Chapter 212 Cleansing
Chen Li had been anxious for the past two days, but now that he saw that Zhang Anshi had a method, he couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows.
Zhang Anshi looked at Chen Li and said, “This place …… to break the situation has been found, you will arrange the manpower now.”
Chen Li said with a few moments of hesitation, “Should we inform the Model Camp …… and Zhu Jin Boss?”
Zhang Anshi smiled and shook his head, “No need to do so, no outsiders are allowed to interfere in the affairs of the Brocade Guards. If outsiders interfere, it will look like we are incompetent.”
Chen Li nodded, “Then please show the Marquis.”
Zhang Anshi then said, “Prepare something for me, I want to use it immediately, and now …… start, everything listen to me.”
Zhang Anshi looked deeply at Chen Li before continuing, “If anything goes wrong, I’ll take you to task.”
Chen Li only felt as if he was on his back.
Still nodding, he gritted his teeth and said, “Don’t worry, Marquis, if there are any mistakes, I’ll bring my head.”
“Good!” Zhang Anshi smiled and said, “Then …… prepare the car and horse for me, I want to go to check …… this stolen goods, according to my opinion, this stolen goods, may be in Zhenjiang.”
“Zhenjiang?” Chen Li was surprised, “How could it be in Zhenjiang?”
But soon, he shut up, the Marquis was not to be questioned.
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The next day.
Zhang Anshi appeared in a post near Zhenjiang.
The guards he brought with him were only a handful of dozens of people, all of whom were in Zhang Anshi’s inner circle.
When several carriages and more than thirty men and horses arrived at the post station, the post master hurriedly came out to meet them.
The marquis in front of me, but the hot big man, if you tie up, the future is unlimited.
But if you are offended, you will die without a burial place.
Zhang Anshi to this stage minister but did not pay too much attention, into the post, as long as a room, seems to look tired, and immediately stayed.
Late at night, suddenly …… a fire started in the post.
The guards accompanying him were alarmed.
The post master also shuffled out in fear, and the families of the officials who lived here ran out one after another, all scrambling to put out the fire.
When he reached Zhang Anshi’s room, he found that the door to this room was closed.
So the guards braved the fire and kept banging on the gate.
That post minister and at the same time stayed here a military officer who will soon go to Beiping, has long been scared to follow also come to bang on the door.
“It’s bolted on the inside.”
“Quick, save them, if anything happens to the Marquis, we’ll all be finished.”
The crowd continued to kick the door hard in their panic.
Someone took a water-soaked quilt and rushed in.
That post minister and military officials also scrambled to go in, in the midst of the fire on all sides, they covered their mouths and noses with wet towels, wet quilts on their backs, but they saw that this …… has long been a fire in the sky.
On the ground …… there is a charred black corpse, and on the corpse, it seems that you can still see the unburned corner of the unicorn clothes.
This stage manager was suddenly scared and bloodless.
He looked incredulously at the corpse in front of him, the thing had become black and charcoal.
The guards rushed out of the fire, carrying the corpse.
Immediately afterward, everyone sucked in a breath of cold air.
This charred corpse was almost not much different from Zhang Anshi’s size, except that the face was already unrecognizable.
The half-burned hand still held a half-burned book in a deadly grip.
Someone tried to take the book down, but their hand was clenched tight.
The stagehand recognized it carefully.
But on the book cover, which had burned a large part of the book, there were still two large words vaguely visible.
The Spring and Autumn!
The guard mourned and cried out, “It’s the Marquis who is right, the Marquis loves to watch Spring and Autumn at night. ”
The stage manager just felt his brain buzzing.
As a local stagecoach driver, he actually caused a stagecoach fire and burned the crown prince’s wife and brother to death ……
His legs went limp and he sat down on the ground, calling out mournfully, “Marquis, Marquis, wake up, open your eyes.”
He howled, more distraught than the loss of his father.
That military officer in the side to persuade: “The most urgent thing is to immediately report, hasten to collect the corpse, sent to the capital to be buried …… these things, can not be delayed ah.”
