Chapter 705: The Wind Knows the Grass

No one is a fool, hundreds of the more than 3,000 people arrested by Jinyiwei are the treasurers and bookkeepers of the Jin merchants living in Gyeonggi, and some of them have just given many civil and military generals their year-end filial piety.

It didn't take long for the general to be exposed to the world in Shanxi, because Li Ruolian told Emperor Cheng to arrest many Jin merchants in Gyeonggi, and Cheng sent many confessions from Jin merchants to the enemy.

Many of the civil and military officials and nobles who had anything to do with the Jin merchants or were the spokesmen of the Jin merchants were furious, cutting off people's money and property like killing their parents, and we were inseparable from Huang Han.

In the afternoon of the same day, hundreds of ministers impeached the general and persecuted the merchant Jia for money and murder on fabricated charges, so that the recourse of Shanxi was not peaceful.

Early in the morning of the 28th day of the lunar month, hundreds of civil and military generals gathered outside the Forbidden City to kneel down and ask the emperor to uphold justice and return the peace to the world in Shanxi.

Emperor Chongzhen had just received hundreds of thousands of taels of silver tickets from Li Ruolian, and before he had time to be happy, he learned that the general had stabbed the hornet's nest, and nearly half of the courtiers were anxious, and gathered hundreds of people to kneel outside the Forbidden City to protest, demanding that the general be severely punished.

It can be seen that Huang Han attacked the Jin merchants and made people angry! Chongzhen was happy to see this, but the ministers asked him to issue an order to severely punish Huang Han, and he ignored it at all.

It is true that Huang Han, a powerful minister, will be a confidant of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and the Jin merchants and the ministers who complain about the grievances of the Jin merchants are not good things.

Chongzhen's IQ is more than eight years old, and he can still distinguish between good and bad, and sent Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen, and Li Ruolian to persuade those ministers not to make trouble and go home early to prepare for the New Year.

These ministers were very stubborn, completely ignoring the advice of Cao Huachun, threatening to capture the generals without the king's law, and wantonly arresting merchants for personal gain.

The purpose was to confiscate the property of those merchants, and if they did not participate in such a powerful subject, the people would be at peace and the country would be out of peace.

These ministers, whose actual interests had been infringed upon, really took a posture of playing with their lives, and actually held out until noon the next day.

Chongzhen was furious and had nothing to do, the law did not blame the public, there were hundreds of people there, and these people were not unreasonable at all.

Huang Han did too much, the appearance is too ugly, it is said that there are hundreds of Jin merchants who have been raided, and what is even more odious is that all the people who were copied have disappeared, and they have no one alive or dead.

Many ministers thought that Huang Han had killed his life for the sake of money, and that he might have wiped out all these merchants, so how could he explain the unwarranted disappearance of thousands of Jin merchants and their families?

Hundreds of officials have scorching words, and the general has a "Red Banner Army" that has defeated tens of thousands of Jiannu and Tartars, and who has the ability to resist when such men and horses are dispatched to rob homes and houses?

If the court does not stand up for the people who died in vain, the future Ming Dynasty will have no royal law, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

At this time, the general sent many meritorious soldiers back to Beijing to meet the emperor to accept the reward, led by Zhang Fengyi, Liang Tingdong, the chief eunuch of the army, Zheng Zhihui, Fang Jingcheng, and so on.

There were not many people in the "Red Banner Army" who came to Beijing, and there were dozens of generals and 1,000 cavalry leaders.

Without exception, these soldiers have more than two levels of beheading, and the other is that two thousand general guards push more than 1,000 wheelbarrows.

The emperor was anxious to know what was going on in Shanxi, so he immediately summoned Zhang Fengyi and others on the platform, and all the cabinet ministers arrived, and the six Shangshu also came.

Dozens of generals of the "Red Banner Army" who accepted the reward came, and basically none of them were battalion commanders, except for Fang Liandong, who had just won the honor of the crown prince and Taibao.

While waiting for the emperor to summon him, he took dozens of young generals to talk to the ministers who had avenged the grievances of the Jin merchants, and after learning the name and position of an adult, he looked through the records he carried with him.

Then he took out a few pieces of paper full of words and showed them to the indignant Beijing official, and whispered a few words, and then the lord hid his face and ran wildly, and ran away without a trace.

In less than an hour, half of them were gone, and it was not long before the other half found their family or friends coming to take them home, and told them to be cautious in their words and deeds, and not to offend the general and get into trouble.

In the end, there were less than 30 people left at the kneeling scene of hundreds of people, these people are all Qingliu, and they are the kind of iron-clad ministers who are not very capable and have a big temper, they can't do things by themselves, and they are very good at finding fault with people who do things.

The wind knows the grass, and the board knows the Chengchen. These dozens of iron-clad ministers are stinky and hard, and they think they are standing on the moral high ground.

They thought that they were dedicated to the country and not to people, and found that the vast majority of the participants had withdrawn and become more motivated.

When he started to deal with the Jin merchants and related civil officials and military generals, Huang Han realized that he would stab the hornet's nest, and he had already made sufficient mental preparations.

A few years ago, Huang Han had the strength to engage in Jin businessmen, but he was worried that he would not cut the grass and grow again if he did not eradicate the roots, and he was also worried that he would not be able to swallow the huge benefits he had scavenged.

After the arrest of the Jin merchants, the "Red Banner Army" teenagers took care of the main characters separately, and the eight people took turns to interrogate them in shifts.

The vast majority of hungry and sleepy Jin merchants couldn't withstand such a psychological offensive, they couldn't even survive eight hours, and began to honestly explain what they had done over the years, including when and where they gave bribes to which Ming officials and officials.

In the Ming Dynasty, which did not have to take human rights into consideration, such an interrogation was already merciful enough, because under Miki, not to mention that these people had criminal facts, it was easy to beat them into tricks.

Huang Han didn't want to kill people, and he didn't want to leave these people disabled or simply die within a few days after passing the court.

The purpose of appointing Fang Liandong to enter the capital is to send some benefits to the emperor, so that Emperor Chongzhen feels that no matter when, the general will not ignore the royal family.

The Weisu army led by Fang Liandong transported more than 1,000 carts of materials, many of which were antiques, strange stones, handicrafts, etc., which were ready to be sold in Beijing, and many KitKat were also selected to be presented to the emperor.

Before leaving, Huang Han summoned Fang Liandong to ask for orders, and more than a dozen flag guards accompanied Fang Liandong into Beijing with the incriminating evidence collected during this time.

In addition to the Qingshui Yamen, there are really not many officials who hold real power who are not corrupt, and even Zheng Guochang and Liu Zhilun have a lot of gray income.

There are very few honest ministers such as Wen Tiren, the first minister, and Cheng Guoxiang, the secretary of the household department.

Therefore, after Fang Liandong inquired about the official's name, he checked to see if the flag guard had recorded the shortcomings of the official in the hands of the Jin merchants, and then showed the transcribed confession to the official a few times.

Finally, he told the official that the general of the conquest was kind to others, and he chose a collaborator to open the net.