Nanjing household yamen, official office.

Before Qian Shisheng, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, sat down, he asked loudly: "Lord Feng, Lord Zheng, my lords, since the Jinchuan Gate has been opened, why don't you try to open the Three Mountains Gate of the West City and the Jubao Gate of the South City?" As long as these two gates are opened and firewood, rice, oil and salt are transported into the city, all the crises in the city can be greatly alleviated! ”

"What? The Jinchuan Gate is open? When was it opened? Zheng Sanjun was taken aback and asked continuously.

Feng Yuanbiao, the secretary of the military department, was even more anxious: "Who ordered the city gate to be opened?" Can it cause civil unrest? ”

Qian Shisheng sighed: "The people of the cold house have been watching from the Jinchuan Gate, and he rushed back to report it...... It was Zhao Zhilong, the commander of the city defense, who ordered the opening of the Jinchuan Gate, and it was Zhu Daolin, the commander of the Governor's Mansion, who dispersed the tens of thousands of victims outside the Jinchuan Gate......"

"Zhu Daolin only took 12 guards, rode a white horse, and appeared in front of tens of thousands of victims with the Qinglong battle flag, and more than 100,000 people who were noisy and uneasy immediately gave way to a passage, and the black pressure fell to his knees, crying and shaking the sky."

"Zhu Daolin stood still on the Majinchuan Bridge, stopped and waited for a quarter of an hour, and then loudly announced that there was enough food, and asked the victims to gather together in the same township to protect the old and weak, women and children, and go to the three forks to receive porridge and rice in an orderly manner.

"After listening to the thunderous cheers, the victims were grateful to Dade, and left the Jinchuan Gate in an orderly manner under the guidance of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division, Xin Chengbo was able to open the city gate and sent 3,000 elites to carry out the vigilance, and the Jinchuan Gate was finally unblocked, but it was strictly forbidden for non-residents in the city to enter and exit, and Zhu Daolin led the more than 10,000 disaster victims who had been recruited in the past few days, bringing a large number of supplies, and marching into the Jinchuan Gate and going to the new army camp under the Lion Rock."

Everyone listened with embarrassment. I have mixed feelings in my heart and sigh in every way.

Zheng Sanjun suddenly remembered that he had ordered the blockade of Zizhuyuan to confiscate the "Jiangnan Times" office, and now that Zhu Daolin had entered the city, if he annoyed him, there would be twists and turns, so he hurriedly called the guards. Ordered him to hurry to Zizhuyuan to take back the order.

Not only did the guards not leave immediately, but looked left and right, and whispered in Zheng Sanjun's ear: "Please atone for your sins!" The humble post did not dare to pass on the order of the lord to block the Zizhu Garden, all because after the order to close the city gate was issued the day before yesterday, Xin Chengbo immediately mobilized a battalion of officers and soldiers, equipped with new war knives and flintlock muskets forged by the Hushan Iron Workshop to guard the Zizhu Garden, even Ruan Dayue and others went in and out, and there were officers and soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division around them to protect them, and they couldn't move! ”

Zheng Sanjun's face was full of bitterness after hearing this. Yang Tian sighed, his body shook and seemed to be about to fall, so frightened that the guards hurriedly opened their arms to hug him, and the officials on the side exclaimed in surprise, and rushed up quickly to call for more than once.

On the review stand of the Grand Battalion of the New Army.

Zhu Daolin, who wore a leather helmet and leather armor, had a cordial conversation with several chief and deputy chief instructors, and hundreds of wagons carrying grain, vegetables, pickled meat, and dried fish drove into the camp gate in a steady stream.

On the playground, the battalions of the New Army were distributed in their respective areas and practiced hard. The musketeers repeated over and over again the prescribed actions of holding guns, taking out bullets, charging charges, loading bullets, taking out the strips, and pressing paper bullets, and the two artillery battalions gathered in the southeast corner of the playground. Under the guidance of more than 10 Franc machine artillery instructors, he practiced repeatedly.

Chief instructor Li Yiliang pointed to the 12,000 ragged victims in the center of the playground, and smiled enviously at Zhu Daolin: "These rabbit cubs are generally half a head taller than the spirit of our new soldiers when they first arrived, and most of them are at the best age of eighteen to twenty-five, and I am afraid that they will surpass the first batch of new soldiers after half a year." ”

Zhu Daolin was equally satisfied: "I thought it would take ten days to gather 12,000 people, but who knew that it would be completed in just five days." At least 30,000 young and strong people from Huaibei, Luxi and other places are mixed in with the fugitive military households and active-duty officers and soldiers, many of whom have quite potential, and I will pick them again after I go back, and strive to get another 6,000 people to come over. ”

"Is there enough food?"

