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Seeing that Liu Zongmin wanted to torture him, Zhou Yanru was stunned.

Although the Ming Dynasty could not punish the scholar-bureaucrats like the Song Dynasty, it would not use sticks when they disagreed, so Zhou Yanru's three views were refreshed again.

While he was stunned, Soldier Shun had already excitedly lifted him up and quickly put the clamping stick on his thigh.

Most of these Shunjun soldiers who followed Liu Zongmin had the experience of being oppressed by the officials of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, they hated the officials of the Ming Dynasty as much as Liu Zongmin and would take revenge when they got the chance.

They already knew that the man in front of them was the former chief minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Serving the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty with a stick, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and you will never have to worry about running out of bragging rights in the future.

Zhou Yanru had never experienced the feeling of clamping a stick, so when he saw the clamping stick being put on his leg, he was still thinking about whether to use it and whether he could withstand the punishment of clamping the stick.

As a result, two Shun soldiers pulled their sticks from left to right, and Zhou Yanru immediately screamed like a pig.

"Ah—it hurts!"

"Stop clamping! Let go!"

"I'll recruit, why don't I recruit them all? Woohoo..."

As soon as the clamping stick was lifted, Zhou Yanru didn't even last a breath (six seconds) before he screamed in pain and was about to attack.

Liu Zongmin, who was sitting in the position of the chief officer of the Ministry of Justice, couldn't help curling his lips and said with a smile: "Zhou Yanru, after all you were once the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, how come your bones are not as strong as that of Chongzhen's father-in-law Zhou Kui?

Both were surnamed Zhou, and both were from Jiangnan (South Zhili). Zhou Kuineng watched helplessly as his eldest son was clamped to death with sticks, and his second and third sons were also clamped to death with sticks, and they refused to speak out about corruption. Where is the money hidden?

Even he himself was served three times with sticks and other instruments of torture before he confessed.

It's better for you. As soon as the clamp stick is on your feet and you start to pull, you won't be able to bear the attack anymore.

But let me tell you, don’t do any tricks - if you dare to cheat, you will definitely be punished with double the punishment if you turn around! "

After speaking, Liu Zongmin signaled the calligraphers in the hall to prepare to record Zhou Yanru's confession.

With tears streaming down his face, Zhou Yanru explained with pain and regret where he had hidden his money and various properties in the capital.

Of course, he did not regret his behavior of corruption and bribery, but regretted surrendering.

If he had known that Li Zicheng could do such things as "torture hundreds of officials and recover dirty money", he would never surrender to Dashun even if he died in Tianjin.

Of course, if he really had the chance to make a new choice, he would definitely take a sea boat from Tianjin back to his hometown.

If he could return to his hometown of Yixing in Changzhou, even if he could not enter the Da'ei court as an official, he could live the rest of his life comfortably with the thousands of acres of land passed down from his ancestors and the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver he had embezzled over the years.

What now?

It was so painful to be tortured with sticks by several common people here and to ask them where the money was hidden.

‘Feng Quan, it’s all your fault. If you hadn’t persuaded me, how could I have been so obsessed with surrendering to Li Zicheng? ! ’

After all the gold and silver property he had embezzled over the past year was revealed, Zhou Yanru felt an inexplicable hatred for his in-law Feng Quan and felt that it was all because of Feng Quan that he had fallen to this point.

So he finally shouted: "I want to report! Former Ming Dynasty cabinet minister Feng Quan is also a corrupt person and perverts the law, and he is more greedy than me!"

"Okay!" Liu Zongmin's face flushed with excitement after hearing this, "Well, you have made a great contribution! Come on, please go and ask the doctor to bandage Zhou Zuofu!" After saying that, Liu Zongmin looked at Zhou Yanru again and said, "Zuo Fu , although you used to be a corrupt official, but now that your salary has been reduced, you can be regarded as a new person.

You did a good job by reporting the matter to your in-laws, Feng Quan. If you can still accuse other corrupt officials from the Ming Dynasty, I will give you credit in front of His Majesty! "

With the idea that he was unlucky and did not want to make others feel better, Zhou Yanru immediately turned red and continued to tell the story of other corrupt officials of the Ming Dynasty that he knew.

And in the process, he had an idea and added Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang to the ranks of corrupt officials.

He didn't lie either.

Although Wu Xiang was the first to flee due to the "Battle of Daling River", which resulted in the destruction of all friendly forces, he was dismissed from his official position and was captured and imprisoned in the capital. Later, he was released due to Wu Sangui's reasons and stayed idle in the capital's home. He was put under house arrest in disguise by Chongzhen.

But when Wu Xiang was the commander-in-chief of the Shanhaiguan Army, he definitely embezzled a lot of military pay.

Liu Zongmin didn't think there was anything special about Wu Xiang. He didn't even know that Wu Xiang was Wu Sangui's father, because Zhou Yanru confessed so many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, dozens in total.

Liu Zongmin was not short of manpower. While listening to Zhou Yanru's confession, he sent teams of soldiers to arrest people and ransack their homes. He felt extremely satisfied.

Because Zhou Yanru had outstanding performance in "meritorious service" and the army searched for the location according to his confession, and indeed found more than 100,000 taels of silver and several properties, Liu Zongmin did not embarrass him anymore and let him go directly.

When it got dark, a group of Shunjun soldiers escorted Wu Xiang and dozens of Wu family members to the Yamen of the Criminal Department.

One of the low-level generals led by him knew that Liu Zongmin not only liked to kill wealthy families, gentry, and torture Ming officials, but also had a major hobby: women. The reason why he was able to kill his wives and concubines to help Li Zicheng break out was because he had slept with too many women, and it had already reached his heart. There is no level of womanhood.

Having no women in his heart does not mean that Liu Zongmin doesn't like women. On the contrary, Liu Zongmin has sex with women almost every night now.

Therefore, when the low-level general saw a very beautiful woman at Wu Xiang's house, he immediately thought of paying filial piety to Liu Zongmin.

"Master Marquis! Come and take a look! We discovered a stunningly beautiful person in a military general's home!"

This low-level general was very sensible and sent the captured stunningly beautiful woman directly to the backyard of the Penal Department Yamen, and then called her Liu Zongmin.

Liu Zongmin didn't care at first, but when he came over and saw the woman's appearance, his eyes immediately went straight.

In the past two years, he had conquered many cities with Li Zicheng, and destroyed countless gentry and landlord families. He asked himself that he had been with many good-looking women, but he could not find any who could compare with the woman in front of him.

Liu Zongmin immediately came over and took the woman's little hand and asked, "What's the girl's name?"

Chen Yuanyuan was extremely scared at this time, but she was born in the Qing Dynasty and had seen a lot of things in the world, so she did not panic and reluctantly responded: "Chen Yuanyuan from the slave family."

"Chen Yuanyuan?" Liu Zongmin looked at Chen Yuanyuan's figure with bright eyes, "It's indeed round."

After saying that, he picked up Chen Yuanyuan and walked to a nearby house.

The colleague loudly shouted: "Tell the people in the cell not to stop and continue to interrogate! Don't be lazy or let off steam because you think I'm not here. If you can't hear the barking of those dog officers, let them bark when it's over!"

After saying that, he closed the door with his foot amidst Chen Yuanyuan's exclamations...

When Liu Zongmin was ordered to consider the former Ming Dynasty nobles and civil and military officials, the Xunfeng Guards hidden in the capital also became active frequently and tried their best to complete the tasks assigned to them by Liu Sheng.

These tasks are mainly to rescue several talents needed by Dawei, such as Fang Yizhi. (End of chapter)