Wanli 1592

Chapter 790 Straight to Myanmar
Since three years ago, merchant ships from Burma Town in the south have been coming to do business with some cities in the Jiangnan area. This matter is not a secret in the Jiangnan business community, and the government knows a lot.

However, they think that this kind of business has nothing to do with Myanmar Town itself, but just the needs of Zhennanhou Xiao Ruxun who lives in Myanmar Town. Myanmar is positioned as a garbage dump in the Central Plains, and there is no market and demand.

What is really needed is Xiao Ruxun himself, but there is no point in tossing and tossing around with just a local tyrant Xiao Ruxun.

So if there is a ship, we will do business. If there is no ship, we will not go to Myanmar, but to Luzon.

When Luzon was still under Spanish rule, a large number of Ming coastal businessmen went to Luzon to do business, mainly to buy spices.

Later, after the Luzon war started, the merchant ships stopped going to Luzon, but waited for the opportunity. After the news came that Luzon had been beaten up by Xiao Ruxun and became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty again, this kind of commercial trade continued.

After Luzon became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty again, it took about half a year, when Xiao Ruxun went north to resist the invasion of the northern captives, a large number of merchant ships returned to Luzon to do business.

Now Luzon is very friendly to Ming, and merchants of Ming can basically pass through the port cities of Luzon. The price of spices is also slightly cheaper than before.

The businessmen of the Ming Dynasty basically did not set foot in places other than Luzon. They had no interest in crossing the Strait of Malacca to reach Myanmar, and they lacked interest in Myanmar. Basically, what they needed were spices from Nanyang, which were the most valuable.

They don't know that Luzon is actually controlled by Xiao Ruxun. All the spices they buy are basically Xiao Ruxun's income, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of silver have entered Xiao Ruxun's pockets instead of Luzon people. pocket.

It can be said that the officials of the Ming government in the south of the Yangtze River basically ignored Myanmar. Everyone did not violate the river water. Even Yunnan had no interest in Myanmar. Chen Yongbin had never been to Myanmar once in the past few years, even though Myanmar nominally belonged to Yunnan. zone.

So on the fourth day of June, Myanmar town was suddenly declared a rebel town, and the local government suddenly realized what to do with Myanmar, but found that there was nothing to do at all. arrive.

There are many local businessmen who come to the government to tell the government about this matter, saying that they find it very strange, they have paid the deposit, but the goods are no longer available, what is going on?

Now that they all know it, it's not easy to realize this.

Could it be that he heard something in advance, so he ran away?
They have just received the urgent documents sent by the imperial court, which can be said to be very fast. How could the merchant ships in Myanmar know about it earlier than them?

But these are not worthy of Ye Mengxiong's attention. It is better to say that they are not important at all. They are just a few merchant ships, and they run away. What is really worth noting is the disappearance of a general in Nanjing.

Xiao Ruzhi, the admiral of Nanjing, did not go to the government for no reason.

Ye Mengxiong, who got the news, sent people to Xiao Ruzhi's mansion to find out the news. At that time, Ye Mengxiong didn't know about the imperial coup, but simply sent people to investigate to see where Xiao Ruzhi had gone.

Then he found the testimony of an eyewitness that Xiao Ruzhi left Nanjing City a day ago, saying that Xiao Ruzhi followed a cart and went out of the city. It seemed that he was going to the north of the city. The next day, I didn't come to order Mao directly.

This is not normal.

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

Xiao Ruxun bewitched the emperor to try to launch a mutiny. Shen Yiguan saw through Xiao Ruxun's tricks, so he preemptively defeated Xiao Ruxun's plot. The mutiny failed. The emperor was ashamed and issued an abdication edict.

Xiao Ruxun is a rebel and has already put down the law, and Burma Town is a rebellious town. The imperial court ordered Yunnan governor Chen Yongbin to suppress Burma Town, put it down, abolish it, and capture Xiao's family members for disposal.

After hearing the news, although Ye Mengxiong realized that Xiao Ruzhi's disappearance seemed to be no trivial matter, what made him even more confused and angry was that they only knew one result of such a big matter as the emperor's abdication and the new emperor's enthronement, and they couldn't do it at all. What useful information can I get from Shen's consistent explanation.

Xiao Ruxun rebelled, and then subdued?

died?

Are you kidding me?
Didn't you just win the battle?Why did you suddenly rebel?
There are not a few officials who have the same thoughts and doubts as Ye Mengxiong, but there are not many officials who are as angry as Ye Mengxiong.

Ye Mengxiong admired Xiao Ruxun very much. His relationship with Xiao Ruxun dates back to the Ningxia Campaign in the 20th year of Wanli, and they have been friends for six years. Ye Mengxiong asked himself that in the officialdom, no one knows Xiao Ruxun better than him.

When we parted in the small pavilion on the outskirts of the capital, Ye Mengxiong had expected him to never forget his oath to help the world. Later, when he watched him step by step become the most powerful general in Ming Dynasty, Ye Mengxiong was really very happy. Happy, I feel that as long as Daming has Xiao Ruxun, the country can be guaranteed.

Since they parted, the two have not stopped exchanging letters. Xiao Ruxun would send him gifts during the festivals. Even when he was fighting in the north, the envoys from Burma would never forget to send him a New Year's gift. .

The two had communicated with each other three months ago, why did Xiao Ruxun become a traitor this time?Still dead?
Ye Mengxiong felt unable to cope with all this. Facing the fact that the new emperor had ascended the throne and Xiao Ruxun's "death", he was both angry and sad.

This made a lot of people anxious.

As one of the few people who actually held power in Nanjing, Ye Mengxiong had a very high status. When this incident happened, officials from the six ministries in Nanjing flocked to look for Ye Mengxiong.

A group of people asked all kinds of questions, but there was no result. No one knew the ins and outs of this matter, and how the change of the new emperor would affect everyone's future. Therefore, a group of people finally decided to submit a statement Ask the court what happened.

Of course, it must be listed on the grounds of congratulating the new emperor on his enthronement.

Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, it means that at least the capital has stabilized. They are far away in Nanjing, and they can't influence the capital anyway. They can only ask the court what happened on the basis of acknowledging 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 Burma to inquire about the news, on the other hand, he silently suppressed the news of Xiao Ruzhi's disappearance without telling others, and ordered Xiao Ruzhi's deputy to take over Xiao Ruzhi's task, and keep quiet .

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

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

Land in Siam, cross the Indochina Peninsula, transfer to another sea ship on the west side, save the time of crossing Malacca, and go directly 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, prepare to send Xiao Ruxun and others to Nan'an City, the capital of Myanmar, and start to check the number of various stocks in Yangon and the number of civilians who can be recruited. Calculate according to the maximum ratio that can be mobilized. Complete this task within the time limit and report to the capital.

"Xiao Hou, this...why is this?"

Faced with Xiao Ruxun's order, which was almost a mobilization order, Wu Guang didn't understand why.

"There's going to be a war."

Xiao Ruxun just explained it in such a simple way.

It was June thirteenth.

And it wasn't until June [-]th that the news of the new emperor's ascension to the throne and Xiao Ruxun's rebellion had just reached Kunming, Yunnan, and the governor of Yunnan, Chen Yongbin, was quite surprised to know the drastic changes in the capital and that he had been assigned such a task.

(End of this chapter)