Just when Yang Feng and Zhu Di colluded and were about to go south to complete the final blow to Zhu Yunwen, King Wu of the Ming Dynasty was standing on the bank of the Yangtze River with a desolate face.

Of course, he wasn't ready to throw himself into the river.

But in the current situation, he is not far from this step.

Anyway, Suzhou basically cut off his retreat, fortunately, he was in Zhenjiang at the time, so he did not fall into the hands of Han Sheng like Wu Shouan and Yao Shan, and at this time, the places that were loyal to him had not changed, after all, there were too many messy things in the recent period, coupled with the different objects of allegiance of all parties, which led to the transmission of the post station was also affected, and it is estimated that many remote places did not even know that Yang Feng had appeared.

Zhenjiang is a good place to control Jiangnan and Jiangbei, which is more suitable for him than Suzhou.

So after learning the news that Suzhou was anyway, he immediately mobilized his guards and rushed to Suzhou to try to recapture this city that was vital to him by force.

At the same time, he ordered Wu Jie, Marquis of Anlu, who had been in Zhejiang, to also attack Suzhou.

However......

As soon as his escort arrived in Suzhou, he defected.

In fact, behind Han Sheng's old age, it was the Suzhou gentry who had determined that Zhu Yunwen was out of play, so they hurriedly cut off with him, and Han Sheng had also lived in Suzhou for decades, and there were local tyrants and inferior gentry who colluded in the city, so they had already contacted him in advance. As soon as he arrived with Jin Shanwei's soldiers, he opened the door to him in Suzhou City, and the Suzhou Guards, who had also been contacted a long time ago, directly surrounded Wu Wangfu to arrest Yao Shan. And the main force of the guards sent by Zhu Yunwen was still the children of the gentry in Suzhou, and after they went back, the elders of the family behind them sent people over halfway to say that they would quickly defect when they arrived in the city of Suzhou.

Then Suzhou, Changzhou, and Songjiang all over the country have gone anyway.

As for Wu Jie in Zhejiang, of course, he did not hesitate to defect.

He is the second-generation Marquis of An Lu, and his father Wu Fucai is a brother with Emperor Daxing, so he is not in any danger, so why follow Zhu Yunwen again?

The hegemony of King Wu of the prison country came to an abrupt end, not to mention that it was difficult to call on the world to be loyal and righteous, and even his own royal city had already defected, at this moment he stood on the bank of the Yangtze River with no hope and no way back, looking at the surging river in front of him, and couldn't help but feel sad. It's a pity that he used to be ambitious, to be a holy lord Mingjun, but now he can only face all the losses, he is not not working hard, he has worked hard, he is not not virtuous enough, those scholars and Confucian scholars all regard him as a virtuous saint.

With a single edict, he could make several provinces obey it immediately in the blink of an eye, and hundreds of thousands of troops obeyed the order in an instant.

However, that demon-like man only needs to walk over single-handedly and let those fierce generals with heavy weapons die, and they really die.

Then hundreds of thousands of troops defected without the slightest resistance.

He has worked so hard, how can it be such a result?

He has worked so hard, why can't he get rid of this demon?

hollowed out his heart, exhausted his strength, and finally lost to this demon, and even lost so pitifully that no one fought against him.

It's just a trip out.

Then his success collapsed in an instant.

At this moment, he was in the mood like Chongzhen, who was standing on the coal mountain more than two hundred years later, and just wanted to look up to the sky and sigh......

The ministers mistook me!

"Your Royal Highness, now the situation is critical, you have to plan early, with the plan of the ministers, it is better to board the ship and go south, all the armies here are waiting and seeing, if Yang Regent's army really comes, I am afraid that most of them will betray His Highness, but Wang Bi is still in Annan, he is in the Yang Reverse Death Rank, and he will definitely support His Highness." Fujian and Guangdong are loyal and righteous, and all kinds of promises made by His Royal Highness before are what he wants, with Wang Bi's army as the backing, this generation will inevitably continue to be used by His Royal Highness, not to mention that the King of Jingjiang and the Mu family can also be connected, and when the time comes, Meiling will be locked off, and Tiannan will wait for its changes. ”

Qi Tai said cautiously.

Of course, so much, it's all false, and the core is a sentence.

It's time to run.

And only this one direction can escape.

After all, it is useless to go north, and to the south has already defected, so you can only take a boat to go to sea and then go south to Fujian and Guangdong, but Fujian has Ma He, if Yan Wang also chooses to cooperate with Yang Feng, then Ma He will definitely defect.

There is no such danger in Guangdong, but the number of local troops in Guangdong is limited.

