The retinue did not stop Wallace from coming to the deck, and the sick captain of the fleet came to the deck, intuition that he had arrived in a strange world, was this still the vast and prosperous Eastern Empire that stayed in Nanjing? The smell of burning gunpowder filled the nostrils, and half of the river was already covered in thick black smoke, but at a glance there was nothing to see the busy and bustling wharf.

"God, is it the fleet's gunpowder warehouse that has been set on fire?"

A word woke up the person in the dream, and Li Xin immediately realized that this was not an enemy attack. Nine is as the Huai Lai is said.

The sailors sent to the dock to inquire about the situation took nearly an hour to return. Sure enough, the news brought back made Li Xin furious, and this "enemy attack" was caused by the spontaneous combustion of the arsenal where gunpowder was stored on the shore. However, it is not yet time for Li Xin to take responsibility into account. There are two things that are urgent at the moment: First, there has been such a big disturbance, which has already shaken the whole city of Nanjing, and it is imperative to send people into the city to calm the people's minds. Second, we will make every effort to extinguish the fires and save materials and facilities. There is not a small amount of silver used in the military port these days, it is all people's fat and people's anointment, but it was burned clean without a fire.

Li Xin immediately ordered He Bin to stay on board to control the fleet, while Mi Yan returned to the shore with him in a small boat to preside over the firefighting. But as soon as the boat landed and his feet stepped on land, Li Xin's mind changed again. He suddenly woke up to the fact that the most important thing at the moment was not in the military port, but in the Nanjing Political Affairs Hall.

The forces opposing Li Xin in the city rose one after another, and at the slightest disturbance of the Three Guards, someone immediately jumped out, first Wu Zhen and then Jiang Yueguang, all of whom tried to kick him. Now the dock is in an earth-shattering uproar, and I'm afraid that there will be people who are hiding in the dark to jump out and embarrass themselves and the Three Guards. And to make matters worse, if Sun Ji did not fall ill at this time, then he would not be worried about the situation in Nanjing. But now there is only Chen Wenshan, a weak Ying Tianfu Yin, who is afraid that someone will be tough, so he will retreat.

"Let's go! Come with me into town! ”

This sentence was not addressed to Miyan, but to his own soldiers. After receiving Li Xin's instructions, Mi Yan had already contacted the relevant personnel at the military port wharf. It's just that after Li Xin walked a few steps, he suddenly paused again, and he suddenly remembered that Li Shuangcai was not in charge of the military port dock in and out of the military supplies? This big explosion, I'm afraid that he will be more than lucky.

That is, a moment later, Li Xin quickened his pace again. He originally wanted to find a military horse outside the military port and galloped to the capital on horseback. But by this time, the sun had completely set, and the land covered in smoke had fallen into darkness, and the stables outside the military port had opened a hole at some point, and the horses in it had long since disappeared. In desperation, Li Xin had no choice but to run with his four personal soldiers. After a while, I was tired and out of breath.

Shangyuan Gate is not far from the military port, and a group of five people came to the city gate, shouted to the city, and ordered it to open the door. The houses of each gate in Nanjing have been controlled by the Three Guards, although it violates the rules of the imperial court to call the door after the sun sets, but it is also a last resort to obey the power in a hurry.

Unexpectedly, after the soldiers finished shouting, the city threw down a sentence coldly.

"The imperial court decrees, close the city at sunset, open the door at sunrise, no one is allowed to open the city gate without permission, and the town marquis will wait for dawn!"

Several of the pro-soldiers immediately became angry, "Don't look at who is under the city, the marquis of the town is here!" ”

The city's response was clearly mocking, "Marquis of the town? Even if Wei Guogong comes, he has to wait! ”

One of the pro-soldiers was angry, so he asked which battalion he belonged to and who he belonged to.

"What? Want revenge? I don't change my name, I don't change my surname, I am Zhang Renlong, a staff general under the command of General Shao, can I write it down? ”

This answer made Li Xin suddenly startled, Shao Hualong was not early or late, but he was on duty in Shangyuanmen at this time tonight, and his heart was clouded.

"Let's go, go to the Waijinchuan Gate!"

The Three Guards took over Nanjing's city defense, but it did not completely squeeze the Ming army of Shaohualong's line out of Nanjing's city defense system. It's just that all his subordinates were transferred to the outer city to garrison, and the important gates of the inner city were all in the hands of the Three Guards.

As a result, when I arrived at the Waijinchuan Gate, after the soldiers shouted, the answer they got was exactly the same as outside the Shangyuan Gate. Several of the relatives who were harmed underestimated in private, "Isn't it that Shao Hualong's dog thief who committed a mutiny and controlled all the gates in Nanjing?" ”

Another pro-soldier built yì returned to the military camp outside the Jubao Gate in the south of the city to transfer troops to attack the city!

"Nonsense! Shao Hua Longyan can succeed in a hurry, go and continue to go south, and see that gate is still in charge of this person! ”

Li Xin was the backbone of these soldiers, and this reprimand restored their confidence. Several people finally met the three guards themselves at the Jiangdong Gate, and the staff on duty at the Jiangdong Gate were the old four battalion people during the Zhenyu Guard, and when they saw that it was the Zhenyu Marquis who came in person, they immediately ordered the soldiers to paint off the iron gate, and the heavy wooden door creaked and flashed open, and Li Xin and several personal soldiers rushed in.

"General, the military port, what happened to the military port?"

