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The border town's military equipment was slack, and his comrades and comrades died. Liu Jin didn't feel anything, and even thought about returning to Zhenqiang Fort to continue living in silence.

But brothers and relatives, wives, children, and children were killed, but Liu Jin completely hated him. He didn't dare to stay here in Zhenqiang Fort. He went to find relatives and friends who didn't know the news nearby, borrowed money, and came all the way to Datong.

There are not many clues to this tragedy, but Liu Jin remembered the name "General Yu of the Left Guard". Will.

More than [-] Ming officers and soldiers were killed, and it was done in collusion with the Tartars. I don’t know if there is any evidence. As long as this matter is revealed, the upper authorities will definitely be shocked. Naturally, General Yu had nothing to do with it.

He never thought that after he came to Datong, he would go to the chief soldier to file a complaint. This time he was more careful, he stayed in the inn and found a clerk, and asked the clerk to deliver it to the government office, but then he left the inn and found someone nearby. Watch where you can hide.

In less than half an hour, more than a dozen officials came here on horseback and hurried upstairs. Liu Jin was terrified. If the letter of complaint was in the hands of the chief soldier, he would only investigate it instead of sending people Come here, these people are clearly here to arrest people and silence them.

Besides, counting the time, the letter was handed over, and at most it was in the hands of the clerk. After reading the letter, the clerk should report it, instead of coming here to find someone with such great fanfare.

Liu Jin didn't even dare to go out, and stayed in the hiding place, and the officials searched inside and out, and then left reluctantly.

Not long after, there were more people here. Looking around, Liu Jin recognized a few of them. He had clearly seen them in another camp on the grassland, and finally stayed until night before running away...

"My lord, the small ones were sent to the governor's yamen, to the supervising army, everything that could be sent anywhere, and there was no news, or someone was sent out to find the villain. If it weren't for the blessings of gods and Buddhas, the small ones might not know. He died outside in vain... In the past four or five years, the villain has kept his name incognito, just seeking justice for his family and colleagues, but he can't find it. In Shanxi and Datong, his Yu family has all hands and eyes, and no one can do it. Dare to control, no one dares to ask, the Eldest Master came to Datong, he was stern and selfless, which made the little one feel hopeful."

Speaking of the miserable place, he cried and said that it was nothing more than seeing that Ma Dong and the people in Shanxi were not the same, and they were stern and selfless, so they wanted to complain, but Ma Dong's personal guards were tight, and there was no chance. Later, he simply prepared to fight for his life, and climbed over the wall to come in at night.

In the end, Ma Dong couldn't listen any longer. The head of the bodyguard next to him was the son of the Ma family. He was very mature and understood the affairs of the border town. He leaned into Ma Dong's ear and said:

"Young master, the grassland is not a place of Ming Dynasty, so it is not surprising that there are some murders and fires. It is a place that the king doesn't care about, and the government can ignore it. Besides, whoever doesn't want to do business with the Tartars, say Yu Siqiang colluded with the Tartars, how many people in the border town of Daming did not collude..."

Liu Jin below was just crying and kowtowing, begging Ma Dong to uphold justice, Ma Dong frowned, waved his hands, and the two soldiers waiting there stepped forward to stop Liu Jin's mouth, and dragged him to the door.

Liu Jin was stiff all over, terrified and uneasy, thinking that this side was the same as other places, but it was tied tightly, and someone was watching, how could he move.

"... After all, it was just going out to do business, and the inexplicable matter of setting fire to and killing someone involved Yu Siqiang, who was an in-law of the Tian family, and the empress dowager loved Lu Wang, who wants to take care of this matter? If you take care of it, you may not be able to find out. If you hate Bianzhen, you will not talk about it, and you will get into trouble with the capital... Eldest young master, this person seems a little crazy at a young age. Go to the street and let him fend for himself."

The head of the guards is old, others call Ma Dong Master, but he still calls him Young Master as if he was in the Xuan Mansion, Ma Dong should think carefully about what he said, Ma Dong pondered when he said that.

After pondering for a long time, a watchman walked by with a clapper outside, and Ma Dong raised his head and said:
"Put him in the warehouse, don't treat him poorly with food and drink, and arrange three shifts of guards. This person can't run away, he can't die, and he can't be known by outsiders."

"Master!?"

The attendant at the side hurriedly said something, Ma Dong waved his hand and said in a low voice:

"If you don't care and don't ask, wouldn't it be in vain to come here so hard to guard, you must keep an eye on this person."

After all, he is the master, and his cronies couldn't persuade him, so Qi Qi bowed and hurriedly arranged for him to be imprisoned. Then Liu Jin didn't know what was waiting for him, so he struggled desperately there, but was tied up again , carry it out.

On Ma Dong's side, people from all over Datong didn't pay much attention to it. Tonight's commotion was in the house again, so no one cared about it at all.

