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Chapter 263: The Destruction of the Overlord of Water Transport (5)

At the juncture of the East Factory, Zhang Yong, who acted as the governor of the East Factory, led the East Factory to take charge of the Thousand Households, twenty squads, foremen, seventy squads and more than seven hundred men, and left the East Factory in the imperial city and walked out of Zuoanmen. At the same time, Gao Shixin, Xu Xianchun, Wu Mengming, Cui Yingyuan and others, led more than 7,000 Jinyiwei who gathered from various Thousand Households and hundreds of households, and rushed out of Zhengyang Gate and headed towards Zuoanmen.

"The factory guards are rampant, and the tik cavalry are everywhere. Alas! I haven't seen the court's hawks move in a long time. I don't know which upright person will be framed again this time!" said a gray-haired Confucian scholar in the teahouse.

A young scholar said angrily: "The Donglin people are full of wise men, and the court is peaceful. Who knew that the eunuch party actually framed the respected old Master Ye, forcing Old Ye to leave the cabinet and took the opportunity to expand the factory guards. In the long run, I don't know how many upright people will be framed."

"Have you heard of Wang Wenyan? That's such a righteous man!" said a young man who looked like a writer in the Hanlin Academy who looked about thirty years old. "That's really a strong man! I heard that after being caught by the eunuch party, all kinds of tortures were used, and he just gritted his teeth and refused to give him fake evidence to the eunuch party! The little eunuch dog Zhang Yong was so angry that he ordered Eagle Claw Sun to put the nail in his left ear and penetrated it from his right ear. He still gritted his teeth and refused to frame Mr. Ye Ge Lao. Later, the little eunuch dog was crazy and peeled off Mr. Wang's scalp and twitched his tendons. Then he held his hand and forced his fingerprints on the forged confession."

When people heard about the crimes of the eunuch party mentioned by the Hanlin Academy, they were filled with righteous indignation: "The eunuch party is really hateful!"

"Mobilize the scholars to encircle the Jinyiwei! Mobilize the upright censors to impeach Wei Zhongxian's old dog and Zhang Yong's little eunuch!"

"There is that Gao Shixin!" A young scholar stood up and said, "Recruiting the Jinyiwei! Luo Sigong, a rare upright person among the Jinyiwei, was killed by them! If the eunuch party lackeys are not eliminated, it is difficult to return my bright light!"

At this moment, a scholar-like person in the crowd sneered: "Zhou Yanru! If you speak loudly, please make it look like a little! Iron nails can keep people alive? Could it be that Wang Wenyan is Sun Wuzi?"

Zhou Yanru was exposed. When he looked closely, he saw that this guy was named Yang Weiyuan, who was a Jinshi of the same year as him. Although this guy is now wearing a Confucian costume, this guy is actually a censor.

"Yang Weiyuan! An upright person was killed. As the imperial censor, you not only did not uphold justice, but instead spoke to the eunuch party? You were simply disgraceful!" Zhou Yanru could not answer Yang Weiyuan's words, so he had to point at his nose and curse.

"Zhou Yanru! Your Donglin Party is upright on the surface, but in fact they are all making up randomly! I have seen through you a long time ago! Please make up like a little when you make up lies next time?" Yang Weiyuan said coldly, threw down only one sentence, stood up, stopped paying attention to Zhou Yanru, and turned around and walked downstairs.

Although Zhou Yanru was dismissed by others, he still stubbornly said: "My scholars, maybe the students remembered it wrongly. Anyway, Mr. Wang had enough to torture in the prison. Someone had seen Mr. Wang's body, which was vague and bloody, and it was terrible! How can we bear it anymore when the eunuch party harmed me so badly?"

In a corner on the second floor of the teahouse, a scholar dressed in a man whispered to a middle-aged man next to him: "Stop the head, these scholars are talking too much. Should we take them down?"

The middle-aged man shook his head: "Eunuch Wei and Duke Zhang both told him that we should just keep an eye on them, don't act rashly."

"It's really hateful to spread rumors and slander! Wang Wenyan deserves the crime, but it's better for him to commit suicide or make him cheap!"

