Chapter 93 Confiscating the Xie Qian Family (Part 1)
All members of Liu Jian's family were arrested and put on prison vans, including Liu Jian himself.
The Liu family and their relatives were also confiscated.
It took the officers and soldiers half a month to confiscate Liu Jian's entire clan, and within this half month, they not only ransacked homes, but also killed people.
Liu Jian is the chief minister of the cabinet. He belongs to a large landowner and a wealthy family. Like Heshen in the Qing Dynasty, he not only has many relatives, but also countless servants and servants, and he is even composed of independent families.
Moreover, these families are all middle-level or above landowners, and some have even become big local landowners through Liu Jian's influence, just like Heshen's steward Liu Quan is also a big landowner.
After all, he is the seventh rank official in front of the prime minister.
But with so many people, the officers and soldiers naturally could not escort them all to Beijing. According to Zhu Houzhao's confident order to Zhang Yong, they could only kill a group first.
That is to say, these slaves outside the nine clans of the Liu family and the Qingke princes that Liu Jian usually raises can only be killed first!
"Come on!"
A group of servants of the Liu family who usually relied on the power of the Liu family to bully men and women were all escorted up.
"Cut!"
With an order.
The heads of these former deputy masters were immediately cut off, and their blood flowed into rivers.
"Bring it on again!"
Another order.
Another group of servants of the Liu Mansion were escorted up. These slaves, as they were called, were actually accustomed to fine clothes and fine food, and they were rich and powerful, sucking the wealth and nourishment of the people. Therefore, they all had fat heads and big ears. Now they were chopped off with one knife. He was bleeding like he was killing fat pigs.
In this way, batches of slaves were beheaded.
As a result, the Liu clan's influence in Luoyang, Henan was cut off with a single sword.
The tenant farmers and common people who were deeply oppressed by the Liu family in the past all applauded. They hated the Liu family masters, and even more hated the Liu family's powerful slaves who relied on the Liu family's power to cause trouble.
Naturally, Liu Jian and his relatives could not resist, and they could only watch their slaves being hacked to death.
Moreover, they also had to face the fate of being executed, all of which were caused by Liu Jian himself.
Thinking that his family would be like this, Liu Jian could only sigh and didn't know what to say.
……
No coincidence.
At this time, the Xie family in Yuyao was also facing the end of being raided, because Xie Qian was also the mastermind behind the murder of Emperor Hongzhi.
Jiangnan has always been a place where officials and gentry gather, and the Xie family is extremely wealthy.
Not only was Xie Qian himself a cabinet bachelor, but Xie Qian's younger brother Xie Di was also the chief envoy of Guangdong, and Xie Qian's son Xie Pi was the prostitute in the 18th year of Hongzhi's reign.
Therefore, the Xie family can be said to be a family of officials, not only a family of officials, but also a family of giant businessmen. Trade in the south of the Yangtze River is developed. Not to mention that Xie Qian's younger brother is also the chief envoy of Guangdong. The Xie family is richer than Liu Jian and others in business.
After Xie Qian's family was captured, Zhang Yong did not go there in person, but sent two battalions of elite soldiers to Jiangnan.
Among them, Deng Bing, the commander of the Yaozi camp, was responsible for arresting the Xie Qian tribe, and Lu Ju, the commander of the Fenzi camp, was responsible for confiscating Xie Qian's family property!
At the same time, Zhu Houzhao ordered Jin Yiwei Qianhu Liang Ze to personally lead people to Guangdong to capture Xie Qian's younger brother Xie Di.
In addition, after Zhang Yong received Zhu Houzhao's second order, which was to kill Liu Jian and Xie Qian's ten clans, he immediately sent someone to convey the order to Deng Bing and Lu Ju. Naturally, he asked Deng Bing and others to kill them first in Yuyao. A group of people from outside the nine tribes moved to Xie.
However, at this time, Xie Qian and his tribe did not know that they were about to face the massacre caused by Zhu Houzhao to avenge Emperor Hongzhi.
Today, the Xie family members and the powerful slaves who are vassal under their wings are still enjoying a life of peace and honor in such a wealthy place as Jiangnan.
After Xie Qian returned to Yuyao, he also annexed land, built gardens on a large scale, and stocked up singing actors, actresses, and even young girls.
After all, it was already a hundred years after the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the middle of the Ming Dynasty in original history. Folk customs in the south of the Yangtze River had begun to become luxurious and glitzy, especially among scholar-bureaucrats like Xie Qian. After returning home, scholar-bureaucrats will naturally not observe the same rules and precepts as monks.
Although Xie Qian does not necessarily have to marry three girls in one day like Ji Xiaolan, now he will taste a few stunning maids after returning to his hometown, and even forcefully buy civilian girls, but for a wealthy family like his, In other words, even if the common people are bullied, they are naturally helpless.
Naturally, Xie Qian didn't care. After all, the scholar-bureaucrat class had long regarded playing with young girls as a refined thing.
