Zhu Houzhao didn't pay any attention to Li Dongyang, and only ordered: "Temporarily put Li Dongyang in prison and strictly guarded him, and then I will issue a special order to execute him!" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao looked back at the officials present, and immediately ordered: "Draft, the military department will be supplemented by Shangshu Xu into the cabinet, Jiao Fang will be transferred to Wenhuadian University, Xu Jinbai will be a Wuyingdian scholar, and Xu Jin will immediately impose martial law in the capital with the British Duke Zhang Mao!" The people are not allowed to go out of the city! lest the thieves flee! ”

Zhu Houzhao said and ordered: "Again, Guo Rong, Dongchang Ma Yongcheng, and Xichang Gu Dayong mobilized people and horses to be responsible for arresting and executing the rebels, and at the same time strictly investigated Shao Daxia, who was wanted by the Criminal Department, and offered a reward for the arrest of this person.

Zhang Jie, the Marquis of Taiping, Gao Feng, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Eunuch, and Xu Jing, the head of the Royal Taxation Bureau, led the forbidden soldiers and the tax corps to be responsible for raiding the house, and all the proceeds of the raid belonged to the Royal Taxation Bureau, and there must be no omission! All the people of the land and the shops are registered and temporarily returned to the Royal Inland Revenue Office! ”

Wang Yangming led the command of the voice guard to escort the Shaanxi patrol to the imperial Shi Lu Zhong and the military attache on duty in the Guyuan area into Beijing! Ordered Shaanxi Governor Yang Yiqing to assist, and those who dare to have asylum will be punished for the crime of treason! ”

The decree was sent to stay in Fengyang to guard Zhang Yong, and he immediately locked Liu Jian, Xie Qian and others into Beijing for trial! Make no mistake! ”

Zhu Houzhao issued a series of wills, most of which were naturally to prepare for the disposal of Liu Jian, Wang Yue, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and other rebels, and the last one was for the people of Guanzhong.

Although Zhu Houzhao only knows that the people of Guanzhong are harmed by the Tartars, he can guess that the murder of the people in Guanzhong must be related to Li Dongyang, otherwise how could the incident of the people being slaughtered at the same time as the slaughter of Wang Shu and his party, and the fact that the Tartars can easily enter the customs and go deep into the interior to slaughter the people can go calmly can only show that the officials with real power in Shaanxi not only colluded with Li Dongyang but also with the Tartars.

And the only officials with real power in Shaanxi are Governor Yang Yiqing and Governor Lu Zhonghe, after all, the eunuchs have not yet gone to their posts.

And now, Zhu Houzhao learned from Ma Yongcheng that Yang Yiqing helped them escort Zhang Yu to Beijing, and the suspicion that Yang Yiqing colluded with Li Dongyang and Tartar was ruled out.

As a result, Zhu Houzhao could only suspect that Lu Zhonghe had colluded with Li Dongyang and Tartar, so naturally he had to arrest Lu Zhonghe and others in the capital first.

"Yes!"

Ma Wensheng and Liu Jin hurriedly bowed in response.

Soon, the whole capital became like boiling water again, from the court to the outer city and even to Gyeonggi, the officials and sergeants who formed the violent apparatus of the entire empire were busy, arresting people, raiding homes, and killing people!

The emperor was furious, ambushed millions of corpses, and Emperor Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty officially opened his brutal mode!

The twenty officials killed just now were just the beginning.

And now it's the main thing!

First of all, a group of Qingliu civil officials who were sent to the imperial prison.

These Qingliu civil officials are the real power network of the three cabinet ministers, and many of them are even the ministers of the science and Taoism language, and they are the backbone of the Qingliu and the main force of the three cabinet ministers who have always controlled the dynasty.

The execution of them now is naturally conducive to the elimination of the power of the three ministers and lays a good foundation for the new policy.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao was the first to collude with this group of ministers.

Gu Da said at this time: "Emperor, this Hanlin Academy attendant is Hong Rui's proud protégé of Xie Qianzhi, and Liu Yu, who supervises the imperial history, is Liu Jianzhi's proud protégé, and the two of them are the same as Chen Yuancheng, who was killed before, are the leaders of these Qingliu civil officials, and they are the most hateful!" Xichang also found a lot of things about their crimes, what arson and murder, seizure of people's land, extermination of people's homes, innumerable, there is evidence here! ”

As he spoke, Gu Dayong handed Zhu Houzhao a stack of confessions about these two people provided by Xichang.

