Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 92: Arresting the Former Prime Minister Liu Jian (Part )
At this time, Liu Jian didn't know what was happening outside. He was annoyed by the people making trouble outside, and even walked towards the outer courtyard himself.

Suddenly, the door of Liu's mansion opened and Liu Jian walked out.

Behind him followed a dozen or so gorgeously dressed brothers and nephews from the same clan, as well as hundreds of slaves, all with ferocious faces and holding sticks.

Liu Jian shouted directly, "Beat them for me! Beat these bandits to death! Hand them over to the government office and let them collect their bodies!"

When the student Wu Xingyuan heard Liu Jian say that they were bandits and were to be killed, he became anxious and afraid. Since Zhang Yong said he would help him, he knelt down in front of Zhang Yong and said, "Eunuch, please help us! We are not bandits or bandits. We just want the elder to help us and ask his family to return our land to us!"

Here, Liu Jian also noticed that there were so many soldiers and officers outside, and he couldn't help but stop the servants in his mansion.

At the same time, Liu Jian also saw the eunuch Zhang Yong. His heart sank and he began to have a premonition that something bad was going to happen.

At this time, Zhang Yong happened to have finished reading the petition of the student Wu Xingyuan, and said with a smile: "Today, I will make the decision for you. Come, kill Yan Yang, the governor of Henan who seized the people's land!"

As soon as Zhang Yong finished speaking, he looked at Liu Jian.

Liu Jian shouted, "Wait, Zhang Yong, you are just an official in the inner court. How can you be qualified to kill an official who is close to the people?"

"This eunuch is not qualified, but the emperor is!"

Zhang Yong bowed his hands towards the north, then took out the imperial edict: "I obey your order! Liu Jian and Xie Qian murdered the emperor and disrupted the government, undermining the righteousness between the emperor and his subjects in the Ming Dynasty. They are unforgivable crimes. At the request of all officials and for the sake of the Ming Dynasty's long-term future, Zhang Yong, the governor of Fengyang, is ordered to bring all nine clans of Liu Jian and Xie Qian to the capital and execute all the disciples and old friends of the ten clans!"

Zhang Yong then added, "According to the court's opinion, your students and old friends do not need to be brought to the capital. If I see one, I will kill one. If I see a pair, I will kill a pair! Prefect Yan himself admitted that he was your student, so I can kill him!"

After Zhang Yong said this, Liu Jian and the Liu family members behind him were all greatly surprised!

At this time, the officers and soldiers under Zhang Yong had already captured Yan Yang and were about to pin him to the ground and behead him.

Seeing this, Yan Yang hurriedly shouted to Liu Jian: "Master, save me! Master, save me!"

Click!

Zhang Yong chopped off Yan Yang's head with his own knife, and the blood spilled in front of Liu Jian.

Liu Jian was completely shocked and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

The other members of the Liu family present were also stunned!
The prefect was killed just like that?!

The disciple of the cabinet's chief minister was killed just like that?!
Is the imperial court really going to arrest us and confiscate our Liu family?!
The people were also speechless!
This eunuch really made the decision for us and killed the prefect? ​​!
At this time, Liu Xi was the first to ask Liu Jian with concern: "Master, what should we do now? Does the court want to kill our Liu family?"

"Eunuch!"

Liu Jian did not answer Liu Xi. At this moment, he was completely enraged by Zhang Yong's act of killing the prefect Yan Yang without authorization! So he instinctively cursed Zhang Yong and shouted:
"You forged the imperial edict and tried to murder loyal officials! I will never coexist with you!"

As he spoke, Liu Jian pointed at Zhang Yong and started cursing.

Zhang Yong actually laughed, wiping the blood off the knife. "Liu Jian, you really won't cry until you see the coffin. You are so stubborn. Li Dongyang has confessed everything, why are you still quibbling? Remember Zhang Yu and Liu Wentai? They also confessed. You three cabinet ministers are the masterminds of the regicide. When the ministers in the court found out, they were all indignant. They all called you ambitious, ungrateful, and treacherous. They forced His Majesty to issue an edict to execute your ten clans. It shows how infuriating what you did is!"

Liu Jian almost fell to the ground after hearing what Zhang Yong said, but he still held the crutch tightly, and cold sweat broke out on his head.

Liu Jian looked at Zhang Yong, the officials behind him, the common people present, and the prefect Yan Yang whose head and body were separated, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

However, Liu Xi and other members of the Liu family began to panic and looked at Liu Jian in disbelief and worry.

"They are falsely conveying the imperial decree! They are framing us! Kill them!"

Liu Jian roared wildly and bewitched the people present: "Fellow villagers, these eunuchs are here to bring disaster to the village. They want to take away your land. Drive them away!"

"Harming the village? Who is harming the village? I believe the people can see clearly!" Zhang Yong said to Wu Xingyuan and other people, "Fellow villagers, I am a eunuch. What Liu Jian said is correct, but today I am here to make the decision for you. To be more precise, I am here to make the decision for you on behalf of the emperor. It is the Liu family who took your land. If you want to get your land back, disperse and don't be deceived by the rebels. Otherwise, you will be treated like the prefect and treated as an accomplice of the rebels. No leniency will be shown!"

Zhang Yong said, "Load your guns!"

