Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 75: All crimes are brought to an end, and Zhejiang officials are slaughtered in blood!
In the 40th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, under the prediction of Hu Zongxian, Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou led the southeastern army to suppress the Japanese pirates in Taozhu City.

In this battle, ten Japanese pirate leaders including Goro Ruro and Jian Ruro were captured alive, twelve Japanese pirate leaders including Inoue Jusanro were beheaded, 9,876 Japanese pirates were captured, 35,600 Japanese pirates were beheaded, and 421 Japanese ships were seized, achieving a complete victory unprecedented in the anti-Japanese war.

In the Ming Dynasty, in Hangzhou, no one could have imagined that there would be such a house in Shen Yishi's villa. It was five meters deep and nine meters wide, as wide as the Qianqing Palace!

But the height is only two meters, so that people outside the wall cannot see the illegal building inside.

But there is one thing that the Qianqing Palace cannot compare to, that is, the four walls of the room are all inlaid with red sandalwood that is one inch thick, two feet wide and two feet high.

What is even more strange is that the middle of such a large hall is completely empty, except for rows of ebony clothes hangers lined up on the three red sandalwood walls on the north, south and west sides. On each row of clothes hang more than ten women's clothes of various styles made of silk of various colors, patterns and textures.

Against the wall at the east end, there was a large flat bed that was ten feet long and wide, and on the bed was a mahogany piano table.

Hai Rui, Xu Wei, and Shen Yu walked in, all three of them had grim faces.

Shen Xun captured Zheng Michang and He Maocai, Hai Rui captured Ma Ningyuan and Yunniang. When Shen Yishi met everyone, he realized that the game was over.

Without waiting for Hai Rui to ask any more questions, Shen Yishi took the initiative to explain the place and said that everything Hai Rui wanted to know was here.

But just seeing these items that violated regulations was enough to confiscate Shen Yishi's property and exterminate his entire clan.

Hai Rui kept calm and came to the four large mahogany boxes with copper edges that Shen Yishi mentioned.

Shen Yu walked forward and opened it. On top of the many account books was a letter and a stack of rice paper.

Hai Rui immediately picked up the stack of rice paper. Just as he expected, it recorded how the Zhejiang officialdom, the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, and the River Supervision Office destroyed the dike, and who were involved in the conspiracy.

And, the main messenger in Beijing.

Xu Jie!

Yan Shifan!
Xu Jie provided the imperial edict to Chaotianguan regarding the summer drought in Zhejiang, Yan Shifan instructed Zhejiang officials to destroy the dikes, and how to buy land after the dikes were destroyed. Every detail was written in great detail.

There was no surprise to Hai Rui, and neither was there to Xu Wei or Shen Yu. The Zhejiang officialdom was the former base camp of the Yan Party, and the only people that Zheng Michang and He Maocai would listen to were Yan Song, or Yan Shifan who acted under Yan Song's banner.

Although the paper did not mention whether Yan Song was involved, it is no longer important. It is the father's fault if he fails to educate his son. If his son commits a heinous crime, Yan Song, as a father, cannot escape the blame.

And Xu Jie.

Hai Rui did not comment.

Yan Song did not teach his son well, and Xu Jie was almost the same. The family style of the Xu family in Songjiang Prefecture can be seen from the moral character of Xu Ying, the third son of the Xu family who was executed before.

However, given Hai Rui's rank, even if he had the Emperor's Sword in his hand, he did not have the power to decide the life and death of Yan's father and son and Xu Jie. That was the Emperor's decision. Hai Rui only needed to deliver the stack of papers to the capital.

Of course, the Jinyiwei can do this part of the work.

Hai Rui handed the stack of papers to Shen Yu and opened the letter.

A nice and neat regular script.

"From the 21st year of Jiajing to the 40th year of Jiajing, these are all the account books that Shen handed over to the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau and the Zhejiang government during the 20 years."

