Chapter Eighty-Seven: Cleaning Up the Big Tiger and Feeding Emperor Chongzhen

Although Lin Yueshan is dead now, but fortunately, the gold is still there, and he has not been killed by Luo Yangxing, maybe Luo Yangxing feels that killing two is too conspicuous, and Lin Yueshan is just a Tongzhi from the four grades, and if he is killed, he will be killed; But Huang Jingui, as the deputy capital of the imperial history, the second-in-command of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, that is a real high power, who knows that day the emperor suddenly remembered and reactivated, then it will be a bad dish.

So, Chongzhen raised Huang Jingui from the prison, reinstated the official, and led the trial of the case with the Criminal Department and Dali Temple.

Huang Jingui and Lin Yueshan have already investigated the illicit salt case clearly, but, unfortunately, Lin Yueshan handed over the chapter happened to be discovered by Zhang Guowei, the servant of the Criminal Department, as a cabinet minister, Zhang Guowei pressed down the chapter for the first time, and then launched a fierce counterattack, more than a dozen bigwigs in the DPRK and China fired at the same time at the same time at one or two small salt transportation divisions, where is Lin Yueshan can bear it, and can only be unjustly imprisoned.

In just two days, Huang Jingui cleared all the cases.

Since the beginning of Chongzhen's ten years, Tian Hongyu teamed up with Luo Yangxing, Zhang Guowei and others, together with the help of Shanxi salt merchants' channels, to sell private salt, six years, Tian Hongyu and others made a profit of more than 3 million taels, of which Tian Hongyu alone took 800,000 taels of silver, Luo Yangxing and Zhang Guowei each took 500,000 taels, and others ranged from 100,000 taels to 300,000 taels.

With the protection of Tian Hongyu and Luo Yangxing, the wealthy merchants of Shanxi are unimpeded throughout the Central Plains and Saibei, not only selling illicit salt in several northern provinces, but even stretching their arms to Saibei and Jiangnan! The trade is getting bigger and bigger, but the official salt of the imperial court is becoming more and more difficult to do, and the private salt is cheap, so naturally it is impossible to run the official salt.

In addition to the case of illegal salt, Huang Jingui and Tian Hongyu's case of going south to Jiangnan were also clearly investigated, although Tian Hongyu was old, but in front of an old imperial history like Huang Jingui, it was still not enough to see, and it didn't take long for Tian Hongyu to come out.

Jiangnan line, Tian Hongyu all the way, received more than 20,000 taels of gold from officials at all levels, more than 300,000 taels of silver, in addition, there are a large number of celebrity calligraphy and paintings, antiques and treasures, all of which are priceless, over the years, Tian Hongyu's family wealth has exceeded 1.5 million taels of silver, just two days under the name of up to 8,000 hectares, 8,000 hectares, that is 800,000 acres of fertile land, under normal circumstances, even if it is a Zhili Prefecture in Shandong, there may not be 800,000 acres of fertile land, This kid's ability to make money is really a must!

When the deputy imperial envoy Huang Jingui, Pan Zengwei, the head of Dali Temple, Xu Shiqi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Zhu Jie, the chief soldier, were handed to Chongzhen, Chongzhen's face was green, and the moths, more than a dozen big moths, were all dug out! Three million taels of silver! This is just the silver that was corrupted in the case of private salt, if you add the silver they usually corrupt, I am afraid that if they add it up, there are not five million taels, and it is not far away!

"Passed the decree, Tian Hongyu, Luo Yangxing, and Zhang Guowei were all beheaded for public display, and all their families were distributed to Qiongzhou Island, and all family properties were confiscated! Zhang Jin, Zhang Xin and others were all dismissed from their posts and exiled to the northwest border, never to be used, and all family property was confiscated! ”

Chongzhen shouted viciously.

These seven or eight bigwigs are considered unlucky, Chongzhen's will, from the high-ranking court bigwigs, to the prisoners, the most unlucky Tian Hongyu, Luo Yangxing, Zhang Guowei and other three were sentenced to be beheaded after the autumn!

"Passing on the decree, posthumously presenting the former Salt Transportation Division with Lin Yueshan Zhongjingbo, posthumously awarding the book of the Criminal Department, and building a virtuous and virtuous temple with Xiangzi and the place where he served, and enjoying the four seasons of worship; Feng Lin Yueshan's wife, Mrs. Lin's Yipin, gave a house in the capital and was supported by the imperial court. Luo Yangxing, Tian Hongyu and others vacated their posts, and they were nominated by the cabinet ministers and court, and they planned to put forward a ......"

After disposing of these people, Chongzhen let out a long breath, looking a little tired, but although he looked tired, Chongzhen was indeed a little happy in his heart, and all of these moths were cut down, but, after all, it was seven or eight important members of the imperial court, all of them were cut, and the involvement was too big, so they could only cut three big tigers and make an example of them, and the most important thing was that the court was replenished, not to mention anything else, just by confiscating the property of the eight courtiers, it was enough to confiscate more than 130,000 taels of gold, nearly 3 million taels of silver, in addition, there were various mansions, Pawnshops, storefronts, and up to 30,000 hectares of fertile land!

With so much gold and silver in the treasury at once, at the very least, it can solve the urgent need.

"Zhu Aiqing, Sun Chuanting said that you are his lucky general, since you appeared, the army under him has been a succession of battles, and every time you have to hit the thieves hard; In my opinion, how can you not be a real blessed general? Tell me, you've done a great job this time, what reward do you want? ”

Chongzhen looked at Zhu Jie, his face softened, and he smiled.

"This ......"

Zhu Jie's face turned red, scratched the back of his head, and replied: "The emperor praised it falsely, the ministers are ashamed and dare not take it, the reward or something is secondary, but the advice of the ministers and you is the most important thing, the emperor, there is no delay at all, now the strength of the thief still exists, and the strength of the thief in Huguang, Sichuan should not be underestimated, and the occupation may deteriorate at any time; Moreover, the Manchurian Tartars in the north are not sure when they will be killed again, and there is not much time left for the imperial court to calmly arrange......

Other Chongzhen didn't care, but this sentence Manchurian Tartar couldn't say when he would kill back, which made Chongzhen care, why did he call Zhu Jie back? Isn't it just so that when the Qing army is in Koubian again, there can be good generals in the Gyeonggi area? Otherwise, if the Qing army is allowed to fight to Haizhou in one go, the imperial court will no longer be able to afford to lose that person!

"Zhu Aiqing, this time I summoned you back, just to let you stabilize the situation in Gyeonggi and prevent the Qing army from entering the Kou again, Ningyuan-Shanhaiguan area, there is Wu Sangui facing support, but I am not worried, the most important thing is that the Qing army broke through from Miyun to the hinterland of the Beijing division two or three times, bypassing the Shanhaiguan Pass, and bringing a fatal threat to the imperial court, your most important mission now is to block the Qing army from the north of the Great Wall!"

Zhu Jie took a deep breath and blocked the entrance of the Qing army? This is a terrible job, the current Qing army is not the Qing army ten years ago, now under the command of Huang Taiji Dorgon, there are more than 100,000 soldiers, all of them are the elite of a hundred battles, just relying on their own more than 10,000 people, they want to beat people down, that is unrealistic, unless everyone has a Type 02 automatic rifle, that can!

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice: "The emperor has an order, and the minister dares not to die?" It's just that the emperor, there are no soldiers and no generals under his ministers, and the 10,000 peasant troops who have just surrendered are not enough to stuff the Qing army! ”