Chang Feng realized a truth from Yang Chun's confession: when treating subordinates, you must not use them until they die.
If Lao Liao had transferred Yang Chun, his capable subordinate, back to Nansi earlier and restored his identity, he would not have died an unexpected death.
Chang Feng said: "What you said are the reasons for your betrayal, collaboration with the enemy, and treason? Is it so important to restore the identity of Nansi General Banner? Is it more important than the righteousness of the family and the country?"
Yang Chun asked back: "Chang Qianhu, you are wearing a flying fish and an embroidered spring on your waist. You have great power. Are you willing to let me go to the high-ranking official camp to be a hidden stake for ten years and to work as an iron for ten years?"
Changfeng was speechless.
Wang Miaoxin on the side said: "Yang Chun, don't go too far! Talk about vultures!"
Yang Chun continued to confess.
Guan Gong and Yang Chun are indeed Lao Liao's most powerful secret agents. These two men lurked in the high-ranking official camp for ten years, and finally broke into the left guardian hall of the Vulture Association at the beginning of this year.
The Vulture Association is divided into five guardian halls: left, right, front, back and center. They are not subordinate to each other and are independent.
Recently, Zuohufatang is planning two major events, cooperating with the little prince from Datong to join the invaders.
The first big thing is that they are going to kill Emperor Hongzhi and all the senior generals of the Ming Army!
When the Ming army went on an expedition, they would always go through Deshengmen. When going on a major war expedition, the emperor would come to Deshengmen in person to see him off, and he would be accompanied by officials from the Third Hall of the Ministry of War and the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army.
Condor will buy a piece of land in the northern suburbs. A large house was built. That mansion is ten miles away from Deshengmen.
Vultures will use large houses as cover to dig tunnels underground. That's right, it's the traditional art of Lao Dingjing - tunnel digging.
This tunnel was dug for four years and finally reached the front of Desheng Gate.
The foundation of the capital city wall is two feet deep underground, and tunnels cannot be dug into the city. But it’s enough to dig in front of Deshengmen!
During the Chenghua period, the Ming army was extremely corrupt. The Vulture Society has been purchasing gunpowder one after another from the scum of the Ming army. In a few years, I actually saved a hundred barrels.
The gunpowder has been transported to the tunnel in front of Deshengmen.
They just waited for Emperor Hongzhi to come to Deshengmen in person to see off the soldiers on the expedition. At that time, the Vulture will send dead soldiers to ignite the gunpowder and kill Emperor Hongzhi and the accompanying generals.
If successful, Ming Dynasty will be in chaos. The little prince's 50,000 cavalrymen in Datong would have the opportunity to take advantage of the situation, capture the capital, and restore the Yuan Dynasty.
But there is an element of uncertainty here. Emperor Hongzhi did not necessarily visit Deshengmen in person.
The tunnel is one foot above the ground. It is still unknown whether Emperor Hongzhi could be killed by igniting a hundred barrels of gunpowder.
So the Vultures devised a second plan. Kidnapped Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling.
The Vulture Society's ears and eyes were very wide, and they learned from the young eunuchs who were out of the palace on business that Emperor Hongzhi doted on Empress Zhang and regarded his two brothers-in-law as his favorites.
Emperors and empresses are difficult to kidnap as they live in the imperial palace. The two little devils who were making monsters in the capital all day long were very easy to catch.
If the plan to kill Emperor Hongzhi fails, they will threaten the Ming Dynasty with the lives of the Zhang brothers and get the Ming Dynasty to agree that the young prince will "pay tribute" with an army of 50,000.
"Paying tribute" will turn into endless killing and looting along the way.
Even if he couldn't conquer the capital, the little prince would still be able to return home with a full load.
The feasibility of both plans is unknown. But the vulture will be willing to try its best. If it succeeds, won't the restoration of Ming Dynasty be just around the corner?
Guan Gong and Yang Chun have already entered the Zuohu Dharma Hall. Discovered these two plans of the Vulture Society.
Guan Gong immediately rushed to Liao Mansion and prepared to report to Liao Fanyong.
However, Yang Chun betrayed his identity to the Vulture Society. The vulture will intercept and kill Guan Gong on the way. He also first ruined and then killed Guan Gong's wife and daughter to vent his anger.
Yang Chun needs to eliminate his identity as a hidden stake in Nansi before he can go to other provinces with his reward money to live a comfortable life.
This requires two things. One, kill Lao Liao who knows his identity; two, destroy the hidden list.
Yang Chun has worked with Guan Gong for ten years, and he knows Guan Gong's code words for communication.
