According to the plan.

After leaving Yangzhou, the next stop is Zhenjiang.

Once you reach Zhenjiang, you can abandon the boat and go ashore by land to reach Yingtianfu Nanjing City.

Zhu Youzhen was also a little tired after sitting on the boat for several days.

I was tired of seeing the mighty river, so I just lay on the rattan chair to enjoy the coolness.

"The beautiful scenery of a good day is a day, and the courtyard is ...... of pleasure"

Whenever this happens, Zhu Youzhen will ask Chen Yuanyuan to sing a few lines of Kunqu Opera.

Chen Yuanyuan, who was born in the pear orchard, is round, and he is especially good at Danjiao, so he sings the peony pavilion with a unique flavor.

What's more, it is also a pleasure to watch her world-class face while listening to her gentle and crisp voice.

Yuan Guifei would always send the peeled lychees into Zhu Youzhen's mouth at this time.

And Queen Zhou still sat dignified next to the boat.

She smiled only when Princess Changping appeared in front of her.

Maybe for Empress Zhou.

She couldn't enjoy the tranquility brought to them by Jiangnan like the other concubines.

In her heart, she has always been concerned about the former capital and the past years.

At this time, He Xin, the imperial horse supervisor, walked in: "Your Majesty, there is news from Nanjing, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived in Shanghai County ten days ago, and has now arrived in Nanjing ahead of schedule; Jingnan Bohuang Degong also sent back the news that the kings of Yue and Ning had also arrived in Nanchang. ”

After listening to this, Zhu You nodded and didn't say anything.

After all, now that he, the emperor, has safely entered Jiangnan, it means that the entire southward migration operation has been successful.

Even if the crown prince Zhu Cihong and the other two princes also reached the south, they no longer had much political significance.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen didn't have much reaction.

However, Empress Zhou, as a mother, was more excited than Zhu Youzhen, and stood up happily when she heard that her imperial son had arrived in Nanjing safely.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, how are they now, are they injured, and do the lords and bureaucrats in Jiangnan despise them?"

Empress Zhou asked.

He Xin, the imperial horse supervisor, hurriedly replied: "Hui Niangniang, the three highnesses are not injured, the old ministers of the East Palace, Wang Duo, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Shenyan, the secretary of the Nanjing household department, took the officials of Jiangnan to Qingpu County to pick up His Royal Highness the Prince, and the officials such as Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, and other officials personally received the two highnesses of King Yue and King Ning in Bozhou City. ”

"That's good", Queen Zhou heard that there were important ministers to protect her, and she was naturally relieved in her heart.

And Zhu Youzhen keenly noticed that something was wrong.

The wind rises at the end of the green pings, and sometimes the slightest difference can make people notice the slightest mistake.

"Where are we now?"

After Zhu Youzhen asked, he turned on the fan and kept talking, feeling that the June sky was getting hotter and hotter, as if as long as there was a little spark, the whole world would burn.

He Xin hurriedly replied: "Now I have arrived at Zhenjiang Dantu. ”

"Let me ask you, how far is it from Nanjing to Qingpu, and how far is it from Nanjing to Zhenjiang?"

Zhu Youzhen suddenly looked at He Xin very seriously. 、

"Back to Your Majesty, it takes three days to travel from Nanjing to Qingpu, and it only takes one day to travel from Nanjing to Zhenjiang Dantu."

After He Xingang answered Zhu Youzhen's words, he also noticed that something was wrong here, and hurriedly said: "Something is wrong, why can the officials in Nanjing go to Qingpu, which is nearly thousands of miles away, to greet His Royal Highness the Prince, but never come to Zhenjiang, which is only a few dozen miles away?" ”

Zhu Youzhen also felt at this time that the civil and military officials in Nanjing did not seem to welcome him as the emperor.

Although Zhu Youzhen didn't know why these civil and military officials in Nanjing didn't welcome him, he knew that he definitely didn't welcome him because it didn't meet their interests.

This is the same reason that many officials in the capital prevented them from moving south, and they did not want to control their fancy world as the emperor.

"Now that the prince has arrived in Nanjing, and the prince has always been gentle and deceitful, and I have always been tough, they feel that they don't need to be the emperor anymore."

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but snort as he spoke: "Okay, he is really a good courtier of me, and he doesn't even give me the face of the emperor." ”

"Your Majesty! Wechen is worried that they will even make even more rebellious moves, Your Majesty should not forget that Emperor Wuzong and Emperor Guangzong, who have all died so far, as well as the first emperor. ”

He Xin's sudden words made Zhu Youzhen feel the seriousness of the matter even more.

Just like the imperial horse supervisor He Xin said.

Zhu Houzhao, who has always loved martial arts and has a strong physique, died directly after Emperor Zhengde fell into the water, and Emperor Guangzong, Emperor Taichang, ascended the throne but died suddenly in January, saying that it was caused by indulgence; His imperial brother, Tianqi Zhu Youxiao, also died because of the pills of the civil official Huo Weihua.

Thinking of the revenge of Li Mingrui and other civil officials against the Confucian Mansion, the more Zhu Youzhen thinks about it now, the more he feels that after coming to Jiangnan, it does not seem to mean that he can enter a short period of peace.

There seems to be an undercurrent surging beneath the calm surface.

Those officials who don't want to go to Jiangnan, the emperor who likes to monopolize power, are afraid that they are already planning how to make themselves disappear from this world forever, and then help the young prince to ascend the throne, so that their southern officials, especially the Donglin Party, will be able to uphold the dynasty program alone.

"If these people really dare to be so mad, don't blame me for being too cruel!"

Zhu Youzhen said fiercely.

At this time, Chen Yuanyuan saw that His Majesty Zhu Youzhen had an angry look on his face, and he didn't dare to sing anymore, and stood aside obediently.

Yuan Guifei also stopped peeling lychees.

Empress Zhou was very calm: "All this may be just your conjecture, Your Majesty, but you must not be unguarded, and please leave here quickly, and you don't have to worry about the concubines and concubines." ”

"Your Majesty, give an order, just in case, Weichen will go and arrest all the boatmen on this imperial boat and interrogate them severely!"

As soon as He Xin said this, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand: "Don't be in a hurry first, so as not to startle the snake." ”

"We're just suspicious now, but if there really are big rebels who want to make a move against me, they will definitely not act rashly, after all, I have an army of 80,000 around me, and the most important thing now is that the enemy is in the shadows, we are in the light, we don't know when they will do it, but they are definitely waiting for the opportunity, and what we have to do is to disrupt their deployment and not give them a chance to implement it."

After Zhu Youzhen said this, he instructed He Xinsu to prepare a few small boats, and added a few guards officers and soldiers who could swim on the grounds of strengthening vigilance.

Then, more than a dozen people on the imperial boat, such as Zhu Youzhen and Empress Zhou, pretended to be officers and soldiers and quietly left the imperial boat in the middle of the night.

According to Zhu Youzhen, the most unreliable and potentially dangerous people around him are these temporarily recruited boatmen.

Because no one knows if there are gangsters among them.

Zhu Youzhen decided to make a plan and leave the imperial boat by pretending to be guards officers and soldiers on shifts, and then quietly ambushed many guards officers and soldiers who were good at swimming in the imperial boat, so as to capture the gangsters who were very likely to appear.

Of course, this may just be a misunderstanding on the part of Zhu Youzhen, and nothing happened to get the imperial boat from beginning to end.

However, in that case, it is nothing, after all, Zhu Youzhen finally went ashore safely and quietly, so that the ulterior motives in Nanjing could not guess that the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen would suddenly leave the southern retreat team and secretly rush to Nanjing City.