North of Changzhou.

"I love it!"

Yang Xin said with satisfaction.

He wore the flying fish suit with a hole in his chest, and stood in the morning light with his hands in his hands, and the standard Jiangnan water town-style boat under his feet glided silently on the Beitang River.

In the distance, Changzhou Qingshanmen Tower stands against the background of blue sky and white clouds.

On the riverbank to his right, rows of houses resemble a city, and it is clear that Changzhou City has long been unable to accommodate the city's inhabitants, like a full basin of water, which has to overflow in large quantities towards the outside of the city wall. In fact, this situation is almost universal in Gangnam, and outside the walls of all cities, there are equally prosperous residential areas and commercial markets.

The land is overcrowded.

No uncultivated wasteland can be found around.

In order to be able to obtain more arable land, a large number of polders were even built in the water.

So much so that Furong Lake, which was originally second only to Taihu Lake, was squeezed into a small pond......

Well, there is actually a Furong Lake between modern Wuxi, Changzhou, and Jiangyin, which originally looked more than 100 miles from north to south, and was 108,000 Furong Wei by Zhou Chen, the governor of Xuande, and now it has become a small puddle that is about ten miles from north to south. This feat of people entering the lake and retreating has made Changzhou the most important grain producing area in the entire south of the Yangtze River, but now it has begun to grow cotton, after all, it is next to the world's largest cotton spinning base.

On the banks of the river to his left are gardens.

Behind the stretching wall, you can see that the cold plum is still blooming, and the rockeries are abrupt among the green bamboos, reflecting the colors of the pavilions.

The nearest garden to him is more than 100 meters long from north to south.

"Whose garden is this?"

Yang Xin said.

"Wu Liang's garden, the former Shaoqing of Dali Temple, this is the garden he returned to his hometown to repair."

Li Chengzuo in the back said.

"Can I raid his house?"

Yang Xin said eagerly.

"His own brothers, eight and three jinshi! His cousin is a Tanhua in the thirty-second year of Wanli! ”

Yan Shenggong roared like a burst out.

"I just said casually, you don't need to be so excited, do you?"

Yang Xin was stunned.

"Yang Yanshi, I beg you, let's stop making trouble, let's go to Wuxi honestly to arrest Gao Panlong, I will try my best to help you persuade those students, but don't you go anywhere to harm the scourge, okay? Don't you be like a disaster everywhere you go, making the local people angry, okay? ”

Yan Shenggong said as if he was on the verge of collapse.

"Well, all I can say is do your best!"

Yang Xin said.

Then he walked over to Li Chengzuo......

"Is their family really powerful?"

He asked in a low voice.

"The Wu family is said to be after Wu Jue, starting from his grandfather Wu Xing, there are no less than two Jinshi from generation to generation, and there are four cousins in their generation, and the remaining five brothers are two and three prisoners, which is regarded as a first-class dignitary family in this Changzhou city. The Wu family is not only this garden, the Qingshan Villa over there is his brother Wu Xiang's, the Luofu Garden on the Luofu Dam in front is his brother Wu Yi's, as well as Wu Xuan's Dongdi Garden, Wu Yan's Pujiazhuang are all in this area. ”

Li Chengzuo said.

"What is their relationship with the Donglin Party?"

Yang Xin asked.

"His cousin Wu Zongda is considered a member of the Donglin Party, and he should be in the Hanlin Academy at present."

Li Chengzuo said.

Yang Xinxin looked at the garden in front of him with greedy eyes.

The boat under his feet quickly entered the Guan River, and there was a narrow land in front of him, that is, the Luofu Dam that Li Chengzuo said, and on the other side was the moat of Changzhou City, and the two rivers met in front, but it had already passed the Qingshan Gate. The small boat under Yang Xin's feet directly landed on the north bank, and stood on the north side of the Qingshan Bridge together with the Jinyi guards and the soldiers guarding them on the following boats, and at the same time Yang Huan ran over with the soldiers of the Dangkou Army panting, they were coming along the canal, so they should go to Chaojing Gate first.

However......

"Uncle, the city won't open the door!"

Yang Huan said.

"It's closed here, too!"

Yang Xin looked at the Qingshan Gate on the opposite side and said.

"Chaojing Gate, Guanghua Gate, and the two water gates in the west are all closed, and no one pays attention to the door, and my nephew simply didn't go to see the farther De'an Gate, these dogs are clearly deliberately not letting us in."

Yang Huan said indignantly.

"Otherwise, let's not go into the city, go around and go straight to Wuxi!"

Yan Shenggong said pitifully.

They can indeed get around.

The capital city of Changzhou is indeed jammed with traffic, but it is only military traffic that is blocked.

The canal merges into the moat outside the Beijing Gate, then enters the city and goes down the city wall together, then turns south to leave the moat, and turns parallel to the south moat to the east.

This is actually the old moat.

Before the Ming Dynasty, Changzhou City was built in five dynasties, much larger than the current one, and later destroyed in the war in the early Ming Dynasty, and rebuilt the current one during the Hongwu period, only the west side is the direction of the old city wall, but the other three sides are retreated, and finally form a double moat. The southern canal, which was widened into a part of the canal, eventually converged with the old moat and the canal that came out of the city to the east and north of the city, and then continued as the Grand Canal, thus forming the water transport hub of Changzhou.

