The people scolded Wang Weiming, and the court meeting continued.

Prime Minister Li Guozhong: "These damn private gangs, buy low and sell high, they make all the money themselves, the subjects and the court are getting poorer and poorer, and they are getting richer and richer." Now it's time to kill a batch. ”

Emperor Zhu Honghua of the Ming Dynasty on the dragon chair: "Then kill it quickly!" I kept saying I wanted to kill it a few months ago, why haven't you killed it yet? ”

Li Guozhong: "One reason is that there was a matter of the Holy Sect some time ago, but there is another important reason, that is: someone in the imperial court secretly fornicates with private gangs!" They want to rebel! ”

Hey, after doing it for so long, I thought he really cared about the court, but it turned out that he was just dumping! I really think highly of him.

Wherever there is an underworld, there must be a white way, and there are no exceptions.

Private gangs are the most profitable business, and naturally there are scholars and officials acting as protective umbrellas. Not only are people from the outer court covering the private gang, but even the inner court is like this.

In fact, everyone in the court had a black income.

In fact, I also earn a lot of money from private gangs...... For example, if the treasury gives me 10,000 gold yuan to buy candles, I may buy 20,000 gold yuan from the official account in Chang'an City, and I have to paste 10,000 gold yuan myself. If I buy a candle from a private person, the quality is better, and it only costs 1,000 gold dollars. In this way, I, the head of the Royal Warehouse, am also a big private gangster!

When the emperor heard the words of the prime minister, he was furious and said, "Who is it? ”

Li Guozhong, the prime minister and head of the Li family in Longxi, pointed to a person behind him: "It's him, Li Renyao, the head of the Li family in northern Shaanxi!" ”

I get it all. The first half of this court meeting was not to stand up for the subjects, but to attack the former prince's henchman - Chang'an Guo, and the second half was not to exterminate the private gang, but to attack the former prince's other henchman - the Li family in northern Shaanxi.

Once again, deeply understand the profound meaning of "the tree falls and the tree is scattered"!

Li Renyao, the head of the Li family in northern Shaanxi, was taken aback and said, "Nonsense, I have always been loyal to the emperor. You're a bloody spurt. ”

Li Guozhong: "How much tolls, benefit fees and protection fees have been collected by your second son and third son-in-law, can you still count them?" ”

Li Renyao: "I didn't ...... Whoever confiscated it, you dare to say that you confiscated it! ”

Li Guozhong: "I don't." ”

Li Renyao: "Then I didn't either!" Why do you say that I collected money, and I also said that you collected money! ”

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Prime Minister Li Guozhong waved his hand and shouted: "Bring a witness: Yan Erdan, the leader of the Salt Gang, and Bu Sandonkey, the leader of the Cloth Gang." ”

That's fast! Just arrested the leaders of the first and second largest gangs in the private gang? Let them suppress it, grind and chirp, and in order to bring down others, they are immediately caught.

Li Guozhong: "I set up a plan to ask the people of the private gang to buy ten tons of salt and ten tons of sugar. It was a big deal, so they sent it himself. We arrested the gang leader and tortured them for a while, it turned out that their warehouse was the Li family in northern Shaanxi, and they also gave a large benefit fee to the Li family in northern Shaanxi! ”

Li Guozhong asked the two gang leaders: "Who do you gang give the most money?" Why? ”

Gang leaders: "It's the Chang'an Guo clan and the Li clan in northern Shaanxi, they are the largest clan in Gyeonggi, and there are their land and people everywhere, we can't afford to provoke them, so we can only pay protection fees." ”

Deputy Prime Minister Guo Dingguo was immersed in the pain of losing his son (his son was the Minister of the Second Survival Department and had just died), and when he heard this, he immediately jumped out and pointed at the prime minister and shouted: "You bastards, don't kill them all!" I tell you, rabbits are in a hurry and want to bite, not to mention me, the first Gyeonggi clan! ”

Jin Yuguang, head of the household department: "Ho! See, this man has spoken his word! You are the first scholar in Gyeonggi, so you don't take the emperor in your eyes? Is the first Gyeonggi clan bigger than the emperor? You're a rebellion! ”

