After learning the news of Chongzhen's serious illness from Wang Yin, Chen Yue did not dare to delay any longer, and immediately took people out of Hangzhou, and the original plan to take the canal and waterway was changed, but decided to take the land route to the north, through Huzhou Liyang to the northwest and directly into Nanjing. Although there are official roads on this road, it is much more difficult to cross more than a dozen rivers and climb several mountains than to cross the canal by boat, but it is faster than taking the canal in terms of time.

The matter is urgent, and Chen Yue can't take care of it too much.

Although Chongzhen has many suspicions about Chen Yue, he still trusts him on the whole, and he has established a deep relationship between the monarch and the minister in the past few years. For Emperor Chongzhen, Chen Yue was angry with him, but also had deep pity. He is not a faint king, he may be more diligent than most emperors in history, he would be a good emperor in peacetime, but being an emperor in the last days is beyond his ability.

Chen Yue had seen Chongzhen's shabby dragon robe and simple meal, and he had also seen his tired expression from dealing with the government day after day, and he couldn't help but feel sympathy in his heart, not to mention that he was also the father of Princess Kunxing! Rush to Nanjing as soon as possible, do your best, do what you can for this poor emperor and the princess in your heart, this is what Chen Yue thinks now.

Most of the army chose to take a boat into the Yangtze River along the coast to Nanjing, because to deal with the Great Western Army, warships were needed, and only the 300 guards led by Chen Yan followed Chen Yue ashore.

Hangzhou is the capital of a province, and it is still easy to mobilize more than a dozen carriages. Chen Yue, Wang Yin, Gu Junen and others rode in the car, and the other carriages pulled the grain baggage, these three hundred guards were veterans who had been on the battlefield for a long time, and they did not suffer from marching on foot, and the speed of the march was not slow, and they could walk more than 60 miles a day. From Hangzhou to Nanjing more than 500 miles, according to this speed can be reached in more than ten days.

Chen Yue rode alone in a carriage, and when he was marching, he sent someone to call Liu Neng, who was accompanying him, and told him about Chongzhen's serious illness.

"The subordinates are incompetent, and they don't even know such a big thing!" Liu Neng pleaded guilty in shame.

Wei Yang is now transferred to the army to lead the troops, and the Enemy Intelligence Department is now in charge of Liu Neng, but he doesn't know that such a big thing happened, in fact, he has been a little derelict in his duties. However, Chen Yue did not blame him, because these days, the main focus of the Qi State Mansion was Dongfan, as well as Zhejiang, Fujian and other places related to Dongfan.

It turned out that Chen Jianghe was alive and was the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and many of the people in the Jinyi Guard came from the Pingnan Army, and later Chen Jianghe died, and the Jinyi Guard had no relationship with the Chen family after being cleaned, and Chen Yue had no eyes and ears in Nanjing, and the focus was not on the court after he kept filial piety.

"How many people are there in the Enemy Intelligence Division now?" Chen Yue asked.

"There are a total of one hundred and thirty-five people, and there are also some peripheral personnel, the number of which is unknown." Liu Nengyu reports.

With only more than a hundred subordinates, Chen Yue couldn't help frowning.

"You prepare, I will recommend you to the imperial court as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, you have to mobilize good manpower, and when you arrive in Nanjing, you will quickly control the Jinyi Guard, and prepare my eyes and ears for sending troops to fight the traitors!" Chen Yue commanded.

"Commander of the Jinyi Guard?" Liu Neng's eyes widened suddenly. That's the Jinyi Guard who made the people talk about it, and it's the commander of the Jinyi Guard! How could such a title fall on his head, which made Liu Neng unthinkable no matter what!

"According to the merits you have made over the years, the position is not below Yu Feng and them in terms of meritorious deeds, not to mention that with your ability, it is more than enough to be the commander of this brocade guard. Now Jinyiwei is all rice buckets, and they don't even know anything about such a big thing as the confluence of the west, what are they doing on weekdays? Chen Yue said angrily.

Supervising hundreds of officials internally and exploring the enemy's situation externally was originally the duty of Jinyiwei, and after Chongzhen became the emperor, Jinyiwei's performance was too weak, even if Chongzhen was determined to rebuild the factory guard, the situation did not change much.

This time, he was called to Nanjing to extinguish the fire, so he naturally had to put forward some conditions, and installing his own people as the commander of the Jinyi Guard was one of the conditions.

Liu Neng is not good at leading troops to fight, but he is a natural good agent, and persuading Hao Shaoqi to lead troops to rescue Jiujiang is the best proof.

What to do and what not to do Liu Neng knows very clearly, and many things don't need Chen Yue's orders. But there is one thing that Chen Yue needs to figure out.

"You should know about the three princes, right?" Chen Yue asked.

Liu Neng nodded: "Wei Yang explained to me. ”

Last time, Chen Yue sent Weiyang to meet the third prince Zhu Cijiong, but he fell short because the Qing troops sent troops from Shandong to attack Huai'an, causing the three princes to escape from the grasp of the enemy intelligence department. After that, in order to avoid Chongzhen's suspicion and unnecessary trouble, Chen Yue ordered the news of the three princes to be quietly passed on to Jinyiwei, and Jinyiwei was responsible for rescuing the enemy and no longer cared about this matter.

And now Chongzhen is seriously ill, the third prince is Chongzhen's only son, if Chongzhen dies, the third prince is the best candidate to inherit the throne, Chen Yue can no longer ignore it.

Judging from the news that we know now, Jinyiwei did not succeed in rescuing the three princes, I don't know if it was not found or what, after all, Shandong is now the territory of the Qing army, and a large number of Manchu troops are stationed.

"After you arrive in Nanjing, you must immediately send people to find the three princes, and I will give you the power to draw elites from the army, and if necessary, you can contact Wu Ping in Shandong, and ask him to send an army to respond. After finding it, be sure to bring the three princes safely to Nanjing. Chen Yue commanded.

"Subordinates obey!" Liu Neng agreed, but his face hesitated a little and he stopped talking.

"What's the matter, what else do you have to say?" Chen Yue asked indifferently.

"Grandpa Guo, is it really necessary for the third prince to save him?" Liu Neng gritted his teeth and asked the doubts in his heart.

Being in the Qi State Mansion system, Liu Neng naturally knew what Shan Minglei, Qian Fenglin, and even Gu Junen and other core thoughts, and they all hoped that Chen Yue could ascend to the throne, or even replace Ming, in that case, wouldn't the three princes be an obstacle to Chen Yue's accession?

"Don't think about it and do what you have to do!" Chen Yue didn't say much, didn't explain, and said coldly.

Liu Neng's heart was fluttering, and he suddenly remembered that Wei Yang was dismissed and driven out of the Enemy Intelligence Division, and he didn't dare to ask or say more.

Looking at Liu Neng's back, Chen Yue nodded slightly, this Liu Neng's brain is flexible enough, unlike Wei Yang's wooden Gada, who easily listens to others.

On the third day of March in the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, Chen Yue and his entourage arrived outside the city of Nanjing, and before entering the city, there were eunuchs in the palace outside the city gate, and conveyed Chongzhen's oracle to Chen Yue, and ordered Chen Yue to enter the palace quickly. ()

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