In the early morning of this day, in a small alley between Yongfang Stone Tablet Hutong and Banqiao Hutong in Dashi, Beijing, Zhao Ru was wearing a silk suit, carrying his hands on his back, and walked staggering in front like a second ancestor, while Sun Biao was dressed in coarse linen clothes, and followed him upside down, just like a servant.

Zhao Ru wandered back and forth in the alley for a long time, but he didn't go out, even the people in the alley felt that this second ancestor was abnormal, and they all looked at him with the eyes of a monster, Sun Biao finally couldn't help but ask: "Brother Zhao, what are you doing here?" There are no big mansions here! ”

Zhao Ru shook his head and said, "Little standard, called young master." ”

When Sun Biao heard this, he secretly gave him a fist, and then said loudly: "Young Master, what do you want to do?" ”

Zhao Ru said proudly: "You don't understand this, although there is no mansion here, we can conjure up a mansion." ”

Sun Biao said inexplicably: "Conjure up the mansion?" How has it changed? ”

Zhao Ru pointed and said: "Look at this wall, how strong it is, it is all made of bluestone; Look at the small yard in front, how beautiful it is, all made of fine red pine. ”

Sun Biao nodded, and said suspiciously: "It's okay for a few of us to live in it, but the problem is that the adult is such a big family, and ten such yards are not enough to live." ”

Zhao Ru said indifferently: "Ten is not enough, there are twenty, and it is enough to buy all this piece." ”

Sun Biao was dumbfounded and said: "Quan, buy it all, you have to be willing to sell it!" ”

Zhao Rushen said mysteriously: "Do you know who lives in this area? ”

Sun Biao rolled his eyes and said: "You are in charge of this side, how do I know who lives in this area!" ”

Seeing this, Zhao Ru walked up to a child who was playing with dust, touched his head and said, "Little guy, what's your name?" ”

The child said like a treasure: "Zhao Ergou." ”

Zhao Ru pretended to be familiar and asked, "Is General Zhao at home?" ”

The child immediately said arrogantly: "My father has gone to the palace." ”

Zhao Ru pretended to be regretful and said, "Oh, come back at noon, I'll come back when I'm free." ”

The child said enthusiastically: "Uncle, come to my house for dinner at noon, and my father will come back at noon." ”

Zhao Ru touched his head and said kindly: "Okay, uncle will definitely come over if he is free." ”

The kid nodded, turned around and was about to play again, but, after taking two steps, he suddenly turned back and wondered, "Uncle, who are you, I don't seem to know you." ”

Zhao Ru pretended to be mysterious, stretched out his finger and put his mouth out and said: "Ergou, be quiet, don't talk nonsense, you know." ”

The kid nodded sneakily, waved his hand quietly, and then ran away to play like no one!

Sun Biao was stunned for a moment when he watched from the sidelines, and it wasn't until the kid walked away that he was surprised: "This kid's father is a general?" ”

He couldn't believe that a child with patches on his open crotch pants would be a general, even if he was a guerrilla general with the lowest rank, it would be impossible for him to be so miserable!

Zhao Ru said dumbly: "You haven't figured it out yet, his father is a general." ”

Sun Biao secretly pointed to the patch on the child's knee and said, "The general will wear it like this after that?" ”

Zhao Ru saw his stupid appearance, and couldn't help but joke: "What's wrong with wearing this, tell you, there is no one in this alley who is not a general!" ”

When Sun Biao heard this, his eyes were about to fall off, how could it be, how many generals can there be in Daming, there are at least hundreds of families living in this alley, all of them are generals, what are you kidding!

Besides, they have all gone back and forth in this alley a few times, and they haven't seen a few people who are dressed decently, and none of them are not generals, can there be so many poor generals in Daming?

Sun Biao couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Brother Zhao, don't play dumb riddles, what kind of general lives here?" ”

Zhao Ru patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "General Han, there are more than 1,000 Han generals in Jinyiwei, and this one is full of them!" ”

The Han generals are actually just a title, they are not real generals, but the honor guard of the Jinyi Guard, to put it bluntly, they are all tall and mighty, and the costumes are also gorgeous, they look like generals, in fact, they are picked out from the ordinary Jinyi Guard, without any official rank, and they are just two more stone grain than the ordinary Jinyi Guard.

They originally lived in the imperial city, from the twenties to the fifty, they have been on duty in the palace, only when they are old, they no longer look mighty, they will be released, so they are obviously human, after all, they are all normal men, they have seven emotions and six desires, and they have locked people in the imperial city for twenty or thirty years, who can stand it, so, to the Yongle years, this system has slowly changed, and the Han generals of Jinyiwei can generally come out to marry a wife and have children after being on duty in the imperial city for a few years, in order to facilitate duty, They are generally arranged outside the right gate of Chang'an, near the Shibei Hutong, Banqiao Hutong and Jinyiwei Back Street between West Chang'an Street and Jinyiwei Yamen.

