Chapter 259: The Last Resort

In the modern texts describing the Ming Dynasty, there is a rather commonly used word is "spy politics", which is certainly not a compliment, the spy generally refers to Jinyiwei, of course, at some time when the Dongchang power is arrogant, it also refers to the Dongchang.

They bypassed the local judiciary and acted arbitrarily, arresting ministers and extorting confessions by torture. In the big tomorrow, there are many prestige, and there are often Jinyiwei handling cases, only one fan comes to the door, leading some gangsters and splashes who have no public office, and the officials who have been confiscated dare not say anything, because even if there is only one Jinyiwei, it is enough to deter it.

In broad daylight, Jinyiwei came to the door to check, it stands to reason that even if the other party is the first assistant of the dynasty, the Shangshu of the six departments, at this time it is also the situation that all the birds and beasts are scattered, who has ever thought that a military attache in Shandong was scolded by Jinyiwei in the camp during the day and asked him to confess his guilt.

The military attache shot all the thirty brocade guards who came while talking and laughing, and they were not dead. It's so incredible that no one would believe it.

Therefore, even though thirty Jinyi guards were shot, during this time, even the people who came to inquire about their whereabouts did not appear, no one would have thought that the Dengzhou camp was so lawless, and perhaps the people who sent these Jinyi guards thought that their men had not arrived in Dengzhou.

In this era, the transportation and information exchange were extremely inconvenient, and the time required from Nanjing to Dengzhou by land or water was calculated in ten days.

Jason Hogan brought more than a hundred Dutch people, more than ninety men, and a dozen women. At that time, the shipbuilding industry in the European lowlands was extremely developed, and the related firearms casting industry was also very developed, and these people were also the main victims of Spain's excesses and miscellaneous taxes because of their very good craftsmanship, and they were also the main participants in the Dutch lowland independence movement.

Among the people who came to Dengzhou this time, there are also many such professions, but the kind that Jiang Feng thought, as long as Europeans come here, there will inevitably be great development of science and technology, and their forces in all aspects are growing wildly, making glass, small blast furnaces, and big voyages, and then the Dengzhou camp can be proud of the world and dominate the earth.

However, the reality is often not so gorgeous, this time more than 100 people are mostly shipwrights, and there are even a few workshop owners in the various shipbuilding workshops in the lowlands in the past, who came to China to escape the pursuit of Spain, and there are only a few manufacturers of agricultural tools left, and one is a coachmaker.

This result made Jiang Feng a little laughable, but since he came to always have some benefits for his own improvement, after living in the isolated area of the port for a while, these white people who knew how to build ships were arranged in the shipyard.

The rest are also arranged in the craftsman's workshop, to see if they can help anything, Jason and a few with military experience are still used as instructors, but they are already ready to give them formal military positions, after all, they can't be idle like this, the only problem in Dengzhou is that the interpreter is a little insufficient, so he has to send people to Tianjin Wei and various places in Zhejiang to collect.

Time always flies, the ninth year of Jiajing soon entered the winter, from autumn to now, no one has ever asked about Jinyiwei, Jiang Feng knows in his heart that this kind of thing must be impossible to pass like this, so the vigilance in Dengzhou has not weakened, but has been strengthened.

During this period, there was some good news, and the shipbuilders who came from the Netherlands had real talents, and after seeing the ships built by the shipyards in Dengzhou, especially the ships that were combined with the Spanish brigs, they praised them and said that if they followed this line of thought, they could build larger ships.

And the artillery fire on these ships is not a problem at all, you must know that the artillery of land warfare is required to be easy to move, follow the advance of the troops, and not be too heavy, but because the ships at sea are buoyant, they can often carry heavier, of course, this also represents more powerful artillery.

What these craftsmen said was Jiang Feng's great intention, as long as it was the largest displacement ship in the East Asian sea, according to Western terms, or according to modern terms that he could accept, it was only a lucky ship of about 300 tons and 400 tons.

These were merchant ships, going to and from the sea, earning huge sums of money for their masters, and what a situation it would be if they could build ships of greater tonnage, and they were warships.

These white people from afar also urgently need an achievement to make their lives in this strange land, although they do not understand Chinese now, but after saying this idea of building a big ship, they saw an extremely happy smile on Jiang Feng's face.

They knew that they had made the right bet, and at least they had made a good impression in the hearts of their masters.

"Although the silver money is withdrawn, as long as it is used on the ship and the cannon, don't be stingy, about the wood, write a letter to tell the Tie Dan and the Ma brothers, let them go to Liaodong to buy it, as soon as possible!"

