Lu Ming

Chapter 650 Xiakou
"The land of gold and powder in the Six Dynasties, the state of Jinling emperors. It meanders with green water, and the Zhulou is stretched far away."

"As expected of an emperor's capital!"

At the end of March, in front of the Jubaomen Wharf, Nan Wang, who was dressed as a businessman, looked up at the thickest and tallest Nanjing City Wall in the Ming Dynasty.

The Dong Guang Fu had been outside the city of Nanjing before. It first turned from the Yangtze River to the Jiajiang River, then entered the Shangxin River, and arrived at Jiangdongmen.

The Shangxin River was only excavated in the early Ming Dynasty.Due to its important geographical location, this place soon became an important wharf: "The shopping malls are gathered together, the merchants gather together, and the bamboo and oil hemp, covering the river, is called an important town along the river."

The Dongguangfu docked at Jiangdongmen, and then began unloading under the arrangement of the responders.The warehouse of Nanjing Railway Station is just outside Jiangdongmen.

Nan Wang himself, Zhou Yi and other core personnel all changed into unremarkable robes, then changed to a small boat on the spot, passed two long bridges cautiously, and walked around to the famous Jubao Gate.

Starting from this section of the road. In fact, from the moment they approached Nanjing, the Nanwang team changed their previous arrogant posture and switched to stealth mode.

No way, the truth is within the range of the barrel.Now Cao's gunboats used to reason can't even pass Zhenjiang, so Nanjing still belongs to the "enemy-occupied area".Teams like Nanwang have to behave honestly from now on.

Working in "enemy-occupied areas" and working in "liberated areas" are completely different feelings.

Nanjing was the accompanying capital of the Ming Dynasty, where various "conservative forces" were powerful.There are not only elite battalions under the jurisdiction of the garrison eunuchs, but also many noble private soldiers.For an organization like the foreign station, once things become a big deal in Nanjing, they will definitely suffer immediate losses.Therefore, we must behave with our tails between our legs, and no longer have the arrogant attitude of Shanghai and other places.

Entering the city from Jubao Water Gate, you can see the Dabaoen Temple Pagoda in the west.Facing the winter sun in the afternoon, the famous glazed pagoda is very eye-catching.

Continue to take a boat to the east, along the Qinhuai River, after crossing a long series of stone arch bridges such as Wuding Bridge, Huaiqing Bridge, Liji Bridge, Wende Bridge, and Laiyan, you will find Baochaoku Street. The Ming Dynasty State Treasury is located.

Here in Chaoku Street, there is an exquisite building: Meixiang Building.

In the future, Li Xiangjun, one of the eight beauties of the Qinhuai River, will live in the Meixiang Building, waiting for the arrival of the hit son Hou Fangyu.After that, this patriotic celebrity who only lived to be 30 years old will leave behind a tragic historical story of loving and hating her country.

However, in this plane, probably this story will never happen again. Since the tentacles of a certain reactionary force reached into Nanjing in 1635, the tragic ending of many people in Qinhuai Bayan must have been reversed.

In the words of later generations, the banknote warehouse land around Meixiang Building belongs to the core area of ​​the Qinhuai Scenic Area. It is a standard high-end villa residential area with high housing prices.

Most of the courtyards here are the same as Meixiang Building, with three courtyards and two courtyards.

From the appearance, these courtyards are exquisite and elegant, quiet amidst the hustle and bustle. They are indeed the unique temperament of high-end residential areas, and they are very suitable for literati, poets, talented scholars, beauties, red sleeves, fragrant golden houses and hidden charms.

"Master Nan" and his group came here to number a house.

The house is already ready.

Under the guidance of two capable escorts, Master Nan disembarked from the bridge pier opposite Meixiang Building.After crossing the street, there is an unremarkable green brick house in the square, which is the temporary residence prepared by Nanjing Station for Mr. Nan.

This house includes two nearby houses, both of which are backup safe houses for Nanjing Station.When Nan Wang and the others arrived, a set of household items had already been prepared, and there were people nearby to respond at any time.

Of course, Master Nan and his party came to the Qinhuai River, they definitely didn't come to find girls.

In fact, they came to study.

After entering the house, Chang followed the well-dressed deputy head of the confidential group of Nanjing Station, and took Nan Wang to the study in the back house alone.

In the study room, the two sides talked secretly for about an hour, and then the deputy team leader left.

After that, Nan Wang closed his eyes and meditated.After a long time, he drank a cup of tea, got up and sat in front of the window, opened the iron lock on the desk drawer with a small delicate key, and took out a thread-bound book from it.

It is a thread-bound book with a simple appearance, and the cover is one that ordinary scholars have seen. The "Zengding Han, Wei and Six Dynasties" written in vertical format with a brush.

However, when Nan Wang turned the pages of the book, on the first page inside, there was a striking square red stamp in the upper right corner: Confidential.

Further down, there is a catalog in simplified characters written in hard-tipped blue ink: "Compilation of Recent Social/Enemy Situations in Wuhan".

Brackets: Type B documents, which are only accessible to insiders.

Nanwang, the new senior intelligence officer of the Imperial Intelligence System, is the new head of Wuhan station.

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Prior to this, the traversers who were groping their way in the fog had constantly changed their conception of grand strategy as the current situation changed.

