Chapter 48: Earth-shattering changes (4)
Seeing Chongzhen standing alone in the rain, Wang Chengen couldn't help but feel a little distressed, and personally took a canopy to help Chongzhen shelter from the wind and rain. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info saw that it was Wang Chengen, and this time Chongzhen was not pushing away.
"Big companion, the ministers kneeling below, according to the information collected by the Jinyi Wei of the East Factory, all those who have a wealth of more than one million, beheaded" Even if the Jinyi Guards are all over the world, the flags of the East Factory are everywhere, but there are too many corrupt officials in the court, and the various relationship networks are complicated, even if Chongzhen personally ordered the inspector, it is impossible to distinguish the loyalty and traitor in the Manchu Dynasty.
Can't tell, then can only be liquidated according to the amount of family property, the officials of the DPRK and China are forbidden to do business, the salary issued by the Ming Dynasty, there are more people and even eating is a problem, in this case, many officials have a net worth of millions, not corruption and bribery, where else can it come from, maybe there will be wrongful killing, in order not to be hanged by the crooked neck tree in the back mountain, Chongzhen can't care so much.
After the decree was issued, a group of officials were dragged out of the group of ministers below, but the number of this group of officials was much more than the thirty-seven high-ranking officials who had been killed.
After approaching the Temple of Heaven, the sons of those high-ranking officials who were once high and invincible, Miss Qianjin, after seeing the head of her own family master on the altar, the old and young were so frightened that their faces were colorless, their legs trembled, and the timid ones were even more frightened.
"What should the emperor's family members do with the corrupt officials who have been arrested" Wang Chengen, who was holding a canopy for Chongzhen, asked Chongzhen cautiously, looking at Chongzhen who was expressionless and murderous without blinking, at this moment Wang Chengen suddenly felt that Chongzhen, who had grown up, became extremely strange.
"Wait for the arrival of the families of those officials with more than one million family assets, and behead them together" These people enjoy the family property obtained by their own lord's corruption and bribery, and they are usually powerful and superior to others by virtue of their own people's court.
"Keep up, hurry, hurry, hurry" A large number of heavily armed recruits in the capital, under the leadership of one by one ceremonial eunuchs, smashed open the mansions owned by those high-ranking officials, and one by one the high-ranking lady housekeepers, young masters and young masters were locked in chains and pulled towards the direction of the Temple of Heaven, "Young Master" and "Mother" "Why do you want to arrest us" cried and shouted all the way, so it was not miserable.
It's not that no one thought about resisting, but the caretakers of many mansions, after seeing a large number of soldiers fighting around the mansion, they took the initiative to surrender, and occasionally there were dead soldiers who resisted, and wanted to escape with the little master, but the gates of the city were heavily guarded, and the streets were full of patrol soldiers, and the rebels were often surrounded by a large number of soldiers without running a few steps, and in the face of the strong bows and crossbows of the new army, they could often only end up hating.
A large number of officials and family members were escorted to the top of the altar, and in the heavy rain, the executioner sprayed a mouthful of wine on the broadsword, and the wine mixed with the rain fell on the altar, and the long knife held high fell, and a flash of sword light flew up.
"Those with a net worth of 500,000 to 1 million will have their family property confiscated and distributed to the frontier, and those with a net worth of less than 500,000 yuan and more than 100,000 yuan will be handed over half of their family property to the treasury, and the official goods will be reduced to three levels in a row, and if the family property is less than 50,000 yuan, half of their family property will be handed over, and the past is not to be blamed, and the family property will be less than 50,000 yuan, and the court will no longer investigate it" Under the torrential rain, a eunuch read the holy decree of Chongzhen, and the blood and water on the altar mixed with the rain slowly flowed down.
When the officials kneeling on the ground heard Chongzhen's holy decree just announced, many people breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, although corrupt officials were rampant in the DPRK and China, but only a few bigwigs in the DPRK and China who could get a net worth of millions had that ability. There are very few low-level officials with a net worth of more than hundreds of thousands, not to mention that now that there are so many vacant positions for bigwigs in the court, the emperor still has to use people, and if he wants to use people, it means that he has a chance to climb up. Those who are on errands in the Qingshui Yamen, or the deputy positions of various officials, usually have no money and no power, and they can't scratch the money, but now they are running, and their boss has taken too much and was cut off by the emperor, so it's not their turn to be the masters of their own group.
Chongzhen looked at the old eunuch behind him who was loyal to him, and laboriously raised the canopy in his hand, for fear that he would be drenched in the rain, seeing Wang Chengen's struggling appearance, Chongzhen couldn't help but feel distressed, "What are you waiters doing to eat, I haven't seen my companion holding the canopy for most of the day, and no one has come to help" Chongzhen shouted to the group of dead-eyed waiters behind him.
"Your Majesty, the old slave is not tired" Seeing that Chongzhen still cared about him, Wang Chengen was very happy and hurriedly said that he was not tired.
The little eunuch on the side of "Listen to me" took over the canopy in Wang Chengen's hand, "Go to someone to find an umbrella and help my eldest companion hold it up" For this loyal old eunuch Wang Chengen, Chongzhen still values it very much, and loyal people should take care of it a little more, if there is no him, Chongzhen really doesn't know, who else can he trust in this palace, it is unfortunate to become the last emperor who is dying and struggling, but fortunately, God also left Wang Chengen, a loyal old eunuch, it is with him, As a latecomer who didn't know anything about the court, he was able to slowly control the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty.
Now people are almost killed, and those who are officials are also killed, but their own group of imperial uncles are not easy to do, and the current Ming Dynasty is raising this group of vassal kings as pigs, and they are incapable of rebelling, but their ability to make trouble for themselves is first-class, just like the Fu King Zhu Changxun who was boiled by Li Zicheng, it doesn't matter if this guy dies, but his tens of millions of family wealth finally cheapened the rebel army, and those poor mud legs got the fortune of King Fu's Wanguan, and their red eyes will only become more and more crazy.
The rainstorm in the sky slowly stopped, Chongzhen stepped on the red blood water, and slowly walked in front of the group of vassal kings against the backdrop of the heads of the group of officials, and said with a dangerous light in his eyes, "Uncles of the emperor, the Ming Dynasty is in trouble now, I want to borrow some money from your uncles."