One Hundred and Fourteen, torture and recovery of stolen goods (Part 1)

On the night of December 12, General Ferry Taylor led the guards and a group of senior officers, with a little uncontrollable curiosity, and excitedly entered Nanjing City. He first inspected the palace, and finally they all felt... very, very disappointed.

Although the entire palace looks quite majestic and spectacular from a distance, there are actually many buildings that are decaying. The painted carved beams and painted buildings are actually full of fading and insect-eaten traces. Cracks can often be seen on the bluestone floor tiles, and there are very few gold and jade decorations on the ancient shelves.

Even the sculptures of cranes and flying dragons in the emperor's Golden Palace were actually just some gilded bronzes.

As for the several warehouses that collected the emperor's treasury, they were already empty and clean enough to make the mouse slip. Even the relevant personnel searched in every way, and even snatched away the hairpins, earrings, bracelets and private money from the remaining palace maids. In the end, they only collected more than 3,000 taels of gold, more than 8,000 taels of silver, and hundreds of boxes of silk clothes, as well as several porcelain and calligraphy and paintings that could not be distinguished for a while. The rest were some quite bulky bronze and tin ware.

In addition to these physical objects, several female spoils were also found in the palace - about 300 palace maids who failed to follow Emperor Kant's imperial carriage, and several princesses of the Wanyan royal family were left behind in a hurry.

Holding the infinite imagination of the oriental classical beauties, several male officers conducted inspections with great enthusiasm, but the results after the on-site inspection made them all feel depressed for a long time: the definition of "beauty" by the Manchu Jurchen royal family is really unimaginable - the most basic requirement for "beauty" is to be straightened, have a bulge belly, a silver basin, a big face, a big ** and a fat butt... Is this the female version of the ape Tarzan?

The only conceivable benefit of such a "round" body shape is probably that it is easier to give birth to offspring - Alas, it is indeed worthy of being the Tatars' court aesthetic, and it is simply full of the primitive tribal atmosphere of the barbarians.

In short, just look at these "beauties" with a fat face and a tiger's back and a bear's waist, it will be enough to make most of the hungry men in this world disappear in an instant - let alone go to bed, even if they keep it next to them, it will make people feel worried, and they always worry that the other party will have an attack.

Not to mention that they still maintain a certain degree of barbarian habits. Most of them don’t like bathing and washing clothes. The fishy smell like salted fish and goats on their bodies can make people pinch their noses and retreat...

Those princesses, at least, have golden branches and jade leaves, and their bodies and clothes are a little cleaner, but the problem is that their appearance... To be honest, it makes people feel like they are vomiting. Not only does their faces look like horse faces, but their yellow teeth are even more dinosaurs than dinosaurs, and they are generally aging before they grow old and their eyes are full of wrinkles, and they all look like someone else owes them millions of taels of silver.

——After seeing the appearance of these noble women of the Eastern Empire royal family, the various beautiful fantasies about the word "princess" in their hearts were immediately shattered by the cruel reality...

The remaining Han beauties are slightly better in appearance. Apart from being too short and having too flat breasts, at least their facial appearance and upper body are still normal. The only flaw is that according to the strange rules of this country, almost all Han women have wrapped their feet and made their feet look like red peppers.

Although local men seem to be quite respectful of this "three-inch golden lotus", after seeing the real thing with their own eyes, everyone shook their heads: In addition to the extremely smelly foot binding cloth, the appearance of this small foot is also quite terrifying - basically, it turns the soles of normal people into a deformed shape like a horse's hoof, and thus merges with the calf into a complete cylinder... Such a heavy and meaningless human body transformation makes people with strong adaptability feel nauseous - if you really like playing with hoofs, you can go to succubus, why are you doing tossing a living person like this?

(Note: The succubus, a specialty of Infinite Abyss, is the image of a chocolate-skinned beauty with cow horns and little goat hooves.)

In short, such a pitiful and shabby harvest made everyone feel disappointed, thinking that this was not like the place where the emperor lived. General Feili Taylor was even more worried - even the palace was so poor, how much money could be found in the capital?

However, the former Minister of the Interior Minister Ya Yian, who knew the mystery and the inner circle, looked as if he were taken for granted.

"...Don't worry, sir, since the emperor has packed his luggage and left Beijing, there will definitely not be much wealth left in the palace. Moreover, over the years of migration to the south, natural disasters and man-made disasters have been continuous, and military expenditures are huge. The royal family has always been unable to make ends meet, so naturally there is no spare money to build the palace and set up a show.

However, although the royal family is poor, civil and military officials and royal relatives are rich. For many years, the court has always been corrupt and hated by all the people. Therefore, in this capital, gold and silver have always been everywhere. As long as we work hard to punish these corrupt officials and recover stolen goods, we want to get only 70 to 80 million taels of silver, collect all the debts and military expenses, it is a matter of getting what we need..."

After nagging, he patted everyone with his chest and promised, "...it's useless to say more, let's look at our ability tomorrow."

