My father is Chongzhen? Then I have no choice but to rebel.

Chapter 21 Forget about the nine clans, let’s destroy three clans!
"Your Highness, I have been ordered to confiscate the property of the nobles. The results of the confiscation are now in. Please review them, Your Highness."

Luo Yangxing said this and respectfully took out a list.

Ma Bao hurried over to take the list and handed it to Zhu Cilang.

Zhu Cilang took it casually and started flipping through it.

It only records the various gains from this house search:
There were more than 30 million taels of silver.

Five million taels of gold.

More than two hundred boxes of various rare treasures.

One hundred thousand shi of grain.

1,300 sets of armor
etc.
Armor??????

Zhu Cilang looked up at Luo Yangxing in surprise.

"Why do you even have armor?"

You have to know that in ancient times, armor, a very threatening strategic material, was absolutely not allowed to be privately owned.

There is even a rather exaggerated saying, which is "ban armor but not weapons."

Emperors could allow nobles to maintain a certain number of servants and private soldiers, and even own some weapons.

However, they are absolutely not allowed to keep armor privately!
Once discovered, it will always be treated as treason!
It is to exterminate all nine clans!
For example, Zhou Yafu, a great general in the Western Han Dynasty, was accused of treason for secretly storing armor and was eventually killed by Emperor Jing of Han!
For example, the crown prince Li Xian of the Tang Dynasty was deposed from the throne because he privately stored hundreds of pieces of armor.

Why were the ancients so sensitive to armor?

The reason is actually very simple, that is, armor has a huge impact on the battlefield!

The combat effectiveness of soldiers varies greatly with or without armor.

On the battlefield, hundreds of soldiers in armor can even chase and hack at thousands of unarmored soldiers.

For example, in the Battle of Hulao Pass in the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin used 3,000 heavily armored soldiers to attack Dou Jiande's army of hundreds of thousands and won a great victory!

Even before, when Sun Chuanting was suppressing bandits in Shaanxi, he used a few thousand armored Qin soldiers to defeat Li Zicheng, who had an army of tens of thousands!

This is enough to illustrate the importance of armor!
But now, a total of 1,300 sets of armor were seized from the homes of nobles. What does this mean?
Does this mean that those nobles are really plotting a rebellion, or that they already have the strength to rebel?
To be honest, this has touched Zhu Cilang's bottom line.

At the same time, a thin layer of sweat broke out on Luo Yangxing's head, because to be honest, he did not expect to find these things in those noble houses.

But now that things have come to this, he can only answer honestly.

"Your Highness, these 1,300 sets of armor were confiscated from the residences of Duke Chengguo, Marquis Dingxi, and Marquis Funing."

"After my interrogation, I finally discovered the origins of these 1,300 suits of armor."

"In the past, whenever the Beijing camp needed an inspection, they would send their servants to the Beijing camp to fill in the numbers and collect their wages."

"I don't know who started it, but servants started taking armor from the Beijing camp back home."

"Over time, we have 1,300 sets of armor!"

Good guy!
When Zhu Cilang heard this, he almost laughed out of anger!

He directly took the military supplies from the Beijing Camp back home, and what he brought was armor, and a total of 1,300 sets!

These guys really don't take the emperor seriously!
To put it bluntly, if we weren't on guard, 1,300 armored slaves could really rush into the palace and kill the emperor!

Thinking of this, Zhu Cilang's eyes instantly became fierce.

It seems that I am still too kind!
The next second, he looked directly at Luo Yangxing and said coldly:

"I have changed my mind. Duke Chengguo, Marquis Dingxi, Marquis Funing, and all the nobles who have hidden armor will all be executed for treason!"

"It's okay to kill nine clans, but let's exterminate three clans!"

"Take one thousand of my personal soldiers with you, and don't let any of them go!"

"Tomorrow at noon, the execution will be carried out!"

Zhu Cilang originally wanted to exterminate all nine clans, but when he thought about the fact that these nobles had always been intermarried, if he really exterminated all nine clans, he would probably have to kill two to three thousand people. So he decided to just exterminate three clans and completely wipe out their entire lineage.

And we can't kill them directly this time. After all, there are too many people, and we must punish them according to the law!

At the same time, when Luo Yangxing heard this, he couldn't help but tremble.

Because of the three Yi tribes, the number of people to be killed this time must be more than a thousand!

Although the nobles did commit a capital crime this time, the prince in front of them was too cruel!
But he dared not say anything, and immediately responded:
"I understand!"

Then he quickly retreated.

Zhu Cilang closed his eyes, but he was still very upset.

Originally, he had not intended to start a massacre. He just wanted to kill a few prominent nobles and seize some silver.

I didn't expect these guys to be so outrageous that they even dared to touch something like armor.

In this case, we can't blame him for being cruel and ruthless!
Not long after, Ma Bao came in again.

"My Lord, there are more and more nobles kneeling at the gate of the palace. It's almost too late."

"I have counted the property they have handed over, and it has reached twelve million taels."

"Do you think you should go and see them? It's almost dark."

Zhu Cilang was very angry at the time, and the 12 million taels of silver were not enough to calm him down.

"Go out and see!"

After saying this, Zhu Cilang walked out directly.

Seeing this, Ma Bao hurriedly followed Zhu Cilang.

At the same time, a team of personal soldiers and imperial guards followed.

When Zhu Cilang arrived at the palace gate, he saw a large group of people kneeling at the gate.

Some of these people were still complaining.

I've been kneeling for a whole day and haven't seen the emperor and the prince. I might as well go back early!

The next second, they saw Zhu Cilang walking out aggressively, and they were so scared that they quickly buried their heads again.

No one dared to say another word.

Zhu Cilang stood still in front of everyone, then sneered and said:

"I just received a secret report from the Imperial Guards, saying that several nobles, led by Duke Cheng, have stolen 1,300 sets of armor from the Beijing camp!"

"Do you know what this means?"

"This means that as long as Duke Cheng is willing, he can break into the palace at any time and take over the Zhu family's world!"

"Just now, the Emperor has issued an order to confiscate the property of all the nobles involved in this matter and exterminate their entire clans, and to exterminate all three of their families!"

"Tell me, what exactly do you want to do? Do you want to rule my Zhu family?"

"I am standing right here. You can just rush up and kill me, and then go and kill my father. Then the world will belong to you!"

"how?"

Everyone present was instantly frightened out of their wits after hearing Zhu Cilang's words.

None of them had expected that Duke Chengguo and those nobles would be so bold as to steal 1,300 sets of armor from the Beijing camp!

What they didn't expect was that Chongzhen would actually directly order the execution of the three clans of Duke Cheng!
You have to know that after these three tribes, this lineage was basically completely wiped out.

And what Zhu Cilang said just now, it was simply asking for their lives!

At most, they were just greedy for a little money, but they never had any thoughts of rebelling!

This is really terrible!
(End of this chapter)