Ding Changsheng was completely sleepless by his own analysis, he sat up and thought about it carefully, what Ma Rufeng had been doing in the past few days was becoming more and more suspicious.

Today, it was his third concubine who accompanied Ding Changsheng to sleep, or it was not easy to stay up until the master could come to live for one night, but the master didn't sleep and just sat there in a daze, the concubine was very unhappy in her heart, and couldn't help but say, "Master, everyone is ready, come and sleep!" ”

According to the past, the concubine's voice had already made Ding Changsheng feel soft, but today Ding Changsheng was in the mood to think about it.

Ding Changsheng said, "Master, there is something to do today, you can sleep first!" After speaking, Ding Changsheng put on his clothes and rode on a horse to the yamen.

Ding Changsheng was in charge of the security of Dongcheng, and his general yamen was in the sheep alley in Chongwenmen, not too far from the Thousand Steps Corridor.

It was already late at night, Ding Changsheng took his family to the yamen on horseback, and the soldiers guarding the door didn't expect the general to come to the yamen so late, so he quickly knelt down on one knee and said goodbye.

"Greetings!"

Ding Changsheng looked at the yamen and saw that it was normal, ten soldiers were standing guard at the gate, and the inside of the yamen was also brightly lit.

Ding Changsheng nodded and asked, "Well, get up, who is on duty tonight?" ”

"Lord Hui, it's Zhao Guerrilla on duty!"

After Zhu Hongsan occupied the whole country, he did not make much changes to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty's guard system was not good, but this military system was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang after all, Zhu Hongsan really did not want to bear the charge of changing the law of his ancestors without authorization, so now the Ming army implements two military systems, one is the division and regiment system in the new army, and the other is the old system of the old Ming army.

In fact, the military system of the Ming army is similar to that of the new army, but the name is different. The highest commander in the army is the admiral, which is the largest official position that a military attache can be, the grade is a positive product, and below is the general soldier, and under the general army is the general, guerrilla, garrison, thousand general, general general, hundred general, shed chief, the name guerrilla general looks very funny, in fact, it is the same level as the regiment commander in the new army, but the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is not as high as that of the new army.

Ding Changsheng heard that it was Zhao Guerrilla on duty tonight, nodded and walked into the yamen without saying anything.

When the chief came to check on the night, someone had already gone in to tell Zhao Guerrilla that Zhu Hongsan had just occupied Beijing for less than ten years, and the weather of the new dynasty was still there, and the military law in the army was strict, and no one dared to skip work at night. Zhao Guerrilla was on duty in the signing room for the night, and when he heard that the adults were coming, he hurriedly came out to greet him.

"I don't know that my lord is coming, and I don't greet you, I'm guilty!"

Zhao guerrilla and Ding Changsheng are from different backgrounds, Zhao guerrilla is not from the new army, he is Beijing's ground-mounted cannon, originally the garrison of the Ming Dynasty's Beijing camp, and he also became a Shunmin when the Manchu Qing Dynasty came, but he did not continue to be an official, but went home to retire for the sake of illness, which was not deep in the mud. After Zhu Hongsan occupied Beijing, he asked some locals to restore law and order in Beijing as soon as possible, so Zhao, a native of Zhao, was able to re-enter the military system.

Because Zhao Guerrilla is not a new army system, he is very careful in the army, and the three festivals and six offerings every year are fully prepared, and Ding Changsheng feels good about this old guy.

Ding Changsheng saw that Zhao Guerrilla was about to kneel down and salute, so he hurriedly stepped forward and helped him up and said, "Brother Zhao, it's not work time, you and my brother don't want to see each other!" ”

Zhao Guzhu's tone was gentle when he heard Ding Changsheng's tone, and he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "My lord, the New Year is approaching,

The last general will not dare to relax! ”

"Okay, this official has nothing to do today, Lao Zhao, you are busy with you! Let people bring the official documents of the past few days, and I just can't sleep at night to review the official documents! ”

The entire yamen knew that this Ding Counselor General was born in the Shaanxi Border Army, and he was still a rogue, and he couldn't recognize a few words at all, so in the past, the correspondence of official documents was done by the clerk, and if there was anything important, it would be over after telling Ding Changsheng.

Zhao Guerrilla heard Ding Changsheng say this, and hurriedly replied: "The last general knows, please go to the second hall to wait, and the last general will let people send it!" ”

The second hall of the general yamen is Ding Changsheng's office, and when he came to his place, someone opened the door, put on the lamp, and then brought up a few pots of charcoal, and now the weather in Beijing is still quite cold, and it is really impossible to sit still in the house without a fire.

After a while, the book office brought the official documents of the past few months, Ding Changsheng waved his hand to let the book office out, and then read it in detail by himself.

Ding Changsheng is not illiterate, but he doesn't recognize that kind of literary crepe. As a middle-level official who can become a regiment commander in the new army, he still recognizes four or five hundred commonly used words. At the same time, this kind of official document in the army is all vernacular, and there is no classical Chinese, so Ding Changsheng can still understand it.

Ding Changsheng didn't move at all in the official document in the previous few months, but rummaged in the official document in December, and Ding Changsheng quickly found clues in the official document.

The commander of the Beijing Infantry Army commanded the Yamen, a total of two general soldiers and four generals, and these six people were all high-ranking officials in the Yamen of the Infantry Army, so the transfer and promotion of some officials in the Yamen had to be reported by the Yamen, in order to avoid delaying official business.

