On this day, Xu Shilin had just arrived at Li Sancai's residence. Before he could enter, he saw four or five Jinyi guards wearing black armor, round helmets, and holding Yanling sabers appearing in front of him.
Xu Shilin realized something immediately. He looked surprised and hurriedly took out the pills he had always prepared from his sleeve.
But.
At this time, there was a sudden whooshing sound.
A crossbow arrow came through the air, and before Xu Shilin could react, his wrist was pierced by the crossbow arrow as soon as he moved.
"ah!"
Xu Shilin shouted.
"Why are you playing tricks in front of our factory guards? Xu Jiansheng, our factory guards have encountered dozens, if not a hundred, of your attempts to commit suicide! It's best for you not to move now. Don't scream! There's no point in shouting. Since we appear in front of you, naturally others can't escape. Otherwise, why would the emperor keep us? We'll be used as food cans!"
Sun Yunhe said with a smile, then waved his hand: "Take it down!"
So, a Jin Yiwei came over directly, knocked Xu Shilin unconscious with a palm, and then carried him up.
Seeing this, Sun Yunhe ordered: "Capture Li Sancai!"
"yes!"
Jin Yiwei waited and replied.
Suddenly, a large group of Jin Yiwei began to move quickly towards Zhangjiawan.
Soon, Sun Yunhe arrived in Zhangjiawan with a brigade of Jinyiwei who were working in the East Factory and surrounded Li Mansion.
Sun Yunhe directly led people to forcefully break into Li's house.
"Where is your master Li Sancai?"
Sun Yunhe also caught a housekeeper of the Li Mansion in front of him and asked him about his whereabouts with a knife.
The housekeeper of the Li Mansion trembled and replied: "The master has already left by boat."
"Escaped?"
Sun Yunhe was shocked.
Then, Sun Yunhe asked again: "How long have you been gone?"
"About half an hour."
The butler replied tremblingly.
"Chase!"
After Sun Yunhe said something, he immediately divided his troops into two groups, chasing them all along the canal bank and by boat.
In half an hour, Sun Yunhe and others chased to the Shangdian Village area and caught up with an official ship that had been intercepted by the Jin Yiwei who had been kept here in advance.
at this time.
Li Sancai was indeed standing on the official ship, smiled at Sun Yunhe who was chasing him, and then ordered: "Kill the Jin Yiwei blocking the way in front!"
As a result, several domestic slaves around Li Sancai took out firearms and started shooting at the Jin Yiwei below.
Seeing this, Sun Yunhe shouted: "Bold!"
boom!
The gunfire sounded.
But it was two domestic slaves who were beaten to death.
The other three servants held firearms and said to Li Sancai: "Master! You must submit to the law and don't disobey the emperor's orders!"
Li Sancai was shocked when he saw this: "You, you, how dare you betray me. Our Li family treats you very well!"
A domestic slave knelt down: "Master, please calm down! My father-in-law treated us better. He gave us Dongchang status, and allowed us to have wives and children outside, as well as fields. Although we were raised by the master, we also I don’t want to be a slave all the time! In addition, my father-in-law is right, we are doing this to preserve my loyalty, and you cannot go against the emperor! Otherwise, you will not be loyal to me!"
"Please surrender, sir!"
The other two house slaves also knelt down.
Li Sancai asked coldly: "Who are you talking about, father-in-law?"
"Today's factory boss!"
The house slave replied.
Li Sancai was greatly surprised after hearing this: "Wei Zhongxian!"
For a moment, he couldn't help but thought: "When did the Governor of Dongchang start targeting me?!"
At this moment.
Sun Yunhe had already rushed over and formally captured Li Sancai.
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"Reporting to your Majesty, Li Sancai and his disciple Xu Shilin have been imprisoned and have been incarcerated."
Wei Zhongxian reported to Zhu Youxiao.
"Very good! Let them confess as soon as possible."
