Lu Xiangsheng left the capital.

He was officially appointed by Zhu Youzhen as the governor of Shaanxi, praising military affairs, controlling the towns, and managing food and wages.

This trip is to go to the Daimyo's Mansion, bring your family with you, and go to Xi'an together.

He was accompanied by a six-year-old child, who was talking to him in the carriage.

"Dingguo, I just said that I won't let you go back to Beijing with me, so as not to suffer from going back and forth, you want to come. Now it's okay, I'm going back again. ”

"Father-in-law, I have decided since the time you saved me, no matter where you go, I will follow you wherever you go. I'm still young, I can't do big things, make beds and fold quilts, serve tea and pour water. ”

"You."

Lu Xiangsheng rubbed his head and smiled dotingly.

This child's real name is Li Rujing, who was rescued by accident when he was suppressing bandits in Shaanxi. When he heard that his family was dead and scattered, and he was the only one left, Lu Xiang felt pity. Let him go with the army, and then find a good family to settle down properly after the suppression of bandits. But I didn't want this kid to be not only smart-looking, but also extremely intelligent, and the soldiers liked him very much.

During a play, Li Rujing accidentally broke into Lu Xiangsheng's camp, and Lu Xiangsheng was discussing military affairs with everyone. When everyone saw that he was a child, they ignored him, but they didn't expect him to be fascinated by it. When Lu Xiangsheng saw this, he jokingly asked him what he thought. I didn't expect him to speak clearly, although he was illiterate, he had his own unique views.

Lu Xiangsheng was overjoyed when he heard this, and praised him for his talent as a famous general! In addition, he was rescued on the way to suppress the bandits, so he was accepted as a righteous son, renamed Dingguo, and took the meaning of Dingguo and Xingguo. Since then, he has been with him all day long and has been teaching carefully. After the suppression of the bandits was over, Lu Xiangsheng originally planned to settle him in the house of a classmate in Xi'an first, and then take him after returning to Beijing to resume his life. Unexpectedly, Li Dingguo would be with him no matter what, saying that he would go wherever Lu Xiangsheng went. Li Dingguo has a tough personality, and he has worked hard along the way, but he has no complaints. It also made Lu Xiangsheng sure that this son would become a great weapon in the future.

Lu Xiangsheng turned his head and looked in the direction of the capital through the window of the carriage.

At this moment, the capital is about to change, right?

Zhu Youzhen has been forcing himself to calm down, and in the face of these people, he must be in good spirits.

Incompetent rage won't solve anything.

He's going to get moving.

He doesn't want any tenderness and appeasement.

What he wanted was a purge.

It doesn't matter if it's Donglin or a eunuch, as long as you don't work, get out of here!

The nineteenth night of the lunar month

He summoned Wei Zhongxian.

"How many taels of silver have you received so far?"

"Hooray, as of today, a total of 3,060,000 taels have been received, deducting 2,649,000 taels of interest in the past few months and 50,000 taels of the principal returned by the two households. The net balance was 27,361,000 taels. ”

Before coming, in order to respond to the emperor's inquiry. Wei Zhongxian checked the amount of silver taels again, how much money he received every month, and how much interest he should pay.

"So many silver taels, how many factory men are in it?" Zhu Youzhen stared at Wei Zhongxian and said lightly.

Wei Zhongxian, who thought that he would be praised by the emperor next, broke out in a cold sweat, and immediately knelt on the ground, and kept kowtowing to admit his mistake, he noticed the change in the emperor's title.

"Slaves should be damned!"

"Hehe~ I want to take a look at the account books of the factory and see which of my Daming people are so rich that they can gather so many silver taels in just two or three months."

"Slave, slave..."

"What? But the factory doesn't want me to know? Zhu Youjian leaned forward.

"Slaves don't dare!"

"If you don't dare, I'll send someone to fetch it with you. By the way, there have been a lot of displaced people outside the city recently, so don't leave the palace if the factory is fine, and have a good rest. ”

Saying that, he waved his hand, and the Yongwei battalion, which had been waiting for a long time, stepped forward to stand up Wei Zhongxian, who was paralyzed on the ground. Outside the hall, Liu Yuanbin, the supervisor of the Yongwei Battalion, had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Wei Zhongxian coming out, he stepped forward and said:

"Factory father, our family is going to go with you, I hope we don't make it difficult for our family."

Wei Zhongxian's face was like ashes, and he didn't say a word. It happened suddenly, and he was not prepared at all.

Liu Yuanbin led people straight to Wei Zhongxian's mansion outside the palace and ordered the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion to surround the mansion.

Seeing this, the guards at the door rushed forward to inquire, and were directly pushed to the ground and tied up.

"Fence it off, don't let anyone go!"

"Yes!"

The sergeant was ordered to surround the mansion.

"Factory father, do you take the account book yourself or do we go to search it?"

Now, Wei Zhongxian also knew that it would be futile for him to resist uselessly. led everyone to his bedroom and took out the ledger in a secret compartment behind the collection shelf!

Liu Yuanbin flipped through it casually, and it clearly recorded who sent how many silver taels and when.

He nodded in satisfaction and looked no further. escorted Wei Zhongxian back to the palace to return to Zhu Youzhen.

When he entered the palace, Wei Zhongxian found that the guards in the palace had changed to new faces at some point, and none of the ones they were familiar with before were gone, and the Qianqing Palace was even more heavily guarded.

This time, his tried and tested crying scene was ineffective, Zhu Youzhen didn't pay attention to his pleas for mercy at all, and didn't listen to what he said, and directly ordered someone to escort him down and guard him strictly. Wei Zhongxian was desperate, he knew that the emperor would not spare him.

And Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath and opened the account book in front of him.

"On the night of the seventh day of September, Tian Erplough was fifty thousand taels.

On the night of September 7, Sun Yunhe, 30,000 taels.

On the night of September 7th, Li Kuilong...

Zhu Youjian looked at them one by one, and compared them one by one. There were some he knew, some of whom he had never even heard of by name.

Nobles, relatives, internal supervisors, officials, businessmen. From 10,000 taels to hundreds of thousands of taels.

Shocking!

The Ponzi scheme and the top Ming Wei Zhongxian are perfectly combined. It stands to reason that Zhu Youzhen should be very happy to see so much money, but he is not happy at all. Because the more money these people invest, the more completely corrupted the Ming Dynasty is. The threshold he set is high enough, but it is not as high as the level of these people who hold money.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen's heart no longer had a trace of hesitation.

"Lu Jiude."

"The slave is here!"

"I order you to follow the list and arrest all these people tonight."

"Liu Yuanbin, ordered Xu Yingyuan, Huang Degong and two of them to lead a thousand soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion to assist in the arrest of Xichang, and those who dare to resist will be killed. Zhou Yuji continued to guard the palace, and everyone was not allowed to enter or leave without my will. ”

"Wang Chaoen, order the British Duke Zhang Weixian to block the city gate."

After giving a few orders in one breath, Zhu Youzhen exhaled.

The list was drawn up by him after careful consideration, and most of them were internal supervisors and officials.

Since corruption is not working, it is better to die.

As for the rest, he still has to wait, the time is not ripe yet.

This night, for many people, is destined to be a nightmare.

These sleeping officials and gentlemen were taken out of their homes one by one in disheveled clothes.