Saving the Ming Dynasty: I can exchange bodies with Chongzhen

Chapter 68: Bloody Night in Kyoto

Inside Fan Mansion,

"Yuehong! Come, have a drink with the master!" Fan Yongdou had just taken a concubine today, so the whole mansion was hung with red vines.

A thin woman trembled all over after hearing his voice, as if she had encountered something extremely terrible.

This woman actually had a man, but was taken a fancy to by Fan Yongdou, who devised a plan to bankrupt her in-laws.

Her husband went to the government office to file a complaint, but was bribed by Fan Yongdou and was given eighty lashes with the stick. He died not long after returning home. Fan Yongdou then took out a fake indenture and abducted the woman into the Fan Mansion.

"Yuehong, I'm telling you, if you just serve me well and give birth to a fat boy for me, I will make your life more comfortable than in the palace."

"I...I will fight you!" The woman stood up with tears in her eyes, wanting to fight with Fan Yongdou, but her hands and feet were tied.

As soon as he stood up, he fell to the ground.

Fan Yongdou helped her up, and grabbed her neck with a fierce smile, "Fight for your life? What are you fighting for? I might as well tell you that in this Ming Dynasty, even the emperor may not have the power to speak as loudly as our Fan family."

"In the land of Ming, you have to be rich and powerful, and you have to have real connections in the court before your words can count."

"Don't think that a lawsuit means you just kneel down in court and someone will redress your grievances. You are not the first one in this backyard, and you won't be the last..."

"You're still fighting... bang bang... If you dare to disobey, I'll beat you to death." He kicked the woman's head hard until she passed out, then he dragged her into the room.

Suddenly, the earth shook and Fan Yongdou stumbled and fell to the ground.

The deafening explosion outside made Fan Yongdou's head buzz and he seemed to be stunned.

His dazed consciousness had not yet awakened at this moment, and he shouted out as usual: "Liu Er, where the hell have you been? What happened outside?"

"Ok?"

In the past, after he cursed, the butler Liu Er would definitely answer, but now... Fan Yong stood up angrily and walked towards the door outside, cursing as he walked: "Damn Liu Er, I'm marrying a concubine, and you can't hold it in anymore?"

Fan Yongdou had a gloomy face. He held onto the wall and walked out step by step. He suddenly opened the door and said, "Liu Er, are you deaf..."

next moment.

"Swish!" Blood shot up into the sky and splashed directly onto his face.

Fan Yongdou touched it unconsciously, it was sticky and extremely red... He sobered up instantly.

The scene before him made him tremble all over and his legs went weak.

Members of the Fan family were kneeling one after another in the yard. Anyone who tried to run or resist was stabbed to death.

Blood flowed in the yard and gathered into pits in the low-lying areas.

In the Fan Mansion, because Fan Yongdou took a concubine, the lights were brighter than ever. The flickering light of the candles in the mansion and the blood plasma on the ground complemented each other.

Rattan armor, muskets, sharp knives, blood... everything twisted into a suffocating atmosphere, like a mountain hitting Fan Yongdou's heart.

His Adam's apple rolled and he asked in a trembling voice: "Who... who are you? Do you know where this place is?"

There seemed to be anger and threat in the tone, but the trembling voice did not reveal any confidence.

"Fan Yongdou, right?" A low response came over, the voice was not loud, brief but steady, "The Jinyiwei followed the order of His Majesty, the Fan family secretly colluded with the Later Jin, and sold out the country for personal gain..."

Fan Yongdou's teeth trembled. "No, it's impossible... How could our Fan family do such a thing? We must have made a mistake. Lord Xue is my good friend. If you don't believe me, go ask Lord Xue. Lord Zhang can also be my guarantor..."

"Oh, I wonder which Lord Xue you are talking about? Which Lord Zhang?" Jinyiwei commander Li Ruolian slowly walked out from the darkness.

The flickering light shone on his back, and a huge shadow just covered Fan Yongdou.