"There were four textile manufacturers and five provincial governors. Among all the officials in Zhejiang, only Minister Hu Zongxian had no financial dealings with Mr. Shen, and only Minister Hu did not take a cent from Mr. Shen. Among the three offices in Zhejiang, only Minister Hu could be called a great official of the imperial court. The rest of the officials were insignificant."

Hai Rui's face was expressionless, but Xu Wei couldn't hide his joy at this moment.

With this letter, the minister is saved!

Shen Xun had respect and good feelings for Hu Zongxian, but at this moment his mind was focused on the fact that among the three offices in Zhejiang, only Hu Zongxian took every penny from Shen Yishi. In other words, in the past twenty years, all the officials in Zhejiang, whether they were in office, transferred, retired, or even dead for many years, had received benefits from Shen Yishi.

Shen Yu calculated the number of officials in Zhejiang Province over the past twenty years and finally got a horrifying answer.

There were more than a thousand officials in Zhejiang alone. If we count those who were transferred, returned home to take care of their parents, retired, or died, there would be at least three thousand of them.

If all the evidence is traced back, Zhejiang will be a river of blood, and the only thing that can prevent the river of blood from flowing is how much silver the Zhejiang officials received from Shen Yishi.

If it exceeds 30 million taels, then, every single one of them, don’t even think about escaping!

Shen Yu then quickly looked at the letter.

"Shen has lived a simple life for 20 years, and has woven more than 4 million rolls of silk. He has handed over 2.1 million rolls to the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau over the years, and each Zhejiang official has a share of 1 million rolls. The remaining 900,000 rolls are used to buy raw silk and produce silk again, which has enabled Shen to survive until now.

I work hard every day and do not dare to rest even late at night. I record all the expenses in a book, which is the account book you have seen. "

When Shen Yu saw that Zhejiang officials had received one million rolls of silk from Shen Yishi in twenty years, he felt relieved but also disappointed.

Even if the price of silk exported to the West was 15 taels of silver per piece, one million pieces of silk would only be 15 million taels of silver. If it was collected by more than 3,000 officials in Zhejiang over the past 20 years, it would still be less than 5,000 taels, which was far from the imperial law's punishment of beheading for 10,000 taels, confiscating 100,000 taels, or executing 1 million taels.

It is probably impossible to carry out a bloodbath in the Zhejiang officialdom, but there will always be a chance of killing a group of Zhejiang officials, executing a group of Zhejiang officials, and exterminating a group of Zhejiang officials. If the dead Zhejiang officials are found, I am afraid they will have to open their coffins, whip their corpses, grind their bones and scatter their ashes.

Xu Wei was thinking of ways to save Hu Zongxian, while Shen Yu was looking at the Zhejiang officials' account books, which were of particular concern, and they were completely uninterested in the rest of the letter.

Or rather, I dare not be interested.

"Our great Ming Dynasty owns the four seas. If the imperial court had been frugal and caring for the people, and if the people had been disciplined and honest, and if the silk, porcelain and tea trade routes had been opened, we would have been the richest country in the world with just these three things. Why is the treasury in deficit today?"

"When the upper and lower classes are extravagant, they plunder the people; when the people are about to revolt, they plunder the merchants."

"Shen's fate today was determined by heaven and earth 20 years ago. Shen will die for it one day, but my death will wait for you to die in the underworld. That day is not far away!"

"In the spring of the 40th year of Jiajing, Shen Yishi's pen!"

this letter.

Shen Yishi wrote once a year, not for any other reason, but just so that when he died one day, he would mock the Ming Dynasty court and drag hundreds or thousands of Zhejiang officials to be buried with him.

Hai Rui finished reading it expressionlessly, "Send them all to the capital, Captain Shen, you can arrest them in advance."

That stack of papers, this letter, and these account books must all be submitted directly to the capital, but since many corrupt officials are involved, they can be arrested and killed now.

Hu Zongxian's royal flag can kill people, and Hai Rui's emperor's sword can also kill people.

Hai Rui claimed to be a conservative, but after seeing the situation in the two capitals where officials were living in misery and scholars were worse than dogs, he felt ashamed of himself.

Let’s kill until blood flows like a river!

(End of this chapter)