In the Ming Dynasty, the Jingshi East Gui West was rich and the north was poor and the south was cheap, when the first assistant Zhang Juzheng lived in the Shamao Hutong at the mouth of the lamp market in the east of Donghua Gate, which belonged to the typical "Donggui", and went out of the Xuanwu Gate to the south along the Xuanwumen Street to the end, the houses gradually became low and dilapidated, and then went south after the crowded livestock, the stinking mule and horse market, the houses were in disrepair, and occasionally mixed with several ruins and broken walls.

Don't think it's dirty and messy here, if you continue south to the Jade Emperor Temple and Longquan Temple, it will simply be a mass grave, and it will be even more deserted.

Kicking and trampling, horses' hooves trampling on the dusty road, a slightly old decorated carriage slowly coming from the north, the rattling of the axles made people listen to the roots of the teeth sour, and the car was followed by a few sugar gourd sellers and oil sellers, who looked like they were not like the carriage

It's all the way.

The handlebar style wore a broken felt hat, covered most of his face, and shouted in a Beijing accent: "Old and young masters, big girls and little daughters-in-law, borrowed and borrowed, and got a son~~ drive!" ”

The official of the Beijing division is called three products and four products all over the street, five, six or seven products are as many as dogs, and the carriage of dignitaries and dignitaries is so magnificent, this carriage is ordinary, and at first glance, I know that at most it is a southern goods shop owner, a silk village shopkeeper and the like, and it is used by people who have no power and no power.

So the beggars, who were lazily half-lying on both sides of the road, lazily catching lice, immediately became interested in the carriage, and the leprosy headed by the head gestured to the gangs, and more than a dozen beggars swarmed around, kowtowed around the carriage, and shouted: "Okay, master, the Bodhisattva bless you with many blessings and long lives!" ”

"Look at this big sore on my shoulder, Lao Wu will give some soup and medicine money!"

"The master does good deeds and accumulates virtue, and the auspicious stars shine brightly for a lifetime......"

The strange thing is that although these people's voices are loud, they are very sharp and hoarse, and they seem to be yin and yang, and they are either rotten or have dysentery, just like a group of demons dancing wildly.

With a snap, the coachman raised his hand and shook a whip: "Look for death!" I'll kill you, Lao Tzu......"

Suddenly, the sound stopped abruptly, someone in the carriage whispered something, and the coachman turned his head to make a sound, and then took out the broken silver from his bosom and threw it to the ground.

The leper was stunned, looked at the coachman suspiciously, suddenly changed his expression, and quickly asked his subordinates to pick up the broken silver, and then retreated to both sides to make way for the road.

The beggars retreated one after another, but their expressions were a little strange, and when the carriage slowly walked away, an old beggar couldn't help but ask: "Brother Lai, the idea on this cart is that the buns have meat and are not on the folds, and they are very fat, why didn't we give him a hard bite to eat just now?" ”

Although these people are in the name of beggars, in fact, they have come to the empty door by abducting and deceiving flowers, and they have just used the name of begging to go to the bottom, if they feel that the oil and water on the carriage are still passable, they don't mind being a robber part-time.

The leper looked at the carriage in the distance, still a little absent-minded, and did not answer the question.

The old beggar pretended to be smart: "Oh, Brother Lai is asking us to chase after him and do it at the mass grave......"

"!" The leprosy head stretched out his hand and slapped the old beggar dizzy, and then his voice was lowered, beckoning and waiting for the partners to gather, and then he said mysteriously: "I listened to the coachman's voice just now, and I felt a bit like the Huade Guanhua master who was in charge of our Xuannanfang, he turned around and talked to the people in the carriage, and I saw the hemorrhoid on his chin again!" ”

My mother, the beggar was so frightened that he shouted, the old beggar who said he wanted to eat hard just now even fell on his ass, and actually called the Jinyi Wei Baihu official to be the coachman, which way of the fairy was sitting in this car? I'm afraid that as long as you provoke a little, people will blow your breath and leave your bones gone!

Now the old beggar is not sorry for the loss of the fat sheep, but rejoicing in his luck: "Grandma's, we, we are considered a big fate today, if we really do it, can this life still be kept?" ”

The leper head is right, the handlebar style that looks like Xiang is indeed the Huade official of the hundred households in Xuannan Fang, and the people who pinch the dough, pull the fodder, and the farmers who have just sold vegetables from the city with empty vegetable baskets are actually redressed by the captain of the Jinyi School of Fusi in Beizhen.

In the carriage, Qin Lin and Xu Wenchang were sitting, because the eldest princess Zhu Yao was going to Longquan Temple to play, Qin Lin was entangled by her, so she had to agree, this abrasive little sister-in-law. ,

Jingshi is divided into north and south cities, bounded by Zhengyang Gate, Chongwen Gate and Xuanwu Gate, and the north and south are almost two worlds.

The northern city was built on the basis of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, with a chessboard-like layout that is strictly integrated, the city functions are perfect, and the streets are clean and orderly, while the southern city is chaotic, mixed with three religions and nine streams, and any situation can happen.

In order to be safe, Qin Lin had to come to investigate in advance, looking at what to pay attention to along the way, the identity of his sister-in-law was unusual, if there was anything missing, the joke would be big.

