When we left the mountain, it was already dark, but we saw thousands of lights.
This place is less than ten miles away from Xuanfu City. As far as the eye can see, there are endless lights, all lit up by villages and towns along the way. Official Shi Kefa was amazed that Xuanfu is so prosperous, and there are lights ten miles outside the city.
Because it is a port of the Special Economic Zone, Xuanfu is bustling with commerce, but on weekdays there is no lively scene like these ten miles of lights. Of course, it is not to welcome Chang Yu and his party, but because Xuanfu has been closed recently, and a large number of business travelers and goods are stranded outside the city. It was definitely very lively.
More than a thousand soldiers and horses walked through the passage, which caused a lot of discussion among the people and business travelers along the way, wondering whether something big was going to happen in Xuan Mansion.
Xuanfu is a town, which is the highest level of the Ming Dynasty’s defense system. It is known as the northwest gate of the Ming Dynasty and the first government in the west of Beijing. (Guo Jing and Huang Rong first met here). Zi) west to Baiyang River, Yanggao County, Shanxi Province, with a total length of more than a thousand miles, and 192 crossings. There is one general soldier, one deputy general soldier (stationed in Yongning City), and seven generals to guard the area. There are three people in the guerrillas and thirty-one in the garrison.
At its peak, there were 150,000 troops and 50,000 horses. Each year, the main troops were paid 120,000 yuan and the guest troops were 250,000.
It is also the place with the worst rates of food shortages in history.
According to a verification conducted in the third year of Longqing's reign, there were more than 80,000 soldiers and more than 50,000 horses, and more than 30,000 were actually found.
It's really shocking.
"Master Jun, when will the Xuanfu open?" Many travelers and people gathered near the city gate. Some of them were eager to enter the city for business. Some were residents of the city who were rushing to close the mountain when they went out. They couldn't get in, so they were anxious. Very.
However, no matter how they asked in the past few days, the guards inside and above ignored them. When they got tired of questioning, they told them to stay away from the city, otherwise they would be shot.
At this moment, when they saw soldiers and horses entering the city, some people couldn't help but ask questions, but no one paid attention to them.
"Hurry, it will be tomorrow tomorrow, if it is slow, it will be three days." Chang Yu replied.
After entering the city, Shi Kefa and the others had not yet recovered from their surprise. In other words, the capital had never seen such a large-scale business trip. Chang Yu chuckled and said: "This is quite small. The real merchants gather here." Zhangjiakou, sixty miles northwest of Xuanhua."
Lockdown, curfew! After entering the city, the Black Wolf Battalion officially took over the city defense, and Chang Yu and his party went straight to the General Military Mansion.
Half a month ago, Wang Chengyin heard that soldiers and horses were crossing the border and asked the Xuanfu to provide supplies. This rule was passed down from the early Ming Dynasty. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the landlords did not have much food left, and no one would care about what they were eating. So it often happens that a certain army is ordered to go to a certain place to suppress bandits and quell the chaos. It asks for supplies somewhere along the way. If the other party doesn't give them, then I'll grab them!
Wang Chengyin didn't want to give it to him either, but absolutely no one dared to rob him.
But when he heard that the other party was the soldiers and horses of Dongchang Guards and two commanders came to visit in person, he immediately changed his mind. Not only did he provide supplies, he also had to hold a banquet to welcome the news, because he was too sensitive to Dongchang's yamen.
Dongchang plummeted after the fall of Wei Zhongxian. After so many years of obscurity and little action, it suddenly became a blockbuster half a year ago. And just before it became a blockbuster, Wang Chengyin had met Chang Yu, who was just a young eunuch at that time. At that time, Chang Yu He doesn't belong to Dongchang yet, but he deliberately makes others think that he is from Dongchang in order to take advantage of the situation.
But even then, Wang Chengyin was respectful to him but arrogant at the same time. If Wu Mengming hadn't been there to control him, he would have been ignored.
But what happened next was so unexpected. The little eunuch who Wang Chengyin didn't take seriously came to Datong not long after leaving the Xuan Mansion and killed Jiang Yu. He was another king of Datong!
And I heard that the little eunuch of Dongchang is actually the governor of Dongchang!
At that time, Wang Chengyin was shocked and confused. Everything was unbelievable and unreal!
But he felt a little bit lucky, but if you asked him if he was scared, to be honest, he wasn't that scared at the time! Because even the admirals of Dongchang usually have nothing to do with them, these important border generals who hold heavy troops. Without the decree of the imperial court, they would not dare to touch them. At that time, how could the imperial court dare to touch them? To put it bluntly, Don't even dare.