The real heavy army in the south is Wang Bi's Annan Army, which was left to temporarily suppress the local army after the conquest of Annan, with a total strength of more than 150,000, and Wang Bi was ready to go north before, so Guangxi is actually under its control, plus Guangxi's more than 200,000, which is not counting the local Tusi of Annan and those Tusi in Guangxi. These toasts can also be mobilized, anyway, it is to give them benefits, as long as they promise to take them to the north to burn and loot, they will join very happily, and the He family in Guangdong has always acted as Wang Bi's logistics transportation, and the two sides cooperate closely, which can basically be regarded as an alliance.

Wang Bi is on Yang Feng's list.

He will not sit still.

What the He family and the local generals in Guangdong want is overseas trade, and whoever opens up overseas trade to them will support whomever they want, and the same is true for those in Fujian.

At present, the only one who has clearly opened up overseas trade is Zhu Yunwen.

In fact, in the past six months, taking advantage of the chaotic situation in the north, the imperial court has not taken care of too much, and the maritime merchants of Fujian and Guangdong provinces have already begun to go directly to sea.

The system of compulsory settlement of foreign exchange is also ignored.

It can be said that the sweetness has been tasted, after all, it will not take a few days to get from Guangzhou to Luzon.

What's more, Annan has been taken, and the sailors who are currently staying in Annan are under the jurisdiction of Dongguan Bo He Rong, and his family has a good relationship with Lan Yu, and Daming is in the control area of Annan, in fact, he has already arrived in Hoi An, and Zhancheng is doing his best to show loyalty to Daming, like the Guangdong military generals led by the He family, Haoqiang, to trade in Nanyang, it can be said that there is no danger.

Then smuggled into Daming.

If the imperial court, or Yang Feng, wants to restore the old system next, not to mention the imperial court's monopoly on overseas trade, or the resumption of compulsory foreign exchange settlement, it is likely to trigger a revolt from these gentry who eat the marrow and know the taste.

Including the Annan Corps.

They were secretly engaged in smuggling in Annan itself, and now they are even more openly smuggling.

Therefore, relying on Wang Bi's support, and relying on the distance far enough, he temporarily survived in Annan, if there were major changes in the imperial court during this period, which made these places unacceptable, then he would have hope, on the contrary, if Yang Feng and the Fujian and Guangdong gentry reached an agreement during this period, then he would have no hope. So the key is to run, only by escaping here can there be hope, otherwise you will wait for death, although the officials in various places still have not defected, although they still have tens of thousands of troops.

But......

As soon as Yang Feng came, all of them had to be traitors.

In the final analysis, the Zhili around the capital, including Zhejiang and even Jiangxi, have basically benefited from the technological progress brought by Yang Feng over the years.

Confucianism was indeed anti-Yang Feng.

But the problem is that these places are not only Confucianism!

Even those gentry don't mean that they can go to the soup for Confucianism, it's a miracle that they really have such hard bones!

It was also very refreshing when I knelt down with the Mongols.

Could it be that their hostility towards Yang Feng is stronger than that of other races?

When they knelt on Zhu Yuanzhang, they were also very happy.

Could it be that Yang Feng is more hateful than Zhu Yuanzhang?

In the final analysis, they are all following the flag-waving and shouting, and there is no fundamental contradiction in interests, just because of the reform of the imperial examination, because he does not use Confucianism, then these gentry really have no desperate motivation, even if he reforms the imperial examination, it is nothing more than turning to new learning. In the final analysis, they study Confucianism only because of the Confucianism in the imperial examination, and if the imperial examination does not take Confucianism, then they will soon abandon Confucianism.

These guys who can sing praises to the Mongolians are still very adaptable.

Can't count on them.

"The princes mistook me!"

Zhu Yunwen sighed.

Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng turned their heads in embarrassment.

At this time, on the river downstream, a huge fleet of ships appeared in their field of vision.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, Dongguan Bo is here with the King of Qin."

At the same time, Fang Xiaoru's cousin Lu Yuanzhi shouted excitedly as he ran.

Among the battleships, most of which are new-type gunboats, there are two giant double-decker gunboats, and on one of the giant ships flutters the handsome flag of the word He, representing Dongguan Bo He Rong, who is currently in charge of the Southern Expeditionary Division......

Four days later.

Fengyang.

"He Rong, what does he mean by this?"

Yang Feng looked at the urgent report in his hand in surprise.

Dongguan Bo He Rong led the southern expeditionary water division to the north to Qinwang......

Of course, it is the king of Wu who is diligent.

Then he picked up Zhu Yunwen in Zhenjiang, this fleet of 20,000 sailors, set sail the next day after arriving in Zhenjiang, turned around and left with Zhu Yunwen, because it was going downstream, at this time they should have been out of the Yangtze River, and after Zhu Yunwen left, officials in Zhenjiang, Yangzhou and other places hurriedly announced as soon as possible anyway.

The rebellion was over.

However, Yang Feng still didn't understand, why did He Rong come to this troubled water?

