I'm really not the carpenter emperor

In addition, Ma Shilong used the head of Shan Shijian, the general of Hequ, as a sacrificial flag in the army, and announced that he would take back the Acropolis within three days.

The Northwest Army is the elite of the Frontier Army. It has been five years since the Nine Frontiers were selected, and now the total number is only [-]. Although they haven't achieved any good results yet, they still have the capital to say such a bold statement.

It is precisely because of the crushing victory of the Northwest Army in Zhenxiwei that it seems that the delicate balance between the pros and cons of the DPRK and China has been broken again.

More people discovered the strength of being loyal to the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and they also knew that the matter of Zhenxiwei would not last long, so they began to sing praises of Emperor Tianqi's brilliance and martial arts.

All of a sudden, the rebels who were still burning, killing and looting in the Acropolis completely panicked.

Of course, it wasn't just the army that took action this time, Wei Zhongxian's Dongchang also started a large-scale operation together.

How could Dongchang not have a share of such a big event?

From the day when the imperial decree was issued, Zhu Youxiao instructed Wei Zhongxian to do something big, and use the reputation of Dongchang accumulated over the years to suppress the rats everywhere.

All the sects of the Beijing Normal University rode out everywhere, and the scale was even bigger than the Donglin case in the third year of Tianqi's imperial examination. Most of them rushed to the territory of Zhenxiwei.

Now every civil official there is fat in their eyes. Dongchang has always liked this kind of thing very much.

The leader of the team was none other than Wei Zhongxian's nephew, Fu Yingxing, who is now the boss of Dongchang.

At this time, he brought more than twenty riders to the territory of Kelan Prefecture, went straight to the bottom of the city, looked at the four-character plaque of "Kelan Prefecture City", raised his hand vigorously and said:

"Go to the city and get people!"

That's right, the purpose of coming out of the East Factory has always been simple, either to arrest people, or to ransack their homes, or to arrest people and ransack their homes.

For civil servants, nothing good will happen anyway.

Fu Yingxing originally planned to catch them from a young age and play slowly, but when he just entered the territory of Zhenxiwei, he received news that Ma Shilong had killed two generals, Shan Shijian and Yang Wang, in Hequ.

Immediately, the Tiqis turned around and headed straight for Kelanzhou.

There is a big fish here, Dongchang has been keeping an eye on it for a long time, now it is time to catch him and show the rest of the fish and shrimps in the water.

Entering the state city, the Tiqimen scattered in all directions, Benwang Township Xiwei and the civil official's mansion in the state, while Fu Yingxing came to the gate of Zheng Shisheng's mansion in Zhizhou.

His hand holding the saber was trembling, and he was both scared and excited.

Arresting people this time was no small matter, and it was only the beginning. To rectify the guards, there would be many people who opposed it. The emperor wanted to completely rectify the place, so he had to rely heavily on Dongchang.

Just as he was thinking, a team of officials patrolling the street turned around from the side of the road.

The official came to the gate of Zheng's mansion, and just passed by the fans standing here, people on both sides were a little nervous.

Logically speaking, this is the boundary of Kelan Prefecture, and the official errands should ask a few questions, but this team of official errands didn't even say a word.

Finally, at the corner of the street, the officials fled as if fleeing.

Everyone knows that wearing a white soap suit and wearing a pair of knives around the waist is the standard equipment of Dongchang fanzi, and the leader is obviously not a good person.

Seeing this, the corners of Fu Yingxing's mouth slightly curled up.

If you run a business in Dongchang, no matter what you are in the locality, you have to shrink back. If you mess with Dongchang, no one will have good fruit.

Officials?soldiers?

It's all bullshit.

They didn't even pay attention to Jin Yiwei.

But no one can escape anyone Dongchang wanted to arrest. In order to catch one person, Dongchang did not hesitate to kill a hundred people by mistake.

In order to fulfill the emperor's order, the fans are cold-blooded murderers.

Fu Yingxing glanced expressionlessly at the people around him, and with just one glance, the hearts of the people watching from afar were chilled.

"The Zheng mansion was surrounded, and someone ran away. Let me ask you." He finished speaking to a stall owner, and knocked on the door of Zheng's mansion.

Since Ma Shilong moved so fast, he couldn't play false moves.