The stagecoach minister then remembered something, and then rolled up in one bone: “Quickly, quickly, someone …… comes.”
It was a night when no one slept peacefully.
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Northern Townships.
In the duty room.
Ji Gang summoned all the Tongzhi, Commander, Zhenfu, Experienced, and Thousand Households to meet him.
He has had many meetings in the past few days.
What was being deliberated on, all seemingly inconsequential, was more of a test of each man’s loyalty.
For Ji Gang, at this moment, he had to prove to people that the court had to need the Jinyiwei, and the Jinyiwei could not live without Ji Gang.
Naturally, Ji Gang knew better than anyone else that His Majesty was a ruthless man.
He will, in all likelihood, end up in an extremely miserable state.
But ……
He needs to buy time.
Striving to do his best to take that batch of treasures during this period of time, when His Majesty began to lay out the groundwork for him, and at that time, he could both manipulate the top and bottom of the guards with the help of some hidden secrets, and also take this opportunity to take the treasures with him and hide them.
Others may have nowhere to go.
But a Jinyiwei Commander like Ji Gang wants to hide it, but it’s just a matter of lifting his hand.
At that moment, he looked morosely at the crowd, his body leaning slightly on the chair with a self-satisfied look.
“Play the matter!” He said gently.
“Yes.”
Someone stood out, “Today …… there are people from the Inner Chitose Office who clashed with our South City Chitose Office.”
Ji Gang said, “Has there been any loss of life?”
“Not really, but ……”
Kijang said, “It’s good that no one was killed, is there anything else?”
This Chitose was going to say that many people were injured, many of them more seriously.
But after hearing Ji Gang’s words, he was very sensible and swallowed his words back in his stomach.
Zhenfu Pang Ying smiled and stood out and said, “Dudu, a thousand households Zhang Jin, a hundred households Liu Wenwu two people …… their homes, seized out a lot of silver …… and the South Zhenfu Division found out… …”
Ji Gang impatiently said, “What’s the use of keeping such scum? Dispose of them by family law!”
He didn’t even bother to hear what the other guy had actually committed.
This kind of naked attitude was almost equivalent to telling everyone that these two people had offended Ji Gang, and that Ji Gang was trying to get them killed.
The crowd was too frightened to utter a word.
Ji Gang knocked the case, mouth said: “within the thousand households, now is also more and more no rules, no matter how to say, they are also jinyiwei, but the district a thousand households thousand households Chen Li, dare so bold, he is relying on the power of who? The North Township Division is supposed to govern the thousand households, but they have committed crimes, why do not you care? And the South Township Division, is responsible for the guards in the discipline, the enforcement of the family law, and why not take care of it? How, you are not the Son of Heaven’s own army?”
Ji Gang angrily continued: “The Son of Heaven’s own army, for the palace to do things, no personal feelings! Within this capital, there are also no princes and nobles, and there should not be any royal relatives in the eyes! We take the license and iron plate, is the king’s order, if we are careful, no one dares to punish, what is the use of having you?”
When Pang Ying saw this, he busied himself and said, “What are the Governor’s orders?”
“Look into this Inner Thousand Households.” Ji Gang glanced at the crowd and coldly said, “Including Commander Commander Zhang Anshi, isn’t he Zhang Anshi still a vassal? If he is a vassal, he should be managed! This son is usually, infamous and extremely bad influence, we can’t turn a blind eye to this just because we are his peers.”
Seeing that the crowd is speechless.
Ji Gang suddenly bellowed, “Do you all hear me?”
“Here.” The crowd roared in response.
Kizuna settled back in his seat with satisfaction.
Just at this moment, a clerk hurriedly came in and said in a panic, “Dudu, Dudu …….”
Kizuna looked up with a displeased expression.
The clerk appeared overly flustered, which disconcerted him, but he still said blandly, “What is it?”
The clerk bowed down and said, “An urgent report has come from Zhenjiang …… Zhenjiang …… An urgent report has come from Zhenjiang …… … …”
Kizuna’s brow furrowed lightly.
Zhenjiang?
