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Chapter 918

Li Guodong sighed and ordered: "A grand burial of Su Guansheng."

Wang Heng, the military supervisor, asked: "Dude, how should Guan Jiexian and those surrendered ministers be dealt with?"

"It is your Dongchang and Jinyiwei's business. You can do it yourself." Li Guodong replied.

Wang Heng said with a puzzled look: "If we use the Ming Dynasty law, they should behead and search the house, or even kill the nine clans. But if we kill the surrendered ministers, it may be detrimental to the future battle. So our family then asked the Duke what he meant."

Li Guodong smiled and said, "We don't know how to deal with this matter, so let's hand over all these rebel ministers to Jin Shang to deal with it. As for Jin Shang to discuss with the court whether to kill or stay, it's not our business."

After handing over the surrendered ministers to the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei, Li Guodong sent someone to take Xie Shangzheng, Yuan Chongyu, Ni Hao, Luo Daqian and others.

"Kneel down!" Li Guodong shouted at the group of criminals who were taken up.

"Bah! I would rather die than kneel down to the court's lackey!" Yuan Chongyu spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, "The foolish lord killed my brother, Yuan and your dog emperor are incompatible!"

Li Guodong was about to call for orders to push Yuan Chongyu out and behead him, but suddenly remembered something: When Yuan Chonghuan was executed by Lingchi, the Jinyiwei found more than 1,500 taels of silver from Yuan Chonghuan's house. How could Yuan Chonghuan, a magnificent official, have only more than 1,500 taels of silver in his family? He could find something wrong with his toes. In fact, Yuan Chonghuan just reselled rice to the Later Jin, so how much silver did he earn? Also, he colluded with the people in the Cao Transportation Office, and he didn't know how much black income he had every year.

So the Jinyiwei found only 1,500 logistics silver, which was too little. So the question is, where did the other silver in Yuan Chonghuan's mansion go? The answer is Yuan Chongyu. When Yuan Chonghuan died, his property was gradually transferred. Yuan Chongyu took most of the silver and went to Guangdong to start a business, and the business was still very prosperous.

The Yuan family was a gentry from Guangdong. Yuan Chonghuan was killed, but his family's power was not eliminated. This is enough to show Emperor Chongzhen's control ability.

What he said was that Chongzhen killed countless officials in one day, but in fact, Chongzhen's ability was much worse than his brother Tianqi. Tianqi killed officials and could also collect a large amount of silver. However, Chongzhen killed officials but did not shake the foundation of the offender. The offender's family could still live freely with the large amount of gold, silver, wealth and treasure left by the offender.

Li Guodong ordered: "Come, give Yuan Chongyu to the Jinyiwei first. Instruct the Jinyiwei, don't let this man commit suicide!"

"Here!" Two soldiers took Yuan Chongyu away.

Next, Li Guodong began to interrogate Xie Shangzheng, Ni Hao, Luo Daqian and other criminals.

"Xie Shangzheng, why do you want to kill the surrendered court? Anyway, Yang Futai, Liang Jijiu, Liang Yuanwai and others?" Li Guodong asked.

Xie Shangzheng sneered: "Don't say too much about Li Zhe. Xie fell into the hands of you, the thief, and only wished to die! Give me a happy time, I will be a hero again twenty years later!"

Li Guodong asked Ni Hao and Luo Daqian again, and these two people were also very tough, looking like they were not afraid of boiling water.

At this moment, Xiketeng came in and reported: "Dude, when Xie Shangzheng thief begged for mercy to the last general, he said that the Eight Banners Master should not kill him, and that he was loyal to the Qing Dynasty."

Li Guodong was overjoyed and patted Sikteng on the shoulder: "Sikteng, your testimony is very important! This shows that this person has long wanted to treason and you have made great contributions! In this way, when Xie Shangzheng's house is confiscated, you can just choose a concubine in his maid!"

Xiketeng quickly knelt down and thanked: "Thank you, Duke!"

With Sikteng's testimony, a group of people led by Yuan Chongyu can be convicted.

Xie Shangzheng's face was ashamed. He knew that he was completely fucked, but he still asked unwillingly: "Li Laoer, I have seen through your plan of discrimination and killed the three thieves who were discriminated against by you. Why can you still break Guangzhou City?"

Li Guodong smiled and said, "General Xie, when it comes to war, you are still a little worse than your Duke! Do you think I am just a divisive plan? The situation on the battlefield changes constantly, so I naturally took all the factors into consideration. Just a divisive plan is not reliable. I was also worried that Yang Mingjing and the others would sue for their Duke to design it, so I was more careful. I didn't expect that if you saw through the divisive plan of your Duke, I would give you a trick."

