Du Yinxi left quickly.
Chongzhen waved to Li Ruolian again and handed him some of the letterheads.
Li Ruolian took it carefully and quickly checked it. After he read the contents on the letter, his mind felt like being struck by lightning, and his eyes were full of disbelief.
Then dense cold sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead, and he knelt down instantly: "I deserve to die!"
"Get up! Tell me how to deal with it?"
Li Ruolian stood up tremblingly and pulled out a piece of paper: "Your Majesty, the minister of intelligence will immediately send someone six hundred miles away to do it urgently.
After the other matters here are dealt with, I will arrange for people to conduct a thorough investigation! "
"Well, be fast!"
"Your Majesty, Qin Liangyu, Zhou Yuji, and Cao Bianjiao are here to see you!"
In just a short time, the three of them arrived in the courtyard and saluted immediately when they saw Chongzhen.
Chongzhen waved his hand, pulled out a piece of information and handed it to the three of them. The three of them gathered together and glanced at it. Their murderous intent was instantly revealed, and they looked at Chongzhen with burning eyes.
"Marquis Zhongzhen, you are responsible for guarding the gates of Taiyuan City and paying close attention to the movements of the surrounding guards!"
"Zhou Yuji is responsible for escorting two thousand Tengxiang right guard sergeants!"
"Cao Bianjiao, you lead a battalion of a thousand warriors and set off immediately to Taiyuan Zuowei to kill!"
Everyone in the courtyard could clearly feel the killing intent in Chongzhen, and the three of them bowed and left.
After pondering for a while, Chongzhen threw a few pieces of letter paper into the charcoal basin on the side, and the letter paper quickly turned into ashes.
The eight people kneeling on the ground also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Such actions showed the usefulness of the information.
Chongzhen was thinking about the information provided by the eight people with his hands behind his back, and each item touched his nerves.
The King of Jin used Taiyuan's left guard as a cover to support his private army;
Mao Wenlong recruited merchants widely, sold forbidden goods, and became famous for helping North Korea. He went out of the country to conquer the country and had a serious shortage of wages;
Huizhou merchants colluded with Japanese pirates;
Jiannu's secret intelligence liaison station in Zhangjiakou Fort;
…
Some of them he knew, some he didn't know, but he knew that the eight people did provide it.
If he hadn't traveled through time, this information would definitely be of great use.
"Based on the information you provided, I have decided to confiscate the homes of the nine clans, kill all three clans, kill the direct descendants of the remaining six clans, and review the rest.
If you are involved in smuggling, behead!
Those who know but fail to report will be punished with a hundred rods and ten years of hard labor.
Those who have no knowledge are exempted!
As for how the eight of you die, it depends on fate! "
"Thank you, Your Majesty for your grace!"
The eight people kneeling cried loudly.
Thunder, rain, and dew are all due to the emperor's kindness. The emperor is particularly kind to the nine tribes. As for how to die, they no longer care, or they can't decide.
Chongzhen waved his hand, and several Jinyi guards came forward and dragged the eight people out.
Looking at the eight people dragged away, Chongzhen showed a cold expression. Even if he did not kill the nine tribes, he would not let these eight people die easily.
It wasn't until the eight figures disappeared completely that Chongzhen turned his head to look at Hou Yu and Du Yinxi: "What do you think?"
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
The two of them bowed in response, feeling relieved in their hearts.
If the emperor really wanted to punish the nine tribes, they would have to dissuade him even if they risked their lives.
In the first year of Chongzhen, there was an incident to punish the Nine Tribes, with nearly 20,000 people, even though it was a major crime to punish the Nine Tribes.
People will not understand it either, this is human nature.
In terms of the huge population, ranging from the elderly in their sixties and seventies to the children in their infancy or even in the womb, the moment they are killed, they are the weak.
There are good people among bad people, and there are bad people among good people, and they need to be screened out.
Scholars, gentry, nobles, and even enemies would use this as an excuse to cause trouble.
Words that undermine his saintliness, be a coward, a tyrant, a cruel person, etc. will be placed on his head.
