The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 302 The Eve of the Final Battle
Chang Feng brought three hundred Jinyi guards to the Taicang treasury.

The treasury in Taicang was guarded by Hubu soldiers, nearly a thousand of them.

Qianhu of Ku soldiers blocked Chang Feng's way: "Master Chang, I am Lin Youren of Qianhu. Why do you want to mobilize troops like this?"

Chang Feng raised his hand and pointed at the Taicang gate: "I want to go in and search."

Lin Qianhu said: "It's not good. Taicang is the depository of the Ming Dynasty's national funds. No one can do it without the emperor's decree and the opening order of the Minister of Household Affairs."

Before he finished speaking, Shi Wenyi's Xiuchun Dao was already placed on Lin Qianhu's neck.

Shi Wenyi scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about? In the entire Ming Dynasty, except for the imperial palace and the palaces of the princes, we Jin Yiwei can enter the rest of the place whenever we want!"

Lin Qianhu was very angry. He raised his head and said: "Kill if you want! Taicang guards are not afraid of death! If you are afraid of death, you will not defend Taicang!"

Chang Feng sneered: "Ah, what a loyal and brave man with great righteousness! A few days ago, I read the record of illegal affairs of hundreds of officials this decade, and your name, Lin Youren, was on it."

"You spent 1000 taels of silver to contract out the business of replacing wooden frames for the treasury from the doctor in charge. You asked your brother-in-law's business to build 300 wooden frames. The market price of these wooden frames is 800 taels. , You were reimbursed by the Ministry of Household Affairs for [-] taels. Is this happening?"

"How can a corrupt official who regards wealth as his life pretend to be righteous? Come on, tie him up and take him back to prison! The charge is that he colluded with internal and external parties to swindle public money!"

Lin Qianhu no longer had the same aura of resignation as before: "Ah, Mr. Chang Shuai has a misunderstanding here."

Chang Feng said: "You guys from the Ministry of Household Affairs are always sneaking around, and I don't care much about it. Today you want to stop me from doing my errands, and I can't do anything about it!"

Lin Qianhu said: "Don't, don't. I don't dare to block Mr. Chang Shuai's driving. I will open the warehouse door for you right now!"

Chang Feng led people and followed Lin Qianhu into Taicang.According to what Xie Gen said, three large boxes were found in the corner of the No. [-] silver vault.

There is a seal on the big box, and the seal reads "Detailed Accounts of Jiangnan River Administration in the 16th Year of Hongzhi".

Chang Feng tore off the seal. Where was the bank account of Zhihe Bank in the box?All are the accusations and testimonies of Xichang Governor Gu Dayong.

Chang Feng turned it over casually.

Gu Da used this guy's money and clothing from the Ink Needlework Bureau to seize farmland in the suburbs of Beijing and engage in private tea trade. He did all the same things that corrupt civil servants did.

The most outrageous thing is that there is another one inside, which is about raping a good girl as a concubine.

You, Gu Dayong, don’t have that kind of thing, so what’s the use of kidnapping a good girl into your house?
The charges and testimonies have been found, and the next step is to find the more than 30 witnesses.

Chang Feng asked Lin Qianhu: "Did the Fourth Young Master from Xie Ge's hometown recently give you 30 people to serve as troops in the army?"

Lin Qianhu said: "Ah, no, that's not the case."

Chang Feng smiled and said: "You don't dare to offend Mr. Xie Ge, aren't you afraid of offending me? Then we have to settle it carefully. You defrauded the Ministry of Household Public Security of two thousand and five hundred taels, so you should be punished."

Lin Qian's account is almost getting bigger: "Master Chang, please don't embarrass the young one. I can't afford to offend both sides."

Chang Feng said: "If you offend Mr. Ge, you will be dismissed from office at most. If you offend Jin Yiwei, you will lose your head!"

Lin Qianhu had no choice but to say: "I will go find those 30 people for the handsome man."

Not long after, Lin Qianhu led thirty "Kuubing soldiers" to Chang Feng.

Chang Feng saw at a glance that one of the Ku soldiers was a woman disguised as a man.

Lin Qianhu said: "Master Chang Shuai, thank you to the Fourth Young Master for entrusting me with many people, and they are all here."

Chang Feng said: "Bring them all back to Jinyiwei!"

The six troops of Jinyiwei spent a whole day working.Until the evening, all six "tiger crime boxes" hidden in Xiaoyong Camp, Daxing County Dalao, Yihonglou, Tongzhou Canal Grain Ship, Hubu Taicang, and Wucheng Bingmasi Yamen were found and concentrated in Jinyi Guard.

