When Feng Bao left Zhang Juzheng's bachelor's residence, his steps were brisk and his round face under the bamboo hat was smiling.
He and Xu Jue walked to the sedan in front of the door one after another. Just as they were about to get on the sedan, three figures turned around at the corner of the street, their steps staggering, and they came supporting each other.
Feng Bao originally planned to get on the sedan directly, but when he saw the three people approaching, he immediately stopped, stood beside the sedan, opened the door curtain, and pretended to be waiting for Xu Jue to get on the sedan.
Xu Jue also noticed the three people over there, so he had no choice but to cooperate with Feng Bao's acting. He stepped forward as if he was the real master.
The three people also saw Feng Bao and others, and one of them shouted vaguely: "Who... who is there? No, I don't know... curfew?"
Xu Jue's face turned cold, he turned around and said solemnly: "You are drunk late at night, do you know the curfew?"
It turned out that the reason why the three people were staggering and supporting each other was because they were drunk. The three of them were not far from Feng Bao now, and a smell of alcohol came straight towards them, which made Xu Jue unhappy.
Feng Bao, on the other hand, had no reaction to the smell of alcohol. He could not help but frown slightly when he saw that these three people seemed to be intending to cause trouble.
"Haha?" Another man spoke loudly, shook off the other two, took two steps forward, raised his chin, patted his chest and said, "We are the Jinyi Guards, and we are out on night patrol today. Does the curfew extend to me?"
The man from before also stepped forward, stretched out his hand to block it, and said with a smile: "That's right, Jin, the Jin Yiwei were patrolling the night, and they happened to bump into you and caught you breaking the curfew... Come on, come with us!"
Xu Jue subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Feng Bao. He saw that Feng Bao's face was gloomy and he didn't say a word. He couldn't help but feel brave. He sneered at the three Jinyi guards and said, "Come with you? Where to go? Beizhen Fusi ?"
The three Jinyi guards seemed to be stunned for a moment, but the one who led the way reacted quickly. He even seemed to be so shocked that he woke up and drank some wine. His eyes narrowed and he shouted: "It's just a nighttime violation of the curfew. Why should I be in charge of Fusi?" Couldn't the three of you take you first?"
Xu Jue was about to answer, but Feng Bao behind him suddenly spoke coldly: "If Beizhen Fusi hadn't handled the case in accordance with the emperor's order, you three would have dared to say that you were going to take me, Feng... Feng Mansion." people?"
As soon as these words came out, the three Jin Yiwei guys were shocked for a moment. They looked at each other with hesitation on their faces.
In fact, due to the exaggeration of some film and television works in later generations, people's understanding of Jin Yiwei is somewhat biased and narrow. Most ordinary people's impression of Jin Yiwei is that they are emperor's personal soldiers wearing flying fish suits, embroidered spring knives on their waists, and strong martial arts, and most of them are It is a negative image, and the understanding of his status and leadership is basically the same word: spy.
The usual saying is: Jinyiwei is a spy agency, a hawk in the East that dominates and oppresses the people. However, in fact, only a small part of these impressions are true, and most of them are far from the actual situation of Jin Yiwei in history.
The people in Jinyiwei who are actually responsible for "secret agents" only account for about five percent of the entire Jinyiwei organization. They are mainly "Tiqi" and are controlled by Beizhen Fusi.
The number of these Tiqi is actually not that large. For example, during the Chenghua period of Emperor Xianzong, there were only one hundred Tiqi under the command of the Jinyiwei chief, who were responsible for monitoring the capital's misdeeds, escapes, thefts, and confidential matters; There are only 200 Tiqi men, who specialize in catching thieves. The sources of these Tiqi are mainly "heroes or Jia people".
In addition, the East Factory also selected 80 people from the Jinyi Guards, most of whom were "sharp and powerful people" who specialized in "checking people out of the curtain room". When the eunuch Wang Zhi was in favor, he opened the West Factory, Ti The number of cavalrymen is twice that of Dongchang, and their authority is even higher than that of Dongchang. They can "pick up domestic and foreign civil and military matters as well as civil affairs."
These Tiqi (Jin Yiwei lieutenants with detective powers) can be regarded as "secret agents". Their number generally does not exceed 600, accounting for less than 5% of the total number of Jin Yiwei (note: a full strength is 1,120 people). , Jinyiwei has 17 offices). Moreover, the Tiqi were selected from among the people, which was different from the rule that ordinary guardsmen were inherited from father to son.
