After sending Fang Ba away, Chang Yu stared at the candlelight in the hall in a daze. After a while, Chunxiang came in, walked to the table, sat down and picked up a teapot to drink. Chang Yu saw that there was blood on his hands: "I did it myself this late at night.
Where is life?"
"Excellence in work comes from hard work," Chunxiang laughed and said, "Learn some skills from the old people in the yamen."
Chang Yu smiled and said nothing. Everyone knows that the tortures of Dongchang and Jinyiwei are comparable to purgatory. There are eighteen ways to get names, including finger-twisting, stick clamping, skinning, tongue cutting, ridge breaking, and finger dropping.
Heart-piercing, Pipa, etc. are cruel, but they are all technical and cannot be handled by ordinary people.
He took out the letter Zhou Yuji gave him from his arms and put it on the table. Chunxiang picked it up curiously and squinted his eyes: "Gao Di is asking for help from Zhen Xibo."
Seeing Chang Yu smiling and saying nothing, Chunxiang said again: "There was no solid evidence at first, but his letter just confirmed the crime of secretly communicating with Gao Qi without retribution." Then he slapped the letter on the table: "
How does eldest brother plan to deal with it?"
Chang Yu picked up the letter and lit it on the candlelight. Chunxiang looked surprised: "This..."
"Brother Zhenxi needs to be given some face." Chang Yu smiled calmly: "Many things and many people are not either white or black. People and things are very complicated. Just point it out and everyone will understand it."
"Just let him go like this?" Chunxiang was puzzled.
"Otherwise, just because he befriended Zhou Yuji and wrote a letter to prove that he was having an affair and hiding from the court?" Chang Yu curled his lips: "If there is no solid evidence, don't make any noise. Besides, even if there is solid evidence, it may not be enough to masturbate.
He has no reason now to overthrow the chief soldier guarding the gate just because of a dead man. When employing people, it is really unnecessary."
Chunxiang lowered his head and remained silent. Chang Yu then said: "You have the handle in your hand. It won't be too late to use it when you need to take action."
Chunxiang was a little unwilling and bit the corner of his mouth: "We won't do this business at a loss. It costs a lot of money to hunt down Gao Qiqian, and Gao Di must be beaten no matter what, otherwise he will have something.
The factory is very nice and gives the illusion of a lake.”
"Why, Gao Qiqian only caught one person, didn't he get anything else?" Chang Yu smiled faintly, Chunxiang shook his head gently: "I wonder if this guy really didn't survive, or he didn't have time before he escaped.
Take it away, or hide it somewhere privately, but not much has been dug out."
Chang Yu thought for a while: "It is impossible that this guy has been favored by the emperor for more than ten years and has nothing left. But the emperor did not allow him to enter the city the year before last. The last time he was in danger, he hurriedly escaped from the customs and escaped halfway. He must have been too late to transfer the family property. In
His home should have been confiscated by the imperial court after he escaped. If you check back and see if there is no record of the confiscation, then continue digging."
Chunxiang smiled bitterly: "If it hadn't been copied, everyone would be dead now, so I'm afraid it would be difficult to dig out." He snorted coldly: "If it hasn't been dug out or can't be dug out, the debt will have to be settled by Gao Di.
Give him a ring anyway.”
Chang Yu had no choice but to smile bitterly and nodded: "I'll let you do that."
Chunxiang's expression was a little proud after hearing this. Chang Yu saw this and warned: "Don't go too far. After all, he is a high official of the imperial court and guards the door. Now when employing people, don't go too far!"
"I know, let's stop here." Chunxiang chuckled, stood up and stretched: "It's too late, brother, go to bed early. We have enough work to do during the Mid-Autumn Festival tomorrow."
Chang Yu hummed: "I'm going to sleep in the Yamen today." After saying that, he got up and stretched: "Whoever likes to celebrate the holidays, celebrate the holidays, and whoever likes to be busy, do the work. I have to sleep and wake up naturally tomorrow. These two days
"I'm very tired." Chunxiang narrowed his eyes after hearing this and said with an exaggerated expression: "Are you going to sleep in tomorrow?"
Chang Yu was startled: "Why, you can't sleep?"
"Tomorrow is a festival. The emperor will sacrifice heaven and ancestors and hold a banquet for officials. Do you want to sleep in?" Chunxiang opened his eyes wide: "Or did you ask for leave from the emperor?"
In ancient times, both common people and the royal family attached great importance to traditional festivals and paid great attention to rituals. The Mid-Autumn Festival and the Chinese New Year were the two most important festivals. On this day, the royal family would worship the heaven and earth, worship their ancestors, entertain the ministers, and decorate the festival with lanterns and colorful decorations.
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It has been nearly two years since Chang Yu traveled through time, but he completely missed these two festivals.
When he first crossed over, it was just after the New Year, and Li Zicheng was already killing him without even feeling the atmosphere at the end of the festival. Then during the Mid-Autumn Festival, he was fighting Bai Wang in Jiangnan. During the New Year last year, he was returning from Yunnan after fighting the fire.
On the way to Beijing.
By chance, I can celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in the capital this time and feel the festive atmosphere of this era. Previously, due to the emergency of the war and the uncertain situation, the royal family kept everything simple, whether during the new year or during the holidays, and even some public events were canceled for fear of being exposed.
You are spitting on your face, you are so poor that you still have to pretend to be fat, you are extravagant and wasteful, you are in such a mess, you still have to whitewash peace...
So Chang Yu thought that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival was just a simple festival, so Yu was surprised when Chunxiang said that the emperor was going to banquet all the officials. But he soon guessed what Emperor Chongzhen was thinking.