Only the Emperor is not allowed to do so. What the Emperor does is debauchery and immorality.
Xie Qian has lost a lot of weight in less than a year and can only rely on medicine to help him feel happy every day, but he still enjoys it.
However, when the officers and soldiers arrived in Yuyao, Xie Qian was not enjoying himself in the mansion, but was meeting with the Japanese pirate leader Du San.
Because the Japanese pirate leader Du San is an important business partner of his Xie family, although the imperial court banned the sea, and even the officials and gentry in Jiangnan asked the court to ban the sea, the officials and gentry themselves wanted to do business, and their cooperation in doing business The partners are these Japanese pirates.
Sometimes, some Japanese pirates also need to come forward for things that are not so clean, that is, things that the officials and gentry are not willing to come forward for.
This is the same as some officials and gentry in the north leading Tatars into the Pass to plunder villages, and the same as the cooperation between Shanxi merchants and the Tatars outside the Pass.
"I have met Mr. Ge. Mr. Ge, I have come here for nothing else. I just want to send you girls. There are fifty girls in total. They are civilian girls robbed from Songjiang Mansion. They are all still here. The geraniums have not yet opened. Knowing that Mr. Ge is so fond of this, I sent them all.”
The Japanese pirate leader Du San said to Xie Qian.
Xie Qian looked at the girls standing in the yard outside, nodded, and told his housekeeper: "Send them all to Liuxiang Cave!"
After saying that, Xie Qian said again: "Tell me, why do you have to see me this time?"
For people like Du San, Xie Qian would not meet him directly. Usually, his tribesmen or even servants would greet him.
However, Du San strongly requested to meet Xie Qian in person and offered fifty stolen girls as a heavy gift. Xie Qian could only meet in person. After all, Du San was an important partner of his Xie family.
"The young one has been wandering at sea for more than ten years. He wants to return to land and become a military attache and live a peaceful life. I hope that Mr. Ge will help me."
Du San said with a smile.
"Yes, although I have returned to my hometown now, I still have some connections. Although the Ministry of War in Beijing cannot move, the Ministry of War in Nanjing still has some connections. They can arrange for you to be a member of a thousand households in the south of the Yangtze River, but not guerrilla or above. ! After all, I am no longer a great scholar!”
Xie Qian said.
"Thousands of households are enough! Mr. Ge, don't worry. As long as things are done, I will thank you with generous gifts. I plan to do the last murder business and go to Ningbo to slaughter six villages. When the time comes, the fields of the six villages will be Give it all to Mr. Ge! I hope Mr. Ge will also arrange for the younger one to be a thousand-year-old in Ningbo Mansion. By then, Ge's family will be able to do business there," Du San replied.
After hearing this, Xie Qian nodded: "What you said is true. Step back. I'm tired. Someone, come, take me to Liuxiang Cave!"
As he spoke, Xie Qian stuffed a pill into his mouth, and immediately he felt refreshed and his face glowed red!
Just at this moment, Zhou Sheng, the head butler of the Xie family, ran in: "Master! It's not good! There are a large number of officers and soldiers coming outside, and they seem to be coming directly to our Xie Mansion!"
Du San, who had not had time to leave, became a little anxious and looked at Xie Qian: "Mr. Ge, what should I do? I'm not here to get the little one."
It was normal for Du San to be worried. After all, he was engaged in illegal business and had killed many civilians. Once exposed, Xie Qian could not protect him.
Xie Qian did not panic, and only endured the evil fire after the drug took effect: "Don't worry, no one knows about you and our Xie family. Besides, these officers and soldiers may not come to our Xie family. Even if I am the elder who resigned, I cannot be easily removed by Liu Jin, Ma Wensheng and others!”
Xie Qian couldn't hold it in anymore, so he just ordered: "Go and call the uncle, let him go out and have a look, and ask what these officers and soldiers are doing here! Help me to the Liuxiang Cave!"
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Xie Qian said and hurriedly went first. He had just taken the medicine and a certain place was already like a hot iron rod.
At this time, the officers and soldiers responsible for ransacking the house and seizing people had already rushed in.
Deng Bing was born in a noble family in the Ming Dynasty and knew Xie Qian. When he saw Xie Qian, he was afraid that Xie Qian would run away or commit suicide, so he ordered: "Get Xie Qian first! Quick!"
So, about twenty officers and soldiers rushed over first, stopped in front of Xie Qian, and held Xie Qian down.
Xie Qian was at the moment when the effect of the medicine was taking effect. He was eager to find the girl to vent his anger, but now he was pressed to the ground again. His breathing became rapid, and his whole body was on fire. He shouted with a red face: "You, What are you doing, you, you!”
Xie Qian couldn't speak fluently when he was in a hurry, and when the drug took effect, his mind was filled with men and women and he couldn't analyze the possible reasons. Now he just felt like his whole body would explode if he didn't go to the Liuxiang Cave.
(End of chapter)