Yangzhou Wei commander Tongzhi Chang Yanen has been really living like a year these days, he is frightened all day long, and he can't sleep peacefully at night, so he is afraid that when he wakes up, Jinyiwei has already come to the door......

Speaking of Chang Yanen's background, it is no less than Xu Yongji, who has run away. He is the founder of the Ming Dynasty, the descendant of Chang Yuchun, who was crowned the Duke of Hubei during his lifetime and posthumously crowned the King of Kaiping. Chang Sheng, the ancestor of his family, was killed in the wrong line in the Battle of Jingyan (it is also said that he was involved in the Lanyu case), and the family suffered for a time. However, in the Hongzhi period, he forgave his sins and granted the hereditary Nanjing Jinyi Guard commander to send him. It was passed to the next level during the Jiajing period, because it was a descendant of Chang Yuchun, so he renewed the title of Huaiyuan Marquis, and the hereditary replacement. After three generations led the Nanjing Military Government, the power of the family also swelled.

And Yangzhou Wei is the focus of Huaiyuanhou Chang's business - because the Chang family's wealth has been interrupted for many years, they have lost the opportunity to buy a large number of properties in Yingtianfu. can only retreat to the next best thing and take Yangzhou Wei as the focus of business. If the concubine in the family has no chance, he will arrange it to Yangzhou Wei as much as possible. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, in Jiangdu County, under the Yangzhou Prefecture, a huge Chang family settlement had been formed, called Chang Jiabang.

When Wuchang fell in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Chang Yanling once played Chongzhen, hoping to go to Changjiabang, the capital of Jiangdu, to recruit thousands of troops, and then go west to Jiujiang to assist in the defense. However, before he could set off, Zuo Liangyu recovered Wuchang, and later encountered Shi Kefa's trip north to King Qin, so his trip to Jiujiang was delayed.

However, it can be seen how big the Chang family's power is in Yangzhou Wei!

Therefore, the command of Yangzhou Wei has made a bad thing, which should be a good thing for Chang Yanen, who is a fellow knowledge. Xu Yongji stepped down, and he should be the next to come to power.

But this time the situation is not right, Daming has a prince who is likely to be the reincarnation of Emperor Taizu Gao, and he also protects the emperor, takes the imperial court, and leads tens of thousands of troops to Yangzhou!

Not long after arriving in Yangzhou, he suddenly made a move to arrest Xu Yongji, the commander of Yangzhou Guard, although he was not caught, but he raided Xu Yongji's home and charged him with terrible rebellion! After that, he also used the account books, letters and other physical evidence copied from the Xu family and the confessions of the Xu family's housekeepers, account offices and others to arrest the four Shanxi salt generals in Yangzhou!

These four old Xiyan are as close as Yangzhou Wei Chang's family!

Moreover, the Wei family and the Huaiyuan Marquis family are still in-laws...... Huaiyuan Marquis Chang Yanling's wife is the young lady of the Wei family. And here in Yangzhou, the branches of the two families intermarry with each other, you have me for a long time, and I have you.

If the Wei family rebelled, would the Huaiyuan Hou family be able to escape?

Therefore, Chang Yanen did not dare to live in Yangzhou City after Xu Yongji's father and son fled, but moved to Chang Jiabang outside Jiangdu City to avoid the limelight.

But Jiangdu doesn't seem to be far from Yangzhou City......

The days of panic did not pass for a few days, and on the 13th of July, early in the morning, the chief housekeeper of the Chang Mansion came to report the bad news to the dazed Chang Yanen.

"Sir, something bad is wrong...... Yangzhou City is here! ”

"What? Come, it's Jinyiwei? "Don't look at Chang Datong, who looks majestic, like a hero, but as soon as he heard that someone was coming from Yangzhou City, he collapsed on the chair, his whole body was weak, and he couldn't escape.

"It's not Jinyiwei." The butler shook his head.

"Dongchang Fanzi ......" Chang Datongzhi's voice trembled, Dongchang is more ferocious than Jinyiwei!

"No," said the butler, "it's the Duke of England who comes." ”

"Who?" Chang Yanen was stunned for a moment and looked at the housekeeper.

"British duke."

Chang Yanen came to life in a flash, and glared at the housekeeper fiercely: "Hey! You old man, too, can't you speak clearly all at once? But I scared the hell out of me! ”

His butler shook his head: "No, the British Duke has a large team of soldiers and horses, and it looks like he is here to arrest someone......

