After being elected by the civil and military forces to supervise the military affairs of Yangzhou, Ren Siqi's first order was to immediately send someone to raid the mansion of Wang Lin, a great salt merchant. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

A group of soldiers of the Daishan Army, under the leadership of the Yangzhou government officer, went to various places in Yangzhou City to confiscate Wang Lin's property. As the richest man in Yangzhou, Wang Lin's family business is huge, and there are hundreds of commercial halls and shops in Yangzhou City, and there are thousands of hired servants and servants.

Wang Lin, as the richest man in Yangzhou, also has a reputation for raising people, and there are several jinshi in his family, many of whom hold important official positions in the court or in the local government. And the Wang family can run such a large industry in Yangzhou, and the government has long been fed by them. As far as Ren Minyu is concerned, his friendship with Wang Lin is very close, and he is also a brother on weekdays.

But when Ren Siqi sent someone to bring the confession of the captured Wang family's subordinates, Ren Minyu immediately closed his mouth. Li Qifeng has been captured, and according to his confession, it was Wang Lin who sent someone to lobby him to attack the Governor's Mansion.

Conspiracy to attack the Governor's Palace, trying to capture the Governor Shi Kefa and sacrifice Yangzhou City to the Manchus. Wang Lin's sin is unforgivable, and it is unwise to implicate him in any way at this time. Does he have any evidence of his relationship with Wang Lin in Wang Lin's house, if he is searched by the Daishan Army, it will be troublesome, Ren Minyu was secretly worried.

After all, Wang Lin is the richest man in Yangzhou, and the Wang family is deeply rooted in Yangzhou, and countless people are running to ask for help, trying to find various connections to exonerate Wang Lin. However, the people they found, whether they were civil officials such as Wei Yinwen, the governor of Huaiyang, Ren Minyu, the prefect of Yangzhou, and the generals in Yangzhou, everyone remained silent about the matter and ignored their pleas.

Murdering the superintendent Shi Kefa conspired to sacrifice Yangzhou to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this crime is too big, and no one can protect or protect the royal family!

The wolf-like soldiers of the Daishan Army broke the gate of the Wang family and rushed into the Wang family's house. The men, women and children of the Wang family were all arrested in the courtyard, whether it was a girl in the boudoir or Wang Lin's seventy-year-old mother. When the soldiers of the Daishan Army arrived outside the mansion, Wang Lin also tried to resist, his family had a great cause, and there were 100 thugs in the house, but no matter how powerful the thugs were, they were not the opponents of the army. It was just a volley of muskets, and the rest of the thugs fell to their knees and surrendered. Wang Lin knew that he could not be spared, so he planted himself in the lotus pond in the courtyard, but was pulled out by the Daishan soldiers by the hair.

More than 100 members of the Wang family, young and old, were all arrested, the Wang family's hired workers and servants were dismissed, and more than 100 properties were all seized.

When the industry was seized, the officers and soldiers of the Daishan Military Suppression Division monitored the whole process, and some of the errand soldiers who wanted to fish and fish for some benefits were found out one after another, and they would be punished with a rod for the first time, and beheaded without hesitation for the second time. As for the soldiers of the Daishan Army, because of strict military discipline, there are almost no who dare to stretch out their hands.

"My lord, this time it's developed!" Song Liben, who was in charge of the raid, smiled and handed a thick stack of lists to Ren Siqi.

Ren Siqi looked at it casually, and the amount of silver confiscated alone was more than 2 million taels, and there were more than 30,000 taels of gold, jewelry, gold, jade, pearls, and agate, which were worth more than 200 taels of silver.

This is only the wealth on the surface, in the storehouses of the Wang family, more than 100,000 stones of salt and tens of thousands of horses of silk were confiscated, and the grain confiscated from the grain store warehouses belonging to the Wang family alone has 50,000 stones.

The various properties are worth more than six million taels, and if you count hundreds of mansions and real estate such as the Wang family's gardens and fields, the wealth of the Wang family is afraid that it will not be more than ten million taels!

This is the merchant of the Ming Dynasty! What a country that is truly rich! Ren Siqi flipped through the list in his hand and sighed secretly in his heart.

The annual income of the Ming treasury was only two or three million taels, which led to the imperial court being unable to make ends meet all year round, and most of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were like beggars. And the property of the Wang family is worth several years of income from the national treasury, who dares to explain the poverty of the dynasty in front of Ren Siqi, Ren Siqi dares to slap him.

It is the imperial court that is poor, and it is the ordinary people and soldiers, but these gentry, businessmen, and officials, which one is not rich! Where does their wealth come from? It's not from the people!

Now it is just right that this wealth can be used for one's own use and used in the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty!

Flipping through the list at random and putting it aside, what interested Ren Siqi the most was the many letters that were found in the palace. According to Song Liben, during the search, there were officials from the Yangzhou Prefecture who tried to take advantage of the chaos to light fires and destroy these letters, but because the soldiers of the Zhenfu Division watched closely, his plot did not succeed.

Flip through it at will, most of them are Wang Lin's letters to and from various officials, one of which interests Ren Siqi the most, this one is actually a reply letter written by Duoduo, the prince of Yu in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, to Wang Lin, in which Duoduo promised that as long as Wang Lin can help take Yangzhou, he will ensure that his family business is safe.

With this letter, Wang Lin will be killed on the charge of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and then he can arrest all the people involved according to the map, and sweep away the unstable factors in Yangzhou City!

"My lord, Wang Lin has been recruited!" Anthony, director of the Enemy Intelligence Division, reported.

According to Wang Lin's confession, Li Qingchuan, a great silk merchant of Yangzhou gentry, and some other gentry who did not directly participate in the conspiracy, but also worked with Wang Lin to boycott Shi Kefa's fundraising and bribe the generals defending the city to dedicate Yangzhou to the Qing people.

"Take it, take it all!" Ren Siqi said angrily.

"Yes, uncle!" Song Liben agreed and went happily.

"Uncle, it's not a good thing to implicate too widely!" Li Yanzhi persuaded worriedly on the side. The gentry on the list accounted for almost one-third of the gentry in Yangzhou, some of whom may have participated in the conspiracy, but some of them were tortured but indiscriminately bitten. The gentry is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and if they are all taken, I am afraid that Yangzhou will be unstable.

"Oh, Director Li has an opinion?" Hearing this, Ren Siqi turned around and looked at Li Yanzhi with a smile, "What happened to the arrow that shot at Inspector Shi, should you give me an explanation?" ”

"Uncle," Li Yanzhi was silent for a moment and slowly knelt down, "It was his subordinates who made their own decisions and let Mao Liu do it." The uncle wants to be beaten and punished, and Yan Zhi lets the uncle fall. ”

Ren Siqi sighed, these subordinates have no worries! But he also knew that Li Yanzhi was doing this for himself, and if he was punished directly, he was afraid that it would chill everyone.

"Let's not take it as an example!" Ren Siqi sighed, "In addition, just do as you say, don't implicate too much, those that are indeed Wang Lin's indiscriminate bite without conclusive evidence forget it." But you can't easily cheap them, you take Wang Lin's mouth and provide them with a look, and tell them that I still trust them, but they also have to fully support me to defend the city! ”

"Yes, uncle!" Li Yanzhi went down excitedly. (To be continued.) )