Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 9 The Great Tribulation

Chapter 1 The Difficulties and Disasters of the State Arise

Section 6: The Eight Traitors (2)

The eight Jin merchants in Shanxi can be said to be a tree with deep roots, in the hearts of ordinary people, that is, the existence of immortals, whether it is the common people or the people in the government, they all know that the wealth of these eight families is generous, and they are rampant on weekdays, they not only have the wealth of the world, but also have a wide range of contacts, and have a solid backer in the court and the locality, not only the children of the clan are very many officials, and the border generals in Shanxi also have close contacts. But today, these eight giant mountains in Shanxi have collapsed together, and they have turned into pieces of scattered stubborn stones under the blow of the Han Wei army, which is worthless!

"Eh! You see, isn't that the head of the family Hou Wan? I've seen him before, but he was a man who covered the sky with one hand at the time, and now it seems that the Han Wei Army really wiped out the Eight Great Families! ”

This exclamation immediately attracted the echo of the people around him, and a group of people kept asking questions around the exclamated man, all vying to ask for any more amazing news from his mouth, so that they could go back and show off to others.

"Look! That's Fan Yongdou, the head of the Jiexiu Fan family! Oh my God! Even the Fan family is finished! ”

At this moment, the onlookers on the entire street exploded their nests and surged forward, vying to see the once high head of the Fan family. This was a hardship for the officials and soldiers who maintained order, and everyone used their strength to stop the excited crowd. But in the blink of an eye, I don't know who started it, and the families of those eight families ushered in the baptism of rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, and even big stones, and they wailed for a while.

"Stone them! Stoning these dog traitors! ”

"Fan Yongdou! You wretched people have today, and all of you will not die well! ”

"Big traitor, don't die well!"

"If the people of the Ming Dynasty don't do these miscellaneous things, they have to lick their butts to the Tartars, they deserve today's crimes!"

I don't know who started it, and the onlookers on the entire street were instantly engulfed in anger, and they picked up everything they could throw out and threw them at the prisoners in the prisoner car. Thousands of onlookers roared and cursed on the entire street, eager to eat Fan Yongdou and other traitors alive.

After a while, the prisoners on the prisoner car were smashed to the ground with blue noses and swollen faces, screaming and screaming, and the families of the eight families were screaming and crying loudly. By the time these prisoner carts were transported to the vicinity of the school yard in Taiyuan City, more than 20 family members of the eight families had already been stoned to death, and the prisoner carts transporting the prisoners were also stained with blood and were very dazzling.

At this time, the public trial meeting of the eight major families had been prepared, and the location was set in the school field where the soldiers of the Hanwei Army were stationed.

Liu Yunwei and Zhou Tianyi, Hu Kun, and local civil and military officials such as the Taiyuan prefect were waiting early on the school site to take the stage; Even the king of Jin in the city sent the chief steward to participate in the public trial, and the chief steward of the palace also conveyed the message of the king of Jin to Liu Yunwei: "Please requisition and suppress the chief steward must severely punish these traitors who have plagued the country, so as to eliminate harm for the country and ask for the people's lives!" This king will fully support all the decisions of the Grand Administrator! ”

While everyone was waiting for the prisoner car to arrive, Hu Kun took the opportunity to ask Zhou Tianyi in a low voice: "Governor Zhou, I don't know anything, these eight families are all powerful families, and they can be said to have deep roots in Shanxi, why did we go so smoothly this time?" Why are those generals and officials who are close to the Eight Families on weekdays silent and unable to save them when they see death? I'm still planning to find another way if the arrest is blocked. ”

Zhou Tianyi smiled, and then whispered: "This is the genius of our superintendent!" At the same time that General Guo Yi and General Wei Wuhu led the army to take the people, the superintendent sent people to ventilate the leading generals in various parts of Shanxi, and ordered that the garrisons in various places should not be transferred at will, otherwise they would be punished as conspiracy; At the same time, the governor also informed the prefect of Taiyuan and the king of Jin, and I don't know what means were used to gain their support. Let's ask, under the deterrence of the strong strength of the superintendent, and under the evidence of the general fact that the Eight Masters have betrayed the country and sought glory, who has eaten the bear's heart and dared to stand up for the Eight Masters? In addition, the Inspector only informed the people of all parties at the same time as the Iron Cavalry Army was dispatched, and those people didn't even have a chance to tell the Eight Families! ”

Hu Kun nodded, and then said with some reluctance: "It's really cheap for those guys!" Everyone is a traitor, and those who have dealings with everyone will not be a good thing! ”

Zhou Tianyi also said helplessly when he heard this: "Why doesn't the inspector want to take down all these black sheep? But now that the battle of counterinsurgency in Shanxi is about to begin, and the relief of the displaced people is also underway, the superintendent still has to rely on these people to do things, so he can only let them go for the time being, and then find an opportunity to eradicate these bastards in the future. ”

"Humph! So when these people heard the news, they all rushed here. Hu Kun looked at the dense crowd of Shanxi officials and generals in the audience, all of whom came from all over Shanxi after hearing the news.

