Chapter 655: Jiangnan Winter (Part II)
The Xu family's sky has completely collapsed this time!
"On the orders of the imperial court, all the men and women of the Xu family, young and old, were imprisoned, and all their property, fields and houses were sealed and confiscated. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info in order to prevent someone from the Xu family from escaping, or hiding property, immediately ordered each department to send people to guard all the Xu family's family business, and there must be no mistakes. In addition, the DPRK has already condemned the death penalty of the three sons of the Xu family, and he is about to be beheaded in the near future. β
This is the content of the official document sent to Yu Wenbin from Songjiang Mansion, to put it bluntly, in one sentence, he ordered the Huating County Ya to take a look at the Xu family and their property, just waiting for the imperial court to send someone to raid the house! As for the latter words, it is just a footnote, telling them that they can let go of their hands and feet when they act, and at the same time be a little measured.
Lin County Ling didn't expect that the imperial court would make up its mind so quickly and so ruthlessly this time, obviously the one who promoted all this must be the Jinyi Wei who looked young, but his wrist was extremely ruthless.
If this is a little surprising to Lu Wenbin, then for Xu Jie, who read this official document, it is tantamount to a bolt from the blue. I thought that by relying on my connections in the court, I would be able to keep the family by pushing my youngest son Xu Ying out to take the blame, but I didn't expect that what I was waiting for was such a result.
Not only was the Xu family completely convicted, all the family property and family members were not guaranteed, but all the three sons in the capital were convicted of capital crimes, which he couldn't believe and accept no matter what. But the facts are in front of you, and the seal of the prefect's yamen is printed blood-red on the official documents, which is not a little fake.
Xu Jie has long been a frail and sickly old man, and he has only relied on medicine to maintain himself in the past few years. After a series of things happened to the Xu family, he only barely supported it, just because he knew that the Xu family was now indispensable to preside over the overall situation, so even if his body could not bear it, he still insisted.
But such a big blow suddenly came to his face, and the old man finally couldn't bear it, and after reading the official document, he fainted at that time.
When the slaves of the Xu family rushed in when they heard the news and sent their master to the hospital for treatment, Xu Jie had already lost his mind and was terminally ill. If you use the medical theories of later generations, Xu Jie's heart and cerebrovascular burst under stimulation and he suffered an extremely serious stroke. This is an incurable disease that is difficult to completely cure even after hundreds of years, and in the Ming Dynasty, it naturally made those local famous doctors helpless, so they could only use acupuncture and medicine to temporarily hang Xu Jie's life to see if there was any other way.
But in this way, the Xu family has no biggest backer, and after that, the county government will send people to surround the Xu family's related industries and mansions according to the intention of the prefect's yamen, and the Xu family is not far from the final rout.
In this regard, the people of Huating County are quite happy. For many years, the Xu family has been like a big mountain, a dark cloud that will never drift away tightly over the heads of ordinary people in the county, making them suffer a lot, but they don't even have a chance to appeal.
And now, when it was finally time to settle accounts after the autumn, for a while the people were running around the streets to tell each other, celebrating the end of this bully family. In mid-November, when a large number of officers and soldiers came to Huating under the leadership of the prefect and carried out the raid and conviction of the Xu family, the people in the entire county, including the countryside outside the city, were jubilant.
Everyone says that this is God's eyes, and the wicked have evil retribution. The Xu family has done a lot of evil, and this time they finally have to pay for the sins they committed before.
If Xu Jie was still conscious and could speak, maybe these officials from the capital and Songjiang Mansion would still have reservations when they were on errands, after all, his prestige in the officialdom was still there, and even if the Xu family fell to this point, the imperial court would not embarrass him too much.
But now, Xu Jie has already suffered a stroke and collapsed, and the three sons of the Xu family have all been arrested and imprisoned in the capital. Without the slightest accommodation, all the people related to the Xu family were locked up, and what awaited them would be a long prison sentence, or a trip to the remote distribution area. And the women of the Xu family are even more miserable, they will all fall into the teaching department in Nanjing, and it is difficult to guarantee their innocence.
Of course, in the face of the Xu family's mountain of wealth, whether it is an official or an errand boy, he will not be too polite. In the process of raiding their homes, these people have made a lot of money.
But even so, when all the properties of the Xu family were confiscated and counted, the huge amount was still greatly beyond everyone's expectations. Not counting the ones that were stolen, and then converting the real estate, fields, grain storage, shops, etc. into equivalent silver, the property copied from the Xu family this time reached a dumbfounded amount of more than 7 million taels.
