Although Dongchang and Jinyiwei are two institutions.
But in many cases, it is Dongchang who has more power than Jinyiwei.
Jinyiwei became the de facto subordinate organization of Dongchang.
Because Dongchang often directly uses people from Jinyiwei to form its own staff, and even directly uses Jinyiwei's suppression department to interrogate captured prisoners.
In addition, the relationship between the eunuch who oversees Dongchang and the emperor is closer than the relationship between the commander of Jinyiweidu and the emperor.
Therefore, many officials of Jinyiwei became subordinates of the factory governor of Dongchang.
For example, the current Xu Xianchun was originally the commander of Jinyiweidu, but because many of the Jinyiwei's official titles in the Ming Dynasty were fictitious, Xu Xianchun's actual position was as the head of the Dongchang Qianhu, responsible for the daily work of the Dongchang.
Therefore, although Xu Xianchun is a high-ranking official in Jinyiwei, he is the number two person in Dongchang.
Naturally, Jinyiwei became a subordinate organization of Dongchang.
Xu Xianchun directly captured Feng Sanyuan and took him to Jinyiwei's prison.
Currently, Dongchang does not have its own prison, so Dongchang uses both Jinyiwei people and Jinyiwei's prison.
Jinyiwei's prison is called the imperial prison, and has always been a place for interrogating various important criminals.
Of course, there have been imperial edicts in all dynasties. As the name suggests, imperial edicts are prisons where criminals who have been punished by imperial edicts are imprisoned.
But in the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Prison became the exclusive name of Jinyiwei Prison.
As soon as Feng Sanyuan arrived at Zhao Prison, he was frightened out of his wits by the dark, damp and cold environment inside. He felt as if he had entered the gate of hell.
For a moment, when Feng Sanyuan accidentally saw some unkempt and haggard criminals in the prison, he became even more frightened.
The dazzling array of torture instruments, such as tiger benches, iron beds, clamps, brain hoops, and horse-stopping sticks, made Feng Sanyuan even more frightened.
Therefore, when Feng Sanyuan was taken to the interrogation area and tied to a pillar, Feng Sanyuan instinctively struggled and shouted: "What are you doing? How can you treat me like this? I want to see the emperor and impeach you! You guys!" This is a violation of the law, you are robbing loyal ministers!"
Wei Zhongxian walked in at this time, sat down on a grand master's chair that had been moved from the Jinyiwei Official School, and looked at Feng Sanyuan quietly.
Wei Zhongxian was also looking at these instruments of torture, but his mood after seeing these instruments was different from Feng Sanyuan's. He was as happy as seeing these instruments of torture and felt that his years of enduring humiliation and burden were not in vain.
"Feng Sanyuan, our family has conclusive evidence that you are suspected of befriending servants, accepting bribes, and framing important officials in the court. It's best for you to be truthful and avoid punishment. Otherwise, don't blame our family for being rude!"
Wei Zhongxian asked.
Feng Sanyuan looked at Wei Zhongxian without saying anything, and thought to himself: "This eunuch actually said that he was friends with the internal servants, and also said that he framed important ministers, but he has only impeached Xiong Tingbi recently. Could it be that this person is standing up for Xiong Tingbi, but the Duke of Dongchangchang is... Wang An's people, Wang Wenyan is Wang An's retainer, it was Wang Wenyan who asked him to participate in the impeachment of Xiong Tingbi. Logically, people from Dongchang would not stand up for Xiong Tingbi because of his involvement in the impeachment of Xiong Tingbi. From this point of view, the only choice is for Dongchang to change Got someone!"
When he thought of this, Feng Sanyuan raised his head and said: "I have not made friends with the servants, let alone accepted bribes! I always impeach anyone out of public motives rather than personal gain. If you are working together and want to harm me, I will not let you." You succeeded!"
Wei Zhongxian just smiled slightly and waved his hand: "Execute punishment!"
Wei Zhongxian gave an order, and a guard in brocade clothes took out the red-hot iron from the stove, and then pressed it directly on Feng Sanyuan's belly.
Suddenly, Feng Sanyuan's clothes and flesh were burned to pieces, and there was even the sound of fat refining.
"ah!"
Feng Sanyuan also screamed in pain and sweat broke out on his forehead.
Without waiting for Wei Zhongxian to ask, Feng Sanyuan hurriedly said in a trembling voice: "I'll move, I'll move!"
Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian asked the Jinyi Guard Tiqi to stop.
