Chapter nine hundred and thirty sixth behind
Geng's affairs will naturally be handled by Zhang Tingyu. The consequences he faces are Ming Zhengzhuan. As for the crime, it is even simpler. If you kill innocent people in Shanxi, you will not be able to escape this hat no matter what. Especially Geng'er also used this act to collect property, and the money he brought back from Shanxi is ironclad evidence.
Of course, Geng'er could be called to blame, saying that Shanxi merchants had the intention to rebel. He did this to eliminate hidden dangers in the Qing Dynasty, and at the same time to solve the problem for the Qing Dynasty's face of empty money. However, in addition to the property he took the initiative to hand over, the huge amount of gold and silver he had privately intercepted was naturally indisputable, especially before Geng'er approached Xi'an, he secretly sent his confidant to secretly transport the most valuable batch of property. Geng'er, who thought he was smart, never expected that his every move had been noticed by Prince Yong long ago. The wealth had fallen into Prince Yong's hands when Geng'er arrived in Xi'an.
For this reason, Geng E's crime of deceiving his superiors and concealing his subordinates was confirmed, and the one who awaited him was death. Yes, Geng E would die, and he had to die. First, his Jianxing's iron-kick, and he was also the Minister of the Shangshu and the Minister of War. How could Prince Yong, who had gained actual power, let such a person go? Second, Geng E's incident in Shanxi was too big, which not only cut off the financial resources of many people in the court, but also caused a lot of trouble to the Qing Dynasty.
As mentioned earlier, Shanxi merchants all have backgrounds, and all these people are princes, ministers, and clan sons. Geng'er did this naturally aroused public anger. Although many of these people did not have real power, the influence they united together was quite large. It is also necessary for Prince Yong to sit firmly on this chair, win over these people for his own use, and give comfort.
Secondly, since the Shanxi incident occurred, the Ming Dynasty responded greatly? The trade route between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty was completely cut off, causing the current difficult problems.
Losing Jiangnan? After losing the Central Plains again? The Qing Dynasty is not as good as before. It is not as good as it used to rely on the territory it has. Even if it is difficult to support itself, it is difficult. Although the trade routes between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty have been restricted, in fact, the two sides have never interrupted while fighting on the surface. The Qing Dynasty relies on these trade routes to continuously obtain extremely needed resources from other places, the most important of which is food.
People are iron, rice is steel, and they are hungry even if they don’t eat for a meal. The grain production areas are all in the hands of the Ming Dynasty? What’s more, the Ming Dynasty can still obtain a huge amount of food from overseas. And the Qing Dynasty cannot even eat enough to grow grain on its own? Now that the trade route is broken, although the Qing Dynasty still has some grain reserves for the time being, it will definitely not be able to support it.
If this was just the order of the Ming court, the Qing Dynasty might have been able to use the method of dividing, disintegrating and winning over the Ming Dynasty to lure the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to sell grain for it. But Geng'er's work in Shanxi attracted the same hatred of merchants in the world? This would have cost the Qing Dynasty.
In addition to the points mentioned above, Prince Yong tried to use this method to inform merchants all over the world that the Qing Dynasty did not allow such a thing to happen. This is also a move to make up for the failure of the sheep? Although it may not be of great use, the posture must be made? Otherwise, even if you abandon Guanzhong and leave? The Qing Dynasty will never have a way out in the future.
Geng's crimes were quickly settled? In the words of later generations, it was to deal with them quickly. In just two days, Zhang Tingyu drafted Geng's thirty-eight counts of serious crimes. After Prince Yong carefully read them, he mentioned the red pen and deleted two of them, and then attributed them to him thirty-six counts, and sentenced Geng's death toll.
Recalling his merits, Prince Yong left some decentness to Geng'e. In the end, he did not pull him out and behead him directly for public display. He just gave him a glass of poisonous wine in the name of Emperor Jianxing. It is said that Geng'e, who was in prison, refused to submit, until the supervisory guard forced him to drink poisonous wine. After drinking the poisonous wine, Geng'e struggled in pain. After a while, his face turned black and stared at him and died. After confirming that Geng'e died, Prince Yong, who learned the news in the palace, sighed lightly, shook his head as if he was regretting something.
The wealth carried by the carriages and horses that Geng E brought back was directly distributed to the princes and ministers who suffered losses. Although these losses were much worse than the actual situation, Prince Yong's actions seemed very good to these people. They also understood that a large part of the materials seized were actually used directly in the war in Shanxi, and it was impossible to get them back. Now that they can get some of them back, and Geng E's death gave them an explanation, the anger in his heart gradually subsided.
Of course, what Geng E had offered to the court before, including the property he planned to secretly transport it later, naturally fell into the hands of Prince Yong. The Qing Dynasty would have to do a lot of things next. Prince Yong knew that it would be absolutely impossible to have no money in his hand, so it was natural that these property was intercepted.
After dealing with these, Prince Yong faced preparations for evacuation from Guanzhong. This matter has been arranged since the success of his palace coup. He has sent people out one after another these days, and is also rushing to collect them. If everything remains unchanged, the Qing Dynasty will continue to move westward in five days.
Compared to Emperor Jianxing, Prince Yong is much more diligent in his work. He has been dealing with state affairs in the Yangxin Palace every day, and it is common to be busy until midnight.
The same is true today. After hearing the news that Geng's death, Prince Yong quickly threw the matter behind his head, and then continued to recruit people to the palace to discuss matters. At night, he continued to watch the memorials with lights on his face, and stood up from time to time, and walked to the map hanging on the wall and frowned and pondered.
After the third anniversary, the hall was still brightly lit. Although Prince Yong was tired, he had not yet rested. He was flipping through a memorial, then picked up a red pen and wrote a few words on it, then shouted, and Zhao Zhong, who had been serving nearby, quickly flashed out.
"Tell Zhang Tingyu that this matter needs to be handled quickly and must not be delayed."
"I'll go now." Zhao Zhong responded quickly, took the memorial and left, and then rushed to the duty room outside. Prince Yong was very serious, so the people below naturally did not dare to delay, so there were always people in the duty room in the study room.
A moment later, Zhao Zhong came back and reported that he had already given the memorial to Zhang Tingyu and also brought the words. Prince Yong continued to look at the memorial, but did not look up, but nodded slightly to show that he knew.
Zhao Zhong, who knew the temper of this master, didn't say much. He glanced at the tea on the table, and took the initiative to tactfully go forward to change a cup of hot tea for Prince Yong. He put the tea cups on him. When he was about to return, Prince Yong suddenly paused, looked up at Zhao Zhong, and asked, "How about the next few days?"
Zhao Zhong was slightly stunned, and immediately realized what Prince Yong asked about what was referring to, and quickly replied: "If you go back to your master, everything is okay, but you are a little in a bad mood."
"Well, I'm serving you with a good voice. If you have any shortcomings, don't blame me for being ruthless." Prince Yong replied coldly.
"I understand..." Zhao Zhong responded quickly, but hesitated and said, "Master, the one behind is a little better, but the other person has been making trouble these days, and the noise is really not small. Although the slave makes people be careful and stare at it, it is not a big deal if this continues. If..."
Chapter completed!