Regarding the case with Chen Xin, Dai Lu admitted it, because it was the prince who made the decision. No matter how unwilling he was, he would only be asking for trouble in the end.
The prince's actions were naturally equivalent to overriding the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Shuntian Mansion, which was an act beyond his authority, but no one dared to offend the prince because of this case.
No official is a fool, and this is not a major case. Falling out with the current prince and regent over a mere salt merchant who was slandered by others? Isn't this asking for death?
Regarding the various abilities of the prince, not only the civil servants and generals, but also ordinary people are very clear. The airship that imitates the fairy world has become a fairy weapon in the hearts of the people of Jifu.
It can be seen that it is inevitable that the prince traveled to the immortal world and obtained the true biography of Zhu Yuanzhang, the great emperor of Taizu. No one dared to deny this, and no one could find any flaws to refute it.
Unless they raise the issue and ask Zhu Yuanzhang to appear in the mortal world, no one has the courage, let alone the qualifications.
Not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, the factory guard founded by Zhu Yuanzhang can easily teach your whole family how to behave!
Dai Lu knew that his abilities were limited and his arms could not twist his thighs. If he wanted to stand up, he could only place his hope on the Qing Dynasty King Master.
When the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was able to attack the capital, he was willing to join him immediately. It would be much better to work for the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty than to be exploited by the Dog Prince!
The Shanxi merchants were wiped out by the Gou Prince, the Jifu merchants were ruthlessly suppressed, and the Jiangnan merchants were probably targeted by the Gou Prince a long time ago.
Next, Prince Gou will deal with the most wealthy Lianghuai salt merchants in the world.
Maybe Xu Haoran had seen the clues and decided to unite everyone to fight back.
Dai Lu didn't know what Xu Haoran's chances of winning were, but the Lianghuai salt merchants had huge energy and would not sit still and wait for death.
Emperor Chongzhen, who has moved to the southern capital, is much weaker in mind and means than Prince Gou, and may be manipulated by salt merchants.
Thinking about it this way, as long as the Lianghuai salt merchants gain power in the south and make things worse, Prince Gou will not be stable in Jifu.
Furthermore, seeing that the Qing army is about to approach the city, maybe in a few months, the capital will change its flag.
Once the Qing Dynasty took control of the Central Plains, it would inevitably rely on local merchants to supply military supplies.
This means that the good days of his family are coming, and becoming one of the world's leading wealthy businessmen is not far away.
After thinking about it for a while, Dai Lu felt that he was more balanced and could at least make Chen Xin pay five hundred taels of silver.
Whether the city can be broken as soon as possible depends on the ability of the Qing Dynasty King. The factory guards are patrolling heavily at the moment, and Dai Lu doesn't want to be caught.
When the King of the Qing Dynasty was able to break in, he decided to surrender with his whole family.
Otherwise, we have to rely on Lianghuai salt merchants to build momentum.
No matter what, you can make your home invincible.
This is called "advancing and retreating in a right way, choosing and giving up"!
"Huh? Where have everyone gone?"
When Shen Teng returned to Jinyiwei's yamen from the back residence, he found that the manpower was pitiful, and he only saw a few dozen people.
"Go back to Baihu, and the commander will take everyone to the streets to catch the Tatars and start a detailed investigation!"
The Fanzi who answered the call and was on duty immediately replied that in addition to the personnel on duty in the Yamen, the commander of Jinyiwei, Wang Shide, took out all the people he could this morning.
"oh!"
Today, Shen Teng was leading the team on duty in the Yamen. However, he suddenly received a call from the Crown Prince and had to go to the rear residence. This was not considered leaving his post without permission.
Come to think of it, Wang Shide is much more diligent than his predecessors Luo Yangxing or Wu Mengming, and he doesn't seem to be too greedy. He can be regarded as a rare and conscientious person.
It is not a loss for the three brothers to follow Wang Shide, especially the prince, who is very discerning and knows rewards and punishments. In just half a year, the eldest brother has been promoted from the general banner to deputy 1,000 households. The speed of promotion is quite remarkable.
Shen Teng and his third brother Gao Xiaosong have also transformed into a hundred households that are envied by their subordinates. They are not as good as the top but more than the bottom. Although the monthly salary is not high, they can receive extra rewards as long as they attend work and perform important tasks.
In almost half a year, he had earned thousands of taels of silver. This kind of thing, he would never have dared to think about before, but now it has really come true. Although he is not as good as those rich gentry, at least he has enough food and clothing.
"Can you call me?"
"Return to Baihu, there is no one yet!"
"Okay! Keep waiting!"
"yes!"
As long as the phone call comes, it is a very important thing, because now there are only a few places in the capital with telephones, and there are even fewer calls to Jinyiwei. It is very likely that the prince has other important errands that need to be handled immediately .
