600 miles, urgent!
The entire court was in an uproar.
Could it be that Yang He really colluded with the bandits?
When Chong Zhen heard this voice, it was like the sound of nature. He quickly said,"Hurry, hurry up and present it!"
Wang Chengen did not dare to delay. He walked down the steps and took the memorial from the young eunuch's hand and presented it to Chongzhen.
Chong Zhen anxiously began to read the contents, and the smile on his face froze!
The more he read, the uglier Chong Zhen's expression became!
This memorial was filled with Yang He's illegal deeds!
It was fine if he embezzled the army's pay!
Yang He actually colluded with bandits and tried to raise bandits to gain self-respect!
Most of them have letters with Shaanxi bandits!
No wonder the Shaanxi bandits couldn't be exterminated!
Forget it!
Yang He actually raised a group of bandits himself!
Not to mention snatching the army's pay!
They even allowed this group of bandits to occupy more than ten counties in the northern Shaanxi region, collect money from the people, bully men and women, and prey on the people!
No wonder the Shaanxi bandits raised their arms and shouted, and the people responded!
The natural disaster had already made it impossible for the commoners to survive!
Yang He was still oppressing the people so cruelly!
It would be strange if the people did not rebel!
Chong Zhen read between the lines. Each and every one of them was eating people!
It was really hard for him to imagine how the people of Shaanxi, who had suffered natural disasters one after another, could survive under such oppression!
If it were him, he would also rebel against the Imperial Court!
Chongzhen was so angry that his entire body was trembling!
He had never mistreated Yang He!
If they wanted food and money, Chongzhen would tighten his belt and grit his teeth to hold on!
All the military pay and rations had never been lessened!
Today, he finally understood that he was an idiot!
All the money and food had fallen into Yang He's hands!
Yang He deserved to die!
Great Ming had such man-eating vermin, how could there not be a national subjugation!
"Bastard!"
"Preposterous!"
"How is Yang He a border official? He is clearly a parasite of the Great Ming Dynasty, sucking the blood of the people!”
Chong Zhen directly smashed the memorial on Qin Shiwen's head. His eyes were red as he said angrily,"Take a good look!"
Chongzhen was really furious this time!
First, there were Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, the two ministers he trusted, who were corrupt, extorted bribes, and formed cliques for personal gain!
Now, there was a border official he had entrusted with an important task who embezzled military pay, raised bandits, and colluded with officials and thieves!
Could it be that the Great Ming Dynasty was filled with corrupt officials?
How hateful!
How hateful!
Qin Shiwen picked up the memorial and looked at it. When he saw the various things on it, his face turned pale in shock.
"Your Majesty, I don't know about this matter. I implore Your Majesty to investigate!”
Qin Shiwen trembled and kowtowed.
"Shut up!"
Chongzhen was filled with anger. Ever since he had ascended the throne, he had never been so angry in the court.
"Your Majesty, please calm down!"
The rest of the officials would also be frightened by Chongzhen.
"Pass down my decree, the Embroidered Uniform Guards will immediately confiscate Yang He's family and kill ten clans!”Chong Zhen roared.
The entire court was in an uproar.
Cheng Jiming and the others 'expressions changed drastically.
Throughout history, other than the Yongle Dynasty, where Fang Xiaoru's ten clans were executed, there had never been such a severe punishment!
Moreover, Fang Xiaoru's ten clans being executed also became a stain in Emperor Yongle's life!
Under normal circumstances, forget about ten clans, even if it was a rebellion, only nine clans would be executed!
"Your Majesty, please retract your order!"
"Your Majesty, even if Yang He has committed a heinous crime, Your Majesty can punish him severely. Killing ten clans will implicate a wide range of people.”
Cheng Ji Ming was extremely agitated.
"Your Majesty, killing ten clans is of great importance. No matter how heinous the crime is, it shouldn't be done like this.”
Qian Xiangkun and the others hurriedly knelt down and pleaded.
Chongzhen was still fuming. This time, he was even angrier than when he found out that Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren were corrupt!
He thought that he was a wise ruler!
However, any random person he investigated would be a heinous criminal!
He had already reached the point where he could not tolerate it anymore!
"I've made up my mind!"
"Don't plead for mercy!"
Chong Zhen swept his gaze across the court and said,""Are you people who kneel down to beg for mercy so clean?”
"From today onwards, I will not tolerate it or give in!”
"He dares to suck the blood of the people of Ming Dynasty, this one will take the lives of his entire family!”
Chong Zhen's furious voice resounded throughout the entire hall.
All the officials in the court were trembling.
"Pass down my decree. Investigate thoroughly. From Shaanxi to the capital, kill all nine generations of those who participated in this matter!”
"You want the Great Ming Empire to fall and want me to die, but I don't care. Before the Great Ming Empire falls, I want to kill all the people in the world who destroy the Great Ming Empire!”
"Also, investigate all of you who pleaded for Yang He!”
"Once it is verified that he has committed a crime of corruption, he will be sentenced to the same crime as Yang He and will be executed!”
"I won't let any of them off!"
Chong Zhen's furious voice echoed throughout the entire hall.
When Qin Shiwen heard this, his eyes rolled back on the spot and he fainted.
As for the rest of the people who pleaded for Yang He, their faces were trembling. Some of the officials even had pale yellow liquid flowing out from their legs.
Chong Zhen looked coldly at all the officials and left the palace in anger.
……
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After Chongzhen's decree was issued, all the Brocade Guards were mobilized, causing a commotion in the streets and alleys of the capital.
Yang He and Yang Sichang were both captured!
Apart from that, Yang He's ten clans were also captured!
Many commoners gathered around and discussed.
"Why are there so many Embroidered Uniform Guards? Did something big happen?”
"I heard that His Majesty wants to kill Yang He's ten clans!”
"What?!"
"Isn't Your Majesty too cruel?"
"What cruelty? This Yang He deserves it. Not only did they raise bandits and respect themselves, but they also colluded with Shaanxi bandits to oppress the people. They made it impossible for the people of Shaanxi to survive, and many of them rebelled!”
"There's actually such a thing!"
"Then he really deserves it. It's not overboard to kill ten clans. Such a person should be skinned alive!”
"Your Majesty is wise!"
“……”
The news of Yang He spread throughout the capital.
No one sympathized with Yang He!
Other than Yang He, the Brocade Guard also found out that Qin Shiwen and more than ten other ministers who had pleaded for Yang He in the court had colluded with Yang He!
Chongzhen will kill all ten clans!
There was no need to execute him after autumn. After verifying his identity, he would be executed immediately!
Yang He, Qin Shiwen, and the rest of the ten clans were all involved. There were more than 30,000 of them, and they were all taken to the execution ground, their heads rolling!
The sky above the capital seemed to be dyed in the color of blood.
In addition, there were more than ten officials in Shaanxi Province who were found to have colluded with Yang He. All of them were executed, and the number of people was as high as ten thousand!
The entire court was shocked!
The world was shaken!
This was also the biggest case since the founding emperor's reign!
The entire Great Ming officialdom was in a state of panic!
No one dared to anger Chongzhen at this time.
This time, Chongzhen was really angry!
He had really had enough!
What Zhu Ci Xin said was right. If he wanted to save Da Ming, he had to kill him!
Therefore, Chongzhen no longer cared about his reputation!
Now, he also understood that killing these people would cause Great Ming to be in turmoil. Not killing these people would also break Great Ming's foundation!
Rather than that, it was better to kill to his heart's content!
The current him only had one thought. Whoever destroyed Da Ming, he would kill that person's entire family!
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