Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 216
"His Royal Highness!"

Li Jiang quickly fell to his knees.

Zhu Yunxun snorted with a sullen face: "Such trivial matters have been dragged on until now, so what's the use of you! I slap my mouth ten times!"

Hearing this, Li Jiang immediately raised his right arm and slapped his mouth heavily. After ten blows, his mouth was already swollen, and there were blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.

"Get up! Get rid of these untouchables quickly! It must be done today!"

Zhu Yunxun said impatiently.

Li Jiang quickly got up, covered his mouth with one hand and shouted indistinctly: "Are you deaf? Your Highness just said that after finishing today's errands, all of them will be servants in the palace! Hurry up and drive these troublemakers away! Life or death!" Never mind!"

After the gangsters heard that they had reliance, they no longer had to be afraid of those head-hunters, they screamed at the people on the opposite side and rushed over.

Those government servants of Wuchang Mansion saw Chongyang County King coming in person, and they were so frightened that they immediately hid aside secretly.

Although there are more than a hundred people here, there are people of all ages, those who can withstand the beating of these gangsters who are used to fighting with bare hands, many of them were knocked to the ground in less than a moment, many of them were covered with blood, There was crying and wailing at the scene.

Zhu Yunxun laughed at the side, pointing and discussing with Li Jiang beside him from time to time.

Suddenly a loud bang came from not far away, and the fighting crowd was frightened by the loud noise and stopped their hands one after another, all looking in the direction where the sound came from.A hundred paces away to the east, a large puff of thick smoke floating in the air was slowly dissipating. Dozens of soldiers in armor surrounded by two horses were watching the two sides of the fight.

Dong Cheng inserted the fired flintlock pistol into the horse's pocket, and then urged the horse to walk slowly towards the crowd.Zhou Jie rode his horse and followed behind, followed by fifty captains.

Amidst the clatter of horseshoes, the distance of a hundred steps was reached in the blink of an eye. Dong Cheng waved his hand: "All those holding sticks will be arrested! Those who dare to resist will be killed!"

Fifty school captains quickly divided into two teams and walked around from left to right.Those gangsters had never seen a soldier dressed in such a uniform, and when they saw the opponent coming straight towards them, when they were hesitating whether to resist, they only heard the opponent shout: "Jinyiwei is on business! Kneel down quickly! Those who resist die!"

A gangster lost his temper just now. Seeing someone coming towards him, he subconsciously raised his stick to resist. With a loud bang like a thunderbolt, the gangster fell straight on his back to the ground, the stick in his hand dropped, his chest Blood gushed out everywhere.

A school lieutenant a few steps in front of him looked around vigilantly and cleaned the pistol with a stick, then put away the stick, took out an oiled paper bag from the satchel at his waist, put it to his mouth, and bit it open with his teeth , Pour a little of the gunpowder inside into the fire pit, then stuff the paper bag into the gun chamber, take out the stick and push the paper bag to the bottom, put the stick away again, and put the handgun back in the firing state.

This is only possible when there is no major threat around. If the loading on the battle formation is so cumbersome, the enemy will have already killed it.

However, the deterrent effect of this blunderbuss is still very strong. Before the captain is finished reloading, no matter whether they are gangsters or ordinary people, they all knelt down on the ground and did not dare to look up.

"Who are you? Why don't you kneel down when you see me!"

Zhu Yunxun scolded loudly.

After hearing that the other party claimed to be Jin Yiwei, although he was amazed at how Jin Yiwei, who was far away in the capital, appeared in Wuchang, Zhu Yunxun did not take Dong Cheng and others seriously.

What about Jin Yiwei?Aren't you a slave of our Zhu family?
Seeing that Dong Cheng was riding on the horse leisurely and contentedly, Zhu Yunxun couldn't help being furious.

The school captains on the field could easily distinguish the gangsters from the civilians, and they bundled up dozens of gangsters and took them aside, ignoring Zhu Yunxun.Only the groans of the injured civilians could be heard on the field, and the older children were too frightened to make a sound.

Several yamen servants knew the news of Jin Yiwei's arrival in Wuchang Mansion long ago, and the Shangguan had already ordered them to run away as soon as they saw Jin Yiwei, and not to provoke these evil spirits, so as not to cause trouble to the upper body.

Now seeing the anger of Chongyang County King heading towards Jin Yiwei, these government servants hurried over to see if anyone among the people had been beaten to death.After all, they were ordered to come to guard the place, if a homicide happened under their noses, they would have to be punished by the Shangguan after returning.

