Wanli Youming

Chapter 587 All heads, all the people welcome Wang Shizhang!

Chapter 587 All Heads, Everyone Welcomes Master Wang Back!

After being reprimanded by his elder brother, Gu Xiancheng realized that he seemed to have done something rebellious.

This made him feel doubly embarrassed.

You know, he has always prided himself on being a moral gentleman.

As a result, he now actually reprimanded his second brother, and even reprimanded his second brother in front of his fellow villagers.

This simply made him commit the crime of disobeying and disrespecting his elder brother in front of his fellow villagers!

This kind of thing is not a small problem in Confucian society.

After all, Confucian society cares more about the order of human relations, and does not pay so much attention to the profit and loss of interests.

According to the values ​​of Confucian society, the emperor could not blame Gu Zicheng for beating Gu Xiancheng to death. After all, Gu Xiancheng was indeed considered a criminal.

But now, Gu Xiancheng really did this.

What's more, Gu Xiancheng has seriously damaged the interests of the villagers and villagers this time.

"Why is Sanlang like this! You don't even listen to your brother's teaching?"

"Is this Gu Family Saburo really a brother without eyes?"

"It turns out that I will deceive everyone. I dare to love someone who is not a good person!"

Therefore, the fellow villagers present also blamed Gu Xiancheng, many of them even said that Bai knew Gu Xiancheng, and that Bai helped Gu Xiancheng to study in those years.

This made Gu Xiancheng feel very ashamed.

Then, he could only kneel down in front of Gu Zicheng obediently: "Please punish me, brother, if you are disrespectful for a while, you should be severely punished!"

"That's it!"

"You have been a Jinshi and a student of the emperor, how can I talk about you, besides, you have sons and daughters, so get up."

Gu Zicheng didn't intend to blame Gu Xiancheng too much.

But Gu Xiancheng said at this time: "Although the elder brother does not care about the younger brother and is friendly and respectful, the younger brother has to be punished. Please go to the ancestral hall and kneel in front of the ancestor for three days to reflect."

"Do whatever you want."

Gu Zicheng said.

"Thank you brother for fulfilling!"

Gu Xiancheng then turned around and looked at the fellow villagers and said:

"Fellow folks, it's Saburo's fault that he miscalculated and caused everyone a big loss of money; however, it may not be true that the imperial court and Lu Song used troops to win a big victory!"

"Not necessarily true?"

"Why can't it be true? There are clearly official reports everywhere, and it's been published in the Tang and Di newspapers!"

"Yes, and the subscription coupons have indeed increased!"

At this time, the members of the Gu family and fellow villagers who were present all began to talk in one go, and it was about their own interests, so they didn't care about blaming Gu Xiancheng, not to mention that Gu Xiancheng also admitted his mistake.

Gu Xiancheng explained at this time: "Now the imperial court is ruled by a traitorous party, what shameless things can't the traitorous party do?"

"So, maybe the traitor party deliberately spread false news and created a big victory just to keep the subscription tickets. This has happened in history. In many cases, even the emperor believed it."

"Even if what you said is true, but Gu Sanlang, how can you let us trust you again!"

"That's right, the Son of Heaven is really that stupid, will Shenwu County and Chen Shaozhou be fooled?"

The folks of these tribes continued to talk.

Gu Xiancheng said: "The Son of Heaven is smart, but is it difficult for Song Huizong to be smart? Not to mention this, I will go to Quanzhou to see it in person in three days. If it is true that the soldiers who conquered Luzon are victorious and return their troops, our Gu family will How about using your own property to compensate everyone for their losses?"

"real?!"

Many clansmen stood up and looked at Gu Xiancheng.

Gu Xingcheng, Gu Zicheng, Gu Yuncheng and other members of the Gu family stood up at this moment, looking at Gu Xiancheng in astonishment.

Gu Xiancheng hurriedly looked at Gu Xingcheng and others and explained: "Brother, what I mean is that the Gu family will use the property they gave me to compensate everyone."

After hearing this, Gu Xingcheng said: "Forget it! If you want to do this, then you can do it!"

"Okay, then we will trust you, Gu Sanlang once more!"

Seeing that Gu Xiancheng was willing to back up the situation, the clansmen and fellow villagers couldn't force them anymore, and they all started to leave Gu's house one after another.

After all, the Gu family is one of the richest households in the area, and there are so many fertile fields that they can't finish walking in a day when they inspect the fields. Even though they have lost a lot now and sold a lot of property, they are still centipedes who are dead but not stiff. Therefore, there is a Gu family Underpinning them, they were naturally relieved a lot.

After these people left, Gu Xiancheng went to the ancestral hall and knelt in front of the ancestral tablet, his face sinking like water.

Gu Yuncheng came to him not long after: "Brother, do you really think the news spread by the court is false?"

"Hopefully."

Gu Xiancheng replied with a sigh.

……

Half a month later, the early autumn of the 18th year of Wanli.

The coastline was shrouded in mist. The first batch of Ming warships returning from Luzon arrived in Quanzhou and began to dock. His silhouette and the figure on the deck were revealed in the mist.

The coast of the port was full of civilians and horse-drawn carriages.

The common people of the Ming Empire have never paid attention to the country's major affairs like this moment.

This is naturally due to the effect that Zhu Yijun has produced since he took "benefiting the people" as the program of governing the country.

Because the Ming Dynasty's foreign wars are no longer just for the sustainable development of the Zhu family, but for the benefit of the whole people to increase, so this time the battle against Luzon is no longer a matter of the Zhu family, but of all classes in the entire Ming Dynasty. people's affairs.

Rao Gu Xiancheng, a scholar who supported the old party, also traveled long distances to Quanzhou, wanting to see with his own eyes whether Wang Shi returned from victory or defeat.

The first to disembark was a row of soldiers, armed with live ammunition, lined up on the port, each of them had a resolute face, but the tiredness in their eyes could not be concealed.

After all, they returned from the expedition, so they couldn't tell whether it was victory or defeat.

Then the wounded and sick were carried off the ship one after another.

"There are many injured and sick people. It should not be that easy. Is it really a defeat? Is the so-called victory really a lie?"

Gu Yuncheng who came to Quanzhou with Gu Xiancheng said something first.

Gu Xiancheng didn't say anything, but his eyebrows relaxed a little.

Not long after, Deng Zilong was also carried down.

Ye Mengxiong, the governor of Fujian, saw that some generals had also been carried down here, so he brought a group of civilians and soldiers from Fujian and walked over. When he saw Deng Zilong, he immediately handed over his hands:

"It's really General Deng. His Majesty has decreed to build an archway for General Deng and ask our Fujian officials and people to take good care of him."

Deng Zilong did not speak, but waved his hand slightly.

"That should be Deng Zilong, otherwise why would Fuyuan personally bow to him?"

"This battle really hurt the general! It must be really possible to lose, right?"

Gu Yuncheng said.

Gu Xiancheng said: "Look again! In any case, the Xiyi are white people, and their heads cannot be faked. They can't be done by killing the good and pretending to be meritorious."

boom!

It didn't take long for boxes full of Xiyi's heads to be lifted down and exposed to the scorching sun.

As a result, many people could clearly see those Xiyi's white faces and blue eyes that had been treated with lime.

"It's a thief!"

"He's really a thief!"

The people became excited and began to summon each other.

"One box!"

"Two boxes!"

"Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine... oh my god so many! All heads!"

Some people began to count, and the more they counted, the more shocked they became.

(End of this chapter)