Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 67 Confession
Zuo Jinzhong rushed to the back garden of Fan Mansion with dozens of archers and several musketeers. There was a two-story wooden building in a corner of the garden. More than a hundred school captains were hiding behind the big trees and rockery in the garden. There was a long arrow stuck in the tree, which was obviously shot from upstairs.

The Baihu beckoned, and two school captains ran over carrying the unloaded door leaf, covering Zuo Jinzhong. If Jinyiwei Qianhu was shot by a cold arrow here, it would make everyone unable to lift their heads if it was spread out. .

Zuo Jinzhong asked: "Who is there? How many people are there?"

The hundred household surnamed Liu replied: "There are about five or six people who have not spoken all the time, and I don't know where they came from; there are two bows and arrows, and they are very accurate. A brother was shot on the brim of his hat and almost missed Dead!"

Zuo Jinzhong ordered: "Tear down a few doors and use them as shields, protect the musketeers and stand downstairs to fight into the house, collect firewood and vegetable oil, pile them on the first floor, and prepare to set fire!"

All households surnamed Liu said: "My lord, don't you want to die? I don't know what kind of god it is. It might be a big thing to be able to hide here!"

A school captain hurried over and came to the front to report: "My lord, Fan Yongdou confesses that there are Jian slaves hiding in the building. There are five people in total, and the leader is Niu Lu Zhang Jing!"

Zuo Jinzhong laughed loudly: "Hahaha! This is back! This mother is still a leader! We brothers should be promoted and get rich! Just do as I say! Go!"

There are nearly two hundred people in the Fan family, including the servants, and there are more than a dozen large and small kitchen stoves. After a while, a large amount of firewood and vegetable oil were transported over. Under guard, the seven gunners advanced about ten steps downstairs, raising their guns to aim at the room upstairs and preparing to fire. Dozens of infantry bows were also aimed at the windows and doors upstairs. Shoot the counterattackers into sieves, and several school captains holding fire starters are also ready. When the firecrackers are fired, they will run to the house on the first floor. They only need to pile up in one room. Once the wooden building is ignited, the fire will spread quickly. spread.

There were so many people busy downstairs, but there was no movement upstairs. Following an order, seven firecrackers were fired one after another. The blunderbuss crackled the windows and doors upstairs, and pieces of wood flew everywhere. A large puff of gunpowder smoke rose from inside.

The school lieutenants holding the firelight rushed up, quickly ran into the house on the first floor, quickly piled up the firewood, poured a large bucket of vegetable oil on it, and were ready to set fire to the building at any time.

After the blunderbuss rang, two figures flashed in the broken window of the upstairs room, and then two long arrows shot towards the gunner downstairs with the sound of the wind. With two soft beeps, the long arrows nailed to the door.

The archers downstairs let go of their fingers one after another, dozens of feathered arrows flew towards the target, only heard a crackling sound, and the Jiannu upstairs immediately hid more arrows after shooting the arrows, most of the dozens of feathered arrows were nailed to the wall , a small part flew into the house along the gap.

After dozens of breaths, the gunners finally finished loading. After Zuo Jinzhong gave the order, the lieutenant on the first floor lit the firewood with fire, and the flame jumped rapidly. With the sound of the guns, the lieutenants scrambling to get the door While fleeing, the fire was already raging, and the choking smoke was spreading upwards.

After the gunfire was fired, the gunners withdrew, and the archers shot a round. The lieutenants who started the fire got away and hid in a safe place. Everyone stared at the upstairs, guarding against Jiannu's desperate fight.

Everyone burned more and more, and soon the floors between the floors were ignited, and thick smoke poured into the room on the second floor along the gaps burned through. Not long after, with a few roars, several figures rushed out of the room. When they were about to break through the guardrail and jump down to fight, there was a sound of bowstrings, and the bodies of these Jiannu were full of three-edged long arrows. Except for one person who fell from the upstairs to the downstairs, the other four were all hit by arrows and fell upstairs.

