No matter how much the prince's palace wanted to keep things quiet, the news of the assassin's night break still spread widely.
No matter how low-key the matter was handled, Dali Temple finally captured more than 20 people from the Feng family's slaves and tribes who were acting suspiciously and had bad deeds, and detained them for rigorous interrogation.
Then, the news spread that many slaves of the Feng family were plotting to avenge their master, mixed with the rumors that some assassins broke into the prince's house at night and directed and performed their own spears to stab God You Emperor, making everything seem clear and clear.
confusing.
Emperor Tianyou finally decreed that the case of the imperial mausoleum collapse was finally settled. The Feng clan members, including Feng Liao, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong, were all demoted to common people and expelled from Jinling.
The assassin broke into the prince's palace at night and implicated more than 20 people on suspicion of plotting to assassinate the third prince. However, Dali Temple failed to close the case in the end. At this time, Emperor Tianyou did not forcibly integrate the Feng family slaves into official service, but allowed them to follow the Feng family.
It became logical to leave Beijing together.
The slaves of the Feng family (including the Kong family) were mainly divided into four categories:
The first category is the family soldiers and their dependents, totaling 2,200 people; this category of people mainly live in Jinling.
The second category is the shopkeepers, core clerks and dependent children of the Feng family who manage warehouses, pawn shops, restaurants and other businesses. After deducting the overlap with the first category, there are a total of more than 1,800 people.
This type of people were originally scattered all over the place, but for verification, the Third Division seized the Feng family's property and detained all these people in Jinling.
The third category is the stewards of the Feng family who are scattered around the country to manage the farms and estates. There are more than a thousand villagers in total, mainly scattered in various places. The Feng family's farm in Jinling is mainly managed by the family members of the family army.
, no more repeated calculations with the first category.
The fourth category is the servants and maids used by the Feng family in various mansions and manors in Jinling, totaling more than 800 people.
In other words, 5,000 of the Feng family's 6,000 slaves and servants were all in Jinling, plus nearly 400 Feng clan members, who were ordered to leave Jinling within ten days.
So many people were kicked out of the Feng family's mansion, and they could only temporarily live in Yandangji, which housed them.
It was already late October. Although it had not snowed, the cold wind from the north was blowing and the frost turned white. Five to six thousand people crowded the newly built enclosed house in Yandangji. Most people could only sit in the courtyard.
They spread out their straw mats and slept there, but they were as embarrassed as a frightened bird, not knowing where to go.
All the farms and fields of the Feng family have been confiscated. Even if there is a private treasure, who dares to take it out and wait for the officers and soldiers to rush at it like tigers and wolves, take it away and behead it?
When I returned to Xuanzhou, I also had no place to live. The world was so big, but there was no place for the Feng family.
Especially after the assassin broke into the county prince's house at night, those who had been favored by Feng in the past no longer dared to get involved in right and wrong.
Han Qian acted like an alternative.
After the Feng clan was expelled from the mansion, there were so many slaves. Because some of them probably had the same grudges as the Feng clan, they were not forced to serve as official slaves. Emperor Tianyou also wanted to show that he was not so cruel to the Feng family.
The Feng clan and these slaves were not exiled to the army, but the deeds of these slaves obviously made it impossible for the Feng clan to take them away.
That is to say, so many slaves and soldiers have become refugees without identity at this moment.
Of course the refugees were free, but they were accustomed to relying on the Feng family. When they were helpless, they were ordered to leave Jinling within ten days. They didn't even have winter coats on them. They could only continue to advance and retreat with the Feng family.
, so what?
Someone proposed to go to Xuzhou very early, but in the minds of most of the Feng family, Xuzhou is too far away, too desolate, and a place full of poisonous diseases and snakes and insects. What is the difference between them going to Xuzhou and being exiled to the army?
?
The wind from the north blew his face as cold as a knife. Han Qian put on a coat outside his leather armor to keep out the cold. He stood at the mouth of the Qiupu River where it flows into the Yangtze River and looked at the rippling water.
Hearing the footsteps, Han Qian turned around and looked back. He saw Feng Liao and Feng Yi walking over and asked, "Why, you haven't decided where to go yet, okay? Yang Qin will be in Jinling in two days. This time I'll ask him."
Your Highness, I have selected and bought twenty additional ships from the ships that your Feng family wants to dispose of. If you can decide where to go in these two days, I can also transfer the ships to give you a ride. Otherwise, you can only
I’ve traveled across mountains and rivers by myself!”
"I still can't decide. Too many people still fear Xuzhou as a dangerous road." Feng Liao said with a bitter smile.
He used to be the eldest son and eldest grandson of the Feng family. Except for his father Feng Wenlan and uncle Kong Zhou, he was the eldest son of the family. But now more and more Feng family members resented his father and son for bringing trouble to the Feng family. How could they take his words seriously?
Even his grandmother, mother and aunt's words have little weight at this time.
"Why can't we tell the story about Li Qidu?" Feng Yi asked depressedly.
"If you tell me about this, I will never send you to Xuzhou!" Han Qian said with a tight face, "Can you know that among so many people, there is no one who has been bribed by the Internal Affairs Bureau? You are going to tell me this
Once things are leaked or reported, I will send you to Xuzhou, how many mouths can I have to tell you clearly?"
