"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said, the official department of Shangshu Gao Hongtu, the household department of Shangshu Jiang Yueguang two of the leaders of the Donglin Party, together with Wei Guogong Xu Hongji conspired to rebel, the evidence is conclusive, the crime is unforgivable, special Ge to the post of Shangshu, choose a day to behead. The rest of the Donglin Party members, and Gao Hongtu Jiang Yueguang are all one party, both of whom are suspected, and they are all put into prison, and they will be dealt with after the trial and verification. Zhao Dequan finished reading the holy decree and retreated.

"Sun Xue, the secretary of the Criminal Department!"

"Wechen is here!" Sun Ze hurriedly stepped out.

"I ordered your criminal department to assist Jinyiwei in trying this case." Zhu Cihong said.

"Wechen obeys!" Sun Ze seemed a little conscientious, and he didn't dare to slack off, but it was Zhu Cihong's iron-blooded methods that shocked everyone.

"Ma Shiying, the secretary of the military department!"

"Wechen is here!" Ma Shiying came out of the ranks, and had a faint premonition of what Zhu Cihong was going to say.

"Now that the position of the first assistant is vacant, Ma Shiying has been promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet, I hope you will fulfill your duties in the future, lead the cabinet, and assist me in dealing with the world's major affairs, don't learn that lofty ambition, as the first assistant, I actually gave birth to those thoughts that I shouldn't have, I can't kill him if I don't want to."

Zhu Cihong's tone was cold, and the warning was obvious, that is, to tell Ma Shiying that he should do his part, and if he dares to overstep, Gao Hongtu will end up.

"The ministers will fulfill their duties and dare not violate the emperor's grace." Ma Shiying immediately said.

If the king is strong, the minister is weak, this is the law since ancient times, Zhu Cihong has established a strong position today, Ma Shiying and others can only let him everywhere in the future, as long as he is not too nonsense, what he wants to do, no one dares to disobey easily.

"Retreat!"

"Congratulations to the emperor!"

Zhu Cihong just stood up, and before he turned around, he suddenly remembered something.

"Ma Shiying, what I hate the most is the friend party, this is a big taboo in the country, any suspicion of forming a party, I will eradicate it with the power of thunder, don't let me down!" Zhu Cihong glanced at Ma Shiying, Zhang Zongyi, and Sun Ze, which contained inexplicable meaning and murderous intentions, and Ma Shiying and the three of them were so frightened that they were chilled.

"The ministers don't dare."

"Don't dare to be the best!" Zhu Cihong turned and left.

After ten days of interrogation, most of the more than 200 Donglin Party officials were convicted, degraded and degraded, killed, and exiled, and the rest who had not yet been convicted were still in prison, such as Qian Qianyi and others, these people were either obsessed with Confucianism, or people who really had some talents, Zhu Cihong stayed.

Although there was no conviction, it was not released, and everyone couldn't guess what Zhu Cihong wanted to do.

And those who have been convicted, whether it is debasement or killing, it is inevitable to raid the house, Zhu Cihong is most concerned about this, the Ming officials because of the reason that the income is too low, almost everyone is greedy for money, and there is no one in the house who has more than 180,000 silver is embarrassed to say that he is an official, and now the treasury is empty, and silver must be used everywhere, if a large amount of silver can be copied to replenish the treasury, it is naturally happy.

Jin Yiwei is an expert in copying the house, under the leadership of Zhang Kuishan, almost digging three feet into the ground, there is no copy that can not be copied, in order to prevent Jin Yiwei from filling his own pockets, Zhu Cihong let Zhang Kuishan, Ji Feng, Zhou Cao, and the three of them each bring some Ying Longjun to supervise a part of the Jinyi Wei one by one.

Boxes of gold and silver were copied out, counted, and sent to the treasury, which was piled up like a mountain.

"Your Majesty, this is an item copied from the homes of various officials, please take a look at it."

"Hmm." Zhu Cihong took the list handed over by Zhang Kuishan, and was almost shocked by the numbers on it, and his eyes were about to pop out, more than 150 officials, together with Wei Guogong, Yang Wuhou and a few other nobles who were implicated, actually copied out gold, silver, jewelry, and other objects worth more than 27 million taels of silver, more than 600,000 acres of fertile land, and hundreds of mansions of different sizes.

Among them, the Duke of Wei copied the most, under the digging of Jinyiwei, he found the big treasury of the Duke of Wei, and copied out nearly four million taels of silver, 80,000 acres of fertile land, more than a dozen mansions, worth more than five million taels of silver, although Zhu Cihong was surprised, but it was common sense to think about it a little, after all, the Duke of Wei was in the richest Jiangnan of the Ming Dynasty, and he had the position of the Duke of the Kingdom for generations, and he also held real power, after nearly three hundred years of accumulation by the family, the family property of five million taels of silver was considered small.

Next is Gao Hongtu and Jiang Yueguang, what surprised Zhu Cihong the most was Jiang Yueguang, who also copied more than 2 million taels of gold, silver and jewelry from his house, 10,000 acres of fertile land, Gao Hongtu is slightly less than Jiang Yueguang, but there are also more than 1.5 million taels of gold and silver jewelry, more than 8,000 acres of fertile land, and sure enough, the important ministers of the Ming Dynasty are all big tigers.

Li Zicheng copied the entire city of Beijing, not counting the mansion and good land or something, only to get more than 70 million taels of silver, Zhu Cihong only copied more than 100 people to get more than 27 million taels, Zhu Cihong had to sigh, Jiangnan is richer than Beijing City, everyone is a fat sheep, if it is not for fear of going too far, Zhu Cihong really wants to copy the remaining Qian Qianyi and other more than 70 Donglin Party together, I am afraid that there will be an income of tens of millions of taels of silver.

Of course, Zhu Cihong didn't dare to do that, then he would really have no one to use, and the court still needed some people to operate.

Although Zhu Cihong has not yet convicted Qian Qianyi and others, he did not release them immediately, but first dried them in prison.

It's been half a month since I finished dealing with all this.

Qian Qianyi's mansion, since Qian Qianyi was imprisoned, the entire Qian Mansion has become a mess, everyone is in danger, and everyone is afraid that after Qian Qianyi is convicted, it will affect the entire mansion, many slaves and maidservants have been dismissed, and the rest are directly related to Qian Qianyi.

"Madame, ma'am! News came from the prison that the emperor decreed that the prison visit was allowed. A maidservant girl came to Qian Qianyi's wife Liu with a happy face and said.

"But it's true!" Liu Ru was surprised.

Liu Ruis, one of Qin Huai's eight Yan, was obsessed with Qian Qianyi's Confucianism, and at the age of twenty-three, he broke away from the song and dance workshop and married the old cow Qian Qianyi, who was over sixty years old, and became Qian Qianyi's steproom.

"Mmmm, madam, it's true, the slave maid has asked the eldest brother who guards the prison door." The maid chick nodded as if pecking rice.

"Okay, I can finally see the master, I'm afraid the master is not having a good time in prison, Hui'er, let the kitchen prepare some food immediately, I want to go to see the master." Liu Ru cried with joy, Qian Qianyi's old cow ate tender grass is true, but Liu Ru is willing, and he really has feelings for Qian Qianyi.

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