The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 9
Cheng Guogong's lineage has been passed down for twelve generations since the Yongle period, but one generation is not as good as the other.

However, it is still favored and trusted by the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

More than half of Cheng Guogongs of the past dynasties have been in charge of the Beijing camp, and the governors of the five armies have also been in charge of the five armies. There are many people who have been awarded the title of grand master and grand master, and even a few have been awarded the title of county king after death.

In history, when the trespassers approached the city, Chongzhen also pinned his hopes on Zhu Chunchen and ordered him to lead the army to assist the prince.

But this guy opened the city gate, surrendered directly to the intruder, and then he and Chen Yan took the lead to persuade them to enter.

It can be described as shameless.

At this moment, in front of the gate of Duke Cheng's mansion, more than two hundred Jin Yiwei and Dongchang fans came.

And the whole street had already been blocked off, and teams of Jinyiwei and Dongchang fans rushed to the residences of those earls and marquises holding imperial edicts.

bump bump...

"Open the door, open the door!"

"Factory guards work together on errands, if you dare to stop them, you will be shot!"

The two vermilion lacquer doors were knocked loudly.

But instead of opening the door, the servants inside shouted and cursed.

"I bother!"

"I'm blind, and I don't even look at where this is. Is this a place where you Jinyiwei and Dongchang can be unrestrained?"

"Let's not talk about you guys, even if Li Ruolian and Wang Dehua came in person, he has to obediently hand over the invitation..."

It's no wonder that the people inside are rampant and don't buy it. The civil servants are afraid of the factory guards, but Ke Xungui is really not that afraid.

Especially top dukes like Cheng Guogong, British Duke, and Ding Guogong.

Even Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, who had power over the government back then, would not dare to provoke them easily.

Not to mention Li Ruolian, the Commander of Jinyiwei who has only been in office for two days.

"My lord, why don't you hit the door directly?"

A group of guards in Jin Yi heard the yelling and cursing from inside, and they were also half-dead with anger, and they all looked at Li Ruolian.

"No need! Bring the imperial decree."

Li Ruolian waved his hands, took the imperial decree expressionlessly, and walked to the gate with his hands raised high, saying coldly:
"The emperor's imperial edict is here, and Cheng Guogong's mansion accepts the edict."

Sure enough, when he heard the emperor's edict, the inside suddenly became quiet.

After a while, the door was opened, and Cheng Guogong's sons came out with apprehensive faces.

"Commander Li, why did Jin Yiwei come to read the edict of the Son of Heaven?"

"Jin Yiwei is the emperor's own army, what's wrong?"

"Master, get ready to receive the order!" Li Ruolian remained expressionless.

Although Cheng Guogong's sons knew that the visitor was not good, they had no choice but to turn around and prepare to receive the order.

They don't need to sell the account of Li Ruolian, the commander of Jinyiwei, even if he has the emperor's sticker and Shang Fang's sword, they dare not open the door.

But the imperial edict of the Son of Heaven is different. Unless they directly rebel against Cheng Guogong, they can only accept the edict obediently.

The imperial edicts of the Ming emperors can be roughly divided into four types.

They are imperial edict, edict, system, edict.

The imperial edict has the highest standard, and it is generally only used for the establishment of princes, empresses, empress dowagers, new kings, and other major events.

The second is imperial edicts, which are mostly used to confer or deprive titles below kings and nobles, to confer imperial concubines, to grant amnesty to the world, to exempt the people from taxes owed, etc. Some of them need to be issued to the world, while others do not.

Then there is book making, which is mostly used for reforms within the imperial court.

For example, if the emperor wanted to set up a government office, he needed to make books.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to rebuild Dongchang several times in the later period, but the book-making published by Naihe was always rejected by the cabinet.

The last type of edict is the imperial edict commonly used by the emperor, which is divided into temporary oral and written forms.

It can be said that ordinary individuals and families can receive the highest standard imperial edict, that is, imperial edict.

Disobeying the imperial decree may be a one-shot at most, and the family will be implicated, but if one dares to disobey the imperial edict and imperial edict, the family will be punished.

