The Meng family is not an ordinary family in the city, the Meng family has really built bridges and paved roads in the past ten years, and relieved the victims, and it can be said that the reputation among the people is definitely one of the best.

Meng Ping, as Meng Yi's eldest son, has been doing business abroad all the year round, and in the impression of the people in Shanghai County, in the early years, Meng Yi was doing business abroad all the year round, and the Meng family was only supported by orphans and widows.

In the past few years, Meng Yi seems to have handed over the family business to his eldest son Meng Ping to take care of, and he himself has settled down in the county, and he has made friends with some literati and writers on weekdays.

It's a pity that these people don't know that the business that the Meng family has always done is maritime trade, although it is not the most top-notch among maritime merchants, but its strength cannot be considered bad.

How big is the profit of overseas trade, if you don't personally step into this industry, you can't imagine it at all, I'm afraid no one can imagine, once the porcelain worth dozens of wen in the Ming Dynasty is shipped overseas, the value almost skyrockets dozens or hundreds of times.

That is to say, if you invest 10,000 taels of silver, once you successfully return, the profit will be at least dozens of times, even if the sea trade has to bear great risks, but this dozens of times the amazing profit is still a considerable number of people to join the ranks one after another.

It was precisely by relying on the money earned by the Meng family in the sea trade that the Meng family was able to have the money to build bridges and pave roads to build their own reputation.

If there was no huge profit from the sea trade as a support, the Meng family would not have so much gold and silver to do these things.

With the opening of the imperial court, ordinary businessmen who have no relationship and no way can finally get involved in this lucrative industry.

How the profit of an industry depends on how many people are engaged in this industry, and the sea trade itself is a profiteering business, coupled with the Ming Dynasty's policy of banning the sea, which leads to a result, only a very small number of businessmen can rely on their own relationships to carry out sea trade.

With the implementation of the imperial court's policy of opening up the sea, a large number of merchants naturally entered this industry, which naturally diluted the windfall profits of the sea trade.

Of course, the so-called diluted profits are only relative, after all, the profits of overseas trade are too large, even if more businessmen join it, it is still more profitable than ninety percent of the trade.

From dozens of times the windfall profits to several times, more than ten times the profits, this kind of earnings, for those new businessmen, it is naturally a great joy.

But for the Meng family, who set foot in the sea trade earlier and ate a mouthful of oil, the profits plummeted so much at once, which made these families who were used to eating alone a little unacceptable.

These people tried their best to prevent the imperial court from opening the sea, but under Chu Yi's insistence, even if many officials in the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs collected money to speak for these maritime merchants, they could not change the determination of the Son of Heaven and Chu Yi to open the sea.

Since it is impossible to stop the opening of the sea from the imperial court, some people either give up completely, but some people are not giving up, they think that all this comes from Chu Yi, as long as Chu Yi can be eliminated as the culprit, then the policy of opening the sea can naturally be canceled.

I believe that without Chu Yi in charge, when the time comes, they will spend a little effort and means, and then use those people in their court to ban the sea again.

It's just that Chu Yi's reputation is too great, and it is not for nothing that there are people who try to assassinate Chu Yi, but it is a pity that all the people or families who try to deal with Chu Yi in vain have ended up stealing their families and exterminating their families.

It is said that in this case, the killings should be able to deter people's hearts, but people's hearts are unpredictable, or in the face of that huge profits, some vested interests simply can't bear the huge profits that originally belonged to them to be shared by so many people, and they miss the days before the opening of the sea, and a casual trip to the sea trade was dozens of times the huge profits.

The more I miss these, the more I naturally hate Chu Yi.

And Meng Yi is naturally one of the representatives of the family who hate Chu Yi, these people are quietly connected through channels, hiding their identities, and secretly planning to deal with Chu Yi.

Someone secretly transported dozens of flowering bullets from the warehouse of the imperial court military department through connections, and someone got a strong crossbow, anyway, in order to be able to put Chu Yi to death, these people really fought hard.

You must know that even if these people are careful and careful, as long as some things in this world are done, then there will inevitably be some clues and clues, and once the court strictly investigates, they may not be found.

Of course, these people have done so much, but they are confident that they will be able to eradicate Chu Yi, as long as there is no Chu Yi, just a genius, then they are not easy to settle?

If so many civil and military ministers in the DPRK and China were united, I am afraid that even today, I am afraid that they will obediently issue an order to ban the sea.

Although it is said that the military officials of the Chinese have undergone great changes, no matter how much they change, the court is still in the hands of the previous officials, and although there are many newly promoted officials, they have not been able to completely control the court.

