Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 94
Like diners in restaurants, Li Zhenli also likes listening to books very much, so she was attracted by Xingmu's voice, but she didn't expect that when the storyteller opened his mouth, she would be shocked.

Wang Shiheng survived, and led 30 soldiers and civilians to break out of the siege, and went south into Hangzhou. Li Zhenli was immediately overjoyed for Xu Yanyan.

At this time, she resisted the urge to immediately go back and tell Xu Yanyan the news, but instead listened to the scene that the storyteller said.

When the sound of Xingmu sounded again, coupled with the phrase "predict what will happen next, and listen to the next chapter to break it down", Li Zhenli got up, said goodbye to Su Kunsheng, and went to the inn first.

Most of the storytelling and libretto in the Ming Dynasty were adapted based on facts. Although there are some artistic processing, they are basically not far from the facts. Therefore, even though the words are storytelling, Li Zhenli does not doubt that there are fakes.

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

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

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

At this time, Xu Yanyan, who had fallen asleep, woke up leisurely, and saw the two people beside the bed struggling to sit up, but was held down by Li Zhenli, and then said: "Yanyan, the prince is still alive, he has not died for the country, and today he is dead." After entering Hangzhou, we will support King Lu and go."

Ever since she left Nanjing, Xu Yanyan couldn't afford to be sick. She was already emaciated and her body was very weak. After she woke up, she heard Li Zhenli's words, but because of her long illness, her mind was dizzy and inflexible, so she didn't react. .

"Prince Wang is still alive!" Li Zhenli could only shake her shoulders lightly, and said happily for her: "Yanyan, your prince is still alive, waiting for you to meet!"

"What?" Xu Yanyan came to her senses, grabbed Li Zhenli instead and said, "Mother-in-law said that Brother Wang is still alive?"

At that moment, Li Zhenli told Xu Yanyan what she heard the storyteller said in the restaurant again, but when Xu Yanyan heard that Wang Yan defeated 30 Qing soldiers and brought [-] people south into Zhejiang, she was shocked. Already in tears.

At this time, when Xu Yanyan heard the news that Wang Yan was in Hangzhou, she wanted to go to the meeting immediately, but Li Zhenli stopped her and asked her to take care of her health first.

Most of Xu Yanyan's illnesses were caused by her heart disease, which was caused by her unwillingness to eat because she had nothing to love in her life. Now that her heart disease has been cured, her body will slowly recover. Seeing this, Li Zhenli and Li Xiangjun felt relieved.

A few days later, when Xu Yanyan had basically recovered, the three daughters bid farewell to Su Kunsheng and wanted to go to Hangzhou to find Wang Yan. At this moment, the news came that the imperial court had ceded Nanzhili, and Suzhou was also included in the ceding. After staying in Suzhou, he simply went south to Zhejiang with the three daughters.

Along the southeast coast, the army and civilians travel southwards, thousands of rivers and mountains, stretching for dozens of miles.

30 soldiers and civilians marched by land and water to Guangdong, which is thousands of miles away. One can imagine the hardships, and it is unknown how many people will fall down on this long journey.

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

Nanjing fell for less than a month. Although the northern captives occupied a large area of ​​Ming's territory, the time was short after all. In order to establish rule immediately, they only stationed soldiers in Nanjing and other important cities to deter the localities.

It was based on this point that Wang Yan decided to enter the Southern Zhili area, which was included under the rule of the Northern Barbarians, and the goal of his first stop was the ruined city of Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is rich in the world. When Wang Yan withdrew, he secretly buried a large amount of gold and silver in the ground in order to prepare enough military expenses for the Northern Expedition in the future. But now the imperial court is negotiating peace with the Qing court, and he will also go south to the south. I don’t know when he will be able to set foot in Jiangbei Sui decided to sneak back secretly with Liu Shun and other twenty capable men, intending to take out some gold and silver to resettle the people and train the army.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, Duoduo only stationed [-] troops in Nanjing. Although the other prefectures belonged to the northern captives in name, they were actually still under the control of the Ming gentry.

The peace negotiation was very complicated. After signing the agreement with Duoduo, envoys had to be sent to the north, and the northern captives also had to send envoys to Hangzhou.

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

When he was passing through Jiaxing, the gentry heard that the imperial court was negotiating peace with the northern captives, and that they were about to cede the southern Zhili prefectures, and that Jiaxing would also be included in the territory of the northern captives. Sheng mourned: "May everyone die in battle and lose Zhili, and never give up Zhili."

The gentry poured into the county government office, preparing to elect the county magistrate to lead the whole city to resist the captives. However, the officials of Southern Zhili had received an order from Hangzhou to order all the officials to go south to Zhejiang, and the county magistrate of Jiaxing had already gone south.

The gentry were filled with grief and indignation, but there was nothing they could do. Some of the gentry moved their families to the south one after another, so that Wang Yan went north all the way, and the canal was full of boats, large and small, sailing south.

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

It was shockingly reported yesterday that the Jianghuai River was being cut, and it was reversed overnight and there was no sleep.

Today I heard that the whole city is crying in unison, where is General Longcheng now?
As a general of the imperial court, but unable to defend his family and country, causing the people to fall under the iron hooves of captives, Wang Yan couldn't help feeling extremely heavy, and his heart was full of guilt.

The states and counties he passed along the way were almost all of the same scene, and it was not until he passed Zhenjiang and sailed into the Yangtze River that the ships going south became sparse.

At this time, Wang Yan and others took a boat to the edge of the ruined city of Yangzhou, only to find that a Qing army of nearly [-] people, escorting tens of thousands of people, was cleaning up the burned city of Yangzhou. was cleaned out.

Seeing this, Wang Yan couldn't help being startled. He originally thought that Yangzhou would be burned to the ground, and the northern captives would no longer pay attention to the ruined city of Yangzhou. Now it seems that he was wrong.

Yangzhou is next to the canal, which is a vital place. Whether it is for the buried property of the gentry and the rich, or to regain control of the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River, the northern captives will pay attention to Yangzhou again.

The more than 1 Qing troops belonged to Li Chengdong. He ordered Duoduo to rebuild Yangzhou City and excavate the property in Yangzhou City.

Wang Yan secretly buried the silver in the Yangzhou government treasury and the donations of the gentry, totaling 300 million taels of silver, under the high slope outside the west city.

With Li Chengdong's troops stationed here, Wang Yan's goal of taking silver could no longer be realized, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he didn't go south by boat to catch up with the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou, but went up the river to Nanjing.

The three daughters of Xu Yanyan traveled south to Zhejiang, but Wang Yan was going to Nanjing to find her traces.

(End of this chapter)