The development of the matter is similar to Zhu Daming's judgment. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhen Gao Shiming and Wang Guoxing came to the door of Tian Ergeng's mansion with the men and horses of Yiluansi, Fang Zhenghua was already waiting there with the people of Dongchang.

Wang Guoxing's subordinate Captain Yiluan Si Jinyi immediately stepped forward and kicked open the gate of Tianfu. The servants in the door saw that it was the Jinyi guard who came in, followed by the eunuchs in the palace, and they were shocked and immediately ran to the back house to report the news.

Gao Shiming didn't wait for any news, and then entered the inner house. In the originally quiet and calm courtyard, chickens and dogs suddenly jumped up. In the end, in the study of Gao Shiming and Fangzhenghua's inner house, I saw Tian Ergeng.

At this time, Tian Ergeng had long lost the spirit of the original commander of the Jinyi Guard, but it was only a few days, but he seemed to be ten years old.

Tian Ergeng raised his eyes and looked at these people who usually didn't pay attention to them at all, and said with a little disdain: "Father-in-law Gao, father-in-law Fang, hehe, and Wang Guoxing, you are a rare guest in my Tian's house, when did you last come here?" ”

After saying these words, it was as if he was really remembering when these people had come, pinching his fingers and calculating something. Gao Shiming also smiled and glanced at Wang Guoxing. Hearing only a muffled bang, Wang Guoxing threw the things wrapped in white cloth in his hands on the desk in front of Tian Ergeng.

Gao Shiming smiled again and said to Tian Ergeng: "Lord Tian, you better see what this thing is first, and it's not too late for us to talk about the rest later." ”

Tian Ergeng looked at the three of them, and then looked at the Dongchang Fanzi and the Jinyi Lieutenant of the Yiluan Division who were gathered at the door of the study, and then looked down at the package on the case, which was stained with a lot of blood, and suddenly, he seemed to realize something, quickly opened the package, and suddenly opened his eyes wide, and his face showed surprise.

I saw Tian Ergeng take a deep breath and say to the three people not far in front of him: "Duke Wei is dead, what else is there to say?" After saying this, he was silent for a moment, and then continued: "Does the emperor have anything to say for you to bring to Tian?" ”

Gao Shiming and Fang Zhenghua glanced at each other, then smiled slightly, and said, "Lord Tian is a smart person, he should know our intentions." As for the emperor's will, the matter has come to this point, and Lord Tian still wants the emperor to say something to you, and what can the emperor say to you? ”

Hearing this, Tian Ergeng also smiled and said: "Once the son of heaven and a courtier, it is indeed a son of heaven and a courtier!" Then he said to Gao Shiming: "Can Grandpa Gao leave a whole corpse for Tian?" ”

Gao Shiming nodded at Fang Zhenghua and Wang Guoxing, and the three of them exited the study together. After a while, they heard the sound of stools falling to the ground in the house, and after a while, the three of them pushed the door in, and Tian Ergeng had hanged himself on the beams of the house, dead.

Fang Zhenghua immediately ordered someone to seal up Tian Ergeng's mansion and did not allow anyone to enter or leave. Gao Shiming sent someone back to the palace to report the progress at the same time, and hurried to Xu Xianchun's mansion.

However, only halfway through, Dongchang Fanzi reported that Xu Xianchun, the envoy of Beizhen, had killed himself at home.

Then the next thing went even more smoothly, within one day, more than ten senior henchmen such as the commander of the Jinyiwei in Beijing, including the commander and the commander, were all arrested, and the circle of henchmen of the Wei Party, who had been operating in the Jinyiwei for many years, also collapsed. Jinyiwei, who had been out of control for many years, returned to the grasp of the Ming Emperor.

Wei Zhongxian committed suicide in fear of sin!! The eunuch party, which was once in power and opposition, has fallen! Entering the middle of November, the cold is pressing, but the officialdom and the people in the capital are not cold at all, and contrary to the cold weather, the officialdom and the people are boiling. Moreover, this boiling also spreads along the Grand Canal, along the official roads going south and west, to the whole world.

The news about Wei Zhongxian's suicide in fear of crime was written in black and white on the newspaper posted outside the door of the General Administration, since the will of the imperial court said so, the simple people still believed in the imperial court's statement after all.

Of course, there was some gossip circulating in the officialdom, but the officials, who were shocked by the emperor's thunderous methods, did not dare to openly discuss the emperor's practices. After all, although this approach is a bit out of line with the rules that civilian officials have always adhered to, it is more enjoyable and crisp.

It may be that Wei Zhongxian's fame is too great, and what quickly spread from Beijing is mainly the news of Wei Zhongxian's suicide, and his henchmen and cronies, such as Tian Ergeng, the commander of Jinyiwei, and Xu Xianchun, the pacification envoy of Beizhen Fusi, the news that these people committed suicide on the same day in fear of crime seems to not be much of a concern, including the news that Wang Tiqian, the former master of ceremonies, who were ordered to leave Beijing and return to their hometowns, and the news that Li Yongzhen and others were arrested in Tongzhou was also covered up by Wei Zhongxian's death, and it was not spread so quickly or widely. But everyone who understands knows that the events that have occurred in the past few days are really of great significance to the Ming Dynasty.

