Hearing what Xu Lin said, everyone was stunned at first and then showed some understanding. Apparently they had a different understanding of the life and death in Xu Lin's order.
"Best regards, sir!"
"What your Excellency has said is true. Chen is so cruel. Once discovered, he will be treated life or death!"
Listening to the compliments from everyone around him, Xu Lin stroked his beard and waved his hand and said: "Go quickly and pass the order. We must cooperate with the Jin Yiwei to capture the remnants of the Chen family. No one from the Chen family will be allowed to leave Yangzhou City alive."
Seemingly feeling a little uneasy, Xu Lin specifically warned: "Tell Xu Tongpan that he must do his best to eliminate evil and not let anyone escape, otherwise we will be ashamed of the countless people in Yangzhou who were persecuted by the Chen family!"
Everyone bowed to Xu Lin and said, "Your Excellency, you are dedicated to serving the people. I am ashamed of myself. Xu Tongjing will definitely not let you down."
The atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed. After giving these instructions, Xu Lin returned to the hall and took a seat. At this moment, his colleague Jia Yuan coughed lightly and looked outside the government office and said, "Sir, that Jin Yiwei from the capital is here."
Qianhu is coming to visit you, should we go..."
At this time, officials had already cleaned up the hall and replaced the tea for everyone. Xu Lin took a sip of tea, glanced at Jia Yuan and chuckled: "It's just a thousand households of Jin Yiwei, so why bother me?"
If you welcome me personally, you will lose your identity for nothing!"
As he spoke, Xu Lin glanced at Tang Wei and said to Tang Wei, the man who was sitting in the hall: "Tang Jiong, it's up to you to go and greet the Qianhu official on my behalf."
No one had any objection to Xu Lin's arrangement. After all, Xu Lin was a fourth-grade civil servant and could be considered an upper-middle-class official in the civil service group.
And Lin Pingzhi, who was a member of Qianhu of Jinyiwei, was only a fifth-rank official. There was a full two-level difference between the two. What's more, Lin Pingzhi, a member of Qianhu of Jinyiwei, was a military officer.
If you are a good military attaché, I'm afraid that Xu Lin will be shamed by the civil service group afterwards.
Yangzhou is a prosperous place, and the streets are naturally very spacious. There are many large and small shops on both sides, and the bustling business can be seen from the people coming and going.
Lin Pingzhi was riding on his horse, looking down at the prosperous scene around him, and couldn't help but recall what Li Huan had said to him.
Li Huan once said that in the prosperous area south of the Yangtze River, commerce is developed, which is a great good thing, but it does not benefit the country at all. The fundamental reason is that the commerce in the south of the Yangtze River is prosperous, but the commercial taxes are very few.
The Song Dynasty, which used to occupy half of the country, relied on its prosperous commerce to collect astronomical taxes to support the national destiny of the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years.
The tens of millions of taxes each year allowed the Song Dynasty to rely on its huge wealth to create redundant officials, redundant soldiers and other disadvantages.
However, the commercial tax collected by the Ming Dynasty from Jiangnan was only a few tens of thousands taels per year. If people in the former Song Dynasty knew this, they would be stunned.
As they walked along, Lin Pingzhi whispered softly: "What cousin Huan said is absolutely true. If the imperial court can really raise the business tax, this Yangzhou prefecture alone will probably collect hundreds of thousands of taels every year."
So much."
On the long street, many people saw Lin Ping and his group approaching from a distance and immediately dodged to both sides like snakes and scorpions.
In fact, Lin Ping and his entourage were walking around with a bloody evil aura. In addition, they had just fought with the Chen family in the Chen Mansion not long ago. The blood stains on many people have not yet dried. Looking at the people of Jiangnan who have been in peace for a long time,
In his eyes, he was naturally frightened and kept away from him.
Ignoring these, Lin Pingzhi turned to Zhu Chang and said, "Zhu Qianhu, how far is it from the prefect's Yamen?"
Zhu Chang had already tidied up a bit at this time, and had one arm wrapped with a cloth strap across his chest. Hearing this, he hurriedly said: "Come back to your lord, you can see the prefect's Yamen just one block ahead."
Lin Pingzhi nodded slightly.
