The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

Since it is called Jinyiwei, the word Jinyi is naturally very important.If Jin Yiwei wore their "uniform", even a fool would be able to spot it at a glance.Now Zhang Fan is accompanied by such a person wearing a goldfish flying suit and a Xiuchun saber.

This man is called Liu Feng, and he is in his early thirties now, and he also came down from the battlefield, with extraordinary skills.As a man with a hundred households in brocade clothes, his life is quite miserable. First, he doesn't know how to drill a camp, and second, it doesn't matter. He has a hundred households at any time, but there are not many people under him.It's not because he is kind and soft-spoken, but because this person is really a bit out of place, and the thousand households above don't like him.But Zhang Fan fell in love with him and asked him to follow him. Seeing that someone wanted this trouble, and it was Zhang Fan who Zhu Xizhong had specially told him to take care of, Qianhu agreed without saying a word.

It's just that this person is a little brain-dead, just like now, when he stands on the street in this suit, passers-by will consciously take a detour when they see it.Zhang Fan is dressed in ordinary clothes, but Liu Feng is like a living sign by his side, and Liu Feng is also quite respectful to Zhang Fan in his words, how can others not see that Zhang Fan is also a powerful master? .This gave Zhang Fan the illusion of bullying the market.

After negotiating with Zhang Fan for a long time, Liu Feng agreed to go back and change his clothes. It seems that he is also used to being in the army, and some habits are not easy to change.

Every few days I went to visit Zhu Yijun in the palace, and every time the prince was very enthusiastic, which made others envious.

It has been a few days since Zhang Fan came to Jinyiwei to work, and gradually he got used to it.Zhang Fan's job was to act as a representative to contact, mediate, exchange information, etc. with Dongchang, and this job was an eye-opener for Zhang Fan.He had heard of Jin Yiwei's pervasiveness before, but now he has really seen it. The news, large and small, has been collected, ranging from which minister's political intentions, down to which minister's husband was greedy when he bought vegetables. Money is crystal clear.As the days went by, Zhang Fan unconsciously knew a lot about the various officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, Zhang Fan is going shopping like he used to, but Liu Feng also wants to follow.

"Liu Feng, you said that the spies from the East Factory visit the streets every day, is this world really in such a mess?" Zhang Fan asked a little bored.

Liu Feng, who had just changed into ordinary clothes, said expressionlessly: "My lord, our Jinyiwei is only responsible for monitoring the officials, and the East Factory also guards against all kinds of threats in addition to inspecting the officials."

Liu Feng's words were only on the surface. The Dongchang fans were active in the streets and alleys of the capital every day. In fact, they seldom did business for the court, but more for their own personal gain.They often fabricate charges, frame good people, beat them into tricks, and then take the opportunity to extort money.Moreover, the function of the East Factory is to "investigate evil rumors and treacherous evils, etc., and equalize the power with Jin Yiwei".At first, Dongchang was only in charge of detecting and arresting people, and had no right to interrogate prisoners. The captured suspects had to be handed over to the Fusi of Jinyiwei North Town for trial. own prison.

"That's what I said, but look at these people." Zhang Fan said while looking at a few people walking into the alley, and said, "If this is the case, don't you offend all the people?"

"Does your lord think it's wrong to do this?" Liu Feng asked.

"I don't think there's any use in being wrong. I can't change anything by myself. What's more, I am now a Jinyiwei. What I did in the eyes of others is to frame Zhongliang. I just think it's a bit too much." Zhang Fan laughed at himself. Said.

Liu Feng didn't answer the question, he had not been in Jinyiwei for a short time, even if he had this idea before, he slowly accepted it now.

The two of them were wandering the streets boredly. They walked up to Zhang Fan alone, made a secret gesture with their hands, and then walked into a nearby teahouse.

"Liu Feng, let's go have a cup of tea." After Zhang Fan finished speaking, he walked into the nearby teahouse without waiting for Liu Feng to answer.Liu Feng didn't speak, but just followed behind Zhang Fan.

