Tong Yizhen has also seen the combat power of these Franco-skilled soldiers, strict military discipline, and aggressiveness and murder. When the martial arts were performed, the more than 1,000 people under his command were not the opponents of these 300 soldiers.

He finally gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay, just according to what you say, go out of the city and guard the river!" ”

Fausto was also relieved to see that he was no longer stubborn in defending the city.

Before leaving Macao, Governor Du Chen repeatedly told him to keep Ding Kuichu's power at all costs.

There were only 800 or 900 troops in the whole of Macao, and the governor of Macao sent all 250 of them to Guangdong, but he was afraid that it would not be enough, so he made an exception and transferred more than 90 naval soldiers to pretend to be mercenaries and assigned them to his command.

You must know that the Portuguese soldiers left the range of Macao, but it was a serious violation of the agreement with the Ming Dynasty.

However, Du Chen then revealed to him that Governor Ding was planning a coup d'état, and that they had made a deal, as long as they could assist Governor Ding in the coup d'état, the new regime would sign an agreement with Portugal to recognize Portugal's independent autonomy in Macau, and the Orientals would not interfere.

This was a dream that Portugal had pursued for nearly a hundred years – a solid foothold in the Far East, where it could garrison a large number of troops, build military ports, build forts, and possibly even join Spain in driving the Dutch out of the Far East.

You must know that although they are also doing these things secretly, they are all implemented by bribing Ming officials and making them turn a blind eye. Not to mention spending a lot of money, the scale must not be too large, otherwise the Ming court will cut off water and food to Macao every minute, and even send troops to suppress it.

If there is a governor of Liangguang, no, maybe in the future, it will be the protection of the first assistant of the new imperial court, and they will be able to colonize and trade in Macao as they wish, and everything will be very different.

Therefore, Fausto led people to carefully plan, and hired local people to build a high-speed earthen fortress on the bank of the southern section of the Pearl River at his own expense, which was used to resist the Ming army crossing the river.

Coupled with Tong Yizhen's men, he had absolute confidence to keep the Ming Auxiliary King on the other side for a few months, until the new imperial court of Wuzhou was established and reinforcements were sent.

……

It wasn't until he walked out of the Fujing realm that he gradually couldn't see the people who were sending off the Dragon Guard. However, many officials of the Tingzhou Prefecture who saw them off still followed behind the army.

Since passing Jiaoling, there are a large number of people in Chaozhou Mansion who are dragging their staggering steps and going against the army, all of them have heard that there is a court disaster relief in Fujing and want to try their luck.

Zhu Linmiao sat on the horse and looked into the distance, and saw desolate scenes everywhere, because of the drought, from time to time you could see people starving to death.

He couldn't help but frown secretly, hearing that the drought in the northeast of Guangdong was far less serious than that in southern Fujian, and it was in such a miserable situation. He immediately thought that if the disaster relief in southern Fujian was not effective at that time, it would definitely be even more miserable than this, and he was afraid that ninety percent of the people might have a civil uprising.

And Ding Kuichu is now only busy keeping his own separatist forces, and he has no time to care about the disaster here.

Zhu Linmiao put away the reins and asked his soldiers to call Tingzhou Tongzhi who was following the team, and ordered him to return to Tingzhou immediately and transfer some grain and rice to Chaozhou to save people.

Then he summoned the clerk and said, "Order the household department to immediately allocate 300,000 taels of silver to relieve the drought in the Chaozhou capital."

"In addition, the Department of Household Parity pays close attention to the price of grain in Chaozhou and beware of profiteers.

"Let Zhang Canghai send people to bring potatoes and sweet potatoes into Guangdong to promote sowing.

"There is also the immediate introduction of a single tax in Guangdong and the abolition of all other taxes."

Although it is difficult for the imperial court decree to reach Guangdong for the time being, his dragon guard army is everywhere, and it is the king's land!

All the policies of the imperial court must be followed up immediately. Zhu Linmiao wants the world to see that as long as the place is under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and they are thriving.

He waited for the clerk to stop writing, and then continued: "Order the Propaganda Department to allocate manpower as soon as possible to carry out missionary work in Guangdong, especially in Chaozhou Prefecture, so that the people will know that the imperial court's disaster relief food will arrive on the same day, so as to stabilize the people's hearts." ”

In this era, after the catastrophe, riots are most likely to occur, just like Ding Kuichu, who simply gave up all of Guangdong because he was worried about civil unrest.

"At the same time, let the Propaganda Department release the news, saying that the recruitment of officials from the mission offices in Guangdong will be held in half a month, and the location will be in Chaozhou Mansion."

If a large number of scholars poured into Chaozhou, it would definitely encourage merchants to come and do business, and then drive grain merchants to transport grain here for sale. In this way, the pressure of disaster relief in the imperial court can be relieved to a certain extent.

Zhu Linmiao took the two decrees from the clerk and checked them, signed and sealed them, and handed them to Shi Lindao: "Send someone to send them back to Tianxing Mansion quickly." ”

"Yes!"

……

Two days later, Long Weijun entered Huizhou, only four or five days away from Guangzhou.

The team of men and horses was moving forward at a rapid pace, and a hussar galloped to Zhu Linmiao's horse, holding a letter box in both hands and handing it over, "Lord Yu, I just received the secret report from Jinyi Weibei Town." ”

Shi Lin took the letter and opened it, and handed the secret letter inside to Zhu Linmiao.

Zhu Linmiao unfolded the note and read it roughly, but couldn't help frowning.

The secret report was written by Xu Feihu, a thousand households of Jinyi Wei sent by Gu Yanwu to be in charge of intelligence matters in Wuzhou and Liuzhou. The report said that the exact news had been obtained, and Ding Kuichu wanted to support the Gui Domain to rebel, and there were many collusions in Huguang and Yunnan. However, the rescue of King Gui ordered by His Royal Highness was urgent and difficult to implement, and Ding Kuichu sent many bright posts and secret posts to surround King Gui's mansion, and people who were not close to Ding's cronies were not allowed to approach.

At the end of the secret report, Xu Feihu vaguely asked whether the Gui clan might rebel at any time, and whether it was necessary to get rid of King Gui as a last resort.

Zhu Linmiao put away the secret letter, and his heart was also extremely entangled, if Ding Kuichu was allowed to push Zhu Youlang to the throne, it would inevitably cause tears within the Ming Dynasty.

Historically, after Zhu Yuao established the Shaowu regime in Guangzhou, it was precisely because of the struggle with Zhu Youlang's Yongli regime that led to turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River, and finally Li Chengdong led more than 100 cavalry to capture the city of Guangzhou.

But if he wants to assassinate Zhu Youlang, he is a little unbearable, the last emperor in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty has a miserable life, but he is not a faint monarch, and now he is just being used by Ding Kuichu.

Zhu Linmiao was in a hurry, and a personal soldier came to report, saying that Lijiang Mansion asked to see Lord Zhimu.

Wood-sama? Zhu Linmiao immediately reacted, isn't Lijiang Tongzhi Mu Jing?

He hurriedly commanded, "Bring him quickly." ”

"Yes!"

In a moment, more than a dozen businessmen dressed as men walked far away under the guidance of their own soldiers. Zhu Linmiao saw that the person in charge seemed to be a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while, but he didn't see where Mu Jing was.

When the group approached, two small servants broke through the crowd and came to the front, leading the crowd to kneel down and salute, "Xiaguan (grass people) pay a visit to His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King." ”

Only then did Zhu Linmiao see that one of the two little guys was Mu Jing, and the other was Mu Zhiqing, who was dressed as a man. Although she painted black ash on her face, her beautiful eyes were extremely recognizable.