Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 539

An altar of gold and silver was carried out.

Bags of grain were pulled out.

Groups of Fan family members were dragged out.

A plaque of the imperial merchants bestowed by the Manchu Qing court was thrown out.

A volume of imperial decree bearing the seal of Emperor Shunzhi was thrown on the ground.

A stack of account books in which Fan's generals sold weapons, grain, salt and iron to slaves outside the customs was piled up on the carriage.

Fan Yongdou looked at everything in front of him with a pale face. He was very scared at this moment. How could he have thought that he would have today? Now he regrets why he supported Manqing in the first place. The Ming Empire will one day reappear in the northern sky with a new look!
Chen Zilong looked at Fan Yongdou who was being escorted into the prison car and just smiled, and immediately gave the order to execute the members of the Fan clan immediately.

As a result, these Fan clan members were pulled up and stabbed to death one by one.

"From the day you betrayed me, Da Ming, you should have the mentality to prepare for today's event!"

As Chen Zilong said, he ordered people to register all the property of the Fan family. Except for supplementing the military supplies, all the food was sold to the local civilians at a low price, so as to stabilize the price.

The whole of Jinzhong is considered to be one of the most affluent areas in the north, but now that the guards have entered this area, although they have not copied from these Shanxi merchants the materials that are incomparably rich, but there are also many disheveled and naked people everywhere. The people with sallow and emaciated faces were even starved to death everywhere. In addition, it was the spring famine, and many people only ate wild vegetables and bark.

However, among the supplies confiscated by these Shanxi merchants, there is a hoard of moldy old grain.

It can be said that these so-called imperial merchants of the Qing Dynasty also contributed to the demise of their master, the Qing Dynasty. Of course, when the Ming Dynasty ruled Shanxi, they also played like this. Way.

After the guards sold the grain hoarded by Shanxi merchants at a low price or distributed it to the common people in other ways, the prices of the entire Jinzhong Plain dropped at once, and class conflicts were quickly eased.

The operation to confiscate Shanxi merchants has just begun, and the Guards soon led troops to the home of Shanxi merchant Wang Dengku.

Wang Dengku also knew that Daming could not let him go. He was more prepared than Fan Yongdou. He had prepared [-] guns and [-] cannons in his own village, all of which he bought with a lot of money over the years. Repel the Ming army by this.

Shanxi is close to Mongolia, and has always been frequently invaded by Tartars. Therefore, many wealthy families in Shanxi like to build castles, build high walls and dig deep ditches. This is the case in Fan Village, and it is the same today in Wang Dengku.

In order to conquer these castles occupied by Shanxi merchants, the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards and the First Corps of the Fourth Army of the Guards specifically applied to the Grand Marshal's Mansion to send more artillery and nitrate explosives to their troops to achieve bombing. The purpose of dropping these castles.

Standing in front of a fort, Wang Dengku gritted his teeth as he watched the guards getting closer and closer, and ordered to his servant: "Get ready, and fire the cannons immediately when these Ming troops appear!"

Boom boom boom!
The guards were not fools, so they naturally knew that these Shanxi merchants were protected by castles, so they also brought a rifled cannon.

As soon as a heavy rifled howitzer showed its power, the heavy shells directly blasted a huge gap in the Wang family's castle.

The guard cavalry rushed over immediately.

"Kill!"

Seeing this, Wang Dengku's servant hurriedly raised his gun to shoot, but at this time the cavalry of the Guards had already rushed in, cutting Wang Dengku's servant in half.

Wang Dengku's eyes were stunned. He didn't expect that the city defense he had carefully prepared would run away so quickly. He immediately ran to his mansion without saying a word.

The other members of the Wang family also hurriedly dropped their firearms and ran back.

Naturally, the guards were not polite to these landlords. As soon as they rushed in, they began to slaughter the servants of the Wang family, and none of the servants of the Wang family was spared.

Looking at his house full of antiques and curios and the countless warehouses in his backyard, Wang Dengku couldn't help crying: "My family property! Damn Qing Dynasty, we have done so much for you, why don't you protect us! Daming, Daming, if I knew you wouldn't die, how could I be like this, why wouldn't you die!"

Not long after Wang Dengku cried and cried, he chose to commit suicide and hanged himself in front of the main room, and he was still wearing the court uniform and black gauze cap bestowed on him by Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty.

But after the Guards appeared, Lin Yun, an officer of the Guards, knocked off the braids on the back of his head first, and followed the orders of his superiors to put down Wang Dengku's body and directly quartered it.

Because according to the regulations of the Guards, these Han thieves who betrayed the country were the same as the Manchu Tartars. Even if they committed suicide, they could not save their whole bodies, and all the bones had to be chopped up and fed to the dogs, and the people who were specially responsible for disposing of these corpses.

Anyway, the labor force of the people in the northern region is cheap now, and they can help with work for a bite of food. It is good to find more jobs for the people.

Naturally, the Wang family was also ransacked by the guards.

No one will be left alive, and they will also dig three feet, move everything here, directly destroy this place, and become a place without human habitation.

And Jin Liangyu, who is also one of the eight major Shanxi merchants, now only kneels and kowtows in front of the guards: "Master Jun, the little one is convicted, and the little one promises that he will never betray the court again, and the little one will never betray the court again." I am a lackey of the Tartars, and the younger one has already smashed the imperial merchant's plaque, and the younger one is willing to donate all the family property, so I just beg the military master to spare the younger one's life!"

"Forgive me, ask the people outside, ask the sons of the Han family who were killed by you Jin merchants in the Ming Dynasty at the hands of the Tartars, ask them, ask them if they are willing to spare you at this time! "

Jiang Yingyun roared angrily, and immediately ordered: "It doesn't matter if you shoot or kill, just ransack your family and exterminate your family!"

Immediately, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the entire Jin family of Shanxi merchants was also eradicated by the guards.

Wang Dayu also knew that he could not escape the fate of being ransacked and exterminated, and also knew that his Qing Dynasty could no longer protect him, so he simply took the initiative to disperse the money, sitting at the foot of the wall and crying while dispersing:

"How did Daming win? Why did they win? We did well as slaves in the Qing Dynasty. Why are you fighting back!"

Snapped!
The guards rushed over and immediately beat Wang's family member who was carrying the belongings to the ground to death, and a commoner appeared in front of Wang Dayu with the guards: "He is Wang Dayu."

"Go away, you don't need to kill me, I will die myself," Wang Dayu said, grimacing in pain, and soon the corners of his mouth were bleeding.

"I want to commit suicide to escape punishment, but there is no way. Immediately stab him a few more times to make him suffer more before he dies. Who made him a traitor!"

Several guards hurriedly stabbed the bayonet into Wang Dayu's body, causing Wang Dayu to be riddled with holes, and his expression became more painful:
"I committed suicide, and you still refuse to spare me. I just helped the Tartars rule the world. What's wrong? Isn't it normal to change dynasties for thousands of years? Whether it's Hu people or Han people, who do we let?" Whoever is the emperor is our monarch, and if the disciples of Confucius want to respect him as the master, why can’t we? Cough cough!”

After Wang Dayu finished speaking, he died.

(End of this chapter)