Tongzhou camp.

Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, looked at several pieces of information on the table, and was very surprised.

This is the deployment map of the Qing army's pioneer battalion in Tianjin, and the men and horses of each department are marked, which is very detailed.

Zhang Fengyi took a breath and sighed in his heart: How did the crown prince send this night not collect it? Can you get such a detailed military intelligence? Even if the border troops such as Jinzhou did not collect at night, they did not dare to go deep into the Qing army camp to reconnoiter within five miles.

Zhang Fengyi calmed down, carefully studied the deployment of the Qing army, and he was ready to send troops.

Emperor Chongzhen has issued several holy decrees urging him to send troops, and the military salary and grain and grass have also raised some for him.

On July 30, the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Fengyi personally led 20,000 horses in the Beijing camp, and at the same time ordered Dong Yongwen, the chief soldier of Baoding, Zu Dale, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, the chief soldier of Jizhen Rulong, the general soldier Liu Zeqing of Shandong, and the general soldier of Shanxi as fierce as a tiger, and a total of 50,000 horses and horses of the Sixth Route Army surrounded the Qing soldiers in the area of Tianjin, trying to recapture the intercepted grain.

In the face of the 10,000 Qing army vanguard battalions guarding grain and grass, the battle lasted for three hours, and almost all the Ming army's armies collapsed.

In particular, the Shandong soldiers under Liu Zeqing were defeated at the first touch, and as the legend goes, even the Yehe cavalry, which was the best at riding and shooting in the Qing army, could not catch up with the fleeing Shandong soldiers with enough horsepower.

Zhang Fengyi ran all the way back to Tongzhou, ready to take medicine to apologize for his crimes, and later heard that the Shanxi general was as fierce as a tiger, and Zhou Yuji, the guerrilla general of the Beijing camp, and the men and horses of the two of them copied the land where the Qing army was stationed and recaptured part of the grain, so he breathed a sigh of relief and barely saved his life.

After Zhu Cihong of the Beijing Division received this news, he finally made up his mind to take action against the Eight Great Jin Merchants as soon as possible.

July 31, Qipan Street in Beijing's inner city.

Yesterday's rain cooled down the entire city of Beijing and increased the flow of people on the streets.

The problem of food shortage in Beijing has been superficially solved, there is no longer the long queue in front of the grain shops in the past, and several major restaurants on both sides of Qipan Street have also resumed their former liveliness.

Suddenly, a loud voice came from the third floor of the Dezhuang hot pot restaurant on Qipan Street: "The Jin merchants in the capital colluded with Jiannu, cut off the grain, and collaborated with the enemy to betray the country!" ”

As he spoke, he scattered leaflets from the upper floors like snowflakes.

This sudden scene made the pedestrians on Qipan Street curious, and they couldn't help but pick up the leaflet and look at it carefully.

"The eight major Jin merchants collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, and they must not die well!" Someone screamed.

Similar scenes are happening not only on Qipan Street, but also on the main streets of the capital, and beggars and green-skinned hooligans who had disappeared for a few days have reappeared all over the capital.

They were holding leaflets in their hands, shouting everywhere: "The Jin merchants have betrayed the country!" ”

These beggars and green skins were originally the eyes and ears of the Eight Jin Merchants in the capital and the propagandists of rumors, but since they were imprisoned by the government and received a "good" education in the number for a few days, they finally changed their minds and became new people.

Walking and promoting rumors is their profession, and they are already familiar with the road, and everyone is a level 8 skilled worker.

In just one hour, the entire Jingshi was boiling, and everyone was cursing the Eight Great Jin Merchants angrily.

The people are so excited, patriotism is one thing, and the most important thing is that the price of grain has been raised so high by these traitorous merchants in recent days, so that the people of Beijing have already complained, and it is time to legally vent at this time.

"A traitor must not die well!"

"Kill the thieves who colluded with Jiannu!"

Outside the mansion of the Eight Great Jin Merchants in Beijing, they have long been surrounded by the people of Beijing, and more people are watching the lively people.