However, at this moment, an angry shout suddenly came from the front: "Dog Officer, take your life!"
Along with that roar, sparse arrows were shot out from the surrounding shops, and figures carrying swords and guns came towards the group of royal guards.
"Protect your lord!"
Baihuguan Mao Qing shouted loudly and drew his sword to protect Lin Pingzhi. At the same time, some of the Jinyi guards gathered around to protect Lin Pingzhi, while the other part jumped out to meet the invading enemy.
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Lin Pingzhi drew his sword and knocked away a few arrows aimed at him. He glanced around and saw more than a hundred strong men rushing out from all around, led by an armored man.
When the arrow missed and came through the air, Lin Pingzhi was still quite worried. After all, in the previous battle with the dead soldiers raised by the Chen family in the Chen Mansion, many of the Jin Yiwei were killed by the Chen family's crossbow arrows.
There are dozens of people.
If the opponent used a powerful crossbow to fire, I am afraid that the Jin Yiwei would also suffer heavy casualties this time.
However, looking at the sparseness of the arrows, it was obvious that even with the means and abilities of the Chen family, it was impossible to produce too many weapons such as crossbows.
In other words, it is impossible for the Chen family to hide so many strong crossbows and armored stomachs in Yangzhou City. The previous ability to take out so many strong crossbows and armored stomachs at one time had already emptied all the Chen family's possessions.
Because of this, when Chen Yuan led his men to attack Lin Pingzhi and others, they could only attack with ordinary bows and arrows. Compared with the powerful crossbow, which is available to almost everyone, bows and arrows may seem ordinary, but they require extremely high archery skills.
, the result was that the arrows shot were sparse, and only a few Jin Yiwei were unable to dodge and fell to the ground after being hit by the arrows.
Chen Yuan rushed to the front, staring at Lin Pingzhi who was riding a horse. With his murderous intention revealed, he swung his sword and cut off the waist of a Jinyi guard who was blocking him.
"Lin Pingzhi, why don't you come here and die!"
Under the attack of Chen Yuan and others, the dozen or so surviving Jinyiwei Qianhu from Yangzhou who originally led the way were killed or injured almost in the blink of an eye.
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Nearly a hundred desperadoes unexpectedly surrounded the Emperor's personal army, the Imperial Guards, on the long street in broad daylight.
Almost as soon as Chen Yuan led his men out, the crowds of people on the long street disappeared, leaving only a mess.
I don't know how many people and merchants were hiding in the shops on both sides of the street, looking out through the gaps in the closed doors and windows in fear and excitement.
For many years, they have never seen such a scene since they were born.
As the most prominent leader of the Chen family in Yangzhou City, Chen Yuan was recognized by countless people as soon as he showed up. After all, Chen Yuan often appeared in front of the people, doing things such as building bridges and paving roads and promoting the reputation of the Chen family.
The name of the Chen family can be said to be well known to all women and children in Yangzhou Prefecture. Now seeing Chen Yuan leading a group of vicious desperadoes to attack and kill the Imperial Guards who represent the Emperor, this horrifying scene can even be seen in a dream.
They never thought about it.
In an antique tea shop, several scholars in green shirts were lying at the closed door, looking out through the crack in the door.
A young scholar holding a folding fan opened his eyes wide and looked at the two sides fighting each other more than ten feet away. Blood and limbs were flying everywhere. The scene was extremely bloody.
With a sound, the scholar finally couldn't bear it anymore and lay there vomiting.
This scholar's vomiting was like the beginning, but all the scholars who saw the bloody situation outside couldn't help but vomited.
For a moment, the tea shop was filled with a sour smell, but no one paid attention to this. The screams and screams of death on the long street across the door were really shocking.
A pale-faced scholar said in a trembling voice: "Then...is that really the head of the Chen family? He, he dared to attack the Jin Yiwei. This...this is going to kill the nine tribes. Is he crazy?"
In the hearts of these traditional scholars, no matter how much they despise the Jin Yiwei, and even regard them as the emperor's hawks and dogs, they still know that the Jin Yiwei represents the emperor.
Now Chen Yuan actually led people to attack and kill the Jin Yiwei. They were deeply shocked and at the same time realized that Chen Yuan's actions were treasonous and wanted to destroy the nine tribes.
