I saw that on the grassland in front of him, there was an army staying, wearing a red mandarin duck battle robe, the fiery red color, under the sun, it was particularly dazzling.

This is a cavalry army, the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, Shuai Qi, a "tiger" word, at this moment, it is obvious that people have a feeling of tiger and tiger, which is daunting!

Outside of this pass, how to ...... How could there be a Ming army? Fan Yongdou was extremely surprised. But he also knew that there was no time for him to think about it. Hurriedly took the reins, and prepared to turn around and flee into the mountains. Abandon the horse to climb the mountain, and wait until after dark, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope to escape and ascend to heaven.

However, when he turned around, ignoring the panic on the faces of the men behind him, and looked behind them, he saw that in all directions, there were groups of horsemen, slowly driving their horses out from the other side of the mountain.

There is nowhere to escape!

At this moment, Fan Yongdou knew that the Ming army should have been waiting here for a long time, waiting for someone to escape from Zhangjiakou Fort!

As soon as I thought of mobilizing tens of thousands of troops, I first transferred the main general away, and then the factory guards and soldiers lurked into the city, the army attacked the city, controlled Zhangjiakou Fort with the power of thunder, and even arranged a cavalry army outside the pass, such a big arm, except for the one in the Forbidden City, it is estimated that there is no one!

But...... But the one in the Forbidden City, who doesn't leave the Forbidden City, why is he so aggressive with his own people, and there is no news in advance, what is going on?

Fan Yongdou can't figure out why things have become like this?

"Master, what shall we do?" A family member panicked and hurriedly asked him.

The others couldn't help but get close to their master, hoping that their master could come up with some ways to resolve the trouble in front of them as before.

Fan Yongdou can have today, naturally it can't be a straw bag, he put aside the doubts in his heart, calmed down and said: "Remember, we are just ordinary people doing business in Zhangjiakou Fort, my surname is Qian, and I was frightened by the army, so I ran to the grassland." No matter what the Ming army asked, we bit it to death. I don't believe it, does the imperial court want to exterminate the ordinary people? ”

"Okay, let's listen to the master!" When his family heard this, they all agreed.

Fan Yongdou was in a hurry, and immediately explained some details, and then he was ready to pretend to be an ordinary person. Fortunately, when I escaped from the secret passage last night, I didn't have time to change my clothes, and my body was dirty, and I didn't look like a decent kind of person who did big business.

On all sides, all caught.

After receiving the news from all over the place, Hong Chengchou immediately sorted out the situation in his hand, and then sent someone to hurry back to Beijing and continue to report to the emperor. At the same time, he also continued to preside over the affairs of Jindi, while raiding the house, while counting the materials, in addition to Zhangjiakou Fort, there are other places, also have to raid the house and arrest people. The nest of these Jin merchants is not in Zhangjiakou Fort.

In fact, he didn't need to send someone to tell him, Emperor Chongzhen already had a general understanding of the situation through the Grade A eavesdropping seeds on his body.

Knowing that all the eight major Jin merchants were arrested, he was also relieved.

Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, not that they will not be rewarded, but the time has not yet come; When the time comes, God can let himself cross over to become an emperor, and in such a large province, he also captured all eight of these people, this is the power of retribution!

On the other hand, Emperor Chongzhen was also very pleased with the seized materials.

In later generations, I heard that Heshen was poured and Jiajing was rich. Then this time, it can also be said that after catching Jin Shang, Da Ming can take a breath.

Otherwise, the imperial treasury has no money, the land of Gyeonggi, including several surrounding provinces, has been ravaged by Jianju, and all parts of the Central Plains have been ravaged by thieves, the south is flooded, and the north is drought, and I don't know how to live a good life! But now, at least in the early stage of disaster relief, there is no problem in reviving the army. You can even have the funds to implement the plan in your heart step by step.

By this time, I was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief!

Right now, with the army, money, and food in hand, this confidence is hard enough!

Emperor Chongzhen decided to take advantage of this opportunity to properly rectify the officialdom of the lower Beijing Division.

As a result, the factory guards continued to act, focusing on rectifying the two places of the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. In particular, the Metropolitan Inspectorate, basically the imperial historians were arrested and imprisoned.

It stands to reason that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is to supervise hundreds of officials, impeach corrupt officials, and give advice to the emperor to benefit the country and the people; However, by this time in the late Ming Dynasty, not to mention the supervision of hundreds of officials, they were all a den of corruption, there was no one who was not greedy, and there was no one who did not collect money.

For example, Liao Guoxuan, Yang Zhiqi and others are even more clearly marked with prices, and whoever gives money will speak to whom; Whoever gives money will do things for whom! Others have even become a tool for party struggle, and for the sake of their own group's interests, impeachment does not distinguish between right and wrong, but only looks at the camp over there. All of this is closely related to the corruption of officialdom in the late Ming Dynasty and the corruption of the Metropolitan Procuratorate itself.

