Chapter 189 Redress
In the early morning, the thick palace gate of the Jinling City Imperial Palace, which had been noisy all night, was slowly pushed open.
A group of eunuchs with the lowest status among the internal prisoners came to the foot of the city wall with buckets and rags. They first splashed water and then wiped and washed the blood on the ground with rags that was so rich that it was almost nauseating.
Last night, the imperial army entered Jinling City. Jinling City, which was known as the strong and powerful man and tens of thousands of elite soldiers, was captured without a day of persistence. Then the imperial army rushed straight outside the palace city.
The palace did not experience any disaster, but the palace gate was turned upside down.
First, King Fu and his group escaped from the tunnel but were captured. Then the imperial officials and nobles from all over the city came outside the city to ask for surrender to the governor.
In the past, when encountering such a thing in all dynasties, the conquerors accepted surrender and easily got everything. But last night the governor of the court was beyond everyone's expectations. Not only did he not accept the surrender of these people, he instead killed all the officials of the court and the nobles of various families!
It cannot be said that he was really completely killed. At least the Grand Secretary Qian Qianyi, who has always been called Shui Tailiang by the Grand Commander, survived.
However, this Grand Secretary used to be a lackey under the governor of Gan Wei, and betrayed his colleagues, which really made his reputation unheard of. The entire Jinling City scolded the former Qian Dacaizi as a garbage of poor personal character.
Although Qian Dacai was scolded very hard, he at least temporarily saved his life. The Donglin Party who wanted to defect to Yan Fei as his lackey were begging for it and were all dragged to the foot of the imperial city to line up and shot.
Those nobles who have been grateful to the emperor for generations and have relatives with the country also want to be Yan Fei's lackeys. Unfortunately, the lackeys were not considered, and then they wanted to bet on their lives with Yan Fei.
I originally thought that one of more than 2,000 people would win, but who would have thought that Yan Fei not only took out a magic weapon like a god or a demon, but also waved his cannon tube from the street to the end of the street like a god descending.
The foolish nobles cried and begged Yan Fei for his life, and even took out the iron vouchers of the ancestral alchemy books and only wanted to survive.
Yan Fei accepted the iron coupon of the alchemy book, but it recorded that rebellion was not exempted from death.
No one can do anything about it now, and even the ancestors could not save them. In the end, these nobles who were frightened to pee their pants were also escorted to the imperial city to line up and shoot them, following in the footsteps of the civil servants before.
Afterwards, Yan Fei announced martial law throughout the city, sent troops to take over the main roads of the city's warehouses and the residences of many officials and nobles after they were shot, etc.
Yan Fei would not have been involved in a big way and killed all the nine tribes. However, he set up an interrogation scene in the downtown of Confucius Temple, so that the people in the city could come and take the initiative to report to the officials and nobles of the court, their clan members and servants.
As long as you are sure to be guilty, those who are guilty of death will be shot directly on the spot. Those who are not enough to be shot will be arrested and sent to various mines. Then, after you go south to occupy many islands in the Pacific, you will exil all these people to those islands where birds do not shit.
The unjust cases in this era were really exhausted and the water on the Qinhuai River could not be washed clean. Many local people couldn't believe it at first. But when an aunt who was brave and fearless to avenge her family, she begged Yan Fei to avenge her son and daughter-in-law, saying that a nephew of Tang Guozuo, a clan of the Marquis of Lingbi, forced her daughter-in-law to steal her daughter-in-law. When his son went to Lingbi Marquis's mansion to ask for it, he was bitten to death by the general manager!
Yan Fei immediately found the supervisor and the clan nephew from the detained people in Lingbi Marquis' Mansion, and learned that the aunt's daughter-in-law was unbearable and had committed suicide by jumping into the water.
After a while of interrogation, Yan Fei first asked Wang Dehua to castrate the nephew himself. Later, he sent the nephew after the castration to the prison and instructed the prisoners to greet the nephew well and not to behead all the prisoners who died of him as the same crime.
As for the butler, Yan Fei ordered people to find a group of wild dogs on the spot and gathered them in a large cage, and then threw them in. Well, there were dogs raised in the cage from the Lingbi Marquis’ Mansion.
Under the watch of countless people, the butler was torn into pieces and eaten. Even the blood stains on the ground were licked by the hungry wild dogs. This scene also made the families of the houses under supervision in the nearby areas scattered and were scared and fainted on the spot.
With someone starting, and seeing Yan Fei really willing to stand up for them, the local people rushed over like floods that were discharged from the dam after being blown up, and came to seek justice towards Yan Fei.
In this era, there were no clean families in each family. In addition, the local gang green skins, beggars who shoot flower girls, and gambling houses, etc. were described as inexplicable.
