Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 197 No One Runs Away
"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the edict said, Yanghe guard Xia Deyi...Zhangjiakou guard Liu Dongming, according to Charles and others, collaborated with the eight Jin merchants to sell the country..."

At first, Xia Deyi and others were a little puzzled, why did the emperor mention them in the imperial decree at the beginning, why didn't he mention Lu Yanwang himself?
But then, when they heard that the imperial decree said that they collaborated with the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants to collude with captives and betray the country, their expressions changed immediately.

Although the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants didn't say it clearly, they knew that they were indeed the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants.However, the imperial decree said that it was a decree to convict the captives and betray the country.And this crime, to put it seriously, betraying the country is not treason!

No one can afford such a big crime.At the same time, they also knew that the matter of making a fortune should have been exposed.

At this moment, they didn't dare to listen any more, they all wanted to refute, or cry out for injustice.

However, at this moment, many armed guards were seen on both sides of the back hall, swarming towards them with swords and spears.

If you don't want to die, you can only resist.They hurriedly wanted to draw their swords, but they found nothing. Suddenly, they remembered that they had left their weapons outside when they came in.

At this time, the regret in Xia Deyi's heart, what was he thinking in his head, and he still wanted everyone to listen to King Lu Yan, now it's over, there is no chance to resist!

With bare hands, these Chen Xinjia's confidantes knew which of the traitorous generals from all over the country would be brave and skilled in combat. They were immediately cornered by Lu Xiangsheng's personal guards with knives and guns, and several of them waited on each other in a short while. , tied tightly.Then, push them to kneel on the ground.

After Lu Xiangsheng read out the imperial decree, he looked down at these scumbags in the army, and said coldly: "They are all closed, and they will be escorted to Beijing when the news comes from Governor Hong."

Outside the governor's mansion, the personal guards of the local chief generals could faintly hear noises coming from the governor's mansion, as if their chief generals were shouting.I couldn't help being a little surprised, and I became a little commotion.

Lu Xiangsheng's personal guard, who was on duty at the gate, saw it and immediately shouted: "This is the Governor's Mansion, Mr. Lu is inside, what do you want to do?"

With such a reminder, the generals and guards of these places remembered Lu Yanwang's reputation, and immediately became frightened, and quickly stood aside obediently and waited.Of course, they thought in their hearts, could it be that their master was spanked by King Lu Yan again?

After waiting for a long time, but still not seeing their master come out, the guards became a little confused again.

However, before they could think of anything, they heard the sound of neat footsteps on the street.As soon as they heard it, they knew that there must be an army coming, so they all turned their heads to look.

Sure enough, it was a Ming army coming, marching neatly, and with that aggressive aura, one could tell at a glance that this was definitely an elite army!
These personal guards are all servants raised by the generals in various places, and they can be regarded as capable of fighting in the frontier army.But at this time, when they saw that the entire army was elite, they were surprised.

Quickly stepped aside, commenting in a low voice, commenting on the sudden arrival of the elite army.

However, what they didn't expect was that after the army arrived at the gate of the governor's mansion, Lu Xiangsheng's personal guard at the gate suddenly pointed at them and said: "My lord has an order, arrest them all!"

As a result, these people were dumbfounded, and their brains were more flexible, and they quickly thought of the previous movement in the Governor's Mansion.But at this time, they couldn't help them anymore, so they could only disarm and surrender.

In the Governor's Mansion, Lu Da quickly came out and immediately began to direct.This elite team is actually the Five Thousand Guards Battalion under his command.In the past, they hid outside the city, and waited until the lords and generals from all over the country arrived before sending someone to notify them to enter the city.

Now that the main generals of all walks of life have been arrested, and the army enters the city, they will start to control the city gates and arrest the designated criminals in the city.

It's just a pity that Shanxi merchants are not here.

In Zhangjiakou, it was still called Zhangjiakou Fort at this time.It was built in the fourth year of Xuande in Ming Dynasty, and has a history of more than 200 years by this time.In the eighth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, it was expanded.It is an important military garrison castle on the Great Wall defense line. It is known as "Wucheng" and crowns northern Xinjiang.

Since the 30th year of Jiajing, it has become an official designated place for a tea-horse trade between Daming and Mongolia.As a result, Zhangjiakou's purely military function began to develop into a commercial one.In the fifth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, the mutual market agreed with Altan Khan has been further changed.By the Wanli period, it was already very lively here.Also from that time on, some Shanxi merchants began the road of selling the country to captives, and thus rose rapidly.

