Chapter 697: The Big Villain Master Huang, Bullying Others with Power

The naval soldiers exterminating the Japanese pirates and taking a Japanese woman as a wife were not contradictory, because in this era, marrying a chicken follows a chicken, marrying a dog follows a dog. Japanese women were originally caught and brought to the Great Ming to breed. Breeding meant giving birth to tall and strong children and then bringing them back to Japan. Japanese women were not treated as human beings by the Japanese, so how could Japanese women view these bastards as the same race?

Therefore, taking a Japanese woman as a wife was not a problem, especially since it could save a large amount of bride price money.

The problem of excessively expensive and heavy bride prices was not something that only existed after a large amount of silver flowed into the Great Ming during the Wanli era; it had existed since the Hongwu era.

In the fifth year of Hongwu, the Emperor Taizu Gao issued an edict: "The wedding ceremony of the ancients unites the joy of two surnames to emphasize human relations. Since recent generations, people have only discussed betrothal wealth! The habits are luxurious, and the rituals are promulgated. We must follow frugality to thicken the customs, and those who violate it will be punished according to the law."

Zhu Yuanzhang, known for his broad management, violence, and autocracy, did not solve this problem through clear laws and clear punishments.

Great Ming naval soldiers had to save silver for nearly three years to handle a wedding. This was still under the condition that the Songjiang Navy had a construction battalion to build houses. If they had to buy property themselves, or even attach their household registration to the local area, they would need even more silver.

The Beijing Camp was in a similar situation, and the elite soldiers of the Beijing Camp and the elite of the navy were already the rare high-income groups in the Great Ming, with eighteen silver in military pay a year, crowning the Great Ming and crowning the world.

And a strong laborer in the Great Ming had an income of less than eight taels of silver a year, and that was only if they worked at the dock.

The problem of high bride prices was a stubborn disease for the Central Plains dynasty. The contradictions here were very, very complex.

Bride price was first a supply and demand problem. The Great Ming had a very widespread evil habit of drowning infants, that is, drowning baby girls directly when they were born. This evil habit was not brought by the Zhu-Cheng Neo-Confucianism. As early as the pre-Qin period, it was recorded in Han Feizi that "if a boy is born, they congratulate each other; if a girl is born, they kill her." This custom was widely spread among the people, and even the imperial court's written laws could not restrain it.

The reason for drowning baby girls was that giving birth to a girl was a money-losing business. Raising her would definitely lose money. Even the charity halls in various places only accepted girls over six years old, because children who grew to six years old already possessed a certain immunity and would not get sick often. Moreover, at six years old, one could see the eyebrows and eyes. If they were crooked and ugly, human traffickers wouldn't want them.

Raising them to six years old was already a huge expenditure for poor families, and medical treatment was very expensive in any era. This expensiveness destined poor families to only have a choice in raising children. Boys who could pick up wheat ears in the field at five or six years old, herd cattle at eight or nine years old, and do heavy physical work at twelve or thirteen years old became a better choice.

And most importantly, in this era where marrying a chicken follows a chicken, marrying a dog follows a dog, the Great Ming did not have a very widespread custom of taking the husband's surname, and they could divorce. For example, in his later years, Qi Jiguang was destitute and embarrassed. Under the pursuit of his past political enemies, in order to avoid harming his wife, Qi Jiguang chose to divorce his legal wife, Wang, and died in poverty without money for medicine.

When a tiger falls to the flatlands, it is bullied by dogs. These bastards who harm the country and the people would not let Qi Jiguang go. This was an opportunity to please the Wanli Emperor and the new Chief Grand Secretary.

Moreover, after a daughter married, her identity changed from a daughter in the family to a daughter-in-law in someone else's family. No matter how well she married, she had nothing to do with her maiden family. The husband sings and the wife follows was the convention.

Various objective reasons caused the Great Ming's universal thinking of valuing boys over girls. Valuing boys over girls, selective drowning of baby girls, and sky-high bride prices constituted a vicious cycle, with supply less than demand.

