The factory guard arrived in Liyang, and Chen Peng, a hundred households of the Jinyiwei Office in Changzhou, stepped forward: "Chen Peng, please see Eunuch Wang, please see Zhang Dusi!" Zhang Shuheng asked: "Chen Baihu, what happened to Chen Mingxia's home?"

"When you go back to Dusi, everything is under control. The lower official sent people to monitor Chen Mingxia and his nine clans' families. Originally, there was not enough manpower, so I have to thank Dusi for sending a group of people to the lower official. A few days ago, Chen Mingxia's relatives transferred their property and were discovered by the lower official. The lower official asked to follow him. When he took his property to a Zhao family, the lower official had already recorded that family. There were still many people transferring property, and they were sent to follow and registering it by the lower official." Chen Peng replied.

Originally, the Changzhou Jinyiwei Hundred House Office was not enough, because the factory guards were weakened during the Chongzhen period, and there were only more than 30 people left in a hundred house office. After Zhang Shuheng took control of the Jinyiwei Commander, in order to monitor Chen Mingxia's family, he specially sent more than 300 people to the Changzhou Jinyiwei Hundred House Office. Among this group of people, except for a few who were old Jinyiwei who escaped from the north, the rest were a group of people who were inserted into the Jinyiwei from Li Guodong's personal guards.

Zhang Shuheng nodded: "Okay, Chen Baihu is doing a pretty job! Let's go to Chen's mansion to catch people!"

The Jinyiwei and the Dongchang Mansion, who were like a wolf and a tiger, came to the door of the Chen Mansion. A lieutenant walked forward and slapped the vermilion door hard: "Open the door! The Jinyiwei handled the case! Open the door!"

How dare the people in Chen's mansion open the door? The lieutenant slapped for a long time but couldn't hear any movement inside.

Zhang Shuheng said: "Crash away!"

More than a dozen Jinyiwei picked up a thick log as thick as a basin and hit the door hard. After hitting it dozens of times, they found that something was blocking the door and could not open the door at all.

"The blasting team is ready!" Zhang Shuheng shouted.

Several Jinyiwei dug up the outer wall with iron picks and chisels, dug out several holes, then stuffed the gunpowder jar, and then closed the hole, leaving only a fuse exposed. An Jinyiwei holding a torch lit the fuse and ran away quickly.

With a loud "boom", the walls of Chen's mansion collapsed.

"The Jinyiwei handles the case! Kneel down! Those who resist will kill them!" A large group of Jinyiwei rushed into the Chen Mansion.

For a moment, the men, women, young and old in the Chen family were in chaos, crying in a mess, and some domestic slaves resisted and were beheaded by the Jinyiwei on the spot.

Chen Peng also killed a domestic slave with his own hands. He grabbed the corner of his flying fish suit, wiped the embroidered spring knife, and took the knife back into the scabbard.

After killing more than a dozen rebellious guys, the rest of the people were honest. After all, there were not many people who were not afraid of death. After a few brave heads fell to the ground, who would dare to jump out and die?

An old man with white hair walked out with a crutch and walked out. The old man was very brave. He walked up to Zhang Shuheng, pointed at Zhang Shuheng's nose and cursed: "Emperor treacherous minister! You must die a good death! I am standing here. You are going to search the house unless you step on my body!"

Zhang Shuheng was furious and took out the imperial edict: "The imperial edict is here! Chen Mingxia traitored the country and surrendered to the enemy, and planned a major case of rebellion! Come, take this dead old man down!"

The old man was unyielding: "Little Eagle Dog, do you have a cabinet ticket to this imperial edict? If not, what power does your Jinyiwei have to take on people?"

"Why do you need a cabinet to plot against a major rebellion? The emperor's order is enough!" Wang Chengen walked up and said.

The old man pointed at Wang Chengen's nose and cursed: "The eunuch! Dead eunuch! Our Chen family is a Jiangnan family. How can we allow you to be domineering and rampant!" As he said that, the old man was about to reach out to steal the imperial edict from Zhang Shuheng.

Seeing that the old man was going to rob the imperial edict, Wang Chengen, who had always been the most loyal to Chongzhen, was furious and pushed the old man away.

The old man stood unsteadily and fell backwards.

