Chapter 216 Returning with a reward
However, there is one thing Yu Ren knows exactly. The once inconspicuous Jurchen tribe on the land of Liaodong will eventually rise, and he will become a powerful enemy of the Ming Dynasty, so powerful that the central empire of the Ming Dynasty could not resist. When he thought of this, Yu Ren couldn't help but twitch, which was something he didn't want to see.
Because he knew that the arrival of the Jurchens would bring endless disasters to the Central Plains Empire, and countless kind people would die in this war. These people would include those he knew and those he did not know, many of his relatives and friends would not be able to escape this fateful ending, perhaps himself.
Yu Ren didn't want to see this ending. He wanted to do his best to save the situation, not for the long-decaying imperial dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, but for his relatives, friends, and countless kind Ming people he knew and did not know. He didn't want to watch these people eventually become slaves to the Jurchens.
So, Yu Ren resolutely took Li Ying away from Kyoto, ended their honeymoon journey ahead of schedule, and returned to Hirado. He wanted to rush back to China as soon as possible. He wanted to reinforcing the precarious Ming Empire Building. He wanted to try every means to suppress the Jurchens so that they could not break into the pass, jump into the Central Plains, ravage the people of the Ming Dynasty, and ravage his relatives and friends.
Of course, Yu Ren told Li Ying unreservedly.
Li Ying heard his words and said nothing.
After a long time, Li Ying said softly, "This is all about the family affairs of the emperor. You have no official or no title, so I'm afraid you are powerless!"
Yu Ren shook his head, "Ying'er, what you said is wrong. The world is the world of the world. Although the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was Zhu, the Jurchens were interested in not only the wealth of his Zhu family, but what they wanted was the wealth of the world. To put it bluntly, they were just a group of robbers who came out of the mountains and forests.
They will not create wealth, but will only plunder wealth. They regard the people in the world as their cattle and sheep of the Jurchens. If we allow them to enter the Central Plains, the world will have no place to stand. Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.
I did this for countless people of the Ming Dynasty and for ourselves.”
Li Ying didn't say anything anymore. Although she didn't think Yu Ren's ideal could be realized, she still supported her husband with silence.
When he returned to Hirado Castle, Yu Ren immediately went to find Li Dan and asked him to return to China. Li Dan seemed not surprised, but just asked him why he wanted to return to China.
Yu Ren died of Emperor Wanli and wanted to return to his country to find friends from the former Donglin Party, hoping to use their power to make the Ming Dynasty stronger again to resist the Jurchens in Liaodong.
Instead of attacking Yu Ren, Li Dan praised him a few words and said that if he needed any help, he would fully support him even if he asked him.
Yu Ren just said no, but in fact he was afraid that the person sent by Li Dan would have conflicts with Xu Xinsu's people, which would have a negative effect. Anyway, Xu Xinsu has also accepted the recruitment. If he needs military or financial support, I believe he will still help him.
So Li Dan prepared two big ships for Yu Ren and the others and sent them back to China. In this way, Li Dan was still worried and sent five more boats to load five cargoes in the Higashido and returned to China with them. He happened to go to Susong to sell them.
Xu Xinsu was a little surprised when Yu Ren returned to Nansha Island. Although he had heard about Yu Ren and Li Ying's marriage, he did not expect that he would come back so soon.
That time, Xu Xinsu was escorted back to Kashima by Huang Ji'an and insisted not to leave. He had to wait for news about Yu Ren there until it came from Hirado Castle that Yu Ren finally won Li Dan's approval and married his daughter to him. Xu Xinsu returned to China with confidence. He did not go to Hirado Castle to drink Yu Ren's wedding banquet. Because he knew that Li Dan could forgive Yu Ren, but he could not forgive him. Moreover, the Xu family had already vaguely surpassed the Li family at this time and became the largest business group in East Asia. Xu Xinsu knew too much about Li Dan's personality, and he would not be willing to be the second child.