Shen Pengyi, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, they want to sell 10 tons of salt and 10 tons of sugar privately." He can earn one silver dollar for one or two salts, and 2,000 gold dollars for ten tons of salt! If they sell ten tons a day, they will earn more than 700,000 gold dollars a year! That's just salt, sugar makes even more! ”

The emperor was furious: "Just selling salt makes more than 700,000 gold yuan a year!" ”

Jin Yuguang: "This is only the least case, he sells more than ten tons a day!" And they also sell sugar, cloth, meat, fish...... A young man easily loosens millions of gold dollars! ”

The emperor shouted: "What? Millions?! Come on, cut them all down for me! ”

The soldiers came over and began to drag people.

The two gang leaders shouted to the prime minister, "Wait a minute! Didn't you say that we accused him and let us go? ”

Li Guozhong shrugged: "You believe my words." ”

The gang leaders shouted, "You bastards! We will always help the master Wang Facai to kill all of you, from the emperor to the eunuch, there is not a single one left! ”

The emperor was furious: "Don't cut them - give me Ling Chi, Ling Chi for three days!" Then kill their gang! ”

The two gang leaders still shouted: "Wang Facai will avenge me!" ”

The emperor asked Li Guozhong: "Who is this king who is rich?" ”

Li Guozhong: "He's the head of the private gang - but he's still a peddler." And look at the broken name - Wang Facai, his father and mother are really uneducated! It doesn't make sense to hear the name! If you get rich, you will get rich, what kind of rebellion! ”

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Prime Minister Li Guozhong continued to say to the emperor: "Your Majesty, although these smugglers have low status, but their ambitions are high, last time they 'occupied Chang'an', and now they want to say that they want to kill the emperor." They are all behind these private gangsters. ”

He pointed to Guo Dingguo, the head of the Guo family in Chang'an, and Li Renyao, the head of the Li family in northern Shaanxi.

Those two men hurried to show their loyalty to the emperor.

The ministers all said that they could be killed.

Li Renyao, the head of the Li family in northern Shaanxi, said to Prime Minister Li Guozhong: "Don't be like this, Prime Minister, our Li family in northern Shaanxi and your Li family in Longxi were brothers five hundred years ago, and the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty personally sealed us to defend the imperial capital!" ”

Li Guozhong: "Say this! There is no feast in the world that is not counted, and after 500 years, it is time to separate. ”

Guo Dingguo, the head of the Guo family in Chang'an, knelt down to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, we are the in-laws of your younger brother Zhu Hongfeng, you think about it for your younger brother!" ”

The emperor patted his head: "Really?" I forgot. ”

Jin Yuguang, head of the household department: "Your Majesty, the prince is marrying a woman from their family, not their family, so it doesn't matter at all to kill them." Besides, the emperor can't give up the whole world for the sake of just two families! ”

The emperor said, "Well, that makes sense. ”

The two unlucky ghosts were about to speak, and the prime minister waved his hand, and the royal guards took them away.

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Those two men were executed directly at the execution ground in the palace compound.

Pity the heads of the two Tianzi Twelfth families, the heads of the two largest families in Gyeonggi just died!

Since you have killed the head of the family, you will naturally have to kill them all.

The power of the two families is not small, and the government army also has hundreds of thousands, so they must be killed while they don't know it!

The Royal Army assembled in Chang'an City, and then went to Chang'an County and Northern Shaanxi County to raid their homes, where their homes were located.

Chang'an County is very close to Chang'an City, and a large number of troops quickly raided several of Chang'an Guo's mansions. More than a dozen of Guo Dingguo's wives, dozens of sons, hundreds of nephews and nephews, tens of thousands of eunuchs and maids were all sent to the ministry.

The prisons of the Ming Dynasty are divided into many types, which are not subordinate to each other. The first was the Emperor's Imperial Prison Department, the second was the Senate's Imperial Prison, the third was the Imperial Prison of the Inner Court, the fourth was the Imperial Prison of the Outer Courts, and of course, the local governors, overseers, nobles, and their own prisons.