Wu Jicheng, the chief instructor of artillery, asked with concern.

Zhu Daolin smiled slightly: "Someone sent it." Five days ago, they arrived at the mouth of the new river, and each boat was planted with the banners of several gate valves in the south of the Yangtze River, Wei Guogong, Longping Hou and Xin Chengbo had already given a high price of 4 taels of silver and one stone, but those unscrupulous merchants were unwilling to sell a stone, and they didn't even disdain to make a counteroffer, and they didn't give any face! ”

"It is estimated that the insatiable family gate valve will have to sit and wait for the price of food to rise, haha! A whole 120 boats of grain should have come specifically for me Zhu Daolin, hehe! ”

Everyone was surprised when they heard this, and the military judge Han Yuhu asked his senior brother worriedly: "General, I'm afraid they won't sell you 5 taels of silver and a stone." ”

Zhu Daolin looked at the little junior brother reproachfully: "That's it?" Hmph, did I say I bought it? ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, Han Yuhu reacted at this time, clenched his fists and waved hard: "Fuck him bitch!" General, give the order! ”

Zhu Daolin shook his head and looked at the gloomy sky: "I don't need you, it's enough for 4 warships and 5 patrol clippers to drive over, and it's over to open up and sink two grain ships, and make sure that the entire grain fleet will immediately drive to our Shangyuan wharf to unload, and I'll go first......"

In the early hours of the morning, 23 warships of all sizes from the Shangyuan Qianhu Office suddenly sailed to the upper and lower reaches of the Xinhe estuary.

Two 450-ton warships and two 500-ton modified warships blocked both ends of the river respectively, and five new-style inland river transport ships carrying 1,200 naval division recruits squeezed away the night berthing ships and docked very domineeringly, and the 1,200 naval division recruits wearing green military uniforms and holding new-style embroidered spring knives quickly disembarked and divided into more than 120 10 squads under the leadership of the veteran commander, and pounced on the densely packed grain ships on both sides with lightning speed.

At both ends of the river, nearly half of the artillery on the four warships suddenly roared, and the dense cannon sound was earth-shattering, and the sound spread for more than ten miles, shaking the souls of more than 1,000 guards on the grain ships.

Eight small-tonnage patrol clippers were outflanked and inserted into the black-pressed grain ships, and the officers and men picked up flintlock pistols to look for the resisters, and when they encountered a few stubborn resistants, they immediately fired warning shots, the whistling lead bullets crackled on the ship's planks and masts, and the thick smoke of gunpowder drifted away with the wind, and the guards of the grain ships lost the courage to resist.

In less than 20 minutes before and after the whole operation, 126 large and small ships laden with grain all fell into the hands of the officers and men of the naval division, dozens of stubborn ship-accompanying treasurers and escort leaders were ruthlessly suppressed, and all the boatmen trembled in the face of the bright steel knives and lifted anchor and opened the boat.

The long fleet, escorted by more than a dozen large and small warships, sailed to the Shangyuan Wharf downstream.

On the wide wharf of Shangyuan Port, more than 1,000 dock workers and thousands of recruits who had just been recruited for five days had been waiting for a long time, and as soon as the grain ship escorted by the warship docked, the dock workers and recruits immediately swarmed up on the wide pedals and quickly unloaded the grain on the ship.

At noon, 470 tons of grain on 126 large and small cargo ships were cleaned, and the sailor law enforcement team in charge of the vigilance drove the shopkeepers and guards detained on the wharf onto the ship, threw a high-sounding receipt that even the six yamen of Nanjing had brought in, and then bombed all the grain ships.

The news of "Shangyuan Naval Division fired a warning and forcibly requisitioned grain for disaster relief" quickly spread throughout the city, and more than 100,000 disaster victims gathered outside Jinling City were thunderous with joy and quickly flocked to the northern suburbs of "Gushan Iron City, which has been filled with disaster relief grain."

Out of bitter hatred for the unscrupulous profiteers hoarding grain and driving up prices, the vast majority of the people applauded loudly, and the streets and alleys were full of heated discussions, cheers and admiration were endless.

The Jinling officialdom was furious, and the Donglin Party members were even more disgusted by the "criminal acts of complicity and rebellion" that had never been seen in a hundred years, and groups of messengers hurried to various places in the south of the Yangtze River to denounce Zhu Daolin's remarks and sent them to the capital urgently.

Interestingly, the troops inside and outside the city were silent.

With the rapid departure of nearly 100,000 victims, tens of thousands of officers and men defending the city were finally able to sleep peacefully after being frightened day and night for more than 10 consecutive days, and the officers and men who had families and rooms were able to return home to reunite with their relatives.

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