistrates only know that the person is the inspector general’s secret agent, do not dare to stop.
Hoof beats, rushed to suzhou city, outside the garden, there are people will be the three riders led into the garden.
This was the fastest way to deliver news from the Supervisory Yuan, countless times faster than the fast post of the Qing court.
Fan Xian took the report from Mu Tie in the capital and was slightly pleased, knowing that the result of the matter was indeed as he had guessed, the Ministry of the Household was unhindered, and the Princess’s side had suffered a great loss.
Just see the meticulous place, intelligent as he, naturally see clearly His Majesty wants to take the opportunity to let the old Fan family in Kyoto out of the stage of the meaning, this is a slightly happy face, suddenly gloomy.
But it was too late to consider his father’s matter, Fan Xian shook his head and said to the officials of the Supervisory Yuan around him who had been leading the order, “Go into the Ming Garden and take someone.”
The officials of the Supervisory Yuan led the order and went away, in a moment, in Suzhou, among the four official offices, rowed out a lot of officials, the hoofs of the horses broke the tranquility of the morning, out of the city, more than forty riders of the Supervisory Yuan of four officials in the Deng Ziyue’s leadership, squarely and brightly straight to the Ming Garden.
“Pay attention to safety.” Fan Xian turned his head and said gently, “Who knows what else the Junshan Society has left behind in Jiangnan.”
With both hands tucked into the large pockets of her flowery cloth dress, Miss Haitang inclined her head and smiled.
In the early morning outside the city of Suzhou, after the early birds had chirped once, they went back to the trees to go back to sleep. The official road around a quiet, especially in that wonderful and covers a very wide area around the Ming Garden, you can only hear inside the faint sound of pouring water to wash, everything, with the usual every day is no different.
Above the official highway, suddenly came dozens of horsemen, all wearing the uniform of the Supervisory Yuan.
With the dozens of riders roaring to the Ming Garden outside, hidden in the Ming Garden around the Supervisory Yuan is responsible for monitoring the spies also from the trees, from the mountains behind the figure, part of the convergence to come to check the garden of the colleagues, part of the nails silently disappeared without a trace.
Deng Ziyue sank that serious face, long-distance horse to the main entrance of the Ming Garden, turned over and dismounted, his subordinates behind him also dismounted, the action is neat and tidy.
At this time the Ming Garden is quiet like a shy virgin, but Deng Ziyue clearly see, the short wall of the inner side, some metal light in the shining soul-consuming light, and in the left hand direction of the heights, you can see the longbow crossbow.
The other side has been waiting, if a round of shooting, I’m afraid that none of the dozens of officials of the Supervisory Yuan can go back alive.
But Deng Ziyue’s face is unchanged, because he believes in the judgment of the Lord of the Tisch, although the Ming family is a bandit at heart, but in the face of the Supervisory Yuan, they will not be stupid enough to take the initiative to carry out a fire fight.
As expected, the main door of the Ming Garden was slowly pulled open, and the young master of the Ming family, Ming Lan Shi, whose eyes were slightly red and seemed to have not slept all night, respectfully stood beside the door, and said with a spread of his right hand, “Lords, please.”