said cruel words in his mouth, but Fan Yongdou never wanted to develop to that point, he only hoped that the Praetorian Guards would come to Zhangjiakou for other things, and it had nothing to do with the Fan family.

Next, Fan Yongdou quietly stayed in Qilibao, paying attention to what was happening in Zhangjiabao. However, the result was that the gate of Zhangjiabao was closed, and the people sent to inquire about the news could not enter the fort, and the people in the fort could not come out.

"It's not good, I'm afraid it's really coming for us." Fan Yongdou said worriedly.

"Father, what shall we do?" Fan Sanba said in horror.

"Get out of the border wall and into Mongolia at once!" Fan Yongdou said categorically, "If the emperor really wants to deal with our Fan family, I'm afraid we won't be able to keep the secret of Qilibao for long, only by entering the grassland can we survive, and then counterattack!" ”

The officers and soldiers of Qilibao have long been bought, and many of the soldiers are hired by the Fan family and rely on the Fan family to live. Therefore, Fan Yongdou and his son easily fell from the side wall of Qilibao and escaped from the Ming Dynasty.

......

Hong Chengchou entered Zhangjiabao with the Praetorian Guards and immediately ordered to take over the city defense and close the city gate.

He is the new governor of Xuanfu, and he led the emperor's pro-army Praetorian Guard, plus the Zhangjiabao garrison was placed under house arrest in Xuanhua City, the Zhangjiabao garrison naturally did not dare to stop it, and obediently handed over the city defense, and was ordered by Hong Chengchou to return to the camp and not go out without an order.

After sending troops to take over the city defense, Hong Chengchou ordered again to immediately seize all the properties of the Fan family and arrest Fan Yongdou and the Fan family. Jinyiwei commanded Xu Xianchun to personally take charge of the arrest, and led a large group of Jinyiwei to the Fan's warehouse with a fierce momentum, and began to skillfully raid the house and take people.

It was found that the main figures of the Fan family, Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba, father and son, could not be found, and the only main figure of the Fan family who was caught was Fan Yongdou's nephew Fan Yudong.

Xu Xianchun ordered all the people in the Fan family's warehouse to be taken away, tortured separately, and sure to ask Fan Yongdou's whereabouts, and then began to search and count the warehouse of the Fan family's warehouse.

Jinyiwei once again sacrificed eighteen kinds of torture, severely tortured the shopkeeper of the Fan family, and easily forced him to confess, it turned out that Fan Yongdou and his son left before the Praetorian Guards entered the city. As for where he went, he couldn't ask for a while, because the guy who followed Fan Yongdou out didn't come back.

Xu Xianchun told Hong Chengchou the results of the interrogation, Hong Chengchou groaned for a while, and said, "I'm afraid I heard something in advance, so I fled in a hurry." ”

Xu Xianchun smiled cruelly: "Governor Hong rest assured, as long as he is in the Ming Dynasty, he will never escape the pursuit of Jinyi Guard!" I'll send someone to his hometown and arrest all his family!"

Hong Chengchou nodded: "The pursuit is in charge of Jinyiwei, and I am more concerned about how the Fan family's warehouse is searched?" Can you find evidence that the Fan family collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country? ”

Xu Xianchun said proudly: "If we Jinyiwei do it, there is no evidence that can't be found." A large amount of iron grain has been found in the warehouse of the Fan family, and the specific quantity is still being counted. ”

Hong Chengchou asked, "What kind of iron tools are they?" ”

Xu Xianchun said: "I didn't pay attention to it, there are iron pots, hammers, shovels and the like, and there should be pig iron." ”

Hong Chengchou immediately said: "Let's go, let's take a look!" ”

Since the longqing tribute, the imperial court has allowed trade with the Mongols, but there are also restrictions on the items traded, which are limited to the necessities of life. Cloth, tea, salt, iron, except for the iron pot for cooking, other iron tools are strictly forbidden to be exported, for fear that the Mongols will turn iron tools into weapons to attack the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the iron pot can also be melted to make weapons, but for the Mongolians who lack materials, an iron pot is an heirloom, and they are reluctant to melt it to make weapons.

Therefore, just by finding a large number of iron tools, plus Fan Aliu who was caught in Liaodong, there are all human and material evidence, and no one can overturn the case for the Fan family!

Fan's warehouse, the search and inventory work is still ongoing, Hong Chengchou personally entered the warehouse to check, and sure enough, he saw a pile of ironware, the iron pot was only a small part, and more were hammers and pig iron.

"There are 300 iron pots, 600 iron hammers, more than 20,000 catties of pig iron, and more than 1,000 agricultural tools such as shovels and hoes." The brocade guard who was in charge of raiding the storeroom here reported.

"With so many iron weapons, if they are all melted to make swords and guns, it will be enough to arm three thousand troops." Hong Chengchou said leisurely. This Fan family is too bold! I don't care about anything for the sake of money.

"A total of two grain depots were found, which contained more than 5,000 stones of grain, more than 1,000 catties of tea, and more than 2,000 horses of various cloths and silks......

In addition to these goods, a silver cellar was also found in the Fan family's inner house, in which 170,000 taels of silver and more than 20,000 taels of gold were found.

also forced from the mouth of the shopkeeper of the Fan family that in other forts outside Zhangjiabao, there were also horses, cattle and sheep that were traded.

"There are more than 800 horses, 600 cattle, and more than 2,000 sheep, all of which have been traded from the Mongols in recent months, and before they can be disposed of, they are temporarily helped to feed by the soldiers of the forts."

"There are a lot of items, but there is less gold and silver." Hong Chengchou was a little suspicious.

"Does Governor Hong suspect that my subordinates are greedy for silver?" Xu Xianchun said dissatisfied, "Don't worry, my lord, no one under my hands dares to stretch out their hands, and they don't dare to take what they shouldn't!" ”

After all the raids, now a strict system has been formed, the soldiers of the Jinyi Guard Guards supervise each other and report at any time, accompanied by more than a dozen eunuchs sent by Zhu Youzhen, the eunuchs are not responsible for raiding the house, but only responsible for supervising and reporting the results to the emperor. A part of the proceeds from the raid will be allocated as a bonus, but whoever dares to stretch out his hand once it is verified, will be severely punished according to corruption!

"Commander Xu misunderstood," Hong Chengchou said busily, "I'm not suspicious of you, but I'm wondering where the Fan family's money went." The Fan family has been operating in Zhangjiakou for more than 20 years, and the business is so big, how can it be possible to copy more than 100,000 taels of gold and silver? Maybe the gold and silver are not in Zhangjiakou. ”

Xu Xianchun agreed: "What the lord said is that I will continue to interrogate and definitely force out the whereabouts of other silver." ”

Hong Chengchou nodded: "This matter can be done slowly, after catching Fan Yongdou, we can naturally find it, and next, we have more important things!" ”

Xu Xianchun's eyes lit up: "Is it to seal up other Jin merchant warehouses?" ”

Hong Chengchou's eyes shot a cold light: "Exactly!" All the warehouses in the city were searched, as long as iron and other contraband were found, the warehouses were all seized and confiscated, and they were tortured and questioned for evidence of betrayal by the enemy! ”

Since you have come to Zhangjiakou in a big way, how can you be satisfied with just copying the Fan family? How many innocent people are doing business in this Zhangjiakou?

Why don't you copy it out happily!