Yesterday, Zhang Anshi went to Zhenjiang instead, saying that it was for the recovery of stolen goods.
It …… struck him as fishy.
Therefore, someone had been sent on a secret stakeout long ago.
However …… Zhang Anshi, this person, acts bizarrely and often does not follow the common sense, which makes Ji Gang s heart even more scrupulous.
If …… if this Zhang Anshi really find out something in Zhenjiang ……
But the question is, what exactly is Zhang Anshi checking?
However, very quickly, Ji Gang settled down, perhaps this is just a ploy of suspicion, at the moment, his priority is to settle the inner thousand households in a fire.
As long as the Inner Chitose is gone, then Zhang Anshi has lost his claws and teeth in the guards, could it be by virtue of his model battalion?
It is important to realize that the military is not the same as a secret agent, and although both sides use force, the nature of the use of force is completely different.
Ji Gang glanced at the clerk, then said, “What urgent report?”
The clerk said, “The post station was on fire, and Marquis Zhang Anshi …… of Annan was burned to death by the fire.”
“Dead ……”
The entire Northern Zhenfu Division was in chaos.
All of the officers and schools, each shocked to the point of jaw-dropping, subconsciously looked towards Ji Gang.
You’re going to kill me like that?
This is the death of the Crown Prince’s wife and brother, the current Shihou, not to mention, His Majesty’s beloved.
He is also the royal grandson’s own uncle.
Such a status and position …… died unexplained.
What’s next?
There is not a single one of the government schools that is not an old fart.
How can you not know what this means?
Kijang is really crazy ……
But at this moment, they were all panicked to the extreme.
Countless thoughts began to bubble up.
Even that Pang Ying, at this time, was somewhat at a loss for words.
He said periodically, “This …… this …… Dudu …… is… . what’s going on?”
No one could have guessed that Ji Gang’s heart was also greatly shocked at this time.
Only his face still still acted mysterious.
The more he panicked at this point, the more he panicked, instead of about possibly centrifuging everyone.
Consequently, he only coldly smiled and said, “Oh, burned to death by fire? It seems that this kid …… has bad luck.”
His answer, clouded.
It’s a bit confusing.
Could it be that …… Ji Dudu, still has a backhand?
At the time when everyone was afraid to come out of the atmosphere, Ji Gang said: “This matter, ultimately, is to be thoroughly investigated one or two, come on, order Zhenjiang’s brothers, give me a careful investigation of the causes and consequences. As for the rest, everything is as usual.”
Where are the officials and schoolmasters in the mood for business as usual right now, but they still salute one by one extremely reluctantly, “Here.”
Letting the crowd disperse, Ji Gang hurriedly returned to his duty room.
His face was in a state of shock and disbelief, and he sat behind the tabletop, straining a cold face.
A clerk came in at this time and said, “Commander, Zhenfu Pang Ying seeks an audience.”
“Not to be seen.” Without hesitation, Kizuna said, “Tell him he knows what to do, he doesn’t need me to teach him.”
Even though he was so neutral, Kizuna’s face began to change slightly.
He had a premonition …… of a great storm that was beginning to sweep over him.
After a short while, he summoned his beloved clerk and said, “Is it ready?”
“Dudu, the family people …… are dispersed to settle out, just …… quite a lot of silver …… but still need to carry, would have gone to the money changer to exchange into money orders is the most lightweight, but that money bank ……”
Ji Gang, however, interrupted him and said, “Be quick, within two or three days, it must be done. And …… I have a letter, you think of ways to send out ……”
After saying this, he took out a letter and handed it to this clerk, then added: “Please ask him to meet me at the Xifengkou, and tell that person …… that if anything happens to me, it will be a great loss for them. If I am him, I will try to do everything to protect my family and my safety. This Da Ming’s secret, I know too much too much, as long as slightly reveal a point and a half, also teach them to benefit endlessly.”
The clerk nodded, “Yes.”
Ji Gang looked at him deeply, “When the time comes, you go with me, and I will guarantee you a lifetime of wealth and prosperity. Don’t worry, I have already set up a good arrangement, this is just a back road, it may not be the end of the mountain yet.”