Yangzhou Prefecture Magistrate’s Office
After learning that Jin Yiwei was coming to visit, Xu Lin and other officials made preparations, and even thought about how to deal with Lin Pingzhi and others after they arrived.
I just waited and waited but no one came. Finally, my colleague Jia Yuan couldn't help but stood up and shouted outside the hall: "Come here, go and take a look. What's going on with the Jinyiwei people? Why have they been waiting for so long?"
They haven't arrived yet, don't you know that the adults have official duties and cannot wait for them here all the time?"
Xu Lindan smiled and said: "Maybe it was delayed due to something. Jia Tongzhi, don't be anxious. Let's just wait."
Jia Yuan looked like he was avenging Xu Lin's injustice and said: "I just feel that Lin Pingzhi is a little too arrogant, asking me to wait here for him for so long."
As soon as Jia Yuan said this, some officials in the hall couldn't help but look unhappy.
After all, in their eyes, Lin Pingzhi was just a military attaché, whose rank was not even as high as most of them. Now that so many of them were waiting for him here, he actually made them wait for so long.
While he was talking, he heard rapid footsteps coming from outside. It was none other than the guard Lu Wu.
Lu Wu had a look of horror on his face, staggered a little as he rushed into the hall and said, "Sir, something has happened."
Everyone was suddenly worried by Lu Wu's words. Even the prefect Xu Lin, who was joking with Jia Yuan just now, couldn't help frowning and staring at Lu Wu: "What on earth is going on?"
Lu Wu quickly said: "Sir, Chen Yuan, Chen Yuan led a group of desperadoes under him to attack and kill the Jin Yiwei on the long street. At this moment, the two sides are fighting on Changning Street..."
With a grunt, many people couldn't help but gulped when they heard such news. Even if they had already known that the Chen family fought against the Jin Yiwei and even killed many Jin Yiwei, they did not expect Chen Yuan, a member of the Chen family.
How could the clan leader be so crazy?
In broad daylight, on Yangzhou Fuchang Street, in front of countless Yangzhou people, they openly attacked and killed the Jin Yiwei. Such an act was simply treasonous and did not put the imperial court in the eyes at all.
"Crazy, are all the Chen family crazy?"
One official couldn't help but said.
In the eyes of these people, the Chen family are really just a bunch of lunatics. Such a blatant attack on the Jin Yiwei has never been heard of in the hundreds of years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Maybe some people have done it, but they did it quietly, and then blamed it on some bandits and bandits. But like the Chen family, they attacked the Jinyiwei in public without any concealment. This is really the first time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Once upon a time.
Xu Lin, Jia Yuan and others can even imagine that what happened today will spread all over the world, and the court will be shaken by it.
Not to mention how the emperor reacted, even the important officials in the court would be furious. Unless the Chen clan was completely annihilated, it would be difficult to quell the anger of the princes in the court.
This is no longer just about the killing of Jin Yiwei, but also related to the face and majesty of the court. If the court does not kill the chickens to scare the monkeys, who knows if anyone will follow Chen's move in the future.
If this kind of thing happens a few times, the court's prestige will inevitably be lost, and this is definitely not allowed to happen by anyone in the court.
Jia Yuan looked at Xu Lin solemnly and said, "Sir, this matter is of great importance. What should we do?"
Xu Lin's eyes flashed, he glanced at everyone indifferently and sneered: "Wouldn't it be better if the Jinyiwei and the Chen family fight tooth and nail, just let them go dog-eat-dog."
Everyone couldn't help but froze for a moment when they heard this, and then they reacted, and a bit of smile appeared on their originally worried faces.
Yes, as Xu Lin said, this disaster was caused by the Jinyiwei. Under the anger of the imperial court, the Jinyiwei should be the first to be unlucky. When the time comes, Li Huan, as the commander of the Jinyiwei, will definitely give the imperial court Duke Gong will give an explanation.
Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but look at Xu Lin, and Jia Yuan even said: "In your opinion, how should we respond?"
Xu Lin stroked his beard and said with a smile: "This matter is simple. Let them both fight with all their strength first. Let's mobilize the troops and look for opportunities to take action."