Zhu Hou took care of it, all of them were thumb prints, and there were still tears on the paper, and it was obvious that the bitter master was also deeply persecuted by him, so he said: "Then these two people will be divided into five horses, and the rest will be killed together!" Executed! ”

Gu Dayong took Zhu Houzhao's will, and hurriedly took a group of officers and soldiers to the edict prison first.

At this time, the Qingliu civil officials who were sent to the edict also regained their courage, among which Hong Rui, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, was the prince of Hanlin, and his father was the governor of Guizhou, Yushi Hongzhong, and even more confident, only comforting other officials:

"Don't be afraid, although Your Majesty favors the traitorous ministers, does not hesitate to kill Chen Gong and others, and now puts us in prison, but Hong believes that the courtiers outside will not abandon us! Will intercede for us! ”

"What Hong Shi said is very true, although we were forced to go to prison, but the courtiers outside will not ignore us, even if they don't care about us, it is a big deal to lose the official and dismiss the office, and it is also a good choice to go with it, and it is also a good choice to dismiss the official and return to the hometown!"

Liu Yu, the superintendent, said.

At this time, Gu Dayong took a group of officers and soldiers into the edict, and directly shouted to Hong Rui and others: "Open the door!" ”

Seeing this, Hong Rui couldn't help but smile at Liu Yuxiang, thinking that the courtiers had finally forced His Majesty to release them, so he became a little proud, thinking that the emperor still couldn't do anything to these Qingliu civil officials in the end.

However, after the door opened, Gu Dayong said again: "Handcuff them all, change into prison clothes, and escort them to the execution ground, especially Hong Rui and Liu Yu, and their hands, feet and necks must be shackled!" ”

Hong Rui was shocked, and thought that Gu Dayong was going to lock up his own people to be tried, so he couldn't help but shout: "We are all Sven's people, why are you chained with chains, it's really insulting to Sven, you don't need to lock it, we will go to trial ourselves!" ”

"A group of anti-thieves and anti-party gangsters are embarrassed to call themselves Sven, just a generation without a king and a father, take it!"

Gu Dayong yelled, and the officers and soldiers came over and shackled Hong Rui, and dragged him out of the edict directly.

Hong Rui and the others were all literati, so naturally they didn't have the strength of the officers and soldiers, and they couldn't struggle, so they were led to the execution ground like pigs and sheep.

"Hateful! It's hateful! I didn't expect that the traitorous eunuchs are so powerful, and now they not only put us in prison, but also humiliate us so much, and now it seems that they want to force us to admit that we are anti-thieves, which is to force us into a desperate situation! ”

Liu Yu couldn't help shouting as he spoke: "Everyone! We are all clear streams, how can we allow these turbid currents to insult, we must not resist to the end, do not give in to evil! ”

"Yes, we are all loyal people, how can we be insulted by them!"

Hong Rui also agreed, and he was even more determined that he would simply scold Liu Jin directly, anyway, the emperor was not present, and he could still use this to invite a name, and he was still the son of a high-ranking official, so he didn't have to worry about being killed, otherwise his father's protégé would not agree! And the emperor just said that he couldn't scold Ma Wensheng, but he didn't say that he couldn't scold Liu Jin.

Not only Hong Rui thought so, but Liu Yu also thought so, and even thought about how to scold Liu Jin.

But when they arrived at the execution ground, Liu Yu and Hong Rui found that there were no officials from the Three Law Divisions in the entire execution ground, nor people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang, but only a large number of officers and soldiers from the Inner Court, as well as ten horses and cavalry on horses.

"Prepare for execution!"

Gu Dayong looked at the sundial and gave an order, so a number of executioners went up to the execution ground one after another and stood in the designated position, and at the same time, the ten cavalrymen also appeared in the center of the execution ground on horseback!

No matter how stupid Hong Rui and Liu Yu and the others were, they could see what they were doing, and they all panicked, and Hong Rui shouted: "Wait, what are you doing here!" Are you trying to kill us? You are lynching, we want to see Your Majesty, we want to see Your Majesty! My father is the governor of Guizhou, and my mentor is Xie Gefu! You can't kill me, you can't kill me! ”