Drowning baby girls in the Great Ming was not called drowning infants but sending them for adoption. Baby girls would be taken away by midwives. Parents would not witness their daughter's death with their own eyes. The midwife holding the swaddled baby would not go home but go to the "dead old child ditch" that existed everywhere, soaking the child in the water. If the daughter was healthy, jumping, and crying, the midwife would forcefully press her head. After a while, the child had no sound, and she would fish her out and bury her in the dead old child ditch.

Deformed children were also handled this way.

In the final analysis, it was caused by poverty. Tigers do not eat their cubs, let alone parents. Parents couldn't bear to do it, so they let the midwife do it. This was also one of the reasons why midwives were widely discriminated against. They were in the bottom nine streams, and even those with lowly household registrations would do the work of the three aunts and six grandmothers. Everyone knew they killed children. There were quite a few midwives who committed suicide by jumping into the river after doing it for a long time.

Besides the supply and demand problem, there was also a legal problem. After a daughter married, she had to move her household registration, that is, move her household registration to her husband's family. In this way, she was a person of her husband's family. At this time, no one knew what kind of life the daughter lived in her husband's family. If the life was just not smooth, it would be fine, but if she was beaten and scolded, or even killed, as long as the people did not sue, the officials would not investigate.

Therefore, parents would often demand a large bride price when their daughter married and add a pile of dowry for the daughter to take to her husband's family, fearing that the daughter would be looked down upon. In this way, if the daughter was bullied, she would have silver to use, at least to be able to send a message to let her parents know.

In principle, there was a dowry for marriage in the Great Ming, and there was a lot of it.

Besides the legal problem, there was an even more serious ethical problem.

This sky-high bride price for marriage often did not reach the daughter. It was not that every family was so generous; it was actually selling the daughter.

Once the daughter married over, she found that the family she married into was superficially glamorous but in debt. In an era where only the man could propose divorce without a reasonable reason, it was basically impossible to divorce, and marrying over was also being a cow or a horse.

If the daughter went home to ask for it, she would be driven out of the house instead, because she didn't bring back the bride price, and she was also bullied in her husband's family.

This marriage was not something that two children could decide on their own; it was a matter of two families. This back and forth, and finally, there were countless cases of not seeing each other until death. This not divorcing was fine, but if they divorced, the bride price was also a root of contradiction, and there were quite a few homicide cases. That was why there was the experience of "matching doors and households."

Back then, the Great Ming royal family also encountered this problem. Not matching doors and households, matching the Emperor, only hereditary military nobles. They were military nobles themselves and became imperial relatives, lawless and harming one side.

In the end, the Great Ming royal family could only choose empresses from the families of commoners. The empress was of commoner origin, and the imperial concubines had more impressive backgrounds one after another. The harem was not peaceful, and there was the disturbance of the empress being deposed during the Xuande era. Finally, they were all selected from among the people.

When it came to Zhu Yijun, who was young and the country was suspicious, it was even more troublesome. There was a powerful Grand Secretary in the court. This empress could not have any relationship with this fierce minister; otherwise, it would be a great storm that would make the country restless and harm the entire Great Ming.

Back then, Huo Guang married his daughter to Emperor Xuan of Han. Emperor Xuan of Han was deeply in love with his old sword and refused to agree. Huo Guang's wife killed the empress and forced Emperor Xuan of Han to marry her daughter as empress. After Huo Guang died, the whole family was gone.

Zhang Juzheng took a middle path and found a Wang Yaozhuo from Shanzhou, Henan. There was no one left in the family, and she had no relationship with anyone. She was a natural match for the Emperor, this lonely person.

The problem of bride price was complex, and the contradictions were messier than a ball of hemp thread. Even the powerful Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and the one-in-a-hundred-generations talent Zhang Juzheng were helpless.

The impact was serious. Taking Wenzhou, Zhejiang, as an example, in the 15th year of Wanli, in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, out of ten households, eight had no family, and those who married had few offspring. The people and things gradually became scarce. On the four-hundred-mile road, there was no sound of baby crying, and everything was desolate.

"Does this Japanese wife really not run away?" Zhu Yijun leaned forward and said in a low voice, "This was originally for breeding. If she gives birth to a son, she must hold the son and run back to Japan. I think it won't work. Qin Lao also said that if Great Ming soldiers save silver for three years, they can also get a wife. If you ask me, it's still more stable to marry a Great Ming girl."

