March 21, the second year of Jianye's reign, was an ordinary day no matter from any angle.
On this day, the capital city lifted the curfew at three o'clock as usual. The watchman, who had been on duty all night, yawned and went back to sleep;
The patrol sergeants who had patrolled for the last time also dispersed and went home to rest;
Countless small farmers who come to the city to sell vegetables are waiting at the city gate, waiting for the city gate to be opened;
Countless breakfast vendors have set up breakfast stalls, waiting for people who come out to eat breakfast;
The excrement workers have also gotten up and poured the dung they collected yesterday into the dung truck, preparing to haul it out of the city.
At this time, it was not fully light yet. When walking on the street and looking at the people coming from the opposite side, I could only see a rough figure. I couldn't tell whether they were black, white, fat, thin, male or female.
A turtle slave in a brothel yawned and walked out of the brothel entrance to a nearby breakfast stall. As he walked, he muttered: "You asked me to come out to buy breakfast again, a bunch of guys who are too lazy to get maggots."
He walked to the breakfast stall and said to the boss: "Dragon Zhou's old rules, fifty sesame cakes and fifty fried dough sticks."
Zhou Dongjia said: "Okay! Wei Bandang has already prepared it for you."
At this time, the waiter on the side had already fried a lot of fried dough sticks. Zhou Dongjia weighed out fifty sticks, took out fifty sesame seed cakes, wrapped them, and handed them to him.
The man surnamed Wei took the package, handed over the money, picked up a wooden bowl, scooped out a bowl of wonton soup, drank it, and returned to the brothel.
But as soon as he walked about twenty steps away from the brothel, he saw more than a dozen people gathered at the door of the brothel. Although he could not see clearly their appearance, but with the eyesight he had gained in the brothel, he could see them.
They all turned out to be strong, broad-bodied men.
He immediately didn't dare to leave, thinking to himself: 'Where did this group of people come from? They can't be the new 'big bones' in this area. They are going to benefit.'
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw this group of people knocking on the door of the courtyard, and then rushed in. Suddenly there was a sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping inside the courtyard. After a while, the woman's screams also sounded.
It rang.
Seeing that they were so aggressive and dared to rush directly into the courtyard, the man named Wei became frightened and felt that it was not safe to stand in this place. He remembered that he had a lover who was a private prostitute, so he turned around and trotted there.
The man surnamed Wei trotted all the way to the place where he was dating. He just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw four big men standing at the door of the private prostitute. It was already daybreak, and he could clearly see these four people wearing very strange dark blue clothes.
The tight clothes immediately reminded him of the people he saw at the entrance of the courtyard. Although he did not see the clothes of the dozen strong men clearly at the time, he seemed to have seen them clearly at this time and immediately identified these four people.
The clothes are the same as those of a dozen people over there.
He was even more frightened: 'This big bone is so powerful, is their territory from the southwest to the south of the city?'
At this time, one of the four people looked back and happened to see him. He was immediately frightened and ran away without a trace.
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Li Yihai turned around, and Xiao Ye next to him asked, "Have you seen anyone unusual?"
Li Yihai replied: "I just saw a turtle slave who turned around and ran away when he saw me."
"A turtle slave? There is no courtyard in this area? Where did the turtle slave come from?" Xiao Ye wondered.
"Who cares where he comes from? He's just a turtle slave anyway, what's the big deal." Xia Dong next to him said disapprovingly.
At this time, the other person on the side coughed and said, "Old brothers, everything should be fine. Let's start arresting them."
The three of them immediately stopped talking, and Li Yihai said: "Yes, yes, what this little brother said is to start arresting people immediately."
Then he said to a smelly man standing nearby: "Quick, call the door!"
This man's face was full of reluctance. He had just come out of home this morning, and they had dragged him here, and now they asked him to call the door. Although he didn't know what they were going to do, he was instinctively unwilling.
But they all had fierce looks and an unspeakable aura about them, and he didn't dare to disobey them; not to mention that the youngest one showed the Jin Yiwei brand. He is in his thirties this year, and he still remembers the majesty of Jin Yiwei back then.
It was new, so I obeyed obediently.
The smelly person shouted: "Thank you, madam, open the door!"
He shouted several times, and a woman's voice came from the yard: "Why is it so early today?"
He said: "Today one landlord wanted a lot of manure, so I quickly collected all the manure from these households and sent it over."
"Really, I still have guests here..." Footsteps came from the yard, and the footsteps got closer and closer, and did not stop until they reached the door of the yard.
Then there was only a "squeak" sound, and the door of the courtyard was opened, revealing a woman in her twenties who was standing inside. As the woman opened the door, she kept talking: "Can you
Be careful not to bump into my guests,..."