Most of their houses were also built by the Jinyi Guard Yamen, so they looked quite good.

These courtyards, as long as the outer walls are connected, the inner walls are connected, and then slightly transformed, they are almost like the mansions of large families, so Zhao Ru will fight the idea here.

He has no choice, because the mansions near West Chang'an Avenue and East Chang'an Avenue have owners, and no one sells them at all, he was sent by Zhang Bin to take charge of this matter, and it has been half a month, and if it drags on like this, Zhang Bin can only live in the temple when he returns to Beijing!

As for how to get the Han general here to move away, he naturally has a way.

That night, in the backyard of the Yamen of the Jinyi Guard, the commander of the Jinyi Guard made Luo Yang's temperament abnormal, and he looked at the book in the study, and it was an hour to see it.

How could such a second ancestor, who didn't learn and didn't know how to learn, suddenly look at the book? And I also read it at night!

Of course, he was not reading a book, but waiting for someone, because Zhao Ru asked someone to tell him that he had something to see tonight.

At night, the night was deep, the dark clouds chased the moon, and the entire Jinyi Guard Yamen was looming in the night, except for the light in the study, the rest of the backyard was plunged into darkness.

It was at this time that the two black-clothed men cooperated with each other, climbed over the towering outer wall of the Jinyi Guard's Yamen, avoided several patrolling captains, and ghostly came to the outside of Luo Yangxing's study.

They didn't go directly through the window like Luo Yangxing, but gently buckled the window edge a few times to let Luo Yangxing know that they were coming.

It was silent this night, and someone knocked on the window next to him, and Luo Yangxing naturally heard it, and he said lazily: "Open the window yourself and come in." ”

As soon as his words fell, there was a "squeak", and the window opened, and two black shadows swished in.

Luo Yangxing rubbed his forehead and said tiredly: "What's the matter, you are in such a hurry to come and see me." ”

Zhao Ru hurriedly took off his scarf and stepped forward and said, "Lord Luo, that's the case, we adults want to find a mansion near Chang'an Avenue, but we have been looking for half a month, but we haven't been able to find it, so we want to ask you for a favor." ”

Luo Yangxing nodded and said: "I know about this, I also ordered people to look on both sides of Chang'an Avenue at the beginning, but I didn't find it, it's really not good, just get a eunuch remnant to go down, the big mansions on both sides of Chang'an Street are basically occupied by the eunuch remnant." ”

Although he did not get Chongzhen's instructions, he got Zhang Bin's prompt, and has been secretly monitoring the remnants of the eunuch party, so he is clear about the mansions of the eunuch remnants on both sides of Chang'an Street, in his opinion, to make the mansion simple, directly pick a remnant of the eunuch who has done a lot of evil, and poke the ugly things that people have done to the court, Chongzhen is strange if he doesn't clean up people, as long as people are cleaned up, this mansion will not be vacant.

Zhang Bin naturally considered this matter, and he also specially told Zhao Ru that he must not do this.

Zhao Ru hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Lord Luo, our adults have orders, we can't do this." Our adults said that it is not certain whether we can get rid of people, and even if we do, we can't live in the mansion, because as soon as we move in, it will arouse the suspicion of the remnants of the eunuchs. ”

Luo Yangxing heard this, and after thinking about it for a while, he figured it out, this kind of thing really can't be done, because it's too coincidental, people have nothing to do, and they were suddenly made by someone, as soon as they finished, Zhang Bin occupied the mansion, and it was strange that the remnants of the eunuch party did not suspect it.

This is not like Wei Zhongxian when he covered the sky with one hand, if Wei Zhongxian took a fancy to anyone's mansion, even if you were a relative of the emperor, he would dare to die, because he was not afraid of impeachment at all, all the twists and turns had to pass through his hands, he didn't want the apocalypse to see, the apocalypse would never see it, even if someone stabbed the apocalypse, he was not afraid, he could say that people were slandering!

The apocalypse is dizzy, completely played by Wei Zhongxian, Chongzhen is not so dizzy, he has a lot of eyes, but many times, his eyes are used by Wen Tiren and other eunuch remnants.

This kind of thing of getting people down and then occupying people's mansions, the remnants of the eunuch party will definitely make a big fuss, and when the time comes, I am afraid that they will be disgraced and unable to clean up.

