Chapter Seventy-Five: The Punishment of Civilization
Jiang Hao realized that it was not good and wanted to resist, but where was he the opponent of many Jinyi guards, he was tied up by Wuhua in a few ways.
"Zhou Yuji, why did you arrest me?"
Zhou Yuji didn't talk nonsense with Jiang Jiu, and directly threw the letter written by Jiang Jiu to Li Zicheng to the ground, "You can read it yourself!" ”
Jiang Hao, who was tied up by five flowers, stepped forward but found out that it was the surrender letter he wrote to Li Zicheng, and he was immediately stupid, he just didn't understand, how did the letter he wrote to Li Zicheng fall into the hands of Zhou Yuji, wasn't it Li Zicheng's people who killed the messenger he sent, and the letter fell into Li Zicheng's hands? The hateful Li Zicheng also let himself wash his neck and wait for him to cut it.
"Acting King! Acting for the king! Zhou Yuji has already taken refuge in Li Zicheng! ”
Zhou Yuji smiled, "Jiang Xuan, you probably think that Li Zicheng received the surrender letter you wrote to Li Zicheng, right?" Tell you, this letter was intercepted by the emperor sent by the Governor of Zuodu, and the person who killed your messenger was the Governor of Zuodu. ”
"Governor Zuo?"
"Not bad! Zuo Dudu is the righteous son of the Queen Mother, and he has been eyeing you for a long time. ”
Wang Guoxing walked over with a smile and kicked Jiang Jiu to the ground, "With your head, are you still the general of Zhenshuo?" I think you are worthy of being a military cavalry captain. ”
What does a military lieutenant do? is the deputy commander, roughly equivalent to the later company platoon commander.
The Ming army also has military ranks, ordinary soldiers are corporals, five commanders are sergeants, A commander is a sergeant, the team manager is a cloud cavalry captain, the deputy team is in charge of the military cavalry captain, and then the general Xiao cavalry captain, the deputy general flying cavalry captain, the thousand general cavalry captain, the guerrilla cavalry captain, the staff general light car captain, the deputy general light car captain, and the general soldier is awarded the general.
Therefore, some books say that a certain officer is a guerrilla general, but that statement is not true.
Acting King Zhu Chuanqi was very angry, took the whip handed by the government soldiers and whipped Jiang Jiu fiercely, one whip over the other.
After dozens of whips, Jiang Jiu's clothes were torn, and his face was covered with blood.
This Jiang Hao really has a bit of backbone, and he didn't say a word.
In fact, it is not that Jiang Hao is hard-hearted, but that Jiang Hao knows the temper of Zhu Chuanyi, the king of the generation, this man looks down on spineless people the most, if you whip your whip and you cry out for pain, this generation of kings will also be tired and call other people to continue to beat, and finally dare to beat people to death.
In the Ming Dynasty, basically all the princes were relatively honest, and the court had regulations, and without the approval of the emperor, no prince or his children were allowed to leave the fiefdom. It has changed, Zhu Yujian, the Tang king of Nanyang, heard that Jianyu had entered the fortress, and immediately took two thousand soldiers and horses to King Qin, but before he could go to the capital, he was arrested by the Jinyi guard sent out by Zhu Youzhen, and he was still locked up in the Zongren Academy, and the throne was immediately replaced by his younger brother.
But the acting king has always been different, because the acting king is the only prince who is sealed on the frontier. It is the only prince who fulfills Zhu Yuanzhang's idea, if other princes feel bullied, they can only find the local government, and the people acting on behalf of the king are different, send troops to beat them, and according to the regulations, they can raise five hundred soldiers in the palace on behalf of the king. Other princes have to go through layers of review when they give birth to concubines, and if they give birth to concubines, the emperor will approve them directly, Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, the emperor, is more and more aggrieved, and the money in the inner treasury is getting less and less, and it will be bottomed out, but there are not many things that are rewarded to the palace every year.
In addition, other princes are not allowed to interfere in military and political affairs, but the imperial court stipulates that if there is anything in this place of Datong, you must ask the prince to call the shots, do you dare to kill people if the prince starts a fire?
Wang Zhixin came into the courtyard, and saw that Jiang Jiu's guards were controlled by the Jinyi guard, so he took a look, and then entered the second courtyard of the palace, and saw that Jiang Hao was tied up, and Zhu Chuanqi, the acting king, was waving a whip and beating very closely, so he stood aside and watched without speaking.
