Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 202 Catch them all (Add more rewards for 300 times)

On the grassland in front of him, there was an army standing there, wearing red mandarin duck battle robes. The fiery red color was particularly dazzling under the sunlight.

This is a cavalry army, the cavalry army of Ming Dynasty, Shuai Qina, a "tiger" word, at this moment, it is obvious that people have a feeling of majesty, which makes people daunting!
Outside this pass, how... how could there be Ming army?Fan Yongdou was very surprised.But he also knew that there was no time for him to think about this issue.Hastily took the reins, and was about to turn around and flee into the mountains.Abandoning the horse and climbing the mountain, after dark, there may be a glimmer of hope to escape and ascend to heaven.

However, when he turned around, regardless of the panic on the faces of the servants behind him, and looked behind them, he saw groups of cavalry in every direction, slowly driving their horses out from the other side of the mountain.

There is nowhere to escape!
At this moment, Fan Yongdou knew that the Ming army should have been waiting here a long time ago, waiting for someone to escape from Zhangjiakou Fort outside the customs!

Thinking of mobilizing tens of thousands of troops, first the main general was transferred away, then the factory guards and soldiers entered the city in ambush, the army attacked the city, controlled Zhangjiakou Fort with the power of thunder, and even deployed a cavalry army outside the pass, so Except for the one in the Forbidden City, probably no one else has such a big hand!

But... but the one from the Forbidden City, who never left the Forbidden City, why did he make such a big move against people like himself without any news beforehand? What is going on?

What about Fan Yongdou, I couldn't figure out why things turned out like this?

"Master, what should we do?" A servant panicked and asked him hastily.

Others couldn't help approaching their master, hoping that their master could think of some way to resolve the troubles in front of them like before.

Fan Yongdou was able to have today, so naturally he couldn't be a fool. He put aside the doubts in his heart, calmed down and said: "Remember, we are just ordinary people doing business in Zhangjiakou Fort. My surname is Qian. I was frightened by the army, so I ran to the grassland. No matter what the Ming army asks, we will be killed. I don’t believe it, is the imperial court going to kill ordinary people?”

"Okay, let's listen to the master!" His servants all agreed after hearing this.

Fan Yongdou was quick-witted, and immediately explained some details, and then he was ready to pretend to be an ordinary person.Fortunately, when I escaped from the secret road last night, I didn't have time to change my clothes, my body was dirty, and I didn't look like a decent businessman.

Ming army soldiers from all directions surrounded them and took them to Shuai's banner.

"My lord, this coach is a Mongol, and he is very powerful." A servant with sharp eyes immediately reminded him secretly after seeing it clearly.

Hu Dawei was the general soldier of Shanxi before, and served under Lu Xiangsheng's command, but was rejected by the new governor Chen Xinjia.When Jianlu entered the pass, he and Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, were all sent to Lu Xiangsheng's command to fight Jianlu to the death.

Therefore, Fan Yongdou naturally knew this Mongol, and also knew that this Mongol was a blessing in disguise, and instead became a general officer in the emperor's powerful army.

From this point of view, it also confirmed that the matter against Zhangjiakou Fort this time was ordered by the emperor of the capital, otherwise it would be impossible for others to command the emperor's powerful army.

Fan Yongdou heaved a sigh of relief, it would be much easier to deal with Hu Dawei on the opposite side.With a simple mind and well-developed limbs, he only knows about a brutal man who fights in battle.

He hadn't met before, so he might be able to deceive him by coaxing him with good words at that time.

Thinking of this, Fan Yongdou's expression regained a bit of ease.After being escorted in front of Hu Dawei, he begged for mercy in accordance with his original method, saying that he was an ordinary person doing small business, there were a lot of generals, and he begged to let him go.He even said that in order to express his gratitude, he was willing to donate horses and leave his money.

Hu Dawei ignored his self-report at all, and didn't care that the servants under Fan Yongdou were nodding in agreement with their master, but tilted his head and asked, "Take me here and ask, do you recognize these people?"

Hearing this, Fan Yongdou couldn't help being shocked.Could it be that there are people in this army who know me?

Thinking about it, it seems impossible.I have dealt with these soldiers before.However, most of the dealings were with his subordinate shopkeepers and the like, and he had never dealt with these soldiers.Who would it be, with the possibility of knowing oneself?

