Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 77
In this way, Yang Mingshen kept chopping up the traitor Fan Sanba, the son of Shanxi merchant Fan Yongdou.

No one would have thought that an ordinary scholar would become so cruel, and naturally he would not have thought how deep Yang Mingshen's resentment towards Fan Sanba was.

Fan Sanba should have been chopped off by Yang Mingshen for more than [-] knives.

Because, when Yang Mingshen was exhausted, Fan Sanba's whole body had turned into a bloody puddle.

Wang Chengen and the people in Dongchang didn't watch Yang Mingshen, the head of the household department who fell into madness, pick up rape.

At this time, the people from Dongchang had already rushed into the inside of Daming Bank.

Wang Chengen waved his hand, and immediately shouted: "Smash! Everyone in here will be taken down by this officer. If they encounter resistance, they will be killed!"

Wang Chengen finished speaking.

Five hundred Dongchang fanzi raised their scabbards and smashed directly at the porcelain, tables, chairs and counter railings everywhere.

The sound of ping-pong-pong sounded one after another.

The members of the Fan family saw that their master Fan Sanba was dead, and so many people from Dongchang came in front of them. Wherever they dared to resist, they all hid in the corners and did not dare to move.

At this time, Zhu Guobi, the Duke of the Baoguo who was still staying at Fan's Bank, suddenly put his arms around Fan Sanba's concubine's room, came out of the room in disheveled clothes, and shouted rather temperately:
"What's going on here, who gave you the courage to come here to act wildly!"

"Guo Bao, unfortunately, it is Yang Mingshen, the subordinate official, who came here to play wild!"

Yang Mingshen, who was covered in blood all over his body, came over with an embroidered spring knife, grinned, and the blood stained his teeth, scaring Duke Bao Zhu Guobi to take a step back.

Then, Duke Bao Zhu Guobi looked at the people in front of him who were all dressed in white robes and black boots, and felt a little bit ominous: "Are you from Dongchang?"

Wang Chengen nodded with a smile.

Duke Bao Zhu Guobi couldn't help being greatly astonished. He quickly put on a smile and walked towards Wang Chengen who was wearing a python robe humbly: "My father-in-law, you just came to Nanjing? It seems that you haven't seen it much before. There may be a misunderstanding here. You Forgive me so much, forgive me so much.”

The Duke of Bao, Zhu Guobi, always believed that Yang Mingshen was just a member of the eunuch Han Shoujing, the supervisor of ceremonies, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

But he didn't expect Yang Mingshen to be able to call Dongchang people.

Moreover, the person in front of him was not a simple eunuch at first sight, so although Zhu Guobi began to speak softly, he also became flustered.

"Eunuch Wang, this Lord Baoguo is in cahoots with Fan Sanba. Many of the iron and firearms that the Fan family sells outside the customs are followed by his Duke Baoguo. This person must be arrested!"

Seeing that Wang Chengen didn't respond, Yang Mingshen reminded him a few words.

But Wang Cheng'en smiled slightly, he naturally knew that His Majesty disliked a relative like Zhu Guobi who didn't know the king's law very much.

Therefore, Wang Chengen did not estimate Zhu Guobi's dignified status as the Duke of the State, and directly ordered: "Take him down and send him to prison. Before sunset today, let him explain clearly how he communicated with the enemy inside and outside!"

The Liangdong factory fan came over to Zhu Guobi, Duke Bao of the state.

Fan Sanba's concubine hid in Zhu Guobi's arms in fright.

But Baoguo Gong Zhu Guobi directly pushed away Fan Sanba's concubine, and immediately turned around and ran towards the backyard.

The Liangdongchang fan who was in charge of arresting him jumped, but missed.

Duke Bao Zhu Guobi knew that people in Dongchang couldn't be offended, but he thought he was a dignified Duke, and even if Dongchang wanted to arrest me again, he couldn't do anything to him.

Therefore, he felt that it would be better for him to simply run away.

However, what he didn't expect was that Wang Chengen ordered directly: "Cut off his feet and let him run!"

"Yes!"

The two vigorous Dongchang fanzi directly threw out the hook and sickle, and directly hooked off the leg of the Baoguo Duke Zhu Guobi.

Ah!
Duke Bao Zhu Guobi let out a scream.

The whole person fell to the ground directly, smashing his teeth: "You bastard, I am a majestic Duke, how dare you treat me like this, I will sue you in front of the emperor!"

"It's His Majesty's order to take you, take you away!"

After Wang Chengen gave the order, he ordered the people from Dongchang to continue smashing the headquarters of Fan's Bank and kill all those who have blood relationship with Fan's here.

Fan Sanba would never have dreamed that he would end up in such a situation just because he wanted to earn more money for his master.

Because Fan Sanba was already preparing to withdraw in the next few days.

Therefore, when Wang Chengen's Dongchang was ordered to destroy the bank opened by the Fan family, it also discovered a large amount of real money that Fan Sanba had concentrated here.

"Duke, this secret room is full of gold and silver, and there are secret letters between the Fan family and court officials."

Wang Chengen's expression became serious.

As one of the eight major Shanxi merchants, the Fan family had many contacts with court officials.

But now the Fan family has linked up with the slaves outside the customs, and His Majesty intends to punish the Fan family for the crime of treason.

Therefore, Wang Chengen also realized the importance of the pile of account books and secret letters in front of him. He could guess that there must be many officials colluding with the Fan family, and even the bank might not be owned by the Fan family alone.

And Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo who was captured, may be just one of them.

Wang Chengen put his hand on the account book and was about to open it, but immediately he hurriedly said back: "This thing cannot be touched, it can only be seen by His Majesty, all sealed up, and presented to the imperial court!"

Next, Wang Chengen ordered Dongchang to immediately search all private banks in the city, and ordered the major stalls of Dongchang to go to other places for strict investigation.

For a time, most of the private banks were investigated or forced to go to the Ministry of Accounts to apply for a license.

As a result, except for the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty, most of the other banks have been closed.

Even if several of them are still open, they can only carry out storage business.

Because they are no longer qualified to issue currency, they do not have the ability to exchange currency, so they can only attract people to store currency or even gold and silver here. In fact, they are almost the same as the previous banks and banks.

However, only the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty obtained profits through the issuance of silver dollars and exchange business.

The counterfeit currency previously issued by other banks in violation of regulations was all recovered.

The chaos brought about by a currency reform has finally subsided.

Zhu Youjian ordered the Fan family's property to be taken over by the Daming Central Bank, and the Daming Central Bank continued to expand as a result.

From a certain point of view, the Daming Bank established by Fan Sanba was actually a wedding dress for the Daming Central Bank.

All the properties of the Fan family in the south were also confiscated.

"Your Majesty, the Fan family has a total of 730 taels of cash in the south, and all of them have been deposited in the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty. Our court reserves are more abundant, and it will not be difficult to train and raise troops in the future."

After Fan Jingwen, Minister of the Jianhu Department, Chief Assistant of the Cabinet, said, "These are some officials who are suspected of colluding with the Fan family. I don't know how His Majesty will deal with them."

"Don't ask, Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, died and confiscated his family, so as to forgive the hearts of all the officials, but I will put the ugly words first. This time, I can learn from Cao Cao and burn the letters from all the officials colluding with profiteers. Once, if I find out who of you is in touch with foreign enemies, I will not tolerate it!"

As he said that, Zhu Youjian ordered again: "Decree Dongchang set up a special investigation department to investigate who is the enemy inside and outside. No matter who it is, they can be arrested first and then interrogated. It is better to kill a thousand by mistake than let one go." !"

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