As soon as Qin Zhao heard the tone of this young master Huang Zhongxing, he immediately sneered and said, "You young man also have a body of tendons. Looking at these calluses on your hands, you haven't been thrown around in the military camp less. Can you marry a local wife? Look at those young men who are busy, who are they? Outsiders! In the eyes of the locals, they ran to the Shanghai beach to beg for food!"

"In their eyes, we are wandering bandits, dead soldiers who don't know when they will die. And the navy has another problem, which is doing water ghosts in big winds and waves. Do you think everyone is like you, a noble, and the girls will pounce on you when they see you?"

Zhu Yijun heard Qin Zhao's mockery and almost turned red with anger. His fists were clenched extremely tightly. Zhang Juzheng didn't dare to scold him like this, saying that he, the Emperor, didn't eat the five grains of the human world and didn't know the suffering of the human world! As a man from heaven, Zhu Yijun was already very, very grounded, but he still expressed the opinion of "why not eat meat porridge."

Feng Bao immediately raised his head and looked around, finding that there was no secretary of the secretariat, and then he was relieved. If this was recorded, another entry would be added to the Great Ming Joke Collection.

Qin Zhao closed his eyes, sighed, and said with low emotion, "Do you know what General Qi saw the most when he recruited Yiwu soldiers in Zhejiang back then? It was the divorce letter! From the surface, these Yiwu soldiers went to fight the Japanese pirates to protect their homes and country, but in the private door of every family, life and death were unpredictable."

"The marriage that was originally promised was also yellowed. The childhood sweethearts who were originally innocent also married others. The original mutual respect was also divorced."

"Sigh."

The reason Qin Zhao was painful was that he had also promised a marriage back then. The family suffered a disaster and could not get married. Qin Zhao hardened his heart and joined the army. After fighting in Zhejiang for three years, when he returned home in glory, the wife he was promised already had children. Later, he was injured and lost his worldly desires, and he had no descendants, so he adopted two foster sons.

War, the variables are too big.

"Look at this Japanese wife. She looks unreliable, but she is the most reliable. Why can't she run? This is Chongyi Ward, Shanghai County. Have you seen the ward wall? Which Japanese can get in? Besides, they are not stupid. Running back to Japan, where there is frequent war, life is insecure, and food is scarce, they would have to be missing a string to run back to Japan." Qin Zhao said very affirmatively.

The world is material. Japan is a chaotic place. The Great Ming is the Heavenly Dynasty. Being able to marry over is already a splash of good luck. Besides, they are soldiers, a high-income group, and even their daughters can enjoy the treatment of reading in women's schools. It is a good place that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.

The soldier young man Qin Zhao mentioned, the Japanese woman took the initiative. Even if she was a concubine, she was willing. It was about the splash of wealth falling from the sky, and the Japanese woman grasped the opportunity.

"That is to say, our Great Ming soldiers' families can accept this kind of foreign wife?" Zhu Yijun asked with a smile. The Japanese women imported from the Nagasaki Governor's Office, good families would organize matchmaking with craftsmen for internal digestion. Before, soldiers didn't have matchmaking because Zhu Yijun felt it wronged the soldiers, but seeing that it was so difficult for soldiers to get wives, Zhu Yijun planned to issue wives.

Qin Zhao clicked his tongue in wonder and said, "Yes, but it's just this generation. In a few years, I'm afraid soldiers won't look down on these foreign wives. Noble, I don't know what our Heavenly Old Man is thinking. It's fine to give full pay to soldiers. Our Great Ming army hasn't had full pay for more than 170 years. Not only full pay, but also monthly rations for soldiers' wives. Tsk tsk, it's really a change of heaven."

"You can't find such a good thing even if you carry a lantern. These six children are just at the age. When the locals react, they should be grabbing sons-in-law."

"This one month is half a cent of silver, three sons are three cents of silver. Tsk tsk, a scholar only has this much grain. Can they not grab?"

Zhu Yijun found that issuing wives was possible, but it was only for a few years. The problem had actually been solved for the most part. Xu Bangrui's suggestion was ahead of the curve.

