Shu Liang was away in Beijing, and Gong Hui was responsible for presiding over the affairs of the East Factory.
After receiving the emperor's order, Dongchang led his troops to clean the streets.
All Dongchang fans drew their swords from their waists, and those who disobeyed orders would be stabbed directly.
Cao Jixiang was originally in Baoding Prefecture, but after receiving the secret order, he hurried to Beijing.
Leading the patrol battalion to assist Dongchang Street Cleaning.
Chen Shao, the commander-in-chief of the horse-raising army, was a die-hard supporter of the emperor and was also cooperating.
The entire capital was instantly plunged into a state of fear.
And outside Beijing.
Hu Xi is in charge of recruiting workers.
Dong Ci also collaborated outside Beijing under the banner of the Royal Trading Company.
When he saw the gates of the capital city closed, he knew that the emperor was going to take action.
The civilian husbands originally lived in simple houses arranged by the Ministry of Industry, but recently more and more civilian husbands came to the capital, and the capital had no place to arrange them, so they arranged them outside Fucheng Gate.
The gate of the capital suddenly closed, and the gathered citizens burst into commotion.
Shi Pu stood on the high platform: "Why are you panicking? Do you still want to work?"
"Listen to me!"
"After the renovation of the imperial city is completed, only the Hundred Prince's Palace is left to be built in the capital."
"We don't need so many people!"
"However, Your Majesty cares about all people."
"We purposely built a city in Rehe and recruited you to work in Rehe. The wages are higher than those in the capital!"
While Shi Pu was talking, someone below was passing on the message, layer by layer.
There was a dense crowd of people gathered near the high platform.
But not confusing.
"Can I come back after going to Rehe?" someone shouted.
But Shi Pu looked at him: "Why can't you come back? The court collects concubines every year, who died?"
"Those who don't want to go to Rehe should stay in the capital."
"You are servants. This year the Holy Emperor is showing kindness to the world and is willing to give you a lot of money, but next year it may not be the same."
"The only project in the capital is the Baiwang Mansion, so it certainly won't require so many people."
"The autumn harvest will be here in two months. You must return to your place of origin. You decide whether to stay, go to Rehe, or go home."
"Let's all disperse!"
Shi Pu didn't want to show his face. He had summoned the leaders of various gangs last night and warned them.
He also asked them to go back and conduct self-examination and bring the instigators up.
Five thousand garrisons were scattered at Fuchengmen and Xizhimen to prevent civilians from attacking the city.
In Shi Pu's view, this was unnecessary.
In fact, from the time when these servants came to Beijing, he divided them into various gangs according to their regions for mutual benefit and mutual assistance, which made it easier for the court to control them.
When something goes wrong, Shi Pu goes to find the gang leader and whether he should be killed or arrested is a matter of his words.
Therefore, there was no trouble when millions of people gathered in the capital.
"Sir, where is Rehe? How far do we have to go?" A middle-aged man asked, kneeling on the ground.
"Rehe is just to the north, not far away. The government is in charge of food along the way."
"When it's time for the autumn harvest, the government will distribute rations and send you back home to harvest in the autumn."
"We will come to Rehe to build a city next year."
Shi Pu explained: "The Ming Dynasty won the battle, and cities were built throughout Mobei."
"So there is no shortage of work, and the money will still be distributed, all from the Ministry of Works!"
"Your Majesty attaches great importance to you."
"Whoever dares to deduct your wages, Your Majesty will kill them!"
"I assure you."
Shi Pu made a loud noise.
"Since the elder has promised, let's do as we are told. Let's all disperse. All disperse!" The middle-aged man was from the Baoding Gang.
He is cooperating with Shi Pu in acting.
Shi Pu walked down the high platform and bowed deeply to Hu Hui: "Old Master, all the troublemakers have been arrested."
"Shi Shangshu is quite experienced." Hu Hui said with a smile.
"I don't dare to take it seriously. It's just that I have more experience with the people and have more experience."
Shi Pu smiled and said: "Now that the Holy King is in court, he is very forgiving to his servants. This year, wages have been paid again. Everyone knows who is really good to them."
"Of course." Hu Xi didn't want to say too much.
Shi Pu was quite interested in talking: "Old Master, do you know how many people I have caught?"
Hu Xi looked at him: "What do you mean?"
Shi Pu smiled and said nothing.
But Hu Hui was an old man and knew what kind of braid Shi Pu had caught. His face immediately twitched: "I walk and sit upright, and my body is not afraid of the shadow."
"Don't be upset, old lady."
Shi Pu smiled and said: "I did find something interesting..."
Hu Xi looked at the crowd of Wuyang Wuyang people under the high platform.
Looking at this dark-skinned Minister of the Ministry of Industry with a meaningful smile on his face, he actually shuddered.
"You want to frame me?" Hu Hui immediately understood.
