In addition to the 500,000 taels of military salary to Gao Jie, Chongzhen also reissed the military salary to Li Guodong this time, and he also repaid 1.5 million taels of silver, and paid back 1 million taels of owed, and took out 3 million taels of silver. If it were the past, Chongzhen would have felt sorry for him, and there would not be 3 million taels of silver. Now Chongzhen is not short of money, and there are at least 70 million taels of silver in the inner treasury. In fact, Zhang Shuheng has confiscated more than 100 million taels of silver in the past four months, and he has left more than 20 million taels of silver himself. In fact, most of the more than 20 million taels of silver were used for military expenses for Li Guodong, and only a few of the silver was left for his brothers in the Jinyiwei. Wang Chengen got about 20 million taels of silver, and most of them were given to Chongzhen, and then gave it to Li Guodong part, leaving only a few brothers who were distributed to Dongchang.

Why did Wang Chengen give Li Guodong money? Because Li Guodong made great contributions and his army really needed a large amount of money. Wang Chengen also knew in his heart that at this time, the only one who could truly protect Chongzhen's safety was the only Huai Army.

"Ma Shiying is really honest. What a pity. Why do you have to rebel? Otherwise, he would be a good official." Wang Chengen walked out of Ma Shiying's mansion with the Dongchang mansion and muttered.

The prefect of the prefect of the Hongguang Dynasty actually only 50,000 taels of silver were collected. This was the least one Wang Chengen had since he began to search for houses, and it was in the wealthy Jiangnan area. Think about the houses of the gentry he confiscated when he was in Shandong. Any houses he confiscated were poor, and even more than 100,000 taels of silver were poor. When some big families confiscated their houses, they would be a few million taels of silver.

"Zhang Dusi, the Huai Army's people advanced to the city before, will Ma Shiying's money be taken away by them?" Wang Chengen asked.

Zhang Shuheng shook his head: "No, the Duke of Chu's Huai Army has strict military disciplines. We can only do the house search. He cannot steal money with His Majesty."

Wang Chengen thought for a while and felt that Zhang Shuheng was right. Li Guodong had held an auction in the capital and even made a lot of money for Chongzhen. He was not a person who could greedy for Emperor Mo's silver. So Wang Chengen asked again: "We also know that Duke Chu will not do it, but will his subordinates? Many of them were originally thieves."

"No, his subordinates dare not do such things without hiding them from the Chu State. The Duke of the State is strict in military discipline and beheads when he catches greedy silver. Originally, the Huai Army paid a lot and had a very superior military merit system. As long as his subordinates are not stupid, they cannot risk such a beheading."

During this period, the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang confiscated many gentry's homes near Nanjing, all of which were searching for rebellion. In short, the factory guards involved various crimes. Among Zhang Shuheng's Jinyiwei, many people from the former Ming Jinyiwei joined. These people fled back from the north one after another, or those Zhang Shuheng found them from all over the south of the Yangtze River. In this industry, the old Jinyiwei were the best.

Even if the accomplice and rebel officer had a little contact, he would be charged by the Jinyiwei and raid his home on the pretext of raiding his home. However, because Li Guodong secretly told Zhang Shuheng, those gentry related to Li Guodong's Jiangnan Donglin Silver, as well as those industrial and commercial gentry who used new looms, and those sea merchant gentry who made money by sea were deliberately avoided by the Jinyiwei, which made them escape the fate of being raided.

But those traditional land gentry were in trouble. Even if their families had done business with those who committed rebellious crimes, their homes would be confiscated.

Anyway, Li Guodong's purpose is to crack down on land gentry and support industrial and commercial gentry. With the increase of the population of the Ming Dynasty and the change of economic structure, the proportion of farmland taxes in fiscal revenue will become lower and lower, and the proportion of industrial and commercial taxes will become higher and higher. Even according to the current industrial and commercial tax of 30 taxes, as long as the tax can be collected, it will be higher than the agricultural tax.

The purpose of attacking the land gentry is to transform the landlord class and transform them into the bourgeoisie.

