Chapter 20: Imprisonment
For five days in a row, Li Chuan went to Xiangshan to practice marksmanship.
After consuming a full 3,000 rounds of ammunition and completely destroying a pistol, his 10-ring hit rate finally reached more than 90 percent, which made him a little complacent.
The moving handle is a balloon with a small amount of water in it, and it has little resistance when thrown after being inflated.
Zhao Tiezhu stood aside, Li Chuan shouted, and threw a balloon out.
And after the balloon is thrown, Li Chuan will shoot.
However, only two of the fifteen rounds of bullets in one round were hit.
Li Chuan was a little hit, repacked the bag, and continued to shoot.
After ten days of hard training, the accuracy barely reached 50 percent.
Li Chuan was not satisfied and wanted to continue to improve, when he came to Tianfu.
"You are Li Chuan who sells Western goods?"
Ten people came to Tianfu, and the head catcher led by Ying Tianfu asked in a deep voice.
"Exactly down there."
Li Chuan said: "Dare to ask your lord?" ”
"Search for me!"
The catcher ignored him, waved his hand, and the catchers immediately rushed into Zhuangzi.
Li Chuan's eyes narrowed, and he didn't stop it, this group of people is obviously not good, he is a flat-headed commoner, although he has a fellow jinshi on his head, but he has no power and power, and there is absolutely no good fruit to eat with the government.
Seeing that he didn't stop him, the catcher couldn't help but snort coldly and strode into Zhuangzi.
Soon, the sound of ping-pong came from the Zhuangzi.
"Young Master!"
The housekeepers rushed out, knives in their hands, and they were all murderous.
"Don't mess around, let them search!"
Li Chuan hurriedly shouted, openly resisting arrest is a big crime.
If you use a knife, won't you send someone a ready-made crime to the past!
The family's loyalty is commendable, but they don't use their brains when they encounter problems!
Li Chuan had just turned a thought in his heart, and the head catcher sneered.
"Okay, if you dare to hide your weapons privately, you really have a scheming heart."
Li Chuan's heart sank suddenly, and he secretly screamed badly.
According to the Da Ming Law, it is a felony to hide weapons privately, but the Da Ming Law has long been in vain, and it is not a matter of concern for the powerful to hide a few knives and guns. If you go to the Wei Mansion to search, even if you find a few firearms, it is not uncommon.
But the problem is that once it is true, it is indeed a great sin.
Looking at these Ying Tianfu's fast catches, it is obvious that they are here to find fault.
If there were no these knives, these catches that Ying Tian paid might not really dare to do anything to him.
But the family members rushed up with knives and kept sending the charges to others.
"Take it!"
The catcher shouted, and several catchers immediately rushed up to get people.
Li Chuan's heart sank straight and did not resist.
Private weapons, and then openly resisting arrest, the crime is even greater.
The family members looked at the young master, and saw that the young master did not resist, and he did not dare to resist, they were all locked and held, and they looked aggrieved.
"Take him too."
The head catcher glanced at the crowd and took Li Changyue again.
Li Changyue's face turned pale, and he also did not resist.
The young master was taken away by someone from Ying Tianfu, and Li Jiazhuang's Tiantian immediately blew up.
After all, the servants left by the Chen family were too short in time, and they didn't have much affection for the new owner, but they were just a little panicked, but Li Man's family and Li Changyue's wife and son blew up, and they were so anxious that they felt that the sky was about to fall.
Since becoming the eldest young master of the Li family, Li Chuan has suffered for the first time.
There was a big lock weighing more than ten pounds around his neck, and he felt that his neck was about to be crushed.
Boarding the boat from the wharf, the catchers of Ying Tianfu escorted a few people directly back to Jinling by water.
Li Changyue and the seven family members were all depressed, feeling that this life was over.
Li Chuan was also a little flustered, but he could calm down and think about the causes and consequences of this matter, he didn't offend anyone, at most, he burned down the Wu family's cloth shop, and the Wu family didn't know, so it was definitely not the Wu family who shot behind it.
