Coming down from the city wall, Ma Cheng's heart fell to the ground. The inner city is not as good as the imperial city, with a population of more than 800,000 in the inner city of Nanjing, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find a horse, and at the same time, there are more than a dozen city gates in Nanjing, so you can take the opportunity to escape.

Ma Cheng and two of his men left Bei'anmen and fled to the stronghold of the Military Intelligence Department in Taipingqiao. At this time, the sun has risen, and there are already some early risers in Nanjing, but Ma Cheng and the three of them are wearing flying fish suits, and the people who can wear this kind of clothes are street tigers for ordinary people.

Ma Cheng's flying fish suit is indeed very effective, not to mention those ordinary people, it is some soldiers and horses and inspection departments who patrol the streets, and when they saw Jinyi Wei running, they also hurriedly avoided it on the street, lest they offend these killing gods.

Ma Cheng and his two men went to the old Li family's shop on the edge of the Taiping Bridge, which was a shop specializing in Nanyang specialties, which had not yet opened. A subordinate stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after a while, a guy opened the door and saw that it was Ma Cheng and the three of them, and quickly put the three of them in.

When the shopkeeper saw Ma Cheng coming in, he hurriedly bowed down and said, "Subordinate Zhao Heng has seen Hou Ye, Master Zhang has already arranged it, please go to the backyard with Hou Ye!" ”

Ma Cheng didn't say much, nodded and followed the shopkeeper to the backyard, there have already been several carriages prepared here, which have been filled with goods, one of the carriages is full of sacks, the shopkeeper Zhao Heng said: "Hou Ye, this car is loaded with sugar, originally scheduled to be shipped to Xuzhou, the car has been modified, you can lie down a person below, please Hou Ye in, his subordinates will definitely send Hou Ye out of the city safely!" ”

White sugar is Ma Cheng's own industry, how can this luxury be enjoyed by the Han people? Therefore, after Ma Cheng developed the white sugar, he immediately sent people to organize a marketing network in various parts of Jiangbei, and now the white sugar produced in Nanjing has been sold in half of North China, and the Manchurians in Beijing can eat this kind of white sugar of eight taels of silver and one catty.

The shopkeeper Zhao Heng opened the compartment under the car, which was very cleverly arranged, the inside could be used for an adult to lie down, and at the same time, there was a hidden ventilation pipe connected to the outside, which looked no different from an ordinary carriage from the outside.

Ma Cheng nodded, took off his flying fish suit and changed into ordinary coarse cloth clothes and got in, just when Zhao Heng was about to close the door, Ma Cheng said to Zhao Heng: "After I leave in a while, you send someone to inform Gu Yong at home, let him get ready, in case Lu Siye is going to be unfavorable to the ladies, let Gu Yong help them to be martyred!" ”

Ma Cheng was afraid that his wives and concubines would fall into the hands of Lu Siye, a pervert, and he would live by himself, Ma Cheng was afraid that he would be cuckolded. However, after Ma Cheng finished speaking, he thought of his three sons, Ma Cheng gritted his teeth and said, "Also, let Gu Yong rescue the three young masters at any cost!" "The wife can be found again, but the son is still his own good, Ma Cheng is ruthless, but at the last moment he still sent someone to rescue his son.

Zhao Heng nodded, then closed the door and filled it with sugar at the same time. Ma Cheng lay in the cubicle and sighed secretly in his heart, there is still a gap between himself and the heroes in history, Liu Bang can kick his son and daughter out of the carriage in order to escape, Cao Cao can ignore the life and death of his son Cao Ang's nephew Cao Anmin in order to escape, he is facing a life-and-death situation, but he is still in love with his children, which really shouldn't be.

Outside the car, Zhao Heng saw that everything was ready, and clapped his hands and let his subordinates fight

When the gate of the courtyard was opened, the five carts in the courtyard rushed out, and the cart where Ma Cheng was located ranked second.

There are a total of thirteen city gates in Nanjing, among which except for the Jinchuan Gate in the north and the Jubao Gate in the south, which are open regularly every day, the other gates are not open every day. So no matter where you want to go, you have to go to Jinchuan Gate by water, and Jubaomen to go by land.

There are 800,000 people in Nanjing, and more than 100,000 outside the city, and the daily supplies of nearly one million people are astronomical, and they all need to enter and exit through these two gates. Naturally, the imperial court could not let go of this big fish, and the customs of Nanjing City were located at these two city gates.

Zhao Heng followed the cart to Jubaomen, where there were already hundreds of carts waiting to open the city, these were the materials transported from Nanjing City to various places, and naturally there were hundreds of carts waiting outside the city.

As the gong sounded, the gate of Jubaomen slowly opened, and a busy day in Nanjing officially began.

Zhao Heng walked slowly behind the cart, and there were more than seventy cars in front of him, but the efficiency of the customs was very high, and it was estimated that it would only take half an hour to get out of the customs.

In the Ming Dynasty, taxes were collected in kind, but various commodities were very different, so after Zhang Juzheng's reform, various places began to use silver instead of taxes in kind. However, in this way, the amount of tax levied varies, and as long as you pay a bribe to the tax collector at the door, you can basically be allowed to go without paying any money.

Waiting for Zhao Heng's car to come to the tax collector, Zhao Heng hurriedly came to the little boss and nodded and said, "Today is Zhao Kongmu on duty, hard work!" After speaking, he handed a small paper bag to Zhao Kongmu.

"It's some heart, give tea to the brothers!"