According to real history, the Ming Dynasty would collapse in 9, 1644 years later.Emperor Chongzhen himself would hang himself after breaking the city in 1644.

The previous time-traveling forces originally intended to connect with the historical process and "take over the baton" in 1644 to establish a new dynasty.

However, in the past 8 years, Traveling has not stopped the construction of industrialization for a single day.

Nowadays, with the acceleration of the industrialization process in the southern region, the muscles are increasingly swollen through the high-level. After looking at the GDP data in recent years, I suddenly found that I can't wait for 9 years, and 1644 is too far away.

Just like the chairman was in Xibaipo back then.At the beginning, it was estimated that it would take five years to defeat the opponent. As a result, the situation after the Liaoshen Campaign was very good, and the time for the liberation of the whole country was immediately advanced to three years.

As a result, the strategy of the general public was revised again. "The Great Yan Kingdom replaced the Ming Dynasty in advance", which became the consensus of most people.

So the question is: how to replace it in advance?

The answer is: to accelerate the process of history.

How to accelerate the process of history?
The appointment of Nanwang is an important part of this grand strategy.

In the original plan of the General Intelligence Bureau, at least at this point in 1635, it was not planned to set up a Wuhan station.

The reason has been mentioned before, beyond the reach of the whip.The Nanjing station is not clear, and it does not make much sense to set up the Wuhan station.

However, with the change of the upper-level strategy, the Wuhan station became a key project overnight, receiving a huge amount of resources, including the Nanwang team itself.

Nanjing Station, which is the closest to Wuhan, began to shift the focus of daily work shortly after this grand strategic decision, and made every effort to collect information on the three towns of Wuhan—all information in all aspects must be available.

With the passage of time, until the day Nan Wang took office, the amount of intelligence had accumulated a lot.In the current situation where the core components of telegraphs cannot be "imported", so much information is bound to be unable to be transmitted by telegraph, so Nan Wang just went to the field to read.

This is also the reason why the Nanwang team was arranged in Chaoku Street today: all the information is in this study.As the incoming webmaster, what he needs most now is all kinds of real-time information about the three towns in Wuhan.

From the moment he opened the page, Nan Wang entered the state of reading information.So until it was time to light the lamp, after a hasty dinner, Nan Wang continued to read at night by lighting the lamp until dawn the next day.

Early the next morning, Nan Wang, who had worked all night, opened the door of his study and called Zhou Yi and the others over: "I have classified these according to the secret level, and you should read them according to the level. After that, all the materials will be shipped to Wuhan for future reference. Managed by the Confidential Section."

"Yes."

Nanwang and his party stayed in Chaoku Street for five days.

During this period, the personnel belonging to the two intelligence stations strictly abided by the "enemy rear" secrecy regulations.The Nanwang team did not meet with colleagues at Nanjing Station like they did in the south.In addition to the liaison officer who arranged daily travel arrangements, only Nan Wang himself, who went out in makeup at the appointed time, met with the current Nanjing Station Station Manager Lu Cheng alone in a teahouse, and had a private chat.

At the beginning of April 1635, the Nanwang team boarded the Dongguangfu, which had already been repaired, bid farewell to the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and embarked on the last voyage of the trip.

Stop and go along the way, all important towns along the middle section of the Yangtze River, including Tongling, Anqing, Jiujiang Huangshi, and Nanwang have disembarked and rested, and experienced the local customs.

In this way, it was not until the end of April that the Dong Guangfu finally completed the thousands of kilometers of water journey, bypassing the widest Dawan Road in the middle of the Yangtze River, and arrived in Greater Wuhan.

In the Greater Wuhan area at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the three towns of Wuhan known to later generations have taken shape, namely Xiakou, Wuchang and Hanyang.

Xiakou Town is the predecessor of Hankou in later generations.Due to the irreplaceable superior geographical location along the river, it was an important military town as early as the Three Kingdoms period.In the early Ming Dynasty, Xiakou Town was naturally developed commercially.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, during the Taiping period of 200 years, the "newly built" Xiakou Town had developed into the most important water transportation hub in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The term "thoroughfare of nine provinces" actually refers to Xiakou Town only during this period of time.

And Nanwang designated the headquarters of Wuhan Station in Xiakou Town based on some background information long before departure.

The reason is simple: Wuchang is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also the provincial capital. The governors, governors, and generals of all walks of life are mostly stationed in Wuchang, which is inconvenient to use.

Hanyang is also the same.All kinds of entanglements in the old state capital are not as "relaxed" as in the new town.

Finally, on the morning of April 1635, 4, the East Guangfu docked at the old Xiakou Town Wharf.

At this moment, Zhou Yi, who had finally reached the beginning of his career, was full of hesitation.

On the contrary, Master Nan looked south, probably because he was thinking too much, but his expression was calm and unwavering.

At noon at the bustling Xiakou Wharf, two middle-aged men with ordinary faces boarded the boat.

When Nan Wang saw these two people, he was not surprised: "Huang Zhong, Fang Yanxiao, you two are here."

While the two middle-aged men bowed and clasped their fists to salute, their faces showed the excitement of finding the organization: "Section Chief, I'm looking forward to you!"

"Well, thank you for your hard work, I found it so quickly."

"It's not hard, it's not hard. According to the agreement, my subordinates will go to the pier at [-] o'clock every day to have a look."

"Very well, now tell me about the situation and see when we go ashore."

(End of this chapter)