That witness?
The problem with that witness certificate is indeed very big, very big.
After a rough interrogation, Huang Mengyu learned that the man's name was Wang Peng, who was originally an employee of the Gao family. From less than half a year after the official establishment of the highly pragmatic Jinghua Kaiping Coal Mine, until three months ago, he had been working in the Jinghua Kaiping Coal Mine. work. Because this man was strong and physically strong, he was quickly selected into the Kaiping Coal Mine Mine Protection Team.
However, three months ago, he was fined 40 taels of silver by the mine for molesting the family members of his co-workers, and he publicly apologized. Since the deed had been signed and the fingerprints had been pressed, there was no way to deny the fine, and this guy didn't hesitate. Paying the fine on the spot was equivalent to several months of work in vain.
However, he refused to apologize and threatened, "I didn't fuck her and I didn't touch her. How can I die by teasing her with a few words?" As a result, Gao Xiaozhuang, who went on inspection, was offended and was summarily fired. His whereabouts are unknown since then.
But Wang Peng's own statement is different. According to his confession, his molestation of the family members of his co-workers was arranged in advance by Gao Xiaozhuang, the general office of the Kaiping Coal Mine in Beijing. The whole thing was planned by Gao Xiaozhuang in order to remove Wang Peng from the mine. Reasonable transfer.
As for what he would do after being transferred, Wang Peng himself didn't know at first. He only knew that Gao Xiaozhuang told him that "I have important tasks for you to handle."
As for what the important task was, he said that Gao Xiaozhuang did not tell him at the time, but only promised him, "After the completion of the matter, if you come back safely, I will reward you with a thousand taels of silver, and you will be promoted to the foreman of the area. If you die unfortunately, I will reward you with a reward of two thousand taels of silver. If you are killed in your family, Capture, as long as you keep your mouth shut, I guarantee that you will not be convicted, and you will be promoted to the foreman of the area after you return, and the silver reward will be increased to two thousand taels."
When Huang Mengyu first heard this, he even felt that the generous reward was indeed a high-level view of politics.
But when I think about it carefully, something is wrong. Gao is pragmatic and rich. He sends out more than 20 servants at one time to kill Feng Bao, and clearly states the price and the reward. Is he crazy?
Huang Mengyu is not someone who stays in the palace all year round and knows nothing about the world. He stays in a place like Datong all year round, and he doesn't know a little bit about "jianghu affairs". Who's head is worth a reward of tens of thousands of taels of silver? I'm afraid that even Gao Ge Lao will not be worth ten thousand taels of silver once he is on the bounty list of those people in the world.
Because people in the world of quacks seek rewards for killing people, the price is never determined by the identity of the target, but by the difficulty of killing him, the difficulty of escaping, and the size of the trouble in the future.
Feng Bao, as the admiral of Dongchang, it stands to reason that it would be difficult to kill. The biggest problem is not that it is difficult to kill, but that the trouble will be even greater after the killing.
First of all, he might not be able to escape on the spot, and secondly, even if he escaped at that time, he would have to face long-term searches by Dongchang, Jinyiwei, and even the military and yamen in various places. It might not be easy to find someone to do such a dangerous job.
Unless these people are highly pragmatic and long-term dead soldiers, it is impossible for him to be so stupid, and it is impossible for him to recruit a few mine protection team members from his own servants to do such a big deal.
However, Huang Mengyu's analysis was opposed by most of the big stalls in Dongchang, especially the former Chu Zhiyuan Chu stall, who made it clear that Huang Factory Supervisor's analysis was biased.
Chu Zhiyuan said, "Governor, our Dongchang is no better than other yamen. Our code of conduct is that we doubt anyone except the emperor!"
After saying these powerful words, Chu Zhiyuan continued, "Furthermore, when our Dongchang faces any case, as long as the other party is suspected of being involved in the case, then we will get to the bottom of it. We don't need to ask the other party why." To do this, you only need to ask the other party if they can do this! If they can, then they are the suspects!"