Changfeng counted.There are a total of 830 charges and testimonies.The number of witnesses is 230 five people.The numbers are consistent with Yan Xiaoqi’s previous confession.

Got the Tiger Sin Box!
Chang Feng ordered Zhang Cai: "Put these charges, testimonies, and witnesses in the imperial prison. I will give you five hundred robes to guard you strictly. Don't give the tiger crime box to anyone who asks for it except me." !”

Chang Feng planned to keep the tiger crime box in his hands.From now on, it will be used as a tool to check and balance the Eight Tigers.

Let’s talk about Liu Jian’s mansion.

Liu Jian is hosting a big banquet tonight.All civil servants of the fourth rank or above in Beijing were invited to the banquet.

When he was holding the lamp, Liu Jian cleared his throat: "I invite you all into my humble home today because I have an important matter to discuss with you!"

"Since the emperor came to the throne, the Eight Tigers of the Eunuch Party have been evil to the emperor. They have taken bribes, installed private individuals, and regarded the law and discipline as child's play. They are like the ten constant servants of the Han Dynasty. If the Eight Tigers are not killed, the country will not be a country!"

"The Emperor is only sixteen, young and ignorant. If he is instigated by the Eight Tigers to do evil all day long, he may become the Ling Emperor of the Han Dynasty!"

All Liu Jian's confidants agreed.Xie Qian said: "The chief minister is right! If you don't kill the Eight Tigers, the country will lose its generals!"

Jiao Fang, a secret bastard of the Eight Tigers, also echoed: "We cannot sit back and watch the emperor be instigated by traitors and become Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling."

The civil servants all expressed their support for Liu Jian, the chief assistant, to kill the tiger.

Li Dongyang, the second assistant, Liu Daxia, the minister of the Ministry of War, and Xu Jin, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, remained silent.

Liu Jian looked at Li Dongyang: "Brother Bin, if you remain silent, don't you object to me killing the Eight Tigers?"

At this time, the atmosphere of Qiu Huan killing tigers had been incited by Liu and Xie.If Li Dongyang objects, he will become the target of public criticism and be regarded as a traitor by the civil servants.

Li Dongyang said: "It is a fact that the Eight Tigers are as evil as the emperor. I agree with the elimination of the tigers. But the chief minister said that eight of them should be killed, which is unrealistic. I thought that if the emperor could be persuaded, the Eight Tigers would be transferred to Nanjing. Go, stay away from the palace and away from the center of the imperial court, which is a good result."

"Things will go well if things are slow. If the chief minister only wants to get things done and makes life and death difficult, things will lose room for maneuver."

What Li Dongyang said was the advice of a mature man seeking the country.

But Liu Jian couldn't listen at all.

Liu Jian sneered: "It seems that Brother Bin still loves the Eight Tigers in his heart. I know that you are very interested in the chair of the Chief Minister of the Cabinet! If I lose to the Eight Tigers, you can naturally take his place."

"Teng!" Li Dongyang stood up directly from his seat: "Scholars can be killed, but not humiliated! I am a villain who is not greedy for profit! I'll take my leave!"

After speaking, Li Dongyang strode away.

Liu Jian stared at Li Dongyang's retreating back and said loudly: "Who else is leaving! Whoever leaves is a fan of the Eight Tigers! They are official scum! They are scholar traitors!"

Xie Qian echoed: "Li Dongyang has renounced himself from the scholarly world and from officialdom. He can leave whenever he wants! Everyone, let me tell you something confidential!"

"In the past six months, the chief assistant and I have sent people to collect more than 800 illegal affairs of the Eight Tigers. Each piece of evidence is conclusive, with both witnesses and material evidence! They are all solid cases!"

"At this moment, someone is escorting witnesses and evidence to the Shouxing Mansion!"

"Tomorrow morning, we will join hands to impeach the Eight Tigers! The evidence is irrefutable. If the emperor wants to protect the Eight Tigers, we will resign collectively!"

"I don't believe it. All the six ministers and nine ministers have resigned, and the Ming Dynasty is still running!"

"Even if the emperor is young and ignorant, he should clearly weigh the importance of this!"

All the civil servants agreed: "Okay, kill the Eight Tigers and protect the country tomorrow!"

"Get rid of the eunuchs, and we will all leave our names in history!"

"If the emperor protects his shortcomings, we will submit the resignation letter together!"

