Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 96 This is the loss of the civil service group

The people of Yuyao County are angry!

They didn't expect Xie Qian to be such a person. All of a sudden, the monumental image of Xie Qian in their minds collapsed!
Many people were already becoming emotional and were ready to rush in to kill Xie Qian and destroy the Xie family's house.

Deng Bing led the officers and soldiers to draw their swords and stop the people.

At this time, Lu Ju's officers and soldiers unexpectedly seized a lot of gold and silver from Liuxiang Cave.

Silver ingots as big as winnowing baskets and gold bars as big as shoes were carried out in boxes.

Not only that, there were also Bodhisattvas made of gold and large birds made of silver, which were all carried out.

Moreover, it took many days to carry all the gold and silver, and they still couldn't finish carrying them.

Deng Bing and Lu Ju were both descendants of noble families and had seen a lot of gold and silver, but they were stunned at this moment.

Lu Ju couldn't help but ask Xie Qian: "Xie Qian, didn't you say that you were an honest official? Don't you have too much gold and silver in your family?"

Xie Qian did not answer Lu Ju's words. He knew that he could not hide it, and he also knew that the gold and silver he had hidden for many years would naturally be discovered and could not be kept, so he could only accept the defeat.

At this time, the soldiers who announced the new imperial decree also arrived here, and immediately told Deng Bing to execute the powerful slaves, disciples and guests who were under the protection of Xie Qian's family and were causing trouble in the village.

After receiving the order, Deng Bing immediately began to execute Xie's servants and disciples.

"Bring me up!"

Deng Bing shouted loudly, and the first batch of Xie family slaves were brought up.

"kill!"

As soon as Deng Bing finished speaking, there was a snapping sound, and dozens of heads rolled down!
Xie Qian couldn't help but close his eyes when he saw this. He couldn't bear the fact that all these slaves who had done so many evil things for him were now killed.

At this time, the people who had been deceived by the hypocrite Xie Qian were no longer in the mood to sympathize with these slaves of the Xie family, and they just watched indifferently.

As I said before, the indifference of the people is the greatest support for the officers and soldiers.

Deng Bing ordered the arrest of a group of Xie family slaves.

These slaves still shouted to Xie Qian without giving up: "Master, please save us!"

Xie Qian naturally couldn't save them now.

These slaves were chopped to the ground again.

Batch after batch, by the fifth day, except for Xie Qian's relatives and family members, all the slaves related to the Xie family were executed!

After the house search was completed, Xie Qian, his clansmen and relatives were escorted to Beijing along with all the confiscated property of the Xie family.

It was obvious that Xie Qian was no longer welcome by his neighbors. From the moment his prison cart left the Xie family's yard, the people had been throwing rotten vegetable leaves, stones, and even dirty things at it.

Xie Qian was used to a life of luxury, so he could not stand such abuse. He had no choice but to cry and beg the soldiers escorting him: "Sir, please, please don't let them throw things at me. I really can't stand it. For the sake of my former position as a cabinet minister, please let me be escorted to Beijing in a dignified manner, okay?"

Since knowing Xie Qian's beastly and hypocritical side, the officers and soldiers escorting him no longer had a good impression of him. They just glared at Xie Qian and ignored him. Xie Qian was feeling uncomfortable all over, itchy below and smelly above, because he had been rubbed hard in the prison car that day, and now he was still feeling a bit hot and painful.

Xie Qian was now in a state of despair, and he kept shouting, "Please, can you let me take a bath?"

No one paid any attention to Xie Qian.

Xie Qian now understood the feeling of being despised and rejected by everyone, and he would occasionally cry on the road because of this: "Why, why is it like this, why on earth, Li Dongyang, why did you let His Majesty know about our regicide! If you had listened to me and silenced Zhang Yu and the others, this wouldn't have happened, wuwu!"

While crying, Xie Qian looked at his relatives who were imprisoned like him and the property that his family had plundered over the years, and he felt even more heartbroken.

Xie Qian's clansmen now have no good feelings towards Xie Qian, and they even hate him, not only because of Xie Qian's beastly behavior, but also because Xie Qian's act of regicide has implicated them.

When the Xie clan members learned that Xie Qian was involved in the crime of regicide, they all wanted to question Xie Qian why he wanted to harm the late emperor and even implicated themselves.

It's not just Xie Qian's clansmen, but also Li Dongyang and Liu Jian's clansmen.

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian are now truly experiencing the feeling of being abandoned by the whole world. Not only have the entire civil service group abandoned them, but also the clans behind them. Even the clans behind them have to be buried with them.

This is the consequence of the discovery of regicide!

After all, the Ming Dynasty at that time was an ethical society, and all social rules were based on ethics, and the most important ethical relationship was the relationship between the monarch and his subjects!

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and others who violated this ethical relationship will naturally receive the most severe punishment from this society.

No matter how Zhu Houzhao punished them, people of that era would take it for granted.

Of course, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and others also knew the consequences, but they did not expect that the regicide would be exposed. They originally wanted to keep the regicide a secret forever, so that they could use the ethical relationship as teacher and student with Zhu Houzhao to maintain the interests of their entire gentry group.

But now they have failed, and they have gone from being the most respected ministers of the cabinet to treacherous ministers who murdered the king!
At the same time, their actions also caused the civil service group to suffer huge losses and faced a huge crisis of confidence in ruling the empire.

The imperial relatives, eunuchs and military officers were political groups that were not trusted because they had all undermined the stability of the empire in history.

And now people find that the civil service group does not seem to be reliable either!
The power of the civil service group undoubtedly suffered great losses in the case of Liu Jian and others killing the king.

At the same time, this was also a tragic defeat for the civil service group. Since the Battle of Tumu, they had almost forgotten that they might face such a defeat.

Zhu Houzhao did not stop his efforts to weaken the power of the civil service group. He wanted to take this opportunity to avenge Emperor Hongzhi, to scare off the civil service group that threatened the imperial power and establish his own imperial majesty!

Living people like Liu Jian will not forgive him, and people like Liu Daxia who participated in the regicide but are already dead are also unforgivable.

Zhu Houzhao approved the proposal of some officials to whip Liu Daxia's corpse and confiscate his family.

Liu Daxia probably didn't expect that he would face such an end, just as he didn't expect that he would be fried to death with nitroglycerin by people sent by Zhu Houzhao.

Except for Lu Zhonghe and others who were involved in the massacre of civilians, all those involved in the regicide case were arrested and brought to Beijing, and all those who should be confiscated were confiscated.

Zhu Houzhao is now going to start executing the main culprits involved in the regicide.

Frankly speaking, because he has inherited Zhu Houzhao's feelings, he also strongly wants to severely punish those who killed his father!
However, before executing these people, he had to meet them in person to see how they felt now.

(End of this chapter)