In the Ming Dynasty, the Jingshi East Gui West was rich in the north and poor in the south, when the first assistant Zhang Juzheng lived in the east of Donghua Gate in the mouth of the lamp market Shamao Hutong, which belonged to a typical, "Donggui" and went out of Xuanwumen to the end along Xuanwumen Street, the house gradually became low and dilapidated, after the crowded livestock, the smelly mule and horse market and then went south, the houses were in disrepair, occasionally mixed with a few ruins and broken walls ().

Don't think it's dirty and messy here, if you continue south to the Jade Emperor Temple and Longquan Temple, it will simply be a mass grave, and it will be even more deserted.

Kicking and stamping, horses' hooves trampling on the dusty road, a slightly old decorated carriage slowly coming from the north, the rattling of the axles made people listen to the roots of the teeth sour, and the car was followed by a few sugar gourd sellers and oil sellers, which seemed to be different from the carriage.

The handlebar style wore a broken felt hat, covered most of his face, and shouted in a Beijing accent: "Old and young masters, big girls and little daughters-in-law, borrowed and borrowed, and got ~~ drive!" ”

The Beijing master is called three products and four products all over the street, five, six or seven products are as many as dogs, and the carriage of dignitaries and dignitaries is so magnificent, this carriage is ordinary, and at first glance you know that at most it is the owner of a southern goods shop, the shopkeeper of the silk village, etc., and it is used by people who have no power or power.

So on both sides of the road, lazily half-lying down, lazily catching lice well beggars, immediately became interested in the carriage, headed by the leprosy head gestured to the partners, more than a dozen beggars swarmed around, around the carriage, shouting: "Master okay, the Bodhisattva estimates that you will be blessed and long-lived!" ”

"Look at this big sore on my shoulder, the old man should use some soup and medicine!" ”

, "The master does good deeds and accumulates virtues, and the auspicious stars shine high for a lifetime......"

The strange thing is that although these people's voices are loud, they are very sharp and hoarse, and they seem to be yīn yang, and they are either rotten or have leprosy heads, just like a group of demons dancing wildly.

With a snap, the coachman raised his hand and shook the whip: "Die ()!" I'll kill you, Lao Tzu......"

Suddenly, the sound stopped abruptly, someone in the carriage whispered something, the coachman turned his head and only made a sound, and then took out a handful of broken silver from his arms and threw it to the ground.

The leper was stunned, looked at the coachman suspiciously, and suddenly his mind changed greatly, and he quickly asked his subordinates to pick up the broken silver, and then retreated to both sides to get out of the way.

The beggars retreated one after another, but the god was a little strange, and when the carriage slowly walked away, an old beggar couldn't help but ask: "Brother Lai, the idea on this cart is that the buns have meat and are not on the folds, and they are very fat, why didn't we give him a hard bite to eat just now?" ”

Although these people are called beggars, in fact, they come to the empty door by abducting and abducting huāzi, and they just went to the bottom in the name of begging, and if they feel that the oil and water on the carriage are still passable, they don't mind being a robber part-time.

The leper looked at the carriage in the distance, still a little absent-minded, and did not answer the question.

The old beggar pretended to be smart: "Oh, Brother Lai is asking us to chase after him and do ...... at the mass grave."

, "! The leprosy head stretched out his hand and slapped the old beggar dizzy, and then his voice was lowered, beckoning and waiting for the partners to gather, and then he said mysteriously: "I listened to the coachman's voice just now, and I felt a bit like the Huade Guanhua master who was in charge of our Xuannanfang, he turned around and talked to the people in the carriage, and I saw the hemorrhoid on his chin again!" ”

My mother, the beggar was so frightened that he shouted, the old beggar who said he wanted to eat hard just now even fell on his ass, and actually called the Jinyi Wei Baihu official to be the coachman, which way of the fairy was sitting in this car? I'm afraid that as long as you provoke a little, people will blow your breath and leave your bones gone!

Now the old beggar is not sorry for the loss of the fat sheep, but rejoicing in his luck: "Grandma's, we, we are considered a big fate today, if we really do it, can this life still be kept?" ”

The leper head is right, the decent handlebar style is indeed the Huade official of the hundred households in Xuannanfang, and the people who kneaded the dough, pulled the forage, and the farmers who just sold vegetables from the city with empty vegetable baskets were actually redressed by the captain of the Jinyi School of Fusi in Beizhen.

In the carriage, Qin Lin and Xu Wenchang were sitting, because the eldest princess Zhu Yao was going to Longquan Temple to play, Qin Lin couldn't be pestered by her, so she had to agree to this little sister-in-law of Morenjing.

Jingshi is divided into north and south cities, bounded by Zhengyang Gate, Chongwen Gate and Xuanwu Gate, and the north and south are almost two worlds.

The northern city was built on the basis of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, with a chessboard-like layout that is strictly integrated, the city functions are perfect, and the streets are clean and orderly, while the southern city is chaotic, mixed with three religions and nine streams, and any situation can happen.

In order to be safe, Qin Lin had to come to investigate in advance to see what to pay attention to along the way, the identity of his sister-in-law is unusual, if there is anything missing, the joke will be big.

