The Yamen of the Ministry of Officials.

"Let me go, what are you going to do?"

Xiong Wenju, the secretary of the Ministry of Meritorious Service, roared and struggled in horror and anger.

But his resistance was pointless.

On either side of him, a two-meter-tall brocade guard with a big waist and a round waist dragged him forward like a little sheep by his arm, and walked to the carriage parked outside the gate, and on the four-wheeled enclosed carriage with iron plates outside, a white prisoner character was shocking in the same white circle.

Outside the door, the lively idlers talked about it.

The officials and subordinates of the officials behind were also talking to each other, and their faces were solemn.

"I want to see the prison country, I have made meritorious contributions to our Ming Dynasty, I have shed blood for the first emperor, and I have resisted the rogue ...... in Hefei"

Xiong Wenju screamed.

The Jinyi guard next to him slapped him unceremoniously.

"I also mention the old things you did in Hefei to resist the King of Qin! At that time, he was a rogue, and now he is the king of Qin in the Ming Dynasty, and he dares to call others a liukou, don't you know what the situation is now? This is a notice issued by the Ministry of Rites, asking us to take care of the feelings of King Qin, you are still a civil official and a member of the court! I don't even have a little political consciousness, and I delayed the nine clans of your family! ”

He shouted righteously.

"Huh?!"

Xiong Wenju was dumbfounded with the blood that had been punched out from the corners of his mouth.

Indeed, this was issued by the Ministry of Rites.

In order to avoid hurting Li Zicheng is feelings, which led to the disharmony of the relationship between the two parties, which in turn affected the major event, of course, the main fear that Li Zicheng would find an excuse to continue to increase the price, so let him go over the rebellion of the Shun army, including the attack on Yangzhou! The Ministry of Rites had to inform all localities that it was strictly forbidden for the people to continue to call them rogues, saying that the 15 million had already torn the gentry apart, and Li Zicheng would play a fart if he increased his weight! In the end, all the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty strictly forbade Shun Jun to call him Liukou, including Zhang Xianzhong, who unanimously changed it to the People's Army......

They were forced by corrupt officials.

They are not rogues, they are just to be able to reach the heavens, so they have to take some drastic measures, which is excusable, see if Li Zicheng didn't surrender immediately when he saw the holy driver?

Although it is indeed shameful to say this.

But......

This is the political correctness of the current Ming Dynasty.

The politically incorrect Xiong Wenju was slapped in the face.

Then the two brocade guards carried him and threw him directly into the prisoner car, and then the door was locked.

"Ma Yaocao, you are taking revenge!"

Xiong Wenju, who was lying on the car door, roared.

Ma Shiying, who was standing in the courtyard of the Yamen of the Ministry with a teacup, smiled and said nothing.

"Brother Yaocao, why is this?"

Huang Daozhou, the left attendant of the ministry, frowned, looked at Xiong Wenju, who was sticking his face to the iron railing of the window of the prisoner car, stretched out his two hands, and cursed Ma Shiying like crazy.

He has always been the left attendant of the ministry.

Before Chongzhen crossed to the south, he was still in Beijing when he was in the township at that time, but he immediately resigned and returned to his hometown, and Chongzhen called him again after the southern crossing, and finally he entered the court as a representative of the Fujian people in the civil officials. He can't say that he is the Donglin Party, but he is also allied with the Donglin Party, as for Liu Zongzhou, who is as famous as him, he resigned and returned to his hometown after being called to be the imperial history of Zuodu for a few days. And Huang Daozhou is not very in charge of affairs in the Ministry of Officials, the real core is the right waiter, and another Donglin veteran, Mao Shilong, is also the most likely to pick up Xu Shiqi, but Yang Qing played an airborne Ma Shiying.

"It is said that when Jinyiwei tried the smuggling case, an arrested official confessed that he was bribing Xuetang's officials, and Jinyiwei took the driving sticker to arrest people, and Xuetang thought it was caused by his brother's frame."

Ma Shiying said indifferently.

At this time, the smuggling case has not yet been tried, and the vast majority of those who really smuggled and shielded smuggling have been convicted and completed the raid, but except for a very small number of those who have been subjected to shuanggui, the vast majority continue to drink tea in the wolf's den. However, there are also a large number of people who are said to have taken the initiative to confess their problems under the awe-inspiring righteousness of the Marquis of Zhongyong, and then exchanged fines for freedom, after all, they are guilty and guilty of this kind of thing, but the crime is not death, at most it is to earn a little money without conscience.

A fine is all it takes.

As for the fines, they were based on the amount of grain they had sold to smugglers over the years, multiplied by the price of grain at that time......

This is ill-gotten gains.

Even if they don't know, they can't change the nature of these illegal gains, this is the Jiannu in the north to expropriate and expropriate, looting the hard-earned money of the people in the north, I don't know how many people were forced to ruin their families, this money is stained with blood, this must be handed over as a fine and then used to relieve the hungry people in the north.

It can be regarded as their atonement for their sins in this way.

As for those who want money and don't want to die......

That's actually all gone!

Because their families are still sealed in their respective mansions by the Jinyi Guard! It is said that this is the procedure before the raid in this era, and the door is sealed first, even if the people inside starve to death, they must be closed inside! However, Jin Yiwei will definitely not deliberately starve the people inside to death, but it is impossible for anyone to store thousands of stones of grain in their own house, and even if they do, they will have to be sealed, so they need to pay extra money to buy food. But they can't go out, so this also has to go through Jinyiwei, which is said to be expensive in Nanjing at this time! Jin Yiwei theoretically doesn't have this obligation, so it's not too much to sell them a hundred taels of silver for a stone of rice, right?