"Li Ruolian, according to the above treatment, how many people will be killed?"
Li Ruolian thought for a moment: "Your Majesty, there are about six to seven hundred direct descendants of the nine clans of the eight families. Counting those who are directly involved, it is estimated that there should be about two thousand people."
Hearing this, Chongzhen also breathed a sigh of relief.
There are only two thousand people, which is pretty good and acceptable.
After waiting for nearly a quarter of an hour, Li Ruolian came in and reported that everything was ready.
Chongzhen stood up and said: "Let's go and meet King Jin! After the meeting, King Jin will parade through the streets and then execute him!"
Under the protection of layers of warrior battalions, white pole soldiers, Tengxiang right guards, and several Wu Jinshi, the large group of people arrived in front of the Jin Palace and quickly surrounded the palace.
Before the soldiers could knock on the door, the door of Jin Prince's Mansion suddenly opened wide, and the tenth generation of Jin Prince Zhu Qiugui came out dressed in rich clothes and brought Jin Prince's eldest son Zhu Shenxuan.
After seeing Chongzhen, he cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, Zhu Qiugui, is here to see you. I didn't know that Your Majesty was coming suddenly, so I couldn't greet him from afar. Please forgive me!"
Looking at this scene, Chongzhen narrowed his eyes slightly.
If he hadn't known about King Jin in advance, he would have thought that he was a law-abiding vassal king.
"Prince Jin, do you have nothing to say to me?"
"I await your Majesty's instructions!"
Seeing Prince Jin, who seemed to be indifferent and seemed to have nothing to do with him, Chongzhen's face turned cold and he was too lazy to wait any longer.
"Come here, arrest everyone in the Jin Palace and chop them down together with the eight major locust merchants.
The princes and other branches of the Jin Dynasty have thoroughly investigated, and anyone who violates the Ming Law will be dealt with according to the Ming Law! "
"slow!"
Seeing the soldiers coming forward, Zhu Qiugui shouted loudly, and then stared at Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I don't know what crime I have committed, so that I want to raid the entire Jin Dynasty palace?"
Damn me!
Chongzhen was completely speechless and wanted to curse Niang Xipi.
You don’t know what you did, and you’re still pretending to be innocent?
But he is the emperor, and such dirty words cannot be said in public.
"Prince Jin, since I'm here, I already know what you've committed. Do you want to pretend to be interested anymore?"
"Your Majesty, from the results of Jin Yiwei's investigation, have you ever seen that the Jin Palace bullied the city, rampaged the countryside, and preyed on the common people?"
Without waiting for Chongzhen to ask, Zhu Qiugui continued: "As for the annexation of land, you can ask the Jinyi guards to check. Has the Jin Palace used its status to rob it?
Maybe there are people down there, but definitely not many.
The land in Prince Jin's Mansion was purchased from the public at normal market prices, and it was not our own initiative. Most of the land was sold by the common people themselves.
Did your Majesty know that the ancestral salary system for allied merchants was high, but the actual salary since Lord Jiajing was not that much?
If we don’t do some business on our own, how can we maintain the needs of our huge family?
There are more than 20 princes entrusted to the Jin Dynasty, and there are as many as a thousand generals and lieutenants. Including servants, there are as many as ten thousand people. Is that salary enough? "
"cultivate……"
"enough!"
Chongzhen shouted sharply, interrupting Zhu Qiugui's explanation.
"Okay, I don't care about this, but what's your explanation for your liaison with Jiannu and Mongolian tribes, selling embargoed materials of the Ming Dynasty, and secretly raising a private army?"
Jin Wang Zhu Qiugui was silent for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Everything I did was to protect myself, and even more so for the Ming Dynasty!"
Listening to Zhu Qiugui's explanation, Chongzhen was trembling with anger, while Hou Xiu and others behind him were extremely speechless.
The evidence is solid and you are still making excuses. Is that interesting?
But why does this scene seem so familiar?
"well!"
Chongzhen laughed angrily: "Tell me, let me see how you can quibble?"