"You can eat randomly, but you can't talk randomly!"
Shi Pu's expression suddenly changed: "Old Master, it would be too mean for you to bite this official. I have already sent all the confessions to the palace, please His Majesty's Holy Judgment!"
Hu Bi looked at Shi Pu in confusion: "Shi Zhongyu, Shi Zhongyu, I didn't expect it to be you!"
"What is the old lady talking about?"
Shi Pu panicked: "The old master can't get away from himself and bite his subordinates!"
Hu Hui stared at him: "Shi Zhongyu, I thought you were dedicated to serving the country, but I didn't expect that you are full of twists and turns in your stomach!"
"It's obviously you..."
"Shut up!"
Hu Xi shouted sharply: "Shi Zhongyu, if you and I come face to face to admonish you, who do you think your majesty will believe?"
Of course it’s you!
Both of your sons are capable, especially Hu Xiu, who has been awarded the title of Marquis and holds a large army in Liaoning. The emperor will naturally believe you, even if he doesn't believe it!
Shi Pu looked at Hu Hui and burst out laughing: "No wonder the old master has become a very popular minister. It turns out that he only relies on his hand to muddy the water!"
"but!"
"The lower official has reported everything to the palace!"
"Your Majesty can make good decisions and will definitely reveal your true face!"
Shi Pu gritted his teeth and shouted.
"The fox's tail is exposed, right?" Hu Xi said calmly.
Shi Pu was speechless.
And in the capital.
The horse-breeding army was equipped with muskets.
The East Factory and the Patrol Battalion split the capital in half. The East Factory was responsible for the East City, and the Patrol Battalion was responsible for the West City.
The horse army was also split up.
Cao Jixiang arrested Old Qin first.
Old man Qin claimed to have taken poison.
"Did you take poison?"
Cao Jixiang looked around the sugar shack and asked with a smile, "Why aren't you dead yet?"
Old man Qin was stunned.
You don't interrogate me, but instead hope for my death. Are you also a bad person?
"Since you came to the capital with the determination to die, your family must not be in the capital."
Cao Jixiang took a jar of frosting, dipped a little in it, and put it in his mouth: "I can no longer threaten you."
"The frosting is very white and tastes good. The price is high, right?"
Old man Qin nodded, it was indeed expensive.
"Now that I've taken the poison, there's nothing more to say."
Cao Jixiang raised his fingers and said: "Arrest all the clerks in this store, arrest all the people who have anything to do with him, and throw them into the patrol camp and jail. The governor will interrogate them slowly."
"Battle Supervisor, how should he deal with it?" Liu Yu asked.
"Let's cut the body into pieces."
Cao Jixiang reluctantly put the sugar bowl on the shelf and walked out of the sugar house.
Old Man Qin was stunned. Is this how the Ming Dynasty tried cases?
"ah!"
Old Man Qin screamed, one of his arms was chopped off.
Another arm left the arm.
"The effect of your medicine is a bit slow."
Cao Jixiang laughed: "It's difficult to cut the thigh, and I didn't bring any tools, so I just cut it bit by bit with a knife."
"No, no, I've already done it! Stop torturing me, I didn't take the poison!" Old Qin cried loudly.
"Didn't you take poison?"
Cao Jixiang looked back: "How dare you lie to this governor? Cut off his leg!"
The knife was used to cut the thigh, and when the bone could not be cut, it was sharpened back and forth.
The patrol camp is very skillful. After the chop is done, they must apply medicine to ensure that the person will not die for the time being.
Old man Qin kept trembling as he heard the sound of bones: "Here we go, here we go!"
"It doesn't matter whether you say it or not. As long as I want to investigate, even if your family members are hidden in the cracks of the rocks, I can still find them!"
Cao Jixiang showed a happy smile: "When the time comes, wouldn't it be more fun?"
Old man Qin kept crying.
"This governor has no time to waste time with you. Take him back to prison and interrogate him slowly!" Cao Jixiang snorted coldly.
Old man Qin was confused.
Isn't the reason why the court went to so much trouble to catch me?
Why did you arrest me and not put me on trial? What else are you going to do?
Cao Jixiang was too lazy to pay attention to him: "Take all the others away."
The emperor wants to shock people with blood.
Is one person’s blood enough?
You, a businessman, are guilty, so let all the businessmen in the world bear the blame with you!
How many merchants there are in the capital, and all information is sent to Cao Jixiang.
Cao Jixiang followed the picture to find out.
Bang!
The people from the patrol camp kicked open a large house.
The servant who opened the door was chatty and was chopped down by Cao Jixiang.
"Damn it, a merchant lives in a stockade that is more luxurious than the governor's. How can I reason with him?" Cao Jixiang walked directly into the main hall.
Then he sat on the main seat and sipped tea with his legs crossed like the owner of the house.