The current situation in North Korea and China is very complicated, and every pair of eyes is focused on the progress of the Northwest Army's counter-insurgency, as well as how his East Factory arrested people.

If it gave them a feeling that Dongchang was weak in arresting people, it would be their own fault.

With the sound of knocking on the door, there was a burst of chaos in Zheng's mansion, and everyone panicked, because their master was not there at this time.

Not long after, Fu Yingxing stood in front of the butler, holding a knife in his hand, pointed at a child who was about ten years old, and said expressionlessly:

"Let me ask you, did Zheng Shisheng, the magistrate of Kelan Prefecture, have dinner outside the city with Yang Wang on the day he connived at his subordinates' rebellion?"

The butler opened his mouth and said tremblingly:

"no no……"

Before he finished speaking, Fu Yingxing narrowed his eyes slightly:

"It's a pity, it's a pity, it's not that I didn't give you a chance, do you really think that if you keep silent, Dongchang can't find anything?"

As the words fell, the knife in his hand also swung down.

A little head fell on the ground, the housekeeper was stunned, and collapsed on the ground, while a woman covered her face and howled miserably.

But Fanzi didn't give her a chance to continue screaming. Soon, a waiter held her down with a knife and waited quietly.

Fu Yingxing played with the bloody knife in his hand, as if he just killed a livestock instead of a teenager.

He looked over with that kind of indifferent gaze again, and said expressionlessly: "I will ask you one last time, Zheng Shisheng, have you had dinner with Yang Wang?"

"Yes or no."

The surrounding servants were all dumbfounded, and they didn't even dare to vent their anger.

Dongchang's investigation method is completely different from Jinyiwei's, it is extremely vicious, and they will never ask more questions about problems that can be solved by killing people.

This situation was especially serious when Donglin was investigated in the early years of Tianqi.

Some people say that during the major imperial examination case from the first year of Tianqi to the third year of Tianqi, there were not [-] or thousands of Donglin party members who died in the hands of Dongchang.

In fact, this is not alarmist talk, and Wei Zhongxian can subdue such a group of people, one can imagine how frightening he can be.

This is also the reason why wherever the fans go, the people will disperse far away, and even the officials are reluctant to ask more questions.

Except for Emperor Tianqi, there is no other person in the world who can make Wei Zhongxian's Dongchang bow his head and obey his ears.

The steward understands that if he doesn't say anything, the fanzi will just continue to kill, until they kill everyone in the entire Zheng's mansion.

Compared with Dongchang's methods this time, Ma Shilong's suppression of the rebellion is really too gentle.

6 Chapter Forty

Once something is handed over to Dongchang, many people will die.

Originally, only Zheng Shisheng's family needed to be killed, but now the housekeeper's son is also killed by Fanzi, because he kept the rebel party secret.

Fu Yingxing won't give people a second chance, if they say it, they will say it, if they don't, they will cut it off.

The Zheng mansion is so big, there will always be someone who will say the phrase "Zheng Shisheng and Yang Wang have had dinner together". Everyone has family members, and if they ask one by one, they will always gain something.

Even if no one is willing to tell, that's easy, Fu Yingxing can go to the next family, and the next family will have more than a dozen people at least.

As long as there is this testimony, Dongchang can do a lot.

Fu Yingxing could logically define what happened that day as a secret gathering of rebels, and all the civil servants present had a reason to arrest them directly.

It is simple and efficient to do things this way, but innocent people are bound to die because of it.

But for Fu Yingxing and the fans who came down to handle the case, whose son died, what does it have to do with them?

What they care about is how to perfectly solve the matter that was given by their superiors.

Just like what Fu Yingxing said, it's not that I never gave you a chance.

You still choose to keep the rebel party secret, so I have no choice but to do it. It sounds like it makes some sense, so who should the butler hate.

Was it Fu Yingxing who killed his youngest son with his own hands, or Zheng Shisheng who dragged him into the water?

Or, is it because you don't give up until you reach the Yellow River, and you still choose to resist yourself at this time?

No one knows the answer, everyone has the answer in their hearts.

Fu Yingxing didn't care about these things, he looked at the housekeeper of Zheng's house who hated and feared him all over his face, all he knew was that his job was done.

Kelan Prefecture can be regarded as the base camp of the civil servants of the guard, but Dongchang rushing in to arrest people is as easy as running to pick flowers in the back garden of one's own home.