After all, no matter how radical Chu Yi is, it is impossible to empty the court hall at once, right, so Zhu Houzhao can only replace the Chinese martial arts of the court little by little, and at this speed, he will be able to replace the officials in the court in about three or five years.

At that time, eight or nine out of ten Chinese martial arts in the court were all newly promoted officials promoted by the Son of Heaven, and they obeyed their orders, so that it would be difficult for any more waves to rise above the court.

Meng Ping had a gloomy face, he never dreamed that his father had gone out, only to come back with a corpse separated from his body.

Meng Yi's body was brought back by the loyal servants of the Meng family, and under Meng Ping's inquiry, although he couldn't tell why his father was beheaded, he could probably guess some reasons.

Meng Yi has been secretly plotting with some people to assassinate Chu Yi, which may not be clear to others, but Meng Ping, as the eldest son, is very clear.

Not long ago, Chu Yi returned from overseas, and it didn't take long for the entire Shanghai county to spread, and Meng Ping naturally got the news.

Meng Ping knew what his father was going out for not long ago, but he didn't expect his father to go out well, but he would never come back.

A fist slammed on the coffee table, looking at his father's head that was gradually sewn together, Meng Ping gritted his teeth and said: "If you don't take revenge, you will be a son of man in vain!" ”

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps, and Meng Ping looked over and saw that his housekeeper was leading a servant over.

Seeing this, Meng Ping hurriedly greeted him, and said with a smile on his face: "This adult is here, I don't know what to see." ”

The clerk glanced at Meng Ping, and then looked around, it seemed that the atmosphere was a little wrong, but the white cloth hanging around was strange.

"Where is Meng Yuanwai, the prefect sent an official to invite Meng Yiwai to go to the Winter Garden, and the chief manager opened his mouth to summon him, which is a great blessing for Meng Yuanwai."

Meng Ping's eyes shrank when he heard this, he still hated Chu Yi before, but now his father lost his life.

The Winter Garden was taken out by Meng Yi to entertain officials from all walks of life, not just to entertain Chu Yi, it can be said that the Winter Garden was definitely bought by the Meng family and then renovated, and it was used to get closer to the officials.

Obviously, this official has not noticed Meng Yi's corpse, but said to Meng Ping with a little smile: "This is a great joy for the Meng family, I don't know if Meng Yi is outside, and I asked him to follow me to meet the chief manager." ”

A strange color flashed in Meng Ping's eyes, he took a deep breath and glanced at the official, then turned sideways slightly, got out of the way and said to the official: "This lord will come with me." ”

The clerk was very puzzled, and followed Meng Ping into the lobby.

The hall has been covered with white cloth by the subordinates of the Meng family at this time, and even a mourning hall has been erected, and when the official walked into the mourning hall, the whole person couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Especially when he saw the body of Meng Yi lying there, this official, who was the confidant of the prefect, couldn't help but be stunned.

This official would never have imagined that he had been ordered to come and ask Meng Yi to go with him to meet the chief steward Chu Yi, but Meng Yi did not see it, but he saw Meng Yi's body.

For Meng Yi, don't say it's this official, it can be said that at least half of the people in the city have great admiration for Meng Yi, and when they saw Meng Yi's corpse, the whole official was stunned, and after a while, he said in shock: "Oh my God, Meng Yuan is outside him......"

Meng Ping stood aside, with a little sadness on his face, gritted his teeth and said: "My father suffered this catastrophe, Meng Ping is very uncomfortable in his heart, if there is any rudeness, please forgive me." ”

The official glanced at Meng Yi, who was lying there again, his head was sewn to his neck as a message, and sighed in his heart.

This Meng Yi's luck is really bad, and now Chu Yi summoned him, but he didn't have such a blessing, but he lost his life

Thinking that he had received the order, the officials hesitated a little, and even their heads were cut off, how could they go to meet the chief manager!

Did he have to go back and reply to the prefect Xu Bang that Meng Yi had been beheaded?

If it is said that it is just on weekdays, if there is such a murder case, the imperial court will naturally work hard to solve the case, but if Chu Yi knows about it, does it mean that the impression left by the prefect Xu Bang in Chu Yi's heart will be even worse.

You must know that the sudden assassination incident in the port before had already made these officials tremble, for fear that Chu Yi would blame them.

Finally, Chu Yi didn't get angry with them because of the assassination case, and now if he suddenly told Chu Yi that Meng Yi, the famous benevolent man in the first good house of Shanghai County, was cut off by extremely brutal means, wouldn't that be making trouble for these officials?