After Zhu Yuanzhang gave the order, every one of those Donglin Party officials dropped to their knees and begged for mercy, utterly terrified.
Among them,
Fan Jingwen, the leading official of the Donglin Party, burst into tears on the spot!
He kept crying out that he had been wronged!
"Emperor Taizu, please see the truth! We are loyal subjects with pure hearts! Everything we did was for the Ming Dynasty!"
"Emperor Taizu, you must not listen to slander from vile men!"
Fan Jingwen roared himself hoarse!
After hearing Fan Jingwen's words, Zhu Yuanzhang's expression immediately darkened!
"What did you just say?"
"Listening to slander from vile men?"
"Are you saying that my good Imperial Grandson is a vile man?"
Clearly, Zhu Yuanzhang was enraged.
He would never allow anyone to speak of his beloved Imperial Grandson that way.
Fan Jingwen clearly had no idea that he had walked straight into the line of fire. Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's anger, he was naturally terrified.
He kept kowtowing to Zhu Yuanzhang and begging for mercy.
"This humble official... did not mean that!"
"How could this humble official dare call the Imperial Grandson a vile man? Hongwu Taizu, you have misunderstood this humble official's meaning!"
Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Fan Jingwen and instead said coldly to the Imperial Guards beside him, "Men!"
"Bring out the gold, silver, and treasures confiscated from Fan Jingwen's home!"
As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, several Imperial Guards immediately carried out more than a dozen chests of silver.
The Imperial Guard commander at the front hurriedly reported, "Your Majesty, this is the money seized from Fan Jingwen's residence!"
"There are fifteen large chests in total!"
"They are worth five million taels of silver altogether!"
Once the Imperial Guard finished speaking, despair appeared on Fan Jingwen's face. He had never