Outside the thousand-step corridor, Zhang Dahui slowly walked out from the ministry, he had just gone to visit Qian Yuanke, this person was Chen Xin's old relation, when Chen Xin scolded Cui Chengxiu in the military department, Qian Yuanke was still the head of the Wuxuan Division. Relying on that political speculation, Qian Yuanke's official road was smooth later, and now he is in charge of the Ministry of Officials, in charge of the Wenxuan Qing Officials Division, although he can't be the master of the appointment of high-ranking officials, but the appointment documents come out of here, and it is the most well-informed place for officialdom.

Judging from the news inquired by Zhang Dahui, the imperial court has now set two candidates, one is Chen Xinjia and the other is Zhu Dadian, Chen Xinjia is already a governor, so the most likely is Zhu Dadian.

Zhu Dadian used to be the governor of Tianjin, and later transferred to the military department as a waiter, this person is quite capable, in the original history, he took over Xu Congzhi's position as governor of Shandong early, and now he should lead the soldiers and horses of Shandong and the canal to help suppress the Liukou, but Chen Xin quickly extinguished the Dengzhou Rebellion, Zhu Dadian did not encounter that opportunity, so the official road has also twisted a lot.

If there was no chaos in Zhangjiakou last year, Zhu Dadian might be transferred to the governor of Fengyang, and the original governor of Fengyang, Yang Yipeng, was resigned because of the fall of Fengyang, which is a real fat difference, because the governor of Fengyang is also the official messenger of the governor of Caoyun, and his annual income is huge.

Zhu Dadian once served as the governor of Tianjin, and he was very clear about the influence of the Tianjin Sihai Trading Company, and there were many people in Tianjin who followed this trading company to eat together, and there were also a lot of ships coming from Denglai, and the strength was very strong at that time.

When Chen Xin came to Beijing last time, Zhu Dadian met with him. But it was only a general acquaintance, and Zhu Dadian didn't understand Chen Xin very well. So he didn't want to go to the strange muddy pool of Denglai.

After the rogues ravaged Fengyang, they scattered and fled again under the siege of various armies in the imperial court. Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang returned to Henan, the sweeping king went to Haozhou, and the most ferocious Zhang Xianzhong continued to wreak havoc in Nanzhili, until he reached Anqing Mansion, and Nanjing, which was only separated by two provinces, was panicked.

The economy along the Yangtze River and the canal was developed, the common people were relatively well-off, and the local gentry were also very strong, so the peasant army could not obtain the manpower supplement that Henan and Huguang had to deal with. The water system in the Nanzhili area is developed, and the Liukou from the north do not have any water divisions, and it is very inconvenient to maneuver, but the officers and soldiers can quickly mobilize through the developed water network, and it is precisely because of these reasons that the Liukou in the late Ming Dynasty have not been able to affect the canal area and have not been able to cut off the transportation of the Beijing Division, not because they are unwilling to flow to the rich Nanzhili area.

After a period of arrogance in the Nanzhili area, the Liukou found it difficult to gain a foothold in this area. It has re-moved to other areas. Under this kind of form, being the governor of Fengyang is obviously more reliable than the bottomless muddy pool of Denglai, and Zhu Dadian himself is active in the position of governor of Fengyang, and he does not want to go to Denglai. Wang Ting's people are also active, hoping to continue to stay in Denglai's office.

The Intelligence Bureau doesn't have much control over Zhu Dadian, but he knows a little bit about his personality. This person is more likely to be an official, and his personality is quite strong. It is the more capable of the traditional officials, of course, the more capable they are, the more trouble they will have for Dengzhou Town. Just like the previous Zhu Wannian.

Zhang Dahui went through these news in his mind, thinking about where to go to stir up the situation, and immediately remembered that Chen Xin said not to provoke the court, and was wandering, his eyes habitually turned to the east side, one of his subordinates was there, pretending to be a danlang who sold rattles, and did not exchange eyes with Zhang Dahui at this time, but put his hand on the straw hat, and rolled up his index finger to support the hat.

