Since the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the city of Beijing has formed a pattern of "nine inside and seven outside the seven imperial cities".

"Lijiu" refers to the nine gates of the inner city, "Outer Seven" refers to the seven gates of the outer city, and "Imperial City Four" refers to the four gates of the imperial city, so old Beijing also has a common name called "Sijiu City".

The inner and outer cities are centered on the imperial city, forming four urban districts in the east, west, north and south, and the people who live in different urban areas have their own characteristics.

Because of the transportation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Chaoyangmen is called Qihuamen by the people of old Beijing, and it is the "grain gate" for transporting grain in the nine gates of Beijing.

The materials from the south to the north are transported from Tongzhou to Chaoyangmen, the end point of Caoyun, and are concentrated in the east of Beijing, so there are many granaries in Dongcheng, many of which are named after warehouses, such as shipping warehouses, new Taicang, Lumi warehouse, Nanxin warehouse, etc.

In order to facilitate commercial transactions, the merchant rich Jia and the Yin cannibal family gradually took root in Dongcheng, and in the long run, there was the saying "Dongfu".

Around the new Taicang in Beijing, merchants gather, shops are numerous, there are many grain depots, pawnshops, etc., and most of the grain depots of the eight Jin merchants in the capital are distributed here.

On August 3, at two or three o'clock, when the dusk drums sounded, thousands of brave guard battalions stationed in the school yard of the imperial city trotted straight to the new Taicang with torches.

Thousands of sergeants of the Yongwei Battalion formed a neat marching queue, marching through the street with neat steps, and their iron boots stepped on the bluestone street, making a neat roar.

Some of the people on the street were awakened and cautiously observed the army through the doors and windows, not knowing what they were going to do.....

The large battalion of the Yongwei battalion was less than five miles away from the new Taicang, and not long after, a large number of torches illuminated the entire new Taicang alley, and a large group of soldiers surrounded all the grain depots of the eight major Jin merchants in the capital.

In one of the Fan family's grain depots, the grain depot manager panicked when he saw this: "Who are you, why did you break into my family's grain depot?" ”

A guerrilla general of the Yongwei battalion shouted: "By the order of the crown prince, all the grain depots of the collaborators and traitors will be confiscated, and those who dare to obstruct will be killed!" ”

"Our Fan family is loyal and has made great contributions to the emperor in the past hundred years........"

"Poof!"

The guerrilla general slowly lowered his sword into its sheath, kicked the body of the Fan family steward to the side, and shouted, "Break the door!" ”

The sound of "clang" on the door continued, and some soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion carried thick pointed hardwood, shouted trumpets, and kept banging on the heavy grain depot gate.

The Fan family guarding the grain depot didn't know what was going on outside, and they all picked up the guys and blocked the door of the grain depot, in the troubled times, grain is more important than gold, so the guards of the grain depot are the most loyal family members of the Fan family.

Not long after, the gate was slammed open, and a row of shield soldiers of the Brave Guard Battalion rushed in with their shields in hand, and behind them were the soldiers of the Brave Guard Battalion in neat formation, holding muskets.

Seeing that there were people in the granary holding weapons and preparing to confront, several rows of musketeers from the Yongwei battalion fired a volley at the door, beating the Fan family inside into a sieve, and there was no chance of surrender.

This scene took place in front of the various grain depots in New Taicang with the same plot, and there were bursts of fire from time to time.

In the face of the strong attack of the Yongwei battalion, the guards in the grain depots of the eight Jin merchants could not resist at all, they either died or surrendered, and those who surrendered slowly were directly taken away by the king of Hades.

In order to prevent the family from secretly attacking, the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion searched the many grain depots one by one, pulled them out one by one and drove them to the middle field, and killed all of them with one shot.

Not long after, there were hundreds of people in New Taicang, wearing green brocade clothes and holding embroidered spring knives.

The leaders were dressed in big red flying fish suits, and as soon as they arrived in the new Taicang Hutong, they each rushed to the mansion of the eight traitors with dozens of brocade guards.

