The most important thing at the moment, in addition to the distribution of silver, is to dispose of the eight major Jin merchants who were captured alive, three hundred and thirty-five people.

Jing Jie settled the people in Gong City for three days, and finally calmed down the panic of other Jin merchants, from the initial closure of the door, refusing to cooperate, and finally daring to open the door to organize people to clean up the battlefield, and all the recovery work was carried out in an orderly manner.

Chigutai had come several times to urge him to give him orders on what to do.

Fang Yuan knew that many of these so-called family members were actually innocent, those concubines of Jin merchants, maids in the house, distant relatives who worked as coolies in the countryside, and even eight or nine babies in swaddling clothes.

At the beginning, Fang Yuan was so ruthless that he naturally wanted to kill them all, leaving no one behind, but when it was really time to swing the butcher's knife, he felt compassion again.

Fang Yuan summoned the two brothers Jing Jie and Qin Zhan, as well as Su Hongyu, who had already established a name with Jing Jie, and took a group of brocade guards to begin to inspect the people who were being detained and waiting to be disposed of.

Qin Zhan intentionally or unintentionally imprisoned the young woman in a military camp, and the rest of the strong, old, weak, sick and disabled in a military camp, the effort was obvious.

If it weren't for Fang Yuan's repeated requests for strict military discipline, the sergeants of Jinyiwei and the battalions of the new-style army would probably have already insulted these women.

Fang Yuan entered the barracks where the young women were imprisoned noncommittally, including seven people from the main room of the eight Jin merchants, twenty-five daughters, and many more concubines and maids, a total of more than 180 people were imprisoned.

The gorgeous clothes of these women have long been messy, and their gray faces have lost some color, but when they look at it from a distance, they still have a bit of posture.

As soon as the women saw him come in, they grabbed Fang Yuan's brocade clothes and kowtowed to beg for mercy, begging to be spared death.

Fang Yuan broke free from the grasp of these women and walked out of the barracks with a few people.

Outside the barracks, Fang Yuan opened his mouth and asked, "What should these women do?" ”

Qin Zhan preemptively said, "Boss, this still needs to be asked, first give it to the brothers to have a good time, and then kill all of them." ”

Jing Jie didn't see through Fang Yuan's mind for a while, and didn't answer, Su Hongyu beside him had already scolded sharply, "Ridiculous! Brother Fang is a benevolent and righteous gentleman, and he is in charge of a benevolent and righteous teacher, and he wants to ruin the reputation of Brother Fang and our third battalion sergeant by committing this kind of beastly behavior?! ”

Fang Yuan was stunned for a moment, Su Hongyu had something to say, obviously she was scolding Qin Zhan, but she was actually referring to Sang scolding Huai and telling it to Fang Yuan. If the trend of adultery with the people's women is opened, it will be difficult to control the military style and discipline of this new-style army.

Qin Zhan was confronted by a woman in public, and he couldn't get off the stage, so he hurriedly counterattacked and said, "Third child, your woman can't manage it well, let it out, right!" Military and political affairs, do women interfere? ”

Jing Jie didn't want to argue with Qin Zhan, so he hurriedly grabbed Su Hongyu and told her not to say any more, and looked at Qin Zhan again and said, "Fourth, let's not do a war of words, let all the bosses decide!" ”

Fang Yuan looked at Su Hongyu noncommittally, and then asked, "Sister Su, what should you do with these women?" ”

Su Hongyu is a straight person, and she doesn't have Jing Jie's scruples about maintaining harmony between brothers, and said loudly, "Brother Fang, I used to be a dancing girl in the Qin Palace, and the experience with these women is the same. Most of them are also an oppressed group of people, such as concubines and maids, who are the tools of those Jin merchants to vent their **; Those so-called distant relatives are just cattle and horses. ”

"The eight major Jin merchants betrayed the country, and they couldn't get any benefits, but now they are counted after the autumn, but they are regarded as accomplices and should be punished with capital punishment, which is really ridiculous!"

She said it bluntly, and she didn't know if Fang Yuan was angry, but seeing Fang Yuan's encouraging gaze, she continued confidently, "In the Battle of Jingjing back then, the families of several important ministers of Emperor Jianwen were also spared, but they only confiscated the Jiaofang Division. Could it be that this attack on the Jin merchants is more ruthless than the battle of Jingjing to fight for the world? ”

"I suggest that these women, if they are not properly released, they will be rationed to the unmarried sergeants in the three major battalions, which not only gives these women a way out, but also gives the sergeants a home, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone."

Su Hongyu's proposal, Qin Zhan was angry when he heard it, such an assignment was tantamount to announcing that there was no other play for Qin Zhan.

