Xu Jie raised his head and glanced at Zhu Yijun, and then kowtowed: "Sinner, please follow your heart!" ”

"For one thing, it's not about whether you should do it, it's about whether you want to do it."

"Your Majesty can even choose to do all this for your own selfish desires, and those who taught your Majesty by the Taishi Zhang Wenzheng should follow the grand ideal of the Holy Lord Ming Jun to govern the country and the country, and put it aside first, and just ask, the people who do it have made themselves feel comfortable."

"Otherwise, the ways that Taishi Zhang Wenzheng taught His Majesty to strengthen the country and enrich the people are all just castles in the air."

"Your Majesty will easily slack off because of this, even if Your Majesty himself is not slacking, it is difficult to ensure that future generations will not slack off."

After Zhu Yijun heard this, he nodded: "You're not wrong!" ”

Then, Zhu Yijun stood up and looked at Xu Jie: "So, I decided to give you the death penalty, although you are trying your best to show me your value, so that I can see that you Xu Jie's place is more powerful than Mr. I, and I also cooperate very well with Guozijian." ”

Xu Jie was stunned, and his face was full of surprise.

Then, Xu Jie asked: "In this case, the criminal wants to ask, can foreign expansion really make Your Majesty and the Manchu Dynasty magnates and bureaucrats more harmonious?!" ”

As he spoke, Xu Jie said again: "In addition, Your Majesty, in addition to the fact that there is a large amount of silver overseas that can be earned by annexing the land in the country and squeezing the people of the country, is there really so much need for Your Majesty to still kill criminals instead of criminals, but to explore the benefits of wealth?" ”

Zhu Yijun nodded: "Yes." ”

"Impossible!"

"It's absolutely impossible!"

"Your Majesty, the previous sinners and others didn't want the court and the people to take profits, so they didn't let the Son of Heaven know that the Wa Kingdom was prolific with silver, and even deliberately advocated the danger of the sea, so that the court and the powerful officials and gentry in the mainland would not know the richness of Haili."

"But now the sculptors naturally don't dare to hide it, not to mention that Your Majesty also knows the richness of Haili, and it turns out that the sea is not very dangerous."

"But the sinner told Your Majesty the truth, in fact, the world is only profitable for the Wa Kingdom, and secondly, if you say Nanyang, it is just that Luzon has silver to earn, and in addition to that, Java and Manraka are all else."

"But further south, there is a vast ocean, and there is no continent."

"In addition to a few large islands in the east, there is also a vast ocean!"

"And the west has long been divided by Xiyi, and according to Xiyi, it is all wild and unreclaimable."

"To the north is the desert snowfield, so barren that the northern captives have to go south repeatedly to plunder."

"Therefore, the Haili outside is not enough to support His Majesty to achieve Zhongxing in a way that lives in harmony with the powerful officials and gentry."

"What's more, if Your Majesty really wants to prosper, he needs more than just silver, but in essence, he needs more land to support more people, but there is really not so much arable land overseas."

Xu Jie said excitedly, and looked puzzled.

Zhu Yijun smiled at him and said: "You still don't know carefully enough, maybe the Xiyi you came into contact with is hiding from you, the south of the South Ocean is not the ocean, and the west of Jiaozhi is not a wilderness." Of course, regardless of the matter of external profits, even if I make money at home, I have my own good laws, and you are not the only landlord bureaucrat who knows how to smuggle goods and annex land and lend money. ”

Xu Jie couldn't help frowning slightly, looking unwilling to believe it, so he only said, "Your Majesty, but what else did the Taishi say to you?" ”

Zhu Yijun didn't care if Xu Jiexiang didn't believe it, and he didn't answer Xu Jie's question, he only said: "You're not wrong, I need to be with the light, but there are people who can't be forgiven!" ”

"And the bottom line that I can't be lenient is that no one can betray the interests of the country! including the royal relatives and the elderly; Therefore, you Xu Huating have to be executed, whoever let you really get involved in smuggling and forging, I have to give an explanation to the people of the world, let them know that as long as Tongyi is the worst crime. ”

"If you, like Mr. Gao Gong and my husband, preside over the opening of the sea and expand the scale of the sea when you are in power, and you also open the sea to trade, and even allow trade with the Japanese, and even do not impose any prohibition on the goods of trade with the Japanese, you will not be put to death now for smuggling the Japanese. But because you didn't want the court to benefit, you didn't choose to reform the system like this, so you can only bear the price of not doing so. ”

Although Gao Gong presided over the opening of the sea for the Ming court to win only one or two thousand taels of tax and silver revenue from the coastal gentry, but at least it is really for the benefit of the country, and it is no problem to ensure that the sailors in the Fujian sea area have a certain combat effectiveness, and it is better than Xu Jie, who is not even willing to fight for one or two thousand taels for the imperial court.

