Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

First, the people in Lantian County starved to death, and then the county magistrate of Chang'an County was assassinated and then burned to wipe out all traces - but these two counties are under his own rule!

Seeing Ma Weijun standing up to plead guilty, Emperor Chongzhen waved his hands and said: "That's all. I said when I was in Lantian, when the things here are over, you can go to inspect the censor."

After Ma Weizhen thanked him again, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "This time, you don't have to be like Lantian. Anyway, the sufferer is here, and the facts are very clear. One of the few grain merchants in the city counted as one, and all ransacked their homes to question their crimes." How does Ma Aiqing think he should be convicted?"

Ma Weizhen thought for a long time, stood up and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, these people are driving up the price of grain, and their intentions are to be punished. At the same time, they bought and murdered officials, and they have conspired against each other. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, they should be implicated in the nine clans."

Chongzhen looked at Ma Weijun with eyes like a fool, and said with a smile: "Assassination of court officials for self-interest, and it is an act of extermination! This is one of them.

During the catastrophic years, people were forced to die by driving up food prices for personal gain. If some people rise up at that time, they will be digging the foundation of our Ming Dynasty!This is the second.

Ma Aiqing thinks that these people should not be extinct from the barbarians?Is it enough to implicate the nine clans? "

Ma Weizhen bit the bullet and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I think the nine Yi tribes are too much."

Emperor Chongzhen was a little impatient, and asked Ma Weijun, "I ask you, can you repay a grievance with virtue?"

Ma Weizhen was at a loss for words for a while, and he knew all the sentences before and after repaying grievances with virtue, but even if he repaid grievances with grievances, he didn't need to be a barbarian, right?

The so-called Zhulian Nine Clans refers to the nine generations of direct relatives from Gaozu to great-great-great-grandson, including collateral blood relatives, to brothers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons, brothers and cohabitants, regardless of surname, and uncles and uncles. [-]. The sons of brothers, who are over sixteen years old, regardless of the similarities and differences of their origins, regardless of whether they are serious or disabled, will be executed without exception.His female relatives are slaves to the family of the meritorious officials.

However, the Yi Jiu Clan, no matter their age, from a newborn baby to an old man in his [-]s, let alone male or female relatives, all of them will be executed together, and there will be no one left!This is the real cutting weeds!

As for going further up, it is to destroy the Nine Clans.In addition to beheading all the related people of the nine clans, even the graves of the ancestors must be broken, the coffins opened, and the corpses killed. All the local county chronicles and clan chronicles, etc., will have their characters removed. Erase——Since the idea of ​​destroying the nine tribes came into being, no one has used it, even the Yijiu tribe, and it has never been used a few times at all.

(Yi and Zhu are the same, and extermination is a fabrication. Don’t be offended when investigating the party.)

Now that Emperor Chongzhen is grandiosely wanting the nine tribes of barbarians, how will it be recorded in future history books?It's him Ma Weihou, I'm afraid he will also have the title of a courtier, right?

Seeing that Ma Wei was at a loss for words, Chongzhen sneered and said: "If the babies of their nine clans are innocent, those under sixteen will be let go, and the female relatives will be let go. Then Ma Aiqing will tell me, among the victims who starved to death, how innocent are the babies who just left for the war? How guilty are people under the age of 16? How guilty are those women who died tragically?

It would be my fault if I didn't allocate food to relieve the land in Shaanxi.No matter how these people drive up food prices, they can still give the people a glimmer of hope to survive, and I can't blame them.

But now?When I allocate food, they also use it to get their hands on it, even killing officials!

Such lawless people, let me ask, what else are they afraid to do? "

Ma Weizhen wanted to persuade him again, but he didn't know what to say, so he could only say embarrassingly: "I am stupid."

However, Chongzhen sneered and said: "There is a way, there is reincarnation in the way of heaven, and the heavens will spare no one. In my opinion, if this trial comes one day later, my people will suffer one more day. I just can't wait."

After finishing speaking, he ignored Ma Weijun and said directly: "Pingbei Hou Zhang Zhiji!"

Zhang Zhiji immediately bowed his hands and said, "The minister is here!"

Chongzhen said: "Deploy troops and seal the city gates, just like Lantian's old example, and no one is allowed to escape. Except for the victims and the food brought in, Chang'an County does not allow anyone to enter or leave.

In addition, take over the county government and inform the people in the city that Chang'an County will implement military control from now on.First, together with Jin Yiwei, they forcibly confiscated the grain from those grain merchants, counted it, and released the grain for disaster relief! "

After Zhang Zhiji took the order, Chongzhen continued: "Zhu Gang!"

Zhu Gang also bowed and said, "The minister is here!"

Chongzhen went on to say: "Jinyiwei of Xi'an Prefecture is under your control for the time being, and the former Qianhu Majun of the Qianhu Office of Xi'an Prefecture has been thrown into Nanzhen Fusi to question the crime!

The houses of these grain merchants in Chang'an County were confiscated. People from the nine ethnic groups, regardless of gender, age or age, took them all down, waiting for my will! "

Chapter 2 Twelve

Chang'an County is about the same as Lantian County, and even bigger than Lantian County.Lantian County has a population of more than [-], and Chang'an County has a population of nearly [-].