The owner of the house was kneeling on the ground, trembling.
"Where do you live from?" Cao Jixiang asked while drinking tea.
"My lord, my family is from Zhejiang, and they are all businessmen in their own right." The owner of the family kept trembling.
"How can a businessman live in such a luxurious house?"
Cao Jixiang sneered: "In this area, such a luxurious house, you can't buy it for hundreds of thousands of taels. It is estimated to be less than a million taels. Tell me, what does your family do?"
"The villain's name is Xue Feng, his family is from Songjiang Prefecture, and he is in the textile business!"
"Xue Feng? Songjiang Xue family, that's a big businessman." Could Cao Jixiang not know?
"Yes, yes, sir, my family is the Xue family of Songjiang. I am related to Wei Guogong's family and to the Xining Marquis Mansion. Please show your respect." Xue Feng secretly handed over a banknote.
It's a silver note from an imperial bank account, and it costs one hundred thousand taels.
Cao Jixiang knew the number with just a pinch.
He immediately laughed: "Xining Hou Mansion, Song Wei or Song Jie?"
Xue Feng was stunned. How dare this eunuch call the Marquis of Xining by his first name?
Those two are the emperor's confidants.
"This is Song Cheng, the legitimate son of the Marquis of Xining. I don't dare to say anything about something too small." Xue Feng felt his heart drop in his stomach when he saw the eunuch taking the banknote.
Snapped!
Cao Jixiang slapped Xue Feng on the face: "Song Cheng is nothing!"
"Song Wei and Song Jie are here!"
"Do you think they dare to protect you?"
Cao Jixiang's eyes were sinister: "It's only one hundred thousand taels, I think you have a big problem!"
"Someone came and copied it!"
"My lord, my lord!"
A five-finger mountain appeared on Xue Feng's face, and he quickly said: "The villain is really running a legal business..."
"Stay so damn tough!"
Cao Jixiang glanced at Liu Yu.
Liu Yu took out a scale, pinched open Xue Feng's mouth, and stuffed the scale inside.
Xue Feng's head hit the ground with a bang, and his jaw almost broke.
"You dare to spit it out?" Liu Yu grabbed his head and slapped him twice.
"Sir, please spare my life!"
Xue Feng did not expect that disaster would fall from the sky.
My family is really a businessman.
Cao Jixiang waved his hand and asked Liu Yu to stop torturing him.
"I ask you why you bribed me?" Cao Jixiang asked.
You guys from the patrol camp, aren’t you just coming to someone’s house to extort money? Do we dare not to give it? The consequences of not giving will be even worse.
Xue Feng didn't dare to say it.
Half an hour ago, he received the imperial edict that merchants and families were behind closed doors and were not allowed to move without permission, and then the patrol camp came.
Could it be that the emperor was short of money again?
"Why?" Cao Jixiang asked.
Xue Feng's mouth was covered with blood, but he shook his head and said, "Sir, please spare my life!"
"I just want to ask you, why did you bribe me?"
"But I can't tell!"
"What kind of serious businessman are you talking about?"
"Hmph, as long as your ass is clean, you won't bribe the governor."
Cao Jixiang stood up slowly: "His family has a relationship with the Xining Marquis Mansion. Write it down and report it to Your Majesty. All his family members will be arrested and sent to prison for strict interrogation!"
Xue Feng's sky collapsed.
Why?
But no one paid attention to him, and everyone in his family was violently taken away.
After leaving Xue Mansion, Cao Jixiang went to the next house.
"Battle Governor, this is too slow and His Majesty will be dissatisfied." Liu Yu whispered.
"Do you also want to go out?" Cao Jixiang asked, tilting his head.
Liu Yu's thoughts could not be hidden from him.
"You can go out, but you can't reach out for some money, understand?" Cao Jixiang reminded him.
"Under the mark, I understand!"
Liu Yu was moved after seeing Cao Jixiang receiving one hundred thousand taels of silver.
"I think you don't understand."
After all, Liu Yu was his retainer. Cao Jixiang reminded him: "This is the emperor's order."
"Your Majesty wants to investigate, and Dongchang and the horse army are watching."
"You dare to reach out and your nine clans will suffer disaster tomorrow!"
"Don't blame me for not reminding you!"
Liu Yu was startled and quickly knelt down.
"This governor can give you a chance, but you must remember the rules!" Cao Jixiang also felt that it was too slow.
Simply divide your men into more than a dozen teams.
Harvest merchants quickly.
Those who are found suspicious will be thrown into the imperial edict, and others should be punished and their money will be sent to the palace.
East City.
Gong Hui never acts sloppily.
Standing in front of a house.
"Copied!"
Gong Hui didn't interrogate him at all.
Copy it first, then throw the whole family into prison, and then interrogate slowly.
After the interrogation is correct, the person will be thrown out and the family property will be returned.
