Since the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the city of Beijing has formed a pattern of "nine inside, seven emperors and four outside".

"Lijiu" refers to the nine gates of the inner city, "Outer Qi" refers to the seven gates of the outer city, and "Imperial City Four" refers to the four gates of the imperial city. Therefore, old Beijing also has a name

The common name of "Four Nine Cities".

The inner and outer cities, with the Imperial City as the center, form four urban districts: east, west, south and north. People living in different districts have their own characteristics. There is a popular saying that "the east is rich and the west is noble, the south is poor and the north is poor".

Because of the water transportation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Chaoyang Gate was called Qihua Gate by old Beijingers, and it was the "Grain Gate" for transporting grain among the nine gates of the capital.

Materials traveling from south to north are transported from Tongzhou, the terminal point of water transportation, to Chaoyangmen, and are concentrated in the east of Beijing. Therefore, there are many granaries in Dongcheng, and many of them are named after warehouses, such as Maritime Warehouse, New Taicang, and Lumi Warehouse.

, Minami Xincang, etc.

In order to facilitate business transactions, merchants, wealthy merchants and Yinshi people gradually took root in Dongcheng. Over time, the term "Dongfu" came into being.

Around New Taicang in Beijing, merchants gather, there are many shops, there are many people's houses, there are many grain depots, pawnshops, etc. Most of the eight Shanxi merchants' grain depots in the capital are located here.

On August 3rd, at two o'clock in the morning, when the evening drums were beating, thousands of brave guards stationed in the imperial city's school grounds trotted in unison, holding torches, and headed straight for New Taicang.

Thousands of sergeants from the Brave Guard Battalion formed a neat marching queue, marching in neat steps on the street. Their iron boots made a neat roar on the bluestone street.

Some people on the street were awakened and carefully observed the army through their doors and windows, wondering what they were going to do...

The main camp of the Yongwei Camp was less than five miles away from New Taicang. Soon, a large number of torches lit up the entire New Taicang alley, and a large group of soldiers surrounded all the grain depots of the eight major Shanxi merchants in the capital.

At one of the Fan family's grain depots, the steward of the grain depot panicked and said, "Who are you, and why did you break into my family's grain depot?"

A guerrilla general from the Yongwei Battalion loudly shouted: "According to the order of the Crown Prince, all the grain depots of the traitorous and traitorous family are to be raided. Anyone who dares to obstruct it will be killed without mercy!"

"We, the Fan family, can learn from our loyalty and have made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty over the past hundred years..."

"puff!"

The guerrilla general slowly sheathed his sword, kicked the body of the Fan family steward aside, and shouted: "Break the door!"

There was a constant banging sound on the door. Some soldiers from the Yongwei Battalion carried thick, pointed hardwood, shouted slogans, and kept banging against the heavy granary door.

The servants of the Fan family who were guarding the grain depot didn't know what was going on outside, so they picked up their weapons one after another and blocked the door of the grain depot. In troubled times, food is more important than gold, so those who guard the grain depot are the most loyal servants of the Fan family.

Not long after, the door was knocked open with a bang, and a row of shield soldiers from the Brave Guard Battalion rushed in holding their shields. Behind them were soldiers from the Brave Guard Battalion who lined up neatly and held muskets in their hands.

Seeing that there were people in the grain depot holding weapons and preparing for a confrontation, several rows of musketeers from the Yongwei Battalion fired volleys at the door, beating the Fan family servants inside into a sieve, without even a chance to surrender.

This scene took place in front of various grain depots in New Taicang with the same plot, and bursts of fire and gunshots were heard from time to time.

Faced with the strong attack of the Yongwei Battalion, the guards in the eight major Shanxi merchants' grain depots could not even talk about resistance. They either died or surrendered. They were so slow to surrender that their lives were taken away by the King of Hell.

In order to prevent the servants from secretly attacking, the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion searched the many grain depots one by one, picked them out one by one and drove them to the middle field. No one who escaped was spared, and they were all shot to death.

Not long after, another group of people came from New Taicang, hundreds of them in total. They were wearing green brocade clothes and holding embroidered spring knives.

The first few people were dressed in red flying fish uniforms. As soon as they arrived at Xintai Cang Hutong, they each led dozens of royal guards and rushed to the mansion of the Eight Traitors.