The officials in the court must have been called out for opposition after placing charges and confiscating the gentry's homes. However, Chongzhen, who had been in power for 17 years, resisted the pressure of the court officials and resolutely ordered Wang Chengen and Zhang Shuheng to search as many homes as possible.

"There are two other traitors, Chen Mingxia and Chen Zhilin. What's wrong with their families?" Wang Chengen asked.

Zhang Shuheng smiled and said, "Eunuch Wang, the lower officials are also preparing to talk about this. These two families have been secretly monitored by our Jinyiwei. They cannot escape and cannot transfer their property. Just wait for Eunuch Wang to give orders, we can take people over and copy a lot of their nine tribes."

Chen Mingxia's home is in Liyang, and Chen Zhilin's home is in Haining. The two of them have already been on the list of serious crimes of corruption. Chen Mingxia first surrendered to Dashun and then surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Chen Zhilin's crimes were even more serious. He first intended to assassinate Emperor Chongzhen, and then fled to the north to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. The major crimes committed by these two people were all serious crimes to kill the nine clans. However, Chongzhen was quite kind. During the 17 years of Chongzhen's reign, he had never killed any of his nine clans. Even those who committed heinous crimes such as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Hong Chengchou did not see Chongzhen destroy their nine clans. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had some relatives who were far away, but they were not killed. Hong Chengchou was extremely evil, and Chongzhen did not kill his mother and younger brother.

Therefore, Chongzhen agreed to Li Guodong's proposal to destroy the nine clans, kill fewer people and more people, and the house was confiscated.

This time, the factory guards went to destroy the nine clans of Chen Mingxia and Chen Zhilin, and only killed the parents, sons and brothers of these two people. The rest were not killed. The rules were still the same. The males were replaced by slaves. As for the female family members, the Jiaofangsi had already been overcrowded, and the old mothers and ugly women of the Clothing Washing Bureau were also full, so the disposal rights of those female family members were fully handled by the Jinyiwei.

Zhang Shuheng's method of handling is very simple. Sell all the young and beautiful ones, and the ugly ones are like males.

Wang Chengen went to ask for an imperial edict, Chongzhen's imperial edict (of course, it was a central edict. Although it was not a cabinet vote, the imperial power of Chongzhen was strengthened at this time, and it was related to the serious crime of corruption. Therefore, even if it was a central edict, the officials in the court did not dare to object) came down, he immediately took the 2,000 Jinyiwei and the 500 Dongchang manzis to Liyang, preparing to copy Chen Mingxia's home.

The tiqi went out everywhere. On the avenue from Nanjing to Liyang, the Jinyiwei School Captain and Lishi in red military uniforms rode on horseback and galloped on the avenue, followed by the Dongchang Anime who drove the carriage. More than 2,000 Jinyiwei Tiqi and 500 Dongchang Anime, drove more than 500 large carts, including prison chariots and large carts that were about to load confiscated silver.

"Five hundred cars may not be enough?" said Wang Chengen, who was riding a tall horse.

"It's not enough at all. It's estimated that there will be 3,000 prison vans. At least 300 cars for silver and gold and treasures. It's okay. After arriving in Liyang, we will ask the local people to help build cars. We will also use the local military office." Zhang Shuheng said.

"Chen Mingxia's matter has been happening for several months. Now we are searching the house. Can we get the silver?" Wang Chengen asked worriedly. How many people are arrested is not important to Wang Chengenlai. The most important thing is to get the silver.

"Their people can't escape. The local Jinyiwei Qianhu Office has secretly monitored them. Some time ago, their families came out to try to transfer money and those who tried to escape were arrested by Jinyiwei. As long as people can't escape, there is no need to worry about their transfer of property. It's better to transfer it, and they will be sent to Zhaozhu. After a while, they will be tortured. Where will his money be transferred? We will just arrest the guys who helped them hide the money at that time! Isn't this an excellent excuse?" Zhang Shuheng laughed.
Chapter completed!