In the next few days, the East Factory under Fang Zhenghua and the Yiluan Division under Gao Shiming made the entire Beijing Division a chicken, a dog and a dog. But there was no impeachment from the imperial historian, and no people complained about grievances.

Because the criminals arrested by Dongchang and Yiluan Division now are all Wei Party villains who were hated by hundreds of officials and people a few days ago and dared not speak out. In the eyes of the current Beijing officials and the common people, these people are simply rats crossing the street, and the reputation of Dongchang and Yiluan Si Jinyiwei has also greatly improved with the spread of this matter.

The common people of Jingshi even took the initiative to help them lead the way, pass on news to them, and expose those Wei henchmen who were hiding everywhere. The original Mrs. Fengsheng and her son Hou Guoxing and others were also arrested; It turned out that Wei Liangqing, Duke of Ningguo, Wei Liangdong, Marquis of Anping, and other nephews and nephews of Wei Zhongxian were also arrested, and so on. People were arrested, and family property was confiscated.

Fang Zhenghua has been very tired these days, but he is also very happy. This is not only because he feels the emperor's high trust in him, but also because he sees the excitement and joy that the emperor can't hide in his heart, not to mention that such a thing is beneficial to the court and the world, and it is also something he is very willing to do.

There is no money in Taicang, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, and there is not much money in the emperor's inner treasury, so that even the coffin of the Emperor of the Apocalypse has been suspended in the White Tiger Hall for more than three months, and the Deling Mausoleum, which is ready to bury the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao, has not been completed, so it cannot be buried.

But now it is different, Jinyiwei and Dongchang, just from Wei Zhongxian's mansion, copied more than four million taels of gold and silver, as well as too many pearls and jades, antiques and various calligraphy and paintings to be counted. Of course, there are more than 100,000 hectares of land deed, more than 100,000 hectares! These fields and Zhuangzi, some of them are in Wei Zhongxian's hometown of Suning, some are in Tongzhou and Huairou, some are in Zunhua and Yongping, and some are further away in Zhangjiakou, no matter what the reason is, they have all become the imperial court or the emperor's, and this is only in the name of Wei Zhongxian. The things obtained by the confiscated eunuchs must of course be returned to the inner treasury, after all, the eunuchs are all the emperor's domestic slaves.

Historically, Emperor Chongzhen originally ordered Wei Zhongxian to go to Fengyang to guard the imperial mausoleum, but Wei Zhongxian used sixty carts to leave Beijing with gold and silver property, and brought eight hundred retinues to protect the wealth he had accumulated.

Naturally, he was impeached again, and the officials in the places he passed through reported all kinds of show-offs on Wei Zhongxian's way south, and the Qingliu Imperial Historians who had turned over in the court were already resentful of him, and now they even grabbed the handle and impeached him vigorously.

Emperor Chongzhen was naturally very angry, and of course the consequences were very serious, and soon issued an order to arrest him and reconsider his guilt. As a result, Wei Zhongxian got the news in advance, and in fear, he simply committed suicide in the middle of the road.

By the time the arrest team sent by the capital arrived, the people who had escorted Wei Zhongxian before had already run away with the gold and silver property that Wei Zhongxian had accumulated for many years.

Killing the eunuchs, copying dirty silver, and using it for the state are the ways that Zhu Daming set from the beginning to get rich quickly, and it is also a shortcut to quickly alleviate the financial crisis. Although money is not everything, it is impossible to do without money. Zhu Daming has long known this truth.

Historically, Emperor Chongzhen cleaned up Wei Zhongxian and a group of eunuch bigwigs, but I don't know what he thought, and allowed these people to return to their hometowns with the wealth accumulated over the years. Chongzhen in history attaches great importance to fame and always wants to be an emperor like Yao Shun, so many things are too concerned about face, and too much attention is paid to the discussion in the court and in the scholars.

But the current Emperor Chongzhen doesn't think so, as long as the Ming Dynasty does not perish, he doesn't care about the discussions of the people of Shilin at all, and he doesn't care what kind of reputation he will leave in history. As the saying goes, history is written by the victors, no matter how upright you are, no matter how diligent you are, no matter how strict you are with yourself, once you lose the country, these things will become the evidence of your reputation and reputation, in the eyes of future generations, you are still a sinner in the world, at most you can only get the mercy of some people.

So this time, Wei Zhongxian and the eunuch bigwigs are a big deal, not only their lives can't be saved, but their wealth can't be saved. Therefore, Wei Zhongxian's nephews, nephews and grandchildren who were powerful in Beijing were also quickly raided, and the gold, silver, and grange that had been squandered by various tricks over the years were all returned to the emperor's internal transportation treasury at once.

Although their family property is a little less, it is more than two million, which is about the same as the original emperor's inner treasury of silver. If those piles of gold, silver, bronze, jade, silk and other possessions were converted into silver, I am afraid that it would far exceed the emperor's inner treasury.

Coupled with the original eunuchs of the inner court such as Wang Tiqian, Li Yongzhen, Cui Yingyuan, and Xu Dahua who were arrested, each family copied out a lot of wealth, more than a million taels, less than tens of thousands of taels, plus all kinds of fields, mansions and treasures, so busy that Wang Chengen and Fang Zhenghua didn't even have time to drink saliva and rest.

As the head of the internal transportation warehouse, Wang Chengen commanded his henchmen to register and check one by one, and he was really busy.