Chapter 1588 Get Rich Again
The entire Jinling was blocked for three full days. During these three days, the gates of Jinling only allowed the convoys transporting vegetables and food to enter. Others, unless they have a pass issued by Shen Long himself, otherwise no matter what your identity is, It is strictly forbidden to enter and leave, even for the most senior officials.
In fact, there are not many unscrupulous officials looking for bad luck at this time. The senior officials of the Sixth Department of Jinling locked their homes and did not leave their homes. Only some low-ranking cannon fodder were brought out for testing. The defense system composed of Tengxiang's four guards was hit head-to-head in front of it.
Don't talk about breaking the gate, as long as they dare to yell at the city gate guards, they will be taken down immediately, and then they will be detained with Xu Hongji, Zhao Zhilong, Zhu Guobi and the others. An extremely sad end, but I can't blame others for this, who made them blindfolded and bumped into it by themselves, Jin Yiwei and Dongchang are not doing charity.
As for the food supply in the city, there is no problem at all. Now Jinling has been tightly controlled by soldiers from Tengxiang Four Guards and Jingying, as well as Jinyiwei and Dongchang. Those grain stores and firewood shops dare to hoard at this time. That is the end of being ransacked and questioned, and the food and firewood they accumulated will be sold to the people of Jinling at a low price.
They already had a lot of savings in their shops, and with the confiscation of the property of these dignitaries, civil servants, and eunuchs, it is not a problem to supply the people of Jinling for three days. Under high-pressure control, the people of Jinling They all stayed at home safely, except that they were a little bored, but their daily life could still go on.
Those officials who had discord with Zhu Guobi on weekdays and a few nobles felt extremely fortunate. They undoubtedly escaped a catastrophe. These people also realized the opportunity and abandoned those people without hesitation. They all It is very clear that once these people are purged, a lot of interests will be vacated around Jinling and even the whole of Jiangnan, and then they will be able to make a lot of money.
So these people quickly turned into upright officials who didn't rub the sand in their eyes, and produced evidence of Xu Hongji, Zhao Zhilong, Zhu Guobi, etc. and their families' past crimes. Shen Long was not surprised by this at all. This group has never been a whole, and there are various contradictions among them.
If there is nothing wrong, everyone may still be in harmony, and follow various public and private rules to distribute benefits; but once encountering major events, they will not hesitate to abandon the partners who used to cooperate happily and turn to Fight for greater interests for yourself, and this time is of course no exception.
From Wei Guogong's Xu family down, Jinling's nobles began to accumulate wealth early from the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and those who were later were decades or a hundred years old. The wealth accumulated over such a long period of time is undoubtedly astronomical. Numbers, even if Jinyiwei and Dongchang ransacked their homes and confiscated all their gold, silver, soft goods, and antique relics, these are far from all the wealth held by the nobles of Jinling, not even one-tenth.
All over the land in the south of the Yangtze River, the shops in the best locations in cities such as Jinling, Gusu, and Lin'an, and the monopoly channels for popular commodities such as tea, raw silk, rice, silk cloth, and porcelain are all in the hands of Jinling nobles. The imperial court can take away their floating wealth, but they can't take it away.
As long as this opportunity is used to completely kill Xu Hongji and other nobles, the imperial court can certainly take away the floating wealth, and these things will surely fall into their hands. This is a rare opportunity in a century. Earn wealth for your family that you couldn't accumulate in the previous hundred years.
As a result, the whole of Jiangnan became excited, and the gentry and wealthy families and wealthy merchants all participated in this feast of dividing up the inheritance of Jinling's nobles. Mastering something, you can guarantee,
From top to bottom, these families can't even clean the stone lions at the entrance of their mansion.
"Hehe, what did they do in the past? Why didn't these things be brought out before?" Seeing those piles of criminal evidence, Shen Long sneered, but he was very clear. Didn't the rich merchants do it?
They must have done it before, and they must have colluded with Xu Hongji, Zhu Guobi and others in the past. Shen Long couldn't be more clear about the morals of the Ming gentry, nobles and wealthy merchants.
"Show all these things to Zhu Guobi, Xu Hongji and the others, and then I took them to the gate of Daying and burned them." Shen Long didn't want to use these things to deal with Zhu Guobi and Xu Hongji. Haven't the Hao family done it? Using such charges to deal with them will only make the hearts of the whole Jiangnan float.
The crime of dealing with Zhu Guobi, Xu Hongji and others is ready-made. The crime of using troops and horses without authorization is enough. There are only two things I care about, whether they have fulfilled their responsibilities to help Da Ming train a strong army, and whether they have brought benefits to Da Ming when they made money?
Nowadays, the Jiangnan Guards are so corrupt that they can't stand a fight at all, and Daming didn't get any benefits from these nobles, so what's the use of keeping them?
Shen Long personally sits in the township, and Jinling Dali Temple, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the Inspectorate jointly interrogated the three divisions, and quickly confirmed the crimes of this group of Jinling honorables. , It couldn’t be easier to find evidence. Maybe Jinling Xungui did a lot of similar things before, but from the court law, these are absolutely treasonous and unforgivable crimes.
The verdict came out soon. Zhu Guobi, Xu Hongji, Zhao Zhilong and other Jinling nobles, as long as someone in their family went to Zhu Guobi's house for dinner, gave gifts, or had soldiers under his command who were borrowed by Zhu Guobi, they would all be executed. For the sake of merit, Shen Long gave them a face, they could choose a death method between poisoned wine and three-foot white silk.
Naturally, the titles their ancestors earned for Daming were gone, and their three clans were also exiled to Dayuan Island, and their family property was naturally confiscated by the court.
The property lists compiled by the Jinling household department and the imperial treasury were piled up in several houses. When the final statistical results were sent to Shen Long, after reading it, he could only feel that he had made a fortune again this time.