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Chapter 5 Sapphire: What about the descendants of this Marquis? ?

After a while, Sapphire came out from the backyard, followed by Wang Chengen with an ugly face.

When passing by Zhou Kui, Lan Yu patted Zhou Kui on the shoulder and said:
"As expected of the queen's father, the Marquis admires it. It's worth more than 70 taels of silver. That's not counting those antiques."

"A small Jiading Bo mansion is richer than this Marquis, and the punishment for grooming you is really light."

While talking, box after box of silver was shipped out from the backyard, and escorted by Chang Sheng and others, they were sent to the palace.

Zhou Kui seemed to have turned into a walking corpse, slumped on the ground, watched the money being taken away, and murmured:
"My money!"

"It's all my money!"

Wang Chengen held the pen and paper tightly, wishing to swallow Zhou Kui alive, and said angrily:

"Zhou Kui! You thief!"

"Currently, you have been greedy for more than 70 taels of silver!"

However, thinking that Zhou Kui would be tortured to clean up, Wang Chengen felt very satisfied.

The person who is sentenced to grooming will first be stripped of his clothes by the executioner, and then lie on a wooden board.

Afterwards, the executioner would bring a large bucket of boiling water, pour it on the victim's back, and then comb the prisoner's body with a special "comb".

The shape of this comb is similar to that of an ordinary comb, but it is entirely made of iron. The executioner will use this brush to comb all the flesh off the victim's back until even the bones are exposed.

Almost all prisoners who suffered this punishment could not live to the end of the punishment, and were often scratched to death halfway through.

……

Afterwards, Lan Yu and others went to the next minister's mansion, where they also found a few hundred thousand taels of silver.

Looking at the silver piled up in the cellar, even Sapphire couldn't help but secretly gasp, saying with emotion:

"Master Wang, you ministers of the Chongzhen Dynasty really dare to embezzle."

"In the Hongwu Dynasty, if you embezzled 60 taels of silver, you would be beheaded for public display."

"Mao'er, go to Wei Guogong to talk about what's going on here, and ask Wei Guogong to help some people come over."

Only after two ministers were searched, nearly 200 million taels of silver were found, and Sapphire felt a little helpless.

Aren't the officials of the later generations of Ming Dynasty afraid of death?
His Majesty's punishments for corrupt officials are many, and they are often beheaded for public display and groomed.

……

Inside the palace.

Seeing that cart after cart of silver piled up on the open space in front of the main hall, it almost piled up into a hill.

Zhu Youjian said angrily:
"Rebellious officials and thieves are all rebellious officials and thieves!"

"I must ransack their homes and exterminate them! Execute the nine clans!"

"If so much money had been taken out earlier, how could Daming have come to where he is today!"

After seeing Zhu Youjian's reaction, Zhu Yuanzhang pulled him to sit on the steps and asked:
"Do you think we are a tyrant?"

Zhu Youjian couldn't help being a little excited to be able to sit on the steps with the Emperor Taizu whom he admired the most.

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's inquiry, Zhu Youjian said honestly:

"Grandfather Taizu, how can you be a tyrant?"

"I'm working hard, just want to reproduce the prosperous age of Hongwu!"

A smile appeared on Zhu Yuanzhang's face, and he said slowly:

"We are not afraid that future generations will call us a tyrant! We are only afraid that the people will be wronged and not have enough to eat."

"We killed all those lawless nobles, corrupt officials, those scholars, farmers, businessmen, and good people. We didn't kill any of them!"

"Blood is flowing like rivers in Fengtian Palace, but our Great Tomorrow is flourishing!"

"We won't be able to stay here for long, so you must watch it carefully and study hard!"

Listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's teachings, Zhu Youjian was moved and said:
"Grandfather Taizu, why don't you let Grandfather Cheng come here to be the emperor."

If Zhu Youjian knew that the leader of the chat group of the emperors of the heavens was the great grandfather, he would not have taken out the history books so early.

Therefore, instead of waiting until the great grandfather returned to punish the grandfather Cheng, Zhu Youjian felt that it would be better for him to abdicate on his own initiative.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said:

"The fourth child has not been reduced to snatching the throne of a junior from you. You have to remember that you must pay attention to the chat group. We feel that this is our great opportunity!"

"The fourth kid is also the same. He has done so many things after he ascended the throne, just to prove himself and become Ming Taizong."

"In the end, it was changed to Ming Chengzu by Zhu Houcong."

……

Night falls.

Sapphire, who had been busy all day, looked at the boxes of silver that had been taken away, and said with emotion:

"Finally the search is over."

"Master Wang, you ministers of the Chongzhen Dynasty are really ruthless, more than 6000 million taels of silver!"

"This is not counting those priceless antique calligraphy and paintings. Benhou has never seen so much silver in his life."

Wang Chengen opened his mouth, a little speechless.

Let alone Lan Yu and the others, even he has never seen so much money in his life!

After Chang Mao sent all the people in the mansion to the military camp outside the city, he rushed back and said:

"Uncle, I heard that the palace is almost out of money? Is it true?"

"Today, Wei Guogong mobilized tens of thousands of people to help, so he searched all the residences of all the ministers."

Seeing that the matter was finally over, Lan Yu left tomorrow's execution, took Chang Mao and others towards the palace, hugged Chang Mao's shoulders, and said with a smile:

"What? Mao'er has no money?"

"I'm your own uncle, you have to tell the truth, tell me, are you fascinated by a girl from Jiaosifang?"

Hearing this, Chang Mao looked around nervously, lowered his voice, and begged bitterly:

"Don't, don't, uncle, don't talk nonsense."

"If this matter gets to my mother's ears, I will be out of luck."

Lan Yu shook her head, she really couldn't figure it out, her sister was not a scourge.

Whether it is the brother-in-law or the three nephews, when they see their sister, they are like a mouse seeing a cat, and they are so frightened.

Thinking of this, Lan Yu felt that it was necessary for her to take her three nephews to teach Sifang Changchang to learn more. She looked at Wang Chengen and asked:

"Master Wang, where are the descendants of this Marquis? Did they go to fight for your emperor?"

"Benhou is going to borrow some money from them and go to Jiaosifang."

This morning, Lan Yu thought that what His Majesty said about going to the later generation Daming to help was just nonsense, so she didn't bring any money.

Now I can only borrow from future generations.

The corner of Wang Chengen's mouth twitched slightly, so embarrassed that he didn't know what to say.

According to historical records, this Yongchang Hou Lanyu has a flamboyant and domineering personality. Once he knows that his family has been punished and no descendants survive, he might be beheaded in a fit of anger.

Noticing Wang Chengen's expression, Lan Yu said with some dissatisfaction:
"What? Could it be that the descendants of this Marquis are not up to the mark? The future generation of Ming Dynasty is in such a mess that they don't know how to serve the country?"

"It's really trash. What about the descendants of King Kaiping? I'm going to ask them to borrow some money, and I should be able to borrow it."

As soon as this remark came out, Wang Chengen fell silent again.

Just when Sapphire was about to get angry, Mao Xiang walked over quickly and said:

"Marquis Yongchang, His Majesty summoned you."

When Lan Yu and the others heard this, they didn't dare to delay any longer, and ran straight away.

Mao Xiang moved closer and said in a cold voice:

"Lord Wang, there are some things that His Majesty does not wish to spread."

After speaking, Mao Xiang turned and left.

Wang Chengen's body froze, and he smiled wryly, holding the thick paper in his arms, which recorded the amount of corruption of those ministers in detail.

(End of this chapter)