Zheng Kangsheng was woken up, and when he heard that Wei Zhongxian had run away, he didn't believe it at all, and when he came to Wei Zhongxian's room, he didn't feel that his soul was scattered.

Wei Zhongxian died, Liu Yingxuan ran away, and Zheng Kangsheng was forced to preside over the overall situation.

"Hurry up and report to the officer, seal down the hotel."

At the end of the day, Wang Mujiu arrived in Fucheng and read out Zhu Youzhen's holy decree at the "You Ji" hotel.

Wei Zhongxian had committed suicide in fear of sin, and no one came to receive the holy decree, so Wang Mujiu had to temporarily collect it on his body.

"Commander Wang, Liu Yingxuan took Wei Zhongxian's Daliang belongings, escorted by his cronies, and he has already fled, and the government has not had time to catch up." Zheng Kangsheng immediately reported to Wang Mujiu.

"Ran away? From that road? "Wang Mujiu is in a hurry, Wei Zhongxian's belongings were specially explained by Zhu Youzhen, and he must bring them back.

"Head south along the Imperial Road."

"Chasing, Liu Yingxuan's big car is heavy, and he must not be able to run fast." Wang Mujiu didn't care about Wei Zhongxian's corpse, and took the soldiers and chased south.

After noon, Wang Mujiu finally caught up with Liu Yingxuan, forty cars, no less than one.

Wang Mujiu returned to Fucheng, went through the delivery procedures with local officials overnight, and hurriedly went to Beijing with the bodies of Wei Zhongxian and Li Chaoqin, as well as the gold, silver and jewelry that Wei Zhongxian had looted over the years.

On November 10, Wang Mujiu returned to Beijing.

Subsequently, Zhu Youzhen issued an edict, ordering the eunuch Zhao Benqi to kill Ke Yingyue with a cane to the Huanyi Bureau, and on the other hand, ordering the arrest of Wei Zhongxian's nephew Wei Liangqing, Ke Yingyue's son Hou Guoxing, and his younger brother Ke Guangxian.

On November 11, Wei Liangqing, Hou Guoxing, and Keguang were beheaded in the Beimen vegetable market, and their family property was confiscated.

On 13 November, Zhu Youzhen issued an order to arrest Wei Zhongxian's cronies in the palace.

Li Yongzhen, Tu Wenfu, Wang Tiqian and other close aides of Wei Zhongxian were arrested and imprisoned.

November 15 is the day of the pilgrimage.

The Donglin Party raised their eyebrows in the court. For nearly ten years, they were so pressed by Wei Zhongxian that they couldn't raise their heads, and today Wei Zhongxian is dead, and the Donglin Party is the biggest beneficiary.

The more eunuch members who have been arrested and are about to be arrested, the more vacancies will be left in the court, and these vacancies will undoubtedly be filled by Donglin Party members.

"Zhong Aiqing, Wei Zhongxian, the head of the rebellion, has been afraid of crime and ambushed, and his close servants and minions have also been arrested and imprisoned, God bless me Daming, above the court, and finally return to Lang Lang Qiankun." Zhu Youzhen didn't seem to know the mentality of the Donglin Party, and he was still full of ambition to exterminate Wei Gelding.

Li Qiyuan immediately bowed to the ground: "Your Majesty, although Wei Eunuch is ambushed, the slanderous ministers who are attached to Wei Eunuch are still by Your Majesty's side, and they are still acting as a prestige above the court. ”

Zhu Youzhen was a little flustered: "Slander? Li Aiqing, you say, who is the slanderer? ”

Li Qiyuan listed a long list of names, and even Gu Bingqian and Cui Chengxiu, who had already become scholars, did not let go.

The ministers who were named by Li Qiyuan, although they were frightened, they did once rely on Wei Zhongxian, and they did not dare to speak out to defend themselves in the court.

Zhu Youzhen was quite displeased, he thought that these senseless quarrels in the court should be ended as soon as possible: "Li Aiqing, the person you are referring to, does there be evidence of corruption?" ”

"Your Majesty, all those who know the ministers have conclusive evidence." Li Qiyuan did not care about Zhu Youzhen's feelings at all.

