The collaborators and gentry in Xiangyang City were temporarily imprisoned in the Baoguo Temple in the city.

Since the arresters were not only collaborators, but also many close relatives were also arrested, so there were not many rooms in the temple that could be used for prison cells, so the Internal Affairs Committee drove out all the monks in the temple and asked them to go to various places first and then come back next month.

Rao is so, and the cell is not enough.

Most of them were two or three people locked up in a single room.

Jingxiang Dao, Hong Wenjun, and his subordinate Zaoyang Zhi County Ma Liren were locked up in one place.

The two were well aware of the reasons for their arrests, but since they had not yet been formally interrogated, they had made various deductions in their minds during their detention, hoping that they could find a chance to get away with their crimes.

On that day, the guards had just finished serving the detainees, and Hong and Ma were gobbling up the door when the door suddenly opened, and a young man stumbled in.

Neither Hong nor Ma knew the young man, and they just thought it was a new one and ignored it.

Seeing this, the young man seemed a little disappointed, walked to the corner and squatted down, and then asked Hong and Ma why they were arrested.

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"One more question,"

Ma Zhixian was a little annoyed, "Aren't all the people who can come here because they oppose the big thief who steals the country from Devil Six!" ”

After speaking, he picked up the cabbage soup served in a scoop and drank it.

Not to mention, it tastes pretty good.

"Don't talk nonsense, this official has never opposed Devil Six!"

Hong Wenjun squinted at Ma Liren, and said in his heart, does this bastard really think that he has lived too long.

looked sideways at the new young man: "You were also arrested for opposing the usurpation of power by the devil six?" ”

"Not really."

The young man shook his head in denial.

Hong Wenjun was strange: "You can't support Devil Six against the emperor, right?" ”

"It's not,"

The young man shook his head again.

Ma Zhixian was happy: "Hey, then how did you get caught here?" ”

"Because, I'm the devil six."

The young man grinned, then patted his ass and walked to the door and coughed, and immediately the door was opened, and he swaggered out in the shocked eyes of Hong and Ma.

Outside the house, the bolt pillar looked resentful: "Young master, is it interesting to do this?" ”

"Of course it's interesting."

Jia Liu didn't bother to say more to the bolt pillar, just a few dozen seconds just now, his heart was greatly satisfied.

When Director Ding of the Internal Affairs Committee learned that His Majesty the Emperor had come to inspect their work, he hurriedly brought people over and reported to His Majesty the Emperor the results of the arrest of Operation Iron Fist.

In the official report, 165 people were arrested, but more than 3,800 people were actually arrested, and more than 600 resistors were killed and more than 2,000 were taken prisoner.

More than 400 long and short guns, a number of weapons, and movable property can be converted into millions of taels in cash, and the number of land, shops and other industries is not less than this when converted.

Those who resisted arrest were gentry who held the armed forces of the local village warrior regiment.

"The seized property and movable property will all be returned to the state treasury, and the real estate will be returned to you and you will set up a working group to sell it at a price lower than the market price, and if the land is investigated, if it is bought at a low price or robbed by force, it will be sent back to the sufferer."

Jia Liu ordered this, and Ding Qingzi immediately wrote it down.

"What are you going to do with these captured collaborators?"

"Your Majesty, the ministers should use special means in special times, and such collaborators should be severely punished..."

Ding Qing meant all executions to deter speculation and deterring the speculative rocking of officials in various provinces, including Hubei.

"In that case,"

Jia Liu pondered, there was no problem in executing the collaborators and gentry alone, he was already determined.

First, it was possible to purge unreliable elements and purify the bureaucratic ranks of the Restoration court.

secondly, it can also be used to confiscate the property of these gentry to solve the problem of financial shortage;

Thirdly, these collaborating officials and gentry belong to the authentic traitors, who are good at suppressing the Han uprising, and they are also loyal to the Qing court, and they are like full of slaves, and if they are not cleansed, the legal principles of the Restoration will not exist.

