Two or three hundred martial arts thugs, personal combat strength can indeed not be ignored, but thugs are thugs, not the army, not well-trained soldiers, heads-up, their force is not inferior to Jinyiwei, but group fighting, it is not a star and a half.

In just a quarter of an hour, two or three hundred thugs were all put down by Jinyiwei, and they were all tied up one by one, as for Fan Yongdou, Fan Yongdou, who was still thinking about slipping away, had already been stared at by the blue sky.

Just about to take advantage of the chaos to escape, Lan Tianzheng made a move, and the waist knife in his hand came out of his hand, hitting Fan Yongdou's knee!

Yes......

Fan Yongdou let out a terrible scream, his entire knee was shattered by the waist knife, and he fell to the ground, rolling uncontrollably.

Lan Tianzheng shouted coldly: "Order, no one in the Fan Mansion is allowed to let go, all of them are tied up for me!" All the property of Fan's Mansion was confiscated, the walls were mezzanine, and the cellar was not allowed to be spared, even a mouse hole, and it was going to be opened for me! ”

All the five hundred brocade guards took action, and it didn't take long for the entire Fan Mansion to go up and down, more than four hundred people, all of them were tied up, and all the rooms in the Fan Mansion were turned over, and the silver taels, jewelry, and antiques in the cellar were as many as cow hair!

It lasted until dusk, and the Fan family's property was counted, 54,000 taels of gold, 430,000 taels of silver, jewelry, jade, and treasures.

"My lord, we found the yellow coat of the Manchurian Tartars to the Fan family in the mezzanine of the wall, as well as a large number of letters of collaborating with the enemy!"

Jinyi Wei Baihu Zuo Qing said urgently.

Lan Tianzheng was holding a letter in his hand, threw it on Fan Yongdou's face, and said coldly: "Fan Yongdou, what else do you have to say?" ”

Fan Yongdou's face was gray, everyone had stolen goods, what else is there to say, the evidence is ironclad, I am afraid that this time the whole family will not survive......

The same thing is happening in other parts of Shanxi.

the two Wang families in Taiyuan, the Jin family, the Liang family, and the Tian family in Datong; The Zhai family in Pingyang and the Huang family in Daizhou, in just a few days, almost all of the eight Jin merchants were swept away!

Together with Tong Guotai, the political envoy of Shanxi, they were all arrested.

The eight Jin merchants plus one political envoy have confiscated too much gold and silver property, even if Lan Tian is leading a thousand brocade guards, Cao Huachun has brought another thousand brocade guards, together, a full two thousand people, they are a little helpless for so much wealth, too much!

In desperation, Cao Huachun and Lan Tianzheng had to ask Yang Yulian, the commander of Shanxi, to mobilize two thousand troops to join in, protect a cart of gold, silver and jewelry, and return to the capital!

It took twenty days, Lan Tianzheng escorted the family of the eight Jin merchants and Tong Guotai's family back to Beijing City, even if all those thugs were left in Shanxi prison, the population escorted into Beijing has exceeded five hundred, as for the family property, it is needless to say, gold and silver alone, there are hundreds of carts, 200,000 taels of gold, 8 million taels of silver, and ten carts of jewelry, this is only the wealth of the eight Jin merchants in Shanxi, all of which are real money and silver, if the grange and mansion are converted into cash, Twenty million taels of silver are almost there!

In the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen placed two large wooden boxes in front of him, one containing evidence of the Jin merchants' collaboration with the enemy, and the other was a copy of the Jin merchants' account books!

Don't talk about Chongzhen, even when Zhu Jie saw this number, his heart was pounding, the silver exceeded 10 million taels, which was a lot more than the total amount of taxes in the imperial court in a year! This is not counting the gold and silver counted in the capital, if the Jin merchants are in the world, it is really not in vain!

As for the other courtiers, they were also dumbfounded, my obedient man, I knew that the Jin merchants were rich, but I didn't expect to be so rich, even if it was the richest big man in the court, compared with the Tian family, the weakest of the eight Jin merchants, it was also a small thing! The property confiscated by the smallest Tian family, even the gold and silver in the Grange, is close to two million taels!

"Hehe, okay, okay, I really didn't expect that there are so many rich businessmen and giants in Shanxi, moths, moths of the country! No, they are not rich and invincible, and the wealth they have has far exceeded the tax income of the imperial court! ”

Chongzhen covered his face with frost and shouted: "Spread the decree, all the eight families of the Jin Shang Dynasty will be beheaded, and no one will be left!" All the gold and silver confiscated were handed over to the treasury, and all the land and property under his name were confiscated to the imperial court and charged into the imperial village; issued an order to severely reprimand Gui Tianlan, the governor of Shanxi, and fined him for one year, and Ge Chun, the inspector of Shanxi Province, became the governor of Daizhou! “

Above the court, no one dares to talk nonsense anymore, but the new head of the household department Ni Yuanlu is happy, he has just taken office, it has only been less than a month, and tens of millions of taels of silver have flown in at once. 20 million taels, I can't spend it in a year!

"The emperor is shengming, the emperor is shengming!"

Ni Yuanlushan shouted long live, and a group of ministers behind him naturally sang praises along.

"Hmph, you still have the face to speak?"

Chongzhen shouted: "It's all you, crying in front of me every day that the businessmen in the world are in trouble, they have no life, they don't let me increase taxes, don't let me increase taxes, don't let me increase taxes, are they so embarrassed?" They have more wealth than my treasury! It's dozens of times more than my inner son! My grace has been given to them, and how have they repaid me? How did they repay me! From next year, all businessmen in the country, but those who earn more than 500 taels of silver a year and more than 40 taels of silver a month, will have a tax of 10 taels, and those who have an annual income of less than 500 taels will have a tax of 15 taels! All merchants, regardless of whether they have merit or not, cancel all favors and exemptions, and all shops under the names of courtiers are no exception! From this year onwards, the taxes of farmers in Jiangnan will be halved, and the taxes of Shanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, and Zhili provinces will be exempted, and the people will rest! ”

All the courtiers' faces turned green, not only canceled the benefits and exemptions of all merchants, but even the courtiers and nobles were withdrawn, not only were they withdrawn, but they also had to pay a tax of one out of ten in the future! Ten taxes are one, that is, for every one hundred taels of silver earned, ten taels of silver must be paid! Black, too dark, this emperor's heart is too black!

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you can't help it, you can't help it, with such a heavy tax, most of the businessmen in the world will collapse! Is the world still messed up? ”

University scholar Qiu Yu said urgently.

"Then you mean that if you levy heavy taxes on the peasants, the world will not be chaotic? Look at the farmers in Henan, Shaanxi, who now don't even have the bark to eat! ”

Chongzhen roared angrily.