"Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict, Yang and the guard general Xia Deyi...... Liu Dongming, the general of Zhangjiakou, according to Char and others, betrayed the country with the eight Jin merchants......"

At the beginning, Xia Deyi and the others were still a little puzzled, why did the emperor mention them at the beginning of the holy decree, why didn't he say King Lu Yan himself?

But then, when they heard the holy decree that they had conspired with the Eight Great Jin Merchants to betray the country, their faces suddenly changed.

Although the Eight Great Jin Merchants did not say it explicitly, they themselves knew that it was indeed the Eight Great Jin Merchants, and there was a business with the captives, isn't it smuggling! However, the decree says that the captives are traitorous, which means that it is a will to condemn them. And this crime, to put it seriously, isn't betrayal of the country a rebellion!

No one can afford such a big crime. At the same time, they also know that it is time for the fortune to be exposed.

At this moment, they didn't dare to listen anymore, and they all got up to refute it, or shout injustice.

However, at this moment, I saw many armed guards on both sides of the back hall, with long knives and spears, hugging them.

If you don't want to die, you can only resist. They hurriedly tried to draw their swords, but when they touched the void, they suddenly remembered that when they came in, the weapons were all left outside.

At this time, Xia Deyi regretted it in his heart, what did he think in his head, he even wanted everyone to listen to King Lu Yan, now it's okay, he doesn't even have a chance to resist!

With his bare hands, these henchmen of Chen Xinjia knew that the main generals who betrayed the country would be brave and good at fighting, and they were immediately forced by Lu Xiangsheng's personal guards with knives and guns. Then he pressed them to the ground and knelt on them.

After Lu Xiangsheng read out the holy decree, he looked at these scum in the army condescendingly, and said coldly: "It's all closed, and when the news comes from Governor Hong, I will escort them into Beijing." ”

Outside the Governor's Palace, the personal guards of the local generals faintly heard a commotion coming from inside the Governor's Palace, as if it was their generals shouting. I couldn't help but be a little surprised, and I was a little commotion.

When Lu Xiangsheng, who was on duty at the door, saw it, he immediately shouted: "This is the Governor's Palace, Lord Lu is inside, what do you want to do?" ”

With such a reminder, these local lords and local guards remembered the reputation of King Lu Yan, and immediately coaxed, and hurriedly stood aside obediently and waited. Of course, they thought in their hearts, could it be that their master was spanked by King Lu Yan again?

After waiting for a long time, they still didn't see their master come out, and these guards were a little puzzled again.

However, before they could come up with something, they heard neat footsteps on the street. As soon as they heard this, they knew that there must be an army coming, so they looked back one after another.

Sure enough, it was a Ming army that drove over, lined up neatly, and that fierce atmosphere, at a glance, you knew that this was definitely an elite!

These guards are all raised by the local generals, and they can be beaten in the border army. But at this time, when they saw that this entire army was elite, they were surprised.

Hurriedly flashed to the side, while whispering comments on this suddenly arrived elite army.

However, what they didn't expect was that after this army arrived at the gate of the Governor's Palace, Lu Xiangsheng's personal guard at the gate suddenly pointed at them: "Your Excellency has an order, arrest them all!" ”

As a result, these people were dumbfounded, and their brains were a little more flexible, and they quickly remembered the movement that had come from the governor's palace before. But at this time, they could no longer help it, so they could only disarm and surrender.

In the governor's palace, Lu Da quickly came out and immediately began to command. This elite is actually the 5,000 brave guard battalion under his command. Before, they were hiding outside the city, and only after all the lords and generals had arrived, did they send people to inform them to enter the city.

Now that the generals have been arrested, and the army enters the city, it will begin to control the city gates and arrest the king's culprits in the city.

It's just a pity that Jin Shang is not here.

And in Zhangjiakou, it was still called Zhangjiakou Fort at this time. It was founded in the fourth year of Xuande, Daming Dynasty, and has a history of more than 200 years by this time. In the eighth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, it was expanded. It is an important military garrison castle on the defense line of the Great Wall, and it is the crown of the northern frontier with the reputation of "Wucheng".

Since the 30th year of Jiajing, it has become the official designated location of a tea and horse exchange market in the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia. As a result, Zhangjiakou's purely military function began to develop into commerce. In the fifth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, the mutual market agreed with Altan Khan has been further changed. By the time of the Wanli period, it was already very lively. It was also from that time that some Jin merchants began to betray the country, thus rising rapidly.