Gong Hui's work is rough and has no aesthetic sense.
Fan Qing, who was promoted to deputy commander, was different.
Fan Qing is meticulous and logical in his work.
He leads alone.
"Dongchang investigates the case!"
Fan Qing opens the door of a merchant's house. He will not kill anyone, nor will he be condescending based on his power.
He observed as he walked, entered the main hall, and first handed over to the owner of the house: "I am Fan Qing, the deputy commander of the East Factory."
The businessman was flattered.
How can anyone in Dongchang be so easy to talk to?
Especially in the past two months, after Gong Hui took charge, Dongchang's reputation quickly deteriorated.
When he heard that it was Fan Qing, he understood that Fan Qing was the most talkative person in the entire Dongchang, but whoever dared to deceive Fan Qing would end up in a very miserable end.
"I don't dare to accept the command of an adult!" The merchant knelt on the ground.
"Lou Manfeng is from Shanxi."
Fan Qing looked at him: "Is your family all here?"
"My daughter hasn't left the pavilion yet, so it's inconvenient to see people. Everyone else is here." Lou Manfeng replied.
Fan Qing nodded: "According to the commander's records, there are eighteen people in your family, why are there only fourteen? How many daughters do you have?"
Lou Manfeng was stunned: "Sir, my eldest son has gone back to his hometown to collect materials. My family is in the paint business and needs to go to the countryside to collect some ores..."
"How many days did you leave the city?" Fan Qing listened carefully.
"The day before yesterday."
Fan Qing asked someone to record it: "Your family runs the Shanxi Guild Hall, which is engaged in the paint business. It is quite honest. If you pay one hundred thousand taels of silver, everything will be fine."
"Huh? So many?"
Lou Manfeng was shocked and asked with a sad face: "Why do you have to pay so much money?"
Fan Qing narrowed his eyes and said with a cold tone: "No?"
Lou Manfeng almost cried: "I, my family are serious businessmen. I have never done anything illegal or disciplined. Why do I have to pay so much money?"
"This commander is asking you, yes or no?" Fan Qing asked.
"No!" Lou Manfeng would never hand it over without asking clearly.
Shanxi's wealthy locals all have one thing in common: they are picky.
"take away!"
Fan Qing was too lazy to talk nonsense.
"Sir, why!" Lou Manfeng cried.
"Issuing a notice to arrest his eldest son who is on the run." Fan Qing said calmly.
Lou Manfeng was shocked and immediately changed his mind: "I'll pay it all, I'll pay it all!"
"Don't you have one at home?" Fan Qing looked back and asked.
"Master Fan, my family does have some, but it's all hard-earned money, saved every penny. My family can't bear to eat or wear it!" Lou Manfeng sat on the ground and cried loudly.
"Hard-earned money?"
Fan Qing narrowed his eyes: "In the 12th year of Zhengtong, your eldest son made trouble and killed someone. How did the Taiyuan Prefecture punish him?"
"forget?"
"In the first year of Jingtai, your family killed three villagers for collecting ore. What happened to this? Have you forgotten?"
"In the fifth year of Jingtai, your family smuggled weapons to Mobei. Did you lose your memory?"
"Do you need me to help you remember everything?"
Fan Qing's eyes were sharp: "I ask you to pay one hundred thousand taels of silver to protect the lives of your whole family!"
"You don't appreciate it!"
"Then go to hell!"
"Capture him!"
"Search the house!"
Lou Manfeng was stunned.
Why does Dongchang know what his family has done?
That's what his hometown in Shanxi does. After coming to Beijing, his family has done its job well. Even if they are occasionally short of something, it's not a crime.
Every family that Fan Qing picked was guilty, and they were all profiteers who committed crimes!
I wanted to make him spend money to buy peace, but this family was disobedient.
I don’t want to live!
No wonder Gong Hui is too lazy to talk nonsense, because some people are not worth saving.
"It's unfair, it's unfair!" Lou Manfeng cried.
"It's unfair! Look at your big house. How much money can you make by selling paint?"
Fan Qing shouted: "Copied! Let's see if there are any other interesting things!"
Fan Qing left people behind and moved on to the next family.
He calmed down his scowl.
Knocked on the next door.
This family has a special status. It is the commander of Liaozhou County in Shanxi Province. It is related to the Liao Palace and is now called the King of Jingzhou.
The surname Ding is from the mother clan of the contemporary King of Jingzhou.
The emperor's imperial edict ordered all the immediate family members of the clan to move to the capital, and his family was also moved to the capital.
"Who is he?" The servant's tone was arrogant.
"Dongchang." Fan Qing replied.
The dignified deputy commander of the East Factory has to knock on doors personally.
In Dongchang, he has no airs and is kind-hearted. Everyone below him likes him.
"What's the East Factory and the West Factory? I've never heard of it, get lost!" The servant was very arrogant.