Yan Fei was really very cruel when he started. The murderer was beheaded on the spot. He extorted usury and forced people to die. He pried open his mouth and stuffed silver into his stomach. The broken limbs of the flower boy were thrown away and hung on the city wall and exposed to the sun for ten days. He forced good men to become prostitutes and forced women to rob the women. The man was sent to prison to death until he died. The woman was put in a pig cage and threw it into the Qinhuai River. The bully man broke his hands and feet and threw them into the base of the city wall and became beggars, etc.
Yan Fei sat at the Confucius Temple like his parents, and interrogated hundreds of cases in one day. Most of the convicted people died tragically, and a small number of those who were not guilty were interrupted and beggars were killed. As for their property, whether it was a house, carriage or fertile land, they were all confiscated.
When he was busy until the evening, Yan Fei, who had not eaten much for a day, looked at the people who still couldn't see the end and directly asked Ni Yuanlu, who had dissuaded him several times to continue the trial.
"When I sentencing, I did not use the Ming law as the standard, but my own conscience as the standard." Yan Fei, whose eyes were a little red, looked at Ni Yuanlu. "When you think it's serious, you should think about how helpless and painful those persecuted were at that time! What you have to do is to protect the interests of the victims, not the criminals! You have to make sure that every criminal is punished as it deserves! They must pay the price for the evil deeds they have done!"
Ni Yuanlu looked at Yan Fei silently, and after her heart was full of twists, she sighed heavily, "I hope the Grand Governor will not implicate the innocent."
"Who is innocent?" Yan Fei calmly lit a cigarette. "Why are you innocent? Are you talking about the female family and children? The living supplies they enjoy, the high-quality life quality they enjoy, and the servants and the envied identity of others? Didn't they get the exploitation of their fathers and brothers for evil? Those who are bullied by them are the real innocent!"
Yan Fei's concept made Ni Yuanlu unable to refute it at all. What he was most afraid of at this time was that Yan Fei's eyes were red and his eyes began to be implicated without any difference. In that case, God knew how many people would die before Yan Fei could stop.
"Please rest assured to the Grand Commander." Ni Yuanlu comforted Yan Fei with kindness. "I will definitely enforce the law impartially and will never let a bad person go."
"All the illegal gains must be recovered." Yan Fei carefully reminded him, "Their family is not qualified to enjoy these illegal gains. I am already very compassionate to not retrieve all their food, drink, use, and wear in the past. Don't force me."
Yan Fei left Confucius Temple amid the sound of the tsunami of the people around him, leaving Ni Yuanlu to continue his previous work.
"How is King Fu?" Yan Fei came to the palace and sat down in the hall without any hesitation. He looked at Wang Dehua, who came to report on his work, and asked about King Fu's placement work.
"Eat when you should eat, and when you should sleep, it seems like nothing is wrong." Wang Dehua showed the eunuchs' standard pleasing smile on his face. "I took a nap at noon, but I also found a concubine to sleep. Governor, you are really right. These princes are really like pigs."
"Send King Fu onto the boat, use the ocean fishing ferry to send it directly to the Tianjin Guard and then hand it over to the emperor. How to deal with him is up to the emperor, this is their housework." Yan Fei waved his hand. "As for his family, all the servants and servants have committed evil deeds. If they don't have one, they will give money to severance fees to make their own way to make their own way. As for his wife and children, take care of them first and then move them to Luzon to live incognito."
"Grandmaster, you are really like a Bodhisattva." If you want to flatter, no one in this era can compare to these eunuchs who have already practiced to the top level of observing words and expressions. "In the past, these relatives who committed crimes must be punished with all their crimes. Even if they are open, they can only be males under twelve to enter the palace as the lowest eunuchs. The female relatives must all be sent to the Washing Clothes Bureau and the Teaching Furniture. That is, you are kind and give these people a way out. If you think about it, they will surely burn incense and worship Buddha in the future for their kindness."
"It's almost the same as I'll go to death by burning incense and worshiping Buddha." Yan Fei wouldn't be so angry that he couldn't figure out his own situation just because of a few flattering words.
He destroyed the power of the King of Fu, and let them fall from the high-ranking people to the clouds and fall into the mud where anyone can step on a few feet. In this case, burning incense and worshiping Buddha can only curse themselves, and they will never be grateful.
"You go and count the temples inside and outside the city." Yan Fei told Wang Dehua to check the temples near Jinling City. "Calculate their land and land, and confiscate all the extra land except the prescribed monk fields. Don't let anyone do evil deeds go. After counting, give me the information. Don't eat vegetarian food and chant scriptures all day long, and try hard to grab the land like a landlord and sing gentry. I'll help the Buddha educate them. In the future, all temples in various places will be disposed of in this way."
In the late Ming Dynasty, land annexation was extremely tragic. Not only were the wealthy landlords and gentry snatched the land, but even temples used various means to plunder the land of farmers. Some temples with great incense even had tens of millions of acres of fertile land.
Yan Fei was determined to reorganize the land. Not only would the land of wealthy families be confiscated, but these temples that were no longer vegetarian and chanting Buddha's name would not be spared.
Chapter completed!