Militarily extremely important.

After all, if you want to go through the canal, you have to open it.

Otherwise, the defenders stood on the western wall, let alone open fire, and threw stones into the canal.

But Yang Xin is not here to fight.

They are a group of light infantry without baggage, the whole area is around casually, there is no problem of not taking the main road at all, and they are also not ready to take a boat, so there is no need to enter the city at all, just go around and go to Wuxi, their target is in Wuxi and not in Changzhou. As for the problem of eating, it is not worth mentioning, the gate of Changzhou is indeed closed to them, but the post stations along the way will not be closed, not to mention that in fact, those soldiers bring food, which is nothing more than a day or two.

Yan Sheng Gong is very willing to overcome it.

However......

"That's not going to happen!"

Yang said in a long voice.

Yan Shenggong sighed, he knew that this bastard was not well-intentioned.

"Go and call the door again, please give the holy decree!"

Yang Xin said.

Yang Huan immediately crossed the bridge with the holy decree in his hand.

But the result was not unexpected, the gate of the Castle Peak Gate Urn City on the opposite side was closed, and there was not a single person to be seen on the city wall.

Instead, there were clusters of idlers who didn't know what was going on, and they looked at them with great interest.

Immediately after Yang Huan came back.

"Uncle, there was no response!"

He said.

"Demolition team, up!"

Yang Xin waved his hand very domineeringly.

One of the brocade guards immediately carried the powder keg he had brought......

"Yang Yanshi, this, this, this is a little inappropriate, right?"

Li Chengzuo, who is not very familiar with Yang Xin's style, said in horror.

Before, he didn't understand what Yang Xin asked Jinyiwei to do with the powder keg from the ship, but now he understands that the feeling is that this guy has already guessed that Changzhou will be closed and not allowed to enter, but it is still too exaggerated to blow up the city gate, this is not a war, and people didn't say that they would not open it. Yan Shenggong on the side had no fluctuation in his expression, sitting in a wheelchair like Zhuge Kongming on the stage, it was obvious that he had been with Yang Xin for a long time, and Yan Shenggong had begun to get used to his rudeness, as for Yang Xin did not answer Li Chengzuo's question at all, he disdained to answer this kind of mentally retarded question.

And the brocade guard with two soldiers, carrying a powder keg, quickly crossed the Qingshan Bridge, and then put this thing in front of the city gate.

The brocade guard looked back at this side.

Yang Xin waved his hand indifferently.

The brocade guard quickly opened the powder keg, and then took out a huge powder bag tightly wrapped in multiple layers of silk.

Well, even the gunpowder packs were made in advance.

Since it is not good to open the door to check the water meter, it is indispensable to go to the blasting group, Yang Xin guessed in Nanjing that this trip is indispensable for this kind of thing, the gentry of the Ming Dynasty have long been spoiled by Wanli, especially in the area of Su Xichang, there are few people who will bird the imperial power. They know very well that this is the tax base of the Ming Dynasty, and what the emperor is most afraid of is that something will happen in this area, in order to ensure financial stability, the emperor usually maintains restraint against the gentry in this area, as long as they can maintain stability, these guys can tolerate pampering and arrogance.

But not right now.

If it was normal times, Yang Xin wouldn't mind restraining himself.

But not now, internal and external troubles, devastating natural disasters are coming, and there are less than ten years left for him to prepare, and he doesn't have so much time to play with these guys.

"I am far away in the twilight, so I go backwards and go against the grain!"

He chanted aloud.

Then he waved his hand at the brocade guard again.

Smoke immediately rose from the medicine line in front of the latter, and then the three of them ran back as fast as they could, and hid on the Luofu Dam again, and those who watched the excitement screamed, and quickly moved away from the moat bank, while in the crowd, a guy wearing a green shirt and a crown of loyalty and tranquility, looked at Yang Xin in disbelief......

Yang Xin smiled at him.

"Boom!"

Then he shouted.

Then he suddenly opened his arms and made an exaggerated motion.

The next moment, the city gate suddenly burst into flames, accompanied by a thunderous explosion, and gunpowder smoke and rubble erupted from the city gate hole......

"Cross the bridge, toast without eating and drinking!"

Yang Xin said.

Li Chengzuo hurriedly pushed Yan Shenggong forward, while the Dangkou army behind followed in formation.

Just as they walked to the Luofu Dam, the smoke from the opposite city gate hole dispersed, and the city gate blocking the front directly turned into a pile of debris and spread on the ground, but the gate of the main city wall on the opposite side was still closed.

"Keep bombing!"

Yang Xin waved his hand and said.

The soldiers in the back again carried a powder keg.

The brocade guard immediately crossed the bridge again with the barrel of gunpowder, but before he could walk through the gate of the urn city, the gate on the opposite side slowly opened, and behind the faint smoke of gunpowder, an old squire with gray hair stood tremblingly in the gate of the city with a cane......

"The gate of Wujin City has been opened, and 100,000 loyalties in this city are here, can you wait for eunuch traitors to dare to enter the city?"

He shouted.

On the street inside the city gate behind him, you can vaguely see dense young people, one by one carrying big sticks and waiting for them......