In Fan Fuzhong, hearing the sound of firecracks outside, Fan Yongshan, who had just fallen asleep with his concubine in his arms, suddenly jumped up and shouted, "What happened over there at the grain depot?" ”

A family member hurriedly ran in and said in horror: "Fourth master, the army has blocked all our grain depots!" ”

Fan Yongshan was clever, and pushed the little concubine who had just woken up and was still holding his arm and coquettishly out of bed, without even looking at it, and continued to ask the family: "Tell me clearly, what's going on?" ”

"Fourth master, the imperial court has sent troops to seal off all the grain depots in the new Taicang! Outside is full of hills, and as long as the family guarding the grain depot has the slightest resistance, they will kill people without saying a word! ”

"Really?" Fan Yongshan muttered to himself after eating, he didn't even wear clothes, and went out in a hurry with a large group of family members shirtless.

As soon as he walked to the gate, he suddenly saw a group of brocade guards directly knocking open the gate and rushing in, seeing Fan Yongshan and others, as the first brocade guard, a thousand households gave an order, and all the brocade guards pounced on them, and cut them when they saw people!

Seeing this, Fan Yongshan hurriedly turned around and ran, he was not even interested in explaining, and when he met Jinyiwei, he explained what a fart!

Fan Yongshan asked the family to resist first, he wanted to slip away from the back door, as long as he escaped from the capital and returned to the Fan family's base camp in Taiyuan, Shanxi, even if Jinyiwei wanted to arrest him, it would be impossible.

Fan Yongshan ran desperately with a strong desire to survive, and just ran out of the back door of Fan's mansion, but found that the back door was already surrounded by sergeants in iron armor, all of them were tall and strong, and everyone was holding a black and pressed fire gun, and the black gun mouth was all aimed at him.

Fan Yongshan, who was running profusely and sweating, his fiery little heart suddenly cooled in half, he barely squeezed out a smile, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, what does this mean?" ”

None of these sergeants in front of him answered him, Fan Yongshan asked again, but the group of sergeants on the opposite side still didn't reply to him, so they surrounded him with firearms and hung him.

Fan Yongshan was depressed in his heart, he wanted to run away, but he was worried that as soon as he ran with his front foot, his back foot would be beaten into a sieve by the firecracker, so Fan Yongshan stayed shirtless for a long time under the gaze of a large group of men.

At this time, the group of brocade guards chased after them from the back door, and each of them was stained with a lot of blood, obviously having a fierce battle with the family members of the Fan Mansion.

The crowd parted, and Li Tingbiao, dressed in a gorgeous flying fish suit, appeared in front of Fan Yongshan's eyes.

Fan Yongshan looked at this Jinyi Guard official, and said in a trembling voice: "What crime have I committed, and you want to arrest me?" ”

Li Tingbiao shouted: "Take down this dog who collaborates with the enemy and betrays the country!" ”

Fan Yongshan suddenly shouted: "Nonsense, my Fan family has been in business for generations, loyal to the country, our loyalty and righteousness can be seen every day!" ”

Li Tingbiao sneered: "These words of yours, let's go to the edict and say it slowly!" Originally, you were not qualified to enter the Imperial Prison, but Your Highness was merciful and reserved a suite for you eight traitors! ”

Fan Yongshan shouted: "We are not guilty, why should we be arrested?" We are not convinced! ”

Li Tingbiao shouted: "Tie up, drag it away!" ”

It was Sun Yingyuan who surrounded Fan's Mansion with the Yongwei Battalion, Jinyiwei had too many people to arrest tonight, and there was a serious shortage of manpower, Zhu Cihong was not at ease, so he specially sent some people from the Yongwei Battalion to surround the mansions of the eight traitors.

Sun Yingyuan smiled at Li Tingbiao and said, "Brother Li, since the people are arrested, then we will withdraw to the grain depot." ”

Li Tingbiao hugged his fists at Sun Yingyuan and said, "Thank you General Sun for your help!" ”

Sun Yingyuan waved his hand and said: "Brother Li is polite, I don't want to help you, if it weren't for the Jingshi, I would have taken care of the reputation of His Royal Highness the Prince, I would have led someone to kill these two Tartars, how could it be your turn to get Jinyiwei to take action?" ”

Li Tingbiao smiled helplessly: "Your Highness is not afraid that the reputation of your Yongwei Battalion will be tarnished, so this notorious thing has to be done by our Jinyi Guard!" ”

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