prosperous age

Hearing that the soldiers of Zhenwu Battalion finally resorted to violence, Wei Guangde knew that the situation was getting serious.

Although he didn't know why it happened like this, because the news sent earlier showed that the soldiers over there were still very restrained, and it seemed that the quarrel was only due to the arrears of payment, and everything was controllable. will subside.

But it's different now, because the soldiers forcibly broke into the Household Office. What is the crime of forcibly breaking into the government office?
The key point is that these people didn't do it early or late. They just picked Wei Guogong Xu Pengju and Minister of the Ministry of War Zhang Jia to go in. Is it unclear that they want to detain the three court officials including Huang Maoguan?
To say that such behavior is already rebellion, they have already challenged the imperial power and the court, so naturally they cannot be kind.

"Let's gather the servants, and there are three guards, don't guard those yamen, go to the small school to save people."

Hearing what Wei Guangde said, Xu Bangrui naturally thought of this, and he couldn't stay in the mansion any longer, and then he ordered loudly: "Send the order, gather the family members, send a message to the three guards, and rush to the small school to meet me immediately."

Several long followers who followed Xu Bangrui got the young master's order, and after a simple division of labor, they ran away, running towards their respective goals, and conveying Xu Bangrui's order.

Wei Guangde went out with Xu Bangrui, and told Zhang Ji outside the door: "Call everyone to gather and go together."

After all, he is Xu Pengju's son-in-law. Now that Lord Taishan is in danger, he naturally can't stand by and watch.

"Yes, sir."

Zhang Ji also turned around and ran out. The servants of the Wei family were resting in a small courtyard near the gate in the outer courtyard. He ran to the place within a few steps and shouted loudly. Soon more than 20 members of the Wei family were wearing cotton armor. , ran out with a weapon in his hand.

There are quite a lot of servants in Wei Guogong's mansion. It didn't take long for more than 300 people to stand in the small yard of the side courtyard. There are still some people left to look after the house, otherwise there may be more than [-] people.

Wei Guangde and more than 20 people under his command also stood on the side. Compared with the people in Wei Guogong's mansion, they were still very small.

However, in terms of equipment, Wei Guangde's group is still well equipped. In addition to the weapons in the hands of the servants, most of them also carry bows and arrows and bird guns, which are much better than the weapons in the hands of the servants in Duke Wei's mansion.

After the personnel were assembled, Xu Bangrui and Wei Guangde led the troops out of Duke Wei's mansion and quickly moved towards the small school grounds. As for the reinforcements from the other three guards, they were still waiting for them outside the small school grounds.

At this time, the news of the Zhenwu Camp mutiny had already spread in Nanjing City. After a period of chaos, the market has returned to calm.

The reason for this is that there are few pedestrians in the market, and there are not many shops on the roadside that are open. At this moment, the only few shops have also chosen to close their doors. If there are rioters, who would dare to continue to open the door? do business.

The city of Nanjing, which had just shown signs of economic recovery, fell silent again. Wei Guangde and the others saw no open shops except the occasional passers-by in a hurry along the way.

The cold wind blew past, blowing the dead leaves on the ground and flying around, which seemed to confirm the desolation of Nanjing City at this moment.

"The officials patrolling the streets can't see it either, and they don't know where they went."

When Xu Bangrui left the mansion, he still wanted to recruit some street patrolmen in Nanjing along the way, but he didn't see any of them along the way, so he couldn't help but said angrily.

"Those officials, you think they can still fight with the guards, and they are so-so in catching local ruffians and thieves, and they are cannon fodder on the battlefield."

Wei Guangde shook his head on the sidelines, thinking that the youngest member of the Wei family may have never seen what a real battlefield looks like, and maybe seeing the officials in Nanjing city picking people up, he thought they were awesome.

It's not that Wei Guangde looked down on the people in the yamen. Although Wei Guangde had never been in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, when he was adjudicating cases in Suzhou Mansion, Wei Guangde also observed the third class of yamen servants in the yamen, and also understood how their equipment was used.

It is different from later generations of film and television dramas. Quite a few of the government's arresters these days do not carry knives, and their equipment is different: one is an iron ruler, and the other is an iron chain.

Today's policemen use batons, crutches, restraint belts, handcuffs and other police weapons to catch criminals, and what's more powerful are all kinds of modern mechanical bullets.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to some swords, the arresters also used a mysterious weapon issued by the government-the iron ruler.

Iron ruler, also called "acupuncture ruler", its shape is like a cylinder, a circle and a ruler. When blocking the enemy's weapon, it can be used for both attack and defense, and can be used flexibly, so it has a greater advantage in dealing with swords or longer weapons.

Of course, it is also easy to carry, and can be inserted on both sides of the waist. These catchers usually use a pair, one in each hand, so they can also be called "double iron rulers".

