Like the diners in the restaurant, Li Zhenli also likes to listen to books very much, so she was attracted by the sound of waking wood, but she didn't expect that as soon as the storyteller spoke, she was shocked.

Wang Shiheng was not dead, but also carried 300,000 soldiers and civilians out of the siege and went south into Hangzhou, Li Zhenli was immediately happy for Xu Yanyan.

At this time, she forcibly resisted the impulse to go back and inform Xu Yanyan of the news, but listened to the scene that the storyteller said.

When the sound of waking wood sounded again, coupled with the sentence "I know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition", Li Zhenli got up, said goodbye to Su Kunsheng, and went to the inn first.

In the Ming Dynasty, most of the storytelling and singing lyrics were adapted from facts, although there was artistic processing, but they were basically the same as the facts, so although it was a storyteller, Li Zhenli did not suspect that it was false.

She hurried back to the inn all the way to Xu Yanyan's room, Li Xiangjun was fanning her with a melancholy face, and when she came in, she immediately bowed slightly and said, "Mother-in-law, why did you come back so early today." ”

"Is Yan Yan feeling better?" Li Zhenli didn't answer, but walked to Xu Yanyan's bed and sat down, and then asked.

"I ate some porridge and just fell asleep." Li Xiangjun said.

At this time, Xu Yanyan, who was asleep, woke up and saw the two people on the side of the bed, who were about to struggle to sit up, but were held down by Li Zhenli, and then said: "Yanyan, Wang Gongzi is still alive and has not been martyred. ”

Since leaving Nanjing, Xu Yanyan has been ill, the whole person has been emaciated, the body is very weak, she woke up, listened to Li Zhenli's words, but because of a long illness, dizzy and inflexible, and did not react.

"Wang Gongzi is still alive!" Li Zhenli had to shake her shoulders lightly at the moment, and said happily for her: "Yan Yan, your prince is still alive and waiting for you to meet!" ”

"What?" Xu Yanyan reacted, grabbed Li Zhenli and said, "My stepmother said that Brother Wang is still alive?" ”

At that moment, Li Zhenli said what she heard the storyteller in the restaurant, and said it again to Xu Yanyan, and when Xu Yanyan heard that Wang Yan broke 80,000 Qing soldiers and went south with 300,000 people into Zhejiang, she had already burst into tears.

At this time, when Xu Yanyan learned the news that Wang Yan was in Hangzhou, she wanted to rush to meet immediately, but was stopped by Li Zhenli and asked her to take care of her body first.

Xu Yanyan's illness is mostly heart disease, because she has no love in life, and she is unwilling to eat.

A few days later, when Xu Yanyan had basically recovered, the three daughters said goodbye to Su Kunsheng and wanted to go to Hangzhou to find Wang Yan, and at this time, the news that the imperial court ceded Nanzhili came, and Suzhou was also among the cessions.

On the southeast coast, the military and civilians traveled southward, with thousands of rivers and mountains, stretching for dozens of miles.

The hardships of 300,000 soldiers and civilians marching side by land and water to Guangdong, thousands of miles away, can be imagined, and I don't know how many people will fall on this long journey.

Wang Yan, who was supposed to go south with the fleet, was not in the team now, but took another small boat, secretly left the team, entered the Grand Canal and quietly went north.

The fall of Nanjing was less than a month, although the northern captives occupied a large area of the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but after all, the time was still short, in order to be able to establish rule immediately, but only in Nanjing and other important prefectures and cities stationed large troops to deter the locality.

It was based on this that Wang Yan decided to enter the Nanzhili region, which was included in the rule of the Northern Emperor, and his first destination was Yangzhou City, which had been reduced to ruins.

When Wang Yan evacuated, he secretly buried a large amount of gold and silver in the ground for sufficient military expenses during the Northern Expedition in the future, but now the imperial court and the Qing court negotiated peace, and he will also go south to Tiannan, I don't know when he will be able to set foot in the land of Jiangbei, and then decided to take Liu Shun and other more than 20 capable people, secretly sneaked back, intending to take out some gold and silver, to settle the people, and train the army.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, Duoduo only stationed 30,000 troops in Nanjing, and although the other state capitals were nominally part of the Northern Captives, they were actually still under the control of the Ming gentry.

After signing the agreement with Duoduo, it was necessary to send envoys to the north, and the northern captives also had to send envoys to Hangzhou, and the etiquette was very complicated, and it could not be completed without three or two months.

This gave Wang Yan the opportunity to take a boat and go north along the canal.

When he passed through Jiaxing, the gentry heard that the imperial court and the northern captives negotiated peace, and were going to cede the southern Zhili prefectures, and Jiaxing was also going to be included in the territory of the northern captives. ”

The gentry poured into the county government and were ready to elect the county magistrate to lead the whole city to resist the captives, but the officials of Nanzhili had received an edict from Hangzhou, ordering all the officials to go south into Zhejiang, and the magistrate of Jiaxing had already gone south.

The gentry were indignant about this, but they were helpless, and some of the gentry moved their families south, so that Wang Yan went all the way north, and the canal was full of large and small boats and boats.

From time to time, there is a small poem, which shows the grief and indignation of the scholars when they learned that the court was making peace and their hometown would be invaded by the northern captives.

Yesterday, it was rumored that Jianghuai was cut, and he was angry and sleepless overnight.

Now that the whole city is crying, where is General Longcheng now?

As a general of the imperial court, he couldn't defend his family and country, and the people fell under the iron hooves of the captives, Wang Yan's mood couldn't help but be extremely heavy, and his heart was full of guilt.

The states and counties he passed along the way were almost all the same scenes, and it was not until he crossed the Zhenjiang River and sailed into the Yangtze River that the southbound boats became sparse.

At this time, Wang Yan and others took a boat to the edge of Yangzhou City, which had become a ruin, but found that a Qing army of nearly 10,000 people, holding tens of thousands of people, was cleaning up the burned Yangzhou City, and a lot of property had been cleared out.

Seeing this, Wang Yan couldn't help but be shocked, he originally thought that if a fire burned Yangzhou, the northern captives would no longer pay attention to the ruined Yangzhou City, but now it seems that he is indeed wrong.

Yangzhou is located next to the canal, which is a key place, whether it is for the gentry and wealthy to bury their belongings in the ground, or to regain control of the mouth of the Grand Canal into the Yangtze River, the Beiyu will refocus on Yangzhou.

More than 10,000 Qing troops were under Li Chengdong's department, and he sealed Duoduo's order to rebuild Yangzhou City and excavate the property in Yangzhou City.

Wang Yan secretly buried the silver stored in the Yangzhou treasury and the donations of the gentry at the beginning, totaling three million taels of silver, under the high slope outside the western city, and I don't know if it could be detected by the northern captives.

With Li Chengdong stationed here, Wang Yan's purpose of taking silver could not be realized, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he did not go south by boat to chase the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou, but went up the river to Nanjing.

Xu Yanyan's three daughters traveled south into Zhejiang, but Wang Yan was preparing to go to Nanjing to find her traces.