Chapter 905: Kill one and make an example, the thief's heart will not die

The West Fourth Archway is located at the junction of Xuanwumen Street and Fuchengmen Street, which happens to be the junction of Mingyufang, Jiqingfang, Anfufang and Xianyifang, which was originally built when Chen Jue built Beijing. This four-archway is four pillars, three gates, seven floors, and there is more than one meter high white marble sandwich stone under the four pillars, looking gorgeous and magnificent. And it is such a place, but since the day the capital was moved, it has become an important place of execution. On the day of the autumn execution, it is often the case that batches of death row prisoners are escorted here to be executed, and the irregular executions on weekdays depend on luck. Therefore, the restaurants with good terrain around have always been the favorite of idlers.

There was not much news about the murder on this day beforehand, but the news came out of Shuntianfu and Wanping County early in the morning, but as soon as it spread ten or ten, it was not enough, and many people were already surrounded here. Seeing that those veterans of the Criminal Department were busy working on the flagpole, there were people who saw the old murderers talking about it, and even more familiar ones were surrounding those Shuntian Mansion officials who maintained order to inquire about the cause of the case. When he learned that it was those Jin Wangfu house slaves who were killed, there was a commotion in the crowd for a while.

At this time, the road has not been closed, and the central intersection can naturally allow people and vehicles to pass from the south to the north, but people on the side of the road will inevitably talk about it in twos and threes. In the mutton alley not far from the West Fourth Archway, several well-dressed men were standing there with their hands crossed, and the one headed heard someone not far away shouting that he was going to kill five people today, so he turned his head and looked at a man in his early forties behind him.

"We are duty, we have to come, why did you think of coming to see the killing?"

"In the past, I used to carry bags on the dock as a coolie, and I didn't encounter such a lively few times, but I wanted to come and see it today, but I didn't want to work out of the seventh master." At this moment, he rubbed his hands uneasily, and then said in a low voice, "Seventh Master, although I have a hereditary hundred households, where have I been an official, let me go to the place of martial arts, I am really afraid that I will not do a good thing, and I will lose face for you when the time comes......"

"What face do I have to lose to you!" Hu Qi smiled and patted him on the shoulder closely, "Your Excellency is now an official of the military department, and you are in charge of rectifying military affairs, if you get a military position but you don't have a dispatch, when you go back to clean up, maybe you will be the one, and you won't be able to cry when you cry." You're just watching over for our spy department, helping to deal with some chores when you're fine, and reporting back as soon as possible when you have something, this sends you to do everything you can, isn't it? Moreover, since your military position is hereditary, you must always consider your children. In the future, it will be more difficult to inherit this level than before, you are in martial arts, and you can also pay attention to the future of your children, right? ”

Lao Wu used to be just a coolie, how could he have any knowledge, at this time, he naturally only had to listen and nod at the same time, until Hu Qi nodded at him with a smile, signaling him that the prisoner car was coming, he thanked him, and pulled a companion who was also interested in watching the excitement, and the two of them squeezed into the crowd together. Seeing him leave, Hu Qifang took a few steps back and stood with Fang Rui, who was also dressed in short clothes, but looked a little awkward.

"Master Fang, I've been mixed up with us rough guys these days, but I've wronged you."

Hu Qi said this calmly, but Fang Rui didn't feel it like it when he heard it. However, as soon as he thought that he had almost caused a big incident in Beijing, his anger suddenly turned into nothing, and then he said expressionlessly: "Thank you Lord Zhang for me, if it weren't for him, not only would I not be so easy to pass this time, but I would also have to burden my little brother." I will immediately take my family away, and in the future, the line between the southwest and the west and the south will be handed over to me. ”

This is officially registered in the spy department of the Ministry of War, and the person has passed the clear road.

Hu Qi was secretly happy when he heard this. After all, now that the Shenwei ship is sailing to the East and the West and the South Sea, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more extensive. According to Zhang Yue's requirements, as long as it is a place where the Ming army has reached, people must be sent to understand the geography, human customs, etc., in order to be useful in the future. As for the place where the Ming army wants to build a port base warehouse, it is necessary to be more careful. Therefore, although the system of the spy department of the Ministry of War can be regarded as the most complete department of the six departments, and there are even a series of complicated accounts such as budget expenditure cost accounting, manpower recruitment is still the biggest problem.

