At this time, Tian Ergeng ordered Jinyiwei to drag "Brother Jiang," "Boss Fu" and others to the palace to meet them, and at this time, several people staggered and fell to the ground, frightened like chaff, and they were completely out of shape.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has completely interrogated clearly, these grain and grain merchants are from the Hangzhou Zhang family, the Yingtian Li family, the Suzhou Wang family and the Yangzhou Liu family, these four families, because these four have been entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River, also business and Confucianism, and there are people in the family who are local officials, the power is huge, intricate, so they started the trade of this bad grain, they first transported the grain to Beijing through Cao Yun, and then from Beijing to Mongolia by land through Xuanfu to Mongolia, after confession, Qian Qianyi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, is the biggest person in charge of their transfer in Beijing." Tian Ergeng bowed down and stepped forward.

"Qian Qianyi, what else do you have to say?" Chongzhen shouted.

At this time, Qian Qianyi saw that the ironclad evidence was in front of him, and he could no longer quibble, so he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the minister wants to die quickly." ”

Seeing that it was impossible to escape death, he simply begged for a good time, at least to suffer a little less sin.

Chongzhen no longer had the patience to tear down with these people, and said directly: "Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Chen Yin, the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple, Zhu Tongmeng, the governor of the Ministry of Labor, Li Yangde, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was corrupt and perverted the law, did not think about the emperor's grace, and showed the public according to the "Da Ming Law", and applied the punishment of stripping the skin and grass, which will be executed tomorrow, and all the family members will be exiled to Lingnan; Qian Qianyi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, sold grain to finance the enemy, and Ling Chi was executed; The rest of those who participated in the process of selling grain were to be put to death, and all the female dependents were sent to the Department of Teaching and Workshop, and they were not pardoned. ”

The hundred officials were secretly frightened when they heard this, it seems that the emperor is really playing this time, killing several big people at once, there is no room at all, and the court has become very quiet for a while.

"Also, the matter of the four guards in Jiangnan, there is no need to escort them into Beijing, it is too troublesome, all the officers and soldiers of several thousand households who provide convenience for selling grain to the enemy and fill their pockets will be executed on the spot, as for the four families, all of them will be executed by raiding their homes, and all their property will be returned to the treasury, so be it!" Before everyone could come to their senses, Chongzhen's second will came down.

At this time, Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of the ministry, could no longer stand, and took a step forward and said: "Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, it is not appropriate to cause too many killings, I implore Your Majesty to think twice!" ”

Looking at Zhao Nanxing, who was already gray-haired and seventy years old in front of him, Chongzhen, who was familiar with history, knew that he was about to die at the end of the year, and he had always had a good impression of Emperor Chongzhen of Zhao Nanxing, because Zhao Nanxing has always been upright and upright, and he has made a lot of achievements in rectifying the government and eliminating the evils. At the same time, Zhao Nanxing is not only a member of the Donglin Party, but also ranks third in the "Donglin Point General Record", and now Li Sancai and Ye Xianggao have passed away, Zhao Nanxing is the leader of the Donglin Party, Qian Qianyi was given to death, he really can't say anything, because after all, he is collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, but Chongzhen wants to uproot the four major grain merchant families, which will inevitably cause an earthquake in Jiangnan officialdom, so he can't take care of offending the emperor at this time, so he immediately spoke out and advised.

"Zhao Aiqing, although I have not been on the throne for a long time, I have never severely punished hundreds of officials since I ascended the throne, but I can't tolerate today's affairs, do you know why? Because this Jiangnan is no longer my Jiangnan. ”

Chongzhen's words are very serious, but it is also very reasonable, because the officials and businessmen colluded together, directly formed a huge community of interests, and even the Jinyi Guard, who was the supervision of hundreds of officials, was corrupted into it, if it was not rectified, I was afraid that if the war changed in the later period, it would be absolutely impossible for the army and materials in Jiangnan to rush to the aid of the Beijing Division, which had already caused Chongzhen to suffer a great crisis. was forcibly resisted by the civil official group (the emperor's relocation would harm their interests), so in the end they could only die alone on the crooked jujube tree on the coal mountain.

Zhao Nanxing saw that the emperor was talking like this, so it was difficult to say anything, and the other officials in Jiangnan saw that Zhao Nanxing had touched a nail, so they could only silently watch Qian Qianyi and others being pulled down.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Chongzhen returned to Zhou Hou's side again, and after the others retreated, Chongzhen danced excitedly and directly with his hands, and even more excitedly directly hugged Zhou Hou and turned around, making Zhou Hou is surprised and happy, until Chongzhen put himself down, Zhou Hou asked: "Your Majesty has something happy today, the concubine has not seen Your Majesty so happy for a long time." ”

Hearing Zhou Hou say this, Chongzhen's face turned dark, and he feigned anger and said, "I forgot again, I should fight." ”

At this time, Zhou Hou woke up like a dream, and said with a red face: "Don't be angry, husband, people are wrong!" ”

"Haha, that's pretty much it." Chongzhen is in a good mood today, where will he really care about these things with Zhou Hou.

"What is it that husband is so happy after the dispersal of the dynasty today?"

Zhou Houmei's eyes widened, and she looked at Chongzhen with innocent big eyes and asked.

"Feng'er, tell you, my husband made a big windfall today, and I will make another one in a few days, but I have to pretend to be heartbroken in front of those courtiers, I really suffocate my husband."

Chongzhen looked at Zhou Hou's innocent and cute look, and told her about today's court meeting, and he secretly thought, it seems that Da Ming is really rich in the "scholars", on weekdays, they are clamoring for no money and crying poor, but I didn't expect this to be 10,000 stone of grain, if all the four major grain merchant families are collected into the treasury, the treasury will be immediately filled, if they don't make their own mistakes, there is really no excuse to move them, it seems that the money is really fast, Chongzhen even thought evilly, in the future, when he was overstretched again, he would take a group of profiteers who bullied and dominated the market on weekdays, thinking of this, he suddenly let out a burst of evil laughter, and he didn't withdraw from his imagination until he was patted by Zhou Hou.

Zhou Hou had some insight in the end, and asked with a serious and worried face: "If the husband directly uproot the four institutes in the south of the Yangtze River and the four major grain merchant families at once, will it affect the local production order and management order, and you can't let the people suffer for the sake of temporary selfish desires!" That's more than worth the cost. ”

"Feng'er, don't worry, I've already thought of countermeasures, and now I want to restore your food and clothing here to normal, after all, we are heavenly families, and we can't be too shabby, right?"

"No, you, you just won't live, I just have enough food here, let's save more silver and armed armaments!"

"What a good wife." Chongzhen praised.

The next day, Chengxi City, Beijing

Cui Chengxiu, Qian Qianyi and others were tied to the ground, the supervisor announced the crimes committed by several people, and many ordinary people saw so many big officials asking for beheadings at the same time, and many enthusiastic viewers began to explain it for a while.

"Oh, that one is the secretary of the Ministry of War, and he has committed the crime of corruption and bribery, and the one over there is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and they are in the same group as this secretary of the Ministry of War."

"Phew, you deserve it, by the way, brother, who is the one with a blue nose and swollen face over there?"

"He, that is the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, his responsibility is the most serious, he is a traitor to the enemy, and the last one to kill is to be Ling Chi."

"It's noon, let's cut it."

With the order of the prison officer, the first batch of officials who were disposed of after Ming Sheng came to Daming set foot on Huangquan Road together, oh, Qian Qianyi is a traitor, and he walked a little slower.