October of the seventh year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, Xuanfu, City Gate, afternoon.

Chongzhen once again came to the gate of Xuanfu. Just a few hours ago, Chongzhen made a special detour to Xuanfu because of his pursuit of Huang Taiji, just to take down the eight locust merchants!

Now, the locust merchants have all been captured, and Chongzhen is going to judge the eight locust merchants on this city gate tower.

When Chongzhen climbed the city tower, the people under the city were already bustling and shoulder-to-shoulder. There are too many people in this Xuanfu, which makes Chongzhen feel similar to the people he used to cut Haoge in Beijing last time, so he simply sent white pole soldiers to maintain order.

It's just that soon, Chongzhen got angry again, in Chongzhen's view, the world is his own, and the people are his roots. Only when the people are well, will they take their hard-earned money for their own squandering, and will continue to send beautiful women to enjoy themselves and work for themselves.

But how many innocent Ming Ziming were killed by these eight locust merchants who colluded with Jiannu? That's all your own money! If you unfairly fight these bastards today, and give justice to the people and soldiers who have died in vain due to the eight locust merchants and enemies over the years, then you will still come to support yourself in the future, and let yourself enjoy the corrupt life of the seventy-two concubines in the three palaces, six courts?

Thinking of this, Chongzhen spoke: "Today, many people know what I am going to do.

That's right, I'm here to put this traitor on trial! Expose their crimes! ”

After speaking, he said to Lu Xiangsheng beside him: "Bring these dogs to the trial!" ”

After the eight locust merchants were escorted to the downstairs of the city gate, Chongzhen said: "Can you be convicted? Pleaded guilty?

In the first year of the Apocalypse, you smuggled a total of more than 100,000 stones of grain and grass to Jiannu, and more than 10,000 pieces of iron tools, most of which were long knives.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, you and others again smuggled more than 100,000 pieces of grain and grass to Jiannu, and nearly 10,000 pieces of iron tools.

From the third year of the Apocalypse to the sixth year of the Apocalypse, every year! I could have wronged you? ”

The other seven people were silent, but Fan Yongdou shouted: "Your Majesty, the grass people and others are transporting grain and grass to the border in accordance with the provisions of the Kaizhong Law. As for the smuggling to Jiannu as mentioned below, it was all done by the people below without the grass people, and the grass people really don't know it, Your Majesty! ”

After hearing this, the people in the city exploded first. If you don't know about Master Fan, your slave dares to send smuggling to Jiannu? Not afraid of raiding the house and exterminating the nine clans?

At that moment, a man who was close to him scolded: "Let go of my mother's fart!" You don't know, which one does?! ”

But an old lady cried out, "You damned things, you can't deceive the saint!" My poor son died at the hands of Jiannu! Why are you people so inhumane! ”

Above the city, Chongzhen's face became more and more ugly, but he said angrily to the eight locust merchants under the city: "The ancients are cloudy, if they don't teach, they will be punished, and they will be abused!" Today, I will convince you and others! After speaking, he said to Wu Stalltou next to him: "You believe in these letters!" ”

The head of the Wu stall hurriedly responded, and immediately read aloud the correspondence between Fan Yongdou and Fan Wencheng found in the inner factory from Fan Fuzhong at the head of the city.

Among them, it not only involves the smuggling of grain, grass and iron tools, but also leaks the information at the border gates. From the distribution of the border army to the names of the generals of the guards, they are all known to Jiannu. Fan Yongdou even flattered Jiannu in his letter, and slandered Daming.

When the people in the city heard this, they were in an uproar, and many people were shouting: "Kill these dog traitors!" ”

Another humane: "Wouldn't it be cheaper to kill them with a knife?" It should be a thousand cuts! ”

The sound was so loud that Chongzhen at the head of the city also heard it. Chongzhen's face twitched, and he said secretly, if you cut one Haoge, I don't want to eat Peking duck anymore, and you still want me to chop eight more?

In order to calm the faint feeling of rebellion in his stomach as soon as possible, Chongzhen said again: What else do you have to say? ”

Fan Yongdou knew that he was bound to die, so he simply turned his heart sideways and said: "Your Majesty, we are just doing business, buying and selling, what kind of Jiannu and Daming are divided?!" Business knows no borders! ”

Chongzhen listened. But he was happy. In later generations, there were some patients with advanced comprehensive syndrome of the well-known elite, shouting all day long that science has no borders!

For these people, if they are in the Chongzhen Dynasty, Chongzhen said that they must completely disappear from this world.

Immediately, Chongzhen shouted to a few people: "Stop!

Merchants have no borders, but can merchants have borders? Are you Jiannu or my Ming people?

You were born in Daming and grew up in Daming! Don't forget, it's the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who protect you, not the slaves! Now he is making the money of the Ming Dynasty, and let the Jiannu come to slaughter the people of the Ming Dynasty! Is it tolerable, or is it intolerable? ”

Chongzhen was furious and shouted: "Now that the evidence is conclusive, you still dare to use strong words? Listen to the verdict, I will find justice for the people of the Ming Dynasty who died in vain because of you today!

Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa, the above eight people, after investigation, they fornicated with slaves, betrayed the country, and robbed their homes in brocade clothes.

The above eight people, Ling Chi! Three generations up and down, all in one! The three clans were exiled to the southwest and enslaved with King Mu's mansion! ”

At that moment, Zhao Er and others, specially brought by Chongzhen from Beijing, went to be executed, and once again staged a scene of killing Haoge alive in the capital.

Chongzhen didn't look at the execution scene below, and said to the many officials, soldiers and people in the city: "Merchants make profits, of course this is okay." However, you can't make black money like these eight people!

The dynasty was too generous to wait for merchants before, so that these eight traitors came out!

Its order: All businessmen in the world are required to pay business tax, which is calculated as a fifteen tax! Those who do not pay will be punished as tax evasion! Among them, rewards and punishments, after I return to Beijing, there will naturally be a will to make the world clear.

Since Jiannu has grown because of the capital of Er, the commercial taxes of Eryou and others are also used to compensate the people of the world.

Its order: stop all additional distributions such as liao salary and border salary, and reduce the agricultural tax by half! ”

When the eight locust merchants below heard such a verdict, they immediately howled miserably, and they all shouted: "Your Majesty is gracious! ”

These eight locusts merchants knew in their hearts that even if the three clans were determined to die as one, the nine clans would still be there, and someone would eventually get out, and there would be a possibility of a comeback one day.

Now Chongzhen's verdict has completely blocked all their hopes.

Since then, these businessmen of the Ming Dynasty are only afraid that they will be hated to the core. The business tax, which basically didn't exist, is now collected again because of the eight of them, and it is as high as fifteen taxes, I am afraid that these merchants will be eager to crush their nine clans!

Chongzhen at the head of the city sneered in his heart. Secretly said: "Today, I borrowed a few dog heads to collect business taxes, and won't this silver be big in the future?" Only if I have money can I be willful! ”