So, starting from December 13, the unprecedented bloody and cruel "tolerant and stolen goods" operation was launched vigorously in the city.

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The so-called "towing torture and stolen stolen goods" is actually synonymous with large-scale arrests, house searches, extortion and robbery.

On December 13, the Duke of Yayi'an issued an order under the name of "General Manager of the Allied Forces torture the Battalion" to command a group of eunuchs' party to lock down the city, arrested a large number of royal relatives and officials of the former Dajin court and sixth rank and above. Then, these nobles were tied up with ropes and gathered them in the imperial garden of the palace. The Duke of Ya personally threatened and intimidated them. The specific content was simply just one sentence: take the money.

Moreover, the father-in-law Yayi'an also gave a clear price in detail: "...100,000 taels in the middle hall, the court, the capital, the prince 70,000 to 30,000 taels, the Ministry of Personnel or the Duke of the State 50,000 to 30,000 taels, the Hanlin 30,000 to 10,000 taels, each with a thousand rank, the royal relatives and nobles in Manchu must serve their own lives."

However, as the saying goes, good fortune is hard to give up, and taking money is like taking human life. If all the "meat tickets" are unwilling to pay the money, what should we do? The countermeasures of the father-in-law Yayi'an are very simple - "... Those who offer silver with pleasure will release them immediately; those who hide the silver without giving will be punished to serve them."

In order to make these wealthy mistresses who do not see the coffin and cry, they can have a more intuitive understanding of their future, Yayi'an's father-in-law has already ordered his subordinates to arrange them in advance, and put all kinds of torture instruments around the imperial garden, from sticks to nail beds to iron virgins, making this place of birds and flowers smell murderous. If you don't give money, you will torture you to death.

However, there are still many people in the world who want money but not life. Seeing that they have already been on the execution ground, these high-ranking officials and nobles are still fighting to cry for poverty. One said that their family had not eaten meat for several months, the next one cried and said that they even had patches on the sleeves of the official uniform, and another said that their father had no money to buy a coffin and bury them... In short, it was also a simple sentence: no money

The father-in-law Yayi'an was not vague and punished these wealth-guarding slaves on the spot - first using the clamping sticks he had made recently. This thing is known as the "ancestor of torture instruments", and "the wood all grows edges, and is connected with nails, and it is broken by bones to clamp people." Just a glance makes people tremble all over.

This kind of stick can not only clamp hands, but also feet. I saw a few eunuchs with a smirk on their faces. They first put the finger of a hard bone censor in the gap between the stick, then pulled the rope hard to make the bones twitch. With just two efforts, the censor sweated heavily, and his breath was so cold that his facial features twitched, and then he fainted from pain.

Then, after several eunuchs poured cold water to wake the prisoner up, they took out another pair of large clamp sticks connected by hinges, tied the rope to the other side, and clamped the prisoner's ankle in the middle. Then they hit the clamp stick with a hammer, and in a few strokes, there was another terrifying sound of bone shattering.

So, after rounds of squeezing the clamps, the censor quickly broke his fingers and his feet shattered, while the eunuchs were still tortured. In the end, his head was cracked by the punishment board, and his brain leaked out and died... It was really terrible.

The others were not idle either. They were all "served" by the backbone of the eunuch party with grin and grinned grin, beating the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the board, the soldering iron... For a moment, the crying and wailing sounded over the palace.

The officials and nobles in Nanjing originally thought that they had an extraordinary status and should have been decent. Unexpectedly, the old eunuch would not take this trick at all, so he was so scared that his hands and feet were weak, his shit and urine flowed, and even kowtowed and begged for mercy, which was full of ugly things.

There was a bannerman official in charge of the procurement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At first, he insisted that his family was very poor and had not eaten meat for half a year. At most, he could only take out 100 taels of silver. When the unlucky censor was used by Yayi'an to kill the chicken and warn the monkey, he was beaten to death in front of everyone. Then, after the bloody stick was taken under his nose, he was immediately frightened and immediately turned around, claiming that he was willing to take out 1,000 taels of silver to save his life.

But when the old man Yayi'an heard this, he sneered and snorted from his nostrils, "Oh, this has not been tortured yet, and he has already taken out a thousand taels of pocket money? Not bad, after careful 'servation', wouldn't this guy still spit out more? Young people, don't you still have the tricks to be more energetic and give our family a good fight."

So, all the eunuchs of the eunuchs immediately used all their strength to serve the stick, whip, water, fire, and sticks, and instantly beat the unlucky office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to a bloody and dying moment. Finally, they tortured the wealth worth 320,000 taels of silver...

——You must know that this old man Yayi'an was a minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for twenty years and had already developed a pair of sharp eyes in the officialdom. He could clearly understand the approximate market income of various official positions in the court, especially the gray income. The civil and military nobles in the court, whoever is poor or rich, can roughly be torn out how much property can be plundered. All the old man Yayi'an has a account in his heart, which ordinary people cannot deceive.