After Xu Jie heard Zhu Yijun say this, he sobbed: "It's too late for the sinner to repent!" ”

Soon after, Zhu Yijun asked the Imperial Priest to make an objective description of Xu Jie's personal merits.

The edict to deal with Xu Jie, first affirmed his merits, and then revealed his culpability, and then explained that considering that he had protected his loyalty and rectification in the world temple and ensured the merits of the first emperor's smooth accession to the throne, it was decided to spare Ling Chi's capital punishment, and instead give him death, leaving his whole body.

As for why Xu Jie's capital crime was not forgiven, he also gave a special explanation, because the first thing to govern the country is to strengthen the country, and the crime is also the first to be treasonous, and it is even more important to seek great rebellion, so it is impossible not to execute him, but to set an example.

And Xu Jie's sons Xu Pan, Xu Kun, and Xu Ying were also sentenced to Dabi for participating in smuggling and treason.

Xu Jie's grandson, Xu Youqing, was sentenced to exile to Dongfan because he did not know about it and read his grandfather's auxiliary Gong.

Xu Jie's brother Xu Zhi's family, because he did not directly participate in the rebellion, and considering that Xu Jiezeng also contributed to the imperial court, and Xu Zhi himself also contributed to the country, they were all exiled to Dongfan.

Although Xu Jie himself already knew the result that Zhu Yijun still wanted to execute him, after hearing the content of the holy decree that gave him death, he still knelt down in a choked up, and said: "The sinner has the grace of the country, and the sin deserves it." ”

And when Xu Jie knelt down, the eunuch Zhang Whale asked someone to bring a cup of poisonous wine: "Then please go on the road." ”

Xu Jie raised his head tremblingly, pursed his lips, and then stretched out his trembling hand to take the wine glass, and looked at Zhang Whale with two heavy eye bags: "Father-in-law, does Your Majesty have any other words?" ”

Zhang Whale said: "No." ”

Xu Jie pondered for a moment after hearing this, then smiled bitterly, then put the wine glass to his lips, and then swallowed the poisonous wine as soon as he closed his eyes and tilted his neck.

After swallowing it, Xu Jie laughed again and said, "Uncle, I've come to see you for my teacher!" You shouldn't have thought that the teacher would come to see you so soon, there is no way, who let you go. If you knew this, no matter what, you would want to live a few more years! ”

Not long after speaking, Xu Jie fell to the ground, and convulsed, his face was extremely painful, he opened his mouth to speak, but he could only make a kaka sound, and at the same time only grabbed the placket of his chest with his own hand, and it didn't take long for him to stop.

Seeing this, Zhang Whale walked over, tried his snort, and after seeing that Xu Jie's breath was out of breath, he said to the officials sent by the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate who came together: "You should also try it, so as not to say that our family did not seriously execute him." ”

The officials of the Three Law Divisions also came to try their breath, and they all admitted that Xu Jie was out of breath.

So, Xu Jie died at the end of September of the tenth year of Wanli in Jinyiwei's edict.

As for Xu Fan, Xu Kun, and Xu Ying, as well as the criminals who directly planned and executed the excavation of Zhang Juzheng's father's grave, Zhou Hua, a slave from Zhangfu, a monk Mingzhen, and a student Wang Rugong, they were escorted to the execution ground and sentenced to death with their heads executed.

"Father, how can this be, Jiangling is dead, and the son will not only not be able to return to his hometown, but will be beheaded!"

Xu Fan looked up to the sky in pain before being beheaded.

Xu Kun also looked at Xu Ying puzzled: "Third child, you should know why this is, it stands to reason that we, the gentry who monopolize Haili, will not be found by the imperial court." ”

Xu Ying said with a sad face: "Second brother, you don't know, people have been eyeing us for a long time, so much so that they have turned the ninth sister into their people, I'm afraid that they will wait for Jiangling to kill us after his death." ”

Xu Kun couldn't help baring his teeth after hearing this, but he didn't dare to say anything.

"Slash!"

And when the hour came, after the supervisor dropped the token, the three of them, Mingzhen, Zhou Hua, and Wang Rugong were all beheaded.