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Chapter 2726 Capital (eighty)

 There are four words on the letter: "Mushi Taoist".

This name has become famous in the Senate's emotional governance system in recent years. Especially after the witchcraft case, the name Mushi Taoist has been looming, and many major cases have vaguely pointed to this person. The Political Security Bureau highly suspects that this person is "Wen Shi" or his agent.

But so far, no clues about Shi Weng have been found. This group has been in the fog.

Now, a letter involving this person was found in Liu Chi's letter! This is equivalent to announcing that Liu Chi has a direct connection with Taoist Mu Shi, and Wang Yehao is likely to be the leader behind this group.

Just relying on this letter in your hand is a great achievement!

This letter was written by "Mushi Taoist", reminding Liu Xuan that the thief was looking for someone in the capital, and the bounty for finding someone has been mentioned 1,000 taels, and the information provided is 100 taels. In this case, even if the master's power is there, I am afraid that someone will take risks. Especially now, anyone can buy tickets to the thief's territory. Therefore, special attention should be paid to internal control to prevent the guards from being unable to withstand temptation and betrayal.

"Since that's the case, I can't help you." Min Zhanlian thought to himself that he had to pry his mouth completely open.

He immediately took care of his subordinates and said, "Look at Liu Shi tightly, so he should prevent him from committing suicide."

Zhou Ruolan asked: "Are we withdrawing or keeping it?"

"Stay here and just pass the important news back. Go and rest, and then take a good look at this old guy in the evening: he probably knows where Elder Leng is!"

"Go to Nanyuan?!" Wu Cheng was a little surprised, "What are you doing in that ghost place?"

"Of course I have a reason to go. I'll give you a hundred taels of silver, will you go?"

Wu Cheng swallowed violently, one hundred taels! He had earned less than one hundred taels of silver even after three years in the capital!

However, he has been in the capital for a long time. Although he is not a person in the martial arts world, as a Taoist priest, he has a lot of contact with the martial arts world people on weekdays. Leng Ningyun was kidnapped and had heard about Lian Sheng looking for someone in Xuan Hong.

With his many years of experience, he naturally knew that there was a lot of articles here, so it would be better to get involved less.

"This..." he said pretending to be distracted, "What's the point of getting to this broken place? It's full of wild meadows, smelly rivers and ponds, dense wild trees and forests, and many wild animals. It's fine, but now there are thousands of eunuchs, all of whom are lawless, and they are like demons dancing around."

"Just say, are you going or not?" Li Rufeng smiled. There was a faint threat in his smile.

"I...I...this..." Wu Cheng was a little panicked. He said with a thorn in his mouth, "It's not that I don't want to go, it's because there are royal gardens inside, and there are imperial guards in all the gates. If you bring one or two people in, it's okay with me with this face. If there are too many people, I'm afraid it won't work. Please forgive me."

"Old Wu, you think I am a young man. I am naturally not as good as you in the Nanyuan. But when it comes to entering and leaving, those who forcefully beg for evil and rob money on the streets, may they all come out of the Dahongmen?"

In the Ming Dynasty, there were four garden gates in Nanyuan. The north was Dahongmen and the main gate. The south was Nanhongmen, the east was Donghongmen and the west was Xihongmen. Each garden gate was guarded by the imperial guards. Because Nanyuan was abandoned for a long time, the imperial guards were in vain. Not only did the 120-mile earth walls around it collapsed because they were rarely repaired. There were more than a dozen gaps of large and small, and they could enter and exit.

Wu Cheng kept laughing and said that he had something to do and was about to leave the capital for half a month. Li Rufeng did not allow him to slip away. He drew out his knife and danced it. Now Wu Cheng had no choice but to take them in to search the garden.

"The ugly words are ahead. Although the garden is a waste, it is also a royal place. No matter what you do, you must be careful..."

"Look, I'm afraid of you!" Li Rufeng smiled and patted his back, "We are not big thieves, we are doing a serious business of escorting the hospital. Now we have to go to Nanyuan. If you help us accomplish things, you will definitely benefit us!"

Wu Cheng smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, yes, I understand!"

"Since you have agreed to lead the way, let's talk to you..." As soon as Li Rufeng spoke, Wu Cheng interrupted him.

"Master, please don't give me a briefing. You only tell me what you want to know, where to go, and what you are looking for. I don't want to hear a single word."

Li Rufeng smiled and said, "Okay, you are also an old man!"

"It's really that the water in Yongding River is too deep and there are many gods." Wu Chengdao, "No matter how delicious the old rice in the capital is, I want to eat it for a few more years."

"You always talk about the situation in Nanyuan."

Nanyuan is a place with little knowledge of even and Liansheng. There is no reason. This place is not only the royal gardens, but also the place is too big. Most people rarely care about it, and thieves who commit crimes rarely visit.

