As long as it is a human being, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not have anything to hide from itself, after all, human beings are not machines, human beings are conscious, fearful, and have what they think is the most reasonable choice.

In the West Factory, which was controlled by eunuchs, Zhu Houzhao knew that he could not be absolutely assured that they would not hide anything from him, or even deceive him.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao has other sources of intelligence.

"Gao Zhong, Yunheng Literary Society, Xichang can understand", Zhu Houzhao glanced up at Gao Zhong, the secret performance from Qin Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, made Zhu Houzhao have some interest in this literary society, of course, what made him more interested was why Gao Zhong, the commander of Xichang, did not mention this literary society to himself.

Gao Zhong was stunned for a moment, as if someone had put a piece of ice behind him, and he couldn't help but feel a chill, thinking that this Yunheng Literary Society, His Majesty already knew! I was so confused that I forgot that Your Majesty didn't say that you could hide it if you wanted to.

Gao Zhong couldn't help but smile bitterly, and hurriedly confessed: "Your Majesty forgives you!" I originally wanted to find out before I reported to Your Majesty, but I never thought that Your Majesty You have become interested in this Yunheng Literary Society, the slave maid is in breach of responsibility, and you should tell Your Majesty as soon as possible, this literary society is reported to be the same literary society as the Zhongjun Society, and it has its own social program, and the purpose of the social program is to protect the rights and interests of the people. ”

"Your West Factory is the eyes of the people who understand me, when to open your eyes and when to close your eyes, you have to say it, understand?"

Zhu Houzhao reminded Gao Zhong and said:

"I will spare you this time, but you have to remember that if there is another such thing to hide and not report, and want to save face for others, I will make your end miserable, don't be afraid to offend others, I will give you a lifetime of stability, but if you are not loyal to me, you know the consequences!"

Gao Zhong was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt in front of Zhu Houzhao: "The old slave is guilty, the old slave is guilty!" ”

"Get up, you don't have to be like this, you just need to remember that the West Factory is mine, not your private property", Zhu Houzhao said and got up and clapped his hands: "This Yunheng document continues to monitor, but it's also interesting, my Ming Dynasty has actually begun to appear bourgeois political groups!" Fortunately, they do not have the goal of overthrowing the regime. ”

Zhu Houzhao said and let Gao Zhong retreat.

And Gao Zhong was already sweating profusely at this time, and he couldn't help but slap himself secretly: "Why did I think of hiding it from Your Majesty!" ”

Zhu Hou looked at Gao Zhong's remorseful appearance in front of him, and he also wanted to laugh a little, and also thought in his heart: "These civil officials representing the merchant class may have been trying to control the power of the court through various means, but they will never realize that they are really weak;

In addition to kneeling more simply to foreign enemies, we really can't expect them to lead the country to progress;

If it weren't for the forced reform of the emperor himself, these bourgeoisie who rose by business, whether they were Jin merchants or Hui merchants, would not let the Ming Dynasty embark on the road of industrial civilization at all, and even took the initiative to lead the way for foreign enemies, just because they only had interests in their eyes;

And now that they have developed the Ming Dynasty into an industrialized country, these guys are thinking about taking away power, wanting to pick peaches, and wanting to gain absolute freedom, is this possible, will the peasants and workers agree, and they don't even have the courage to overthrow themselves as emperors, what can they do? ”

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Xu Jin did not have the courage to do so, and even many Ming firms that were trading in the Franc Machine at this time did not have the courage to say that they were from the Ming Dynasty, but said that they were from the Japanese Merchants, because the expeditionary force had captured Seville in the Franc Machine, which made the Franc Machine royal family furious and began to drive away the Ming Dynasty.

These firms of the Ming Dynasty have said that they are not the firms of the Ming Dynasty in order to protect their interests, saying that they are not the firms of the Ming Dynasty, saying that they are Japanese firms, and even saying that they are stateless global firms, and they also directly said that they were Franc machine firms, and they also hired a Franc machine man to serve as a façade to be the "Emperor".

Just as these Ming firms were indifferent to the massacre of the Ming fishermen in the Ceuta region by the colonists of Franco, they forgot that they were from the Ming Dynasty in places where the Ming forces did not arrive, and they were even unwilling to admit that they were from the Ming Dynasty.

This is understandable that they were only trying to protect themselves, but it does show that they were courageless, cowardly, and incompetent, just as they did in the face of the Manchu entry into the customs in history.

Of course.

Cowardly merchants may not be able to stand up for their dynasty, but the dynasty's armies do.

Therefore, when Yu Dayou's expeditionary force entered the territory of Franco, the means of retaliation were not merciful.

Dada!

The expeditionary force stepped on the ground with heavy leather boots in a neat pace, and made a dull sound.

Meanwhile.

The dull sound of gunfire and earth-shattering cannons also resounded in the land of the Franc machine.

