high official

Chapter 860 Flammable and Explosive Products

Wang Xian couldn't say anything about the self-willed Emperor Yongle, and he didn't have any hope for the grandson... He knew Zhu Zhanji now, His highness the grandson had already put everything on the emperor, and it was impossible to take the risk of annoying the emperor and committing a crime. Outspoken.

"Fuck it!" Er Hei couldn't help complaining all over the sky: "Just ignore it, mess with the fuck! Anyway, we reminded you!"

"That's right!" Deng Xiaoxian was also indignant, they hadn't passed five years, and after interrogating day and night, the exact information they got was actually treated as waste paper by the emperor!It is really intolerable! "My lord, you can't do it!"

"Shut up the fuck!" Wang Xian was able to listen patiently to his subordinates' complaints at first, but he couldn't hold back his anger when he listened to them. He stared and reprimanded him: "It's fine to complain a few words. It's not over yet! She looks like an old woman, and she still looks like a senior officer!"

Erhei, Deng Xiaoxian and the others couldn't hold their heads up because of Wang Xian's spray. While wiping the spittle from their faces, they muttered to themselves: "Isn't it all learned from you..."

"My lord," fortunately, at this time Zhou Yong came in to make a rescue and said, "Master Li of Shuntian Mansion has arrived."

"I'll settle the score with you later!" Wang Xian glared at several of his subordinates, seeing them making faces and gesticulating to hit them, the subordinates hurriedly bowed their heads and subdued, Wang Xiancai snorted, and went to the foreign signing room to meet the newly appointed Yin Li Pan of Shuntian Mansion .

Li Pan is more than 40 years old, shrewd and capable. He used to serve as an inspector in Yunnan, where the people's conditions are complicated.Zhu Di moved his capital to Beijing, and people of all colors flocked into the city. It was inevitable that there would be a mixture of good and bad people, and the people's feelings would be complicated. In order to ensure the safety and stability of the new capital, Emperor Yongle specially transferred him from Yunnan.

According to the law, the envoy is a third-rank official, and the governor of Shuntian is also a third-rank official. However, from the remote Yunnan to the Beijing Yin at the foot of the emperor, it is undoubtedly a high promotion.As long as he can survive for two years without major incidents, he will definitely be able to be promoted. At that time, he will either be admitted to the sixth department as a minister, or he will be released as a chief minister, and his future will be bright!
So as soon as Wang Xian explained the situation, Li Fu Yin immediately went into a rage: "Is this okay?! How dare the white lotus monster take advantage of the Lantern Festival to cause chaos and destroy the stability and unity of our Ming Dynasty! He deserves death!"

"That's right." Although Wang Xian felt that this Lord Fu Yin was using too much force, but when he thought about it, he was in the eyes of others, so why not?At this time, what is needed is to use too much force, not to make a big deal smaller.Wang Xian cast an approving look at Li Fu Yin and said: "Master Fu Yin is really sharp, please cooperate with Shun Tian Fu and Jin Yiwei, we must protect the peace of the people in the capital, and defeat the plot of the white lotus monster!"

"Definitely." Li Pan nodded heavily and said, "Uncle, please give me an order."

"Okay!" Wang Xian was not polite to him, and said in a deep voice: "About tomorrow, the teams offering lanterns from all over the country will enter the capital. Be sure to do a good job of searching, and don't let them bring any weapons into the capital." He said suddenly: "When entering the city, after the inspection is completed, everyone must register and record their address and stay in the capital. The government will go to the door every day to check. .All troupes must be united to protect each other. If one person has an accident, everyone will sit together!"

"This..." Li Panxin said, isn't this too close to a formidable enemy?It is really not in line with the ruling taste of Confucian officials who are "loose on the outside and tight on the inside".

However, Li Pan didn't say anything, and Wang Xian said with a serious face: "Master Li, the capital is too big and there are too many people. Then there will be carnivals for days and the scene will be too chaotic. Even if we overcorrect, it will be difficult for us to avoid chaos." Sighing, a deep worry appeared on his face and said: "I'm afraid that these methods will at best only get us out of the relationship, but will not help the business..."

"Yes..." Feeling the weight in Wang Xian's heart, Li Pan couldn't help but nodded and swallowed back what he wanted to say.

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Jinyiwei and Shuntian Mansion jointly acted, and the defense of all gates in the capital was suddenly strengthened. Every citizen, every car and car entering the city, and every cart of goods entering the city were subject to unprecedented strict searches.This makes the opera troupes and lantern festivals sent to the capital to present lanterns by the governments of various places miserable... China has had the custom of watching lanterns on the Lantern Festival since the Tang and Song Dynasties.In the peaceful and prosperous times, in order to please the government, the local government will spend huge sums of money to build a large-scale, exquisite and beautiful lantern mountain, and send a lantern festival composed of hundreds of people to Beijing. smile.

Since its development, this kind of official lantern has evolved into a synonym for comparison of strength and extravagance. A lantern mountain is often tens of feet high and consists of thousands of lanterns. It is exquisite and fragile... Although the assembly work was completed after entering Beijing , but the components of Dengshan itself are extremely delicate and complex, and are very easy to be damaged.Along the way, the craftsmen of the Lantern Festival carefully cared for the carloads of lamps like babies, but now they are watching those wolf-like officials randomly open the boxes and pull out the lamps inside. Those bamboo strips How can things that are made of Korean paper can withstand such violence, and they are broken and shattered...