Qin Zhao looked left and right and said in a low voice, "Noble, you don't know. Now it's very difficult to join the army! Height, physique, and eyesight must all be good. If you are a little bit off, it won't work. Even if you spend silver, it won't work. The selection is very strict. If you are not qualified, you will be implicated in the whole camp. Military law won't mess with you!"

"If you are qualified, you can spend silver. No, you still need a way."

Zhu Yijun said blankly, "Is it so difficult to join the army now?"

Qin Zhao looked at the young master's demeanor and was afraid that he would associate it with corruption, so he hurriedly said, "This way is at least two soldiers introducing you, which is a hard requirement. Retired ones also work. This is a guarantee. If there is a problem, you will be implicated. If there is no soldier to guarantee you, a scholar can also guarantee you. But if you don't know the roots and the bottom, who will guarantee you?"

"If you are a crooked melon and a cracked date, I won't guarantee you. If you become a deserter, my ninth-rank official position will be over."

"Now joining the army, one out of ten is not selected. One vacancy is waited for by twenty people. This Beijing Camp and navy are strong because of this. Now the young men in the camp are all a head taller than me. They are very powerful!"

The way is not the way Zhu Yijun thought, the way of bribery, but the hard-required guarantee. Two people act as guarantors. Deserters and violators of military discipline are implicated. Military law has always been as common as eating and drinking. Otherwise, when fighting, it is impossible to have one heart.

This Beijing Camp and navy have a total of 200,000 people. One vacancy is filled by one, one radish and one pit, and every pit has someone waiting.

Guaranteeing the source of soldiers is equivalent to guaranteeing the combat effectiveness of the army. Isn't this why the Beijing Camp and navy are cutting melons and vegetables when they fight people?

"Is it so difficult? Then Qin Lao, look, with my physique, can I enter the Beijing Camp navy?" Zhu Yijun asked with a smile.

Qin Zhao laughed loudly and said, "You definitely can. These tendons of yours, looking at these calluses on your hands, you haven't been thrown around in the military camp less. If you want to go, I will guarantee you. But you don't need me. If General Qi guarantees you, it will be even better. It's natural..."

The Grand General is Chen Lin. Chen Lin is a good-fighting general. Chen Lin can open a tiger-power bow, and Zhu Yijun can also open it, and can fire ten arrows, but the last arrow cannot hit, and if he opens the tiger-power bow again, he has to rest for a few days, otherwise he will pull a muscle. But Li Rusong can hit all ten arrows, and can continue to open the bow the next day.

Li Rusong dares to go deep into the enemy's line and charge in front as a sharp knife because of his strong strength. In small-scale encounters, the enemy is shot to death by more than a dozen from afar, and the morale collapses directly.

"No, it's practiced." Zhu Yijun shook his head. He knew the hardship. Without talent, he could only make up for part of the talent with hard work. As the biggest noble in the Great Ming, this martial arts skill was actually useless, and it was only used to fight with Luo Sigong.

"As an Emperor, just doing a show of inspecting the troops is enough, but Zhu Yijun just wants to be perfect and never likes to do surface work."

The Ming Emperor is a very stubborn man; knowing full well that mounted archery is of no practical use, he still practiced until he could hit the bullseye with all ten arrows. He knows he has no particular talent, so he uses diligence to make up for it. Because he is the most noble person in the Great Ming, this martial prowess of his is actually of no real use, other than for fighting with Luo Sigong.

As an emperor, going through the motions of reviewing troops and horses would have been enough, but Zhu Yijun just wants everything to be perfect; he has never liked doing things just for show.

"Even if the Emperor doesn't want to expand, that group of maritime merchants doing business will force the imperial court to expand the army. Which maritime merchant is willing to do business with fear? Only where the Great Ming navy arrives can they operate with peace of mind."

"The Emperor doesn't like to rob for no reason, but those pirates will definitely rob."

"Qin Lao's words are reasonable. It will probably expand." Zhu Yijun said happily.

In this era, people age quickly, especially due to overwork. Qin Zhao is forty-five years old, with gray hair on both sides, looking like fifty-five. What he likes most now is the wedding. Young people get married and have children, which is considered having descendants, and all the sacrifices are worth it.

"Registrar Qin! They are fighting! They are fighting! The team that went to pick up the bride and that Master Chu are fighting!" A young man ran in in a panic, pointing outside and saying loudly, "Registrar Qin, go and see!"