Zhao Kongmu opened it and saw that there were five taels of silver, and after reading it, Zhao Kongmu nodded with satisfaction: "Old Zhao, for the sake of the same clan, let you go over today, but you know that there is a new general soldier here in Jubaomen, and your monthly price is going to rise!" ”

Zhao Heng was shocked when he heard Zhao Kongmu say this, the chief soldier of Jubaomen in the past was Zhao Jinshi, who could be regarded as Ma Cheng's person, and he was also the nail in the inner city defenders planted by Ma Cheng, in case anything happened, the army outside the city could enter Nanjing City in time. But now that Zhao Jinshi has been transferred, the impact is too great.

"Why did Lord Zhao transfer away? Where's the transfer? ”

"Hey, how do I know the meaning of the above, but Mr. Zhao was transferred to Zhengyangmen, which is a Qingshui Yamen!"

Zhengyang Gate is the gate of the Son of Heaven, and it is the most important of the thirteen city gates in Nanjing, but because of this, Zhengyang Gate cannot be opened at any time, so this toll is naturally gone.

Zhao Heng nodded after listening, now he didn't care who the new chief soldier was, the most important thing at present was to send Ma Cheng out of the city safely. But now that the carriage has reached the gates of the city, it is only one last step away from exiting the customs.

Zhao Heng symbolically invested fifty big money in front of the tax box, just now he bribed Zhao Kongmu, he can pay taxes according to five carts of straw, or according to the value of five carts of sugar, it is not fifty big bucks.

After paying the tax, Zhao Heng waved his hand to the coachman, and the coachman began to drive the carriage out of the city. At this moment, there was a commotion in the city, and a voice shouted: "The Admiral's Mansion order, close all the city gates!" No one is allowed to leave the city without official documents from both the celebrant and the Admiral's Mansion! ”

Zhao Heng was anxious when he heard it, and at this time, Zhao

Kong Mu had already stood up and beckoned his men to start closing the door.

Zhao Heng hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Zhao Kongmu and said: "Brother, you know that my car is frosted sugar, if you delay the time and suck water, then I will lose a lot this time!" ”

Zhao Kongmu said helplessly: "Shopkeeper Zhao, you heard it, I can't help it!" However, today's order is special, closing the city gate is a matter between the military department and the Admiral's Mansion, how can the celebrant and supervisor join in today? ”

Zhao Heng ignored Zhao Kongmu's questions, took out thirty taels of silver from his arms, stuffed them into Zhao Kongmu's hands, and then said: "Brother, for the sake of friendship in the past few years, help my brother!" When I come back from this trip, my brother still has filial piety! ”

Zhao Kongmu has received a lot of silver from Zhao Heng in the past few years, and there are one hundred taels before and after, and now seeing that thirty taels are coming again, Zhao Kongmu hesitated and said: "Okay, since that's the case, let's get out of the city quickly!" ”

Zhao Heng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly beckoned the coachman to drive the cart out of the city. The carriage behind Zhao Heng saw Zhao Heng going out of the city, and he also followed a swarm of bees to squeeze out, now those outside the city want to come in, and those inside the city want to go out, and the treasure gate is in chaos here. But this is also good, the soldiers defending the city were attracted by the city, and no one noticed that one of the big cars in Zhao Heng's convoy did not take the official road, but went to the military camp of the big school.

When he came to the outside of the camp, Zhao Heng showed the waist card of the Military Intelligence Department, and the soldiers guarding the door did not dare to stop it, so they put the cart into the barracks. After entering the barracks, Zhao Heng breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly beckoned a few soldiers to help Ma Cheng out of the mezzanine under the car.

After the bumps of this morning, Ma Cheng's suspension was scattered, and he was brought out for a while before his blood soothed.

Ma Cheng immediately grabbed a soldier beside him and shouted: "Go and pass the order to gather the generals, Lao Tzu has something to announce!" ”

The soldier recognized Ma Cheng, did not dare to delay, and hurriedly went to beat the drum of the general. Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, and all battalions were originally on holiday, but Ma Cheng's army was well-trained, and in less than fifteen minutes, all the incumbent generals in the camp rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army.

The Daxiaochang military camp was originally Ma Xi's territory, but these generals were all Ma Cheng's subordinates, so it was not difficult for Ma Cheng to command. However, these generals were stunned when they saw that Ma Cheng was sitting in the big tent instead of Ma Xi, but they all knelt down on one knee and said to meet the marshal!

Ma Cheng had already changed into a suit of armor at this time, sat on Ma Xi's tiger skin chair with a calm face, and saw that the twenty-five general soldiers were coming, Ma Cheng stood up and said loudly: "Last night, His Majesty the Emperor got married, and Lao Tzu drank a lot of wine with the emperor, but I didn't expect Lu Jiude and Lu Siye, two uncles and nephews, bastards, to dare to take advantage of the emperor's drinking too much wine and kill Lao Tzu!" At the same time, these two bastards discussed how to hold the emperor hostage today and take refuge in the Manchus! ”

This is a shocking event, as soon as Ma Cheng finished speaking, the twenty-five general soldiers in the big tent talked about it one after another.

Ma Cheng waved his hand to stop their discussion, and then said: "We are soldiers loyal to Your Majesty, and Lao Tzu is the Marquis of Zhenguo personally appointed by His Majesty, so now Lao Tzu wants to lead troops into the city to rescue the emperor and kill all those rebellious parties who want to surrender to the Manchus!" ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the procedures for mobilizing the army were perfect, and in addition to the writing of the military department, there must also be a tiger talisman issued by the emperor, so that it could be considered reasonable and legal. But now Ma Cheng has nothing in his hands, but he wants to mobilize the army into the city, and the twenty-five general soldiers began to have ideas.