golden scales

"If Your Highness sins against us like this, I'm afraid there is no innocent person in the world!" Wei Guogong was not convinced, this descendant of Xu Da cried until his neck turned red, and used the sadness of acting to cover up the essence of anger.

"It's okay, I'll punish the chief evil first, and then discuss the followers. Forgiving the ignorant common people, this is also the virtue of the ancestors to live well." Zhu Cihong said: "If the Duke thinks that usury is not enough to convince the world, then you can raise family members and dead soldiers. , is that enough?"

Daming allowed the existence of servants, but not servants.Sometimes it is difficult to draw the line, because the servants often work as servants, and even undertake agricultural labor.If you insist on finding a standard, you can barely use military status to distinguish servants from servants.

Whether it is the local guard or the Beijing camp, the soldiers who serve are first of all in the military.After Jiajing, the recruitment system became very popular, and it was precisely the problem that soldiers with military registration could not be used and were not enough.

It is unusable because there is no practice.What are these soldiers doing when they are not practicing?The answer is simple, he is doing private work for an officer and is a domestic slave.

Not enough because people are gone.The military household is a hereditary system, where the father and grandparents are registered, and the children and grandchildren are also registered. In terms of spreading branches and leaves, it will only be overcrowded. Why is there a reduction in the number of people?The answer is that the officers and generals of the Weisuo and the Beijing Camp regarded General Hu as their own servants and dragged them away directly.

These military households have a high degree of obedience, and the local yamen can't control them. Their household registration directly belongs to the system of Weisuo, Dusi, and Dudufu of the Five Armies, which is a free human resource.People like Wei Guogong, who have people from every generation to the governor's mansion and the admiral's capital camp, naturally wouldn't leave such a big piece of fat behind.

Even if the servants outside have been sold at a very low price, it is still not as good as free ones.What's more, after running away, you still have to occupy the registration, so you can get another military salary

Among these military households, the family genes are good, the embryos are good, and some of them can also pass on martial arts from their families, so it is safe to use them to protect their homes!

On this charge, anyone who has served as the governor of the five armies' governor's office.As well as the Xunqi family who had supervised the Nanjing Jingying, it is impossible to elute.

"Corrupting the foundation of the guard established by the Taizu, is this a crime enough?" Zhu Cilang asked loudly: "Not to mention that you have over-raised slaves and maidservants, so as to cause slave rebellion. How do you talk about this?"

Wei Guogong was unprepared, and was blocked by Zhu Cihong's continuous questions, so he could only stare at Zhu Cihong for a while.

"Still staring at me? Do you dare to let the Beijing camp mutiny?" Zhu Cihong asked in a leisurely manner.

"Your Highness, is this going to create a big prison? I'm going to rest with the country, and I'm only framed for such petty crimes. Who in the world can accept it!" Xu Wenjue had given up hope, and shouted loudly.Although he seems to be out of temper, he is not a mediocre person who will be influenced by his emotions after all, having been in a high position all the year round and influenced by his family education.

Uncle Xin Cheng, Zhao Zhilong was half body behind Xu Wenjue, and clearly saw Wei Guogong's hand gesture - this is really a rebellion!

According to the express provisions of the "Emperor Ming Ancestral System": the crown prince is considered to be breaking the law in other places.Civil and military officials can't participate in impeachment, they can only ask the emperor for detailed investigation.No matter what the emperor found, he could not send someone to arrest the crown prince for questioning, he could only summon him for questioning.Now that the national law is corrupt, the inscription on impeachment of the crown prince has appeared.But the arrest of the crown prince was too appalling after all.

——If the Nanjing Jingying Mutiny is really launched, how can it be good?If it was an ordinary governor, the emperor might have killed him, but this is the crown prince!

Xin Chengbo thought to himself.

"Are you really thinking about mutiny?" Zhu Cihong smiled: "Don't worry about it, the result will come out in a while."

Just as Zhao Zhilong uttered the word "ah", he heard the sound of iron armor rubbing against each other, and the young general pressed his hand on his saber.They came in with three teams of Iron Armored Soldiers, each of them holding a tray covered with a red cloth, but under the red cloth was a chubby lump.

"Wang Yi, the captain and deputy chief of the Tank Department of the First Division of the Guards Department, was ordered to put down the mutiny of the Nanjing Jingying camp and cut down 34 mutiny officers. The leader is here, and he is back!" Wang Yi strode forward and knelt down on one knee , back to the errand.After he and Feng Yuanhui reported the Jinhuanu incident, they returned to the establishment.Now he was ordered to lead his subordinates to rush into the Beijing camp, beheading all the generals and schools who obstructed them, so that no one in the Beijing camp dared to disobey the order and leave the account.

The cannon fire just now was the signal.

All the Xun Qi looked at the neatly arranged heads, and recognized several acquaintances, and they were inexplicably horrified.

"I used 300 men to flatten the Beijing camp, and 1 soldiers took over the defense of the imperial city. There are about [-] soldiers here. Guess where are the other [-] men I brought?" Zhu Cihong used elite soldiers, The mobilization is quiet, the action is fast, and the effect is obvious. The old, weak and disabled soldiers who are on empty pay can resist it.

Having said that, the old and weak who are still in the army don't want to resist.They know who has withheld their rations, so how can they be willing to charge these greedy bosses with treason?