"Too bullying!" Qin Zhao stood up abruptly, slapped the table, and said loudly, "Those who serve in the yamen and the navy are not allowed to go. Others, grab your weapons and follow me to save people!"

The peaceful and lively Chongde Ward immediately boiled over. Zhu Yijun looked at this scene with confusion. He didn't know what happened at all.

"Go and ask." Zhu Yijun looked at Feng Bao. This Qin Zhao wanted to settle the matter, so he greeted him and left with his people.

Feng Bao quickly reported the situation. Among the six young men getting married, one married a Japanese woman, or rather, this Japanese woman relied on the Great Ming soldier because Great Ming soldiers were all upright men. Two married weavers, two were introduced by fellow townsmen, and the last one married a local.

It was this soldier who married a local girl, Qin Zhao's foster son, Qin Zhongke. This Qin Zhongke was an orphan, adopted by Qin Zhao from the nursing home after he was injured. Although he was a foster son, he was actually a biological son. The local wife he married was a great beauty in the ten miles and eight villages, named Ren Qiubai, taken from the poem by Bai Juyi, "Only see the autumn moon white in the middle of the river."

This poetic name was given by Ren Qiubai's father, who was a scholar but didn't pass the imperial examination. Ren Qiubai's father went to Guizhou to be a flowing official and died of malaria. Ren Qiubai's younger brother was a confused person and occupied the family property alone. Not only that, he also insisted on "promising" Ren Qiubai to this Master Chu.

This Master Chu was a sick seedling, physically weak since childhood, and only ten years old. Saying it was a promise was actually selling her to the Chu family as a child bride.

Ren Qiubai was the legitimate daughter, and her biological mother was a lady of a big family, but she died early. This younger brother was born of a concubine. Everything that happened in the Ren family was the idea of the stepmother.

It happened that Ren Qiubai hadn't entered the Chu family's door yet, and the imperial court abolished the lowly slave registration. Child brides were definitely not allowed. Neither of the two magistrates was a good person. Yan Shixuan and Yao Guangming were both ruthless people, and Shen Shixing was even more vicious. The imperial court's decree said to execute it, so it had to be thoroughly executed! If a child bride was found, it would be confiscated at the lightest, and the family would be confiscated at the heaviest. Opposing the new policy was not a minor crime that could be redeemed with silver.

Ren Qiubai ran away on the day the lowly slave registration was abolished, ran to her grandmother's house, and hid from these disasters. When her grandmother's house saw that the Chu family and Ren family were aggressive, they wanted to promise this granddaughter to the soldier. Knowing that she was a soldier's family, the Chu family and Ren family would not dare to force her again. The Great Ming Navy's legal division, the Songjiang Navy Town's Pacification Commission, was not a vegetarian.

This Qin Zhao's son, Qin Zhongke, went to pick up the bride today, and something happened on the road. The Chu family came to grab the bride!

"Your Majesty, Qin Zhao has seven head-cutting achievements, all of which are Japanese pirates, and three armored ones, all of which were head-cutting achievements before the third year of Wanli; Qin Zhongke has three head-cutting achievements, two Japanese pirates, and one red-haired barbarian, all of which were killed when building the port on Tsushima Island last year." Feng Bao's words could not be clearer. These were soldiers with achievements and the foundation of the Great Ming Navy.

Feng Bao said this because he was afraid that Qin Zhao and Qin Zhongke would suffer. These were his own people, the iron-clad Emperor's party among the Emperor's party, the foundation among the foundation. If he, the young master Huang of the Grand General's mansion, didn't take action immediately, it wouldn't be justified.

Zhu Yijun slapped the table and said to Zhao Mengyou, "Bring the firearms, let's go! Today, even if Ye Shu comes, I won't let the Qin father and son suffer this grievance!"

Feng Bao waved his hand and shouted loudly, "Go together, go together. Young Master Huang is a noble of the Grand General's mansion! Today, this matter, Young Master Huang will manage it! What kind of dog fart Chu family, Ren family, if Chongde Ward is bullied today, tomorrow, the sky will collapse! Everyone go together!"

