After being imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department for nearly five days, Xu Hao was released from prison, and at this time it was still the most in full swing to thoroughly investigate the Lan Yu case.

Xu Hao's punishment was not light or severe, five days in prison offset the punishment of twenty rods, the embroidered spring knife given by the emperor was confiscated, and the injured were compensated with eighty stone of grain each.

It is said that after the incident, a certain avant-garde commander of the government army personally interceded, and the princes of Qin, Zhu Gaochi, Mu Sheng and Xu Zengshou, all greeted the criminal department, and there were no dead people, so they were punished lightly at this time of chaos.

At this time, no one cared about Xu Hao, and in the past five days, the three Lanyu clans have been killed cleanly. His henchmen generals, Han Xun, Marquis of Dongping, and Cao Tai, Marquis of Xuanning, have confessed their crimes, and the three clans have been exterminated and their titles have been removed.

And Cao Kun's father is Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen, and Zhang De's father is Heqing Hou Zhang Yi, all of whom were confessed to Lan Yu during the interrogation of the name, and were dealt with as treason. Also on death row on the charge of rebellion together were Zhu Shou, the Marquis of Dongguan, He Rong and other honorables, as well as Zhan Hui, the secretary of the ministry, Fu Youwen, the servant of the household department, and many other civil servants.

The first thing Xu Hao did when he came out was to find the whereabouts of Zhang De's body, but fortunately he was not dragged to be incinerated on the spot, but abandoned in a mass grave outside the city, leaving his relatives and friends to be buried in the past.

At this time, the Zhang family was all wiped out, who of the relatives dared to act rashly? Zhang Hu and other guards placed all the corpses of the Zhang family in another place, and Xu Hao finally found Zhang De in a pile of corpses and cried.

Later, the bodies of the 12 Zhang family members were placed in the coffin, escorted to the Zhang family's Zhuangzi in the suburbs, and a good place in feng shui was selected for temporary burial, and then tried to move to the ancestral tomb of the Zhang family after the situation calmed down in the future.

There was no name inscription in the urgency of time, Xu Hao knelt in front of Zhang De's grave, burning the dead paper, and muttering words that no one could hear. The craftsman on one side is painting the stone tablet and preparing to carve the font.

Wang Hu walked up to him lightly and said in a low voice, "Young Master, you haven't slept for many days, take care of yourself, and it's time to go home." ”

Xu Hao was silent, respectfully kowtowed to the grave, and slowly stood up. After only drinking for days, his voice was hoarse, and he shook his head and said, "I can't go back." ”

Wang Hu suddenly became anxious and said, "Weishenme won't go back?" Does the young master know that the old lady and his wife are anxious for you? Restless all night. ”

Xu Hao has secrets that can't be said, in case Uncle Xu Huizu is confirmed in the Blue Party, the whole family will be in danger. Although there is a half chance that the old lady and the second and third rooms will not be implicated, what if they are implicated? There is nowhere to hide from the world, but he can go incognito and wait for an opportunity to rescue his relatives alone, which is better than everyone being wiped out.

Xu Hao said bitterly: "Don't say anything at this pass, I want to stay in the Yanwang Mansion to find out the news, and I have to go to the door to thank the commander, in short, I won't go back for a while." ”

Wang Hu and other guards had no choice but to give up when they saw this, and now everyone inside and outside the capital is worried, the young master's move is indeed helpless, so he sent Xu Hao to the gate of the city, and the soldiers guarding the city will go back and forth to check, at this time it is easy to go in and difficult to come out.

As he passed through the rows of markets, Xu Hao came across a ready-to-wear shop, and finally gave up on buying a few old clothes to escape.

If there is no protection from Yan Wangfu, fleeing may be able to save his life, but it is precisely because he absconded that Zhu Gaochi will not be able to rescue the female relatives in the family, even if he changes his name and surname in the future to follow Yan Wang Zhu Di back to the capital, what can he do? Zhu Yuanzhang died early, and even if the sisters were alive, they had already suffered insults in the sect.

What is his own life, it's a big deal to send them to death together, so Zhu Gaochi has no scruples about making a move afterwards, and with his identity, it is just a matter of one sentence to ask the sisters to come out.

Entering the Yanwang Mansion, Zhu Gaochi did not have a trace of joy on his face, although Xu Hao and he both knew that one of the culprits of this annihilation storm was Yanwang Zhu Di.

Xu Hao didn't care about anything else, and asked directly: "What should we do with those who rebelled?" All three tribes are to be wiped out? ”

Zhu Gaochi shook his head and said: "Probably not, depending on what the emperor's grandfather meant, this time there is no anger from the Hu case." Of course, the whole family of the rebel will be killed, and the collateral relatives will not have to worry about their lives except for being confessed. ”

Xu Hao breathed a sigh of relief, only the eldest uncle and Xu Wen were in the military, and the eldest wife Wang and Cui Tao couldn't run away as immediate relatives, and everyone else should not have anything to do with the rebellion.

After this incident, Xu Hao completely lost the idea of staying in the capital, and his life was too uncomfortable and aggrieved. As for the safety of the house, he can't care about it at all, anyway, Zhu Yunwen is not as ruthless as his grandfather, and it stands to reason that he will not be angry with them, even if he is unlucky...