As for the young eunuch's murder of Jiang Gan, it was because Jiang Gan made the first move and was killed in reverse.
Besides, Jiang Yu is notorious for his many evil deeds, but I, Wang Chengyin, am not that bad.
What really threatened Wang Chengyin was the growing power and prestige of the little eunuch. After becoming famous in the battle of Taiyuan, he immediately went to defend the enemy outside the pass. The victory of Guan Ning shocked the court and the public, and the king of logistics fought against Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of thieves in Baoding Prefecture...
At this time, Wang Chengyin was a little panicked. He knew the urine properties of Dongchang Yazhen. He was not good at having a dick in front of the young eunuch. In addition, he was not clean. He knew that Chang Yu would come to deal with him sooner or later, but he would kill him. It wouldn't be possible, and he had a bit of luck: now that there were no generals in the court, the young eunuch led his troops to put out fires everywhere, and the important border areas had to be guarded, and he would not be touched at this juncture.
And the facts were indeed as he expected. At the beginning of the year, a large number of people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei faction raided those Shanxi merchants. The biggest profiteer at that time, Fan Yongdou, was in Zhangjiakou, Xuanfu Town. As a wealthy businessman specializing in foreign trade and the boss of Xuanfu, There is no contact between them, would you believe it if I tell you?
Even if you believe it, Jin Yiwei’s Dongchang fans don’t believe it either.
However, Jinyiwei and Fanzi have been arresting people and ransacking homes in the Xuanda area of Shanxi for more than a month, but they didn't touch a single person from the military. Did they find no clues about crimes involving the military?
Wang Chengyin didn't believe it.
But he knew that the imperial court and the eunuch did not want to disturb the morale of the army at this juncture, and did not want to cause chaos at the border, so they turned a blind eye and passed by. However, as a veteran, he also knew that there is a word called settling accounts after the fall, so he also made some preparations. Self-preservation.
It's just that he didn't expect that the little eunuch always defeated the enemy with one move when settling accounts!
Tu Yuan and Jia Waixiong came to ask for supplies. Wang Chengyin hosted a banquet to welcome them. The two talked freely about going west to recover Xi'an before winter. As the commander-in-chief of a town, Wang Chengyin was very concerned about current affairs. He was slightly confused: Beijing In the middle of a severe famine, the imperial court still used troops.
However, the suspicion was quickly cleared up. The military rations were supplied by Zuo Liangyu from Nanjing and Wuchang, and a lot of money was obtained from the confiscation of Liu Zeqing's family property... Although Tu Yuan and Jia Waixiong were not as eloquent as Chang Yu, they always talked about key points, and Wang Chengyin had no doubts. He truly believed that the two of them were going to Taiyuan to prepare for the westward march. The most important thing was that at that time, nearly a thousand soldiers from the Black Tiger Camp and the Black Panther Camp were outside the city. Tu Yuan and Jia Waixiong only led a dozen soldiers into the city.
Unexpectedly, while they were drinking heavily, the two of them suddenly turned over the table and took Wang Chengyin away!
You can't drink without company. Several of Wang Chengyin's generals wanted to resist at that time, but Tu Yuan rushed over and knocked them all down with a punch. As a brave general under Chang Yu, it is not easy to beat up a few drunkards.
Then Tu Yuan's soldiers held Wang Chengyin's token to open the city gate and let in the two battalions of soldiers and horses. The Black Tiger Battalion took over the General Military Mansion, and the Black Panther Battalion went to the military camp and joined forces with General He Chengxin to block the barracks.
Wang Chengyin and his subordinates were placed under house arrest in a courtyard in the General Military Mansion. They were neither cuffed nor tied, but they were not allowed to step out of the courtyard. The servants, maids, and other members of the family were also not allowed to come or go at will.
In the same way, no one is allowed to enter the General Military Mansion without permission.
The next day, Governor Zhu Zifeng came to visit after hearing the news. Before Tu Yuan came, Chang Yu had told him to treat him with courtesy, so he let him in. After an hour, he left with a sad face, and then More than ten soldiers came with weapons to visit Wang Chengyin, but were ordered to abandon their weapons or be killed on the spot.
However, this group of people was determined to either kill them or let them in.
Tu Yuan originally wanted to order the killing, but after thinking about it, he was worried about causing public opinion, so he said that he could go into the mansion to visit after giving up his weapons. These people thought about it and agreed. Unexpectedly, after entering the mansion, they were unwilling to come out, saying that they wanted to stay with Wang Chengyin. life and death.
Hey, it seems they are all confidants, so Tu Yuan complied with their wishes and placed them all under house arrest.
