On February 25th, Yunxi finished taking care of Zhu Xiancai's affairs and asked Luo Yi to exchange marriage certificates with her. Then he set off back to the capital in the afternoon of the same day. At this time, there were only thirteen days before the examination, and he was sitting
Even if the ship returned to the capital at the fastest, it would take more than twenty days. If he didn't set off, he might not be able to make it to the capital by the time the exams were completed and the papers were graded. He had to hurry up.
Before leaving, Yunxi told Li Jian: "Let 8 get on the boat and send him to the capital. I have decided to let him commit suicide, but he must not be buried in Annan or cremated, so I have to take him with him."
After arriving in the capital, he was given death and buried outside the city."
"All members of the Hu family, except for concubines who have never given birth, have also been shipped to the capital. I will not condemn them all to death, but I cannot allow them to stay in Annan."
He also ordered Hu Yan: "The general idea of your edict is that you deceive the emperor and rebel against the emperor. The nine clans should have been destroyed. However, I have shown mercy outside the law and pardoned the sins of all the Hu clan except 8, Hu Hancang and his son."
, moved to the vicinity of the capital of the Ming Dynasty and became a farmer; if they are willing to serve the Ming Dynasty, they can also be designated as a military household."
"All members of the Hu family are similar to the people of the Ming Dynasty. They can take the Ming Dynasty's scientific examinations. If recommended, they can be promoted to the Imperial Academy and students of the martial arts hall. I will not discriminate against them."
He also went to Zhang Wen's residence to visit Zhang Wen for the last time, and told him: "Mr. Zhang will take good care of his health here, and he will do everything with grace. Li Jian and others don't have to worry about it. When he returns to the capital, I will treat him well."
Sir, I will reward you for your contribution."
"Your Majesty, your Majesty has already rewarded me for my merits, so there is no need to give any more rewards; and this war minister has not made much merit, so he does not deserve to be rewarded by your majesty again. As for matters in the army, I can leave them to His Majesty the King.
Take it easy." Zhang Wen said.
"Is it possible for ordinary generals to lead an army of 500,000 people to march safely? This is a great achievement sir, and there is no need to shirk it." Yunxi said again.
Just as Zhang Wen was about to say something else, he suddenly started coughing, and the military doctor who had been standing by hurriedly came up. Yunxi stood up and finally said: "Mr. Zhang, take care of yourself, I will take my leave now."
After arranging all this, in the afternoon Shen Shichu Yunxi boarded the ship and left Annan under the farewell of 9, Zhu and others. Accompanying him were the first batch of more than 50,000 people from the guard station to evacuate from Annan.
Under the escort of the navy, a fleet of hundreds of ships that could cover the sky set sail from the port and sailed eastward.
Looking at the fleet going away, Jiu breathed a sigh of relief and was about to speak when he suddenly heard Zhu Zhen say: "Zanyi, since His Majesty has left, I have to return to my vassal country. Although there are Zhuo Jing and He in the vassal
You don’t have to worry about anything, Guan Fu, but it’s not good that I, the lord of the vassal, have been away all the time.” Most of the vassal kings got on the boat and returned north together, but Zhu Chu’s fiefdom was to the northwest of Annan, so he and Jiu bid farewell to Yun.
祥.
"If Uncle Eighteen wants to go back, my nephew won't do much to persuade him to stay," 9 said.
"Then I've packed up and prepared to go back in the past few days." Zhu Xi said with excitement on his face. He has been away from his fief for more than half a year and has long wanted to go back.
But then his face showed an unhappy look: "My general who knows the most about firearms was poached by the government. It's really, ugh."
"Uncle 18, look at the military equipment of countries like Siam. Where can we find firearms? Besides, we will have to fight Timur in the next two years. It is also a good thing for a general who is proficient in firearms to be brought to the court by my uncle." 9 advised.
road.
"That's all I can think of." Zhu Zhen said.
The two of them said a few more words and returned to the city with the rest of the people seeing them off.
9 When he returned to his palace, he took out a box from a hidden compartment under the Luohan bed in the study, opened it and took out a piece of yellow silk, unfolded it, looked at it, put it back in the box and hid it in the hidden compartment again.
Inside, he murmured to himself: "This thing probably won't be used anymore, but I'd better keep it for now and destroy it before I pass away."
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After setting off from Nam Dinh Port, the fleet arrived at the Pearl River Estuary at noon on the second day of March and anchored in a good harbor on Hong Kong Island.
The Navy Qianhu Station stationed on Hong Kong Island immediately provided the fleet with 2,000 chickens, 500 pigs and a large number of vegetables for the army to eat. The governor of Guangdong already knew when the fleet with the emperor would pass through the Pearl River.