Two Jinyiwei walked forward and was about to take the old man down. One Jinyiwei wanted to drag the old man up, but found that he couldn't drag it. So he reached out and leaned over the old man, turned around and said, "Eunuch Wang, you have killed someone. This old man is dead. You just pushed him and fell to death."

Wang Chengen snorted coldly: "When our family was stationed at the top of Beijing, we personally lit the cannons and killed more than ten thieves; when we arrived in Tianjin, we personally fired guns and killed many enemies; when we were in Shandong, our family also killed a lot! What can we do if an old man from a criminal family dies?"

No one dared to stop the Jinyiwei. Everyone in the mansion knelt in the big yard honestly. Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi rushed into the yard, rushed into every room, rummaged through the cabinets, and soon carried out boxes of gold, silver and treasures.

Wang Chengen and Zhang Shuheng sat in the pavilion in the back garden. They were brewing tea. Seeing the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang mansion making the Chen Mansion messy. Teams of men, women, young and old were taken out by the Jinyiwei's captain and the Dongchang mansion. When they met someone who walked slowly, the Jinyiwei's whip was mercilessly whipped down.

"Eunuch Wang, Zhang Dusi, we found more than 80,000 taels of silver, but no gold or jewelry were found." Chen Peng ran to report to Wang Chengen and Zhang Shuheng.

"Hmph, the property must have been transferred!" Wang Chengen snorted coldly.

Zhang Shuheng laughed: "I know the result! Chen Baihu, it's enough to have the list in your hands! Let's take these people to the Changzhou Jinyiwei Hundred House Office, and then interrogate them slowly. Whoever transfers the property to, that person is an accomplice! You first control the people on the list, and arrest people immediately when we get the confession!"

"It seems that we have to live in Liyang for a while." Wang Chengen said.

"It's okay, we set up camp outside the city. The Chen family is the Liyang family. They are involved in many relationships. If you want to commit a major rebellion, you will arrest all the cases that involve a little." Zhang Shuheng said.

This time when you come out to arrest people and search the house, you don’t have to worry about too many people arresting, but about too few people arrested. Anyway, you can arrest as much as possible. The Chen family is a well-known local family and involves too many people. Even if the arrest is unrelated, it doesn’t matter. You must be locked in the Jinyiwei first, and then notify their families to pay bail, and then release the person. This will make a lot of money again.

After capturing the people from Chen Mingxia's mansion, the Jinyiwei went out to search and confiscated all the families of relatives from the nine tribes of Chen Mingxia.

"A total of more than 2,000 people were arrested, and the Zhao Prison in the Changzhou Jinyiwei Hundred Household Institute could not accommodate it at all." Chen Peng said.

"Order the brothers to set up camp outside the city and notify the Changzhou military households to protect our Jinyiwei! I am worried that the Chen family will not be willing to fail, and will definitely collude with Taihu water bandits and attack our Jinyiwei!" Zhang Shuheng snorted.

In fact, it proved that Li Guodong's judgment was good at all. Chen Mingxia's family, who had long known that he was desperate, actually secretly colluded with Taihu water bandits and Guobao.

The Tu Guobao was originally from Datong, Shanxi, but later fled to Jiangnan and became a water bandit on Taihu Lake.

In the original time and space, after Hong Chengchou arrived in Nanjing, Tu Guobao surrendered to Hong Chengchou and served as the general officer. Later, he became the governor of Jiangning. He once suppressed Chen Zilong and Zhang Huangyan's rebel army. His name gloriously became the Biography of the Two Ministers. However, Tu Guobao is still just a thief on Taihu Lake.

Chen Mingxia's family colluded with Tu Guobao. With the 2,500 factory guards in the hands of Zhang Shuheng and Wang Chengen, they could only protect themselves and could not enter Taihu Lake to suppress bandits.

In order to prevent the national treasures from attacking the Jinyiwei camp at night, Zhang Shuheng ordered the Jinyiwei to build a camp according to the camps of regular field troops. Trenches were dug outside. Two rows of wooden fences, one long and one short, were erected in the trench, and wooden boards were laid on them to form a wooden city. The wooden boards were covered with mud, which could prevent rockets from attacking fire. The Jinyiwei and the Dongchang Fanzi camp were stationed behind the wooden fences and temporarily set up Zhaozhu in the camp.
Chapter completed!