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The father-in-law's thinking has always been meticulous, and based on the fact that the emperor knew that he was selling mines, he could quickly deduce that these two or five boys were definitely not those sent by the palace.

Well, it's on his side.

The scope is locked quickly, and there are channels and power to secretly play to the emperor, except for Jinyiwei, there is no one else.

Other people want to betray his father-in-law Wei, but there is no way.

The father-in-law did not suspect that Tian Gang betrayed him, he thought that it was one of the hundred brocade guards that Tian Gang brought from Beijing, or some of them.

However, the father-in-law is not ready to mobilize the public to "rape".

Because, this is the responsibility of people.

The factory guards are the eyes and ears of the emperor, and what they do is secret detectives.

If you want to put him aside, Father-in-law Wei is the emperor, and he will do the same, and he will vigorously praise the whistleblower.

Otherwise, the eyes and ears will be lost, and the end will be Chongzhen.

The father-in-law just felt a little chilled, after all, he did his best for the community and had never been selfish, but the emperor still planted people around him, which was not to be trusted by him Eunuch Wei.

Wait a minute...

The father-in-law's hand that was tickling on the crotch of his pants stopped, and he seemed to understand why the emperor was not at ease with him.

After sighing lightly, the father-in-law carefully pondered the specific meaning of the combination of the emperor's secret decree and the edict.

How do you look at it, it seems to be all about money?

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The people inside and outside the city of Nanjing call the Shangfang Bridge the Seven Urn Bridge, the total length of this bridge is less than 40 zhang, the bridge body resembles a curved bow, there are 16 finely carved beast heads on both sides of the bridge lug above the bridge urn, it is said that it was the prince Zhu Biao of Hong Wuye who personally called the craftsman to carve, but who knows whether it is true or false.

For more than 200 years, the bridge piers, bridge urns and animal heads have basically maintained the same as they were at the beginning of the country, and there is no crack in the wind and rain. Under the bridge is the Qinhuai River, not far away is a large wetland, the bridge deck is deep and wide, very spectacular.

Six days ago, a team of soldiers and horses came on the other side of the Shangfang Bridge, under the banner of "Ming Imperial Army", saying that it was the Son of Heaven's pro-army, and it was stationed on the order of the lieutenant officer of Jiangnan Town, preparing for a special Jinling exercise.

The people know what Jiangnan guards and what big exercises they know, but they only know the affairs of the officials and ask less.

These imperial soldiers were also strictly disciplined, and they set up their own tents two or three miles on the other side of the Shangfang Bridge, and they were all in charge of eating and drinking, and the officers and men did not leave the camp except for buying meat and vegetables and contacting the local people.

This made the local people have a good impression of these sons of heaven and the army, and they had the courage to look for business opportunities, and they also carried all kinds of goods to the gate of the imperial army camp to sell.

Not to mention, it is really worthy of the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, the officers and soldiers seem to be quite tall, and they are generous, but the hawkers want to sell things, and the officers and soldiers inside will definitely buy you a fine light, and they will pay the money with one hand and take the goods with the other, and they will not deceive people.

It's just that the accents of these officers and soldiers sound quite strange, and the Chinese dialect is not too fluent, if it weren't for the fact that they were all wearing the clothes of officers and soldiers, and the officials in Nanjing City had come to confirm it, the people would only say that they were soldiers from other domains.

Just three days after this group of officers and soldiers were stationed on the other side of the Shangfang Bridge, a group of officers and soldiers suddenly came out of Shangfangmen, and the number of officers and soldiers was larger than the number of officers and soldiers under the banner of the Son of Heaven's pro-army.

As soon as they left the city, the officers and soldiers set up two camps on the other side of the Shangfang Bridge, and the officers and soldiers on the opposite bank monitored each other across the Shangfang Bridge.

At the same time, the local Li Zheng also began to inform the people from door to door that they were not allowed to sell anything to the imperial army. Every day, there are still hawkers carrying goods to sell to the imperial army, but they are all dressed as people from the Five Cities Terracotta Division, and there are a few lords' mansions inside.

The imperial army in the camp seemed to know that they were being watched, but there was no change up and down, as they were.

Things changed dramatically in the early morning of the 21st.

At the end of the day, when it was still dark, and the officers and men of the Shenji Battalion and the Patrol Battalion on the left bank of the Shangfang Bridge were still asleep, they suddenly heard the sound of guns and cannons outside, like the Lantern Festival on New Year's Day, resounding with the sound of thunderbolts pulling ears. If you look at it from a distance, it is full of smoke. The air was also instantly filled with the choking smell of gunpowder.

The officers and men of the Shenji Battalion and the Patrol Battalion thought that they had been attacked from the opposite side, and they all felt out of their tents in a panic, and when they were ready to resist with various weapons, they found that the Shangfang Bridge was empty.

On the opposite side, guns fired in unison, but not a single soldier crossed the Shangfang Bridge to attack the opposite side.

Just when the officers and men of the Shenji Battalion and the Patrol Battalion were confused and inexplicable, a few people came on the bridge.

The leading officer claimed that they had just conducted a big drill when there was a sound of guns on the other side of the bridge.

In addition, in the course of the exercise, three officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army disappeared, suspected of being taken captive by the people of the three battalions, and they asked to enter the camp of the three battalions to search.

This unreasonable request must have been sternly rejected by the generals of the Shenji Battalion and the Patrol Battalion!

The officers who came to negotiate did not give up, nor did they rebuke the use of force, and they still used the excuse of the sound of guns and the disappearance of the soldiers to negotiate with the Shenji and the Second Patrol Battalion.

The matter quickly spread back to the city, and the Yamen of the Nanjing Military Department and the Wei State Mansion both received the news, and at the same time as the deployment of the contingency plan, Pan Binlong, the prefect of Yingtian, was entrusted by Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, to come to Shangfangmen to negotiate.

The commander of the Imperial Army, General Shinjiro Oda, and the Governor of Oten, negotiated twice, and both sides took a tough attitude.

Admiral Oda claimed that he had conducted a roll call and found that three soldiers were indeed missing, and that they were certain that they had been attacked by officers and men of the three battalions opposite. Therefore, there is sufficient reason to believe that the officers and soldiers of the three battalions are hostile to the Ming Imperial Army, and it cannot be ruled out that the three missing soldiers have been killed.

"To prove your innocence, we must search for the drop!"

Governor Pan listened to why the general opposite was talking so awkwardly, so he couldn't help but ask where the other party's official was.

"I'm dropping, Wei Dazhuang, a pro-army general under the command of the lieutenant commander of Jiangnan Town!"

Oda is very proud of his Han name.

"Wei... General Wei..."

Pan Binlong rejected General Oda's request on the grounds that there was no dispatch from the military department, and that the Jiangnan Town Detention Center Department had searched the Shenji without authorization and patrolled the location of the second battalion, which might cause unease among the officers and men of the second battalion, easily aggravate contradictions, and lead to conflicts.

Seeing this, General Oda no longer continued to negotiate with Governor Pan, and angrily took people back.

At noon, the defenders of Shangfangmen suddenly received a report that a team of horses and a battalion of infantry were rapidly approaching Shangfangmen.

There seems to be Wei Gelding in the team.

In order to avoid accidents, Pan Binlong asked Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, and Wang Yongguangli, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, to ask the Inner Garrison Department to come forward to assist in mediating the matter, and sent personnel to Shangfang Bridge to thoroughly investigate the firing and the disappearance of the soldiers as a third party.