You can't give everyone the status of a civil servant, this is Zhang Yue's original words. Although Hu Qi didn't quite understand what a civil servant was, the orders from above had to be strictly enforced, so Fang Rui sent it to the door, and Zhang Yue also acquiesced, so he naturally handed over the overseas line completely. In any case, the younger brother of the person in front of him is Zhang Yue's future brother-in-law, which is always reliable.

Fang Rui didn't hide in the spy department, but came out at this time, naturally because Hu Qi got Zhang Yue's instructions, saying that everything had already been arranged, and it would be good to send people to the steward who came to the Chengguo Mansion at that time. At this moment, the two talked a few more words on the spot, only to hear bursts of shouting from Xuanwumen Street, followed by a number of soldiers escorting a few prisoner cars to gradually come. On weekdays, when killing people, there are often children chasing after them to play and shout, and this time is the same, however, the soldiers are not lazier than in the past, and they often scold without saying anything, and the Shuntianfu officials are even more frightening with whips, and within a while, the people who came to see the excitement suddenly realized.

This time, it is not those thieves who are another hero twenty years later, so naturally children are not allowed to mess around!

So, when a person was kneeling down in despair, the executioners were laughing and relieving their boredom with ghost-headed knives, and the supervisor on the high platform was waiting for the hour, the people below did not talk much, and there was a bit of awe in their eyes. The fifth child in the crowd was still the first time to see someone, and he was already a little stunned at this time, and more importantly, the dull silence reminded him of the difficult night he spent in the city gate cave when he came out to enter Beijing.

At that moment, didn't he also feel that he might have given his life here? It's just that he was only likely to die at that time, but now these people are destined to die.

There is a way that the three law divisions will execute death row prisoners, and the same is true for those who came to prison this time, a criminal department Langzhong, a Dali Temple Shaoqing, and a Jinyi guard commanding the servants. Seeing that the hour was coming, someone from below reported it, and the criminal department Lang Zhong instinctively glanced at the brocade guard officer with a rigid face, and saw that the one in Dali Temple had no other opinions, so he threw out the stick. For a moment, several executioners carrying ghost-headed knives strode forward and habitually sprayed a sip of soju at the knife. At the moment when the big knife fell, the two civil officials above naturally opened the folding fan in their hands, covering the blood light.

The dislike of the officials is unlucky, but the people don't care so much, and the originally depressing atmosphere suddenly rises when a few heads hit the ground. For a while, the sound of long breath, the sigh of admiration, the cry of children, coupled with the shouting and scolding of who stepped on whose feet, in short, the people who were suffocating before the head hit the ground and did not dare to make a sound, all broke out at this moment, and for a while, the West Fourth Archway was like a vegetable market as noisy and difficult.

In an alley in a nearby alley, a mule cart was quietly parked. It's just that compared with the black oil car used by ordinary people, this car is painted with natural varnish, and the outside is covered with a dark brown car circumference, which is not luxurious, but the strong mule who pulls the car and the driver who drives the car are extremely strong, and there are a few people who follow the car behind, all of whom are tall and big. At this moment, the coachman gently lowered the curtain from the gold curtain hook, sat on the wheel again and asked, "Chitose Lord, let's go home?" ”

"I've already seen the killing of chickens and monkeys, isn't it an eyesore to go back to the house?"

A faint sound from inside made the coachman bow his head, and he quickly waved his whip, and the mule cart immediately drove forward, and several of his followers followed with great stride. As the carriage turned east along Taiping, then went up Huangqiang North Street, crossed Bei'anmen and Buliang Bridge, and the speed gradually slowed down. When I got on Andingmen Street and passed by an alley, the sound of gently kicking the bottom plate suddenly came from the car, and the driver had extremely sharp ears and hurriedly stopped the car.

"Chitose-sama?"

"Inside this alley is the Chengguo Gongshi Garden?"

"Yes...... Chitose Master is going to go to Shikeien? But Cheng Guogong must not be at home at this time. ”

"Let's go."

The simple two words made the driver a little confused, but he didn't dare to ask more, and continued to catch up with the car with a promise. After passing Shuangnian Street and Dengshi Hutong, the group immediately turned into Shiwangfu Hutong, walked straight to a mansion and stopped, and drove the car in through the corner gate. Until he got off in front of the Hanging Flower Gate, King Yue never said a word again.