Feng Bao was afraid that the world would not be chaotic. No matter how big the matter was, this was the old nest of the navy, Songjiang Prefecture. There were 3,000 embroidered uniform guards stationed in Shanghai County, and 30,000 Beijing Camp guards stationed in the city. Even if the gods of the West descended to earth, they would have to go back where they came from.

Zhu Yijun led a group of people to show off their power, followed closely behind, which was called arrogant and bullying. The embroidered uniform guards even put up signs of "silence" and "avoidance" to open the way, absolutely not letting the Emperor see the fun late. Zhu Changzhi was extremely excited, holding a small fist in Zhao Mengyou's arms, hammering the iron armor, and his hands were hammered red.

This was very unsteady, but because he was acting in the name of Young Master Huang of the Grand General's mansion, there was no problem.

Zhu Yijun didn't get up early to catch a late market. When he arrived, the time was just right.

"Chu Yuntian! Don't be too arrogant." Qin Zhao supported his son and said angrily to a man in brocade robes.

Qin Zhongke was a man nearly seven feet tall, but he was beaten, with several shoe prints on his body. He was fine, just a bit embarrassed.

"Qin the Lame, I tell you, today, even if the Li Li Tianwang comes! I have decided to grab this marriage! Anyone who wants to take away the people of my Chu family, don't even think about it!" Chu Zhongtian looked at Qin Zhao and said sternly, "A group of wandering people, once they get power, they want to ride on the head of our Chu family! In the future, can our Chu family still raise their heads in Shanghai Beach!"

"Li Li Tianwang, who is calling me? Who is calling me?" Zhu Yijun walked out slowly. The embroidered uniform guards had already opened the road. Zhu Yijun walked to the front step by step, looked at Qin Zhongke's appearance, frowned, and said, "Why are you beaten so embarrassed?"

The groom's clothes were torn, but he wasn't injured and didn't see blood. Even the Japanese pirates didn't make Qin Zhongke so embarrassed.

This Chu Zhongtian was arrogant in his mouth, but he still had a sense of proportion in his hands. If he really saw blood, the Songjiang Navy Town's Pacification Commission would have to find trouble for their family.

"There is military discipline. You are not allowed to fight privately after leaving the camp. Those who violate the order will be removed from the registration. My son is a soldier, they are commoners, so I can't hit them." Qin Zhao's eyes were red, and he answered this question for his son. Military discipline is like a mountain. Even if Qin Zhongke was angry, he couldn't do it and could only be beaten.

This was also the reason why Qin Zhao asked those on duty not to go.

"Good man, I'll manage this matter." Zhu Yijun's mouth twitched, his face became even colder. What kind of dog fart Master Chu was this? He wanted to see if there was anyone more difficult to deal with in Songjiang Prefecture than Xu Jie.

"Chu Zhongtian, right." Zhu Yijun opened his folding fan, looked at the person opposite, and said with a fake smile, "Today's matter, I'll manage it. You draw a line, how can you be willing to let people go?"

The other party had hostages, and Ren Qiubai's sedan chair was in the other party's hands.

"Who are you?" Chu Zhongtian still knew some proportions. This noble young master brought the embroidered uniform guards. At first glance, he was not from a small family.

Zhu Yijun said coldly, "Huang of Penglai, disciple of the Grand General, Huang Zhongxing, living in the Duke of Fengguo's mansion. Chu Zhongtian, you think the Qin father and son are wandering people, what about me?"

"Good, noble!" Chu Zhongtian answered through gritted teeth. He didn't expect this situation at all. When did this Qin Zhao father and son get involved with the Grand General's mansion? Today, they really hit an iron plate.

"Young Master Huang is from the capital. Since he has a great background, he must be reasonable. Then our Chu family gave silver and bought Ren Qiubai, spending a full five thousand taels of silver!"

"The imperial court abolished the lowly slave registration decree. This is a great happy event for the whole world. Ren Qiubai's lowly slave registration was abolished, but the Ren family didn't return the betrothal gift to me. Our Chu family and Ren family are both families with faces. This marriage is known to everyone in Shanghai."

"This Ren Qiubai, being a daughter-in-law for my younger brother, is it wronging her? She hid and refused to marry."