Just as she said this, she looked up and saw that there was not only a manure digger outside, but also four big men wearing strange dark blue tights.
She said in a panic: "Who are you? I..."
Before she could finish her words, a tall man who looked less than forty years old shouted outside the door: "Yingtian Mansion is handling the case!" He rushed in.
How could Madam Xie be able to block a strong man? She was knocked to the ground unexpectedly. However, she was not very afraid and shouted: "Here comes someone! There is a thief impersonating..."
As soon as she shouted these few words, a man in his thirties looked back at her.
Madam Xie suddenly shuddered! What a look in her eyes. Just for a moment, Madam Xie felt as if she was in a Shura field. She felt that there was only the blood-red color in her eyes. She could not say the rest of her sentence.
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Seeing that Madam Xie was frightened, the man sneered and walked towards the house again.
After a while, two men who were still half-asleep and half-awake were caught. The leader, a man less than forty years old, took out two ropes and tied them both up.
After they were tied up, a man less than thirty years old picked up a basin filled with cold water and poured it on their faces.
At this time, Mrs. Xie discovered that this person was missing an arm. Then she subconsciously looked at the other three people and found that two of them were also missing an arm, and only one of them had all his limbs intact.
‘Who are they?’ Madam Xie thought with some fear.
The two people finally woke up completely, and then found themselves tied up in the yard with their clothes disheveled, and they immediately shouted:
"Who dares to tie up grandpa!"
"Where are you from? You dare to offend me! You don't know that I am the leader of a fast class trained by the imperial court!"
Li Yihai sneered and said: "You are not a fast class under the imperial government's management, and we haven't arrested you yet! Xu Bantou, you have colluded with the big guys in the city over the years to harass the people and oppress the good people. Today is the day you will be punished."
When Xu Bantou heard that this was wrong, he shook his head and looked at Li Yihai, asking: "Who are you? People from Nancheng Bingma Division? I am also familiar with your official Cheng."
Li Yihai said: "Don't worry about who we are, you will know in a moment. And that Zhao Dagong over there, don't think about it and break away from the rope and run away. Our method of tying people is to break away from the rope and run away."
It won’t open.”
"Now we are escorting you to Yingtianfu Yamen. If you are wise, walk over by yourself. Otherwise, you will suffer. You must have never seen the punishments in our army."
'They are people from the army!' Xu Bantou was shocked: 'What's going on? People from the army were used to arrest me? What do the bosses want to do?'
However, he was not allowed to think too much, and the four people pushed him out. Xu Bantou and Zhao Dagong did not dare to leave, so they were pushed out of the yard.
After they left the yard, Madam Xie, who had been standing there for a long time, immediately closed the door and hurriedly ran into the house to take a closer look. Then she breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, they didn't touch my things and the money is still there."
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The same thing happened in many places in the south, southwest, and west of the capital. Countless strong men wearing strange dark blue tights rushed into many people's yards and arrested many people.
On the way these strong men brought people to Yingtian Mansion, although the people were hiding, they also recognized a few people who were arrested: "Isn't this Sun Dagong from my family? This was arrested by that yamen
gone?"
"The sky has eyes. This government official named Han is the most inhumane person. He bullies the people and extorts money. The court finally arrested him! It would be better if he is exiled to Nanyang far away!"
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At this time, Huang Huaigao was sitting in the lobby of Yingtian Mansion Office. People kept coming in and saying to him: "Master Fu Yin, Feng Chao from the Zhongcheng Army and Horses Division has been arrested."
"Lord Fu Yin, Cheng Limu from the Nancheng Army and Horses Division has been arrested."
"Master Fu Yin, Jiangning County's fast class leader xxx has been arrested."
"Lord Fu Yin,..."
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After a long time, Shangyuan County Magistrate Li Guan walked in and said to him: "Master Fu Yin, all the beggars and refugees in the entire city have been gathered together. There are about a thousand people. I have placed them in the north of the city.
The place close to the avant-garde barracks of the government army was guarded by two to three hundred 'policemen' who had just been transferred." He was very uncomfortable with the word "policeman."
Huang Huai put down his pen and said: "Okay! Just catch all the beggars in the city together." Then he asked the general judge on the side: "How many people who should be arrested have not been arrested?"
The general judge said: "Master Fu Yin, a total of 725 people should be arrested. Now we know that 701 people have been arrested, and there are still..."
"There are twenty-four people left." Huang Huai said: "Most of the twenty-four people should have been caught, but they have not been escorted to Yingtian Mansion yet. Not many can escape. Besides, even if they can escape for a while,
, and you can’t escape for the rest of your life.”
"No wait, you guys go out with me and deal with these people."