Dong Cheng and Zhou Jie got off their horses one after another, walked slowly to Zhu Yunxun and stood there for a few steps. Looking at Zhu Yunxun who was glaring at him, Dong Cheng cupped his hands and said, "His Royal Highness, you are polite! I am Jin Yiwei." Dong Cheng from one hundred households in Wuchang, this is Zhou Jie, the Book Office dispatched by the Clan Mansion to Wuchang!"

Dong Cheng's rude behavior completely enraged Zhu Yunxun. He lowered his head to search around and saw a wooden stick on the ground a few steps away, so he shouted: "Bring the stick to Gu! Gu is going to kill this dog slave today !"

Li Jiang ran to pick up the wooden stick and was about to hand it to Zhu Yunxun. Dong Cheng kicked it sideways, and Li Jiang was kicked out several steps amidst a muffled sound. The stick dropped from his hand and fell to the ground. He crouched down and groaned.

Before Zhu Yunxun could speak again, Dong Cheng yelled: "Come on! Bind!"

Several school captains rushed over quickly, and took Li Jiang aside in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Yunxun was startled and furious, stepped forward and raised his hand to hit Dong Cheng in the face.

In his perception, except for the Zhu family, all civil servants and military generals are their family's slaves.Especially in the city of Wuchang, apart from princes like the King of Chu, even the prefect of Wuchang had to approach him politely when he saw him. Unexpectedly, a small Jinyiwei Baihu would dare to be so rude to him, and acted Beating and tying up the steward of the palace in front of him, is this going to turn the world upside down?

Dong Cheng stepped sideways to dodge, Zhou Jie stepped forward to face Zhu Yunxun, and said in a deep voice: "The king of Chongyang County is in front of you, the clan's mansion received a report that you forcibly seized the people's land and property, and injured and killed several people. According to the rules (Emperor's Order and Ancestral Instructions), I order you to close your door and think about your mistakes immediately, and you must not leave the palace until the master of the capital is issuing an order to deal with it!"

For Zhu Yunxun and other vassals, the clan mansion is in charge of the clan's children's concubines, names, titles, hereditary titles, time of birth and death, marriage, posthumous titles and burials, all of which are closely related to their daily life. matter.Although Zhou Jie on the opposite side was not of a high grade, he represented the Clan Mansion, which had the right to directly punish the clan. If he dared not obey orders, he would be punished more severely.

With a livid face, Zhu Yunxun turned and walked towards the eight-carried sedan chair not far away, and several young eunuchs hurriedly followed.

Dong Cheng greeted the government servants in Wuchang Mansion who were standing aside and talking quietly, and those people quickly stopped talking and trotted over to bow and salute.

"How many people were injured by those people? Is there anyone in danger of life?"

Dong Cheng asked.

"Returning to the Shangguan, the villain will come forward and check it out. There are more than 28 people injured in the common people, [-] of them are seriously injured, or their arms are broken, or their heads are bleeding from sticks, and the rest are slightly injured. !"

An elderly yamen servant saluted and replied.

"As a servant of the government government, how can you not be a rogue in the city? Is it because you usually take advantage of him? I will inform you today. Since you are doing business for the imperial court, your conscience must be upright. If you teach someone to find out about you When there is an act of oppressing goodness and acting as a minion for a tiger, then I will tell you to try my Jinyiwei's tricks! Later, you will leave two people behind to obey the order. These criminals will be taken back and locked up in the government prison. As for how to deal with it , shouldn’t someone teach you to wait?”

After receiving the order with trembling greetings from several yamen servants, three people were assigned to escort the gangsters back to the government prison. Of course, the results of these gangsters need not be clearly stated, and death in prison will be their final outcome.Because of Li Jiang's status, although he will not die in prison, he may stay in prison for the rest of his life if there is no one to stand up for him.

"Liu Shi'an! You take ten people to the palace of Chongyang County, and ask the palace to bring out 3000 taels of silver! Heal the people who were beaten by him! Tell the people in the palace that if they refuse to take out the silver, they will be banned from the palace from today onwards." For purchasing matters, as long as someone steps out of the palace, he will be arrested and imprisoned immediately!"

　Thanks to book friends Liu Yaoming and Natural Wind 6 for their rewards.

　　Answering the book friend's question: In the long-awaited mainland, three yamen servants escorted dozens of prisoners tied up. What do you think could happen?These are not prisoners of war, they are all local gangsters in the city. Do they dare to resist or kill officials?

　　
　
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