"There is the Confucius Temple in the west, and the scholars have to go to worship" The boat family acted as a tour guide and was not idle all the way, and said: "The west side of the Confucius Temple is the Zhongshan Palace, in fact, it should be called the Wei Mansion now, but the Nanjing ancestors still call it the Zhongshan Palace" said and pointed to the south bank: "There is a garden called the East Garden, the common people call him Xu Zhongshan Garden, and it is also the family business of the King of Zhongshan, I heard that it is comparable to the royal garden." ”

Li Muxian was shocked when he heard it, but Chang Yu was familiar with these allusions, Xu Danai was the head of the heroes, and his daughter was the queen of Emperor Yongle, and his family was naturally rewarded with the largest palace The scale of the palace is also second to none, and the Zhan Garden of later generations is actually only a part of its mansion, which shows the scale of the year, as for the East Garden said by the boat family, it is the Bailuzhou Park of the later generations, but at this time it is the private garden of the Xu family. It was expanded by Xu Tianci, the sixth grandson of Xu Da at that time, who commanded Xu Tianci from his eldest nephew Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei, to expand the ancestral industry.

The boat arrived at Dongshuiguan near Tongji Gate, and Chang Yu and his entourage got off the boat and went ashore, because the diversion of the Qinhuai River flowed back to the main road outside the city, and Chang Yu did not go to the imperial city, so there was no need to take the waterway again.

Chang Yu and his entourage went ashore and went north along the street, walked all the way to see, the eyes were extremely prosperous, this ancient capital of the Six Dynasties is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most prosperous city in the Ming Dynasty at the moment, after all, the city of Beijing at this time is like a hell under the double blow of plague and war, far less than the ancient capital of the south of the Yangtze River.

After finishing the work, he had a good walk in Nanjing City, Li Muxian boasted that he had never crossed the south of the Yangtze River in fact, it was the first time he came to Nanjing City, he was dazzled and had a lotus heart, but Song Luoshu had been to Nanjing several times, and he could vaguely remember many place names.

It was noon, the five people went to Changfu Street to find a restaurant and ordered a table of banquets, this Changfu Street as the name suggests is the Huaiyuan Hou Mansion of the founding general Chang Yuchun, Nanjing people are used to calling Kaiping Wangfu, and now Huaiyuan Hou is called Chang Yanling is known as a virtuous name.

After the little eunuch entered the city, he went straight to the Kaiping Palace, and looked at his thoughtful appearance staring at the palace, it was very strange, Li Muxian's heart made waves, and he remembered what Chang Yu said when he talked about the descendants of Chang Yuchun on the road.

Not long after the wine and food were served, Chunxiang came in a hurry, and one of the people next to Chang Yu scolded: "Damn, these eyes, ears and nose are real spirits, and they get the news faster than me, and Nanjing City said that it must be good for Wei State."

It turned out that Chang Yu and Chunxiang had agreed to meet at the restaurant on Changfu Street when they arrived in Nanjing, although they didn't know when Chang Yu arrived and did not know which restaurant, but he expected him to arrive in the next two or three days, and there were few restaurants around, so Chunxiang sent someone to watch around after entering the city.

But it wasn't until near noon that Gao Wencai's people told him that Wei Guogong led a group of Nanjing officials to meet Chang Yu outside the city but pounced, Chunxiang knew that Chang Yu had said Nanjing, so he hurried to come, and he admired the news of Wei Guogong's mansion in his heart.

But it is also reasonable, he first came to Nanjing is understaffed, and the Xu family is unfathomable, Xu Hongji in addition to the identity of the state is also the garrison of Nanjing, and his people are all over the five military governor's mansion and Jinyi Wei Yamen, plus the current situation, he has to be careful, in the ferry on both sides of the Yangtze River openly and secretly do not know how many manpower is arranged, so Chang Yu just arrived in Taishan Town was found by his eyeliner and immediately sent back to the city, so surprised that he hurriedly came to the city to greet him.

"It would be great if he could put such thoughts on resisting the enemy" Chang Yu sighed and shook his head, Li Muxian was surprised: "Originally, I heard that Nanjing was the Wei State, but I didn't think so, but now I don't think it's exaggerated."