There are not many large and small grain merchants in Chang'an County, but there are always fourteen or five.

However, among the [-] or [-] grain stores, except for one that was opened and controlled by Jinyiwei, so the price remained the same as usual, the remaining ten or so stores all adjusted the price of rice to five taels of silver per stone.

However, these grain merchants were in bad luck.

If the county magistrate of Chang'an County is fine, even if the price of food in the county varies from high to low, even if it is all set at five taels of silver, as long as the victims in Chang'an County are guaranteed not to go hungry, then there is nothing to worry about. .Emperor Chongzhen was not so angry about a dozen or so grain merchants.

The bad thing about this is that the big guy just paid the killer to kill the ignorant county magistrate, and before he had time to celebrate the unification of grain prices, Emperor Chongzhen came.

Of course, there is no need to think about celebrating now. The army took over the city defense, Jin Yiwei Ti rode out, and picked people according to the list.

If these grain merchants are well-known in history, for example, at the level of the Eight Great Locust Merchants, or at the level of Yuan Chonghuan, or even at the level of Li Zicheng, then Emperor Chongzhen would still be interested in going to the trial and have a look.

Now it is lack of interest.

Zhu Gang is very interested.

For Zhu Gang, as the eagle dog of the emperor, he has the responsibility and obligation to share the worries of the emperor-since these people dare to poach Daming's corner and make the emperor unhappy, then he cannot let them have any possibility of happiness.

Therefore, in the prison of Chang'an County, which was taken over by Jin Yiwei, a few prisoners who were supposed to be executed later in the autumn enjoyed the treatment of early execution, and the rest were gathered in a cell for the benefit of the dozen or so families. Grain merchants make room.

Zhu Gang looked at the owner of Zhang Jiliang Shop who was tied up in front of him, but he didn't even bother to ask for a confession, he just reached out and picked up the whip that was soaked in salt water, and whipped it down, making the owner of Zhang Ji Liang Shop scream miserably endlessly.

After being whipped for about ten times, Zhu just looked at the owner of Zhang Ji Liang Shop, who was bruised and bruised in front of him, and said, "Zhang Laocai, tell me. There is no one's business here."

Zhang Laocai is very clear that he is not a tough guy at all. The good meal just now, coupled with Zhu Gang's Jinyiwei's flying fish suit, also made Zhang Laocai no longer report any hope: "The other dozen grain shops , Wu Ji, Chen Ji, Lu Ji, and Xu Ji, these four families are the dominant ones, especially Wu Ji, whose family is related to the Wu family in Zhejiang, so they are the most active in running around."

Zhu Gang said with a smile: "Look, how good this is, you can answer it happily, and you don't have to suffer all this flesh and blood, do you?"

After a pause, Zhu Gang continued to ask: "Then what does Wu Ji's owner want to do?"

Zhang Laocai shook his head and said: "The villain doesn't know, I only know that the Wu family in Zhejiang is collecting a lot of grain, and they are willing to buy it at a price of four taels of silver per stone."

Zhu Gang saw that Zhang Caicai's expression did not seem to be fake, so he nodded, and continued: "Very well, you can go back."

After ordering people to release Zhang Laocai and throw him back to the cell, Zhu Gang went on to interrogate Wu Ji's boss.

Just like in the interrogation of Zhang Laocai, Zhu Gang first gave Wu Youfa a good meal, and then asked: "What does your Changan Wu family have to do with Zhejiang Wu's family?"

Wu Youfa was used to being rich and honored in his daily life, how had he ever been beaten like this?Wu Youfa felt that if he didn't have too much fat on his body, he might be beaten to death at this time.

For the first time in his life, Wu Youfa felt that fat meat was a good thing, and he gasped for a while before saying to Zhu Gang, "Reporting to my lord, this villain is a distant relative of the Wu family in Zhejiang, just because the Wu family in Zhejiang said that they want to use four grains." A large amount of grain is purchased at the price of one stone of silver, so the villain collects grain in Shaanxi and other places, and as for what to do with the grain there, the villain does not know."

Zhu Gang then asked, "Do you know Wu Qi?"

Wu Youfa nodded, and replied: "I know. I met once when the villain went to Zhejiang a few years ago. It's just that the villain is a side branch, and his status is embarrassing. He is not as respected as the eldest son of the first house, so there is no friendship. It's just that the price of grain has been raised this time, because the eldest son is actually running around."

Zhu Gang nodded, and ordered people to send Wu You back to the cell, and then went back to report to Emperor Chongzhen.

The Emperor Chongzhen who got the reward is also a big head-why everything is inseparable from the wealthy merchants in the southeast, do these fools have no bottom line to die?

I wanted to mention Wu Qi for a good interrogation, but this person is still being held in the prison in Lantian County, and there is no good way for a while.

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply decided to make things bigger—should tens of thousands of heads fall together at the same time, it should be considered big?

After making up his mind, Chongzhen asked, "Where are Wei Zhongxian and the others now?"