The firelight at the wharf reflected half of the sky, and the red sky could be seen in the city of Nanjing, ten miles away, and several fast horses galloped wildly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Before they reached the city gate, several people shouted loudly: "Quickly tell the emperor that the dock has been engulfed in flames, and there is not much cargo left!" ”

When the defenders on the city tower heard this, they did not dare to delay anything, and while sending someone to the palace to inform the emperor, they ordered the city gate to be opened quickly.

The quiet city of Nanjing was woken up by the banner of Dongchang half an hour later, and Hou Xian was awakened in his sleep by an urgent order from the emperor. The attack on the dock is not a joke, if one accidentally neglects it, the emperor will definitely not spare him once he is blamed.

Hou Xian, who had no time to gather his manpower, could only order someone to inform his subordinates, and at the same time hurriedly rushed to the dock with his remaining subordinates. So the whole city of Nanjing was awakened by the sound of the door, and the city's Dongchang Panzi was woken up at this moment and gradually joined the team of Hou Xian.

It was early in the morning, and the people in the city had just gotten up to prepare for the day's business, when they heard the movement outside, they hid behind the crack in the door and peeked. What caught my eye was a large number of officers and soldiers rushing out of the city, and it seemed that something big had happened?

The imperial city completely woke up in Zhu Di's roar, and the eunuchs and palace maids who were in charge of serving Zhu Di were cautious, and they didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere, and they didn't know why the emperor was furious. Just after a guard with an anxious face entered, there was a messy crackling sound in the imperial study.

Not long after, the guard who was in a hurry ran out with a blue nose and swollen face, but Zhu Di was still smashing things frantically in the imperial study. In the past, if such a situation happened, the eunuch would quickly go to the queen, and only the queen could appease the angry emperor, but now no one dares to tell the queen. They all understood that the queen was now terminally ill and could no longer afford to appease the angry emperor.

"Someone! Prepare a sedan chair, I want to leave the palace! Zhu Di shouted with anger, which immediately made the eunuch at the door excited, bowed down and agreed, and immediately went to arrange.

A large number of guards escorted Zhu Di's carriage to the dock when it was just dawn. Zheng He soon got the news and caught up with Zhu Di's team with more than a dozen mansions. And Tang Ming and Yao Guangxiao had not yet received news from their stay in Gaochun, and it was not until Zhu Di and the others arrived at the dock that they were informed of the matter at the dock, so they did not dare to delay and immediately took people to set off.

Zhu Di's heart was dripping blood at the moment, and the goods in front of him, which were originally full of goods, were all burned into piles of tatters by the fire at this moment, and some flammable things were directly burned into ashes, and the wind blew all over the sky. When he returned in the afternoon, he had already begun to count the books, and the preliminary estimate was that these things would not be less than a billion taels of silver, but before he could rejoice, it would all be in vain.

The drop was too big, and Zhu Di, whose chest was rising and falling violently, could no longer hold back the anger in his heart, and a mouthful of blood gushed out from his mouth without warning. The body, which has always been healthy, can't even stand steadily, and is about to fall to the ground. The eunuch who followed beside him let out an exclamation, and immediately rushed up to carry Zhu Di to the treasure shipyard.

Zheng He can't take care of the angry emperor at the moment, he is no better than Zhu Di at the moment, Zhu Di is distressed about those goods. Zheng He, on the other hand, was distressed by the scuttled ships, but fortunately the treasure ships were not damaged at all, and the ones that were scuttled were relatively small warships.

Dozens of warships lined up, all of them were ships that had not yet been unloaded urgently, and those that had been unloaded were all safe and sound, which was obviously an attack on these cargoes, and Zheng He did not continue to be sad. He has been floating on the sea for many years, and he has seen all kinds of winds and waves, and he can accept this loss.

Yao Guangxiao didn't follow Tang Ming to the dock when he was old, he no longer participated in court politics, so he had to come here. When Tang Ming came, he was also shocked by the scene in front of him, the entire dock was almost in ruins, and there were burned residues everywhere. Although the fire has been extinguished, smoke is still rising in some places, and many workers and officers are cleaning up the scene.

Tang Ming had already heard about the emperor vomiting blood and falling into a coma, but he didn't go to Zhu Di, but grabbed someone casually and asked where Zheng He was, and hurried over. The charred corpses emitted a stench, and Tang Ming could easily identify from the remaining armor that these dead bodies were the three thousand Praetorian Guards on duty here.

The corpses were all over the ground, Tang Ming couldn't count how many people there were, and when he carefully observed the charred corpses, he found that they were not burned alive. Because when they were burned, they couldn't see any signs of struggle nearby. Combined with their same wounds, all of which were cut to the bone in the neck, it was clearly a premeditated sneak attack.

When they hurried to Zheng He's location, they saw that he was arranging for Hou Xian to lead people to track the thieves' tracks on land. And Zheng He's warships and treasure ships that had unloaded their goods were also divided into four directions to look for any suspicious ships at sea under his order.

When everyone was ordered to leave, Zheng He noticed Tang Ming's arrival, and opened his mouth to ask, "Have you seen the wounds of those Praetorian Guards at the scene?" ”

Tang Ming was not verbose, nodded and said: "See, they were all killed by a knife in the neck, and there were no traces of struggle around, this was a deliberate attack." ”

Zheng He looked at Tang Ming approvingly, being able to find these in such a quick time showed that Tang Ming had not been messing around in the court these days. But how did he know that since he left, Tang Ming had hardly been to the court.

"There must have been a lot of people attacking, and the fact that so many people were able to touch the dock quietly was certainly not the work of ordinary thieves. Most likely, it's ....... ”

"It's those remnants of Jianwen, our sworn enemies!"

Tang Ming took Zheng He's words, his expression was very sure, now Quan Daming dared to make Zhu Di uncomfortable except for Jianwen, Tang Ming really couldn't think of anyone else who had the guts.

Zheng He sneered and nodded, "It is true that only his Bright Sect has this ability, but why was he able to organize so many sect members so quickly, and arrange such a sneak attack, could it be that they learned the news of my return early in the morning?" ”

A wry smile appeared on Tang Ming's face, thinking about Zhu Di's news of Zheng He's return and posting the imperial list to inform the whole city, in such a situation, if Jianwen's Bright Sect hadn't learned the news, then there would be heavenly reason. (To be continued.) )