Chapter 238 Slave and maid
Regardless of the fact that the county king's mansion wanted to calm things down, the news of the assassins' night break still spread one after another.
And no matter how low-key this matter is, Dali Temple finally grabbed more than 20 people with suspicious behavior and bad deeds from the Feng family's slaves and subordinates, and detained them for strict interrogation.
Then, the news that many slaves and maids of the Feng family were plotting to avenge the Lord spread, mixed with the rumors that some assassins had broken into the Naijun Palace's mansion at night and acted out their spearheads to implicitly stab Emperor Tianyou, making everything look clear and confusing.
Emperor Tianyou finally issued an order to finally close the case of the collapse of the imperial tomb, and the Feng clan, including Feng Yi, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong, were all demoted to commoners and expelled from Jinling.
The assassin broke into the county palace at night and implicated more than 20 people on suspicion of plotting to assassinate the third prince, but the Dali Temple finally failed to close the case.
The slaves and maids of the Feng family (including the Kong family) are mainly divided into four categories:
The first category is the family soldiers and their dependents, with a total of 2,200 people; This type of people mainly reside in Jinling.
The second category is the shopkeepers, core men and dependents of the Feng family who take care of the goods store, pawn shop, restaurant and other businesses, deducting the overlap with the first category, a total of more than 1,800 people.
This kind of people were originally scattered all over the country, but in order to check and confiscate the Feng family's family property, the three divisions detained all these people in Jinling.
The third category is the stewards and villagers of the Feng family who are scattered all over the country to take care of the grange and manor, with a total of more than 1,000 people, mainly scattered in various places; The Feng family's grange in Jinling is mainly managed by the dependents of the family and soldiers, and it is no longer double-counted with the first category.
The fourth category is the servants and maids used by the Feng family in various mansions and manors in Jinling, with a total of more than 800 people.
That is to say, of the Feng family's 6,000 slaves and maids, 5,000 of whom are all in Jinling, plus nearly 400 Feng clansmen, were ordered to leave Jinling within ten days.
So many people were driven out of the Feng family's mansion, and they could only temporarily go to Yandangji, which sheltered them.
At this time, it was already late October, although there was no snow, but the cold wind in the north blew, the frost turned white, five or six thousand people crowded the newly built walled houses and courtyards in Yandangji, most of them could only sleep in the courtyard with straw mattresses, they were as embarrassed as frightened birds, and they did not know where to go.
All the farms and fields of the Feng family have been confiscated, even if there is a private collection, who would dare to take it out at this time and wait for the officers and soldiers to pounce on them like tigers and wolves to take away and behead them?
Huixuanzhou is also a place to live, the world is big, but there is no place for the Feng family.
Especially after the assassin broke into the county palace at night, those who had received the favor of the Feng family in the past did not dare to be involved in right and wrong at this time.
Han Qian behaved like an alternative.
After the Feng clan was expelled from the mansion, so many slaves and maids and family soldiers were not forcibly used as official slaves and maids because some people were likely to have the same grudges as the Feng clansmen, and Emperor Tianyou wanted to show that he was not so ruthless to the Feng family, and did not exile the Feng clan and these slaves and maids into the army, but the deeds of these slaves and maids were obviously impossible for the Feng clan to take away.
That is, there are so many slaves and maids, and the family soldiers, and at this moment they have become outcasts without identity.
Of course, the homeless people are free, but they are used to relying on the Feng family, and when they are helpless, they are ordered to leave Jinling within ten days, and they don't even have winter clothes on them.
Someone proposed to go to Xuzhou very early, but in the hearts of most Feng families, Xuzhou is too far away, too desolate, and a place where miasma is everywhere and snakes and insects are rampant.
The wind from the north came, blowing his face like a knife, Han Qian put on a robe outside the leather armor to keep out the cold, and stood at the mouth of the Qiupu River into the Yangtze River, looking at the gurgling water.
Listening to the footsteps, Han Qian turned to look back, and saw that it was Feng Yi and Feng Yi coming over, and asked, "What, where are you going, haven't you decided yet?" Yang Qin will be able to arrive in Jinling in two days, this time I ask His Royal Highness to select an additional twenty ships from the ships that your Feng family wants to dispose of externally, if you can decide where to go in these two days, I can also transfer ships to give you a ride, otherwise you will have to trek through the mountains and rivers by yourself! ”
"I still can't decide, or too many people are afraid of Xuzhou." Feng Yi smiled bitterly.
He used to be the eldest son and eldest grandson of the Feng family, and he said nothing in the clan except for his father Feng Wenlan and brother-in-law Kong Zhou, but at this time, more Feng family members resented his father and son for causing trouble to the Feng family, where would they take his words seriously?
Even his grandmother, mother, and aunt had no weight in their words at this point.
"Why can't you tell me about Li riding a donkey?" Feng Yi asked depressedly.
"If you tell me about this, I will never send you to Xuzhou!" Han Qian said with a tense face, "Can you know that among so many people, there is no one who has been bought by the Inner Government Bureau?" If you want to tell this, once it leaks out or is informed, I will send you to Xuzhou again, how many mouths can I say clearly? ”
"If I tell a few uncles that the Han family has the heart to run Xuzhou, Xuzhou is the only place for my Feng family to rejuvenate, can you?" Feng Yi asked as he peered at Han Qian's face.