He is not on the list of deaths, and as long as a place like him does not die, no one will touch them.

"They are in Guangzhou, and our banks have long been run on the verge of collapse, and now most of the transactions in Guangdong have been changed to gold, silver and copper coins, and those who go to sea to trade and those who come by sea do not need to exchange treasure money, just like a group of wolves have just tasted the smell of blood, and they have been happy for a few days, and they want everything to return to their original state, so it's strange that they can endure it! If you get Yun Wei over, you can use his banner to coax others to continue to resist together, in the end, they are far away from the emperor, as long as they can block it, they can continue their happy life.

It's nothing if you can't stop it.

A day is counted as a day.

It's really unstoppable, it's a big deal to get on the boat and run away.

The He family has long had smuggling bases on several small islands off the coast of Guangdong, and even before they were not law-abiding.

They have always had trade with Nanyang, and they have relied on this since the beginning of time. ”

The little princess said as she sipped an ice-cold drink.

She is very sensitive to this problem, in the chaos of most of the year, the bank has lost a lot, and she is watching the loss reports from all over the country catch fire!

Beiping, Xi'an, even if Kaifeng is not serious.

After all, even those who guarded the army had to give her face after all, no matter what, she was the sister of these vassal kings after all, and Yang Feng did not loot and destroy the bank.

However, the losses of banks in Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Susongchang are not small.

Guangdong is the most serious.

Fujian is still sensible.

And Guangdong is mainly the local tycoons led by the He family, who have long hated the banks because of the forced settlement of foreign exchange and financial monopoly, and the shopkeepers of the Bank of Guangzhou have been thrown into the Pearl River by them.

The gentry of Guangdong can understand the economy, and it is precisely because they understand the economy that they understand how vicious the financial monopoly and forced settlement of foreign exchange are to them, the good townsmen who build bridges and repair roads.

And He Zhen is the standard kind of person who once shaved his head, a big landlord who cultivated and read heirlooms, became an official in the salt field, and there was an anti-Yuan uprising in the local area, he ran to inform, and then organized the landlord armed himself, relying on the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty to continue to make the rebel army that exterminated Guangdong for the Yuan Dynasty to become bigger, and finally controlled Guangdong step by step. After Zhu Yuanzhang settled the north and began to worry about Guangdong, he immediately surrendered very sensibly in order to keep the He family's foundation in Guangdong, although Zhu Yuanzhang gradually lifted local control later.

But the He family has always been the boss in Guangdong.

Even after his death, the He family was also a powerful leader in Guangdong.

Because it belongs to the family of cultivation and reading, the He Zhen family has a close relationship with Confucianism, and He Zhen himself has a relationship with Song Lian and even Fang Xiaoru.

As for smuggling......

Guangdong's Haoqiang doesn't do this, it's a miracle!

"Strange goods can live, no matter what happens afterwards, you must always have something in your hand in order to bargain with the imperial court, and what is more suitable than Yun Wei."

Zhu Di said indifferently.

Indeed, they are reluctant to live in the good old days that have already begun, and they want to continue to open up their trade to the sea, continue to maintain gold and silver trading, and stop the forced settlement of foreign exchange, but these must have a bargaining chip.

Negotiating, you have to be qualified to make an offer, how can you negotiate without bargaining chips?

And Zhu Yunwen is the best bargaining chip.

Take Zhu Yunwen over, and then negotiate with the imperial court, anyway, they are high in the sky, the emperor is far away, and the imperial court can't take care of cleaning them up in a short time and give them some concessions, then they will hand over Zhu Yunwen, if they continue to force the settlement of foreign exchange and monopolize overseas trade by the imperial court, then they will support Zhu Yunwen to resist, anyway, at this time, not only them, Fujian, Annan local factions are this kind of mind, why can't they fight?

"They are too naïve, Zhu Yunwen is a fart bargaining chip, the real bargaining chip is strength, only with strength can they be qualified to negotiate, just like the king, we can sit down and talk about any issue calmly, because the king has this strength, but what strength do they have, are they qualified to make any demands to the court?

By Wang Bi?

Wang Bi did have an army of 200,000.

But that was the official army of the imperial court, and he was not the domestic slave of the Wang family, he dared to oppose the imperial court, and his generals were the first to tie him up.

Ho Rong's sailor?

Fusang still has Qi Bin's sailor, Dengzhou also has Zhang Rong's sailor, and Fujian also has Ma He's sailor, who can his sailor beat? ”

Yang Feng said.

Then he looked at Zhu Di very meaningfully.

"Ambassador, Xiao Wang still has some old favors to Ma He, I think he already knows that Xiao Wang has entered Beijing at this time, and he will be blamed in the north."

Zhu Di said with a smile.

"Redeem the merits, he didn't get a reward for his merit in the Americas, so this time it should be offset."

Yang Feng said.

(End of chapter)