Wang Yongguang, Xue Fengxiang, Liu Rongsi and others spoke out in support, and for a while, the court set off a bloody storm against the eunuchs.

"Since you have the evidence, then show it! Led by Wang Aiqing of the Ministry of War, with the assistance of Li Aiqing, and other officials of the Sixth Department, all the evidence was sorted out. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." finally had the opportunity to overthrow the eunuchs, Wang Yongguang, Li Qiyuan and others were like duck blood, and the voices of the two of them crushed the eunuchs in the court to death.

"After these things, I am also tired, today's court meeting will be here, tomorrow, I will wait for the written recital of the two Aiqing in the Qianqing Palace."

There was only one day to sort out the materials of the eunuch party, and Wang Yongguang and Li Qiyuan both felt a lot of pressure. Just by the names of the members of the eunuch party, there will be a long list. According to Zhu Youzhen's request, they also had to list evidence of the eunuchs' corruption and perversion of the law.

No one had the heart to hold another court meeting.

The Donglin Party members wanted to help Wang Yongguang and Li Qiyuan sort out the materials of the eunuch party.

The members of the eunuch party are like ants on a hot pot, and no one knows how Zhu Youzhen will punish them, and with Zhu Youzhen's thunderous means of punishing Wei Zhongxian and his gang, many of them will be exterminated from their homes.

They usually cling to Wei Zhongxian, they don't decide everything, they have Wei Zhongxian to stand on it, and now that Wei Zhongxian is dead, they have no backbone, and they find their loss and helplessness.

They regretted it, they knew that this was the case, they should have defended Wei Zhongxian in the court in the first place, and did not let the beheading plan of the Donglin Party be easily realized, if Wei Zhongxian was still alive, the Donglin Party would never dare to be so rampant.

Back in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youjian ordered the First Imperial Army and the Second Imperial Army to temporarily stop rectification, impose martial law in the whole city of Beijing, block the nine gates, and prevent all officials from going out.

Jingshi, the mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings.

But the eunuchs have lost the powerful foreign aid in the palace and can only wait to be killed.

On 16 November, Wang Yongguang and Li Qiyuan came to the Qianqing Palace.

"The minister Wang Yongguang."

"Minister Li Qiyuan."

"See Your Majesty!"

The two of them paid homage.

"Wang Aiqing, Li Aiqing, get up and talk back, look at the seat."

Cao Huachun brought chairs to the two of them and made a cup of fragrant tea for each of them. Since Xu Yingyuan was assigned to Nanjing, Cao Huachun has become Zhu Youzhen's personal attendant.

"Your Majesty, the ministers and others have been busy for a day and a night, and finally sorted out some of the evil deeds of the eunuch party, but there are many members of the eunuch party, and the crimes committed are difficult to write, and one day is really not enough." Wang Yongguang didn't understand why Zhu Youzhen only gave one day.

Yesterday in the court, Zhu Youzhen asked him and Li Qiyuan to sort out the materials of the eunuch party, and he was so excited that he didn't think about the time problem at all.

When he collected materials, he found that although the members of the eunuch party were corrupt and perverted the law, most of them were internal contacts among the members, and they also controlled the key yamen such as Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and the Donglin Party did not have much evidence of their corruption and perversion of the law, and it was impossible to list all the evidence in one day.

"It can't be too long, the night is long and there are many dreams!" Zhu Youzhen laughed: "The two Aiqing have been busy for a day, and they have worked hard. Look at your eyes, you should stay up late, right? ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers waited all night to sort out these materials." Li Qiyuan was afraid that Wang Yongguang would take the limelight, so he rushed to answer Zhu Youzhen's question.

"Those two are so hard!" Zhu Youzhen stared exaggeratedly and looked at the two of them with pity: "You have sorted out too many materials, I will review them slowly, you will report it orally first, and then you will go back, rest early, don't get tired, revive the Ming Dynasty, I still have to rely on you." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Yongguang was very useful, "According to what Wei Eunuch Yu usually did, a total of 258 treacherous villains were listed. ”

"So much?" Zhu Youzhen frowned, this is more than half of the courtiers.

