The night was completely dark, the bright moon was still hanging high in the sky, there was not half a black cloud to block its face, the cold winter wind blew, bringing the sound of whirring wind in the quiet night, it was still early winter, but the temperature was already unusually cold.

The end of the Ming Dynasty belongs to the Xiaoice period, so the temperature is unusually low, but people at this time do not understand meteorology and do not know that they are in the midst of climate upheaval that is rare for thousands of years.

In the compound of the shirt family, countless people are crowded, and they are going to run away tonight, leaving their hometown where they have been born and raised for decades, and running to another city to live incognito.

Standing in front of Shirt Twelve, Shirt Da said in a low voice, "Boss, do we really have to escape?" If you can turn over at the age of 9,000...... "Although he is the eldest master of the shirt family, in front of his twelfth brother, he can only accompany and talk carefully, because the wealth of the shirt family today is brought by the shirt twelve."

Shirt Twelve has now taken off his eunuch uniform, and he is wearing an ordinary person's robe, but his sickly pale face and smooth chin are still unusually piercing, and he sighs: "Nine thousand years old can't turn over...... The new emperor made it clear that he wanted to punish him to death, and if we didn't escape, it would be a situation full of beheadings. Big brother, don't worry, when I escaped from the capital, I had already used the relationship between the DPRK and China to get a new set of household registration, and I also did a good job of guiding the way, we disguised ourselves as merchants from Xi'an Mansion and moved to Nanjing, when we arrived in Nanjing, who still knew our family? With the family property accumulated in the past ten years, there is no good food and clothing for the rest of his life. ”

The shirt was furrowed: "So...... It's also ......."

At this time, the family members and nurses of the shirt family have been dismissed, this kind of incognito migration, of course, the fewer people can be brought the better, only the direct relatives of the twelve masters of the shirt family remained, as well as the most intimate house slaves and maids, the number is only forty or fifty people, most of them are women and children.

The Shirt family did not even dare to prepare too many carriages, because it was a very eye-catching thing for many carriages to travel together on the road, so they only prepared five inconspicuous inferior carriages, which were pulled by the worst inferior horses, so as to hide people's eyes. Five carriages could not fit everyone, only women and children could ride in the carriages, and the men of the shirt family could only walk. These five carriages had to be completely dispersed, take different routes, and agree to meet in Nanjing.

I have to say that the Twelfth Father-in-law is a meticulous and careful person, no wonder he was able to escape from the capital before Wei Zhongxian fell.

It's a pity that all his arrangements were clearly seen by Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er, who were lurking in a big tree outside the Shirt Mansion.

"They're going to split up and run away, what are we going to do? Intercept all five ways? Wang Er asked in a low voice.

"No!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "Women and children just let them go, we only need to deal with the two of them." ”

The principle that Zhu Yuanzhang believed in in the previous life was actually to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so as not to give birth again after the spring breeze blows, and he will definitely kill all the shirts and families from top to bottom, regardless of men, women and children.

But wandering in the sky for hundreds of years has made his mentality change a lot, and he has also reflected on some things. If you really kill all the women and children, won't your team and Zheng Yanfu's team go down the same path?

He didn't want his young men to see the ruthless things too early, which would not be conducive to winning their hearts. For example, Wang Er, this person has a strong sense of justice, if he kills all the women and children of the shirt family in front of him, it may cause Wang Er to be estranged from him, and he will lose this useful subordinate.

Also, he feared that the young people's early involvement in the killing of women and children would cause them to degenerate into bloodthirsty fanatics, which was not what he wanted to see. Thinking of this place, he couldn't help but wonder a little, was he a bloodthirsty maniac in his previous life? Maybe...... Count it!

Well, in this life, I want to be a good emperor and a good person!

"Look, the carriage is out......"

The horses of the shirt family began to leave the compound, and the first carriage was filled with seven or eight women and children, and then the third, fourth, and fifth of the shirt family and their sons, intimate house slaves, followed the carriage, because the carriage had to wait for the people on foot, so it walked very slowly, and after a long time, it disappeared on the loess road in the distance.

After a long time, another carriage drove out, and the seventh and eighth members of the shirt family left.

Another carriage......

It wasn't until everyone had gone away that the shirt and the twelveth boarded the last carriage, and there were the least women on the way, only the shirt wife with a little maid, and no children. Shirt Twelve was a eunuch and had no wife or children, so the carriage was very empty, although it was full of gold, silver and jewelry, there were still many empty places, and he and Shirt did not have to walk, they could take the carriage.

It was the Dongchang stall leader who drove the car, and it seemed that he had also lost his momentum, so he escaped with the twelve fathers-in-law. There were also twelve family guards next to the car, and these seemed to be the most intimate family servants of the shirt family, and they were not dismissed.

"Let's go!" Shirt Twelve patted the shirt that looked at the house through the car window, and said in a low voice: "More than ten years ago, when I didn't enter the palace, our shirt family had nothing, and now we can have five big cars, full of gold and silver, which is already a great blessing, and this house doesn't want it." ”

He sighed and lowered the window.

