Since three years ago, there have been a steady stream of merchant ships from Burma towns in the south to do business with certain cities in the Jiangnan region, and this matter is not a secret in the Jiangnan business community, and the government knows about it not too little.

However, they believe that this kind of business has nothing to do with Myanmar Town itself, but just the needs of Xiao Ruxun, the Zhennan Hou in Myanmar Town, which is positioned as a garbage dump in the Central Plains, with no market and little demand.

What is really needed, that is, Xiao Ruxun himself, but it is not interesting to toss around there just as an earth overlord Xiao Ruxun.

So if there is a ship, it will do business, and if there is no ship, it will not go to Burma, but to Luzon.

When Luzon was still under Spanish rule, a large number of Ming coastal merchants went to Luzon to do business, mainly to buy spices, and after returning to China, they changed hands and turned upside down, which was several times the profit in an instant.

Later, after the start of the Luzon war, the merchant ships did not go to Luzon, but waited for the opportunity, and waited for the news that Luzon was beaten by Xiao Ruxun and re-became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and this kind of commercial trade continued to unfold.

After Luzon re-became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, it was only about half a year, that is, during the period when Xiao Ruxun went north to resist the invasion of the Northern Capture, a large number of merchant ships returned to Luzon to do business.

Now Luzon is very friendly to the Ming Dynasty, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty basically have unimpeded passage in the port cities of Luzon, and the prices of spices are slightly cheaper than before.

The Ming merchants basically did not set foot outside of Luzon, they had little interest in crossing the Strait of Malacca to reach Burma, they had little interest in Burma, and all they needed was the spices of the South Seas, which were the most valuable.

They didn't know that Luzon was actually controlled by Xiao Ruxun, and the cost of all the spices they bought was basically Xiao Ruxun's income, and hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of silver went into Xiao Ruxun's pocket instead of the Luzon people's pocket.

It can be said that the Ming government officials in Jiangnan are basically ignoring Burma, everyone does not interfere with river water, even Yunnan has little interest in Burma, Chen Yongbin has not been to Burma once in a few years, although Burma nominally belongs to Yunnan's defense area.

So when the town of Burma was suddenly declared a rebel town on the fourth day of the sixth month, and the local government suddenly realized that it was going to do something to Burma, it found that there was nothing to do, and the Burmese merchant ships had long since left, and none of them could be found.

There are many local businessmen who came to the government to tell the government about this matter, saying that they thought it was very strange, and the deposit was paid, but the goods were not needed, what was going on?

Now that they all know it, they realize that it is not easy.

Could it be that I heard something beforehand, so I ran away?

They had just received the documents sent by the imperial court urgently, which could be said to be very fast, how could the merchant ships of Burma know about it earlier than them?

But these are not very worthy of Ye Mengxiong's attention, it is better to say that it is not important at all, just a few merchant ships, just run, what is really worth noting is the disappearance of a military general in Nanjing.

Xiao Ruzhi of the Nanjing Admiral Church did not go to the government for no reason.

Ye Mengxiong, who got the news, sent someone to Xiao Ruzhi's mansion to find out the news, at that time, Ye Mengxiong didn't know about the coup d'état in the imperial court, so he simply sent someone to inquire to see where Xiao Ruzhi went.

Then he found the testimony of an eyewitness who left Nanjing City a day ago, saying that Xiao Ruzhi followed a big car and went out of the city, as if she was going to the north of the city.

This is not normal.

When Ye Mengxiong was still strange, the news of the court coup came.

Xiao Ruxun bewitched the emperor to try to launch a mutiny, Shen has always seen through Xiao Ruxun's tricks, so he preemptively foiled Xiao Ruxun's conspiracy, the mutiny failed, the emperor was ashamed, issued an edict of abdication, and the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo ascended the throne as emperor.

Xiao Ruxun is rebellious and has been subdued, and the town of Myanmar is a rebellious town, and the imperial court ordered Chen Yongbin, the governor of Yunnan, to enter the town of Burma, pacify it, abolish it, and capture the family of the thief Xiao to be disposed of.

