"My eldest son was robbed by thieves near Nanjing...... Lu Zhenfei sighed heavily, "It's a shame, it's a shame!" ”

He Kai glanced at the courtiers who were mourning outside the Yongshou Palace, and he also looked anxious, "Who would have thought that there would be a captive in the inner and imperial camps, it is really careless." ”

"The great cause of expulsion has just seen improvement, but such a major ......event has happened," Yang Tinglin shook his head and said, "At present, we can only hope that His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King will return to Beijing as soon as possible, and there may be a glimmer of opportunity." ”

Several cabinet scholars were talking in a low voice, and when they saw Pang Tianshou coming out of Yongshou Palace, Huang Daozhou hurriedly greeted him and said, "Grandpa Pang, how is the situation of the Queen Mother?" ”

"Back to the Huang Pavilion Elder," Pang Tianshou said with a sad face, "When the Empress Dowager heard that it was Jianyu who robbed the Holy One, she was so angry that she fainted...... The doctor prescribed a prescription to calm her nerves, and she had already fallen asleep after taking the medicine. ”

He waved his hand back from the eunuchs and palace maids around him, and lowered his voice: "In this situation, how do the adults plan to deal with it?" ”

He is the eunuch of the palm seal, the head of the inner court, and if such a big thing happens, he needs the inner and outer courts to work together.

Huang Daozhou shook his head with a bitter face, "I'm still discussing." ”

Pang Tianshou hurriedly said: "Now that His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King is not in the court, the Son of Heaven is in danger, and the overall situation depends on your lords." ”

Outside the gate of the palace, a few people discussed for a long time against the cold wind, but they were still at a loss.

Suddenly, the imperial guards hurriedly came and whispered a few words to Huang Daozhou, who was even surprised, "So, it's Huguang's hand?" ”

Huang Daozhou motioned for the guard to leave, and said to the cabinet ministers beside him: "The Long Weijun captured Meng Zhengfa's concubine room by the Yangtze River, according to his confession, Meng Zhengfa was going to flee to Wuchang, and claimed to his concubine that he would be able to seal the marquis as soon as he entered Chu this time. In addition, he had many secret meetings with people in the palace before, and one of the women seemed to be the prisoners of the Son of Heaven. ”

Lu Zhenfei frowned, "In this way, most of the saints were sent to Huguang?" ”

As he was talking, he heard that a little eunuch in the Yongshou Palace ran over quickly and waved to Pang Tianshou, "Master, the Queen Mother has woken up and wants to summon several adults in the cabinet to meet her." ”

Huang Daozhou and the others were busy entering the Yongshou Palace, and before they could salute, they heard the Empress Dowager Zeng's voice hoarse and said: "My lords, can there be the whereabouts of the Son of Heaven?!" It was just now that she cried so loudly that her voice was hoarse.

"Back to the Queen Mother, the old minister got the news, or Huguang colluded with the thieves to rob the saint." Zodiac Zhou said, "The trace of the Son of Heaven was cut off by the river, so it is very likely that he went to Wuchang by boat." ”

Lu Zhenfei added: "However, according to the confessions of Huang Jingfang and others, they want to coerce the Son of Heaven into Fujian. ”

Hearing this, Empress Dowager Zeng stood up from the bed and shouted uncontrollably: "Since you know the whereabouts of the Son of Heaven, then quickly send someone to chase it!" ”

"Tell me the word!" She raised her trembling hand and pointed at a few elders, "The whole country is under martial law, and the garrisons of various state capitals have blocked all roads for inspection, so you must get Yuan'er back for me!" ”

Huang Daozhou and the others glanced at each other and admonished: "Empress Dowager, the disappearance of the Holy Lord will shake the world." This, or when the news is blocked, the matter is secretly investigated, so as not to give birth to a big mess......"

