After nightfall, the gates of the capital were locked, the lights were sparse, and the voices of the people gradually died down, due to the emperor's southern tour, the five cities of the Terracotta Division and the Shuntian Mansion Yamen, all sent twice the number of people to inspect on weekdays.

In order to ensure the stability of the capital.

Fengyang is just the opposite of Jingshi, and it is the most boiling and lively time of the day.

Was Fengyang like this before, it was a fart, although Fengyang in the past was not deserted, but it was far from being as loud as it is now!

Zhu Youxiao toured the south, Fengyang was the first stop, and the large army was going to stay for a few days to prepare for the sacrifice.

It is precisely because of this spread of the festival that it has driven the flow of people and economy in the local area, although Zhu Youxiao only stayed for a few days, but it is also very important for the development of Fengyang.

Next to Qipan Street and Drum Tower, within two or three streets and alleys, meat markets, salted fish mouths, grinding factories, jewelry markets, as well as inns, warehouses, teahouses, and taverns are all open all night.

In Fengyang City, the lights are brilliant and the people are noisy.

Buying and selling, shouting, and boxing, coupled with many night opera gongs and drums that come to Fengyang Opera from other places, converge into a special scenery of the night market.

Fengyang as the central capital, the scale of the city is larger than the general state city, the capital city, there are Fengyang guard, the imperial tomb supervisor, the garrison and other official offices in the city.

There is a big theater building and a big green building in the city, which is a gathering place for wealthy businessmen and literati.

The name of the theater is Chajialou, and the green building is called the Yueming Building, all of which are melodious flutes, pink and ink, and the beautiful scenery of spring flowers and autumn moon.

Chajialou, located on the side of the meat market outside the south gate, is mostly a temporary resting place for coarse food and light customers, and wealthy business travelers.

Yueming Building, is in the middle of Fengyang City, the literati from all over the country every time they go to Fengyang, they have to go here to chant poems, watch songs and dances, and show their talents.

Between Chajialou and Yueminglou, Jade Emperor Temple, Nanzhu City, Salted Fish Farm, and then enter the city to the north, pass through the second and third streets and alleys, and arrive at the temporary military camp of the Imperial Yongwei Battalion.

There is a flag hunting, even in the middle of the night, echoing the shouts of the school drills, pedestrians walk by, often with excitement in their chests, a sense of mission to protect the family and defend the country spontaneously.

Outside the Chajialou, there was a burst of people shouting horses on the street, and the sound of wheel ruts sounded straight to the door, and a beautiful carved carriage stopped under the dark fire of the lantern with three golden characters written on it.

The chajialou servant in the door hurriedly stepped forward, lifted the curtain, and smiled lovingly at Liu Chao, the garrison eunuch who walked out of it.

Liu Chao didn't say much, walked straight in, and went straight to the private room on the third floor.

After a while, a eunuch from the imperial mausoleum took the servant aside and whispered: "The temper of the masters today is not very good, you have to be careful." ”

The little guy frowned, and when he took a small piece of silver ingot, he couldn't close his mouth with joy.

"The villain understands."

"Go ahead."

......

"You have ordered it to go down, the emperor will stay in Fengyang for a few days, there will be no problems, right?"

As soon as he entered the door, before he could catch his breath, Liu Chao asked a middle-aged man standing by the window with his hands in his hands, and then found a seat to sit down.

This person was dressed in a white satin mink robe, it was Meng Ran, the commander of Fengyang Wei, when Liu Chao entered the door, he was tightening his eyebrows, looking at the official post where the imperial driver was staying, he sighed when he heard it, turned around and said:

"The order is an order, but if the emperor wants to investigate, he can't hide it."

"I've dealt with too many people and things in the past two years." Liu Chao also knew this, but he didn't feel panicked, and said:

"After this time, if my godfather has some affection, it is time to transfer our family to the south."

"What about the civil officials, what happened to them?"

Hearing Liu Chao's words, Meng Ran sneered:

"Them?"

"Right now, we're also discussing it in Yueming Building, let's kill people for the factory, divide the corpses and destroy the traces, and I'm afraid there are too many of their unclean places."

As he spoke, Meng Ran seemed to suddenly think of something, and continued:

"Last time there was a drought in Suzhou, I asked the imperial court for 200,000 taels of disaster relief silver, as if they swallowed 80,000? They're really daring..."

"Eighty thousand?"

Liu Chaohe sneered: "Your news is too closed, they divided 150,000!" He also said that he would give our family 20,000 yuan, but who is our family? ”

"Although our family is greedy, we also know that this silver is the life-saving money of the common people."

"Can you ask for this silver, and can you fall asleep with this money in your hands? Now that the emperor is here, our family wants to see if they can hold it or not. ”

Meng Ran looked at Liu Chao with a smile on his face, but he was vigilant in his heart, and he also knew that this was not a good thing.

These eunuchs, maybe they are missing something, they kill people, their hearts are more ruthless than the other, and they are high-sounding, who doesn't know, they don't dare to take it!

Even Wei Zhongxian didn't dare to be greedy for disaster money, let alone a Liu Dynasty!

These eunuchs who followed Wei Zhongxian, as long as they want to rectify you, they are more than one another, and the Donglin Party is the best example.

Wei Zhongxian ran Donglin, and because of the emperor's support, how many people were killed openly and secretly?

Speaking of which, it is also these civil officials who are blinded by the desire for profit, you say that it is not good for you to be greedy, not the silver money issued by the court to the victims.

There is a reason why the eunuchs dare not touch the disaster silver when they touch anything, and it is likely that the bottom line of the emperor's corruption against the eunuchs is this.

The two discussed it for a while, and suddenly realized that it shouldn't be them who were worried.

Although the two of them were embarrassed and did a lot of bad things in Fengyang, they didn't do much to really bully the people.

Most of what they did was to use their power to help Wei Zhongxian wipe his ass and throw those who dared to oppose Dongchang into the imperial tomb and kill them.

Just like the Wei Dynasty, the power in the palace is not small, right?

Thrown into the imperial mausoleum, he died inexplicably the next year, don't take the emperor for a fool, his old man must know about this, but does it matter?

If it is said that the emperor came down this time to get them, it obviously doesn't make sense, and it can be done in one sentence in Beijing, why do you want to make such trouble.

If nothing else, the emperor is coming this time against the civil officials and local tycoons who have joined forces to embezzle the disaster relief money.

After discussing this, the two of them were relieved a lot.

Meng Ran turned his gaze to the stage, and it was no surprise that he was staging a play "Peach Blossom Face", which was the best play of the Cha family class.

Today, when the emperor came to Fengyang, he came with a large number of people from all walks of life, and there were many people who stamped their feet, and the whole Fengyang had to tremble.

I didn't say it, but I kept singing it!

Coincidentally, when he looked downstairs, the Cha family class was singing the climax of the play, a woman played the role of the person in the play, dancing, and the troupe tapped the sandalwood board outside the screen, and the flute gradually started.

The guests present all stopped talking and waited for the most famous three orders of this play.

With the melodious sound of the flute, the rhythm of the sandalwood board is getting faster and faster, the sweet water order, the victory order, and the laurel order are sung respectively, and the guests are fascinated by it, and the woman who plays the role of the person in the play gently wipes her tears, and then the curtain ends.

There was a moment of silence in the room, and there was a burst of applause.

"Good!"

"It's so good to sing!"

There are even high-rollers who spend a lot of money and applaud.