No, in just half an hour, the entire Duke Cheng's mansion, hundreds of people, men, women, old and young, all honestly came to the front yard to receive the order.

After Li Ruolian finished reading the edict, everyone collapsed on the ground in despair, crying like the sky was falling.

Seeing Jin Yiwei rushing up to kidnap someone, the evil slaves at the side subconsciously rushed up to protect the lord.

"Bold!"

"Emperor's decree, you dare to disobey, do you really want to be punished by the nine clans?"

Li Ruolian shouted loudly, holding a knife in one hand and an imperial decree in the other, staring at the more than 200 servants and servants who were about to rush forward with weapons in hand.

The rest of Jin Yiwei and Dongchang fans also drew their swords.

All the servants looked at me, I looked at you, and at the imperial decree in Li Ruolian's hand, they finally dropped their weapons and stepped aside.

"Cheng Guogong's mansion is over. If you want to, you can join my Jin Yiwei and play a role."

Li Ruolian saw that they were knowledgeable about current affairs, all of them were tall and powerful and had knives, so Li Ruolian immediately became interested in attracting them.

"what!"

"Really, my lord?"

"Can I join Jinyiwei too?"

All the servants and servants looked at each other, and then they were overjoyed.

"Wait... Our East Factory is also short of manpower, is there anyone willing to join?"

A young eunuch also reacted and shouted quickly.

It was Zhu Cihong's former personal eunuch Fan Xian, who is now the third in command of the East Factory.

"Yes, yes, my father-in-law is willing to join Dongchang."

In less than a moment, more than 200 evil slaves and servants transformed into the sons of Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

Then he helped ransack the house and kidnap people, working harder than the real Jinyiwei and Dongchang people.

He didn't show any mercy to his former master, how could there be any kindness at all?

Especially when it comes to tying up the lady, everyone scrambles to be the first.

Fortunately, the imperial decree only said that all the immediate family members of the Duke's Mansion should be arrested and sent to prison first.

No one dared to do something like a bastard.

At most, I have had a hand addiction.

"My lord, the bank has been found, look..."

Several Jinyiwei hundreds of households came to Li Ruolian to report, their eyes were full of excitement.

"The Holy Majesty has treated us well. Now that the country is in crisis, tell the brothers to load all the belongings and take them to the Hall of Martial Heroes. Then the Holy Majesty will reward us. Anyone who dares to intercept and hide them will be killed without mercy!"

Li Ruolian said in a deep voice, his gaze was extremely severe.

"Yes!"

Although everyone was unwilling, they did not dare to refute.

Originally, the purpose of ransacking the house was to make a clear inventory of the finances, report them, and then escort them to the palace treasury.

The exact amount to be reported was all discussed, but this time Zhu Cihong ordered the confiscated proceeds to be directly transported to the Hall of Martial Heroes, where they will be counted and returned to the treasury.

Even the roads along the way were blocked by the Jing army, so there was no way to go off the road, the only way out of the mansion was to go to the Hall of Martial Arts.

Li Ruolian, the commander, didn't nod, and the Jinyi guards who were in charge of the investigation didn't dare to intercept and hide alone, so they had to pick some gold nuggets and put them in their pockets.

Li Ruolian didn't say anything about this, but just pretended not to see it, otherwise, if he really called it out, he would lose his mind.

Anyway, no matter how much you put on your body, you can't hold much. You can't carry a big burden one by one, right?

Perhaps because he was really grateful for Zhu Cihong's trust, Li Ruolian went to other prefectures to check one by one.

To see if there are any hidden silver and goods in each government, every corner is personally inspected, which can be described as meticulous.

And as teams of people were escorted to Jinyiwei Imperial Prison, and truckloads of goods and supplies were transported to the Hall of Martial Arts, the entire inner city was once again shaken.

However, except for the nobles and relatives of the emperor, almost all the scholars, civil servants, common people, and businessmen applauded.

It can be seen how bullying and domineering these nobles were in the past.

(End of this chapter)