Only knowing that the looted Franc Machine was vulnerable in front of the Imperial army, the Imperial Expeditionary Force soon occupied the entire territory of the Franc Machine, and captured all the King of Franc and his other nobles and returned home.

In addition, Wang Zhi and other pirates also captured a lot of Westerners and came back, and they were all dealt with in accordance with the requirements of the Ming court.

Of course, after the Ming expeditionary force entered the Franc machine, these Ming firms naturally began to recognize themselves as the Ming firms again, and asked the expeditionary force to protect them.

And when the officials sent by the Ming court to manage the Franc machine followed the expeditionary force to occupy the Franc machine and began to establish the Ming government in the Franc machine, these Ming firms also asked the officials sent by the Ming Dynasty to manage the Franc machine to be tax-exempt on the grounds that they were the Ming firms.

Anyway, when Zhu Houzhao saw Yu Dayou appear at the noon gate with a large number of prisoners of war from Fulangji, he knew that his emperor had not lived this life in vain.

Zhu Houzhao was not polite to these kings and nobles from Fulangji, and all of them were severely sentenced by the Criminal Department, and all of them were executed for committing homicide and other crimes.

Of course, Yu Dayou's return from the expedition to the Buddha Langji can be regarded as completely debunking the rumors about Yu Dayou's overseas founding in the capital.

Of course, Xu Jin also knew that the rumors he created would be punctured because of Yu Dayou's triumphant return, but he didn't worry too much about it, worried that he would fall because of this rumor, after all, no one can come up with empirical evidence to prove that this rumor was led by him and intended to frame Gao Zhong.

However, it was at this time that Wang Wen Bing, the imperial historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, impeached Xu Jin for creating rumors and slandering Yu Dayou, and secretly created the false impression that Yu Dayou and Gao Zhong conspired against him, the evidence is that Xu Jin's eldest son Xu Yuancheng said so after drinking in Yunheng Literary Society, in addition, there is also secret letter evidence that Xu Jin contacted the pirate Xu Hai and intended to intercept and kill Yu Dayou, the general of the expeditionary force.

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that Wang Wenbing, the imperial historian, would come up with such conclusive evidence, but in any case, Xu Jin's intention to frame Gao Zhong, the commander of Xichang, and Yu Dayou, the military minister, especially his intention to limit his emperor's power, made Zhu Houzhao also decide to take this opportunity to take action against Xu Jin.

"What a cabinet deputy is so vicious! Drafted the decree, the East Factory Inspectorate immediately detained Xu Jin, and at the same time announced the decree to the Ministry of Officials to revoke all Xu Jin's official titles! ”

Zhu Houzhao said this after receiving Wang Wenbing's impeachment recital.

This also means that Xu Jin's career is over.

However, Zhu Houzhao didn't understand why Xu Jin would think of colluding with pirates to intercept and kill Yu Dayou, the general of the expeditionary force.

In fact, Yan Song knew all this, because all this was directed by him and Xia Yan.

Yu Dayou did encounter pirates, but it was not Xu Jin's contact with Xu Jin, who was far away in the capital, and Xu Jin would not be stupid enough to take the risk to destroy Yu Dayou's mouth, but Xia Yan and Yan Song had been paying attention to Yu Dayou's whereabouts, and when they learned the news that Yu Dayou had encountered pirates when he was passing through the old port, Xia Yan and Yan Song forged Xu Jin's letter to contact the pirates, and at the same time, he also borrowed his undercover agent in Yunheng Wenshe to inquire from Xu Yuancheng about Xu Jin's secret to deal with the rumors created by the West Factory.

Zhu Houzhao is naturally too lazy to pursue the truth of all this, Xu Jin's desire to move the West Factory undoubtedly touched the emperor's scales, so now, as long as there is evidence, he will naturally push the boat and deal with this Xu Jin strictly.

At this time, Xu Jin did not expect that Xia Yan and Yan Song and other officials representing the interests of the nobles and the common people had helped the emperor find an excuse to deal with him.

Now he is still waiting for news from the south, waiting for news of the chaos in the south, because Zhu Kun's southward crackdown on smuggling will definitely provoke the resistance of many scholars in the south, and Xu Jin believes that it will be an opportunity for his civil officials representing the merchant class to fight back again.

"How's the south now? That place on Shuangyu Island, did you tell Zhu Kun? ”

Xu Jin was asking Ni Yuanlin, and Zhao Zhi from the East Factory Inspectorate came over with someone from the East Factory Inspectorate Department.

Seeing this, Xu Jin couldn't help but glance at Ni Yuanlin, he thought at first that the East Factory Inspector Division was here to find Ni Yuanlin, so he instructed: "Yuanlin, commit suicide, so as not to be offended!" It's good for you, and it's good for everyone! ”

Ni Yuanlin nodded, he has also joined the Yunheng Literary Society now, and he doesn't want to expose too many like-minded people with him, and now when he sees the arrival of the Dongchang Inspectorate, he also knows that it is not a good thing, so he immediately takes a poison.