Zhou Tianyi also looked at those people, his eyes were full of contempt, and said: "Of course they have to come to take a look, otherwise how can they rest assured!" I'm sure that these people are all here to fall into the well, and now at this time, these people are estimated to be much more ruthless than the Inspector when they deal with the Eight Masters! ”

While he was talking, prisoner carts and carts full of gold and silver treasures drove into the school yard under the escort of the iron cavalry soldiers of the Hanwei Army.

The entire school was suddenly full of people, whether it was the onlookers or the civil and military officials in the school field, they all stretched their necks to look at the prisoners and the stolen goods, if it were not for the wolf-like Hanwei soldiers to maintain order, it is estimated that those prisoners and the stolen goods would be swallowed by the angry crowd in a blink of an eye.

Liu Yunwei saw that all the criminals had been brought, so he sued the housekeeper of the Taiyuan Prefect and the Jin Prince's Mansion, and then walked to the front of the point, looked around the entire school field, and took in everyone, and then said loudly: "All the fathers and villagers of Taiyuan, all colleagues, and brothers in Paoze!" Everyone gathered here today, not for anything else, but for the public trial of the Jiexiu Fan family, the Yuci Chang family, the Taigu Cao family, the Jiexiu Hou family, the Qi County Qu family, the Pingyang Fu Kang family, the Taigu Kong family, the Qi County Qiao family, these eight traitor families! Today, this governor wants to do the right thing for heaven, seek justice for the court and the people of the world, and use the heads of these traitorous thieves to pay tribute to the souls who died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Qing army, and appease the raging anger of the people in the world! ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Yunwei waved his hand to Guo Yi, Guo Yi saw this, and ordered his soldiers to move a few boxes, and after opening them in public, hundreds of letters with the Qing army and Mongolia secretly, as well as various seals and tokens appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

In an instant, everyone in the school field was shocked, they never expected that these eight families would be so rampant!

The onlookers and the soldiers of the Hanwei army in the school yard roared angrily, and many angry people even rushed forward desperately to beat those traitors and thieves. Officials from all over the country in the vicinity of Dianjiangtai were even "full of anger," and these people even broke through the barriers of the officers and men of the Hanwei Army for a time, and surrounded and beat the families of the eight families who were relatively close, and some of the old and weak were killed on the spot.

Li Tianhao, Zhou Tianyi, and Hu Kun were all taken aback when they saw this, and they all looked at Liu Yunwei, wanting to ask Liu Yunwei whether to send troops to organize. But everyone saw that Liu Yunwei was standing still, and he had no intention of stopping him.

"Ben Du didn't intend to let go of these traitors, so let those people be angry!"

Zhou Tianyi said with some worry: "But Inspector, what about those local officials in Shanxi? What a blatant murder they are! ”

"So what?" Liu Yunwei sneered and said: "Today, if they kill the people of the Eight Families, that is, they have made a petition to vote, and they will not be able to collude with the relatives of the Eight Families who are officials in the capital and other places, and they will even have to deal with the remnants of the Eight Families with us in the future!" ”

After listening, Zhou Tianyi and Hu Kun glanced at each other, and they both saw a look of shock in each other's eyes: "When did the superintendent become so scheming?" ”

At this time, Li Tianhao said: "Supervisor, even if this is the case, we should maintain order a little, if the situation gets out of control, it will be difficult to do." We must at least ensure the safety of the eight family masters, and escort them to the capital in the future! ”

Liu Yunwei thought for a moment and said: "It's good to ensure that the situation doesn't get out of control, and it doesn't matter if the life and death of the head of the eight families is, anyway, the governor didn't plan to leave their lives in the first place, but it's time to send the heads of these eight people to the capital!" ”

As soon as everyone heard it, they understood: the Eight Great Families were quite powerful, and even many clansmen in the capital were officials. Even if those officials who are good friends don't want to wade into troubled waters, they don't save the eight families when they see death, or even fall into the ground, but what about those clansmen who are officials? They will definitely do everything in their power to save their respective masters! Therefore, in order to ensure that these traitors would definitely die, Liu Yunwei simply killed them all and sent the heads to the capital.

In this way, after almost an hour of chaos in the school field, about hundreds of people, including all the families of the Eight Families, had been beaten to death by the angry people, and the rest of the surviving Eight Family Dependents were all injured and in shock. At this time, Fan Yongdou and the other eight family heads were all staring at Liu Yunwei on the stage with red eyes, as if they wanted to eat people.

"Liu Yunwei! I won't let you go even if I'm a ghost! ”

Fan Yongdou roared angrily in his heart, looking at his relatives kneeling in the school yard, his heart was constantly dripping blood.

At this moment, I only heard an angry roar from the side of the general: "The general manager of the conquest, the Jiliao Governor, and the army breaker have orders!" The eight major families of the Jin merchants betrayed the country and committed great crimes, and now the evidence is ironclad and cannot be quibbled! Today, we will verify the right body and punish the nine clans to set an example! ”