Fan Qing took a few steps back and glanced at the city gate. There was no way to force his way in.
"Climb over the wall and get in."
Fan Qing goes up first.
The Ding family had hundreds of servants. After hearing the imperial edict, they locked their doors and stepped up patrols.
Fan Qing jumped into the wall and was surrounded by people.
He narrowed his eyes and saw that someone was holding a knife. Not to mention one hand, there were at least twenty or thirty knives.
"Where did you get the knife?" Fan Qing's eyes were sharp.
"Stop blabbering and do it!"
There was a fierce servant who hacked Fan Qing with a knife.
Fan Qing has a tall figure, waist and arms, and a good figure. He looks like he doesn't know martial arts. In fact, he has been trained in the army since he was a child, and he has strong skills.
Snapped!
He avoided the blade, drew out his waist knife, and held it against the blade with his backhand.
Kicked out at the same time.
He had long legs and kicked the man's leg.
But the Ding family's servants were numerous and powerful, and they all came over with sharp blades to chop at them.
Fan Qing rolled around.
All the blades were struck empty.
He jumped up like a carp, stepped on the wall to use his strength to fly up, and slashed down with his sword.
A servant standing close to the front was hit by a knife.
Dongchang fans jumped in one after another, all drawing their waist knives, and the horse-raising army standing on the wall raised their blazing guns.
"Quickly retreat!"
The servants retreated quickly, with sharp and orderly movements.
It looked like he had practiced battle formations.
The place where you can practice battle formations is in the army!
"Fire!" Fan Qing waved his hand and motioned for all the posters to be posted on the wall.
The horsemen mounted on the wall and opened fire.
Bang bang!
Someone fell to the ground and screamed.
More servants disappeared into the big house, very quickly, and their training was orderly.
Fanzi wants to chase.
Fan Qing waved his hand: "Something's wrong, these people are the top brass in the army! Xiao Wu, take this command order and go to the palace gate to report to the palace! Quick!"
"Sir, if you don't understand the situation and report it to the palace rashly, will it bring trouble to the factory owner?" Xiao Wu asked in a low voice.
Fan Qing thought so too.
Just based on the tactics he saw in the army, did he conclude that the Ding family was rebelling?
"Go to Mr. Chen and ask Mr. Chen to come over!"
Fan Qing was very cautious. He raised his head and glanced at the horse-breeding and artillery soldiers: "Brothers, please don't enter the mansion for the time being. Wait for General Chen to arrive!"
At this time.
The sound of firecrackers alerted Ding Quan. Ding Quan hurried over and saw Fan Qing's official uniform. He was so frightened that his legs became weak: "But Mr. Dongchang?"
"Deputy commander Fan Qing is at the Lower East Factory!" Fan Qing winked at Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu climbed over the wall and got out.
Ding Quan's pupils shrank and he wanted to send someone to chase him, but he didn't dare.
"It turns out it's Master Fan. This servant is ignorant. I apologize to you."
When Ding Quan invited Fan Qing into the hall for tea, he took the opportunity to slip him a banknote.
Fan Qing did not refuse.
Follow the people to the lobby.
Ding Quan tested Fan Qing to see if he could see anything.
"They were all disobedient at home. After spending a few years in the army, they lost patience and got tired of it, so they left the army."
Ding Quan described private service as fresh and refined.
Private service means that military households flee, and then these military households are taken as servants by various wealthy families and become black households.
This is also the reason why the Ming army's combat effectiveness collapsed rapidly.
Private warfare had become a common practice since the Xuande Dynasty, and Emperor Xuanzong and King Mobei were unable to stop it. By the first year of Jingtai, the military household had almost completely collapsed, and they could only use money to recruit new soldiers.
And those elites were all dispersed into the gentry families and became servants.
"Mr. Ding."
Fan Qing smiled and said, "Has your family ever had a business trip?"
"No!"
Ding Quan said categorically: "Master Fan should know that my sister is the concubine of the late King of Liao Dynasty, so the family is considered wealthy and will not engage in lowly jobs."
Fan Qing nodded: "I naturally know Mr. Ding's family background."
"I just dare to ask Mr. Ding, is the Qian's Liquor Company in the capital the property of Mr. Ding?"
Ding's face twitched: "No."
"Since it's not the case, then I won't bother you."
Fan Qing stood up.
Ding Quan stopped him: "Is this the purpose of Mr. Fan's visit?"
"Of course, what does Mr. Ding think?" Fan Qing asked.
Ding Quan laughed dryly: "I will never engage in a lowly business in my family, so the wine business has nothing to do with my Ding family."
Fan Qing didn't bother.
Ding Quan breathed a sigh of relief. It would be great if he could lose money and avoid disaster.
Fan Qing and others were escorted out of the mansion by Ding Quan and others.
