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Chapter 299 Out of the City

Ma Cheng fell from the city wall and fell to the ground with his heart. The inner city is not as good as the imperial city. The inner city of Nanjing has a population of more than 800,000. It is like finding a Ma Cheng. At the same time, there are more than a dozen gates in Nanjing. No matter what, you can take the opportunity to escape.

Ma Cheng and his two subordinates left Bei'anmen and fled to the military intelligence department stronghold in Taiping Bridge. At this time, the sun had already risen, and there were already some early people in Nanjing. However, Ma Cheng and the other three were all wearing flying fish suits. For ordinary people, they were just Jingjiehu. Some of the guys who were about to open the door panels for business. Seeing the three Jinyiwei running in the street, they were so scared that they quickly put the door panels on the door panels again, afraid that there would be any problems.

Ma Cheng's flying fish suit is indeed very useful. Not to mention those ordinary people, even some soldiers and inspection departments who patrol the streets saw the Jinyiwei running, they hurried to avoid the streets, for fear of offending these killing gods.

Ma Cheng and his two men came down to the old Li family store beside Taiping Bridge. This was a shop that specialized in Nanyang specialties. The door had not been opened at this time. A subordinate came forward and knocked on the door. After a while, a guy opened the door. Seeing that it was Ma Cheng and the other two, he quickly put the three in.

When the shopkeeper saw Ma Cheng coming in, he quickly bowed and said, "I have met the Marquis, and Lord Zhang has already made arrangements. Please go to the backyard with my subordinates!"

Ma Cheng didn't say much, nodded and followed the shopkeeper to the backyard. Several carriages had been prepared here, all of which were filled with goods, and one of them was filled with sacks. The shopkeeper Zhao Heng said: "Mr. Marquis, the carriage is filled with sugar. It was originally scheduled to be shipped to Xuzhou. The carriage has been modified. One person can lie down below. Please ask the Marquis to come in. My subordinates will definitely send the Marquis out of the city safely!"

White sugar is Ma Cheng's own industry. How can this luxury be enjoyed by the Han people? So after Ma Cheng developed the sugar, he immediately sent people to various places in Jiangbei to organize marketing networks. Now the sugar produced in Nanjing has been sold in half of Northern China. Manchus far away in Beijing can eat this kind of sugar of eight taels of silver per kilogram.

The shopkeeper Zhao Heng opened the compartment at the bottom of the car. The layout here is very clever, which allows an adult to lie down inside. At the same time, there is also a secret ventilation pipe connected to the outside. It looks no different from an ordinary carriage from the outside.

Ma Cheng nodded, took off his flying fish uniform and changed into ordinary coarse cloth clothes and crawled in. Just when Zhao Heng was about to close the door, Ma Cheng said to Zhao Heng: "After I leave, you send someone to your home to inform Gu Yong and let him prepare. If Lu Siye is going to be unfavorable to his wife, let Gu Yong help them die for the feud!"

Ma Cheng was afraid that his wives and concubines would fall into the hands of Lu Siye, a pervert, to judge others by himself, Ma Cheng was afraid that he would be cuckolded. However, after Ma Cheng said that, he thought of his three sons, Ma Cheng gritted his teeth and said, "Also, let Gu Yong rescue the three young masters at all costs!" His wife could be found again, but his son was still his own. Ma Cheng was ruthless, but at the last moment he sent someone to rescue his son.

Zhao Heng nodded, then closed the partition door, and filled it with sugar. Ma Cheng lay in the compartment and sighed in his heart. He was still a little different from the heroes in history. Liu Bang could kick his son and daughter off the carriage in order to escape. Cao Cao could ignore the life and death of his son Cao Anmin, the nephew Cao Anmin. He was facing a critical moment of life and death, but he was still in love with his children. It was really not right.

Zhao Heng saw that he had prepared everything outside the car, so he clapped his hands and asked his subordinates to beat him.

When the hospital opened the gate, five large chariots in the hospital came out one after another, and the large chariots where Ma Cheng was located ranked second.

There are thirteen city gates in Nanjing. Except for the Jinchuan Gate in the north and Jubao Gate in the south, the other city gates are not open every day. So no matter where you want to go, you have to go by Jinchuan Gate by water, and Jubao Gate by land.

There is a population of 800,000 in Nanjing City, and there are more than 100,000 outside the city. The daily supplies required by nearly one million people are astronomical, and they all need to enter and exit these two city gates. Naturally, the court cannot let go of this big fish, and the tax customs of Nanjing City are set up at these two city gates.

Zhao Heng followed the big cart to Jubaomen. There were already hundreds of big carts waiting to open the city. These were supplies transported from Nanjing City to various places. Naturally, there were hundreds of big carts waiting outside the city.

As the gong sounded, the gate of Jubao Gate slowly opened, and the busy day in Nanjing officially began.

Zhao Heng followed the car slowly, with more than 70 cars ahead of him, but the tax customs efficiency is very high, and it is estimated that it will take only half an hour to get out of the customs.

In the Ming Dynasty, tax collection was to collect physical tax, but various commodities vary greatly, so after Zhang Juzheng's reform, various places began to use silver instead of physical tax collection. However, even so, the amount of tax collection was different. As long as you bribe the tax collector at the door, you basically don't have to pay any money to let it go.

When Zhao Heng's cart arrived in front of the tax collector, Zhao Heng quickly came to the little leader and nodded and said, "Today it is Zhao Kongmu on duty, thank you for your hard work!" After that, he handed a small paper bag to Zhao Kongmu.

