What made the emperor even more angry was that many of those involved in dividing the spoils were his confidants.
You know, when he ransacked the house, he was afraid that his confidants would not be involved and would be greedy for the money, so he asked his confidants to do it.
Unexpectedly, these people betrayed their trust and were greedy, and they were greedy so much!
Therefore, the emperor's anger was twofold. He was angry at those people for taking so much money from him, and also angry at these people for betraying his trust.
And more importantly, if he continues to fight like this, he will hit his own confidant, causing his power to weaken.
The emperor couldn't help but become more and more angry when he thought that these people had betrayed his trust, were greedy for money, and had weakened his own power.
So before killing this group of people, he had to think of replacements first to prevent his power from weakening.
After all, the people who participated in the house raid at that time, since they were his confidants, naturally had an extraordinary status and were all important ministers.
The loss of so many important ministers will have a lot of impact. There are too many people involved in dividing the spoils. If they are to be cleaned up, a lot of people will be killed. With so many people killed, the court will naturally be short of many people, that is, his The power will be greatly weakened.
But if he was afraid that his power would weaken, he would not deal with those people. The emperor couldn't swallow this, so the emperor became more and more angry and angry.
After all, if these people hadn't let him down, he wouldn't be in such a difficult situation now.
In the end, the emperor decided to move the people in key positions up and down secretly, and replace them with the substitutes he had thought of. After these important positions were replaced with substitutes, the emperor would then take action on these people.
When the emperor changed people, he was very cautious every time, fearing that something was wrong.
Fortunately, these people felt that they were the emperor's confidants. It was not a bad thing for the emperor to promote them. I was afraid that the emperor had more important arrangements, so they didn't notice anything was wrong.
Fortunately, there are only two or three key positions in the hands of the emperor. Although other positions must be replaced by the emperor's people to prevent the power from weakening, as long as the important places are in his hands, these people can be dealt with in other places. It's not too late for the substitute to come up.
Since the emperor was sure that these people had taken the money and the people in key positions had been replaced, he immediately began to deal with these people.
Doing this kind of thing would naturally lead to confiscation of one's home and exile in ancient times.
Of course, the officials who worked together to do these things would not be simply exiled. They would definitely lose their heads. After all, they had done so much, so it was not bad if they were not sentenced to Lingchi.
However, it was time for the emperor to have a headache again when he ransacked the house, because he was afraid that what happened last time was that the person who ransacked the house was greedy for ink.
But he couldn't find a particularly good way. Unless he personally copied each house, otherwise, it would be difficult to ensure that these people would not be greedy by letting others look for it. After all, it didn't work if two or more people worked in groups last time. It can be stopped.
I can only think that the minimum guarantee is 100 million taels, and the rest can only be as much as I want.
The reason why the emperor guaranteed a minimum of 100 million taels in his heart was because these people, unlike the Wang family, were in business and might not have much money. In addition, they also spent the money raised from the Wang family, so they could get 100 million. Even if it's good, you might not be able to copy so many copies.
In fact, the emperor underestimated these people.
These families are indeed not as rich as the Wang family, and the public may not have much money, but the wives and old ladies in each house have many private houses.
This is not to say that women in this era are rich and men are poor. The reason is also very simple. In ancient times, most people lived together in groups, and then the parents were together and did not separate the families. Small families did not have money, or in other words, they did not have much money. Yes, because there is not much money every month and every year. Those young and old men often go out to eat, drink and have fun. How much money is wasted? People who are not frugal must live in the moonlight.
That's how people in ancient times recognized it. If your family has no money and you want to do something, you have to apply to the public school. Is it particularly difficult to get money?
No, because when they get married, they will divide the family from the family through the bride price.
It can be said that when there is no separation of families, marriage is actually a small-scale family separation in disguise.
And these betrothal gifts were finally placed in the hands of the wives, those wives and grandmothers. On the surface, they were their dowries, but in fact, women in ancient times had a low status. They were said to be dowries, but in fact they were also the husband's property. After all, in ancient times, not to mention concubines, wives They can all be sold - although rich people will not sell them, but logically speaking, their husbands do have the right to dispose of them - the three obediences and the four virtues, women obey their fathers at home, their husbands when married, and their sons when their husbands die. Their right to personal independence and their property are naturally the property of the Xiao family. After all, even they themselves are the property of their husbands and can be sold.
Since these families will divide the family in disguised form when they get married, it is normal for the wives of each family to have many private houses. Because in ancient times, men generally headed the outside and women headed the house, and the family was managed by the wife. The property is also in the hands of the wife.
The amount of these properties is quite large. After all, many of the families being dealt with have good backgrounds, and very few of them come from poor families.
Since they all had good backgrounds, their betrothal gifts were naturally quite large, and most of their wives were well-matched, and their parents’ families also gave them a lot of dowries. As a result, the wives and grandmothers of each family had quite a lot of private houses, so the emperor copied more than 100 million from each family. The two yuan of money was not what he thought. Each family kept spending, and spent a lot of the money they got from the Wang family that year.
The emperor was satisfied after seeing that he had confiscated more than 100 million taels, so he did not embarrass those who ransacked the house. He felt that even if they were greedy, they could not do much. After all, the property of these families was incomparable to that of the Wang family.
Of course, this was on the surface. Secretly, the emperor sent people to monitor these people and wanted to see if these people were like the previous group of people who had also made a lot of money.
I won’t say how effective the emperor’s surveillance was. I just want to say that after the emperor ransacked his house, those families felt that what happened to them was done by the official’s family who had retired due to illness. Therefore, when they were in exile, they hated the people who had retired because of illness. During the exile, , often bullied the family members of officials who retired due to illness. The family members of the officials who retired due to illness lied out, saying that this matter had nothing to do with them and was not their fault. These people did not believe it, and the report letter was not written by them.
The people who retired from the official family felt that they were wronged, because when the emperor ransacked various houses and then issued an imperial edict, saying that when they ransacked the Wang family's house, someone reported that they were corrupt, and when it was exposed, they were stunned when they heard about it, because , the head of the family obviously hasn’t made up his mind yet and is thinking about whether to report this matter, why did it really happen? Not only were they stunned, they were also panicked.