Yunxi also wrote that he would not go to Guangzhou again, so he urgently purchased these chickens and pigs near Guangzhou and sent them to Hong Kong Island.
The Huotou Army killed more than 400 pigs and stewed the braised pork. The aroma spread everywhere for a while, making the soldiers move their index fingers and they wanted to take their rice bowls to serve the meat immediately.
Yunxi stood on the deck, looking at the soldiers queuing up to wait for the meat, while listening to the Guangdong Inspector Li Decheng say: "Your Majesty, more than 20 gentry families in Guangzhou have been dealt with, and more than a dozen of them will be punished.
Exiled to Annan."
"The number of Hakka households in various places has also been measured. After the local gentry is involved in the case, they can be relocated."
"There is a gentry Bai family in the city of Guangzhou, and several branches of them actually requested to go to Annan. Yang Ren was extremely surprised, and upon investigation he found out that this was done by the head of the family, Bai Wenyu. Yang Ren had already approved their request to move to Annan."
"This guy is quite sensible." Yun He sneered.
"Your Majesty, there is one more thing. Your Majesty previously ordered me to interrogate Han Yike, who was a traitor for Annan, in the Inspector's Office. During the interrogation, I learned that he was demoted to Hainan by Your Majesty in the 31st year of the Hongwu Period, so he held a grudge and defected to Annan." Li Decheng
Said again.
"I demoted him to Hainan back then? No wonder. But even so, we can't let him off lightly. Send an order to bind the capital for heinous crimes and punish him with Lingchi." Yunxi said.
Having said these two things, Li Decheng had nothing to report and bowed down. Then Zhang Yanfang, promoted by the Baoan City Shipping Department, stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, the customs duties of the Baoan City Shipping Department last year exceeded 300.
Wan Guan, an increase of 20% from the previous year."
"Okay. Zhang Aiqing is indeed a suitable official to be in charge of the Municipal Shipping Department. In the past few years, Aiqing has done very well both in Shanghai and Bao'an." Yunxi praised.
"Your Majesty is ridiculous. This is because your Majesty's decree is appropriate. It is not the merit of the minister. I dare not take the credit." Zhang Yanfang said.
"You don't have to say it like that." Yunxi said: "The government order is a government order, and I have done a lot of good work for you. There is no need to refuse." Yunxi said.
Zhang Yanfang did not say anything more about this, but said: "Your Majesty, it is just that in the last two months because of the Samarkand spy case, the public sentiment in the city was slightly unstable, so the tax revenue dropped slightly in these two months."
"There is nothing we can do about this. If the tax revenue is reduced next year, I will definitely not blame you." Yunxi said.
"Thank you for your consideration, Your Majesty," Zhang Yanfang said immediately.
Yunxi smiled, and suddenly thought of something again, and asked: "I remember that I was naturalized together with Su Dongli, the spy of the Samarkand Kingdom, and there was another merchant from the Ming Dynasty. It was verified that this person was not a spy and had nothing to do with this case, so
He was later released. Is he still doing business in the Shipping Department?"
"Your Majesty, this person sold his shop after being released and has left the Bao'an Shipping Department." Zhang Yanfang said.
"What a pity." Yunxi muttered. Although the Ming Dynasty is not short of money, no one can have too much money. It would be great if he could settle down in the Ming Dynasty with money. It's a pity that he can't.
After saying this, it was already dark. Yunxi said a few words to Zhang Yanfang and asked him to step back.
Yunxi turned around and returned to the cabin. When he walked to the cabin where he lived with his two concubines, he happened to see Xue Xiran and Li Jiqian walking out of different cabins one after another. When he saw Yunxi, he hurriedly saluted and said: "Your Majesty Xue Xiran (Li Jiqian)
I have met His Majesty."
Yunxi waved his hand to let them level up, and said with a smile: "Come to see your sister?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." The two of them agreed in unison, then looked at each other subconsciously and hurriedly lowered their heads.
Yunxi was very happy to see this situation. The brothers of his two concubines, who were both admirals in the navy, happened to visit his sister at the same time. He felt embarrassed just thinking about it. He smiled and asked them to step back.
As if they were granted amnesty, the two of them walked past Yunxi and walked in different directions at the fork in the road.
After Yunxi smiled, he thought for a while, then went to Li Shaer's cabin to talk to her for a while, and then came to Xiyi's cabin.
Xiyi was in a daze at this time. When she saw Yunxi walking in, she quickly stood up and saluted: "Husband."