Shen Teng didn't plan to go out to look for anyone in the afternoon, so he just stayed in the room where the phone was placed, waiting for the day's duty to be completed before handling the matters assigned by the prince.
This matter is not urgent, especially since the prince has warned that Dai Lu has just received a compensation of 500 taels of silver, and if he is arrested soon, people will be suspicious.
Finally, wait for him for half a month before talking, and the person you find must be safe and reliable. If you are caught, you can't lie, otherwise the whole thing will be messed up.
"Hurry up! Everyone is standing still, don't move!"
While Shen Teng was thinking about his errands, his eldest brother Lu Yi was leading a dozen vassals to search an inn, with the focus being to verify the identities of the guests staying there one by one.
Today, Commander Wang Shide stopped squatting in the Yamen and personally led a team to suddenly conduct a search throughout the city. Almost all the Jin Yiwei came out. Together with those who worked for the Jin Yiwei, the total number of people involved in the operation was no less than 3,000.
And there was more than one company. In order to search for Donglu's work, Dongchang, led by Fang Zhenghua, was also dispatched at the same time. With the city gates closed, factory guards teamed up to conduct carpet searches throughout the capital.
This was something that a certain prince just ordered last night. Only two people took the order. They started taking action early the next morning, so there was no possibility of being caught in the act.
Inns, restaurants, and teahouses are the focus of searches, as well as shops, workshops, and houses that have been tracked by spies in advance. As long as a suspicious person is found, regardless of his or her identity, factory guards can arrest him first and then interrogate him.
"Hey~! Lord Qianhu, what brought you here to make such a fuss? But you scared me!"
The proprietress is a woman who is nearly forty years old. She is wearing a green skirt and is very enchanting. When she saw so many feudal lords coming to the store, she became a little nervous, so she calmed down and hurried over to inquire about it. .
"My boss lady, I have been ordered to search for suspicious persons today. I hope my boss lady can help!"
Lu Yi grabbed the waist knife, clasped his fists and saluted, and became polite to the boss's wife. He also knew this woman. She had not seen her often when he was patrolling with the general flag, so she was quite familiar with her.
This inn has been open for a few years. The landlady's father and Lu Yi's father also knew each other. They were not old friends, but they were also old people in the capital.
"Sir Qianhu, you came today with so many soldiers and horses, but you scared the slaves! It's not like you don't know about our store, it's just a small business, how can you dare to harbor thieves?"
If a bad guy is caught by Jin Yiwei, her shop will be closed down. The landlady would rather give some money instead of being caught by Jin Yiwei.
"Sorry! I'm busy with official duties, so I don't dare to judge myself. I can only see what I see! This is a search warrant! Wherever the Jinyi Guards go, everyone must cooperate. If there is resistance, they will be captured and killed on the spot!"
Seeing that Donglu was about to come, the prince was naturally very worried about changes in the city, so it was necessary to order the factory guards to conduct a strict investigation of the entire city.
Lu Yi pushed the landlady away with his scabbard and came to the guests standing in two rows. He examined them one by one, first, and then reviewed the details.
"Bring out all your identity documents and check them one by one!"
Although this is not an ID card, it can also indicate the general identity of the bearer and can be used as a reference.
"Take off your hat! Bend down!"
After Fan Zi verified that everything was correct, Lu Yi asked everyone to take off the hats on their heads to see if there were any buns left.
"Ouch! Hiss..."
One guest didn't expect that Jin Yiwei, who asked him to bend down and lower his head, actually came up to pull out his bun, and he screamed in pain.
"I apologize for any offense I have offended. When I came to Donglu, there were rampant activities. We acted like this on the orders of the Crown Prince!"
It is easy to identify who is wearing a wig with this trick, but the identification method is rather crude and arbitrary, but there is nothing you can do about it.
"Okay, everyone, open your mouths and show your teeth!"
"ah???"
What does this mean?
A group of guests were dumbfounded!
Is there any other identification method like this in the world? ? ?
But no one dares not to listen, knowing that they are facing Jin Yiwei.
"alright!"
Lu Yi looked through them one by one and found no problems. Probably there was no Donglu fine craftsmanship in this store, so he could go to the next place.
"Master! Look! Two people are missing!"
A feudal lord took a list of hotel records and found that there were two fewer guests than what was written on the list.
According to the instructions of the Crown Prince, every inn in the capital must now record the origin of guests, otherwise it will be a violation and will be punished.
"Lady boss! How to explain?"
The guests staying in the hotel usually come to the capital for business and usually go out in the morning instead of early in the morning. That would be too abnormal.
After the Crown Prince took over the country, inns have improved their service standards. They provide newspapers and tea. As long as they have money, they will even provide breakfast, without the need for guests to go out to buy it.
