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Chapter 320 Nanjing Incident ([-])
Along the Qinhuai River, beside Wuding Bridge.

Kou Baimen leaned against the small window on the third floor of his attic, stroking his pipa and blowing the early summer wind. There was a pot of warm wine beside him, drinking alone, seeming quite lonely.

This is what she wants.

Although she is only 17 years old, she is already older compared to the profession of maidservant.

The most popular courtiers in Jiangnan were generally fourteen or fifteen years old - because the gentry and literati in Jiangnan liked girls aged fourteen or fifteen the most.

As they get older, they are afraid of not being able to grasp it.

Kou Baimen became famous at the age of 13. In the past three or four years, he has made a lot of money for his family.

Seeing that she was getting older, she discussed with her family to find a good "home".

After choosing in the huge city of Nanjing, I finally selected Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing.

Funing Hou was just fifty this year, not too old, and his power and wealth ranked among the top among the nobles of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhu Guobi took a fancy to her and was willing to take her as his concubine.

Speaking of which, the famous prostitutes in Jiangnan are not only good-looking, but also have talents, such as musical instruments, singing and dancing, or poetry and writing.

She was good at singing, dancing, and musical instruments, and was particularly good at the pipa. She also knew poetry and articles, but her level was not high enough to attract literati, celebrities, and talented people.

She is most famous for her sociability and conversational skills, and her amazing capacity for drinking.If a restaurant invites her, the table will be full of guests, and she will be in a good mood.

Some people gave her a "chivalrous" evaluation and called her a "chivalrous woman".

In fact, the chivalrous girl is indeed a character design tailor-made for her by the Kou family.

In the past few days, the Yi army first seized the Duke of Wei's mansion, and then sent out soldiers to seize the big grain merchants throughout the city.

Kou Baimen was smart and vaguely felt that King Xingmei was going to take action against the nobles of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing.

She guessed that Zhu Guobi would probably not escape disaster, so she had been thanking guests behind closed doors for the past few days, but deliberately drank wine and played the pipa by the bedside to show that she was worried about her benefactor but was powerless.

Before the song was finished, Kou Baimen suddenly stopped.

However, they saw that under the night, the Yi army once again moved out in large numbers, divided into more than a dozen groups, and rushed everywhere with torches.

The place where a large group of soldiers and horses went was the residence of Hou Ning!
Sure enough, not long after, a maid ran over in panic and screamed.

"My lady, things are not going right. The Funing Marquis's residence is surrounded by the Yi army, and they seem to be ransacking the house!"

Speaking of which, ever since the Wei army entered the city, the Kou family had discussed whether Kou Baimen should continue to marry Zhu Guobi as his concubine.

We discussed it many times with no result.

Because the family didn't know whether Zhu Guobi could continue to be wealthy under the rule of King Xingmei - it was hard to say. Zhu Guobi might have his house confiscated and beheaded, but he might also be reused by King Xingmei and become even more powerful.

As long as Zhu Guobi is alive, she, Kou Baimen, cannot regret her marriage for the sake of her reputation.

Because Zhu Guobi had already given a betrothal gift to his family in spring and set a wedding date.

Therefore, Zhu Guobi had no results under the rule of King Xingmei, and Kou Baimen's heart was always hanging.

At this time, she heard that the Funing Hou Mansion was surrounded by the Yi army and that the house was about to be ransacked. Her worries were relieved.

Then he went downstairs and found his "parents", a pair of shrewd businessmen.

"Father, mother, you must also know that the Yi army surrounded the Funing Hou Mansion. If nothing else happens, tomorrow Funing Hou will have his house confiscated by the Yi army and be held accountable. Therefore, the betrothal gifts we received before must be returned."

Kou Baimen's "mother" Youshi frowned and said, "Since Zhu Guobi is about to have his house confiscated and be held accountable, why should we return the betrothal gift?"

Although Zhu Guobi was taking concubines, for the sake of face, he had publicized it so that everyone in the city knew about it, so he paid a lot of betrothal gifts, estimated to be worth no less than 8 taels of silver.

The Kou family was reluctant to take out such a large sum of money.

Kou Baimen said expressionlessly: "After accepting the betrothal gift, I will be Zhu Guobi's unmarried concubine. Have my father and mother ever thought about how we would deal with it if King Xingmei convicted Zhu Guobi of the Yi tribe? ?
Could it be that father and mother are not afraid that the Qi army will raid our Kou family as well? "

"what?!"

After hearing Kou Baimen reveal the key to the matter, the two of them suddenly turned pale with fear and panic. "What should I do?"

"Is it possible that we return the betrothal gift to the Funing Marquis Mansion overnight?"

