Chapter 87
Zhu Houzhao ignored Li Dongyang and only ordered: "Put Li Dongyang to the imperial prison for the time being and take strict supervision. I will issue another special order to execute him at that time!"
As he said that, Zhu Houzhao returned to him and looked at the officials present, and immediately ordered: "I will make an order to add the Minister of War Xu to the cabinet, and move Jiao Fang to the Grand Secretary of Wenhua Hall, and Xu Jin was appointed as the Grand Secretary of Wuying Hall. Xu Jin and British Duke Zhang Mao immediately ruled the capital city! They will not allow the people to leave the city! In order to avoid rebels and fleeing!"
Zhu Houzhao said and ordered again: "I'd like to point out again, Guo Rong, Ma Yongcheng, and Dayong, the West Factory, and Daeong mobilized his men to arrest and execute the criminals of the rebels. At the same time, he strictly investigated this person Shao Daxia, and the Ministry of Justice wanted the world and offered a reward to capture this person. Once the identity of this person was found, he would also kill the ten clans. If the troops were not strong enough, he could temporarily second the troops from the regiment camp!
The Taiping Hou Zhang Jie, the Imperial Horse Supervisor Gao Feng, the Royal Taxation Bureau Chief Xu Jing led the Imperial Army and the Taxation Corps to be responsible for raiding the house. All the proceeds from the raiding of the house are assigned to the Royal Taxation Bureau, and no omissions are allowed! All land, real estate and store populations are registered and temporarily assigned to the Royal Taxation Bureau!"
Wang Yangming led the commander of Juesheng Guard to escort the military officers on duty in the Shaanxi Inspector Lu Zhong and Guyuan area to Beijing! He ordered Shaanxi Governor Yang Yiqing to assist, and those who dared to have asylum should be punished for treason!"
The order was issued to Fengyang to stay in Zhang Yong, and he immediately locked up Liu Jian, Xie Qian and others in Beijing for trial and judgment! No mistakes must be made!"
Zhu Houzhao issued a series of decrees, most of which were naturally prepared to deal with Liu Jian, Wang Yue, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and other rebellious parties, and the last decree was for the people of Guanzhong.
Although Zhu Houzhao only knew that the people in Guanzhong were harmed by the Tartars, he could guess without thinking that the murder of the people in Guanzhong must be related to Li Dongyang. Otherwise, how could the people be slaughtered at the same time when Wang Shu and his team were slaughtered? Moreover, the Tartars could easily enter the pass and go deep into the mainland to slaughter the people and leave calmly. This only shows that the real power officials in Shaanxi not only colluded with Li Dongyang but also colluded with the Tartars.
The only officials in Shaanxi who have real power are Governor Yang Yiqing and Inspector Lu Zhonghe. After all, the eunuchs in the garrison have not yet taken office.
Now, Zhu Houzhao learned from Ma Yongcheng that Yang Yiqing helped them escort Zhang Yu into Beijing, which ruled out that Yang Yiqing's suspicion of colluding with Li Dongyang and the Tartars.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao could only suspect that Lu Zhonghe had collusion with Li Dongyang and the Tartars, so naturally he had to arrest Lu Zhonghe and others into the capital first.
"Abide by the order!"
Ma Wensheng, Liu Jin and others hurriedly bowed and responded.
Soon, the entire capital became like boiling water boiling to 100 degrees. From the palace to the outer city and even to the capital, the officials and soldiers who formed the entire imperial violent machine were busy, arresting people, raiding people, raiding people, and killing people!
The emperor was furious and buried a million corpses. Emperor Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty officially started his cruel mode!
The twenty officials killed just now were just the beginning.
And now is the highlight!
First of all, a group of Qingliu civil servants who were detained in the imperial prison.
This group of Qingliu civil officials is the real power network of the three cabinet ministers. Many of them are even the doctrine censors, Hanlin Ci ministers, and are the most backbone forces in the clear stream and the main force that the three cabinet ministers have always controlled the court.
Execution of them now will naturally help to eliminate the power of the three cabinet ministers and lay a good foundation for the new policy.
Therefore, the first group of civil officials Zhu Houzhao decided to decide.