Who dares to advise the prince when he beats someone? Although this Jiang Jiu had given him silver, that bit of silver was not enough to help him speak.
When Zhu Chuanqi finished fighting, Wang Zhixin stepped forward, "Roar! Lord, look at you tired? Why are you so angry? Why is this little ginger making you angry? ”
As soon as he heard what Wang Zhixin said, Zhu Chuanyi's anger came up again, this person who didn't have a long handle actually teamed up with Jiang Hao to betray the court, and it is hard to say if the court was betrayed, but he will definitely be killed by Li Zicheng on behalf of the Wang family, "Tie up this guy who often smells in the crotch of my pants!" ”
The king's heart suddenly collapsed, what's wrong with our family? Why did the prince tie up our family?
Wang Zhixin, who entered the palace in the forty-fifth year of Wanli, is in his forties this year, and in the words of later generations, he should belong to the senior eunuchs of the Four Dynasties, and his qualifications are much older than Wang Chengen.
This guy has a characteristic, that is, he picks the door, it is precisely because he picks the door that he refused to give Wei Zhongxian a gift to honor the big head, so he is mixed in the Tianqi Dynasty, and it is precisely because he is not mixed in the Tianqi Dynasty, so he is in the Chongzhen Dynasty.
The celebrant and eunuch are all Zhu Youzhen's most trusted eunuchs, and Zhu Youzhen is entrusted with all the important tasks, Wang Zhixin is mixed with the eunuch errand of the East Factory, and Wang Dehua is responsible for the affairs of the East Factory, Wang Dehua is the first, and he is the second. What does the East Factory do? is responsible for monitoring hundreds of officials, so there are many officials who give gifts to Wang Zhixin, and this Wang Zhixin also takes the opportunity to make a big profit, and the big things that give big gifts turn into small things, and those who don't give gifts, or give less, Wang Zhixin thinks that he looks down on him, so he has to make it a capital crime for you.
Among the eunuchs in the palace, if you talk about who has money and who doesn't, Wang Chengen is far behind, and he can't enter the top three at all, Gao Qiqian ranks first, and Wang Zhixin ranks second.
Gao Qiqian was rated by Zhu Youzhen as the eunuch who knew the most about military affairs, not only often sent to supervise the army, but also handled financial matters such as military salaries, and got big votes, so the eunuch wealth list ranked first.
In early February, after receiving the news that Li Zicheng had crossed the Yellow River and went to Shanhaiguan to supervise the army, Wang Zhixin was sent to Datong.
This time, Fang Zhenghua followed Wang Guoxing to Shanxi, and Zhu Youzhen privately explained that Fang Zhenghua should not bring Wang Zhixin back, the meaning is very clear, and Fang Zhenghua directly executed Wang Zhixin in Datong.
Why is that? Of course, Zhu Youzhen felt ashamed, the officials fooled him and said, the people around him fooled him, not to mention the anger, the key is that it is too embarrassing, since he met Zhang Ping, who knows everything, Zhu Youzhen is a little psychologically burdened, whenever Zhang Ping praises him for his wisdom, Zhu Youzhen will quietly guess whether this Zhu Cixuan is scolding me.
Why did Wang Zhu Chuanqi say that Wang Xinxin is a guy who often smells in the crotch? The main thing is that Wang Zhixin does have a disgusting smell, mainly from the crotch, this eunuch, since he was a child, he has been knifed in that place, it must affect the development, and the function of the parts is not considered a qualified product, the person is older, and the place is not closed strictly, so many old eunuchs' crotch is often wet, in the harem, once this kind of parts are not good, they are basically sent to Huangzhuang, where is nature, the impact of contamination is not great, if it were not for Wang Zhixin to hold an important position, he would have gone to Huangzhuang as a supervisor a long time ago.
"Lord, why is this? Why do you want to tie up our family? ”
Fang Zhenghua came out, this time his task in addition to the announcement of the reward of Zhou Yuji, the main task is two, first, directly kill Wang Zhixin in Datong, and then go to Xuanfu to kill Du Zhixiang, second, capture Du Xun and return to Beijing.
It is said that nothing happened, Zhu Youzhen couldn't kill Wang Zhixin and Du Zhixiang, Li Zicheng turned around and went back directly in Ningwu Pass, and the two of them didn't rebel, but Zhu Youzhen knew that if it weren't for Zhang Ping, he wouldn't be able to live for a few days, so Wang Zhixin and Du Zhixiang must die, and they must be dealt with quickly, and Du Xun He was reluctant to die directly, so he had to arrest Du Xun to Jinyiwei Prison first, and then find a suitable time to boil a pot of hot oil for Du Xun to take a bath happily.
