Borrow the day to change the day

Zhong Jinwei was sitting in the governor's yamen, waiting for feedback on the news of the house raids, and discussing with several people how to deal with Zhangjiakou.

As the art of war says, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.

Zhangjiakou is now aware of the situation in Xuanfu City, but Zhong Jinwei has Yu Haijing, Kong Fang, and Guitouqi and others who have just joined him, so they are very familiar with Zhangjiakou's terrain, military strength, and target locations. The situation is well known.

Therefore, the plan they discussed was very targeted, and its unprecedented tough measures made Kong Fang, who participated in the discussion, secretly smack his tongue.

If Hou Zhongxing didn't get the acquiescence of the cabinet and the consent of the emperor, if he did this with the status of an imperial envoy, he would be attacked and imprisoned by the censor in a blink of an eye.

In the current Chongzhen Dynasty, Shanxi merchants did not have a big backer in the court, unlike Zhang Siwei, who could speak for Shanxi merchants like before.In addition, he has been in King Qin's army for many days, and he has a more or less understanding of Zhong Jinwei's power.Moreover, which imperial envoy would bring a thousand elite troops when he went on patrol, obviously he was planning to do so before the capital set off.

Whoever dares to oppose Zhongxing Hou at this time, if he does not want to end up like Wang Kai, has no choice but to rebel.But if they want to rebel now, it will be the fate of Zhu Jiu Clan, there will be no possibility of success, and this method is even more undesirable.

Kong Fang believed that the thoughts of those civil servants were basically the same as his own, and he understood that no one would confront Hou Zhongxing at this time, and if he really wanted to do something, he would only do it when the situation was favorable.

Zhong Jinwei didn't know that Kong Guerrilla was thinking so many things in his stomach. After discussing, he found that Zhangjiakou was much bigger than he imagined, and he regretted that he brought too few soldiers. Now he had to rely on the local army here. [

It was almost dusk, and the dispatch to search all the Shanxi merchants involved in smuggling had paid off. The property was still being counted, and all relevant people had been taken to the military camp.

As soon as Zhong Jinwei heard this, he took everyone to the school grounds, preparing to punish them once and deal with them according to the seriousness of their crimes.

At this time, in the school grounds, heavily armed soldiers were scattered all over the place. Among the people in custody on the school grounds, there were men, women and children, and they were separated into piles according to different families.

These Shanxi merchants were still in a daze when they were caught in the school grounds. It was something they had never seen before such a large-scale dispatch of the army to arrest people.

They knew that the matter must be very serious, and the officials in charge of this matter were estimated to be of high rank, otherwise they would not have the courage.

Seeing the officer who usually calls himself a brother and brother, pats his chest and takes money, patrolling back and forth with a serious face, I feel very uncertain and scared.Some people pretended to be daring and wanted to set up a conversation with these officers, but were directly reprimanded and sent back.

Huang Yunlong is one of the eight major Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou, who happened to be in his house in Xuanfu City today, and was also arrested in the school grounds.

After he couldn't get a word from the officer, he began to observe the other arrested people in the school grounds.Suddenly he suddenly understood the reason why the imperial court went to war. All these arrested people participated in the business with Dajin!

After he thought of this reason, he fell down and sat on the ground, completely unable to hear the mouth movements of his wives, children, and mothers around him, and what they were saying.He knew in his heart that he might be doomed this time.

Huang Yunlong couldn't figure it out. He had been doing business with Jianlu before, from the gatekeepers to the governors. In fact, they all knew about it, but they didn't interfere. They just collected money.But how to get serious this time, if we want to kill them all, will these officials get rich in the future?

He couldn't figure it out, now that the Xuan Mansion has neither a governor nor a censor, and even the chief soldier is not there, who wants them to die?

Suddenly, Huang Yunlong noticed movement coming from the direction of the entrance of the school grounds. He raised his head and looked through the figures of soldiers.

I saw a group of people walking in surrounded by a young man, heading for Dianjiangtai. All the soldiers and officers along the way saluted him.

It seemed that this person was the rightful owner this time, but Huang Yunlong didn't know this person, and he immediately came to a conclusion in his mind that this person must have been sent directly by the imperial court from the capital.

But so what if you get the answer, now it's a fish on the knife board, waiting to be slaughtered by others. [

After Zhong Jinwei took the main seat on the stage, he ordered the screening to begin.

Kong Fang hurriedly issued an order to his subordinates, asking them to escort all the prisoners to pass through the stage one by one, while Yu Haijing, Guitouqi and the others stood on the stage, watching everyone passing by, and carefully distinguishing between these prisoners. people.

The masterminds of Shanxi merchants, such as Huang Yunlong, were quickly recognized and escorted aside by the soldiers.

Time passed slowly, the sun finally set, and the school grounds were lit with torches, continuing to screen the prisoners.

Suddenly, Yu Haijing said "Hey", then pointed to a middle-aged man with a white beard and said, "Grab him and bring him up."

As soon as the soldiers on the side heard this, they immediately stepped forward and grabbed the man who had bowed his head and walked to the front of the stage, and then pushed him onto the stage.

Zhong Jinwei was a little curious, wondering who Yu Haijing recognized, could it be the famous Fan Yongdou.Judging by Yu Haijing's words and deeds, it doesn't seem like it!

