Father can be an enemy to the country

But nothing Liu Ying had done before was as shocking 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, everyone was extremely shocked.

"No!" Lu Wenbin, Uncle Lu and the others threw themselves on the golden nanmu coffin and refused to let go.

"The Emperor has an edict!" Liu Ying then took out the edict from her sleeve.

"I'll take the order." Li Heng and other officials, who were looking nervous at the side, quickly knelt down first. "Holy greetings."

"..." Upon seeing this, all 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 to kneel down under Liu Ying's sharp gaze.

"I'm going to Suzhou with Zuo Duwei and Zhongjin Bo Liu Ying to check the cause and date of Lu Zhonghe's death. It must be detailed. The government must cooperate and obstruct it to resist the imperial decree. This is what Liu Ying said!" Then he read the edict loudly, and then said to the Lu family in a deep voice:

"According to the emperor's order, an autopsy must be conducted on Lu Zhonghe. If you don't have any objections, I don't mind calling him in and conducting it here on the spot!"

"..." In the end, under Zhu Hongwu's lustful power, the Lu family could only watch as their head's coffin was loaded onto a bullock cart and pulled out of Lu Yuan.

The moment the coffin was lifted, the Lu family burst into tears and their cries were loud.

Wearing linen and mourning, they followed the team transporting the coffin, crying all the way. Their cries spread throughout Suzhou...

~~

Those guests who came to express their condolences did not follow him to Fuqian Street. Instead, he stayed at the Lu family and discussed countermeasures in the small courtyard arranged by Xie Yunzhang, who came to express his condolences.

But unlike the indignation he felt when he was in front of others, the atmosphere in the room was solemn and uneasy.

To be honest, the leader of Ouchi's bodyguard suddenly arrived in Suzhou today, which really frightened these big Jiangnan families.

Especially Xie Yunzhang. He knew the inside story - Duke Pingjiang had no intention of seeking death at first. He originally planned to cry, make trouble, and hang himself. After making things worse, he was rescued.

However, after receiving a letter from Fei Ge in the capital the day before yesterday, he had no choice but to drink poisoned wine and commit suicide...

Xie Yunzhang was in Lu Yuan at that time. At the beginning of the month, he came to Suzhou for a medical visit. He stayed in the Lu family and discussed countermeasures with Duke Pingjiang day and night.

Therefore, I witnessed with my own eyes the strange sight of Prince Pingjiang trying to escape to Japan overnight, but was blocked by his son and younger brother...

At that time, Ping Jianggong knelt down and cried, begging his son and brother to let him live, and even promised never to return to the Ming Dynasty.

Lu Wenbin and Uncle Lu also knelt down and kowtowed to Duke Pingjiang, begging him to die for the sake of the Lu family. The matter has become so big that people will be seen alive and corpses will be seen dead. How is it possible to get away with playing missing?

But Duke Pingjiang had a very strong will to survive. No matter how much they talked and said good things, he just refused to drink the bowl of poison.

In the end, the uncle and nephew had no choice but to ask him to leave. After the meal, heart-wrenching cries erupted from Mr. Pingjiang's bedroom.

"Dad, my dad, you died so miserably..."

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

It really makes those who hear it sad and those who listen to it cry.

At that time, Xie Yunzhang blamed the big shots in Nanjing for being too cruel and pushing the Lu family into such misery. Only now do I realize that it was me and Mr. Ping Jiang who thought too simplistically.

The emperor would really send someone to verify his identity!

If Duke Pingjiang dies one day later, something big will happen!

~~

"Mr. Li Ting, Gong Li Ting..." Others called him several times before Xie Yunzhang came back to his senses.

"Oh, what's the matter? I was distracted just now."

"Mr. Li Ting, you have to stand still. Once Mr. Pingjiang leaves, you will be our only backbone!" All the big family members looked at him worriedly.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Xie Yunzhang said solemnly: "You just said..."

"We discussed that this matter cannot be settled like this." Zheng Dian, a young and energetic member of the Zheng family in Songjiang, shouted loudly:

"Otherwise, the old man will completely look down on us Jiangnan people and treat us like we can do whatever we want!"

"Yes, we were accused of collaborating with bandits and our property was confiscated, but we tolerated it! They imposed heavy taxes on us, but we tolerated it! They moved hundreds of thousands of wealthy households to Fengyang, and we tolerated it again! On the basis of unfounded charges, we tolerated it. We still tolerated killing Wei Guan, Gao Qi and others..." Everyone also agreed:

"But the result of enduring it again and again is not that enough is enough, but the old man's intensified suppression, breaking our bottom line again and again!"

"Look at today. Mr. Pingjiang is dead, but he still has no peace. He will be transported to the government and disemboweled! If we don't fight, we will die without a burial place!" Everyone said with grief and anger: "Li Pavilion Sir, let’s do it!”

"Yuan Chen is right." Xie Yunzhang naturally expected this attitude towards them.

Because Lu Zhonghe is still not safe even if he dies, and the government will conduct an autopsy. Who knows what troubles may arise?

So we still need to make the matter bigger so that no one will care about the cause of Lu Zhonghe’s death...

So he nodded and said: "We can't let Mr. Pingjiang die in vain, otherwise we will never be able to get over it... But we must protect ourselves and we can't involve you anymore."

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

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

"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 even after hundreds of years." Everyone laughed.

As a result, a group of Jiangnan's big businessmen discussed in a familiar manner how to divide the work and how to incite... They quickly agreed on the charter and then went separate ways.

~~

Suzhou City, on Xuanmiaoguanqian 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 region.

It is completely different from the early barbaric conquest of northern areas by Mongolia. The Yuan Dynasty's journey to Jiangnan, except for a few areas, was basically determined by propaganda.

Anyway, at least this has left the Jiangnan region's economy almost undamaged. In the nearly anarchic and relaxed environment of the Yuan Dynasty, coupled with the fact that it was backed by the Taihu Lake water network and faced important trading ports such as Taicang and Shanghai, Suzhou's industrial and commercial development was extremely prosperous.

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

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

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