"Your Majesty, there are many remnants of Wei Gelding, and the core members who are usually attached to Wei Gelding include the 'Five Tigers', 'Five Biao', 'Ten Children', and 'Forty Grandchildren'. Li Qiyuan stepped forward.

"Oh?"

Wang Yongguang was not to be left behind: "The ministers divided them into seven classes according to their status, status, and the size of the crimes they committed: six conspirators of the first rebellion; handing over to nineteen attendants; eleven people who were close to the second class; thirty-five rebels; fifteen military prisoners who were attached to Dai and supported them; one hundred and twenty-eight people were close to the waiters; Forty-four people in the ancestral hall; Two hundred and fifty-eight in all. ”

"I roughly understand, the two Aiqing will go back to rest first, and I will review it carefully and consider it carefully."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Yongguang and Li Qiyuan bid farewell to Zhu Youzhen and left the Qianqing Palace, they did not go to rest, but mobilized their subordinates to extensively collect evidence of Wei Wei's crimes, so as to play Zhu Youzhen again.

After Wang Yongguang and Li Qiyuan left, Zhu Youzhen carefully read the concerts of the two and found that the lists of Li Chunye and Huang Liji were also impressive.

On 18 November, Zhu Youzhen issued another edict to arrest Wei Gelding's "Five Tigers" and put him on death row without interrogation. The "Five Tigers" are: Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Wu Chunfu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Tian Ji, the new secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Ni Wenhuan, the secretary of Taichang Temple, and Li Kuilong, the left deputy capital of Yushi.

Arrest Wei Biao "Wu Biao" and try him at a later date. "Wu Biao" are the five generals under Wei Zhongxian, which are equivalent to thugs: Jinyiwei commands Tian Ergeng, Jinyiwei commands Xu Xianchun, Jinyiwei commands Tongzhi Cui Yingyuan, Dongchang criminal officer Sun Yunhe, and Jinyi Weinan Zhenfu envoy Yang Yuan.

Subsequently, Zhu Youzhen summoned the rest of Wang Yongguang's Wei rebellion in the Imperial Palace. Excluding the 'Five Tigers', the 'Five Biao', Wei Liangqing, who had already subjugated the law, and Gu Bingqian, the former head of the cabinet, who had already become a scholar and was not in Beijing, there were a total of 246 people, and they were almost the backbone members of the eunuch party.

They all knew that they had been on Wang Yongguang's recital, and they all knew that the "Five Tigers" and "Five Biao" had been arrested.

But Zhu Youzhen not only did not arrest them, but also summoned them in such a solemn place as the Imperial Palace, and they didn't know what Zhu Youzhen was going to do with them, and they were all uneasy.

Zhu Youzhen sat on the dragon chair, and in front of him was a black lamb.

Usually, when the court meeting, the high-grade and powerful officials always stand at the forefront of the team, but today is not the court meeting, so there are not so many rules, and the high-grade and powerful people hide at the back of the team, they are afraid of being locked by Zhu Youzhen's gaze.

"Zhong Aiqing," Zhu Youzhen said in a low tone, there was silence in front of him, only the sound of irregular breathing came and went: "You must know why I summoned you." ”

The front of the main hall was silent, as if waiting for Zhu Youzhen to deliver a shocking speech.

"You are all sinners of the Ming court and the sinners of the people of the Ming Dynasty."

Some of the people who looked up at Zhu Youzhen just now lowered their heads in shame.

"Although I don't have all the evidence of you yet, I believe that the purgatory of the Jinyi Guard will definitely allow you to disclose all your crimes to the public."

The eyes of the silent ministers were full of fear, especially those officials who had participated in the purgatory trial, and the tragic situation of purgatory and the despair of the prisoners who could not die were already in front of them, and some of the older and timid officials had begun to tremble.

Suddenly, there was a fishy breath from the left front of the main hall.

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