Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 283 Returning to Xuan Town

A moment later, Zhao Wen led the soldiers and horses into the Huaiqing mansion. When he rushed to the gate of Prince Zheng's mansion, he saw the soldiers of the guard who were fighting with the people.

Looking at the crowd fighting together, Zhao Wen took out the imperial decree he had brought, and shouted at Prince Zheng's mansion: "I am the commander-in-chief appointed by the Emperor to suppress the bandits, Zhao Wen, the commander-in-chief of Xuanzhen, now there is The rioters attacked Prince Zheng's Mansion, we should shoulder the emperor's entrustment to protect the peace of one side, and everyone should stop me."

Zhao Wen held the imperial decree high in the air, looked at the scene ahead calmly and shouted.

After Zhao Wen's voice fell, the crowd who were fighting together immediately separated, and stood quietly, looking at Zhao Wen who was standing on the horse.

Li Ru looked at Zhao Wen who was riding on the horse, then looked at the imperial decree in Zhao Wen's hand, his eyes lit up, and a trace of excitement gradually appeared on his face, "General hurry up to support Prince Zheng's mansion, these rioters rushed into Zheng In the palace, if something happens to King Zheng, it will be a disaster for us."

The commander of Huaiqing Guard also rushed to Zhao Wen, and said excitedly: "General, hurry up and let your troops drive out all these rioters. If these rioters hurt King Zheng, we will suffer a lot." gone."

Zhao Wen put away the imperial decree and said to Li Ru and Commander Huai Qingwei, "Let all your troops withdraw now, and I will take over the entire Prince Zheng's Mansion."

As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, Commander Huaiqingwei hurriedly ordered his subordinates to retreat the soldiers who rushed into Prince Zheng's Mansion and fought with the rioters.

Speaking of these guard soldiers fighting with the rioters, it is better to say that the two parties are playing house. The people on the two sides shouted loudly, but the casualties were indeed very small.

After all, these soldiers of Huaiqing Guard are all locals of Huaiqing Mansion. They know most of the people in Huaiqing Mansion, and many of them are relatives. How could they treat these people? Where is the dead hand?

In addition, Prince Zheng's Mansion has also annexed the military fields of many guard soldiers. These Kuhahas also have great resentment towards Prince Zheng's Mansion. If it is not for this layer of skin on their bodies, they will also learn from these common people and rush into Zheng The palace robbed things.

The guard soldiers retreated from King Zheng's mansion, but their waists were all bulging. Judging from their posture, they knew that they had gained a lot.

Zhao Wen jumped off the horse, pulled out the long knife from his waist, pointed at the gate of Prince Zheng's Mansion and shouted: "Brothers, rush in and kill."

Following Zhao Wen's order, all the soldiers behind him jumped off their horses, brandishing their weapons and rushing towards Prince Zheng's mansion.

After Zhao Wen rushed into Zheng Wang's mansion, he went directly to the backyard according to what Jin Yinfu had written before.

When he came to the backyard, he saw Zhao Daniu who was searching the backyard with soldiers and horses.

Zhao Daniu also saw Zhao Wen at this time.

Zhao Wen gave him a wink, and then shouted at the soldiers behind him: "Clean up these rioters, what?"

Zhao Daniu also understood Zhao Wen's meaning at the moment, and he led his troops to flee to the rear with all the gold and silver treasures he had looted from Prince Zheng's mansion, as well as various account books, title deeds, and house deeds.

When fleeing, Zhao Daniu did not forget to shout: "The officers and soldiers are here, run quickly. The officers and soldiers are here, run quickly."

Zhao Wen looked at Zhao Daniu who was running towards the back door, a smile flashed across his face, and then he hid it again.

Zhao Wen turned around, looked at the soldiers behind him, and shouted loudly: "Now pass my order to search for the people who are still alive in the palace. Remember, they must be treated properly, and they must not be harmed in the slightest."

"My lord, do you think this is King Zheng?"

At this moment, a soldier pointed to King Zheng's body on the ground next to him and said to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen looked in the direction of his fingers, and saw a middle-aged man wearing a prince's costume lying on the ground with a long and narrow wound on his neck, and his clothes were all stained red with blood.

"This should be King Zheng's body."

Zhao Wen looked at King Zheng's body on the ground and said, "Come here, take care of King Zheng's body for me, and at the same time inform the magistrate outside the palace to let him come in quickly to see if it is King Zheng or not." corpse."

"Obey!" As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, a soldier rushed outside.

