The bright moon hangs high, and the clear light is like a promise.

A flat boat staggered out of the canal and headed for the deep passage ahead. Ahead is an arched bridge and a simple pier, which still stands like this despite years of wind and rain. On the other side, there is also a stone bridge, which is even much higher than the arch bridge in front, and the two bridges contrast with each other.

The moonlight is pouring down from the eastern sky, crossing the arched bridge, sprinkling on the water and also on the boat, and the wind on the water is like a mirror, and you can clearly see the bright moon reflected underwater.

"Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the bell rings in the middle of the night to the passenger ship." Ye Yingwu was dressed in black, almost blending into the darkness, looking at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but chant softly. Just in front of the boat to the right, a tower stood, and in this view, it was as if you could hear the non-existent bell.

In front is Kaede Bridge, and on one side is Hanzanji Temple.

Not far away, the tall city wall is continuous, it is Pingjiang Mansion.

At this time, Pingjiang Mansion was in a period of historical ascent, after experiencing the obscurity of five dynasties and ten kingdoms to change the name of Wu County, the ancient Suzhou was given the name of "Pingjiang", and was upgraded to the highest level of the Great Song Prefecture Mansion. And Ye Yingwu knew that a hundred years later, Suzhou would become the center of the entire south of the Yangtze River second only to Jinling, and prosper the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Rao is now, outside the city, the continuous fields, low hills, all the time showing the wealth and strength of "Suhu is ripe, the world is full".

For Ye Yingwu, the greatest advantage of the Song Dynasty is that you should never worry about wealth, after all, this is the richest dynasty in China for 5,000 years. In addition, Ye Yingwu has always had a great affection and closeness to businessmen, which made the businessmen, who had always been excluded by the scholar class, come closer one after another.

The reason why Six Doors and Jinyiwei were able to develop rapidly had a lot to do with the secret help of these merchants.

The boat slowly docked at the pier. This is the wharf of Zhang Ji's "Fengqiao Night Park" hundreds of years ago, but time flows, only this ancient wharf and the ancient Fengqiao are still watching the bright moon. Although the rivers in Pingjiang Mansion are criss-crossed, and people come and go by boat, only the Panmen Gate located in the southwest corner of the several city gates is the water and land city gate, so Ye Yingwu is not easy to enter the city in the middle of the night.

What's more, there are already people waiting on the pier.

The boat docked, and Ye Yingwu breathed a long sigh of relief. Behind him was Yang Xu with five personal guards, and the cavalry of the hundred battles led by Jiang Tie was the vanguard, and the right wing of Zhang Shuntian's martial army, which had arrived one after another, was behind, and more than 5,000 Tianwu soldiers passed through Changzhou by land, and the soldiers pointed directly at Pingjiang Mansion.

As for the banner played, it is naturally "Hong Qi is in turmoil, and the Tianwu army is in chaos", Jia Rudao had already thrown the matter of pacifying Zhenjiang Mansion to Ye Yingwu, and Ye Yingwu naturally made a big fuss about it unceremoniously.

Anyway, the Southern Song Dynasty only stationed troops in the state capitals along the Yangtze River, and only a small number of Xiang troops and township soldiers to maintain order were stationed in the inland state capitals, so they could not resist the Tianwu Army at all, and they did not even have the courage to confront the Tianwu Army head-on.

This can be seen from the opening of the city gates on all sides of Changzhou to welcome the Tianwu army into the city.

A thin figure stood quietly under the willow tree on the dock, watching Ye Yingwu stride over, and Yang Su followed closely behind him, before he showed a hint of a smile.

"Second uncle!" Seeing this figure, Yang Xu shouted in surprise.

Yang Feng strode forward and arched his hand: "Subordinate Yang Feng, see the envoy." Su'er was young, and she followed the envoy, and she had to worry about it. ”

"Second uncle, who let him take care of me?" Yang Xu suddenly said a little mischievously, "He can't even take care of himself, and I can't protect him." ”

"Su'er, don't be rude!" Yang Feng shouted in a low voice. As an elder, he naturally saw the affection revealed in Yang Xu and Ye Yingwu's smile clearly, but now that it is a public occasion after all, the etiquette should not be relaxed.

