In September, the storm inside and outside the capital was turbulent, and almost all the people in the capital could feel the breath of the coming war, and many people brought their parents and wives to escape from the whirlpool of the capital division.

Whenever a major war breaks out, the intensity of the fighting in the core area will be much higher than in those inconspicuous places, so for many people, fleeing at this time is the best choice. If you wait until Jingshi is completely martial law, it means that you will lose the last chance to escape.

Jingshi covers a vast area, so there are many city gates, so there is a saying of "inner nine outer seven imperial city four", of course, the nine gates of the inner city are usually walked by the princes and ministers, and the real one for the people to go is the 'outer seven', that is, the seven gates of the outer city.

And since the first line of Shandong and Henan was fully broken through by the Fu Han army, the seven gates of the outer city have been completely congested, and a large number of people have blocked the city gate with large bags and small bags every day, spending money to let the soldiers defending the city go out.

Guang'anmen is one of the seven gates of the outer city, it is also the only door of the outer city to the west, opposite to the Guangqu gate, relative to the Yongding gate, although its city gate is smaller, but the Guang'anmen is the only way for the provinces to enter Beijing by land, so the Zhangyi Gate Street in the Guang'anmen is very prosperous, there is a saying that 'once you enter the Zhangyi Gate, the silver touches the person'.

Among the seven gates of the outer city, because Guang'anmen is the only way for the provinces to enter Beijing by land, it is also the most congested, a large number of people are clustered here, anxiously waiting for the city gate to open, and at this time the soldiers guarding the city gate are stopped with knives and guns, and everyone looks fierce and vicious.

Guang'anmen belongs to the jurisdiction of the Admiral of the Nine Gates, and the official guarding this gate is the captain of the city gate of the four products, in charge of the access control of the capital, and inspects the entry and exit, like two people in each of the nine gates of Manchuria, and one person in each of the seven gates of the Han army, which can be called a fertile place of oil and water.

Among them, the inner nine doors face the princes and ministers, and every day under the nose of the nine admirals, most of them dare not do something too eye-catching, plus there are two Manchurian people in charge of the access control, relatively speaking, they are quite honest, but the outer seven doors are facing ordinary people, and only the Han army is alone, so they naturally have no scruples in their actions, and they are usually not ordinary people.

Today's Guang'anmen City Gate Captain is a very talented figure, called Xu Sheng, born under the banner of the Han Army, and is also the brother-in-law of Li Yuanliang, the deputy commander of the Han Army under the Zhengbai Banner.

The reason is very simple, Li Yuanliang's identity is not ordinary, his great-ancestor is Li Yongfang, the first border general of the Ming court to surrender to Jin, and Li Yongfang was also valued by Nurhachi after the surrender, and also married the daughter of Bel Abatai, and his qualifications in the Eight Banners of the Han Army are unparalleled.

With the blessing of this kind of veteran traitor family background, even in today's era, the descendants of the Li family still have a good life, like Li Yuanliang, he easily gave Xu Sheng a position as the captain of Guang'anmen, so that Xu Sheng could make a lot of money in Guang'anmen all day long.

"My lord, there are really a lot of fat sheep under the city gate today...... Hey hey ....."

In the Chengtou Tower, an obscene-looking Qing soldier was patting Xu Sheng's ass, he had a dense pockmarked face, which looked a little scary, but he looked at Xu Sheng's expression, with a bit of flattery.

Xu Sheng snorted coldly, "These gang of dog slaves saw that I was defeated in the Qing Dynasty, and they are all looking for a way, who doesn't know that among the seven gates of the Beijing Division, my Guang'anmen is the most convenient?" But there is no free lunch in the world, and this time they have to make a good blood! ”

Mazi Qingbing immediately lowered his head and asked softly, "My lord, our Da Qing ...... Really a big defeat? ”

"Hmph, you don't want to think about who this official is, if you release it, it's at least a platform, how can what you say be fake?"

Xu Sheng snorted coldly, even if he didn't look at this, he didn't know who was standing behind him Xu someone? The deputy commander of the White Flag Han Army, is that within the reach of ordinary people?

Mazi hurriedly smiled, and hurriedly denied it: "The ability of the adult, the villain knows it, and now that he can get the support of the adult, the villain will naturally seize the opportunity." ”

Xu Sheng leaned on the recliner behind him, then picked up the teacup on the table, Mei Zizi took a sip of tea, and then said lazily: "Go and do a good job...... I can't do you well in the future. ”

"What the adults say, what the adults say is ......"

