He heard him answer Liu Zongzhou: "The eight major Shanxi merchants have only captured one now. If the news is announced at this time, it will inevitably alarm the enemy."

Speaking of this, Zhang Mingwei said hatefully: "The rise of Jianlu has made great contributions to these Shanxi merchants. To a certain extent, when the Ming Dynasty fell into the situation where the war was everywhere, I don't know how many soldiers and the people died in the Ming Dynasty were killed. They were direct or indirect accomplices. If they didn't arrest them all, they would not be scouted and their families were exterminated, then I would be really sorry for my trip to the Ming Dynasty!"

"Come to the Ming Dynasty?" Liu Zongzhou was shocked when he heard this, and couldn't help but say in surprise, "Is it possible that the Duke of the Kingdom is not from the Ming Dynasty?"

As he spoke, he looked at Zhang Mingwei up and down, wanting to see if it was different from the Ming people?

When Zhang Mingwei was asked this, he knew he had let go and immediately explained: "What I mean is to come to this world."

"Come to this world?" Liu Zongzhou couldn't help but repeat in confusion after hearing this.

Before, he suspected that Zhang Mingwei was from overseas. This time, he didn't know why, but he felt that Zhang Mingwei came from heaven?

Seeing him like this, Zhang Mingwei couldn't help but feel speechless and simply changed the topic: "The news cannot be announced immediately, but the situation in the capital cannot continue. Not to mention the money of those corrupt officials, even other wealthy families cannot transfer all their money to other places. What should I do here in the capital, right?"

Unexpectedly, Liu Zongzhou became suspicious, but did not accept his words. Instead, he said seriously: "Duke, the officials really don't know. I don't know where the Duke is from?"

"..." Zhang Mingwei couldn't help but feel silence when he heard this. You old man, what do you do when you ask about my origin? Could it be that you have any granddaughter or something?

He didn't want to talk about this topic, so he said to Liu Zongzhou: "Of course I am not an ordinary person! As for the origin, the emperor knows, the prince knows, and the eunuchs and eunuchs in charge of the seal of the Sili Supervisor. If you have to keep my origin, you can ask the emperor!"

When asked the emperor, Liu Zongzhou would not ask. Because what the emperor wanted to say had already been said.

He looked at Zhang Mingwei suspiciously again, and guessed with a little uncertainty: "Will the Duke come from a hidden family?"

Zhang Mingwei was speechless. This old man, would he really have a granddaughter to marry and come to check his household registration?

He didn't have time to accompany him to pull this, so he stood up, turned around and prepared to go to the back yamen.

Seeing this situation, Liu Zongzhou couldn't help but laugh, as if he had won a battle, and quickly called Zhang Mingwei and said, "Duke, the official is wrong, the official is wrong."

Hearing that he admitted his mistake, Zhang Mingwei stopped and turned to look at him.

When Liu Zongzhou saw this, he smiled and said, "Actually, the Duke of the State has a good temper. Some people outside say that the Duke of the State often searches his house and asks for death. It's really outrageous!"

"That's it?" Zhang Mingwei was speechless when he heard this, and couldn't help but say to him, "You are so old that you don't know that treating like-minded people should be as warm as spring; treating enemies should be as beautiful as autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves?"

"..." This time, it was Liu Zongzhou's turn to be a little stunned. It's true that he is a lot of old, but this is the first time he has heard of this.

After coming back to his senses, he finally showed a serious look and said with a little concern: "Duke, let's not talk about other things. Now in the capital, should the Duke of the State see if he thinks of a way to stabilize the situation?"

Speaking of this, he paused, and then added: "As soon as the situation in the capital occurred, the emperor knew about it. He summoned a few of us to discuss, but could not come up with a solution. Therefore, the subordinate rushed over to the Duke's side to see if there was a way to solve it?"

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that it is better to believe in the existence of it than to believe in the absence of it.

Nowadays, the rich families are likely to start transferring their wealth, no matter what the court does, and at least part of them will be transferred.

This situation was not very important during the Taiping period. However, in this chaotic era, it would only have a negative impact on the situation.

Liu Zongzhou and several others discussed for a long time, but they couldn't come up with a way to reverse the situation.

Therefore, at this time, after Liu Zongzhou finished speaking, although he was looking at Zhang Mingwei, he actually didn’t have any hope!

But who knew that Zhang Mingwei lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his head and looked at Liu Zongzhou and said, "The city is closed and the capital is martial law, so this can stop this situation."

"What?" Liu Zongzhou shook his head and said, "The capital is not dangerous, so why should martial law be imposed?"

After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei couldn't help but remind him: "Don't forget, isn't there a thief, claiming to be 200,000? He has entered Hebei and is heading towards the capital. He said that this thief might have to attack the capital. In order to prevent the thief from sending people into the capital in advance, and to ensure the safety of the capital, isn't martial law a natural thing?"