"Not only do you have to submit a resignation letter, you also have to kneel down and remonstrate!"

Liu Jian nodded with satisfaction: "I see that all civil servants in the dynasty, except Li Dongyang, are all upright and loyal ministers!"

Liu Daxia suddenly asked: "The eight high-ranking eunuchs participating in the impeachment must not be allowed to hear anything. Just now, the chief minister said that personal and material evidence will be sent to the chief minister's office. I don't know when it will be delivered?"

Liu Jian looked at Xie Qian.

Xie Qian said: "The dogs Xie Pi and Xie Gen are responsible for this matter. Around midnight tonight, all the witnesses and physical evidence will be sent to the Shouxing Mansion."

Liu Daxia stopped talking.

Liu Jian asked: "Isn't Liu Butang going to join us in jointly participating in the impeachment of the Eight Tigers?"

Liu Daxia said: "If the witnesses and physical evidence are complete, I am willing to sign. But if there is no evidence, I will not hear about it. I am a summer official of the imperial court, not a censor." At this moment, Xie Pi hurriedly said After entering the house, he came to his father Xie Qian and whispered a few words in a low voice.

Xie Qian's expression changed upon hearing this, and he turned to Liu Jian and said, "First Assistant, please take a step to speak."

The three of them entered the side hall.Liu Jianping withdrew his servants.

Liu Jian asked Xie Pi: "Have you brought all the witnesses and evidence?"

Xie Pi knelt down to Liu Jian with a "pop" sound: "All the human and material evidence are gone!"

Liu Jian was stunned: "What? Where is your fourth brother Xie Gen? Isn't he responsible for this?"

Xie Pi replied: "My fourth brother is missing!"

"Crack!" Liu Jian was so angry that he threw a tea bowl to the ground.

Xie Pi added: "I went to those six places today. The Jinyi guards were one step ahead of me and took away all the witnesses and evidence!"

Liu Jian gritted his teeth: "Jinyiwei? It's Jinyiwei again, and it's Changfeng! Changfeng ruined my life! If I don't kill Changfeng, I'm in vain!"

Xie Qian said from the side: "Chief Assistant, now that the witnesses and physical evidence are no longer in our hands, the matter has reached this point, and you should make a decision. Should the plan to kill the tiger be postponed?"

Liu Jian thought for a long time and made a decision: "Don't wait! Everyone in the world knows whether the Eight Tigers are loyal or traitorous! So what if there is no evidence?"

"Tomorrow we will still jointly submit a memorial to force the emperor to kill the tiger! If the emperor does not comply, we and the six ministers and nine ministers will collectively resign! In addition, let our local disciples and old friends resign as well!"

"I want to see if the emperor dares to let the court become an empty frame!"

Xie Qian agreed: "Yes! I don't believe that the emperor can rule the world by himself! Without civil servants like us, the Ming Dynasty will exist in name only!"

Liu Jiandao: "Don't tell the civil officials outside about the loss of witnesses and material evidence for the time being. Let them jointly impeach when they should. Kneel down when they should remonstrate."

Xie Qian said: "Tomorrow we will remove the Eight Tigers. In the future, we will continue to kneel down and ask the emperor to remove the three factories and one guard, and severely punish the butcher Chang Feng! How many loyal ministers and generals have been framed and framed by Chang Feng in recent years, and have been imprisoned!"

Liu Jian said sternly: "The Eight Tigers and Chang Feng are one. Apart from the Eight Tigers, Chang Feng cannot be missed."

At the Chief Assistant Mansion, the civil servants decided to attack the Eight Tigers early tomorrow morning.

An hour later, Chang Feng and the Eight Tigers gathered in a warehouse of the Palace Needlework Bureau.

Chang Feng cupped his hands and said, "Eunuch Liu, this subordinate is incompetent."

Liu Jin frowned: "Didn't you find the tiger crime box?"

Chang Feng made up a lie: "More than 800 indictments, testimonies, and more than 230 witnesses were hidden by Liu and Xie in a place on the outskirts of Beijing. They sent hundreds of people to guard them."

"I sent people to seize it, and a fight broke out between the two sides. A fire broke out during the fierce battle. The charges, testimonies, and witnesses were all destroyed in the fire."

Liu Jin looked at Chang Feng suspiciously: "Oh? What a strange fire."

Chang Feng smiled awkwardly: "It's okay to be burned. Tomorrow when the civil servants raise an issue, it will become a rumor. They have no evidence, and the emperor can justifiably protect the father-in-law."