At the gate, he saw Chen Shao with a resolute face, and immediately looked back: "Ding Quan! Hand over those people who are responsible for the rebellion!"
Ding Quan was stunned for a moment.
This Fan Qing turned against him too quickly.
But when he saw Chen Shao leading nearly a thousand people to surround the Ding family, he knew something was wrong.
"Master Fan..."
Snapped!
Fan Qing slapped him in the face: "Stop being so nagging! Hand it over!"
Chen Shao watched Fan Qing's performance calmly.
"My lord, we all said that he was an ignorant child in the family..."
Fan Qing grabbed Ding Quan's ears: "Are you still lying to me?"
"We are all from the military, how come we are your children?"
"The capital doesn't allow people to hide swords. Why do you have swords in your house?"
Fan Qing increased the strength in his hands and pulled hard!
"ah!"
Ding Quan screamed.
Fan Qing ripped off one of his ears.
He covered his bleeding ears and screamed.
Fan Qing threw away his ears and drew out his sword: "You bark again, and I will chop off your dog's head!"
"Sir, my family is related by marriage to the Prince of Liao's Palace..."
"The King of Liao has been demoted to the King of Jingzhou by Your Majesty. You still call yourself King of Liao. What are you doing?" Fan Qing made a cut on his neck.
Ding Quan was frightened. If he dared to say something wrong, Fan Qing would definitely kill him.
You know, the people in Dongchang are all ruthless.
At that time, we should have directly ordered the servants to kill the people in Dongchang and then escape quickly. So what if we lost our identity!
It's too late to regret!
Chen Shao heard that someone was hiding weapons secretly.
If it were someone else's family, that would be fine. But this family is the direct blood relative of the King of Jingzhou. Does the King of Jingzhou want to rebel?
He immediately led people into Ding's house.
When Ding Quan saw the heavily armed army rushing into the mansion, he knew it was completely over.
The sound of fire and gunfire came from the house, and it died down after a while.
Not long after, more than a hundred strong men were escorted up.
Ding Quan felt dizzy.
"So many?" Fan Qing was shocked.
Chen Shao, covered in blood, walked in: "Not only were there hidden swords, but there were also bows and crossbows. We lost more than a dozen musketeers."
Fan Qing was surprised.
The horse-breeding army is His Majesty's personal army. The soldiers are well fed and trained three times a day, so they can be said to be elite soldiers.
Chen Shao is also very good at fighting. He lost so much against some servants?
"Ding Quan, right?"
Chen Shao knelt down and picked up his head: "Tell me, you have five hundred soldiers hidden in your house. What are you going to do?"
Five hundred soldiers?
Fan Qing was startled.
This time it led to a big case.
It must be broken.
Chen Shao said it was five hundred soldiers, not five hundred strong men.
Ding Quan subconsciously bit his tongue.
But Chen Shao knocked his head on the ground: "If you dare to die, I will punish your whole family!"
"explain!"
"Who ordered you? To station five hundred troops in the capital, what are you going to do?"
Dante refused to say anything.
His head was covered in blood, but he didn't say anything.
Chen Shao dropped his head and said: "Don't let him die!"
"Master Fan, this matter is too big. I must go to the palace to report it."
"Please use some means to make him confess quickly."
How dare Fan Qing not agree?
Ding Quan is a blood relative of the King of Jingzhou, but he raises five hundred soldiers in the capital. What is he doing? Are you going to rebel like Li Longji?
Chen Shao left the mansion in a hurry and rode into the palace.
In the Fengtian Palace.
A full hour and a half passed.
Zhu Qiyu said nothing.
The courtiers all gave me seats. After all, I was old and it was not worth the loss to kneel down.
At this time, Chen Shao was allowed to run wildly in the palace.
He ran to Fengtian Hall as fast as he could and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, something big has been found out!"
"Say!" Zhu Qiyu asked someone to pour him a cup of tea.
Chen Shao no longer cared about drinking tea: "In the Ding family, Wei Chen found five hundred soldiers with sharp blades and bows and crossbows. They are all good soldiers in the army. Wei Chen suspects that this person has disobedient intentions!"
Wow!
There was an uproar in Fengtian Hall.
The courtiers looked at each other and showed shock.
Zhu Qiyu stood up with a look of surprise on his face: "Ding family? Which Ding family?"
He has long known that soldiers in the army have become private servants.
But after he ascended the throne, he issued numerous decrees, forcing every family not to keep sharp weapons privately.
"Your Majesty, I am the mother clan of King Jingzhou, Dingquan, Ding family of Liaozhou, Shanxi!"
Chen Shao took a sip of water and explained the cause and effect.
"OK!"
"The King of Jingzhou is dissatisfied with me and plotting rebellion!"
Zhu Qiyu’s face was fierce: “You really don’t know if you don’t check, but you will be shocked if you check!”
"I thought these were all obedient ministers!"
