This place is only twenty miles away from Fengyang Fucheng. Although the sun is shining brightly, everyone has arrived outside the city in less than two quarters of an hour. Chang Yu seems to be thoughtful and solemn as he rides side by side and whispers something.
"You want me to do such things with just a raise of my hands, so you treat me as a handyman?" Su Jing frowned.
"You are the only one who can do this without being suspected, and the simpler the task, the more you show your true ability." Chang Yu whispered, and Su Jing snorted: "Why do you work so hard, you are not happy at all!"
Uh... The dignified Governor of the East Factory, a murderer who makes people laugh with horror, is just a grinding young man in Su Jing's eyes, with an impatient look on his face.
Zhu Yujian's eyes never left the young eunuch along the way. How could this young man become famous in such a short period of time? How true and false were these rumors?
"Hey, who is that? What's your name Zhu?" The march was boring, and Lao Jiu would find something to say from time to time.
Zhu Yujian quickly raised his hands and said: "Back to the general, the younger one's name is Zhu Chongsheng."
"Hey, I'm going to return my national surname. This difference in one word makes everyone almost kowtow to you." Lao Jiu's words made everyone laugh. Zhu Yujian smiled bitterly and lowered his head in silence. His ancestor's original name was Zhu
Heavy eight.
Hearing the roar of laughter, Chang Yu glanced here, but he was not worried about the psychological gap and imbalance that Zhu Yujian would have from a dignified vassal king to a pawn now. After all, Zhu Yujian's life has been full of ups and downs. He was almost kissed when he was young.
My father was killed and later became a prisoner, so he had already looked away.
"Gongzi camp is the main camp of the East Factory Guards. All the brothers are brave and good at fighting. They followed the factory master and killed many people in and out of the sea of blood and corpses. But now, you are a skinny chicken like you, don't hold back.
Legs, what are you capable of? Tell me, "Obviously Lao Jiu has always looked down upon this shriveled, thin middle-aged man.
"The little one... is literate!" Zhu Yujian thought for a while and said.
Oh! The brothers Lao Jiuyi couldn't help but exclaimed, but then they cursed: "We are fighting, not him, why do you need a literate person to take the first prize..."
Zhu Yujian secretly looked at the young eunuch along the way, but he didn't know that someone was also secretly observing him.
Li Muxian, the smartest and cleverest person under Chang Yu.
"Your Majesty, this move is too careless and extremely risky." Li Muchian rushed to catch up with Chang Yu and whispered in a low voice. Chang Yu frowned: "What is the Taoist priest talking about?"
Li Muxian raised her finger and pointed at Zhu Yujian in the distance: "Eunuch Chun came out of Beijing secretly. Fengyang Mansion sent someone here. His surname is Zhu and his given name is Zhengsheng. Isn't this... too obvious?"
Chang Yu was startled. He didn't expect this Taoist priest to be so smart: "The Taoist priest is right. It is extremely secretive at this time. It seems that the only way to silence you is to kill you."
"Uh... Don't be joking, sir. I am sworn to be loyal to you to the death and will never pass on the law..." Li Muchian said quickly, Chang Yu smiled: "Since you can see that this person is suspicious, you must know who he is."
Already?"
Li Muxian pondered for a moment and then said: "The people inside the high wall of Fengyang Mansion are of course royal nobles. In recent years, there have been very few people who have entered the high wall. Judging from his age, I guess it is the former Tang Dynasty King Zhu Yujian?"
Chang Yu sighed: "Sometimes it would be nice if you were mute." As he spoke, he glanced at his horse, which was the tall beggar he picked up in Fuliji.
After hearing this, the beggar turned around and giggled at Chang Yu, but Li Muchian couldn't laugh out loud. He frowned and said, "If you want to save his life, sir, just let him flow into the mountains and plains. Bringing him with you in the army is extremely risky because of the crowds and eyesight."
Ah, if you are killed at this time...the crime of deceiving the emperor is to be beheaded."
Chang Yu sighed, looked up at the white clouds in the sky, smiled slightly and said: "The emperor can't save the people I want to kill, and conversely, the emperor can't kill the people I want to save."
Li Muxian couldn't help but shudder when he heard the simple words, and he didn't dare to say any more.
Is the plague coming again?
Lu Zhenfei was shocked when he heard that the people from Dongchang left and came back. No one wanted to get too close to Dongchang, and no one wanted to deal with them. Even if the current eunuch of Dongchang could turn the tide, that was a matter of state.
, no one wants to be involved in a private case.
When we left, there were more than ten people, and three to four hundred people came. Now Lu Zhenfei and Ma Shiying finally knew who was coming.
It was so fast, the two of them hurried to the city gate to greet him.
The soldiers and horses entered the city and were welcomed into the military camp. Chang Yu only led more than ten personal attendants to the governor's Yamen as a guest. Lu Zhenfei was busy with his work, but Ma Shiying was in a state of confusion. This little eunuch was really as rumored.