At the entrance of the Jinyiwei recruits training camp outside Zuo'anmen, the eunuchs sounded the aggregation call. More than 7,000 Jinyiwei and more than 700 Dongchang men flocked into the training camp and gathered inside.

As night fell, a lot of bonfires were lit in the camp. The officers of the Jinyi Guard wearing flying fish suits and wingless black gauze hats were worn, the Jinyi Guard's captain wearing black armor and black wide-brimmed iron helmets, the Dongchang Manzi wearing a pointed hat, the brown clothes, Zhang Yonghe and Gao Shixin wearing python robes, and most of the factory guards in the capital were gathered here.

Gao Shixin said to Wei Liangqing: "Brother Liangqing, bring you 1,500 Jinyiwei, I will allocate you 500 factory guards and set off immediately! Go to Huai'an and go to the governor's office to arrest people! When you arrive at Tianjin Guard, there are two thousand brothers of my help. Those brothers are veterans who came down from the battlefield in Liaodong. Who doesn't have a few pieces of Jiannu and Tartar blood? They will help you! When you go to Huai'an, just arrest people! I don't believe that the local military households dare to resist?"

Although Li Jiaxing and Li Jiaguo also had many people, including soldiers from the canal transportation yamen and salt dynasties from the Huai River, and there were 20,000 or 30,000 people in total, Gao Shixin didn't see those mobs at all. Not to mention the mobs of 20,000 to 30,000, even if Li Jiaxing and Li Jiaguo brothers could summon two or three hundred thousand, such mobs of 300,000, they were no match for them.

What are the canal transport soldiers? They are all people who have connections among the local military households. They give silver to hundreds of households and thousands of households to get money from the canal, or they are just the ones, the ones, the nephews, nephews, brother-in-laws, etc. Those people only know how to rely on the canal to eat the canal, so where is there any combat power? As for the salt ding in Lianghuai, what kind of goods are they? On weekdays, they also engage in the business of selling private salt. Most of the guys are local thugs and unemployed vagrants. The officers of the salt ding in Yan Ding are some young masters who have nepotism with local salt merchants and government officials. A group of thugs led by the young masters, even if there are 200,000 people, they dare to fight when they meet a thousand Jinyiwei? They are already scared.

The Ming Dynasty treated gentry scholars with preferential treatment, and the Jinyiwei naturally did not dare to kill people with fame and fortune, but killing those gangsters would be in vain.

The five hundred elite factory guards assigned to Wei Liangqing were all veterans who fought bloody battles with Jiannu from Liaodong and the Tartars outside the pass. They were elite soldiers equipped and trained by Zhang Yong himself.

"No!" Wei Liangqing responded, then brought 1,500 young Jinyiwei and the 500 elite factory guards assigned to him by Gao Shixin, boarded the ships anchored by the canal and headed south in a mighty manner.

After Wei Liangqing and the others boarded the ship and left, Xu Xianchun asked impatiently: "Governor, when will we take action?"

Gao Shixin took out his pocket watch and glanced at the time: "No hurry, it's still early now, the genius is just dark. We'll set off a little later. Anyway, we'll take the boat and it'll be more than an hour!"

Taking a boat is much faster than walking, even if it is faster than the cavalry. It takes less than 30 miles to Tongzhou, so it is not even a one and a half hours to take a boat. It may take two hours to walk or ride a horse.

More than 7,000 factory guards were waiting in the Jinyiwei recruit training camp. After about the hour of the 12th, Gao Shixin stood up and ordered to gather. Then he gave an order: "Back on the ship and set off!"

Ships hanging from Jinyiwei and Dongchang left the dock under the night sky and headed straight towards Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou. The fleet went downstream and took only about an hour. The fleet arrived near Zhangjiawan at midnight, turned into Liangshui River, and after another quarter of an hour of sailing, they arrived at Li Sancai Mansion in Zhangjiawan.

The factory guards got off the boat one after another. After getting off the boat, they rushed straight to Li Sancai's mansion with torches.

Almost everyone in Li Sancai's family was sleeping. Li Sancai, who was in his seventies, had a poor sleep. He vaguely heard the noise outside the house, so he opened his voice and shouted: "Li Fu! Li Fu!"

"Here, lord, what's the matter?" Li Fu, the official, walked into the bedroom with a lantern.
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