Outside the duty room, Luo Sigong whispered a few words to one of the Jinyi guards guarding the door, and the person nodded slightly to show understanding, and then walked away.

Luo Sigong returned to the chair and sat down, and after a short time, Qiu Fei, Zhang Cang, Xiao Yao, Meng Hui, Duan Yan, Fan Qiong, and Wang Benliang came to the room.

"See the stepfather." Several people saluted Luo Sigong and said in unison.

The youngest person in the group was Meng Hui, wearing a square scarf and a Confucian shirt that looked like he was in his twenties. Qiu Fei is only in his early twenties, and he looks very thin in a dark suit, giving people a feeling of lightness and fluttering, as if a gust of wind can blow it away. Xiao Yao looks about thirty years old, with no white face, holding an open-screen origami fan, the fan is a pair of colored peach blossoms, the paper fan shakes gently, quite arrogant and uninhibited, both righteous and evil. Zhang Cang has a mustache and a big knife on his back, and he is dressed as a standard big knife guest, and he can't tell that he is a brocade guard at all. Duan Yan has a square face, a dark complexion, and a pair of yin and yang judge pens in his hand, looking upright and selfless. Fan Qiong is thin and small, looking like a spirit monkey, even in the face of Zhu Youzhen and Luo Sigong, he can't control it at all below, moving around under his feet, like an ADHD patient. Wang Benliang was dressed in patched linen clothes, a pair of straw sandals under his feet, and his face was full of wrinkles, looking unusually honest, completely looking like an honest farmer, and his hard-working face looked like he was forty or fifty years old. Such a group of people actually called Luo Sigong, who looked less than forty years old, this title made Zhu Youzhen sound quite strange.

Luo Sigong introduced to several people: "This is His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince. ”

Several people saluted again and said, "See His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Zhu Youzhen gestured: "It's not more polite." ”

A few people stood up straight and looked at the two people who were sitting, and they didn't know what was going on to summon a few people to come, except that this time the old emperor was critically ill and several people went to the Qianqing Palace to guard for a day at the same time, in addition, it had been a long time since so many people performed any tasks at the same time.

Zhu Youzhen said to Hu Bao and Liu Yishou who were standing aside: "You two come forward." ”

After the two of them came to Qiu Fei and the others, Zhu Youzhen continued: "Qiu Fei, Xiao Yao, Meng Hui, Duan Yan, Fan Qiong, the five of you take a team of Jinyi guards and these two people to the outside of the city to monitor a private house, inside is a group of Jurchens, you must grasp the movements of everyone in the house, if anyone has contact with the people here, you must also monitor them." This matter involves the collusion between the people in the Beijing camp and the Jurchens to sell firearms privately, you must not be careless, Duan Yan, you are responsible for finding out those people who eat inside and outside the Beijing camp. ”

After listening to Zhu Youzhen's words, a few people understood the task this time, and bowed to the two of them again and said, "My subordinates take orders." ”

Zhu Youzhen said to Hu Bao and Liu Yishou: "Hu Bao and Liu Yishou, you two will take them to the alley outside the city first." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." At this time, Hu Bao and the others also changed their names.

After a few people went out, Zhu Youzhen said to the remaining Zhang Cang and Wang Benliang: "There are still two Jurchens and two artillery pieces hidden on the Dongshan outside the Beijing camp, and your task is to find them and monitor their every move. The two of you first went to the Rooster Gang in Sanhefang to find their gang leader Dou Xiao, and said that Zhu Gongzi asked you to go, and he would lead you to the place where the Jurchens in Dongshan entered the mountain, but the specific hiding place of the Jurchens had to be found by yourself. ”

"Subordinates receive orders." The two turned around and left.

Qiu Fei and a few people lit the secret guards of the two small flags, and followed Hu Bao and the others all the way to the eastern suburbs outside the city.

The other people couldn't match him, and they wandered around the house twice and walked away, leaving Qiu Fei alone to get closer to check.

Qiu Fei saw that there was no one around, and he went up to the eaves of the wall against a wall, and the light skills of gecko swimming on the wall and flying on the grass were superb.

After leaving the house where the Jurchens were hiding, they chose two houses nearby, which were just enough to monitor the front and back doors of the Jurchens' house, so as not to be too obvious and be discovered.

Xiaoyao knocked on the door of one of the houses, and it was a woman in her thirties who opened the door, and it was a rather handsome and dashing man who called the door before meeting, and the woman's face immediately flushed with pink, "I don't know what the son called the door?" ”

Xiao Yao saw this woman's appearance and knew that it was a peach blossom, but this woman's appearance was really not to his liking, but it was better to speak, "Girl, I don't know if it's convenient to borrow your office to deal with some official business?" ”

Hearing this man call himself a girl, the woman was even more embarrassed, and hurriedly nodded: "Since it is official business, it is convenient for the slave family here, so please come in." ”

Xiao Yao saw that the woman agreed, and hurriedly let go of the body, and then several people behind him rushed in, and only after several people entered the courtyard did Xiao Yao follow him into the courtyard.

