The name of the Jiangnan petition mailbox has long been spread to the capital, and now Fang Yuan wants to open a petition mailbox in the capital, and the people in the capital are cheering, and the officials are worried. Less than half a month after the letter-and-visit mailbox was opened, countless people came to report and expose and redress their grievances.

In order to improve the efficiency of the petition mailbox, Fang Yuan ordered Jingjie to lead a thousand Xuanjia troops to replace Jinyi Guard and serve as the guard of Shouning Palace. A thousand Jinyi guards brought from Jiangnan were all allocated to Ma Yishan and used as a letter and visit mailbox, as well as confiscated the Jin merchants in the city.

Ma Yishan dispatched 700 brocade guards to the petition office to deal with the people's lawsuits full-time, but because the people in the capital were too enthusiastic, after half a month, the petition office piled up thousands of envelopes of paper that were too late to deal with.

Ma Yishan was very efficient in killing all the Jin merchants in Beijing, and confiscated the Jin Chamber of Commerce, which had trade contacts with the Manchus outside the Guanwai and became traitors, and there were 26 wealthy merchants. The heads of the twenty-six families were executed without trial, and were executed on the spot. The land and real estate to which they belong are not included in the treasury, and all the family members are confiscated as slaves.

In a month, at least five million taels of silver were confiscated from the Jin merchants in Beijing, which could be regarded as solving Fang Yuan's urgent need. In this bloody purge, the Jin merchants in the capital were almost killed. Of course, the nest of the Jin merchants is in Shanxi, and Shanxi is still under the control of Zhou Yuji.

Compared with the hot scene of the petition mailbox and the cleaning of the Jin merchants, Zhou Jian and Luo Yangxing hit a wall one after another. No matter which official's mansion Jin Yiwei goes to, one official is crying poor and begging for mercy, and he can say anything good, but he can't talk about silver.

The progress of the forced donation of silver was very slow, and after ten full days, the officials donated less than 10,000 taels of silver, using Fang Yuan as a mallet.

In terms of the clean-up of the eunuchs, because it involved the palace, Luo Yangxing could only collect evidence on the periphery, and did not dare to arrest people easily, so he only handed over all the collected evidence to Fang Yuan and asked him to decide.

Fang Yuan reviewed the work results of Zhou Jian and Luo Yangxing in the past month, and was furious. It seems that these officials really don't cry when they don't see the coffin! It is estimated that if they do not resort to the trick of killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys, these officials will not be honest.

However, the choice of the object of killing chickens and monkeys should be considered. First of all, it is necessary to be in a high position, and to fight tigers, you have to start with the cabinet scholars, and if you fight some flies, you think Fang Yuan is a fool. But like Fan Jingwen, the 'Er Bu Shangshu', the folk reputation is very good, and he can't get much silver for torture, but he bears notoriety.

Fang Yuan ordered Ma Yishan to take the list of several cabinet scholars from the letter-and-visit mailbox, including Wei Dezao and Xie Sheng, who were the cabinet scholars of Chongzhen's resurrection, Fan Jingwen, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Jiang Dejing, the secretary of the Ministry of Households. It is a pity that Hong Chengchou, the first assistant of the cabinet, fled to the Manchus by sea from Tianjin Wei before the fall of the capital, otherwise, Hong Chengchou would be the best candidate to make an example of the monkey.

Fang Yuan read these black materials one by one, and drew a list of torturers, that is, Wei Dezao, the deputy assistant of the cabinet. According to the Ming law, this grandson embezzled 200,000 taels of silver, and he should be killed! According to history, this grandson, as the last cabinet chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, surrendered to Li Zicheng and was tortured to death, damn it!

Fang Yuan immediately ordered that a fundraising meeting be held outside the Chengtian Gate three days later. The so-called fundraising meeting is actually a forced donation meeting.

All the officials on the blacklist, whether they are in office or Zhishi, all came to Chengtianmen to participate in the fundraising meeting after three days in the capital. If you are not in the capital, as long as you are in the territory of Daming, you will directly send the Xuanjia Army to arrest me and the whole family to come to the capital. Anyone who dares not to come will be directly raided by the Xuanjia army, and the family will be punished and confiscated as slaves.

Chengtianmen three days later

Wei Zaode, along with his three sons, were all escorted, and there were at least five or six hundred officials in the capital who were forcibly captured by the Xuanjia army, and at least 3,000 people gathered around to watch the lively soy sauce.

At the beginning of the fundraising meeting, Ma Yishan served as the chief judge, Luo Yangxing served as the deputy judge, Fang Yuan and Jing Jie supervised the review, and Emperor Chongzhen watched from the Chengtian Gate.

