What the imperial court is worried about has nothing to do with the small people, at least it has nothing to do with the group of unknown murderers who are busy fleeing from the Hou Mansion in front of them.

The audience who blocked the gate to watch the play did not know what this group of people was doing, and could only roughly judge from the image and dress that it may be that in this year's national disaster, the family was ruined and became left with nothing and miserable in the capital to seek a way to live, and as a result, they couldn't get their relatives or something, and they were penniless, food, clothing, and homeless refugees and homeless people.

Because now the capital is strictly managed, the Kaifeng Mansion and the Patrol Forbidden Army jointly control the situation of the residents of the capital, and control the population of the whole city is extremely strict, so as to avoid the recurrence of the shocking scandal that the imperial capital has unknowingly become the most convenient paradise for the underworld to nourish and grow, and also to prevent the evil people from forming violent groups to endanger the imperial city again. And the capital no longer allows outsiders to enter Beijing at will, and they can settle down by occupying an empty house that no one lives in, and they have nowhere to settle down in the capital in embarrassment, and they are afraid that they will be forcibly cleared out of the capital by the government, and even arrested and stabbed with a gold seal by the government, and they have become prisoners serving sentences in the blink of an eye, and have been forcibly punished by the government as miners of the imperial court, cultivators and slaves of large families and other coolies who have been forcibly distributed to various places, and they have no choice but to hide in this uninhabited former Hou Mansion to survive the current life-threatening winter.........

Not to mention, for this kind of refugee, even if all the shantytowns are demolished, there will still be ownerless and idle good houses to occupy and use......... Today's population of the capital is too small, excluding the more than 200,000 troops stationed in Beijing, the remaining population is not even one-fifth of the original heyday, and it is not as large as the population of the slightly larger medium-sized state capital in the past. One is that after the disaster, there are no big households outside Beijing, almost all of them have been swept away by pirates or immigration frenzy and even extortion and looting........ Squandered the poor eggs of pleasure, can other big families in the Song Realm have a good one? People are lucky enough not to die in the disaster. Jingfang can't be sold at all...... But when it comes to comfort, convenience, and the safest and most suitable place to stay and hide, the only place to hide is the former Wencheng Marquis Mansion, which is a borderless place.

This is a taboo and ominous place in the capital, and the officials and the people have intentionally or subconsciously avoided it, as if they were afraid of inadvertently getting into bad luck.

It was sealed by Kaifeng Mansion again, and it was not allowed to be reopened without a holy decree.

Although there are also many ordinary residents settled in it, and there are more ordinary people on the streets, but the patrol forbidden army is more and more diligent, who would have thought that the refugee vagrants would dare to quietly use the idle Hou Mansion as a den in the rigorous patrol......

But Zhao Yue knew what was going on with the group of people in front of him.

These dozens of men hiding here are beggars in the capital, all of whom are evil beggars and ruffians who operate in the capital in the way of beggars and Beijing people.

The well-organized, hierarchical, and powerful beggar gang mentioned in Jin Yong's book is the largest gang in the north and south of the country-the beggar gang, as you all know, it did not exist in the Song Dynasty in history.

There are gangs of beggars in the cities, but they are scattered all over the world, and they are loose organizations of a few or at most dozens of people who occupy the territory and beg, and there is no so-called strong force, although it is inevitable to commit evil and violent things, but on the whole it is the most vulnerable and poor group in society.

However, in this world, the kind of beggar gang described by Jin Daxia has really appeared, at least in recent years, it has existed in the capital where people are so rich and prosperous that people almost forget about it, and the power is not weak, and it was once one of the most powerful, the most rampant, cruel and the most evil gangs in the capital, killing, arson, robbing and abducting people...... Doing all kinds of evil, and appearing as a pitiful or neglected weakling, doing evil is very deceptive, and it is also very convenient to travel around the Gyeonggi area to commit crimes, and it is difficult for the government to detect........

But as the old saying goes, no matter how powerful and arrogant the gangster is, if it encounters a more serious government and is determined to suppress and eradicate it, it is also scum.

As soon as the state violence apparatus really rumbled, even if he was arrogant and arrogant, no one could clean up his kind of invincible gangster power as long as God didn't take action, and it became one of the topics of history and evil things that people chatted and laughed about after dinner.

Previously, because the huge amount of money auctioned by the Hou Mansion inadvertently led to the terrible reality that Gyeonggi had become a paradise for gangsters and violent gangs, the imperial court was greatly frightened, and the relevant officials worked together as never before, painstakingly and devoutly, and mobilized all the more than 200,000 forbidden troops left after the disaster to carry out an unprecedented special struggle to strike hard, and successfully swept away all the ruffians and gangsters in the capital, large and small, and also vigorously grasped a group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials who colluded and indulged and vigorously provided convenience for the gangsters. It is equivalent to gangsters, and all of them are included in the criminal......