When the woman saw this battle, she was a little flustered, thinking that she had blinded Peach Blossom, and she had recruited so many people to come in without asking clearly.

"What's so noisy?" At this time, a man walked out of the hall in front of him, and said impatiently as he walked, and when he saw a few people in the courtyard, the man's face was also surprised, "Who are you?" What do you do at my house? Who told you to recruit them? ”

"We are on official business, and we need to borrow your office for a while......"

"My family is too small to accommodate so many of you, so you can change places." With that, the man drove the men out.

At this time, the woman had no idea, and saw several people being pushed to the door.

Duan Yan took out a token and said to the man: "Jinyi Wei is on an errand, your house has been requisitioned, you are honestly staying at home these days and not allowed to go out, otherwise if you miss a big event, hum ......" Duan Yan snorted twice, and did not say anything more in the following words, but the meaning is self-evident.

Jin Yiwei's name was still very useful, and Duan Yan's face was dark, so the man and the woman were even more scared in their hearts, so they could only let them stay.

The other house is much simpler, the head of the household is an old farmer, and after opening the door, Meng Hui straightforwardly took out the token and requisitioned the house.

Not long after finding the hidden location, the two small banners of the brocade guards entered the two houses scattered.

The Jurchens hid in a very large house, except for a stone mill in the front yard, a few places littered with some sundries, two Jurchens sat behind the gate face to face boring guard, they never thought that anyone would find out their whereabouts and track them here, so the guard was very lax.

The courtyard is a passage, there are several side rooms on both sides of the corridor, Qiu Fei entered the courtyard, and the investigation of the houses did not make the slightest sound, and then entered the back house along the aisle, and after entering the back house, Qiu Fei was taken aback, only the huge courtyard of the back house was full of objects covered with oilcloth, although many places were covered with oilcloth, but just by looking at the appearance, he knew that it was a venerable artillery.

There were many more guards in the back house, nearly twenty, and they were much more careful than the Jurchens guarding the door in the front yard, and there were still people patrolling back and forth.

Seeing that he could no longer go forward to investigate, Qiu Fei had no choice but to withdraw from the courtyard.

When he got out of the courtyard, Qiu Fei saw Fan Qiong scratching his ears and cheeks not far away, and then followed him into a mansion.

After a few people gathered together, Qiu Fei said to a few people: "There are many firearms hidden in that house, but there are no less than forty heavy artillery, and there are hundreds of firearms, all covered with oilcloths, the specific number cannot be determined, and there are no less than thirty Jurchens in it I have seen so far, there should be more." It's just that for the time being, I can't continue to investigate, so I can only wait until it gets dark. ”

On the east mountain, Zhang Cang and Wang Benliang followed Dou Xiao all the way up the mountain, and occasionally there were people going up the mountain, so they were stepped out of a path on the road, and came to the place where the corpse was buried, Dou Xiao pointed to the direction where the Jurchens went last and said: "Which direction did the group of Jurchens go, we met the Jurchens in this place, and we didn't dare to follow up for fear of being discovered by them, so you can only rely on yourself to find it." ”

Zhang Cang didn't like to talk, nodded towards Dou Xiao and walked in the direction he pointed, Wang Benliang said to Dou Xiao: "Trouble Dou Gang Master to show the way, and leave the rest to us, so as not to be detected by the Jurchens, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, you can go back first." ”

Dou Xiao also understood that he was not professional enough for this kind of thing, and it might still be a drag to stay, so he quit and left.

Zhang Cang and Wang Benliang cautiously walked forward in the direction guided by Dou Xiao, Zhang Cang observed the surrounding situation in front of him, so as not to be discovered by the Jurchens hiding in the shadows, while Wang Benliang carefully inspected the traces along the way.

There was no road in this direction, so the Jurchens pulled two cannons to pass by, and the branches and weeds along the way were scratched a lot, and some trees could see obvious traces of being rubbed off the bark, and Wang Benliang picked up the fallen leaves on the ground, and he could see the traces of being rolled over by the wheels covered by the Jurchens.

Zhang Cang and the two carefully hid their figures and walked forward along the traces, turning the direction a few times in the middle, and the forest was thinning after about four or five miles, and outside the forest was a small river flowing down from the mountain, the two of them were a little empty and nowhere to hide, and the two could only explore in the forest along the direction of the river, but in this way, there was no trace to guide them, and it was not known whether this direction was accurate, if it was wrong, they could only return here and look down the river.

Although the road up the mountain in the forest is quite rugged, with the skills of Zhang Cang and Wang Benliang, they don't feel that it is so difficult, but the speed of travel is much slower.

Zhang Cang and the others climbed up for another mile or so, and saw that the river outside the forest had turned direction, and at the end of the river as far as the eye could see was a mountain col, and there was a boulder protruding from the cliff on one side of the col, and the bottom of the boulder was too far away to see really, as if something was covered with stones, branches, leaves, etc.