"The results revealed that they are all rebels!"
"What are they going to do?"
"Shall I follow Li Longji and lead five hundred warriors into the palace to rebel? I am not Li Dan!"
"Pass the decree, order the guards to leave the palace, and order everyone in the clan to kneel outside the Fengtian Gate! None of them are missing!"
"Chen Shao!"
"Check it out for me! Look at which palace in the capital dares to keep private soldiers! Who dares to hide sharp weapons! Who dares to hide crossbows and firearms!"
"Find them all for me!"
"All mansions in Beijing must be investigated!"
"Check one building at a time!"
"The investigation cannot be completed today, the investigation will be carried out until tomorrow!"
"The investigation cannot be completed this month, and the investigation will be carried out until next month!"
"Find everyone for me!"
boom!
The entire Fengtian Palace exploded.
It would be strange if we don’t find out the ghost after this investigation!
But Hu Hui and Yu Qian are not in Fengtian Palace, who dares to persuade the emperor!
Moreover, Chen Shao has already discovered the private army.
A mere in-law of the King of Jingzhou recruited five hundred soldiers, all of whom had seen blood. If we let this go, would the person sitting in the Fengtian Palace still be the emperor?
At this time, whoever dares to say no will be executed by the emperor without hesitation.
"Wei Chen accepts the decree!" Chen Shao kowtowed.
"Order Cao Yi, transfer people from the Jiumen Admiral's Mansion!"
Zhu Qiyu's face was fierce: "Pass the decree to open the martial arts hall, and order Ren Li and Chen You to lead the troops in person to find out for me!"
"Ye Sheng! Geng Jiuchou! Bai Gui! Yi Ming!"
"You also come out of the palace with the army, each lead an army, and go investigate for me!"
"I allow you to mobilize twenty-six guards!"
"Everyone knows that the eunuchs will come out of the palace with you! Assist in the investigation!"
Five hundred private soldiers.
Back then, Li Longji relied on 500 soldiers to overthrow his father Li Dan and Princess Taiping, and successfully ascended the throne.
Although it is the Ming Dynasty now, what if there are five thousand people? What about fifty thousand people?
Zhu Qiyu also did not trust the civil servants to lead the twenty-six guards.
The twenty-six guards were Zhu Qiyu's basic base, so the eunuchs of the governor were appointed as supervisors to control the civil servants.
"Send an order to leave the capital and order Yu Qian to enter the palace quickly!" Zhu Qiyu's sword was already hungry and thirsty.
Some people want my life!
That's right, I also want to use your lives to shock the world!
Welcome the birth of my son!
"Send the order again, ordering the soldiers stationed at the three passes to enter the capital!"
"Order the canal guard troops to enter the capital!"
"The armies of Rehe, Liaoning, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong have temporarily stopped mobilizing and are waiting for my order to enter Beijing at any time!"
Zhu Qiyu went crazy.
Aren’t there not enough soldiers in Beijing?
Then issue an edict!
An edict from outside Beijing!
"All palace doors are closed, and all palaces are closed."
"No one is allowed to leave or enter the palace, and no one is allowed to communicate with anyone outside the palace."
"Anyone from the palace who comes near the city wall will be killed!"
Zhu Qiyu shouted: "I want to see who dares to rebel against me!"
"I am guilty!" Everyone in Fengtian Hall knelt down.
a long time.
Zhu Qiyu's expression gradually relaxed and he waved his hand: "Everyone, get up."
"Someone wants my life."
"I will wait in the Fengtian Palace to see who can take my life!"
The palace is surrounded by people.
There is a strong army inside and a large army outside. Everything is under the control of the emperor. Who can rebel?
Moreover, the emperor still has his trump card untouched.
"Feng Xiao, go get the West Factory moving!" Zhu Qiyu turned over the first trump card.
"Check it for me!"
"Anyone who has anything to do with the Ding family will be arrested by me and severely interrogated!"
"I would rather kill the wrong person than let him go!"
"Let Tiqi enter the Fengtian Gate again and take control of the clan!"
"Whoever dares to disobey orders will be killed!"
The second hole card was revealed.
The people in Fengtian Hall were trembling.
Everyone knew that the emperor was going to make use of the topic.
Cao Jixiang was still blackmailing various merchants, but suddenly received a new imperial edict, ordering the patrol battalion to search all the palaces in the capital and not let any of them go.
"What happened?" Cao Jixiang stuffed a piece of silver, about two taels, into the eunuch who passed the order.
"Commander Fan found five hundred private soldiers from Ding Quan's house."
Cao Jixiang was surprised and asked again: "Who is Ding Quan?"
The eunuch who delivered the order rubbed his fingers.
Cao Jixiang stuffed another piece of silver into him, which made him feel a little hurt.
Even though he has so much power, he doesn't dare to be corrupt and even lives a relatively simple life, for fear of being killed by the emperor because of corruption.
