The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 321 List of Traitors
  The three of them traveled all the way south to a post station in Leling County, Shandong Province.

Basha jumped out of the carriage: "Master Chang, Leling Station has arrived. Shall we carry Mr. Wang down?"

Chang Feng nodded, and the two of them worked together to put Wang Shouren on the stretcher and carried him into the inn.

The Yi Cheng came forward, stretched out his hand and asked the three of them: "Where are the Yi coupons?"

Chang Feng handed the post ticket to Yi Cheng: "Here, this is it."

After Yi Cheng looked at it, he whispered: "It turns out to be you. I have been waiting for you for a long time. Don't worry, everyone, although you are relegated, I will treat you with the hospitality standards of a first-class official."

Chang Feng thought that Yi Cheng was afraid of the remaining power of Chang Tufu, his royal guard, so he made an exception to entertain him.

Chang Feng was wrong. People only looked at Wang Shouren's face.

The postmaster said: "The prefect has already sent word. Mr. Wang Shouren is a model civil servant who is not afraid of power. He asked us to receive Mr. Wang well when he comes to the post."

Although local officials all over the world were afraid of Liu Jin's power, they did not dare to confront him head-on. But everyone admired Wang Shouren who dared to speak up for his colleagues, fought against Liu Jin, and did not hesitate to get into unexpected situations.

When passing through various prefectures in northern Zhili, local officials did not dare to show up to receive Wang Shouren. But they all ordered their subordinates to come and present Cheng Yi, wine and food as gifts.

Wang Shouren, who was lying on the stretcher, said: "We are demoted criminals. Isn't it inappropriate to treat us like first-class officials?"

Yi Cheng said with a smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Wang. I have the final say on this one-third of an acre of land in the post station. There will be no wind."

Chang Feng has been doing secret work for half his life and is very sensitive. He asked: "How do you know he is Mr. Wang?"

"Although we handed over the post ticket, we still announced our names."

Yi Cheng smiled and said: "Everyone in the world doesn't know that Mr. Wang was beaten with dozens of sticks because he was an enemy of a traitorous eunuch. His muscles and bones were injured."

"He was lying on a stretcher and couldn't get up. Who else could be Mr. Wang besides him?"

In fact, in addition to Wang Shouren, Liu Jin's public enemies were also Chang Feng.

But Chang Feng was always a factory guard and had a bad reputation among literati.

Therefore, the literati of the Ming Dynasty passed down the story orally that Wang Shouren was not afraid of the powerful officials, but Chang Feng was not included in the story.

The postmaster led the three of them to the three first-class rooms in the post station.

Yi Cheng said: "You three, you can stay here. I will arrange the meals according to the standard of serving a first-class member with sixteen plates and eight bowls."

Chang Feng said: "No. We live in the same room."

Yi Cheng quickly said: "Ah, isn't it too crowded?"

Chang Feng made no secret of it: "We are afraid that Liu Jin will send his followers to assassinate Mr. Wang. Therefore, we need to live in the same room for close protection."

The post manager nodded: "Understood! Don't worry, our post station's sixteen post soldiers, two cooks and six handymen will fight to the death to protect Mr. Wang."

"The prefect said that if something happened to Mr. Wang at Leling Station, he would send us all to the northwest to serve as troops!"

After running secret errands for so many years, Chang Feng developed a habit. That is to never trust anyone easily.

He said to Yi Cheng: "The food will be delivered directly to this bedroom. Basha, let's settle Mr. Wang down first. You go to the kitchen and watch the cook cooking."

Basha nodded: "Okay."

The three of them entered the bedroom and settled down, and Basha went to the kitchen.

Chang Feng used various means to search the house, looking for secret passages in the bedrooms.

He was afraid that Liu Jin's killers would sneak up on him through the secret passage in the middle of the night.

After some searching, the bedroom was fairly safe. Chang Feng tied a string to both sides of the door and hung a bell on it.

Wang Shouren said: "Brother Chang, you are too careful."

Chang Feng gave a bitter smile: "Be careful of sailing the ten thousand year ship. I don't know how many people under Liu Jin are eager to kill you and claim credit in front of their master."

After a while, the bell at the door rang.

Basha opened the door. Several postmen served the wine and food.

Chang Feng ordered the postmen: "You go down first."

All the postmen left.

Chang Feng took out the set of household items that Jin Yiwei used to test for poison when he was out on business, and carefully tested the food and wine one by one.

After a stick of incense, Chang Feng said: "It's done, you can eat it."

Basha took some vegetables from each plate and put them on two plates. He walked to the bed and fed Wang Shouren.

After finishing their meal, Wang Shouren said, "Excuse me, Brother Basha, please take a copy of Huixian Yaxu from my luggage."

Wang Shouren keeps reading the book day and night. He is simply the king of scrolls among literati.

For him, reading is a pleasure. He reads those obscure classical Chinese books just like later Internet bookworms read time travel novels. If you don't watch it for a day, you won't be able to eat well.

Chang Feng also took out a copy of "The Number One Scholar of All Dynasties" and began to study it. This is one of the information books for preparing for the national examination.

