Not long after Jia Youshi finished speaking, the catcher had already come over, still looking for a name to ask for a bribe, and Jia Youshi spent five taels of silver to let him go. In this way, not long after Jia Youshi and Jiang Zhuang's convoy got off the ship, they were blackmailed three times by officials at all levels of the Ming Dynasty, and finally went to the gate of Hangzhou.

It's just that it doesn't end there. Jia Youshi and his entourage disappeared on the corner of the street, and the brocade guard who had just received Jia Youshi's silver appeared at the dock with people again. But this time, he walked to the sea boat where Shen Nanshan was, and just in front of the boat straddling the treadwood of the dock, he shouted loudly: "Whose boat is this, is there a person who is dead, and there is an answer." ”

Shen Nanshan was the main person in charge of the boat, so he naturally didn't want to make a mistake at this time, so he hurriedly stepped on the pedal and went ashore and asked, "Official." I am the master of this ship. But what's the matter? ”

The hundred households asked, "Have you paid the ship tax?" ”

Shen Nanshan returned: "It's handed over." The dozen or so truckloads of goods that the official searched just now were the goods unloaded on the villain's ship. ”

When the hundred households heard this, they said angrily: "Nonsense. The excise tax is the excise tax, and the ship tax is the ship tax. How can it be mixed up. ”

Shen Nanshan was angry in his heart when he heard this, but he didn't dare to attack at this time, so he looked at Wu Tianxiao. Shen Nanshan saw that Wu Tianxiao shook his head at him, so he asked the hundred households: "I don't know how to pay this ship tax?" ”

When the brocade-clothed guard saw Shen Nanshan looking at Wu Tianxiao's boat, he asked, "How many ships do you have?" ”

Shen Nanshan pointed to the four seagoing ships of the ocean-going fleet and returned: "Just these four ships docked side by side." ”

The hundred households drank, "The shore tax for this ship is ten taels for one ship, and forty taels for four ships, and quickly pay the silver." ”

Shen Nanshan was furious when he heard this, forty taels is not a decimal, and his purchasing power in the future is as high as 18,000 yuan. What's more, Jia Youshi had already been extorted a lot of silver just now. If it were to come three more times, it would be more than a hundred taels of silver. So Shen Nanshan held back his anger and said, "My lord, you wait first, I'll ask our host." As he spoke, he ran to Wu Tianxiao's side, asking Wu Tianxiao what to do.

After Wu Tianxiao listened to Shen Nanshan's question, he said to Shen Nanshan: "Give him forty taels, and there will be a time to settle the general account in the future." With Wu Tianxiao's consent, Shen Nanshan handed over the silver to the brocade guards.

It's just that Dongchang Fanzi and Catch Kuai seem to have discussed with Jinyiwei, and after a group of people left, another group of people came. It wasn't until Dongchang Fanzi extorted another forty taels and arrested Kuai for twenty taels that the fleet quieted down. Several times the silver was extorted for a total of one hundred and twenty-five taels of silver, which is fifty or sixty thousand in terms of purchasing power. Wu Tianxiao, who was secretly peeping, looked at all this, and sneered in his heart. The fleet had just docked at the dock, and they had been blackmailed several times in succession, and they didn't know how much money they would be charged when the goods arrived at the store to sell.

After several waves of official blackmail, Wu Tianxiao waited for a moment and saw that there was no trouble, so he sent a few more nimble subordinates, disguised as ordinary people who entered the city, and followed Jia Youshi's convoy. Once he found out that Jia Youshi was in trouble, he hurried back to report. Fortunately, after Jia Youshi's convoy arrived at the east gate of Hangzhou City, he once again spent ten taels of silver to honor the head of the city gate guard, and then entered Hangzhou City safely. So things went well, and the group lurked as planned. Wait until the agreed time is reached.

In the eighteenth year of Jiajing (1539), three o'clock on the seventeenth day of May. The east gate of Hangzhou is closed, and rows of lights illuminate the inside and outside of the city gate. The Ming soldiers guarding the gate were snoring in the gatehouse, sleeping soundly. The two soldiers who had been assigned by the Shangguan to guard inside the gate were holding spears in both hands, squatting at the door and dozing off. The soldiers who were supposed to patrol the city wall also squatted under the battlements one by one and took a nap.

Under the moonlight, not far from the east gate, the gate of a house facing the street was gently opened. A line of black shadows covered their faces, holding various weapons, quietly touched the city gate. A ruined temple not far away also flashed black shadows, and three or five people held a torch and touched it towards the east gate of Hangzhou. Almost at the same time, the windows along the street of several inns near the east gate were also gently opened. One by one, the ropes slid towards the direction of the street, and one by one the black shadows with their faces covered fell silently down the ropes to the street, and then they also touched the east gate of Hangzhou. The flow of black shadows gathered from seven or eight places at the same time not far from the east city gate, and in a moment, the black shadows gathered two or three hundred people. These black shadows are the heroes of the East China Sea led by Jia Youshi and Jiang Zhuang.

Jia Youshi saw that Jiang Zhuang had brought someone over, and said hello: "I will lead someone to kill the gate, and you are responsible for cleaning up the city gate and opening the city gate to answer the city lord." ”

Jiang Zhuang nodded: "Okay." Then he beckoned his subordinates to: "Everyone pay attention, don't fire when the firecracker is not in a hurry, so as not to startle the snake." Brothers, follow me. With that, the two of them led the two or three hundred soldiers to the east gate of Hangzhou City to kill.

When the two led people to the gatehouse, the Ming soldiers who were napping under the city gate were awakened by the sound of noisy footsteps. Before the Ming soldiers could react, Jiang Zhuang had already shouted: "Kill." Then he slashed at the guard in the neck.

Jia Youshi also burst into shouts almost at the same time: "Jia Zilian, follow me to the door." ”

There were almost no cantilevers in the battle. The guards at the east gate of Hangzhou City were only 100 people, and they were attacked by Jia Youshi and Jiang Zhuang, more than a dozen Ming soldiers were hacked to death, and the rest were all captured, and the city gate was soon opened.

And outside the city gates. After Wu Tianxiao arrived at the scheduled time, he dragged two modified guns on his horse according to the original plan. With the soldiers, holding torches, he went to the east gate to kill with the Hanlong banner that stood for the way of heaven. By the time the army reached the east gate, Jia Youshi and others had already controlled the gatehouse, and Jiang Zhuang also opened the city gate. After the Wu army took control of the east gate of Hangzhou, Wu Tianxiao ordered everyone to act according to the original plan and led the soldiers to the Hangzhou prison to kill.

Hangzhou City was secretly attacked, Wu Tianxiao took 2,000 people to easily control the East City Gate, and went straight to the Hangzhou City Prison, which has to be said to be the sorrow of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the city of Hangzhou was an important town of the Ming Dynasty, with a population of no less than two million, but the Ming army guarding it had been peaceful for a long time and was extremely decaying. Originally, the guards and the surrounding guards had more than ten thousand households.

The armed forces of Hangzhou City are mainly the Qiantang Thousand Households of Benwei, the Thousand Households of Hangzhou Sailors in the east, and the Dusong Guanwei in the northwest. In addition, there are guards that can be temporarily dispatched in case of emergency, such as Ningbo Guard, Shaoxing Guard, and Jiaxing Guard. Ningbo Weiquan has Dinghai Thousand Households and Tianmen Pass Thousand Households. Jiaxing Wei has thousands of households in Haining, and Shaoxing has thousands of households in Linshan.