Zhu Guobi glanced at these mighty and majestic soldiers, but found that there was not a single senior officer.Especially Xiao Mo, who was with the crown prince that day and was known as the number one general of the guards.These senior officers were not there... where did that go?

Zhu Guobi's heart tightened for no reason, and a thought flashed across: ransack the house!

People have the same heart and the same reason, and Zhu Guobi is naturally not the only one who has such thoughts.

"Don't cry yet." Zhu Cihong raised her hand, "I'm not going to go mad and fight for your family property. In fact, I still want to share the joys and sorrows with all the nobles and relatives, with the righteousness of the ancestors. You obediently write all the family property Come out, where the law of the country is violated, we are discussing offering money to atone for the crime, right? They are all petty crimes with canes, why should it hurt your dignity?"

Xu Wenjue, Duke of the State of Wei, saw that the crown prince had finished beating the stick and gave the date to him. He knew that the crown prince was playing a scoundrel to ask for money, so he immediately got off the donkey and said: "There is nothing wrong with this matter. Since the crown prince has ordered it, the minister will not care about it." The family is ugly. In fact, my Wei Guogong’s mansion has long been unable to make ends meet, and has been selling properties for years, even 5 taels may not be available."

Zhu Cihong took a wishful handle and pointed to several places in the case: "Write it according to the facts."

Xu Wenjue was no longer stubborn, he took the lead and knelt down on the ground, picking up a pen and writing.The other relatives who followed Wei Guogong naturally also went over, reluctantly writing down the family property.Among them, Lingbihou wrote the fastest, with only four lines and sixteen characters, but it was: "The house is broken, and the family is miserable. The ancestors left behind, only the ritual vessels."

Zhu Cihong took it from Wang Zhixin's hand, glanced at it, and said, "Let him sign the money and post it."

Lingbi Hou Zhiqi generally wrote down his name and title on this confession, and asked people to post it.Others still want to post it when they see it, and they are even more reluctant to write more.Some wrote [-] yuan, some wrote [-] yuan, and some wrote more, but they had to explain how they gave out porridge in four seasons, supported the orphans, built bridges and paved roads, and spent a lot of money.

Zhu Guobi, who came here first, also waited to see how much other people wrote, so that he could correct it according to his own situation, so as not to be different from others.

After all, Wang Zhixin received Zhu Guobi's filial piety, and when he walked in front of him, he deliberately stood with his hands behind his back, secretly showing his index fingers crossed, making a "ten".

Zhu Guobi thought to himself: Is this asking me to report 10 taels?Or an extra 10 taels?He looked down at his confession, he had already written 7 to 10 taels, and it seemed that he asked me to report an additional [-] taels.Alas, the crown prince has already made a deposit in his heart, so he has to cut a piece of meat this time.

Wang Zhixin looked back at Zhu Guobi's paper offering, but shook his head in his heart, and finally dared not take any more risks, and passed the paper offering over.

Zhu Cihong looked at it as usual, and said, "Post it out."

All those who had completed their family property statements were allowed to leave and go home.When they left the gate of Chang'an, they were immediately surrounded by a group of civil servants, asking whether the posted list of family property was true or not.Naturally, those noble relatives would not admit that they were deceitful, and some even said that it was under the sword and they had to say more.

The civil servants were actually more concerned about the dismantling of the system in Nanjing. Who knew that these relatives would go in, and before they said what they should say, they themselves became mud bodhisattvas crossing the river, and died even worse.It seems that the only way to do this is to go to Beijing. If there is no other way, we can only see if there is a better job in the newly established two provinces.

Xu Wenjue reported 5 taels of family assets, but he didn't expect that he would come out of the palace safely.It's just that when he returned to the mansion, he saw that the Jin Yiwei standing guard at the gate of the mansion had changed, and they were all soldiers.This made him feel a little ominous, but what if he didn't go back?Now I am afraid that the entire city of Nanjing is under the control of the crown prince.

Sure enough, after Xu Wenjue returned to the mansion, he heard the report from the old housekeeper, saying that the entire Duke's mansion was surrounded by soldiers from nowhere, and they were only allowed to enter but not to leave.

"What about buying vegetables and food?" Xu Wenjue originally wanted to transfer some gold, silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings from his home, but who knew that the crown prince's actions were closely linked and tight.

"You are not allowed to go." The old housekeeper cried: "They painted a strip of red paint on the door, and anyone who dares to step over it will be shot immediately. It really killed someone! Master!"

Xu Wenjue's heart was half cold, and he suddenly said: "Pigeon! There are pigeons! Prepare a flying pigeon. I want to write a letter to Beijing. This is going to shake the sky!"

The pigeons could indeed fly out, because Zhu Cihong was not worried about any news from these relatives, all he cared about was his property.

On the eighth day of March in the 12th year of Chongzhen, all the newspapers in the south of the Yangtze River published a special issue, which contained the list of family properties reported by the relatives of each family.Among them, the family of Lingbi Hou reported the least, only one ancestral house and some ritual vessels for sacrifices.Funinghou's family reported the most, with assets of 30 taels.

All of a sudden, Marquis Lingbi's "bravery" and Marquis Funing's cowardice spread like wings in Nanjing.

"If you want money, you need a life! Anyway, the ancestors earned it from fighting in the battlefield, so he can take it if he wants it!" Ling Bihou said.

This statement became the courage medicine of Xunqi for a while, and if he didn't say it several times a day, he seemed to have no confidence.

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