Basha sat on a chair. He put the Tujia knife on his knees and stared at the door with a pair of tiger eyes.

It was late at night, and Wang Shouren lay on the bed and fell asleep.

Changfeng and Basha made a bed. After a long day's journey, Chang Feng yawned due to his deep sleepiness.

He told Basha: "You will be on duty in the first half of the night, and I will be on duty in the second half of the night."

Basha nodded: "Okay."

Midnight.

"Dang!" The bell at the door suddenly rang!

A man in black robe opened the door and walked in.

Basha reacted very quickly. He stood up from the ground and in the blink of an eye, the knife was placed on the neck of the man in black robe.

Chang Feng also woke up with a start, picked up the scorpion crossbow placed next to his pillow, and pointed it at the man in black robe: "Who is it?"

The man in black robe said: "Don't get me wrong. I am Liang Chengde, the governor of Dezhou."

Basha lit the candle. Liang Chengde took off his black robe, revealing a fourth-grade Yunyan Fei robe underneath.

Wang Shouren was also woken up. Rubbing his sleepy eyes: "Brother, who is it?"

Liang Chengde said: "Brother Shouren, I am Liang Chengde. In the second year of Hongzhi, when you and your wife passed by Guangxin to pay a visit to your master Lou Liang, we met once."

Wang Shouren looked at Liang Chengde carefully: "Ah, it's Senior Brother Liang."

Chang Feng also recognized Liang Chengde: "I remember, you were the sixth in the top two in the sixth year of Hongzhi. That year I entered the Gongyuan with you and Brother Shouren."

"Brother Shouren and I have lost our reputations. But you were nominated on the apricot list and ranked second on the gold list."

Liang Chengde said: "You must be the Chang Governor of Jinyiwei. You are indeed a person whom the late emperor relied on. You really have a good memory."

Chang Feng asked: "Prefect Liang, why are you here late at night?"

Liang Chengde said: "I learned that Brother Shouren had arrived at Lelingyi, and he rode a horse overnight to come here."

"Don't worry. The prefects of Dezhou, Jinan, Tai'an, and Jining have privately communicated with each other. During your transit in Shandong, we will do our best to keep Brother Ren safe."

"He is now a role model for civil servants all over the world. We will do our best to ensure that he can go south smoothly."

Wang Shouren said: "Thank you very much, Senior Brother Liang."

Liang Chengde added: "I have brought fifty police officers from the prefecture's yamen this time. They are all good men. They will escort you all the way across the Texas border."

"When we reach Jinan, the prefect Sun of Jinan will also send people to escort us. The same is true for Tai'an and Jining."

"After Shandong, I think the local officials in other provinces will also try their best to protect Brother Shouren." Chang Feng said: "You are making enemies of Liu Jin! Aren't you afraid that Liu Jin will cause trouble for you?"

Liang Chengde smiled bitterly: "Few people in the world have the courage to openly oppose Liu Jin. Not everyone has the courage like Brother Shouren."

"But we secretly made an enemy of Liu Jin and protected Wang Shouren. We still have the courage."

Chang Feng said: "I didn't expect all the local officials from all over the world to form a group. They want to protect my brother Shouren and get him to Guizhou safely."

Liang Chengde said: "Captain Chang, you have been demoted to a postman and are not qualified to read the Di's newspaper. Maybe you don't know yet, right?"

"Ten days ago, Liu Jin issued an order to the world in the name of the emperor. In Yunnan, guard eunuchs were tried to replace the governor's duties."

"There are rumors in the DPRK that in the future, supervisory eunuchs will be tried to replace the duties of the chief envoy and the inspector-general!"

"Liu Jin is ambitious. The Ming Dynasty used civilian officials to rule the world. He wants to change it to eunuchs to rule the world."

"If the civil servants all over the world don't unite and fight secretly with us, in ten or eight years, I'm afraid those of us who have studied hard for ten years and got the second rank of Jinshi will go home to have children!"

It was a bold move for eunuchs to rule the world. Liu Jin and Chang Feng revealed this idea before.

At this time, Chang Feng firmly believed that it was absolutely impossible for eunuchs to rule the world!

Liu Jin only took power for a few months before all the bad qualities of eunuchs were revealed.

As a digression, from the perspective of modern people, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty did exploit the people and were indeed corrupt and corrupt.

But at least the civil servants in the mid-Ming Dynasty understood how to fish from the bottom of the lake sustainably. I know that leeks cannot be uprooted, they have to be cut off one crop after another for a long time.

Eunuchs are different. They are not imperial examinations - they are promoted step by step through the bureaucracy.

Most of the eunuchs were like Liu Jin, who would catch the fish and cut the leeks as soon as they regained power.

Today the power of eunuchs is still concentrated in the capital.

If eunuchs take charge of the country in the future, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will be like the Southern Han Dynasty, and the country will perish because of eunuchs ruling the country.

Chang Feng said: "No wonder you are so united this time, vowing to keep Brother Ren safe at Longchang."

Liang Chengde said: "Brother Shouren is a flag for civil servants to resist the eunuchs. This flag cannot be fallen!"

Chang Feng said: "Then I'll spare you the trouble."