He is the younger brother of the Son of Heaven and the second son of the Queen Mother, and a lot of news does not need to be deliberately inquired, and someone takes the initiative to send it to the door. I thought that this stay in Beijing was already ironclad, but I didn't expect that this thing would not work out after all, and it is said that after the emperor and the cabinet discussed, even the place has been decided. Although he was extremely unwilling, he had just watched such a killing, and his heart was already extremely vigilant. It has only been five days since the incident happened, when did the Ming Dynasty have such a fast speed of handling cases?

"I had to admit it for the time being...... But even if you have to leave, don't think about it. The names are almost the same, one is a hedgehog who can't be moved, and the other is a fool who is full of flaws and lets Jun do it, but his surname is Zhang! ”

muttered to himself, Yue Wang, who had a gloomy face, went back to the house along the avenue, and when he arrived at the study, a small servant came up on the side. Without waiting for him to get angry, the little guy whispered: "Master Chitose, the martial arts school over there has officially opened today, and it is said that there is some disagreement among the students, do you want to ......?"

"What do you want? I only let you inquire about the news, and I didn't let you do anything else! Keep watching, don't do anything without my instructions, and don't get involved! There is no need to make trouble now, Jingshi has something to do, and there is no need to do it again! ”

This is the conclusion that King Yue finally came to after thinking about it, but it is a pity that this step woke up late. However, there is no way to do this, he is still young, and it is impossible to take out some things to discuss with any strategists - just look at the cause of King Liang's defeat to know what strategists he mistakenly trusted, and how serious the consequences are - only these house slaves whose lives and deaths are in his hands can be trusted. Today's vassal kings are far inferior to those of the past, and he has too few forces and manpower.

If he were replaced by his position in the position of Zhu Zhantan, the son of the Han dynasty, he would definitely not die of illness so easily, he could do much more than now, after all, the Han clan once had a lot of natural advantages, but it was all ruined by the loser Zhu Gaoxu!

The West Fourth Archway is just a few alleys away from Wu'an Hou Hutong, although the people of the Zhang family said that they would not join in the excitement to see the killing, but because they borrowed eight family members to go to Du Mansion to see the yard, the rest of the people had to have some discussions, this day by the reason for the killing, someone muttered a few words in front of Cui's mother, Cui's mother thought about it, so she wanted to mention Du Juan, and when she entered the house, she saw that it was full of people, and the autumn marks and amber were there, and even the Jingguan and Tianci who should have gone to school to study were also sitting in a proper manner.

But Cui's mother has never been a person who twists and turns, and after saluting, she went to Du Juan's side, bent down slightly and said, "Young grandma, I heard that today's West Fourth Archway, those few domestic slaves of the Jin Wangfu have been decided. There are some sayings at home, and I think it makes sense, so I go back and forth. In the past, after the house was separated, our family had the least manpower, although there were successive refuge in the past two years, there were not many people who could be used, and this time they lent to the eight families of the Du Mansion, and there were even fewer sturdy families in the house. Although we don't have to raise dozens or hundreds, we always need to buy more people in the nursing home. It is said that a few days ago, the Fengcheng Marquis Mansion in Nancheng entered the thief, and it was noisy all night, and in the end no one was caught. ”

Du Juan also heard Zhang Yue mention on the pillow that the population of Jingshi is too large now, and the night patrols are no longer comprehensive, so it is better to set up fences at various street intersections at night to prevent thieves, so she couldn't help but groan about Cui's mother's sudden suggestion. Amber and Autumn Mark have always been silent about this kind of matter, and Jing Guan naturally won't disturb his mother's thoughts, and gently pulled Sansan, who was a little bored on the side, but finally Tianci coughed lightly.

"Sister-in-law, if there is really a shortage of people, instead of accepting the outside, why don't I go home and mention it to my father?"

Hearing this, Du Juan was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Tianci and laughed: "You are kind, but this is not a time and a half to borrow people, and the people in your family will also come in handy." Besides, the British public may go into battle in the future, even when you also have to use people, they will help your brother Yue, what will you do in the future? Besides, it's too ostentatious to let others know, and those imperial histories will inevitably be impeached again. ”

God is not good at words, and it is suddenly unspeakable at this time. At this time, the Jing official on the side suddenly slapped his face, opened his mouth and shouted: "Mother, it's better to be like this, everyone in our family only knows how to read, Brother Zhang and Brother Niu are going out with their father again, and Uncle Peng can't be busy alone, but there are many families in the British Mansion who can't afford to do their errands because of injuries, so why don't we borrow a few and train all the young children in our family." ”