Chapter Twenty-Six: A Windfall
In the face of the stubborn resistance of Liu Zeqing's personal soldiers, Ji Feng decisively took out Liu Zeqing's head and held it in his hand.
Laugh at!
Ji Feng hacked to death a personal soldier of Liu Zeqing who was blocking the road with a knife, held Liu Zeqing's head high, and shouted: "Liu Zeqing plotted to rebel, and now he has been killed, everyone should immediately lay down their weapons, otherwise they will be killed!" ”
Liu Zeqing's head is quite shocking, most of the soldiers were so frightened that their faces turned pale after seeing Liu Zeqing's head clearly, trembling all over, and slowly put down their weapons and knelt down to surrender, after all, Liu Zeqing was already dead, and he was surrounded by His Royal Highness the Prince's troops, the prince represents the future emperor and represents the entire 'imperial court', where do they still dare to resist the imperial court, that is, they are loyal to Liu Zeqing, and Liu Zeqing is still alive, isn't it?
In this way, although most of Liu Zeqing's personal soldiers surrendered, there are still a small number of red-eyed and stubborn resistance, they are all orphans adopted by Liu Zeqing, and they have long been trained by Liu Zeqing to be like a dead soldier, and they are not afraid of death at all, they just want to avenge Liu Zeqing.
"Kill or kill!" Ji Feng ordered blatantly, and he also rushed forward to fight, and he was covered in blood in a moment, I have to say that Ji Feng is quite brave!
After half an hour of purging, all the rebels were killed on the spot, and the whole Liu Mansion was stained red with blood!
All the old and young people of the Liu Mansion were arrested, and they fell to their knees one by one, trembling with fright from the bloody scene in front of them, and many weak women were even directly frightened and fainted.
"The last general will report to His Royal Highness the Prince, the Liu Mansion has been purged, and all the people related to Liu Zeqing are here, please send His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to the whereabouts!" Ji Feng knelt down on one knee and reported to Zhu Cihong.
Zhu Cihong glanced at it coldly, and found that most of them were women, and there were nearly a hundred young and beautiful women, some of them cried bitterly, and some of them looked at Liu Zeqing's head with a frightened face and a relieved smile, many of them must have been robbed by Liu Zeqing, and they were also people with a hard life, Zhu Cihong felt pity.
"All the direct family members surnamed Liu will be killed, and the rest will be released, go home if you have a home, and --- if you don't have a home, stay here, and the prince will find a way to resettle them." Originally, according to the charges placed in Liu Zeqing, all the people in the Liu Mansion should be killed, even the Nine Clans, but Zhu Cihong is not a person who loves to kill, where can he be so ruthless.
"The last general obeys!"
The blood stained red again, and all those who were close to Liu Zeqing were killed, even the newborn child. It's not that Zhu Cihong is ruthless, in fact, he is already very merciful, after all, Liu Zeqing's crime is rebellion, no matter what, his children can't be let go, otherwise how can he deter others.
Qian Buxian was scared silly, and then Ji Feng brought it out.
"No, it's none of my business, I don't have the surname Liu, and I have nothing to do with Liu Zeqing!" Qian Buquan shouted in fear, and the corpses in one place scared him into incontinence.
"Hehe, Lao Tzu knows that you are not surnamed Liu, but you are Liu Zeqing's son-in-law, giving advice to Liu Zeqing, and being Liu Zeqing's confidant and strategist, how can you say that you have nothing to do with Liu Zeqing." Ji Feng smiled, and naturally recognized that there was no shortage of money This Liu Zeqing's son-in-law, the first strategist by Liu Zeqing's side, the reason why Liu Zeqing has today's status is indispensable for his advice.
"Your Highness! What to do with this person! ”
Zhu Cihong looked at this person, he looked like a scholar, but he had a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, a typical greedy for life and afraid of death, a selfish person, but he didn't expect that he was Liu Zeqing's most important strategist, and he must also be a smart person, but he couldn't keep it, damn it.
Zhu Cihong's eyes narrowed slightly, revealing murderous intent.
