Zhu Youhua took the confession and read it carefully from beginning to end, and got a lot of important information from it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

First of all, the list of Donglin Party members who participated in the conspiracy and rebellion, the former cabinet minister Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, and Lu Daqi were at the top of the list, and there were many incumbent Donglin Party officials under them, including Huang Shu, the imperial historian of the Huguang Supervision Army, Zuo Guangxian in the affairs of the government, Zhou Bi in the Hubu Langzhong, Liu Shizhen, the imperial envoy Zhan Zhaoheng, Guo Weijing, and so on.

Finally, there are some Donglin backwards, such as Hou Fangyu, Huang Zongxi, Lei Yanzuo, Gu Gao, Chen Zhenhui and so on. In addition to some rebellious gentry and giants, there are more than 200 people in total, if the family is implicated again, it is not surprising that it will be an unprecedented case involving tens of thousands of people!

Especially the last group of wealthy gentry and giants with Donglin background, after Zhu Youhua's encouragement, Feng Kezong really implicated many people with the courage to cheat, most of them were huge households with a family fortune of more than 300,000 yuan, and nearly half of them were drawn in at once, and each of them could have something to do with the Donglin Party, or the rebel was one of his relatives.

Zhu Youhua felt that the number was a little too much, and it might implicate some enlightened gentry and landlords, making them chill and having too strong a purpose, and it might also provoke a strong backlash from the entire gentry and landlord class, producing a huge centrifugal force, and collectively falling to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, making him Li Chuang's second. Emperor Liukou is undeserved.

After careful consideration, Zhu Youhua took up the pen of the elephant wolf and said, "Boom, boom, boom," and at once crossed out more than 50 of the list of wealthy gentry on the confession, so that the number of criminals was roughly controlled at about a quarter of the total, most of them were more than 500,000 family assets, and the number was not too much, and if one million family assets were copied, it would be worth 100,000 family assets, which could greatly reduce the number of people implicated and prevent the situation from getting out of control.

Among them, the number of businessmen and predators is much larger than that of bureaucratic families, there are Yangzhou salt merchants, Songjiang silk merchants, Huguang grain merchants, although they are associated with the powerful, most of them are rich but not expensive, the latent force is small, it is convenient to start, many of the latter are more than 100 years old, a family of three or four Jinshi is very common, each other's in-laws are knotted, pull out the radish with mud, both rich and expensive, the latent force is very large, the protégé and the former officials are all over the prefectures and counties, and too many are implicated at once, and the place may fall into paralysis, and even secession, shaking the national capital.

In addition to the list of some rebels, Qian Kang's confession also listed some conspiratorial incidents and information about Zuo Liangyu, one of which aroused Zhu Youhua's strong vigilance, Zhu Youhua did not expect those Donglin Party to be so ruthless, and actually revealed the truth of the household department to the general soldiers of each town, and also discovered his intention to cut down the domain, and revealed it to the towns together with the reality of the household department. made Zhu Youhua feel very tricky all of a sudden.

It seems that before the Great Purge, we have to stabilize those feudal town commanders first!

They must not be allowed to understand their intentions, otherwise the towns will unite and collude with the gentry and landlords, and the consequences will be unimaginable!

And the best way to crack the rumors in Donglin and stabilize the morale of the army is to immediately send the arrears of food and wages in various towns!

In addition to the four towns in Jiangbei and more than a dozen small feudal towns scattered in Wuhu, Anqing, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Zhu Youhua roughly calculated, at least more than 2 million taels of silver and more than 1 million stones of grain, which is a huge astronomical amount for the current tight central finance!

If it was before the "Shun case" happened, Zhu Youhua would definitely be sad overnight!

Fortunately, when dealing with renegade courtiers not long ago, he raided the homes of nearly 100 gentry, and plundered a total of more than 4 million taels of silver and 6,700,000 stones of coarse and fine grain. With so much money to base upon, Zhu Youhua is still confident that he will appease the generals and suppress the situation.

There is still a lot of work to be done in state affairs, and Zhu Youhua breathed a sigh of relief.

Closing the confession, he praised Feng Kezong softly: "Feng Aiqing, you really lived up to my expectations, and I will reward you heavily after the matter is completed!" ”

"The emperor praised it falsely, and the ministers were terrified." Feng Kezong bowed modestly, and then stood with his hands respectfully crossed.

"Hahaha......" Zhu Youhua stared at Feng Kezong for a moment, and suddenly laughed loudly, the hearty laughter resounded throughout the hall, and the aftermath lingered, for a long time, after the laughter stopped, Zhu Youhua got up and left his seat, walked to Feng Kezong, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Feng Qing, good job!" There is only one thing I want to make clear to you, the confession and incriminating evidence are not yet time to be made public, on the contrary, I have to show proper favor to those Donglin rebels now. ”

Feng Kezong subconsciously asked, "Why is this?" After speaking, he immediately reacted, realized the offense in the language, and had a look of panic on his face: "The minister should die, the minister should not question the saint." ”

"It doesn't matter." Zhu Youhua waved his hand to stop his words, and said: "The time is not yet ripe, it is inconvenient to start, when the time comes, Aiqing can show her skills, and those who oppose the party will be wiped out!" ”

"I understand." Feng Kezong's heart moved when he heard this, and he already understood what the emperor meant, at this time, there are still many governors and governors of Donglin in the provinces, holding the local military and political power in one hand, and they want to kill the Donglin rebel party in Nanzhili, so naturally they must first clean up those Donglin real power faction feudal officials, so as not to take the opportunity to divide the territory, and even conspire with the Qing monarch, when the time comes, he will be embarrassed to be the "culprit" who single-handedly concocted the rebellion case, and the deeper and farther the emperor thinks about it, the more secure his life will be, Therefore, the emperor's idea of planning and then acting, he can already understand it very well at this moment.

"Don't startle those Donglin rebels for the time being, just keep an eye on them, don't let them run away, I still have a very important thing for you to do."

"Please ask the emperor for instructions." Feng Kezong was on standby.

"From now on, we will dispatch capable subordinates to Jiangbei, Anqing, Wuhu and other places to secretly monitor every move of the four towns in Jiangbei and the rest of the towns. In the end, Zhu Youhua was already serious.

"Yes." Feng Kezong hesitated slightly, and then quickly accepted the order.

Zhu Youhua replied and said, "The hour is urgent, act early, it's okay here, step down." ”

Feng Kezong was just about to say goodbye, but Zhu Youhua added another meaningful sentence: "Aiqing, you have to remember that I can give you all this, and I can also take it back, I hope you will do it yourself." ”

These words caught Feng Kezong a little off guard, and his heart trembled suddenly, and he slowly withdrew after carefully giving a salute.