Chapter 2060

Chapter 2060

Chapter 2060
Regarding the hypothesis put forward by Jin Ming, Xu Yuxing has actually been thinking about similar issues more than once in the past two days. What will happen.

If something happened to Xu Xinsu, there would definitely be some degree of chaos in the area under his control.And if the follow-up investigation finds out that Jinyiwei is related to this, then the Xu family will probably no longer be willing to serve Daming as a courtier, and raising the flag to rebel will be a high probability situation.Even without the support of Haihan, the armed forces controlled by Xu's family will definitely fight under the banner of avenging Xu Xinsu, and a war in Fujian will be inevitable.

"Actually, there is no need to wait for the situation that Mr. Jin assumed to happen. The evidence we have now is enough to trigger a war." Xu Yuxing replied in a deep voice: "We can only understand the behavior of Jin Yiwei in Zhangzhou City. The order came from some treacherous ministers who deceived the emperor and secretly issued orders. The purpose is to plunge the southeast of the Ming Dynasty into chaos. Our Xu family is full of loyalty, so naturally we cannot just sit back and watch the traitors rule.

The implication of Xu Yuxing's words is to raise troops under the banner of "the side of the Qing emperor", and any voice from the court may be interpreted by the Fujian side as "manipulated by treacherous officials". A large-scale civil war initiated by Fujian will be very difficult. avoid.

Of course, the Qing emperor's side is not a good deed to uphold justice. This kind of argument has historically been the usual reason for local armed forces to launch rebellions.The Seven Kingdoms Rebellion in the early Western Han Dynasty was the first time this slogan was put forward publicly.Later, the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty was also a rebellion launched by Anlu Mountain on the grounds that it was on the side of the Qing emperor.In the Yuan Dynasty, Polo Timur also led an army into the capital of the Yuan Dynasty in the name of the Qing emperor.

And the case of the Qing emperor in this dynasty is well known all over the world. After the death of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, his grandson Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne, known as Emperor Jianwen in history.However, Zhu Di, the King of Yan who was based in Beiping, was quite dissatisfied with Emperor Jianwen's policy of reducing the feudal vassal, so he raised troops to invade Nanjing under the banner of the Qing emperor, and established himself as emperor after overthrowing Emperor Jianwen's throne.This time the Qing emperor's side action was only more than two hundred years ago, and many materials are still available in history.Xu Yuxing wanted to use this as a reason to raise troops, but the threat was already very obvious.

Even if Sun Yongjun didn't know about the cases on the side of the Qing emperors in the previous dynasty, as an officer of Jinyiwei, it was impossible for him not to know about this famous example in this dynasty.When he heard Xu Yuxing mention the "Qing Emperor's side", he naturally thought of the Jingnan battle in the Yongle period of the current dynasty, but this was the emperor's family affair, and how many people died because of it back then, ordinary people would dare to discuss it openly.Xu Yuxing said that he would raise troops for this reason, which obviously means that he already has the idea of ​​rebellion.

Sun Yongjun knew that what he did would have extremely serious consequences, but he always believed that the purpose of his actions was not to stimulate the Xu family to rebel, but to use special means to disintegrate the privileges enjoyed by the Xu family in Fujian in a short period of time, allowing them to Unable to rebel, this seems to be the exact opposite of what Xu Yuxing threatened.If the Xu family in Fujian really rebelled because of this incident, Jin Yiwei would not be able to stop Xu Xinsu's army.

Seeing that Sun Yongjun was still silent, Xu Yuxing continued: "If your original intention is to benefit Daming, it's not too late to stop now. My Xu family has no intention of betraying Daming, but just want to find out who is planning these things behind the scenes. The intention is to disrupt Daming's actions. Our Xu family is not the enemy of Daming, and the person behind the scenes who sent weapons to Jinyiwei and encouraged you to make trouble in Fujian is the one who really wants to cause chaos in Daming!"

Xu Yuxing had discussed with Jin Ming about the reason for Jinyiwei's participation before this. Both of them believed that it was unlikely that Jinyiwei would collude with foreign enemies to initiate riots, because the power of this special institution comes from the emperor. Steady, Jin Yiwei will also be directly impacted.

One possibility they agree with is that officials at a certain level of Jinyiwei hope to resolve the current situation of local separatism in Fujian by solving key figures in the Xu Xinsu Group, thereby eliminating the hidden danger of Xu Xinsu's self-establishment.During this process, the mastermind behind Zhengfuji appeared, provided Jin Yiwei with weapons and action plans, and encouraged them to do it in Zhangzhou.

