"Bang dang!"

A pair of short, thick, iron-clad clamps with edges on all sides were taken out, and then thrown in front of the Mingchens, so frightened that their bodies trembled very much.

Liu Zongmin shouted viciously, "If you want money or death, let's do it yourself!"

Li Tian carefully observed the short rod of the torture instrument, and found that each side of the clamping rod was densely covered with money nails, and if it was pressed on a person, the consequences would definitely be very serious.

However, he only frowned, the Mingchen inside was concerned about his own life, and the more important thing was to see the development of events.

Chen Yan, the first assistant among the Ming ministers, was really frightened, and said tremblingly, "The lower official is willing to hand over 40,000 taels of silver, 3,000 taels of gold, and three buckets of pearls to the general, and I hope to put down the official and return to his hometown to retire." ”

Guozhang Zhou Kui saw that the iron rooster had spoken, and hurriedly followed, "The lower official is willing to pay 100,000 taels of silver to the general." ”

The other ministers saw that the two richest people had paid the money, and thought that this time the mud legs should be satisfied, so everyone waited for Liu Zongmin to let him go, and at the same time was secretly happy in his heart that he did not open his mouth to pay the silver first.

Who would have thought that Liu Zongmin's face sank like water, and he shouted, "Chongzhen, who is so poor that he clangs, has no money at all, where did the money of the Ming Dynasty go, you don't hurry up and confess, otherwise Benhou will never spare it!"

The ministers were so frightened that they were so frightened that this mud leg was not satisfied.

But this time, no one wanted to pay any more, and they all cried bitterly.

"General Ming Cha, there have been natural disasters in the past few years, and there have been wars everywhere, how can you still receive any taxes. ”

"Chongzhen's money was given to Guan Ningjun, and those soldiers didn't do anything with the money, they really raised a group of soldiers for nothing. ”

"The little ones are looked down upon by Chongzhen because they don't have money, and if he wants to raise donations, we have to sell our property, it's really no money. ”

Liu Zongmin saw that Zhou Kui was the most wronged, as if he had been a poor peasant for eighteen lifetimes, he smiled and pointed, "Go." tortured Chongzhen's father-in-law, and I don't know if the treasury of Lu Dao Daming is hidden in his wife's house!"

Zhou Kui was so frightened that he suddenly shut down, he had killed his relatives and handed over his three grandsons, how could he still be implicated.

When he was caught in the ankle by the clamping stick, he howled and screamed in pain: "Ahh ”

Liu Zongmin said with a smile, and said with a humble expression, "This dog thief is stingy, he won't be generous if he doesn't hand it over, and it's better not to hand over the Ming treasury!"

He made people repeatedly clamp on Zhou Kui. After Chongzhen's father-in-law was a little numb to the punishment of the stick, he asked someone to take a soldering iron and repeatedly iron the body of the Ming father-in-law, and the skin and flesh all over his body were burned.

Zhou Kui was tortured repeatedly, constantly screaming and even his voice became hoarse, and he kept confessing the secret rooms and belongings of the Guozhang Mansion, and the silver carried by the soldiers of the Shun army in the last half was piled up into a hill.

Liu Zongmin proudly let his subordinates relax and said with a smile, "It seems that Chongzhen's treasury is indeed empty. ”

When Zhou Kui heard this, he fainted with confidence.

Liu Zongmin swept towards Mingchen with cold eyes, and saw Wei Zaode, who was hiding behind the crowd with his head shrunken. scolded, "As the first assistant but corrupted the country, Chongzhen is really blind to choose you." ”

Wei Zaode bowed his head and said, "The ministers are scholars, they are not in harmony with political affairs, and they are also the first emperors. That's it. ”

(I'm a scholar who doesn't know how to be an official, it's all Chongzhen who messes around politics and spoils the country.) ）

Liu Zongmin said angrily, "You are a scholar and the champion, and you will be the prime minister for three years, so why should Chongzhen owe you." Slander as unreasonable!"

