Chapter 100: The Fall of the Jin Merchants (9)

After being made dumplings, the Jin merchants and their gang could only raise their hands unconditionally to surrender, and after seeing the dead soldiers around them put down their weapons and the heads of the merchant families surrendered, the young man who ridiculed Cao Huachun was instantly stupid. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"It's over, it's all over" Fan Yubin, Fan Yongdou's grandson of the unlucky old man, a child who grew up in an environment of fine clothes and food, three generations who were spoiled, with the power of the Fan family, Fan Yubin usually makes trouble in Taiyuan Mansion, and his arrogant and obedient personality is the age when the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, so this unlucky child will offend Cao Huachun in the public to death, but his group did not run away, and now he is dumbfounded.

Seeing that the other party was in a posture of surrender, the two hundred cavalry in front of him were still in full array, while the Jinyi guards who came from the rear grabbed their swords and quickly moved forward.

After everyone was arrested, Cao Huachun of Dongchang was also belatedly under the protection of a large number of guards, and after seeing the expression of Fan Yubin who was escorted to death, he stepped forward and gently lined up the other party's face, revealing a sad smile.

"Come on, take all these people to the government jail, and our family will interrogate them with Lord Zhou later" At this time, the dead soldiers who rushed out of the other strongholds have been suppressed by the new troops patrolling the streets, although the entire Taiyuan Mansion has not yet been explicitly ordered to implement a curfew, but in the face of the sword and sword shadow all over the city, there is no one who dares to come out to find death.

The government prison is built underground, the lowest level of the felons want to enter, you need to pass through three doors, each door will be locked immediately after someone passes, and four jailers behind the door guard, today here is requisitioned by the East Factory, a large number of brocade guards escorted the main figures of the eight merchant families who were originally famous in Taiyuan Mansion into the prison, and then the defense of the entire prison was taken over by the Jinyi guard, and at the same time the only exit from the prison to the ground, there is a new army of 500 people camped here, the entire prison is surrounded by iron walls, If you want to rob the prison, there is no other way but to raise a rebel army to kill it.

In the evening, Zhou Yuji, Cao Huachun, one was clearing the remnants of Taiyuan Mansion, and the other pacified the people, and then both came to the cell that was taken over by Jinyiwei. At this time, in the prison, those few torture masters who served in the Beizhen Fusi were punishing the group of dead soldiers, and the firewood of the brazier on the wall burned the thunderbolt Bala, and the group of Jin merchants who were originally majestic were now sweating profusely, and their faces were red, and they didn't know if it was the fire in the brazier, or they were frightened by the fire in the brazier.

"How about it, did that group of people recruit anything useful?" Cao Huachun asked after the two took their seats.

"Back to my lord, the group of dead soldiers know very little, and they haven't explained anything useful, as for those important people in the Jin merchants, there is no order from your lord, and the small ones haven't started to be tortured yet" For some important prisoners, there is no order from above, and few people will be directly executed, because most of the high-level prisoners contacted by the Beizhen Fusi are mostly losers in the political struggle, and no one knows if this group of people will suddenly turn over, so without an order from above, no one dares to lynch.

"Bring that group of prisoners over first, our family has something to ask" Soon the heads of the family and Fan Yubin were escorted to the wall by the brocade guards and locked on the wall, no more, no less, there were exactly eight pairs of locks on one wall, and one pair of eight merchants.

"Tell our family, your family's money is hidden," it is obvious that Cao Huachun asked such a tepid question, and none of them would take the initiative to explain when it was broken.

"My lord asked you what to say, you are all dumb" Seeing that this group of businessmen was silent, he immediately stepped forward to show his sense of presence when he was just on the side.

Cao Huachun stopped the intimidation of his subordinates, "Why, if you want to keep your family fortune if you die, it's not so easy to enter the East Factory" Seeing Cao Huachun's tepid interrogation, Zhou Yuji felt a little strange, I don't know what means this factory supervisor will use to deal with this matter, this is not the style of the East Factory at present.

"Come on, there is a shortage of eunuchs in the palace recently, our family sees that these people are good, castrated first, and brought back to Beijing for trial slowly" After speaking, he stepped aside with a smile on his face. After a while, eight braziers were placed in front of several people, and the red-hot iron knives in the basin were dazzling, and soon a group of little eunuchs in the clean room stepped forward to pick up the red-hot knives and began to undress and undress these prisoners.

Tough men, after special training, can withstand torture can be a lot, after being brainwashed is not afraid of being killed, it is not a rare thing, but it seems that few men can face it calmly, someone castrated himself, this is definitely much more terrifying than death or torture, not to mention a group of pampered old men.

Seeing that the other party's knife was really stretched out, planning to castrate himself, this group of Jin merchants couldn't help it anymore and shouted "Stop, stop, I'll recruit whatever you want to know, let this knife stay away from me"

"Wouldn't it be nice to be like this earlier, let's talk about it, how much money each family has, where is it hidden, and there are still those important people involved in smuggling at home" Zhou Yuji, who was on the side, saw that he could get the information he needed so easily, and he had to admire the efficiency of the East Factory, but such a thing of castration if he didn't agree with him, I am afraid that a male will feel terrifying and abnormal, and it is better for him to stay away from this East Factory in the future.

According to the confessions of several family owners, each of these eight families has a huge amount of six or seven million taels of silver, and there are countless real estate deeds, and the storefronts of gold, silver and jewelry shops are all over Shaanxi. So much silver was melted into huge silver melons and put them in the cellar. If this thing is put in the cellar, it is a thief, and it can't be taken away, and by simply calculating how much the family property of these eight families is, it is fifty or sixty million taels, which is similar to the estimated data that Jinyiwei gave Chongzhen at the beginning.

After learning the specific location of the gold and silver, Zhou Yuji immediately took the interrogation records back to the barracks to transfer troops, with a team of thousands of people, with the cooperation of Dongchang Jinyiwei, went straight to the secret strongholds of various merchant families in Shanxi and marched urgently, as for the rest of the interrogation, Zhou Yuji didn't plan to care, let Cao Huachun toss, the emperor explained before coming, the empire wanted the money of the Jin merchants, and after getting the money, as for whether those Jin merchants were killed or disabled, no one would care about this result.

"Okay, take these people up, prepare to bring them back to the capital, and hand them over to the emperor when the time comes" Cao Huachun, who was halfway through the words, paused for a moment, "But Dongchang lacks a little eunuch who washes the toilet, and our family looks at the fan family's kid is good" Hearing Cao Huachun's words, the little eunuch who was about to be castrated with a knife just now showed a suddenly realized expression, and then he stabbed him hard, listening to Fan Yubin's screams, Cao Huachun left the prison in a good mood.