"She is the uncle of the King of Jingzhou, Ding Quan's sister, Ding, and the concubine of the late King Jian of Liao."
Cao Jixiang exclaimed: "Is the King of Jingzhou going to rebel?"
"Then our family doesn't know. We have to rely on you, father-in-law, to check." The eunuch who passed the order covered his mouth and smiled. He got four taels of silver and made a lot of money.
Cao Jixiang thought deeper.
The King of Jingzhou was the original King of Liao. He was the fourth son of King Jian of Liao. He was a bastard and had no chance of ascending the throne.
Besides, the King of Jingzhou doesn’t have this ability.
So what is the purpose of his uncle Ding Quan raising private soldiers?
In other words, who is it for?
Cao Jixiang immediately thought of King Mobei, and dismissed the thought in a flash.
The vassal kings hated the emperor's lineage with deep hatred.
There is no way he would risk his life to help King Mobei rebel.
Besides, King Mobei would not do such a stupid thing.
It would be impossible to break into the imperial city without anyone opening the palace gate, and without losing command of the twenty-six guards, the horse army, and the bodyguard army.
Meng didn't even dare to do this. When he tried to seize the door, the twenty-sixth guard failed, and someone opened the door again, but he still failed.
If it’s not King Mobei, then who could it be?
Among the kings, he has sufficient status and charisma.
"Come on, let's go meet Prince Ning's relatives for a while."
Cao Jixiang thought of the dishonest King Ning.
Prince Ning's lineage has always been dishonest.
But the source of dishonesty is ultimately Emperor Taizong.
At that time, Emperor Taizong Jingnan promised King Ning, and the emperors took turns to do it, but Emperor Taizong cheated.
Not only did he cheat, he also put him under house arrest for more than 20 years.
If it weren't for Ning Wang Zhu Quan's outstanding resourcefulness, he wouldn't even have the fiefdom of Nanchang. This fiefdom was given by Emperor Renzong after he ascended the throne.
Therefore, the descendants of King Ning and King Yan hated him to the core.
Several generations of Prince Ning had thoughts of rebellion, especially Zhu Mianpei, who just barely had rebellion written on his face.
Everyone in the world knows it.
It seemed that Prince Ning himself didn't know and thought he was planning a rebellion. How secretive it was.
The Lou family, Princess Ning's mother's family, was forcibly moved to Beijing and happened to live in Dongcheng.
Cao Jixiang was the first to visit his home.
Lou's father, Grand Duke Lou, was not a simple man. He was the commander of Nanchang County and a well-known wise man in the local area.
"Master Cao, please take the seat of honor!" Mr. Lou was very sensible.
Cao Jixiang was not polite either.
After sitting down, sipping tea.
"Master Cao, it's already noon. Have you guys not eaten yet? Why don't you just eat in your humble abode." Mr. Lou was very good at talking.
"Then I'll bother you, Grandpa." Cao Jixiang was also polite.
Really hungry.
After struggling all morning, no one had anything hot to eat.
"I don't dare to call Mr. Cao Grandpa. Just call me Lou Zhong." Grandpa Lou is very smart.
But this sugar-coated bullet cannot hit Cao Jixiang.
Cao Jixiang is waiting.
Wait for Grandpa Lou to send him money.
But Mr. Lou was not a fool. If he took the initiative to give money, he would not admit that he was wrong. It would be equivalent to giving excuses to Cao Jixiang.
The two of them just drank tea in silence.
Cao Jixiang's stomach growled and he couldn't help it anymore: "Has Grandpa and Ding Quan been in contact?"
"Which Ding Quan?" Lou Taigong looked confused.
"Uncle Ding Quan, King of Jingzhou." Cao Jixiang said directly.
At this time, the servant brought a meal.
They are all simple side dishes, no big fish or meat.
"do not know."
Grand Duke Lou smiled bitterly and said: "The conditions at home are average, which makes Mr. Cao laugh. Please don't dislike me, Mr. Cao."
This is a smart man.
From the beginning, Cao Jixiang was called “sir” instead of “father-in-law”.
The eunuch also fancied himself a normal man.
Being called father-in-law will inevitably make you feel inferior.
Grand Duke Lou also invited the patrol camp to have dinner without bringing out delicious food, which showed the simplicity of the family.
"Don't you know?" Cao Jixiang didn't mind, picked up the rice and took a bite.
"I really don't know you. Please eat slowly, adults."
Cao Jixiang eats very quickly.
In a matter of seconds, he ate up a bowl of rice.
Cao Jixiang wiped his mouth and put the rice bowl on the table: "I'm sorry for bothering Mr. Lou."
puff!
He opened his mouth, spit out the vegetable leaves, and spat it on Taigong Lou's face.
Immediately, Mr. Lou’s face became stiff.
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