Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 103: Exterminate the nine clans and repay with blood!

The two were sentenced to death at the banquet to be conferred the title of Duke!
Three imperial court officials returned the world's tickets!

The shocking news spread violently throughout the court and the country, and spread to the two capitals and thirteen provinces at an extremely fast speed.

Mainly the two capitals, most of the military heroes lived in these two places for generations. Without waiting for the nobles to verify the authenticity of the news, the former Duke of England Zhang Rong led the Jinyiwei to visit the Marquis' and Earl's mansions one after another.

Emperor Taizu Gao reviewed the system of the previous dynasty and listed five ranks of nobility to confer titles on meritorious officials and relatives. Later, the nobility of sons and barons was abolished, leaving only the three ranks of dukes, marquises, and earls. He also stipulated: "No nobility can be conferred without meritorious service to the country and the military, and no title can be granted without special permission."

There are two kinds of titles: one is granted for life (non-hereditary), and the other can be inherited (hereditary). Whether it is hereditary or not is determined by the size of the military merit, and both are given imperial edicts.

Even during the reign of Emperor Jiajing, no titles were ever conferred for meritorious service. Even the family of the emperor's biological mother, the Holy Mother Empress Dowager Jiang, and the family of the emperor's late empress, Empress Chen, were not rewarded with titles.

It has been forty years since the Jiajing Dynasty came to this day. Almost all the titles bestowed by Emperor Zhengde and previous emperors have passed away, and most of the current titles are inherited by hereditary certificates.

There are many imperial edicts, but few hereditary certificates. Over the past hundred years, there have been many accidents involving nobles, but there are not many who can inherit the title from generation to generation.

Among the princes, the Funing Marquisate was the most prominent.

Among all the earls, the most prominent ones were the Chengyi Earl's Mansion and the Xinjian Earl's Mansion.

The contemporary Marquis of Funing, Zhu Yue, is clever and good at making friends. By relying on his connections with the Duke of Wei, he has become the most famous of the princes.

With the collapse of the Duke of Wei's Mansion, the previous ugly deeds of Marquis Funing were also uncovered one by one by the Nanjing Pacification Office.

If other marquisates could wipe out their past by returning the family certificate, the Funing Marquisate would be doomed.

The Nanjing Pacification Office found the assassin during the investigation of Funing Marquis’ Mansion!
They are not bodyguards, imperial guards, or private soldiers, but the kind of death squads that have not been permitted by any dynasty.

Thunder exploded.

The whole government and the public were trembling.

To know.

Since the Three Kingdoms period, Sima Yi led 3,000 red-clad assassins to launch a mutiny in Gaoping Mausoleum to seize the Cao Wei regime. After he came to power in Wei, starting from the Jin Dynasty, it was strictly forbidden to keep assassins.

The more people know how they establish their regime, the more they know how destructive the way they establish their regime is.

Starting from the Western Jin Dynasty, anyone or their family who kept assassins would be guilty of treason and all nine generations of their clan would be executed.

Such people or families would be hacked to death in the government compound if caught, and hacked to death in the street if caught.

It is one of the few serious crimes in the law that can be executed on the spot without asking for permission or reporting to higher authorities.

However, the practice of raising assassins was mostly prevalent among aristocratic families. It was a common practice during the Han Dynasty, and in the early Tang Dynasty, every family among the Five Surnames and Seven Families did so.

However, with Emperor Taizong of Tang's suppression of the aristocratic families, Empress Wu of Zhou's purge of the aristocratic families, and the separatist regimes in the late Tang Dynasty, the military generals killed the aristocratic families like killing chickens and dogs, and the crushing of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the aristocratic families were almost extinct, which was equivalent to being buried.

By the time of the Song Dynasty, the rise of literati was the afterglow of the aristocratic families, and the coffin lid of the aristocratic families became a little loose.

It was immediately slapped back by the unceremonious Jin Yuan, who reinforced it by adding a few more nails to the coffin.

Up to this dynasty, few people have heard of the death warriors anymore. God knows where the Funing Marquisate got the method of raising them.

The military heroes, who were originally dissatisfied with the emperor's forced retrieval of the hereditary certificates and were dragging their feet, hurriedly took out their own hereditary certificates and voluntarily handed them over.

He was afraid of being involved in the assassination, and even more afraid that blood would splatter on him when the emperor killed someone.

