Chapter 91: The Wolf's Lair

Feeling Huang Shu's legendary life of working hard for the nation, Yang Qing returned to his wolf's den......

Beiya has been called the wolf's den among the people.

After all, the howls of those wild wolves echoed in the city of Nanjing every night, coupled with the terrifying legend of him feeding the prisoners to the wolves, this official office, which is still under transformation, has inevitably become a place of fear for the people of Nanjing, and the vegetable vendors who used to pass by have completely disappeared. Just like Yang Qing said, the section of the street where Beiya is located has completely become a terrifying forbidden area, and the eerie horror can be felt from more than a dozen feet, and by the way, it has also destroyed the charm of the Qinhuai River.

It is said that a foreigner who had just arrived and did not know that there was such an irritation, and when he was holding a prostitute and chanting poetry, a wolf howl suddenly sounded......

As a result, I was scared to pee!

Although there is Yu Shi angry and impeached, it is still useless, Chongzhen is far away and can't hear it at all, besides, what pet Yang Qing is willing to keep in the yamen is his freedom, which of the Ming laws stipulates that you can't keep wild wolves as pets?

Not at all!

Since there is no law forbidden, then you impeach a fart.

Is it okay for Lord Yang to be law-abiding!

Nuisance?

You yourselves are cowards!

Why is it that none of us are afraid of living there every day? The dignified seven-foot man was scared by the wolf howl to pee his pants, and he still has a face to mention? When Confucius traveled around the world, not to mention wild wolves, it is estimated that even tigers have been encountered, and Confucius has taken it calmly, and you disciples and grandchildren were actually scared by a wolf howl to pee your pants, which is simply a shame of Confucianism!

Well, those imperial historians have simply given up on continuing to impeach, since they can't stop it, then choose to be with the wolf howl!

"Sir, do you think this is okay?"

The executioner who had brought him from Shanhaiguan in front of the gate pointed to the two rusty iron cages in front of the door and asked.

There was a tortured stone man in each cage who asked the sky speechlessly, one of them was cut in half, and the image was according to the Aobai, which was also to show the great merit of the lord, and the image on the other side was Dolgon, but the big characters were hanged, and the whole body was carved out of whiplashes, and there was naturally only an egg left below, which was also to tell others what heinous things Lord Yang had done to him.

These two stone people can also be regarded as Yang Qing's nostalgia for his glorious years.

Or it can also be said to show off, anyway, there is no reason for Yushi to be impeached for this, this is also the great military exploits of the Ming Dynasty!

"Not bad!"

Yang Qing said with satisfaction.

He then took a steaming bucket of pig's blood from his men and poured it directly on Dorgon's statue.

"It's even more perfect!"

He said as he admired it.

The bottom of these stone figures is empty, and the bottom is the drainage ditch connected to the Qinhuai River, and the excess blood falls directly down and flows away, except for the stone men and the cage, other places will not be left, otherwise he can't stand it after years of doing this and finally turning his gate into a dung pit, in fact, if you splash it for a long time, you don't need to splash it anymore.

After admiring his masterpiece, Yang Qing entered the yamen satisfied.

"Haven't you recruited yet?"

Yang Qing asked his subordinates.

"Sir, these guys are very hard."

The subordinate said.

"They are not hard, but they still have hope for the outside, they know that their identity is special, we don't dare to torture them, and they are forced to protect all the Jin merchants, these Jin merchants and their backstage officials will definitely find a way to rescue, but if we sell these people according to our requirements, then no one will save them."

Yang Qing said.

What he wants now is not for these main members of the Zhang family to confess to their smuggling, their smuggling has been conclusive, and when he copied the Zhang family, he copied a bunch of things that can be regarded as ironclad evidence, and what he or Chongzhen wants now is that these people will drag all the Jin merchants into the water, and then rely on their confessions to go to prison. A Zhang family can't satisfy Chongzhen's appetite at all, in fact, he has just hung his greed, Chongzhen wants the wealth of all Western merchants in Yangzhou, this is the only way for Chongzhen to expand the army and complete his Beijing Sixth Army, in addition to this, he has no other way to get a huge amount of money in the short term.

Except for Jin Shang, he has no one else to copy for the time being.

Who else could he copy?

Copying honors?

Nanjing's nobles are his foundation in a sense, and he was able to move the capital to Nanjing because there are those nobles who are resting with the country.

These people are his foundation.

Even if this foundation has rotted, he is still the old minister of the Zhu family after all.

Copying the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang?

If those nobles are his political basis in Nanjing, then these gentry are his economic foundation in Nanjing, and the result of copying these people is the economic collapse of the Ming court, and the latter is not easy to copy, he wants to copy the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he has to face the 200,000 army on the side of Zuo Liangyu Qingjun, and there are also the mass responses of officials from all over the coast.

So who else is left?

He is a maritime merchant, and he has to risk Zheng Zhilong's secession of Fujian.

He could only copy the western merchants, even if he copied the salt merchants.