At this time, the people were able to distinguish right from wrong and knew that there was no benefit in staying, but they did not go far. They were also hoping that Zhang Yongzhen could make the decision for them and return the land to them.

The firearms soldiers under Zhang Yong's command walked up in an orderly manner with their matchlock guns, lit the matchlocks, and pointed them at the hundreds of slaves in front of Liu's gate!
These firearms soldiers were seconded by Zhang Yong from the Shenji Camp in order to scare these slaves. After all, people of this era already knew that firearms were more terrifying than bows and arrows.

The slaves in Liu's mansion were fine with bullying common people, but as soon as they saw the regular soldiers and officers from the Shenji Camp, they wet their pants.

Out of the hundreds of slaves, only a dozen loyal ones rushed forward and were beaten to pieces.

The rest ran in other directions.

Even Liu Jian's nephew, Liu Xi, the current housekeeper of the Liu Mansion, knelt down in fear: "Please spare my life, Grandpa! I really didn't know that my uncle had done such a treasonous thing! I am willing to sever ties with my uncle, and I beg you to spare my life!"

Seeing this, Liu Jian's face darkened. He pointed at Liu Xi and was speechless for a long time. Then he collapsed to the ground and sighed:
"You are a good man, Li Binzhi! You are a good planner, but what did you come up with?"

As Liu Jian said this, he wanted to bang his head against the wall and commit suicide!

But when Liu Jian ran halfway, he saw a solid wall and thought it would be painful if he hit it. He was a little scared and just stepped back.

Liu Jian saw a knife dropped by a servant in his house on the ground, and hurriedly picked it up. He wanted to draw the knife to commit suicide, but he still couldn't bear to cut his own neck.

Zhang Yong, who was originally so frightened that he wanted to personally stop Liu Jian from committing suicide, was relieved when he saw this. He only ordered the soldiers to arrest the rest of the Liu family, and he personally came to Liu Jian and said, "Why don't you commit suicide!"

Liu Jian suddenly hugged Zhang Yong's feet and said, "Eunuch Zhang, I beg you, kill me, kill me. If you kill me, I will tell you where my private vault is!"

Zhang Yong didn't expect that Liu Jian, who had been so arrogant and looked down on him before, would beg for mercy from him.

"Well, then, tell me where the treasury is?" Zhang Yong asked.

Liu Jian hurriedly told Zhang Yong about the silver vault.

Zhang Yong nodded and ordered, "Keep the rebel Liu Jian under close guard. Don't let him die, or you will pay with your lives! Do you understand? Also, take people to dig a ten-foot deep under the three green pines outside the Liu family's ancestral tomb, load the silver inside onto a truck, and prepare to transport it to the capital!"

Liu Jian listened and pointed at Zhang Yong angrily: "You! You! You lied to me!"

Zhang Yong thought that he definitely couldn't embezzle so much money. Once the emperor sent people to find out, he would be dead. This Liu Jian was obviously trying to harm him.

Therefore, Zhang Yong just smiled and said, "So what if I lied to you!"

Zhang Yong said as he waved his big hand: "Copy it! Copy it thoroughly! Don't let anyone go, and don't leave a single penny behind!"

As Zhang Yong spoke, countless soldiers rushed into the inner courtyard of Liu's mansion. At the same time, many clerks from the Royal Tax Bureau followed them in with abacuses. A person in charge directly ordered: "Put the gold and silver here, put the land deeds and account books here, men put their money on this, and women put their money on this!"

Zhang Yong naturally did not go to search the houses himself, but he was supervising from the side and ordered, "Be quick! There should be no delay in arresting people and confiscating their houses! Don't take advantage of beautiful women who can't move their legs, and don't think about putting the money in your own pocket. Once discovered by this eunuch and the inspection team, they will be executed for the crime of delaying military affairs! Anyway, His Majesty has issued an order. There will be benefits after the New Year when the houses are confiscated and people are arrested. There is no need to rush. As for the women, there is no need to rush. They will be sent to the Jiaofangsi by then. You can take the money given to you by the court after the house is confiscated and you can arrest whoever you want first!"

Don't worry about the scholars saying you are vulgar then. If you didn't go to the Jiaofangsi, how would the Ministry of Rites support the scholars in the world? To put it bluntly, the scholars you arrested now are the ones raised by whores, so don't be polite to them, arrest those who should be arrested, and beat those who don't obey!"

After hearing this, the officers and soldiers who were confiscating the Liu family's property became more active in confiscating the property.

Seeing this, Liu Jian couldn't help but wail in pain: "Oh my God! How could this happen! My Liu family is finished! I, Liu Jian, feel so sorry for my ancestors!"

Thanks to my book friend Canmeng Yicou·Zhiwei Huakaibanxia for the reward of 200 Qidian coins. Thank you to my book friend Pokemon I Love the Most for the reward of 100 Qidian coins. Sorry, I was too busy chasing the drama today and forgot to update. I would also like to make a special note that no matter whether Zhang Yong will be loyal or treacherous in the future, he is not a villain now. After all, his interests are still consistent with Zhu Houzhao. It may change in the later period. The death of Liu Jin in history is estimated to have some impact on the eunuchs. In short, Zhang Yong still has to be used in the early stage of this book. From a rational point of view, there is no way to use the God's perspective to directly kill Zhang Yong, and this will easily make the other eight tigers feel uneasy.

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