31. The Heroes (1)
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The wind is high and the fire is set on fire, and people are killed in the middle of the night.
The drum has been beaten three times, and it has been two days since the three hundred households of Duan, Ren, and She, with their respective henchmen, a total of more than a dozen people, are sharpening their knives, ready to start.
Although Zhu Cihong was already observing with his eyes when he picked people, and then carefully inspecting them, these three people were indeed inclined to be honest...... However, things are changing......
After all, they are a family of military attachés, and the old military attache of Jingying who has been hereditary for more than 200 years, no matter how honest they are, they have never eaten pork, they must have smelled the aroma of meat, right? Now his heart is also wild, his courage is fat, and there is a crown prince behind him...... Facts have proved that Daming is now slipping through the eaves, robbing more than 20 families in the Jingshi, none of the brothers died, and none of the yamen came out to ask about it.
After all, it is a plan and then a move, all of which are pre-designed plans, and even later, when each family is on guard, how many dogs are raised, the location of the nursing home, the range of movement of the dogs, where are the main hall and bedroom of the owner...... These are all sketched down, and then moved, so there is no disadvantage.
After grabbing it all the way, several hundred households were fine people, and they quietly calculated the accounts, not to mention that there were 108,000 gold and more than one million silver.
The master is not a stingy person, from the service to the present, each person has been rewarded with a few hundred taels of silver, this money, everyone has it in their hands, but they are not satisfied.
Jingying military attaché, who doesn't want to feed a family! On the day of the master's work, everyone's hearts were hot, and they were also determined to sell their lives to the master, but they could sell their lives to their lives, with so much money, who didn't blush, and divided it up with a few hundred taels of silver, and it was heavy to start at first...... But the human heart is something heavier than silver, and after a long time, a few hundred taels can't suppress it.
As soon as a few people are combined, our allegiance to the master cannot be changed, doing such things in the capital, bold, killing people and goods, risking the camp, but the crown prince in the background, this level of relationship can not be messed up. But there's no need to wait for instructions like this, a few old guys in the cabinet have a lot of money, and they should do it. In this way, I didn't report it in the past two days, I did two votes in a row, and one brother didn't fold it, and robbed sixty or seventy thousand dollars of silver.
This money is in hand, but it is difficult to hand it over...... No one is really reluctant. There are only a dozen people in the group, three hundred households take the lion's head, and the bottom of a dozen or so people divide it, and each person is a large sum of silver. It's just that I don't dare to swallow it all...... After thinking about it, it's better to do another big vote, and the previous silver will be kept, and a sum of money will be made to pay tribute to the master!
If you swallow the master's silver again, everyone will be raised by the mother!
The target in front of him is the mansion of the famous Guanning general soldier Wu Sangui in Beijing, the old man of the Wu family, who has served as the chief military officer, has led soldiers for decades, I don't know how much soldier blood he has drunk, how many vacancies he has eaten, the Wu family's family background, ordinary civil officials and ordinary people don't know, who of them is not clear about these military attachés?
Family assets at least one million or more!
Tonight, everyone made up their minds that at least they had to get a hundred and eighty thousand gold and silver out of the Wu family!
As for the nursing home of the Wu Mansion, there are indeed some elite Guan Ning soldiers, but everyone has been unfavorable these days, and they are bold, and they are almost the same, so all the cats are shrunk into a ball one by one under the wall of the Wu family's outer house.
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"Little nephew knocks on my uncle!"
"Get up!"
"Uncle Xie."
In response, he saw that he was a young man with a long body and beautiful clothes, but he was heroic and had little noble son-like atmosphere, and he was Feng Kaizhang, who came to Beijing on his father's orders.
Although he has not been in Beijing for a long time, Feng Kaizhang's face is full of the word "destruction...... If you have to put it another way, then it seems that it is not wrong to use "torture......
But after all, it is from a family of eunuchs, and he can't fall down anyway, besides, this is also in front of his uncle, although his uncle has already handed it over...... It's good that the former Ming prince Shaobao, the main hall of the military department!
I heard that Zhang Jinyan, the new secretary of the Ministry of War, sent 10,000 silver to Chen Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, and after several twists and turns, he finally sat firmly in the position of this soldier.
However, there are also people who scold Zhang for being too stupid!
What time is it? Not to mention the sword soldiers everywhere, the Beijing division is not stable, and it is different from the pattern of the Dongyu entering the country to grab a ticket and leaving, if the thief comes, the tenth ** is going to plan to capture the Beijing division, even if it is okay for the time being, how can the position of this soldier be good? Not to mention being tired and vomiting blood, I have to be pressed by the emperor and squeezed by my colleagues, why bother!
His uncle Feng Yuanbiao was tired and white in the position of this soldier, and now his waist is a little rickety......
"Knock at the door to see ......"
Behind Feng Kaizhang, Wei Yue, who followed him for a long time, his surname was Geng Jie, and he said that he didn't care about Feng Gongzi's official business, and he really didn't care. However, every time he followed, he was responsible for some chores, as well as dealing with people in the officialdom, Wei Yue was familiar with it, and he sent away some difficult imps, which saved him a lot of trouble.
In addition, it is to ignore everything, and Wei Yue will never ask much about the affairs in the yamen.
