Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 60

It was only at this time that Hou Xun realized that Ma Shiying had come to copy his home.

But now Hou Xun didn't know what to say, and he didn't know why his son took the road of rebellion.

However, Hou Xun could tell from Ma Shiying's sinister smile that this must have something to do with the eunuchs.

Hou Xun knew that his death was not far away, and subjectively believed that the eunuch party framed his son and himself, so he simply pointed to the south: "Chongzhen..."

Before Hou Xun scolded Zhu Youjian, Ma Shiying pierced Hou Xun's throat with a sword:
"Traitor and traitor, how can I allow you to scold His Majesty, hold back what you have to say, and go to the underworld to say it."

Hou Xun's eyes widened, seeing a long sword piercing his neck, his vocal cords were stuck so hard he couldn't utter half a word, he raised his hand and pointed at Ma Shiying to speak, but his pupils dilated immediately, and the whole body The person collapsed to the ground in a state of malaise.

Ma Shiying drew out the bloody sword, blood spurted out from between Hou Xun's neck and splashed on Ma Shiying's red robe.

Ma Shiying flicked his robe indifferently, and walked in with his sword in hand. Seeing the Hou family in brocade robes standing in front of the house tremblingly, he cut off the man's neck with his sword:

"All the men of the Hou Mansion will not be spared, and they will all be killed! The servants are all detained, and so are the female family members. They are going to be escorted to Beijing and sent to the Ministry of Industry and the Jiaofang Division!"

As soon as Ma Shiying finished speaking, two groups of officers and soldiers rushed into the inner courtyard of Hou Mansion along the corridor.

Immediately, the Hou Mansion compound covering an area of ​​tens of mu was filled with blood and rain, and the crying continued for three days.

Ma Shiying naturally confiscated all the title deeds of hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land that the Hou Mansion had seized over the years, and all the silver, antiques and jade articles were also loaded into the car.

Only the courtyard of the Hou Mansion was not demolished. After all, it was also a building with carved beams and painted buildings, combining the charm of northern and southern architecture. Ma Shiying felt it was a pity to destroy it.

……

Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture.

The dead Dong Qichang, Dong Zuchang, and Dong Zuyuan's three fathers and sons have always been full of evil.

In the entire Huating County, the common people have suffered greatly, especially the three fathers and sons who abused women are the most despicable.

Otherwise, it would not have happened that the people copied Dong's mansion.

However, it was also because Dong Qichang was the teacher of the former prince, and his disciples and former officials were all over the world, so he was able to run amok in the village without incident.

Dong Zuchang didn't know that his younger brother Dong Zuyuan was involved in the treason case, and he was living a life like Ximen Qing at this time.

It can be said that the red-sleeved green radishes share the mandarin ducks, and the fish and water often spend time in Wushan.

And today, he even made up his mind about his aunt's cousin, but just when he had the guts to break into his cousin's room.

Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Yingtian, also rushed into the Dong family mansion in Huating County with the water transport soldiers.

"No one will be spared. Anyone surnamed Dong must be killed. For the crime of treason, the whole family must be exterminated!"

Lu Zhenfei ordered coldly.

Immediately, four or five Dong family members were directly killed.

Here, Dong Zuchang was also alarmed, he looked up directly, before he had time to scold, Lu Zhenfei chopped off his head with a knife.

No one in the entire Dong Mansion was spared, and all the Dong Mansion people who had worked as minions in the past turned into street rats and were chased by officers and soldiers.

Some who couldn't run knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and some simply jumped into the well and drowned.

Others accidentally crashed into the pillars to death.

The water transport officers and soldiers slaughtered wantonly in Dong's mansion, blood was flying everywhere, and the white lotus flowers were covered with blood beads.

However, the common people did not have such bloody scenes and secretly lamented the cruelty of the officers and soldiers, but they applauded loudly.

Someone even shouted: "Good job, now Fan can rest in peace!"

……

Such a scene is also happening in Fengyang.

Li Banghua stood in front of the Gong family's ancestral hall, holding an imperial decree and a bloody sword, and said to Gong Dingzi's father and grandfather:
"To make your son unfaithful, to collude with treacherous ministers in order to murder the emperor, has committed a serious crime of treason. Conspiracy has always been a heinous crime. Considering that you have always been a family of poets and books, father and son are both great talents in the world. But it can also be regarded as a side of moral education, you two hang yourself in your own ancestral hall today, and you are worthy of your Gong family ancestors."

Li Banghua opened a back door for the Gong family.

And Gong Dingzi's grandfather, Gong Xiangda, couldn't help but burst into tears: "Thanks to the kindness of Mr. Li Ge, I didn't expect that the Gong family would have such a scum, a century-old scholarly family, and a reputation accumulated for generations. In the end, the old man has no face to meet the ancestors of the Gong family, but please ask the elder to cremate the old man after the old man hangs himself, and the old man has no face to bury in the ground, hoot!"

As Gong Xiangda said, he kicked his legs, and his body left the stool, suspended in the air, and within a few swings, he suffocated to death.

Gong Xiangda's son, Gong Dingzi's father also hanged himself to death in the same way.

Gong Dingzi might not have thought that his family would fall into such a situation because of his personal self-interest.

Perhaps the Gong family has no chance to come back, but Li Banghua and other officials have to feel the majesty of the emperor from this.

……

The author of the poem "Rushing the crown and becoming a beauty" is Wu Weiye, Wu Meicun, editor of the Imperial Academy who has been executed.

However, Wumei Village can only go to Yincao Difu to write this poem now.

And the Wu family, as a rich family in Taicang County, Southern Zhili, is naturally bearing the guilt of Wu Weiye's involvement in Qian Qianyi's rebellion case at this time.

No matter how powerful the great gentry and bureaucrats of the past were, no matter how oppressive they were, they had powerful and deep-rooted clan power.

But in front of the army, it is nothing but a collapsed share.

The word treason made it impossible for the Wu clan to refuse the severe punishment brought by these two words.

The Wu Family Ancestral Hall was destroyed.

Naturally, the memorial archways of Wu Weiye's Zhongjuren and even Zhongxiucai had to be destroyed.

……

at the same time.

The family properties of Wang Duo, the former minister of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, Li Youlong, the former right servant of the Nanjing Ministry of Punishment, and Chen Linzhi, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, were also confiscated.

But this time the reason was not treason, but short-sightedness, which almost put His Majesty at a disadvantage.

In short, Zhu Youjian wanted to use this to attack the big gentry and big bureaucrats, especially those big gentry and big bureaucrats who were not willing to cooperate with him.

Zhu Youjian wanted to let these people know that he, the emperor, had swords and guns in his hands, but it was not as easy to deal with as he imagined.

Although Zhu You checked and copied ninety big gentry and landlords, this was nothing more than a drop in the bucket for the entire entangled Jiangnan gentry.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian knew that he still couldn't take it lightly, and his current behavior was just a slight beating, and it hadn't hurt the roots of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River.

And if he wants to gain a firm foothold in this Jiangnan, he still has to be careful.

But Zhu Youjian's current iron and blood methods can be regarded as telling everyone clearly that it is not feasible to directly get rid of himself.

(End of this chapter)