Wu Mengming, his grandfather Wu Dui went through the three dynasties of Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli, and the official to the military department of Shangshu, ranked eight, the governor of Xuan, Da and Shanxi in the fifth year of Wanli, and the military affairs of Ji, Liao and Baoding in the ninth year of Wanli and the governor of Shuntian, is a typical feudal official.

The family is so good, so Wu Mengming entered the Jinyi Wei and became a thousand households when he was young, assisting Xu Xianchun to deal with the punishment of the North Division, and later because he offended Xu Xianchun, he was framed for hiding the outlaws, and was tortured and cut down.

In the early years of Chongzhen, he was reinstated to his official position and reactivated, and he also dealt with the case of Zheng Zheng more than a year ago, and his character was quite upright, Chongzhen intended to promote him, and specially ordered him to follow Li Tingbiao to arrest Wen Tiren.

Wu Mengming didn't expect that this former old comrade-in-arms has become so biao now, he used to only think he was ruthless, but now he is not only ruthless, but also bold!

Wu Mengming didn't stop it, he just watched the play quietly on the sidelines, who let the position of the family be higher than himself, his own conductor is a soy sauce character, more things are better than less things.......

Li Tingbiao cut off the heads of Wen Tiren's two sons, held them in his hands one by one, came to Wen Tiren's bed in the inner room, and threw the two heads onto his quilt.

Wen Tiren was too frightened, his body was getting worse and worse, and when he saw the tragic death of his two sons, his body was even more shocked, he had tears in his eyes, gritted his teeth and raised trembling fingers, and said sadly: "You ........"

Li Tingbiao leaned down, attached to Wen Tiren's ear, and said softly: "Your Highness asked me to tell you, come out and mix, you have to pay it back!" Think about the people you have been killed by all these years, and you may feel better. ”

Wen Tiren was shocked and silent for a long time, as if recalling the past, and after a while, he lay back on the bed, with his back to everyone.

Everyone didn't understand what this old thing meant, only the corners of Li Tingbiao's mouth rose slightly, and he smelled a trace of peculiar smell.

Li Tingbiao looked at Wu Mengming and said, "He belongs to you!" After saying that, he didn't turn his head and took someone to raid the house.

Wu Mengming was depressed in his heart, he didn't know what Li Tingbiao meant, he stayed in the inner room and saw that Wen Tiren had not moved for a long time, and couldn't help but shout: "Elder Wen Ge, come with me!" ”

Wen Tiren didn't respond, as if he was asleep.

Wu Mengming shouted several times in a row, but Wen Ge Lao still didn't move, he quickly stepped forward two steps to turn Wen Tiren over, but saw that Wen Tiren had already lost his breath, and there was still blood flowing out of his seven orifices, and he had already committed suicide by taking poison.

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Li Ting's strap people searched in Wenfu for a long time, but they didn't find anything valuable, let alone gold and silver jewelry, and Wenfu only had some small silver Buddha statues or something, which were not worth much.

"This old thing, it's really hidden!" Li Tingbiao secretly cursed, he has been the first assistant of the cabinet for six or seven years, and his family is so poor, who would believe it!

Jin Yiwei dug three feet into the ground in the Wen Mansion and never found out where Wen Tiren hid the money, which made Wu Mengming and others believe that Wen Ge was really honest.

At this time, Wen Tiren's eldest son Wen Yan was arrested, and this guy was about to run away to the outer city.

"I didn't break the law, why did you arrest me?" Wen Yan shouted.

Li Tingbiao waved his hand and said, "Take it back to the edict and tell him the reason slowly!" ”

In the edict prison, Wen Yan finally couldn't bear all the tricks after tasting a few big meals of Jinyiwei.

According to him, all the money that my father was greedy for on weekdays was transferred to several pawnshops in Tongzhou, so that in case of emergency, he could directly load the ship and go through the Grand Canal from Tongzhou to his hometown in Zhejiang.

Li Tingbiao took the confession and sent someone to investigate according to the address given by Wen Yan, and soon after, he found that there was indeed a large amount of property hoarded in the several pawnshops mentioned above, worth more than two million taels of silver.

A brocade-clothed guard asked, "My lord, what should I do with the surname Wen?" ”

Li Tingbiao was writing a report hard, but he said lightly: "Continue to add meals, and then put it after eating." ”

This Jinyi Wei Qianhu was in his heart, he already knew how to deal with it, but who could finish Jinyiwei's one hundred and eight dishes, unless it was packed and eaten on Huangquan Road......