But today I came to Feng Yuanbiao, in the public case that year, Feng Yuanbiao was a squire in the military department, and he saved the lives of Wei Yue and others under his insistence, and later found a way to reinstate these people...... When it comes to kindness, that's not enough.
Otherwise, with Wei Yue's surname, how could he claim to be a subordinate and pay homage?
It's just that although he is like this, Feng Yuanbiao "snapped" and slapped the table, and then said angrily: "I heard that you Wei Da is very promising, and you still look like a dead person?" The old man saved you because you have excellent skills and pity for the country, you think that the old man has a fart under the door, and the old man sent you to be such a soldier who can fight more? It's really infuriating......"
Feng Yuanbiao's surname Ge Qiang is well-known, otherwise he would not have dared to openly fight with Chongzhen at this time, so that he would be uneasy about being ousted from power...... But this old temper is really irritable, and he hasn't said a word of greeting when he meets, so he just came out to greet them with meat and vegetables......
Wei Yue's expression remained unchanged, he just knelt on the ground and kowtowed, as if he didn't pay attention to what Old Man Feng said.
Of course, this is not the first time this situation has happened......
"Well, that's it, let's not talk about this donkey." Feng Yuanbiao was tired of scolding, so he turned his head to his nephew and asked in a deep voice, "Things didn't go well, right?" ”
"Yes......" Feng Kaizhang just got up, Feng Yuanbiao saw the figure outside the study flashing, and the light and shadow in the room were also flickering, the old man was furious, and scolded: "It's not that no one is allowed to come, who is it!" ”
"If you go back to the master, it is Lord Wang of the Ministry of War who comes to worship."
Outside, it is about the housekeeper of Feng Mansion, because the host has explained in advance, and no foreign guests will come to worship, but Wang Jiayan is an important guest, and he is usually a regular guest who comes in directly and does not need to be reported, so he can only be angry to report.
"Oh, it's him......" Feng Yuanbiao groaned slightly, and said, "He came just in time, we can talk together." ”
After that, he stood up, and did not go out to greet him, but waited at the door of the inner study.
At that time, large families opened a study on the side of the inner flower hall to entertain first-class regular customers, Feng Yuanbiao's study is also quiet, and there are some gold and stone antiques in it, not the most important guests, naturally not to be here.
After a while, a scarlet-robed official of about fifty strode over, and Feng Yuanbiao saw it from a distance, and said strangely: "Why, you came directly from the next court, and you didn't have time to change your clothes?" ”
"Not really!" Wang Jiayan smiled bitterly: "It's been a busy day, and I'm in a hurry to see you, how can I have kung fu?" ”
"Oh, let's change it at the drop."
"No," replied Wang Jiayan, "there is still something to do in the evening." ”
"How?"
"After the emperor sees the ministers today, he summons the military department...... There is already a holy parable: Jingshi Jianrong political axe, with the soldier Zhang Daren as the prime minister and the younger brother as the assistant Rong Zheng. ”
"Who is under the command of the Jingying soldiers?"
"The jury is still out, but eight times out of ten. The ninth is to bring it to Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo. Oh, there are rumors, if the situation is critical, if the Guan Ning soldiers must be urgently transferred back to the Beijing Division...... Wu Xiang may be called the chief military officer of the Admiral Jingying......"
Speaking of this, Wang Jiayan shook his head and only said: "The emperor is also sick and rushed to the doctor!" ”
"Humph!" Feng Yuanbiao hit the nail on the head and said: "It's all unreliable people." The emperor is surrounded by such villains, what else is there to say? ”
"It's not that there is no one at all, and when the time comes, Premier Wang Chengen will be sent to defend the entire Beijing Division...... This person still has thousands of internal pure troops in his hands, and there are always many loyal ones. ”
"It's not going to be of much use." Feng Yuanbiao sighed rather bitterly, shook his head and said: "The thieves are still in Shaanxi, and our side is already at a loss, so many people have made up their minds and are ready to surrender." ”
"Even so," Wang Jiayan said with a smile in the face of Feng Yuanbiao, although he was a tough person. I plan to inspect the inner and outer gates at night to check the garrison of the battlements...... Let's take the defense of the capital slowly and talk about it. ”
"Hmph, it's hard!"
Feng Yuanbiao snorted coldly again, but he didn't excite this long-time friend too much, he just pointed his finger at Feng Kaizhang and said softly: "This son came to Beijing, and it is also a way for the old man and his brother to secretly plan to get out. ”
"Oh? I would like to hear about it. ”
"You probably know that my brother is now the governor of Tianjin, and I can't hide it, we and Li Mengyan and Li Taixu discussed with each other, and it is not a good strategy to sit in Beijing, and there is still an opportunity to move south to draw the river and trap it, so it is expected to be launched after the year, and the preliminary preparations have already begun!"
The Li Mengyan he said is Li Banghua, the old minister of the dynasty who is known as the upright and honest emperor of the Zuodu, this old man has always been loyal and upright, and people respect him, and Li Taixu is Zuo Zhongyun Li Mingrui, and he is also a very trusted and trusted courtier.
It turned out that they had collectively planned to invite Chongzhen to move south, and they were here as Feng Kaizhang, so Wang Jiayan immediately nodded and said to Feng Kaizhang: "Brother Shi is here to encourage the Holy Driver to go to Tianjin, and then move south by sea?" ”