Above the teahouse, the man was sitting in a remote corner drinking tea alone, Zhang Fan saw him and sat down too.

The three of them drank tea for a while, the man looked around and said to Zhang Fan in a low voice, "My lord, everything is ready over there, just waiting for you."

Zhang Fan nodded, and the three got up. The man paid the tea money and walked out of the tea house in front, and Zhang Fan followed behind.

Zhang Fan followed the man through two streets, came to a busy street, and went directly into a grain store.The owner of the grain store didn't stop him at all, nor did he speak to him.The three of them came to the backyard of the grain store and entered a room.There was a person sitting there alone in the room. Seeing Zhang Fan coming, he asked him to sit down quickly.

"Jinyiwei Qianhu Zhao Ming sees Lord Qianshi." Zhao Ming said to Zhang Fan.

"Zhao Qianhu doesn't need to be too polite. I insisted on following this time, and I caused trouble for Qianhu." Zhang Fan said.

"My lord doesn't need to be like this. Since your lord has an order, your subordinates should obey it." Zhao Guang said, "Actually, your lord doesn't have to follow. You will naturally get used to this kind of thing in the future. Why should your lord do it overnight?"

"I've made up my mind, let alone now that I've entered Jinyiwei, so I should get acquainted earlier," Zhang Fan said.

During these days in Jinyiwei, Zhang Fan has come into contact with a lot of things, but most of them are written materials. As for how Jinyiwei arrests people, he has not seen it yet.This time, someone from below reported that Wang Chen, the right servant of the household department, was corrupt.He wasn't looking for excitement, but he couldn't explain exactly what prompted him to do it, maybe he wanted to get used to it earlier.

"Since that's the case, please go with me, sir." Zhao Ming said.

As one of the six ministries, the Ministry of Households is in charge of the country's household registration and finance, so the national treasury is also managed by the Ministry of Households.This is a fat vacancy, and everyone wants to enter it, but the emperors of all dynasties are not stupid, and the supervision of the household department has never been relaxed.

This Wang Chen was a Jinshi in Jiajing for 20 years, and it took nearly 30 years to get to the position of the right servant of the household department. However, this person is somewhat self-aware, knowing that he is here.Now that the pursuit of official positions has come to an end, this source of income must be opened up.The household department has more than ten million yuan, and the servant minister also made up his mind.He is also a little clever, unlike other people who are corrupt, some gradually increase from small to small, and some have been small and persistent.The first time he committed a crime, he made a big deal, and then covered it up in various ways.At that time, the household department found that there was a large amount of money vacant and was very anxious, but no one thought about corruption, and this matter was regarded as a mistake.But since this Wang Chen had the first time, how could he be satisfied? Gradually, the second, third, and fourth times... But he has a good sense of time, and the interval between several times is very long.Originally, the Ministry of Households was in charge of the taxation of the world, so it was normal for there to be a shortfall of tens of thousands of taels, but this was still discovered by Jin Yiwei.Jin Yiwei quickly investigated this Wang Chen, and after finding out something was wrong, all eight generations of Wang Chen's ancestors were found out.Until recently, this unsuspecting man committed the crime again, but now he was caught.

Zhang Fan didn't feel the slightest disgust towards Wang Chen, and of course, he didn't have the slightest sympathy either.There have been too many such people in China in the past 5000 years. Wang Chen is not the first, let alone the last.Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that officials who corrupted more than [-] taels would be beheaded, but there was still an endless stream of crimes against the wind.

Zhang Fan followed Zhao Ming to the vicinity of Wang Chen's house. The place where this third-rank official who was greedy for 10,000+ taels lived was not too small, but it was not too big.Jin Yiwei's people had already ambushed nearby, Zhao Ming told some of them a few words, knowing that Wang Chen's family was at home, nearly a hundred neatly dressed Jin Yiwei came out from the shadows.Looking at the battle, Zhang Fan felt a little helpless, would it take so many people to raid the house and arrest people?Occasionally passers-by saw this scene and avoided it one after another. Everyone living in the capital knew that someone was going to be unlucky.

