Beiming Street is the Manila of later generations, and the Bashi River of later generations is called the South Jinjiang River by Xu Chai Lao of Quanzhou in this era.

To the south of the mouth of the South Jin River is the Beiming Street Water Village Camp of the Fourth Fleet of the Navy set up by the imperial court here.

This water village has a guard of men and horses, 5,600 soldiers, plus their families, relatives, the population has reached nearly 20,000.

Shuizhai has three first-class warships, 27 second-class warships, several cargo ships, more than 100 herald ships, and third-class warships.

They did not participate in the management of Luzon, but only cleaned up the security of the sea routes from Luzon to the north to the Ming Dynasty and Fujian, to the south of Sulu and Malugu.

In the water village, there are not only the navy yamen, but also the internal supervision of the transfer department, the customs, the imperial court's transfer envoy department, the promotion department and other yamen.

Today's royal palace is built on the east side of the water village, and the people here have also been transferred to the north side of the South Jin River, and on the north side of the South Jin River, a large county town of more than 100,000 people has been formed.

Today's Beiming Street is called the street, in fact, it is no longer worthy of the name, in the official documents of the Ming Dynasty, it has been called the Luzon Cheng Xuan Political Envoy Beiming Mansion.

In Jiangbei, the capital city of Beiming Mansion did not have a city wall, and all the people were scattered on the side of the three-vertical and three-horizontal cement road built by the imperial court.

This is because on the island of Luzon, there is no longer a force that can threaten the Northern Ming Dynasty, and almost all the natives have been attached to the Ming Dynasty.

However, the imperial court still set up a guard post here to be responsible for the security of the island, which was subordinate to the former military governor's office.

In addition to food, the Ming Dynasty was now able to obtain an annual income of no less than 100,000 taels of gold from the island, which was equivalent to one million taels of silver.

The more than 10,000 people of the two guards need to spend more than 200,000 taels a year, plus other expenses, and the annual expenditure does not exceed 500,000 taels.

Even with the income of officials at all levels of the government, the annual expenditure of the entire Luzon Road does not exceed one million taels.

Because of the land and grain that offset a part of the Yulu, in fact, now the Ming Dynasty not only obtains a large amount of grain from Luzon every year, but also receives a net income of more than 500,000 taels from Luzon every year.

This has surpassed most of the state capitals in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, and in the Ming Dynasty, there are only a few wealthy state capitals that pay more taxes than Luzon.

The Ming Dynasty took the amount of tax and grain as the criterion for division. More than 200,000 stone of grain is the upper house. Less than 200,000 and more than 100,000 are the central government, and less than 100,000 are the lower government.

Even according to the calculation of a political envoy, Luzon can now be called a rich place in the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty.

The officials wanted to officially promote Luzon several times, sent political envoys here, and intended to divide Luzon into different state capitals, but they were all suppressed by Zhu Di.

He became the official political envoy, and he had to send not only the political envoy, but also the governor and other prefects.

At that time, Xu Chai Lao was not the biggest official.

Although Zhu Di was not familiar with Xu Chai Lao, who was born as a merchant and a hawker, he knew that the problems in Nanyang could not be rushed. If you want to swallow the huge Nanyang in one gulp, you will be choked if you are not careful.

He wanted to go west, and he also took this opportunity to go to Nanyang to see Luzon with his own eyes, the old port, and the star city established by his grandson.

Since Zhu Zhanji let Xu Chai Lao be in charge of the entire Luzon, now he does not understand the situation there and does not understand Xu Chai Lao's personality, so he rashly suppresses it, and I am afraid that there will be problems.

If Xu Chai Lao can be of great use, even if he is only coarse and does not have a professional background, he can be allowed to be this political envoy.

If it is not of great use, it is a big deal that when the time comes, he will be transferred to Ying Tianfu as an official, and it will be regarded as a reward for his great contribution to the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Xu Chai Lao also heard some rumors, and he knew very well that he was originally just a hawker who escaped from the famine, and now he was fortunate to be able to become the prefect of the Ming Dynasty.

He did not have much resistance to the imperial court appointing other officials, but he was worried that the people who came could not live in peace with the natives and that the peace of Luzon would be ruined.