With his eyes narrowed, Jia Yuan seemed to understand the meaning of Xu Lin's words and said: "What you are saying is that we sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight and reap the benefits. It would be great if the Jin Yiwei killed Chen Yuan and others. However, if the Jin Yiwei people are killed by Chen Yuan and those lunatics, we will take the opportunity to rush out and kill Chen Yuan and others in one fell swoop."
Xu Lin glanced at Jia Yuan with satisfaction, nodded slightly, and at the same time arched his hands in the direction of the capital, and said with a respectful look: "In killing the rebels for the imperial court, we not only have no fault, but have merit, and can even take advantage of the situation." Everything is put on Jin Yiwei's head."
Thinking that if it is true as Xu Lin said, one of the Jinyiwei people or the Chen family must be completely dead and injured, then they can calmly come out to clean up everything. At that time, even if the emperor favors Jinyiwei, he will have to admit that they are Yangzhou government officials. Credit.
"Hahaha, my lord is far-sighted and far-sighted, and a lowly official is far inferior to me!"
Here, the Yangzhou government office had its own wishful thinking, but on Changning Street, Chen Yuan relied on the strength of the crowd to forcefully suppress dozens of Jin Yiwei at the corner of the street.
The two sides fought for a long time, but dozens of people fell. In comparison, the casualties of the Jin Yiwei were no less than those of the desperadoes brought by Chen Yuan.
Fortunately, most of the Jinyi Guards who died were Zhu Chang's men. As for the Jinyi Guards that Lin Pingzhi brought from the capital, although there were also casualties, the number was not too large and was within an acceptable range.
But at this moment, Mao Qing, who was covered in blood, was following Lin Pingzhi and said to Lin Pingzhi: "Sir, the thieves are powerful, it would be better if you go first..."
Although there has been no shortage of money for the time being, Mao Qing is still worried about Lin Pingzhi's safety. If something goes wrong, they may have no future even if they are not accused by Li Huan.
After hearing this, Lin Pingzhi shook his head at Mao Qing and looked around, as if to make sure there were no remnants of the Chen family.
Immediately, Lin Pingzhi took out a flare from his arms, and heard a loud bang and an explosion in the air. Even if it was a clear day, the flare that exploded from the sky could be clearly seen within a few miles.
At the same time, in Yangzhou City, a group of Jin Yiwei's eyes suddenly lit up when they saw the signal bomb. The leader was none other than Chen Yao, who was going to Lianghuai Capital to transfer salt to the Si Yamen to pick up people.
After Chen Yao took the person, he quietly entered Yangzhou City and got in touch with Lin Pingzhi.
According to Lin Pingzhi's plan, Chen Yao's team lurked quietly to prevent accidents, waiting for Lin Pingzhi's signal to call at any time.
Seeing the signal, Chen Yao immediately laughed and said: "Brothers, Lin Qianhu is in trouble, come with me to help."
In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred imperial guards got on their horses and rushed out from their hiding place.
The sound of horse hooves was like thunder, and the distance of several miles was less than half a cup of tea under the wild backs of the war horses.
Lin Pingzhi's sudden move naturally made everyone stunned. Mao Qing seemed to have thought of something. His eyes lit up and he couldn't help but said to Lin Pingzhi in surprise: "Sir, could it be that Chen Qianhu and the others have returned?
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Lin Ping knocked away a big man who was rushing towards him with his sword, and said with a smile: "In as long as it takes a tea, Chen Yao will lead his men to kill him."
However, Chen Yuan felt a little bad when he looked at the fireworks exploding in the sky.
But looking at Lin Pingzhi and others who were forced into a corner by them, and looking at his son who had an arm cut off and was shackled, Chen Yuan couldn't help shouting at the men around him.
: "Kill me. Anyone who kills one person will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver and a thin horse from Yangzhou!"
The Chen family has plenty of money and beautiful women, but for these desperadoes, money and beauty are the biggest temptations.
As for what would happen if they followed Chen Yuan to kill officials, to be honest, these people had never thought about it.
And it's not like they have never done things like killing officials. They even slaughtered all the officials and put the blame on the bandits. In the end, nothing happened.
