Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 266
Li Guo suddenly fell to the ground and said: "Your Majesty is a good emperor. The grassroots have harmed countless people and committed serious crimes. He is willing to be executed!"

Although they decided to come here with Zuo Menggeng, they already had the consciousness of death.However, like Li Guo, who said that he was guilty of serious crimes and voluntarily executed, it was still beyond the expectations of many people.

"Father..." Li Laiheng yelled after hearing this, but didn't know what to say.

After all, no one forced what he said just now, it was Li Guo who said it himself.

Amidst Liu Tichun's surprised voice, Li Dingguo followed suit and said: "Although the grass people are young, they have nearly ten years of experience as thieves. Although the grass people did not intend to do so, they have indeed created many orphans like the grass people. The grass people heard that Your Majesty With a heart of love for the people, I also feel that His Majesty is a good emperor, and the grassroots are willing to die for the past!"

Liu Tichun saw that even Li Dingguo had said that, so he sighed and said: "Forget it, the emperor is indeed a good emperor, he will be killed if he wants to be cut, in a word, he will never frown, and he is willing to be punished!"

Seeing this, Li Laiheng looked at this and that, and he didn't know what to do.

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen didn't speak immediately, but looked at them.

At this time, he finally understood. Why did Li Guo ask him about the follow-up treatment in the first place?If he didn't answer at that time, or if he answered that he would drive back to the capital immediately, it would mean that he did not have a deep understanding of the bandits. As a result, the emperor was probably not qualified enough in their eyes to allow them to let him go. They were so impressed that they couldn't say anything like they were willing to be executed.

It is exactly what I said just now, which is the means to completely solve the thief.Let Li Guo and others know that there will be no more thieves in the future.At least Li Guo and Li Dingguo were convinced, and felt that if the trouble continued, the persistence in their hearts would be gone.

After thinking about it for a while, Emperor Chongzhen said slowly: "Since you know the crime is serious, how can you just die?"

Upon hearing this, Li Laiheng, who had been silent just now, couldn't help but retorted: "We are all willing to die to pay for our sins, what else do you want? Like that coward Zuo Mengeng, you want to cut us into pieces with a thousand cuts?"

"Shut up!" At this time, Li Guo sternly stopped Li Laiheng first, and then looked at Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, the grassroots have killed many people, and it is not an exaggeration. But the grassroots have A request, can I wait until I see Zuo Zei and his son die with my own eyes before being punished?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I am unwilling to die as a traitor first!" Li Dingguo immediately followed up, "I beg your Majesty to fulfill it!"

"Yes, let's watch the left thief and his son die!"

"..."

Chen Qiyu had received instructions from Emperor Chongzhen in advance, and knew how to arrange the bandits.Therefore, at this time, he probably understood the meaning of the emperor, these people should not be executed!
Sure enough, Emperor Chongzhen smiled slightly and said: "There are many ways to atone for sins, and it doesn't have to be death to atone for sins..."

Hearing this, the thieves including Li Guo couldn't help showing surprise.They couldn't believe it, did the emperor want to pardon them?

"...I thought that I could do something for the people and help them. Such atonement is the best for them." Emperor Chongzhen said this, looked at them and asked, "What do you think?"

"But...but we don't know anything!" Liu Tichun was confused when he heard this, "We only have one strength!"

To be a coolie is the most indispensable thing nowadays.He couldn't figure it out. Is this okay?
Emperor Chongzhen shook his head when he heard this, and said, "You have all fought for many years, and this is your skill. The people of Liaodong are still in dire straits, oppressed by Jianlu, and living a life that is not as good as pigs and dogs. How about sending you to serve in Governor Lu Xiangsheng's army, to fight against the Jian captives, and to make atonement?"

Speaking of this, he added: "Of course, if you go, I will forgive your previous sins and treat you as ordinary soldiers. You will be rewarded for your merits and punished for your mistakes. You will not be punished just because you were thieves before." I deliberately let you go to die. I will ask you, are you willing to fight Jianlu?"

If the old thieves are forced to go to Dongjiang Town, they will be unwilling. Although Lu Xiang is boosting the pressure, there is no guarantee that everything will be fine.Therefore, if it is possible to let them go to Dongjiang voluntarily, that would be the best.