On the contrary, it has only been windy and not rainy, and has not sent anyone here, which is a little strange.

This time, Zhu Di's expedition to the west passed through Luzon, and he also made every effort to prepare for the reception, wanting to leave a good impression in front of Zhu Di.

When he heard that there was an envoy, his heart became excited, and the north wind would stop in April and May, and if His Majesty was going on an expedition this year, he should set off in March.

Now that there is an envoy, I'm afraid there is no specific news.

With a group of attachés, he came to the Navy Water Village and entered the main hall of the Water Village under the leadership of the guards.

In addition to the commander Xiang Kai in the hall, he was greeted by a bearded man about forty years old.

Xiang Kai took the lead in clasping his fists and said, "Parents Xu, come, I'll give you an introduction." This is Cao Li, a lieutenant, who was ordered by the emperor to patrol along the way. ”

The first time Cao Li saw Xu Chailao, if it weren't for the official uniform on his body, he wouldn't have believed that this old man who looked like an old farmer was the prefect of His Royal Highness Taisun who valued and managed a political envoy.

Although he had long known that Xu Chai Lao was not from a high background, he fled to Luzon in his early years, and later gradually developed and became a force.

Xu Chai Lao in his mind should be a heroic and reckless person, but he didn't expect to look like an old farmer.

But he didn't dare to underestimate it, he could become a prince, and he was deeply valued by His Royal Highness, and he, a lieutenant, was not something he could despise at will.

He didn't wait for Xu Chai Lao to salute, and took the lead in saluting: "Before coming, His Royal Highness specially explained that Xu's parents are dedicated to the country and the people. Although our family is a waste, we also admire a good official like Xu's parents the most, please accept our family's worship. ”

When Xu Chai saw Cao Li saluting, he hurriedly said: "I don't dare to be so praised by His Royal Highness, and the contemptible person just did what he should do." ”

Cao Li said with a smile: "Such a sentence is the essence of being an official, doing what you should do, is a sentence that His Royal Highness often says, if I am like this for all the officials, the emperor and His Royal Highness can worry less." ”

After greetings, Xiang Kai introduced the others to each other, and then returned to the hall and sat down.

As soon as Xu Chai Lao sat down, Xiang Kai personally picked up two copies of the holy decree and presented them to Xu Chai Lao. "Xu, parents, please take a look at the holy decree given to me by His Majesty and His Royal Highness, and then we will talk."

Cao Li nodded with a smile and said, "Now that the matter is clear, let's go to Xu's parents' mansion again, and Your Majesty and His Royal Highness will also have a will." ”

Although the decree is only a simple order, it represents the emperor's will on behalf of the heavens. Therefore, there are complete rituals and procedures, and it is by no means just handed to the other party.

The holy decree that Zhu Di passed on to Xu Chailao, even if Xu Chailao is here now, he can't give it to him directly, but he can't read it until he arrives at the government office and burns incense.

Xu Chai Lao confessed his sins and looked at the two holy decrees.

Zhu Di's holy decree is, of course, a formal format, four or six pun. Xu Chai Lao has specially asked Confucian students to teach him in recent years, although he can't write, but there is no problem in understanding the holy decree.

This decree mainly said that Zhu Di had decided to go on the expedition in March, and Cao Li inspected the route in advance, picked up the gaps, and ordered all naval departments to cooperate.

Zhu Zhanji's order was not a holy decree, but a military order issued in the name of the Governor of the Navy, asking all departments to eliminate pirates and protect the people's peace. For the orders of the angels, cooperate without affecting military affairs.

After reading the two wills, Xu Chai respectfully took back the holy decree and handed it over to Xiang Kai.

"I probably already know what I'm going to do, and I'll try to make sure you don't have to worry about anything you want."

After speaking, he looked at Cao Li with a smile, waiting for him to speak. As an angelic herald, the will is only a part of the surface, and what is more important is the message beyond the holy will.

They are isolated and closed. If you want to know the situation of Daming, on the one hand, you rely on the information brought by the cargo ship of the Internal Supervision and Transshipment Division, and on the other hand, you rely on the people from Daming.

But more detailed information can only be known through these angels from the palace.