The ministry prison is located in an auxiliary building near the palace, which is exactly the same as the imperial prison. After entering the imperial prison, he basically did not come out, because there was no one in the inner court to interrogate, and those who confessed and did not confess were all tortured to death. And the ministry is much more humane, as long as you pay money, you can get out.

As a result, there was a burst of crying in the prison after the father and mother, and tens of millions of gold dollars were added.

The money was piled up in the palace as evidence of Guo Dingguo's treason.

This evidence proves the correctness of the elimination of the Chang'an Guo clan.

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There are many Dashi clans in Chang'an County, and although the power of the Guo clan in Chang'an is very large, it does not have an overwhelming advantage, so the Royal Army easily defeated the Guo family's government army.

However, they suffered a big loss in northern Shaanxi.

The whole of Shaanbei County belongs to the Li family in northern Shaanxi.

Shaanbei County is one of the six counties of Gyeonggi, and Shaanbei County is its county seat. There are 900,000 people in the county seat of northern Shaanxi, and the generals guarding the eight city gates are all from the Li family. Unlike Chang'an County's open door, the Royal Army was greeted in Northern Shaanxi County. The Royal Army was densely blocked at the gate of Northern Shaanxi County, ready to go in and rob, but unexpectedly it was shot directly into a sieve. Then a large amount of hot oil poured down from the city wall, and those who were not shot were scalded until their skin and flesh were cracked. Finally, a lit arrow fell from the sky, and the city was set on fire.

Prime Minister Li Guozhong was furious, so he mobilized more Royal Army.

The royal army of the Ming Dynasty numbered tens of millions, which were stationed in the provinces.

Millions were wiped out in the Battle of Baoding, and although the losses were heavy, the emperor could afford it.

On the one hand, the imperial court transferred troops from the provinces, and on the other hand, increased the scope of military service, and in less than half a year, Gyeonggi had several million more royal armies.

More Royal Army rushed to the tiny county of northern Shaanxi, encircling her to the ground. Now, there are more troops besieging the city than the county citizens in the city, and the Li clan in northern Shaanxi is definitely finished.

The Royal Army continued to play the trick of digging tunnels to bury gunpowder, while the defenders on the city walls watched them nervously, awaiting their own end.

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In charge of this raid was Wang Huarong, deputy director of the Criminal Department.

He touched his mustache and gave the order: "Burst it!" ”

There was a muffled sound in the distance, the ground shook slightly, smoke rose everywhere, and the whole city was shrouded in the smoke of gunpowder.

The smoke cleared, and several gaps appeared, each several kilometers long. The gunpowder of the Royal Army was not very powerful, and the walls of northern Shaanxi County were not strong.

Wang Huarong shouted: "Attack!" ”

The Royal Army scrambled to run to the breach. Whoever can attack first will be able to grab more silver and women, everyone understands this truth.

There were about 100,000 Li troops in northern Shaanxi County, and their resistance was very stubborn. Every street, every yard, every house had to fight to the death. The besieging royal armies are all within the walls, and it seems that this battle will be won.

The royal army all entered the city to rob, and Wang Huarong was the last to enter, and he felt that the queen of the palace was safe.

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At this time, far to the east, a vague figure appeared on the horizon of the Guanzhong Plain.

They walked quickly towards northern Shaanxi County, and when they got closer, they could see that they were carrying many military flags.

There are two types of military flags that are the most formal, and their motifs are the family emblems of the Guo clan in Chang'an and the Li clan in northern Shaanxi.

The rest is more messy, and some of the patterns are a salt pile, which is the salt gang; Some are a cow, and that's a cow gang; Some are a bottle, and that's the oil gang or the wine gang. In the middle, there is a flag that stands out most prominently, a gold coin on a red background, which is the flag of the newly formed "Buying and Selling Senate".

They soon arrived in northern Shaanxi County. The first to be shot was Wang Huarong, and the first to be shot was the Royal Army Command.

The Royal Army was defeated, once again.