When he was thinking about it, he saw a few people pushing from behind the army formation, their faces were bloody, obviously they had been beaten.

Fan Yongdou took a closer look and suddenly groaned secretly in his heart.

The few people who were pushed up were either someone else, or the family guards who had been sent by him to ask for help in the grassland.

At this moment, he can only hope that they will not confess him.In front of so many people, I can't even wink, I can only pray to the gods and Buddhas in the sky in my heart, and don't confess him.

Either the gods and Buddhas in the sky didn't hear it, or he did too many evil things, and today he is going to suffer retribution. When those people looked up and saw Fan Yongdou, they were taken aback for a moment, and then one of them immediately pointed at Fan Yongdou happily. , repeatedly said to Hu Dawei: "Commander, he is Fan Yongdou, he is Fan Yongdou, it is him, it is him..."

When this man opened his mouth, the other two were not polite, and they all shouted: "Marshal, he is the one who asked us to deliver the letter, really. He and Daqing, no, no, the emperor Jianlu is very good, and he is also very good. And a man named Fan Wencheng is from the same family, he sold an unknown amount of supplies to Liaodong..."

Hu Dawei listened to them talking, staring at Fan Yongdou, with a hint of ridicule evident on his beard, just staring at him.

Regarding Fan Yongdou's complexion, it was getting uglier and uglier, and he seemed to like to watch it very much.

Just now I wanted to deceive others, to bully myself, a loyal prairie man, hehe, deceive, continue to deceive!

After a long while, he waved his hand and shouted: "This is an imperial criminal, tied him up, sent him to the military prison, and put him under strict supervision. Let's wait and see if anyone escapes from Zhangjiakou Fort." "

After seeing Fan Yongdou being detained, Hu Dawei sent someone to send a letter to the governor to report the situation here.

So far, none of the eight major Shanxi merchants slipped through the net and were all arrested.

After Hong Chengchou received the summary of news from various places, he immediately sorted out the situation in his hands, and then sent people to rush back to the capital to continue to report victory to the emperor.At the same time, he continued to preside over the affairs of Jindi, ransacking the house while counting the supplies. In addition to Zhangjiakou Fort, there were other places that also ransacked the house and arrested people.The hometown of these Shanxi merchants is not in Zhangjiakou Fort.

In fact, there was no need for him to send someone to report. The Emperor Chongzhen already had a general understanding of the situation through the Grade A wiretapping seeds on his body.

Knowing that all the eight major Shanxi merchants have been arrested also makes him feel relieved.

Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, it’s not that there will be no retribution, the time has not yet come; when the time comes, God can make himself become the emperor, and in such a large province, he even captured all eight people, this is the power of retribution!

On the other hand, Emperor Chongzhen was also very pleased with the seized supplies.

In later generations, it was heard that the downfall of Heshen made Jiaqing rich.This time, it can also be said that the Shanxi merchants were captured, and Daming could breathe a sigh of relief.

Otherwise, the imperial treasury has no money, the land of Gyeonggi, including several surrounding provinces, is being ravaged by Jian captives, and all parts of the Central Plains are being ravaged by thieves, the south is flooded, and the north is drought. I don't know how to live a good life!But now, at least in the early stage of disaster relief, there is no problem in reviving the army.You can even have funds to allow yourself to implement the plan in your heart step by step.

At this time, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief!
Right now, with the army in hand, money, and food, the confidence is strong enough!

Emperor Chongzhen decided to take this opportunity to rectify the officialdom in the capital.

Therefore, the factory guards continued to take action, focusing on rectifying the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.Especially the Metropolitan Procuratorate, basically all the censors were arrested and imprisoned.

Logically speaking, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is to supervise all officials, impeach corrupt officials, and give the emperor suggestions for benefiting the country and the people; Yes, there is no charge.

For example, Liao Guolin, Yang Zhiqi and others even clearly marked their prices. Whoever pays will talk to him; whoever gives money will do things for him!Others have even become tools of party struggle. For the benefit of their own group, impeaching people does not distinguish between right and wrong, only depends on which camp they belong to.All of these are closely related to the corruption of the officialdom in the late Ming Dynasty and the corruption of the Metropolitan Procuratorate itself.