Xu Hao recited a sentence in his heart to ask for more blessings, and said: "Brother, I plan to move the whole family to Beiping in a few years after this matter passes, and I need a road guide and an official certificate." ”

Zhu Gaochi readily agreed, and secretly rejoiced in his heart that Qinglian would be close to him at that time, and said: "This matter is easy to do, you go to my palace to be an official and a half-job, so that the family will have an excuse to move to the north." ”

Xu Hao thanked him, and said: "It's not a trivial matter for so many people to relocate, you have to live with a house and property, I will prepare the money, don't bother the two masters, and ask my brother to help." ”

Zhu Gaochi said in surprise: "The house is a trivial matter, isn't there a field here?" Besides, with my Yanwang Mansion here, why do you need to bother? ”

Xu Haoxin said that in a few years, your Lao Tzu will raise troops to go south, at that time, the entire Yanwang Mansion has to be thrifty and frugal, and the north-south road is not passable, not to mention that my family's fields and properties will probably be confiscated by then, and now I don't have to take precautions, and the family will have to drink the northwest wind.

Xu Hao said: "I don't want to blindly rely on the palace to help, and besides, if I want to live in the north for a long time in the future, what is it if I have no land and no property?" ”

"That's just as well." Zhu Gaochi smiled and gestured with his hand, "There is no owner who can scare you to death if there is more land, you can have as much as you want, and the price is extremely cheap." Even if the population is too small, the tenants who do not cultivate are also in vain, and they can only ripen one wave of crops throughout the year, and the output is far less than that of the south. ”

Xu Hao thought about it, not to mention that he didn't understand farming, but he understood, running a farm was not an overnight effort, not to mention that there were no tenants who were good at farm work, and it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

With a move in his heart, Xu Hao smiled and said: "There is no need to worry about manpower, I am not greedy enough to occupy much land, enough for the whole family to eat three meals a day." ”

Zhu Gaochi said with a smile: "You kid has a ghost idea, did you hit the idea on the military account?" Count you smart, as soon as you arrive in the north, your father will reward you with a thousand households, and even the fields are ready-made, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

Xu Hao was stunned in his heart, he really didn't expect this, he just felt that since Zhu Di was bent on becoming the emperor, he would definitely pull the people of the surrounding provinces into his fiefdom and increase taxes and grain, so that his family would not have to worry about not being able to recruit tenants.

It is good to be an official, the army of the Ming Dynasty basically had to farm by itself to support itself, and the so-called military households were the ancestors who farmed the land on weekdays, practiced in the slack time, and went into battle to kill the enemy in wartime.

Xu Hao was not enthusiastic about things that would not have a shadow in the future, but asked: "Are there many Jurchens in Liaodong?" ”

"You know this?" Zhu Gaochi looked surprised, "They are all outsiders between the white mountains and black waters, compared to the Mongols at both ends of the snake and rat, the Jurchens are loyal to our dynasty, probably these uncivilized savages are sandwiched between the brutal Mongolian tribes and the barbaric Goryeo, and there are still barbaric Tungusic people in the bitter cold land in the northwest, who can only cling to my Ming Dynasty to survive and reproduce." ”

Xu Hao was very disgusted with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but after all, in later generations, they were already Manchu and Han families, his brother-in-law was a Manchu, and the family was no different, and he was not a nationalist, and tried in vain to exterminate all ethnic groups except the Han Chinese.

However, Xu Hao still said in passing: "Brother, don't underestimate the Jurchens, during the Song Dynasty, half of the country was occupied by the Jin people." How many years have it been? Now that Mongolia has been beaten by our dynasty, who knows if the Jurchens will take the opportunity to rise again in the future? In my opinion, as long as I continue to treat the Jurchens well, sooner or later I will raise tigers. ”

Zhu Gaochi is knowledgeable, and after thinking about it, he thinks it makes sense, but what can he do if he is worried? Now that the Jurchens are obedient and loyal, they can't send troops to kill people for trumped-up charges, right? Liaodong is full of primeval forests, rivers crisscrossing the weather, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are thrown there, there will not even be a movement, even the annual empty money and military salaries will not have any results, and it will also provoke the resistance of the local Jurchen tribes and other ethnic minorities.

My father is sitting in the north, facing the great enemy of Mongolia, and he will definitely not let Liaodong be unstable, and this problem is equivalent to unsolvable at present.

"This matter is not for you and me to discuss, let's talk about it later." Zhu Gaochi waved his hand.

Xu Hao immediately stopped talking, his current crisis had not been solved, and as for the Jurchen problem, with his current status, it was as unsolvable.

In fact, there is a pragmatic way to continue to enrich the border people in Liaodong and occupy the advantage of the population. It's a pity that the middle and late Ming Dynasty didn't do this, and it failed for various reasons, and as a result, a large number of Han people were killed, and the rest became the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

In addition, it is the development of coal mines, the laying of roads, the development of thermal weapons, etc., using the sea route to connect with the West, so as to synchronize with the rhythm of the Renaissance and even the Great Voyage.

The question is, is it possible? It is certainly impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, father and son, who highly concentrate imperial power in their hands, Zheng He's seven trips to the West are purely for show, don't expect these two emperors to colonize overseas territories beyond the reach of the whip, the whole world is not the king's land, and when you go to sea, it is a barbarian land, not under the control of the emperor of China.

After Zhu Gaochi or Zhu Gaochu succeeded to the throne, Xu Hao was already a lot old at that time, in short, he would do his best in the future, he had no ambition to influence the government, history is history, and he wanted to overthrow the ancestral system formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang with his own strength, wash and sleep.

Xu Haoxin said that Lao Tzu is an inexplicable traverser, and no one has given us a sacred and great mission when he comes.