His Majesty the Emperor issued a decree, which immediately caused emergency mobilization and response from all parts of Zhejiang.

In particular, the city of Hangzhou, which is the core of the capital of Zhejiang, has gathered all the people and horses in the city and more than 10 counties under its rule within two days, and more than 30,000 soldiers and horses have gathered at once.

Obviously, this time, the impact of the two state cities and more than ten county towns being broken by the Haikou was too great for the emperor and the imperial court, so they had to use thunder means to quell the thieves to vent, so their reaction was naturally greater than imagined.

In the eyes of some people of insight, this is obviously unreasonable.

Not to mention anything else, such a big move, raising the troops of Zhejiang to fight in the past, will the Haikou who are only a thousand in number really obediently wait in place to be surrounded and attacked by you?

I am afraid that when the time comes, the people will have already fled back to the sea with the looted wealth, materials and people.

Even, more worried about the previous one, so that all the soldiers and horses from all over the country were transferred to Luzhou and Ningzhou to break the thieves, so that the other state capitals in Zhejiang are empty, if these thieves are reduced to zero, and suddenly appear in other state capitals, what should we do?

It was not that no one mentioned these worries and worries to the emperor, but these admonitions were all rejected by the angry emperor.

It is said that the newly appointed Hangzhou governor Luo Yongkeng repeatedly spoke and tried his best to dissuade him, but as a result, he completely angered the Son of Heaven, and was ordered to be pulled outside the palace, and in front of other courtiers and people, he was severely punished with fifty boards, and then his official position was taken away and he was imprisoned.

An official who was bent on thinking about the imperial court ended up like this, and he was as guilty as two criminal officials who abandoned the people and abandoned the city, which naturally put the other officials in danger and did not dare to make any more suggestions.

So, three days later, His Majesty the Emperor had already driven the expedition in person, with 30,000 soldiers and horses in Hangzhou City, raised the banner, and went straight to the south.

When the emperor's banner covered the dragon and left the city surrounded by countless soldiers and horses, all the people, officials, some were relieved, and some showed hesitation.

If the enemy can break the enemy and recapture the two places, it will be fine, but once something goes wrong, the destructive power of the Dayue Imperial Court, which has just established a foothold in the south, will be immeasurable.

It's just that this worry, those who know it don't dare to say it in front of others, after all, there is already a Luo Yongkeng who has been convicted for this, and no one wants to be the second to suffer because of this.

And these reactions naturally fell into the eyes of more well-intentioned people, for example, Ji Ye, who changed his disguise and changed his name and surname, but was still hidden in Hangzhou.

Yes, as a key figure in one of the few clans of the Ji family who fled abroad, he Ji Ye has not escaped from Zhejiang and even the border of Jiangnan as many people imagined.

In the past ten days, he has been hiding in Hangzhou, and has been observing the various responses and arrangements of the government.

Especially after the accidents in Ningzhou and Luzhou, he took a great risk and personally went outside, constantly observing everyone's reactions and eavesdropping on everyone's discussions in the densely populated restaurants and tea shops, as well as at the yamen.

Maybe it's because of the darkness under the lights, the imperial court obviously didn't expect him to dare to stay in Hangzhou, so although he has long been hunted down by the painting, he has never been seen by anyone in front of people after changing his disguise, let alone being suspected by the government.

And such a risky act, the harvest of Ji Ye is also quite large.

The various decisions and reactions of the imperial court were naturally known to him early on, and today, he saw the emperor personally leading the army out of the city.

When he watched the banner cover finally disappear at the end of sight, and watched the tens of thousands of troops also turn into a thin line, Ji Ye's face finally showed a look of ecstasy uncontrollably.

"It's a big deal!" He muttered something in a low voice, then lowered his head, quickly left the crowd and went straight to his quarters.

This is an extremely remote and inconspicuous small courtyard located in the south of the city.

There are many houses around it that have long been vacant, and everyone hardly knows who the owners of these vacant houses are.

In fact, the owners of these empty houses are all families, and it is the Ji family.

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They did not buy these houses in their own name and together, but in the name of the distant relatives of the slaves in the family, and it took them several years to buy dozens of courtyards here.

These courtyards, whether it is the location or the pattern, are obviously completely incompatible with a wealthy merchant like the Ji family, and naturally no one will associate this place with it.

And this is exactly what the Ji family wants to see, because of the three holes of the cunning rabbit, this is the way back they left. If the family is in danger, some people can be hidden.

It's just that they didn't expect that this catastrophe would come so suddenly and violently, almost making them have no time to respond, Ji Du, the head of the family, was taken down by the government, and then the official army directly came to the door to investigate, and also found an astonishing amount of silk inventory from the courtyard of his home!

They thought that they would avoid trouble by taking out the silk from the warehouse and hiding it at home, but in the end, they ended up lifting a stone and hitting themselves in the foot, which became the deadliest evidence.

So the entire Ji family, except for Ji Ye, who was ordered to contact the Fusang people early in the morning, the others were almost wiped out.

And this so-called cunning rabbit three holes has become a joke.

Of course, now it seems that this still plays a little role, at least Ji Ye can live here, and there are some more important people who have also been arranged by him to hide in the mansion here.

After coming to the mansion here and confirming that there were no problems around, Ji Ye entered another small courtyard on the side through the side door.

In this way, he stepped through three dilapidated small courtyards from the inside, and finally came to his true destination.

After revealing his identity, he pushed the door through the surveillance of two Fuso warriors hidden in the shadow of the beams, and saw a man who was also short, but with an amazing momentum: "Mr. Oda, everything is as we planned, at least eighty percent of the Dayue officers and troops in Hangzhou and other places have been transferred, and this place has almost become an empty city!"

As the words fell, the Fuso samurai, who had been closing his eyes all along, suddenly opened his eyes and slowly spoke, "Very good, that means that our overall plan has been successful and can be launched!"

"But I don't know the ...... of those people."

"They have gone through this period of time to hide in all the important places in Hangzhou. Tomorrow night is when we get into action!" Yunobu Oda smiled confidently.

Hangzhou is already in his pocket, and this is just the beginning of his meritorious service to the Oda Domain!