He informed the Vultures of the code word. Encourage Vulture Hui to use code words to sneak into the Liao Mansion Library and kill Liao Fanyong. What a great move to kill someone with a borrowed knife.
It's easier to destroy a hidden stakes roster. After Lao Liao's death, the only one who knew where the hidden list was was Shopkeeper Gao.
Killing shopkeeper Gao is equivalent to destroying the hidden stake list!
Yang Chun lied to the Vulture Club again, saying that shopkeeper Gao knew about the two plans of the Vulture Club.
So the Vulture Society sent a killer to kill shopkeeper Gao in Yuansheng Teahouse. It's still killing someone with a borrowed knife.
Yang Chun confessed everything. Chang Feng felt like his hair was standing on end!
He said to Wang Miaoxin: "Thankfully we caught Yang Chun. Otherwise, the consequences of the emperor's personal visit to Deshengmen would be disastrous!"
"Wang Qianhu, you immediately take the five hundred paoze who are staying in Nansi on night duty to find the Mabu Hall of the Ministry of War. Ask him to mobilize the troops from the capital camp and search northward for the mansion of the Condor Society with our people. Find it. Tunnels and gunpowder!”
Wang Miaoxin cupped her hands: "Yes!"
Chang Feng recalled what Li Guang told him about the disappearance of two young uncles.
Chang Feng asked Yang Chun: "Where are the two young uncles imprisoned?"
Yang Chun shook his head slightly: "Have they been kidnapped? I don't know where they came from."
Chang Feng asked Yang Chun: "You don't know?"
Yang Chun said: "I really don't know. When I left the control of the Vulture Society and hid, they had not yet started to take action."
"They haven't taken action yet, how do I know where the two little uncles are being held?"
Now it is impossible for the Vulture Society's genuine Gunpowder Plot to succeed.
But the conspiracy to kidnap the two uncles has succeeded!
Chang Feng knew that the emperor was a wise king. He will not betray his people because of family affection, and let the little prince pay tribute.
By then, the lives of the two uncles will definitely be at risk!
Chang Feng calmed down and said to Yang Chun: "I don't have any clues about uncle Guo's whereabouts. Someone once told me that people are most sober when they are in pain."
"I will continue to punish you. Please help me think about how to find the two uncles."
Yang Chun shouted: "I really said everything Chang Qianhu should say! Please forgive me!"
Before he finished speaking, a big silver needle was inserted into his Baihui point!
Yang Chun shouted: "I have thought of a way! There should be many people from the Vulture Association Zuohu Dharma Hall guarding the big house in the northern suburbs, waiting for the day after tomorrow to blow up the emperor!"
"If you catch their people and use the torture on them, won't you be able to find out the whereabouts of the two uncles?"
The wind is always like a dream. He ran all the way out of the prison, mounted a fast horse and chased Wang Miaoxin: "I will go with you to find Ma Butang."
The two arrived at Ma Wensheng's mansion when they were young.
When Chang Feng reported Ma Wensheng's poverty to Emperor Hongzhi, Emperor Hongzhi gave Ma Wensheng's family a lot of good furniture and porcelain. There was a lot of festivities in the living room of Ma Mansion.
The couplet inscribed by Yu Qian still hangs on both sides of the central hall.
Chang Feng and Wang Miaoxin were not in the mood to appreciate Yu Shaobao's calligraphy at the moment.
Not long after, Ma Wensheng came to the lobby. He had just finished reviewing the official documents and was about to go to sleep.
Ma Wensheng asked: "Chang Xiaoyou, did something big happen here late at night?"
Chang Feng's words were shocking: "Mabu Tang, someone is planning to assassinate the emperor! He also kidnapped two young uncles!"
He told Ma Wensheng the whole story.
After Ma Wensheng heard this, he said: "I will go to the palace immediately to ask for an order to mobilize troops!"
Chang Feng said: "It's too late! If we delay for a moment longer, the two uncles will be in more danger."
Ma Wensheng said: "According to the rules, without an imperial edict, I can only mobilize three thousand garrison troops."
Chang Feng said: "The night watch robes I brought here are five hundred! Thirty-five hundred people should be enough!"
Everyone left the city through Desheng Gate in an emergency. Ma Wensheng mobilized 3,000 Jiumen garrison, and together with Nansi's 500 troops, searched the northern suburbs.
After searching for an hour, they found the big house Yang Chun had confessed to.
This time Chang Feng did not act rashly. Instead, he first sent more than a dozen capable scouts from the capital to inquire about the situation near the mansion.
Not long after, the scouts came back to report that the mansion was guarded by hundreds of men in black, all holding scimitars in their hands.