Zhu Youxiao felt that Wei Zhongxian's ability to become the leader of the eunuch party in history and to defeat the Donglin party was by no means as simple as flattering the Hakka family or having the support of Emperor Tianqi behind him. He himself was indeed somewhat capable, otherwise So many people in the inner court and the outer court could not be suppressed and obeyed by him, so much so that even Yuan Chonghuan built a shrine for him.
As for why Wei Zhongxian was eliminated by Chongzhen all at once, in Zhu Youxiao's view, it was not because Chongzhen was so powerful, but because Chongzhen and Wei Zhongxian had different dimensions.
No matter how smart and capable Wei Zhongxian is, he is still the emperor's dog.
No matter how fierce the dog is, it is still a dog; no matter how gentle the emperor is, he is still the master of the dog.
Wei Zhongxian was just a disabled person without the emperor, but once he was used by the emperor, he was the most useful dog.
This incident regarding Xu Guangqi's birth mother Qian's family was entirely due to Dongchang's precautions. Zhu Youxiao only asked Dongchang to strengthen monitoring of the family members of civil servants, but it was Wei Zhongxian who carried out the specific execution.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao believes that Wei Zhongxian is still very capable of executing his will.
At least Wei Zhongxian really asked Dongchang to prevent some of the Donglin Party's conspiracies.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao also knew that the arrest of Li Sancai and Xu Shilin would not be easy. Someone like Li Sancai, who was good at using golden nanmu and resisted taxes several times in history, would not be so easy. He was easily caught, but Wei Zhongxian was able to capture him, which naturally shows Wei Zhongxian's ability in certain aspects.
One sentence.
Zhu Youxiao was still reassured about Wei Zhongxian's work, especially in Guandong Factory.
Zhu Youxiao thought that if he personally managed the Dongchang, he might not be able to manage it as well as Wei Zhongxian.
Even if officials like Zhou Shunchang and Lian Guoshi were able to interrogate prisoners, Zhu Youxiao had to admit that Wei Zhongxian had his own abilities in interrogating prisoners.
"My slave obeys the order!"
Wei Zhongxian replied at this time.
Zhu Youxiao continued to say to Wei Zhongxian: "I can rest assured when you do things. These people like to conspire and plot. Your Dongchang should continue to keep a close eye on them and let them know that Dongchang is here and they can use these shady tricks." There is no room for performance.”
"My slave understands! Your Majesty, please rest assured!"
When Wei Zhongxian heard that Zhu Youxiao affirmed him, he was very happy and hurriedly replied.
"To deal with the conspiracies of the scholar-bureaucrats, let Wei Zhongxian do it; to deal with the old foxes in the court, there is Fang Congzhe; to deal with the generals in the border towns of Liaodong, there is Xiong Tingbi; I just need to kill people and use others to take the blame! I may not be as smart as those people. , a battle of wits does not necessarily lead to victory. Now that I have trusted people, I don’t have to go out and do it myself. I just need to be a good referee. But these people are still not enough. In the future, large-scale wars will require logistical talents who can coordinate money and food and lead troops. Handsome talents, you need talents who understand money laws and internal affairs to carry out fiscal reforms, you need navigation talents to go to sea, and you need business talents to engage in government-run industries..."
After Zhu Youxiao thought about it, he immediately ordered the imperial eunuch to make another locked wooden box for him.
At the same time, Zhu Youxiao began to write these contents on the paper:
Wei Zhongxian: Engage in conspiracy or prevent conspiracy from happening
Fang Congzhe: Strike a balance and make civil servants obedient
Xiong Tingbi: He is a strategic military talent. He will be transferred back to Beijing as soon as he has someone to replace him.
Xu Guangqi: Paying attention to reality and being open-minded can not only be used for military training
Yuan Keli: He has good strategic awareness and seems to be able to control generals?
Wang Yingjiao: He is a good official and loves his people like his own children. This time, the Ministry of Household Affairs also received a lot of internal funds, and he was not greedy for ink! I wonder if you dare to ask for money from the gentry besides asking me for money?
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