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Chapter 368
Annihilation of the Jinyiwei yamen, attacking the imperial court imperial envoys, such things, no matter what kind of things, they will be ransacked and exterminated.

It can be predicted that Yangzhou Mansion will not be peaceful in the future, and a big storm will soon sweep the entire Yangzhou Mansion.

And in this big storm, I don't know how many families will be destroyed.

In a restaurant, in a private room by the window, several figures were staring at the captured Xu Lin and a group of officials.

The complexions of these people were pale, and it took a while before they came back to their senses.

Someone fell down and sat there with a completely lost look on his face. He looked like he was frightened and muttered to himself.

All of a sudden, a person slammed the table and said with red eyes: "Master Xu and the others have been arrested, the surname Li will definitely not let the adults go, and none of us will be able to escape when the time comes, big guy!" Tell me what to do."

The person who speaks is also one of the most famous people in Yangzhou Prefecture. Because Du Zhong's twin daughters are Xu Lin's concubines, they are very favored by Xu Lin. Because of this, in the past few years, it can be said that every day looks different.

Compared with the Chen family and the Xu family who have been entrenched in Yangzhou Prefecture for at least decades, the Du family was originally a small family. It was only because they gave birth to a pair of good daughters that they had a chance to prosper .

In the past few years, the Du family can be said to have done everything they can. Once the children in the family gained power, they became rampant.

The most important thing is that the Du family has been working on Xu Lin's affairs for the past few years, and many things that Xu Lin can't do well are entrusted to the Du family.

Even such shady things as murder and arson have been done by the Du family over the years.

The rest of the people who are also here may not be as close as the Du family and Xu Lin, but they are all deeply involved with those officials who were arrested.

It is precisely because of this that these few people pay so much attention to the movements of Li Huan and his party.

It can be said that a few people came earlier than Xu Lin and other officials, and they were all in a panic. After seeing Xu Lin and others were taken down, they were really panicked.

As soon as Du Zhong opened his mouth, several people present also reacted.

The chubby Jia Zhun is Jia Yuan's elder brother, and can be said to be the representative of the Jia family. Hearing Du Zhong's words, he couldn't help but said, "Brother Du, what should we do?"

Before Du Zhong opened his mouth, he suddenly said with some pessimism: "What else can we do? According to me, before Li Huan orders us to be arrested, the big guys should run away quickly, maybe we can escape."

Du Zhong snorted coldly and stared at the man and said, "Escape? Where can you escape to? The world is so big, which one of us has a big business, if there are only one or two people, it is not without hope of escape, but we How can so many people escape, and how can they escape.”

What Du Zhong was talking about was the fact that Daming had very strong restraints on the people. If the common people said that they had no certain relationship, it was already a limit to leave the place where they lived for dozens of miles.

As for people like Eucommia and Jia Zhun who have families and families, it is impossible to hide even if they want to disappear.

Sun Mi, who was directly denied the escape method by Du Zhong, couldn't help but said, "Then what can you do?"

Du Zhong hesitated for a moment and said: "You guys said that if we send a large amount of gold and silver to this imperial envoy, can he show his respect and let us go."

Speaking of Du Zhong, he seemed to think that his flash of inspiration was a good idea, and he couldn't help showing a little excitement on his face: "I've been an official for thousands of miles only for money, and we haven't been involved in treason like the Xu family." In the big case, if Li Huan can be given a sum of gold and silver, it may not be impossible to escape."

Hearing what Du Zhong said, many people's eyes could not help but light up.

What they are most worried about is being implicated. After all, as Du Zhong said, they did not participate in the major treason case.

But when Li Huan was trying a case, he could let them go by holding his hands high.

Of course, if Li Huan is willing, based on their ambiguous relationship with Xu Lin and other officials, Li Huan can label all of them as traitors with a single sentence.

Jia Criteria is frowning, he is different from Du Zhong, Sun Mi and others.

You must know that Jia Yuan was involved in a major treason case, and his Jia family would definitely not escape the fate of ransacking his family and exterminating his family, no matter how much money he gave away.

With a soft snort, Jia Zhun glanced at them and said, "I'm afraid Li Huan is not so easy to dismiss."

Du Zhong said with a smile: "It must be that we don't have enough money. As long as there is enough money, I don't believe there are things in this world that money can't do."

Choked by Du Zhong, Jia Zhun couldn't help flicking his sleeves and looked at Du Zhong with a bit of sarcasm: "Be careful to lose your wife and lose your army."

