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Xie Dai took these documents one by one, nodded and said: "I will obey your orders."

Lord Jing'an smiled: "You don't have to go, you bring a dozen people with me, and the two of us will go to Shen's Mansion in Yongle Square."

Chapter 929

Not all prime ministers can afford to live in Yongle Fang, but Prime Minister Shen Kuan lives in Yongle Fang, which is not too far from Jing'an Hou's Mansion.

Shen Kuan was born in the Shen family of Wu Xing.

The Wu Xingshen family is a typical Jiangnan family. Long before the founding of the Jin Dynasty, the Wu Xingshen family produced a large number of talents. There are 150 people who have seen history books for hundreds of years, and 38 of them have official stories.

After Emperor Taizu established the Great Jin Dynasty, the Wu Xingshen family, as a Jiangnan family, began to serve as officials in the Jin court. In the first hundred years, the Wu Xingshen family was even lower than those of the Northern Zhou family. After the Great Jin ruled the world, the Jiangnan aristocratic families like Wu Xingshen's suddenly raised their heads, gradually took over the right to speak from the Northern Zhou aristocratic families, and began to dominate the direction of the officialdom.

People like Shen Kuan, who came from a family in the south of the Yangtze River, have made great progress in the imperial court. This is a good example, showing that the power of the family in the south of the Yangtze River has been expanding rapidly in the past 40 years.

This is called the southward migration of cultural context.

The Wu Xing Shen family is not only a scholar, but also a big landlord in the south of the Yangtze River. Almost [-]% of the land in Wu Xing is the property of their Shen family. When they came to ask to see the Shen family, the Shen family didn't necessarily give them face.

Last year, after Shen Kuan was granted the title of assistant minister, Wu Xing Shen's prestige reached its peak. Scholars from all over the world, even officials from all over the world, couldn't see Shen Kuan, so they went to the gate of Wu Xing Shen's family to ask for an interview, vying to become the Shen family. doormen.

With this family background, Shen Kuan will naturally not be short of money. In fact, he is the prime minister with the richest family background in the past few decades. In Yongle Fang alone, Wu Xing Shen's family has three properties.

It is also for this reason that Shen Kuan generally only accepts antiques, or rare books, calligraphy and paintings of predecessors, etc., and rarely accepts money, and is nicknamed an elegant minister by the public.

However, this "elegant minister" has been killed by Li Xin himself, and Wu Xingshen's family, even if they are not exterminated this time, will be seriously injured because of this, and they will even be directly knocked into the dust, and they have prospered for hundreds of years This is how his family fortune fell.

During the Taikang Dynasty, the Zheng family in Xingyang and the Li family in Zhaojun, a group of northern Zhou clans that have been passed down for thousands of years, have almost been buried in the tomb of history thanks to the tireless digging of several generations of emperors and the efforts of Li Xin, a landfiller. Here, and this time, since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, the Jiangnan aristocratic family in the local area will also be hurt by Shen Kuan alone.

Yongle Fang is not small, but it is not very big either. Shen Kuan's Prime Minister's Mansion is only two streets away from Jing'an Hou's Mansion. At the door of the house, Jing'an Hou's Mansion hid his hands in his wide sleeves, and glanced at Shen's Mansion indifferently.

"Go in and arrest people, as long as they are people in this house, no matter men, women, old or young, they will all be arrested."

Xie Dai sighed slightly, bowed and clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty obeys."

The Shanyin Xie family, like the Wu Xingshen family, is a family from the south of the Yangtze River. Now that the Wu Xingshen family is about to suffer, from the perspective of him, a descendant of the Jiangnan family, he is a bit sad.

All aristocratic families have a problem, that is, there are many servants. Li Xin's Jing'an Hou Mansion used to be Qi Wang's mansion. There are only a hundred or so, the house of Shen's residence is not big, at most it is less than half of Jing'an Hou's residence, but there are hundreds of servants in front and back.

Because of the large number of people in the Shen residence, Habayashi Wei's manpower was not even enough. Xie Dai caught half of the people, and then mobilized more than 30 Habayashi guards to help. The servants were summoned in the backyard of the Shen residence, while dozens of Shen Kuan's family members were all tied up and sent to the prison of Dali Temple.

This time, not only Shen Kuan's family members are to be arrested, but also his disciples, old officials, and even fellow clansmen and fellow villagers. If they are caught, they don't necessarily have to be killed, but to find out who participated in this "rebellion" middle.

As for Shen Kuan's family members, there is no need to interrogate them, because Shen Kuan has already decided to plot treason, and the Shen family will run amok, and these people will undoubtedly die.

After careful study, Wu Xingshen's family will also be implicated.

As early as when Emperor Yuanzhao had a conflict with Shen Kuan, Shen's residence was watched by the imperial guards, so Shen Kuan's family members were basically unable to escape, and they were all arrested. The arrest took more than an hour. During this process, Li Xin found a chair and sat quietly at the door of the Shen residence, closing his eyes and resting his mind.

