Chapter 42: Tell the World
The Wei family's family background is quite rich, but there are 1.1 million taels of silver, 220,000 taels of gold, and the trunk of Jinyiwei is not enough.
Pull out more than a dozen cars of gold and silver, more than 20 cars of jade, jewelry, precious jade, calligraphy and painting, and porcelain from the Wei family, and there will be retribution in the end!
Comparable to the Wei family is Li Jiantai, a scholar of Dongge University and the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials, who is also the only big tiger under Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and the only cattle man who has as many as 50 wives and concubines.
His family also copied out one hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver, 170,000 taels of gold, precious jade, jade, pearl agate is countless, and Zheng Sanjun, who later learned the news, beat his feet and shook his chest, kowtowing madly to Chongzhen, to show that his majesty is not strict.
The work of raiding the house continued until the evening, and the six thousand brocade guards did not even have time to eat, and almost all the trailers, wooden boxes, and even wheelbarrows in the capital were all made out.
All the stolen goods were pulled out of the prisoner's house and transported directly into the household warehouse, from East Chang'an Avenue to West Chang'an Avenue, all kinds of cars lined up in long rows, and there was no end in sight.
Zheng Sanjun and Chongzhen inspected and checked in the household department, Chongzhen's brows were furrowed, Zheng Sanjun whimpered, half of the officials in the imperial court were corrupt to this point, and he still ate green vegetables that did not put oil and water and did not stain meat every day, and wore an imperial robe with several patches.
His queen, Queen Zhou, who has been silently supporting him for many years, is a big family, and the monthly expenses are not even worth a feast for these corrupt officials.
However, right and wrong will eventually be rewarded, and now he is no longer blind, not deaf, he has silver, Jinyiwei, Jingying, and Liu Hongji, who seems to him to be a genius.
The originally empty Hubu warehouse was stuffed full in one day, and there was no way, the rest of the convoy went straight into the imperial city, and Emperor Chongzhen's internal money was no longer short of money.
Late at night, the work of raiding the house finally came to an end, Liu Hong, who had not slept for two days and nights, gradually turned red, and Zheng Sanjun, the head of the household who had also been flashed by the silver of white flowers for a day, couldn't hold on.
But Emperor Chongzhen, who often stays up all night to review and review the folds, stands at the door of the household like a tireless perpetual motion machine, Daming, rich!
Liu Hong gradually transferred a whole thousand households to Beijing to be stationed in the household department, and the soldiers of the Beijing camp were personally seated by Li Huaizhong, the deputy governor of the Beijing camp.
After returning home, Liu Hongjian hurriedly went to the room to check the injury of his beloved wife Sun Xiuxiu, after two days of recuperation, the wound has scabbed, it seems that there is no big problem, Liu Hongji, whose eyes are red, finally lay on the bed and slept well.
The next morning, Liu Hong gradually got up early in the morning, put on a luxurious four-clawed python robe, a jade belt to tie his body, and an embroidered spring knife at his waist, and went straight to the Imperial Palace.
The Imperial Palace had already been cleaned by the eunuchs, and all the blood stains had been wiped and wiped by the palace maids, washed and washed, as if all the filth had also gone away.
Half of the ministers walked into this familiar and strange palace in order, familiar because for many years, they had to sit here almost every day, and the strange thing was that things were different now.
The colleagues who used to talk and laugh are now gone, and even the Emperor Chongzhen on the throne makes them feel extremely strange, and they can't see through this once angry emperor.
Wang Erxi shouted that the ministers had something to do, but the ministers only promised not to say a word.
This seemed to have been expected by Emperor Chongzhen, and after a moment of silence, Liu Hong, who was in the back row, gradually stepped forward.
"The minister has something to do, after the minister's liquidation yesterday for a whole day, the family property of the prisoner in the edict prison has copied out a total of 35 million taels of silver, 3.2 million taels of gold, 47 cars of pearl agate, and 53 cars of jade and jade.
All the surviving ministers who were still standing in the Imperial Palace were collectively speechless, and they couldn't imagine that their colleagues, who were once dressed in shabby official uniforms like them and were reluctant to ride even a coquettish son, were so rich.
Damn, they've been fooled! Only we are really poor! Damn it!
Liu Hong's voice was calm, and his expression was not very sad and joyful, these things had long been expected by him, and even he felt a little little, in his memory, after Li Zicheng broke through Beijing City, he should have copied out at least 70 million taels of silver.
But now counting gold, there is still a lot of difference, but where is the remaining silver taels?
Liu Hong gradually shook his head, and decided to ignore this matter for the time being, Daming is not short of money now, so there is nothing to do with him, I hope Chongzhen can sympathize with his hard work and spend some money.
Chongzhen naturally already knew this number, in fact, Chongzhen didn't sleep well all night last night, Daming is rich, but how to deal with these corrupt officials, where does the money of these Beijing officials come from? Which local officials are involved in this matter?
These have yet to be investigated, the king of a country looks majestic, but in fact, ordinary people and even ministers of the government and the opposition can also divide state affairs, family affairs, and world affairs, for Emperor Chongzhen, everything is his business.
So on this sleepless night, Chongzhen ordered people to serve with pen and ink, considered it for a long time, and wrote three imperial decrees.
Liu Hong gradually got up and went back to work after finishing his work, leaving only half of the ministers who were either looking at each other, or were filled with righteous indignation, or were sincerely frightened, and were in vain.
Chongzhen waved his hand to signal Wang Chengen behind him to step forward, and Wang Chengen held the first imperial decree and signaled the ministers to silence.
"Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said: Although I am cool and virtuous, I have succeeded to the throne for ten and seven years, and I dare not snub the ministers, and everything is based on it, and let it be done everywhere, but now I have not found 300 and 18 corrupt officials in Beijing, embezzled more than 30 million silver, and countless treasures.
The world is tired, the people are starving, with the wealth of all the people, the rich and a few corrupt officials, with the heart of forgetting the people, to repay the trust of me, my heart is very painful, not to get rid of it is not enough to anger the people, not to kill it is not enough to vent the army's death.
On April 18, at the entrance of Xishi Street, 318 people and their three clans were beheaded in several places, and slaves were given within the nine clans, and they were all exiled to Liangguang and Qiongzhou, and they were not allowed to be officials for all generations, so as to tell the world. ”
After the edict was read, the hundred officials were stagnant, the three tribes were all beheaded, the nine tribes were all slaves, and they were not allowed to be officials for all generations.
Maybe exile here is not as good as the joy of dying.
And what about Liu Hongchuan, who was standing at the end of Wuxun, his teeth were clenched in this matter, his face was MMP, and his heart was more than 10,000 alpacas galloping, and there was no end, why was it me again?