In the city of Beijing, the city is full of wind and rain, and there are soldiers on all streets to arrest people, as long as it is the former Ming officials, including scholars and scholars, they will all take it.

Even Xungui and eunuchs were also driven to the prison, and Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, who surrendered with the Shenji Battalion, and Wang Dehua, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, did not end well, and were locked up on the same day.

In the end, Prime Minister Niu Jinxing only selected 92 officials with low grades below the third grade, and listened to them in the government (equivalent to the Ministry of Officials), and the rest of them all began to roast and plunder.

Two intruders escorted one to a demoted official, one pushed and shoved, the other held a knife and shouted, forming a long line, Wei Dezao, Zhang Jinyan and other officials were as pale as earth, panicked.

"Let's go!"

The general Li Guo rode his horse and whipped away, looking arrogant, like driving a flock of sheep, and when he encountered a slow movement, he was directly beaten to death, causing the officials to scream and cry.

Some people tried to run, but they were quickly caught up by the invading cavalry, shot to the ground, and the cavalry trampled back and forth until it was a pulp.

All the officials were escorted to the prison, the edict and other places, and changed into the latest prison uniforms, with characteristic chains.

What made Wei Zaode and others depressed was that Feng Ying, the former secretary of the criminal department who was imprisoned in the edict, was actually released by the army, not only Feng Ying alone, but also Hou Sui, the former secretary of the household department, and others, were also released by the army.

In the edict prison, Liu Zongmin and his entourage came to inspect the barbecue situation.

"Ahh

Not far away, in a torture cell, there was a terrible scream, the screams rose and fell, some similar to tenors, some similar to sopranos.

Liu Zongmin listened very happily, and he came to the torture room where he screamed the worst.

Zhang Jinyan, the former secretary of the military department, has been tortured, his whole body is covered with blood, his fingers, toes and other places that can be clamped have been clamped with sticks, and the bones of his body have also been knocked out.

Zhang Jinyan's soft limbs were nailed to the wooden frame, and he wailed in pain: "Uncle, spare me, I am the newly appointed secretary of the military department, and I really can't make up 70,000 taels of silver......"

In front of the cauldron of boiling water, the Heaven-Shaking Tiger held an iron brush full of iron nails, and said lightly: "If you can't make it, you will take your life to resist." ”

After speaking, he ordered someone to pour boiling boiling water on Zhang Jinyan's body, and brushed the iron brush in his hand while it was hot.

A pig-like howl shook a hundred meters, and Zhang Jinyan's whole body was blurred with flesh and blood, and blood gushed out from the wound and flowed all over his body.

The Heaven-Shaking Tiger's face was calm, and he kept moving, slowly brushing until he brushed the white bones under the flesh......

Zhang Jinyan fainted in pain, but a basin of cold water splashed down and woke him up again.

He wished that he would die on the spot, but this was just a luxury, Zhang Jinyan's whole body hurt like chaff, and he trembled and said: "I will give 70,000 taels, and I will give ......"

The Heaven-Shaking Tiger's eyelids raised slightly, and said lightly: "One hundred thousand taels." ”

Zhang Jinyan fainted again, and he didn't know whether he was fainted from pain or frightened.

This time, it took three basins of water to wake him up, and the second basin was still boiling water.......

Zhang Jinyan, who was tortured, promised 100,000 taels of silver weakly, and then the Earthquake Tiger called it a halt and ordered someone to go to the place where he hid the silver to find it.

Liu Zongmin, who had just come in, looked at this shocking scene, and he gave a thumbs up and said, "Brother Wang, good means!" ”

He added: "These corrupt officials are very treacherous, if they don't see the coffin and don't shed tears, they should be roasted fiercely!" ”

Wang Zhen nodded and said, "Or, I will continue to torture him and let him add another 100,000 taels?" ”

Liu Zongmin became ill and said, "It's okay, don't patronize him, you have to serve that champion well." ”

Wang Zhen raised his eyebrows and said, "Didn't the bachelor surnamed Wei give his daughter to King Chuang?" I heard that it is possible to make an imperial concubine. ”

Liu Zongmin laughed and said: "He wants to be beautiful, King Chuang is not close to women, and he gave his daughter to General Ben, General Ben is tired of playing for three days, and he has been sent to the barracks to comfort his brother, you send someone to arrest the champion surnamed Wei again, his family is a big family in Tongzhou, and there should be a lot of silver......

Wang Zhen clenched his fists and said: "General Quan's righteous annihilation of his relatives is admired by his subordinates." ”

Liu Zongmin nodded, and suddenly said: "I heard that you suggested to Prime Minister Niu Cheng to let go of some former Ming officials, is there such a thing?" ”

Wang Zhen replied: "But there is such a thing, those few people are honest and honest, and they oppose the Zhu Ming court to levy three salaries, and letting them go can not only reflect the benevolence and righteousness of Emperor Yongchang, but also buy people's hearts." ”

Liu Zongmin laughed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "That's right, General Ben admires you very much, just tell me directly if you have anything in the future, you don't need to find any prime minister." ”

Wang Zhen hugged his fists and said: "Yes, the subordinate general is the only general!" ”

Through more than a year of understanding, Wang Zhen has figured out the contradictions within the army, the Dashun court uses military to control literature, Liu Zongmin, the head of the military generals, and Niu Jinxing, the head of the civil officials, secretly disagree, and Niu Jinxing is also gradually winning over the generals......