The entire iron ruler, in fact, looks more like a one-handed three-pronged weapon, which can lock the opponent's weapon when fighting.

The iron ruler probably originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties, but it was not used for arresting people at that time. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that this iron ruler appeared in the hands of fast catchers. It is precisely because this kind of weapon is not sharp and is suitable for use. Catch people without hurting them.

In the film and television dramas, the people in the rivers and lakes are highly skilled in martial arts. It seems that these arresters can be ignored, but the actual situation is that as long as these gangsters are singled out and surrounded by arresters, in all likelihood, they will only be captured alive. Fate, few people can break out of the tight encirclement and run away. This is not because of the high martial arts skills of the catcher, but because of the iron ruler.

As long as the opponent's weapon is locked by the iron ruler, the policemen next to him will rush forward, beat fiercely with the iron ruler, and then lock it with an iron chain, and those high-ranking men who have made a great reputation in the world will have to kneel immediately.

The policemen naturally have an advantage against those who are used to fighting alone, but when facing regular soldiers who are good at cooperating with each other, they have no advantage at all.

That's why Wei Guangde thought at this time that maybe Xu Bangrui saw the scene of the arrest of some Jiangyang thieves, so he thought that the arresters were good at fighting, so he thought of recruiting these people along the way.

However, Wei Guangde didn't explain much. Duke Wei's government has been in charge of the guards in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, but they don't deal with the local government very much, and they can't do this, which is a taboo.

The Xu family is already very powerful, with the military power in the south of the Yangtze River in your hands, if you still flirt with the local government, the emperor in the Forbidden City will not be able to sleep.

Wei Guangde was sure that the Jinyiwei in Nanjing had already passed on the news of the chaos in Nanjing City.

Nanjing was extremely important to Emperor Jiajing and the imperial court, because most of the taxes for the Northern Movement came from Southern Zhili. Without the support of taxes from the south, the Ming Dynasty would not be stable.

What do you use to raise soldiers if you have no money, and what do you use to maintain your rule without soldiers.

Xu Bangrui, Wei Guangde and his group quickly moved towards the small school yard in Nanjing, but after a while they saw a group of people running towards them, looking very embarrassed, and the crowd was running towards this side with three sedan chairs.

"call"

Xu Bangrui, who was running in front, suddenly reined in the reins of his horse, and stopped on the road. Wei Guangde had already passed Xu Bangrui at this time, and when he heard the horse reining in behind, he also stopped quickly.

In fact, when he first saw the group of people in front, Wei Guangde thought it was the people from the Zhenwu Camp rushing out of the small school grounds to make trouble in the streets, but he was relieved after seeing the clothes of those people. They were not Ming army battle jackets, probably not People from Zhenwu Camp.

Wei Guangde reined in his horse and stood beside Xu Bangrui, and the servant behind him also stopped at this moment, carefully guarding against the approaching people.

The street is so wide, and the group of people rushed to the front and saw that the road was blocked by people, and they immediately became alert.

"Which family are you from and where are you from?"

Xu Bangrui shouted loudly while sitting on the horse.

Xu Bangrui was a little strange to the people in front, not very familiar with them, as if he had never seen them before, and he didn't know the identity of the opposite.

"Master, master, it's us."

At this time, someone suddenly shouted loudly from behind the crowd, and squeezed forward with their hands raised while shouting.

"Uncle Sheng?"

Xu Bangrui's heart tightened when he saw the person pushing over from the opposite side. He had already recognized the person, and immediately asked loudly, "Is my father here?"

"The father-in-law is in the sedan chair, we are all fine."

The family called Xu Sheng will soon squeeze the people in front of the road and run to Xu Bangrui, who is standing on the stirrups and looking at the sedan chair behind.

"Master, we'd better go back first, the master has to rush back to the garrison mansion, those miscellaneous soldiers really turned against each other"

"Who is in front, and which family?"

When Xu Sheng was talking there, Xu Bangrui suddenly asked.

"That's the servant of the Marquis of Linhuai."

Xu Shengyan said concisely.

Linhuaihou's Mansion is also a very special existence in Nanjing City. Although this family was also a hero in the founding of the country, it was very late to restore the title.

The Li family of Linhuaihou is actually the descendant of Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong. After Li Jinglong was deposed in the Yongle period, Cao Guogong's family went into decline.

After the death of Li Jinglong in the fourth year of Xuande, Cao Guogong's family returned to Nanjing, but they were still imprisoned until they were released in the 13th year of Zhengtong.

Since then, Cao Guogong's family lived in Nanjing for a long time and became civilians, but they never forgot to restore their political status.

After several generations of hard work, Cao Guogong's family won the position of hereditary commander in the sixth year of Hongzhi, and the title of Marquis of Linhuai in the 11th year of Jiajing, and became honorable ministers again.

That is to say, even though the Li family was also the hero of the founding of the country, the time to actually get back the title was very short, only more than 20 years before and after.

