Chapter 261: Actually, it's not pleasant

Big families are all high walls, and everyone like Huang Shilang is even more so. Although the height is high, there is no problem with the height of the carriage, and dozens of people stepped on the carriage and turned into the mansion of the waiter.

Nowadays, most of the housekeepers and servants set off firecrackers or join in the fun, according to the convention, the backyard is generally used to store firewood, grass and sundries, and there is no one in or out on weekdays. Jiang Feng was the first to land, and he still made some noise when he jumped down.

There is a firewood house nearby, and there are always some people who are not qualified to enjoy the celebrations inside the house, and the people in the firewood room always have to come out to see when they hear the movement outside.

Jiang Feng had already arrived at the door lightly, and as soon as the door opened, the people inside were pulled out, not holding hands, and their hands were clasped on their throats, and when they were thrown on the ground, their Adam's apples were already crushed, and they were stiff to death. There was only one person in the firewood room.

The people outside quickly jumped in, they didn't have any tactical sign language, Jiang Feng commanded in a low voice:

"Four people guard the back door, the rest follow me to the front, ten people guard the front door first, and the rest follow me."

These people quickly agreed, and each of them lit the hook on which the arquebus was placed, and followed Jiang Feng towards the front.

The closest place to the firewood room is the kitchen, which is probably the busiest place now, although the most sumptuous meal has been processed, but there are still dumplings and dumplings in the middle of the night to be cleaned up, and the people of the whole mansion have a share.

So the people here are all busy, and a helper who was going to go outside to collect firewood saw Jiang Feng and his subordinates who were masked and wearing the uniform of the Terracotta Division. Before he could scream, a flying knife stabbed him in the throat.

At this time, outside the wall of Huang Shilang's mansion, there was a earth-shattering sound of firecrackers, which is quite consistent with the atmosphere of Nanjing City now, the sound of firecrackers has not stopped since it got dark, and the sound of firecrackers outside is also normal, but it is just louder.

The deafening sound of firecrackers drowned out all the sound. The helper fell into the kitchen with a flying knife in the air, and the cooks' exclamations were drowned out.

More than a dozen people went in with knives, and it didn't take much time for only one helper to deliver food, and this helper was already frightened and a little insane.

In such a big mansion place, who is in what place, the most familiar with the terrain is the helper in this kind of kitchen, holding a knife on the neck, naturally there are questions to answer.

Would you believe that a squire of the Nanjing Criminal Department would encounter a bandit attack in his own mansion, and this squire also has a younger brother of a thousand households in brocade clothes, no one would believe that Huang Xilei and Huang Xiting didn't take this seriously in their hearts at all.

In other words, they felt that inside and outside the city of Nanjing, the defense of nearly 100,000 horses and horses had not fallen since the founding of the country, and there would be any danger in such a strong city.

The common people in the world are most afraid of the government, the military attaches are afraid of civil officials, all officials are afraid of Jinyiwei, and the two brothers are high-level civil officials and Jinyiwei, and they are still in such a strong city, and they have never thought of such a possibility in their hearts.

The firecrackers outside rang out all over the world, and the Huang brothers were chatting in the inner hall, all of them couldn't hear each other's words clearly, and they thought that they would endure it and pass, but the firecrackers rang endlessly outside, and the two of them were also a little irritable.

The people who live in this place are all wealthy and official eunuchs, and if you come to the door to ask for the crime because others are setting off firecrackers, it is also a big thing, after all, it is the New Year.

After all, Huang Xiting was born in Jinyiwei, and he was still a little vigilant in his heart, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and the deafening sound of firecrackers outside was suddenly mixed with a trace of screams, the kind of screams that people made when they were dying, he reached out and took down the decorative knife hanging on the wall, and said to his brother:

"Brother, things are a little ......"