Chang Feng originally thought Liu Jin would get to the bottom of it.

Unexpectedly, Liu Jin actually said with a smile on his face: "Captain Chang is right. Burn it, burn it clean! The eight of us can successfully survive this disaster, all thanks to Governor Chang."

"Captain Chang is indeed a person whom two generations of emperors have relied on, and he is very capable in doing things!"

Chang Feng said: "If you win a prize, win a prize."

But I was wondering in my heart: With Liu Jin's shrewdness, how could he so easily believe that the tiger crime box was burned down and turned into a wisp of smoke?
At this moment, Jiao Fang came to the crowd in a hurry.

Jiao Fang said: "Eunuch Liu, Liu Jian and Xie Qian have agreed to attack you tomorrow morning! Liu Jian has drafted the "Tiger Elimination" in his own handwriting. Almost all the six ministers and nine ministers have signed it!"

"They're going to do it!"

Liu Jin was as steady as a mountain, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea: "Don't panic, Jiao Butang. What is supposed to come will always come. Ha, after tomorrow, I should change my name to you, Jiao Ge Lao!"

Liu Jin said again: "Jiao Butang, Governor Chang, please go back to your homes first. The eight of us will go to the emperor's palace and put on a big show that will make us cry and cry!"

Bahu went to see Emperor Zhengde to act.

Chang Feng walked out of the palace gate.

Today he came to the palace gate in a sedan chair.The bearer asked: "Sir, are you going back home?"

Chang Feng nodded: "Well, go back home."

He sat in the sedan and suddenly opened the sedan curtain: "Forget it, let's go to Jinyiwei. After sending me to Jinyiwei, you go back home and tell Madam that I have important things to do tonight, and ask her not to wait for me and go to bed early. .”

Chang Feng was afraid that there would be problems with the "tiger crime" in prison.

The official sedan chair trembled and sent Chang Feng to Jin Yiwei.

Chang Feng came to Zhao Prison.Strangely, he gave Zhang Cai five hundred robes to guard the tiger crime box in the imperial prison.But at the moment, there are only dozens of jail guards who are on duty at night on weekdays.

Chang Feng asked the leader of the prison guards: "Where are Zhang Cai and the others?"

The jailer replied: "Zhang Qianshi said that you had a special order, asking him to take 200 robes and escort more than [-] wooden boxes and more than [-] witnesses to the inner factory. They left half an hour ago."

Chang Feng froze on the spot!
When did I give Zhang Cai such an important order? !

Got it, got it!Zhang Cai is Liu Jin’s man!

Oh!After playing hawk all my life, I was pecked in the eye by an hawk!

Chang Feng did not reprimand the jailer Baihu, but said quietly: "Bring me a chair. I'll wait for Zhang Qianshi to come back."

Chang Feng sat on the chair, regretting that he had trusted Zhang Cai too much these years.I regret not letting You Jingwu return to Beijing early.If You Jingwu were around, he would definitely leave the task of guarding the tiger crime box to his adopted son.

Now that there is no way to check and balance the Eight Tigers with evidence of crime, Liu Jin will still have a rift with him because of this matter.

Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in this world.

It was not until midnight that Zhang Cai returned to the imperial prison.

Chang Feng glanced at Zhang Cai: "Back?"

Zhang Cai nodded slightly.

Chang Feng asked: "When did you go to Liu Jin behind my back?"

Zhang Cai did not deny it: "Eunuch Liu is your adopted nephew. If I help him, I will help you."

Chang Feng smiled bitterly: "Oh, really?"

Zhang Cai knelt down in front of Chang Feng.

Chang Feng said: "You were promoted by me. I have nothing to say if you seek refuge with outsiders. It's because I don't know people well."

Zhang Cai said neither humble nor arrogantly: "Master Handsome, everyone has his or her own ambitions, so don't force yourself."

Chang Feng said: "If I'm not wrong, you have burned those twenty boxes of accusations and testimonies. You have killed more than 200 witnesses and silenced them. Right?"

Zhang Cai handed over his hand: "The handsome man knows things like a god."

Now that things have come to this, what else can Chang Feng say?
Chang Feng sighed: "Hey, get up. You're right, everyone has their own ambitions, so don't force yourself."

"According to Jin Yiwei's family rules. I should kill you."

"But now you are Liu Jin's. I can only let you go."

"Tomorrow you will submit a transfer document and transfer it to the inner factory."

(End of this chapter)