Mazi said in response, while quietly retreating, as long as you please Xu Sheng, the captain of the city gate, in Guang'anmen, there will be countless oil and water to fish, to say the simplest, those people who go out of the city have big bags and small bags, who doesn't have anything forbidden in their hands?

When Mazi walked down the city gate, several soldiers guarding the city gate hurriedly nodded and said hello, for Mazi, Xu Sheng is a good object who needs him, and for these low-level officers and soldiers guarding the city gate, Mazi is also a great man.

A soldier looked at Mazi's face with a relaxed expression, and immediately said cautiously: "Master Zhang, now that the hour is almost here, is it possible to open the city gate?" ”

Mazi snorted coldly, "What's the hurry, it's frizzy all day long, it's them fat sheep who are in a hurry!" ”

"Yes, yes, my subordinates see this, oops!"

The soldier had a flattering smile on his face, and finally slapped his face, but it turned red.

Mazi was suddenly satisfied, he nodded majestically, and then looked at the sky again, and then pretended to say: "Okay, the time is almost here, let's go!" ”

With a loud sound, the heavy city gate slowly opened its arms under the push of several soldiers, and the people crowded in front of the gate were even more noisy, and began to rush forward.

Seeing this scene, Mazi snorted coldly, "All of you listen to Uncle Ben, it's okay if you want to go over, but you have to come one by one!" Especially recently, there have been a lot of spies in the city, and if you want to get out of the city, you have to pass the inspection, open your packages one by one, and show them to you! ”

As soon as the people heard this, their expressions were a little worried, how did they not know the virtues of these city gate oilers, in the past there was a bad habit of taking sheep by hand, and now the big guys are leaving Beijing with their belongings, once they are exposed, half of them will have to be taken away by these people......

At that moment, a man standing at the front panicked, he looked at the expressions of the soldiers at the city gate, and then looked at the package in his arms, but he slowly retreated, intending not to pass here.

Mazi's eyes were sharp, and he could naturally see the man's strange appearance at a glance, so he walked forward, blocked in front of the man, and sneered: "Hehe, you have arrived at Guang'anmen, why do you want to go back?" ”

The man had to show a wry smile, "If you go back to the official master, there are still children waiting at home, so you won't leave the city...... Please let the official let ...... go."

Mazi showed a mouthful of yellow teeth and said with a cruel smile: "I want to go out just now, and now I don't go out, could it be that you are a spy sent by the rebels?" Now that you're here, take out what's in your arms and take a look. ”

When the man saw that the soldiers at the city gate had shown him a not bad smile, he had to hand over the package in his arms and put it on the table registered at the city gate.

Mazi glanced at the man, and snorted coldly: "Count you boring .......", he said while picking open the corner of the package with the blade of the knife, only to see that it was full of clothes, so he habitually stabbed it with the blade of the knife, but this stab, but made Mazi's eyes light up, he didn't care about the man, and directly tore the clothes, only to see a bunch of yellow and white things, appearing in the package.

The yellow one is a string of copper coins, and the white one is a corner of silver barley, Mazi's heart was occupied by a burst of ecstasy, he hurriedly blocked the sight of others with his clothes, and then said coldly: "Uncle is happy today, just let you go for the time being, get out!" ”

The man stared at the package, but swallowed his anger and said: "Master, the villain's package is still with you, return the package to the villain, and the villain will leave immediately." ”

"Package? What package? ”

Mazi looked at the soldiers beside him and smiled, "Have you seen any packages?" ”

The soldiers who watched the city gate had seen many of this kind of scene, and they all knew that they had a benefit, and they all said in unison that they had not seen it, and some even slammed the man's body with the handle of their knives, and scolded him to leave quickly.

There was despair in the man's eyes, he looked at the people behind him, only to see that everyone bowed their heads and didn't say a word - obviously, there are not so many righteous heroes in the world, and some people are revealing a bit of ridicule and ridicule, as if they feel glad for the misfortune of the person in front of them.

Boy, who let you bring so much money, who made you so rich, you deserve it!

Mazi got impatient, and he slipped the package to turn around and leave. He muttered: "Hurry up, here you keep an eye on it first, don't leak the spies of other rebels!" ”

Everyone laughed, they all understood what Mazi meant, and patted their chests at the moment to say that they would never let go of a person easily, and then two city gate soldiers pushed the man, asking him to get out of here.