I heard the strange tones of those beggars, and when he walked over, Qin Lin asked Hua Deguan: "Old Hua, why did those beggars just now talk like eunuchs in the palace?" ”

"Sir, good ears!" Hua Deguan's thumb was raised, his smiling face was full of flattery, and he said with a flamboyant tongue: "Isn't it, these beggars, like the father-in-law in the palace, are all gone, hehe, they all say that the chief's eyes are like electricity, and they really can't hide anything from you." ”

Xu Wenchang stroked his gray and yellow beard, and his eyes glared: "What kind of beggar?" You say it's nameless, it's nothing! Go back to your car, don't flash my old bones.

"That's, that's," Hua Deguan shrank his neck and turned back to concentrate on catching the car.

Xu Wenchang knew what was going on, so he explained to Qin Lin that these so-called beggars were eunuchs who had not been accepted by the palace since the palace.

Although the Ming Dynasty set up institutions such as Tzu Chi homes to raise orphans and widows, it was usually possible, but once they encountered a catastrophe, they could not help all sentient beings.

That's not it, and because the senior eunuchs are very powerful, they can often make the whole family prosperous and rich, so in order to get ahead, there are also many people who come from the palace to seek luck, resulting in more and more eunuchs, and the court cannot absorb them at all.

The law clearly stipulates that "the rich family shall not castrate the son of man as a fire, and the offender shall be punished", these eunuchs could not enter the court and the palaces of the kings, so they had to mingle in the market, and because of their physical disabilities, they could not do most of the work of leading people, and it was extremely difficult to speak, and they became despised "nameless white".

There are nameless white people who pick up garbage and rub baths for people in the bathhouses of Buddhist temples, but the most of them are reduced to beggars, gathering in groups, and even stealing and robbing when they are empty, as opposed to the powerful eunuchs in the palace, this world is called beggars.

"Why are there so many beggars? Although it is not a prosperous time, it is finally time for peace! Qin Lin was a little strange, just now he walked south from Xuanwumen Street, and as soon as he passed the Luoma Market, there were at least hundreds of ragged beggars on both sides of the street, and among the abandoned houses, there were also many people, and the smoke curled up.

Xu Wenchang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The people's life is difficult, according to the old man, I said, I am lazy and afraid of hard work, and there are too many people who try to get lucky once, which is the main reason." ”

In order to curb the spread of this phenomenon, Akihito Zong once issued an edict strictly prohibiting self-harm: "Let those who come from the palace be judged as unfilial." ”

However, judging from the later development, this holy decree did not play much role, and in the Hongzhi, Zhengde, Jiajing, and Wanli periods, the Ming court even had to compile the relevant provisions of the "prohibition from the palace" into the "Ming Huidian" with legal significance.

For example, in Wanli's "Daming Huidian", the "ban from the palace order" has been contested as many as 15 times.

But the law is the law, and to what extent it is implemented is still a question, like the eunuch Wei Zhongxian in the later Apocalypse period, who entered the palace since the eunuch, and I haven't seen any impact on his career.

"Damn, these people are really ruthless!" Qin Lin shook his head and sighed, like he confiscated the crime tool of the lewd thief Hua Butterfly a few days ago, he was already ruthless, but these people can actually be ruthless from the palace, could it be that they are all undefeated in the East?

"It's still good to be in the palace," Xu Wenchang laughed, "Every year on the nineteenth day of the first month and the nineteenth day of September, the Jingshi has the evil deeds of eunuchs, and there are many scoundrels and idlers who abduct children from good families, castrate them from an early age, and send them to the palace when they grow up, in order to seek glory and wealth!" ”

Outrageous! Qin Lin was so angry that he threw a fist and smashed the wall of the carriage loudly.

"Protect the sir!" The brocade-clad lieutenants outside didn't know what was going on, so they unsheathed their swords, turned on the trigger with their stun guns, and surrounded the carriage in a tight formation. ,

There were also a few pedestrians who happened to be on the same road, and when they saw a group of vegetable sellers and porters here suddenly taking out knives, guns, and guns for comparison, they were all so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they didn't know what was going on.

So an old man who staggered towards this side was particularly eye-catching.

"Stop, don't move, tell you to stop!" Several lieutenants shouted, and when they saw that they would not listen to the dissuasion, they rushed up and pinned him to the ground.

"You wicked endowments, robbers, give back my grandson!" The old man struggled with his might, and his expression was a little frenzied.

Everyone listened inexplicably, but a pro-soldier captain who had been with Qin Lin since Nanjing recognized it, "Hey, isn't this the Zhou Laohan that Miyun has seen?" ”

Qin Linzheng said to Hua Deguan that it was okay, and when he heard this, he opened the side curtain and looked at it, frowning: "What's the matter?" Well, bring him over. ”

Zhou Laohan was still struggling, but when he saw the "businessman Qin shopkeeper" who had saved him when the dog was sick and feverish in Miyun County, he immediately stopped making trouble, walked over honestly, and kowtowed on the ground with his knees bent: "Shopkeeper Qin, please save my grandson, save the dog!" He's—he's been captured......"

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