Before he finished speaking, the door of the inner hall was kicked open, and more than a dozen bloodstained men poured in, and the one in front looked young, but he was faintly the leader of these big men, grinning there, showing a mouthful of white teeth, and said with a smile:

"It's about two hundred and twenty people, Lord Huang, is this the population of your mansion!"

Looking at the blood-dripping knife in the other party's hand, as well as this question to judge the population of the family, Huang Xilei, who was sitting there, felt dizzy in his head, and then suddenly felt that his stomach was cramping there, this is the so-called fear to a certain extent, and some people react.

Huang Xiting, who was holding a sword, was shocked and angry, he had already forgotten the fierce and vicious appearance of the big man standing in front of him, and he raised his knife and rushed over with a roar.

It's a pity that he only ran out two steps away, and there were two loud noises in this inner hall, and the whole person seemed to have been hit hard by something in the void, and he flew back directly and smashed on the chair he had just made, and suddenly it was a mess, and the fire guns in the hands of the two people beside Jiang Feng were still smoking.

Huang Xilei was hit to the ground by his brother's corpse, and the nausea in his chest was already irrepressible, and he vomited wildly.

The appearance of the squire of the Nanjing Military Department made Jiang Feng, who was holding a big knife, feel extremely disgusted, this kind of person actually wants to do it with himself, but if he is a local military attache who only knows how to make money, I am afraid that when Jinyiwei comes to the camp to ask for guilt and arrest, he will already fall.

The two sisters Su Guanyue and Su Guanxue, who followed him, I am afraid that they will also be rushed here by those brocade guards at this time, but it is a pity that he comes from the modern era hundreds of years later, and everything in the Ming Dynasty is not bound by his thoughts, nor is there any frame of thinking.

Thinking of the Su family sisters, Jiang Feng's heart suddenly became angry, and he walked up to Huang Shilang, who was struggling to get up, and kicked him over again.

After rolling a few times, Huang Xilei leaned against the wall, raised his finger and pointed at Jiang Feng tremblingly, and said:

"You, you are so bold, you dare to openly kill the court officials, well, so bold!"

"Damn, if Lao Tzu doesn't kill him, I'm waiting for you to come to the door to check at home, and rob Lao Tzu's wife, is it normal?"

Seeing the blood on Jiang Feng's body and the big knife in his hand, Huang Xilei suddenly knew that he was not far from death, and when he thought of that incident, his heart suddenly became irrepressibly angry, and his own door was killed on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and he always had to scold a few words.

But before he could speak, Jiang Feng suddenly said with a smile:

"But our family loves money, if Lord Huang takes out enough money, I may be able to be magnanimous here!"

If a person who doesn't know how to water drowns, even if he gives him a water snake, he will hold it firmly, although he also knows that this water snake bites him, he is also poisoned to death, Huang Xilei heard this, and his spirit that was already about to collapse miraculously recovered, staring directly at Jiang Feng who was smiling in front of him, and said in a hoarse voice:

"You don't lie to me?"

Jiang Feng's smile turned into a laugh, where he imitated the other party's hoarse voice and responded:

"You can gamble, if you don't take the money out, you won't even have a chance to gamble!"

Huang Xilei was silent for a moment, stood up with his hands on the wall, walked to the bookshelf where antiques and books were displayed in the inner hall, stretched out his hand to buckle the protrusion on a lattice, and dragged it out, and the bookcase that he thought was completely integrated was pulled out. The squire took out a key in his bosom and opened the small secret door in the wall, and laboriously took out a box from it.

Judging from his movements, this box was quite heavy, looking at this box, Huang Shilang recovered a little, suddenly sighed, turned his head dejectedly and said:

"This is Huang's life savings, and the money in it is estimated that the family of 100 people will be able to eat and clothe for two lifetimes, as long as I am let go, I still have ......"

Jiang Feng interrupted him unceremoniously and asked directly:

"What are you doing staring at the Su family sisters, those people you sent don't seem to be facing me, is my wife so attractive!?"

