It is the spring of the thirteenth year of Wanli, and the rain is gentle and the wind is gentle.
Zhou Qi covered his burning face with a gloomy expression:
"I didn't expect that Qi Penglai was more cautious than Fang Jiayu! In this way, I don't know how many people's wealth will be cut off!"
"The situation is like this, there is nothing we can do."
After Wang Jian said that, he just sighed and said again:
"It's okay for the common people to suffer a little. They can suffer anyway, but the imperial decree cannot be ignored, otherwise you may not even die!"
"So, this court will have to conduct inspections in person according to the order. You should all restrain yourself. Don't blame this court for not reminding you first!"
Zhou Qi raised his hands and said yes.
Wang Jian didn't have the guts to go against the trend, so he naturally no longer dared to let the people under him do anything random, so he had to die down.
As a result, Du Jian and others received an order to withdraw.
"how so."
Du Jian's subordinate Fu Jian was therefore disappointed.
Du Jian gave him a kick and said, "Retreat as soon as I ask you to. No matter what nonsense, you must listen to what the superiors say, otherwise, you will have no chance to show off your authority! Let them go first."
After hearing this, Fujian could only throw the crying baby in his hand to Wang Xiaocao: "Cry, just cry when you cry. Believe it or not, I will throw you to death!"
Wang Xiaocao hurriedly caught his daughter and looked at her daughter with concern.
Du Jian, on the other hand, glanced at Wang Xiaocao with hatred, and then at the chickens, ducks and vegetable patch behind Ye Agui.
It was as if the scene of ordinary people like Ye Agui and Wang Xiaocao living a prosperous and peaceful life made him very frustrated, as if the land, chickens and ducks were all robbed from him, so that when he left, he felt that he was the one The angry look of the victim.
The same goes for Fujian.
The type of people he despises most are the scholars who talk about new rituals and start dancing with guns and sticks.
In his opinion, these scholars were not fair, and they were very vulgar. They actually imitated people like him and used swords and sticks.
Another type of people he despised were the lowest common people who should have been worse off than him and had no chance to sell their dignity to become official officials.
But now, such people are living more comfortably than themselves.
How could he bear this?
But he despises the former, but he doesn't dare to offend him.
Only the latter.
Fu Jian both despises and wishes he could trample under his feet this kind of low-class common people who live better than himself without doing bad things or compromising their conscience, but who have the same background as himself.
Even if I can't step on it now.
When Fujian was leaving, he kicked over a dustpan of beans that Ye Agui had left drying outside, and then looked at Ye Agui provocatively, as if not doing so would have wasted the power he had as an official. Same.
Ye Agui resisted the urge to hit Fujian. Only after these people left, he went over to help Wang Xiaocao. After finding that his wife and daughter were fine, he calmly picked up the beans.
"We all saw it."
"The new Governor Fengyang is not a thing!"
"Do you know these people?"
While Ye Agui was picking up beans, Zhang Jingxiu, Zhang Maoxiu and others walked up to him.
Ye Agui looked up and saw his boss, Pang Shangjun, the chief flag officer of Jinyiwei, and several young men wearing Confucian scarves appearing here.
Ye Agui burst into tears after seeing Pang Shangjun:
"Master Pang, you have to make the decision for me!"
"They are from the Inspection Department. They said they wanted to lure me away to the army, seize my wife, seize my land, and ransack my home."
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If he asked you just now, he would naturally make the decision for you. "
It turned out that Zhu Yijun had a secret order for Zhang Jingxiu and other brothers to use the name Ding You to stay out of the sight of the courtiers for a period of time, and then secretly develop the Jin Yiwei secret line. However, Zhang Jingxiu and others also followed his instructions and sent many reliable family members to secretly arrange many spies. , and not just in the Huguang area.
Zhang Jingxiu did not choose to go north from Henan to Beijing this time. Instead, he chose to go down from the Yangtze River to the south of the Yangtze River and then go north along the canal. He just wanted to see if there was anything he could report to the emperor on the most densely populated transportation line in the empire.
