Xu Fan and Xu Ying arrived in Shanghai only half an hour later than Lin Run.

Xu Fan was quite cautious and couldn't figure out the situation, so he didn't dare to enter the city rashly. So he parked the boat on the bank of the river outside the water gate and ordered Xu Ba to enter the city to inquire.

As a result, not long after, Xu Ba brought back an astonishing news - as soon as Lin Run entered the city, he sent troops to seize the Wanyuan number in Shanghai!

"Where is he going to be crazy?" Xu Faner said in a daze: "We are the ones who provoked him. Why are you using Wanyuan to vent your anger? Besides, Wanyuan is not a soft persimmon that can be pinched casually."

"Yes, if it's easy to pinch, our family would have swallowed the Wanyuan number long ago." Xu Ying nodded and agreed, "How can we open an account honestly in his house?"

"It was said to be to investigate the Japanese case." Xu Ba was still very effective in engaging in information, otherwise he would not have been entrusted with important tasks.

"The Japanese pirate case?" Xu Fan couldn't help but laugh and said, "The Japanese pirates have been extinct for many years. Is he going to make up some old accounts?"

"Tong...Wa..." Xu Ying sat on the chair.

He naturally knew that Xu Liu and Meichuan Yifu traded on the Wanyuan No. 1 in Shanghai.

And Xu Liu's killer material has not yet found where Meichuan Yifu is, let alone silence him.

This matter has been under his heart, and it has also made his fear grow day by day.

Now he finally realized that Mei Chuan Yifu fell into Lin Run's hands.

~~

"What's wrong with you?" Xu Fan saw that his little brother's face turned pale and his mouth was spasming.

He immediately had an ominous premonition and asked in a low voice: "What do you know? Or do you hide something?"

"I, I..." Xu Ying cried and knelt in front of his elder brother with a 'thump' sound. "Help brother, help me, I don't want to die!"

"You, it's true that you have something to do with you!" Xu Fan was dizzy. Fortunately, he was stormy and quickly calmed down. He waved his hand and asked Xu Ba to stay outside.

Then Xu Fan slowly sat on the chair with the table, gritted his teeth at Xu Ying with a penis face, said, "Tell me!"

"Brother, I don't know how to live or die, I deserve to die!" Xu Ying slapped himself in the face while telling Xu Fan the little movements he had carried over the years.

Xu Fan's head was about to explode when he heard this!

He grabbed Xu Ying's collar and asked viciously: "At the end of last year, when I wrote to you, didn't you promise that we were like other companies, just supplying goods to maritime merchants, and would never go into the market in person?"

If this is the case, at most it will be condemned on a moral level and will not violate the laws of heaven.

After all, for these wealthy families, a saying, "I just sell the goods and can't examine who the purchasers are." is enough to make excuses.

"Why, in a blink of an eye, it was the Sha Boat Gang and the Japanese pirates, all of them came out?!" Xu Fan's eyes were so bloody that he wanted to strangle this little brother who had caused a huge disaster!

"I can't do anything, brother! The Lu family is finished, the golden seal of King Jinghai is lost, the sea is in chaos, and the sea trade is completely broken." Xu Ying argued with a sad face:

"So much cotton cloth is piled up in the warehouse, and tens of thousands of weavers have to eat and drink. What should I do if I don't think about it myself?"

"Besides, it's not our family doing this, the Xiang family will take the lead..."

"Take your mom! I'll fuck your second uncle to death!" Before he finished speaking, Xu Fan swung his arm around and slapped him heavily in the face.

With a loud bang, Xu Ying was thrust straight to the ground.

"I have told you so many times that this red line is incomparable - even if my Xu family is poor and starved to death, the whole family will go out to beg for food, and they will not be able to get along with the Japanese pirates!"

Xu Fan sucked his energy for months and broke his skills. He roared and kicked and beat him, and beat him to death.

"Do you know that there are not many charges for the Xu family to be punished, but it's just a matter of Japanese communication!"

Xu Ying was stunned. He didn't expect that his elder brother would be so skilled in beating people. He didn't know where to practice fist and foot skills. He only felt that fist and flesh were so painful.

He rolled and screamed:

"Don't you know? The sea merchants, pirates, real Japanese, and fake Japanese have never been able to tell the difference..."

"Then you can't touch anything! If you don't go into the sea, you will lose any problem?" Xu Fan kicked Xu Ying so hard that he rolled his eyes. After a long time of rest, he couldn't get enough.

~~

Xu Fan's anger and fear are easy to understand.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not have the punishment of the officials like the Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the law also followed the Tang laws and clearly stipulated the eight-discussion system.

The so-called eight discussions refer to "conferencing relatives", that is, relatives of the royal relatives; "conferencing the ancestors" means the emperor's old friends;

‘Advising the wise’ means those who are virtuous and virtuous; ‘Adjust merit’ means those who are outstanding in merit;

‘Advising ability’ means being outstanding; ‘Advising noble’ means being officials above the third rank and those with first rank;

"Ask for diligence" means those who are diligent in national affairs; "Ask forum" means descendants of the royal family of the previous dynasty.

The eight-discussion system is a privileged system in which the court cannot directly judge when eight types of people commit crimes, but must submit a ruling from the emperor or reduce punishment according to law.

At least five of the eight discussions of the Xu Pavilion, even Xu Fan enjoyed this judicial privilege by "discussing the value".

This is also the reason why Lin Run did not dare to touch the Xu family if he could not get the ironclad evidence...

But there are always exceptions in everything. Since ancient times, the laws have clearly stipulated that those who commit the "ten evils" do not fall within the limits of the eight discussions on redemption.

That is the so-called "ten evil things"!

The ten evils are: ‘Treasons for rebellion, great rebellion, evil rebellion, unrighteousness, great disrespect, unfiliality, unrighteousness, unrighteousness, civil strife’!

In the Ming Dynasty's laws, the crime of communicating with Japanese deeds was clearly classified as the "conspiracy to rebel" of the three of the ten evils, so it is absolutely unforgivable.

Lin Run was charged with Yan Shifan and Luo Longwen with the charge of communicating with the Japanese, and then he sent the arrogant little master to the guillotine!

A few years later, this guy actually wanted to use his old tricks again and send my Xu family to a dead end?

When he thought of the tragic ending of the young master, the young master fell into boundless fear.

Could that be the fate of the person called the "Little Pavilion Master"?

No, my fate is up to me and not to God!

Xu Fan gritted his teeth and silently made the strongest voice in his heart!

Actually, I'm afraid of death...

~~

After Xu Fan finished his appetite... he crossed it out and was tired of fighting... then he sat down and panted heavily.

Xu Ying was beaten to be a "Iron Eating Beast in Shu", and it took a long time to recover.

He didn't care about crying out the pain, so he hugged Xu Fan's thighs tightly and cried, "Brother, it doesn't matter if you beat me to death. You can't let Lin Run investigate again, otherwise our Xu family will be finished!"

"You still know that the Xu family is over!" Xu Fan raised his fist and wanted to hit him again. Unfortunately, he was too vigorous just now, and when he moved, he realized that he was stretching his arms.

He pressed his shoulders with a dark face and shouted to the outside world: "Go and invite Zheng Guan!"

"Yes." Xu Baying said, and quickly went to find a way to contact Zheng Yuanshao.
Chapter completed!