Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 379

But everything Liu Ying did before was not as amazing as his next order.

"Get a carriage and take the coffin back to the government office."

"What?!" Regardless of whether it was the Lu family or not, they were all shocked beyond measure.

"No!" Lu Wenbin, Lu Shuhe and the others threw themselves on the golden nanmu coffin, steadfastly stopping them.

"The emperor has a decree!" Liu Ying then took out the decree from her sleeve.

"The minister will accept the order." Li Heng and other government officials, who were nervous, quickly knelt down first. "Saint Ann."

"..." Seeing this, the guests knelt down one after another to listen to the order.

In the end, the Lu family including Lu Wenbin and Lu Shuhe had no choice but to kneel under Liu Ying's fierce eyes.

"Let Zuo Duwei and Zhong Jinbo Liu Ying, the pro-military captain's mansion, go to Suzhou to investigate Lu Zhonghe's cause of death, date of death and other matters. It must be detailed. The government must cooperate and obstruct the argument of resisting the order. This is it!" Liu Ying said. Only then did he read the upper edict aloud, and then said to the Lu family in a deep voice:

"According to the emperor's will, an autopsy must be carried out on Lu Zhonghe. If you have no objections, I don't mind recruiting Wu Zuo, and we will do it on the spot here!"

"..." In the end, under Zhu Hongwu's coercion, the Lu family could only watch helplessly as their patriarch's coffin was carried onto the bullock cart and pulled out of the Lu Garden.

The moment the coffin was lifted, the Lu family wept loudly.

Dressed in linen and filial piety, they followed the coffin delivery team, crying all the way, and the sound of crying spread throughout Suzhou City...

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The guests who came to express their condolences did not follow to Fuqian Street.Instead, he stayed at Lu's house and discussed countermeasures in the small courtyard arranged for Xie Yunzhang who came to express his condolences.

But unlike the righteous indignation when he was in front of people, the current atmosphere in the room is solemn and uneasy.

To be honest, the leader of Ouchi's bodyguards suddenly came to Suzhou today, which really scared these big families in the south of the Yangtze River.

Especially Xie Yunzhang.He knew the inside story - Mr. Pingjiang didn't intend to seek death at all at first, he just planned to cry, make trouble and hang himself, and after making things worse, he was rescued.

However, he had no choice but to commit suicide by drinking poisoned wine after receiving a letter from a flying pigeon in the capital the day before yesterday...

Xie Yunzhang was in Lu Garden at that time, and at the beginning of the month he came to Su on the grounds of visiting a doctor and stayed at Lu's house, discussing countermeasures with Pingjiang Gong day and night.

Because of this, I witnessed the spectacle that Ping Jianggong wanted to flee to Japan overnight, but was stopped by his son and younger brother...

When it was time, Duke Pingjiang knelt down and begged his son and younger brother to let him live, and even promised that he would never return to Daming again.

Lu Wenbin and Lu Shuhe also kowtowed to Duke Pingjiang, begging him to die for the sake of the Lu family.The matter has become a big deal. If you live, you need to see people, and if you die, you need to see corpses.How could it be possible to get away with playing missing?

But Mr. Pingjiang's will to survive was very strong, even though the two of them were talking badly, they just refused to drink the bowl of poison.

In the end, the uncle and nephew were forced to have no choice but to ask him to leave for a while.After the meal, heart-piercing cries broke out in Pingjiang's bedroom.

"Father, my father, you died so badly..."

"Brother, my brother, how can I live without you?"

It is really sad for those who hear it, and tears for those who hear it.

At that time, Xie Yunzhang also blamed the big shots in Nanjing for being too vicious and forcing the Lu family into misery.Only now did I realize that it was me and Mr. Pingjiang who thought too simply.

The emperor will really send someone to verify his integrity!

If Duke Pingjiang died one day later, something big would happen!
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"Li Ting Gong, Li Ting Gong..." Others called several times before Xie Yunzhang came back to his senses.

"Oh, what's the matter? The old man was distracted just now."

"Mr. Liting, you have to stand still. Now that Mr. Pingjiang is gone, you will be our only backbone!" All the rich and powerful families looked at him anxiously.

"Don't worry, the old man is fine." Xie Yunzhang said in a deep voice, "Just now you said..."

"We've discussed it, and we can't leave it alone." Zheng Dian, a young and energetic member of the Songjiang Zheng family, yelled loudly:

"Otherwise, the old man will completely look down on us Jiangnan people and treat us with dough that we can handle freely!"

"Yeah, we said that we gangsters confiscated our land, we endured it! We imposed heavy taxes on us and we endured it! We moved 10,000+ wealthy households to Fengyang, and we endured it again! With trumped-up charges, killing Wei Guangao encouraged them, we still bear it..." Everyone also echoed:
"However, the result of patience and patience is not enough, but the old man's intensified suppression, breaking through our bottom line again and again!"

"Look at today, Mr. Pingjiang is dead, but he is still in peace. He will be transported to the government and disemboweled! If we don't fight any longer, we will die without a place to die!" Everyone said in grief and indignation: "Li Ting Lord, let's do it!"

"Yuanchen is right." Xie Yunzhang's attitude towards them was naturally what he wished for.

Because Lu Zhonghe's death is still not safe, the government will still conduct an autopsy, who knows what kind of moth will appear?

So if we still want to make a big deal, no one cares about the cause of Lu Zhonghe's death...

So he nodded and said: "We can't let Pingjiang Gongbai die, or we won't be able to make it over at all... But we must protect ourselves, and we can't let everyone in."

"That's natural." The big households nodded and said: "As in the past, we don't show up, we just need to secretly send people to spread some rumors, and then give some benefits to those gangsters, let them take the lead. Those simple-minded white men , will naturally rush ahead for us.”

"Okay." Xie Yunzhang couldn't help laughing: "It seems that you haven't mastered the craftsmanship of the previous dynasty."

"That's right, this is our housekeeping ability. For hundreds of years, we have relied on it to remain invincible. We can't lose it after hundreds of years." Everyone laughed.

As a result, a group of big Jiangnan households agreed on how to divide the work and how to instigate them... Soon they agreed on the charter, and then they split up.

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Suzhou City, on Xuanmiao Guanqian Street.

From the street to the end of the street, there are groups of men and women waiting for hired workers.This is a scene that can only be seen in the economically developed Jiangnan area.

It was very different from the brutal conquest of the northern regions by the Mongols in the early days.In the Yuan Dynasty, Jiangnan, except for a very few areas, was basically determined by the spread.

Anyway, at least this has kept the economy of the Jiangnan region almost undamaged.Under the relaxed environment of near anarchy in the Yuan Dynasty, coupled with its backing on the water network of Taihu Lake and facing important trading ports such as Taicang and Shanghai, Suzhou's industrial and commercial development was extremely vigorous.

In this most developed and affluent city in China, there are a large number of citizens who have left agricultural production. They either work in the textile industry, or operate boats between Taicang, Shanghai and Suzhou, and transport goods for large households.

Relying on Suzhou's thriving industry and commerce, they can earn far higher incomes than ordinary people elsewhere.

But since this year, the situation has suddenly become very bad...

(End of this chapter)