Ma Yishan first read out Wei Zaode's crime in public, as well as the fact of embezzling 3,000 acres of private land and embezzling and accepting bribes of 180,000 taels.

Wei Zaode's usual trick to deal with Emperor Chongzhen's forced donation was to shout and scream, making him more wronged than Dou E.

Fang Yuan is not Emperor Chongzhen, where would he talk to him, he glanced at Luo Yang and ordered him to use the court staff.

Luo Yangxing knew that once he started to be an official of the court staff, he would completely get on Fang Yuan's thief ship. But he also has no choice, if he doesn't have a court rod Wei Zaode, the next person to be court staff is his old man.

Luo Yangxing stood up and scolded loudly, "Wei Zaode, you are a giant traitor, forming a party for personal gain, causing chaos in the dynasty, and you deserve death!" The Regent, nine thousand years old, with a generous and merciful heart, would like to give you a chance to mend your ways, and I never thought that you would die without changing your nature. Good! Regent, 9,000 years old can tolerate you, and the law of the Ming Dynasty can't tolerate you, a giant traitor, someone is coming! In accordance with the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Zaode, and his three sons, will be killed with a cane! ”

The Jinyi Wei in the capital is a newcomer to Fang Yuan, and he is worried about whether he will be in danger, and now that he has the opportunity to curry favor with Fang Yuan, he naturally worked hard to kill him, caught Wei Zaode, and his three sons, and gagged his mouth with a white cloth to avoid talking nonsense, so he used enough strength to beat him in public.

Chongzhen on the Chengtian Gate closed his eyes tightly when he saw it, Wei Zaode was his cronies, Fang Yuan beat Wei Zaode so badly, he was slapping him in the face, and said in a deep voice, "Nine thousand years old, nine thousand years old, very good, very good, it's one step away from long live, right!" The horse is so powerful, is he fighting Wei Zaode, or is he fighting me. ”

The strength is strong, Queen Zhou pressed his hand and persuaded him to dissipate his anger.

The princess defended Fang Yuan and said, "Father, don't be careful, as far as I know, the nine-thousand-year-old is Luo Yang's sex and they patted his ass, and the horse has also sternly reprimanded him, this Luo Yang is not a long memory, and the horse will definitely reprimand him again." ”

"Moreover, Wei Zaode is the second assistant of the cabinet, the head of the hundred officials, and the horses want to plunder the silver, of course, they must start with Wei Zaode. Previously, Uncle Ma Ling went to persuade Wei Zaode, as the second assistant of the cabinet, he should be an example of a hundred officials, and he only needed to pay half of the family property to pass the customs. But Wei Zaode kept saying that he was honest and honest, and his family had no money to spare. Afterwards, he was reported by the steward of the prefecture that he had secretly hidden 180,000 taels of silver, 30,000 acres of land, and 86 houses in Gyeonggi. ”

"My father was deceived by this kind of person, and he was unusually promoted to be a cabinet scholar, and he was also the first assistant of the cabinet. What's wrong with catching this giant traitor and revealing his true face?! ”

Chongzhen couldn't argue with her, and trembled with anger, "Okay, good, good, your colt is right about everything." Even if I am a faint king, I should kill myself on the coal mountain. ”

The princess Ling Fang Zhenghua brought a cup of tea, respectfully handed it to Chongzhen, and said softly, "Father, you dissipate your anger, just sit here and watch the play, and Jiao'er accompanies her father to see what these officials are." ”

Chongzhen hesitantly took the teacup, glared at the princess, and stopped talking.

Half an hour passed, Wei Zaode and his three sons had been beaten to a bloody pulp, and they were no longer alive. Luo Yangxing asked people to go to investigate, but he was indeed killed by the cane, so he went to report to Fang Yuan.

Ma Yishan looked around at the hundred officials and continued to shout, "Wei Zaode's family property has been confiscated, and the whistleblower Wei Fu, the steward of the Wei Mansion, and the concubine Qin, will report and expose the meritorious service together, and reward 2,000 taels of silver, 300 acres of fertile land, and a house." ”

Wei Fu and Qin nodded and stepped forward to receive the silver, land deed, and house deed, and knelt in front of Fang Yuan and kowtowed again and again to thank him.

When the onlookers saw this scene, they were full of liver and gall, and many people were directly scared to pee their pants. With the report in the petition mailbox, and the temptation of huge rewards, Fang Yuan even publicly issued rewards. Their little family property may be exposed by the housekeeper and concubine in the house at any time, can they still hide it?