If the largest city in the world in this era is not the Ming Dynasty, Kyoto, Beijing, but Nanjing.

The northwest is near the river, the southeast is near the mountain, and there is the Qinhuai River surrounding, which can be described as a tiger standing on the dragon plate, and the place where the world is beautiful.

Since the founding of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, after more than 20 years of construction, built from the inside to the outside of the palace city, the imperial city, the capital, the outer Guo four city walls, the outer city wall radius of 160 miles, even the fast horse also needs a day to run around the outer city wall, it can be seen that the area is large.

Not only is the area large, but also the population is large, and the population of the entire city of Nanjing is as much as one million, far above Beijing. Located in the south, a prosperous place in the world, I don't want to be like the north with continuous natural disasters and disasters.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing has not seen swords and guns for more than 200 years, and the long-term peace has made the population here extremely dense, and the people in the city are leisurely and at ease and are very different from the war-torn north.

Although the north has been occupied by thieves and Beijing has been lost, these things are still very far away for the people of Nanjing. You don't see the painting boat everywhere on the Qinhuai River, the sound of the piano and the singing, and the romance is as always.

Although King Fu and Chongzhen competed for the throne, and it was rumored that the army of the imperial court had crossed the river, for ordinary people, it was just a struggle between the Zhu family's own family, and it was just a joke after dinner.

There are 16 gates outside Nanjing, and there are 13 gates in the capital, and there are only more than 10,000 people in Liu Zeqing's army of King Fu's descendants, so they can't see such a long city defense, and the outer city can only be guarded by the original Beijing guards.

Although the Hongguang Imperial Court had already ordered to strictly prevent Xizuo from entering the city, it sent sentinels to investigate the movements of the Pingnan army. But for these Jingying guards guarding the outer city, the orders of the imperial court were not as good as half a copper coin.

At first, Chen Jianghe was worried that it would be difficult to sneak into the city gate if he was too strict, but when he saw the guards guarding the city gate staggering and lazily, his heart suddenly relaxed.

When he was in Beijing, Chen Jianghe lamented the erosion of the soldiers in Beijing, but at least there was still a soldier in Beijing, and then look at these staggering guards in front of him, if it were not for the rusty red tassel guns, their behavior would be no different from that of ruffians.

When the carriage of the powerful entered the city, these guards nodded and laughed one by one, and when they came back to their senses and faced the ordinary people, they made a fierce and vicious appearance.

"I haven't been so strict in the past, what's wrong today?" A peddler carrying a load whispered.

"You don't know yet, the emperor in Beijing is coming with a large army, and he wants to kill the rebels." A person next to him whispered.

"Shhh, don't talk nonsense, what kind of rebellion, how good is it for these Qiu Ba who guard the door to hear it." His companions hurriedly stopped.

In front of the Qilin Gate, the people who entered the city lined up in a long line, and the noise was everywhere, and the Qiu Ba who were in charge of the inventory turned a deaf ear to all kinds of discussions, and they just wanted to take the opportunity of the inventory to get some money.

Throwing away half a tael of broken silver, the soldiers who checked didn't even ask, waved their hands and let Chen Jianghe enter the city, as long as there was silver, it didn't matter if he was a spy or not.

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A secluded house under Zhongshan Mountain, which faces the street and is behind the mountain, that is, it is quiet and convenient to evacuate, and it is the residence selected by Jinyiwei, who entered the city in advance, for Chen Jianghe, and rented it for money.

There are more than 20 brothers living in the two-entry house. In the second main house, in the hall, the leaders of the Jinyi Guards gathered together and listened to Chen Jianghe, who sat on the main seat, assign tasks.

Jinyiwei Qianhu Liu Neng, Baihu Xu Qingtian, Li Daozi, Shen Lian, Lu Jianxing, and the newly established Jinyiwei leaders are all here.

Liu Neng was the captain of the original Xishan Army, and when the Huai'an Jinyi Guard was first established, he and his subordinates were reorganized into the Jinyi Guard, and Xu Qingtian and Li Daozi were the infantry warriors of the Xishan Army and were specially transferred to the Jinyi Guard. As for Shen Lian and Lu Jianxing, they were the leaders of the Huai'an Mansion and were transferred to Jinyi Weizhong to serve as one hundred households.

"Have all our brothers entered the city?" Looking at his subordinates, Chen Jianghe asked first.

"Lord Hui, a total of one hundred and sixty-seven brothers, all entered the city. There were a hundred and twenty of them who lived in the outer city, and the rest of the brothers had gone into the inner city. Qianhu Liu Neng said solemnly, this former gangster in Xishan Town has grown rapidly for more than a year.

"The army is about to come from Zhenjiang, and the time is very urgent. Our task at the moment is to first find out the situation in this city, to find out the civil and military forces in this Nanjing city, which ones support King Fu and which people oppose King Fu's accession to the throne. In particular, it is necessary to find out the details of the noble generals who commanded the Nanjing Guard Battalion, and who can fight for them.

Immediately ordered to go down, everyone spread out, and let Lao Tzu go to find out the news, we must gather the news tonight, and we will have to act tomorrow. Did you hear it all? ”

"Yes, sir!" Everyone said in unison.

"Don't say anything else, everyone must cheer up, do this errand well, and the glory and wealth in the future will be here!" Chen Jianghe didn't say much, waved his hand and ordered everyone to retreat.

"Old marquis, I have a proposal, I don't know if I should talk about it." After everyone dispersed, Liu Neng whispered to Chen Jianghe. Among Chen Yue's confidants, he now privately calls Chen Yue the Hou Ye and Chen Jianghe the old Hou Ye to show the difference. However, Chen Jianghe didn't like the title of old marquis, because he felt that he was not old.

glared at Liu Neng fiercely, "What is not old, just call me an adult." If you have something to say, if you have a fart, let it go! ”

"Yes, sir." Liu Neng hurriedly changed his name, "I think so, we are all outsiders, and we are not familiar with the place in Nanjing, so it is not easy to inquire about the news." Isn't there a Jinyi Wei Qianhu in Nanjing, the Jinyi Wei are all the emperor's pro-army, and we should be our own people, let's go to them to inquire about the news, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort, it is better than touching it blindly. ”

"Nanjing is a Jinyi Wei thousand households," Chen Jianghe thought about it, he has been the commander of the Jinyi Wei for more than half a year, and is very familiar with the Jinyi Wei system, so he naturally knows that the Jinyi Wei has branches in various places, and Nanjing, as the accompanying capital of the Ming Dynasty, naturally has the Jinyi Wei Yamen, and there is also a thousand households in Nanjing.

"But now we don't know whether Nanjing's Jinyiwei has taken refuge in King Fu, plus our Jinyiwei is a new one, and we don't even have time to do the waist card, so we can't prove our identity at all, and we are afraid it's not good to contact them rashly." Chen Jianghe is very cautious.

Liu Neng smiled when he heard this: "Then we won't contact them, but invite them here." All we want is the news they know, and it doesn't matter if they take refuge in King Fu or not. ”

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