The clerk said, “Yes.”
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Palace.
Someone was on fire and entered the Mandarin’s building.
A few moments later, in the middle of that literary building, there was a sudden sound of cups falling.
Then came the words, “It was I who killed Zhang Anshi.”
And then, another sentence said, “Someone …… summoned the generals of the Five Armies Governor’s Office.”
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From the Mandarin’s House, the two men excused themselves unhappily.
One is Yao Guangxiao.
The other is Kim Chung.
Standing outside the Wen Lou, Yao Guangxiao calmly said, “Amitabha Buddha, it’s too tragic, I wonder if the An Nan Hou can also burn out the relics.”
Jin Zhong glared at him and said, “You monk, you have no empathy.”
Yao Guangxiao said, “Are you sure Zhang Anshi is dead? Which one of your eyes saw it?”
Jin Zhong smiled at this point, “Yes, I suspect not dead, but Your Majesty …… Fang ……”
“Concern is chaos.” Yao Guangxiao also smiled faintly and said, “His Majesty’s nature is already impatient and short-tempered, at this time, would he have any other thoughts?”
Jin Zhong nodded: “Yes …… you say if Zhang Anshi is not dead, what is his idea?”
Yao Guangxiao, however, stared at him and said, “Duke Jin, this can’t be a bad idea that you taught him, right?”
Jin Zhong was anxious: “Monk Yao, you know me, I’m a person who has always been very tight-lipped and never goes out and talks nonsense.”
Yao Guangxiao said, “That would be strange, this kid …… how he can be so tossed. Hey …… such a person must not be able to burn the relics, if he can burn the relics, the poor monk this relics burned out is also meaningless.”
Jin Zhong said, “Can Monk Yao stop thinking about the relics all the time! Look at …… the matter ……”
Yao Guangxiao raised his eyes and said, ”Other people’s business is none of the poor monk’s business! When he was promoted and became rich, there was no share for me! Now that he is suspected to have been burnt to death, do I have to follow him to cry and mourn? Forget it, let’s pray for him, it’s a little merit for the poor monk. Wasn’t Lord Jin good at invoking spirits? When the Zhang family is having a funeral and we go to the banquet, you can show your hand ……”
Jin Zhong, however, hung his head low and said, “Speaking of which, this Zhang Anshi, is really ruthless.”
Having said that, the two of them then had their own thoughts and had nothing to say to each other.
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Inner Thousand Households.
Chen Li gathered everyone up and down.
However, he did not babble too much about anything, but just red eyes, pressed the knife and said, “I have heard everything, right? The inner thousand households …… are definitely finished. But you think, when the marquis is how to us? Today, we do not do anything, only one thing …… revenge!”
The lieutenants within this were all apathetic and wooden-faced.
“Strike.”
“Here.”
The crowd roared in agreement.
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Model Camp.
The clatter of men and horses in full armor began to come out of the camp, scrambling.
A roster has fallen into the hands of Zhu Yong, he actually surprisingly calm, directly tear the roster into three, divided into Zhang Yoking and Qiu Song a copy.
“Know what to do?”
Zhang Yoking and Qiu Song did not respond.
But each mounted his horse quickly.
“The first team comes with me.”
“Team 2 ……”
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Located in a mansion in Zhongshan, the owner of this room was a rich family, but later this rich family was defiled as a rebellion, a family of dozens of mouths, all into the imperial prison.
Soon, the mansion had a new owner, Pang Ying, the governor of the Northern Zhenfu Division.
Pang Ying still did not know enough, and quickly occupied the nearby fields here, and now at the foot of this foothill, the fields are strewn with strangers, all of which are the land of the Pang family.
In the capital, Pang Ying dared to be so, because the Jinyiwei Commander Ji Gang usually acted domineering in the capital, as long as it is not a nobleman in the palace, Ji Gang acted can be described as arrogant to the extreme.