Gu Dayong reported at this time: "The emperor, this Hanlin Academy lecturer is Hong Rui, Xie Qianzhi's favorite disciple, and the inspector Liu Yu, Liu Jianzhi's favorite disciple. The two are like Chen Yuanren who was beaten to death before, and are the leaders of these innocent civil officials. The most hateful! The Western Factory has also found a lot of crimes about them, such as slaves committing crimes, seizing people's land, and destroying people. There are countless evidences here!"
Gu Dayong said that, and handed Zhu Houzhao a stack of confessions provided by the West Factory to Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao looked at it and all of them were pressing their thumb marks, and there were still tears on the paper. It was obvious that the victim was also deeply persecuted by him, so he said, "Then these two men will be separated from each other, and the rest will be killed and executed! It will be executed!"
Gu Dayong took Zhu Houzhao's order and hurriedly brought a group of officers and soldiers to the imperial prison first.
At this time, the Qingliu civil servant who was taken to the imperial prison also regained his courage. Among them, Hong Rui, an editor of the Hanlin Academy, was the Hanlin Crown Prime Minister, and his father was the governor of Guizhou, Hong Zhong, and even more confident, he only comforted other officials and said:
"Don't be afraid, even though Your Majesty favors treacherous ministers, he will kill Mr. Chen and others. Now he is imprisoned us in the imperial prison, but Hong believes that the court officials outside will not abandon us and we will ignore it! We will definitely plead for us!"
"Hong Shishu said very well. Although we were forced to go to prison, the court officials outside would not ignore us. Even if we didn't care about us, at most they would lose their official position and dismissal. It would be a good choice to be dismissed from office and return home!"
The Censor Liu Yu said.
At this time, Gu Dayong and a group of officers and soldiers entered the imperial prison, and directly ordered Hong Rui and others: "Open the door!"
Seeing this, Hong Rui couldn't help but smile at Liu Yu, thinking that the court officials finally forced His Majesty to release them, so he became a little proud, thinking that the emperor could not do anything to those of him, such as the Qingliu civil servants.
However, after the door opened, Gu Dayong said again: "Cut them all, put them on prison clothes, and take them to the execution ground, especially Hong Rui and Liu Yu, their hands, feet and necks must be shackled!"
Hong Rui was shocked and thought Gu Dayong wanted to lock and take people like him to trial, so he couldn't help but shout: "We are all gentle people. Why do you lock them with iron chains? It's really a shame for you to lock them. We'll go to trial by ourselves!"
"A group of traitors and rebels have the nerve to call themselves gentle, just people without kings or fathers, take it down!"
Gu Dayong roared, and the officers and soldiers came over to shackle Hong Rui and others, and dragged them out of the imperial prison.
Hong Rui and others were all literati, so naturally they did not have the strength of the officers and soldiers, and they could not struggle, and were led to the execution ground like pigs and sheep.
"Hateful! It's really hateful! I didn't expect that the treacherous eunuch party is so powerful that we are not only taken to the imperial prison, but also humiliated us so much. Now it seems that we are also forced to admit that we are rebels, which is to force us into a desperate situation!"
Liu Yu said that, and couldn't help but shout: "Everyone! We are all pure people, how can we tolerate these turbid currents insults? We should not resist to the end and not succumb to the evil!"
"Yes, we are all loyal and righteous people, how can we be insulted by them!"
Hong Rui also agreed, and was even more sure that he would just scold Liu Jin later. Anyway, the emperor was not present, so he could still use it to invite fame. Moreover, he was the son of a high-ranking official, so he didn't have to worry about being beaten to death, otherwise his father's disciples would not agree! Moreover, the emperor just said that he could not scold Ma Wensheng and did not say that he could not scold Liu Jin.
Not only Hong Rui thought so, but Liu Yu thought so too, and even thought about how to scold Liu Jin.
But when he arrived at the execution ground, Liu Yu and Hong Rui found that there were no officials from the Three Laws, no people from the Jinyiwei and the East Factory in the entire execution ground. There was only one Daqiu Valley Dayong and several officers and soldiers in the inner court, as well as ten horses and cavalry riding on horses.
"Prepare for execution!"
Gu Dayong looked at the sundial and gave an order. So several executioners went to the execution ground one after another and stood in designated positions. At the same time, the ten cavalry also appeared in the center of the execution ground on horseback!
Chapter completed!