Here Zhang Fan was still thinking wildly, Zhao Ming had brought someone to knock on the door, and someone was there to prevent someone from escaping through the back door.It was Zhao Ming's subordinates who knocked on the door, and they were very rude.The doorman's voice rang out angrily: "Who, do you know where this is? I ate leopard guts..." The voice also stopped as the door opened.

"Jin Yiwei handles the case, get out of the way quickly." Zhao Ming's words dismissed the man.At that moment, some people guarded the man, leaving a few people guarding in front of the gate, and dozens of guards in Jin Yi filed in under the leadership of Zhao Mingdi.

Zhang Fan sighed slightly when he saw this scene.

"My lord..." Liu Feng saw Zhang Fan's appearance and wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhang Fan waving his hand.

"Let's go in too." Zhang Fan said.

In the yard, Jin Yiwei was searching around, saying it was a search, but in fact it was to see if there was anything of value, and there was a burst of jumping around, not mixed with the cry of a woman.

"What are you going to do?" An angry voice came over.

Zhang Fan looked at the person who was in his 50s, and looked rich, but now he was angry and frightened.

"Don't Master Wang know what we do?" Zhao Ming said casually without even looking at him.

"You gang of lackeys, dare to come to my house to play wild, and don't retreat quickly. I will report to the emperor tomorrow and punish you!" Wang Chen said, but there was a hint of guilt in his voice.

"Punishment? Lord Wang also knows that if you commit a crime, you will be punished." Zhao Ming said in a tone-deaf manner.

"You... what do you mean!" Wang Chen began to panic.

"You can't tell what Lord Wang has done, so why ask me!" Zhao Ming said, "Our Jin Yiwei is also working for the emperor. If there is no news, how dare we knock on the door of the Lord with such fanfare? Woolen cloth!"

Wang Chen's face changed several times in an instant. At this time, someone came to report to Zhao Ming: "Reporting to Qianhu, according to the informant's explanation, a hundred bank notes were found in the secret compartment of Wang Chen's study. They are all 1000 taels. There are also antique calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry in this mansion, and there are also [-] taels in logistics after conversion."

"My lord Wang, the voice of my subordinates is not too low, so I don't need to tell you what he said again?" Zhao Ming said now that he had ironclad evidence in his hand, looking at Wang Chen even more proudly.

Although it's winter now, Wang Chen's head was very cold, and he knelt down in horror: "My lord, my lord, for the sake of my family of dozens of people, please forgive me!"

"Forgive you? If I forgive you, who will come around me again?" Zhao Ming looked at Wang Chen with some amusement and said, ignoring him, and ordered his subordinates: "Take all the valuable things in this courtyard. Pull it away for me, and arrest everyone in the house."

Wang Chen knew that his situation was over, his face was ashen, and then he asked unwillingly: "My lord, tell me who betrayed me."

The yard was filled with kneeling people one after another, except for a few male servants, most of them were maidservants, concubines and other female relatives, all of whom were crying.Zhao Ming didn't answer Wang Chen's words, walked up to one of the women, held the woman's chin with his right hand and raised her head.A gorgeous face was revealed, although there were tears, it was even more pitiful.Seeing that she is only 16 years old, she is Wang Chengang's concubine.Zhao Ming looked at it, then looked at Wang Chen's youngest daughter who was kneeling beside her, and said with a smile, "My lord Wang is so lucky to marry such a beautiful concubine, forcing my youngest daughter to be tender .Who betrayed you, your family is here, don't you see who you are missing?"

After Wang Chen heard his words, he looked over and saw that the yard was full of crying family members, but only his wife was missing. He suddenly understood, and said viciously: "This bitch can't have children, You're so jealous, but you want money. Slut, bitch, even if I'm a ghost, I won't let you go." It's just that everything is in vain now.

"Please rest assured, Mr. Wang, your wife has been waiting for you below." Zhao Ming said, "Although she confessed where you hid the money, she still wanted to take the money and flee privately. People don't like it, so they died after receiving three punishments."

