The property of the Huating Xu family was taken by his two sons, Xu Fan and Xu Kun, during Xu Jie's tenure as deputy assistant and first assistant to the cabinet.

They wantonly annexed land in their hometown, reaching the point of 240,000 mu, some say 400,000 mu, in short, the Xu family is the largest landlord in the entire Shanghai area, and the best and most fertile land belongs to them, so their family is extremely luxurious.

Later, Gao Gong was in power, and this big stick mallet, which was second only to Hai Rui, caught Xu Jie, and sent Hai Rui as the governor of Yingtian to fight tigers in Huating, chasing and beating the Xu family.

Did you pay it back when you took office?

The interrogation at two ends in three days made the Xu family exhausted, Xu Jie's parry was overwhelmed, and Hai Rui seized the loophole and handed over the incriminating evidence to Gao Gong.

Gao Gong was even more desperate, and directly sent Xu Fan to the army, Xu Jie never expected that he had seen Gao Gong wrong, and he didn't expect that Hai Rui, who he had protected in front of Emperor Jiajing, was a white-eyed wolf stunned, and actually bit himself back.

Later, Xu Jie had no choice but to start exerting his strength in the imperial court, remotely controlling Zhang Juzheng to abolish Hai Rui, knock down the high arch, and let Zhang Juzheng be the first assistant, which saved Xu Fan and kept the Xu family's 240,000 acres of land and wealth.

Therefore, the history books say that Xu Jie's late festival is not guaranteed.

This matter is too big, there are too many people who know, and there are many ridicules and dissatisfactions at the time, Xu Jie committed public anger, and later Zhang Juzheng committed the public anger of the world's sons and scholars, so even the Confucian historians who have always obeyed the Venerable cannot avoid anything for Xu Jie, the "loyal Venerable".

It's all written down.

Even after the fall of the Yan Party after Yan Shifan's death, the eldest granddaughter who Xu Jie promised to marry Yan Shifan's son as a concubine was poisoned by Xu Fan.

What's even more ironic is that Xu Fan's eldest daughter did not marry as an adult until she died, and was promised to be married to Yan Shifan's son as a concubine when she was young, and Yan Shifan died before she became an adult.

Of course, the authenticity of the wild history is still doubtful, but such a stereotypical routine can remind people of many women who were sacrificed under the ancient dynasty and pro-policy.

It can be seen how cold-blooded political creature Xu Jie, the "forbearance hero" who "overthrew Yan Song and saved the crisis situation of the Ming Dynasty".

This is still the case for the blood of the relatives, so it is conceivable that in the densely populated Nanzhili area, how many people's land and wealth of the Xu family's 240,000 mu of land and family wealth have been embezzled, how to operate, and how many people have shed blood and tears to make their family prominent and prosperous.

According to conservative estimates, there are also three or four thousand families who have been torn apart because of the loss of their land, and the number of wives and families who have been broken up and the dead is unknown, just for his family!

They have never cared about the life or death of the people at the bottom, they only have their own enjoyment and privileges in their hearts, no matter how many books they read, no matter how much knowledge they master, they are just fighting for their own selfish desires.

The Xu family was just a regular example of the great gentry class of that era.

No matter how great Xu Jie's credit is, no matter how famous he is, it can't cover up his family's exploitation and exploitation of the lower-class people and their crimes, and the scholars sing the praises of Xu Jie's achievements in overthrowing Yan Song, but who cares about the blood, tears and white bones of the people under the atrocities of the Xu family?

It's time for these sanctimonious hypocrites to pay for the sins they have committed.

Every time he thought of this, Xie He couldn't help the anger and surging killing intent in his heart, with Xiao Ruxun's instructions and the support of the army, Xie He decided to make a big deal and completely abolish the Xu Jie family, so as to start his own legend.

Since he decided to completely hand over his body to Xiao Ruxun, Xie He is not afraid of anything, anyway, there are a lot of lives in his hands, he has killed so many local tyrants, he has long had no way out, and he has long been a member of the chariot that cannot get up and down, in the big era, the little people don't have much choice.

Xie He didn't plan to choose anything, he just wanted to go one way to the end, he wanted to see what the end of the road was.

So he took the first five proud subordinates who stood out and were nicknamed the "Five Tiger Generals of the Land" by the members of the working group along with Zheng Ying's army towards Songjiang Mansion, accompanied by the roar of cannons and the shooting of birds, the resistance of the local army was weak and weak, and it was about to collapse at the first touch.

Huzhou and Jiaxing were taken on 16 November and 17 November respectively, and it took only a dozen days, and there were very few local troops who resisted, and many local magnates organized regimental exercises to protect their property against the Zhennan army.

Kill them all.

Zheng Ying commanded the gunners to fire the cannons, watched the large families shattered by the bombardment, and then commanded the iron cavalry to cross and cross them, stepping them into the dirt and ceasing to exist.

He wanted to be right, Xiao Ruxun changed the name for him, Eagle, a cruel predator who soared for nine days, powerful, cold-blooded, without the slightest sympathy and soft-heartedness for his prey.

Huzhou Mansion and Jiaxing Mansion are not stronger than Hangzhou Mansion, that is, the difference between tender tofu and old tofu, which is also broken when slapped.

The resistance on the surface is over, the dark tide is still surging, and the big families who are extremely dissatisfied with the iron-blooded methods of the Zhennan Army are preparing for the second round of operations, but before they are ready, the Zhennan Army will come to the door.

To be precise, it was not the neatly arranged ironclad soldiers who came to the door, but the ragged mud-legged men with red eyes and hatred.

The mud legs who have been deprived of the wealth and survival value of the land.

Brutal revenge began.

Zheng Ying also led 20,000 troops into Songjiang Mansion and officially launched an attack on the back garden of the southeastern gentry without making any contact.

On November 19, they occupied Zhujing, and on the same day they captured Jinshanwei, ending the largest official resistance in Songjiang Prefecture, and then the two armies began to march towards Huating, where the Xu family was the lair.

At this time, it has been fifteen years since Xu Jie's death, six years since the death of his eldest son Xu Fan, and two years since Xu Fan's eldest son Xu Yuanchun.

After Xu Yuanchun passed away, Xu Youqing returned home to deal with housework as the head of the long house, but only two years later, there was a great change in the court, Zhu Yijun abdicated, the new emperor ascended the throne, and Jinyiwei collectively took refuge in Shen Yiyi, Xu Youqing was also very surprised.

But he didn't want to have much entanglement with the imperial court, so he stayed in Huating's hometown to live his life, and from time to time he summoned the second and third rooms to discuss family affairs, and his life was quite set, although the past of being "favored" by Zhu Yijun when he was young has been difficult to shake away.

But soon, he could not continue to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, because the Zhennan army and the water division attacked Zhenjiang Mansion and Nanjing, captured the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and cut off the grain route of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and then the Zhennan army set off from Burma to the north, but a few months of kung fu swept most of the south of the Yangtze River, and the merchants who came back from the south reported the news that the Ming war was about to start.

Subsequently, another Jinyiwei spy found Xu Youqing to ask him for news, and Xu Youqing told these Jinyiwei agents the news he knew out of his past friendship, and then he didn't know what happened.

But he began to pay close attention to the matter.