Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 289: Seeing through the wall, the Chen family’s evil fate!
The coffin was opened and the bones were revealed.

It has always been taboo.

But the Jinyiwei who came were not ordinary. There were all kinds of talents in Jinyiwei, including many tomb-robbing families, mountain-moving Taoists, and Xiangling.

The leading centurion led the crowd to Liu's tomb. With the bright moonlight, they realized that what happened tonight might not be that simple.

Angry, that's not right!

Now that we are here, we must follow the Holy Will and do what we should do.

Everyone took out their special shovels from Luoyi, Henan, destroyed Liu Daxia's tombstone, and started digging.

The more the soil was turned up with a shovel, the more disappointed the leading Jinyiwei captain felt. Something was wrong. It was very wrong!

First he saw the stone, then he saw the coffin. The coffin was made of just ordinary pine wood, which obviously did not fit the identity of Liu Daxia, who was once the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty.

More than forty years have passed, and the black paint on the coffin has long become "brittle" and will break at the slightest touch, but this does not affect the pine wood itself, and the degree of corrosion is not that serious.

The captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was basically certain that there was a big problem with the coffin, so he personally removed the nails, then lifted a corner of the coffin lid with his bare hands and tied the rope across.

There was a horizontal rope at each end. Four Jinyiwei cavalrymen climbed up, each holding one end of the rope, and exerted their strength together to lift the entire coffin lid and flip it to the ground.

A strange scene appeared.

There were no rotten bones in the coffin, only some liquid. This was not corpse water, nor was it water that seeped in from the soil, but rather clear water that was transparent to the bottom.

Empty coffin!

The captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was not too surprised, but instead turned his attention to other Liu tombs.

“Dig!”

Although they already had guesses in their minds, the captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard still gave the order to open the Liu tombs one by one. The coffins were of varying quality, and some were of lower quality, with the degree of corrosion being greater. After cleaning the burial mound and the outer coffin, when the lid was lifted, a fishy smell hit them in the face.

However, in the coffin, there were only some marks of flesh and blood decaying into water, but no bones were seen.

Obviously, someone had opened the coffin decades ago and taken away the bones inside.

Apart from the Liu family members, I guess no one would be interested in the rotting bones.

Liu Daxia was not buried here at all, and the Liu ancestors had moved their graves decades earlier.

This veteran of the Chenghua, Hongzhi and Zhengde dynasties has been praised and celebrated by countless celebrities.

Worry about the people as if they were sick, and treat guests as if you were no longer an official.

Be harmonious with things and be proactive when dealing with things.

Be as pure and frugal as Zhibai, be as concerned as Xiwen, be as public-spirited as Yan Guo, and be able to handle major events as Ziming.

The late Shangshu Ma Wensheng, Xu Jin, Liu Daxia, Qin Hong, Du Yushi Qian Yue, and Qiang Zhen, all offended the powerful and treacherous and suffered misfortunes. They should be given special relief so that the world will know that those who have been wronged and persecuted will have their grievances redressed even though they have passed away.

Daxia was a man of integrity and upright character, but he was honest and easy-going. He liked the good in others and forgave their shortcomings. He lived a simple life, eating only one bean of rice and wearing no more than one coat. He did not live in the city and was never recommended by thousands of people. When someone asked him to do something, he would just stay at home. He was well-known both at home and abroad, and his political achievements were outstanding. In his later years, he was appointed as the Minister of Filial Piety… He wanted to dismiss the redundant and dared to take on the grievances, but he was framed by the treacherous. He was stationed on the border in his old age, but his resolute spirit never changed. He had a good reputation and integrity, and even the barbarians knew and respected him. The scholars and officials who knew him or not called him "Liu Dongshan".

……

Even after his death, there were famous ministers like Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe who protested for justice. Perhaps they guessed that someone would dig up their graves after their death, or perhaps they had done something wrong and were worried that someone would open their coffins and whip their corpses... In short, there was nothing inside the coffins.

The Jinyiwei are not pushovers. They know almost everything that Chen Yiqin and the Chen family know, and even more.

In recent decades, the Jin family that has been roaming around the world in trade between the East and the West is the Huarong Liu family.

Ever since Hai Rui and the Embroidered Uniform Guards cracked down on the smuggling of princes, ministers, and Chaozhou merchants in Hangzhou last year, no ship of the Jin family has come to the Ming Dynasty.

The Huarong Liu family moved out of the Ming Dynasty, starting with Liu Daxia. All the tombs of the Liu ancestors were also moved away from the ancestral tomb and their whereabouts are unknown.

They may have moved to a Feng Shui place deep in the mountains and forests, or they may have moved directly overseas.

Absolutely!
The Huarong Liu family really went too far!

He plotted against the imperial court but didn't even give it a chance to retaliate.

If a captain of Jinyiwei completes his mission in this way, he will be as angry as the captain of Qianhu, the pacification envoy... the commander-in-chief, and even the emperor.

