Liu Zongmin asked the flag official to report the amount of silver taels that each official had to pay, and there were really some officials in Beijing who sacrificed their lives and money, and hundreds of officials took the initiative to go into the prison.Liu Zongmin watched these people walk into the prison, and couldn't help sneering, praising it: "Okay, there is a kind" Then, he turned his head to look at Zhou Kui who was standing in the front row, revealing a kind look, and shouted to him with a smile, "National battle, Zhou Taishi" Zhou Kui knew that this was the expression of a wolf wanting to eat a sheep, and he couldn't help but tremble, and hurriedly agreed and walked up the steps.Liu Zongmin looked at him, still smiling and said in a very kind voice: "How much do you plan to donate" Zhou Kui had been pondering for a long time when he stood below, Liu Zongmin was really not Chongzhen, and he was afraid that he would not be able to bear it if he didn't pay it.He said timidly: "General, my family is thin, you know this.I'll take 50,000 yuan out, you see" Liu Zongmin's face immediately changed, and his voice cooled down and said: "Yes, you are also a hard bone." ”He pointed to the door of the prison and asked, "Do you go in by yourself, or will I send someone to bring you in?"
Beijingers like to use "you" to refer to high-ranking people or their elders to show respect for each other.Liu Zongmin also learned to use the word "you", but when this word came to his mouth, he felt panicked no matter how he heard it.Zhou Kui hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't, don't." ”asked in a consultative tone: "Or, you let me go back, sell most of the family property, and get together 100,000 yuan" Liu Zongmin smiled: "Oh, you can really joke about the national war, you have to sell your property for only 100,000 yuan, and sell most of it, look at what you said."
So, I'll send someone to send you back, you take 100,000 out, and we'll settle it.If you don't take it out, you will honestly follow my people back, and we will go through the hall.Don't think of other ways to fool me, if you dare not come back, what is my old Liu doing, you know in your heart "Zhou Kui is about to cry, that is distressing money, a ruthless heart, gritted his teeth, and promised Liu Zongmin.Liu Zongmin ordered a soldier to follow Zhou Kui.Seeing that they walked out of the yamen of Chengtian Mansion with their front feet, Liu Zongmin glanced at Liu You who was standing aside, and Liu You immediately went out with a team of 100 people.After just one meal, Liu You came back with the team and whispered a few words in Liu Zongmin's ear.Liu Zongmin was overjoyed and announced loudly: "It is still Taishi Zhou who is loyal to His Majesty of my family."
Zhou Taishi donated 530,000 taels, "Not to mention, everyone also understands in their hearts, Liu You must have led someone to copy Zhou Kui's house."
Liu Zongmin looked at Wei Zaode again, and asked with a wicked smile: "Scholar, how much are you going to pay" Wei Zaode asked with a serious face: "General Liu did this, does His Majesty the Emperor know" Liu Zongmin smiled and said: "His Majesty the Emperor has a lot of important things to do, and this little thing, General Ben will not trouble his old man to come forward in person." ”Wei Zaode snorted coldly and said: "Set up a private court, insult the minister, you are breaking the law, don't you know" Liu Zongmin put away his smile and said: "Lao Tzu is the head of the three armies, and what he sets up is the court, what he commits is also the law of your Ming Dynasty, now it is Dashun, Lao Tzu is the law" Wei Zaode said calmly: "The general's words are wrong."
We are all now the subordinates of His Majesty Dashun.Without the permission of His Majesty the Emperor, you are setting up a private court.If we are guilty, we should also be punished by the judges.The general is not an official in charge of officials, and this is not the official in charge of the law, and there is no express decree of His Majesty Dashun to detain the officials of the Dashun court without permission, and it is also the law of Dashun.The general claimed that he was the law, but he despised the Dashun court, and his eyes were unholy and tant, which was like a rebellion.If it is punished by law, the general will commit it, but it will be the crime of creating a rebellion against the Dashun court" Liu Zongmin made him almost go around the circle, and it took him a long time to understand, and laughed and said: "You dog officials, except for the clever nonsense, nothing else, Chongzhen just died in the verbal battle of your dog officials." ”Wei Zaode was still not interested, and continued to distinguish: "The general scolded us for being dog officials, isn't it insulting the current court, and what crime should be the crime of humiliating the current long live general" Liu Zongmin knew that in terms of bickering, he couldn't fight a Ming official for ten years, not to mention that this was still a scholar, and the former Ming court chief assistant only had a few words to implement his charge of rebellion.Fortunately, this is what Emperor Dashun meant, otherwise, he really jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it away.stopped talking nonsense with him at the moment, and said with a straight face: "It's useless to say anything else, you have to go out of here before you can sue Lao Tzu for rebellion." ”Just asked, "Say, pay or not" Wei Zaode is not a person who doesn't know how to be flexible, if he is as rich as Zhou Kui, he will definitely pay.Isn't it a joke to reason with bandits in these years, but although this person has not left much achievements in history, he is a relatively honest official and does not accept bribes.Occasionally, being a teacher and collecting some money from students is also something that cannot be carried out.He really can't come up with that much money.Looking at the general who couldn't stop this nonsense and became a habit, he had no choice but to tell the truth: "I have been an honest official all my life, and I rely on money to support my family, so I really don't have so much money. ”Where would Liu Zongmin believe that he would have no money, and sneered: "When you can't bear the torture instrument with your bones, you will have money." ”shouted loudly to the soldiers and put Wei Zaode in prison.Pity a man who is full of poetry and books, has good rhetoric, Chongzhen for thirteen years, is a scholar of Dongge University, the first assistant of the cabinet, and is a Hongru in the world, because he has no money, he is put in a prison cell and has to be tortured.Seeing that the two important ministers of the previous dynasty had ended up like this, the hundred officials knew that this bandit leader was no better than the emperor of the previous dynasty.No matter how Chongzhen treats his courtiers as inappropriate, he is also a civilized emperor, and he will not come up with a way to torture hundreds of officials and ask for money no matter what.Nowadays, these people have nothing to do with civilization, they are all real robbers, and if they are rich, they will naturally pay honestly, and those who are smart will find ways to pay less, and those who are not smart will inevitably go bankrupt.Those who don't have money are pitiful.Screams continued all day long in the Chengtianfu prison, and the corpses of former officials who had been tortured to death were dragged to the wasteland north of the city.The family cried and went to collect the corpse, and for a while, there was a rumor and a miserable scene all over the city.The Dongge University scholar Wei Zaode had his legs broken by a clamp stick, and he was covered in bruises, and he still couldn't tell where the family's money was hidden.Liu Zongmin sent people to his house to search three times, but only got 10,000 taels of silver.In a fit of rage, he took Wei Zaode's son and let him watch him be tortured.The poor filial son watched his father being tortured to death and came back to life, and his heart was like a knife.He lamented loudly: "My father and students can still help a few, but now that my father is in prison and the students have escaped, where can I find money?"
Wei Zaode was no longer punishable.The interrogator ordered the head to be clamped with a stick, and his brain burst in an instant, and he died of exhaustion Liu Zongmin still did not let go, and ordered Wei Zaode's son to be placed under the guillotine, and pay the money to stay alive, otherwise the head would be different.Wei Zaode's son was decapitated.The former Ming officials in Beijing were tortured to death, and more than 1,600 people were recorded in later generations
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