After seeing the gesture, Zhang Da immediately concentrated his mind and drove all other distracting thoughts away from his head. After the change in his relationship with the imperial court, he had three people to cover every time he went out, this Danlang was the leader of the cover group, and the gesture just now showed that there was a danger of heavy dà, and the direction pointed by the middle finger was the direction in which this team leader arranged the cover.

Zhang Da Da did not have any abnormalities in his appearance, his eyes moved away from Dan Lang at will, looked at other pedestrians and merchants all the way, and walked west towards Qipan Street with a normal pace, where there was a lot of people, it was a good place to get rid of tracking, as long as he could enter his own backup point or safe house, it would be difficult for the opponent to find him again, and there was a crisis today because Zhang Da Da was not on high alert.

Zhang Dahui watched both sides of the street with the corner of his eye, and indeed found a few suspicious people, although those people did not stare at him directly, Zhang Dahui could keenly feel that their attention was on him.

There is still a hundred steps from here to Qipan Street, and there are more pedestrians on the street, and this distance is also the most dangerous, because Zhang Dahui does not know what method the other party will use, whether to follow, assassinate or arrest. If it's okay to follow him, since he has found the other party, he can slowly get rid of it in many ways, and the most afraid is to assassinate him directly.

There was a melon farmer selling watermelons on the left, Zhang Dahui quickly determined that it was a real melon farmer from the man's movements and expressions, he suddenly turned around when he walked directly to the melon farmer, and asked the melon farmer kindly: "How do you sell watermelons?" ”

The melon farmer saw a literati asking himself, thinking that it was a senior official or official of the nearby yamen, and hurriedly replied respectfully, Zhang Dahui took advantage of this time to pay attention to the situation behind him between turns, and there were two places where there were abnormalities that began to be followed.

"I'll buy a few big ones." Zhang Dahui took out a piece of silver, "You wait here for a while, and the official will come out to get it after he finishes his business." ”

The melon farmer waved his hand hurriedly and said: "This official, such a big ingot of silver, the little old man can't make up for it." ”

"Give me all your brass plates and scattered pieces of silver, and if it is not enough, you will be rewarded by your own officials." Zhang Dahui urged: "If you say more, the official won't buy it, and he will ask someone to collect your melon." ”

The old peasant was frightened by Zhang Dada, and hurriedly took out a black cloth from his arms, and when he opened it, there were dozens of copper plates of various colors, as well as some small pieces of broken silver.

Zhang Dahui took it and told the melon farmer: "You go east, go through the gate of the official department and continue walking, go to the third gate and wait for the official, where you will wait for the official to come and get the melon, but you are not allowed to run." ”

The melon farmer immediately took his pick and left, and Zhang Dahui continued to walk forward, and the bag of loose silver was placed in his hand. This unrelated melon farmer would have scattered the two enemies behind him, as they had both seen Zhang Da and the man exchange things. And go in the opposite direction, and the enemy will follow the melon farmer. In order to discover other Dengzhou strongholds. If a certain court official is found, then these words of the factory guard are even more interesting, and they can knock that person hard.

After walking ten steps, Zhang Dahui saw another person covering more than twenty steps away, Zhang Dahui gave him a look and suddenly accelerated his pace, he wanted to use this to try the enemy's true purpose, if the other party wanted to assassinate him, he couldn't help but shoot at this time.

Zhang Da moved quickly in the flow of people, blocking the direction behind with the help of the tall people around him. This disables the opponent's ranged weapons such as throwing knives and crossbows, and he constantly keeps an eye on his sides for new enemies during his rapid movements.

Several people in black suits appeared in the cracks, they came from the side, their eyes stared at Zhang Dahui's position unabashedly, Zhang Dacheng pulled out the short gun under the placket and hid it in his sleeve, and the weapons he carried with him were a short gun and a dagger, both of which belonged to short and small self-defense weapons.

