Wanli 1592

Chapter 787 Arrived in Zhenjiang
Xiao Ruxun asked the old boatman on the ship, and learned that the journey southward from the Grand Canal, from the capital to Zhenjiang, is about 2000 miles. According to the speed of the ship, if there is no headwind, the ship can travel more than 400 miles in a day and night.

That is to say, according to the analysis of the most ideal state, it only takes about five days and nights to arrive at Zhenjiang Mansion from Tongzhou. Xiao Ruxun clearly remembers that some of Myanmar's merchant ships enter directly along the Yangtze River, and then stop at several places along the way. Large cities stop for business.

Among them is Zhenjiang Mansion. Many ships will stop at Zhenjiang Mansion to buy or sell something. Zhenjiang Mansion itself is also one of the ports of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and its business is very prosperous.

Xiao Ruxun did some calculations again. The change of emperor in the imperial court must spread the news as soon as possible, and when Liu Huangshang released himself, it happened to be the day of the coup d'état, and now the day has passed before the news reached Tongzhou.

It is conceivable that even if Shen Yiguan used six hundred miles to rush to the south to convey the news, it would take at least ten days to reach Nanjing and send the news to the south. If Shen Yiguan also used water transport to convey the news to In the south, there are at least two days left for myself.

As long as this period of time can be fully utilized, Xiao Ruxun can use the time difference to accomplish many things. At least, Shen Tongyi can never catch him, and he can escape back to Burma smoothly.

And when the two face each other again, it should be the end of the war.

Faced with this situation, Xiao Ruxun has no doubt that Shen Yiguan will take action against Burma Town as soon as possible to eradicate his own foundation so that his government can stand firmly in the world. Right now, he has many things to worry about. If he wants to focus on dealing with Burma Town If so, it is probably impossible.

And Xiao Ruxun has one of the biggest advantages.

The imperial court had no idea of ​​the true strength of Myanmar Town.

The scholar-bureaucrats habitually refer to the area south of the Lingnan as a wild land, and Myanmar is even more south of the south of the Lingnan. In their consciousness, it is even a barren land in the wild land. This kind of place deserves Concerned?
Not collecting taxes for several years can reflect the contempt of the scholar-bureaucrats for Myanmar, and this is Xiao Ruxun's greatest reliance.

The literati may know that the Zhennan Army has a strength of 3 people, but they don't know that the number of Zhennan Army that has completed the task of mopping up the Meng nationality is at least [-].

If Xiao Ruxun wanted to expand the army wholeheartedly, it would not be difficult to pull out [-] troops within a month and guarantee the supply of military supplies for half a year based on the construction and reserves he had done in Myanmar in the past few years and the population composition of Myanmar.

Thanks to the gifts from the literati, most of the refugees who arrived in Myanmar were young and middle-aged men, and there were very, very few women, young children and elderly people, because they had already died in the process of fleeing. Most of the refugees who survived and arrived in Myanmar were Stronger young men.

Although Xiao Ruxun also used various methods to collect young women from all over the country to marry a large number of leftover men in Myanmar, but that would not change the situation that most of the population in Myanmar are young and strong men who are suitable for military service. In the name of benevolence and righteousness, with one order, can't a hundred thousand troops gather together?

Shen Yiguan has made countless calculations, and he can't figure out where the real strength of Burma Town is. They know that Xiao Ruxun can fight and that Xiao Ruxun will lead troops to train, but they don't know how big Burma's development potential is.

There was no possibility of reconciliation between Xiao Ruxun and Shen Yiguan. Shen Yiguan wanted to kill Xiao Ruxun, and Xiao Ruxun also wanted to kill Shen Yiguan to avenge those brothers who died tragically.

Right now, they can't live without fighting. They can distort the facts and say that Xiao Ruxun is rebellious. Xiao Ruxun can also use large-scale publicity to retort and expose their hypocrisy.

Not only that, but also a big exposure, playing a public opinion war, not only exposing that Shen has always forced the emperor to abdicate, but also putting the death of Emperor Zhengde on their heads. Wow, let them doubt themselves and get confused.

In this way, Xiao Ruxun can carry out the famous Northern Expedition in the name of rebelling against the sky, and in the name of rescuing Zhu Yijun.

Peaceful evolution is impossible, and we can only use the most primitive and convenient way to give them a little color.

Shen Yiguan's lair is in the area of ​​Zhejiang, Zhejiang and Fujian are also the lairs of the Jiangnan gentry group, their base, Xiao Ruxun can't help but want to see how painful it is for Shen Yiguan to know that his lair has been destroyed up.

The local army cannot be the opponent of the Zhennan Army, so what if the local gentry fight back desperately?
It is really a good slogan to beat the local tyrants and divide the fields.

Equalizing the rich and the poor is also a good gimmick.

You say I am a traitor, and I also say you are a traitor. There is really nothing to say about doing this kind of thing on the grounds of hunting down traitors and accomplices.

The fire of vengeance was burning in Xiao Ruxun's chest, he couldn't care so much, and he didn't want to care too much, the only thing he wanted to do now was to make Shen Yiguan's life worse than death.

Of course, before that, there are still many things to do.

Under Xiao Ruxun's expectation, for three days in a row, the ship sailed smoothly and sailed at an extremely fast speed. It crossed Shandong and entered northern Jiangsu. During the period, the ship was checked for "road guidance" several times. The owner of the ship gave those officials a few sums of money and passed.

When he was in Shandong, Xiao Ruxun also saw a large number of water transport ships transporting grain to the north. The owner of the ship was so frightened that he stopped the ship at a distance and waited for all the official ships to go before he dared to continue. .

Xiao Ruxun inquired with the old boatman again, and learned that this was all forced. Most of the waterways of the canal are flat, but there is also the danger of capsizing or breaking the boat when passing the sluice, and those who damage the boat and sink to the bottom must be held accountable. So some soldiers came up with bad ideas.

They deliberately put some broken ships on top of some merchant ships that were sailing in good condition. As long as they bumped into them, they would say that the merchant ships destroyed the water transport ships, and they insisted on losing money.

Fortunately, I didn't meet any unreasonable soldiers this time. Judging by the appearance of those boats, they seemed to be very anxious to send them north.

On the night of the fourth day, the fleet encountered a small group of water bandits trying to rob them. Xiao Ruxun and others, who happened to be on duty at night, cleared them up. The captain was very grateful for this and invited Xiao Ruxun and others to have a meal Meat.

On the fifth day, although there were some small twists and turns, the ship did not stop after all. Finally, at dawn on the sixth day, the fleet arrived at the destination of the voyage, Zhenjiang.

The four of Xiao Ruxun deeply felt their luck, and before leaving the boat, they expressed their deep gratitude to the captain.

"Are you not refugees from Guanzhong?"

The captain suddenly showed a somewhat mysterious smile.

Xiao Ruxun narrowed his eyes, and the expressions of the three behind him changed.

"I've traveled all over the world for so many years, and this is the first time I've seen refugees as strong and skilled as you, and judging by your abilities, you probably belong to the army, right?"

Xiao Ruxun asked, "What does the captain mean?"

"It's nothing interesting, just to say something. I've traveled all over the world for many years, and I haven't met anyone or encountered anything. It's a predestined relationship for everyone. Someone Lu thanked the four heroes for their help!"

The captain bowed his hands towards Xiao Ruxun and the others.

Xiao Ruxun's heart relaxed, and he also cupped his hands towards the captain.

"Thank you!"

(End of this chapter)