"Sit down, sit down, there are no outsiders now, why are you so polite." Yunxi came over and pressed her shoulders to make her sit down. He ordered the servants to leave and sat next to her.
"Did you see Xiran? What did you say?" Yunxi asked casually.
"It's just a family matter, and there's also the matter of him fighting at sea this time. I told my brother about what I saw in Annan, Guangdong and Guangxi, which made my brother very envious. He said that it would be better to choose to be in the Lu Division at the beginning, because he could see everything during the war.
There are more scenery." Xiyi said with a smile.
"And...," she suddenly stopped midway through the last sentence.
"What else?" Yunxi asked, turning his head to look at Xiyi. When he saw her blushing, he suddenly thought and said with a smile: "Perhaps Xiran suspected that you have fallen out of favor? Otherwise, why would you accompany your husband?
It’s been more than half a year and you’re still not pregnant?”
"Husband, you are evil!" Xiyi blushed and hit Yunxi on the shoulder after being told this.
Yunxi hugged her in his arms and said with a smile: "But I can't blame you. In the previous witchcraft case, my husband and you were both affected by witchcraft. It was only solved later. Your body is weak and it will take another two months."
, we don’t spend that much time together.”
"But now that my husband and you are in good health, I will try my best to get you pregnant before returning to the capital."
Yunhe smiled and talked while picking up Xiyi and walking to the bed; Xiyi struggled a few times with a red face and said, "I haven't eaten yet."
"I'll eat you first, and then we'll go have dinner." Yunhe teased and put her on the bed. After a while, the sound of the bed shaking came from the cabin, and the face of the little palace maid guarding outside turned red.
The next morning, Yunhe woke up before dawn. Feeling the warm touch coming from his side, he turned his head and kissed Xiyi on the face. He gently pushed her away and stood up, letting the little palace maid walk in.
Wait for him to get dressed and walk out of the cabin.
It was already dawn when he came to the deck. Looking sideways to the north, he saw dozens of ships heading out from the dock.
Yunxi was about to ask when he heard a voice coming from his side: "Guan family." He looked sideways and saw Zhu Su, Zhu Di and Zhu Mo standing aside.
"Three uncles are leaving so early?" Yunxi asked.
"Guan family, we have been away from the fiefdom for more than half a year. We may have accumulated many things in the fiefdom, so we have to go back as soon as possible." Zhu Su smiled and said: "If we hadn't been waiting to come to Guangzhou to take away the food and salary given to us by the imperial court this year, we would have
Like Xian Ye, he has gone back a long time ago."
"That's all, my nephew is in a hurry to rush back to the capital. It's normal for you to rush back to the fiefdom." Yunxi said, "Then my nephew, today's breakfast will be treated as a banquet for you."
"How can a banquet be so shabby?" Zhu Mo said with a smile.
"The banquet at my nephew's place is so shabby."
They joked a few times, had breakfast together, and then the three of them were about to say goodbye to him.
Just as Yunxi was about to nod, he suddenly thought of something and said, "Fourth uncle will stay, while nineteenth and twenty-first uncles will leave first. My nephew has a few words to say to fourth uncle."
The two of them looked at each other with complicated eyes, bowed and left.
Yunxi immediately asked: "Fourth uncle, my nephew has not asked Su Fan about his current situation when he came to Ming Dynasty this time. Fourth uncle, please tell your nephew."
"In the second year of Jianye, Gao Xu and I came to Su Fan successively to stabilize prices, deal with local tyrants, and reorganize armaments..."
"At that time, Chen Zuyi was on the side of Su Fan, and he was unruly. Gao Xu wanted to send troops to destroy him, but because he had many ships, he was not sure of victory, so I persuaded Gao Xu to give up and go there in person.
I persuaded him to surrender."
"Then Gao Xu sent troops to attack the Mulu Kingdom in the west. He has captured 60-70% of the territory of the Mimilu Kingdom and captured tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. This year should be able to capture the capital and destroy it."
"It's just that after the destruction of the Mulu Kingdom, it borders Suvendana and Sumatra. The strength of these two countries is not weak. How to deal with it must be carefully considered." Zhu Di briefly introduced the situation of Su Fan.
"My fourth uncle is really capable of persuading Chen Zuyi to surrender." Yunxi praised.
"It's just a fluke." Zhu Di said modestly.
The two of them chatted for a while, and Yun He said: "Fourth uncle, when you go back, tell Gao Xu that you don't have to be afraid of the two foreign countries to the west. You must destroy them as soon as possible."
"But..." Before Zhu Di could finish his words, Yunxi interrupted him and said, "Listen to me, you're right."
