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Chapter 19 Li Zhan's Confession
The emperor issued an order to dismiss the newly selected beauties, but executed Han Zanzhou, which is also called the combination of grace and power.

Han Zanzhou, the chief supervisor of Dongchang, who was in power for a while, died under the punishment of the stick. The news came so suddenly that the court ladies and eunuchs couldn't believe it. Character, why did the emperor get so angry?
It was also from this day that these court ladies and eunuchs acted carefully and were extremely serious about what they did, for fear that any mistakes and bad luck would happen to them.

Originally, when they saw the emperor promulgating an edict of guilt, dismissing the beauties, and giving them travel expenses, they thought that the emperor had changed the heart of a bodhisattva after this illness, but they didn't expect that it would still be so terrible when they lost their temper.

Han Zanzhou died, but the matter was not over. According to Zhu Yousong's order, Han Zanzhou's family was not killed, but Han Zanzhou's residence in the imperial city was confiscated.

There are more than 110 million taels of gold and silver on the list. There are also many rare treasures, including emeralds, diamonds, high-quality oriental beads, and precious antique jade articles. As for brocades, there are countless of them. These are all valuable If all the things are converted into silver, it will be at least 300 million taels.

It turned out that this Han Zanzhou was fattened up by the harem when he was in Nangong. Later, when Emperor Hongguang ascended the throne, he became a very popular figure in front of Zhu Yousong. In addition to the rewards from the emperor's empress, there were also subordinates and officials who went to the back door to honor him. , plus what he blackmailed, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is incomparably rich.

What a man longs for is nothing more than money, power, and a woman. This incomplete man has reached the peak of power, and he can't play with women, so he can only use his own pockets to please his body and mind.

Zhu Yousong only knew that he was fat, but he didn't expect him to be so fat. Three million taels of silver is not a small amount. According to historical records, Emperor Chongzhen’s treasury revenue was only over 300 million taels a year. Now only half of the country is left in Nanming, and the treasury’s silver is stretched. Yin, it is not an exaggeration to raid his family and destroy his family. Li Guofu did not wrong him at all. This big moth hiding in the deep palace really deserves his death.

Zhu Yousong was a little bit moved when he saw the list listed above. He had never heard of many rare treasures listed above, and ordered them to be filled into internal funds.

There is no shortage of money in the internal funds, regardless of the emptiness of the national treasury, but the former owner of this body will not treat him badly. His private wealth is much richer than Han Zanzhou's, and this is added to Han Zanzhou's family property, making it even richer.

It’s not that Zhu Yousong is greedy, he also thought about filling the empty treasury, but now the treasury’s money is easy to come in and hard to get out, and the use of the treasury has to go through the cabinet and the Ministry of Households, and it’s much more casual to use it as your own private money. Time can completely subsidize the national treasury, so as not to leave a mouthful for those Donglin officials who are chasing after flies.

Now he understands why Li Zicheng was keen to torture and plunder Ming officials when he entered Beijing. It is all the money that has flowed into the pockets of the powerful.

Zhu Yousong praised the two. After this incident, Zhu Yousong had a plan. The treasury had no money and it was difficult to collect taxes. In the future, raising the army to raise food and pay could open up a channel from these corrupt officials.

Next, Lu Jiude and Li Guofu began to clean up the East Factory. Those who should be removed from the factory were replaced, those who should be imprisoned, and those who should be beheaded. The name was to eliminate Han Zanzhou's accomplices, but in fact they did it against Ma Luan's cronies.With Lu Jiude's ability and Li Guofu's shrewdness, in just a few days, the two of them firmly controlled Dongchang.

Of course, Zheng Hongkui was not idle, and began to personally interrogate Li Zhan after returning to the mansion.

Because he knew that the current Jinyiwei was controlled by Ma Luan, after the experienced Zheng Hongkui invited the emperor, he incorporated all the personal guards he brought into the Jinyiwei. These more than 100 people were from the Zhenjiang Army Guard when he went to Beijing on order The elites selected in the battalion were all capable of being used to fighting and being able to take on the role of ten, so these more than 100 people became the first batch of his confidantes to serve in Jinyiwei.

Regarding this Minister of Taichang Temple, whether it is in custody or arraignment, he always uses people among the more than 100 confidantes.

At the beginning, Li Zhan was not honest. No matter how Zheng Hongkui interrogated him, Li Zhan just refused to confess, playing tricks.Because he also heard that although Jin Yiwei is scary, he obeys the emperor's orders, and today the emperor is afraid of Ma Shiying's power, and Ma Shiying's troops are in court, the emperor has to compromise, so he has no fear, and even stands without kneeling.

In a word, he didn't think highly of this Zheng Hongkui, thinking that he was at best a third-rank obedient, while he was one level higher than him and was a third-rank regular. In addition, he often used Ma Shiying to oppress others.

Zheng Hongkui has a man named Li Quan, a young man who is brave in battle and capable in handling affairs. He was promoted by Zheng Hongkui to be the general manager in his 20s. big mouth.

Li Quan also had strength in his hands. Li Zhan was beaten so hard that his eyes stared, his head buzzed, his face suddenly became fat, his back molars moved, his mouth was full of blood, and he couldn't speak. Then Li Quan Li Zhan kicked Li Zhan off with a bang, and Li Zhan was honest.

But although Li Zhan was no longer arrogant, he avoided key issues and still refused to confess.One day to no avail.Zheng Hongkui tried again the next day, and even used torture tools such as clamps, but still to no avail.

On the third day, Li Zhan, who had been starved for three days, still did not intend to confess.At this time Li Quan came out again, and he didn't know where he came up with the idea. He ordered someone to bring a bucket of stool. It's summer now, and the stench is suffocating. When you open the lid of the bucket, you can faintly see bustling small animals, which is disgusting.

Li Quandao: "Li Taichang, you must be hungry if you haven't eaten or drank for three days. If you don't answer our adults' questions honestly today, I will let you taste the taste of 'human feces banquet'."

Li Zhan piled it up at that time. Although this guy has a few hard bones, he doesn't care about being tortured and starved, but he can't stand the feast of human feces. Most people may not enjoy this kind of treatment.In addition, his spiritual support was entirely on Ma Shiying, but after three days, no one came to rescue him. He saw that he would be tortured to death if he continued like this, so he finally couldn't hold his tongue.

Zheng Hongkui asked him what he said, and what Zhu Yousong expected, Shangshu's impeachment of Jiang Riguang and Lu Daqi was indeed Ma Shiying's attention, how much bribes he received, what benefits he got, nothing, nothing hidden, Li Zhanquan said .The matter of Ma Shiying's sale of officials, nepotism, and party alliance and dissent were also revealed.Here it is also specifically mentioned that Ma Luan, the commander of Jinyiwei, found an excuse to get rid of Liu Tang, the disobedient governor of Nanzhen, and let his cousin Ma Ming replace him.

There is also the matter of Ma Shiying's die-hard fan, Ruan Dacheng, the right servant of the Ministry of War, and his subordinate bureaucrats robbed Li Xiangjun, a famous Jianghuai courtesan, and persecuted Jiangnan talent and rookie Hou Fangyu.

Zheng Hongkui ordered people to write them down one by one, afraid that he would talk nonsense, and finally asked him to repeat the confession, which was completely consistent. After asking Li Zhan to sign and detain him, he asked Li Quan to take Li Zhan under custody for fear that he would die. Li Quan provided him with three meals a day and waited for Shengming. Then Zheng Hongkui came to see Zhu Yousong with Li Zhan's confession excitedly.

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