In addition to the work of the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it is impossible to do worse than them even if they are replaced.Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen was merciless at all.Anyway, after arresting a few censors, they confessed to other censors, so it's impolite, just keep arresting.

Soon, both Jinyiwei Imperial Prison and Dongchang Prison could no longer be locked up, and they began to be locked up at the Prison of the Ministry of Punishment.Even some who were not involved in treason and treason by Shanxi merchants, but purely corrupt, were transferred to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

Regarding this situation, at the beginning, many officials were panicked and didn't know what to do.

Before, they tried to blackmail the emperor by pretending to be sick and going on strike.Unexpectedly, the emperor sent factory guards and imperial doctors out, and even the official minister, once it was found out that he was pretending to be sick, was charged with the crime of deceiving the emperor, and the head was already at the same level as the head of the original chief assistant Liu Yuliang. company.

With such harsh measures from the emperor, who would dare to pretend to be sick?They didn't even dare to do things like working as a foreigner, fooling the emperor, or just not working.I'm afraid that the emperor will send someone to check, and then his head will be lost, which will be a big loss.

How should I put it, the idea that the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world together began in the Song Dynasty, and it emerged again in the Ming Dynasty when Emperor Hongzhi started.Even many times, it was an honor for the civil servants to confront the emperor.

Even as shrewd as Emperor Jiajing, in order to let his own father enter the Taimiao, it would take so many years and so many troubles; there is also Emperor Wanli, who wanted to change his son to be the prince, but in the end, under the objection of the civil servants, he insisted Not replaced.

It can be said that the civil servants in the late Ming Dynasty had already begun to group together to deal with the emperor, and only suffered a setback during the Tianqi Dynasty.The power of eunuchs swelled and suppressed the civil official group.This situation is actually a response to the expansion of civil servant power.

Now, in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, after he completed the deployment and took control of the military, he showed such a strong performance that he once again attacked the civil official group.And this time, he was the one who took advantage of it.Whether it is treason or corruption, everyone despises them all.Even if civil servants wanted to object, they couldn't stand up logically.And this is the basis for them to oppose the emperor.

Therefore, this time, it can be said that the civil official group does not even have the ability to fight back.

Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen almost seized the Metropolitan Procuratorate, these civil officials found a point of counterattack instead.It's the emperor, you arrest officials on such a large scale and use it as a banner, isn't it plotting treason?

If it is about corruption, then they have nothing to say, but how many people dare to commit such a big case of treason?They believed that the vast majority of people would not dare to commit the mortal crime of treason.Because your emperor is so aggressive in arresting people, even cabinet ministers and ordinary grain merchants are included in the treasonous criminals, which is an exaggeration.

The emperor has always said that there is evidence, but this evidence has not been produced for a long time.This gave them confidence again. They felt that the evidence the emperor said before was just an excuse. Now that so many people have been arrested, they dare not show the evidence again, lest the evidence be too absurd and let the people of the world see the emperor clearly. In capricious mischief!
For this reason, the emperor is arresting people, and they are secretly instigating this matter.Focus on the treason case.Try to make a breakthrough from this aspect and teach the emperor a lesson. Tell him that even if you are an emperor, if you behave like this, you will be infamy in the history books, tyrant!

At the same time, they sent all the memorials that could be sent up everywhere, all kinds of memorials that asked for money and food, and anyway, all kinds of difficult memorials were sent to the cabinet and presented to the imperial court.They also wrote playbooks, emphasizing that these difficulties must be resolved immediately.

For example, more than [-] people were rescued by the original King Qin's army, as well as millions of refugees who were affected by the military disaster. what to do?If you arrest all the officials, who will do such a thing?

There was even a rumor among the people that the emperor had lost his mind and went insane. Instead of helping the people, he frantically arrested the officials who were doing things. This Ming Dynasty is about to perish!

Regarding this situation, Emperor Chongzhen ignored it. Even after receiving the good news from Hong Chengchou, he still ignored it and followed the plan.

At this time, things in Shanxi have basically come to an end. The properties of the eight major Shanxi merchants in various places, including those other smuggled Shanxi merchants attached to the eight major Shanxi merchants, were all ransacked and arrested.

After the summary of the memorial was sent to the front and back of the imperial court, Emperor Chongzhen began to convene a court meeting, ready to talk about the case of treason.

(End of this chapter)