At this time, in Zhangjiakou Fort, it can be said that there is a lot of traffic, people come and go, and it is very lively.

However, in the lobby of a large mansion in the city, the atmosphere is extremely serious.

I saw that in this hall, there were two sitting on the main seat, and three on each side of the side, although there was tea around these eight people, but no one touched them, and everyone was staring at one of them and talking. These people are naturally the Eight Great Jin merchants.

"It's impossible! With such a big officialdom movement, no matter how busy Master Chen is, he will definitely send a letter back! ”

"Yes, especially the position of Governor Xuanda, needless to say, how important it is, even if Lord Chen is now an auxiliary minister of the cabinet and can't leave, then he will definitely send someone back!"

“……”

Faced with doubts, Huang Yunfa said a little annoyed: "King Lu Yan is in the Governor's Mansion, can I still lie to you?" Xia Deyi sent someone to inform him, but can he still have a leave? ”

Speaking of this, he looked annoyed, and said, "Isn't it the cabinet assistant?" It's not like we haven't helped up. This Chen Xinjia, what is he doing in such a hurry, has he forgotten that we are his roots. If we weren't behind him, even if he became the head of the cabinet, then don't even think about sitting firmly! ”

Fan Yongdou frowned, and suddenly said, "Could it be, Lord Chen is busy with the rebellion case, right?" ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to have figured out something, so he said: "The emperor's will is to let Lord Chen cooperate with the investigation of the grain merchant's rebellion. This is a big case, Lord Chen may want to reverse that situation and is busy, or maybe he didn't expect Lu Xiangsheng to come over to take office so soon, so he delayed it after coming and going? ”

For this speculation, it is indeed possible.

However, these Jin merchants were not satisfied, so they heard Wang Dengku say angrily: "Lord Chen and Yang Gebu don't know how to do it, why don't they completely bring down Lu Xiangsheng!" And let him come back to be the governor of Xuanda, isn't this a blockage for us! Before we thought about it, it took so much effort to get him away! ”

"That's right, now that Lu Xiangsheng's father is gone, the same method can't be used anymore!" Tian Shenglan also shook her head and said, "If only his mother were still alive, we can do it again!" ”

“……”

Hearing the voice of complaining about Chen Xinjia in the lobby, Fan Yongdou came out and said: "Everyone, everyone, things are already like this, it's useless to say this." Anyway, we've basically concentrated our supplies here. He, King Lu Yan, is still in Yanghe right now, just let him toss over there, I believe that Yang Gebu and Lord Chen will come up with a way soon. ”

Hearing this, the hall was quiet for a while, and Wang Dengku took his words and said: "Otherwise, everything will be transported to Liaodong, I don't know what's going on, facing this King Lu Yan, thinking of those bad things in Jingshi, I always feel a little uneasy!" ”

"It's also done, I don't know what the King of Lu Yan will do!" Wang Dayu nodded and said, "But he will definitely rectify the army first, and when Lord Liu comes back, we will ask about the situation." As it is now, as soon as King Lu Yan arrived, we were scared first, not so! ”

Hearing his words, the other Jin merchants felt as if they were indeed frightened by Lu Xiangsheng, which was too long for his morale, and couldn't help but echo one after another: "Yes, what are we afraid of King Lu Yan for?" ”

"This Shanxi is our territory, Lu Xiangsheng came over this time, and we will clean him up again."

"If you want me to say, I'll find a way to kill him this time, if you don't be ruthless, you don't know how powerful we are!"

“……”

It was Fan Yongdou who stopped these verbal boredoms and said: "Okay, after contacting the Jingshi, let's deal with King Lu Yan depending on the situation, anyway, he just came, so he won't be able to get along with us immediately!" ”

After finishing speaking, he didn't drink tea, stood up and said, "Let's go and count our own things, and get ready to go out." ”

There are too many supplies, and it is so far to Liaodong along the way, there are many guards alone. Although I have been there many times, no matter what, so many materials are transported out of customs, and it is not said that you can go.

Hearing his words, the other Jin merchants also stood up one after another.

