Since Meng Yuan established the capital in Yanjing, Tongzhou, the northernmost Caoyun wharf of the Grand Canal, has gradually prospered, and until Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Yanjing, Tongzhou has developed into the most prosperous area in the entire Gyeonggi.

Early in the morning every day, merchants from the south to the north gather at the Caoguan wharf to purchase and sell materials, and those who are begging for a living on the wharf will rush to the mooring place of the fleet, counting on the merchants who buy materials to hire themselves, so as to earn one or two three melons and two dates, and subsidize the family, which is really lively.

It's just that today is a little weird, the usual crowded dock is empty and terrible, only those moored ships are full of well-armed soldiers, and one after another merchants and shipwrights are escorted to the dock by soldiers from the boats.

"Why are you arresting me, I have a road guide issued by the imperial court, you are violating the law of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Please, don't arrest me."

"Master Jun, I am a serious businessman, and I never dare to do illegal business!"

Many unknown merchants and shipwrights were stunned, and kept explaining and begging for mercy to the soldiers on the boat, but in exchange for the cold eyes of the soldiers and merciless pushing.

"It's really insulting, insulting."

"My Wang family has been passed down for six generations in Tongzhou, and they have always been innocent, how can there be lawbreakers?"

"My brother is Ning Qingzhi County, and he will never harbor fugitives, can the military master be accommodating, if my family is investigated, where will my brother's old face be placed?"

The gentry were not happy, the Ming Dynasty was customised to control the martial arts, and no one wanted the mansion to be searched by the soldiers they had always looked down on, and if it was spread out, the face of the scholar would really be lost.

"Bastard, the prime minister was assassinated in Tongzhou, you actually dare to stop it, is it really a decoration for the knife in our hands? Search for Lao Tzu! ”

Ban Zhifu, who led the team, raised his eyebrows, pulled out the saber on his waist with a "clang", waved his big hand, and regardless of the gentry in front of him, he shouted for his soldiers to break in.

"One by one, no one can be spared, and all those who do not have names on the yellow book will be taken away, and whoever dares to obstruct them will be punished for the crime of treason."

The inventory in the city continued, not only the homes of ordinary people were checked, but also the gentry mansions that were known as heirlooms of poetry and books were also turned upside down by the officers and soldiers of Jingbei.

Shang Kexi was ruthless, in his opinion, Li Xingzhi was his way of life, and whoever dared to touch his way of life would have to fight with whomever he wanted.

Under his strict order, in only half a day, Dingkou, who had no household registration in the city, and the merchants and boatmen at the wharf outside the city were escorted to the West Gate, forming two long streams of people.

"You fucking admit it to Lao Tzu, if you dare to be sloppy, something goes wrong, and the prime minister is angry, your whole family and your nine clans will not be able to keep it."

Jin Yiwei Zhen Fu Liu Qiao and Prime Minister Shi personally led a team of Jin Yi guards to escort Li Gang at the west gate to identify them one by one, Shang Kexi continued to lead troops to screen in the city, on the streets, in the alleys, there were all patrolling soldiers, one after another suspicious people hiding in the corner were dragged out of the corner by the Jingbei Army, and then pushed in front of Li Gang.

"This one is a bit like, this one is also like!"

He, the city gate official, has counted the merchants and people he comes into contact with every day, but so far, he has not seen the merchants who delivered wine yesterday, but he found a few attendants with similar figures from among the beggars, but because of the panic in his heart, he actually found hundreds of suspicious people from the crowd.

"Bring them all out, Biaozi, you go and check their palms well, if you have practiced, give Lao Tzu a good interrogation, if you don't tell the truth, let them taste the methods of our Jinyiwei."

Liu Qiao glanced at the flow of people who were constantly being driven over, and at the same time instructed the Jinyi Wei Baihu around him, seeing that it was almost noon, and he had not yet identified an assassin, which made him a little anxious, so he decided to make an example of the monkey in front of the public.

"Where are you from, and what are you doing in Tongzhou? Where were you last night? Is there a witness? ”

Zhang Biao, a hundred households in Jinyiwei, played with the dagger in his hand for a long time, with a hint of mockery in his eyes, and looked coldly at the more than 100 men who were escorted over, and interrogated them one by one.

"The master spares his life, the small one is the Shandong people's family, this time I came to Tongzhou to sell coal, and the small one found a girl in the Lichun Courtyard in the city last night, right...... Yes, that woman's name is Yanhong, the military master doesn't believe it, you can ask her. ”

"General, the little one is from Henan, this time he came to Tongzhou to buy grain on the order of the head of the family, and the small one was drinking at the inn with a few merchants, if you don't believe it, you can ask the innkeeper!"

One suspicious person after another was ruled out after interrogation, and the face of Jinyi Wei Baihu Biaozi became more and more ugly, and his eyes couldn't help but look at the suspects who were escorted over behind.

"General...... Small...... The small one is a merchant in Huai'an, who slept alone in the inn last night, and because he slept early, no one could testify to the small one. ”

"The little one is just a homeless beggar, and he has been sheltering from the cold in the Dongcheng Land Temple last night, but the little one has been in Tongzhou for a few days, and I really can't find anyone to testify!"

There are those who don't have ghosts in their hearts, and naturally there are ghosts in their hearts, and there are a few suspects who have just been escorted, and before Zhang Biao can ask, they "pounced" and knelt down in front of Jinyiwei.

"Hehe, I haven't heard that merchants and beggars are Lianjiazi."

Zhang Biao sneered, took a step forward, grabbed the right hand of the beggar in front of him, and asked sarcastically.

"Small...... Small......! ”

The beggar was a little trembling when he spoke, he actually did not participate in the assassination, and he was not a beggar, but a kidnapper who specialized in abducting and selling women and children in the area of Tongzhou Wharf, seeing that Zhang Biao saw through it, he collapsed to the ground when he boarded, the abduction and trafficking of women and children in the Ming Dynasty is a serious crime, according to the law, the rod will be punished for a hundred, and the exile will be 3,000 miles.

"Don't say yes, do you? Then let you taste the means of our brocade guard, let you know what it means to peel the skin and grass, and take it from the left and right with this hundred households, and Lao Tzu will do it himself. ”

Zhang Biao did not interrogate the beggar, and immediately ordered the soldier to tie the person to a fixed stake, picked up the dagger in his hand and began to draw on the person's head.

"General, the little wronged, the small wronged...... Don't, the little one is wronged, how dare the little one assassinate the prime minister! ”

"Poof!"

Say do it, just do it, since this guy can't say anything, Zhang Biao naturally won't let go of this opportunity to kill chickens and monkeys, and he will cut his scalp with a knife.

Rather kill the mistake, don't let it go, Liu Qiao and Zhang Biao, who were born in martial arts, cherish the opportunity of Jinyiwei to return to power, and they want to solve the assassination case in one fell swoop, so as to show their faces in front of Prime Minister Li Dacheng.

"Please...... Ho...... Ho...... Spare the little one, the little one really doesn't dare to assassinate the prime minister, I really don't dare! ”

The pain and smell of blood coming from his head made the traffickers wail in pain, but Zhang Biao didn't care at all, his dagger finally made a bloody cut on the trafficker's scalp, and then skillfully peeled off the skin along the mouth.

"Ah......h

The bloody scene made the flow of people who came forward to be interrogated panic, and with a "plop", several people in the crowd collapsed to the ground in shock, and their crotches were full of yellow and white things.

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