As soon as Emperor Chongzhen said this, no one dared to answer.

After all, the emperor has clearly said that the evidence has been taken out, which can prove that it is definitely not a fraud by the factory guards. It's all said about this, who dares to question it anymore?

Whoever wants to dwell on this matter means that he is not busy, or has ulterior motives! In this way, it is estimated that the next thing is bad luck!

For the vast majority of officials, as long as the emperor is really not a casual rebellious hat, then what does it have to do with them whether those grain merchants are dead or alive?

So, after Emperor Chongzhen went berserk, no one dared to say anything more.

Emperor Chongzhen glanced down and shouted coldly: "This year's Jingcha will be divided into good and bad according to the achievements made in the post-war reconstruction matters. The officials must be strictly controlled, and I will let the factory guards watch it. Those who can do things, those who do good things, and those who mess around, those who take the opportunity to fill their pockets, I will look at it, and go back and settle the accounts together! ”

After saying that, he threw up his sleeves and left.

Sending the emperor away, many courtiers looked at each other, and they didn't have any thoughts. The emperor is angry, and if he doesn't behave well, it will definitely be a catastrophe in the officialdom.

As for the grain merchant's rebellion, we will wait for the emperor to come up with evidence before we can see it.

The story of this court meeting soon spread.

Inside and outside the Jingshi, most of them are ordinary people, and they are all miserable by grain merchants. For these grain merchants, don't say that the emperor clearly said that there would be evidence, even if they did, according to their opinions, it was appropriate to sentence them to exterminate their families. All of them are black-hearted, lying on them and sucking blood.

Of course, they are naturally strange, what will be the evidence of what the emperor said? Because according to the emperor's statement, it should be impossible to hide a little weapon armor, or a dragon robe and a dragon crown or something. If it's not that, they really can't think of it. It's impossible, the emperor just said it casually to scare people, right?

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen didn't say it casually, the Wenhua Palace discussion is to beat these officials and let them do their jobs well, so that they know that they are blind and don't work hard, so they will go back and wait to settle accounts.

In addition, he actually has another purpose, which is to rearrange the eavesdropping seeds. What should be recycled should be recycled, and what should be replaced should be replaced, so as to prepare for the next step.

For now, he has recovered the C-level eavesdropping seeds on Fan Yongzheng's body, and the person has been imprisoned in the Imperial Prison, so there is no need to waste eavesdropping seeds on him.

The Grade A eavesdropping seeds on Wang Chengen's body have also been recovered, and he has no intention of putting eavesdropping seeds on him for the time being, at least in the short term to prove that he is loyal to himself, and he has also been frightened, and there should be no possibility of stretching out his dirty hand for the time being.

There is also a Class A eavesdropping seed on Jiang Dong, the head of the Dongchang stall, has also been recovered, this person is currently very angry, because of his own experience, he hates corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and there is no need to waste a eavesdropping seed for the time being, and it is also a Class A.

Emperor Chongzhen calculated the eavesdropping seeds he had in hand, and in this way, there were four C-level eavesdropping seeds on hand, and the eavesdropping range could only be ten miles away, which was actually more than half of the scope of the Beijing Division. Three Grade A eavesdropping seeds, no distance limit; A Class B eavesdropping seed, with a radius of thousands of miles, can probably cover a long distance, Shanxi, Hebei, some Shandong regions, and even Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan.

And if the eavesdropping seed that has been rewarded outside has a C-level eavesdropping seed on Cao Huachun's body; Wu Zhong has a Grade A eavesdropping seed on his body, and he is already on the Mongolian steppe at this time, and he is about to return to Liaodong; Liu Kongzhao, the sincerity uncle, also has a Grade A eavesdropping seed on his body, and he was ordered to go out to resettle refugees, and now he is on his way back to Beijing; The last Grade A eavesdropping seed was on Chen Xinjia, the governor of Xuanda.

After counting all the eavesdropping seeds, Emperor Chongzhen still lamented in his heart, how good it would be if all of them were Grade A eavesdropping seeds! But looking back, one Grade A eavesdropping seed can be exchanged for three Grade C eavesdropping seeds, which is actually okay. At least in the immediate vicinity, it is enough to eavesdrop on the seeds with Class C. Listening to three at once is much better than a Grade A eavesdropping seed.

He was thinking about it, when suddenly the chamberlain came to report, saying that the commander of the Jinyi Guard had ordered Li Ruolian to meet him.