Ding Changsheng picked up the newspaper on the tenth day of December, which said that Zhang Guangsi, the chief soldier of Xishan, had died and took leave, and now the general soldier of Xishan was replaced by Qi Huan. The Xishan military camp is only 30 miles away from Beijing and is the last important line of defense in Beijing. Qi Huan Ding Changsheng knew that this guy was born in the second division, and he was the captain of Jiang Pengju's personal soldiers back then, and he was the iron of Jiang Pengju's irons.

Ding Changsheng picked up other newspapers and watched them, and soon found clues that the ambassador of the warehouse in Nancheng's Dog Lane had changed. This clue is just a sentence in the Di newspaper, saying that the ambassador's wife gave birth to a child and took half a month off, and now the manager of the Nancheng Treasury is the former deputy envoy.

The warehouse ambassador is only a Jiupin small official, and according to his rank, it is not enough to report to the Yamen Mansion, but this Nancheng warehouse is too important, and this warehouse stores firearms, and all the muskets and artillery of the Yamen under the command of the infantry army are stored in this warehouse.

Although the infantry commander Yamen is a security force, it is still equipped with three firearms, but in peacetime this kind of powerful weapon is strictly forbidden to use, only at an extraordinary time, there is the emperor's decree, or there is an official document from the military aircraft department and the military department can be issued, at this critical time the ambassador just asked for leave, this is too coincidental.

Ding Changsheng hurriedly picked up the newspaper again, and soon found that in the past few days, the thousands of people at several important nodes in the inner city had been replaced, and the people who were replaced at the same time were all living people, and Ding Changsheng didn't recognize any of them.

In the end, Ding Changsheng found that in the morning, an official document sent by the commander yamen, which said that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was the Shangyuan Festival, and there were several streets in Nancheng and Dongcheng to hold lantern festivals, so he ordered the Qian Zong of these streets to lead his soldiers to inspect the streets and ensure the security of the capital.

Originally, it was just a thin dish

Ordinary official documents, but with those clues, the answer is about to come out, Ma Rufeng wants to do something on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, as for what Ding Changsheng hasn't found out yet, but there is no need to bother to guess, Ma Rufeng and King Qin are good friends, and this time it will definitely be unfavorable to the prince.

Thinking of this, Ding Changsheng was in a dilemma, he was a spy arranged by the prince to the Yamen of the Bujun Army, and according to the agreement with the prince, now he found out about such a big matter and immediately told the prince. However, Ding Changsheng and Ma Rufeng are both from the fourth division, so it is really difficult for him to go to the first old superior.

Ding Changsheng really can't make up his mind now, if he reports to the prince, King Qin's affairs will definitely not succeed, and he can make some merits, but it is far from enough on the prince's side. If you don't report to the prince and press this matter down, then King Qin will have a great hope of success, and then he will be Ma Rufeng's comrade-in-arms and friend, so he will naturally be able to rise and go further.

But in this way, even if King Qin succeeds, he must suppress the general trend of the prince's party, Ding Changsheng wrote a letter of allegiance to the prince back then, if the letter of allegiance falls into the hands of King Qin, then he will definitely not die well.

Ding Changsheng hesitated here in the yamen, and in a blink of an eye, the sky was bright, Ding Changsheng looked at the sky and made up his mind to help the prince. It's very simple, it is not certain whether King Qin can succeed, even if King Qin succeeds, he will not be able to escape, and only helping the prince is a way out.

Ding Changsheng made up his mind, and said to Zhao Guerrilla that he was not in good health today, and he would not come in the morning, and let him take charge of himself. Then Ding Changsheng went home and changed into ordinary clothes, and went out the back door to find Xia Wanchun.

At that time, Ding Changsheng was developed by Qian Yiai, and it stands to reason that he should go to find Qian Yiai, but Qian Yiai went to be a political envoy because of the affairs of Henan, and at the same time, in June of the fourteenth year of Shenwu, Qian Qianyi died, and according to the imperial court Ding worry system, Qian Yiai had to go home to keep filial piety for three years, so now Qian Yiai is guarding filial piety for Qian Qianyi in his hometown in Changshu.

Qian Yiai left, Ding Changsheng naturally couldn't go directly to the prince, and his identity couldn't see the prince, so there was no way, just follow Qian Yiai's instructions to find Xia Wanchun.

The Xia family is also a big landlord in Songjiang Mansion, although it is not as rich as the Qian family, but there is no shortage of silver, plus Xia Yunyi is now the governor of Hubei, so Xia Mansion is also magnificent.

Now that the sky is bright, the family members of Xia Fu have also gotten up to clean the door. At this moment, a big man came to the door of the Xia Mansion and asked, "May I ask a few brothers, is this the mansion of Lord Xia Wanchun?" ”

The Xia Mansion family was stunned when they heard this person say this, Xia Mansion is not that no one came to the door to give gifts, but they are all officials from Hubei, and they came to see it to ask if it was the mansion of Governor Xia, and it was the first one who came to find Xia Wanchun. Of course, Xia Wanchun doesn't have no friends, it's just that Xia Wanchun's friends and Xia Fu's family all recognize them, they are all weak scholars, this big man is a soldier at a glance, and his young master has never had a military friend.

However, the Xia Mansion was very strict, and the family didn't dare to say anything, so they hurriedly asked, "Dare to ask Mr. your surname?" What's the matter with my young master? Ding Changsheng is full of muscles, full of beard, he doesn't look like a gentleman, but there is no way, the Xia family is full of scholars, and that family Ding is also smooth.

Ding Changsheng grinned and took out a prayer note from his arms, and said, "Please give this worship post to Lord Xia, and Lord Xia will naturally understand!" ”

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(Tianjin)