After February [-], even the weather in Datong, the border area, has a little bit of warmth. Ma Dong arranged for people to buy a lot of Shanxi local and special products from outside the Great Wall, and loaded them into carts. Send it to Xuanfu.

His family has been generals for generations, and his father is Ma Fang, this behavior is quite unusual, and some people lamented that his father, Ma Fang, made a lot of money, so Ma Dong was able to show such a noble appearance in Datong.

It is quite troublesome to go to Beizhili and Xuanfu for the first generation of the mountains and rivers in Shanxi. You have to go from Datong to Taiyuan, and then turn from Taiyuan to Baodingfu before you can go out.

More than a dozen carts, escorted by more than a hundred soldiers, came to the junction of Datong Town and Taiyuan Mansion. In the middle of a cart, a soldier sitting on the shaft was pale and trembling. A person beside him walked over. sit beside him.

The pale-faced soldier trembled all over, but the sharp blade pierced his clothes but didn't penetrate. He heard the man shout in a low voice:
"Wait to be quiet, don't think that you are some great stuff, after a few years, who will pay attention to you, if you panic and make noise later, and shout out, I will kill you!"

The pale-faced soldier nodded repeatedly, and the two sat together, as if they were chatting in the car.

The convoy moved forward, the checkpoints of Datong Town and Taiyuan Mansion were in Daming territory, and it was the Taiping Festival, the officers and soldiers guarding the checkpoints were nothing more than telling stories and dawdling.

When the guide of the convoy reported that it was the convoy of Vice General Ma, the group of people automatically and consciously dodged to the two sides, and hurriedly let them pass. When the leader dropped a few taels of money and said to buy wine for the brothers, everyone was even more smiling. As for the matter of inspection, no one even mentioned it.

The convoy walked slowly, and no one cared about it. One day after the convoy set off, Ma Dong, the deputy general of Datong Town, didn't know what was urgent, so he sent two messengers to head towards Beizhili in a hurry. Since there was no official business Informing me, it might be a private matter, and no one cared about it. The fast horse quickly overtook the convoy and ran ahead.

When the convoy left Shanxi, and within thirty miles of Baoding Mansion, there were dozens of riders waiting by the side of the road. The pale-faced soldier put on a horse, and a group of people fled away.

The pale soldier was naturally Liu Jin, and Ma Fang of the Xuanfu had all eyes and hands in Beizhili. In this territory, there were naturally various ways to protect people and send them to where they wanted to go.

Liu Jin himself was worried, but he didn't expect that the people who wanted to kill him might not know his appearance from the beginning to the end, not to mention that after years of hard work, his description and appearance have changed a lot. Who would recognize him? Waiting for a place, I don't even know there is such a person.

What's more, Ma Fang and other generals in the border towns are common in the capital, and no one will pay attention to it. Waiting for Liu Jin to be placed in the capital, Ma Dong's memorials also came to the capital with him, and he was settled down. , The memorial was also sent to the Supervisor of Rites through the Secretary of General Administration.

The supervisor of ceremonies must review and transcribe all the memorials, and they will also classify them into categories. For a general of the border town like Ma Dong, his memorials are naturally the most important, and these memorials must be sent to the eunuch who is in charge of the supervisor of ceremonies. And eunuch Bingbi over there.

After seeing the memorial, Zhang Cheng didn't dare to be negligent, so he directly asked Emperor Wanli to make a decision. The people sent by Ma Dong in the capital did not wait too long, and Lu Wancai and Li Wenyuan came to the door with their orders.

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In February of the tenth year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli decreed that the Ministry of Punishment issued an official document to local governments to strictly investigate evil religions gathering to burn incense.

Since it was issued by the Ministry of Punishment, it was natural that both the Supervisor of Rituals and the cabinet agreed, and the local government naturally did not dare to neglect it and strictly investigated each one.

The officials in the local yamen at all levels in prefectures, prefectures and counties have no locality, but the officials and servants below are all locals.

These officials and servants naturally know where people burn incense and where people gather. In many places, among the congregants of the Luo Sect, the White Lotus Sect, and the Maitreya Sect, there are also many relatives, friends and believers of the people in the local government. The Chinese are believing.

It’s just that there is no one to supervise it. Once the upper layers are suppressed, they will also take action. Those who are close to them will say that they should stop making trouble recently, and those who are not close to them and hostile will come to arrest them.

During February and March, all prefectures and counties in Northern Zhili were in chaos. However, after a period of purges, these believers did not dare to come out for activities.

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"Eunuch Cai, someone has been sent out, but I'm always not sure. If I say something offensive, can such a person be trusted?"

"My lord Wang is just joking. My lord and our family are still talking about offending and not offending. When I was a child, it was easy to say that doing such things at this age is nothing more than for myself and for the family. My lord promised their future and gave their parents, brothers and sisters riches and honor." , I can't find any other place except the adults here, so naturally I am determined and trustworthy."

(End of this chapter)