Don't say it's useful, it should be the thing that was explained to him, and it has already had a result. Emperor Chongzhen thought so in his heart, so he sent a decree for him to meet him immediately.

Sure enough, after the salute, Li Ruolian played: "Your Majesty, the king of Jin Shang Dengku was so frightened that he left the city on an empty stomach, so he went to the west of Shanxi. ”

"Good!" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help but praise, "Now that the grass has been startled, next, I am ready to close the net." ”

Hearing this, Li Ruolian looked puzzled, and after hesitating for a moment, he still played: "Your Majesty, since it has been verified that this Wang Dengku is behind the scenes for those grain merchants to hoard and not sell, why don't you just arrest him?" ”

The grain merchants who were arrested were not hard bones at all, Jin Yiwei just used a little means, and even the eighteenth generation of his ancestors confessed, and even provided clues, so that Jin Yiwei could find out about Liu Meicai's mansion in one fell swoop.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said to him: "Didn't those grain merchants say that they have been quietly buying grain for a long time. I just want this Wang Dengku to go back and report the news, and let them gather all the grain that they had quietly purchased from all over the country before, so that we can catch all the grain in one go, and also let Jingshi and the 200,000 or so people survive the spring famine. ”

Hearing this, Li Ruolian thought of the rumors outside, and suddenly understood a little why the emperor sentenced these people to rebellion.

In fact, he was originally an old scalper in Jinyiwei, and he had a hand in solving cases or something. Moreover, the emperor also had a lot of things to do through him. Therefore, it is not surprising that he knows a little more than others and can guess something.

Although he felt that it seemed a little more serious to detain those grain merchants and the people behind them as a rebellious hat. But what does this matter to him, besides, since they want to make trouble and fall into the hands of the emperor, they are self-inflicted. As long as you listen to the emperor, you can do things with peace of mind.

Thinking so, he immediately replied: "Your Majesty is wise! ”

Emperor Chongzhen listened, but he smiled and instructed him: "You quietly go out of the city to meet Chengyi Bo, he is about to arrive." Among the people he brought, there was a woman named Gao Qingju, who was a sister to Gao Qingxue, who lived in your yamen. After you pick her up, arrange for the sisters to meet, and by the way, write down everything they have seen. ”

In fact, Li Ruolian doesn't need to do this in person, and he has to go out of the city to pick it up. However, Emperor Chongzhen "rewarded" Li Ruolian with a C-level eavesdropping seed, which was explained to be a wiretapping ability within a radius of ten miles. He wanted to verify that the eavesdropping range was accurate. If the range is wider, isn't it earned!

Li Ruolian naturally didn't know about this, and thought that the emperor attached great importance to the two sisters, so he hurriedly agreed, and then said goodbye.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the news from this C-level eavesdropping seed, and it seemed that after leaving the city gate, there was no news to show, which made him slightly disappointed. You eavesdropping seed, don't you want to be so precise!

complained in his heart, and then he didn't care about Li Ruolian's side.

However, what Emperor Chongzhen didn't expect was that in the early afternoon, after Li Ruolian returned to Beijing, he was surprised to find that the C-level eavesdropping seeds, which had no news before, actually returned messages continuously, and even the chat records that were not within the scope were also returned.

In the words of later generations, although this eavesdropping seed left the eavesdropping range, it faithfully recorded the movements of the eavesdroppers, and then stored there. Once connected to the system of Emperor Chongzhen, all the information stored in the place was transmitted.

In other words, the scope limit of eavesdropping seeds is only the difference between real-time eavesdropping messages, but it does not lose the information heard by eavesdropping seeds.

Emperor Chongzhen understood this and couldn't help but be very surprised, which means that in fact, even the C-level eavesdropping seeds are very practical. Yes, this is really a pro-system!

On his side, he was happy, but on the other side, some people were worried about death, or rather, they were almost scared to death by him. These people are Jin merchants.

From Jingshi to Shanxi Laolai, there is at least eight or nine hundred miles away, but Wang Dengku spent a day and a night of hard work, ran and killed two horses, almost exhausted him to death, and finally rushed back.

Although he was tired and collapsed on the bed, he didn't have the heart to rest, so he immediately sent someone to urgently summon the other seven heads of the family to meet him, saying that there was an urgent matter to discuss.