Feng Sanyuan took a breath and said, "I accepted Wang Wenyan's money, and he asked me to participate in the impeachment of Xiong Tingbi, but I really didn't make friends with the chamberlain!"
Wei Zhongxian was naturally dissatisfied with this confession and said: "If you didn't tell the truth, then don't blame me for being rude to you and continuing to torture you!"
As a result, Yi Jinyi Guard Tiqi continued to execute Feng Sanyuan.
Feng Sanyuan screamed again and started crying: "No! No! I'll recruit, I'll recruit, I remember, I remember, I have befriended the servant, I have befriended the former factory boss!"
Feng Sanyuan was not an idiot. When he heard that the eunuch in front of him suddenly claimed to be the owner of the factory, he was even more certain that the Dongchang had changed people. The eunuch in front of him had to prove his crime of befriending the servant because he obviously wanted to harm his predecessor.
Therefore, Feng Sanyuan directly said that he had made friends with the former factory owner.
Wei Zhongxian was very satisfied with this, so he asked the Jin Yiwei to stop the torture, and asked Feng Sanyuan: "How did you make friends with the Wei Dynasty?"
Feng Sanyuan replied breathlessly: "I got to know him through Wang Wenyan, a member of Zhongshushe, and he also accepted Wang Wenyan's money! Wang Wenyan asked him to follow up on Xiong Tingbi's slander before the emperor."
After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian immediately ordered: "Write down what he confessed to, and then ask him to sign it. We will present it to the emperor overnight!"
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Zhu Youxiao has been waiting for Wei Zhongxian to bring him news about the interrogation of Feng Sanyuan.
Because Zhu Youxiao believed that the powerful 9,000-year-old Wei Zhongxian in history was by no means an idle person. He would definitely be able to do what he wanted for him, and his efficiency would not be slow.
Zhu Youxiao knew that the fundamental reason for the decline of Ming Dynasty was the lack of money.
After all, money is needed to support the royal family and vassals, money is needed to prevent slave establishment in Liaodong, and money is also needed to relieve the increasing number of refugees.
Even if the Ming Dynasty was to be strong enough to compete in the world in the future, money would be needed to train troops and build ships.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao now wants to make money.
And how to make money most efficiently?
Of course it’s a house raid!
Zhu Youxiao knew that although the national fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty was very scarce, and the tax money in the first year of Taichang was only more than 4 million taels of silver, the ruling class was very wealthy.
Whether they are clan kings or scholar-bureaucrats, they are all extremely wealthy.
Because after the discovery of geography, global trade officially began, and the Ming Dynasty, whose productivity level was still at the forefront of the world, relied on global trade to absorb a large amount of wealth from all over the world, causing all the gold and silver looted by early Western colonists such as Spain and the Netherlands to be lost. Arrived in Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, no one can tell how much wealth the people of the Ming Dynasty had.
As far as Zhu Youxiao knew, Zheng Zhilong, who was just a pirate, earned more than 20 million taels of silver every year during the Chongzhen period because of his maritime trade.
Because of this, Zhu Youxiao has always wanted to accumulate the money of these powerful officials who committed crimes by ransacking their homes so that they could be put to greater use.
Zhu Youxiao has long secretly decided that no matter who commits a crime, his home will be ransacked even if he is not killed.
But at first, Zhu Youxiao had no one he could use to ransack his house.
Moreover, Zhu Youxiao also remembered that Yang Lian and Wei Dazhong were indeed upright officials in history.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not raid the homes of Yang Lian and Wei Dazhong.
But now that Zhu Youxiao has hired Wei Zhongxian, he will naturally have someone to search his house for him. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao has made up his mind to first search the house of Feng Sanyuan, who participated in the impeachment of Xiong Tingbi. Before the search, he must first convict Feng Sanyuan.
Zhu Youxiao believed that Wei Zhongxian would accuse Feng Sanyuan.
If Wei Zhongxian didn't even have this ability, he wouldn't be worthy of being in power in the future.
"Your Majesty! The slaves found out that Feng Sanyuan himself confessed that he had received money from Wang Wenyan, a member of the Zhongshu House, and it was Wang Wenyan who asked him to participate in the impeachment and false accusation of Xiong Tingbi. Wang Wenyan also colluded with the Wei Dynasty to allow the Wei Dynasty to Your Majesty, please present Xiong Tingbi’s slander before you, falsely accusing Xiong Tingbi of embezzling Liao’s salary!”
As soon as Wei Zhongxian arrived at Zhu Youxiao, he reported to Zhu Youxiao.