After learning the news, although Ye Mengxiong realized that Xiao Ruzhi's disappearance did not seem to be a trivial matter, what made him even more confused and angry was that for such a big matter as the emperor's abdication and the new emperor's accession to the throne, they actually only knew one result, and they couldn't get any useful information from Shen's explanation at all.

Xiao Ruxun rebelled, and then subdued the law?

He's dead?

Are you kidding?

Didn't you just win the battle? Why did you rebel all of a sudden?

There are not a few officials who have the same thoughts and doubts as Ye Mengxiong, but there are really not many who are as angry as Ye Mengxiong.

Ye Mengxiong admires Xiao Ruxun very much, his relationship with Xiao Ruxun can be traced back to the Battle of Ningxia in the twentieth year of Wanli, six years of friendship, Ye Mengxiong asked himself in the officialdom, no one knows Xiao Ruxun better than him.

When they were separated in a small pavilion on the outskirts of the capital, Ye Mengxiong also expected him to never forget his oath to help the world, and later watched him become the most powerful general in the Ming Dynasty step by step, Ye Mengxiong was really happy, and felt that as long as Xiao Ruxun in the Ming Dynasty could ensure the safety of the country.

Since the separation, the two have not stopped exchanging letters, and Xiao Ruxun will also send people to give him gifts during the New Year's holidays, even when he is fighting in the north, the envoy from Burma will not forget to send him a New Year's gift.

The two corresponded three months ago, why did Xiao Ruxun become a traitor this time? Still dead?

Ye Mengxiong felt uncomfortable with all this, facing the fact that the new emperor had ascended the throne, and in the face of Xiao Ruxun's "death", he was angry and sad, he didn't think about tea and dinner, and he didn't go to the official office.

This has made a lot of people anxious.

As one of the few people who actually hold power in Nanjing, Ye Mengxiong's status is very high, as soon as this matter came out, the officials of the six departments of the entire Nanjing rushed over to find Ye Mengxiong, not only that, but even Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei who stayed in Nanjing, came.

A group of people asked and asked back and forth, but there was no result, no one knew what the ins and outs of this matter were, and what impact it would have on everyone's future after the new emperor, so a group of people finally decided to ask the court about it.

Of course, it should be listed on the grounds of congratulating the new emperor on his accession to the throne.

Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, it means that at least the Jingshi is stable, they are far away in Nanjing, and they can't affect the Jingshi no matter what, so they can only ask the imperial court about the reason for the matter on the basis of recognizing the new emperor.

When the officials made such a decision, Ye Mengxiong had his own ideas.

On the one hand, he secretly sent people south to Myanmar to find out the news, and on the other hand, he silently suppressed the news of Xiao Ruzhi's whereabouts from others and ordered Xiao Ruzhi's deputy to take over Xiao Ruzhi's task and keep quiet.

This news was too sudden and weird, he didn't believe what Shen had always said, he wanted to find out the truth by himself.

When there was an uproar in Nanjing, Xiao Ruxun's fleet was already sailing on the sea, and when the news reached Fujian, Xiao Ruxun's fleet had already arrived in the coastal areas of Guangdong, and when the news reached northern Guangdong, Xiao Ruxun had already arrived in Siam.

Landing in Siam, crossing Indochina and changing to another sea ship on the west side, skipping the time of crossing Malacca, to the port of Yangon, Myanmar.

Wu Guang, the mayor of Yangon, who succeeded Yuan Yan, saw Xiao Ruxun in the official office and was stunned.

Then, according to Xiao Ruxun's order, he prepared to send Xiao Ruxun and others to Nan'an, the capital of Myanmar, and began to check the number of various stocks in Yangon and the number of people who could be recruited, according to the maximum proportion that could be mobilized, so that he could complete this task within two days and report to the capital.

"Xiao Hou, this ...... Why is that? ”

In the face of Xiao Ruxun's order that was almost a mobilization order, Wu Guang did not know why.

"There's going to be a war."

Xiao Ruxun just explained it simply.

It was June 13.

It was not until June 15 that the news of the new emperor's accession to the throne and Xiao Ruxun's rebellion had just reached Kunming, Yunnan, that Chen Yongbin, the governor of Yunnan, was quite surprised to learn of the drastic changes that had taken place in Beijing and that he had been assigned such a task.