"Hey! Look at what you said, who doesn't have a guest who likes to get up early? Our capital city is becoming increasingly prosperous under the rule of the Crown Prince. The country people who come from afar have never seen the world. If they are interested, of course they have to take a look. Got it!"
The landlady has seen many of these customers. Most of them were coming to the capital for the first time. Everything they saw was new, and they were so excited that they stayed up all night. They jumped up at dawn the next day, eager to explore the capital immediately.
"Where do those two live?"
According to the records in the book, these two people came from Changli, Yongping Prefecture, North Zhili, not far from Shanhaiguan. However, Lu Yi relied on his intuition from many years of handling cases and believed that there might be something fishy about this matter.
"Master Qianhu, your servants are people of your duty!"
The landlady said as she put twenty taels of silver into Lu Yi's hand, already realizing that their rooms were about to be searched. She didn't want anything to happen to her store, because the accents of these two people looked more like they were from Liaodong.
"Whether it is your duty or not, you can tell at a glance!"
As he spoke, Lu Yi stuffed the money back, then took the two feudal lords with him and invited the landlady and the waiter to go up to the second floor. No matter who it is, if you dare to play tricks on Jin Yiwei, you will be destroying yourself.
When they came to the door of the room where these two people lived, there was a lock on it, and only the landlady had the key to open it. When the guest comes back, the waiter will open the door for him. If there is someone in the room, there is no need to lock the door.
The proprietress of an inn will generally not open the door privately to steal guests' belongings. That would be tantamount to breaking the rules of the business, and she would not be able to survive in this industry.
When guests bring a large amount of money, they will usually choose an escort to escort them. They will bring the money into the room and leave someone to guard it. There will definitely be no "giving away money".
The landlady had no choice but to open the door and let Jin Yiwei search it. After the room was opened, the room was cleaned relatively clean, and there was no suspicious thing on the surface.
Lu Yi stood at the door, watching the two feudal lords enter the house and rummaging through the cabinets, but he was very disappointed and found nothing that could be used to receive rewards.
"I'm so abrupt and annoying, I hope the landlady won't blame me!"
Without seeing these two guests, Lu Yi did not plan to stay here for a long time. There were still many places in the city waiting to be searched.
"How dare you! How dare you!"
Jin Yiwei didn't let Jin Yiwei get a handle on it. The landlady immediately let out a sigh of relief, but she didn't show any weakness and her tone was very resentful.
"Take it! Go to the next place!"
Lu Yi stopped talking nonsense, waved his hand and led his entourage out of the store, got on his horse, and planned to go to another inn on this street to continue the search.
Not long after Lu Yi got on his horse, he suddenly saw two people walking from a short distance away. They were of medium build, and their appearance and clothes were ordinary. But what was suspicious was that their steps were vigorous and not like ordinary people.
What's more important is that the people of the Ming Dynasty, even under the emperor's feet, unless they are nobles, would like to retreat when they see factory guards patrolling. These two people don't seem to be afraid of the patrols on the street, which is very strange.
"Go over and ask!"
"yes!"
A small flag looked in the direction Lu Yi said, and immediately locked two targets. He led four vassals to immediately take orders and walked towards the targets.
This Xiaoqi was also very clever. He didn't tell the opponent to stop from far away, which might scare the enemy away. He pretended to be nonchalant and planned to walk closer to the target before speaking.
But the two people on the opposite side almost saw the scene just now, and felt that they were being targeted by the barbarians. They immediately stood still. After seeing several barbarians walking towards them, they hesitated for a moment, turned around and ran away.
"stop!"
Seeing that the duck that was about to reach his mouth actually flew away, the flag boy immediately shouted and waved his hands for his subordinates to pursue him.
It's really useless to be able to let the suspect escape at such a close distance in broad daylight.
When a feudal lord saw that the opponent was running away very fast, he instinctively took off the hard bow he was carrying and planned to open the bow and set an arrow to shoot the suspect.
However, there were already many people on the street at this time, so it was very difficult to aim, and it was not easy to hit the target.
"Drive! Get out of the way!"
The team led by Lu Yi included some on horseback and some on foot. When encountering a similar situation, there is nothing wrong with chasing them on horseback. At this time, Lu Yi could no longer watch and chased after them.
Two legs can't run as fast as four legs, and the terrain is unfamiliar. The two suspects ran less than a hundred steps before they were quickly caught up by Lu Yi and others.
Although no one came out this time carrying long-handled weapons, there was still a lasso that could be used. If you use this weapon well, you can capture prey from a long distance.
The lasso is a rope with a live buckle. As long as the prey is caught, the rope will tighten immediately.
However, when dealing with armed criminals, you cannot capture them with a rope, and they will definitely be cut off by the opponent.
Still using the lasso is nothing more than buying time for your side to engage in close combat.
