Chapter 13 Closing the Net

With the passage of time, it is about to come to the end of the year, after the conversation in Huangzhuang, the big bulls of these times have started their own research in an orderly manner, and Zhu Youxiao has people transported 500,000 catties of sweet potatoes from the coastal areas, he is ready to raise seedlings, and then send the sweet potato seedlings to Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, let the people eat before talking about other things.

Song Jin came in and reported on this day: "Long live Lord, it's been clarified, the minions have been clarified!" ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "Say it slowly, be careful, I want to see how these things are done." ”

Song Jin took a breath and said, "After more than a month of overt and covert visits, the slave gate has finally clarified the matter. This time it's a frame-up, an absolute frame-up. My subordinate Liu Liang sent people to keep an eye on Feng Sanyuan's door, and finally found that three people quietly entered Feng's mansion the night before, and only came out for about half an hour, and then continued to follow, they went to Yao Zongwen and Gu Yu's house again, and then Feng Gui also arrived, and they blocked these three people in the residence, these three were still quite stabbing and injured the four of us, and finally Li Jinzhong sprinkled a bag of quicklime to solve the problem, and tripped them with a rope, one guy committed suicide, and two were alive, and asked them not to say anything. Or Li Jinzhong has a way, scratching his feet with chicken feathers, and finally recruited them after a day's work, they are all from the Liaodong Governor's Mansion, and it was the big housekeeper Yang Renzhi who sent him to bribe the Beijing officials, and he wanted to put Xiong Tingbi to death, the one who committed suicide was the leader, neither of them knew each other, and it was temporarily sent to them, Yang Renzhi asked them to listen to that person's words. Each of the three men received 20,000 taels of silver and some jewels. Yesterday, Feng Sanyuan and Yao Zongwen went to Gu Yu's house to discuss tomorrow's plans. This is a confession. Song Jin was wordy for a long time and finally finished the matter.

At this time, Wang An came in from outside, saying that Luo Sigong had something important to see, and Zhu Youxiao asked him to talk recently.

Luo Sigong said: "The minister sent people to Liaodong, and Yang Renzhong, the second housekeeper of Yang Yuan of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion, was an undercover agent arranged by us for 20 years. Yang Renzhong passed on his discovery to our people, and the person I sent was called Liu Yidao, and he was a master. Liu Yidao took the evidence of Yang Yuan's smuggling goods collected by Yang Renzhong, and handed over the secret letter of Yang Renzhi's exchange with Jianlu to Lord Sun, who sent someone to invite Yang Yuan to the governor's yamen, and when Yang Yuan saw these evidences, he was willing to admit his guilt, did not resist and quibble, and only asked Lord Wansui to leave him a son to inherit the lineage. ”

"Alas, it's accurate, give the evidence to Wang An." Zhu Youxiao sighed, Yang Yuan was just too selfish, not too bad, "Escort Yang Yuan and his family back to Beijing immediately and secretly, and tell Yang Yuan that I won't kill him." ”

The next morning, everyone had finished saluting, and Wang An shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, play early if you have something, and retreat from the court if you have nothing to do." ”

"Minister, Feng Sanyuan has a book. His Majesty's case of Xiong Tingbi was handed over to Dongchang for inquiry, but Dongchang has not yet reached a conclusion, and there is a suspicion of bending the law for personal gain, so please punish Your Majesty severely. Feng Sanyuan is urging the case, he doesn't dare to say that the emperor, he can only impeach Dongchang.

"Minister, Yao Zongwen seconded the proposal, not severely punishing Xiong Tingbi is not enough to calm everyone's mouth." Yao Zongwen, a guy who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, also jumped out.

"Minister, Gu Yu seconded the proposal, Xiong Tingbi disturbed the people, wasted public funds, not killing is not enough to anger the people, please ask Your Majesty to make a decision." This Gu Yu is a cabinet veteran, and he is not polite at all, and even Zhu Youxiao is to blame.

"Hmph, Wang An, it's really shameless to divide these bags among the three of them for themselves." Zhu Youxiao said fiercely.

Originally, the three of them were standing bent over, but when Zhu Youxiao scolded, the three of them all knelt down, picked up the bag with their names written on it on the ground, and opened it to see what was inside.

Feng Sanyuan and Yao Zongwen looked at their own bags, the materials in them recorded all the evidence of their crimes in detail, looking at these black and white letters, as well as the drawings of their respective families, their faces began to turn red, white, and pale, and finally fell down directly. And Gu Yu didn't seem to have any problems, staring at the materials that belonged to him tightly, and read them patiently, when the ministers thought that Gu Yu was going to distinguish that he was innocent, he didn't expect this guy to lie down - fainted directly.

"Insatiable corruption, framing loyalty." Zhu Youxiao shouted, "Jinyiwei, launch the noon gate, behead the public, confiscate the house, and send the family to another place." ”

"Proposed purpose: to grant Sun Chengzong the military department of Shangshu, temporarily acting as the governor of Liaodong, and secretly grant Xiong Tingbi Liaodong Jingluo, temporarily living in Shenyang. On the day of meritorious service, a separate reward will be awarded. ”

The cabinet members saw that Zhu Youxiao's face sank like water, and no one dared to touch the mold at this time, even the officials who usually heard the wind did not dare to talk more, who dared to talk more at this time! This is not a political dispute, this is a major issue of reputation, even people from the Donglin line dare not do anything that damages their reputation, so these three can only wait for death.

This Xiong Tingbi incident gave the ministers a great deterrent, they didn't expect the young Zhu Youxiao to be so rigorous in doing things, and the framing case of Feng Sanyuan, Yao Zongwen, and Gu Yu was so secret that the ministers were not alert at all, and now there is no way to handle the case in a way that is ventilated everywhere, so that the ministers have to start thinking about their own behavior, their families, and their servants, so that they don't know how they died one day.

On the second day, Jinyi Wei Luo Sigong reported: "Your Majesty, Yushi Feng Sanyuan's house has seized 1.2 million taels of silver, and there are many jewels and gold and silver jewelry that have not yet been appraised. From the copied items, it was found that there were many correspondence between the wealthy people in Jiangnan, and they found their words asking for tax exemption; Yao Zongwen, the secretary of the military department, exceeded 2.86 million taels of silver in his home, countless gold and silver jewelry, and several letters of filial piety from the general soldiers in various places; The old Gu Wei's family had 2,000 taels of silver, but he found that the account book came and went from the south of the Yangtze River, and the account book recorded that he owned 120,000 acres of land and good paddy fields, and rented grain was stored in his hometown's private house. ”

This is the status quo of the Ming Dynasty, just the private silver in the homes of the two officials is more than half of the treasury silver of the household, no wonder Li Zicheng entered Beijing after the wanton raid of the house, get tens of millions of taels of silver, it seems that the rectification of the officials is imperative. Fortunately, the money that corrupt officials take bribes cannot be stored in foreign countries, and they are all stored for themselves at home, and the fertilizer water does not flow into the fields of outsiders. Otherwise, all the nine tribes and ten tribes of these people should be destroyed, so that one of them will die and the family will be rich.

"The income from the seizure of the house, with 3 million to fill the treasury silver, 1 million to the Ministry of Communications directly allocated to the firearms factory to Song Yingxing arrangement, gold and silver jewelry, you and your subordinates each pick a favorite, you choose five pieces at will, and the rest will be sent to the pawnshop to sell, and the money will be put into the inner treasury."

"Thank you for the reward." Luo Sigong walked away.