The next day, Zhu Hongsan took people to rest for a day, he was really tired from traveling for a month, and he was very unsuitable for the cold weather in Beijing. Now there is no heating, and the rich families have built earth dragons, and when it is cold, they burn coal underneath, which is similar to the geothermal heat of later generations.

But Old Man Feng sold his reputation and made his family look poor. Naturally, the house assigned to Zhu Hongsan has no heating facilities. Zhu Hongsan* went to see that his subordinates' houses were the same, that is, a charcoal basin in the middle of the ground, which was used for a fart.

Zhu Hongsan found Han Shirong and asked him to take people to sell braziers and coal on the street. My brothers are all southerners, and they are really not suitable for the northern climate, so how can they protect themselves from running away if they are frozen.

Han Shirong bought back the brazier and put four in each room, which relieved the cold. Zhu Hongsan instructed to be careful of carbon poisoning, and stipulated that the window should be opened in a few hours.

Wang Jinbao, who went out to inquire about the news in the evening, came back, found Zhu Hongsan and said, "Sir, I've finished listening." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Tell me about the situation. ”

Wang Jinbao said: "There are four gates of the imperial city on the periphery, and the palace city is also four gates. Outside Miyagi is a fifty-meter moat, making it difficult to get into. However, when we were inquiring about the news, one of us was asked if we wanted to visit the Imperial City. ”

Zhu Hongsan was stunned, thinking that he had misheard, and asked, "What did you say?" Say it again. ”

Wang Jinbao said: "We met a person in the teahouse and asked us if we were going to visit the imperial city. At first, we thought he was a spy of the Jinyi Guard, but Ma Quan told us that he could spend money to go to the Imperial City. ”

Zhu Hongsan secretly scolded: "This fucking crazy, the imperial city can even enter." The Ming Dynasty should also be dead. Zhu Hongsan then asked, "What did that person say?" ”

Wang Jinbao said: "He said that he could only bring in five people, one hundred taels of silver each, and the imperial city could be seen casually, but the palace city could not enter." ”

Zhu Hongsan thought about it and thought about it, and he could go to the imperial city, and he would take a look at the palace later. The coal mountain is just outside Miyagi, and it is not bad to go to the coal mountain to see the terrain.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Xiaobao, you bring the silver tomorrow to find the man, say let's go in, and ask him if it's okay to go to the coal mountain." ”

Wang Jinbao nodded.

Zhu Hongsan thought: "Today is the seventh day of the first month of March, and at most there will be ten days before Li Zicheng arrives in Beijing, so we must be optimistic about the terrain." After Li Zicheng entered the city, he would definitely be in chaos, and it should not be difficult to lead people out when the time comes. ”

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On the afternoon of the third day, Wang Jinbao came back and said that everything had been arranged, and he would gather at the Zhangjia Hotel in front of Dong'anmen in the imperial city at noon tomorrow.

Zhu Hongsan arranged for Zhu Hongyi, Qian Lide, Wang Jinbao and Han Shirong to follow him.

At noon on the fourth day, Zhu Hongsan led people to the hotel in front of Dong'an, found a table and sat down to ask for a few side dishes to eat. After a while, a thin and tall young man came to the door, with a white face and no beard, and went into the house to take a look, and walked over after seeing Wang Jinbao.

Wang Jinbao said: "This is the connector person, he said that his surname is Wang." ”

The man came near and said, "How many of you are there?" Come with me in a moment and change your clothes first. The man's mouth turned out to be a eunuch.

Zhu Hongsan got up and asked, "Where can adults go?" ”

The man was very appreciative of this call, and said, "You can't go to the Imperial City except around the noon gate, you can go to everything else." But come out at the time of unitary, because the imperial city is locked. And be sure to follow me and listen to me. If something happens, our family won't be able to protect you. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "We are Cantonese people, we have long wanted to see the majesty of the imperial city, we heard that the scenery of Jingshan in the imperial city is beautiful, can we go to see it?" ”

The prince said, "What's there to see in that place, it's a big mound." But you have given the money, and you want to go with you. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Okay, then let's go there to change clothes?" ”

The prince said, "Come with me, there is a private house on the side." ”

Zhu Hongsan and the five followed the prince to a private house. There were a few palace guards sitting in the room, and when they saw the prince coming, they said, "It seems that the old king has made money again?" ”

Wang Gonggong smiled: "We are all hard-working people, so what kind of money do you make." After speaking, he said to Zhu Hongsan: "You change into their clothes." ”

Zhu Hongsan and a few people took off their clothes and changed into the clothes of the guards, and the others said that Zhu Hongyi was too tall to wear them. Zhu Hongsan said: "Big brother, there is no way, don't go, you go home first." ”

Zhu Hongyi nodded.