The carriage left the compound of the shirt family, and twelve family members guarded the carriage and walked slowly.

After walking for a while, the demolished Wei Zhongxian Ancestral Hall appeared on the side of the road in front of him, and Shirt Twelve couldn't help but sigh too: "What kind of scenery was it in the past of nine thousand years old?" Now...... Thirty years in the east of the river, thirty years in the west of the river, feng shui turns ......"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a group of people suddenly rush out of the dilapidated ancestral hall, blocking the middle of the road, this group of people were dressed in tatters, and they looked like the poor people in the neighborhood, they painted their faces with black mud, and they couldn't see their faces clearly, and each of them carried a long sharpened wooden stick in their hands.

"Silk! Bandit? Shirt Twelve was startled.

The head of the Dongchang stall who was driving the car shook his hand and stopped the carriage, and then he said in a deep voice: "Father-in-law, it's a big trouble." This is no ordinary robber...... Their aura is very strange, and they are full of evil ......."

This group of people is Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Er, and thirty-five young people.

Under the silver-white moonlight, Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er stood at the front, looking at the group of shirts opposite with the eyes of a dead man. The thirty-five young men behind were all quiet, not making the slightest sound, just holding the spears in their hands tightly.

This group of young people had been trained by Zhu Yuanzhang for several months, and although they did not have that battle-hardened murderous aura, they had begun to have decent discipline, not as chaotic as Zheng Yanfu's group.

Zheng Yanfu's subordinates were robbers, while Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates were army...... This is not determined by numbers, weapons, and equipment, but by spirit. The head of the Dongchang stall, who is good at intelligence work, easily noticed the extraordinary performance of this group of people.

"Are you going to get on the road?" The head of the Dongchang stall waved his hand, and a large ingot of silver was thrown between the two groups of people, and he gurgled on the ground a few times: "If you get out of the way, everyone's well water will not interfere with the river water, and I still have a box of silver to give...... If we don't give face, we are not easy to mess with. ”

The rivers and lakes at the head of the Dongchang stall are extremely experienced, and they say such a thing without thinking, which is not only a show of goodwill, but also a hidden threat, and it often works well to deal with the heroes of the green forest in such a way of speaking. The other party usually weighs it, and robbery such a team may suffer huge casualties, but if they don't fight, they can get a box of silver for nothing, and if they do, most of the robbers will let them pass.

Unfortunately, this method is good against bandits, but not necessarily against armies.

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand and pointed to the carriage, and said in a low voice: "Eunuchs, leave all the people you robbed, they are taken from the people, they should be used by the people, and they should not be enjoyed by you." ”

Hearing the word "eunuch", the head of the Dongchang stall gasped, it is not terrible to meet a strongman in a strange way, and the strongman he meets breaks his identity in one bite, which is the most terrible thing. Because it means that the enemy is prepared, and it is against you, in this case, the enemy is often fully prepared and determined to kill you.

"Father-in-law, the person who came is not good, you have to use the knife......" The head of the Dongchang stall quickly said to the carriage, and then jumped down from the position of the car, reached out and copied it on his waist, and pulled out a narrow scimitar.

This kind of knife has a nice name, called "Embroidered Spring Knife", and its prototype is the Tang Dynasty Tang Knife, which is very similar in appearance to the katana of Fuso, but the spine of the Embroidered Spring Knife is straight, not curved like a katana. It has the characteristics of being narrow and lightweight, and its lethality is very good, and it is the famous spy organization of the Ming Dynasty, the saber of the Jinyi Guard.

Here I must explain, why the stalls of the East Factory also wear embroidered spring knives? In fact, the two organizations of Dongchang and Jinyiwei cannot be separated, and people in later generations often use the word "factory guard" to string Dongchang and Jinyiwei together, also because these two organizations are fundamentally the relationship between bones and tendons.

As mentioned earlier, the subordinate officials of the East Factory have thousands of households, 100 households, as well as the foreman, foreman, secretary, stall head, etc., in fact, these people are not found by the East Factory itself, but from the elite members selected from the Jinyi Guard.

Because the Jinyi Guard is an organization used by the emperor to supervise the hundred officials, it belongs to the emperor's personal soldiers, but the emperor does not dare to fully trust these personal soldiers, so he selects the most elite personal soldiers among the personal soldiers to set up an organization to monitor the Jinyi Guard, which is the East Factory, to be precise, the East Factory is established on the Jinyi Guard, and the Jinyi Guard trusted by the emperor. changed the soup, didn't change the medicine, and the people were still the same people.

The embroidered spring knife pulled out the scabbard, and the momentum of the factory guard spy suddenly rose from the head and body of this east factory stall, and the slender embroidered spring knife was held high above the head, printed with moonlight, emitting a cold glow, and the thirty-five young people behind Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly trembled when they saw this knife...... The eerie and terrifying image of the factory guard spy that the storyteller talked about came alive in front of them.