"This is the order of parents and the words of the matchmaker. I have a betrothal letter here, issued by the Ren family."

Chu Zhongtian handed a betrothal letter to an embroidered uniform guard and let the guard turn it in. It was indeed a very legal betrothal letter. The order of parents, the stepmother was the only elder in the family.

After Young Master Huang confirmed the betrothal letter, Chu Zhongtian spat fiercely and said, "If you are reasonable, the Qin family shouldn't have made this marriage! Qin the Lame knew this situation and still insisted on grabbing it. He doesn't understand the rules!"

"Grandfather Emperor, General Qi transferred three infantry battalions into the city, two surrounded here, and one surrounded the Chu family." Feng Bao reminded the Emperor to be spirited and not lose points!

Qi Jiguang made a clear formation, not cherishing his reputation, letting the Emperor make a mess of the sky. If it was smaller, General Qi would not be satisfied.

Qin Zhongke sighed, took out the betrothal letter from his sleeve, and said, "You have a betrothal letter, and I have one too! Also, keep your mouth clean. If you call my father a lame again, I will kill you!"

Zhu Yijun didn't even look at the betrothal letter shown by Qin Zhongke, stretched out three fingers, and said, "If you dare to move my people, I will count to three. You give me the person, and I will talk to you about this matter slowly. If you don't want to, immediately, step on your Chu family!"

A servant ran to Chu Zhongtian's ear in a panic and said urgently. Obviously, Chu Zhongtian knew exactly about the news that the Chu family was surrounded.

"Young Master Huang, don't be too bullying!" Chu Zhongtian said in great horror. How could there be such a thing? If you don't agree, you will step on it. This is really reasonable! Who drew the line? If you don't agree, you will destroy the whole family!

Zhu Yijun was waiting for the Beijing Camp to enter the city. He only said two sentences, letting Chu Zhongtian draw the line.

"Three!"

"Two!"

"Give, give, give! Young Master Huang, show mercy, show mercy!" Chu Zhongtian was scared silly. This guy really did what he said! He didn't dare to gamble. Without family background, even if he lived, it would be worse than death.

Are you gambling that this big villain is bluffing?

"I thought you were brave, but that's it?" Zhu Yijun saw the sedan chair being carried back, and Qin Zhongke confirmed that the bride was not injured, so he let go of his hand, mocking Chu Zhongtian. He thought Chu Zhongtian was very domineering, but he was so cowardly. When killing the whole family, he knelt down so quickly.

Chu Zhongtian naturally had something to say. You have 3,000 troops surrounding the house, and nine-catty gunpowder cannons blocking the front door. If you are brave again, dare to say a "no" word to you?

"I let the person go, can Young Master Huang lift the siege?"

The young master Huang in front of him hadn't ordered to lift the siege yet. If he retracted his finger, their whole family would die. This was not a curse, but a physical death of the whole family.

He came to grab the bride, which was crazy enough. This Young Master Huang was too crazy, even crazier than him!

"No, you can't lift the siege. Talking to someone like you, you have to have a gun pointed at your whole family's forehead before you can listen." Zhu Yijun shook his head repeatedly and said, "You come over, stand still."

Chu Zhongtian walked over with a strange face, his face was sauce-colored. Today, this person, the face was lost!

"Qin Zhongke, right? Go up and kick him. How many footprints are on your body, kick back as many." Zhu Yijun remembered Qin Zhongke's embarrassment. This matter cannot end with Chu Zhongtian admitting defeat.

"I see which of you dog legs dare to move. Whoever moves dies!" Zhu Yijun looked at the group of servants. The embroidered uniform guards' firearms were already aimed at them.

It's not over. Today, the face of Master Chu in Shanghai Beach is lost!

This is a dog fight between the dandies. He, Chu Zhongtian, is unreasonable, so Young Master Huang will naturally be even more unreasonable!

The first dandy in the capital, never loses points! ===== CHAPTER 698 =====

It's not over yet; today, this Young Master Chu of the Shanghai Bund is definitely going to lose face!

This is just a dogfight between fops; since he, Chu Zhongtian, doesn't care about reason, Young Master Huang will naturally be even more unreasonable!

The number one fop of the capital will absolutely not lose any points!