In fact, Wang Shouren traveled south this time. Not only are there secret protection from civil servants.

Chang Feng also mobilized a force to accompany him secretly for protection.

Now all the factory guards belong to Liu Jin. The factory guards are unreliable.

The power Changfeng mobilized was from the Miaoshou Sect.

Sai Tanghong, the head of the Miaoshou Sect, sent her senior brother Shi Jian, who was over fifty years old, with twenty masters to secretly follow Chang Feng and their carriage.

At this moment, twenty Miaoshoumen masters are in the woods near the inn.

As long as Changfeng fires his arrow, they will come over.

Now, fifty more agents from Liang Chengde are added to help. It would be safer to stay in Lelingyi for the night.

Liang Chengde took out a silver note from his sleeve: "These five hundred taels are for Brother Shouren. You must not shirk it."

Youdao was a poor official in the capital, but a rich county magistrate.

Nine out of ten local civil servants in the Ming Dynasty were rich men. They are always generous in giving gifts to their bosses and colleagues who pass by.

Wang Shouren had just passed through the northern Zhili border and entered Shandong. He has already collected three to four thousand taels of Cheng Yi.

Wang Shouren and his son had always been honest as officials, but they did not expect that a trip to be demoted would turn him into a wealthy landlord.

At the same time, Beijing.

Liu Jin summoned Chang Feng's brother-in-law, Yin Huangyuan of Shuntian Prefecture, in the ceremonial office.

Huang Yuan cupped his hands: "Yitaishan."

Liu Jin said enthusiastically: "Good son-in-law, you are here, sit down quickly. Come on, why are you so ignorant, why don't you serve tea quickly?"

Huang Yuan took a sip of tea: "Yitaishan, you always have everything to do today. Is it important to summon my son-in-law?"

Liu Jin smiled and said: "It's an important matter and a good thing. Today Jiao Fang came to me and said that there is a vacancy for the Northern Zhili Inspector General. One of his students is willing to pay [-] taels of silver to buy this vacant son."

"It's a good thing, can I give outsiders an advantage?"

"What I mean is that if you are promoted to be the Inspector of Northern Zhili, you will still serve as the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture."

It has been more than ten days since Chang Feng was demoted from Beijing. Liu Jin is a very emotional person and always feels sorry for the Chang family.

He could only compensate the Chang family by promoting Chang Feng's brother-in-law Huang Yuan.

As soon as Liu Jin said this, Huang Yuan was stunned: "Isn't this against the rules?"

"Since my son-in-law became a Jinshi, he has been idle at home as a guest of honor."

"When I started serving as an official this year, I was promoted to the fifth rank of Shuntian Prefecture. Within a few months, I was promoted to four ranks and became the third rank of governor. Now I am going to be promoted to the third rank of Beizhili Inspector. I'm afraid some people will criticize me."

Liu Jin glared: "Criticism? Who dares to criticize? You think you have a long life, right?"

"My godson-in-law, Liu Jin, has been promoted to the rank of Inspector. If anyone dares to talk too much, I will cut out his tongue!"

"I have already said hello to the governor of Beizhili. Let him take good care of you, the new boss."

"When you take office as a new official, you have to do something practical to impress others. As the director is in charge of criminal prosecution, you can check the backlog of cases."

"If there is insufficient manpower, we will call it from the internal factory."

"In short, as long as you have smooth sailing in the officialdom and rise step by step. If you need money, I will give it to you. If you need people, I will give them to you!"

Liu Jin really had nothing to say about his treatment of Huang Yuan.

Huang Yuan, the adopted son of an old lame man who was a master of door-keeping, has now achieved great success.

Huang Yuandao: "Yitaishan. My son-in-law has something to ask of you. Among the people who followed Wang Shouren in the memorial a while ago, five of them are of the same age as me."

"Their family members came to my house to beg for help. I thought, could Yitaishan give my son-in-law face and let them go?"

Liu Jin waved his hand: "I am the same year as you, Cheng! Just give me your name and I will let him go. You tell them to be honest in the future. Don't get involved with the traitors!"

Huang Yuan was stunned: "Traitor?"

Liu Jin took out a piece of paper from the desk: "Yes, I made a list of traitors. It will be read out at the imperial gate tomorrow morning. Take a look."

Huang Yuan took the list and looked at it carefully.

In this list, former cabinet members include Liu Jian and Xie Qian.

Former ministers of the ministry include Han Wen, Yang Shousui, Zhang Fuhua and Lin Han.

The former subordinate officials include Li Mengyang, the doctor, Wang Shouren, the chief officer, and so on.

The former CI minister criticized Liu Rui and so on.

Among the ex-partners are Tang Lijing, Chen Ting, etc.

Former censors include Bo Yanzheng, He Tianqu and so on.

Huang Yuan took a quick look and found that the list of traitors included hundreds of people. They are all people who have opposed Liu Jin.

Liu Jin said: "Originally, I wanted to include your uncle Chang Feng on the list of traitors. After thinking about it, I decided not to. After all, he is kind to me."

"You and Po Nu should do well. I will not treat you badly. To me, Changfeng is Changfeng, and the Chang family is the Chang family."

(End of this chapter)