Chapter 509: The Little Black House of Fuji in Beizhen
What does it mean that the 800 Donglin remnants have been released? When the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty were celebrating with their crowns, Wei Liangdong drove to the Yamen of Beizhen and asked angrily, "Fearless, what do you want to do? Uncle is furious and is about to ask you for his guilt!"
Chang Wei comforted him unhurriedly, "Grandpa, I have a few questions for you." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info First, where does everyone's power come from? including your uncle. ”
Wei Liangdong replied as a matter of course: "Naturally, it is from the emperor, and who the emperor wants to fly is just a matter of one sentence." ”
Chang Wei nodded and said, "Yes, second, what kind of talent does the emperor want, or what kind of person, can he get the emperor's trust?"
Wei Liangdong said: "This is a lot of generals, generals who can make meritorious contributions, officials who can increase national taxes, and people who can share the emperor's worries, in short, they are not Donglin Party members." ”
"It may not be that they can't be members of the Donglin Party, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan are both from Donglin. Chang Wei said meaningfully: "The emperor's greatest wish is to recover Liaodong, right? Although it takes fierce generals and famous ministers to subdue Liaodong, in the final analysis, it needs money! Therefore, whoever can make money for the imperial court will be trusted by the emperor, what do you say?"
Wei Liangdong shook his hand and said: "Needless to say, we have a conclusion when we are in Jiangnan, the question is what does this have to do with your release of the Donglin Yu Party?"
Chang Wei said with a smile: "Can those people get money for the imperial court? Not only cannot, but because of this, I will be impeached if I do anything to offend a large number of courtiers." There are so many harms and no benefits, so why should I lock them up?"
Wei Liangdong said again: "What about Wang Huazhen and those more than 200 people? To tell you the truth, holding their uncle can squeeze out 3.5 million taels of silver every year!"
Chang Wei said in a low voice: "Then it's even more of a problem, kill this group of people, confiscate their homes, and always copy out two or three million taels, right? This silver is enough for the Liaodong soldiers to pay half a year's silver." As for your uncle, after the machine bureau is erected, I will give him a factory that can make a lot of money, and how about guaranteeing that he will receive 500,000 taels of silver a year?
Wei Liangdong said with a smile: "There should be no problem if you do this, I'll go back and persuade you." ”
Chang Wei said again: "I cleaned up the edict prison, and I am bound to find a person who carries the black cauldron, and this person can also fight Wei Liangqing!"
Wei Liangdong said excitedly: "You mean Xu Xianchun, that bastard thing is Wei Liangqing's right-hand man, and he is guaranteed to make Wei Liangqing thunder!"
"That's good!" Chang Wei's eyes lit up, "Originally, the edict was under Xu Xianchun's control, but now I have released eight hundred innocent ones, and I want to kill two hundred guilty ones, if you don't clean up Xu Xianchun, you will let the courtiers attack your uncle, don't tell me about this matter, I will do it secretly!"
Wei Liangdong said with a smile: "Don't worry, I can tell the difference!"
Chang Wei said again: "After you go back, you gently persuade your uncle, just say that so many people in Donglin can't be killed, you are like Wang Wenyan, a prison official who was born in the middle school, you don't kill him, he is just a little person who no one knows, killing him will make him famous all over the world." ”
"After a few years, when his son grows up, he will have the identity of a showman, and even as long as he has a little strength, he will be promoted by the Donglin gang, and he will immediately become the new leader of the Donglin Party. He doesn't need to be an official, as long as he talks about how miserable his father was and how heroic his death was, he can influence a large number of scholars, and those people will immediately become new enemies as soon as they pass the examination.
Chang Wei said earnestly: "Killing people is not the emperor's original intention, it is the real merit to fight Liaodong for the imperial court! Your uncle really wants to kill people, then let Wei Liangqing and his men do it! Let's pick up those irrelevant little minions and release them, in the long run, Wei Liangqing's reputation will get worse and worse, and my reputation will get better and better. At that time, we will make a fortune while making a lot of money, and we will gain a good reputation, and we can also get the emperor's favor, this business is really impossible to find with lanterns!"
Wei Liangdong slapped the table excitedly, "In short, let Wei Liangqing do the things that offend people, let's be good people! Haha, fearless, you really have you!"
In the end, Chang Wei took out another 100,000 taels of silver tickets: "You can't dispel your uncle's anger with a few words, so use this to make amends to his old man." ”
Wei Liangdong sighed: "Your big way of sprinkling silver is really invincible!"
Chang Wei shook his head and said: "This is done at a great risk, and it is known by the imperial historian, I will not be able to eat and go around!"
Sent Wei Liangdong Changwei to interrogate the two hundred corrupt officials overnight, although the Jinyi Wei in Beizhen was tired but happy, because all the people who participated in the interrogation were not only full of wine and meat, but also had a bounty of one or two silver every day, which made those who did not take the turn to do the task red.
Chang Wei also lived in the closed prison, except for paying attention to the progress of the case, that is, writing the Wealth of Nations, except for entering the palace once a day to deliver manuscripts, he did not go anywhere else.
The new method of interrogation is not so rough, but the classic Guan Xiao Black House.
It was a cramped and cramped closed room, although it was ventilated but very aggrieved, and there was an extremely strong sense of oppression, because it was completely dark, the eyesight would fail, and there would be a strong sense of fear because of loneliness.
There is silence where only the sound of his own heartbeat can be heard, and the prisoner will realize what it means to be isolated, in this small world where you can't sit or lie down and can only stand against the wall, you are alone, and the endless loneliness and fear will make people have the urge to go crazy.
There was nothing to do in that cramped space, and if you wanted to sleep, it couldn't be, because a refreshing drug would be fed into the vents, and the time would be extremely long and painful, and the food would only be steamed buns and a bowl of water.
At first, the Jinyi guards were very unimpressed, they thought that this kind of benevolent method would not work at all against these old fritters in the prison, but after three days and three nights, most of them were crying like crazy and screaming to get out.
After being transferred to the interrogation room, these people wept bitterly and felt like they were reincarnated, because in the past, they had money to make it, they could collude inside and outside, not only did they have some freedom, but they also had good food and drink, and this cruel mental torture was not something they could bear.
Of course, there are some hard-boned ones, who continue to be locked up in a small black room, but this time they are shining with bright kerosene lamps all day and night, staring at the light all the time, and they are not allowed to close their eyes or move, otherwise they will be a whip!
After seven days of torture, 200 and 35 people, led by Wang Huazhen, confessed to the crime! Only then did the Jinyi guards become afraid of the new boss's methods. (To be continued.) )