Teams of tiger-shaped banner cavalry dispersed throughout the city and began to suppress the chaos in the city.
"Is this the Honesty Mansion?" Tan Zaiwang asked the foreign intelligence officer who led the way.
The other party said: "Yes, this is the Chengshou Mansion. Yesterday, hundreds of stones of grain sent by the Zhu and Sun families were transported here."
"Xu Guang, take people in to see what's going on inside. If you encounter anyone alive, arrest them all." Tan Zaiwang told one of his subordinates.
The cavalryman named Xu Guang shouted to his men behind him: "Everyone in the small group, follow me in."
With that said, he jumped off his horse, holding the musket in his hand and walked towards the conductor's mansion.
He went in with a small group of dozens of cavalry.
Tan Zaiwang and others were waiting outside.
After a short time, the man named Xu Guang walked out quickly.
After a few steps, he came to Tan Zaiwang, and he said: "Reporting to the camp, my subordinates only found the body of a woman inside. Her body was cold and stiff. It seems that she had been dead for some time. They also found hundreds of stones of grain in the yard. However, These grains are old grains, and some are even moldy and inedible."
"The dead woman is most likely Zhenzhen's concubine. This woman is the niece of Mr. Sun, a wealthy family in the city." said the intelligence officer of the Foreign Intelligence Agency.
As for food, he didn't mention it.
He only knew that two big households in the city had sent hundreds of stones of grain to the Chengshou Mansion last night, but he didn't know whether it was Chen grain or not.
Tan Zaiwang nodded.
Someone from the Foreign Intelligence Service acted as his guide, giving him a clearer understanding of the situation in Xi'an Fort.
The intelligence officer of the Foreign Intelligence Agency said: "Everyone in the Zhengshou Mansion should have escaped last night. The only ones who still have some status in the city are the Zhu family and the Sun family, especially the Zhu family. There have been rumors that the Zhu family has not joined the clan. The clan’s membership.”
"On the corpse table, go to Sun's house. Remember to put a seal on the door of Zhengshou Mansion." Tan Zaiwang told Xu Guang, then turned his horse's head and said to the intelligence officer of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, "Is this place closer to Sun's house or Zhu's house?" .”
"It's close to Zhu's house. If you want to go to Sun's house, you'll also pass by the main gate of Zhu's house." The intelligence officer of the Foreign Intelligence Agency introduced.
Tan Zaiwang said: "Then let's go to the Zhu family first, and you will lead the way."
The intelligence officers of the Foreign Intelligence Service rode in front to lead the way for Tan Zaiwang and others.
There were no pedestrians on the street at this time.
The tigers and gangsters who made trouble were also suppressed by the Tiger Banner Cavalry, leaving corpses on the street.
"Is this the Zhu Mansion?" Tan Zaiwang pointed to a tall and wealthy house not far away.
The two characters "Zhu Mansion" on the door plaque were written with gold powder. They were extremely dazzling under the sunlight coming from one side.
The Intelligence Bureau intelligence officer nodded and said, "Yes, this family is the Zhu family, one of the big families in the city. Less than a mile further away is another Sun family in the city."
"Xu Guang, take the female body that was brought out from the Chengshou Mansion and send it to the Sun family. Remember, no one in the Sun family is allowed to go. They are all kept at home." Tan Zaiwang said to Xu Guang who was following him.
Xu Guang agreed and rushed to Sun's house with a group of cavalry.
The news that the Tiger-Charactered Banner army has entered the city has already spread in Xi'an Fort. To the people in the city, the Tiger-Charactered Banner means bandits, especially to the big families in the city. The bandits will only kill their whole family. .
Ever since the people of the Zhu Mansion learned that the bandits had entered the city, the doors to their homes were tightly closed, and all servants were required to guard the yard with various sticks.
"Go and knock the door open." Tan Zaiwang pointed at the Zhu family's door with his riding whip.
It was too urgent to come from Huairen County, and the cavalry did not carry cannons, so they could only rely on manpower to break down the door.
Two cavalrymen walked to the door of Zhu's house. One of them took out a knife, took off the latch on the back of the door, and pushed the door hard. They found that the door did not move at all, and someone was using something to hold it back.
Seeing that they couldn't get through the main entrance, the two people walked to the side of the courtyard wall, and one person supported the other person and climbed up the wall.
The first person on the wall raised the musket on his shoulder and aimed it at the courtyard, causing chaos in the courtyard.
Putting away his musket, he stretched out his hand to pull his companion up the courtyard wall, then jumped into the courtyard and opened the gate.
Tan Zaiwang handed over the horse to his men and led his men into Zhu's mansion.
As soon as he came in, he glanced at the two thick wooden sticks thrown behind the door. These two things should have been holding the door up just now.
Various sticks were scattered in the yard, including a steel knife and a spear.
At this time, as the front door of the courtyard came out, a head shrank back.
Tan Zaiwang bared his teeth and sneered: "Drive all the people in the Zhu Mansion to the backyard."
As his order was issued, a group of cavalry who entered Zhu's Mansion quickly rushed towards the courtyard in front and began to drive away the people in each courtyard.
When encountering resistance, raise your hand and use it as a weapon.
Tan Zaiwang walked step by step towards the backyard of Zhu's mansion.
At the same time, some people from the Zhu family who were captured from the room were escorted to the backyard.
When Tan Zaiwang came to the backyard.
The courtyard in the backyard was already crowded with people, with women covering their sleeves and crying. Many of them were servants of the Zhu Mansion holding sticks, looking wary of the tiger-character flag soldiers surrounding them.
"Who is Zhu Wuchang?" Tan Zaiwang searched the crowd in the backyard, especially the older-looking men.
However, no one from the Zhu family in the courtyard spoke to them.
"Everyone, please stop crying, our division is correcting you. Who is Zhu Wuchang?" A cavalryman holding a musket shouted at the crowd in front of him, and at the same time fired a musket into the sky.
boom!
The sound of firecrackers sounded, and screams came from the mouths of many women. Some slaves holding sticks in their hands turned pale, and some subconsciously retreated.
On the contrary, the sobs became quieter.
"Tell me, where is Zhu Wuchang?" The cavalryman pointed his musket at the nearest servant of the Zhu Mansion and asked.
The slave in question fell to his knees and begged: "Good man, please spare my life. I don't know Zhu Wuchang. I really don't know Zhu Wuchang."
He kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
"Where is your master?" Tan Zaiwang reminded him as he thought that his servants might not know Mr. Zhu's name.
When the servant heard that he was looking for the master, he immediately pointed to a room behind him and said eagerly: "The master is in the room, no, Zhu Wuchang is in the room."
"Several people go in and arrest Zhu Wuchang." Tan Zaiwang ordered.
Several horsemen rushed into the room pointed by the slave.
Not long after, a fat man with fair complexion was pulled out by several cavalrymen.
"Spare your life, spare your life, as long as this good man doesn't kill me, I will give you whatever you want, including money, food, and these women in the yard. You can take it away from whoever you like."
The fat man is none other than Zhu Wuchang, the master of the Zhu Mansion.
As soon as he was taken out of the room, he kept begging for mercy.