Forbidden City, in the Wenhua Palace.

Emperor Chongzhen walked around and scolded: "Is this the pillar of my Ming court? Villain! Death is too good for him! ”

Chongzhen was heartbroken, he never expected that Wen Tiren, who had always been regarded as a model of honesty in the imperial court, was actually a huge greed! Usually disguised so well, what a villain, a heinous villain!

Several ministers and ministers of the six ministries in the Wenhua Hall stood obediently to the side, looking like they had nothing to do with themselves.

Chongzhen pointed at everyone and said, "And you!" Don't look at you all standing here in a high-sounding manner, are you all clean? ”

When the ministers heard this, their bodies that were originally staggering and standing suddenly shook, and they secretly wiped the cold sweat on their foreheads.

After Chongzhen finished scolding, he re-selected the new cabinet chief, and what was surprising was that he chose Xue Guoguan, who was full of vision.

This Xue Guoguan, like Wen Tiren, is a member of the eunuch party, but he is very acquainted, not as powerful as Wen Tiren, Zhu Cihong has also been in contact with him, and secretly shows some of his pigtails.

Xue Guoguan was convinced of the crown prince, he avoided him everywhere, did not dare to take the initiative to contradict him, and occasionally carried out some strategic cooperation.

First of all, in order to express his sincerity, Xue Guoguan played the emperor and asked for the crown prince to participate in the discussion, and the first assistant of the cabinet all helped to speak, and Chongzhen couldn't come up with any good reason to refuse, so he could only pinch his nose and admit it.

Xue Guoguan's acquaintance made Zhu Cihong very satisfied, and in response to him, Zhu Cihong only took the opportunity to get rid of a group of important figures in the eunuch party, and did not kill all the others.

Even if he kills all of them, there will be another group of officials who are fighting for the party, and the Donglin Party will gradually grow bigger without the other party, since he can't kill all the Wenchen, and he can't completely solve the party dispute, he can only throw these bad things to Chongzhen, and he plans how to go south.

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In recent days, Zhu Cihong received a secret report from the Jinyi Guard in Liaodong, and Huang Taiji sent an order to the Mongol tribes to join forces in Shenyang in early December on the grounds that he was going south to conquer Ming again.

"Going south again? How can it be! Zhu Cihong frowned, he had already beaten the Eight Banners hard enough last time, what else did they take to the south?

Zhu Cihong paced back and forth in the study, thought carefully, and opened the map to study again.

The transfer of troops must be true, it seems that Jiannu is going to really send troops, but it is definitely not going south to enter the customs, and there is no need for the Tartars to join Shenyang if they enter the south.

"Huang Taiji is either attacking Phi Dao or fighting North Korea!" Zhu Cihong concluded.

Phi Dao is located at the junction of the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula, and is the base of the Ming Dynasty as a containment of the Houjin, and the location is very important, just like a knife of the Ming Dynasty against the back of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, making Huang Taiji sit still.

At the beginning, Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Phi Island, led a group of brothers to open up Phi Island, and whenever the Tartars sent troops to fight, he would take people to secretly go ashore to kill, burn and loot in the Tartar backyard, kidnap tickets and extort money, and make the Tartars disgusting.

Since Mao Wenlong was beheaded by Yuan Chonghuan, his brothers were scattered, and the Ming army on the island was not as bold as the previous one, even so, the existence of the Ming army on the island still made Huang Taiji restless.

As for North Korea, it was even more difficult to deal with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Tatars had been blackmailing North Korea in various ways, and in the six years of Tiancong, the extortion of North Korea by the Later Jin increased tenfold compared with the original amount.

Under the pretext of mutual market, Houjin forcibly bought Korean goods at low prices, and each time they were dispatched, they demanded 100 taels of gold, 1,000 taels of silver, 1,000 horses of cotton, 1,000 horses of linen, 10,000 pieces of fine cloth, 100 pieces of leopard skins, 400 pieces of otter skins, and so on.

The contradictions between the two sides were very acute, and when the emperor Taiji held the ceremony of proclaiming the emperor and enthroned the throne, the Korean envoys refused to bow down, insisted on the etiquette of a "brotherly state", and were kicked out by the Manchurian nobles.

Last month, Huang Taiji issued an ultimatum to the Joseon king, asking the Joseon king to send the royal children as hostages within the specified time limit, otherwise he would send troops to conscript, and the Joseon did not take the threat of the Tatars seriously at all.