Du Zhong was not angry at all, and said with a smile: "This is why Brother Jia is not concerned."

Jia Zhun took a deep breath, glanced at the others and said, "Don't you all think that you can get through it with money and escape this catastrophe?"

The only person present was Jia Zhun who could not escape because of Jia Yuan, and the rest were just worried about being implicated, so when Eucommia proposed to use money to clear up the relationship, they held a one-tenth of a million hope, and they were in their hearts. is full of expectations.

Therefore, in the face of Jia Zhun's question, several people did not answer.

Seeing everyone's reactions in his eyes, Jia Zhun immediately stood up and said, "Shuzi is not enough to seek."

Seeing Jia Zhun leaving in a huff, Sun Mi sneered and said, "He wants to drag the big guys into the water together, isn't it just to see that our big guys have a hope of escaping, and his Jia family is doomed?" Do you not feel angry if you want to be destroyed together with Jia Yuan?"

Du Zhong stroked his beard and nodded, "Brother Sun said, let's discuss how much money we need to give to this imperial envoy so that he can hold his hand high and let me wait."

Liu Gang, dressed in brocade and satin, squinted his eyes and said, "Since what I'm talking about is spending money to save our lives, then we have to show our sincerity. My Liu family is no bigger than your family, and I am willing to give 20 taels of silver for it." .”

After Liu Gang finished speaking, Sun Mi, Du Zhong and others couldn't help looking at Liu Gang in surprise.

It's not that Liu Gang took out too little money, but too much.As Liu Gang said, the Liu family is indeed inferior to the others.

Which one of them claimed to have millions of dollars in wealth, and Liu Gang wanted to hand over 20 taels of silver when he opened his mouth, which was almost half of the assets of the Liu family.

According to what they knew about the Liu family, if the 20 taels of gold and silver were taken out, the Liu family would suffer a lot.

You look at me, I look at you, Sun Mi looked at Du Zhong and gritted his teeth: "Brother Du, I wonder how much gold and silver your Du family plans to give?"

Don't think that the Du family started the latest, but if you really want to talk about it, there is really no one among the few present that can compare with the Du family.

The Du family's wealth is at least one million, and even because they are in charge of a lot of shady wealth for Xu Lin, the head of the family, everyone guessed that it would not be difficult for the Du family to spend millions of gold and silver.

Du Zhong frowned, glanced at everyone, coughed lightly, hesitated a little and said, "I... my Du family will give out 25 taels of silver."

Seeing Liu Gang opening his mouth, they planned to take out most of the family's wealth to try to save the family business. They were full of expectations for Du Zhong, hoping that the Du family would also come up with a large amount of gold and silver.

After all, all fools know that since money is used to improve relationships and save lives, the more gold and silver the better.

What disappointed them was that Eucommia gritted his teeth and was only going to take out 25 taels of gold and silver.

This amount is indeed more than Liu Gang's 20 taels, but the key point is that the two are simply incomparable.

The Du family's wealth was at least several times greater than that of the Liu family. They estimated that the Du family would have to spend at least 50 taels of gold and silver to be sincere.

Liu Gang glanced at Du Zhong, sighed slightly, and turned his eyes to Sun Mi.

Sun Mi seemed to have noticed Liu Gang's gaze, pondered for a while and said, "My Sun family should also take out 25 taels."

The rest of the families also opened their mouths, at least like the Liu family, they all offered 20 taels.

After several families have expressed their opinions, Du Zhong said with a smile on his face: "Everyone, our family raised a full 180 million taels of gold and silver. I don't believe that we can't let that The imperial envoy held his hand high and let me wait a while."

Hearing what Du Zhong said, several people's faces also showed a bit of anticipation.

Standing up, Du Zhong said solemnly: "Everyone, don't delay the matter. Just in case, the big guys go back to raise gold and silver immediately, and try to collect all the silver and send it to the imperial envoy tonight!"

But Li Huan took down Xu Lin and other Fucheng officials at the gate of the city, but he was not in a hurry to enter the city.

Although Li Huan was surrounded by hundreds of guards and elite cavalry guards, Li Huan did not rush into Yangzhou City before Pang Hui's guards arrived.

After all, Li Huan was only taking Xu Lin and the others down right now. Although it was a bit sudden, the news that Xu Lin and the others were taken down must have spread extremely fast right now.

Officials like Xu Lin ruled over the Yangzhou prefecture, even dared to do such things as attacking imperial envoys, what else would they not dare to do.