In short, most of the Jinyiwei, who are succeeded by fathers and sons, are not actually spies. They are simply "the emperor's personal soldiers" and have no authority to arrest illegals. The power of Jinyiwei that really makes officials vigilant, fearful and disgusted is actually in the hands of Beizhen Fusi.
Moreover, even if Beizhen Fusi has these "special agent" powers, their job is not to detect ordinary people, but to supervise detective officials. Although bullying the people is sometimes unavoidable, it is not the main thing after all. The reason why later generations exaggerated Beizhen Fusi like an eighteenth level of hell, in the final analysis, the problem lies in its management-dealing with officials.
The pen is in the hands of civil servants. As a violent spy agency that deals with civil servants, how much good reputation can Jinyiwei North Town Fusi expect to have? Even if among the officials arrested by the Jin Yiwei, 99 out of 100 deserved their punishment, as long as they arrest the wrong one, or arrest someone with a good reputation, it will be a stain that cannot be washed away, and they can only be punished. The civil servant group repeatedly exaggerated and magnified the situation, and the last blinding leaf became the evidence of Jin Yiwei's crime.
Since these three people are Jin Yiwei, their own family members certainly know about their own affairs, so the other person said "Go to Beizhen Fusi", and they immediately did not dare to talk casually - that meant that they must be officials, or their families.
In a place like the capital, as a hereditary imperial guard, it may not be a problem to bully the common people, but this is the place with the most officials in the world. If you just throw a brick into the crowd, you might be able to kill one or two eighth- and ninth-grade people. officials. Although he is only an eighth- or ninth-grade official, the eighth- or ninth-grade officials in Beijing are no joke. They are all civil servants, and they may have been from the Imperial Academy. How can they afford to offend these big-headed soldiers?
So the Jin Yiwei who was taking the lead immediately became discouraged and laughed dryly: "Oh... it seems there is some misunderstanding? Haha, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, we are just passing by and asked casually... Dare you ask your name, sir? Which Feng is it? Mansion?"
At this time, it stands to reason that Feng Bao, who was playing the role of a follower, should answer, but Feng Bao was angry and was spoiled by the drunken men in royal uniforms, so he did not speak. Xu Jue had no choice but to snort coldly and said, "I would like to teach you all the military lords that my master is the crown prince's companion, the director of etiquette Bingbi, and the governor of the East Factory Feng Gong."
When the three drunken Jinyiwei men heard the words "Admiral of the East Factory", their faces turned pale with fright, and their whole bodies trembled like chaff. The two people behind them fell to their knees with a plop, speaking vaguely, not knowing whether they were begging for mercy or defending themselves.
The one at the head was a little stronger. Although he was still sifting chaff, he could still stand. He just bowed repeatedly and said: "You guys are blind and don't know Mount Tai. You don't know that the master is actually the person in front of Duke Feng. Ten thousand deaths, ten thousand deaths.”
Feng Bao saw that they were afraid of his reputation, and his mood improved a lot. Seeing that Xu Jue still wanted to reprimand them, he coughed slightly and interrupted: "Although you are blind, you are still a sensible judge. Now that you have been convicted, this Let’s not take the blame for now and step back.”
As if they had received an amnesty, the three of them said words of gratitude, got up and ran away, for fear that Governor Feng's family would suddenly change their minds.
When Feng Bao saw them leaving, he snorted coldly. Xu Jue quickly gave up his seat in front of the sedan and let Feng Bao get on the sedan.
But they didn't know that at the corner of the street, the three drunk men looked at each other without being drunk. One of them smiled and said: "Young Master is really good at knowing things. Our people are here to keep watch all night." After half a year, the wait is finally over.”
Another person also laughed: "The young master is just using people's money to eliminate disasters. This person is like a god, I'm afraid it's someone else."
Finally, the man waved his hand: "Don't talk too much about these things, don't talk too much! Let's just do things with peace of mind... You know, that man has a lot of money. We are afraid that the reward will be big this time, so we should hurry up It is only right to report back and get the reward."
"exactly!"
The three of them looked at each other and smiled, immediately put their arms around each other and left happily.