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Of course, besides the bloody and cruel torture, he did not forget to tempt the heart-wrenching soft words - mainly targeting the Eight Banners Man:

"...Hehe, I'm just pushing my money, right? Tsk tsk, don't think that if you die alone, your family and descendants can continue to enjoy the happiness. Even if all the foreigners don't take action, how can these angry Han people in the world spare you the Eight Banners children?

Now the Great Jin Dynasty is over. And you Manchus who steal the Central Plains are destined to be exterminated... Why? Don't believe it? Tsk tsk, looking at this today, whether it is the vassal states of various provinces or the Southeast Party, almost many of them are fanatical and advocating racial ** and proclaiming that they want to "ambition to eat the meat of the barbarians" can allow you, the "treacherous Tartars" to continue to live?

Let's not mention the distant things. Let's talk about the past few months. Which of the city that has been destroyed in Changsha, Fuzhou and Wuchang has not been washed away by blood? And your hometown in Liaodong has been occupied by the Tukan Iron Cavalry for more than 20 years. The remaining Manchus have been killed and even the ancestral tombs have been digging out... Our family has not deceived you in these things.

There is no place for you to stand in the Central Plains, and your hometown in Liaodong is in the hands of a mortal enemy. What other ways do you all have to go besides going to meet the King of Hell?

If you insist on being a wealthy slave, your final outcome will be that you will be beaten to death, your wife, daughter, and grandchildren will die in the revenge of the Han people, and all the Manchus in the world will be killed, and all the tribes will be killed, the race will be destroyed, and the bloodline will be cut off... In the end, you can only save the inheritance from outsiders - for example, those adventurers and thieves who are hunting treasures all over the world...

Therefore, although this gold, silver and treasure are good, they are always brought without life and death. Instead of holding on to this little property, it is better to use it for a life--if all the money is given to make all the foreigners happy, our family can protect them and reward you with a few places to move to the concession, just treat it as buying a boat ticket for immigrants to survive, so why not do it?"

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In the above series of people who fully grasp the weakness of human nature and are effective threats and temptations. With the use of both soft and hard, the tomb and stolen work led by Yayi'an Man-in-law quickly achieved considerable gains...

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"...Hehe, these corrupt officials are usually pampered and have a good life. They eat the rich and rich people's paste and have raised a white body with a very arrogant face. But in fact, as long as they whip, clamp the stick, and tighten their fingers, they will immediately reveal their true colors. Not to mention asking them to offer gold, silver and treasures, hum, even the beautiful wife and beautiful concubines and the unmarried daughter will still be taken out to save their lives."

Father-in-law Yayi'an stood in the blood-stained imperial garden, proudly showing off his "plundering achievements" to General Fili Taylor.

Behind a narrow and long desk next to it, several small eunuchs who knew the words were busy writing at their desks, recording the confession of "meat tickets", or flipping through a stack of thick books and details, checking the amount of silver reported after the search.

This "tolerance and stolen stolen goods" officially began on December 13th, and today is December 25th, which is basically coming to an end.

In these twelve days, Yayi'an's father-in-law ordered people to arrest more than 20,000 officials and nobles at all levels, and tortures were used every day to recover the stolen goods. For a moment, sticks and staff flew wildly, guns were fired, and ripped eyes and cut intestines. Countless tortures were performed with sacrificial voices in the capital, making the sound of mourning in the sky and the look of mess. And boxes of gold, silver and jewelry were transported to the coalition camp day and night.

According to preliminary statistics, the coalition torture camps led by the eunuchs under Yayi'an and his eunuchs had efficiently squeezed out 190 million taels of silver, 40 million taels of gold, more than 3,000 dou of pearls, gems, more than 80,000 pieces of silk and satin, and about 20 million stalks of copper coins from Beijing.

For General Ferie Taylor, after receiving this huge sum of money, it was more than enough to repay debts and repay military expenses.

At the same time, Feili herself has been on Zijin Mountain outside the city, leading troops to excavate two imperial tombs, as well as the tombs of officials and powerful families in the surrounding areas. She has been very tired after digging holes and transporting soil for days. Six or seven other people unfortunately died of the collapse of the earth and stones in the tomb robbery project, but only gold, silver and wealth worth more than 300,000 taels of silver, as well as some statues and calligraphy and paintings that are not easy to be cashed out.

Of course, in order to loot so much money, Yayi'an's father-in-law also used many cruel methods, cracked and branded, and was extremely vicious and never stopped. There were more than 1,600 miser people who were tortured and killed by him in the imperial garden, and their bodies were piled up like mountains outside the palace gate.

Even at the end of the "tombing and stolen stolen goods" cycle, there are still more than 30 guys in the imperial garden who are being tortured by the eunuchs of the eunuchs. The situation is like hell on earth.

These guys were either clamped with iron nails and ferocious clamps; or they were clamped with sharp edges and corners of subway zippers, bleeding from their fingers, broken bones and tendons; or they were burned red soldering irons, scorching their skin over and over, making their skin bloom all over the body, and the internal organs dripping oil, and smoke from their mouths... The screams were trampled on their hearts and lungs, and they were endless, which was so unbearable...
Chapter completed!