The prison car escorted by Li Ruolian entered Liancheng.
The sound woke up the other seven families who were sleeping in the prison car in Liancheng.
When they tried their best to see everyone in the prison car clearly, the faces of the seven families had different expressions.
There are expressions such as expected, disbelief, loss, gloating, etc., which are called wonderful.
It seems to be saying that our eight families are on the same front. All seven of our families have arrived, why can't you come? Now that we have arrived, we have a balance in our hearts. If we want to die, we will all die together.
The Jin family had almost completed the interrogation in Datong City, and now they were able to put it all together very quickly.
Within an hour, all the incriminating evidence and the compiled incriminating evidence of the eight families were put together.
"Commander Li, take them into the city, I still have to patrol!"
"good!"
After Li Ruolian agreed, he commanded the Jin Yiwei to drive the prison van toward the city in a row.
Crunch…
The sound of the city gate frame and door pillow rubbing against each other made a harsh sound, which was transmitted along the city gate hole into the city, causing some people passing by to stop and look at the city gate.
Taiyuan City was completely sealed off in the afternoon after the emperor arrived in Taiyuan, but the people in the city were not surprised at all.
The emperor is in the city. For the sake of safety, it is not surprising that the city gates are closed. Except that he cannot leave the city, everything is the same as before, and he can do whatever he needs to do.
Counting today, it is already the sixth day of the blockade. The city gate has never been opened. How could it be opened today?
When the city gate was completely opened, the sight outside the city gate completely confused the people who stopped. It turned out to be eight special prison cars.
The reason why it is special is that the eight prison vans are surrounded by thick wooden boards, making it difficult to see what is inside.
It would be fine if the previous special ones couldn't see the scene inside, but the next scene completely frightened them.
They thought it was a few vehicles, but they didn't expect there were more than a hundred vehicles, marching for more than a mile.
"Then, that's...Fan Shize, the second young master of the Jiexiu Fan family, right?"
"No way. The Fan family is the richest businessman in Shanxi. They use their money to clear the way and make friends with countless powerful people. Even the governor and governor give him some face. Who can catch the young master of the Fan family? Don't you want to hang out?"
"I'm afraid you are not a fool. Your Majesty is in the city, what do you think?"
"Hiss...I, I..."
"That old man is Wang Biaofeng, the old head of the Wang family in Xinzhou, right? What's going on? What did these two families do?"
"Hahaha, there are more than two families. Look at the person behind the eleventh carriage. Is he the third bedroom of Tian Shenglan, the head of the Tian family in Qixian County?
She was a famous beauty. When we got married, I really saw her! "
"Nonsense, how did you see it, tsk tsk...this figure from behind is indeed..."
"It's scary to think about it carefully. The eight cars in front are not the owners of the eight families, are they?"
…
Along the way, people went from initial shock, to confusion, to now curiosity, all discussing what happened.
Those are the eight major businessmen in Shanxi. Any one of them can shake up Shanxi's business.
Now that they have all been arrested, why not make them curious.
More than a hundred prison cars were parked on the road in front of the camp for more than a mile, and the heads of the eight families were dragged into the courtyard in front of the central hall, kneeling on the ground, facing the central hall.
In the main hall at this moment, in addition to Chongzhen, there were also Hou Xiu, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Du Yinxi, whom Chongzhen focused on cultivating as a think tank.
Although the two people looked calm, their hearts were turbulent. They had just learned in the morning that the eight families had liaison with Jiannu and Mongolian tribes and sold prohibited materials of the Ming Dynasty.
From the information revealed by Li Ruolian's words, the emperor knew about the Eight Families' affairs first, and then notified the Jin Yiwei to conduct a thorough investigation.
And a thorough investigation started three months ago.
The emperor did not reveal anything about such a shocking case to these people, which shows the depth of the emperor's palace.
and the terror of another mysterious force controlled by the Emperor.
At the same time, my heart is full of sadness. External enemies are not scary. What is scary is that there are outsiders helping the enemy to attack our own people.
"Your Majesty, Fan Yongdou and eight others have been brought here!"
Li Ruolian entered the nave and reported, then waved outside. Two guards in gilded uniforms carried a box and placed it in the nave.
Chongzhen glanced at the heads of the eight families who were kneeling in the courtyard, covered with scars, and then nodded towards Li Ruolian.
Li Ruolian stepped forward and opened the box: "Your Majesty, this box contains the details of the eight families' smuggling accounts over the years and the approximate family properties of the eight families."
Chongzhen did not look at it, but said in a deep voice: "Can you find out when the Eight Families started?"
Li Ruolian did not respond, but took out an envelope from the box and presented it to Chongzhen with both hands.
Chongzhen opened the envelope, took out the letterhead and read it slowly. He turned over several letters and read them four or five times.
Every time I look at it my face becomes colder.
The Eight Families actually started in the early years of Wanli, and originated from a man named Wang Chonggu.
This man was a Jinshi in the 20th year of Jiajing and was quite capable. In the fourth year of Longqing, he changed the governorship of Shanxi, Xuan and Da military affairs, and handled the Anda tribute incident.
Although he was a capable minister, his younger brother Wang Chongxun was engaged in business, starting with the salt business.
And his nephews were Zhang Siwei, the cabinet minister at the time, and Shen Jiangjun, the great salt merchant who monopolized the Ming Dynasty.
With the support of the Wang family and the Zhang family, and the opening of mutual markets through the Ming Dynasty, Wang Chongxun's business grew bigger and bigger.
But after Wang Chonggu and other elders passed away, without the supervision of the older generation, some collateral clans were dissatisfied with the superiority of their direct clans, so they set up their own businesses and started to act like a fox or a tiger.
Then he got acquainted with the other seven families through other means. It happened that Nurhaci formulated three major development policies, and then began to export Ming Dynasty contraband to Jiannu and Mongolian tribes.
From cloth, salt, etc. at the beginning, they gradually became bolder and braver, to grain, tea, iron, and then to arms and intelligence, completely surrendering to the slaves.
The various Mongolian tribes were just incidental.
"Your Majesty, according to preliminary calculations, the eight families officially surrendered to Jiannu in the 38th year of Wanli."
After seeing Chongzhen close the letter, Li Ruolian added softly.
Then he added: "In the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, Nurhaci unified the Jurchen tribes in the Songhua River basin and north of Changbai Mountain, and established the Eight Banners system.
From that time on, the ambition to establish slaves had become prominent, and then in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, the so-called Dajin was established.
In the forty-sixth year of Wanli, Nurhaci issued a statement on the Seven Great Hate and led 20,000 cavalry to attack the Ming Dynasty! "
"It's exactly as I guessed!"
Chongzhen murmured to himself. Some time ago, he had guessed that the eight major families took refuge in Jiannu forty-six years ago in Wanli.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be eight years earlier than the guessed time.
In this way, the eight families have taken refuge in the slave establishment for nearly 20 years.
"What's going on with King Jin and Wang Chengyin?"
