Chapter 85 – Son Lineage Zhongshan Wolf (Next)
He continued, “As the head of the Ming Family, I naturally have to cooperate with the court in handling the case, and as for any sons or daughters of the clan who have committed unlawful acts in vain, they must all be handed over.”
“Lan Shi!” Ming Qingda stood up in horror.
“Not bad, Ming Lan Shi has already been summoned to the Suzhou Prefecture Yamen to give an account of the private salt matter.” Xia Qufei stared at Ming Qingda’s eyes, “As for the matter of someone posing as a sea bandit, I believe it won’t take long to find out.”
Ming Qingda took a few breaths and said, “Do you know that if this continues, the Ming family will really be finished! Even if I and mother once treated you poorly, but you …… are after all father’s youngest son, and your surname is Ming! Could it be that you’re just going to stand by and watch the Ming family be destroyed in your hands!”
He growled.
“Don’t worry.” Fan Xian raised his eyes slightly and said, “The court has little interest in doing business, and this official also understands that if the government intervenes too much in a business matter like this, it will only turn a pot of gold into a toilet bowl……. Years ago, this official had already admonished His Majesty that the court would not directly intervene in the Ming Garden, and that the Ming Garden would still be the Ming Garden of the Ming family, except that This Mingyuan will be much more obedient.”
He spread out his hands and said calmly, “This official will have the Inner Treasury Transit Division fully cooperate with the Ming Family, and in less than a year, you will surely be able to see a re-prosperous and developed, no! is an even more developed Ming Family!”
Ming Qingda was shaken and sat down powerlessly.
In the midst of this event that had lasted throughout the entire year, the Qing State officials, or Fan Xian to be precise, had managed to gain control of the Ming Family. Especially key is, now the Ming garden change of ownership, and not too much of the shadow of the government, Xia Qufei was originally the Ming family’s seventh son, he entered the Ming garden in name, and a should be means are used in the shopping mall trick, the people of Jiangnan will be much easier to accept.
At least there will no longer be many students and gentry will march in Suzhou House, saying that the Supervisory Yuan forcibly seized the people’s property. The people’s property is still the people’s property, but the owner of the people’s property is now Xia Qifei, a secret official of the Supervisory Yuan.
Fan Xian shook his head and said, “During this year, you and I have not been comfortable, and now that there is a settlement, you and I are both relieved.”
“Although Your Excellency is a person who likes to humiliate people, but coming here at this time, I’m sure it’s not as simple as proclaiming feats.” Ming Qingda interrupted him, stared at his eyes and said, “I think the adults will slowly use these people to rack me up, but you …… can’t tie me up in the garden, I can always go out.”
“What I want to say is this matter.” Fan Xian said word for word, “You, you can’t go out of the garden.”
Ming Qingda laughed indifferently, “On what grounds are you?”
“This official is under orders to investigate the case of the Jiaozhou sailor’s plot to commit treason, and Elder Ming is a witness to the case, so if you don’t want to be accused of absconding as soon as you leave the garden, you can go out as much as you want.”
The case of the Jiaozhou sailors had long been investigated, and Fan Xian was just looking for an excuse. Ming Qingda said with a cold smile, “Who is this going to fool again?”
“There’s also the case of the attack on the Merchants’ Chambers, and the case of Xia Qufei’s assassination.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “Elder Ming’s hand has reached too far in the past, and there are too many leaks to catch.”
Ming Qingda laughed angrily and looked at Fan Xian with great amusement, “If you really wanted to investigate these cases, you could have done so in the past, why did you move it to now?”
“Because you were the master of the Ming family in the past, and me investigating you would make the imperial court think that the Procuratorate was persecuting merchants and seeking wealth.” Fan Xian said with a smile, “Now that you don’t have that status, it’s much easier.”
“Your Excellency seems to have understated one reason.” Ming Qingda indifferently responded.
“Yes.” Fan Xian sighed, “The Elder Princess can’t help you now, so I’m really doing everything with no inhibitions, and I’m happy as hell.”
He glanced at the woman behind Ming Qingda.