(You became the prime minister in less than three years as a scholar, what is Chongzhen sorry for you, and he also said that the emperor was not good.) ）

He stepped forward and slapped him hard. Hit eight in a row, only to make this Yuanyuan Shousuke scream.

Liu Zongmin shouted again, "Come on, put a stick on Wei Zaode!"

Wei Zaode was frightened by Zhou Kui's fate, and hurriedly shouted before he was clamped, "The subordinate is willing to pay two hundred taels of silver, and I hope the general will accept it with a smile." ”

Liu Zongmin sneered, "As the head of a country, how can you only have such a little silver, punish him, and torture him ruthlessly!"

Wei Zaode was tortured repeatedly with a stick, screaming and crying and shouting, but the soldiers of the Shun army worked harder and harder without stopping at all, and finally squeezed out the silver like a tooth.

Liu Zongmin looked at the other ministers again, these loyal ministers who were complaining about the poor in Chongzhen were stunned, and hurriedly handed over the silver one by one, as if they had all become wealthy boys.

But in the end, he was ordered to be tortured, and for a while, the whole courtyard was full of screams and pains, and there was Mingchen who was so frightened that he cried.

Li Tian saw that he was just using torture to force money here, and there was no useful information, so he glanced at Zhou Kui, who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and then prepared to go back.

He thinks that Empress Zhou is a good person, but it is densely packed with soldiers of the Shun army, and it is impossible for him to do anything.

Surrounded by busy carriages, all the servants of the Ming ministers were busy transporting silver, and there were Shun soldiers guarding them all the way.

The sons and brothers who were guarding outside the mansion kept crying bitterly, and they didn't know whether Lu Dao was distressed that the head of the family was being punished, or whether he was distressed that his silver was pushed out.

"If you don't do your duty to the Lord, you should have this reward!"

Li Tian was startled by this miserable howl that shook the whole street, stopped and looked back, only to see that Wei Zaode also had a pair of trumpet sticks on his head, and the executing Shun Jun squeezed out his brain too hard.

He looked at Wei Zaode, who was dying in pain, and felt a chill in his heart, and he didn't dare to stay any longer, so he walked quickly towards Li Banghua's mansion.

Li Tian walked a few streets, and suddenly flashed up with light skills, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Several soldiers of the Shun army quickly ran up, looked around at the place where Li Tian had disappeared, and cursed and said, "Why is that kid missing, it's a pity that he lost a fat sheep, it's really fucking unlucky." ”

Li Tian hid in the eaves of the dark place, coldly watched these Shun soldiers leave unwillingly, and after waiting for no sound around, he turned over to the roof and cautiously rushed back to Li Banghua's mansion.

Before he could stand on the ground, Feng Xiaowu came over and asked, "Senior brother, have you figured out the situation, what's going on with those screams?"

Li Tian shook his head and said, "It's just that the Shun Dynasty is robbing the property of the officials of the former dynasty, and it doesn't matter to us to make any big moves, but we must also be prepared to withdraw from the capital division at any time." ”

Feng Xiaowu said worriedly, "Then Lord Li Banghua is also an official of the Ming Dynasty, will he be arrested, and it may also be exposed here." ”

Li Tian comforted, "The general of the Shun Dynasty seems to only arrest corrupt officials, Li Banghua should not be implicated, senior sister, please rest assured, I will be meditating in the courtyard from today onwards." ”

Feng Xiaowu shook his head and said, "Senior disciple doesn't have to do this, if we really encounter danger, we can't rush out of the city without anything, will the dignified cultivators still be afraid of these mortals." ”

Li Tian looked in the direction where the faint howl came from, and said in a solemn tone, "This capital will not be calm, maybe more things will happen, we all have to be extremely careful." ”

Feng Xiaowu looked in the direction Li Tian was looking, and saw that the moon in the sky was gradually covered by thick clouds, and in the dead silence, only the miserable howls continued to sound, as if the underworld was in the world. (To be continued......)

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