Fan Yongdou couldn't see the other person's face clearly, he just felt that the other person's figure was exceptionally tall and sharp.

This time, the Jinyiwei acted in a low-key but unusually ruthless manner.

After entering the mansion, there was no intensity or noise, but there was no hesitation in their actions.

It was like a knife, piercing directly into the enemy's internal organs.

This was also Zhu Changgan's positioning of the Jinyiwei, whose functions shifted to gathering intelligence, transmitting information, and directly participating in combat.

"Xue..." Fan Yongdou was about to speak but suddenly stopped.

He remembered that Xue Guoguan had told him before that no matter what happened, he must not be exposed, otherwise his Fan family would be in trouble.

I can't say it, I can't say it at this time. If I say it, it will only drag Lord Xue into the water. Only by keeping Lord Xue outside can I turn the situation around and help me.

"Now that his identity has been established, let's tie him up and hang him up!" Li Ruolian casually called his men over. At this time, the strong men of the Jinyiwei had arrived and directly grabbed Fan Yongdou and lifted him up.

"Let me go. What crime have I committed that earns you the right to treat our Fan family like this?" Fan Yongdou shouted angrily, his expression twitching as he tried to break free.

But the Jinyiwei strongman just hit him in the face with his knife, and blood immediately gushed out. A cut appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he immediately stopped making any noise.

"Fan Yongdou, is there any secret room in your home?" Jinyiwei commander Li Ruolian looked over and asked lightly.

"No, there is no secret room in the Fan family..."

Li Ruolian waved his hand, and Fan Yongdou saw an eight-foot-tall Jinyiwei strongman standing in front of him. His eyes were as cold as ice, and he looked at him as if he were no different from a pig or a sheep, and then he opened a huge box.

There were all kinds of small knives, small hooks, nails, iron sticks, rusty iron racks...

Li Ruo Lian turned around and said to the others, "Don't just sit there. If Fan Yongdou doesn't want to tell you, ask the other members of the Fan family."

"Yes!"

The Jinyiwei strongmen who were in charge of torture dragged several direct relatives of the Fan family to other rooms.

Fan Yongdou shouted to his nephews and nieces who were taken away, "Hold on! He doesn't dare to kill you. As long as we can survive this time, our Fan family will be safe."

But just a few seconds later,

"Ah~"

The shrill screams, like the sound of a pig being slaughtered, suddenly pierced the night sky and scared away many birds around the Fan Mansion.

"Oh, I really don't know what a secret room is!"

"Please forgive me. I will tell you everything I know..."

Compared with Fan Yongdou's sons and nephews, he himself spoke the fastest and the most.

Li Ruolian asked the Jinyiwei to conduct a thorough search of every place mentioned by these people. Soon, they found a large number of letters, account books, gold and silver treasures.

He took a look at the contents and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He knew that only with these things could he report to the emperor.

"Sir, there is a woman who has been knocked unconscious in the inner room."

"Who is this?" Li Ruolian brought a person from the Fan family over and soon found out what had happened.

At this time, someone was carrying a bucket of cold water and pouring it on. Li Ruolian walked up to Su Yuehong, who was wearing a wedding dress and covered in blood, and asked, "Do you want to seek justice?"

The woman's blood color had all gone out of her eyes, and she knelt on the ground, "It's useless, it's all useless..."

"Do you know who I am?"

Silence, a long silence.

A captain of the Jinyiwei nearby said quickly, "This is our Jinyiwei commander, Li Da."

"It's useless. Fan Yongdou said that he is the law and he has bribed high-ranking officials in the court with his money..." Blood was oozing from the edges of the woman's lips, and the world of despair was gloomy and silent.

"Look who he is?" Li Ruolian had a man who looked like meat paste dragged to the front.

The woman's eyes suddenly widened. Although the man's face was already bloody and mangled, she could still vaguely recognize him. "He... He is Fan Yongdou?"

"That's right!" Li Ruo Lian said calmly, "You are free now."