Ming Qingda’s eyebrows wrinkled extremely deep, said, “This is exactly what I didn’t understand earlier, if your honor is sure that Kyoto can’t help me, directly use this means to straighten out the Ming family …… why bother to turn so many paths in a circle?”
“As I said, I want a complete Ming family.” Fan Xian said, “Once upon a time, if I used these thunderous means, you, in your capacity as the master of the Ming family, could cause the entire Ming family to be moved against the imperial court, and even cause Jiangnan to be in turmoil……. Now, you don’t have this identity, and the words that you speak don’t have this kind of power. ”
“Identity, it seems very unimportant.” Fan Xian said seriously, “It’s actually the most important thing.”
He smiled and said, “It must be recognized that you are just a merchant identity, far less than me, and cannot resist the wrath of the imperial court in any case, yet Your Excellency has used all his means, stoically tolerated his aggression, and has dragged me hard for a year …… is really admirable.”
Ming Qingda smiled and said, “At least I am still the great proprietor of the Ming family, you don’t let me go out of the garden, I think you don’t feel comfortable with me just staying in the garden, what are you going to do with me? I think that with your means, you would not be able to kill me in this storm and fall into the limelight.”
“You are wrong again.” Fan Xian said seriously, “I admire you, but your status is inferior to mine, and you wouldn’t be able to make much of a fuss even if you died now.”
“Of course,” he advised very gently, “A good death is better than a good life, and I advise you that it would be best for you to spend a few more days in the Ming Garden to raise your old age.”
As he spoke, Xia Qufei, with a complex look on his face, pulled out a piece of white cloth damask from his bosom and gently placed it on the desk in front of Ming Qingda.
As soon as the white damask came out, Ming Qingda’s face remained unchanged, but the aunt behind him was scared and her teeth were rattling.
“The white silk is placed here, if you really have the courage to fight me with death one day, please take it and use it.” Fan Xian looked at Ming Qingda and said, “But I know that you don’t have the courage to kill yourself, so you will continue to live according to my ideas until I don’t need you to live …… A person who has hanged his own mother must be very aware of the fear of death, and must be very afraid of going to the Yellow Springs after death to see that old woman.”
“You’d better not die, because it will be very difficult for Ming Lan Shi to get out of jail again, and if you die, the shares in your hand will be transferred to that baby who is less than two years old.” Fan Xian frowned and said, “You know, a small child with so much money in his hands …… is not a good thing.”
After saying these words, he turned around and left the study. Behind him, Xia Qufei carefully closed the door of the study without leaving a gap, and the study fell back into a dimness.
Ming Qingda stared at the white damask on the desk and was silent for a long time before slowly saying, “What a vicious wolf cub ……”
The defense force in the Ming Garden has been emptied and replaced with blood by the Supervisory Yuan, and this beautiful garden is plunged into a quiet and uneasy atmosphere, where strange people can be seen everywhere. Now that Xia Qufei was in charge, he had told the Ming Garden to make changes, and not many people in the clan dared to resist his orders to his face.
“Ming Yuan’s private soldiers have been disarmed by the state troops sent by Lord Xue Qing.” When Xia Qufei received the news, he immediately went to Fan Xian’s ear and said, “Ming Qingda’s forces at hand have been emptied.”
“Did anything go wrong?”
“Four dozen people died.”
“Take note of Lord Xue’s favor.” Fan Xian bowed his head in silence for a moment, then lifted his face and smiled, “The Ming family is finally yours now, how does it feel to take revenge?”
Xia Qufei bowed his head and respectfully said, “The Ming family is your lord’s.”
Fan Xian shook his head disapprovingly. Xia Qufei hurriedly explained, “What my subordinate means is that the Ming family is the court’s.”
Fan Xian glared back at him and said, “If the Ming family is yours, it’s yours, when did it become the court’s or mine again? Do you think that what Ming Qingda and I said in the study was all lies? Put your heart at ease …… the court has no interest in the Ming family, all it wants is for the Ming family to listen.”
Xia Qufei choked, not knowing how to speak, the court spent so much money to bring the Ming family under complete control, could it be so easily handed over to his own management?