"The common people are willing!" Li Guo did not hesitate and immediately bowed his head and said, "The common people thank Your Majesty for your kindness!"

Li Dingguo and the other two also expressed their opinions, and they all agreed.For them, they thought they were going to die, but now they are going to fight Jianlu, at most they will die!If you are lucky, you may be able to make meritorious service, and then return to your hometown, then you will earn it!
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he smiled gratifiedly, and after putting a C-level bugging seed on each of Li Guo and Li Dingguo, he asked people to take them down.

Of course, he is still a prisoner and needs to be detained.However, they will fulfill their wishes and let them, together with the people of Nanyang City, watch Zuo Menggeng being tortured, and finally kill Zuo Liangyu, pass on the first Nine Sides, and tell other generals that this is the fate of betraying the imperial court.

Afterwards, the screening of prisoners also accelerated.Anyone who has been a thief for more than one year will be imprisoned separately; those who have been a thief for less than one year or more than one month are also a group of detainees.In the end, the thieves, who were less than a month old, were also detained separately.

Every day after that, the thieves who were hunted down would be checked first for their experience as thieves, and then they would be detained in three groups.Not only Liu Guoneng participated in this work, but later, even Li Guo, Li Dingguo and others also participated in the identity verification.Of course, there are still some, even if this is the case, they cannot be verified, so they are divided according to military experience.

In general, thieves with more than one year are the fewest, only about one-twentieth of the total.And these are basically the backbone of the thief.If it hadn't been for the Battle of Nanyang, there would have been the most thieves in less than a month.But in the battle of Nanyang, many people died, so the numbers of the other two groups are not much different.

Emperor Chongzhen inspected Li Guo and Li Dingguo through Class C eavesdropping seeds in the past few days, and found that they indeed had consciences and regretted their previous sins.In the process of asking them to identify the thief, their words and deeds were consistent, and there was nothing messy.

Of course, they were behind their backs, and it was inevitable that they would guess what the court's intention was to divert the thieves?In addition, there are also people who are comforted by the fact that Yuan Zongdi and Sun Kewang have escaped.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't care much about this, because he knew how many thieves could run away when the governor of the three sides, Zheng Chongjian, and others, including the Yongwei Camp from Luoyang and the Baigan Army from Sichuan, encircled them. It's hard to say.

He didn't pay attention to these things for the time being, so the food problem was the most urgent thing. Even if the food of the thieves was seized, there was not much food.

But he didn't make him wait long, and Chen Qiyu hurried over to report to Emperor Chongzhen about the food.

"Your Majesty, the grain from Huguang and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has been transported to Yicheng successively. However, it was stopped by Huang Shu, the censor of Huguang, so he didn't continue to go north to Xiangyang!"

Yicheng is not far from Xiangyang. Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed when he heard that, and asked quickly, "What's going on?"

Inspection inspectors are generally sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the capital to inspect areas. They have the responsibility of patrolling on behalf of the day. They are small officials with great power. They usually return to the capital in one to two years to perform their duties.The restructuring of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was only finalized at the beginning of the year, and local Metropolitan Procuratorates are still being established one after another, so the patrols in various places have not been completely removed.

According to the original impression of Emperor Chongzhen, this Huang Shu was a Jinshi in the past few years. He served as an official in Kaifeng, Henan Province.

After the emperor asked, Chen Qiyu hesitated for a moment, and then played again: "Then Huang Xun said that the transportation of grain to the disaster area is related to the dignity of the court. Only after the inspection is correct can they be released."

"Oh?" Emperor Chongzhen was a little surprised when he heard it. This Huang Shu is so serious in his work, and he is a little rigid?
Doesn't he know that the victims of the military disaster just want to survive, how can they be so particular, as long as they can eat well!

As for being short of two catties, how to check this?Is it too harsh?Of course, it is impossible to transport grain in one place with only a few dozen catties.How many ships are there as a unit, how to check the shortfall?The situation is different in different places, and the consumption on the road is different. There will always be more or less food. If it is similar, it is understandable.When the food escort arrived, even if he was not there, he would have to explain it to the governors of the five provinces.

He was thinking, Chen Qiyu heard that the emperor was a little strange, he thought for a while, it was related to his need to deal with so many thieves, so he played again: "Your Majesty, I think this is a high-sounding excuse ?”