"This is something to give your brothers some tea!"

Zhao Kongmu opened it and saw five taels of silver. After seeing it, Zhao Kongmu nodded with satisfaction: "Old Zhao, for the sake of the same tribe, I will let you go today, but you know that Jubaomen has a new general, and your monthly performance will also rise!"

Zhao Heng was shocked when he heard Zhao Kongmu say this. In the past, the general of Jubao Sect was Zhao Jinshi, who was considered Ma Cheng's man, and he was also a nail in the inner city defenders stationed by Ma Cheng. In case of any situation, the army outside the city could enter Nanjing in time. However, now that Zhao Jinshi has been transferred, the impact is too great.

"Why did Lord Zhao be transferred? Where did he go?"

"Hey, how do I know what the above meaning is? But General Zhao was transferred to Zhengyangmen, which is a Qingshui Yamen!"

Zhengyang Gate is the gate of the emperor and is the most important of the thirteen city gates in Nanjing. However, because of this, Zhengyang Gate cannot be opened at any time, so the toll will naturally be gone.

After hearing this, Zhao Heng nodded. Now he has no mind to care about who the new general is. The most important thing at the moment is to send Ma Cheng out of the city safely. However, the carriage has reached the city gate and is only one last step away from being able to get out of seclusion.

Zhao Heng came to the tax box and invested fifty big money symbolically. He just bribed Zhao Kongmu and could pay taxes based on five carts of straw. Or calculated based on the value of five carts of sugar, it would not be possible to handle it with fifty big money.

After paying the tax, Zhao Heng waved to the coachman, and the coachman began to drive the carriage out of the city. At this moment, a noise appeared in the city, and a voice shouted loudly: "The military order of the Admiral's Office, close all the city gates! Everyone is not allowed to leave the city without official documents from both the Lishui Supervisor and the Admiral's Office!"

Zhao Heng was very anxious when he heard this. At this time, Zhao

Kongmu had already stood up and called his subordinates to start closing the door.

Zhao Heng quickly stepped forward and grabbed Zhao Kongmu and said, "Brother, you know that my car is frosted candy. If I waste time and suck water, then I will suffer a lot of losses this time!"

Zhao Kongmu said helplessly: "Shopkeeper Zhao, you have heard it, I can't do anything about it! But today's order is special. The gate of the city is a matter between the Ministry of War and the Admiral's Office. How can the lieutenant and supervisor come in today?"

Regardless of Zhao Kongmu's doubts, Zhao Heng took out thirty taels of silver from his arms and stuffed it into Zhao Kongmu's hand, and then said, "Brother, for the sake of friendship in recent years, please help me! I will be filial to you when I come back this time!"

Zhao Kongmu has collected a lot of money from Zhao Heng in recent years, and there are 100 taels. Now that he sees 30 taels again, Zhao Kongmu hesitated and said, "Okay, since that's the case, then leave the city soon!"

When Zhao Heng heard this, he was overjoyed and quickly called the coachman to drive the cart out of the city. The carriage behind Zhao Heng saw Zhao Heng out of the city, and he also rushed out of the city. Now the people outside the city were going to come in, and the people inside the city were going to go out, and Jubaomen was in chaos. But this was fine. The soldiers guarding the city were attracted by the city, and no one noticed that a large cart in Zhao Heng's convoy did not walk on the official road, but went to the military camp of the colonel.

When he arrived outside the camp, Zhao Heng showed the military intelligence department's waist sign. The soldiers guarding the gate did not dare to stop him and put the cart into the military camp. After entering the camp, Zhao Heng breathed a sigh of relief and quickly called a few soldiers to help Ma Cheng out of the mezzanine of the cart.

After the bumpy morning, Ma Cheng was so hungry that he was not dispersed. He was taken out for a long time before his blood was relieved.

Ma Cheng immediately grabbed a soldier beside him and shouted: "Go and send orders to gather generals, I have something to announce!"

The soldier recognized Ma Cheng and did not dare to delay, so he quickly went to beat the drum of the gathering of generals. Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year. The battalions were originally on holiday, but Ma Cheng's army was well-trained. In less than fifteen minutes, all the in-service generals in the camp rushed to the central army tent.

The military camp of the colonel was originally Ma Xi's territory, but these generals were all Ma Cheng's subordinates, so it was not difficult for Ma Cheng to command. However, when these generals saw that Ma Cheng was sitting in the tent, they were stunned, but they all knelt on one knee and said to pay homage to the general!

Ma Cheng had already put on a armor and sat on Ma Xi's tiger leather chair with a calm face. Seeing that the twenty-five generals had arrived, Ma Cheng stood up and said loudly: "Last night, His Majesty the Emperor got married. I drank a lot of wine with the emperor, but I didn't expect that Lu Jiude and Lu Siye, the two uncles and nephews, dared to take advantage of the emperor's drinking too much and cunningly ordered me to kill me! At the same time, these two bastards agreed to hold the emperor and surrender to the Qing Dynasty today!"

This was a shocking event. As soon as Ma Cheng finished speaking, the twenty-five generals in the tent started to discuss it.

Ma Cheng waved his hand to stop their discussion, and then said, "We are soldiers loyal to Your Majesty. I am the marquis of Zhenguo personally appointed by Your Majesty. So now I want to lead troops into the city to rescue the emperor and kill all the rebels who want to surrender to the Qing Dynasty!"
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