At this time, in Zhangjiakou Fort, it can be said that there is a lot of traffic, people come and go, it is very lively.

However, in the lobby of a large mansion in the city, the atmosphere was extremely serious.

In this hall, there were two sitting on the main seat, and three sitting on each side. Although there was tea beside these eight people, no one touched them. Everyone was staring at one of them and talking.These people are naturally the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants.

"This is impossible! There is such a big disturbance in the officialdom, no matter how busy Mr. Chen is, he will definitely send a letter back!"

"That's right, especially the position of Governor Xuan, it goes without saying how important it is, even if Mr. Chen can't get away as a cabinet minister now, he will definitely send someone back!"

"..."

Faced with doubts, Huang Yunfa said a little annoyed: "King Lu Yan is already in the Governor's Mansion, how can I lie to you? Xia Deyi sent someone to notify, how can it be false?"

Speaking of this, he looked annoyed, and said again: "Isn't it the cabinet ministers? It's not like we haven't helped him up. This Chen Xinjia, why is he in such a hurry? Has he forgotten that we are his foundation. Without us behind him, even if he becomes the chief minister of the cabinet, he will not be able to sit securely!"

Fan Yongdou frowned, and suddenly said: "Could it be, Mr. Chen is busy with the treason case?"

Speaking of this, he seemed to have figured something out, and then said: "The emperor's order is to let Mr. Chen cooperate with the investigation of the grain merchant's treason case. This is a big case. Mr. Chen may want to reverse the situation and is busy , or maybe it's because Lu Xiangsheng didn't expect Lu Xiangsheng to come to take office so soon, so he was delayed after coming and going?"

For this guess, it is indeed possible.

However, these Shanxi merchants were dissatisfied, so Wang Dengku said angrily: "Master Chen and Yang Gebu don't know what happened, why didn't they completely overthrow Lu Xiangsheng! And let him come back to be the governor of Xuanda. Didn’t it just cause us trouble! Before thinking about it, we spent so much effort to get him away!”

"That's right, now that Lu Xiangsheng's father is gone, the same method can no longer be used!" Tian Shenglan also shook his head and said, "If only his mother was still alive, we can do the same trick again!"

"..."

Hearing the complaints against Chen Xinjia in the lobby, Fan Yongdou came out to smooth things over and said, "Everyone, everyone, things are already like this, and it is useless to talk about it. Anyway, we have basically concentrated our supplies here. He Lu Yan Wang is still in Yanghe right now, so feel free to mess around there, I believe Yang Gebu and Master Chen will come up with a solution soon."

Hearing this, the hall was quiet for a while, Wang Dengku accepted his words and said: "Why don't you ship all the things to Liaodong? I don't know what's going on. When I meet this King Lu Yan, I think of those messy things in the capital. I feel a little uneasy!"

"It's okay, I don't know what Lu Yanwang will do again!" Wang Dayu nodded and said, "But he will definitely rectify the army first, and when Master Liu comes back, we will ask about the situation. Like now, Lu As soon as the King of Hades arrived, we were frightened first, let’s not do it!”

Hearing what he said, the other Shanxi merchants felt as if they were indeed frightened by Lu Xiangsheng, and this was too long for his morale, so they couldn't help but echoed: "Yes, why are we afraid of King Lu Yan?"

"This Shanxi is our territory. When Lu Xiangsheng comes this time, let's deal with him properly."

"Let me tell you, just find a way to kill him this time. If you don't fight hard, you won't know how powerful we are!"

"..."

It was Fan Yongdou who stopped the verbal nonsense and said: "Okay, after contacting the capital, let's deal with King Lu Yan according to the situation. Anyway, he just arrived, so he won't have trouble with us right away!"

After finishing speaking, he didn't drink tea, stood up and said: "Go and count your things at home, everyone is going to leave the customs."

There are too many supplies, and it is so far to Liaodong along the way, so there are many guards alone.Although I have been there many times, no matter what, it is not easy to leave with so many supplies out of the customs.

Hearing his words, other Shanxi merchants also stood up one after another.

But at this moment, someone hurried into the hall suddenly, and reported to Fan Yongdou who was on the main seat: "Master, it seems that the factory guard has come to the castle."