There is only one reason, no one dares to confront Dongchang.

The officials are not small in their own power, and they are usually managed from top to bottom, but this time, from the governor, to the prefect, and even the local supervising department, there is nothing that can help them.

Jin Yiwei looks bright and beautiful, although the four thousand families are ruthless, they can handle cases on weekdays, unless they receive special orders from the emperor, they at least pay attention to judicial procedures and humanitarianism.

It gives people the feeling that there is more "fear" than "fear".

Dongchang is different from any government office. They are born for darkness. The reason why Zhu Di established Dongchang back then was to allow them to specialize in "black work".

The emperors of all dynasties also regarded Dongchang as their dark side, doing things for themselves that they wanted to do but couldn't do.

The affairs of the East Factory are basically not visible, nor can they be cleared up.

Dongchang is a professional in such things as killing people and extorting confessions. They also know what kind of person is best to use to force these people to open their mouths. It's very simple, they are children.

No matter men or women, most people will choose to tell the truth without hesitation when they see their children being stabbed at the knife edge.

But there are a few cases like today, but Dongchang is not unable to deal with them.

Since Dongchang didn't care about humanity at all in order to handle the case, there was no psychological burden to arrest the wives and mothers of these people for interrogation.

The housekeeper was talking, and there was a fan taking notes on the side.

Fu Yingxing got what he wanted, so there was no need for the remaining servants of Zheng's family to make things difficult, and soon he led his followers to arrest the butler and left.

And the housekeeper's family members, as fellow party members, will naturally be taken away.

The surrounding servants didn't dare to breathe out until they saw the last fan stepping over the threshold, and they didn't dare to breathe heavily until they heard the horse's hooves go away, and their tense bodies relaxed in an instant and fell limp on the ground.

Soon, there was a news in the city of Kelanzhou.

People from Dongchang arrested a large number of civil servants in the guards, including Zhizhou and Tongzhi in Kelan Prefecture, at least a dozen people, and the commotion was not insignificant.

At the same time, the Acropolis in the west of the town.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The mighty Northwest Army has already lined up and pressed forward, and dozens of black-holed suppressing captive artillery were placed on the plains, aiming at the head of the city.

"Rumble..."

With Ma Shilong's order, all the projectiles were poured onto the walls and gates of the Acropolis.

Due to the range advantage of the Zhenlu Cannon, the more than [-] large and small copper and iron cannons on the Zhenxi Weicheng suddenly became scrap iron. Even if the rebel army wanted to resist, they would not be able to shoot them.

Soon, the city wall collapsed, rubble was everywhere, and several shocking gaps were torn open.

The Northwest Army is like a river breaking its embankment, rushing into the city shouting and killing. Even if the Northwest Army and the rebellious army are equal in number, this is a one-sided battle.

Soon, the rebel army was killed and retreated steadily, retreating to the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army.

The Northwest Army surrounded the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army tightly, but they did not rush to make a final attack. Instead, they sent fast horses to gallop through the city, shouting along the street to comfort people's hearts.

"The Northwest Army is ordered to quell the rebellion, and the rebellion is set!"

"The Northwest Army is ordered to quell the rebellion, and the rebellion is set!"

The rebels thought that there was hope, and the court wanted to surrender. After discussing it, a chief executive came out to surrender with his hands raised.

Ma Shilong directly raised his foot and kicked the rebellious army leader Qian who came out to surrender, and then he drew his knife and hacked him to death with his own hands, saying loudly:

"Your Majesty has an order. Not a single rebel army will be left behind. What about the suppressing guns? Call them here!"

Seeing that there was no hope of surrender, the rebel army tended to collapse, and soon began a suicide attack, but they were all repelled by the Northwest Army one by one.

After throwing down countless corpses, the Zhenlu Cannon was finally transferred to the gate of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army.

"boom!"

"boom!"

With loud bangs, the already weak walls collapsed little by little, and the rebels widened their eyes, seeing an unforgettable scene in their lives.

A whole row of black blunderbusses aimed at them, and behind the Northwest Army, the surviving civilians in the city also stood on the ruins and watched quietly.

Obviously, Ma Shilong wanted to shoot these rebels alive with blunderbuss in front of the people.

Only in this way can these wounded hearts be soothed.

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