With a little blood red in the man's eyes, he suddenly let out an angry roar, pushed away the two soldiers beside him, and pounced towards Mazi, but Mazi didn't notice it for a while, and his skills were not sensitive enough, so he was thrown to the ground at the moment, and was beaten by the man's fist all over his face.

"Traitor! Let you rob me of my belongings! ”

The man roared angrily, and punched him hard, smashing on the bridge of Mazi's nose, but he beat Mazi so much that tears came out, and he shouted loudly: "Someone! Someone! Kill this traitor, no, this traitor! ”

The soldiers on the side hurriedly came over, grabbed the man who was about to swing his fist, and after a lot of tossing and turning to pull the pockmark up, and after such a painful beating, the pockmark suddenly felt ruthless, picked up the long knife on the ground, pulled the knife out of the sheath, and then killed the man with a knife in front of everyone.

The people on the side were in an uproar, but at this time of confusion, there was a sound of horses' hooves at the end of the long street, and I saw several Qing soldiers on horseback, who were rushing over in a crowd.

Mazi looked at the corpse in front of him, his face suddenly turned pale, and he stared at several soldiers fiercely, "The silver money in the package, you take half of it and go, and give the remaining half to Xu Ye, remember not to talk nonsense, and insist that this person is a secret agent of Chu Rebellion, and I will have other benefits with you when I go back!" ”

The soldiers nodded hurriedly, but before they could speak, the cavalry had already arrived in front of everyone, and one of the leaders looked at everyone, and then looked at the corpses on the ground, with a chill on his face.

"This official is the left wing Chang Henglin under the command of Lord Junmen, you are the soldiers of Guang'anmen? Who is this person? Who was killed? ”

Seeing that Henglin had not yet dismounted and threw out three questions, Mazi suddenly felt bad, he hurriedly squeezed out a smile and knelt on the ground: "The villain Guang'anmen City Gate Captain Xu Sheng commanded Zhang Wu, this person is a traitor and secret agent, Shicai wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to open the city gate to sneak out, and was spotted by the villain on the spot, but this person wanted to break the net with the villain, and then was killed by the villain." ”

I have to say that Ma Zi's words are not leaky, and he also pointed out the characters behind him, if ordinary officials come here, I am afraid that they will have some scruples in their hearts, and they will not care too much, and this matter will naturally subside.

But Henglin is different, he is a close confidant of the newly appointed Admiral of the Nine Gates, so he did not take a mere city gate captain in his eyes, and said calmly: "Since this person was killed by you, left and right, take it down for me." ”

"My lord, why do you want to arrest the villain?" Mazi panicked, he thought of many possibilities and countermeasures in his mind at once, but he was extinguished one by one in an instant.

There is no way, compared with a left-wing commander, it is almost the difference between an elephant and a fly and an insect, and he has no power to fight back at all.

"Hmph, this is just your side of the story, how can this official trust you alone? After the matter is thoroughly investigated, if it is really as you said, this official will show credit to Lord E for you, and if there is something hidden in it, the law of the Three Feet will not spare you! ”

After Henglin said this, he didn't take Xu Sheng in his eyes at all, and he didn't even have the interest to inform him, so he tied his hands and left the place with him.

At this time, on the tower of the city gate, Xu Sheng was looking at this scene with a calm face, and he didn't mean to stop it, he just left and right a small general, he didn't care if he was alive or dead, but for this matter, he Xu Sheng was not stupid enough to go to this point.

You must know that since the Nine Gates Admiral Azitu was sent down because of the case of the three princes, the Nine Gates Admiral has been in a state of vacancy, although there are many people who want to get this position, but they did not get the emperor's will, and it was not until Eshan returned to Beijing that the mystery was finally revealed.

It can be said that in the face of the current new governor Eshan, don't talk about him Xu Sheng, even his backstage Li Yuanliang doesn't dare to let go of half a fart, and the two sides really don't belong to the same level. Therefore, it is not that Xu Sheng has become better tempered all of a sudden, but because he is powerless.

However, only half a day later, a large number of soldiers from the Eight Banners Infantry Barracks appeared at the seven gates outside the capital at the same time, and under the leadership of their respective generals, they set up swords and guns, pasted seals, and launched a complete blockade of the seven gates, and strictly forbade anyone to leave the city.

Everyone in the capital has not expected that this scene in front of them is just a small wave, and the real big wave has not yet arrived.