Although Xu Chai's appearance is not amazing, but thinking of Zhu Zhanji's explanation when he came, Cao Li did not dare to underestimate Xu Chailao. So he didn't sell it, and immediately said: "The most sensational news in Daming recently is no more than two." First, His Majesty directly appointed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to supervise the country, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is now being diagnosed and treated because of his poor health. ”

Hearing this news, Xu Chai was startled, he couldn't help but look at Xiang Kai, and then at the others, seeing that their faces were calm, obviously they already knew the news.

He wanted to say something to hide his shock, but his mouth was open, and he didn't know what to say.

Three years ago, he was favored by Zhu Zhanji and was directly awarded the prefect of Sipin, becoming the lord of Luzon.

In the past two years, although the navy and the army have set up military guards, they rarely interfere in local affairs, and they can also restrain the soldiers from disturbing the people, which is all due to the credit of His Highness.

But he never expected that His Majesty would leave the crown prince behind and directly let the prince supervise the country. It seems that when His Majesty leaves the west, he should immediately enter Beijing to see the driver.

He, the prefect, became the prefect because of the blessing of his grandson, but he can't forget his roots.

Cao Li was obviously very satisfied with this effect, and said with a smile: "The second thing is that the grain corruption case of the internal prison involved nearly half of the officials in Shandong, and it also wanted to be related to the Confucian family. ”

This incident had little impact on Xu Chai Lao, and he didn't remember who this Kong family was referring to for a while.

But for his next acquaintance, Fan Song, and his attachés, it was a bolt from the blue.

Fan Song couldn't help but ask: "Cao Zhongguan is polite, this official wants to ask, does this Kong family refer to the family of saints?" ”

Cao Li had a smile on his face, but said disdainfully in his mouth: "What a saint family, it's just a group of moths. If it weren't for a good ancestor, Your Majesty and the fall would have cut off their heads long ago. ”

Fan Songnai is a five-grade homonym, and in addition to Xu Chailao, the prefect present, he has the largest civil and official system. Because it is not a system with the internal prison, and there is a literati arrogance, he is not afraid of Cao Li in his heart.

Hearing Cao Liri's words, he stood up and said to the end: "Please also ask Lieutenant Cao to make it clear, otherwise I will seek justice for the world's scholars." ”

Cao Li was not angry, got up and returned the salute and said: "Justice, speaking of justice, I have a lawsuit here, I want to ask Fan Tongzhi." ”

Although Tongzhi is not a general judge and is not in charge of criminal affairs, as a five-grade official, he naturally has experienced the position of county magistrate and has experience in adjudicating cases.

Although Fan Song was not angry in his heart, he did not lose his sense of proportion, let alone want to offend the angel. He nodded and said, "Lieutenant, please speak." ”

"Two families live next to each other, one of whose ancestral graves are not far from the other's estate, and the middle is wasteland. Another family reclaimed wasteland and encroached on the ancestral grave of its neighbor, how should it be judged? ”

Fan Song said decisively: "The ancestral tomb is the land of the ancestors, how can it be occupied!" Immediately order another household to apologize. Although it is the law of the imperial court, it cannot affect others. ”

"What if the ancestral grave has already been dug up? What if the bones of our ancestors have been exhumed and abandoned, and now they cannot be found? ”

"Kill!"

Cao Li said with a smile: "Good Sect Fan Tongzhi knows that this digging of people's ancestral graves and abandoning the bones of other people's ancestors is the saint family in your mouth!" ”

The civil servants gasped, and everyone was stunned. Fan Song shook his body even more, almost fell down, and was supported by Qian Ju, who was sitting under him.

Qian Ju frowned and asked, "Does Zhongguan Cao have any evidence?" ”

Cao Li said with a smile: "Our family is just a subordinate of the emperor, and we are not the criminal department, how can the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate hold the evidence?" But...... You should have read my "Legend of the Ming Heroes", right? ”

"The Legend of the Heroes of the Ming Dynasty" is a book published by the imperial court in the fifteenth year of Yongle to promote the heroes of the Ming Dynasty, this book has changed the indifference to the little people in the past, and put the perspective on the soldiers and soldiers who served in the army.

Moreover, this book also changes the serious and old-fashioned records of the past, and writes the stories that happened to everyone in an interesting and thrilling way.