However, now the Internal Affairs Committee has arrested not only the gentry who had fornicated with Yonghui at the beginning, but also many of their relatives and friends, making the number of executions from more than 100 to more than 3,000, which made Jia Liu hesitate a little.

He wasn't born a murderer.

Seeing this, Ding Qing hurriedly said: "The minister knows that His Majesty is a little unbearable, but the minister thinks that the evil is exhausted, otherwise such people will inevitably have great hatred for our Restoration Court and secretly undermine the stability of our Dynasty. ”

Zhu Zhu thought for a moment and said, "Young Master, Director Ding means to prevent someone from becoming the next you, right, Director Ding?" ”

Hearing this, Jia Liu finally made up his mind and instructed Ding Qing: "If you don't kill women and children, you will immediately release each of them to support themselves, and the others, you can do it, but you must investigate clearly and don't kill the wrong person." ”

"Huh!"

Ding Qing answered loudly.

Jia Liu got up and patted Ding Qing on the shoulder: "You have a strong command of the Iron Fist Operation, which is very good, I will remember your merits." ”

"What is the merit of the minister? Operation Iron Fist was carried out under the wise leadership of His Majesty, and without His Majesty's guidance throughout the process, it would have been impossible to handle such a great feat with the ability of his ministers..."

Ding Qing's words were sincere and he didn't dare to be greedy.

"If you don't learn the good, you will learn the bad, when did you Ding Qing become a sycophant like Ji Xiaolan?"

Jia Liu glared at Ding Qing unhappily, "The Internal Affairs Committee is a sharp blade in my hand, if the person holding this sharp blade is a sycophant, then I might as well go into the field now." ”

This remark made Ding Qing immediately realize his mistake and be sincerely afraid.

Jia Liu didn't say anything more and quietly went back.

Soon, some officials strongly protested to His Majesty the Emperor against the "Iron Fist Operation", not Lao Bo, not Lao Li, not Lao A, but Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei.

Because the officials arrested by Operation Iron Fist were all his subordinates.

The sheer number of arrested officials has paralyzed the functioning of the government at all levels in Hubei.

Xunyang Mansion is even up to the prefect, and all the prefects of the counties have been arrested, so that if a big mansion can't even find a court official.

The angry Zheng Futai immediately rushed to Xiangyang by special car and protested to His Majesty the Emperor in person.

"Lao Zheng, these people are collaborating with the enemy, I can't keep them."

For Zheng Dajin, Jia Liu still admires it very much, and Lao Bo also recommended this person to take over the post of governor of Huguang.

"Collaboration?"

Zheng Futai was stunned, and then the relevant evidence was displayed in front of him.

Looking at the letters addressed to the fourth elder brother Yonghui, Zheng Futai was speechless for a while, but quickly pointed the finger at the internal affairs committee that he had also heard of for the first time.

It is said that the arrest operation of this internal affairs committee did not inform him, the governor of Hubei, at all, nor did he greet any level of government in Hubei, so he forcibly arrested the officials who were under trial or were giving instructions in broad daylight, which was simply lawless, what is the difference between it and the eagle dog of the former Ming Dynasty!

“... If the emperor reuses this committee, the unsupervised and unrestrained power it has will be extremely terrifying, from the court to the localities, all officials will be in danger, and the people will also be poisoned..."

Zheng Dajin opposed the existence of the Internal Affairs Committee and strongly demanded that His Majesty the Emperor immediately abolish this factory and health organization.

In the future, this internal affairs committee will inevitably develop into a behemoth, and now rely on evidence to convict people, and in the future, I am afraid that in the future, if we don't even need evidence, we will directly arrest and kill people.

Jia Liu couldn't help but nod when he heard this, and finally suddenly asked: "Lao Zheng, you are so afraid of the Internal Affairs Committee, could it be that you are disloyal to me in your heart?" ”