The woman's eyes suddenly lit up, but soon dimmed again, and she cried heartbreakingly, "But everyone in my husband's family is dead, all died unjustly..."

"Why, you want to seek justice?" Li Ruolian looked at her and sighed, "I know you have filed a complaint in Shuntian Prefecture before, and I also know that Shuntian Prefecture and Fan Yongdou are in collusion in your case."

"If you still want to seek justice, you can submit it to the Shuntian government office tomorrow. You don't need to worry about the rest. It just so happens that I have an old grudge with the Shuntian governor, and I want to bring him down. I don't know if you are willing to do so?" The woman raised her head suddenly, her eyes red. "Yes, I am willing. As long as I can seek justice for my husband's family, I will sacrifice my life, so what!"

"Okay!" Li Ruolian nodded and waved his hand to signal the Jinyiwei to withdraw their troops.

As a minister, you naturally have to consider the interests of Your Majesty.

Today, he heard from His Majesty that he asked the Yongwei Camp to be on guard against Shuntian Prefecture, which meant that His Majesty intended to replace the governor of Shuntian Prefecture.

As the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, he naturally had to find a reason for His Majesty to replace him.

……

at the same time,

The Jinyiwei were also carrying out a similar scene in the other eight families.

Does that mean Shanxi merchants shouldn’t be in Shanxi?

Why are you in Beijing?

Actually, it's all because their business is so big.

The fact that the Shanxi merchants, headed by the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants, have a large number of industries in the capital is only a small reason.

The most crucial thing is that they have hooked up with high-ranking officials in the court, and they must maintain relations with the current civil officials in the capital.

Today, Lord Li is taking a concubine, so I'd like to take this opportunity to give him a gift.

Mr. Huang is moving into a new house tomorrow. I haven’t had the chance to meet him before, so I can take this opportunity to ask someone to introduce him to me.

The mother of Lord Zhang from the Internal Cabinet will be turning 80 tomorrow, and the Shanxi merchants naturally cannot miss such a good opportunity... It is impossible that by that time, the heads of other families will all show up, and the head of your Fan family will happen to go back to Shanxi?

Wouldn't it be like giving up this relationship that I worked so hard to establish to someone else?

Therefore, in recent years, the imperial court has increasingly emphasized Shanxi merchants and suppressed Anhui merchants. Shanxi merchants have stayed in the capital for longer and longer periods of time each year, and they try not to return to Shanxi unless necessary.

The Jinyiwei's lightning-fast action this time can be said to have captured all the prominent figures of the Shanxi merchant families in one fell swoop.

……

Outside the Shuntian Prefecture government office.

Sun Yingyuan looked at the sky and murmured, "It should be almost done over there, there should be some movement over here too!"

Relatively speaking, Shuntian Prefecture has more soldiers and stronger combat power than the Wucheng Bingmasi, so most of the Yongwei Camp are concentrated near Shuntian Prefecture.

He held a few copper coins in both hands and muttered, "Heaven and earth, please help the Jade Emperor to show his power... I hope those bastards from Shuntian Prefecture and Wucheng Military Command will get their heads stuck in the door."

"Come out quickly, let me teach you a lesson and make you a military achievement for me."

"Let's get a general..."

As he was muttering, he heard someone whispering, "General, someone seems to be coming out of Shuntian Prefecture."

Sun Yingyuan jumped up suddenly, "Get ready!"

His eyes were shining as he stared at the gate of Shuntian Prefecture Yamen, waiting for someone to rush out.

But after waiting for a long time, I found that the person only opened the door for a short while and then closed it again.

"I..." Sun Yingyuan's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. "What the hell is going on? Why did you go back?"

……

Before one stick of incense,

Hearing the noisy noise outside, Shuntian Prefecture Governor Dong Shilai ran out from the back court and asked the people below, "What's wrong? What happened?"

