Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 423 Home Search and Torture

Boom!The simple and clear gunfire frightened the officials present to shrink their pupils subconsciously.Some timid ones hugged their heads even more.

After the gunshots, there were more than a dozen corpses full of holes on the ground, and blood flowed like a river.These were originally high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, but they were shot dead on the spot, no different from lowly livestock.

Huh, huh, all the civil officials who usually only point out the country are pale, and some even feel sick and vomit because of the bloody scene.

"Is there anyone who is willing to return to the embrace of the Ming court? Don't think that I have broken my promise. Sooner or later, Nanjing City will be captured by our Dashun army. I will relieve them in advance." Zhang Yuan said.

"Please forgive us, His Majesty King Chuang!" Some officials who were frightened by the scarlet horror kowtowed for mercy.With such a terrifying scene and violent means, how dare they admit their loyalty to the Ming court.

Li Zicheng was satisfied with such a scene, and said to Zhang Yuan: "It's ok, I believe that the remaining officials will support our Dashun regime to replace the Ming court. The generals are responsible for urging you to hand over your military funds. If you can't get it within two days If you pay the full amount of silver taels, you will be pushed to the Meridian Gate and beheaded."

There are precedents for officials who were shot dead on the spot, and even officials without money dare not openly refute Li Zicheng and the others.

These trembling and frightened ministers returned to their mansions one by one under the leadership of the soldiers. Before they gave out the full amount of silver, they stood around the mansions of the officials, preventing these officials from having any chance to escape.

All the officials in the Forbidden City were frowning, thinking about how to raise the astronomical sum required by the Dashun Army within two days.

But unexpectedly, some officials quickly handed over the same amount of military funds to the generals of the Dashun Army.

Not only Zhang Yuan, but even Li Zicheng was a little surprised, because nearly half of the stipulated military funds had been raised in a short period of time.

"These officials are able to spend huge sums of money so quickly. They must be corrupt officials. Even if they are not corrupt, they must be unclean. We should be able to collect more silver taels from them." Zhang Yuan looked at it and quickly handed over the military funds. The list of officials said horribly.

"It's nothing to kill these people. They are the moths of the country. Those who can't afford military funds will let their lives be spared at that time. They must never have imagined that only those who can't afford silver taels can survive. Zhang Yuan, I Now I admire you more and more, and you can think of any strategy." Li Zicheng said.

"Chuang Wang, some people who can't hand over the silver taels are not necessarily honest officials. There may be some hard-headed cocks who are reluctant to hand over so many silver taels. There may also be some people who have guessed our intentions and are watching our actions." The new general Liu Zongmin said.

"It is indeed possible. We should torture them to squeeze their limits. Officials who have money and are unwilling to hand it over can't stand the torture and will definitely hand over all their property. And those who are not greedy and don't take it Honest officials, even if they are tormented, they will not be able to take out any silver taels. Only then can we truly confirm who is an honest official and who is a corrupt official. If they are honest officials, we will reuse them, and if they are corrupt officials, we will confiscate all their property, and then push them to the Meridian Gate and behead them. "Zhang Yuan said.

"Will this make people in the world think that this king is not a good emperor?" Li Zicheng was a little worried about Zhang Yuan's proposal of torture.

"King Chuang, although my subordinates haven't read any books, they know a saying that what can't be broken can't be established. Cao Aman hijacked the emperor and killed the Hanchen. Isn't he still called a hero in troubled times and admired by future generations?" Liu Zongmin said.

"That's right, heavy codes should be used in troubled times. Only by exterminating corrupt officials can we not break or stand." Zhang Yuan supported Liu Zongmin's approach.

"Forget it, let those honest and good officials suffer a little, and I will reuse and compensate them in the future." Li Zicheng said.

Two days later, there were still a group of officials who hadn't handed over their silver taels, and these officials were immediately arrested by the generals of the Dashun Army and put into the sky prison for interrogation!And the officials who paid all the military funds were also put in prison because they were suspected of being corrupt officials!

For a while, the prison was overcrowded and couldn't even accommodate so many officials. Some officials were directly interrogated by the Dashun Army in their own houses.

"Ahhh! My lord, please spare me, I really don't have that much money, you'd better kill the old man, don't torture the old man anymore!" An old official who was nearly sixty years old screamed like a bereaved dog.

His feet were clamped with sticks, and there were still wooden spikes on the sticks, which were connected with iron nails.Already faintly heard the sound of leg bones smashing, the pain was so painful that the old official was dying!
"Hmph, most officials have paid the full amount of their salaries. You are a dignified third-rank official who only handed in more than 1000 taels. Who are you looking down on?" Liu Zongmin sat on the wooden chair, watching the tortured The third-rank official, who was alive and dead, felt an inexplicable pleasure in his heart.

What a broken third-rank official, isn't he being tortured by him like a dog?
"This old man has been an official for decades, and the pension of more than 1000 taels, which was accumulated with great difficulty, has been handed over to you. Even the land deeds for this mansion and several acres of Susukida in the countryside have been handed over to you. Even if you kill this old man, you won’t get any more money, so why continue to embarrass this old man.” The old official’s legs were bleeding profusely, and the family members who were also arrested were very angry.

"Leave my father alone, come at me for something!" The official's son's eyes were shattered, and he hated Liu Zongmin to the bone.

"None of you officials is a good person. The third-rank officials only have more than 1000 taels and this dilapidated house in a lifetime. Who will believe it?" Liu Zongmin smiled coldly, "Come on, give the old man another stick, let the old man be so happy." He's cool!"

Two Dashun soldiers brought a slightly smaller pincer. This pincer was not used to pinch off the prisoner's leg bones, but to pinch the prisoner's fingers and toes, making the prisoner experience unbearable pain.

"No, no...!" The old official couldn't bear the pain from broken legs and fingers, and passed out.

"My lord, shall we continue to interrogate?" the soldiers of the Dashun Army asked Liu Zongmin for instructions.

"Pour a basin of water on him to wake him up, and continue to torture him. This old fox must be playing dead." Liu Zongmin didn't intend to let the official go so easily.

"Bah, you despicable villain who persecutes Zhongliang!" Seeing that his father was likely to be played to death by Liu Zongmin, the son of the old official spit on Liu Zongmin's face in extreme anger!
"Fuck, you are looking for death!" Liu Zongmin wiped it with his hand, and was furious when he saw the spittle on his hand!
(End of this chapter)