Coupled with the work of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, even if they are replaced, it is impossible to do worse than them. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen did not relent. Anyway, after catching a few imperial histories, they confessed other imperial histories, so you're welcome, and then arrested.

Soon, Jinyiwei Prison and Dongchang Prison could not be closed, so they began to go to the prison of the Criminal Department. Even some people who were not involved in betraying the country and plotting rebellion with Jin merchants, but were simply corrupt, were also transferred to the prison of the Criminal Department.

In response to this situation, at the beginning, many officials were panicked and a little unsure of what to do.

In the past, they tried to pretend to be sick and strike to blackmail the emperor. But I didn't expect that the emperor actually sent the factory guards and the imperial doctor out, and even the officials were still in the book, once it was found that they were pretending to be sick, under the charge of a crime of bullying the king, the head was already with the head of the original head assistant Liu Yuliang.

With such a harsh method of the emperor, who would dare to pretend to be sick? They didn't even dare to do such things as grinding foreign workers and fooling the emperor, even if they didn't work. I'm afraid that the emperor will send someone to check, and then his head will not be protected, and then he will lose a lot.

How to say it, the concept of the emperor and the scholars ruling the world together from the beginning of the Song Dynasty began to emerge again in the Hongzhi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Even many times, when the civil officials and the emperor work against each other, it is an honor.

Even if he is as shrewd as Emperor Jiajing, in order to make such a simple matter as his own father enter the Taimiao, he has to make trouble for so many years and make so many things; There is also Emperor Wanli, who wanted to change his son to be the crown prince, but under the opposition of civil officials, he did not change it.

It can be said that the civil officials in the late Ming Dynasty had begun to fight against the emperor in a group, but only suffered a setback during the Apocalypse Dynasty. The power of the eunuchs swelled and strongly suppressed the civilian clique. In fact, this situation can be regarded as a reaction to the expansion of civilian power.

Now, in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, after he completed the deployment and mastered the military power, he performed so strongly that he once again attacked the civilian clique. And this time, he took the lead. Whether it is rebellion or corruption, everyone spurns it. Even if the civil officials wanted to oppose it, they could not stand up to it in theory. And this is the fundamental reason why they can oppose the emperor.

Therefore, this time, it can be said that the civilian clique does not even have the ability to fight back.

Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen was about to empty the Imperial Court, these civil officials found a point to counterattack. It's the emperor, you arrested officials on such a large scale and won the banner, isn't it a rebellion?

If it is said that corruption, then they have nothing to say, but how many people dare to commit such a big case of rebellion? They believe that the vast majority of people would not dare to commit the great crime of treason. Because, your emperor is so aggressive in arresting people, even the cabinet ministers and ordinary grain merchants are classified as traitors, which is an exaggeration.

The emperor has always said that there is evidence, but this evidence has not been produced for a long time. This gave them confidence, feeling that the evidence that the emperor said before was just a pretext, and now that so many people have been arrested, it is difficult to ride a tiger, and they dare not show the evidence again, lest these evidence be too absurd, so that the people of the world can clearly see that the emperor is acting willfully!

For this reason, the emperor is arresting people, and they are secretly agitating this matter. Focus on the case of rebellion. Trying to break through in this aspect, teach the emperor a lesson, and tell him that even if you are the emperor, you will be infamous in the history books, tyrant!

At the same time, they sent all the pieces that could be sent from all over the country, all kinds of pieces that asked for money and food, and all kinds of difficult pieces anyway, to the cabinet and presented them to the imperial court. They also wrote their own recitals, emphasizing that these difficulties must be resolved immediately.

For example, there are more than 100,000 people rescued by the Yuan Qin Wang army, as well as millions of refugees who were affected by this military disaster in various places, and the cities that were destroyed and burned everywhere, all of which need to be rescued by the imperial court, and all kinds of ruins are waiting to be rebuilt, what do you think the emperor should do? If you arrest all the officials, who will do this kind of thing?

Even a rumor began to circulate among the people, saying that the emperor lost his mind and went crazy and did not help the people, but frantically arrested the officials who did things, this Ming Dynasty is going to die!

For this situation, Emperor Chongzhen ignored it, even if he received the good news from Hong Chengchou, he still ignored it, and kept following the plan, basically arresting the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the officials, and the results of the interrogation.

At this time, the matter in Shanxi has basically come to an end, and the industries of the eight major Jin merchants in various places, including those other smuggling merchants who are attached to the eight major Jin merchants, have all been raided and arrested.

After summarizing the recital, the horse was sent to the palace before and after, and Emperor Chongzhen began to convene the court meeting, ready to talk about the case of rebellion.