Of course, the process in the middle may be more complicated. Zhengfuji and Jinfahao under the name of Jinyiwei have long had business contacts, so maybe the two have already flirted with each other, and only recently began to plan and implement some other than normal business. thing.The reason for their cooperation and the goal they want to achieve may not be as simple as overthrowing Xu Xinsu's military separatism in Fujian or messing up the situation in Fujian.

Xu Yuxing believes that Jinyiwei's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty should not be affected by the situation in Fujian, so in his opinion, this may become a breakthrough in the interrogation. He would rather spend more time and try to use persuasion to disintegrate the Jinyiwei Baihu's psychological line of defense.But whether this method can be effective, he is actually not sure at all.

At this time, Sun Yongjun finally responded: "There is no evidence for what you say, these are things that cannot be verified, you can say whatever you want."

If Sun Yongjun remained silent, it would be difficult for Xu Yuxing to speculate on his thoughts, but this opening would inevitably reveal his guilty conscience.

Immediately, Xu Yuxing responded: "The circumstances I just mentioned are not things that cannot be verified. Haihan Guo has been pursuing the case for several months and has obtained a large number of witnesses and material evidence. The investigation launched in Zhangzhou came from other places. If you recruit or not, we will catch the true owner of Zhengfuji, but it is only a matter of time. But if you refuse to cooperate, leading to chaos in Fujian, civil war in Ming Dynasty, and loss of life, then there will definitely be your grandson A credit to Baihu!"

Jin Ming noticed that the expression on Sun Yongjun's face was no longer as indifferent and stiff as when he was brought in. Obviously, some of the information he heard here still touched him, so Jin Ming decided to add another fire to the fire. Bachai: "Sun Baihu, you have to understand one thing, what you are risking your life to do will not achieve the purpose you expected, on the contrary, the result will turn you and your colleagues into manufacturing National thieves in the civil war, no one will think that what you do is beneficial to Ming Dynasty. Please think about it carefully, and stop being a tool for others to mess up Ming Dynasty!"

Sun Yongjun raised his head to look at Jin Xu and the two, his face was full of pain, and he said in a trembling voice: "Could it be that we... did something wrong..."

It is not easy to persuade someone like Sun Yongjun to give up his original position, but as long as he can accurately judge his motives, he can implement targeted speech skills.Fortunately, both Jin and Xu have relatively rich experience in interrogation. This unrehearsed singing and singing together has achieved quite good results.

And the information they obtained intermittently from Sun Yongjun's mouth did not waste these two days of tossing in Zhangzhou City, pointing out a new direction for the next investigation work.

The interrogation of Sun Yongjun lasted for several hours, during which he stopped many times to let Sun Yongjun eat and drink to replenish his strength. Jin and Xu did not dare to leave before the interrogation was over, fearing that the other party's mentality would change. He ate something whole in the dim interrogation room.

It wasn't until it was getting dark that the interrogation finally came to an end.Whether it's Jin Xu or Sun Yongjun, they are already very tired at this time, as if they have completed a big exam.

Xu Yuxing asked Sun Yongjun to be temporarily detained, and he had to eat and drink first. There is still a lot of unconfirmed information from this person, so nothing should happen to him.And Jin Ming had to go back to his residence to draft a report telegram, informing Sanya of the progress of the investigation in Zhangzhou as soon as possible, and at the same time ask for instructions on the next step.

And Xu Yuxing will rush back to Xu's Mansion with the freshly released confession, and report to Xu Xinsu the results of today's interrogation.The reason why he was so eager was because the information Sun Yongjun gave contained a lot of content related to the Xu family.He had to seek Xu Xinsu's opinion before proceeding with the follow-up investigation.

Although the situation in Zhangzhou city has been turbulent these two days, people are being arrested everywhere in the city, and the martial law enforced by the city defense army has not yet been lifted, but Xu Xinsu is very safe. When Xu Yuxing came back, he was playing chess with Dong Yanyun in the study chat.

"Since there is new news, let's get down to business first. This game of chess will continue tomorrow!" Xu Xinsu threw the chess piece in his hand back into the chess basket, indicating that Xu Yuxing can start reporting work: "That Jinyiwei Baihu What interesting things came out?"