Hearing this, Huang Shilang's face changed violently, and then he said to himself:

"There has been no news for so long, it seems that you gave ......, so bold, so bold, I told the Su family sisters, can you spare my life?"

Gradually, he has regained his composure, as long as the other party is interested in this news, he may be able to ......, "brush", Huang Shilang is already separated, Jiang Feng wiped the blood on the curtain on the side of the big knife, and looked at the surprised subordinates behind him.

Jiang Feng said lightly:

"I want a wife, not news from them."

As soon as the words fell, he casually chopped on the box he had just taken out, although it was wrapped in iron sheets, but under the strength of Jiang Feng's hand, the inner hall that was originally only blood-colored suddenly became a little colorful, and all kinds of valuable jewels flashed in the box.

At this time, someone rushed in from the outside and followed Jiang Feng and said:

"I found the account book in the secret compartment in the study, and the account room said that the illegal salt trade with Shandong and Lianghuai was recorded there."

"Sprinkle all these jewels and books in the front yard and at the gate, and we're going now!"

Jiang Feng looked at the jewels that shimmered with seductive light, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said regretfully.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year in the tenth year of Jiajing, the people who passed through the Huangfu in the early morning saw treasures all over the ground, and soon, many people gathered here to rob madly.

Then the Soldiers and Horses Division and Ying Tianfu surrounded here, all the people who were still at the scene were brought back to the Yamen for questioning, and the officials who broke into the Yellow Mansion were frightened by the tragic situation in front of them, the officers and soldiers outside the city were Taiping officers and soldiers, and the officials in the city were Taiping officials.

They have seen such a tragic scene there, the whole mansion is full of corpses, because the weather at this time is quite cold, so there is no bad smell, but when the Jinyi guards in Nanjing arrived, the officials of Yingtianfu still vomited in the front yard.

Each of them was either smashed to pieces by some heavy object (this is the effect of the firecracker), or they were separated by a large knife.

The prefect of Ying Tianfu and the commander of Nanjing Jinyiwei both broke out in a cold sweat on their foreheads, and if such a case happened in their own jurisdiction, I am afraid that there would be no good end.

Although the news has been blocked for the first time, don't expect the servants and Jinyi guards who handled the case to have any noble professional ethics, and soon the streets and alleys of Nanjing City were rumored to be bloodbathed in the house of Huang Shilang on this Chinese New Year's Eve.

Nanjing's town guard eunuchs, the military department Shangshu and the Nanjing garrison Wei Guogong are more or less responsible for this matter, after all, this place is also under their jurisdiction.

Although Nanjing has blockaded the city and blocked the nearby land and water routes, for Nanjing officialdom, how to clean themselves up and how to push out this responsibility has become the most important thing.

So the account book that was sent up with those jewels has become the biggest magic weapon for making a fuss, which records the private salt business of Lianghuai and Shandong, and everyone turns a blind eye to the things on weekdays, but this time it has become a sharp weapon to shirk responsibility, as a court official, but colluded with salt lords to traffic illegal salt, violating the law of private salt in the imperial court.

Because of the uneven distribution of the spoils with the salt lords, he was sought revenge by the enemy, and killed 230 people, and now he is up and down in Nanjing, and he is making every effort to arrest the fugitive.

Although there is an explanation for the reason, everyone also knows that the real culprit may not be a salt lord, but Jin Yiwei and Ying Tianfu have tried their best, and they don't care about offending the officials who live around Huang Shilang's mansion, and they ask from door to door.

In the end, it was only possible to judge that the time when the murder might have occurred that night, a team of soldiers patrolling the city of the Soldiers and Horses Division passed by, and there was no news about anything else.

At this time, Jiang Feng and his subordinates boarded a sea boat that came to meet them in a private port in Tongzhou, and returned along the coastline towards Dengzhou. (Tongzhou in the south of the Ming Dynasty is now Nantong, Jiangsu Province)

In Nanjing City, a waiter-level official was slaughtered all over the door, such a thing can be said to be the real contempt of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing looked at the music sent from below, and was stunned for a long time without speaking, and after a long time he muttered there and said:

"Lawlessness, lawlessness."