Yang Feng lost his father since he was a child, and he was actually brought up by Yang Feng, so Yang Feng was still relieved that Yang Xu could secretly have feelings for Ye Yingwu. After all, he understands Ye Yingwu's temperament very well, and this is a person who is worthy of entrustment.

Yang Xu playfully stuck out his tongue and did not speak.

No longer looking at her, Yang Feng said softly: "In the middle of the night, it is easy to attract attention if you enter the city, so I will rest in Fengqiao Town tonight, and please make you here." ”

Ye Yingwu nodded, on the sandbar connected by Fengqiao, is Fengqiao Town, dozens of houses are neatly arranged, many of which are inns and restaurants, which are convenient for tourists who come to watch and play to rest and eat.

And the foothold of the six doors outside Gusu City is an inconspicuous restaurant in Fengqiao Town. White walls and black tiles, the same Jiangnan style. There is already green moss on the wall, but I don't know if this building was already there when Zhang Jifeng Bridge was parked at night.

Yang Feng didn't dare to stay longer, although there were no boats on the sparkling river, but who could guarantee when one or two people wouldn't suddenly come and bump into these people sneaking around on the dock, it would be unclear at that time.

The room is very plain, there is nothing too ornate, open the window to face the canal rolling north, and even you can see a few merchant ships coming and going on the river, even in the night, still take advantage of today's moonlight to continue to hurry.

"There are no people in these rooms, so you can rest assured." Yang Feng said softly.

Ye Yingwu nodded and sat down: "What is the situation in Lin'an?" ”

Yang Feng took a breath lightly and said with a wry smile: "At the beginning, the Imperial City Division suddenly launched an attack on Pingjiang Mansion, and several strongholds in the city were attacked, although they were killed one after another, but Pingjiang Mansion suffered heavy losses in manpower, Pingjiang Mansion is an important part of intelligence transmission, and it is a place where business travelers gather, it is the easiest to collect information, and there is no room for loss, so after discussing with Chunfang Niangzi, he rushed to support with more than ten elite people.

After that, he fought with the Imperial City Division five or six times in Pingjiang Mansion, and both sides lost both, but the Imperial City judicial line was nowhere to be found, and the chambers of commerce in various places began to gather people, so they withdrew one after another. Who would have thought that when someone sent someone to Lin'an Mansion to report back, there was no news. Listening to the businessmen from Lin'an, Lin'an Mansion Drunken Spring Breeze has been seized, a cadre of people and so on all arrested, it is not clear where they were caught, the news here is impermeable, plus the recent Huzhou, Shaoxing Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion and other places of the six doors have been suddenly attacked, heavy losses, more difficult to inquire. ”

"Lin'an, how much does Aunt Chunfang know?" Ye Yingwu's fingers tapped on the armrest.

Yang Feng smiled bitterly: "It's not much, Chunfang Niangzi knows that she doesn't know martial arts, so she usually just helps to get some news, and the real correspondence is in charge." But she knows all the large and small Qinglou restaurants opened by Drunken Spring Breeze in various places. What's more, Lin'an Drunken Spring Breeze also left a lot of elite manpower, and dug several secret passages, but attacking from the outside, even if it is a sudden attack, it is impossible to wipe out the whole army. ”

"There's a mole?" Ye Yingwu slowly stood up and looked up at the canal water flowing outside the window.

Yang Feng hummed softly: "I really can't think of other possibilities besides." However, there are only a handful of people who know these secrets in the drunken spring breeze on weekdays, and they all know very well, it is indeed difficult to judge, but fortunately, there is only one such a traitor, I am afraid that there is only one, since it has been exposed, at least Pingjiang Mansion and other places can breathe a sigh of relief. ”

Ye Yingwu nodded: "Don't take it lightly, after all, this place is too far away from the Tianwu Army and too close to Lin'an Mansion, and it is under Jia Yidao's nose." However, this time the right wing of the Tianwu Army has been pulled to Changzhou, and the Jinghu Navy Division's warships have also entered the canal and river. ”