What these people can do, everyone can do, regardless of status and status.

As soon as this book came out, it immediately caused a sensation inside and outside the Ming Dynasty, and many people originally held the idea that a good man should not be a soldier, but now, many people took the initiative to join the army.

And the imperial court now divides the sergeants into two types: the army and the recruitment, the recruitment is not included in the military status, when the soldier is a few years, he can be discharged when he is old, and the court will also issue a lot of money.

So now there is no shortage of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

After the book came out, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was reluctant to let the navy specialize in beauty, and in the sixteenth year of Yongle, it also launched a book of "The Legend of the Heroes of the Ming Dynasty" in the army, and selected a hundred soldiers from the army who had made immortal achievements for publicity.

The Ming Dynasty is mainly based on the army, and it is too easy to select a hundred soldiers from the army who have made great achievements, and the merit is greater and the influence is greater than that of the soldiers of the navy.

Qian Ju nodded and said, "Xia Guan has seen it." ”

Cao Li said with a smile: "The family whose ancestral grave was dug up by the Confucian Mansion is Ma Dezhong, one of the three warriors of the Dongying royal family, who captured in the first volume of "The Legend of the Heroes of the Ming Dynasty". Ma Dezhong returned to his hometown to go to the grave, but he couldn't even find his parents' tombs, and he had already sued the Kong family to the government. Now this matter is boiling in the Ming Dynasty, and there will be no falsehood. ”

This time, no one doubted Cao Li's words anymore, because there was no need for him to lie about it at all. They looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

But before the words were finished, Cao Li asked again: "Is there a Shandong official here?" ”

Five or six people came out of the navy, Xu Chai Lao and their side, and a Zhengbapin's experience was also from Shandong.

Cao Li gave them a salute before saying: "In the fifteenth year of Yongle, the Yellow River seized the Daqing River into the sea, and the floods along the Daqing River were raging, and countless people were displaced. His Royal Highness originally let grain be transported from Nanyang to Shandong for relief. As long as they do things for the court, they can exchange for food rations and not starve to death.

But now Shandong has not yet recuperated, but because of the transportation of grain from Nanyang, the local grain prices have been stable, so that Shandong's big landlords and grain merchants can not make a profit.

These people, together with local officials, boycotted the grain shipment in the South Seas. And my internal supervisor Ma Qi was so bold that nearly half of the grain that was shipped to Shandong was sold in Ningbo.

Two of the six families that bought the grain were members of the Confucian family, and now everyone knows that the Confucian family, the so-called family of saints, is just a chaotic people who do illegal things through the shadow of their ancestors. ”

The naval officers had already heard Cao Li talk about this case at first, but they did not expect that the impact would be so great.

Looking at the powerless civil officials who were powerless, they had already lowered their arrogant heads and hung down one by one.

Xu Chai had the intention to ease the atmosphere, and said to his long-term follower, who was also his youngest son: "Si Qing, you go back to the official office first, and let everyone set up a case to welcome the order." Cao Zhongguan, the hour is not early, although this Luzon is a place of nonsense, but this game is rare in the Ming Dynasty, it is better to move to my mansion, wait for me to take the holy decree, and then taste delicious food and drink wine with all the angels. ”

Although these words were vulgar, they were very liked by Cao Li, and he laughed and said: "It is said that Nanyang singing and dancing is also a must, and parents should not hide their secrets." ”

In Shandong, thousands of miles away, because of the revelation of the Shandong case, there are more and more disputes.

This was originally a place where horses came out one after another, and the story of the heroes of Liangshan was also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Shandong.

The original people didn't know the facts, and thought that the imperial court had not brought grain.

In this era, there were no newspapers, no television, no radio, and the only way for people to receive information was the government.

Therefore, it is easy for officials to block the information channel between the upper and lower levels. As long as the people can live, they will not rebel.

But Yu Qian's arrival brought with him hundreds of officials, who were divided into three groups, and began to vigorously publicize the imperial court's immigration policies and the cases of collusion between the Confucian family and local officials and internal supervisors.

Only then did the people know that the emperor had always cared about them, not only transporting them food, but also allowing them to immigrate freely, and they could choose to live in Biansai.

