The town of Yangpu.

Whether the port will be chaotic or not, whether it will be chaotic or not, depends on the situation in Hangzhou.

A small boat came speeding from the west, and the town supervisor Cai Yanchen was already guarding the river, and asked without waiting for the boat to stop: "Can Hangzhou still hold it?" ”

The servant in charge of inquiring about the news stood on the boat and said, "Hangzhou has fallen!" ”

"Hurry up and take a boat south!" Cai Yanchen exclaimed.

The ship was ready, the family and goods were on board, and the master and servant rushed to the direction of the dock.

Another boat flew in, and the people on the boat shouted at the entrance of the town: "The Great Tomorrow Soldiers have conquered Hangzhou, and the Dog Emperor is afraid that he will be captured by the Heavenly Soldiers!" ”

There was thunder in the direction of the town street, and the people seemed to have suffered for a long time.

"Kill the dog!"

I don't know who roared, the people rushed towards the official office, and some people rushed to the salt field and the market.

The sailors who had tried to stop Li Bao before, but under the leadership of the officer, many warships surrounded a sea boat, and the town general Cao Huan's family tried to leave by boat.

"Brothers, you have something to say!" Cao Xun shouted in panic.

The officer of the water division sneered: "Since you came, a lot of oil and water are yours, and you refuse to share our profits at all, but today I want to ask you for a reward!" The officer said, "Go over in two boats, don't let Cai Yanchen's dog officer run away!" ”

When the news of Li Bao's capture of Hangzhou came, chaos finally began on the side of Yangpu Town.

This place is salt production and sea trade, can collect a large amount of taxes every month, and is also close to Hangzhou, naturally the focus of Song Huizong's exploitation.

Song Huizong himself wanted to make money, and the officials he sent also wanted to make money, and everyone from the officers and soldiers to the people had deep grievances.

This powder keg was detonated by Li Bao at this moment.

The officers and soldiers of the Navy Division stared at the two senior officials, and the ordinary people stared at the other officials. There were also ruffians who took advantage of the fire to loot, shouting and shouting to rob the port goods.

Everywhere there are shouts of killing, everywhere there are begs for mercy!

The maritime merchants who had unloaded but had not yet sold their goods could no longer care about the things outside their bodies, so they fled back to their ships and drove their ships out of Hangzhou Bay. But they were unwilling to give up completely, fantasizing that they could recoup their losses, so they cruised back and forth in the sea near Hangzhou Bay.

In the midst of the chaos, a sea ship sailed from Hangzhou, and hundreds of Ming troops landed in the town of Pengpu.

"No looting, go back to your own home, violators will be killed!"

Li Bao has also grown, he has experienced the chaos of the two Huai, and now he has matured a lot.

After attacking Hangzhou, he not only immediately maintained law and order inside and outside the city, but also divided his troops back and quickly took over the town of Lupu.

The officers and soldiers of the naval division grabbed Cao Huan and Cai Yanchen, and just moved the goods on the ship to the shore, but before they had time to share the spoils, they saw the Ming army arrive quickly.

The leading officer hurriedly went to greet him: "The last general, Feng Mingxia, bring the soldiers under his command to the right." We are all from Hangzhou, and we have been suffering for a long time, and now we have arrested the whole family of two dog officials, and we are about to go to Hangzhou to dedicate to the heavenly soldiers! ”

"Very good, you will follow me to the town and receive the official offices from all over the place first." It was a civil servant who spoke.

In order to quickly stabilize the southeast, Li Bao temporarily transferred more than 200 officials from various prefectures and counties on the north bank of the Yangtze River to accompany the army. In order to avoid suspicion and not have enough energy, he directly wrote letters to the chief officials in various places, and asked each prefecture and county to select and send officials by themselves, with ranks ranging from Cao Guan, the main bookkeeper to the post department.

At this moment, the person in charge of receiving the town of Lupu is a priest from Huainan.

This man will temporarily serve as the town supervisor until the imperial court sends a formal official, or he will simply be regularized in place.