In this city of Yangzhou, who knows how many of Xu Lin's accomplices exist.

Li Huan has no doubts about the madness of some people. After all, if they know that there is only one way to die, there are many people who dare to go all out.

Li Huan insists that his cultivation is not bad, and he is not worried about being assassinated. The key point is that the guards around him and the cavalry who came with him, if they are really targeted by those who are fighting to the death, when the time comes Inevitably there will be losses.

It was precisely because of these considerations that Li Huan was not in a hurry to enter the city, and even when he saw Xu Lin and other officials, he was at the gate of the city.

It doesn't matter whether Li Huan is cautious or doesn't want his subordinates to take risks with him, anyway, right now Li Huan is telling his Jin Yiwei to keep a close eye on Xu Lin and other officials, and only waits for the arrival of Pang Hui's soldiers.

Judging from Pang Hui's reaction, Pang Hui was not involved in this major treason case, so Li Huan can still trust Pang Hui's guards and horses.

After waiting for a long time, Li Huan, Pang Hui and others, who had been waiting for several hours, finally saw a cloud of smoke billowing in the distance.

Pang Hui couldn't help showing a bit of joy and said: "My lord, here we come, here we come."

Without Pang Hui's reminder, Li Huan also saw the dark crowd approaching slowly in the distance.

However, Chen Ang, Xu Ying and other cavalry soldiers were refreshed at the moment, subconsciously clenched the weapons in their hands, and stared at the dark crowd of people and horses in the distance with a bit of vigilance.

When they saw clearly the crooked and crooked troops, both Chen Ang and Xu Ying showed a bit of disdain.

Xu Ying even murmured softly: "A bunch of mobs, the local guards really suck!"

Hearing Xu Ying's muttering, Pang Hui didn't get angry. Instead, he cupped his hands at Xu Ying and said, "What Uncle Wei Yuan said is true. How can these people under Pang's men be as good as these hundreds under Uncle's men?" For the brave men who fought for the rest of their lives, they are afraid that with a single charge, all of Pang's subordinates will collapse."

Xu Ying coughed lightly and said: "All guards in the world are the same. It is not easy for your subordinates to be able to pull these two 3000 people. If you change to other guards that are worse, even such a small number of people will not be able to do it." It may not be enough.”

While speaking, thousands of people came to the front in a mess and stopped more than a hundred feet away under the restraint of several generals.

Several figures came galloping, they were the generals under Pang Hui.

With a light cough, Pang Hui turned to Li Huan and said, "Will your lord go with the officials..."

Li Huan waved his hand and said, "I will not go. Commander Pang will assign people to guard the four gates according to what I said earlier. Without my order, no one is allowed to leave the city for half a step. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed." No pardon."

Hearing Li Huan's words full of endless murderous intent, Pang Hui's body couldn't help trembling, and he gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, don't worry, I will definitely order my subordinates strictly, not even a fly or a mouse will be let out of the city." Go, if one person is leaked, I am willing to be punished by the adults."

Li Huan looked at Pang Hui with a chuckle, and comforted him: "If Pang Daren assists me in handling the big case this time, I will definitely report to His Majesty and show his merits for Pang Da."

It seemed that he didn't expect Li Huan to show merit for him, Pang Hui's eyes lit up immediately, and with a little excitement, he said in a trembling voice: "Your official will definitely live up to your expectations."

Li Huan pondered for a while and said: "Later, Da Da will bring some troops into the city with me."

Pang Hui immediately said, "I understand."

Although Pang Hui looked very humble in front of Li Huan, he looked quite different in front of the generals of the guards.

Under Pang Hui's scolding and strict orders, all the soldiers of the guard, who were originally extremely sloppy, cheered up under the threat of Pang Hui's series of beheading orders.

After waving his hand, Pang Hui ordered several of his confidantes to take some troops to Simen to take over the four city gates. At the same time, he led more than a thousand people to open the way, surrounded by Li Huan and others, and slowly entered Yangzhou City.

Li Huan was not in a hurry to enter the city, but stayed at the gate of the city for a long time. Although he said that Pang Hui's guards and horses arrived, he also left enough time for many people in the city.

Many of them also took advantage of this moment to make various responses, such as Eucommia, Sun Mi and others who wanted to raise a sum of gold and silver to clear up the relationship, and spent money to buy their lives, or those like Jia Zhun who were sure that they could not escape. A calamity, a person who has his own ideas or arrangements.

(End of this chapter)