After the chief eunuch Huang Jin knew the news, he was not much better than Jiajing's reaction, his hairs stood on end, he had a vague idea in his heart, but he didn't dare to think in that direction at all, just there he faced himself in his heart and said:

"How can there be such a bold person in the world, impossible!"

While saying this, he threw the twist of Huang Xilei that he had suppressed into the fire......

After Liu Shunhua, who was in Hangzhou, learned the news, he directly closed the door, claiming to the outside that he was sick and needed to recuperate at home, and some time ago Jiang Feng wrote to him to hear about Huang Xilei's work, who would have thought that on Chinese New Year's Eve, Huang Xilei's entire family would be killed.

After thinking about it, it can be regarded as the ups and downs of the sea for many years, and the well-informed Liu Shunhua didn't think that his son-in-law would have such a big courage, a Shandong guerrilla sneaked into Nanzhili with a killer to kill a Nanjing criminal department squire, such a thing, is it too unbelievable.

Everyone wouldn't think like this, even Liu Shunhua and Huang Jin thought vaguely and didn't dare to be sure.

However, Jiajing's cronies, Jin Yiwei commanded Lu Bing to receive a secret order there, and he must make every effort to investigate this case, if the salt lord and the salt merchant really caused the fire to merge because of the sharing of the spoils, then the relevant people and others were exterminated by the nine clans, and if other officials did it, it would already be a conspiracy.

Huang Xiting's subordinates of Nanjing Jinyi Wei Qianhu told the people who came to investigate that in the autumn of the ninth year of Jiajing, Huang Xiting of Qianhu had sent several groups of people to Shandong, but the people sent were all his cronies, and he didn't know where he was going in Shandong or what he was going to do.

Thinking of the rebellion that shook the world in the eighth year of Jiajing, but was suppressed by Jiang Feng in the end, this rebellion also occurred in Shandong, of course, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Shandong is a high-incidence area of this kind of rebellion and rebellion and other related things. However, when Jinyiwei investigated, there was such a news, saying that Chen Deaf was in trouble, but he was the biggest salt lord in Yanzhou, and all merchants who wanted to take salt here needed to pay him silver.

When Jiang Feng returned to Dengzhou, he carefully monitored the movements of the surrounding troops, and at the same time began to order the merchants under his control to start hoarding grain towards Dengzhou, and two improved Fu ships were launched in the Dengzhou camp, each ship was more than 200 tons according to the displacement, and the guns on each ship were four Franc one-pounder guns and two three-pounder guns.

However, the launching of this improved gunboat did not make Jiang Feng much happy, because it also cost him a lot of money, and although the smuggling transactions and smuggling salt transactions at sea were surprisingly profitable every month, the expenses of shipbuilding, cannon casting, and military training completely swallowed up the money earned.

However, although Jiang Feng is distressed about the money, he will never be stingy with the expenditure on this, because now his 8,000 soldiers and horses cannot ensure that he is safe and sound in Dengzhou, and among the 8,000 people, the two thousand veterans who are really capable of fighting are the two thousand veterans in the past, and it will take a long time for these recruits to form combat power or really follow them up the sword mountain and down the sea of fire.

And even if it is 8,000 strong soldiers, under the siege of the absolute superiority of the provinces and the strong troops of the nine sides, even if there are advanced tactics and high morale, it is of no use at all, and the only thing that can be relied on is the warships at sea, this force is incompatible with the Ming Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty's policy of forbidding the sea.

In addition, there is a piece of news that is said to be inside Jinyiwei, and a reliable person has reported the case of Huang Shilang Manmen's murder, which is said to be just a note:

"Murderer, Yanzhou smells the knife!"