"What?" Upon hearing this, all the Shanxi merchants were taken aback, and all stared at the man, a little disbelieving, "Say it again?"

"Master, since the past two days, some suspicious people have wandered around in the castle and asked about our affairs." The man immediately reported again, "The people below feel that something is wrong, so report the situation to us. Yes. They suspect that it may be the factory guard, at least their style of doing things is like a government official!"

Fan Yongdou's expression turned ugly when he heard it, and he shouted sharply, "Why did you come to report now?"

"My lord, they are all dressed as businessmen." The man quickly explained, "I thought they were asking us because they wanted to do business. And it's been a long time since this happened, so the people below didn't pay much attention. After these two days , Only then did they realize that something was wrong with them. The people at the bottom felt it, and immediately reported it."

In the past, there were such things. For example, when they first smuggled with Jianlu on a large scale, people from the government came over, but these people eventually died in the hands of "traitors".

Later, when Lu Xiangsheng was the governor of Xuanda, some people came here to check the situation. There was no accident. These people also died of "accidents".

Then, after Chen Xinjia became the governor of Xuanda, such a thing never happened again.Because of this, these Shanxi merchants were careless and reported the situation a little late.

Fan Yongdou frowned, feeling like there was a leak in the house and it was raining all night, Lu Yanwang ran back again, and a person suspected of being the factory guard appeared in Zhangjiakou.Could it be that there was an accident on the side of the capital, and it was not as good as expected, right?

He didn't have time to think about it, and immediately asked, "Where's that person?"

"The 36 people in the castle have been watched." The man quickly reported, "The other three people have left the city, and the villain also sent fifteen people to follow them out. Just like before, we will find a place to arrest them for interrogation. , and then do it!"

"Okay!" Fan Yongdou nodded and said, "Once the news from outside the fort is true, immediately attack these people in the fort, and don't let them leave!"

The man heard this, and quickly patted his chest to reassure him: "Understood! Don't worry, master, there will be absolutely no mistakes."

Watching him leave, Fan Yongdou's face was a little serious, and he said to other Shanxi merchants: "The case of treason by the grain merchants should have come to Shanxi. I don't know if this is the first batch. It's a bit passive if it goes on like this. We must contact the capital immediately to find out what is going on in the capital, and we cannot let the capital send people over continuously, otherwise we will show our flaws sooner or later!"

"Oh, it's really not easy for us to do some business!" Wang Dengku said with a little emotion after hearing this.

Upon hearing this, Liang Binbin comforted him and said, "Don't worry. After this batch of materials is cleared from customs, the next transaction will have to wait until at least the end of the year. During such a long period of time, we have all behaved ourselves. Even if the court comes, there is no evidence." , what else can be done?”

Fan Yongdou was noncommittal about this, thought for a while, and then said to them: "Everyone, don't move, wait until these government minions are cleaned up, and then transport the supplies out, or there will be too much movement, I'm afraid of what happens!"

What he said was a safe move, and the others had no objection, so they all returned to their respective mansions in Zhangjiakoubao and began to arrange related matters.

At the same time, in the field outside the fort, there were three people riding on horseback, and behind them, there were fifteen horsemen following behind.

The road was not very smooth these years, and slowly, the three riders seemed to feel something was wrong, so they speeded up.The fifteen riders behind were familiar with this area, and knowing that the long road ahead was relatively desolate, they speeded up and started chasing the three riders in front.

With such an obvious intention, the three riders in front panicked a little, and they stopped taking the official path, beat their horses and left, and ran to the mountains.

"Haha, I'm in a hurry!" The leader of the fifteen riders behind laughed loudly, and then waved his hand and shouted, "Hurry up, we can't let them run away."

Therefore, the intention was obvious, the three of them fled desperately in front, and the fifteen riders in the back chased desperately.

After running for a long distance, probably far away from the official road, I turned around a valley and finally caught up with the target.

The three riders seemed to know that they couldn't run, so they stopped their horses and turned back to look at the people behind them.

"Haha, let's see if you still run or not, this is the territory of the old men!" The leader of the fifteen riders shouted triumphantly, drew his sword, turned around the Taniguchi, and was about to go forward to arrest people, but saw the people in front of him. The situation behind Sanqi was immediately stunned.

(End of this chapter)