Yang Xu boiled the water, made a pot of tea and brought it up: "You old and young people have been talking for so long, and no one has said that they are thirsty, which is really strange." ”

Yang Feng looked at her lovingly: "I haven't seen you for a few days, why did Su'er become so diligent?" Can you talk to the second uncle? ”

Ye Yingwu took over the conversation and said with a smile: "Commander Yang, you have to thank the contemptible people, follow so-and-so, Su Niang is very attentive, so virtuous and diligent, and there is also a certain amount of credit in it." ”

Yang Feng and Ye Yingwu looked at each other and laughed, Yang Feng pointed at Yang Xu and said with a smile: "The female is not staying, this is because there is someone in my heart, otherwise I don't know what it will be like to be spoiled by the old man." What kind of work did she do in this house? ”

Yang Su put down the plate and stomped his feet fiercely: "You two, one is disrespectful to the old man, and the other is flamboyant, ignoring you." ”

Looking at the figure with a red face and turned to run away, Ye Yingwu shook his head with a smile, and laughed a few words, the originally somewhat dull atmosphere was finally lively. Yang Feng shook his head in self-defeat: "This girl?????? Well, envoy, let's move on. Now that you are fighting with the Imperial City Division, is there a hidden danger of the brotherly wall??????"

Ye Yingwu smiled bitterly and picked up the teacup: "There is no way, the Imperial City Division will treat us as a thorn in the flesh, why don't we regard them as great enemies." The brothers' mutual suspicion has reached this level, there is no way to unite again, and only by quickly separating the winners and losers can they have more energy to meet the strong enemy in the north. After all, he didn't think that the Tianwu Army was out on the expedition, and someone secretly stabbed him in the back, and even sent twelve gold medals openly. ”

Taking a breath of cool air gently, Yang Feng looked at Ye Yingwu solemnly: "Do you want to be Yue Wumu and help Jiangshan Sheji?" ”

Ye Yingwu's eyes became solemn again, staring straight at Yang Feng: "If it's not for Yue Wumu, what do you want to do?" ”

Yang Feng subconsciously shivered, smiled bitterly and shook his head.

If it is not a loyal minister like Yue Wumu, it is to learn from Cao Cao, coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, or directly Wang Mang usurped the Han, or even like Zhao Kuangyin, the ancestor of the Great Song Dynasty, with a yellow robe, and directly sat in the world!

Heroes are like red faces, and they are not allowed to see white heads, unless the hero becomes a hero, changes his loyalty, and usurps these thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.

Ye Yingwu knew it, and Yang Feng didn't know it, but the two of them looked at each other and smiled, and they didn't say the answer after all. Ye Yingwu didn't know what kind of person Yang Feng wanted to become, or what kind of talent was the object of allegiance in his heart. And Yang Feng didn't know what Ye Yingwu was planning, otherwise it would be nothing to choose the wrong one, but it was a pity that the niece who was raised since childhood followed Ye Yingwu to endure the unwarranted disaster.

Ye Yingwu put down the teacup: "Does the Imperial City Division still have a stronghold in Pingjiang Mansion?" None of the ones that should be eliminated can be left, not only Pingjiang Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion, Huzhou, Shaoxing Mansion, and the various state capitals around Lin'an must have a large number of six doors. ”

"There are more than ten people in Pingjiang Mansion in the Ruiguang Temple in the south of the city, but we suspect that there seem to be a large number of Imperial City Division personnel in Shantang, and the six gates in the city go to Shantang, and there will always be more or less suspicious people following behind." Yang Feng said softly, "As for the six gates in the city, there are more than 20 elite players, hiding in Bao'en Temple (now Suzhou North Temple Tower) and Dinghui Temple (now Suzhou Twin Towers), and there are three inns along the Pingjiang River to inquire about the news as a response. The rudder of the six doors of Pingjiang Mansion was set up in the Han Garden (now Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou), this garden was originally the residence of Qi Wang Shizhong, after the decline of the Han family, the garden turned several people, and finally fell into the hands of the six doors, carefully managed, repaired, and regarded as a relatively large stronghold around the state capital. ”

Ye Yingwu breathed a sigh of relief, there are many people who come and go to the temple, and the Ruiguang temples have been for some years, and they also need people to clean the court and repair it more on weekdays, so the temple is often a good hiding place, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, "Four Hundred and Eighty Temples of the Southern Dynasty", many temples undoubtedly provide a good communication channel, and play a role in disguise.