Fang Zhenghua came out from behind, "Passing on the emperor's decree, the king's heart eats inside and out, colludes with Jiang Hao to plot misdeeds, and he is innocent!" ”
Wang Zhixin was stunned, Jiang Hao was going to plot against him? Oh! I know, no wonder there are so many Jinyi guards, it turns out that they are here to catch Jiang Jiu! But when did our family collude with Jiang Hao? Didn't our family just accept Jiang Jiu's two hundred taels of silver? "Wronged! Rajah! Wronged! Father-in-law Fang! ”
Fang Zhenghua, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, the level is several levels lower than Wang Zhixin, if in the past, Wang Zhixin would definitely call Fang Zhenghua a little rabbit cub when he saw Fang Zhenghua, today he is going to honestly call Fang Zhenghua's father-in-law, this Fang Zhenghua can let him die with a word, and a word can give him a chance to defend himself and survive in the end.
Wang Zhixin sneered, "Princess, you are not wronged, our family can't manage it, you better go to Lord Yama to defend yourself." ”
Wang Zhixin sat on the ground as soon as his legs were weak, this is not a chance, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Why do you want to kill a minion? The minions haven't done anything to be sorry! ”
The two brocade guards went up directly and dragged Wang Zhixin out, they couldn't kill people in the palace, they had to be dragged to the street to find a place that was out of the way.
A few little eunuchs who came with Wang Zhixin were scared, "Grandpa Fang's life!" ”
These men thought they were going to die, too.
Fang Zhenghua said: "Okay, spare a few of you little rabbit cubs, and honestly follow my father back to the palace." ”
Several teenage little eunuchs knelt on the ground and thanked them, "Thank you, father-in-law!" Thank you, father-in-law! ”
In the end, several people did not know why Wang Xinxin was executed.
The next thing is to interrogate Jiang Hao and dig out his accomplices.
The errand naturally fell on Jin Yiwei's body, Wang Guoxing smiled and looked at Jin Yiwei's punishment of thousands of households Gao Wencai, "Wencai, it's up to you?" ”
Gao Wencai arched his hand, "Please rest assured!" ”
In a firewood room in the Daiwang Mansion, Jiang Hao was tied to a large wide stool, and a brocade guard took out a piece of brown paper from his pocket, and then sprayed it on the paper with a few sips of liquor.
Then, this battle of paper covered Jiang Hao's face, and after a while, Jiang Hao's face was blue, and when he was about to die, this brocade guard took out a knife and pierced a small hole in the paper.
Jiang Hao gasped for breath, his consciousness was blurred just now.
When Jiang Hao was almost panting, Jin Yiwei smiled, "How is it?" Jiang Zongbing, who participated in the planning? It's still a move! ”
Jiang Hao knew that he would not survive, but he was unwilling to confess his younger brother Jiang Xuan, the eldest brother Jiang Rang voted for Li Zicheng, it is difficult to say what will happen in the future, if he confesses his younger brother, the Jiang family will be finished, so he decided to carry it himself, "No one participated, if you want to say that the person who participated, it was the person who went to send a letter to Li Zicheng, that was my personal follower, and he had been killed." ”
Colonel Jinyiwei smiled, "Mr. Jiang, why bother? Looks like you want to be a hero! I can tell you, I've been working in Jinyiwei for several years, and I haven't seen a hero. ”
As he spoke, he took out a small piece of paper and sprayed it on the small hole, and suddenly, Jiang Hao felt that he was about to suffocate again.
After doing this three times, Jiang Hao couldn't stand it, which was more uncomfortable than killing him.
Colonel Jin Yiwei spoke, "How is it?" Jiang Zongbing, let's recruit it, let me tell you, no one can bear the punishment of Jinyiwei, this is just in the prince's mansion, I don't want to give you those unbearable punishments, but also give you a little face, anyway, you have also been a general soldier, if you don't recruit, you will be given another punishment. ”
Jiang Jiu was scared, "What? What punishment? ”
Xiao Xiao smiled, "Of course, it is also a more civilized punishment, Lord Jiang, this place in Datong is quite cold!" You say get some ice cubes to stuff into your crotch, and when you're frozen out of your instincts, what about roasting the fire? ”