Even the Duke of Wei, who plotted to kill court officials, the emperor's sword master, and the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the emperor preserved the flame of the Duke of Wei's mansion.

All the sons of Duke Wei were executed for their crimes, but the eldest son Xu Bangrui survived and was recruited into the Jinyiwei and became a centurion. Although the official positions in the Jinyiwei were not hereditary, this nominal position could benefit several generations of descendants.

He does nothing, but still receives salary from the court on time every year, which shows the grace of the emperor.

But the military heroes did not dare to think about the fate of the Funing Marquis' Mansion.

The imperial edict came.

Marquis Funing was to be executed by slow slicing!

Funing Marquis Mansion, exterminate all nine clans!
The huge mansion was completely wiped out, and not a single living being was left alive by the Jinyiwei.

The smell of the marquis' blood spread throughout the military honors of the two capitals, and the marquises of the Ming Dynasty resigned one after another and returned their hereditary certificates.

It also affected the barons below the dukes and marquises.

Liu Shiyan, the eleventh-generation grandson of Liu Ji, the founding hero of the country, was the first to return the sincerity certificate.

Although Liu Bowen's family was from Qingtian, Zhejiang, and their ancestral home was in Bao'an, Shaanxi, the family had lived in Jinling for a long time and had close ties with the Duke of Wei's Mansion and the Marquis of Funing's Mansion.

They used to using officials to deceive the people, bully the people in the capital, and take human lives lightly.

In the past, he relied on the death exemption certificate and had no regard for the law. Now, the certificate suddenly became invalid, and he was immediately panicked. He hoped that if the certificate was returned, all his sins would be forgiven.

However, the Nanjing Pacification Office had already sent Liu Shiyan's criminal record to the capital and presented it to the Yuxi Palace.

Liu Shiyan once said in public, "I have an iron certificate. If I beat one person to death, I can be exempted from punishment. Who can challenge me?"

Zhu Houcong saw that Liu Shiyan had committed many illegal acts, including "arbitrary killing and robbing his wife and daughter of their property", "falsely claiming that the stars had changed, sending a warrant to Beijing, and committing a crime without a general", and directly handed Liu Shiyan over to the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple, and the Censorate for joint discussion and trial.

As a result, the Liu family, the Marquis of Chengyi, enjoyed the same treatment as the Duke of Wei and the Duke of Qian. Members of the family had to be investigated by the three judicial departments and the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and only the innocent were pardoned, while the guilty were killed immediately.

Among the earls, the Earl's Mansion with the longest inheritance collapsed, and instead, the Newly Built Earl's Mansion with the shortest inheritance held up the last pillar of the nobility.

The title of Xinjian Earl originated from Wang Shouren. Wang Yangming was the third civil official in the Ming Dynasty to be awarded a title for his military merits. He was also the master of the School of Mind. Yangming's School of Mind had a wide and profound influence on the imperial court and the literati.

When Wang Shouren's eldest son Wang Zhengyi, the second-generation Xinjian Earl, returned the hereditary certificates, dozens of hereditary earls of the Ming Dynasty chose to accept their fate and returned the hereditary certificates.

The development of the Duke of Qian's Mansion in Nanyun was also more successful than Zhu Houcong and his court officials had imagined.

The worst-case scenario, the rebellion in the Duke of Qian's Mansion, did not happen.

When the two former dukes Xu Yande and Zhu Xizhong arrived in Nanyun, they were the wife of the fifth Duke of Qian, Mu Shaoxun, the mother of the sixth Duke of Qian, Mu Chaofu, and the grandmother of the seventh and eighth Dukes of Qian, Mu Rong and Mu Gong.

It was Fang, the mother of the ninth Duke of Qian, Mu Chaobi, who led the entire family of Duke of Qian to surrender, voluntarily returning the hereditary certificate and the military power of Nanyun.

In front of all the Mu family members, Old Lady Fang said to Xu Yande and Zhu Xizhong, "The Mu family has been blessed by the emperor for generations, and has been ordered by Emperor Taizu Gao to guard the Ming Dynasty for generations."

"There are only members of the Mu family who died fighting for the country, and there are no members of the Mu family who rebelled and caused chaos."

that day.

Old Madam Fang killed people in the parade ground and killed or beat to death over a hundred members of her clan. Most of the Mu family prisoners recorded by the Embroidered Uniform Guard were killed by Old Madam Fang.

Whatever the Mu family owes to the people of Nanyun, they must repay it with blood!

(End of this chapter)