It is better to kill the wrong person than to let it go. Huang Mengyu knew this idea well, and he also knew that a special organization like Dongchang had such an attitude.
But the problem is that he hasn't received news of Gao Pragmatic's arrival yet. He doesn't know whether this matter really involves Gao Pragmatic. If it does, he has no intention of acting impartially and must do it as soon as possible. He tried to find a way to cover up the truth for Gao Pragmatic, so he couldn't follow the ideas of the people in Dongchang. Who knows how many of them were not Feng Bao's people?
Fortunately, Huang Mengyu didn't hesitate long. News came from outside that Bingbi, the eunuch of the ceremony, and Chen Ju, the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, were coming with a group of pure troops.
Huang Mengyu breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that Chen Ju must not only be bringing the Jing Army here to help, but must also bring high pragmatic news, so he immediately announced a temporary adjournment of the meeting and went to receive Chen Ju.
The so-called pure army refers to an army composed of castrated people. This can be regarded as a unique army of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty claimed to rule the world with filial piety, but as the saying goes, "Unfilial piety is the third, and having no offspring is the greatest." Therefore, the Ming court repeatedly issued orders not to allow people to castrate themselves. Most of the eunuchs employed in the Ming Dynasty's court and prince's residences came from young children captured in wars.
However, as time went by, some princes and ministers also used eunuchs privately in their homes, and some people even castrated themselves in order to make a living or to enter the palace. However, these people are all illegal eunuchs, so after being discovered by the court, most of them will be sent to various military posts.
Since these people were all eunuchs, they were called "Pure Army". In addition, another source of the "pure army" is that the eunuchs in the palace lost the trust of the emperor and were demoted to the guards to serve as the "pure army". For example, the great eunuch Shang Ming during the Chenghua period was demoted by the emperor to the Jingjun in Nanjing because he sold his official position and did everything he could.
Although the Purifying Army exists everywhere, the two capitals are the most numerous. The number of Purifying Army in the capital varies from period to period, sometimes reaching tens of thousands. For example, the Eight Thousand Female Ghosts, Eunuch Wei, once committed a shocking act. Forty thousand pure troops. However, the number of Jingjun during the Longqing Dynasty was relatively average. The total number of soldiers around the capital could only be about 3,000, and they were not handed over to the management of the capital camp. They were all under the command of the Royal Horse Supervisor.
Due to the special nature of Dongchang, although Chen Ju was also the eunuch of the inner court, he still stayed waiting outside the Yamen of Dongchang until Huang Mengyu personally greeted him.
As soon as the two people met, without even having time to say a polite word, Chen Ju said loudly, "Director Huang, our family is here to assist you in handling the case in accordance with the Queen's decree, the imperial concubine's decree and the emperor's imperial decree. Governor, our family is here to help you handle the case." You have brought 300 troops, and you have also sent troops to blockade the north and south cities of the capital. If the governor needs anything else, you can just tell him. The two palaces and the emperor have told us that this matter must be investigated to the bottom of it! "
The oral edict was also an edict. Huang Mengyu first accepted the order to express his gratitude, and then took Chen Ju's hand, seemingly saying some words of gratitude, but in fact he hurriedly asked, "Speaking of Lao Chen, what is going on in this matter?" Gao Guanzheng, uh, does he have anything to say?"
Chen Ju replied in a low voice but quickly, "Gao Guanzheng said that he suspected that Feng Bao was trying to frame him. You can investigate with confidence and boldly, and you must investigate thoroughly." Then suddenly louder, "The two palaces and the emperor have said that if this matter is If the Dongchang family can't handle it, Jin Yiwei or the Sanfa Division can all assist Factory Superintendent Huang, the task on your shoulders is very heavy!"
Huang Mengyu also responded loudly with understanding, "Yes, yes, our family understands. Please tell Mr. Chen to tell the two palaces and the emperor that the ministers will do their best to solve the case as soon as possible!"