"If I tell several uncles that the Han family has the intention to run Xuzhou, Xuzhou is the only place where my Feng family can revive, is that okay?" Feng Liao asked, looking at Han Qian's face.
"My father and I are loyal to Your Majesty and to the Great Chu. My father was ordered to serve as pastor of Xuzhou and we have absolutely no different ambitions." Han Qian said righteously and sternly.
Feng Liao was dismissive of Han Qian's poor performance, but he could also understand Han Qian's caution at this time and advised: "I just made an excuse to secretly persuade my uncles and brothers who are stubborn.
If the rumor gets out and someone tortures me, I will definitely not implicate Mr. Han."
"My father and son are loyal to each other, so we can't let you slander us, right?" Han Qian insisted.
"When did you become so stubborn?" Feng Yi was so anxious that he didn't expect Han Qian to be tolerant at all.
"Feng Yi, you go find Xirong. I have something to say to Mr. Han alone." Feng Liao said to Feng Yi.
"Okay!" Feng Yi said dejectedly, turned and left the riverside.
Han Qian turned around and looked at the river to the north. The waves were surging, and they were getting colder under the cold wind.
"You put Li Qi Donkey into the county prince's palace and ordered Tian Cheng to kill him, right?" Feng Liao gritted his teeth and said.
"Why should I do this superfluous thing?" Han Qian smiled and looked at the river without looking back.
"What you did is just to make us believe that if we stay near Jinling or go to Xuanzhou, we may be persecuted; and forcing my Feng family into Xuzhou will be your capital to support yourself in Xuzhou," Feng Liao said through gritted teeth.
, "I didn't understand it at first. I didn't expect that in the end there would be so many slaves and family soldiers who would be expelled from Jinling City together with us. Are you the one who spread all the rumors?"
"Since you thought you had discovered the secret in my heart, why did you come to me and tell me that you were really not afraid that I would kill you to silence you?" Han Qian turned around and stared at Feng Liao and asked.
"You won't kill me, because you and I both know that our Feng family has no other choice at this time!" Feng Liao said firmly.
"If you think you have uncovered my hidden secrets, you can expose me to His Highness. How can you have no other choice?" Han Qian said.
"Who in the county prince's palace will believe the three of us? I told others about this, not to seek death? What's more, if the Feng family rises again, the only choice is to live under your family!" Feng Liao's gloomy and deep eyes stared at him.
Han Qian wants to truly confirm this.
"You are too confident. If you say this in front of my father, my father will push you out and behead you. Your Feng family has suffered this disaster. To put it bluntly, you are not cautious enough. I will pretend that you have not said this today. In the future,
Never say that in front of me again!" Han Qian looked back at Feng Liao without hesitation and said.
Han Qian was not afraid that Feng Liao would have other options at this time, but he was mainly afraid that Feng Liao would come to his father and talk about this call. If he was still in Jinling by then, he would have no way to explain to his father face to face that it was really possible that his father
Tie Feng Liao and others to Jinling to prove their innocence - that would be really self-defeating.
"I know what's appropriate, but there are still some people who don't want to follow us to Xuzhou. I wonder what you can do?" Feng Liao said.
Hearing that Feng Liao had changed his title intentionally, Han Qian sighed inwardly.
To be honest, why didn't Han Qian want to take advantage of the situation to separate Xuzhou and become a local emperor in a land far away from the mountains and ignore the dangerous murderous intention of Jinling?
But, he can't pass his father's test!
Han Qian sighed bitterly in his heart, took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, handed it to Feng Liao and said: "I have already thought of an excuse for you to convince others - this is a piece of paper that I owe you the Feng family 40,000 yuan."
Take the IOU for the money and tell your uncles that I have tried every possible means to recover this IOU before agreeing to help you go to Xuzhou to establish yourself. When you arrive in Xuzhou, I will also arrange a house for you and transfer this debt to you.
Cancel it."
"If this matter spreads out, wouldn't it be detrimental to the adults?" Feng Liao asked.
"Even if the crown prince or King Xin has an informant among your slaves and finds out about this, they can only accuse me of trying to get a small fortune. Whether they will eventually expose this matter is a matter of two minds. After all, it can't be a stick.
Beat me to death. After all, when I am useful, will your Majesty mind if I am greedy for a little money? If the prince or King Xin tries to make excuses and accuses me of the Han family’s ulterior motives, things will be in trouble, and it will be difficult for me to argue." Han Qian.
said.
The Feng family is a big fat sheep. Han Qian immediately arranged Guo Queer into the Feng Mansion. In addition to the relationship between Feng Yi and Kong Xirong at that time, it was also because the Feng family's family business was considered to be the largest in the world.
Already.
Even though Emperor Tianyou didn't mention the plan at all when he summoned Chongwen Palace, Han Qian was 99% sure that Emperor Tianyou had already placed an informant among the slaves of the Feng family, and this informant would continue to be hidden among Feng's servants.
The domestic slaves became a secret force monitoring Xuzhou.
Then did the King of Chu, Anning Palace and the prince's line have any bribes among the Feng family's slaves?
This is what Han Qian wants to guard against.
If the news of Xuzhou's independence reaches the ears of the King of Chu and the Anning Palace, officials from these two departments will come to participate in the impeachment. Is it better for Emperor Tianyou to pretend to be blind, or not to pretend to be blind?
So in order to get all the Feng clan members to agree to go to Xuzhou, Han Qian really thought hard!
