At the end of the Ming Dynasty, corruption was common among civil and military officials, except for the Hanlin in the Qingshui Yamen in the Hanlin Academy, and the Kechen were relatively poor, which one was not bulging in the pockets.

Chang Yuxing's position in the East Factory, in order to avoid the instability of the army's morale, the investigation and punishment methods of the military system are relatively mild, and most of them are not to blame in the past, and they will not be forgiven if they commit again!

But he planned to use thunder on the courtiers, especially a few thorns in the eye, such as Chen Yan, Wei Zaode, Li Jiantai, Li Guozhen, etc., although some were ousted from power, and some "died unexpectedly", but those who were corrupt and bribe-taking had to be spit out, and no one was missing.

Especially these people have a record of being tortured by Liu Zongmin, which one is not sent out casually for tens of thousands of taels of silver, check, must check! This is the people's fat and the people's ointment!

Chunxiang crossed his fingers in the car with an excited face, muttering in his mouth: "The dead can't have less money, this life is dirty enough, but I like it."

The carriage passed through the big fence and went straight to the south, the farther and farther, the more silent it became, the night was already deep, the ordinary people had already slept, there were no pedestrians on the streets, no wild dogs were missing, and occasionally wild cats passed through the house, which made the attendants panic.

There are occasional crying voices on the street, and some attendants have seen and reported that there are people nearby who are mourning, Chang Yu frowned, the weather is getting warmer, and the plague is even worse, historical data say that before Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the plague was rampant in the capital, like a dead city, ten rooms and nine empty, although it could not be believed, but if there was no effective containment, I was afraid that it would come true.

The plague, also known as the Black Death, is an extremely terrifying infectious disease, both Chinese and foreign, once a nightmare for Europeans, with 30 million deaths in three years!

It is unfortunate that in the last years of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty was suffering from it, and once swept several provinces madly, and now the capital is the most, and those who die of illness every day are dozens or hundreds.

Chang Yu was worried in the car, trying to recall the methods of preventing the plague in later generations, but he didn't dabble deeply, he had little memory, and he was feeling irritable, when he suddenly heard a noise outside the car, he opened the curtains and saw Jiang Fa go to the low house on the street, and disappeared like a raccoon cat on the roof of the house.

The attendants drew their swords one after another, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Chang Yu lowered the curtain, pulled out Chunxiang, who was about to get out of the car, and shook his head slightly.

He made countless enemies in the capital, and there were too many people who wanted to kill him, and the lives of the bankrupt who were arrested and punished by the edict and prison a month ago were also shocked.

But it's only calm on the surface, and the undercurrent is surging under the surface of the water, isn't there a mysterious killer who goes all the way out of Beijing to chase and kill outside the pass, what a special hatred.

However, he has just returned to Beijing, his whereabouts are a mystery, and no matter how awesome the killers are, they will not follow them from the imperial city to the outer city, after all, it is impossible for them to fly over the city wall with wings, and once the city gate is closed, there are very few people in the whole capital who can open the door.

How did you follow you to the outer city? There is only one possibility, the other party is full of ears and eyes in each door, waiting to see the will of heaven. Obviously, the person Jiang Fa was chasing was a coincidence and happened to meet the convoy of the little eunuch, but he didn't want to be discovered under the tracking.

What are you doing with Lao Tzu, if you don't prepare an ambush in advance, and only rely on a single person to improvise the assassination? Hehehe,

Chang Yu thought it was funny, but soon he couldn't laugh anymore, wasn't the assassin who followed out of Beijing all the way to the outside of the border alone!

Mom sells batches! Chang Yu scolded angrily, probed out, and saw that Jiang Fa had returned to the car, and his breath was a little panting: "A person, he escaped!" ”

"Could it be the assassin outside the gate?" Chen Wangting asked.

"It's possible, but not sure!" Jiang Fa gritted his teeth: "That thief is too familiar with the terrain here, so he took the opportunity to slip away......"

Chang Yu chuckled: "It's also possible that it's a snitch who happened to be met by you!" ”

Jiang Fa was stunned, everyone thinks about it, it is possible, if you can fly the eaves and walk the wall, and you are familiar with the terrain, it is very likely that it is a snitch in the capital.

The carriage turned around next to the Xizhao Temple on Guangqumen Street, stopped at the mouth of Nanshuiguan Hutong, Chang Yu and Chunxiang got off the car and quietly entered the alley and went to Huangfu, while the guards continued to escort the empty car around the vicinity, and only entered Huangfu through the back door when no one was following.

The Huangfu is no longer the original dilapidated Erjin courtyard, the houses in the mansion have already been renovated, and under the instruction of Chunxiang, the neighboring courtyard in the west has also been bought, and it has become a real big family.

There is no doubt that this place, which was originally used as a spare foothold, has become Chang Yu's private residence, and there are very few people who know it, even if Chongzhen knows, he will not say anything, the power supervisor has always bought a private house outside the imperial city, and if Chang Yu doesn't buy it, he still feels that something is wrong.

And Chang Yu gradually regarded this place as a spiritual sustenance, home!

Huangfu expanded the land and made a living in a rice shop, the housekeeper Su Chenghuang couldn't smile from ear to ear every day, and the family members were busy and enriched, and they finally bought furniture such as beds, tables, chairs, cabinets, etc., and the head of the family like Sui Zhi also had his own single room.

The head of the house returned from a long night, and there was no need to say much about the joy in the Huang Mansion, the lights in the house were not extinguished until the early hours of the morning, and there were guards on duty in the courtyard for the first time, and light and dark sentinels were also assigned, which showed that the assassin did cause psychological pressure on the little eunuch.

The sun is three poles, the imperial city is a busy time, the eunuchs and palace ladies perform their duties, come and go to serve their respective masters, grass fence field, more than ten eunuchs are cleaning up the garbage left by last night's gambling, and some are walking horses on the field, which seems to be very leisurely.

After a while, Li Tiezhu, Hu Ling, and Fan Jiaqian appeared in the field, and after a few shouts, the people on the field gathered more and more, and the two hundred and the eunuch army began to gather with their sleepy eyes.

After returning from the victory, they became heroes, and were welcomed by the people outside the city, and they were applauded by their colleagues when they returned to the palace, and the bosses of the twenty-four yamen under the celebrant also came to show their goodwill, and the most powerful eunuchs of the imperial horse supervisor paid out of their own pockets to reward two taels of silver each, and Chen Zhong, the boss of the wine and vinegar noodle bureau, sent ten altars of good imperial wine and said that it was a gift from the emperor.

They had a reason to revel, gambling and drinking all night until they woke up in the middle of the afternoon, and the wine was not yet exhausted.

The two hundred and forty-seven men lined up not for drills, and today they had more important things to do.

Send those comrades who died in battle to the ground.

Zhang Songtao, the eunuch in charge of the Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, personally sent black satin, and Li Tiezhu ordered one to be tied to his left arm.

They looked like they were going to the funeral......

Why black instead of white?

I'm afraid it's to avoid it, we are all slaves of the emperor's house, unless there is a funeral for the royal family......

The jar in front of them must be ashes......

Out of the imperial city, the eunuch army turned over and went straight to the northwest, which caused the people in the city to talk again, the content was mostly similar, but the people were idle and curious, and there were many who followed to watch the excitement, and did not hesitate to follow out of the city.