Zuo Jinzhong shouted: "Go up and mend the head of the knife owl! Don't worry about those upstairs! It's too hot!"

Several school captains rushed forward with Xiuchun swords in their hands, and poked a few more blood holes in the body of this dead Jiannu. Money rattled up to Zuo Jinzhong: "My lord, the head you want!"

Zuo Jinzhong raised his foot and kicked, and cursed with a smile: "It's not made of gold, what use is it for me to use him! Go find lime to pickle it, and put it in a wooden box! Let's take it back to Beijing and hand it over to Mr. Luo, just say this It’s the head of that bull! This is a great achievement! The 10,000+ frontier army in Liaodong has never captured the head of a Jiannu leader!”

With a muffled sound, as the fire burned the beams and columns, the two-story building finally collapsed to the ground, and the bodies of several Jian slaves were reduced to ashes. Since this small building is an independent building, there are no other houses adjacent to it. , so the fire will not spread to the entire Fan Mansion, and this mansion will eventually be auctioned off, which also means that the once wealthy Fan family has completely disappeared.

Home raiding is a traditional craft of Jinyiwei. The experience and methods accumulated over the years are extremely rich. The gold and silver antiques hidden in the hidden corners of the Fan family are constantly being searched out. Jin Yiwei's torture masters did not say a word, brought Fan Yongdou's ten-year-old son, tied him to the bed, took off his obscene pants, and gestured around with a shining sharp knife, saying to himself Yu said: "Such a handsome boy, if he dies and gives it to those princes, he will definitely have no worries about food and clothing in this life, tsk tsk!"

A ten-year-old child has never seen such a scene since he was a child, trembling with fright, crying for his father to help, Fan Yongdou's eyes are shattered, and he looks like a mad tiger and is about to rush towards him. Seeing that his most beloved son was about to become an eunuch, Fan Yongdou finally couldn't hold on, and shouted repeatedly with red eyes: "I'll say it! I'll say it! I beg you to relax." Son!"

The Baihu who tortured said with a smile: "Fan Yuanwai, if you don't do this long ago, as long as you confess honestly, your descendants will be preserved. This is what the emperor specially ordered us to command the envoy. The emperor said, only Ask the head of the crime, the crime is not as good as your wife and children. This is the constitution of heaven, which is the benevolence of today. If you want to put it aside, your big crime will be punished by everyone! Hurry up, hurry up! For the sake of your wife and children, tell all about you !"

The rest of Wang Dengku and the other seven people were shattered when they saw the relatives that Captain Jinyi had specially brought over. The family who dared to love was a one-pot thing this time. They had already investigated the details and were just waiting for the order from above. The huge family property earned through generations of hard work has all become other people's pockets. If I knew it now, I would regret it. The money is wasted, but my heart has turned black.

After Jin Yiwei, who was in charge of torture, read out the decree that the crime was not as good as his wife and children, and passed on the imperial decree with the jade seal to everyone, everyone's psychological defense completely collapsed. It is to be able to leave a trace of flesh and blood, and Chongzhen came through time as a later generation, with a deep-rooted concept of legal fairness and sympathy for the weak; Fan Yongdou and others also know that their behavior is equivalent to being an enemy. They never let their family members participate or even know about it; but even so, if Zhu Zhenqing hadn't traveled here, according to the previous rules, at least the three clans would be punished.

With the in-depth search of the assets of the eight giant merchants, it is no longer enough for Jin Yiwei to bring scribes. The family property of the eight merchants is too rich, all kinds of gold, silver and jade, antique calligraphy and paintings, shop warehouses, and various goods, including these The hundreds of carts of materials that were going to be traded with Manchuria for the first time had to be counted and checked one by one. In the end, only the governor and the clerks who were not involved in the governor's office could be requisitioned to help count and keep the books. Under such circumstances, more than one hundred It took the clerk ten days to count all the things. Of course, it was inevitable that someone would take advantage of the opportunity to do something. If a pig was slaughtered, anyone who passed it would definitely be stained with oil.

(End of this chapter)