"This place was formerly called 'Feibo'. It was originally the place where Emperor Dayuan set off eagles to hunt. There is now a stone platform inside, called the Eagle Drying Platform. It is said that it was a place where feathers were dried for Haidongqing. It was only when it was in this dynasty that it was renamed Nanhaizi..."

The name of "Nanhaizi" is because there are five "Haizi" (lakes) here and there is "Beihaizi" in the imperial city, so this royal garden is named "Nanhaizi".

There are four gates in Nanyuan, divided into North Hongmen, South Hongmen, East Hongmen and West Hongmen. Then there are halls, palaces, and administrative offices, and eunuchs and officials are dispatched to manage them. The Admiral Shanglinyuan Internal Supervisory Office is set up.

"This admiral Shanglinyuan Inner Supervision Office is near the Hongmen of Peking University. Now the person in charge is Eunuch Cao."

The Admiral Shanglinyuan Yamen is not one of the twenty-four Yamen, but the idle Cao Leng Yamen in the palace, which is basically excluded from the palace power circle. However, because there are "haihu" in Nanyuan, official fields, and various incomes of hunting firewood and fishing, it is quite attractive to some senior eunuchs who cannot make a name for themselves. Therefore, to get this job, you have to walk to curry favor with the top.

"This Eunuch Cao is said to have flattered the eunuch of the bell and drums and the drums and took his way to get this job."

It turns out that Eunuch Cao and Eunuch Yang still have such a relationship! Li Rufeng nodded slightly

"How many eunuchs are there now?"

"There are about one hundred posts, but in fact, there are only twenty or thirty father-in-laws who work for the daily life. There are more people coming when the official rent is closed in the summer and autumn. Eunuch Cao himself does not often go to the yamen, and sends a small eunuch to the yamen to pick up and drop off official documents every day. Only when there is important business."

In addition to the more than 100 eunuchs, there were also three or four hundred "assisted servants" hired, mostly idle men in the capital. Originally, there were not many such servants, but because the Nanyuan housed eunuchs, they hired many more under the name of "care". On weekdays, about 100 people were on duty.

"How many imperial guards are there?"

Wu Cheng looked at him in panic, but he didn't dare not say anything.

"Eighty people are present at each city gate. The soldiers from the 'Twelve Guards' take turns to pay."

Speaking of this, Wu Cheng couldn't help asking: "Mr. Li, what do you want to do?"

Li Rufeng smiled and said, "I want to do something important. Don't worry, it's not involved in the government!"

"Although this Nanyuan is abandoned, it is still a royal garden. You have to be cautious when doing things..." Wu Cheng advised him again before continuing.

Whether it is eunuchs, idle or paying money, most of them gather in the four-door office and yamen, and few people go to other places. Because Nanyuan now houses many eunuchs who cannot enter the palace. They wander in groups in Nanyuan, hunting wild animals, and from time to time go out from the gap to the capital and neighboring counties and villages to beg, steal, or even rob. It is said that the eunuchs in Nanyuan are "strictly controlled". In fact, they don't care at all, and they only make corruption and full of money and rice to save money and rice.

"Where do these thousands of eunuchs live? You can't sleep in the open every day, right?"

"Living in the house of the Hitos."

When Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty established Nanyuan, he moved households from several northern provinces to guard and clean the gardens. He was called "Haihu". There were a total of 1,600 households, each of which was divided into 24 acres of land. These 1,600 households lived in various "Haihutuns" in Nanyuan. The largest of them were located near Beihongmen and Donghongmen. In addition, seven or eight small troughs were distributed in the gardens.

There are 1,600 sea households, because the exploitation of officials and tenants is extremely heavy, and many people have fled to death over the years. Nowadays, no one in ten residents of each village has left. The official land is abandoned, so it is very desolate. Many villages have been abandoned, and the eunuchs have occupied the magpie's nest and lived in it. Although many houses in the village have collapsed, only broken walls are left, which is always much more than sleeping in the wilderness walls. Some gangs, relying on their powerful power, simply seized some of the idle government offices in the gardens to live in.

"These eunuchs are very good!" Wu Cheng warned, "Everyone says that those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. They are not even XX, and they are even more unscrupulous. There are fights and murders inside every day, and people are not buryed if they die. If they are thrown into the woods and meadows, they will be eaten by wild boars and wolves for more than ten days. The imperial guards and eunuchs inside dare not care about their affairs!"

After listening to his introduction, Li Rufeng thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know the location of these garrisons?"

"A few big ones know that I have never been to the villages inside, to be honest," Wu Cheng's eyes flashed.

"Go one and give ten taels of silver."

"...There are roads between the garrisons, and along the road, you can probably get there." Wu Cheng swallowed, "It's just that you, the chief escort, have to give me two escorts and get a mule..."

Li Rufeng laughed up and said, "Let me! Don't worry."

Speaking of this, he felt that he could make the words clearer and asked very seriously: "Master Taoist! If someone wants to hide it, where would you hide this person in Nanyuan?"
Chapter completed!
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