Xie Shangzheng knelt down and said, "The Duke of the State is indeed a god-like military service. I, Xie, was defeated unjustly. It's a pity that you and I each have their own masters. It is impossible to let Xie surrender to you."

"I will not convict you, so I will leave the conviction to the Jinyiwei." After Li Guodong said that, he asked someone to call Zhang Shuheng over.

Li Guodong told Zhang Shuheng directly that these guys were trying to treason and surrender to the enemy, and asked the Jinyiwei to serve them well, so that they would not let them die. When they were convicted, they would take them back to the capital to wait for His Majesty’s Holy Punishment. Waiting for Xie Shangzheng, Yuan Chongyu and his group were executed by Lingchi, and their family was raided and their family was exterminated.

However, Li Guodong's extermination belongs to a more kind genocide, only killing important males in the family, not cousins. Even males with the surname Yuan were not executed indiscriminately. Instead, adult men were sent overseas to mining, and all underage men changed their surnames and became slaves. Although they killed fewer people, they could make Yuan Chongyu's family die.

Those sent overseas to mine should not be married, but how many years they can live in the dark mine. Moreover, these people cannot get pardons. Even if they perform well, they will have to work hard until they die in the dark mine. The purpose is to prevent them from marrying their wives and leaving behind descendants.

Zhang Shuheng was very happy: "Please rest assured that since the criminals fall into the hands of our Jinyiwei, they will inevitably ask them to confess even the things he had peeked at his parents when he was a child!"

After Yuan Chongyu, Xie Shangzheng, Ni Hao and Luo Daqian were sent to the Embroidered Prison, they were served by the Embroidered Uniform Guard to survive and die. The Embroidered Uniform Guards changed their tricks every day. In addition to the standard brushing of the Ming Embroidered Uniform Guards, wearing mourning, standing heavy shackles and playing pipa, they also added water beheadings "invented" by Li Guodong, tiger benches, pepper water, ducks floating in water, iron lady and other tortures. Under the tortures of these tortures, it can be said that no one can stand it.

Just as the Jinyiwei took down these prisoners, he sent a group of factory guards to confiscate their homes.

Although Yuan Chongyu and Xie Shangzheng are not afraid of death, those tortures do not mean that a person is not afraid of death can hold on. If they can hold on, they will be simply red agents.

After Yuan Chongyu, Xie Shangzheng and others confessed their crimes one after another, the Jinyiwei found the silver hidden by Yuan Chongyu and found more than 5 million taels of silver. In addition, the silver that was found from the homes of four of them were found in the houses of relatives within the nine tribes, and a total of more than 16 million taels of silver were collected.

"Beasts! Hateful! But after four criminals convicted nine of their clans, they copied so much money! The Yuan family had the most, reaching more than 8 million taels, which shows that Yuan Dudu was quite greedy back then." Li Guodong sighed.

After dealing with the Yuan family and the Yuan family's subordinates, Li Guodong was preparing to annihilate He Tengjiao who was heading south.

Although He Tengjiao is a national hero, if He Tengjiao falls into Li Guodong's hands, he will definitely not be ruthless when he ordered the execution of this national hero. Because although He Tengjiao is a national hero, he is also a teammate of pigs and a big pit. In real history, when the situation of the Southern Ming anti-Qing situation was the best, it was destroyed by He Tengjiao. For such a waste who did not succeed enough to make trouble, Li Guodong really didn't want to keep him wasted food.

The captured Qing soldiers and prisoners can be sent to the mine as coolies to create value for the Ming Dynasty. What can people like He Tengjiao do? They will definitely not be able to do heavy physical work, and they have to waste food to support him.

The Huai Army's information about He Tengjiao's army was completely transparent. He Tengjiao's every move was under the surveillance of Li Guodong; He Tengjiao knew nothing about the movements of the Huai Army. Even if He Tengjiao didn't even know the news that Guangzhou City had fallen into the hands of the Huai Army.

"Although He Tengjiao has many soldiers, he is a mob. Moreover, this person has no ability to fight. He doesn't even know that our army has already captured Guangzhou. Since this is the case, my country's Duke decided that we only leave the navy to station in Guangzhou, the land division will leave the city and go upstream to meet the enemy. We must wipe out this bandit army in one fell swoop!" Li Guodong stood in the central army's tent and looked around and said.
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