Fang Jing looked around with slender eyes, with deep confusion and confusion on her face. "General Zhou, this... isn't this the Yangwu Marquis' Mansion of Marquis Xue? The bandits who stole the treasures of the palace were hiding inside! Or is this related to Marquis Xue?"

Zhou Xian rode on the horse, smiled faintly at him, and did not answer, but turned to Xia Shu and said, "Go and call the door!"

Xia Shu nodded and went forward alone to knock on the door. Four soldiers were hiding on both sides of the door.

A lazy voice came from inside, "Who is outside?"

"General Xuanwu Zhou Xian came to visit Mr. Xue."

The door was opened with a small crack, revealing a round head. It was a middle-aged man in his thirties. Xia Shu quickly reached out and grabbed the collar of the door, so that he could no longer close the door, and then kicked him to the ground. The kick was very heavy, and the man didn't get up for a long time.

Xia Shuheng squeezed in and firmly guarded the door.

The remaining three doormen seemed to be fierce and fleeing in surprise. But the soldiers on both sides of the door rushed in and threw two of them to the ground, but unfortunately one of them escaped. He screamed with a harsh scream, "The disaster is wrong, the disaster is wrong, some thieves are coming, some thieves are coming..."

The originally extremely quiet Marquis' Mansion suddenly became lively.

Fang Jing's eyes twitched. It depends on the owner of the dog! Zhou Xian was so domineering this time, and he actually hit the Hou's Mansion directly.

Zhou Xian turned behind and shouted: "Yangwu Hou Xue Lian raised his soldiers and intended to rebel. I will be ordered by the emperor to kill him. All the soldiers followed my orders, some let the imperial offenders go and kill them; some hesitate and fail to come forward; some who get personal property will be killed. Have everyone listened to me?"

Everyone was stunned and did not react for a moment. Fang Jing was even more stunned. Rebellion? Is it still a marquis in this part of the capital?

But Zhou Xian didn't give him time to react. He continued to shout: "Zhang Huai, take people to guard the four sides of the house, and one person escaped from it. I'm asking you. Meng Yue, take the rest of the people to rush in. When you meet someone who dares to resist, you will be killed on the spot. Be sure to kill Xue Lian for me."

The two of them bowed their orders and led their teams away. The soldiers roared forward, and less than a hundred people shouted out the momentum of a thousand people.

A foreman looked at Fang Jing in a daze and stepped forward and said, "Sir, General Zhou rushed in, what should we do?"

Fang Jing turned his head and saw that most of the officers were taken away by Zhang Huai, with less than thirty officers left beside him. He thought of what Zhou Xian said just now, and hesitated and killed him. A layer of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead. He stomped his feet, and said cruelly, "Everyone follows General Zhou to kill the conspirators."

The Ming Dynasty had very strict requirements for nobles and relatives. The court allowed them to enjoy wealth and honor, but did not allow them to have their own private soldiers. According to the records, when Li Zicheng conquered Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen recruited his son-in-law Gong Yonggu and asked him to organize personnel to flee to the south with his servants.

But Gong Yonggu's reaction lamented: "How can a servant resist a powerful thief? Besides, I have always adhered to my duty and never kept supporting a servant. It was me who always followed the emperor. In order to avoid suspicion, I didn't even have a single weapon. How could I escort the prince to the south?"

Emperor Yongle Zhu Di seized the throne of his nephew, Emperor Jianwen, through rebellion, and then the most taboo thing in the entire Ming Dynasty was to rebel. He divided the vassal kings into various places, raised as pigs, and kept nobles in the capital, and also raised as pigs. Later, more and more of these people dragged down the Ming Dynasty's finances and completely raised this group of people into waste that they could only enjoy.

Through this method, the Ming Dynasty basically eliminated the rebellion of the upper class. But in the face of crisis, how could we expect these state-owned relatives and vassal kings who are usually pampered and do nothing to turn the world around!

Although Xue Lian controls the Shenshu Camp, most of the soldiers of the Shenshu Camp are children of the capital, and their families and relatives are in the capital. If he really wants to rebel, I am afraid that as soon as the news comes out, the people under his command will directly tie him up to receive the merits.

What Fang Jing never understood was how could a person like Xue Lian rebel? Is he that stupid? But when he saw the situation in front of him, he believed it seven times because he clearly saw some of Xue Lian's servants actually resisting Zhou Xian with swords in their hands, and there were quite a few, about forty or fifty people.

In fact, Xue Lian had not many servants at home, only about twenty people. However, Gao Qiqian had to remind him some time ago, saying that Zhou Xian was likely to target him and asked him to be prepared early.

Xue Lian finally followed Gao Qiqian's advice. He did not dare to transfer the soldiers in the Jing camp, so he called some soldiers who he occupied from his countryside manor. The number was not large, only forty people, and equipped them with some long swords through Gao Qiqian. Xue Lian originally planned to rely on these soldiers to confront Zhou Xian, and then wait for Gao Qiqian to help him, so as to convict Zhou Xian.

But what Xue Lian did not expect was that Zhou Xian was not a minor crime of greed for military pay, but a major crime of corruption. The soldiers in his house were just evidence of treason, but Xue Lian did not know this. He just felt that Zhou Xian was bold and dared to make ground on Tai Sui's head, wanting to arrest him and take charge of the crimes in the Sansi. Therefore, he kept shouting loudly, making a promise to let his subordinates resist.

Zhou Xian was very happy at this moment. It was not easy to convict a marquis of rebellion, but Xue Lian's stupidity really gave him a good reason.

He learned from the horse coach that Xue Lian often called the soldiers of Shenshu Camp to do things for him, some went to the yard, and some worked as various handymen for him, which is the so-called occupation.

Although other generals in the Jing camp did the same, Xue Lian did this to the extreme. Not only did he occupy a large number of soldiers, up to nearly two thousand. Moreover, these soldiers not only did things for him, but were also sent by him to do various short-term labors everywhere. The soldiers of the Shenshu camp did not do training, but the matter of masons and bricklayers. It sounds ridiculous, but it exists in fact.

However, the silver obtained by these occupying soldiers through labor was occupied by Xue Lian, and some were even starved to death because they had no silver to see a doctor and had sex. The soldiers who died were still on the list of Shenshu Camp, and then Xue Lian used their names to receive air wages.

Eat the blood of soldiers in the Jingying camp and squeeze the labor income of soldiers outside the Jingying camp. If Xue Lian was a businessman, he would definitely be a very successful person. But he was the marquis of the Ming Dynasty, and such a thing could only reduce his identity.
Chapter completed!