The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1758

[1758. Chapter 1671 A meteoric rise to success]

Emperor Hongzhi frowned.

“Is there any royal law for fighting in the palace? This matter must be investigated to the end, and the factory guards cannot take it lightly.”

After hearing this, Xiao Jing said solemnly: “Yes, yes, I obey the order.”

Queen Zhang said The man on the side frowned slightly and said, “That’s right. It’s just a fight, but he actually beat up the prince-in-law. This has no precedent in any dynasty or generation.”

Emperor Hongzhi’s face twitched, He wanted to explain that according to his understanding of the matter, Jiang Bin might have been beaten, but after thinking about it, he fell silent again and just said: “Step up and investigate thoroughly.”

Xiao Jing nodded and was about to leave. , suddenly, Xiao Jing said: “Your Majesty… The Ministry of War handed over a note, saying that Weizhou Weiyuan was coming. When the soldiers heard that Your Majesty had summoned him to the capital, they were all gearing up, hoping to show off their skills in front of Your Majesty. Your Majesty… the Ministry of War I mean, in order to boost morale, we might

as well… carry out a review of the Yuzhou Guard.” After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi nodded: “I also want to see the rumored Yuzhou Guard. In that case, please order the Ministry of War to arrange it.”

… …

Fang Jifan left the palace and returned to Xishan, then summoned Su Yuelai.

She was sweating profusely from the beating just now, and her hands and neck were a little swollen and sore, so she asked Su Yue to come and take a look.

Su Yue carefully applied medicine and bandaged the master.

Fang Jifan asked: “There is a person named Liu Ai in your Xishan Medical College?”

Liu Ai…

Su Yue was stunned for a long time, and finally said: “Master, there is a person named Wang Ai.”

Fang Jifan said: “I said so. It’s him, what about this guy?”

“This guy…” Su Yue frowned: “He has a weird temper. He always insists that diet is the best medicine, which is contrary to the philosophy of our Xishan Medical College. I ignored him and said that he was talking nonsense, so he said to everyone, “Do you know how to raise pigs? Pig raising is the most popular thing recently, so don’t do anything as an official, and go to raise pigs. The most important thing.” Even if the pigs are fed and drunk, the same goes for this person. If you understand the diet, you can know where the nutrients that people need come from. Everyone can accept the principle of raising pigs, but why can’t everyone accept the principle of raising people? Well, he always said that this is also medicine…”

Fang Jifan couldn’t help but smile and said: “This man is really a talent.”

Su Yue sounded a little confused and didn’t want to ask the master more.

Just as he was talking, Wang Jinyuan rushed over anxiously.

“Master, we found it.”

Fang Jifan cheered up: “What did you find?”

Wang Jinyuan said: “A month ago, when the Ministry of War mentioned the Weizhou Guard, the villain followed the young master’s order to carefully investigate the Weizhou Guard. The situation, now… we finally have a clue.”

Su Yue, who was on the side, was aware that she was not suitable here, so she stood up immediately: “Master, student, take your leave.”

Fang Jifan pressed his hands and said, “Come and listen. Not bad, anyway, you stay in this medical school for a long time, and you will inevitably become ignorant.”

Su Yue couldn’t help but shed tears of gratitude.

Master really has absolute trust in me.

Wang Jinyuan said: “It is said that the Weizhou Guards can support themselves with just some fields. Just as the young master said, horses will not grow fat without night and grass. The discipline of the Weizhou Guards is lax, and there are many military attachés at home. Their wealth is quite a lot, especially Jiang Bin, his brother, actually bought several mansions in Beijing, and paid them all in one lump sum without borrowing money from the bank. After the bank found out their accounts , felt even more strange, so… they sent a large number of manpower to conduct overt and covert inspections near Yuzhou. The Statistics Department also deployed manpower to assist… Only then did they discover that they were pretending to be horse thieves in Weizhou Guard, and robbed merchants. Before March, a merchant disappeared in Yuzhou with his goods for no reason. The government investigated, but in the end, the merchant’s goods appeared on the market. This matter… and the Weizhou Wei.

“Not only that, this Weizhou Guard is also involved in many things, such as blackmailing merchants, killing people and stealing goods, and… colluding with private salt dealers…”

Fang

Jifan became more serious as he listened.

In fact, since the Ming Dynasty, military households have been a long-standing problem. The court does not pay wages, and everyone cannot survive. Military discipline is corrupted, private salt is sold, and people are killed and robbed. Many of them are related to the government and the army. This is why there are people among the people. The passage of bandits is like a comb, and the passage of soldiers is like a grate. In other words, when bandits come to plunder, they comb through it like a comb and take away all the property in the house, but the teeth of the comb are widely spaced and there are still some things that are missed. ; The teeth of the grate are very fine, which describes soldiers coming to plunder, openly, with plenty of time, and plundering in detail. They plunder more hatefully than bandits. Unlike bandits, at least they are afraid of the government coming, so they have to rush past and leave.

The soldiers of this era and the disciple soldiers of later generations are two different concepts.

In fact, Fang Jifan knew that there was something wrong with the Weizhou Guard before he even checked it, but… he didn’t expect it to be so bad!