Three thousand five against one hundred, the advantage is mine!
Ma Wensheng ordered everyone to quietly surround the mansion, and then launched an attack!
Those more than a hundred men in black are very powerful. But they were no match for the well-formed Beijing soldiers, who were dozens of times their own strength.
However, there were few prisoners among those men in black, and all of them were determined to die, so they were indeed dead soldiers.
An hour later, only three of the hundreds of Vulture Society men in black who were guarding the mansion were captured, and the rest were killed.
As long as there are survivors, they can be tortured to extract confessions, follow the clues, and rescue the two uncles.
The entrance to the tunnel is very secret. This is not a problem for Chang Feng. Finding secret passages in dark rooms is his specialty.
It took him half an hour to find the tunnel entrance in the back garden of the house.
This time Chang Feng did not risk his life and went into the tunnel. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. The danger in Daguanying had made him realize this deeply.
He didn't let Nan Si's robe go down either.
The life of Nansi Paoze was always more valuable than the gold of the soldiers in the capital camp. In the case of the Vulture Society, Chang Feng had already killed nine people. He didn't want to see Nan Si Paoze's wives and concubines become widows because of his order.
He selected forty soldiers from the Beijing camp. They asked Nan Si Pao Ze to lend them eighty scorpion crossbows.
The soldiers from the Beijing camp came down the tunnel with crossbows on their left and right.
Chang Feng, Ma Wensheng, and Wang Miaoxin were waiting anxiously at the tunnel entrance.
Wang Miao thought: "The vultures in the tunnels are capable of killing people. Wouldn't they jump over the wall in a hurry and set off the explosives in advance?"
Chang Feng looked in the direction of Deshengmen: "Then we have to see if there is any loud noise in the direction of Deshengmen!"
Three years ago at the foot of Mount Tai, he witnessed the power of two hundred barrels of gunpowder explosion.
The tunnel from the mansion to Deshengmen took four years to dig and was ten miles long. The brothers in Jingying who went down to the tunnel could not get back any news for a while.
Chang Feng did not dare to waste time and began to interrogate the three vulture gangsters.
The three gangsters have been taken away and "cannot die".
Chang Feng took a waist knife from a Beijing camp soldier.
He ordered four wooden stakes to be driven into the ground. The limbs of one of the gangsters were tied to four wooden stakes.
Then he raised the knife and slashed it more than twenty times before cutting off the criminal's left arm.
Chang Feng's face was bloody, like Yama in hell. He deliberately complained loudly: "The sword has a curled edge. It is still easy to be a human pig with the ghost-headed sword."
Chang Feng then ordered several Nansi warriors to cut off the gangster's right arm and left and right legs.
Chang Feng is killing the chicken to scare the monkeys.
He asked the other two strapped Vulture Society members: "Do you know what a human pig is?"
"It means cutting off the hands and feet, pulling out the tongue, gouging out the eyes, and cutting off the ears. The person is planted in a big urn. The tortured person is fed rice soup every day to hang himself."
The two members of the Vulture Society looked frightened.
Chang Feng pointed at one of the Vulture Society members and ordered a Nansi general: "Go and cut off all ten of his toes."
This Nansi General Banner had a deceased brother who died in the Daguan camp the day before yesterday. He wanted to torture these damn Vulture members!
He walked over and cut off all ten toes of the Vulture Society member with a knife.
The members of the Vulture Society fainted twice from the pain and were all awakened by cold water being poured on them.
The surrounding Beijing soldiers were horrified by Jin Yiwei's bloody methods: a total of three prisoners were captured. I haven’t asked anything yet. First cut off one of the limbs. Another chopped off ten toes.
No wonder people say that the people in Jinyiwei are the living kings of hell! No, they are not the king of hell, they are more like evil ghosts that eat people without spitting out their bones!
The plot of digging tunnels to bury gunpowder is based on the real "Gunpowder Plot" in the British Parliament in 1605. Just dig tunnels and bury gunpowder. I know that many readers will question the rationality of this paragraph. So tell the historical facts for reference. You can search it. In addition, readers question the wisdom of the first few chapters. What you call "reducing wisdom" actually means "not cool enough". A twenty-three-year-old young man who is still an Aboriginal. It is impossible to succeed in every errand without making a few mistakes. What's more, the premise is that he was in an extremely excited state after not sleeping for a day and two nights? Reading online articles, no one wants to see the protagonist suffer a little setback. to be honest. I've been very grateful. In Zhenshanhe, written in 2018, the protagonist's wife was killed, his son was killed, and only one of his friends and relatives died before the finale. That is the abuser. A little frustration is not considered abuse.
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