Zhao Wen led his men to search in the backyard.

After Zhao Wen's search, most of the immediate family members of King Zheng's lineage in Zheng Wang's mansion died, as for those who were not immediate family members or the servants and maidservants in the Shi mansion, there were not many injuries.

Zhao Wen placed these survivors in a small courtyard and asked his subordinates to closely guard them.

"What? King Zheng is dead?"

Li Ru stood outside the gate of the palace. He looked at the soldiers in front of him who came to report the news, his face was full of astonishment, "Say it again, the prince is really dead?"

The soldier said: "We are not sure, and we specially asked the adults to check."

Li Ru's body began to tremble. If it wasn't for the followers behind him who quickly supported him, Li Ru would have collapsed.

Li Ruchang took a deep breath, and roared with a ferocious face: "Take me to see quickly."

Falling into a vassal is a serious crime. If King Zheng really dies, then Li Ru's life will really be over.

With the support of his entourage, Li Ru followed the soldiers who came to report the news, and headed towards the backyard of the palace.

When he saw King Zheng on the ground, whose face had been cleaned up by Zhao Wen, his whole body was like five thunderbolts.

"Hic, hiccup, hiccup!"

Li Ru looked at King Zheng's body on the ground, his face began to twitch, his body became stiff, his mouth began to crooked, his eyes began to diverge, spittle flowed out from the corner of his mouth, and his body trembled.

"It's not good, my lord has had a stroke."

The entourage supporting Li Ru looked at Li Ru, who had slanted eyes and mouth, and shouted hurriedly.

Seeing Li Ru like this, Zhao Wen couldn't help but shook his head, "Okay, let's take the magistrate down, and find the doctor by the way, and hurry up to treat him."

Zhao Wen waved to the entourage who was supporting Li Ru, and said angrily.

The commander of Huai Qingwei who followed Li Ru looked at King Zheng's body, and his reaction was only slightly better than that of Li Ru.

"It's over, it's over, it's over, what should I do, this is really over."

The commander knelt down in front of King Zheng's body, weeping bitterly, and shouted, "What is going on? How can the good people riot? This is a crime. King Zheng is dead, and I will die." I can’t survive, my whole family can’t survive.”

"I'm curious, why do the people in the city hate King Zheng so much? They even wanted to kill King Zheng regardless of their own lives." Zhao Wen stood next to the commander and asked pretending to be ignorant.

"Alas, I actually expected such a day to come, but this day came too soon.

The lineage of King Zheng in Huaiqing Mansion invaded and occupied an unknown amount of land, and forced many people to ruin their families. The people in the entire Huaiqing Mansion had extremely deep resentment towards King Zheng.

But I really don't understand why these people dare to kill King Zheng.

By the way, was King Zheng already dead when you came in?Have you caught the man who killed King Zheng? "The commander looked at Zhao Wen and asked with a sad face.

Zhao Wen shook his head, let out a long breath, and sighed: "Oh, I was already like this when I came in. When I rushed in, I only saw a dozen or so rioters. These rioters watched me lead the soldiers and horses to charge After coming in, I ran along the back door of Prince Zheng's Mansion, I didn't dare to chase because I wanted to protect the relatives in the mansion."

"Damn it, how do these people know the structure of Prince Zheng's Mansion? How long did it take for this group of rioters to rush into the backyard of the Prince's Mansion, not only killing King Zheng, but also retreating calmly. The origins of these people must be unusual. .” The commander slammed the ground fiercely, and said with resentment on his face.

As he said that, the commander's eyes lit up, he looked at Zhao Wen, and asked hastily, "You just said that when you came in, this group of rioters only went out?"

"Yeah, what's the matter?" Zhao Wen looked at the commander.

The commander stood up from the ground, and he looked at Zhao Wen excitedly, "If that's the case, it proves that they didn't run very far. Now I'm chasing them with soldiers and horses, maybe I can catch up."

After speaking, the commander hurried to the outside of the palace, and led his troops to chase in the direction of the back door of the palace.

However, the people under him are all infantry, and the palace occupies a large area, so it takes a long time to run back and forth.

Even if he chased them out now, he didn't know the direction Zhao Daniu and the others retreated. How could he catch up with Zhao Daniu's men?
Besides, before Zhao Wen came to the palace, he sent a team to meet Zhao Daniu near the palace. In this way, it was even more impossible for him to catch up with Zhao Daniu.