In Fan Mansion, when he heard bursts of fire and gunfire outside, Fan Yongshan, who had just fallen asleep with his concubine in his arms, suddenly jumped up and shouted: "What happened at the grain depot?"

A servant hurriedly ran in and said in horror: "Four Masters, the army has blocked all our grain depots!"

Fan Yongshan was clever and pushed his concubine, who had just woken up and was still holding his arm and acting coquettishly, off the bed. Without even looking at him, he continued to ask the servant: "Explain clearly, what is going on?"

"Four Masters, the imperial court has sent troops to seal off all the grain depots in Xintai Cang! There are Qiu Ba outside. As long as the servants guarding the grain depots have the slightest resistance, they will kill them without saying a word!"

"Are you serious?" Fan Yongshan muttered to himself, and hurried out with a large group of servants without even wearing any clothes.

As soon as he walked to the gate, he suddenly saw a group of Jin Yiwei breaking open the door and rushing in. When he saw Fan Yongshan and others, the first Jin Yiwei Qianhu gave an order, and all the Jin Yiwei rushed forward and started to rush in when they saw anyone.

cut!

When Fan Yongshan saw this, he quickly turned around and ran away. He didn't even have the interest to explain. When he met the Jin Yiwei, he even explained nonsense!

Fan Yongshan asked his servant Dingmen to resist first. He wanted to slip away through the back door. As long as he escaped from the capital and returned to the Fan family's base camp in Taiyuan, Shanxi, even if the Jin Yiwei wanted to catch him, there would be no way.

With a strong desire to survive, Fan Yongshan ran as hard as he could. As soon as he ran out of the back door of Fan's house, he found that the back door was already surrounded by sergeants in armor. They were all tall and tough, and each of them was carrying a black musket.

, all the black guns were pointed at him.

Fan Yongshan was sweating profusely from running, and his hot little heart suddenly became cold. He forced out a smile and said: "Masters, what do you mean?"

None of the sergeants in front of him answered him. Fan Yongshan asked again. The group of sergeants on the opposite side still did not answer him. They just surrounded him with firecrackers and left him alone.

Fan Yongshan was very depressed. He wanted to run away, but he was worried that as soon as his front feet ran away, his back feet would be beaten into sieves by fire blunderbuss. Fan Yongshan stayed like this, shirtless, under the gaze of a large group of men for a long time.

At this time, the group of royal guards chased them from the back door. Everyone on them was stained with a lot of blood. They had obviously had a fierce battle with the servants of the Fan family.

The crowd parted, and Li Tingbiao in a gorgeous flying fish suit appeared in front of Fan Yongshan.

Fan Yongshan looked at the senior official of the Imperial Guard and said in a trembling voice: "What crime have I committed that you want to arrest me for?"

Li Tingbiao shouted: "Capture this traitorous dog!"

Fan Yongshan immediately shouted: "That's nonsense. My Fan family has been a businessman for generations and has served the country loyally. Our loyalty can be learned from the sun!"

Li Tingbiao sneered and said: "You'd better go to the imperial prison to speak your nonsense slowly! Originally, you were not qualified to enter the imperial prison. Your Highness was so kind that he reserved a suite for you eight traitors!"

Fan Yongshan shouted: "We are not guilty, why should we be arrested? We refuse to accept it!"

Li Tingbiao shouted: "Tie him up and drag him away!"

It was Sun Yingyuan who led the Yongwei Battalion to surround the Fan Mansion. The Jinyiwei wanted to arrest too many people tonight and there was a serious shortage of manpower. Zhu Cixiang was worried and sent some troops from the Yongwei Battalion to surround the mansion of the Eight Traitors.

All over.

Sun Yingyuan smiled at Li Tingbiao and said: "Brother Li, since he has been arrested, we will evacuate to the grain depot."

Li Tingbiao cupped his fists at Sun Yingyuan and said, "Thank you, General Sun, for your help!"

Sun Yingyuan waved his hand and said: "Brother Li, you're welcome. I don't want to help you. If I weren't in the capital and worried about the reputation of His Highness the Crown Prince, I would have led people to kill all these two Tatars. How could it be your turn?"

Jin Yiwei takes action?"

Li Tingbiao smiled helplessly: "Your Highness is not afraid that the reputation of your Yongwei camp will be tarnished, so it is up to us, the Jinyiwei, to take care of this bad reputation!"
Chapter completed!