Ji Gang these two years, has been under the order of the salt field to take millions of pounds of salt, seize the official ship transportation, these silver into the private pocket. And framed hundreds of rich merchants, seize their funds for themselves. Also had castrated hundreds of young children from good families, serving around.
More arrogantly, Ji Gang and Yang Wu Hou Xue Lu once fought for a beautiful female Taoist priest, that Xue Lu was directly broken by Ji Gang with an iron melon to split his brain and almost died.
This Yangwu Marquis Xue Lu, is also a minister of the Jingwu, and even quite trusted by Zhu Di, but after being beaten half to death by Ji Gang, he did not dare to report it, and chose to swallow his anger.
Pang Ying, the town governor, did not have the courage to whack the Lord minister, but there is an example, bullying the rich households still have the ability.
After the Pang family purchased property here, Pang Ying provided for his own family.
Ordinary people, knowing that Pang Ying’s origins are not small, so no one dares to easily stay in front of this mansion.
Today was obviously a special one, and at that moment, a group of people was roaring in.
The first one was Qiu Song.
On the outskirts of this mansion, he gave a call.
Dozens of soldiers then whistled and galloped around the periphery of this mansion, and one by one, they threw black things directly into the mansion.
A few moments later, rumble …… rumble …… rumble ……
Continuous explosions came out from this mansion.
The flames are sky-high.
Qiu Song looked at the rising flames, and without much hesitation, he directly beat his horse and left.
And then a group, again, whirled away with him.
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South City Chitose.
Thousand-doctor Chen Ji is on duty.
He led a few of his own guards, in addition to his son, Hundredth Household Chen Dingyuan, to fight their way back home together.
At this moment, Chen Ji, frowning his thick eyebrows, looked worried.
Something was going on in his head.
And the eldest son, Chen Dingyuan, seeing his father like this, said, “What is father …… worried about? Is it again because of the beating of those dogs in the Inner Chitou?”
Chen Ji only raised his eyes to look at Chen Dingyuan and remained silent.
This eldest son of his, not young, but many times, still do things without a plan.
Just as he was almost beating his horse to turn down a street.
Suddenly, dozens of people emerged from various streets and alleys, then blocked his group.
All clang and draw their swords.
Chen Ji snapped and exclaimed, “Who is it?”
“Big Brother Chen.” Chen Li smiled as he slowly walked out of the alleyway, saying as he did so, “We haven’t seen each other for some days.”
Chen Ji was shocked, and when he saw Chen Li’s leathery smile, he laughed dryly and said: ”So it’s you. What, to find me to ask for punishment to come? The lower people …… fooling around Well, what is there to say, why do we have to step in? Let them dispose of themselves is.”
“Dismount.” Chen Ji said, “Speak in this alley.”
Chen Ji refused to dismount.
But at this time, from that alley, seven or eight internal lieutenants carried the cannons out.
The blackened cannons were aimed at Chen Ji’s several men.
Chen Ji frowned, opened his mouth at Chen Li, said nothing whatsoever, and dismounted.
“Several of your sons, come as well.” Chen Li smiled.
Chen Ji’s frown deepened.
Yet, he still obediently said to his son Chen Dingyuan, “Come.”
Chen Dingyuan then followed Chen Ji into the alley with a few guards.
It was a dark alley, and as soon as they entered, the head and tail of the alley was blocked by dozens of Inner School Captains, isolating the bustle outside this alley.
Chen Ji laughed dryly and said, “If there is something wrong with the people underneath, my oldest brother today to the virtuous brother to make amends, are a family, the next day will be long, do not spoil the peace between you and me brothers.”
Chen Li only smiled, but his gaze fell on Chen Dingyuan, saying, “The eldest nephew is already this old.”
Chen Dingyuan heard, he is after all a young man, can not help but anger: “Those few unenlightened inner lieutenant, it is me who hit! What’s the matter, come at me, we are all from the Wei Li ……”
As he spoke, suddenly, someone behind him had a dagger across his neck.
Chen Ji was furious: “Chen Li, what are you trying to …… do?”
With that, someone pressed Chen Ji to the ground.