The captain of the Jinyiwei almost gnashed his teeth and said, "Let's go!"

The group put away their Luoyi shovels, jumped on their horses, and galloped away.

The Liu tombs that were dug up were not closed again, but left open for the world to see.

The clear water in the coffin, under the shining of the bright moon, also reflected a bright moon. The bright moon shone on the water, and the water reflected the bright moon, illuminating the sinister hearts of people.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were families like the Chen family of Nanchong and the Liu family of Huarong. There are hundreds of kinds of birds in the forest, some are good and some are evil. Some do evil when they are alive, but get a good reputation after their death, and finally get a bad reputation in the end.

……

When the news reached the capital.

The treasure ship map and the replica of the navigation map obtained from the Chen family were also delivered to the capital in an urgent manner at an expedited rate of 800 miles per hour.

Anger and joy, two things, Lu Bing, the commander-in-chief of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, could barely move his legs to go to Yuxi Palace for an audience.

Ok Hee Palace.

Zhu Houcong was rarely really angry. The Huarong Liu family had brought misfortune to the Ming Dynasty, and they left the Ming Dynasty completely with a guilty conscience.

Overseas, he took the treasure ship map and the nautical chart of the Ming Dynasty, and relied on trading to change his appearance and become a tycoon.

Intolerable!

"I can see it through the wall!" Zhu Houcong muttered to himself.

One of the thirty-six Tiangang methods, it can see through everything and see the ten directions, the sky and the earth, without any obstruction, the six directions, inside and outside, ghosts, gods, people, visible and invisible, big and small, all can be seen clearly.

Zhu Houcong seemed to see a world map unfolding before his eyes, followed by a series of bright spots appearing across the seas and oceans. From the Japanese islands in the east to America in the west, all the bloodlines of the Liu family were lit up, and based on the brightness, the closeness of the blood relationship could be judged.

Four hundred and ninety-eight!

The Huarong Liu family was not a small family to begin with. After entering the West, some restless members of the Liu clan expanded their branches and branches crazily. Taking the grandson of Liu Daxia as the main figure, there were so many people within the five generations of mourning.

There are both mixed-bloods and Kunlun slaves.

Zhu Houcong picked up the red pen, as if he was picking up a judge's pen, and wrote down names, identities, and addresses one by one.

Finally, the real tomb of Liu Daxia and the ancestral tomb of the Liu family were also revealed.

Although the Liu clan had the ability to move their ancestors' graves overseas, they did not do so out of consideration for their homeland and people's taboos.

In a small hill not far from Huarong County, Huguang, a place close to the mountains and water was chosen to bury Liu Daxia and all the ancestors of the Liu family.

In order to avoid being discovered, there was not even a tombstone, and it became a desolate grave in the mountain.

If I say that you will be crushed to pieces and your ashes will be scattered, then you must be crushed to pieces and your ashes must be scattered. Even if you have to flee to the ends of the earth, you must still be crushed to pieces!
After writing everything into the "Book of Life and Death", Zhu Houcong put down the red pen and handed it to the shocked Lu Bing.

Lu Bing didn't know how he got out of Yuxi Palace. It was not until he met the cabinet elders who were paying homage to him and was greeted by Hu Zongxian that he came to his senses. After a brief greeting, he left in a hurry, leaving the four confused cabinet elders to sort themselves out and respond to the imperial summons.

Almost at the same time, the Minister of Works Zhu Heng also responded to the imperial edict and came to the audience.

Four cabinet ministers and a chancellor were offered seats after paying their respects, but their eyes were all fixed on the boxes in the hall.

If nothing unexpected happens, what is contained inside are the treasure ship map and navigation chart that the eunuch Sanbao used on his voyage to the West.

More than a hundred years ago, our ancestors had seen the world on behalf of the Ming Dynasty. The legendary magnificent treasure ships and the various mysteries of the world's oceans are about to be revealed to people today.

The five people present had good personalities and good upbringing, but at this moment, they couldn't help but get excited.

Huang Jin received a signal from the emperor, stepped forward and opened the lids of the boxes one by one, and said to the ministers and the chancellors, "Ministers, ministers, come closer."

Gao Gong and Zhu Heng stood up first, followed by Hu Zongxian, Wang Chonggu, and Li Chunfang. Like the elders of the Chen family, facing these precious picture albums, they wanted to see more about the humanities of the world.

The detailed information of the treasure ship maps and nautical charts filled five large boxes. According to the different descriptions on the labels, the five ministers came to different boxes and put them into the books and albums.

Gao Gong, the prime minister, looked at the materials needed to build the treasure ship and silently estimated the cost of building a treasure ship and the entire treasure ship fleet of more than 200 large and small ships.

Hu Zongxian, the second prime minister, looked at the special navigation locations marked by the eunuchs Zheng He and Chen Jia on the nautical charts, and thought about how the Ming Dynasty should go to sea, how to gain access to important straits, and how to guard the important straits after controlling them.