Under the deterrence of hundreds of Ming troops, Feng Mingxia, the general who had just surrendered, led his troops to follow the new official to quell the chaos. At the same time, he sent out his ships to inform the seamen that they could return.

……

Pu Ma Beh took a boat back to the port, and in just one hour, the place was stable again.

Apart from the blood stains on the ground, there was no sign that there had been a riot just now.

He asked the translator he had hired: "Was there a rebel attack just now?" What happened to the Emperor of Qin (China)? ”

The translator didn't understand too much, so he ran to inquire, and came back and said to Pu Mabe: "Hangzhou has been captured, and the emperor may have been killed." ”

Pu Mabei looked shocked: "The emperor is dead? My gift was given for nothing? ”

The translator sighed and said, "It must have been given away for nothing." ”

Pu Mabe is a big food merchant, and the "big food" here is a generic term, but he actually came from the Seljuk Empire.

His real name was Abu Muhammad.

Song Renxi added "A" in front of his surname, such as A Zhang, A Wang, and A Lin.

And the names of the big food merchants, the syllables in front of them are mostly Abu and Ali.

As a result, Abu became the surname Pu, and Ali became the surname Li.

The merchants mainly traded in Guangdong and Fujian, and in order to gain long-term trading status, they often gave gifts to officials and even emperors.

And the shot is extremely generous, and the information is also very well-informed.

When Song Zhenzong sealed Mount Tai, the big food merchant reacted quickly and offered a jade gui more than a foot long from Guangzhou. He also said that he was the fifth ancestor, obtained from the Western prophets, and has been carefully kept until now, and heard that the Chinese emperor wanted to seal the Zen and hurriedly sent it.

Pu Ma Be's previous trade in Fujian, where the competition was too fierce, so he thought of coming further north.

He learned from an interpreter that the Chinese emperor had gone south to hunt in Hangzhou and lived in the palace of Hangzhou. Pu Mabu hurriedly sailed here and sent a large number of gifts to Song Huizong, which immediately won the attention of the Hangzhou Municipal Department of Shipping, and the officials even arranged a special tooth bank to contact him for business.

Pu Mabe asked, "Didn't the Emperor of Qin go hunting in Hangzhou?" How could it be killed by the rebels? ”

The translator had to tell the truth: "The emperor was so frightened by the rebels that he fled, and for the sake of the emperor's face, he would declare to the public that he was going out to hunt." The capital of Qin was in the north, which had already been captured by the rebels, and now the rebels had pursued them to Hangzhou. In the future, they can no longer be called rebels, and their leader is the new emperor of the Qin state. Perhaps, you need to re-gift. It's okay if you don't give a gift, but you certainly won't get a discount. ”

Pu Mabe's goods had already been sold, and he also paid the down payment to buy Chinese goods from Hangzhou.

The Chinese goods were piled up in warehouses, some of which had even been paid and had to be loaded onto the ship to wait for the monsoon and ocean currents.

With his buddies and translators, he tried to get his goods back.

Some have been snatched by the rioters, and the rest are all sealed. When Pu Ma Be's evidence was presented, he took ownership of the remaining goods the next day.

Pu Mabe wrote in his diary: "The Qin State has a new name, which used to be called Song, and now it is called Ming. In the Qin State called Song, the officials were corrupt and would always try their best to exploit foreign merchants. And the Qin State, which is called Ming, has extremely clean and efficient officials. I had just been through the war, and my goods were seized, and they could have refused to hand them over, but I got them back...... Praise the great new emperor of Qin! ”

The officials of the Song Dynasty were really corrupt and bold.

When Zhu Ming was first admitted to the Jinshi, there were big food merchants trading along the coast of Guangxi, and with some high-end goods (excellent spices), they planned to go to Tokyo to meet the emperor and engage in tributary trade.

Cai Mengxiu, an official of Hengzhou Shicao, was responsible for accompanying the big food merchants into Beijing, deliberately delaying time on the way, forcing the other party to sell the goods to him at a loss.

Those spices, but the tributes registered in the city, and the officials dared to buy and swallow the tributes of the state.

After getting the goods back, Pu Ma did not ask to meet Li Bao.