But at this moment, someone suddenly hurriedly entered the lobby and said to Fan Yongdou on the main seat: "Master, it seems that there is a factory guard in the castle." ”

"What?" As soon as they heard this, all the Jin merchants were immediately taken aback, and they all stared at the man, a little unconvinced, "You say it again?" ”

"Master, since the last two days, there have been some suspicious people wandering around the castle and inquiring about us." The man immediately re-informed, "The people below felt that something was not quite right, so they reported the situation. They suspect that it may be the factory guards, at least their style of doing things, like people from the government! ”

Fan Yongdou's face immediately turned ugly when he heard this, and he shouted: "Why did you come to tell now?" ”

"Sir, they are all dressed as merchants." The man hurriedly explained, "Originally, I thought they were asking us to do business. And it's been a long time since this happened, so the people below don't pay much attention to it. After these two days, I realized that something was wrong with them. When the people below felt it, they immediately came up. ”

In the past, there were such things, for example, when they first smuggled with Jianyu on a large scale, people from the government came over, but these people eventually died at the hands of "thieves".

Later, when Lu Xiangsheng became the governor of Xuanda, some people came here to check the situation, and there was no accident, and these people also died in "accidents".

Then, after Chen Xinjia became the governor of Xuanda, there was no such thing. Because of this, these Jin businessmen were a little careless, and they reported the situation a little late.

Fan Yongdou frowned, there was a feeling that the house was leaking and it was raining overnight, King Lu Yan ran back again, and the person suspected to be the factory guard actually appeared in Zhangjiakou. Could it be that Jingshi's side had an accident, not as imagined?

He didn't have time to think about it, and immediately asked again, "What about the man?" ”

"Thirty-six people in the fort have been targeted." The man hurriedly said, "There are three more people out of the city, and the villain has also sent fifteen people out with him, just like before, he will find a place to arrest them and interrogate the situation, and then do it!" ”

"Good!" Fan Yongdou nodded after hearing this and said, "Once the news from outside the fort is true, immediately take action against these people in the fort, don't let one go!" ”

When the man heard this, he hurriedly patted his chest and promised, "Understood! Don't worry, you won't go wrong. ”

Watching him leave, Fan Yongdou's face was a little grim, and he said to the other Jin merchants: "The case of the grain merchant's rebellion should have been burned in Shanxi. I don't know if this is the first batch, it's a bit passive to go on like this. We must immediately contact the Jingshi side to find out what is going on on the Jingshi side, and we can't let the Jingshi side send people over continuously, otherwise sooner or later the flaws will be revealed! ”

"Alas, it's not easy for us to do some business!" Wang Dengku listened and said with a little emotion.

When Liang heard this, he comforted: "Don't worry, after this batch of materials is out of customs, the next transaction will be at least until the end of the year, for such a long time, we are all in order, even if the court comes, there is no evidence, what else can we do?" ”

Fan Yongdou was noncommittal about this, thought about it, and said to them again: "Don't move first, wait until you have cleaned up these minions of the government, and then transport the materials out, otherwise the movement will be too big, I'm afraid in case!" ”

What he said was a safe move, and the others had no opinion, so they turned back to their respective mansions in Zhangjiakou Fort and began to arrange relevant matters.

At the same time, in the field outside the fort, three men rode away, and behind them, fifteen horsemen followed.

The road was not smooth in the first few years, and slowly, the previous three riders seemed to feel that something was wrong, so they accelerated their speed. The fifteen horsemen in the back were familiar with this area, and knew that the long road ahead was relatively desolate, so they quickened their speed and began to chase the three horses in front.

Such an obvious intention made the three horsemen in front of them a little panicked, and they stopped taking the official road, beat their horses and left, and ran towards the mountains and forests.

"Haha, I can't get out of the way!" In the fifteen horsemen behind, the leader laughed loudly, and then waved his hand and shouted, "Chase quickly, you can't let them run." ”

As a result, the intention was obvious, the three of them fled desperately in front, and the fifteen horsemen in the back chased for their lives.

After running for a long distance, probably far from the official road, I turned a valley and finally caught up with the target.

The three riders seemed to know that they couldn't run, so they stopped their horses and turned to look at the people behind them.

"Haha, see if you still can't run, this is Lao Tzu's territory!" The man in charge of the fifteen horsemen shouted triumphantly, drew his sword, turned the valley mouth, and was about to step forward to arrest the people, but when he saw the situation behind the three horsemen in front, he was immediately stunned with fright.

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