Zhao Wen looked at the commander who left, and then asked his subordinates to find other officials in the Huaiqing Mansion to deal with the matter, while he led his soldiers and horses towards the outside of the city.

When leaving, Zhao Wen handed over a semi-finished dragon robe found in Prince Zheng's mansion to the officials who came to deal with the matter.

Of course, Zhao Wen made this semi-finished dragon robe out of nothing.

After all, since King Zheng was going to be trampled to death, he had to be trampled to death completely.

When these officials saw this dragon robe, they felt a lot more at ease.

In this way, their guilt will be much smaller.

After all, it is a rebellious thing to make dragon robes privately, especially for princes everywhere.

With this dragon robe in hand, they can put all the blame for this matter on King Zheng.

Anyway, King Zheng is dead, and the dead are the best scapegoats.

The people who rushed into King Zheng's mansion were ordinary people. When they rushed into the mansion, they never thought that King Zheng would be killed, and they had no intention of rebelling, so when they heard After King Zheng died, everyone panicked.

Killing the prince is like a serious crime of rebellion. This will punish the nine clans. Although they didn't kill King Zheng, they can't get away with it.

The vast majority of the people robbed the palace full of money. After hearing the news, these people took the looted things and went out of the city overnight.

Just when these people didn't know where to go, Zhao Wen stood up, and he sent troops to gather these people and headed towards Jiyuan City.

After Zhao Wen returned to Jiyuan City with the people and the things obtained by Zhao Daniu, he began to transport the people.

Zhao Wen now only has more than 2000 people, and it is not so easy to transport these 20 people back to Xuan Town.

After thinking twice, Zhao Wen asked Zhao Daniu to go back to Xuanzhen first, and asked him to go to Xuanzhen to mobilize troops.

As for the gold and silver treasures obtained from Prince Zheng's mansion, Zhao Wen made a rough count, and the gold and silver in these things alone almost caught up with the amount of gold and silver obtained from the thieves like Gao Yingxiang.

And this was obtained by Zhao Daniu's rough search in Prince Zheng's Mansion. If the entire Prince Zheng's Mansion is searched thoroughly, it will probably be a terrifying figure.

At the same time, after a day and a night of discussions, the officials in Huaiqing Mansion finally agreed on a result, and at the same time wrote the agreed content on the notebook and presented it to Chongzhen.

When Zhao Daniu returned to Xuanzhen, Chongzhen also received the note from Huaiqing Mansion.

Chongzhen looked at a series of taboo words in the booklet, such as dragon robes, seemingly treason, colluding with thieves, hiding soldiers, oppressing the people, hoarding food, etc., and immediately became angry.

"Hmph, this King Zheng is really a good prince. He hides his armor and makes dragon robes privately. If it wasn't for the people in Huaiqing's mansion causing civil unrest, I would probably have been kept in the dark." Chongzhen put down the gun in his hand. Zhezi said to Cao Huachun who was standing by and serving him.

"It is my will to tell that King Zheng's death was deserved, and it is announced to the world that Zheng Fan of Huaiqing Mansion did not want to serve the country, but turned against him, which is really a wolf's ambition.

Zheng Fan is now abolished, and all the titles of King Zheng's lineage are removed. All the immediate family members of King Zheng will be escorted to the central capital for confinement, as an example to others.

The local officials in Huaiqing Mansion did not find out that King Zheng had the intention of treason until the people rushed into the mansion of King Zheng. "

Of course, the contents of the brochure were all made up by these officials. After all, King Zheng is dead, and only by putting all the blame on King Zheng can they be protected.

When Chongzhen's decree arrived at Huaiqing Mansion, the soldiers brought by Zhao Daniu also arrived at Jiyuan City.

After King Zheng was abolished, all the things in King Zheng's mansion were confiscated by Jin Yiwei sent by Chongzhen and sent to the capital.

As for the immediate family members of King Zheng in the palace, they were all brought to Zhongdu.Those who are far related by blood, let them go.

Since then, Zheng Fan, which lasted for nearly 200 years, was abolished.

After a short rest in Jiyuan City, Zhao Wen led the troops and escorted the people towards Xuanzhen.

After nearly a month, Zhao Wen led the people and finally returned to Xuan Town.

When Zhao Wen led the people to a place about ten miles outside Xuanzhen, they met Liu Wenzhong and others who came to greet them.

After Zhao Wen threw the people to Liu Wenzhong, he quickly headed towards Xuanzhen General Military Mansion.

(End of this chapter)