"Shang Yi, I finally found you. Go to Beijing to save your father. Now you can only save the Ming Dynasty."

As soon as he walked into the Governor's Office in Dengzhou, one of the people waiting here had already rushed to Shang Yi, pulling Shang Yi's clothes, and talking, he was crying. Shang Yi also recognized that this person was the daughter of Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Masuji, Princess Kunxing of the Ming Dynasty.

It turned out that when I was picking up the boat at the dock, I sent someone to report that the Jinyiwei arrived at Dengzhou Prefecture and wanted to see Shang Yi and Zeng Hualong. Shang Yi just thought that Chongzhen sent someone to ask for help. Although it was a bit strange, the Jinyiwei had great magical powers, how could he know that he was in Dengzhou? I didn't think much about the others, but I never expected that Zhu Mei also followed the Jinyiwei to Dengzhou.

But this is not surprising, because when she and Zhu Mai met for the first time, she was also pretending to be the Jinyiwei. However, at this time, Zhu Mai was crying in tears, like pear blossoms and rain, just holding Shang Yi's clothes. She looked so pitiful and sarcastic.

At this time, someone came over and said, "Princess, please rest assured. We have found General Shang, and that is the result. Some people say slowly, don't worry about losing our composure."

After hearing what he said, Zhu Mai knew that his actions had indeed become a bit out of control, so he let go of Shang Yi's clothes and wiped his tears again. Shang Yi then saw clearly that it was Shen Yang, the magistrate of the Jinyiwei, Liu Zhiyong, the politician Zhao Congfu and others, who had protected Zhu Mai last time, and this time, all came. On the other side, Zeng Hualong saw it inexplicably and was confused.

It turned out that after Li Zicheng sent troops to fight the east, Chongzhen and his court were discussing countermeasures. First, on the third day of the lunar month, Zuo Zhongyun Li Rui met Chongzhen and proposed that Chongzhen had personally fought to discuss moving south. At that time, Chongzhen hurriedly pointed his fingers at the sky and stopped him, "You can't say this."

Subsequently, the son-in-law Gong Yonggu, the supervisor Li Jiantai, the left censor Li Banghua and others also proposed the proposal to move south, but they were strongly opposed by the cabinet chief Chen Yan. They even cited the example of Yu Qian's efforts to protect Beijing back then, which made everyone speechless.

However, when the southward migration failed, some people reiterated that Wu Sangui or Shang Yi lead the army to Beijing to defend the capital. However, the ministers continued to discuss and argued, and continued to argue. As the chief assistant Chen Yan, he firmly opposed this suggestion.

On the sixth day of the second month, Li Zicheng conquered Taiyuan Prefecture. Chongzhen finally couldn't sit still. He finally made a decision in person and transferred Wu Sangui and Shang Yi to Beijing to guard. However, Chen Yan still did not implement it immediately. Instead, Chongzhen sent people to Shanhaiguan and Hangzhou to ask about their opinions, and then made a decision. Although Chongzhen was very dissatisfied with Chen Yan's delay, he still decided to follow Chen Yan's opinions.

However, Beijing is close to Shanhaiguan, which is only three or five days away, and you can receive a reply in less than ten days. However, it is thousands of miles away from Hangzhou, and the place halfway has been occupied by Li Zicheng, so you have to take a detour to Shandong. When Shang Yi received a reply, you will issue an order to transfer Shang Yi to Beijing, but you are afraid that you will not be able to wait until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month.

After learning about this situation in the palace, Zhu Mai took the initiative to volunteer to Chongzhen to go to Hangzhou to ask Shang Yi in person. If he could send troops to Beijing, he would send troops immediately without waiting for the edict.

After hearing this, Chongzhen felt that this would be better, so as not to waste more time, because from his heart, he was still inclined to Shang Yi to lead his army to Beijing to protect the emperor. Therefore, he agreed to let Zhu Mei go out of Beijing. At the same time, Chongzhen also learned his lesson. He knew that the ministers were afraid of taking responsibility and had no evidence, so he issued two imperial edicts, one was to ask Shang Yi about the situation in Zhejiang, and the other imperial edict was to formally order Shang Yi to lead his army to Beijing to guard, and to add Shang Yi as the Linyi Hou and hold the seal of the General. The General was the highest-level official position of the Ming Dynasty military general. He handed it over to Zhu Mei and let her take it to Hangzhou. If Shang Yi thought that Zhejiang had nothing to do and could lead the army north, then he would hand over the second imperial edict to Shang Yi.

After receiving the imperial edict, Zhu Mai immediately took Chen Yang, Liu Zhiyong, Zhao Congfu and others to Hangzhou. It was a coincidence that their vocation came, and only after arriving in Hangzhou did he know that Shang Yi was in Suzhou. After Ye Yaoying knew their purpose, he immediately issued an official document for them and asked them to rush to Suzhou to find Shang Yi. But when he arrived in Suzhou, he knew that Shang Yi returned to Muling Pass again. As a result, Zhu Mai had to rush to Hunting from Muling Pass to Dengzhou, and he found Shang Yi.