"Isn't it possible that we returned the betrothal gift and were arrested together by the Yi army as Zhu Guobi's in-laws? Wow, I don't want to go to the Yi army's female prisoner camp."

You thought of some of the rumors about the female prisoner camp of the Yi army, and she turned pale with fright and started to cry.

Kou Baimen smiled faintly, then returned to his expressionless expression and said: "We can't cancel the engagement tonight, we have to cancel the engagement with great fanfare tomorrow, so that the people around us know that the Kou family is no longer Zhu Guobi's in-laws. In this way, the Kou family may be able to escape."

Father Kou Liang nodded immediately, "Okay, I will listen to you. Tomorrow I will cancel the betrothal gift with great fanfare. I will go and let the servants prepare it first, and it will be done early tomorrow morning."

After that, he hurried out.

Kou Baimen also returned to her third floor, leaning against the window and looking at the fire dragons running around the city, as well as the noisy and frightened Ming Dynasty mansions, and finally looked in the direction of the Forbidden City.

Then he picked up the exquisite wine bottle on the table, drank the daughter red in it, picked up the pipa, and waved his hands to play.

The song is full of the flavor of fighting and fighting, and it is the famous ancient pipa song - House of Flying Daggers!
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The ninth of April.

The Wei army uncovered a major case in which [-] large grain dealers in Nanjing secretly hoarded grain and inflated grain prices, and more than a dozen Ming dynasty nobles in the city conspired to create chaos and overthrow the Yi tribe's rule over the city of Nanjing!
For several days in a row, the Tai army arrested, interrogated, confiscated, and punished the Ming Dynasty nobles in Nanjing.

On April [-], the Duke of Wei's eldest son Xu Yinjue, the Marquis of Funing Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Lingbi Tang Guozuo, the Marquis of Longping Zhang Gongri, the Marquis of Linhuai Li Zushu, the Marquis of Dingyuan Deng Wenxu, the Marquis of Anyuan Liu Zuochang and other ten people from the Ming Dynasty of Nanjing The nobles were all beheaded in public trial!

Thousands of female relatives and maidservants from these distinguished families were sent to the female prisoner camps of the Yi army.

Thousands of noble men and servants were sent to hard labor, either repairing roads and walls in the city, or being driven to build docks, ditches, and bridges outside the city.

At the same time, food prices in Nanjing fell.

From nearly sixty-two cents per stone before, it has dropped to twenty-two eight cents per stone.

It should be noted that there are still one or two months before the summer harvest. It is the lean season and food is very expensive.

After Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, the price of grain in Jiangnan was only [-] taels of silver per shi in normal times, so now it is [-] taels of silver per shi, which is already relatively low.

The common people in Nanjing buy grain by the liter, and some even buy it by the het (ten pieces per liter). After conversion, rice and noodles costing four coins per liter are now within the reach of most common people.

Moreover, since Weibu took over the city of Nanjing, he has been providing work in exchange for relief.If you can't make enough money to eat and drink at home, you can also work for the Ministry of Agriculture to earn food rations.

Therefore, in the past few days, when the people in the city saw the Tai army arresting the Ming Dynasty nobles and the gentry involved in the case, they all applauded and cheered!

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this day.

Liang Yizhang was about to go to the northwest to inspect the Second Division of the Nanjing Guard Army. He passed by the Longping Marquis Mansion and happened to see the soldiers of the Yi Army driving out Zhang Gongri's relatives within the fifth army from the Longping Marquis Mansion. Some of them were even killed. Being tied up is obviously a crime.

On the roadside, an old man with shabby clothes and gray hair was grinning and clapping his hands.

"Okay! King Xingmei is really blue! This beast Zhang Gongri has finally been cured!"

Smiling and laughing, she actually shed tears again.

Liang Yizhang was curious, so he stopped and asked, "My father-in-law is so happy. Could it be that he has a grudge against Zhang Gongri?"

When someone asked, the old man cried harder and sobbed: "Zhang Gongri, that beast, forcibly married my daughter who was a widow. As a result, my daughter died within a few days of entering the Hou Mansion, and she didn't even have a body. Give it to me.

Old man, I begged everywhere, but no one was willing to seek justice for my daughter.Even the husband's family took money from Zhang Gongri and refused to come forward to testify.

Later, he sent someone to my house to threaten me, saying that if the old man went around asking for help again, he would break my son's legs.

Wuwu...Old man, I thought I would never see Zhang Gongri's bastard Fufa in this life, but I didn't expect that I would see it now.God opens your eyes! "

Liang Yizhang was quite emotional after hearing this, and he agreed more with some of Weibu's actions.

He immediately said to the old man: "Old man, Zhang Gongri has been beheaded for questioning. Your daughter should be able to rest in peace if she knows what is going on under the spring."

The old man cried and nodded.

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)