I heard the strange tones of those beggars, and after walking over for a while, Qin Lin asked Hua Deguan: "Old Hua, why did those beggars just now talk with the smell of eunuchs in the palace?" ”

, "Good ears, sir! Hua Deguan gave a thumbs up, his smiling face was full of flattery, and he said flamboyantly: "Isn't it?

These beggars, like the father-in-law in the palace, are all gone, hehe, they all say that the chief's eyes are like lightning, and they really can't hide anything from you. ”

Xu Wenchang stroked his gray and yellow beard, and his eyes glared: "What kind of beggar?"

You say it's nameless, it's nothing! Go back to your car, don't flash my old bones. ”

"That's, that's" Hua Deguan shrank his neck and turned back to concentrate on catching the car.

Xu Wenchang knew what was going on, so he explained to Qin Lin that these so-called beggars were eunuchs who had not been accepted by the palace since the palace.

Although the Ming Dynasty set up institutions such as Tzu Chi homes to care for orphans and widows, it was normal for them to be able to help all living beings once they encountered a catastrophe.

That's not it, and because the senior eunuchs are very powerful, they can often make the whole family prosperous and rich, so in order to get ahead, there are also many people who come from the palace to seek luck, resulting in more and more eunuchs, and the court cannot absorb them at all.

The law clearly stipulates that "the wealthy family does not castrate the son of man as a fire, and the offender shall be punished", these eunuchs could not enter the court and the palaces of the kings, so they had to mingle in the market, and because of their physical disabilities, they could not do the work of most normal people, and their lives were extremely difficult, and they became despised "nameless white".

There are nameless white people who pick up garbage and bathe people in the bathhouses of Buddhist temples, but the most of them are reduced to beggars, gathering in groups, and even stealing and robbing when they are empty, as opposed to the powerful eunuchs in the palace, these people are called beggars.

"Why are there so many beggars? Although it is not a prosperous time, it is finally time for peace! Qin Lin was a little strange, just now he walked south from Xuanwumen Street, and as soon as he passed the Luoma Market, there were at least hundreds of ragged beggars on both sides of the street, and among the abandoned houses, there were also many people, and the smoke curled up.

Xu Wenchang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The people's life is difficult, according to the old man, I said, I am lazy and afraid of hard work, and there are too many people who try to get lucky once, which is the main reason." ”

In order to curb the spread of this phenomenon, Akihito Zong once issued an edict strictly prohibiting the behavior of self-palace: "Let all those who come to the palace be regarded as unfilial." ”

However, judging from the subsequent development, this holy decree did not play a big role.

During the Zhengde, Jiajing, and Wanli periods, the Ming court even had to compile the relevant provisions of the "prohibition from the palace" successively into the "Ming Huidian" with legal significance, such as the "prohibition from the palace" in the Wanli "Daming Huidian" as many as 15 times.

But the law is the law, and to what extent it is implemented is still a question, like Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of the power during the Apocalypse, who entered the palace since the eunuch, and I have not seen any impact on his career.

"Damn, these people are really ruthless!" Qin Lin shook his head and sighed, like he confiscated the tools of the thief Huā butterfly a few days ago, he was already ruthless, but these people can actually be ruthless from the palace, could it be that they are all undefeated in the East?

"It's still good to be in the palace" Xu Wen laughed for a long time, "Every year on the 19th of the first month and the 19th of September, the Beijing teacher has the evil deeds of eunuch nine", there are many scoundrels and idlers, nameless people abduct good children, castrate them since childhood, and send them to the palace when they grow up, in order to seek glory and wealth! ”

Outrageous! Qin Lin was so angry that he threw a fist and smashed the wall of the carriage loudly.

"Protect the sir!" The brocade-clad lieutenants outside didn't know what was going on, so they unsheathed their swords, turned on the trigger with their stun guns, and surrounded the carriage in a tight formation.

There were also a few pedestrians who happened to be on the same road, and when they saw a group of vegetable sellers and porters on this side suddenly took out knives, guns, and guns to compare 1, they were all so frightened that their faces turned white, and they didn't know what was going on.

So an old man who staggered towards this side was particularly eye-catching.

"Stop, don't move, tell you to stop!" Several lieutenants shouted, and when they saw that they would not listen to the dissuasion, they rushed up and pinned him to the ground.

"You thieves, robbers, return my grandson!" The old man struggled with his might, and his expression was a little frenzied.

Everyone was puzzled when they heard it, but a pro-soldier captain who had been with Qin Lin since Nanjing recognized it: "Hey, isn't this the Zhou Laohan Miyun has seen?" ”

Qin Linzheng said to Hua Deguan that it was okay, and when he heard this, he opened the side curtain and looked at it, frowning: "What's the matter?" Well, bring him over. ”

Zhou Laohan was still struggling, but when he saw the "businessman Qin shopkeeper" who had saved him when the dog was sick and feverish in Miyun County, he immediately stopped making trouble, walked over honestly, and kowtowed on the ground with his knees bent: "Shopkeeper Qin, please save me and save the dog!" He's—he's been taken away."