When the prince saw that there was one person missing, he said, "One person is missing, this silver... ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Princess, this is our business, it has nothing to do with you, and the silver can be paid according to five people." ”

Wang Gonggong smiled: "This is much stronger than those Shanxi veterans yesterday." ”

Zhu Hongsan said with a smile: "There, it's worth it to make such a friend as the prince and the prince." ”

The prince said: "Okay, you pay attention to our family and can't lose face, if you want to go there today, our family will accompany you." ”

Zhu Hongsan and his entourage changed their clothes, held the waist card of the guard, and followed Wang Gonggong into Dong'an Gate.

Dong'anmen Gate is at the intersection of Donghuamen Street and Nanheyan in present-day Beijing, 500 meters away from Donghuamen Gate in Miyagi. Zhu Hongsan entered Dong'an Gate and saw that there was no one in there except for two guards standing guard at the door.

The guards inside the door were empty, and the two guards at the door didn't look at Zhu Hong's three-waist card at all, and let them go directly.

Inside the Outer Imperial City are three rows of firewall buttresses, like a windowless house, and the inside is filled with rammed earth, which acts as a wall to prevent anyone outside the city from attacking with fire.

Follow the road for 500 meters to Donghua Gate, and then there is the palace city, that is, the Forbidden City of later generations, this Zhu Hongsan came in later generations.

Outside the Donghua Gate is a moat of fifty meters, and there is a layer of ice on the surface of the cold river, and more than a dozen little eunuchs are hitting the ice with hammers to stop the water from freezing.

Zhu Hongsan and his entourage were going to Jingshan, and they had to detour to Xuanwu Gate along the palace city, that is, the inner emperor city wall.

Zhu Hongsan watched while walking, the palace city was not tightly guarded, there was only one guard dozens of meters away from the city wall, and the others didn't know if it was cold and didn't come out or they were simply slacking off and not on duty.

Soon along the inner city wall came to Jingshan. Jingshan was the soil dug up by Yongle when he was repairing the three seas, and over time it became a scene in the palace city.

Jingshan is in the inner Yellow City, in fact, it already belongs to the palace city, but it is still outside the Xuanwu Gate, and the guard is not very tight. Wang Gonggong led Zhu Hongsan and his entourage to Jingshan and said: "This is Jingshan, take a look." Just walk around and don't get too far away from me. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded, and in later life, he came to Jingshan and came to see the crooked neck tree that Chongzhen hanged. This time I came mainly to see the terrain.

Zhu Hongsan saw that Jingshan was more than 100 meters away from the Xuanwu Gate, separated by a moat of 50 meters. If you don't attack tens of thousands of people, you won't be able to attack at all.

After looking around, Zhu Hongsan was not interested, and said to Wang Gonggong: "Wang Gonggong, can you take us to Zhong*Nan*hai to have a look, we heard that the scenery of this place is very good." ”

The prince said, "Yes, come with me." ”

Follow Wang Gonggong and his entourage to the Zhong*Nan*hai, coming to this place is purely Zhu Hongsan's curiosity, Beihai has been there, the air in Beijing was not good before, and it was not clear to see it in Beihai Park.

This time, he saw it clearly, saw the Yingtai in the middle of the South China Sea, and thought that Guangxu in later generations was imprisoned in this place, and Zhu Hongsan felt a little dislocated in time and space.

Zhu Hongsan's group of old hats were watching, and the prince pulled Zhu Hongsan and said, "Kneel down, the princess is here." ”

Zhu Hongsan knelt down and thought, "Princess? Princess Changping? Wei Xiaobao, his master? ”

At this moment, a group of people came over in front of them, and the leader was a young woman, about fifteen or sixteen years old, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, much like a singer in later generations, that is, the tomboy in the three girl groups on Treasure Island.

This woman is exactly the type that Zhu Hongsan likes, and Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but be stunned. When this group of people came to him, Zhu Hongsan forgot to bow his head, and even left saliva.

An old eunuch next to the woman saw Zhu Hongsan's bear-like appearance and shouted, "You are the guard on duty, so bold, don't you want to live?" ”

When the prince turned around and saw Zhu Hongsan's pig-headed appearance, he was frightened.