A happy event in a fertile field: the black-bellied husband is as beautiful as a flower

Chapter 712
Apart from the dead Xie Hongsheng, there were also many important officials who had expanded the salt road for the Xie family, all of whom were executed at Caishikou.For the rest of the officials, those who were dismissed were dismissed, and those who were exiled were exiled.

Because of the large number of people involved, this can be regarded as a major case that has caused a sensation in the entire Great Yin.

Although the emperor failed to cleanse the Xie family, he also cleaned one of the important branches, seriously hurting the vitality of the Xie family.

While dismissing many officials, the emperor ordered this year's Qiuwei examination to be brought forward so that the vacancies in official positions can be filled as soon as possible.

The emperor ordered Mr. Xu Ge to preside over this year's imperial examination. The vacancy filled up was naturally no longer from the Xie family, but a talent selected by the emperor for his own use.

As for those officials who were sentenced to beheaded, although they did not punish the nine clans, their family members would not be completely free from implication.

In the same way, those who should raid their homes should be exiled.

Even Xie Hongsheng's lineage cannot be avoided.

After Xie Hongsheng's death, the second wife of the Xie family seemed to have gone crazy and threw herself into the well.

In addition, Xie Hongsheng also has several concubines. Apart from his own sons and daughters, there are also many sons and daughters, which can be regarded as a prosperous lineage.

In the end, all the male members of Xie Hongsheng's family were distributed, and the female family members were sent to the teaching workshop, and they were forever branded as female family members of criminal officials.

The emperor wanted to copy Xie Hongsheng's family, because the profits from the smuggling of salt had to go to the treasury.

In addition, Xie Yu also copied all the shops in the capital controlled by Xie Yu.

For this reason, the emperor also asked the Ministry of Households to calculate the list of profits made by Xie Hongsheng and Xie Yu for smuggling salt and in charge of industries in Beijing over the years, and calculate an approximate amount.

If these amounts cannot be found in the search of the house, they will be considered to have been sent by other branches of the Xie family.

If the Xie family touched the money, they would undoubtedly be regarded as accomplices.

Therefore, before the emperor copied Xie Hongsheng's house, Xie Hongbo had to find a way to get the various branches of the Xie family to fill in the hole drawn up by the household department.

In the end, the emperor confiscated nearly one million taels of stolen silver and other objects from Xie Hongsheng, all of which were put into the national treasury.

Eunuch Huang sent a detailed list to the emperor. After reading it, the emperor sighed: "If I don't force them, I will never know how much I can get out of their mouths."

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On the day the house was ransacked, none of the other offshoots of the Xie family stood up.

All the males were shackled and driven out of the city. The youngest male was less than ten years old.

The female relatives were sent to another place.

There was a lot of trouble in this incident, and the people rushed to watch the excitement, so that officers and soldiers were needed to maintain order later, so as to prevent the people from behind from squeezing forward.

Xie Hongsheng's female relatives usually stay in the backyard pampered and comfortable, all of them are white and tender, and the ordinary people can't see their true colors.

But today I read enough books.

Not only the common people came to watch, but many curious officials and ladies also took to the streets to try to see one or two.

Several ladies gathered in the teahouse and said: "The person I sent to inquire about the news came back and said that Xie Chuying, the daughter of Xie Hongsheng's first daughter, seems to be missing from the family members of Xie's family who were copied."

The other lady said: "Then where did she go? With her appearance, I'm afraid that before entering the teaching workshop, someone can't wait to pay a lot of money to book it."

Someone sighed: "Well, at any rate, she was once a pampered celebrity by the Queen Mother's side. She was prominent for a while, but she didn't expect to end up with such a ruined family and committed herself to the teaching workshop. Now that she has become the daughter of a criminal minister, who would dare to cherish her?" What about her?"

When Meng Yan led Chongyi and Yan'er out of the teahouse, she happened to hear such conversation.

Yan'er asked gossipingly in a low voice: "Would that Miss Xie really be taken by some high-ranking official, so she was transferred in advance?"

Chongyi said: "You think too much, Xie Chuying was taken into the palace by the queen mother." The news just came this morning, and I haven't had time to tell Yan'er.

Yan'er said: "Will the emperor allow the daughter of a guilty minister to stay with the queen mother?"

Meng Yan said: "What the emperor values ​​is the money spit out by the Xie family, as well as part of the power of the Xie family that has been removed. It makes no difference to him whether an insignificant family daughter is placed next to the queen mother in the teaching workshop. Sell ​​favors to the Queen Mother."

Yan'er thought for a while, and said: "The emperor is not afraid that if she gets a chance, she will avenge her parents?"

Meng Yan took a look at Yan'er, and said: "You are just a show with so many guards in the palace? If Xie Chuying dares to kill the king, it will be a serious crime, and the nine clans will be punished."

After a pause, he said to himself: "Perhaps when the time is right, the emperor would like her to be bolder."

There were a lot of people coming and going on the street, but quite a few of them came back from the direction of Xie's house.They were all the people who went to watch Xie's house and ransacked the house, and they were still discussing along the way.

Meng Yan didn't go to search the house, but heard people walking on the left, right and behind talking in full swing.

People kept catching up from behind. At this moment, one person stared at Meng Yan's back in the crowd, and then rushed up from behind quickly.

When he was less than ten feet away from Meng Yan, the man stretched out a dagger from his sleeve, and stabbed Meng Yan directly at the back of Meng Yan!
Everyone on the street was immersed in the topic, and no one could notice this unusual behavior for a while.

Seeing that the tip of the dagger was only two inches away from Meng Yan's vest, when the person holding the dagger almost thought he had won it, Chongyi suddenly turned sideways, raised his hand to hold the scabbard, and firmly blocked the dagger.

When Chongyi turned his head, he was vaguely murderous.

It was obvious that the opponent was not a good opponent, and he didn't know much kung fu at all. The stab failed, so Chongyi grabbed his arm easily.

The opponent's wide sleeves were also in the way, and the dagger was hidden in the sleeves, so he couldn't use it at all.

Meng Yan turned around unhurriedly, and saw that the other party was still wearing a hooded cloak on a hot day, and under the cloak was a woman's soft skirt.

Meng Yan reached out and twisted the brim of the hood, lifted it up slightly, and saw the beautiful face below, without being annoyed, she said, "There are so many people on the street, Miss Xie, let's go to a quiet place to chat. .”

This woman is not Xie Chuying.

Although she was not among the female relatives who were sent to the teaching workshop, it was not surprising to have a last look at her former home when she came back.

Xie Chuying stared at Meng Yan bitterly, struggled twice, but couldn't get away at all, and Chongyi took her forward without a trace, and when she reached a quiet alley, she pushed her into it.

Xie Chuying staggered a few steps, lost the dagger and fell to the ground.

Meng Yan then walked in, and Xie Chuying backed away involuntarily.

Meng Yan looked down at the dagger at his feet, bent over to pick it up, and said: "It seems that you really hate me, a lady of a great family, regardless of the consequences, and want to stab me in the street. Stab me to death Are you happy with me?"

(End of this chapter)