He is naturally more familiar with the Taoism in the officialdom than the Chongzhen Emperor who came through time.Therefore, after hearing the dispatched person rush back to report, he knew that there was definitely something wrong inside.

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen's face suddenly darkened and he said, "Chen Qing, tell me, what's going on?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, I guessed that the yellow patrol was probably taking advantage of the opportunity. Stopping those grain ships, even if no problem can be found, as long as the deadline set by His Majesty's strict decree is delayed, these grain ships cannot bear it." , must bribe Huang Xunguan so that he can let him go." Chen Qiyu said here, just to be on the safe side, and added, "Of course, this is just the guess of the humble minister. What is the truth, it is better for His Majesty to send someone to verify it!"

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he basically understood that Chen Qiyu's guess should not be wrong.In the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, how could there be fewer incidents of plucking geese and evading them layer by layer?On the capital side, after being rectified by myself, it should be better, but in the local area, if you say it, it will disappear, ghosts don't believe it!

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen became angry: "He is so brave. He dares to play these tricks in front of me. Aren't he afraid that I will find out and punish him?"

He didn't know that this Huang Shu was actually very courageous.

In the original history, he colluded with Zuo Liangyu during the two years he served as Huguang's inspector.After the founding of Nanming, he even relied on Zuo Liangyu's military power to hug Zuo Liangyu's thigh. He wanted to gain power and gain fame, so he criticized the top lieutenant Ma Shiying's ten crimes in person.

After the Manchu Qing went south, he surrendered to the Manchu Qing again, and wholeheartedly worked for the Manchu Qing, led the Manchu Qing army to attack Nanming, conspired with Zheng Chenggong, and gave other anti-Qing generals behind his back, even those who were related to him. Stab.In later generations, Huang Shu was nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

Chen Qiyu saw the emperor speak angrily, so he played again: "In my humble opinion, it must be that he didn't know that His Majesty has arrived in Nanyang and is so concerned about food."

"Okay, okay, okay!" After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen said hello three times with anger, and he immediately called out, "Liu Qianhu?"

"Your subordinate is here!" Jin Yiwei Qianhu Liu Yue immediately stepped forward to wait for the order.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at him, restrained his anger and said: "You take someone to Yicheng to investigate this matter. Remember, I don't want to wrong a good person, but I will not let a corrupt official go. If he is not found If he is found to be using his power for personal gain, no matter how many people he colluded with, he will be arrested and sent to Nanyang City!"

Emperor Chongzhen was still a little sensible, and didn't think that Huang Shu was likely to use his power for personal gain, so he directly ordered the arrest.This point made Chen Qiyu on the side see it, and secretly admired the heart of the emperor for having a superior person.

"I obey the order!" Upon hearing this, Liu Yue immediately accepted the order, then set off immediately and rushed to Yicheng.At the same time, he was also thinking: The emperor entrusted such an important matter to himself, which shows that the emperor trusts him, so he must handle this matter properly.

Of course he didn't know, because he had a Grade A eavesdropping seed on him, so Emperor Chongzhen could know how he investigated the case, and Emperor Chongzhen would be more sure if he let him go than let others go.

After Emperor Chongzhen explained the matter, he also knew that the food was not far from Xiangyang, so he was somewhat relieved.Then he talked to Chen Qiyu about the current arrangements for dealing with these thieves.

At the same time, on the outskirts of Nanyang City, the net was getting tighter and tighter. Many thieves thought they were going to escape after suffering so much.As a result, he bumped into the hands of the Qin infantry led by Zheng Chongjian, as well as the Yongwei Battalion and the Baigan Army. He was either caught on the spot or driven back to Nanyang.

Of course, some thieves fled to the mountains and hid.But if there are no fugitives and hermits in the mountains, there will not be much food, and it is unknown how long they can hide.

And this time, even if you hide in the mountains, you won't be able to escape easily.Since Emperor Chongzhen was determined to solve the problem of bandits once and for all.Naturally, troops would be sent to search the mountains where there were many fleeing thieves.

All of a sudden, more and more rogues were detained in Nanyang, and the army also increased.Liu Yue also returned from Yicheng when the number of thieves who were hunted down was about the same.

(End of this chapter)