In the eyes of these people, the Chen family's methods are all-powerful, and there is nothing that the Chen family cannot accomplish. Therefore, under Chen Yuan's reward, the morale that had dropped due to the death and injury of his companions suddenly skyrocketed, and each one was like a chicken blood.
, actually forced the Jin Yiwei side into danger.
The big knife in Chen Yuan's hand was slashed at Lin Pingzhi, and Lin Pingzhi faced him without fear. The two had fought several times. Although Chen Yuan was slightly weaker than Lin Ping, Chen Yuan was covered in armor and was stunned by his strength.
Jiawei and Lin Pingzhi were evenly matched.
Time passed quickly. On the long street in the distance, a group of troops could be vaguely seen approaching at the corner. However, they were still some distance away from where Lin Pingzhi and the others were. This group of troops was the soldiers assembled by Yangzhou Prefecture Yamen.
Judging from its actions, the horse obviously had no intention of rushing over to join the battle immediately.
But at this moment, the ground shook slightly, and a faint sound of horses neighing could be heard.
Suddenly, a group of Jin Yiwei galloping out from around the corner, headed by Jin Yiwei Qianhu Chen Yao.
From a distance, Chen Yao saw Jin Yiwei being suppressed by a group of people and struggling to support himself in a corner. He couldn't help but roared angrily: "Brothers, let me kill you."
The Jin Yiwei cavalry were extremely fast. These were all the elite Jin Yiwei who came from the capital with Lin Pingzhi, Chen Yao and others. When they saw that their family was besieged by a group of local desperadoes and private salt dealers, they suddenly became furious.
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As the distance got closer and closer, before Chen Yuan and others could even react, they saw powerful crossbows shooting out one after another.
Suddenly, there was a shrill scream, and after a wave of crossbow arrows, most of the seventy or eighty fierce people fell down.
The strong crossbow is indeed the most powerful weapon in the army. Under the heavy shooting, many people even had more than one arrow stuck in their bodies. Some people died on the spot, while others screamed in agony while holding their wounds.
As Chen Yao and more than a hundred Jinyi guards took action, in the blink of an eye, the remaining dozens of thieves were killed, leaving only Chen Yuan and a few core members of the Chen family gathered around Chen Yuan.
Crossbow arrows were aimed at Chen Yuan and the others. Just when Chen Yao was about to give the order to shoot Chen Yuan and the others, Lin Pingzhi said: "Brother Chen, wait a minute. This person is Chen Yuan, the head of the Chen family. We must kill him."
Caught alive."
When Chen Yao heard this, he was stunned at first, then his eyes lit up, and he laughed loudly and said: "Okay, brother Lin, wait a moment, brother, I will help you take this Chen Yuan."
Chen Yuan sneered, and even though he was in a desperate situation, he said to Chen Yao without any fear: "Your grandfather is here, come and take my life if you can."
Seeing this, Chen Yao brandished his knife and tried to move forward, but instead he shouted: "Shoot!"
The next moment, several crossbow arrows shot through the air towards Chen Yuan. In an instant, Chen Yao was hit by arrows in his limbs. Four arrows missed and hit Chen Yuan's wrist and ankle accurately. Severe pain was felt, and Chen Yuan fell to the ground involuntarily.
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At the same time, several core members of the Chen family were also shot in the vital organs. They screamed and were swarmed by the Jinyi guards and captured alive.
When they saw Chen Yao and others appearing in the distance, they suddenly rushed over. When the government troops and horses arrived, they happened to see Chen Yuan and several other core members of the Chen family being captured alive by the Jin Yiwei.
Surrounded by a group of soldiers and horses, several sedan chairs descended, and the first person to step out was Xu Lin, the prefect of Yangzhou.
Jia Yuan, Xu Wei and other officials followed Xu Lin and looked at Chen Yuan from a distance who was covered in blood and still yelling curses. He looked so lively and full of energy. They couldn't help but look gloomy.
"Damn it, people like Chen Yuan were captured alive by Jin Yiwei's people!"
Originally, according to their plan, no matter what, Chen Yuan and others would only become dead and could never speak again, so they could feel completely at ease.
However, they failed to calculate that Lin Pingzhi actually had Chen Yao's team as a backhand. As a result, their calculation went wrong, and Chen Yuan and others fell into the hands of Jin Yiwei alive.
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