"My lord, the Jinyiwei have taken action against the Shanxi merchants." The Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture ran in hurriedly from outside and said with fear in his eyes.

"What did you say? Who did you attack?"

"The Shanxi merchants are Fan Yongdou and his gang... They not only confiscated people's property, but also killed people. Fan Yongdou himself was tortured, and blood was gushing out when he was taken away..."

As the Jinyiwei closed in, the news spread quickly and was known to those in the court who were interested. The Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture also rushed over as soon as he received the news.

Shuntian Prefecture Governor Dong Shilai suddenly shuddered, his eyes dull, "How could it be? Why would the Royal Guards suddenly attack them? He was at my son's 100th birthday party the day before yesterday..."

He had accepted gifts from Fan Yongdou before, and more than once, so he was a little flustered. He didn't even bother to change his clothes and just walked out holding his shoes.

"Open the door and wake up all the soldiers in Shuntian Prefecture. We can't let the Jinyiwei take Fan Yongdou away, otherwise he will not be able to bear it and will expose me as well."

But before he even walked out of the door, he was stopped by Shuntian Prefecture Minister, "Sir, you can't call the soldiers. There are people from the Yongwei Camp outside. There are tens of thousands of them outside. I see they are all wearing armor and holding weapons. If we make any noise, I'm afraid they will really dare to kill people."

"Have you forgotten about Duke Cheng?"

"Duke Cheng..." Dong Shilai's face suddenly turned pale, and he suddenly understood, "I was wondering why the Yongwei Battalion came into the city for no reason. I guess they were waiting for me here."

He wiped the sweat off his face and said with lingering fear: "Fortunately you reminded me not to go out. The more I wait for this moment, the more I must not move. I must not give the Brave Guards a chance to take action."

"Ask the kitchen staff to prepare a few side dishes for me to drink with you to calm my nerves."

……

Outside, watching Shuntian Mansion close its gates again, Sun Yingyuan cursed angrily, "Dong Shilai is a bastard, he is very cunning, he must have seen our Yongwei Battalion outside and dared not come out."

"Damn..."

The duck that was in his hand flew away, and his high spirits suddenly dropped.

at this time,

Someone came to report, "General Sun, there are unusual movements in the Five Cities Army."

Sun Yingyuan's Adam's apple rolled, and he grabbed his clothes fiercely, "Are you sure? Are you making fun of me again?"

"This time it's real. A lot of people came out from the Wucheng Bingmasi, about a thousand."

"Thousands..." Sun Yingyuan couldn't help swallowing his saliva and said in ecstasy: "Good, good, it's still these nobles who are stupid and stupid."

Among the relatives and fathers of princes’ wives who had no official positions in the Wucheng Bingmasi, the fathers of princes’ wives were appointed as military commanders, and the fathers of princes’ wives were appointed as deputy commanders, so that there were countless nephews and sons of nobles among them.

"General, do you want to wait a little longer?"

"That's enough. A thousand people is not a small number, but more is not too much. Don't let them go back like Shuntianfu did." Sun Yingyuan clenched his fists and said, "Do it!"

Following Sun Yingyuan's order, all the brave guards set out.

The thousand or so men of the Wucheng Bingmasi were caught up by the Yongwei Battalion just after they walked two blocks away.

"Bang bang bang bang~~"

The Yongwei Battalion directly raised their flintlock rifles and started firing a round of shots. Sun Yingyuan did not even give them a chance to explain.

what is this?
This is a walking military achievement, this is my shining rank of general, why waste time talking to them?

That was because they were within the imperial city, and the artillery was mainly used to deal with Shuntian Prefecture, otherwise he really wanted to use artillery to bombard them directly.

Heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout the street, and countless people were hit by bullets and fell to the ground.

The rattan-armored soldiers of the Yongwei Camp, holding sharp knives, rushed over from behind and chopped down any soldiers who were still alive.

"..."Sun Yingyuan watched all this with narrowed eyes, his face determined, because the emperor's order to him was to kill without mercy.

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