As for the Han Garden, Canglang Pavilion, in the previous life, this was one of Ye Yingwu's favorite Jiangnan gardens, small and exquisite, there is a hidden wealth and atmosphere, and the meaning of "Canglang" is even more far-reaching and vigorous, which makes people can't help but recall the vast flowing history.

However, now the famous Lion Forest is still just a pile of rocks, the Humble Administrator's Garden and the Lingering Garden are ordinary houses, and the Suzhou Garden only has the appearance of the Han Garden. On the contrary, the temples that eventually dissipated occupied a lot of land in Pingjiang Province at this time.

"Tomorrow enter the city from the Xu Gate west of Hanshan Temple." Ye Yingwu commanded in a low voice, "The five hundred cavalry of the Hundred Battles will not stop in Changzhou, but will be divided into two teams, one team will enter the Tiger Hill Mountain in the northwest of the city, and the other team will enter the Lingyan Mountain in the southwest of the city. ”

"Please rest assured." Yang Feng stood up and arched his hand and said, "The Imperial City Division in Pingjiang Mansion will be able to calm down day by day, and in addition, there are six doors in Gusutai, Lingyan Temple on Lingyan Mountain, and Yunyan Temple on Huqiu Mountain There are six doors to gather and withdraw from various state capitals, and there are also twenty or thirty people, who are elite, and they can be dispatched at any time. ”

Ye Yingwu frowned: "These brothers are all from the encirclement and interception of the Imperial City Division, and at the same time, there are also injured people, can they not move or not." After all, there are not many backbones, and the reconstruction of the six doors of each state capital will depend on them in the future. ”

Seeing Ye Yingwu say this, Yang Feng nodded and did not refute again, after all, these twenty or thirty people are outside the city, if something happens suddenly, it will not play a big role, the reason why Yang Feng said it is not like there is something to hide from Ye Yingwu, after all, if Ye Yingwu knows about it in the future and has some suspicion of himself, it will be asking for hardship.

Ye Yingwu also seemed to figure out his thoughts, and just smiled faintly: "It's not early today, and when I enter the city tomorrow, I will personally take a look at the situation and decide whether to start in advance." In addition, Jiaxing Mansion can notify that as long as it is appropriate, it will be done, and someone will respond at sea. ”

"Pick-up at sea? Will Jinghu sailors still go to sea? Yang Feng's face changed slightly, even if the Jinghu sailors went back and forth on the river, if they really went to sea, I am afraid that they would attract criticism from the government and the opposition. What's more, there are not many sea ships in the sailors, and even forcing them to go to sea is dangerous.

Ye Yingwu smiled and waved his hand, but did not answer. Jun lost his secret, that is, he lost the country, and Ye Yingwu didn't want Yang Feng to know about some things that shouldn't be known. After all, joining forces with the East Pole Island pirates to manage Taiwan is the farthest and most fearful move that Ye Yingwu has taken, as long as there is a slight leak or deviation, it may be a catastrophe.

This time, in order to cooperate with the six doors of Jiaxing Mansion, Ye Yingwu had already sent a clipper to Dongji Island before he arrived at Zhenjiang Mansion, and then sent a letter to Li Si from Dongji Island, Li Si's answer had arrived during the day today, and several clippers were rushing to Jiaxing Mansion at night, and several warships left behind on Dongji Island were also dispatched.

Yang Feng saw that Ye Yingwu didn't answer, so he naturally knew that he shouldn't know, so he didn't ask anything anymore: "It's not too early, so let you rest early." The subordinates retired first. ”

Ye Yingwu nodded, stood in front of the window with his hands in his hands, looking at the rolling canal, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.