It can be said that Zhang Jingxiu came to Beijing with the intention of causing trouble from the beginning.
And this time.
After Pang Shangjun said that, Ye Agui replied to Zhang Jingxiu: "Sir, I know all these people. The leader is the inspector Du Jian, and the one who almost threw my daughter to death is the inspector Fu Jian..."
After hearing this, Zhang Jingxiu looked at Zhang Yunxiu: "Fifth brother, tell Liu Chengyou, the Jinyiwei Qianhu stationed in Shandong, what happened today! Let him arrest these people!"
"According to His Majesty's decree, in order to prevent the Jinyiwei from colluding with Yousi, once the Jinyiwei from other places are found to have violated the law, they can go to other places to arrest the suspect. Liu Chengyou's father, Liu Shouyou, is his father's disciple, so he will not refuse to give me the Zhang family That’s a little bit of face.”
Zhang Yunxiu said yes.
Liu Chengyou did not refuse after meeting Zhang Yunxiu here. Instead, he immediately issued a Jun order and asked Zhu Chenghe from a hundred households to take a number of Jinyi guards to Qingjiangpu, Huai'an by boat.
On this day, Du Jian was taking Fu Jian and other patrolling soldiers to inspect the goods passing through the border, when they were blocked by Zhu Chenghe and others.
"Jinyiwei?"
Du Jian, Fujian and others immediately turned pale and hurriedly knelt down.
Du Jian was already trembling and said: "I don't know how you guys offended all the royal guards, please give me a way out!"
Zhu Chenghe just walked over.
Du Jian hurriedly hugged his face and said, "Can you please stop slapping me in the face?"
Fujian even kowtowed and said with the utmost humility: "Please forgive me, the little one is just a dog. It can only bark and wag its tail. If there is any place where I accidentally offend the masters of Jin Yiwei, , Sir, please don’t argue with me like a dog if you have a lot of them!”
"take away!"
Zhu Chenghe just gave an order.
Then, Du Jian, Fujian and others were arrested and taken away by Jin Yiwei.
at the same time.
That night, Huai'an Magistrate's Yamen.
After the prefect Zhou Qi returned home, he ordered his close aide Song En: "Send a message to all county magistrates and inspection departments to stop colluding with the army!"
Song En was greatly disappointed after hearing this. After arranging for someone to deliver the order, he asked, "Dong Weng, why did you suddenly stop joining the army?"
"You ask me, who should I ask!"
Zhou Qi scolded for no reason, then touched his face and said: "The imperial edict has been issued, prohibiting the Qing army from hooking up with the army. Fuyuan dare not deny the imperial edict at this time, so naturally we have to put the imperial court on it. In my eyes, the common people are easy to bully, but that doesn’t mean the imperial court is easy to bully!”
After hearing this, Song En said: "What about the goods that have been collected? Do you still want them?"
"Do those common people still dare to come to the government to ask for it?"
"Besides, I just want to spit it out. Are the people above willing to spit it out?"
Zhou Qi asked rhetorically.
Song En then said: "What Dong Weng said is true!"
After Zhou Qi said that, he said: "I'll go to Nandu overnight to change hands!"
Song En said yes and walked out. But not half an hour after he left, he came back again and hurriedly said to Zhou Qi: "The Jin Yiwei is here!"
Then, Zhou Qi watched helplessly as the Jinyi guards began to search around the government office, and asked the Jinyi guards, "What are you doing?"
At this time, a Jinyiwei Baihu named Long Yougui took out Liu Chengyou's ticket and said, "I have been ordered to conduct a private investigation!"
Not long after, a banner officer from the Imperial Guard came over and said, "Report, a large amount of property was found in the backyard. We won't have time to sell the stolen goods in the future!"
Long Yougui then looked at Zhou Qi: "Fu Yin, would you like to come with us?"
Zhou Qi said in a deep voice: "How dare you?"
"It's a privilege granted by the emperor. Take it first and ask later. The governor will not know about it."