Wang Chonggu, a member of the group of assistants, looked at the markings of important ports on the nautical charts, where different forces were suitable for supply, and how to conduct beach landings in different locations in the western part of the world.

Shangshu Zhu Heng was looking at the construction and strengthening of treasure ships, which were technologies that had been lost more than a hundred years ago. He sometimes nodded, sometimes suddenly realized, and finally, he realized the time it would take to build a treasure ship and a treasure ship fleet.

As a fellow assistant, Li Chunfang read the nautical atlases of Eunuch Sanbao and the Chen family. After all, Eunuch Sanbao sailed to the West on behalf of the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Chengzu Wen. The records in the atlases tended to be serious, such as meeting a certain king on a certain day of a certain year, conveying the power of the Ming Dynasty to the barbarians, exchanging items of mutual interest, etc.

However, the Chen family's nautical charts are not very serious. Anyone who was sent out to sail by the Chen family must be a restless person in the family.

Of course, the Chen family’s children also possess qualities such as shrewdness and bravery.

Although the Chen family only made two trips to the West, the young man in charge of the voyage was a man named Chen Ze.

Since the Chen family was overseas, they were not interested in reselling goods from the East and West of the world, but they would bring some things that interested the Chen family back to the Ming Dynasty.

Even if the Chen family prepared a lot of gold and silver for Chen Ze's fleet, Chen Ze would basically spend all the gold and silver before reaching the destination.

A group of people always need to eat and drink, so Chen Ze used his subjective initiative and, relying on the special features of certain parts of his body and his ability to speak sweet words, he established relationships with many noble women from Western countries and received a lot of free help.

Li Chunfang seemed to have thought of something. The more he looked, the more excited he became. He was so carried away that he kept mumbling something.

In the nautical atlas, a woman named Margaret, who had a brief romance with Chen Ze, made Li Chunfang's eyes light up.

Li Chunfang's performance was obviously out of place in the hall. Although Gao Gong, Hu Zongxian, Wang Chonggu and Zhu Heng were not curious about everything, after seeing Li Chunfang's performance, they finally couldn't help but cast their eyes over.

"Zi Shi, what's wrong?" Gao Gong asked.

Li Chunfang came back to his senses, suppressed his smile, shook the atlas in his hand, and said, "Prime Minister, the orthodox England and France may be in the East!"

Gao, Hu, Wang, Zhu, "..."

Even Zhu Houcong cast a glance at him. What was he talking about?
"Your Majesty, Prime Minister, in the ninth year of Zhengtong in our dynasty, Chen Ze, a member of the Chen clan, had a brief romance with a beautiful woman in France..." Li Chunfang told the story.

The succession to the throne in the West is different from the succession to the throne in the East. In the West, women and men have the same rights in the succession to the throne in each country.

In the East, if the emperor or king has no son, according to the royal patriarchal inheritance, his brother or nephew will inherit the throne.

For example, Emperor Zhengde had no son, so he chose his cousin, the current emperor, to succeed him.

In the West, if the king has no son, the inheritance rights of the old king's daughter and her descendants take precedence over the old king's younger brother or nephew.

Because of the tradition of royal intermarriage in Western countries, princesses of the kingdom often marry foreign kings.

In this way, if the king has no children, the throne will most likely be inherited by a princess who has married a foreign prince, and the throne will be transferred to a foreign royal family.

As a result, bloodlines on the Western continent can be said to be in chaos.

And this French woman named Margaret, if my calculations are correct, was the French woman who married King Henry VI of England in the tenth year of Legitimacy.

Margaret was the daughter of René I, King of Naples and Duke of Anjou, and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, a cousin of King Charles VII of France.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, Margaret was a princess of France. According to the Treaty of Tours signed during the Hundred Years' War between England and France, Margaret was to marry King Henry VI of England when she grew up.

But just one year before her marriage, Margaret met Chen Ze by chance. Margaret was deeply attracted by the every move of this young man from a mysterious family in the east of the world, and Chen Ze was also moved by Margaret's beauty, enthusiasm, and wealth.

The two passionate hearts embraced each other tightly. Chen Ze got enough money from Margaret and also learned about Margaret's fiancé, who was the king. Facing Margaret's request to elope to the East, Chen Ze decisively ran away!
In this way, Chen Ze returned to the Ming Dynasty, and Margaret married Henry VI the following year according to the agreement. Soon after the marriage, Henry VI became mentally ill, and Margaret became the actual controller of England.

Afterwards, civil unrest broke out in England, Henry VI and his only son Edward were killed, Margaret was imprisoned, then redeemed by the King of France, and eventually died in a monastery.

But what does this have to do with British and French orthodoxy in the East?
Li Chunfang smiled, "…The current English royal court was established by the 'rebels'. Henry VI and his only son are dead, but that doesn't mean Margaret can't have a 'son' from the East. That fleeting romance may have a result. After a hundred years, several generations of descendants, and several generations of orthodox bloodlines raise the banner to exterminate the rebels, I think this can be staged in the West like a drama like a song."

(End of this chapter)