When Liu Zongzhou heard this, his eyes lit up.

There is indeed such a thief. I had a headache when discussing matters before, mainly because the court has not had many troops. It is definitely no problem to defend the capital, but it is difficult to stop the thief from escaping in the capital. It is very likely that the imperial edict would be issued. It has to be said that this is another blow to the prestige of the court.

Thinking of this, Liu Zongzhou nodded and said seriously: "This reason is indeed possible. However, when will the martial law in the capital be imposed? It is impossible to continue to be imposed!"

After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei immediately replied to him: "If the capital is closed down with martial law, the city can be cut off. Then, I will ask the emperor to immediately mobilize the army to rush to various places to uproot the power of the Shanxi merchants. Just so happen that their money and food can be copied, which is enough for the court to rectify the army and fight a major war with the bandit army under Li Zicheng's troops, probably many!"

Speaking of this, without waiting for Liu Zongzhou to ask questions, he continued: "In addition, take advantage of the opportunity of the city lockdown and handle other matters together. Then, the news will be made public and guided public opinion, and it will probably be almost done!"

"It seems that we can only deal with it like this!" Liu Zongzhou basically understood Duke Xingguo's thoughts. After thinking about it carefully, he said little, "Since that's the case, it's not time to go. Why don't we go to the palace together and ask the emperor for an order?"

After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei nodded and said, "Okay, I just happened to give the emperor a look at all these confessions."

So the two of them were about to enter the palace directly.

The Jinyiwei Captain who came to deliver the confession next to him could not find a chance to speak. At this time, he took the opportunity and quickly reminded Zhang Mingwei: "Then Huang Yunfa also confessed something very horrifying. I wonder if the Duke of the State can see it?"

In fact, when he asked this, he heard the conversation between Zhang Mingwei and Liu Zongzhou, and it didn't involve it at all. It only means that both of these two adults missed that matter, so he quickly reminded him.

When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised. He didn't want to see it, so he asked directly: "What's the matter?"

Liu Zongzhou next to him was also curious. He had just turned over the confession. However, when he saw the shocking sales of grain, grass and ironware from Shanxi merchants, he was informed, so he didn't continue reading, thinking that the contents behind were all the same.

So he also turned to look at the Jinyiwei Captain, and wanted to know what was going on, but he actually used very horrifying words to describe it?

The Jinyiwei Chief Respondent replied: "After Huang Yunfa finished confessing, he was forced to question him by his subordinates and others, so he confessed and wrote it at the end. It was about Lu Benbing's term in office during the eleventh year of Chongzhen."

Then, he roughly explained the situation. He heard that Liu Zongzhou immediately asked for the confession. After reading it with his own eyes, he couldn't help but say hatefully: "It's so bold and reckless!"

"Haha, you can do anything about Tonglu, how could they not be able to do such things!" Zhang Mingwei sneered, "Surviving interests by any means and doing whatever you want for your own selfishness. These Shanxi merchants are a family, and there must be others. Haha, wait!"

As he said this, he did not stay any longer and immediately entered the palace with Liu Zongzhou to meet the saint.

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Not long after, Emperor Chongzhen also saw the confession of Chen Xinjia and Huang Yunfa, especially the confession of the latter, which was more detailed. He couldn't help but be furious and immediately said to Zhang Mingwei: "I want to destroy these things! I will leave this matter to the gentleman to do it with all his powers. What army needs to be mobilized, please report it!"

On the way to the palace, Zhang Mingwei had already thought about the case and immediately reported it.

Not long after, the soldiers of the Wucheng Military Office immediately went to the streets and alleys for martial law. The soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp also dispatched to guard the city gates. The factory guards also sent people to guard the gates together. Without the emperor's order or the Duke Xingguo's order, no one was allowed to enter and exit the capital.

For a moment, the capital was in chaos, and all the cars and horses that wanted to leave the city with their belongings were blocked, which was very messy.

Subsequently, a large number of Jinyiwei and Dongchang soldiers scattered out, seizing the shops, residences, etc. of the eight major Shanxi merchants in the capital. Everyone, etc., were arrested.

The number of people was so large that even the Jinyiwei Zhaozhu could not be imprisoned. In the end, these prisoners were imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice.

In short, on this day, everyone was driven back to their homes, and from time to time they heard the sound of hooves outside, the collision of armor, the footsteps of soldiers, etc., as well as the sound of loudly scolding prisoners, etc., which scared many people hiding at home and begging gods and worshiping Buddhas. I don’t know what happened, so I must not come to the factory guards.

Especially those who impeached Duke Xingguo before, who almost woven their pants, regretted it so much that they offended Duke Xingguo at the beginning!

Although Zhang Mingwei did not participate in the inspection personally, he had been busy for a day and only went back to his house in the evening.
Chapter completed!