Beggars were also among the crackdowns and strict clean-ups at that time.

Not only the able-bodied people who pretended to be beggars were all cleaned up, but even the beggars who were so disabled that they had really lost their ability to work and earn a living were also swept out of the capital, and were escorted to the coastal areas, Jiangnan or other mines that had been sacked by pirates......

Able-bodied gangsters and gangsters who are assassinated can naturally be used as the Xiang army in the distribution area or the tuntian and mining coolies under the management of the government and the military.

The disabled beggars were miserable in this brutal and ruthless storm of terrification and anger in the court.

They can't do their jobs, they're just waste and a burden to society,

At this time, the imperial court was not in the mood to consider the decent image of benevolence and human nature, nor was it able to take into account the life and death of these people.

The vast majority of these disabled beggars can't even walk, and the army in charge of escorting them is all ruffians and villains who pirates don't want, so naturally it is impossible to kindly find a carriage to pull them away, let alone find a cart to use people to pull them so troublesome and worry.

Therefore, after forcibly getting out of the capital, they left behind the wilderness far away from the capital and the people, and let these beggars starve to death or be eaten by the beasts that expanded their living space and began to enter a happy environment.

The able-bodied, who are not honest during the escort, will also be killed immediately without mercy.

It is inevitable that troubled times will be re-enshrined.

In troubled times, human life is like a mustard, and it is inevitable that the army will kill indiscriminately.

Those who are disabled beggars with sound legs and can follow them will not end well.

It was a tool controlled by the gang of beggars to beg for money and food in Gyeonggi, and no matter how much money and food they wanted, it was just a tool treatment that could not starve to death, hungry and cold, all of them were extremely weak, and on the way to escort them, the army deliberately starved these assassins, so as not to have enough to eat, have leisure and have the strength to wait for the opportunity to escape, they became more and more weak, and even the normal assassins were so hungry that they were staggering, and some were weak, and they would even walk and suddenly fall to the ground, and die directly or were immediately dragged away by the army and quietly killed and abandoned, How can a disabled and infirm person like them keep up with a team that is forced to march quickly?

If you fall or pull it down, you will be stabbed to death and discarded by the officers and soldiers like garbage that is in the way, and the corpses will not be buried, so they will be exposed everywhere along the way, either they will be eaten by wild beasts, or the locals will have to take the initiative to deal with it for fear of causing a plague........

However, in any case, after this strict rectification, the public security environment in the capital suddenly became very good, and there was no arrogant criminal gang, and this group of people proudly shook their arms everywhere to do evil, and even the disabled beggars who hindered the appearance of the capital and greatly damaged the dignity of the Heavenly Empire, but were ruthlessly cleaned up in the past, were no longer seen.

It stands to reason that such a thorough clean-up and rectification, the time for the crackdown has just passed, and the forbidden army was ordered to strictly grasp the city gate to check those who come to Beijing, especially the disabled are strictly forbidden to have the opportunity to enter the capital to have a good life, and there should be no beggars in the capital now.

But one of the oldest professions, like the seemingly unstoppable underworld, has unimaginably strong vitality, and there are new beggars in the capital.

These new beggars were either the ones who slipped through the net at that time, or they were wicked and unscrupulous people who were caught in the ordinary people who usually made a living without showing great evil deeds.

After the plague of pirate extortion, the imperial court saw that the situation in the capital had improved, the new forbidden army was stable and available, and the crisis in the capital was not so serious, and some tough and ruthless governance measures could be taken, but it was also due to various political factors such as financial support, so it cut off the free daily food distribution to the residents, and asked the residents to participate in the large-scale demolition or what independent labor in exchange for money and food to survive.

I can't eat free national food for nothing, and I don't have to stay at home comfortably, drink hot water, chat, fart, gamble....... A good life is mixed, and in the past, they enjoyed too much convenience and decency at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and some people in Beijing, who had developed bad habits and had long been accustomed to them, immediately began to change, and they were very dissatisfied with the imperial court and had the idea of thieves......

The work of demolition and relocation had to endure the harsh wind of the day, the hunger and hard work, and the fierce scolding, whipping, urging and rushing of the work by the official supervisors, as well as all kinds of wanton abuse of power, insults, and harsh ......

And the money and food that can be earned for a day of exhaustion and hard work are also extremely limited.