For a while, Ni Yuanlin couldn't help but cover his throat in pain and sat down on the ground, but he still had a smile on his face, because in the past, Dongchang and Jinyiwei arrested people, and few people committed suicide successfully.

Now that he can successfully commit suicide before being caught, it has to be said that it is a victory, and he believes that the minions of these days will be very angry and difficult to deal with.

Although Ni Yuanlin was very painful, he was also very proud, and looked at these people from the East Factory Inspectorate proudly.

The people of the Dongchang Inspectorate Department did not take Ni Yuanlin as the first person to pay attention to at the beginning, so they did not prevent Ni Yuanlin from committing suicide, and when they quickly grabbed Xu Jin's arm, only a person from the Dongchang Inspectorate Department helped Ni Yuanlin up: "You are Ni Yuanlin, the cabinet secretary, what's the matter with you, do you want to send you to the hospital?" ”

At the same time, Zhao Zhi said to Xu Jin, who had been controlled by his own people: "Elder Xu Ge, I would like to give you an order, you can come with us, I need you to explain some problems." ”

"This, what's going on, isn't it arresting me? Is it to catch Xu Ge Lao?! I, I killed myself for nothing?! ”

Ni Yuanlin was shocked and extremely regretful in his heart, but he was so poisonous that he couldn't speak, so he had to desperately point in the direction of the medical hall.

Xu Jin was also very surprised at first, surprised why the people from the Dongchang Inspectorate suddenly came to arrest him, thinking that it was difficult for him to let these people catch something, but when he saw Ni Yuanlin's painful appearance of struggling, he realized something, and immediately shouted:

"Quick, quick, send him to the hospital, he, he accidentally took the medicine!"

Ni Yuanlin died of poison before he could be sent to the hospital.

"Let's talk about it, Elder Xu Ge, why did you slander General Yu, why did you frame Gao Gonggong, the governor of Xichang, and why did you murder Ni Yuanlin, the secretary of the cabinet, and force him to commit suicide."

Zhao Zhi of the East Factory Inspectorate asked Xu Jin, and what people didn't expect was that Zhao Zhi added Ni Yuanlin's suicide to Xu Jin, mistakenly thinking that Ni Yuanlin was forced to commit suicide by Xu Jin.

Xu Jin finally confessed to his plot to spread rumors to slander Yu Dayou and Gao Zhong, but he was naturally unwilling to admit that he forced Ni Yuanlin to commit suicide.

In addition, he is unwilling to admit the alleged crime of colluding with pirates to kill Yu Dayou.

But despite this, because Wang Wenbing provided conclusive evidence, and Xu Yuancheng's interrogation confession also confirmed that his father Xu Jin had done many evil things, and he had already known about the conspiracy between Paine and his Xu family to embezzle state assets during the installation of water pipes in Shuntian Mansion, and the deaths of Wei Ying and Yun Ji were also excavated one by one.

Ultimately.

Zhu Houzhao agreed with the verdict of the Criminal Department and sentenced Xu Jin to the crime of showing the head of the family, and all the family property was unsuccessful.

Even Paine was not spared, he was arrested and executed by raiding his home!

What is shocking is that Jin Yiwei actually copied out a family property worth more than 20 million silver dollars in the Xu family!

Zhu Houzhao also had to admit that since the opening of the Ming Dynasty, many gentry have not become poor because of the increase in commercial taxes imposed by the imperial court, on the contrary, these gentry have gradually become greater chaebols because of the benefits of opening the sea.

"Xia Yan, it must be Xia Yan, it must be the old man he framed!"

Xu Jin couldn't help but shout like this before he died, he believed that Gao Zhong, the commander of the West Factory, would not dare to do so, and he would not contact the imperial history to attack him like this, and only Xia Yan, who managed the internal affairs of the empire, could make such a careful arrangement.

Therefore, he couldn't help but think that Xia Yan had harmed him, of course, when he shouted like this, he also meant that his comrades would regard Xia Yan as an enemy in the future.

"Blame yourself for the thief Lu Lu! If he is really breezy with two sleeves, how can the old man frame him! He did this just to hurt the old man before he died! The old man will not be like him, even if the old man dies tragically in the future, he will never die because of his guilt! He must have been killed by this hypocrite like Xu Jin! ”

When Xia Yan said this, Yan Song couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and for a while he thought that Xia Yan was talking about himself, and smiled awkwardly: "Yuan Fu is highly valued by His Majesty, and he has contributed to Sheji, how could he die tragically, even His Majesty has said that the dynasty will not kill courtiers for trumped-up crimes in the future!" ”

Xia Yan nodded, and then said: "That's just your majesty's wishful thinking, when the monarch and ministers disagree, there will still be no need for it, but now it's still far from saying this, right now, the important thing is to hurry up and let Your Majesty give the prince down!" ”

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