Thinking of this, Luo Yangxing nodded helplessly: "Then what can you do, and what can I help you?" ”

Zhao Ru arched his hand and said: "The villain is brave, and I want to ask the adults to move the more than 100 Han generals in the middle of Dashi Yongfang Stone Tablet Hutong and Banqiao Hutong to the back street of Jinyiwei." ”

Luo Yangxing was stunned when he heard this, this kind of thing, but it was a matter of his words, he could be said to be for the convenience of management, because behind the Jinyiwei Yamen is the Jinyiwei back street, this excuse, there is no problem at all, the Jinyiwei backstreet is also the Jinyiwei general and the captain, and the house is still relatively scattered, if you tear down some, rebuild it, and stuff it into hundreds of households is not a problem at all, the main problem is that it costs a lot of money.

More than 100 Han generals want to relocate, and they have to give some settling-in fees or something, which is nothing, the demolition and reconstruction of the back street of Jinyiwei is the big one, without tens of thousands of taels of silver, this thing can't be done at all!

He thought for a while and hesitated: "This requires a lot of silver, and this silver brocade guard yamen can't take it out." ”

When Zhao Ru heard this, he asked cautiously, "Is 50,000 taels of silver enough?" ”

Fifty thousand taels of silver is naturally more than enough, Luo Yangxing nodded without hesitation and said: "Enough, as long as the silver is in place, I will start this matter immediately, but you have to hurry, a few months will be a little nervous." ”

When Zhao Ru heard this, he arched his hand excitedly and said: "Thank you, Lord Luo, I will let someone take a fast boat tomorrow to ask our lords, and the silver will be delivered in six days at most." ”

Luo Yangxing nodded, his face also showed excitement, he didn't want to be greedy for Zhang Bin's silver, the extra silver, he was going to share it with the relocated Han generals, and after calculating it, the family could also get more than 100 taels, in this way, those Han generals would definitely be grateful to him, more than 100 taels of silver, it was also a huge amount of money for those Han generals, this kind of other people pay, he is a good person, where to find it.

Zhang Bin received Zhao Ru's summons, he couldn't help crying and laughing, he didn't expect that at this time, the mansions near East Chang'an Avenue and West Chang'an Avenue would be so nervous, none of them were sold, these eunuch remnants were really bold, aren't they afraid of Chongzhen's investigation, with their money, how can so many people afford to buy large mansions near East Chang'an Avenue and West Chang'an Avenue.

Of course, he won't poke Chongzhen in this matter, because the implication is too wide, whoever wants to do this, then basically the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have been offended, and in these years, there are a few officials who are not greedy, and he will not do this kind of thing that offends the anger of the public.

In fact, there are also hidden dangers in buying the houses between Shibei Hutong and Banqiao Hutong, because people with a heart will guess the relationship between him and Luo Yangxing, however, this kind of thing is based on real evidence, who dares to stab without real evidence, and a Jinyi guard commander is enough for them to drink a pot.

Thinking about it, it can only be like this, he nodded, waved his hand, and asked the guards sent by Zhao Ru to hurry back, and this matter was settled.

Zhao Ru didn't actually come to ask him for money, because he had already allocated the money to the Dongshengtang Capital Branch, and a transfer was one million taels, and Zhao Ru had every right to use the money to buy mansions, private houses and even shops.

Zhao Ruke is not only responsible for finding a mansion for him, but also responsible for the placement of tens of thousands of relatives, not to mention 50,000 taels, even if it is 500,000 taels, he will use it, Zhang Bin will not say anything, as long as it can be reconciled with the purchased house, the reason why he came to ask Zhang Bin is mainly to see if Zhang Bin has any opinion on the purchase of hundreds of bungalows to rebuild the mansion.

Zhang Bin nodded here, Luo Yangxing's side began to act, living in the middle of the stone tablet alley and Banqiao alley, the Han general soon received a notice, in order to facilitate management, the Jinyi Wei Yamen will rebuild the Jinyi Wei back street, all the Han generals who do not live in the Jinyi Wei back street must be ready to relocate, the new house, they don't have to care, they have their own Jinyi Wei Yamen to build for them, the old house, they don't have to care, the Jinyi Wei Yamen will give each family one hundred and fifty taels of silver, just buy their old house.

Now, the Han general who can make that piece of money excited, this one hundred and fifty taels of silver is equivalent to nothing, they just moved, and they didn't have to spend a penny, where to find such a good thing!

Soon, this matter spread among all the Han generals, but no one thought it was strange, because except for those who lived in this area, almost all the Han generals lived in the back street of Jinyiwei, and it was normal for Jinyiwei to gather them together, they were just sighing, why did they choose to live in the back street of Jinyiwei in the first place, if they lived in the middle of Shibei Hutong and Banqiao Hutong, wouldn't it be one hundred and fifty taels of silver for nothing!