For a long time, the Li family has kept a very low-key existence in Nanjing City. Even Li Tingzhu, who lives in Linhuai Marquis in the contemporary era, is a second-rank military post like the governor of the Nanjing Left Army and admiral Caojiang, but he is also very low-key.

Needless to say, the people from Marquis Linhuai must have arrived late and escaped unharmed. They met Xu Pengju and Zhang Jia who had rushed out and ran back together, and their people naturally ran to the front.

"Get out of the way."

At this time, both Wei Guangde and Xu Bangrui knew who was in the three sedan chairs opposite, so need to say?
It must be Xu Pengju, Duke of Wei, Li Tingzhu, Marquis of Linhuai, and Zhang Jia, Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing.

Being able to escape from the chaos, Wei Guangde was curious how they did it.

Once the soldiers lose control, it is very dangerous.

Smacking his lips, Wei Guangde steered his horse and dodged aside behind Xu Bangrui, and soon the group on the opposite side put away their knives and guns and started moving, continuing to move forward along the way Wei Guangde and the others came.

When the three sedan chairs appeared in front of his eyes, Xu Bangrui told the people around him: "The whole team, stay behind."

After speaking, he steered his horse and followed a sedan chair. Wei Guangde now also recognized that it was the sedan chair held by Wei Guogong Xu Peng, and the old man must be inside.

Needless to say, it was true, at this time the car curtain was lifted to reveal Xu Pengju's slightly pale face, apparently startled by the rebels.

Wei Guangde and Xu Bangrui followed behind the sedan chair, asking Xu Sheng what happened and what happened in the small school yard as they walked.

"Master, Uncle, just as we entered the yamen of the household department, the group of rebel soldiers broke in with force. At that time, it was chaotic. We could only protect the father-in-law and retreat to the side, and dared not stop them from smashing the yamen of the household department."

Xu Sheng panted and told about his experience in the small school field.

"The man surnamed Huang probably saw these rebellious soldiers approaching in such a way that he was so frightened that he climbed out of the south wall. That was also the private house of the soldiers of the Beijing camp. It is said that he was caught by the people of the Zhenwu camp not long after he ran there."

When Xu Sheng said this, Wei Guangde frowned, "Is Huang Maoguan dead or alive?"

Wei Guangde couldn't help but be nervous, the life and death of Huang Maoguan now is related to the nature of this pay incident, if Huang Maoguan died in the hands of the rebels, it is really a bit unclear, after all, he is a third-rank official of the imperial court, so he can't just say that he is dead. die.

"We didn't see anyone, but when we came out, we heard soldiers yelling over there, saying that the dog officer surnamed Huang had been killed, but we really didn't see the body, and now we say that the person was killed Well, it’s really hard to say.”

Xu Sheng continued, but at this time Wei Guangde was already worried. When those soldiers lost control, killing people was like killing chickens and ducklings, and it was often difficult to track down the people in the end.

More than 2000 people, as long as no one informs, you can determine who killed it.

But no matter what, Wei Guangde was sure that Huang Maoguan might not survive.

It fell into the hands of those people. The soldiers already hated them for the deduction of military pay last year. If they can't find Ma Kun, they will have to seek revenge from you.

It is a rare opportunity for those who harbor resentment to fight today, and it is normal to kill Huang Maoguan to vent their anger.

The law does not blame the public, it is impossible for the court to behead more than 2000 people.

After such a short time, I thought that they were blocking the way and wasted a little time. After a while, a group of soldiers wearing mandarin ducks and jackets of the Ming army appeared on the street behind. up.

With the sedan chair hindering the speed of progress, the distance between the two groups of people is getting closer and closer.

Of course Xu Bangrui and Wei Guangde noticed what was going on behind them, and they also became anxious. If Xu Pengju came on horseback, someone would catch up there.

Seeing that he couldn't get away while protecting the sedan chair, if Xu Pengju was dragged out of the sedan chair and rode on horseback, there would be a chance, but Zhang Jia and Li Tingzhu in front were afraid that they would be robbed.

Wei Guangde was wearing a green robe at this time, he was a seventh-rank official of the imperial court, seeing the chasing soldiers from the Zhenwu camp, Wei Guangde suddenly reined in his horse and turned back, seeing the chasing soldiers approaching to the left, he rushed towards the group The soldier shouted loudly: "My official Wei Guangde, the supervisory censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, came here to investigate the situation knowing your situation, but I just don't want to encounter what happened today.

Return to the barracks quickly and wait for news from the imperial court, otherwise the imperial army will arrive sooner or later, are you really going to be rebellious officials and thieves?This is the city of Nanjing, and there are many troops in and out of the city. "

While shouting, Wei Guangde took off the censor badge on his waist and held it up high to prove his identity, although he knew that most of the soldiers on the opposite side would not recognize what he was holding in his hand.