Chen Ji was furious: “I am a Jin Yi Wei official school ……”
Chen Li’s face was expressionless as he kicked this Chen Dingyuan over, while someone fetched a small hammer and sent it to Chen Li.
Chen Li took the hammer.
At this time, Chen Dingyuan, who had tumbled to the ground, shakily just climbed up and opened his mouth to curse.
Dang ……
Chen Li went down with a whack.
Right in the middle of his skull.
Chen Dingyuan only felt a blackness before his eyes and subconsciously covered his head as his body began to float and sway again, and he made uh-ah sounds under his breath.
Thousand households Chen Ji saw this and roared, “Chen Li …… what are you going to do?”
Chen Li Li didn’t pay any attention to him and raised the hammer again, ruthlessly smashing it towards the back of Chen Dingyuan’s head.
Dang ……
Blood splatters.
Chen Dingyuan’s body swayed and leaned against the wall in the alleyway, and then, his body slowly withered.
Chen Li grabbed a handful of his hair, which had long been soaked in blood.
He swung his arm up and hammered down again.
Chen Dingyuan was able to stifle a few grunts at first, and then later on, his brain was full of holes, first splattering blood and spilling it on the wall, and later on it was white slurry, and there were even shattered brains and blood-stained hairs.
After dozens of consecutive smashes, this half of the head, however, had been thinly crushed.
A few of the accompanying lieutenants of the Southern City Thousand Households had long since been scared out of their wits, and each of them fell to their knees.
Chen Ji was pressed to death on the ground, not able to move in the slightest, he kept his eyes open and watched, his eyes were resentful to the extreme, but there was nothing he could do, he could only bawl and cry, “Chen Li, you animal …… you …… ”
At a later date, but then humbly prayed: “Spare him, spare him. Chen Xiandi, Chen Xiandi, we worshiped the hand in the beginning, we are righteous brothers ah, in the beginning …… we also almost became a son and daughter in-laws …… ah …… ah … …”
Chen Li stood up, covered in blood, he threw the hammer in his hand, casually, to the side, and looked back at Chen Ji, before saying, “We all know each other, you said yourself that in the beginning, we were all brothers in the same guard, and if I’m not mistaken, you still have a son, right?”
Hearing Chen Li mention his second son, Chen Ji once again struggled to get up, looking at his son Chen Dingyuan, who had lost half of his head and had long been dead, and was now fearful and angry, he cursed, “I don t share …… with you.”
Chen Li’s face remained the same, standing in front of Chen Ji, continued, “It’s good that you still have a son, I’m just here now to inform you of one thing, the Marquis of Annan …… is dead ……”
Chen Ji did not attend today’s meeting of the Northern Zhenfu Division.
He heard the words and suddenly …… the howling stopped.
He was pinned to the ground and watched his son die in front of him, Fang was trembling with anger and excitement.
But at this moment, all of a sudden, his body shivered coldly.
His lips trembled as he struggled to raise his face and look at Chen Li.
And at this time, Chen Li condescendingly looked at Chen Ji and said with a cold face, “If you still have a son, it would be really great, I am afraid that you have too few children and not enough pain. You are a thousand tenant of the South City Thousand Household Office, of course you know …… that things have come to this point, it is useless to say anything now.”
Chen Li’s words just finished, Chen Ji violently opened his eyes wide, panicked, “This matter, I don’t know, I don’t know at all …… I …… If I knew … …If I knew that someone dared to lay hands on Marquis Annan, I would not dare to …… dare to ah …… if I had the guts of heaven.”
He reddened his eyes and warily said, “Ji Gang …… he is crazy, he has gone crazy, Xian Di, Xian Di …… No, Grandpa Chen, I …… ”
Chen Li just looked at him coldly and said faintly, “Should you know what to do now?”
Without hesitation, Chen Ji immediately said, “Understood, understood.”
Chen Li said, “What does this son of yours say?”
Chen Ji s face was miserable, glanced at his son s corpse, and then gritted his teeth and said, “I took the wrong path, I deserve to die, today …… it is a pity that this baby, Chen Xian Di did the right thing.”