Can this piece of shit continue to live a good life?

Fang Jifan then solemnly said: “Have all the evidence been found?”

“We are searching. Please don’t worry, young master. It may take as long as a month or as little as half a month. I will be able to give you an explanation.”

Fang Jifan nodded and said coldly: ” Jiang Bin… actually dares to mess with our Fang Jifan. He is really a reckless person! If our Fang Jifan doesn’t deal with him, how will

he be

able to gain a foothold in the Ming Dynasty in the future?

Some people say… we, Jifan, framed him.”

“Yes.” Wang Jinyuan cheered up.

Although there is no such institution as Factory Security here in Xishan, through the business network, it has already extended its tentacles into all walks of life, and even… relying on Xishan Bank, one can probably find out one person’s property clearly, and check one person. Starting from the audit, as long as there are discrepancies in the accounts, it is basically certain.

But now, at the juncture of establishing a standing army, if the evidence of the crime is not detailed enough, people will inevitably say that Fang Jifan was framed.

………

Jiang Bin limped back to the camp.

An army had already arrived to greet him. Jiang Bin made a sound and spit out bloody phlegm. The commanding officer, Yang Yong, said: “Commander, this is…”

A trace of sinisterness flashed across Jiang Bin’s eyes.

People like him, who want to climb up at all costs and are aggressive and aggressive, are not good people.

He smoothed down his military uniform and said, “I was bitten by a dog.”

I thought that the commander was going to see the commander, and his future would be limitless. Who knew… He would actually come back with scars on his body? Yang Yong was feeling hesitant in his heart. color.

“What, you have something to say?”

“This…”

“Go ahead.”

“Just now, news came from Weizhou, saying that… someone was investigating the porcelain merchant’s affairs in Weizhou a few months ago. Not only that… it seems…”

Jiang Bin’s face changed: “Isn’t this case settled?”

“This… command, if something happens, I’m afraid…”

The muscles on Jiang Bin’s cheeks trembled. His body couldn’t help but trembled: “It’s the Duke of Qi. This time, I finally won the appreciation, but who would have expected that he would become a thorn in the side of the Duke of Qi and a thorn in his flesh…”

“Then Duke of Qi…” Yang Yong had a look of horror on his face. With a look on his face, he looked at Jiang Bin tremblingly: “The Duke of Qi is not easy to offend. If we offend him, will we still survive? If we had known this, we would not have come to the capital. Now… what should we do? “

Jiang Bin’s face was cold: “Huh, wealth is at stake. In Yuzhou, you will never get ahead in your life. Brothers, if you don’t come to the capital, what will you do if you don’t come to the capital? Wei is the chess piece of the princes in the temple, and we are willing to be chess pieces. But we never expected that… the Duke of Qi… actually found out about us. Can we handle this investigation? Even if I have ten heads, it’s not enough to cut him off.”

Yang Yong was so frightened that his feet became weak and he almost couldn’t stand.

But at this moment, a soldier came in a hurry: “Commander, your Majesty has an order to order the Ministry of War to choose an auspicious day to review the Weizhou Guards. Your Majesty will come to watch the ceremony in person. Please make preparations in advance.”

Jiang Bin sat firmly and sipped. Had some tea.

He knew that he was in an extremely dangerous situation. If he did not do well, he might be doomed, or he might soar into the sky, and then he would be on the same page.

There was no fear in his heart, but ambition grew from within.

Jiang Bin dismissed the soldiers and took a deep look at Yang Yong: “Now that things have come to a close, we need to be prepared on both sides. If… then Duke Qi… doesn’t find anything, let’s review the soldiers and horses. If we can win the favor of the emperor, By then, you and I, brothers, will be rich and prosperous. But if…”

Murderous intent flashed across his eyes, thinking of Jifan’s fists and kicks just now, he suddenly lowered his voice: “What if, we really force our brothers to have no way to survive. , Hey… We are used to licking blood with the blade of a knife, killing merchants, and the year before last, we also killed a passing inspector. We also sold private salt with the merchants. Of course, the king of heaven can give us wealth. Okay, but if you can’t give it, then just… do it without stopping…”

He lowered his voice: “On the day of the review, just give an order, and the brothers will take action. Once the emperor comes, then the prince and the emperor’s grandson will do it. , Qi Guogong, all the six ministers of the cabinet will come… At that time… we can’t do whatever we want, so what?”

Yang Yong sat down and was paralyzed with fear: “Command… this… how can this be… Jiang

Bin

was expressionless, with hatred flashing across his face: “Why didn’t you say something like this when you divided the gold and silver from the salt dealers? When you tied up those wealthy households and merchants and gouged out their hearts, why didn’t you say that?” Why didn’t you say such a thing? You were at the forefront when they were burning, killing and looting in that remote Chenjiazhuang. Why, it turns out that there are things in this world that you, Yang Yong, don’t dare to do?”

Yang Yong looked panicked. .

He looked at Jiang Bin.

When Jiang Bin said these words, it seemed to be an understatement.

He felt that there seemed to be some extremely dangerous aura in Jiang Bin’s body, but he didn’t know what kind of changes this aura would bring to his fate.

(End of chapter)