"No, no!" Empress Dowager Zeng immediately shook her head and shouted, "I want to ensure Yuan'er's safety, go and transfer troops quickly!" Fast! ”

Huang Daozhou was helpless, so he had to bow down and say, "The minister obeys the order." ”

When a few people left the Yongshou Palace, they heard that there was chaos in the palace, and there were screams from time to time. Lu Zhenfei stopped a few guards who were running by, "What are you doing?" ”

"Returning to the Cabinet Department, the Queen Mother ordered the spies in the Dasuo Palace, and anyone suspicious was immediately killed."

Before it got dark that day, the news of the robbery of the Ming Emperor had spread.

"The Queen Mother ordered martial law throughout the country and mobilized soldiers and horses from all over the world to find people?"

"Yes." Yale arched his hand and said, "It is said that Nanjing is arresting the courtiers involved, and they will be imprisoned if they are suspected of the slightest suspicion, and hundreds of officials have been affected in just half a day, and the people in the city are panicking. ”

Mu Zhiqing couldn't help frowning slightly when she heard this, "It seems that the Queen Mother has completely messed up." In this case, if Meng Zhengfa is not intercepted, once the emperor arrives in Huguang, she is likely to compromise with He Tengjiao for the safety of her son. ”

She then asked people to get pen and ink, wrote a secret letter to Zhu Linmiao and Zhen Zhen, and then went straight to Jin Wu's mansion and instructed him to try to send the letter out of the city.

At dusk the next day, Zhen Zhen had already led 10,000 soldiers from the camp to return to Nanjing and enter the city to "maintain law and order". At the same time, the Longwei Army and the Broken Battalion on the line from Zhenjiang to Jiangyin did not follow the order to search for the traces of the Son of Heaven, but entered a state of imminent battle according to General Zhen Zhen's order to strictly prevent the Qing army from sneaking attack. On the river, the Yangtze River Naval Division has also greatly increased the frequency of patrols.

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On the wharf of Ningbo Port, six ships with thousands of materials are waiting to sail. Looking at the waterline they were pressed extremely low, you could see that the ship had filled every crevice with cargo.

After the investment of the imperial court, and the participation of clan relatives and private shares, the Daming ocean caravan has received very sufficient funds. In fact, there were nine cargo ships in the caravan, but since the Ming Dynasty had not gone to sea for a long time to trade on a large scale, for the sake of safety, Huang Zongxi suggested that some merchant ships should be sent to familiarize themselves with the channel first, and then all the people would be dispatched on the next trip.

The escort for these six merchant ships was led by the Daming Navy Master Shao Wu, and there was a powerful fleet including three fifth-class frigates, seven sixth-class Qing frigates and a thousand-material supply ship.

In fact, Zhu Linmiao also secretly sent the fourth-class cruiser Zhangzhou to secretly follow. He knew very well that Westerners were weak and untrustworthy, so he prepared for the worst and beware of breaking the agreement with the Lan people to sneak attack the caravan.

After the auxiliary king sacrificed the dragon king, with a roar of salute, Shao Wu took the lead into the vast sea. Behind it, the naval warships surrounded six merchant ships in the middle, following closely behind, and even several civilian merchant ships wanted to take advantage of the light of the ocean-going caravans, and followed them far away. The people on the shore immediately cheered.

Zhu Linmiao looked at the mast that gradually disappeared on the sea level, and couldn't help but smile with relief, Daming's maritime trade finally officially kicked off.

More than half of the six merchant ships held silk, the most demanded commodity by the Japanese, and were sold out almost instantly. Selling silk from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Japan can make a profit of as little as 200%! If you don't count the cost of navigation, it can be regarded as almost zero cost, which is also the most profitable part of the Far Eastern trade with the Lan people.

In addition, the porcelain, clocks, luxury goods, etc. on the ship are also extremely profitable. Zhu Linmiao roughly calculated that if there was no loss of ships on these six ships during the voyage, he would be able to earn more than one million taels when he came back from Japan! Even after deducting the expenses of the escort fleet and the loss of ships, the profit is around six or seven hundred thousand taels.

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