Liu Zongmin nodded with satisfaction and said, "Do it well, do it faster here, I'll be good to the eldest brother...... Surrender to the king. ”

"Yes!"

......

In the private room where Wei Zaode was, "Wenqu Xing" let out a terrible scream.

He was stripped naked and pressed on the red-hot iron bed, enjoying the treatment of the Daming version of the electric blanket, the iron bed was covered with gutter oil, and in a sizzling sound, Wei Zaode's skin was open, and the outside was charred and the inside was tender.

I have to say that there are too many talents in the Ming Dynasty, and even this kind of teppanyaki, which has just been popular for decades in later generations, has been wholeed out.

One of the intruders struck him on the shin with an iron rod and roared and asked, "Can you take out 100,000 taels of silver?" ”

There was another terrible howl, Wei Zaode only wanted to die on the spot, and he let out a trembling voice: "Didn't you say that it was 70,000 taels? ”

"You lowly white-eyed wolf, and you dare to have a hard mouth?"

The intruder slapped him dozens of times with an iron plate, and even abolished his ten fingers.

Wei Zaode shouted: "I'll give 100,000 taels!" ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger crossed his arms and sneered: "You have tarnished the name of Wenqu Xing, add another 100,000 taels!" ”

Wei Zaode cried: "I am still short of officials, where do I get so many silver taels? At most, I can only make up 100,000 taels......."

The Sky Shaking Tiger said meaningfully: "Okay, go to the brain, let him try the power of the Tightening Spell!" ”

Wei Zaode wanted to cry without tears, he never dreamed that he would end up like this if he surrendered to the enemy.

Think about it three years ago, Emperor Chongzhen appointed himself as the champion, and in the past three years, he has been promoted all the way and directly entered the cabinet.......

Tightening the spell and continuing to torture, Wei Zaode cried loudly in prison: "The minister has not served the Lord loyally, there is today, it is too late to regret!" ”

After five days and five nights of torture, Wei Zaode died of a split brain in prison, his son was immediately executed, and the whole family was ransacked.

.......

In the private room of Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, a copper pillar was burned red, and he enjoyed the punishment of cannon branding, handed over 500,000 taels of silver, and was still roasted, forcing him to hand over 1 million taels of silver.

Li Guozhen's skin was full of flesh, and he was full of remorse in his heart, regretting that he shouldn't have surrendered and let the thieves enter the city so easily.

Think about his ancestor Li Jun, who followed Emperor Chengzu to raise troops to Jingjing, captured the nine gates of Beiping, and then moved to Shandong, as the vanguard general, sacrificed his life and died, and only after overcoming thorns and thorns did he have the wealth of Xiangchengbo for more than 200 years, but he turned his back on the enemy and ended up like this......

With a "snap" sound of bone cracking, Li Guozhen's legs were broken by the intruders with a sledgehammer, his eyes widened in pain, and he was immediately out of breath, and he died extremely wretched.

Under the rule of torture, many nobles and officials were roasted to death, Xue Lian, Marquis of Yangwu, was the coolest tortured when recovering stolen goods and died, Boping Marquis Guo Zhenming, Qing Pingbo Wu Zunzhou, Pingjiang Bo Chen Zhi'an and others were all roasted to the ground, the whole family was raided, and his wife and daughter were humiliated.

Li Jiantai, a scholar, Fang Yuegong, a scholar, courtesy of the Ministry of Officials, Chen Biqian, a scholar of the Ministry of Industry, and others were all roasted after paying the silver, and they were roasted to death without carrying it, and even Feng Quan, a bachelor who had been at home for more than ten years, was captured by the soldiers from Zhuozhou to Beijing to ask for silver.

Among them, Wang Dehua was the most excited, and directly took out 10,000 taels of silver, and was the first to be released, Li Zicheng was very relieved and continued to let him be the chief eunuch.

There are also some officials who honestly offered silver taels, and immediately ran away after being released, and even didn't want their wives and children, and ran away overnight.

This time, the number of people roasted was as high as thousands, and the breadth of the blow was rare in history, and the Jingshi Xunqi was basically served in one pot, and the people of the five mansions were collectively cut off their heads.

After half a month of hard work, the performance of the Biqi Zhenfu Division was fruitful, with a total of 70 million taels of silver, among which the performance of the roasting group of the Shocking Tiger Wang Zhen was outstanding, accounting for half of the total performance, which made Liu Zongmin have a lot of face.

Looking at these amazing wealth, Li Zicheng and the others were all shocked, and he naturally knew that the person in charge of roasting and raiding the house must have also hidden some belongings.

But he didn't care, with these 70 million taels of silver, the reward was stable!

At the suggestion of Niu Jinxing, Li Zicheng re-ascended the throne in Beijing City, and was awarded the title of civil and military minister, and the title of fifth-class knighthood.

There are nine marquis such as Liu Zongmin, seventy-two counts such as Liu Tichun, thirty viscounts such as Li Laiheng, and fifty-five barons such as Gao Yigong.

In addition, Li Zicheng also ordered the Dashun Imperial Court to open a department and recruit scholars, select officials to stabilize the locality, and do it decently.