"According to Sun Yongjun's confession, not long after Jinfa opened its branch in Zhangzhou, people from Zhengfuji came to the door, hoping to cooperate with Jinfa to buy and sell some Nanyang products. Zhengfuji gave The trading conditions are very attractive. They trade a large amount of Spanish silver coins of unknown origin to Jinfahao, and Jinfahao will find a bank to exchange them for official silver. Jinfahao will charge a certain percentage of the handling fee, and the rest Then return it to Zhengfuji through the bank."

Xu Yuxing paused and said: "Zhengfuji should have confirmed the background of the Jinfa account at that time. In fact, it was using the special identity of Jinyiwei to complete money laundering by means of transactions."

Xu Xinsu nodded and said: "To lure him with profit, there must be a conspiracy. It must be to give benefits in exchange for Jin Yiwei's trust."

"Exactly." Xu Yuxing continued: "Since the middle of last year, Zhengfuji has been hinting that the people of Jinfa can purchase weapons and equipment from Nanyang Spaniards. Although Jinyiwei can't recruit troops in Zhangzhou, if It’s not impossible to train a musketeer team secretly. The key is that they must have a plausible reason before they can take the risk of doing this.”

"If I'm not mistaken, the reason they finally found was to use weapons against me." Xu Xinsu said without haste.

Xu Yuxing replied: "Father did not expect anything wrong. The people from Zhengfuji persuaded Jin Yiwei like this. They told Sun Yongjun that as long as they can complete the assassination of the important person of my Xu family in a short period of time, they can rely on Jin Yiwei's privileges to act." , First take over the command of the local army, and then quickly dismiss the position of civil and military officials of my Xu family's direct lineage, and then transfer troops from Fuzhou, find a reason to arrest all related personnel of the Xu family, so as to complete the purge of my Xu family. At that time, instead of blaming them, the imperial court will be rewarded by the emperor for solving the greatest hidden danger in the southeast coast for the imperial court."

Xu Xinsu couldn't help but sneered and said: "Those people in the capital are eager to take away my Xu family's hard-earned property accumulated over the years with one decree, but they are afraid that they will annoy us and force us to rebel directly. If it is possible Killing hundreds of male members of the Xu family in one fell swoop would fulfill their wish, but it's a pity that they can only think about it and use their tongues for a while!"

Xu Yuxing said: "My boy also thinks the same way. If the dozens of people in Jinyiwei want to start an incident in Zhangzhou City, it is tantamount to seeking their own death. Even if Zhengfuji is secretly assisting, it will not cause any trouble. But If the lunatics really do such a thing, then our Xu family may have to be forced to raise troops."

Dong Yanyun said: "After all, what is the origin of this Zhengfuji? Is the middleman that the Haihan people are looking for is this Zhengfuji?"

"It's likely to be them." Xu Yuxing said: "Sun Yongjun said a few days ago that he left Zhangzhou City to go out to work, but in fact he went out to sea with the people from Zhengfuji to meet one of their big shopkeepers. A shopkeeper told Sun Yongjun that as long as Jinyiwei succeeded in Zhangzhou, Zhengfuji could supply them with the weapons and funds they needed for a long time in the future. The exchange proposed by Zhengfuji was...to deny the Haihan people from entering the ports in Fujian and expel Fujian All Haihan agencies in the territory."

"These people have made so many preparations to expel the Haihan people from Fujian. It seems that their quarrel with Haihan is very deep!" Dong Yanyun couldn't help sighing after hearing this.

"How could the Haihan people be expelled from Fujian so easily? They think things are too simple!" Xu Xinsu said disapprovingly: "It is true that Haihan's armed fleets stationed in Penghu and Kaohsiung cannot be deployed. If the situation worsens, The fleets from these two places will be able to arrive at the coastal ports of Fujian within a day at the earliest, and whoever has the most powerful fists will have the final say. Expulsion of the Haihan people... I'm afraid it's a Spring and Autumn Dream!"

Xu Yuxing said: "Perhaps these people actually know that there is nothing to be done, and deliberately raised such a difficult problem to make Jin Yiwei feel that this cooperative relationship is authentic. After Sun Yongjun returned to Zhangzhou City, he learned the so-called musket tactics in Zhengfu Ji , we found the head of Jinfa at this time. If the clues were cut off at Jinfa, maybe they could find a chance to sneak out after hiding in the city for a few days, but Skynet is still sparse. Not to mention, he just endured another day in hiding in Zhengfu Ji, and he still couldn't escape our arrest after all."

(End of this chapter)