Qin Zhan retorted, "Many of the officers of the three major battalions have become relatives, so these women are all given to the sergeants, and the officers have no shares?" At the very least, the officers should be selected first, and the rest should be left to the sergeants. ”

Su Hongyu was still arguing with him, and Fang Yuan had already interrupted the dispute between the two, "Fourth! The ordinary sergeant who went first in the war, and the ordinary sergeant who suffered the heaviest casualties, how came it was time to enjoy the war spoils, and the first to go up became an officer? If you lead the troops like this, how can you guarantee the morale of the army? When encountering the enemy, will the sergeants mutini first and defeat before the battle? ”

Qin Zhan was scolded by him, but he didn't dare to collide with him, so he responded honestly, "Yes, what the boss said, I am Jinyiwei, and I am not the material to lead the troops." ”

Fang Yuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Fourth, from now on, all the affairs of Jinyiwei will be handed over to you, and the affairs of the military camp will be all taken care of by Jing Jie, so you don't have to intervene." ”

Qin Zhan reluctantly responded, "Yes." ”

Fang Yuan knocked Qin Zhan, looked at Jing Jie and Su Hongyu and said, "Sister Su said very well, all the direct family members of the Eight Great Jin Merchants, including parents, main family, sons and their families, grandsons and their families, and unmarried daughters, have all been killed, and no one will be left!" The immediate family members are not in Gong City, and those who miss the net will go to the former residences of the eight Jin merchants to arrest and bring them to justice, and cut the grass and eradicate the roots! ”

"The distant relatives of the Eight Great Jin Merchants, who have no evil deeds after investigation, are released; Whoever misbehaves, kills; Whoever passes through the exiles shall be killed; Those who colluded with the Manchus were killed. These two things will be left to the third child to do. ”

"As for these concubines and maids, they are assigned to the unmarried soldiers of the three major battalions, regardless of officers and sergeants. The number of people will be counted first, and if there are not enough women to be allocated, the decision will be made by lot. This is left to Su Meizi to dispose of it with full authority. ”

Fang Yuan narrowed the scope of the killing and spared at least one or two hundred lives, and Su Hongyu praised him again and again.

Three days later, after Jing Jie's continuous investigation and classification, more than 130 people who needed to be executed, and the immediate family members of the eight Jin merchants, were all escorted to the gate of Gong City.

The rest of the Jin merchants who remained in Gong City were all called out of Gong City and came to the Great Plains outside the city to watch the execution.

Fang Yuan just wanted to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, so that these surviving Jin merchants could see that the end of being traitors to the Manchus was to be exterminated, and to see who would dare to smuggle weapons and food to the Manchus in the future.

The execution was carried out by Chigutai and the Mongols under his command, and Fang Yuan just stood on the high ground from a distance and watched the execution process from a distance with a telescope.

He didn't show up in public, so that he could give an explanation to the court.

More than 100 family members of the Eight Great Jin Merchants were tied up and knelt at the gate of Gong City, all of them were silenced, and more than 100 swarthy guns were pointed at the back of their heads.

The crowd of onlookers watched the execution in the thousands, fearful, happy, applauding, and even gloating.

Under Fang Yuan's instructions, Chigutai read out more than 20 charges of the eight Jin merchants in public, and punished them in a canonical manner.

It was noon, and the day of execution had come.

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice, "Execution!" ”

Jing Jie waved the order flag and told Chigutai in the flag language that the execution could begin.

"Crackle!"

A burst of intensive gunfire rang out, and more than 100 heads were shot out of their heads, dumb guns, and those who were not dead, and Chigutai asked people to go to replenish the guns, or directly cut off their heads.

The eight Jin merchant families that had once dominated the northern Jin Dynasty and Mongolia for a while, did all the smuggling and betrayal trades, and achieved the great cause of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs, were all slaughtered by Fang Yuan outside the gate of Zhangjiakou Gong City.

A cold wind blew, and the smell of blood filled the air.

Fang Yuan inhaled the air with the smell of blood, looked at the more than 100 corpses that had been executed in the distance, and turned his head to Jing Jie and said, "Third brother, carve the eight Jin merchants Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa into kneeling statues, and put them at the gate of Zhangjiakou Gong City as a warning. ”

He is emulating the statue of Qin Hui kneeling by the West Lake, and wants to use these eight Jin merchants as a profound traitor teaching material to warn all Jin merchants.

Jing Jie was stunned and asked, "Boss, who are you?" ”

Fang Yuan said coldly, "When a traitor, whether he lives in a temple, or is a profit-seeking businessman, or under the guise of saving the country with a curve, democracy and human rights must be nailed to the shame frame of history forever!" ”

Jing Jie was enthusiastic when he heard this, and hurriedly gave up his hand, "Yes, the fish that the seven Jin merchants have slipped through the net, I will immediately send someone to the former residence to arrest all of them, and I will not let go of any of them!" ”

Fang Yuan stared at Zhangjiakou Gong City in the distance, and said slowly, "The eight Jin merchants have already destroyed seven families, and there is also Fan Yongdou, a fish that has slipped through the net. ”

"The third child, after five days of rest, march to Xuanfu Town, arrest the chief soldier Wang Chengyin, and the profiteer Fan Yongdou!"