"Master Yu, you, are you from the imperial court?" The middle-aged man who was escorted to the stage looked at Yu Haijing, the former chieftain, who was wearing a hundred household clothes, and couldn't help asking.

The man's voice was a bit shrill, and with his white beard, Zhong Jinwei guessed that this middle-aged man might be a ballsless person.

The soldiers escorting the middle-aged man knocked him down and ordered him to kneel down in front of Zhong Jinwei.

Yu Haijing ignored this person, and cupped his hands to Zhong Jinwei and said, "Master Hou, this person once pretended to be an angel and delivered an order to Yuan Chonghuan, the former governor of Jiliao, in an attempt to help Jianlu ambush the main force of Shanhaiguan."

When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he looked at the bowed middle-aged man, thought about it for a while, and then said: "So, Zhao Lediao died indirectly at his hands?"

Yu Haijing nodded, showing shame, and did not speak.He remembered the wrong things he had done before, and let himself indirectly kill many people.

Seeing Yu Haijing's appearance, Zhong Jinwei knew what was going on in his heart, so he comforted him and said, "Don't think too much, you have repented and made a lot of contributions. Those people will forgive you if they know about it."

The middle-aged man kneeling on the ground heard the meaning of this so-called Lord Hou's words, and dared to feel that Hai Jing was not a member of the imperial court, but later defected to the imperial court, made contributions, and is now an official.

When the middle-aged man heard this, his mind became active, and he suddenly raised his head to look at Zhong Jinwei and said, "My lord, Lord Hou, I also want to make meritorious service, and I only ask the imperial court to forgive my crimes."

When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he was a little curious and said: "You have committed a capital crime. Yu Haijing provided a lot of very useful information to the court, and also helped the court capture the slave chief Aixinjueluo-Amin. These great contributions have brought you The pardon of the imperial court got hundreds of official positions. What credit can you make?"

Kong Fang listened, looked at Yu Haijing, and thought that it was him who made Zhongxinghou decide to go to Qingshui Mingyue Pass to stop Jianlu.But what he didn't know was that Jianlu contacted him and was captured by Zhongxing Hou, which was also the information provided by Yu Haijing.

After hearing Zhong Jinwei's words, the middle-aged man took a few steps on his knees, and said a little closer to Zhong Jinwei: "Master Hou, I can report traitors to Jin merchants, and I know their affairs."

Zhong Jinwei said in his heart, there are quite a few people who want to transfer tainted witnesses, if he tells those people in the audience that tainted witnesses are exempt from liability, there will probably be a large group of people rushing to do so.

This thought was a momentary thing, he shook his head and said: "If it's just that, it's almost enough to have Yu Haijing and the group in front."

The middle-aged man didn't appear to be lacking in confidence, and his biggest reliance was not on this.He had expected Zhong Jinwei to say this, so he didn't panic, and said mysteriously to Zhong Jinwei: "Master Hou, I have a secret to atone for myself."

Seeing his demeanor, Zhong Jinwei seemed to be asking, begging me to speak, so he felt very upset, and said with a cold face: "It's not up to you whether you can atone for your sins. My time is limited. If you don’t say it, then you don’t need to say it.”

Seeing Zhong Jinwei's face, the middle-aged man was shocked, and immediately remembered that his own life and death were still in the young man's hands, and quickly kowtowed: "Your servant deserves to die, your servant deserves to die, this servant will just say it."

In a hurry, he revealed his self-proclaim that had been hidden for nearly two years, "This servant was originally from the palace, nine thousand years old, ah no, Wei Zhongxian's confidant. He also hid a fortune in the palace. Silver, only servants know where it is hidden in the palace."

No one expected that this middle-aged man would say such a thing, Zhong Jinwei became interested when he heard it, and asked him, "How much money does Wei Zhongxian still have in the palace?"

The middle-aged man looked at the few people around who had pricked up their ears to listen to the answer, and hesitated for a moment.When Zhong Jinwei saw it, he waved his hand to let the soldiers escorting the middle-aged man, Kong Fang, Yu Haijing and others avoid it for a while.

Kong Fang reluctantly stepped aside, secretly looking at the middle-aged man and Zhong Jinwei.

He found that after the middle-aged man raised his head and said something to Zhongxinghou, Zhongxinghou looked shocked.Intuition told him that there would be a lot of money hidden in the palace!

Sure enough, the middle-aged man was not escorted back to be thrown with the prisoners in the audience, but was guarded and detained alone by the white pole army.

After counting the prisoners, it was found that only two of the eight most famous Shanxi merchants had been caught.According to the relevant inmates, because the business has been good recently, other people are sitting in Zhangjiakou.

So, in the early morning of the next day, apart from Zhang Fengyi and [-] white-armed infantry staying in Xuanfu City to continue monitoring property statistics, Zhong Jinwei took Ma Xianglin and led [-] Xuanfu troops to Zhangjiakou.

To be honest, if these [-] Xuanfu troops were to go to the battlefield, Zhong Jinwei was not so courageous, and one could tell at a glance that some of the soldiers here were improvised.

Now that Zhong Jinwei took these troops to deal with the merchants, it would be no problem for the Baigan army to solve Zhangjiakou's defense and his cronies.An army of nearly 6000 people walked on the official road and headed for Zhangjiakou.