He is young, but has a strong aura, which is slightly inferior to that of a veteran who has fought many battles on the battlefield. He is full of murderous aura that disappears and appears intermittently. This kind of person is born to be a murderer.
After entering the governor's office, Chang Yu and his party washed up and rested for a while, then went to the lobby to meet Lu Zhenfei and Ma Shiying. After some pleasantries, they went straight to the topic: "Why is Governor Ma here at this time?"
Ma Shiying had already thought of an excuse: "A few days ago, I heard that the bandit army was going down the river. There were no soldiers in the territory and I couldn't ask for help. I just arrived at Fengyang Mansion the day before yesterday and was waiting to leave tomorrow. I didn't expect to be lucky enough to meet the Governor.
Great joy, great luck, Lord Governor is invincible. The reinforcements coming this time are really a timely help. The death of those traitor soldiers has come!"
He not only explained the origin but also flattered Ma Shiying. What Ma Shiying said was perfect. Chang Yu smiled slightly and stopped pursuing it. He also asked some questions about the movements of the rebel army. Ma Shiying didn't know much and couldn't explain.
Chou Yin Mao mostly looked like four but not at all. He was worried that if he spoke too much he would reveal his true identity, so he turned against the guests and asked the young eunuch how many reinforcements he had brought and where they were.
Chang Yu did not hide anything. He said that tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the capital were galloping to help. The vanguard, Liu Zeqing and others, and more than ten thousand cavalry, had arrived on the north bank of the Huaihe River. Behind them, Wu Sangui, Ma Ke, Huang Degong and other main troops were estimated to have passed Xuzhou.
Ma Shiying and Lu Zhenfei were surprised and happy when they heard this. They were happy that the young eunuch had led tens of thousands of reinforcements, but they were surprised that the big bosses were now obeying his orders.
Not to mention anything else, his ability to pull these thorns over and manipulate them is already unmatched!
Gao Jie and others were able to reach the Huaihe River in the evening, but the more than 10,000 troops crossing the river had to be delayed for at least one night. Although Chang Yu had sent people to Huaiyuan City to ask for assistance in crossing the river before crossing the river, it was obvious that Huaiyuan City could provide more manpower and boat power.
This is not enough, after all, there are still tens of thousands of main troops in the rear.
When Lu Zhenfei heard this, he immediately sent people to requisition civilian boats and fishing boats along the river in Fengyang Prefecture to go to support and assist, trying to get the reinforcements to cross the river and go south as soon as possible.
Unknowingly as he was talking, it was getting close to evening, and the heat had subsided. Chang Yu couldn't sit still anymore, so he said, "I have heard the name of Fengyang High Wall for a long time. How can I regret it now that I have come?"
Ma Shiying and Lu Zhenfei murmured in their hearts, the people in Dongchang are really evil, how can they be so good at it? Fengyang Mansion has the name of Zhongdu, so it is not easy to go to the prison.
But then I thought about it, Dongchang was the emperor's confidant, and those imprisoned inside the high wall were the emperor's criminals. Of course they had to help the emperor when they came, and they might also stop by to "reward" someone.
Unlike the previous refusal of Chunxiang's invitation, Lu Zhenfei did not want to go, but since the young eunuch proposed to go for a walk, as the governor of Fengyang, he had to accompany him. After all, the eunuch was going to enjoy the scenery, not Chunxiang.
The nature of the investigation is different.
Lu Zhenfei left, and Ma Shiying had to go too. He was the governor of Lufeng.
So the three of them left the governor's office and took a few relatives to the direction of the high wall. On the way, Ma Shiying and Lu Zhenfei exchanged glances. They both thought that this little eunuch was too weird. There were monks, nuns and Taoist priests accompanying him.
Oh, and there is Mr. Guan, the one who leads the horse is so stupid that he is as tall as a bamboo pole.
This royal prison is called Gaoqiang, and it really deserves its name. It is even much higher than the city wall of Fengyang Fucheng. Not only is the wall high, but as more and more people are assigned to Gaoqiang, the walls inside Gaoqiang are also high.
The buildings were expanded repeatedly. By the time of Jiajing, there were five buildings with a total of 58 residences, covering an area not smaller than the imperial city. By the time of Chongzhen, a total of 265 criminals were imprisoned.
Many of these royal relatives brought their families with them, and they multiplied and multiplied more and more, and marriage was also a difficult problem. There was a record of the twenty-seventh daughter of the guilty clan not getting married until the first year of Hongzhi, when the court discussed it
Only the sin clans within the high wall were allowed to marry local officials, civilians and soldiers, and the government would also give them a small dowry, which was a bit humane.
But there is one thing. After the death of Sin Zong, he was buried within the high wall, so that it was difficult to describe the people and ghosts inside the high wall at that time. It was not until the third year of Jingtai that he was allowed to be buried in the wasteland outside the city or cremated. This
It was also Chunxiang who was able to successfully get Zhu Yujian out of the city.