Jiang Feng followed Zhao Xiucai, who was in charge of all production and logistics, and instructed quite generously, but such a good mood lasted until the middle of November, and this year's private salt trading reached the end of the year, and Jiang Feng in Dengzhou and Huang Ping in Jining were unsurprisingly full of money.

However, it was quite surprising that Huang Ping sent a letter to Jiang Feng, saying that he was not young and was ready to move to Jiangnan for retirement, so at the end of the year, the two sides cleared all business dealings in Shandong, and delivered the cash and silver clearly in the second year.

There is no precursor to this matter, but Jining in Shandong is not a Jingshi or Nanjing, he is in the Shandong region controlled by Jiang Feng, and the people in the rivers and lakes under Liu Twelve and the fine works under Jiang Feng are not pervasive, but there are not many things that can hide them.

In Huang Ping's mansion, someone has long been bought, and it is a family member with a high status, and a salt merchant's family should not expect any superb secrecy measures, and soon, a copied letterhead was passed to Jiang Feng's hand, looking at the date on the letterhead and the time when Huang Ping received the letterhead, it only took three days.

This can be regarded as a high-speed transmission of information in the world of the Ming Dynasty, and when I looked at the person who sent the letter, he was really the most powerful person in the court, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, and Huang Jin, the minister of the interior.

The letter said very simply, saying that there were civil officials in Nanjing who impeached the guerrilla Jiang Feng in Shandong, colluded with bandits, and trafficked illicit salt, and the evidence was conclusive.

You must know that Huang Ping and Jiang Feng's trafficking in illicit salt, Huang Jin in the Beijing division also shared a lot of benefits, if Jiang Feng's crime is confirmed, there are many unclear points involved. If Jiang Feng is really charged with colluding with bandits and trafficking in illicit salt, it will be a major crime of complicity, and a little bit of relationship is a matter that will never be recovered, and Emperor Jiajing is famous for his cold nature.

Although Huang Jin is a cronie eunuch who started with Jiajing, he doesn't dare to say what to do with it at that time. He knew in his heart that Jiang Feng and his cousin were trafficking in illicit salt, and he had also received some benefits here. There were too many connections, so the impeachment was suppressed first, anyway, the road from Nanjing to Beijing was very long, and the order in which the pieces were submitted to the emperor for processing was decided by the celebrant and the celebrant of each place.

Huang Jin is also a person who is used to using means, so he simply suppressed the music and let his cousin clean up the matter first.

Jiang Feng sat in the conference hall, looking at the transcribed letterhead, only Zhang Liang and Liu Twelve were by his side, and the two of them already knew the contents. They were all there waiting for Jiang Feng's reaction, and if they calculated the time, Jiang Feng should have read this copied letter more than once.

After a while, Jiang Feng raised his head, looked at the two cronies beside him, and slowly asked:

"Can this matter be solved with money?"

Liu Twelve shook his head there and said with certainty:

"If it was for the money, I'm afraid that the person in Nanjing would have come to talk to us a long time ago, he is the squire of the criminal department in Nanjing, and his younger brother is a thousand households of Jinyiwei, we have to be polite no matter what to do!"

Zhang Liang on the side was also there and shouted loudly:

"How can the master be good in this matter, that bastard has already used the means of raiding the family and exterminating the clan!"

While he was talking, an officer ran in panting outside, and after coming in, he hurriedly saluted, and then followed Jiang Feng and said:

"My lord, there are dozens of guests from other places living in the inn outside the city, all of whom have the accent of Nan Zhili, and they are all carrying weapons, and the owner of the inn has told us the news......"

It didn't take much time for the horse team of the Dengzhou battalion to get to the inn, and hundreds of horse teams surrounded the inn claiming to be to catch the bandits, and these elite cavalry were quite sure of dealing with dozens of strangers with swords.

At lunchtime, Jiang Feng saw these people in the Dengzhou barracks, the tokens and many things on their bodies were searched cleanly, and they actually found the waist card of Jinyiwei, and it was quite simple to obtain a confession, and the task of these people in Dengzhou was to snatch the Su sisters into their hands after Jiang Feng was arrested.

After hearing this, Jiang Feng, Zhang Liang and Liu Twelve looked at each other, and after being quiet for a while, Jiang Feng suddenly laughed, turned around and said calmly:

"It's simple, go to Nanjing and kill them all!"