You must know that Yan Song, a corrupt official who has always been regarded as the opposite of Xu Jie, by the people of the court and the people, was only copied out of more than 2 million taels of silver and some other property, even if it is converted, it will not exceed 5 million taels of silver. But Xu Jie, the representative of the Qing official and good official who is advertised by the world, has half more property in his family than Yan Song's family, which is indeed enough to shock the jaws of people all over the world.
"Phew, what kind of good official who values the court and the world is just a greedy villain who is good at disguising himself. No matter how greedy and bold we are, it is impossible for us to accumulate one-tenth of the family property used by his family! β
"This Xu family is really full of evil, and more than eighty percent of these properties are people's fat and people's ointment, which is the blood and tears of the people in Jiangnan. How many families have been ruined because of their greed, but now that the Holy Son of Heaven is in power, he has not allowed such traitors to escape the punishment of my Ming law. β
"I said a long time ago that the Xu family will definitely have a lot of tricks to do evil in Jiangnan, and sure enough, I was right. This time, even if there are no other crimes, the Xu family will have to be sentenced heavily! β
"Even if Xu Jie's credit to the imperial court is indeed great, this is too much. If it weren't for the fact that he was already old, the court should really condemn him and his three sons together, so that the people could be outraged and the hearts of the people would be convinced! β
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All kinds of disdainful, surprised, or emotional voices are endlessly transmitted from officialdom to the people, but their meanings are generally similar, that is, they applaud the current ending of the Xu family, thinking that they are to blame for today's results!
Fortunately, now the Xu family has already collapsed on the bed and lost consciousness, otherwise these words alone would have made this veteran of several dynasties die of shame. However, as far as the current situation is concerned, his time is afraid that it will not be too long. A patient like him who has suffered a stroke and faints can rely on the careful care of his family and the nourishment of medicine, and now, all the members of the Xu family have been sent to prison, and the money has long been confiscated, so these two requirements are naturally difficult to meet anymore.
For such an old man who has completely lost power, even the officials who have a close relationship with him dare not approach him in order to avoid suspicion, let alone others. So one night at the end of November, the old man Xu Jie, who was lying on the hospital bed, silently left this world where he had struggled and made him famous, but because of this, he lost his heart and finally ended up miserable.
A generation of famous ministers of the Ming Dynasty, who was famous during his lifetime, called Bainuo, but in the end his family was ruined, and even his death was not noticed, until the next day he was discovered by a guard officer, and then he was hastily buried.
Although in terms of process, he is better than his old rival Yan Song, at least he has not suffered too much physical and mental torture, and he walks fast. But judging from the results, this pair of old opponents who have been fighting for half their lives have experienced almost the same trajectory - from being the first assistant of the dynasty that everyone fears and finally ending up with a broken family, and their sons have also ended up with a tragic death!
For Xu Jie and the Xu family's result, most people applauded, but some people were not very embarrassed about it, and there was one of them that everyone couldn't imagine, that was the Lingyi Wenbin of Huating County.
In the eyes of others, the Xu family is all due to him, and after this incident, his reputation in the officialdom has also become famous, he is a real profiteering, and his future prospects are bound to be great.
But Lin Zhixian, who was called a madman by the Xu family, had a crazy idea at this moment: "In the officialdom, I am deceitful, and the human affection is weak." I thought that after ten years of hard study, I could do something for the country and the people with my years of learning and enthusiasm. But now it seems that such a small county order alone has exhausted me, and if I go any further, I am afraid that the road will be even more difficult. When the time comes, will I compromise with others for some reason, and thus completely abandon my former ideals?
"Presumably, when Mr. Xu walked out after the county government examination, he was also full of ideals, right? But the result? Now he has ended up being spurned by 10,000 people. How can I be virtuous, and how can I do better than him? Since the officialdom is difficult and my temperament is so unsuitable, why bother to be bored?
"It's better to go back and go back to the countryside to study, it's not a good thing, there are always a lot less complicated strife. Maybe in this way, I can still keep my heart from losing and not end up following in the footsteps of those corrupt officials and thieves! These thoughts in my heart will never stop for a lifetime.
Finally, Yi Wenbin gritted his teeth, picked up the pen at hand, and began to write his resignation. When a heartfelt resignation from Huating County Order was written, he only felt that a big stone pressed on his heart was gone, and the Jiangnan that felt sad because of the Xu family's experience this winter seemed to be warmer than before.
If the heart is wide without worrying about heaven and earth, it is better to go back......
(End of volume)
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