Chunxiang also sighed: "I have heard too much about the Xu family in the past two days, and it is really not exaggerated, although the dozens of nobles in Nanjing City are not worth the Xu family, it can be said that hundreds of people of the Xu family have served in the yamen up and down the city of Nanjing.

Chang Yu thinks this is true, Xu Da has four sons, the third died early, in addition to the Dingguo Gong lineage who was taken to Beijing by Zhu Di, the Xu family also has two branches in Nanjing, one is the hereditary Wei Guogong of the eldest Xu Huizu, and the other is the second Xu Yingxu hereditary Jinyi Wei commanding the affairs, and these hereditary are only the eldest sons and eldest grandsons, but the wealthy families do not have a few sons, and the sons have to be hundreds of generations down, all of them are an ancestor who can't favor one over the other.

As a result, there is a word called "Enyin Jilu", which is to give some favors and compensation to those ordinary children who cannot inherit the merits of their ancestors, and serve as some idleness in the yamen, in fact, Jinyiwei also undertook this function at the beginning of its establishment.

For example, although Xu Tianci, who mentioned the construction of the East Garden of the Xu Family, did not have the opportunity to attack the knight because his brother Xu Kuibi died a year earlier than his father, he let his son, his eldest nephew Xu Pengju, attack the knight, and he was awarded the command of Nanjing Jinyiwei.

However, these are idle positions, Nanjing's six departments and some yamen have no real power, only Jinyiwei is a little special, after all, the intelligence agency has to operate in a unified manner, but nominally side by side with Beijing is actually under its leadership, so Gao Wencai can enter the yamen office in a grand manner.

Compared with Beijing Jinyiwei who was often involved in court disputes, Nanjing's Jinyiwei was mostly for their own welfare, for example, Xu Tianci relied on this privilege to get the ancestral property from the hands of his eldest nephew to build a garden, and the common people called it "Xu Jinyi Garden" at that time.

Therefore, the commander of the Jinyi Guard in Nanjing still has a certain amount of power, and the more real power is the Nanjing garrison, this position has been in the hands of Nanjing nobles since Hongwu year, such as Chang Yuchun, Deng Yu, Tang and descendants, but the most flowers are still the Xu family, and now it is still the Xu family.

Just imagine that the Xu family is a hereditary Duke of Wei, who served as the garrison of Nanjing and the governor of the army. A hereditary Jinyi guard commands the affairs, and he takes turns to serve as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and there are even clansmen who serve in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, do you say that he can not be a dick in Nanjing City.

"Now that the commander of Nanjing Jinyi Wei is temporarily vacant, the real power is in the hands of Xu Yingxu's ninth grandson, Xu Hongying, who is an old man in his sixties" Chunxiang took a sip of food: "The bottom of the Xu family is clear, in addition to his own wealth, there are also a few nobles who are very close to his gang, how is the eldest brother going to do it?" ”

Chang Yu glanced at the Kaiping Mansion outside the window: "Don't worry, you can make an appointment with Shi Kefa and Lu Daqi in the evening to visit, by the way, let's post first."

Chunxiang sighed, and said: "It's a good day today, big brother can take advantage of this moment to take a walk around Nanjing City."

Chang Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "How can I have that leisure" turned his head to Su Jing and said: "After eating, you can take Lianxin around, and go to Zhongshan Wangfu to find me at night" Su Jing sighed, and asked: "Are these two people safe by your side?" ”

"I don't dare to say it outside the city, no one in the city dares to touch our house, even if it loses a hair, the Wei Mansion can be scared into a cold sweat" Su Jing didn't understand, but Li Muxian and Chunxiang looked at each other and smiled.

After lunch, Su Jing took Lianxin to blow up the street, Chunxiang was busy arranging things, and only Chang Yu, Li Muxian and Song Luoshu were left looking at Kaiping Wangfu in the restaurant: "You should know what our family wants to do."

Li Muxian nodded: "Although I don't know the details, but it's not far away, but are you really sure that you want to do this?" ”

"After thinking about it, there are pros and cons" Chang Yu took a deep breath: "But I want you to explore the way first."

Li Muxian smiled slightly: "This is the director of the poor road," he said, arching his hand and turning downstairs.

"My lord, where are we going now?" Song Luoshu asked.

Chang Yu raised his eyebrows: "You're tired after a night of marching, let's find an inn to sleep in."

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