After hearing his words, Wang Chen began to cry bitterly for his shame.Zhang Fan just watched and didn't talk to him. He felt that Wang Chen killed himself, and he had nothing to sympathize with. He just dragged down his family.

Zhao Minggang wanted to order someone to take them away, but he found someone pulling his trousers. He looked down and saw that it was Wang Chenxin's concubine, who was looking at him with a coquettish smile. This beauty makes people want to ravage even more.Even Zhang Fan was a little dumbfounded, not because the woman in front of him was so beautiful, at least in terms of appearance, his own Ru Xue was far better than her, but Zhang Fan had seen such a seductive style before.

Zhao Ming was not moved at all, but a smile appeared on his face, he looked at her and said, "Little lady, what's your name!" That expression was purely that of a long-dried prostitute!

The woman said in a delicate voice: "Your Excellency is calling Nujia Mei'er." The voice was so delicate that one could immediately stir up a passion.

But the people present were either lamenting their fate, or they were used to such scenes, and only Zhang Fan was affected.

"Mei'er, look at your coquettish appearance, you miss a man!" Zhao Ming showed an even more anxious look, and his words became more explicit.

This Mei'er didn't look shy at all, and catered to Zhao Ming even more.It's just that she suddenly noticed that Zhao Ming's complexion changed, and he didn't have the perverted look just now.Zhao Ming smiled and said, "It's not that your lord has committed some serious crime of exterminating the family, so he will be the only one to die. In the future, if you enter the Jiaofang Division, you can have as many men as you want."

"No, no, I don't want to join the Jiaofang Division, I don't want..." Meier yelled in horror after hearing what he said.

"It's up to you. It's not up to you to be in the Jiaofang Division, isn't it the same as serving men? What's the difference? As long as you are obedient, they won't make things difficult for you." After Zhao Ming finished speaking, he stopped talking to her and said to his subordinates, "Tell me Take everyone away, the people in the Zhenfu Division are still waiting for Mr. Wang to see if he has any other sources of income!"

When Wang Chen heard his words, his complexion darkened and he passed out.The people from Jinyiwei didn't ask him at all, and dragged him out like a dead dog.

Looking at the family of this third-rank official, more than 20 people were defeated in this instant, but Zhang Fan didn't feel any emotion at all, just like the first time he experienced war in person, there was no change in his heart.

After going out, the door was full of people watching, and Zhang Fan saw many servants of officials and eunuchs.Zhang Fan was about to leave when a person held him back. Zhang Fan looked at him very puzzled, he didn't know this person at all.The man said to Zhang Fan: "Master Zhang, my master is affectionate."

Zhang Fan didn't let Liu Feng follow, he didn't believe that anyone would be against him.When I came to a remote alley, I heard a sedan chair, and the person who led the way said to the sedan chair, "Master, Mr. Zhang has brought it."

The car curtain was lifted, and an old man walked out. Zhang Fan saw that it was Xu Jie, the chief assistant of the current cabinet.The servant backed out, Xu Jie looked at Zhang Fan for a long time, and said, "You are good. How does it feel to be a yellow-skinned fish that everyone hates?"

"The lower officials are also acting for the emperor," Zhang Fan said.

"Don't use the emperor to suppress me, don't think that the old man can't deal with you if you enter Jinyiwei, you have to be careful!" Xu Jie said, his eyes were very unfriendly.

"Master Ge, why is there such a need between the two of us..." Zhang Fan said.

"This is not a grievance between the two of us." Xu Jie said, "On the contrary, I admire you very much. But you and I have different political views, and this will never change." After finishing speaking, Xu Jie never watched Zhang Fan got into the sedan chair on his own.The servants in the distance saw it and hurried over to carry Xu Jie away.

Zhang Fan stood where he was, looking at the direction Xu Jie was going, and didn't even notice that Liu Feng was beside him.After a long time, Zhang Fan sighed helplessly.