Wanli 1592

Chapter 789

Chen Long's face was sluggish, he didn't lean forward, he hugged his head, his face was painful.

"how so……"

"Tilong, if you don't want to follow me, you can go home. The Northern Expedition in Burma Town has nothing to do with you. You and I have nothing to do with each other. Whether I win or lose, live or die, has nothing to do with you. "

Xiao Ruxun said seriously.

Chen Long raised his head sharply.

"Xiaohou, I, Chen Long, am not such a person! I mean...I...I mean...I..."

"There is no other way to go, Ti Long, tell me, are you willing to follow my Northern Expedition to fight rebellion and rescue His Majesty?"

"me……"

Chen Longzheng hesitated for a while, and finally showed a ruthless expression, and gritted his teeth fiercely: "I am willing! I want to ask Shen Yiguan face to face! Where did he remember the teachings of the saints! This great rebellious thief!"

"Okay! If that's the case, then there's no delay! Ti Long, how many ships and reliable people do you have under your command?"

Chen Longzheng said: "This time I came to Zhenjiang to bring back the porcelain ordered by the French, so I only brought three boats and a few guards, and most of the rest were recruited sailors."

"How many guards?"

"20 people per boat, 60 people in total."

Xiao Ruxun nodded: "That's enough! Immediately select capable people to report to various places and let all our merchant ships go back. Don't stay here. Time is running out. When the news of the coup reaches Nanjing, once someone informs, we will be in Jiangnan will have no place to hide."

"Yes! This subordinate understands! Do it immediately!"

Chen Long was about to run away.

"Wait a moment!"

Xiao Ruxun stopped Chen Longzheng with a word, and then said: "Tilong, after you arrange the manpower, take a boat with me to Nanjing. My brother Xiao Ruzhi is in Nanjing. I want to take him with me, otherwise Shen Yiguan would harm him."

Chen Longzheng suddenly realized, and nodded quickly: "This subordinate understands!"

Afterwards, Chen Longzheng acted immediately, hurriedly went out to make arrangements, and dispatched a dozen people to the surrounding cities where Burmese merchant ships were doing business, and issued an urgent warning to them.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Longzheng completed his orders, and immediately ordered the ship to set off for Nanjing, and the other two ships continued to complete the unfinished tasks, and returned to Burma together after the command ship came back.

Zhenjiang is not far from Nanjing. At noon, the ship arrived at the pier near Nanjing to dock, and then Chen Long was leading Xiao Ruxun to head towards Nanjing City at high speed.

Before entering the city, out of caution, Xiao Ruxun asked Ma Hu and Xu Yong to go out to inquire about the news, and learned that everything in Nanjing remained the same without any special changes. No one even mentioned the coup in the capital, and everyone was living in peace. Usually life without any waves.

Thanks to the backward means of communication in this era, Xiao Ruxun has reason to believe that if this is not Daming, but the end of the Qing Dynasty hundreds of years later, if he wants to do the same thing, it will be much more difficult.

When a telegram came from the capital, Nanjing became jittery.

Unlike now, Xiao Ruxun still has so much precious time to arrange things calmly.

Xiao Ruxun felt relieved and followed Chen Longzheng into Nanjing, until they arrived at Xiao Ruzhi's mansion.

Xiao Ruzhi was in the mansion, and when she saw Xiao Ruxun coming, her eyes were wider than anyone else's. After listening to Xiao Ruxun's story, she was dumbfounded.

"Such a thing happened?"

"Yes, third brother, I can't wait any longer. Pack up your clothes immediately, call your sister-in-law and nephew, and leave immediately. Don't stay or ask for leave. Follow me right away."

Xiao Ruzhi had a hard time reacting, and suddenly realized that the matter was extremely urgent, and there was no time to say anything, so she immediately made arrangements.

There were not many people in Xiao Ruzhi's house, and most of them were old servants, so he secretly ordered the old servant to tidy up with him, left Nanjing City by car from the back door, followed Xiao Ruxun and Chen Longzheng, and went straight to the pier to board the boat, and then the boat quickly left Nanjing city.

"Ji Xin, what about the eldest brother and the second brother?"

It was only at this time that Xiao Ruzhi came to her senses that she was worried about Xiao Rulan and Xiao Ruhui who were far away in the northwest border.

"I've already asked someone to help. There should be still time. If he can accomplish this, the lives of the eldest brother and the second brother should be safe."

"Who will help? This... What if this can't catch up?"

"My old acquaintance in North Korea, Mr. Liu Huangshang, he will help me, third brother, there is no other way right now, it's all my fault, I...cough cough cough..."

Xiao Ruxun was so upset that he clutched his chest and coughed uncontrollably.

Xiao Ruzhi hurriedly stroked Xiao Ruxun's back.

"It's meaningless to say these things now, Ruxun, do you really plan to go to the Northern Expedition? This... this is really..."

"Brother."

Xiao Ruxun took a deep breath: "I have no other choice but the Northern Expedition. Shen has always wanted to kill me and destroy Myanmar. I will not sit still. I have [-] soldiers, why can't I give it a go?"

"One hundred thousand?!"

Xiao Ruhui turned pale with shock: "Ru Xun, what did you do in Myanmar? How could there be a hundred thousand troops in a place like Myanmar?"

"Brother will know when he goes."

Xiao Ruxun's face is solemn: "And as long as I launch the Northern Expedition, even if the eldest brother and the second brother are unfortunately caught by Shen Yiguan, Shen Yiguan will not dare to hurt the eldest brother and the second brother. He still needs the eldest brother and the second brother to threaten me, but it doesn't matter, Shen Yiguan's family members If I stay in Zhejiang, if I raise an army, I will immediately dispatch a navy to raid Shen Yiguan's hometown from the sea and capture his relatives and clansmen, and I will see if he dares to hurt the eldest brother and the second brother!"

Xiao Ruhui opened her mouth, but said nothing.

In the afternoon, the ship returned to Zhenjiang Mansion, and together with the other two ships, it headed towards the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then turned south, heading towards Nanyang.

Xiao Ruxun's guess was correct. Shen Yiguan had indeed arranged six hundred miles on land to expedite the news of the new emperor's ascension to the throne. He also made full use of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to deliver the news to the areas along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

However, their luck was not very good. On the way to the south, there was a headwind, and the fleet arrived in Nanjing three days late.

And in these three days, all the merchant ships along the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal received this urgent news. The merchant ships were basically official merchant ships organized by the Zhennanhou Mansion. Listen to orders, let alone such orders.

Many ships left the local area as soon as they could get their goods, which made the partners, Monk Zhang Er, confused.

When the last Burmese merchant ship sailed through Zhenjiang Mansion and fled towards the mouth of the Yangtze River, the first messengers sent by the imperial court to announce the news finally arrived in Nanjing City.

Only then did the people of Nanjing know that their emperor had changed.

Only then did they know that the great hero and general Xiao Ruxun was actually a rebellious traitor.

However, just like the situation in the capital city, the transmission of this news is only the beginning of a large-scale ideological confusion.

Especially in the southeast area, even many scholars are dubious about this news, and there are many people who don't believe it at all.

They asked Shen Yiguan to give an accurate explanation, why Zhu Yijun abdicated, and what happened, they had to listen to the truth.

This is especially obvious among the humble scholars who cultivated and studied in the heirlooms.

However, the government doesn't care much about this at all. A group of scholars can say whatever they like, and it won't delay the matter anyway.

However, people kept reporting to local governments that merchant ships from Burma disappeared within two or three days.

This kind of thing makes the local governments feel very wrong.

(End of this chapter)