The strength of the wine and the exhaustion of the wind and dust all the way, Chunxiang chatted with his three subordinates and fell asleep unconsciously, the guest room he was in was a large shop, and the three of his subordinates were not disturbed when they saw him lying on the chair and falling asleep, and soon they also entered their dreams.

I don't know how late the night is, maybe because the river breeze is cool or because the boats on the river are too noisy, Chunxiang is tired but not sleeping steadily, and he feels that someone has entered through the window, I thought it was a dream and didn't care, but the caution of the Dongchang people made his subconscious open his eyes and take a look.

Just as they saw a black shadow tiptoeing through their luggage, Chunxiang suddenly came to his senses and shouted: "What a bold thief" reached out and touched the knife next to him.

The thief was shocked, raised his hand and waved his hand at Chunxiang, turned around and ran towards the window.

Chunxiang also has some experience in the rivers and lakes, seeing that he thief quickly flashed sideways, he heard the wind in his ears, and inserted an object into the wall next to him, knowing that it was a hidden weapon, he was immediately furious, and saw that the thief was about to escape through the window and had no time to touch the knife, so he pounced and dragged it down from the window.

The thief was fierce and kicked Chunxiang over, and when he was about to cross the window, the other three who were awakened had already pounced, and suddenly he didn't have time to touch the knife and picked up the chair and smashed it, and the thief was extraordinary and dodged sideways, pulled out the short knife and fought with the three of them.

Although Chunxiang learned skills from Chang Yu to deal with ordinary people, it was obvious that this thief was extraordinary, otherwise he would not have kicked over with a kick on his back, but his three subordinates were all good at fighting, but he was injured and suddenly faced the enemy with his bare hands, and he was actually taken advantage of by the thief to escape through the window.

The back window is facing the Qinhuai River, and the trees on the riverside are verdant, and it is like a mud cow entering the sea under the dark night, without a trace.

Grass! Chun Xiangqi slapped the window and scolded, the four of them didn't leave a single thief, and they were almost stabbed by him.

"My lord, what's the origin of this thief, stealing things or touching our bottom?" A fan asked with a frown.

"Lao Tzu begs to know!" Chunxiang snorted coldly angrily, poked his head out to look at the boat lights on the Qinhuai River, his eyes were full of anger.

"It seems that it is possible that we were targeted when we were at the dock," an experienced fan had a solemn face: "Our group of more than ten people is carrying weapons, and the general thieves dare to send them to the door for fear of avoiding them?" I'm afraid that someone with a heart will come to find out."

"Who could it be?" Another asked.

"It's possible for anyone, anyone in power in Nanjing City is possible" Chunxiang retracted his eyes and walked to the wall, pulled out the thief's dagger in his hand, looked at it again, and looked: "This bone eye riverside ferry has already been secretly arranged how many eyeliners have been arranged, although our group of ordinary people in civilian clothes can't see their identities, but they can't hide them, such as the embroidered spring knife in your hand."

"What do you mean by that the thief, maybe the thief is our colleague, or maybe we are the thief's work? Or ......"

"Or maybe we have already seen through our identity, and want to come to see what we are going to do in Nanjing, after all, whether it is Dongchang or Jinyiwei's door, there is nothing good about it, especially those who do bad things, and they are always afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night." Chunxiang handed the dagger in his hand to a fanzi and walked to the window to look outside and sighed: "Just arrived at the ground, I gave Ma Wei, it seems that the water in Nanjing is really deep and ruthless."

There was no movement all night.

Tianxiao, the store brought breakfast, Chunxiang asked if he had heard the movement last night, the store guy shook his head and didn't know, but Chunxiang didn't believe it, how could he not know such a big movement, but the store didn't want to be nosy and cause trouble.

After breakfast, I went out of the inn road and punched a few times on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and just finished washing, and the few fans who went out last night also came back, and they were scared into a cold sweat when they heard about last night.

Since the identity has been exposed, there is no need to hide it, Chunxiang ordered everyone to change back into uniforms, and the flying fish suit with brocade clothes and guards wore the fan clothes of the East Factory, and sure enough, people relied on clothes and horses to rely on the saddle, and the temperament of the uniform immediately changed greatly, and the ** temperament suddenly disappeared without a trace.

After settling the account, everyone left the inn and went straight to the city of Nanjing, at this time the city gate was opened, and the people were bustling, and they were all paying attention.

However, just as he entered the city, Chunxiang made a decision to enter the city by water.

The south side of the Nanjing capital wall is almost built along the Qinhuai River, Chunxiang and his party want to go to the imperial city, and the imperial city is in the easternmost part of Nanjing City, east by Chaoyang Gate, south next to Zhengyang Gate, take the waterway the fastest can go down the river directly to Zhengyang Gate.

The Qinhuai River waterway traffic is particularly developed, and there are many passenger ships, so it is not difficult for Chunxiang and his party of twelve people to hire a boat, but it is difficult to arrange twelve mounts, so he ordered five people to enter the city from Dinghuai Gate by land with horses and luggage, and he and the other six people hired boats.