There are deep ditches around the high wall to protect the city, as well as guard troops. It is heavily guarded. The key is in the hands of the Fengyang garrison eunuch, so ordinary people cannot enter at all.
But it was obvious that Chang Yu was not an ordinary person. The guard eunuch came to open the door in person and enthusiastically welcomed him into the high wall. Chang Yu stood in the gate and glanced around, frowning: "Go up to the city and have a look."
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The wall is really high. Although there are no specific records in historical records, Chang Yu estimated that it was more than fifteen meters tall. From the inside, you can have a clear view of the inside of the wall. You can see the setting sun and the Huaihe River in the distance.
"It's so high, if you fall down, you won't be turned into meat," Chang Yu said casually, and everyone agreed, but they saw that he had jumped onto the battlement, opened his shoulders and shouted at the sunset.
Isn't this just a child's habit? Ma Shiying and Lu Zhanjiang looked at each other and smiled, but saw that his entourage also jumped on the battlements and imitated his howling like ghosts and wolves, which attracted the sinners inside the wall to come out and look at the city.
"Are you two timid and afraid of heights?" Chang Yu looked back at Ma Shiying and Lu Zhenfei and asked with a smile.
"Maybe he's a little afraid of heights, but he's not timid." Lu Zhenfei laughed and jumped up the wall. After getting along with him for a long time, he had a little affection for this eunuch. Although he was young, he was bold and unassuming. Even children were used to having fun with him.
It doesn't matter if you check it out.
Seeing him like this, Ma Shiying also climbed up, raised his hand and pointed at the setting sun on the Huaihe River in the distance: "It makes me feel happy to climb up and look far."
"Governor Ma, if you are happy, please don't fall down." Chang Yu smiled faintly, and Ma Shiying laughed loudly: "Although I am close to my sixties, I am... ah..."
As he spoke, the sole of his foot slipped, and he fell down with a sudden scream, almost pulling down Su Jing next to him!
The incident happened suddenly, and everyone was shocked. They jumped down quickly and looked down with lingering fear. Ma Shiying was motionless on the ground, and the blood pool around him was getting bigger and bigger...
"This..., this..." Chang Yu looked at Lu Zhenfei in shock.
Lu Zhenfei also had a look of horror on his face. Seeing the young eunuch looking at him like this, his face turned livid with fright: "Master Governor, this, this has nothing to do with the subordinates. It was Governor Ma who made a mistake himself."
Because Ma Shiying was standing between him and Su Jing, he thought Chang Yu suspected that he pushed Ma Shiying down, so he quickly explained.
Chang Yu then exclaimed: "It turns out that he slipped and fell."
"Yes, yes, he made a mistake on his own, and he has no grievances against me when I am in charge..." Lu Zhenfei was still explaining, not hearing the little eunuch's rhetoric at all, but he was complaining to Ma Shiying in his heart, what the hell are you doing?
People in their fifties are already in their fifties. Why are you joining in the fun? Is this just a joke? It’s a big deal now. As the old saying goes, you know your fate at fifty. Are you going to die knowing your fate?
"Since he made a mistake on his own, it has nothing to do with us." Chang Yu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the corpse below: "It's a pity, it's a pity that when it was just about to be used, it... alas."
"He stumbled and died, but he almost dragged me down. This man was extremely evil-minded." Su Jing seemed to have just come back to her senses, her eyes were red and her whole body was trembling as she cursed below.
"It was also an unintentional move. How could the person who spoke at that moment think so much? Anyone would have reached out and grabbed it randomly." Chang Yu comforted him, and Lu Zhenfei also supported him: "It was an unintentional move, it was an unintentional move, Master Tai."
Don’t be too…”
"His unintentional move almost killed me!" Su Jing was still angry and pointed at Ma Shiying's body below: "You really deserve to die."
"Su Jing, death is the most important thing, don't be rude!" Chang Yu scolded lightly, and then frowned and said: "Things in the world are unpredictable. Who would have expected that we were having such a happy conversation just now, and in the blink of an eye, the yin and yang are separated. It's just that these two dignified houses are separated.
The governor has suffered an accident. Governor Lu, you have to make a secret and report the matter to the court."
"Yes, it should be," Lu Zhenfei said quickly: "It's just that, Lord Governor, you have to testify for me. Governor Ma made a mistake on his own, so don't look back and let someone throw dirty water on you."
"This is natural, and everyone present can prove it." Chang Yu said and swept away everyone. Even Ma Shiying's two personal followers nodded quickly. Although they did not jump on the battlement, they were leaning against the battlement to look into the distance.
The scenery, I didn’t even pay attention to what was happening on Ma Shiying’s side.
But in this situation, what can they say, and what do they dare to say?
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Thanks to the useless book friend Waixiong for the reward!