That's certainly not too much!

Jin Yiwei helped them buy food, although it was mainly because he pitied them, but after all, he could be punished if his boss knew about it.

One hundred taels of silver and one stone of rice is completely reasonable.

Including the slaves also have to eat, if you dare not to give the slaves food, then maybe any slave will go out to testify, then it is time for Jinyiwei to justifiably raid the house, it is such a time, those slaves are not stupid, you dare to starve us, we dare to let you be all over the house......

Well, one hundred and one stone rice for slaves.

In short, the Marquis of Zhongyong is squeezing the property of more than 100 people in various ways, and then using the squeezed silver to relieve the hungry people in Shandong, so far he has harvested more than 1.5 million taels even if he counts the family. It is said that the cruelty of the Zhongyong Marquis's means of accumulating wealth made the Chinese officials of the DPRK look sideways, and at this time everyone understood that Jinyiwei was not effective in anti-smuggling before, it was purely raising pigs waiting to be slaughtered for the New Year! What's more, no one knows who Yang Qing will bite out through these people, after all, he is in Jinyiwei's wolf's den, he said that who else is on the list of crimes, it is nothing more than dragging a prisoner over to sign and draw a detention, such as Xiong Wenju is such a victim.

Huang Daozhou glanced at Ma Shiying deeply.

"Humph!"

Lao Huang snorted coldly!

Then this originally historical Longwu Chao Shoufu brushed his sleeves away.

And farther away, Mao Shilong took a deep breath.

Then this Zhou Yanru Tongli, Donglin Point General Recorded the rampant star, turned around and walked into his office hatefully. However, Ma Shiying continued to stand there with a teacup, and after taking a sip of tea, he looked around with a warm smile, and the officials who were talking to each other instantly shut up, and several timid cold sweats broke out at the same time, all looking at him with fearful eyes......

"Everyone, we have to believe in the prison country, believe in the Jinyi Guard, they will definitely not wronged a good person, if Xuetang is indeed innocent, then it will definitely be fine!"

Ma Shiying said with a smile.

The officials quickly nodded in agreement.

"Of course, they won't spare a criminal!"

Immediately afterwards, Ma Shiying added.

The officials continued to break out in a cold sweat......

The Royal Palace, the headquarters of the General Staff.

"Marquis Zhongyong, the old man is over sixty years old, and he is not afraid of death today, so I ask Marquis Zhongyong, do you want to seek the usurpation of the throne?"

Zodiac Zhou asked.

"Why did Shi Zhai Gong say this?"

Yang Qing, who was playing with a model of a new soft-sail battleship, said stunned.

This is a new type of warship that he and the Admiralty and the Equipment Department have worked on, in fact, it is a real third-class ship, with a displacement of 800 tons, equipped with 50 maximum 24-pound short and heavy guns, that is, the 32-pounder Caron gun that the British beat our Qing Dynasty, with a short barrel and a large caliber, which is most suitable for naval battles with a gap of less than 300 meters. Like the European warships, the soft sails were used, which were the capital ships of the future, specially designed to compete with the Dutch for the East Indies, and the Spaniards for Luzon, and the Spice Islands were the inevitable ones for Yang Qing. Although the hard sail is familiar to the Ming Navy, and it is actually not bad, Yang Qing still feels that it is safer to use soft sails, after all, soft sails have been tested in countless wars in Europe, and hard sail warships do not have much actual combat testing.

The construction of the first two ships has already begun, and it is expected that they will be completed by the end of next year and then used to train sailors, because there is plenty of timber.

"What did the old man say, doesn't the Marquis of Zhongyong know it?"

Huang Daozhou sneered.

"Shi Zhaigong, I respect you for your age, and you are an old minister of the first emperor, so I am polite to you, but you came here for no reason to smash this big crime on my head, is it still a bit excessive? Do you think I'm a good-tempered person, so it's easy to bully? ”

Yang Qing said very politely.

"Zhongyong Marquis has a good temper? Zhao Zhilong, who was kicked to death by you, probably disagrees underground, right? ”

Huang Daozhou said.

"The old man said that the old man is over sixty years old and is not afraid of death, so today he said bluntly, Jin Yiwei framed for no reason to frame Xiong Wenju to frame Xiong Wenju, which is nothing more than killing chickens and monkeys for Ma Shiying, so that Ma Shiying can control the ministry, and Ma Shiying's control of the ministry is that you control the ministry. After grasping the power to appoint and dismiss officials, he wantonly promoted non-Jinshi-born Zuo Er Officers in exchange for their loyalty, and at the same time attracted those who were not Jinshi-born Zuo Er Officers to take refuge. These people control the court and the localities for the sake of the loyal and brave marquis, so that your usurpation can be completed in the smoothest way, and one day you will go to prison in the same way, and arrest the magistrates and replace them with these people. In this way, from top to bottom, from literature to martial arts, you are a loyal and brave person, even if the holy car is still in use, what is the use of it at that time? If you want to take your place, you'll just fall overboard and die!

Are you right? ”

With a resolute face, he rebuked the rebel.