What's even worse is that all gunpowder, firecrackers, fireworks, and even firelighters were all confiscated as contraband, and now all lantern festivals are closed!The beauty of Dengshan lies in the shape of the third part and the light and shadow of the seventh part!Without pyrotechnic effects, what's so good about just a flower shelf?After seeing what happened to the first few lantern festivals, the bosses of the later lantern festivals summed it up and got it!Let's not go into town!Set up camp just outside the city!What do they do? !

Knowing that the owners of the Lantern Festival refused to enter the city, Li Pan anxiously went to Wang Xian: "Uncle, this is not a solution. How can the Shangyuan Festival be done without fireworks?"

"In my eyes, those are not fireworks, they are weapons!" Wang Xian stood at the head of Zhengyangmen City, looked at the hill-like fireworks and gunpowder found in the open space outside the city, and said with a dark face: "Put these things away." It is too dangerous to enter the city of Beijing!"

"Uncle, aren't you overthinking it? It's just fireworks..." Li Pan is a civil servant after all, and he doesn't understand the power of firearms.

"Fireworks are good, but a little modification is a sharp weapon for murder and arson!" Wang Xian said quietly.No wonder he was so nervous. According to the report of the Sixth Division of Jinyiwei, using a series of materials for making Dengshan, plus iron nails, charcoal, saltpeter, etc. that can be bought freely from the capital, it is completely possible to make a lantern in a very short period of time. Produced countless powerful gunpowder weapons.At that time, the crowd watching the lanterns would be as dense as congee, so you don’t need to aim at it, just a few random shots can create a great panic, and then cause a terrible stampede... That horrible scene made Wang Xian shudder, so he would rather be scolded by the people of the capital as a Dog, he also wants to prevent those deadly things from entering Beijing.

However, Wang Xian can withstand the pressure of the whole capital, but he can't withstand a will of the supreme...

The next day, Wang Xian was personally interrogating the blacksmith of the White Lotus Sect in the yamen.Suddenly, Fifth Master Long rushed in out of breath and shouted loudly: "My lord, it's not good! Shuntian Mansion opened the city gate and let those lanterns enter the city!"

"What?!" Wang Xian's complexion changed drastically, and he jumped up and said, "Who gave Li Pan such courage?!"

After saying three steps and doing two steps, he arrived in the yard and shouted loudly: "Zhou Yong! Gather the team!"

Fifth Master Long took a breath at this time, and said to Wang Xian in a low voice: "King Zhao seems to be at Zhengyang Gate..."

"What?!" Wang Xian's complexion changed, he had calmed down from the shock when he first heard the news, and knew that with King Zhao's current behavior of shrinking his head, his sudden appearance at this moment must have been ordered.

At this time, Zhou Yong had already assembled hundreds of guards on duty in an emergency, and reported loudly: "Please give orders, my lord!"

"Disband." Wang Xian's face was very ugly.

"Obey!" Zhou Yong responded loudly reflexively, turned around and ordered to his subordinates: "All listen to the order and disband!" After finishing speaking, the officers and soldiers of Jinyiwei were dumbfounded, and Zhou Yong was also dumbfounded, so he looked at Wang in a daze. Xian, I don't know what the adults mean.

"Didn't you hear? Disband." Wang Xian waved his hands angrily, and said to Zhou Yong: "Bei Ma, you accompany me to Zhengyangmen."

"Yes." Although Zhou Yong was still confused, it did not prevent him from carrying out the order. He turned his head and cursed at his stunned subordinates, "Didn't you hear me? Disband!"

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After a cup of tea, Wang Xian rushed to Zhengyangmen, and sure enough, he saw that the caravan of lanterns that had been stationed outside the city for two days had passed through the city gate like a long dragon, entered the capital, and then dispersed in the streets and alleys of Beijing...

Looking at the piles of firecrackers and bundles of fireworks on the car, Wang Xian felt his hands and feet go limp and his eyes darkened.

"Isn't this Uncle Zhongyong?" It was the voice of King Zhao, calling Wang Xian back to God.

Wang Xian looked at the sound and saw King Zhao, accompanied by Li Pan, coming down from the tower of Zhengyangmen.

"My lord." Wang Xian cupped his fist hastily and asked coldly, "Is this your masterpiece?"

"Uncle Zhongyong praised you very much," King Zhao said with a smile, "this king is just an empty prince, how can there be such power as Uncle Zhongyong? In one sentence, all the lanterns that represent the provinces and governments in Beijing to congratulate the emperor on moving the capital will be sent to the emperor. Stop outside Beijing."

"..." Wang Xian ignored the sarcasm in Zhao Wang's words, and shouted in a deep voice: "I am thinking about the safety of the capital!"

"I think you just want to make things difficult for the emperor!" King Zhao sneered, "So that you can help your master create an illusion that the emperor has betrayed everyone!"

"You!" Before Wang Xian could speak, Erhei behind him said angrily, "You fucking spitting blood!"

"What are you?!" Zhao Wang sneered coldly: "You deserve to shout in front of this king?!"

"You!" Erhei's one-eyed blood was red, and he was about to say something more, but when Wang Xian raised his hand, he had no choice but to shut up.

"Li Fu Yin," Wang Xian stared at Li Pan coldly and said, "Close the city gate immediately!"

"Impossible!" It was not Li Pan who answered him, but Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui.

(End of this chapter)