"My father and I are loyal to Your Majesty and Da Chu, and my father was appointed to Mu Xuzhou, and there is no disagreement." Han Qian said justly.
Feng Yi was disdainful of Han Qian's clumsy performance, but he could also understand Han Qian's caution at this time, and persuaded: "I'm just looking for an excuse to secretly convince my brainless uncles and brothers, if the news spreads, someone will torture me, and I will never implicate Lord Han." ”
"My father and son are loyal to the sun and the moon, so I can't let you slander them, right?" Han Qian insisted on not allowing it.
"When did you become so brainless?" Feng Yi was so anxious that he couldn't do it, but he didn't expect Han Qian to be able to accommodate him at all.
"Feng Yi, you go to Xirong, I have something to say to Lord Han alone." Feng Yi said to Feng Yi.
"Okay!" Feng Yi said dejectedly, turned around and left the river.
Han Qian turned to look at the river to the north again, the waves were surging, and they became clearer and clearer under the cold wind.
"Li rode the donkey, you put it in the county king's mansion and then instructed Tian Cheng to kill it, right?" Feng Yi gritted his teeth and said.
"Why am I doing this thing?" Han Qian smiled, looked at the river, and didn't look back.
"You have only done this to make us believe that if you stay near Jinling or go to Xuanzhou, you may be persecuted; And forcing my Feng family into Xuzhou will be your capital to stand on your own feet in Xuzhou," Feng Yi gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't think about it at first, I didn't expect that in the end, there would be so many slaves and maids, family soldiers, and they would be driven out of Jinling City with us, and all the rumors were released by you, right?" ”
"Since you think you have peeked into the secret of my heart, why did you come to me and tell me that you are really not afraid that I will kill you?" Han Qian turned around and stared at Feng Yi and asked.
"You won't kill me, because you and I both know that my Feng family has no other choice at this time!" Feng Yi said firmly.
"If you think you can reveal me to Your Highness, how can you have no other choice?" Han Qian said.
"Who in the county king's mansion will believe the three of us? Am I telling others about this, am I not asking for my own death? What's more, Feng's comeback can only be under your fence! Feng Xuan's gloomy and deep eyes stared at Han Qian, wanting to truly confirm this.
"You are so confident that if you say this in front of my father, my father will push you out and behead you. Your Feng family suffered this catastrophe, to put it bluntly, you are not cautious enough. I have not said this to you today, and you will never say it again before me. Han Qian looked back at Feng Yi's eyes without dodging and said.
Han Qian wasn't afraid that Feng Yi would have other choices at this time, mainly because he was afraid that Feng Yi would run to his father and say this call, and if he stayed in Jinling at that time, there was no way to explain to his father face to face, and his father might really tie Feng Yi and them to Jinling to prove his innocence - that would really be self-defeating.
"I will know the measure, but there are still people who don't want to follow them to Xuzhou, I don't know what the adults have to do?" Feng Yi said.
Hearing that Feng Yi deliberately changed his title, Han Qian sighed in his heart.
To tell the truth, why didn't Han Qian want to take advantage of the situation to divide Xuzhou, be a soil emperor in a place where the mountains and rivers are far away, and ignore the sinister murderous machine in Jinling?
But he couldn't get past his father!
Han Qian sighed bitterly in his heart, took out a piece of paper from the sleeve of his robe, handed it to Feng Yi and said: "The excuse to persuade others, I have already thought of it for you - this is an IOU that I owe you the Feng family 40,000 yuan, you take it and tell your uncles, I did everything possible to recover this IOU, so I agreed to help you gain a foothold in Xuzhou, and after arriving in Xuzhou, I will also arrange a field house for you to write off this debt." ”
"Isn't it bad for adults to spread this thing?" Feng Yi asked.
"Even if the crown prince or the king of Xin planted eyeliner in your slave and maid, and learned about this, they can only accuse me of vain trying to be greedy for small money, whether they will poke this matter out in the end is really two words, after all, you can't beat me to death with a stick, after all, when I am useful, will Your Majesty mind if I am greedy for a little money? And the crown prince or the king of Xin chased the wind and caught the shadows, and attacked my Han family for having different ambitions, and the matter will be troublesome, and it is difficult for me to argue. Han Qian said.
The Feng family is a big fat sheep, and Han Qian arranged Guo Qi'er into the Feng Mansion as soon as possible, not only because of the relationship between Feng Yi and Kong Xirong at that time, but also because the Feng family's family business can be regarded as very large in the world.
And even if Emperor Tianyou Chongwen Hall did not mention it at all when he summoned the discussion, Han Qian was ninety-nine percent sure that Emperor Tianyou had already planted eyeliner in the Feng family's slaves, and this eyeliner would continue to be hidden in the Feng family's slaves and maids, becoming a hidden force to monitor Xuzhou.
The King of Chu, Anning Palace, and the crown prince's family, are there any bribes among the Feng family's slaves?
This is also what Han Qian has to guard against.
If it is according to Xuzhou's self-reliance, it reaches the ears of the King of Chu and Anning Palace, and the officials of these two departments participate in the impeachment, is it better for Emperor Tianyou to pretend to be blind or not to pretend to be blind?
So if you want to deceive and coax all the Feng clansmen to agree to go to Xuzhou, Han Qian really used his brains fiercely!