After hearing Zhu Mai talk about the story of this journey, Shang Yi and Zeng Hualong both smiled bitterly, and saw that this coincidence was a coincidence.

Originally, Zhu Mai didn't intend to expose herself, but firstly, since Shang Yi left Beijing, her longing for Shang Yi became deeper and deeper, and secondly, she had gone through a lot of hardships to find Shang Yi. She was too excited, so when she saw Shang Yi, she couldn't help but unable to control herself. As a result, Zeng Hualong now knew Zhu Mai's identity.

Although Zeng Hualong had a lot of remarks about the princess leaving the palace to pass the imperial edict, it was not the time to talk about these details, so he also bowed to Zhu Ma and said, "I have seen Princess Kunxing."

Then he knew that Zhu Mai ignored him at all, but looked at Shang Yi eagerly, waiting for his reply. However, Zeng Hualong thought that she was worried about the current situation, so he lost her composure and did not care much.

At this time, Shang Yi had several thoughts in his mind, and finally nodded, saying, "Princess, please rest assured. As a minister, I should be loyal to the country. I will naturally lead the army to Beijing to rescue the shelter. However, entering Beijing is still a big deal, and you should not be in a hurry. You still need to make a long-term plan. Moreover, today it is too late, and even if you want to send troops, you can't leave. The princess and all the people are coming from a long way. Let's take a break and have something in place. We will discuss how to send troops later."

Zeng Hualong also nodded and said, "General Shang is right. Don't be in a hurry when sending troops. I immediately ordered someone to arrange the feast and ask the princess and everyone to have a meal to rest."

Zhu Mai reacted at this time and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Lord Zeng."

While Zhu Ma's group was having dinner, Shang Yi also began to seriously consider the matter of going to Beijing this time.

According to Shang Yi's original idea, he ignored the life and death of the Ming Dynasty and did not even consider the matter of going north to rescue Beijing. Because now, when the Ming Dynasty was almost certain to destroy the country, he would not go there. But Shang Yi still agreed to Zhu Mei to send troops to Beijing, and it was definitely not the result of her impulse when she saw her softly asking for help.

Of course, Shang Yi felt that Zhu Ma Shin's love for him, and although Shang Yi could not have as much love for Zhu Ma Shin, he was not unfavorable, but his status was very different, so he didn't take it too seriously. Of course, if by chance, Shang Yi would not mind taking Zhu Ma Shin's house, but it would never be possible to change his plan to save a dynasty without hope because of his sympathy for Zhu Ma Shin. He agreed to Zhu Ma Shin because his previous plan had changed. Even without Zhu Ma Shin, Shang Yi planned to go to Beijing once.

Due to the education and experience before traveling, Shang Yi is a person who likes to make careful plans in advance and then implement them according to the plan without changing easily. But Shang Yi also knows the principle that soldiers change with the trend. No matter how careful the plan is, it is impossible to take all changes into consideration and be absolutely foolproof, because the changes in things are often not transferred by human will. Therefore, when it is time to change, you must change without hesitation. Deciding to never go to Beijing in the past and now decide to go to Beijing is normal.

Shang Yi decided to go to Beijing this time, with the purpose of only one word - money.

Because Shang Yi knew that after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he collected silver and money among the officials, honorary officials, eunuchs, and wealthy families of the Ming Dynasty. Historical records of living in another time and space, in just over a dozen days, Li Zicheng actually collected more than 70 million taels of silver and millions of taels of gold, equivalent to the total fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty for four to five years, and was completely dissolved into gold and silver sectors for further removal. However, with the flash in the pan of the Dashun regime, after Li Zicheng hurriedly retreated from Beijing, this huge amount of wealth was almost all obtained by the Qing army who pursued Li Zicheng.

When there was a financial crisis, Shang Yi also thought about whether there was a way to get the money into his own hands, even if it was part of it, it could solve his financial problems, and he also had a plan for it. But he was just thinking about it. After all, it was too risky to implement this plan. Moreover, as Shang Yi occupied the Haisha Salt Field, the financial crisis was basically resolved, and Shang Yi did not need to implement this plan.

If it weren't for the silkworm war in Suzhou, then this plan would have been dead.

It was this time that the raw silk price war in Suzhou that Shang Yi understood that although he had a sea-sha salt field, his financial situation was far from as loose as he thought. If an emergency occurred, he would immediately become stretched. Moreover, as he avoided the Shandong war zone, military production would further expand, and expenses would increase exponentially. In fact, there was no such raw silk war, and the financial crisis would sooner or later.

The accumulation of wealth is a slow process. When agricultural tax is not available, no matter how much money-making business, production, sales, capital recovery and industrial expansion are all a process, and it cannot be achieved overnight. Therefore, the situation forced Shang Yi to reconsider this plan and seize food from the mouth of Li Zicheng, the tiger.

Although the chances of success of this plan are not great and there are many dangers, the task of the special forces is to complete the things that seem to be impossible to accomplish, so we must try them. Therefore, before coming to Shandong this time, Shang Yi had already made this decision.
Chapter completed!