Although the north is cold, the imperial court is willing to provide tools and livestock, and they can also farm and graze. And as long as they go, even the travel expenses will be borne by the imperial court, and the land will be allocated and exempted from tax for a few years, but it will be returned to the imperial court when they have money later.

These dog officials colluded up and down, just to prevent them from living a good life, and now that the emperor knows about it, he wants to come and make decisions for them, and he immediately boils.

If this had been done from the beginning, those White Lotus Sect and other non-governmental associations would have rebelled long ago.

But now, wherever the Governor Regiment passed, countless large-scale conflicts were still triggered.

The officials who were arrested and sent to the capital were lucky, at least they did not have to worry about their lives.

In the past few days, there have been four county orders who have been guilty of meritorious service and have been rushed into the county office by the people, pulled out and beaten to death.

However, these people killed the county order, but they did not flee, and when the imperial court delegation arrived, they immediately took the initiative to take the blame.

Because of Yu Qian's orders, the personnel of these missions were mainly gentle and tolerant. Although it was the county magistrate and other officials who were killed, the law did not hold the people accountable, and they were all guilty of being exiled for 3,000 miles.

And these people, with the idea of killing people, originally wanted to emigrate to the north and not stay in the local area.

In Yanzhou, in Qufu, the Confucian Mansion, which was originally high, has now become the target of the people.

Although the people are proud of having a Confucian saint in their hometown, most of the people do not know a single word, and their respect for Confucian is more of a kind of spiritual blind obedience, rather than really knowing how great he is.

In order to sell grain at a high price, today's Confucian Mansion even disregards the life and death of the people, and they also forcibly occupy countless fertile land, and even the tombs of other people's ancestors have been dug up.

On February 29, a group of people who had lost their relatives due to the disaster led a dog to the Confucian Temple, Confucian Forest, and Confucian Mansion.

In front of the statues of Confucius in these three places, they cut off the dog's head with a knife and poured the dog's blood on the stone statue of Confucius.

This is a very serious act of blasphemy in this day and age, but it is not excessive.

However, for hundreds of years, Confucius Mansion has become a symbol of Qufu, and even the new Qufu county town is built with Confucius Temple and Confucius Mansion as the center.

It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that one is a city, but one is half a city, but it lives up to its name.

The Kong family is a big family, even if you don't count the dependent people, the population of your own family is several thousand, and you have your own guards and guards.

They went to the county office, but the county commander Yan Shutong had already been arrested and taken to the capital, and the original officials did not dare to stand up for the Kong family at all.

This move also annoyed Kong Gongzhuo, who was used to being domineering. Since you don't come out, don't blame me for being ruthless with a few mud legs.

If the Kong family has done something wrong, you can beat me, but if you blaspheme my ancestors, then you can't.

So when he came back from the county office, he immediately instructed his tribesmen, tied up the group, beat them with whips, and ordered them to wash the stone statues.

But he didn't expect that this move would annoy more people who were waiting.

On the second day, under the deliberate demagogy of Jinyiwei's secret agents, tens of thousands of people marched towards Qufu from all directions.

The Confucian Mansion panicked and summoned the clansmen to wait for them.

But the conflict eventually broke out, and the stone statues of Confucius on the periphery were pushed to the wall, and even the Confucian Mansion was pushed to the wall, and a small half of the Confucian Mansion was burned.

Seeing that the Kong family was about to suffer a catastrophe, Kong Mou, the elder of the Kong family and the grandfather of the current head of the family, Kong Yanjin, stood up.

He is a well-known elder of the Confucian family, who has lived from the Yuan Dynasty to the present, and is highly respected among the scholars.

He is an upright person, and he is not used to seeing the glitz of the descendants of the Kong family today, but now that the family is in danger, he can't stand idly by.

In front of thousands of people, he shouted out that the descendants of the Confucian family paid for their lives, and directly crashed to death on the pedestal of the stone statue of Confucius that was pushed to, which shocked everyone.

Because of his death, a storm turned into calm, but the reputation of the Kong family, this time was completely ruined.

(I can't sit still with a toothache, I can't write, I'm late for the update, I'm sorry.) The debt has not been paid off, I remember. ）