People who do a good job and receive a lot of money and food are not enough to eat for two days, and they have to grit their teeth to insist on doing it the next day, which is the deliberate policy of the imperial court, not to let you be idle and make trouble, forcing you to be tired. Not to mention those who receive less, it is good that the money and food stewards can barely fill their stomachs for the day's food at home, so that they will not be so hungry that they can't stand it.

In this case, those who are resentful and bold in their hearts, they are not willing to suffer that sin, they cannot afford to lose that face, and they are not willing to die every day to exhaust only that little money and grain harvest......

And seeing some kind of good opportunity from the imperial court's demolition plan, he naturally couldn't help but act,

Some of them went around the camp to find connections, and took advantage of the old and new official relations, and with the internal response of the yamen and the army, the security mixed up with the ruffians, and formed a small group of inconspicuous gangs that would not attract the attention of the above, strengthened the strength of fighting and bullying people, and made it easier for them to extort and collect protection money with more deterrent force, and lived a comfortable life of the most common kind of majestic and carefree low-level powerful people in the capital in the past.

Those who attacked Zhao Yue first fell into this category.

The other type is the gang of new beggars.

Naturally, the new underworld forces in the people of the capital have lost the power and opportunity they had before to crack down.

Before the strike-hard crackdown, the underworld gangs were really arrogant and happy, running rampant in business districts, docks, and streets.......

At that time, even ordinary officials and petty officials in Beijing or wealthy businessmen whose power backers were not strong enough could not afford to provoke them, so they had to endure hatred, bow their heads, and endure the arrogance, threats, blackmail, and even seek provocations on the street, and arbitrarily bullied and beat them.

The golden age of the underworld that was the most comfortable and prosperous to survive and develop, and the most prosperous has passed.

After rising to the point where the imperial court and the emperor were vigilantly watching, these new forces naturally did not dare to target the powerful groups who could continue to enjoy eating public food. There are no wealthy businessmen with weak roots to extort and play with.

There will be no rich people in the capital for a while. The wealthy businessmen who are not hard roots are now working as demolition coolies to survive.

Their target is precisely those groups of people who have to participate in demolition and relocation for food, and they can only be these groups.

In the past few days, every time the demolition army has finished a day's hard work, they have scattered everywhere with money and food, and they have gone home dejected and exhausted. These new gangs will either make a move, or show the power of violence and the ferocity of the terrible intimidation...... Every day, I went to the demolition people's homes to check the actual income, and "fair and reasonable" went door-to-door to "collect rent" in proportion, or simply beat the sticks in the middle of the road and snatched all the target's income for the day.......

The main body of this latter form of evil is the beggar gang.

The overall combat effectiveness of the members of the new beggar gang is not as good as that of the new ruffian gang, and they cannot compete for territory against their opponents, and they cannot divide them according to their strength and territory like the ruffian gangs......

In order to rob the efficiency of success and hide the traces of faces, the clapper bricks and sticks are more vicious........

If there are many crimes, the people will be indignant, and if there are more people who go to the yamen to file complaints, it will naturally arouse some official vigilance and investigation, and arrest them........

Black beggars have to be more careful and calculating when committing crimes, and there are conveniences, but they don't have to be confined to a certain territory like the ruffians and gangsters, and they can't just collapse the area to work, and the beggars can run around the capital, go wherever they want, and get down when they get the right opportunity, and then stay away from the place where the incident occurred.

However, the case can be run around at will, so that even if the Kaifeng Mansion Yamen has a heavy hand to rectify it, it is difficult to clean them up in one fell swoop for a while, but this place to settle down can provide a safe place to hide is not so free and easy to choose.

The black beggars, some gangs had to take advantage of the slums and shantytowns that still exist in large numbers for the time being to guerrilla and hide, today one place, tomorrow has been changed to another place, which makes the government scratch their heads, and the search and arrest have increased the difficulty several times, but the black beggars also have to bother to move east to Tibet every day, and they are in a hurry to live in peace.

And the gang of black beggars in front of Zhao Yue is obviously a gang that is smarter than other gangs, and they are bold enough to dare to live here for a long time, and they are more vicious and vicious than other gangs......

It's just that no matter how clever and cunning they are, no matter how much they calculate, they never calculated that the people of the old master's family here would enter Beijing at this sensitive time and suddenly rush here.

Zhao Yue also knew in advance that there were a group of beggars and gangsters hiding here, so he intended to come here to settle lunch.

Otherwise, there is no one to live in, there is nothing, Zhao Yue and his party came here to drink wind for lunch.