Qian is not lacking in being good at observing words and feelings, and at a glance he found Zhu Cihong's murderous intention, and squinted at the blood-stained knife in Ji Feng's hand beside him, and his fear almost paralyzed him, his face was pale, and the liquid flowing under his crotch was squeezing.
"Your Highness spares your life, Your Highness spares your life! The villain deserves death, Liu Zeqing's rebellion really has nothing to do with the villain, the villain doesn't know, the villain swears that it's all true, it was Liu Zeqing who threatened the little one to stay by his side, in fact, the little one can't wait to ---------- "There is no shortage of money, and the curse is cleared, showing greed for life and fear of death."
Zhu Cihong was disdainful, and he was about to open his mouth to kill this person.
"Your Highness, Your Highness! The villain has important information, and hopes that His Royal Highness can spare the villain's life, and the villain vows to worship His Highness at home every day, pray for His Highness, and bless His Highness with peace and happiness. ”
Zhu Cihong smiled coldly, he is not dead, how can he need this person to be worshiped every day. Although he was not ashamed of this person's words, Zhu Cihong was very interested in the important things he said.
"Oh? What's important? What's going on? If you can really get this prince to come up with a reason not to kill you, this prince can spare your life, and even take you to Nanjing, and it is not necessary to keep you by your side to serve your life! ”
"Back to His Royal Highness, the villain knows that Liu Zeqing's huge wealth hidden in the mansion is very huge, and His Royal Highness will be satisfied if he gets it. Liu Zeqing actually has nearly 20,000 mountain bandits in various parts of Shandong, and usually specializes in blocking roads and robbing and killing passing merchants, forcibly collecting protection fees in various places, and all the huge wealth obtained is hidden in this mansion, and the villain knows the location. Money is not lacking and said.
Zhu Cihong's heart moved, Liu Zeqing so amassed wealth, presumably there should be a lot, this went to Jiangnan, although he ascended the throne as the emperor, but the Ming Dynasty needed too many places to use money, relying on annual taxes to make ends meet, if you can get this windfall, it is also a blessing.
"In that case, why don't you lead the way!" Zhu Cihong said coldly.
There is no shortage of money to take Zhu Cihong and others to a small courtyard.
"Your Highness, there is a secret room built by Liu Zeqing secretly underground, and the entrance is under the ground of that room, as long as you dig up an inch of mud, you can see a stone slab, and prying open the stone slab is the passage of the secret room." Qian Youquan pointed to a room that was not good-looking.
According to the instructions of the money, Zhu Cihong ordered the soldiers to dig up the soil, and sure enough, he found a large stone slab. Zhu Cihong hurriedly ordered someone to pry open the stone slab, and a hey-yo hole appeared, which must be the passage to the secret room.
"Zhang Kuishan, you take people down and move all the things inside." Zhu Cihong ordered.
"The last general obeys!" Zhang Kuishan immediately lit a torch and walked down with more than a dozen East Palace Imperial Forest Soldiers, and a quarter of an hour later, as one by one boxes were carried up, piled up in the courtyard, there were dozens of boxes, each of which was extremely heavy, and several strong East Palace guards were struggling, and after carrying all the boxes up, they were so tired that they almost fell down.
"Open it up and see!"
The boxes were opened one by one, and they were all gold, silver and jewelry, dozens of large boxes, how could there be one or two million taels of silver, it was really a huge fortune, and it could be sent now.
After counting, the property obtained was about 2.8 million taels of silver, which was more than Zhu Cihong's estimate.
"Your Highness---" Ji Feng looked at the huge wealth in front of him and couldn't help but speak, but his expression was embarrassed.
"If General Ji has anything to say, you might as well say it directly." Zhu Cihong asked in a harmonious voice.
Ji Feng took a deep breath and said, "Your Highness, in fact, the army outside the city has not been paid for three months, can Your Highness ---?"
Although Ji Feng didn't finish speaking, Zhu Cihong naturally understood what he meant, didn't say a word, and waved his hand without hesitation: "Order, all the silver will be paid, and the order will be paid for three months, and the prince hereby promises that if he ascends the throne in the future, he will not delay the Ming soldiers to pay the slightest silver, and the world will learn from it!" ”
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