Moreover, the Wu family did not have much energy, so they transferred people from Ying Tianfu to get him.
The biggest possibility is that most of it is also in Western goods.
Thinking of this, Li Chuan was somewhat relieved.
Those who rob money are not afraid, but they are afraid of those who play with their lives.
It's a big deal to give up his wealth to avoid disasters, and then get through this difficulty first, he is secretly ruthless, as long as he finds the black hand behind his back, even if it is a relative of the emperor, he must break the other party's claws and give those black hands behind him a bloody lesson.
After the ship arrived in Nanjing, Li Chuan and others were directly imprisoned.
And then......
No then.
The nine people were separated and detained, and Li Chuan didn't know where Li Changyue and his family were kept, and there were two prisoners in the cell where he was being held, but they didn't look like they were extremely vicious, and they didn't know what crimes they had committed.
Li Chuan was not in a hurry, so he waited patiently in the cell.
I couldn't eat in prison, so I bought some food from Taobao and ate it secretly.
On the second day after Li Chuan was captured, another team of cavalry came to Jiangyin City.
After inquiring at the city gate, the cavalry did not enter the city, but went straight to Lijiazhuang.
When he arrived at Zhuangzi, he didn't need to be instructed by the eunuch at the head, and a knight had already stepped forward and knocked on the door vigorously.
The door opened, the concierge's face was panicked, the young master was arrested by the government, and the servants were still worried about their future, and when they saw the knights outside the door, the concierge's face was even more panicked.
"Masters, may I ask, who are you looking for?"
The porter stammered and asked, and the words were not good.
The eunuch at the head frowned and asked sharply, "Where is Li Chuan?" ”
The porter's face turned pale and said, "I, my young master is not here." ”
"Absent?"
The eunuch's brows furrowed even tighter, and he asked dissatisfiedly: "Where did Li Chuan go, go and find him to receive the order?" ”
The porter said in a panic: "My young master was captured by the people of Ying Tianfu. ”
"Huh?"
The eunuch was stunned when he heard this, and said suspiciously: "What did you say?" ”
The porter wiped his sweat and said, "Yesterday, a group of catchers came to Ying Tianfu and arrested my young master. ”
“……”
When the eunuch heard this, he was confused, what is the situation?
"Father-in-law, what should I do?"
A knight asked, also a little numb.
The eunuch was speechless, rubbed his forehead and asked, "Then what crime did Li Chuan commit, how could Ying Tianfu come to Jiangyin to arrest people?" ”
The porter said blankly: "My young master did not commit a crime, those who should be paid by heaven came to arrest people, saying that my young master had hidden weapons, so he arrested the young master, the housekeeper and the seven family members." ”
The eunuch understands that this is offending people!
But what is the crime of possessing a weapon?
Those big families, which ones didn't have a few knives and guns.
Ying Tianfu is too level, and if you want to arrest people, you can find a slightly bigger crime, so you hide a few knives and arrest people, and all the big families in the world should not be imprisoned, and a bunch of things that don't have ** have to let yourself go to Jinling again.
"Let's go!"
The eunuch was a little annoyed, and hurried away with a brocade guard.
The porter hurriedly closed the door, and his heart was pounding.
Nanjing, Yingtianfu Prison.
After three days in prison, someone finally came.
A small official walked in with a few jailers nodding and bowing in flattery, ordered the jailer to open the lock, and lifted Li Chuan to a separate cell.
Li Chuan was also looking at the little official, his face was very calm.
"Are you Li Chuan?"
The little official asked with interest, with a somewhat inexplicable look in his eyes.
"Yes!"
Li Chuan nodded, although he was a little nervous in his heart, his face was very calm.
The little official smiled and said, "Say, why do you hide weapons privately." ”
Li Chuan was silent, this question could not be answered.
The little official restrained his smile and said, "If you don't want to confess, then go to the punishment!" ”
Several jailers answered, and immediately brought a pile of torture instruments, with smirks on their faces.