In the crowd, some green skins loudly agitated to the surrounding area, fanning the flames, they shouted and cursed loudly, and from time to time they threw bricks into the mansions of these Jin merchants or something.

These green skins were originally used by the Eight Great Jin Dynasty to suppress their peers and do some unseemly doglegs, but they didn't expect to be dealt with by the doglegs of the past in the same way today, it's really karma!

The stewards of the eight Jin merchants in the capital were all blocked in the palace, and in desperation, they let the family members rush out of the back door of the weak encirclement and go to report to the official, and the family members who reported to the official rushed out of the encirclement at the risk of death and carried a large amount of gold and silver to move the rescue soldiers.

In Fan's Mansion in the inner city of Jingshi, hearing the shouting outside, Fan Yongshan paced back and forth in the study, looking extremely uneasy.

"What's going on? Who exactly leaked the news? ”

"Fan Tong has disappeared recently, could it be that he betrayed us? It's impossible, Fan Tong is also an important figure in the clan, he will never betray the Fan family, it is difficult for him to be ......."

Countless thoughts flashed through Fan Yongshan's mind, and suddenly, he had a bad premonition, and then he comforted himself in his heart: "As long as the court is not suspicious of us, no one can move us." ”

After a while, Fan Yongshan became more and more breathless, he felt that there was a huge crisis enveloping him, and he immediately summoned all the core personnel of the Fan family in Beijing.

Fan Yongshan looked at the core members of the family in front of him, and said with a solemn expression: "Everyone, remember, if the government sends a message, we must insist that we don't know about Caoyun in advance, and we must recite it silently in our hearts ten thousand times, we are honest businessmen, and we will never do anything to collaborate with the enemy and betray the country, and when we will send someone to notify the other seven families, we must bite to death!" ”

He said so, but he was not sure at all whether he could get through the trick, thinking that Xishi Jingguan had piled up tens of thousands of Manchurian masters' heads, he couldn't help but shudder.

The situation in the capital was seen by the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, but they didn't say much, just symbolically sent some people to patrol the streets to maintain law and order.

Although it was advertised outside that the Eight Great Jin Merchants had betrayed the country, they did not get the stone hammer above, so they could only turn a blind eye and wait for the arrangement from above.

However, some officials who were tempted by the yellow and white things of the Jin merchants began to disperse the people who surrounded the eight profiteers' mansions, and the scene was a little chaotic for a while.

After hearing about it, Yin Fengying, the secretary of the Criminal Department and Shuntianfu, immediately organized personnel to investigate and collect evidence, and at the same time sent officials from Shuntianfu to patrol the streets, worried that he would lose control.

Zhu Cihong did not let the people of Shuntianfu and the Five Cities Terracotta Division not interfere in advance, he just wanted everyone in the Beijing Division to know about the traitorous behavior of the Eight Great Jin Merchants and occupy the suppression of public opinion, but he didn't expect the people to be so excited that they were actually ready to tear up the traitors.

The people's starting point is good, but there are still some people who fish in troubled waters, taking advantage of the chaos to smash and burn the shops of Jin merchants, and even some ordinary Jin merchants who have not betrayed the country have been affected.

However, the behavior of the traitors is very puzzling, under normal circumstances, the shops should protect their property at the first time when they encounter smashing, looting, and burning, but the operation of these traitors is incomprehensible, and they are very cooperative with the valuable things of their major shops, all of which are actively thrown on the street.

After Zhu Cihong learned about it, he sneered, these traitors not only used this to attract the attention of the people and alleviate the crisis in their own mansion, but also wanted to make things bigger and make the entire Beijing Division chaotic! Once people taste the sweetness, they will inevitably go even more crazy.

The capital of the Ming Dynasty, the first good place, if it is too chaotic, no one can explain it, and the people of Shuntianfu and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division will soon all be dispatched to maintain law and order in the capital.

Everyone was busy grabbing things on the street to do things, and there were suddenly a lot fewer people outside the capital of the Eight Jin Merchants, but there were still people who refused to leave, and they were always around.

The traitors have good brains, Jin merchants, rich! Directly to the 100th meter away from the mansion to scatter wealth, attracting the green skins surrounding their mansion to rob.