When his housekeeper heard this, he reminded: "Master, over there of the Fan family, there is someone from Beijing who is coming to block the door, and it is said that the master of the Fan family is not here, so I am afraid that he will not be able to come." ”

"Go, go to his hometown, let him come to me, no!" Speaking of this, Wang Dengku suddenly came back to his senses and immediately changed his words, "Let them rush to the governor's palace before noon tomorrow, and say that there is something important to discuss, a very urgent matter, which is related to everyone's net worth and life." ”

Hearing him say it so seriously, the housekeeper was also scared, and hurriedly went to do it.

After a day's rest, Wang Dengku finally eased up a little and hurried to Yanghe Governor's Mansion.

By the time he arrived, the other seven families had already arrived, and even Fan Yongdou, who was hiding in his hometown, came in a hurry.

As soon as I saw him, I immediately asked him.

"Brother Wang, what is it that is so serious?"

"Yes, Brother Wang Xian, I heard that you rushed back from Jingshi day and night, what happened to Jingshi?"

"It can't be a matter of silver tickets, those people will make trouble in Shanxi, what else can they do, anyway, there is a governor here, what else can you be afraid of them?"

“……”

Hearing these words, Wang Dengku felt a little pain in his head, and hurriedly shouted: "The crime of rebellion, do you say it is serious?" ”

"......" Suddenly, the living room became very quiet, and even Chen Xinjia, who was a little unimpressed at first, couldn't help but turn his head to look at him in surprise.

The sin of treason? Did you hear me right?

This kind of crime of raiding their families and exterminating their families really scared them. I heard Fan Yongdou hurriedly say: "Everyone listen to Brother Wang Xian." ”

Naturally, others are eager to know, how did they get into the crime of rebellion? In their hearts, they did not link smuggling with rebellion at all. After all, in their opinion, they just want to make money, and they don't want to plot against the Ming Emperor.

As a result, among the seven major Jin merchants, including Chen Xinjia, they listened to Wang Dengku's explanation of what happened in Jingshi with great concern.

After hearing about it, these people couldn't help but look at each other. Among them, Fan Yongdou turned his head to look at Chen Xinjia and said, "My lord, this is ...... What is this called, this is a great crime of rebellion? ”

They didn't expect that Jingshi's matter about Fan Ji Qianzhuang did not develop as they expected, and it came so violently. However, in the face of the great crime of rebellion, they didn't care about the silver ticket anymore.

Hearing his question, the other Jin merchants all turned their heads to look at Chen Xinjia, wanting to hear what he had to say.

After all, in their opinion, what's wrong with hoarding food? What's wrong if you don't sell it, this can be linked to the crime of rebellion, the emperor's brain is really sick!

However, Chen Xinjia's face was very unsightly, and after glancing at them, he said slowly: "If the emperor knows that you are trading with Liaodong Jianyu and have hoarded so much grain, and you want to sell it to Liaodong Jianguo, it is said that it is a rebellion, although it is a bit heavier, it is not unfounded. ”

As soon as they heard this, the eight major Jin merchants couldn't help but look at each other again, is it really so serious? This emperor, isn't he irrational?

Seeing their worried looks, Chen Xinjia changed his words, but immediately said: "However, this official thinks that it is unlikely that the emperor will know about you, otherwise, there would not be no news at all." It is likely that it is because the few companies that hoarded grain were found out by the factory guards, and there were a large number of hoarding grain before and after and not selling it. In this way, it caused a famine in Beijing and caused the emperor to be angry. But ......"

Speaking of this, he paused and then said, "If the emperor can't find more grain, then there is a problem with this crime." Just imagine a joy, it's just a hoarding of some grain, even if the amount is a little larger, could this cause a famine in Beijing, if this is the case, for so many years, how many grain merchants have not done this? ”

As soon as he heard this, Fan Yongdou immediately came back to his senses, and immediately followed: "Yes, yes, the key is not to let the emperor find out the grain we hoarded before." We must send all that grain to Liaodong as soon as possible! Otherwise, the factory guards will follow those who have been arrested, and sooner or later they will find out about us. ”

"yes, that's what I thought, too." Wang Dengku slapped his thigh and immediately echoed, "Those grain merchants who were raided and arrested are all behind us, and sooner or later they will check our heads." As long as we send all the grain hoarded in various places out of the customs, and have the care of the Governor, it will be impossible for the factory guards to find the grain again, and in this way, things will be easy to do! ”

"Yes, yes, without further ado, we can't wait any longer this time, we have to send all the goods to Liaodong quickly!" Tian Shenglan also immediately agreed.