Although it is not possible to say that the country is peaceful and the people are living and working in peace and contentment, compared with the precarious situation two years ago, when the building was only one step away from the country's subjugation, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a prosperous age. This is true for the court, the royal family, especially Emperor Chongzhen.
, it was as if he had been reborn as a new person. It was only in the past year or so that he truly felt that he was an emperor, a real emperor, the Nine-Five Supreme.
He is no longer the incompetent emperor who was swayed by his ministers and kept amusement.
And for more than a year, the ministers who were either arrogant or watching from afar have been submissive by him, and they will no longer lower their heads and let them spit.
Nowadays, internal and external troubles are on the rise. It is a good time to take advantage of the festival to show off the mighty grace of the emperor and the majesty of the imperial power. Of course, we should also be grateful to God and our ancestors for their blessings.
This is meaningless for the cabinet. From their point of view, whether it is for political needs or to whitewash peace, such an event is needed, so this matter was decided more than ten days ago, but Chang Yu didn't pay attention, and
Yesterday, Emperor Chongzhen thought that he had known about it for a long time and did not mention it. Chunxiang had the same mentality.
When holding public events, especially when the emperor wants to leave the imperial city, this kind of thing should not be careless. Dongchang must be careful whether overtly or covertly, and Chang Yu, as the leader of Dongchang, has a heavy responsibility, needless to say.
"I really asked for leave. You will have to work harder tomorrow." Chang Yu shrugged. He has always maintained a low profile and will not show up if he can. Moreover, there are too many rules in this era, especially those for worshiping the ancestors of heaven and earth.
Activities are filled with red tape one after another. If you are not careful or do something that exceeds the rules by accident, you will be scolded with saliva on your face.
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Chang Yuye is used to it. He can't remember so many etiquettes and doesn't like to be bound by too many rules, so he doesn't want to join in the fun. He also knows that as long as he shows up, he will immediately become the center of attention, and his every move will be deliberately or unintentionally criticized by officials.
Staring, that feeling is really uncomfortable.
Chunxiang believed it was true: "Then I'll go to bed first... Oh, by the way, Xu Kailiang from the Dongcheng Army and Horses Division came here an hour ago and reported that there was a group of thieves making trouble in the city. I thought I would celebrate the big festival tomorrow, so I told him
I told the Jin Yiwei people to go and help with the arrest... Hey, why do you think there are thieves entering the city in this joint? Is Wang Jiayan now a hands-off shopkeeper, pointing at our Dongchang without asking at any time!"
Chang Yu was startled at first, and then laughed: "This Xu Kailiang is really open-minded and knows how to do things."
Chunxiang looked confused, so Chang Yu told the story about the Chaoyangmen gang fight. Chunxiang suddenly realized: "I said, how could there be thieves entering the city? This Xu Kailiang... Hehe, not bad, he can fight against the trouble.
I've thought about it from the beginning, a gangster has turned into a gangster, and even if the matter gets bigger, it won't be related to Octopus."
"Learn more. You have to be well-rounded in everything you do, and the road will become wider as you go." Chang Yu patted Chunxiang on the shoulder and said, "Go to sleep." Chunxiang mumbled something unknown and went to sleep in the backyard.
It is already late, and it is estimated that Emperor Chongzhen will get up in less than an hour to go to court. There are also public activities, celebrations, banquets and so on today. Most people can't bear this, so being an emperor is not that easy. Of course, those
The ministers in Beijing were even more tired.
But Chang Yu was not sleepy at all. Unless the emperor ordered him to follow him tomorrow, he would not have to go there and have some leisure time. Although he did not really ask for leave, he had already laid the groundwork when he met the saint the night before: he has been busy with official duties recently.
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Between pragmatism and ostentation, Emperor Chongzhen would naturally choose the former. He must have known in his heart that it would be quite prestigious and ostentatious to have Chang Yu follow him in public, but he also knew that a tree attracts arrogance, and the more he behaves like this, the more his ministers will feel jealous.
He hates Chang Yu, although he also wants to make the ministers and Chang Yu incompatible, but there will be many such opportunities in the future, and there is no need to do this before Chang Yu prepares to attack Jinzhou.
Of course, these are all Chang Yu's guesses. I can't guarantee that Emperor Chongzhen of Qi Ming'er would ask him to go out and bomb the streets with him on a whim.
He stood at the door and blew in the wind for a while. It was a bit cold, but he still didn't feel sleepy. He strolled around the yard and unknowingly walked to the fanzi on duty near Tianlao to pay him a gift. Only then did Chang Yu react.
, suddenly thought of something and walked in.
There are thousands of prisons in the world, but there are only a few that can be called heavenly prisons. Only those directly under the central court can be called heavenly prisons, such as the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. There is another type of prison called the king of prisons in the heavenly prisons, which is the imperial prison.
Ordinary people cannot enter this place, they must have VIP status, that is, criminals convicted by the emperor's edict, most of whom are high officials of the imperial court.
There are only two such places in the world, one is the imperial prison of Jinyiwei and the other is the imperial prison of Dongchang, which is equivalent to the Qincheng and Yancheng prisons in later generations, and the Prison of the Ministry of Punishment can be regarded as a detention center at most.
Because Dongchang was previously controlled by Wei Zhongxian, Emperor Chongzhen almost abolished Dongchang after he ascended the throne, and the prison of Dongchang was never used. It was not until Chang Yu came to power that he arrested dozens of nobles to warm up the scene.
, and those subsequently imprisoned were mostly key criminals in Dongchang and some shady figures.