This is still because the foundation of the Western merchants has been destroyed, and he can get the support of the Hui merchants, and the Hui merchants behind them are actually the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who are officials from the south, and he can use the contradictions between the officials of the north and the south to achieve his goals, otherwise he would not even dare to copy the Western merchants. Even if it is the emperor, he does not want to copy the house, especially this kind of copying of an interest group, if it is not for the destruction of the foundation of Western business, the territory is in the hands of Li Zicheng, just like when he was in Beijing, if Chongzhen dared to copy the Jin Shang, then the result was that our Qing Dynasty and the Mongolian kings went south, and the Xuanda army welcomed the king's division and drove straight to Beijing for the king's division.

He also dared to copy the Jin merchants in Nanjing.

And this is because he has a vicious dog like Yang Qing by his side, and he can quickly realize his intentions without worrying about accidents.

In other words, Yang Qing is still relieved of his work.

"Ladies and gentlemen,"

Yang Qing said with a smile.

At this time, he was sitting in the torture chamber, and the six men who were hanging up in front of him, this is a great-grandson and five great-great-grandsons of Zhang Siwei, which are in Yangzhou, in fact, most of the members of the Zhang family are in Puzhou, and it is estimated that Li Zicheng has surrendered at this time, and the result is not very clear.

The six all looked at him with hatred.

"Gelding, kill if you want to, why bother!"

One of them said righteously.

Yang Qing didn't care about it, took a sip of tea from the teacup and said: "Everyone, presumably you should understand your results, don't imagine that someone will rescue you, you know very well who wants to get you, whether you confess or not, the result will be to raid your home and destroy your door." But the emperor remembered that your ancestors were famous ministers, so he gave you a chance, if you confessed to those comrades and corrected them in court, then you could be pardoned, and then you could be sent back to your hometown with your family, which is just a prison at most. But you don't appreciate it, this is too much to hurt the emperor's heart, why are you so stupid? Even if you protect those comrades, the result will be the same as the destruction of the family, on the contrary, you can save the lives of your family by confessing to them, and I really can't think of any reason for you to refuse such a good thing. ”

"Gelding, don't dream, we are in the holy hometown, loyal and righteous for generations, how can we implicate innocent people for the tiger!"

The other sneered.

"Ah, I see!"

Yang Qing suddenly realized: "You are actually afraid that your relatives in your hometown will be retaliated against by other Jin Shang families!" ”

The faces of the six people changed at the same time.

Indeed, Yang Qing guessed correctly, the Jin merchants in Yangzhou, at best, are branches, but their families are all in Shanxi, if they betray other Jin merchants, the latter is purged by Chongzhen, then the result is that their family in Shanxi is also purged by other Jin merchant families, it is nothing more than the bandits to destroy the door, they are here to protect the latter, not only their family will not be in danger, but also will gain the gratitude of other families, and then the glory and wealth of the Zhang family can still be guaranteed.

Sacrifice them, and it is the family that is saved.

After all, Shanxi is no longer Chongzhen's territory, Chongzhen has no ability to copy their clansmen in Shanxi, these families don't care about personal life and death, what they really care about is the continuation of the family, and the continuation of the family, the glory of the family is not worth mentioning compared to the death of a few clansmen.

What's more, these people usually leave their wives and children in their hometowns, and those who are arrested in Yangzhou are just some concubines and concubines.

If these people die, they will die!

As long as their sister-in-law is still there!

However......

"You may not know that my relationship with Li Zicheng is actually very good."

Yang Qing said with a smile.

"If the emperor gives the King of Qin a holy decree, asking the King of Qin to assist Jinyiwei in investigating the treason case of the Zhang family, and then I send a private message to Li Zicheng to tell him how much silver he copied out of your house, I think Li Zicheng will obey the order."

He then said happily.

"You, you ......"

Zhang Siwei's great-grandson pointed at him sadly and angrily.

They are all smart people, and they immediately realized this result, their assets in Yangzhou are more than one million, and there are more hidden in the cellar of their hometown, Chongzhen wants their silver, Li Zicheng of course also likes their silver, if Yang Qing bewitches Li Zicheng, especially to exaggerate the wealth of their family, then Li Zicheng, who has been copying houses everywhere in the north, will be able to endure it! Chongzhen really doesn't have the ability to destroy their family, but Li Zicheng has the ability! This old bandit doesn't know how many families he has destroyed, although the Jin Shang surrendered quickly and escaped this catastrophe temporarily, but that Li Zicheng didn't know that his family had millions of taels of silver!

If Li Zicheng knew, it would be strange if he didn't end them with the Zhang family!

This gelding is so vicious.

"Are you scared?"

Yang Qing said with a smile.

"If you're afraid, put all these people on your list of collaborators and treason!"

Then his face turned grim, and he slapped a list on the table and said viciously.

(Today is still a chapter, the bathroom is rebuilt at home, and it will be on the shelves on the first of next month)