Under the cover of night, all the Jinyiwei went out.
Yuan Bin personally led his men to a large mansion outside the Bell and Drum Tower.
He looked up at the four big characters on the door: Pengcheng Bo Mansion, and waved his hand, saying, "Go!"
The captains immediately dispersed, with one team guarding the back door and others knocking on it.
Boom boom boom…
After a few knocks, the door creaked open a crack, and the doorman poked his head out with a stern look on his face: "Who is it..."
Before he could finish his words, a steel knife was rudely placed across his neck.
The concierge was immediately terrified and said hesitantly, "Who... who are you? Do you know... where... this place is!"
As the saying goes, there is a seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's door. This gatekeeper is usually arrogant and high-handed. At this moment, he did not realize the danger and was still speaking rudely.
boom!
What I got was not an explanation, but a kick in the face.
The doorman felt a pain in his chest and flew backwards, screaming in pain, "You are so rebellious! My master is the Earl of Pengcheng, how dare you..."
A captain came forward, holding a scabbard and slapped the man's mouth. There was another "pop", and several bloody teeth flew out.
"Jinyiwei is doing our job, who the hell are you to be making a fuss here?"
The doorman finally got scared and covered his mouth with his hands. He cried in pain, but he dared not make a sound anymore.
Yuan Bin glanced behind him and said in a deep voice, "Capture Jia Gui first. Any family members in the Bo's house who dare to escape must be arrested immediately. The front and back doors must be strictly guarded, and not even a fly can be allowed in or out!"
As soon as I entered the first door, several guards came towards me with arrogant looks on their faces, shouting, "What are you doing here, Jinyiwei? Don't you know who my master is?"
The captains stepped forward quickly, their hands on their waists.
One of the security guards didn't understand the situation yet and was ready to attack with a stick.
sonorous!
With a flash of cold light, the guard was stabbed in the chest and his body twitched. He seemed not to have expected the other party to really use the knife. He groaned, with an unwilling look on his face, and fell backwards.
At the same time, dozens of Ti cavalry and captains drew their swords, and the sound of swords being unsheathed was heard continuously.
Seeing that the other party was serious about their move, the guards were so frightened that they almost collapsed and dared not move forward.
Yuan Bin's face was as cold as frost. He stepped forward step by step, not even looking at the guards, and said coldly: "If anyone resists, I will kill them without mercy!"
Before he could finish his words, everyone had already hurriedly laid on the ground, holding their heads with their hands, not daring to breathe.
The rest of the people rushed into the depths of the mansion, with almost no resistance along the way. A moment later, in the lobby, a lieutenant dragged someone out.
The man was about 40 years old. He looked panicked, as if he had suffered a great humiliation. He cursed: "Do you know who I am? Do you know whose house this is?"
Yuan Bin walked forward and showed his badge.
"Jinyiwei?"
The man snorted coldly and said, "So what if he is a Jinyiwei? My master is the Earl of Pengcheng. The emperor has to call him uncle when he sees him. Stop it quickly if you know what's good for you. Otherwise, I will destroy your family!"
Yuan Bin looked at this person and asked calmly, "Who are you?"
"Just you..."
Snapped!
Yuan Bin slapped him and said angrily: "Just tell me what I ask you. Who are you?"
"me……"
Snapped!
Another slap was thrown, and the man's mouth was bleeding. He began to panic and said, "I am... the chief steward here, Jia... Jia Gui."
Yuan Bin nodded with satisfaction, and then asked, "Collaborating with foreign enemies, does this have anything to do with your master?"
"Wha...what..."
Jia Gui's face suddenly changed and he trembled and couldn't speak.
"You know Mantulu, right?"
“I…I don’t know him at all!”
Jia Gui’s face turned pale and he shook his head repeatedly.
"Take them to Zhaoyu and let them confront each other!"
"It's unfair, it's unfair!"
When Jia Gui heard that he was going to Zhaoyu, he was so frightened that he became incontinent, and a yellow-white substance flowed out of his pants.
After taking the person away, Yuan Bin looked up and walked into the front hall.
Pengcheng Earl Zhang Kejian had been waiting for a long time.
"I am Yuan Bin, the commander of the Imperial Guards, and I am honored to meet the Earl of Pengcheng!"
"Jinyiwei?"
Zhang Kejian sneered, walked up to Yuan Bin, and suddenly raised his hand and slapped him.
As a relative by marriage, you have been arrogant since childhood. So what if you are a Jinyiwei? I will beat you!
However, this time he was disappointed.
Yuan Bin suddenly stretched out his hand, and Zhang Kejian felt as if his wrist was clamped by a pair of pliers. He felt so painful that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"You...are so outrageous!"
Snapped!
Yuan Bin grabbed his wrist with his left hand and slapped him with his right hand. Zhang Kejian was stunned.
He never expected that he, the emperor's cousin, would actually be beaten.
"Mr. Pengcheng, do you want to talk here or go to Zhaoyu?"
Zhang Kejian looked up blankly and asked, "Why am I going to Zhaoyu? What have I done wrong?"
"Isn't it enough to betray the country?"
"What?"
Zhang Kejian almost jumped up and asked, "I am the Earl of Pengcheng in the Ming Dynasty. How could I possibly be collaborating with the enemy and selling out my country?"
"Jia Gui is your housekeeper?"
“Yes… yes!”
"He sold the information to the Tatar spies. Did you know that?"
Zhang Kejian shook his head vigorously and said, "I don't know, I don't know!"
"In that case, please condescend to go to the prison and let the judge decide the right and wrong!"
“Don’t…don’t!”
Zhang Kejian was so scared that his face turned pale. How could there be a fair judgment when he went to Zhaoyu?
"I admit that I did some fur trade with the Tatars over the years, but that was limited to business. I really didn't do anything else!"
"No point in talking any more, take it away!"
"Don't...it's unfair, it's unfair!"
No matter how Zhang Kejian shouted, Yuan Bin showed no mercy and forcibly took him back to Zhaoyu.
The next day, Yuan Bin hurried to the imperial study with the transcript of his confession.
Zhu Qizhen finished reading the transcript in front of him and asked, "Are you saying that the Earl of Pengcheng did not collude with the thieves, but was just used?"
Yuan Bin nodded and replied: "After investigation, it was found that Pengcheng Bo was indeed smuggling furs with the Tatars, but he had no intention of collaborating with the enemy."
Zhu Qizhen nodded . It seemed that the idiot Zhang Kejian was really being used by the Tatars.
He thought that the Tatars were looking for him to do business for money, but he didn't expect that they were attracted by the three words "Pengcheng Earl". They used this identity to open a passage into the pass, and then bought intelligence from all sides and passed it on to the outside of the pass.
Jia Gui was only one of the informants bribed by the Tatars. As for the rest, the fur merchant Mantulu had confessed everything, and the Jinyiwei began to arrest people everywhere.
Those who collaborate with the enemy and betray their country will of course be put to death without mercy.
But how to deal with Zhang Kejian?
Even if you say he was collaborating with the enemy, what he did over the years was just smuggling, which did not rise to the level of treason.
But, all this was caused by him.
Zhu Qizhen was upset and ordered: "Hand him over to the Ministry of Justice and tell them that this case does not need to be treated favorably by anyone and should be handled impartially according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty!"