The old battalion generals of the Three Guards Army all retain their old names for Li Xin, and although Li Xin has now been promoted to the title of Marquis of Zhen, these people still call him the Great General in the old days.

"You are Yang Zhongxian under Gu Shishi!"

When the general saw that Li Xin still remembered his name, he was immediately so excited that he almost burst into tears.

"Yes, it's the villain!"

"What's going on with Shangyuan Gate and Waijinchuan Gate, why are they all on duty by Shao Hualong's people?" Li Xin was in the mood to reminisce and asked directly.

Yang Zhongxian slapped his thigh and scolded: "Damn it! This dog thief just sent someone to change guards with the standard, but the standard didn't pay attention to him, and directly drove away the general who came to change the guard! Then he had a lingering palpitation, "I have to lose it and let this dog thief succeed, otherwise, otherwise it will ......."

Li Xin secretly sneered, by this time he had already determined that Shao Hualong's abnormal movement tonight was indeed aimed at himself, but it was not easy to determine how deeply involved this person was for a while, and he couldn't figure it out in a hurry, so he could only put the matter on hold for now.

"Yang Zhongxian! You immediately sent people to the Three Guards stationed at each gate to pass on my generals, the gunpowder depot of the military port exploded, in order to prevent accidents, immediately implement wartime control at all city gates, and the entry and exit must be in response to the words of Tianfu and the Three Guards. ”

Li Xin paused for a moment, and then added: "The city gate will no longer be opened after sunrise, as for when it will return to normal, just wait for the generals!" ”

After Yang Zhongxian made his promise, he immediately arranged for someone to ride a fast horse to deliver the letter to each door. Li Xin asked Yang Zhong for a war horse, and he had to enter the inner city through the Sanshan Gate. Yang Zhongxian was not at ease, and said that he would personally escort him, but Li Xin refused this, as long as he had a hundred soldiers as a guard.

The people on duty at Sanshanmen were also the old battalion of the Three Guards, and under questioning, Shao Hualong also sent someone to change the guard, and he was also driven away. It seems that Shao Hualong has been dormant for so long, and today he finally revealed his fox tail, but did he think that an explosion would be able to take advantage of it? It's naïve!

After Li Xin entered the city, he first went to Sun Jie's mansion, and informed him of the tragedy that happened at the wharf of General Port 1510, and also told Shao Hualong about the change tonight. Sun Jian immediately understood Li Xin's worries.

"Relax the marquis! Although Sun Ji is seriously ill and bedridden, he has never relaxed for a moment on business, who wants to take the opportunity to make trouble in Nanjing, that is to know Sun Mou's quick knife! ”

The cheekbones on Sun Jie's face bulged high, and a chilling gaze shot out of his sunken eye sockets. Even Li Xin couldn't help but tremble when he saw it.

Leaving Sun Jiao's mansion, Li Xin dared to go to the house of Yin Chen Wenshan, Yingtianfu Mansion, this old man slept soundly, and he was unaware of the affairs of the military port wharf, and after listening to Li Xin's narration, he was so frightened that he shook his hands again and again, pacing back and forth in the hall.

"Oops! What can I do, what can I do? ”

"You don't need to be as virtuous as a mourner, it's just that the powder magazine exploded, and Nanjing City can't be in chaos! You remember Le, I have ordered someone to seal the gates of the inner city of Nanjing, and no one is allowed to go out without your words from Tianfu and the Three Guards! ”

"Yes, yes, yes! The subordinate noted it, wrote it down! ”

Chen Wenshan was respectful and nodded again and again.

"And, after dawn, thou hast commanded the mighty, no! It's up to you to investigate the truth of the tragedy! ”

"Huh?" Chen Wenshan didn't expect the Hou Zhen to put a burden on his shoulders again, but he was not good at trying cases and breaking out of prison, and he was more than willing to do such things.

"The Marquis of the Town! Xia Guan, Xia Guan Jian yì Zhu Shilang is in charge of this case! The lower official is responsible for the security of Nanjing, but I am afraid, I am afraid that distraction cannot be used for two purposes! ”

Li Xin nodded in agreement after thinking about it for a while, "Yes, Zhu Yuncai is indeed more suitable than you!" ”

After explaining the important matters, Li Xin did not delay any longer, and decided to go to Zhu Yuncai's house, but before he could go out, Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the Nanjing household department, came to the door. As soon as he saw Li Xin, he hurriedly said: "Oops! can be regarded as looking for the marquis of Zhenyu, and the lower official chased him all the way from Sun Butang's mansion, and he finally didn't run away in a hurry. ”

Zheng Sanjun wiped the sweat from his face, and asked out of breath without even breathing: "Outside the city, what happened outside the city?" In the city, the hundreds of officials in the city were panicked, and they all said that the thieves in Jiangbei had hit the door, and the three guards and the three guards could not withstand the defeat, and the three guards in the afternoon had already sunk the Yangtze River to feed the fish! ”

"It's a rumor! His heart can be punished! His heart can be punished! ”

Chen Wenshan slapped the table with a snap, and it was rare to show a little blood!

Li Xin's face was expressionless and silent, but his mind was racing.

"Xia Guan also thinks that this is a rumor spread by someone with ulterior motives! The lower officials are only afraid that someone will take advantage of the chaos to be unfavorable to the Hou of Zhen! If, if there is a good one, Nanjing is in danger! I also ask the Marquis of Zhenyu to immediately order the blockade of all gates inside and outside Nanjing, and no one is allowed to enter or leave at will unless he is ordered to do so! ”