This matter is for him to do, but he doesn't need to do it himself, he just needs to show his face and take the blame for it.

After arresting all the people, Xie Dai wiped the sweat from his brow, walked up to Li Xin, bowed his head and cupped his hands and said, "Teacher, all members of the Shen family have been imprisoned in Dali Temple, but there are hundreds more in the Shen family." The servants are now assembled in the backyard, and the servants suspect that there may be Shen family members hiding among these servants..."

"If you don't mind the trouble, then you go to investigate, find out the person hiding inside, and throw him into the prison."

Li Xin said calmly: "Today is only the first round of arrests. I will let the people of the criminal department interrogate the people arrested today. Next, Habayashi guards and the criminal department will cooperate. If they interrogate one person, you will arrest one person. "

Having said that, Li Xin paused.

"If you encounter any resistance, say that you have followed my order."

To be a scapegoat is to look like a scapegoat. Li Xin has never been afraid of offending others.

Xie Dai glanced at Li Xin with a complicated expression, and then bowed his head deeply: "I will obey your orders."

In his heart, he still admired the present Tutor in front of him.

In terms of age, he is not much younger than the Taifu, but he is much inferior to Li Xin in terms of knowledge, means, status in the court, and even wisdom.

Lord Jing'an stood up from the chair and stretched a lot.

"Tomorrow the announcement will be posted, saying that the left servant of the Shangshutai will shoot Shen Kuan in plotting to usurp, copy and behead all the people, and kill all the people arrested today in Xishi Street three days later."

"If you can't find the executioner, let the people from Jingzhao Mansion look for it. They are familiar with this job. I will go to Xishi Street to supervise the execution in three days."

Xie Dai smiled wryly and said: "Teacher, the court's murder requires the local government to report the murder, and the Ministry of Punishment will review it, and then the emperor will be popular. You can't kill it just like that..."

"Also, the place where officials were beheaded was not West Market Street, but Liushufang North Street..."

Lord Jing'an smiled slightly.

"Xishi Street is the place where rebels are beheaded. In Chengde, I don't know how many rebels were beheaded on Xishi Street."

There are two cities in the capital, the east and the west, that is, the place where things are traded. The things in the west market are cheaper, so the flow of people is very large, and there are mixed fish and dragons. After these rebels were caught, they were cut in half on West Market Street.

The purpose is simple, to deter ordinary people and make them more peaceful.

Li Xin's face was calm: "I will get the document for the murder of the court, and Xie Lang will do it in the future."

Xie Dai nodded helplessly, and went down to lead others to do some work.

Li Xin, with his hands behind his back, went back to the Jing'an Hou Mansion to sleep soundly.

Just when the capital's "liquidation" was in full swing, a six-hundred-mile letter was urgently delivered to the capital from the southwest, and then delivered directly to the table of the emperor in the palace.

The content of the letter is very simple, only two or three lines.

"Our army and the Southwest Army fought outside the Jiange. The enemy had thunder and firearms, and our army was defeated."

It was signed by Xie Jing, the deputy general of the Hanzhong Army.

After the young emperor read the letter, his complexion instantly turned ugly.

Chapter 930 Is the teacher promoted?

Before Li Xin left Southwest, he had asked Mu Ying to find a way to take the initiative to fight against the imperial court's garrison in Hanzhong. The leader of the Hanzhong army was Ye Lin, the fourth son of the Ye family. Unless the imperial court ordered him to do so, he would not It is easy to attack the Southwest, but once the Southwest takes the initiative to provoke, it will be quite different.

After all, the Hanzhong Army still had a lieutenant general, Uncle Guo Xie Jing, and with Xie Jing watching, Ye Lin had no choice but to bite the bullet and fight the Southwest Army who had left the Jiange, and the result was self-evident.

Although the main forces of the two sides did not fight each other, but their vanguard troops touched each other, but the effect of something that has never been seen on the battlefield, Tianlei, is still amazing. Although this kind of thing does not have large-scale direct lethality, as long as it goes to Throw one in the enemy's formation, and the enemy's formation will immediately be in chaos. After some contact, the Hanzhong Army killed hundreds of people, seriously injured more than 1000, and slightly injured more than 2000.

On the other side, there were no more than 300 casualties in a row on the enemy side. No matter from any point of view, the Hanzhong Army was defeated this time.

If this battle was commanded by Ye Lin, Xie Jing could still say that Ye Lin deliberately released water to the Southwest, but this time the local battle was led by the uncle of the country himself, and he was killed by the Southwest Army in just one or two hours. He was defeated and fled back to Hanzhong.

As a last resort, he could only write a letter to the court himself.

At the end of the letter, the uncle Guo deliberately added a sentence.