Why did Chunxiang go straight to the imperial city when he entered the city?

This has to start from the fact that Lao Zhu sat in the world and set the capital of Nanjing, and then Zhu Di Qingjun seized the throne from his eldest nephew.

After Zhu Di became the emperor, I don't know if it was because of his weak heart and always felt that it was not practical to live in Nanjing, or he returned to his Yanwang Mansion to have a bottom in his heart, but after all, Nanjing was the capital designated by his father, so what should I do?

I made a double Beijing system.

That is to say, the Ming Dynasty has two capitals and two palaces, and in addition to the emperor, other Beijing has Nanjing, for example, it still retains six systems, like Shi Kefa, who was originally the military department of Nanjing, but these are mostly false titles and have no real power.

In addition, Nanjing also has a brocade guard yamen, which must also be had. It's just that the name is a little different from Beijing's, called Nanjing Jinyi's pro-army is commanding the embassy. And its commanders are all served by the nobles who stayed in Nanjing, such as Chang Yuchun, Tang He, Li Wenzhong, Deng Yu, Xu Da and other descendants have served, among which Xu Da's descendants Wei Guogong served the most, this is the gate of the Guogong and the Nanjing garrison plus the Jinyi guard commander This identity, Wei Guogong can simply be said to be the true soil emperor of Nanjing City!

Gao Wencai was ordered to go south a few months ago, and he entered the city as a Jinyi guard for official business, no matter how cunning a few holes in the secret, but he still had to work in the Jinyi Wei Yamen, which was next to the imperial city like Beijing's, so Chunxiang went to find him, of course, and went to the imperial city.

In a high wall in the city of Nanjing, three or five people sat in the lobby drinking tea, the one in the center was a middle-aged man of about forty years old, quite majestic, and the rest of the people were also extraordinary, while talking, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy hurriedly walked in and whispered a few times in the ear of the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man nodded slightly, waved his hand to let the young man leave, and then swept everyone in the hall: "Enter the city, divide the troops into two ways."

A thin young man raised his eyebrows: "Those who go to the Qinhuai River go straight to the imperial city, it seems that they have gone to the joint."

The other white and chubby one looked indifferent: "It's not the big eunuch, the rest don't have to worry, whether he comes from Dongchang or Jinyiwei."

The middle-aged man snorted and said, "It's certain, don't go back and hit us by surprise."

"It's a certainty, I think that since the eunuch is the overseer of Dongchang, how can he go south with only more than ten followers, and he can hang them in the inn and go out to drink flower wine?"

"It's good if it's not him" The middle-aged man stood and walked to the door of the lobby, looking at the white clouds fluttering in the sky: "If the eunuch is rumored to be so powerful, he should go straight to Chaohu to suppress the bandits, and he can't turn a corner and come to Nanjing, neither is he, the rest of the people are not worried, no matter what they come to investigate, they will not find us, and they will not be charged with not moving the soldiers if they see death."

"If they want to be impossible, isn't Dongchang the best at it?" The thin man pursed his lips and sneered, and the corner of the middle-aged man's mouth hooked: "It's not what it used to be, although the imperial court now reuses Dongchang, it may not dare to fabricate charges at will, unless the one in Beijing who thinks the world is not chaotic enough, everyone, isn't the world chaotic enough?" ”

"Regardless of chaos or not, we should take the lead of the country," several people in the hall said in unison.

There is only one Guogong in Nanjing, that is, the Wei Guogong of Xu Huizu, the eldest son of Xu Da, and the contemporary Wei Guogong is Xu Hongji.

The thin one is the dragon of Xincheng Bo Zhao, and the white fat is Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, yes, it is the guy who married Kou Baimen, one of the eight Yanans of Qin Huai, and was named the Duke of Baoguo in the Southern Ming Dynasty, these three people can be said to be the iron triangle of Nanjing City!

"This is not the time to discuss advance and retreat" Xu Hongji returned to his seat and sat down: "The thief army has broken through Wuhu, a stone's throw away from Nanjing, if the little eunuch leads reinforcements to us, we can stand by and watch, if it does not come to the thief army, we will sit back and watch its changes."

"Do you think the eunuch will come?" Zhu Guobi frowned.

"Yes, the war in the north has been settled, how can such a sharp sword emperor let him be idle, and you see that a large number of people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang came to Nanjing, and then Shi Kefa came, and yesterday there were a group of mysterious people, thinking that the big eunuch is about to arrive, let's not do anything now, just wait and see what happens."

Xu Hongji stretched his waist as he spoke, his expression was extremely relaxed, you must know that he was frightened and pale a month ago, although the high walls and thick fortifications of Nanjing City are like copper walls, but now it is not the early years, and there are still some city thieves who can't beat it, not to mention that there are not many soldiers and horses in Nanjing at this time, and there are nearly 60,000 soldiers and horses in Nanjing Beijing on the books, in fact, it is ...... Hehe.