Bang!
The gate to the yard was closed by the guards, and the guard used a wooden stick to hold the broken half of the wooden door at the back.
Jinyiwei Deputy Xu Qianhu looked at the closed courtyard door with a gloomy expression on his face.
The tough attitude of the envoy of the Tiger Character Banner was beyond his expectation.
I didn't expect that these people from the Tiger Character Banner would be so tough when they arrived in Nanjing, and they didn't even look down on them.
"Sir, do you still want to go in and arrest people?" The flag officer of Jinyiwei asked Deputy Xu Qianhu in a low voice.
Deputy Xu Qianhu hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "Go back first!"
He knew that there were hundreds of people coming from the tiger-character flag envoy team, and even if only half of them were accompanying guards, the two small-flag imperial guards he brought with him were no match for them.
After getting on his horse, Deputy Xu Qianhu led the Jin Yiwei away from the courtyard of the residence of the Tiger-Character Banner envoy team.
And with the departure of Jin Yiwei, the comments of the people watching the excitement were no longer restrained.
For the common people, they watched a big show.
I used to see Jin Yiwei come to arrest people, but this was the first time I saw Jin Yiwei get rejected and leave in despair.
It greatly enriched the conversation topics of these common people who were watching the excitement.
As soon as Deputy Xu Qianhu returned to Zhenfusi Yamen, he immediately sent someone to send the news of the arrest of the envoy of the Tiger Character Banner to the palace.
The reason why he wanted to send someone to deliver a message to the palace was not because he could not dispatch more imperial guards from the Zhenfu Si Yamen to arrest the people, but from the attitude of the envoys of the Tiger-Character Banner, he knew very well that he wanted to arrest the people. The prisoner of the Zhenfu Division can only use force. If he doesn't do it right, someone will die.
He, a deputy Qianhu of Jinyiwei, would not dare to bear such a serious crime of murdering an envoy. He needed permission from someone in the palace before he dared to arrest someone.
Just when Jin Yiwei went to the palace to spread the news, the news that Jin Yiwei went to arrest the envoy of the Tiger Flag also spread in Nanjing.
Moreover, because of the arrival of the Jin Yiwei, more people who did not know the truth believed that the envoy of the Tiger Character Banner sent someone to murder the envoy of the Qing Dynasty.
The reason is that if the envoy of the Tiger-Character Banner was not plotting to kill the Qing envoy, how could the Jinyiwei come to arrest the Tiger-Character Banner envoy.
The news that the Jin Yiwei came to arrest people reached the ears of Nanjing garrison Zhu Guobi.
As a member of the Xungui, Zhu Guobi naturally has the same interests as the Xungui.
When he learned that the Jin Yiwei was going to arrest the envoys of the Tiger-Character Banner, he did not dare to delay and immediately sent a team of officers and soldiers to protect the place where the Tiger-Character Banner envoys were staying. At the same time, he sent someone to send the news of the Jinyiwei's arrest to the Duke of Wei.
Nanjing's military affairs are jointly controlled by three aspects: garrison eunuchs, Nanjing garrison, and counselors and aircraft maintenance.
Among them, the garrison eunuch is the great eunuch Yang Guorui, the Nanjing garrison is held by Gonghoubo and other lords in turn, and the counselor and machine officer is held by the Minister of War.
The eunuchs, nobles, and civil servants jointly control the military power in the southern capital, which can be regarded as a balance to prevent the imperial court from losing control of the military power in the south.
The officers and soldiers sent by Zhu Guobi quickly arranged manpower around the courtyard where the envoy of the Tiger Character Banner lived, especially in several corners, and assigned special personnel to guard it.
After doing all this, Mr. Qian, one of the officers and soldiers, knocked on the door of the courtyard.
The people who had not completely dispersed on the street saw the officers and soldiers surrounding the courtyard, and they all gathered again.
As soon as the Jinyiwei people left, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court came. Many people watching the excitement thought that the people in the yard would definitely be arrested this time.
Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!
Mr. Qian patted the intact courtyard door a few times with his hand.
A guard in the yard soon came out.
"What? Just as the Jin Yiwei left, they sent officers and soldiers to arrest people!"
As the voice fell, several firecrackers suddenly protruded from the courtyard wall. Among them, the two firecrackers protruding from behind the courtyard door were pointed at Mr. Qian in front of the courtyard door.
Mr. Qian was startled when he saw the black hole of the gun, a layer of cold sweat aroused on his back, and his left foot retreated subconsciously.
"Don't get me wrong, we are not here to arrest anyone, we are here to protect Ambassador Hong." Mr. Qian hurriedly explained, fearing that he would be killed by a gunshot if he was satisfied.
As a general in the army, he knows more about firecrackers than those in Jin Yiwei.
Even though no one in the army is willing to use firecrackers, that is because the quality is not up to standard and they hurt themselves first, so they are reluctant to use them. However, this does not change the fact that firecrackers are weapons for killing people.
"Protect our ambassador?" The guard was stunned by his words.
As soon as the imperial guards came to arrest someone, the officers and soldiers came to protect them. It seemed so weird no matter how you looked at it.
Qianhu nervously glanced at the fire gun closest to him and said cautiously: "The Marquis of Funing heard that Ambassador Hong was disturbed by Xiaoxiao, so he sent his general and troops to protect Ambassador Hong and prevent Xiaoxiao from happening again. Someone disturbed Ambassador Hong."
The guard leaned out half of his body and scanned the surrounding officers and soldiers, and then said to Mr. Qian in front of him with a playful expression: "Did you know that the Xiaoxiao you mentioned is a Jin Yiwei?"
Upon hearing this, Mr. Qian's expression suddenly changed.
He only knew that he was ordered to protect the envoys of the Tiger Flag, but he didn't know that there was something about the Jin Yiwei involved.
If he had known that Jin Yiwei was involved, I would have killed him and not accepted this mission.
However, it is too late to regret after everyone has arrived.
If he goes back like this, the Marquis of Funing will not let him off lightly.
He would always offend either Jin Yiwei or Funing Hou, but he had no choice.
At most, Jin Yiwei was just trying to make trouble for him, but if he offended Hou Ning Hou, not to mention him as a thousand generals, even the commanders above would not be able to withstand the revenge from Hou Ning Hou, and losing his life would be nothing new.
"Are you sorry? It's still too late to go back now." The guard looked at the changing expression on Mr. Qian's face and could guess a bit of what he was thinking.
"No need. Since I'm here, I'm not afraid of Jin Yiwei coming again." Mr. Qian knew that he had no choice, so he simply became tough.
"Then thank you for your hard work." After saying that, the guard closed the door directly.
As for whether the officers and soldiers came to protect or monitor, he didn't care at all.
Because he knew in his heart that if he really encountered danger, he couldn't rely on these people at all, and he would have to rely on himself.
As the courtyard door was closed, the firecrackers on the wall were all withdrawn into the courtyard.
But the President Qian who stayed outside the courtyard knew that although there were no more fire guns in sight, there must be many envoys using fire guns to guard him behind the courtyard wall.
The guards who retreated from the courtyard gate went directly to a room in the main house.
"Ambassador, deputy envoy, there is a group of officers and soldiers outside our courtyard. The visitor said they were sent by the Marquis of Funing to protect us." The guard said to Hong Chengchou and Yang Jiachen in the room.
Yang Jiachen, who was sitting in the seat, looked puzzled and said, "What do these people from the Ming Dynasty mean? They arrest people at one moment and send people to protect them at the next. It's really strange!"
"It's not surprising, not surprising at all." Hong Chengchou waved his hand to him and said immediately, "If the officers and soldiers outside are really sent by the Marquis of Funing to protect us, it means that someone on your side hopes to negotiate peace with the Tiger Character Banner."
(End of chapter)
