In the twelfth year of the Wanli Calendar (1584), Zhang Ju, the first assistant of the cabinet, was raided in his hometown in Jingzhou, his sons were tortured to force a confession, the eldest son Zhang Jingxiu hanged himself, his brother did not die of hunger strike and threw himself into a well, and was saved; Zhang Jingxiu's wife begged for death, and even poked herself blind with a tea dagger; the living female relatives were searched one by one, and the obscene soldiers put their hands into their blasphemous clothes, and even Zhang Juzheng's old mother, who was over eighty years old, was not spared, fortunately, an official interceded for her, and she retrieved a life.
The person in charge of raiding Zhang Mansion this time was named Qiu Qi, who had a stubborn personality and was not close to people's feelings, and his means could not be put on the table.
In the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), Fang Lian, the governor of Huguang, privately gave the then Criminal Department five or two pieces of silver to Qiu Qiao in the matter, which was a very common human exchange at that time. Unexpectedly, Qiu Qiao actually reported to Jiajing that Fang Lian had bribed officials, and JiaJing felt that five or two pieces of silver was nothing, but he could not stand Qiu Xie's generous statement, so he had to dismiss Fang Lian's official. When word spread about the incident, his colleagues were quite critical of Qiu Qi, and Jiajing also saw that he was not happy, so he found an excuse to cut him down to the people and drive him back to his hometown.
When he returned to his hometown, all his belongings were a box of old clothes and a bundle of books, and he could not even pay the local taxes, but he still refused to be gifted by other officials, and became a "household with difficulties in paying taxes." The local county order saw that he owed more and more debts, and simply asked the imperial court to use the gifts he refused to pay his taxes. The tax problem was solved, but Qiu Qiu lost his face in front of his former colleagues.
Qiu Qiu was in his hometown until the beginning of the Wanli Calendar, when someone recommended him to Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng said that he behaved strangely, was not a real virtuous person, and refused to use it. After Zhang Juzheng fell, the so-called "whatever Zhang Juzheng opposes, Wanli must support", and Qiu Qiu, who was "pitted" by Zhang Juzheng, also returned to the political arena and was promoted to the right attendant of the Punishment Department.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of Wanli's liquidation of Zhang Juzheng, Qiu Qi planned to take a vicious breath and behave very actively, successively impeaching several officials who had "attached" to Zhang Juzheng. Qiu Qiu was rewarded for this and became the main force in raiding ZhangFu. The official Yu Shenxing was a fellow of Qiu Qiao and was known for his loyalty, and advised him to spare people and spare people, but he was regarded as a deaf ear.
Before Qiu Qiu arrived in Jingzhou, he blockaded ZhangFu on the grounds of counting the number of people and preventing the Zhang family from transferring property, and by the time the blockade was lifted, the Zhang family had starved to death. Zhang Jingxiu scolded in his suicide note before hanging himself: "Qiu Shilang, live Yama King! After the first round of home raids, Qiu Qiao pretended to reassure the Zhang family that "they were relieved to live a life and did not have to cry", but the "second round of chasing stolen goods" soon struck, and it was another torture.
With Zhang Juzheng's momentum of monopolizing power in his old age, there were actually many officials who had gaps with him, but in the almost crazy liquidation of Wanli, no one with conscience fell into the well. For example, Zhao Jin, who had been deposed for Zhang Juzheng's impeachment, pleaded with Wanli to open up when Zhang Fu was copied. Under the guise of "rigidity", Qiu Qiu was ruthless to the end, causing a shocking disaster in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
Later, Qiu Qi's only son, Jinshi, died of illness soon after, and Qiu Qi died shortly after. People at the time said that this was a cruel retribution for his raid on Zhang Mansion, but the pain suffered by the Zhang family could never be repaired.