Chapter 45: Kill the traitors and reorganize the dynasty
"What handwritten letter?" Everyone stepped forward to pick up the letter with their names written on it, and when they opened it, many people fainted on the spot.
These letters are all letters of guarantee written by them to the Liukou, and there is also a donation amount of silver on them, which is all top secret, how did the emperor get it?
How did they know that if they wanted to collect evidence of their crimes, it would not be difficult for Jinyiwei and the East and West Factory at all.
"Your Majesty, Weichen has been wronged, we have never done this kind of thing, please let the emperor know clearly, it must be Jinyiwei who wronged us."
Wei Zaode Chen Yan saw that there were almost thirty or forty ministers related to Liukou, and if these people were all dismissed from their posts and killed, the imperial court would have no one to use.
So they were sure that Zhu Youzhen would not kill them, and immediately gave those people a secret look, and they all shouted in unison that they were wronged.
But Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, does they need to confess if they kill someone.
The emperor can make you live or die, he can make you famous for eternity, or he can make you stinking for thousands of years.
Like Wei Zaode Chen Yan and others, they should be nailed to the pillar of shame of the Ming Dynasty forever.
"Come on, Wei Zaode Chen will play these people, all of them will withdraw and behead the public, and the whole family will be beheaded, the three clans will be exterminated, and all family property will be confiscated."
Zhu Youzhen said a word, and suddenly a group of brocade guards walked into the Taihe Hall quickly, ready to withdraw Wei Zaode and the others to be killed.
Some of these people were frightened and incontinent in an instant, kowtowing like chickens pecking rice, and many began to bleed from their foreheads
"The emperor spares his life, we know that we are wrong, it is the White Lotus Sect that harms people, and we are all forced to do so."
Zhu Youzhen didn't pay attention to them at all, just waved his hand to the Jinyi guard, and the Jinyi guard who came in stepped forward to grab them and prepare to take them away and cut off their heads.
Li Banghua, Ni Yuanlu and others saw that so many ministers had been killed, wouldn't Da Ming be paralyzed, so they hurriedly knelt down and began to intercede for Wei Zaode and others.
"Your Majesty, so many people can't be killed, it's better to let them make meritorious contributions, wait for the newcomers to fill in, it's not too late to deal with them, now kill them Daming will have no one available, please be gracious."
Seeing that there are still many honest ministers, all of whom are pleading for Wei Zaode and other shameless people, Zhu Youzhen knows that they are worried about the fact that no one is available in the Ming Dynasty, and they are not protecting these treacherous people.
In the past, these gossip officials played for themselves, and they definitely compared Chongzhen with death, and they didn't seem to care about life and death.
It seems that they are starting to force the palace again, and Zhu Youzhen's eyes widened:
"Li Banghua Ni Yuanlu, are you old and confused, let them make meritorious contributions, what can they do, can they lead the troops to fight, or continue to slander and frame Zhongliang?
In the second year of Chongzhen, the eastern captivity abused the Beijing division, and the general soldier Man Guiqin led the headquarters to block the eastern captivity.
He used infantry and cavalry to delay the eastern captivity army for a day and a night, and the general headquarters of Mangui and all the soldiers were killed in battle, creating precious time for the people of Beijing to evacuate.
In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the eastern exile of Koubian Dongzidi, the former Liaodong governor Sun Chengzong, who was idle at home, led his family and the people of the city to defend the city to the death.
In the end, they were outnumbered, Gaoyang City was breached, all the men and women of the Sun family were killed in battle, all the women committed suicide by throwing themselves into the well, and Sun Chengzong was killed in battle.
Because Sun Chengzong had repeatedly attacked the Eastern Captivity, the Eastern Capture Thief Kou vowed to let the Sun family die.
As a result, Sun Dushuai's only one, a baby boy who was less than 100 days old, was trampled into a pulp.
In the same year, the month of Layue
Governor Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong soldiers and the eastern captivity to fight in Julu, and the prison army was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and the mercenaries did not save them, causing Lu Xiangsheng and the Tianxiong soldiers to fall into a deep siege.
Tianxiong officers and soldiers fought bloodily for seven days and seven nights, and then the whole army was wiped out because of the exhaustion of ammunition and food.
