It was not until the main gate of the Gongshun Marquis Mansion was smashed and collapsed that Li Dingguo ordered his soldiers to attack the mansion. At this moment, everyone was frightened by the slaves of the Hou Mansion, and no one dared to resist at all.

These slaves may be arrogant and domineering and oppress the good on weekdays, but in front of the heavily armed Praetorian Guards, they are as well-behaved as kittens, even if these Janissaries look so young.

Without saying a word, he collapsed the gate of the Hou Mansion, who would dare to provoke such an army, and these troops are all Xiyuan guards, the emperor's pro-army!

"Dare to ask why the general attacked the Hou Mansion?" Inside the mansion gate, a steward asked tremblingly.

"Gongshun Hou Wu Weixian is suspected of assassinating the driving case, Your Majesty issued an order to arrest Wu Weixian's entire family, and dare to resist and kill all of them!" Li Dingguo said murderously.

"Thorn, stab, ......" The steward sat on the ground, and the rest of the family were stunned. This crime is too big, if it is verified, this whole house of young and old will not be able to escape, and they will all have to be questioned, even if it is a domestic slave.

There was not even a single one to resist, Li Dingguo was very disappointed, this Wu Weixian was also a general soldier of the Beijing camp, and the Hou Mansion was attacked and he didn't even resist it, and he even had the courage to stab him, what a waste who didn't succeed enough!

Li Dingguo immediately ordered his subordinates to arrest men, women, and children in the Manchu Mansion, and Wu Weixian's wife and children were all arrested, and counted according to the roster, and there must be no fish that slipped through the net.

The crime of assassination is too great, even if it is a servant in this mansion, he will be charged with being assigned to the army, and all the men in the Hou Mansion will not be able to escape death.

After the people in the whole government were caught, the follow-up interrogation was naturally in charge of Jinyiwei, and the conviction was convicted by the imperial court by the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department, which naturally had nothing to do with Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo's task is to break through the Gongshun Hou Mansion and arrest all Wu Weixian's family members, and then to raid the house and confiscate all the property of the Hou Mansion into the palace.

"Master Hou hanged!" Suddenly, someone shouted in panic, and several Praetorian Guards broke into the door, and sure enough, they saw Gongshun Hou Wu Weixian hanging on the beam of the house.

"It's cheap!" Li Dingguo snorted on the ground and said, according to Wu Weixian's crime, he must definitely be Lingchi, and it is really cheap to hang himself.

When Li Dingguo broke through the Gongshun Marquis's Mansion, Zhang Huangyan also brought people into the Dingguo Mansion.

As one of the three major princes of Beijing, the mansion of Dingguo Gong is larger and more magnificent than that of the Gongshun Marquis, and the number of slaves and servants in the Manchu family alone is as many as four or five hundred, which is more than the number of troops led by Zhang Huangyan.

Zhang Huangyan was not as reckless as Li Dingguo, but knocked on the door and announced his arrest. Xu Xigao, the Duke of Dingguo, was lying on the hospital bed, and he was already dead and alive, and when he heard that the Guogong Mansion was involved in the assassination case, and the emperor sent the Praetorian Guards to that person, Xu Xigao was afraid and angry, and he swallowed his breath at once.

In one day, a duke and a marquis died, and the Dingguo Mansion and the Gongshun Marquis Mansion were captured by the Praetorian Guards because of the assassination case, and the two mansions were arrested and imprisoned.

The Duke of Dingguo, the top nobleman of the Ming Dynasty, and the duke who retired with the country. Gongshun Hou, although he is a descendant of the naturalized Mongols, but the past dynasties of Gongshun Hou have made many military exploits, Wu Weixian has also been in charge of the Beijing camp, among the dozens of nobles in Beijing, Gongshun Houfu is definitely first-class. Unexpectedly, in one day, the two top nobles collapsed.

The Dingguo Mansion and the Gongshun Marquis Mansion have existed in Beijing for more than 200 years, which can be said to be deep-rooted, with many side branches and factions, and children all over the Beijing camp.

For the civil officials of the court, it doesn't matter how many nobles die, after all, civil officials and nobles are born enemies, but the situation is easy to stabilize, and if Beijing City is turbulent because of this, not everyone wants to see it. However, the assassination case was too big, and the emperor was obviously very angry, even those who were the most eloquent Feng Xian officials, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense at this time.

Several scholars in the cabinet spoke, but they didn't know what to say, if they were wrong, they would be regarded as sympathetic to the assassin and the thief, after all, in the hearts of many people, Xu Xigao, the prince of Dingguo, would not do such a thing as assassination at all.

When the Manchu Dynasty was shaken, in the harem, Zhu Youzhen was in a daze, he didn't expect that Wu Weixian would hang himself. His grandmother's, how can he die, he has to learn from himself!

Wu Weixian's death, he can't force him to confess, and he has some trouble in convicting, but whatever, anyway, he has to take this opportunity to deal with a group of nobles, and under the torture of Jinyiwei, any kind of incriminating evidence can be found!

The reason why the Guogong Mansion is to get rid of it is that it occupies too many resources in Beijing City, and Xu Yunzhen is not angry, greedy for the prosperity of Beijing City, and refuses to enter the army to participate in the battle like Zhang Shize. Xungui was knighted by virtue of martial arts, but when he lost his fighting spirit and was afraid to fight, he had no value in existence. The Ming Dynasty has raised these nobles for two hundred years in vain, and they can't keep raising them like this.

It is time to clean up the nobles in Beijing, confiscate the wealth and fill it into the treasury, clean up its power in Beijing, and after streamlining, the burden of the imperial court will be greatly reduced, and there is no problem in saving one million taels of grain every year.

On the grounds of the stabbing case, no one dared to talk nonsense about this matter, and no one dared to touch their brows at this time. And those civil officials in the court also want to deal with the nobles themselves, because in the past, the nobles stood on their side, and there was a faint tendency to compete with the civil officials. In the eyes of those civil officials, the strength of the nobles in Jingzhong was greatly reduced after the assassination case, and the emperor could only rely on the civil officials without the nobles.

However, they were wrong, I don't need these nobles now, after the establishment and growth of the Praetorian Guard, and the great victory against Jiannu, these nobles have lost their usefulness.

And now, the powerful Praetorian Guard is its own strength, and the martial arts, the boy boy camp, the business school, and the Royal Academy of Sciences are its core strength, and how many people can see these?

Most of the old nobles have been accustomed to lying down and enjoying, they have long lost their fighting spirit, they are all mud that they can't support, even if they rely on it, they are also new nobles like Zhao Shujiao and Cao Wenzhao, and with the development of time, the Praetorian Guard will become stronger and stronger, and more upstarts will be produced one after another, that is the real one's own people!

Of course, now is not to defeat all the old nobles, after all, there are dozens of nobles in Beijing, and it is too big to knock them all down at one time, and nobles like Zhang Shize and Liu Wenbing are still trustworthy.

Beat a group to win over a group and then shock the rest, this is their own purpose.

ps: the third update.