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid," Chang Yanen waved his hand, "As long as it's not a factory guard, it's the law department who comes to take people, what can you do?" What's more, it's still the British duke, it's his own people! ”

Although the resentment between the heroes of Jingnan and the old ministers of Jianwen has long been resolved, and the two groups of nobles in the north and south have their own territory and make money from each other, although it is not possible to talk about the well water and the river water, but the conflict between them is not big. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when civil officials rose, the two groups of nobles still had to "protect each other", so the relationship became more and more intimate.

Since it was his own person who came, Chang Yanen did not hide or run, and hurriedly asked people to prepare a banquet and gifts, and then greeted him in person...... When he got out of the gate, he was tied up by a group of fierce and vicious lieutenants.

"What is this for? What's to be done? Chang Yanen was confused, "What did the lower official do?" ”

British public Zhang Shize had a dark face and snorted coldly: "Chang Yanen, you are a corrupt official!" ”

"What?" Chang Yanen was stunned when he heard this charge, "Grandpa, what did you say?" ”

"You're a corrupt official!" Zhang Shize's face was serious, "This official has already ascertained that 50,000 mu of the 130,000 mu of land owned by Yangzhou Weijiang Prefecture, as well as 35,000 mu of official land owned by Yangzhou Prefecture, have all been encroached upon by your family." In addition, your family also occupies tens of thousands of acres of hidden land in Yangzhou Prefecture, participates in the sale of illegal salt, and accepts bribes from Yangzhou salt merchants and shelters them to sell illegal salt...... Chang Yanen, do you admit all these sins that Ben Jue said? ”

"These ...... Are these also considered sins? Chang Yanen almost gave pleasure to Zhang Shize, who was seriously arresting corrupt officials. If this matter is put on hold during the Hongwu period, the sin will be great! But during the Chongzhen period, what was the matter? There are 300 and dozens of guards in the world! Otherwise, the Tartars could be so arrogant? Can a rogue be so powerful?

"How is it not a sin?" Zhang Shize put on a straight face, raised his hand and pointed at Chang Yanen, who was unconvinced, "Your family's sin is great!" How many years have those fields been encroached upon by your family? Is there 100 years? Your family shelters private salt, and it is not one or two generations to accept bribes from Yangzhou salt merchants, right? You Huaiyuan Hou Chang's family has been greedy for generations! What a sin! ”

"Hey, why did you still bring your ancestors on? Okay, okay, my family is a corrupt official, and your British public house will be clean? Where is Chang Yanen willing to buy it, he immediately choked back, "The little land that my family has encroached upon, and the little bribe I have received, is a fart compared to your British government!" You don't pee on what you do, and you don't do anything according to yourself...... If you check me now, someone will check you when he turns around! ”

"Hahaha......"

Someone laughed, not Zhang Shize alone, but more than a dozen hungry wolf-like right-duty supervisors who followed him were laughing.

"You, what are you laughing at?"

Zhang Shize shook his head, "Why are you so confused?" We are different from you, although we are also corrupt officials for generations, but we are not afraid of investigation! ”

"Why?" Chang Yanen still didn't understand.

Zhang Shize laughed and said: "Because we have almost gone bankrupt, even if we still have a little floating wealth left, compared with when we were in Beijing in the past, it is still eighty percent and ninety-tenth...... What else are you looking for? ”

"This, this, this ......"

At this time, Chang Yanen finally had a feeling of impending disaster. It turns out that the era of "mutual honor" has passed!

These nobles and hereditary military attachés who fled from the north with the crown prince all lost eighty percent of their belongings, and some even went bankrupt. They are no longer the same breed as the nobles of the South...... They have been upgraded from fat pigs to be slaughtered to butchers who kill pigs.

Seeing that Chang Yanen had nothing to say, Zhang Shize smiled and said: "Let me tell you clearly, the fifteen right-class inspectors brought by Benjue are all Beijing nobles and hereditary military attachés who have broken their families...... The prince has set the rules, we can propose a bounty from the dirty silver recovered and the confiscated property! So you don't have any illusions, just explain how many you have. In fact, even if you don't confess, we can find out. Which of us is not clear about your family's methods of embezzlement and bribery? ”