Zhang Dahui's pace was very fast, and several strong suitors determined that it was Zhang Dahui's time. Zhang Dahui had already crossed their position, and these people quickly chased after them, and two of them even had knife hilts in their hands.

At this time, Zhang Dahui confirmed that these people were going to kill themselves, and the most likely thing was that they were from the factory guards. Because they made no secret of it, with the arrogance of the brocade guards in their expressions, these people were the main force to assassinate or arrest. The latter ones belong to the interception of the retreat, so it seems that there will also be people blocking at the intersection of Qipan Street. And there are also people in the other direction of the gate of the ministry.

They had already made arrangements when Zhang General Assembly entered the Ministry of Officials. It's just that it's inconvenient to do it at the gate of the ministry, so Zhang Dahui was given a little opportunity.

A few people were ten steps behind Zhang Dahui. Rudely pushed away the people who got in the way and chased after them. Zhang Dahui stretched out his left hand from his sleeve and threw the loose silver and copper coins he had exchanged for into the air.

"Pick up the money!"

When there was a shout, the copper coins fell from the sky, and the pedestrians next to them were slightly stunned, and immediately swarmed to grab them, and other people around them also gathered here, and the road was overcrowded.

Zhang Dahui took advantage of the short time when the pedestrians were in a daze and left the position where the money was scattered, and the crowded pedestrians behind quickly cut off the lines of those fans, giving Zhang Dahui time to get rid of.

A few angry roars came, Zhang Dahui quickened his pace to leave, there was still a level to pass ahead, he had to cross that intersection and enter the noisy chessboard street.

Taking advantage of the chaos, he took off his long body and discarded it, inside was a short old clothes, similar to the clothes of many people around him, as the head of the Beijing division for several years, he came into contact with many intelligence officers every year, and his own preparations were quite complete.

Zhang Dahui pulled off his hat, he arched his back slightly, and suddenly turned into an ordinary Jingshi citizen, but he did not rush out of the crowd recklessly, but mixed with other people.

"Bang", a short boom came from behind, followed by a scream.

"Murder!" A male voice screamed, the crowded people scattered like a nest and fled, Zhang Da buried his head in the crowd, ran towards the chessboard street, many stalls and the burden of selling goods around were trampled over, and the goods and fruits fell to the ground.

In the panicked crowd, Zhang Da Da maintained the same speed as the people around him, and another gunshot rang out later, which aggravated the chaos.

This wave of chaos spread all the way to the entrance of Qipan Street, Zhang Dahui was relieved after blending into the crowded Qipan Street, he no longer buried his head, and walked like the pedestrians around him, a team of fans wearing flying fish suits hurriedly ran over, and went in the direction of the officials.

After this chaos, Zhang Dahui and several of his subordinates were also separated, Zhang Dahui of course could stop and look for it, he walked straight to a teahouse, which was a contact point he laid out, because Qipan Street was close to the six departments, and there were many officials who came here to drink tea and eat on weekdays, so this teahouse usually plays the role of collecting information from the six departments.

Looking in from the door, there was a blue rag on the counter, indicating that it was safe here, Zhang Dahui looked at the chessboard street, and there were some fans wearing flying fish suits looking around, he hesitated for a moment, and entered the teahouse.

After Xiao Er inside saw him, he stretched out his hand and led him to the back door, Zhang Da gave Xiao Er a look, and walked out directly from the back door, he would go down the back street to Xijiaomi Lane, and then turn into Biandan Hutong, where was one of his safe houses.

There are also a lot of people coming and going in the back street, there are many alleys in this street, not far from each other, Zhang Dahui is in a hurry while observing the pedestrians around, just walked more than 20 steps and suddenly he stopped at the mouth of an alley, and a familiar figure appeared in front of him.

Zhang Dong stood on the side of the street ten paces away, quietly watching him.

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