Until he died in battle, Lu Xiangsheng still brandished a broadsword and shouted to kill the enemy.
Sixteen years of Chongzhen
Chuang led the army to conquer Tongguan, and the general soldiers Bai Guangen and Chen Yongfu surrendered to the Liukou, causing the thieves to be unstoppable.
Knowing that he would die, the commander Sun Chuanting still led the three new troops who had been trained for less than ten days out of the pass and fought a decisive battle with the Liukou army south of Weishui.
The combat effectiveness of the new army was insufficient, and the personnel were very different, and as a result, Sun Chuanting's troops were defeated by the Liukou with superior forces.
At the time of the defeat, the Liukou coerced and enticed Sun Chuanting Commander, and wanted Sun Commander to surrender.
But after Sun Chuanting scolded the Liukou, he died on the stone tablet......"
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"I have a lot of loyal souls and martyrs, and I won't talk about them all today.
If I had forgiven Wei Zaode and the others today.
So how can I stand up to those loyal souls and martyrs who died in battle?
Those soldiers who died in battle, if they heard about this under Jiuquan, how could they turn a blind eye.
When all the soldiers died heroically, what are you literati doing?
Either stabbed the martyrs in the back, or fought inwardly, and even waged their tails and begged for mercy to the rogues and the East Kidnappers in order to survive.
Listen to me, remember, if someone has no reason, without any evidence.
Pointing fingers at the loyal martyrs who fought on the front line of our Ming Dynasty, deducting food and wages, and adding so-called obstacles, I will absolutely destroy your ten clans.
For the sake of the loyal souls and martyrs of my Ming Dynasty, these scum traitors will be killed today.
If someone dares to intercede, I will kill you and exterminate the three clans, and I will be guilty of the same crime as Wei Zaode and others.
Now I want to ask, if there are any of you who plead for these traitors, stand up for me immediately. ”
Zhu Youzhen's heroic and righteous and majestic language suddenly made Li Banghua and others feel extremely shocked, and at the same time, they were even more speechless, full of guilt in their hearts, and knelt on the ground one after another.
They want to say that Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting had already died in battle, everyone knows this, but who are the two people standing in front of them?
Although I have doubts in my heart, who dares to ask at this time, isn't that tantamount to looking for death?
Although Li Banghua and the others did not dare to speak, Zhu Youzhen guessed their thoughts, since they couldn't explain it, then they didn't explain it, and kept some secrets, which could deter him even more.
Thinking that it seemed too cheap to simply kill Wei Zaode and the others, so he changed his will again, and he asked these officials today to see the fate of betraying Daming.
"Come on, pick up all the skin and grass of Wei Zaode, and send them to the temple for display, so as to warn those corrupt officials and descendants, I want to see who dares to follow in their footsteps."
"Obedience"
The Jinyi guards received the order in unison, held up these soft bones and left, Wei Zaode and the others desperately shouted for mercy, and the hall was suddenly full of ghosts and wolves.
Li Banghua and other literati, where have they seen such a miserable scene, all of them trembled, and they didn't even dare to come out, let alone plead for mercy.
In this way, dozens of important ministers of the Ming Dynasty, including Wei Zaode, the first assistant of the cabinet, were all stripped of their skins and filled in the grass to exterminate their families.
The so-called peeling and filling of grass is to take out their internal organs and bones and fill them with hay, and send them to the temple for display for future generations to admire.
Seeing the performance of Li Banghua and others, Zhu Youzhen smiled coldly, who said that the rumors of the Ming and Qing dynasties would not shoot to death, and waved his hand at Yuhuatian.
Yu Huatian immediately understood what the emperor meant, walked quickly in front of these Ming loyal souls, and handed them a note each.
Everyone was stunned, not understanding what the emperor was doing, and they opened the note to watch.
When they saw the contents of the note, their faces changed dramatically.
It turned out that the content of the note in their hands turned out to be a list of the family assets of these ministers, although it was not very accurate, but it was not much the same.
How many Ming officials are not greedy, and the Qing Dynasty officials like Hai Rui have tens of thousands of acres of land (this is well-founded)