Fan Xian sighed and explained, “Standing in a different position, thinking about different things, who is His Majesty? His Majesty is the common lord of the world, and the people of Qing Guo are all his people. Since this is the case, what his people own is also equal to what he owns, as long as this people govern this thing well …… can give the people the court benefits is good. If the court really take the Ming family into the hands, Lingnan Quanzhou those merchants how to think? And with those pedantic faces of court officials, who has the means to manage such a big family business well? So rest assured.”
Xia Qufei’s mouth was bitter, and suddenly it occurred to him that His Majesty is the master of the world, so he doesn’t care about his people’s estates, but what about Lord Xiao Fan? Why was he also willing to not take benefits from the Ming family?
Fan Xian’s words interrupted his thoughts, “I asked you earlier, how does revenge feel?”
Xia Qufei shook his head somewhat blankly, “Walking in the middle of the Ming Garden as the master, but I don’t have any feeling …… because this garden is very unfamiliar. I always thought that I grew up here when I was young, and if I came back to regain power one day, I should live very quickly, but I don’t know why, but I can’t give birth to too much euphoric feeling.”
“Such is the case with things like revenge.” Fan Xian paused for a moment, then said, “Once the great revenge is avenged, one would find things boring.”
Xia Qufei suddenly thought of something, and asked in a small way, “In fact, my subordinate is somewhat close to Ming Qingda’s thoughts, and by this scene today, and then looking at your lordship’s arrangement this year, it seems to be overly careful.”
“Peaceful evolution is supposed to be a long-term process.” Fan Xian said with a smile, “Stability is more important than everything, and a peaceful transition is the right way …… I’m just an errand boy for his majesty, and as his majesty has asked for a bloodless army, I have no choice but to do so ……”
He then said with a bitter smile, “Besides, in the past, Ming Qingda had the help of the Eldest Princess and the princes, and the backing of the military, so how could I be as reckless as I am today.”
Mentioning the Eldest Princess, Xia Qufei frowned and asked, “How exactly are the several percent dry shares handled?”
“Wipe them all out, they’re all paper things anyway, and there’s no real goods.” Fan Xian explained, “Make a table, I want to send it to the palace.”
Xia Qufei suddenly laughed bitterly, “This can offend the eldest princess …… I don’t know how that noblewoman will fight back.”
Fan Xian smiled and said nothing, but in his heart he was thinking that that Elder Princess in the palace had already been offended by herself to the extreme, and as for counterattacking …… that noble person didn’t have time to think about these things.
He beckoned to Xia Qufei, these two bastards then strolled in the Ming Garden that had changed masters, whispering all the way about the means to follow up, all the way to enjoy the beautiful scenery of one of the three most famous gardens in the world, the environment and the mind became wonderful.
In the deep imperial palace of Kyoto, a certain rumor had begun to circulate since a month ago. But wherever this kind of nobles live together, the subordinates who serve the nobles always like to discuss a right and wrong in their mouths, tell a story of the old days, and tell some of the nobles’ shady gossip …… However, this rumor is really too shocking, so it only circulated for two days, and then silently disappeared into oblivion.
This is because this rumor is really some headless, simply do not know from where to pass out, more no evidence, and …… eunuchs and palace maidens although the mouth is cheap, but does not mean that brainless, know and then pass on, passed to the ears of the nobles, that their own life will certainly be reimbursed.
Rumor is a history to fall, the palace life in the essential spices, most will disappear in people’s oblivion, and then how sensational topic, in the absence of follow-up outbreaks, are not likely to maintain the freshness for too long.
The number one topic of the year in the palace, and so very naturally disappeared. However there are people who have not forgotten, especially those who are the most suspicious and sensitive, in a certain late night, still discussing this topic.
Eunuch Yao said softly, “The mouths of the little brutes are all very cheap, slave knows what to do.”
The middle-aged man on the short couch put down the zhangzhi in his hand, all without a trace of the emperor’s proper dominance, and said very calmly, “I heard that a palace maid died in the East Palace?”