He took the translator and two retinues and came to Hangzhou cautiously, but saw that the commerce here was somewhat depressed, and many inland merchant ships outside Hangzhou had escaped.

At the gate of the city, many people were gathering to read the notice.

The interpreter also ran to see it, and came back and said: "The general of the Qin State who captured Hangzhou is called Li Bao, and he appeased the people who were afraid of war, told those who fled to come back quickly, and promised not to kill any innocent people. The emperor to whom Your Excellency gave the gift was not killed, but fled in the chaos. Whoever catches him will be rewarded with official positions and money. ”

Pu Mabei came to the city gate to line up, and the search into the city was very strict, and the gifts he brought were rummaged through before he was finally allowed to enter the city.

On the streets, soldiers patrol from time to time, but they do not harass the people.

But it was by no means so harmonious, and Pu Mabe soon saw a group of soldiers, rushing into a mansion like a tiger and a wolf, arresting the owner of the house and seizing the belongings.

The interpreter hurriedly inquired and came back to him: "This is the residence of the ministers of the Song Emperor, and some escaped yesterday while there was chaos, but there are still people who have not had time to escape, and the money in the house has not been taken away." The palace of the Song Emperor was also seized, but General Li was not in Hangzhou, and he was seen leading his troops out of the city. ”

"Did he lead the army to capture the Song Emperor?" Pu Ma Bei asked.

The translator guessed: "Probably, it is a great merit to catch the Song Emperor." ”

Of course, Li Bao is not chasing Song Huizong, how can it be so easy to search the mountains and check the sea?

He left a part of his army to garrison Hangzhou, and then divided his troops into two routes to the north to break up the Yangtze River defense line of the small imperial court in the southeast.

All the way along the Jiangnan Canal to the north, straight to Runzhou (Zhenjiang) and go.

All the way to the northwest, straight to Taiping Prefecture (Dangtu).

Take these two strategic points, and then attack Jiangning (Nanjing) from east to west.

Song Huizong's river defense was all in the north, but Li Bao led his troops to kill from behind, and basically did not encounter any resistance along the way, but the number of troops became more and more.

When Li Baoqin led a large army to approach Danyang, not only Danyang County ordered Kaicheng to surrender, but the guards of Runzhou (Zhenjiang) farther away also fled.

Cai You, who was suppressing thieves in Yixing, had just taken the opportunity of killing Zhu Mian to recruit those rebel troops, and suddenly heard that Hangzhou was gone, and the Ming army was approaching Danyang.

"It's over, everything is over......" Cai You looked at the south in a trance.

His wife and children were all in Hangzhou, and it was estimated that he had been captured by the Ming army, and the goods he brought from Tokyo must have been gone.

It may be dangerous to flee directly, and maybe the news will leak and be caught by the rebels who have just recruited An.

Cai You decided to play the emotional card, called the leaders of the rebel army, and said to these people: "I think you all know that the Ming army has captured Hangzhou, and the Great Song Dynasty is over. Eating the king's fortune, loyal to the king's affairs, I can't turn my back on the old lord to enlighten. It was not the original intention of the others to make trouble, and they were all forced by Zhu Mian's father and son. Now that Zhu Mian's father and son have been killed by me, you can disband and go home to serve the people on the spot, or you can lead the army to join the Ming court. Arrest me, you can go to the new dynasty to receive the reward, you guys, let's do it. ”

The leaders of the rebel army looked at each other, and they had a very good impression of Cai You.

Because Cai You killed Zhu Mian's father and son, and he didn't embarrass them after Zhao'an, and now he is showing them the way.

After everyone discussed, it was decided to let Cai You go, and then take the troops to join Li Bao.

When Cai You walked out of the door, his legs were shaking, and he finally fooled those guys.

The guy had already prepared the boat, and ran away with a few of his entourage.

And after Cai You left, the rebels did not leave immediately, they picked up their weapons and rushed to Cai You's barracks!

The barracks were full of Zhu Mian's private soldiers, which were notorious, and everyone was eager to eat his flesh.

(End of chapter)