If he went to the Hirado, he would be under house arrest by Li Dan and would not be able to return to the country from now on. Therefore, after receiving the news that Yu Ren had married Li Ying, Xu Xinsu immediately summoned his subordinates and set sail back to China immediately.
Seeing that Yu Ren and Li Ying returned to Nansha Island, Xu Xinsu wanted to summon all the brothers and also hold a grand return wine for them. He also planned to recall a group of old people from the Li family such as Qu Jing, who was far away in Zhejiang and Fujian, to celebrate with Yu Ren and the others.
But Yu Ren stopped him. Yu Ren believed that once they had accepted the court's envoy, they should not be so during the national mourning period. If they were reported, it would be a serious crime of beheading.
What's more, no one knows where the Ming Dynasty will go when the new emperor ascends the throne. Now, the most important thing for them is to rush to Suzhou as soon as possible to find out the national policy of the new emperor ascends the throne and what new policies are there. This is the key to them, otherwise, if you are not careful, they may be doomed.
Xu Xinsu agreed with Yu Ren's idea and immediately arranged someone to send him to Suzhou.
Yu Ren went to Songjiang first, he found Zhao Rui, and then took her to Suzhou with him. Because he knew that he did not know any of the powerful and powerful bosses of the Donglin Party, but Zhao Rui was different. Her father was originally Zhao Nanxing, one of the Donglin giants, and those Donglin bosses were just her uncles. It would be easier to find out some news from these uncles and uncles, naturally, than him, a stranger.
They first went to Suzhou, and then went to Wuxi.
However, they had no gains during this trip. In just over a month, almost all the important members of the Donglin Party went to the capital, which was beyond Yu Ren's expectations. Sun Sheng was also recalled to Beijing a few days ago and also removed his position as a tax supervisor. After hearing that the new emperor ascended the throne, he quickly summoned all the mining supervisors in the country to remove them, not just Sun Sheng.
At this time, Yu Ren could not find an acquaintance in the officialdom in Suzhou City. He was really unsure of the future situation. As the saying goes, once the emperor and the minister, Yu Ren was increasingly unsure of where the chariot of the Ming Empire would head. Of course, the most important reason was that he had learned too badly in the past history courses. There was basically nothing else about the period of history he was in except for knowing Nurhaci and Yuan Chonghuan. He knew that the Jurchens finally achieved the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't know how to change the historical ending.
Although he did not want to be a person who went against the trend of history, his relatives and friends were all destined to be eliminated by history. He did not believe in fate, and he always believed that fate could be changed. Since he could come to this world, it means that history is not necessarily so inevitable. Therefore, for his relatives, for his friends, and for himself, Yu Ren decided to work hard to change his fate.
After working hard for a few days, he got nothing. Yu Ren was inevitably a little depressed, but at the same time he was a little expectant. He had heard from Zhao Rui that when the new emperor was the crown prince, he was the biggest supporter of the Donglin Party. He finally ascended the throne because of the repeated help of the Donglin Party.
So, now that the prince has ascended the throne, does this also mean that the Donglin Party will regain power and become the actual ruling party of this empire?
Although Yu Ren has never liked party struggles, fate has involved him in party struggles from the beginning and tied him closely with the Donglin Party. He cannot avoid the rise and fall of the Donglin Party. Since this is the case, he still hopes that the Donglin Party can rule, at least so that he can have the opportunity to speak.
Just when Yu Ren felt confused and helpless and had no gains along the way, he bumped into someone on the street - Suzhou little official Wang Wenyan.
"I didn't expect to meet you here. It's great. I just thought about sending someone to find Ruirui and sending you a letter! I didn't expect to touch my head here." Wang Wenyan was a little excited when she saw Yu Renxian.
Yu Ren was also a little surprised, "Didn't you say you went to Beijing a few months ago?"
"Yes! I've been there for half a year. I went there at the invitation of a friend. There is no way!" Wang Wenyan said, and then pulled Yu Ren home.
"Why did you come back suddenly?"
Chapter completed!