Chapter 410: Returning to Beijing spy
Fortunately, he was a pirate before, and he has been engaged in maritime trade since then. He is still very proficient in making money. Moreover, there is a gap in maritime trade in the area of Liaodong. From Shandong to Liaodong, to North Korea, and even to Japan, it is very close. These three places also have a great demand for Ming Dynasty items, and there is no serious fleet running in these three lines.
With Yu Ren's business vision, he certainly would not miss such an opportunity. So as long as he planned the attack on Zhenjiang Fort, he had sent people south to Taiwan and asked Xu Qian to send him a fleet. It has been nearly a year since he left Taiwan. He believed that Xu Qian and the others had already gained a foothold at this time, and should have expanded a lot more than before.
Therefore, Yu Ren proposed to transfer ten large ships for him. As a result, Xu Qian gave him fifteen large ships and thirty small ships.
Yu Ren was overjoyed when he saw the fleet. He calculated that if nothing unexpected happened to these forty ships, he could earn at least 400,000 taels of silver a year. This money could allow him to raise at least 50,000 soldiers.
With these forty ships, Yu Ren began to re-establish his headquarters on the island. After all, he was a pirate and always felt that it was unsafe to build a city on land without the protection of the sea. Although he no longer believed that the Jurchens could easily capture Zhenjiang City, he still removed the general to Pi Island.
Of course, there is another reason for this, because the waterways are convenient and he can control his maritime trade.
When all this was done, it was already the March day with the growing grass and flying birds. Yu Ren calculated the days and was very close to Zhao Rui's birth. The situation in Zhenjiang area has stabilized. Even if the Jurchens immediately sent large troops to attack, they could calmly retreat to Pi Island. Therefore, Yu Ren decided to go back to Beijing.
First, we can take a look at Zhao Rui, and second, we can also inquire about the situation in the court. Of course, the former is the main one.
Now that Yu Ren has a boat and money, it is of course easy to return to Beijing. The big boat went out to sea and arrived in Tianjin within a few days. Yu Ren turned the carriage again.
At this time, Yu Ren was in a hurry to return. When he left, he almost took everyone away. Zhao Rui was left with only a few girls who were ordered by him, and Zhao Nanxing had not allowed Zhao Rui to move into the Zhao Mansion! The most important thing is that the delivery level in this era was too poor and there was no caesarean section. In case of any accident, the children and adults might be in danger.
The more Yu Ren thought about it, the more he became less at ease, and he wished he could fly into Beijing immediately.
But it was already late at night when the carriage arrived from Tianjin.
In the capital city, the city gates were closed and they could not enter at all. Yu Ren could only wait.
It was finally time to wait until dawn the next day, and it was already past the time to open the city gate, but the city gate was still slow to open. Although Yu Ren was anxious, he had no choice but to wait patiently. Who made this era without a phone number?
It was not until after Chen Hou that the city gate opened.
As soon as the city gate opened, a large group of people were lined up and headed out. There were a long queue of people leaving the city, but few people entered the city.
As a result, Yu Ren was squeezed by these people who left the city and could not get in. Although he was anxious, Yu Ren had no choice. This was entering the city, not fighting on the battlefield. Yu Ren had all his skills, but could not perform them. He could only wait for the group of people who left the city to finish it.
When the dragon was about to end, Yu Ren suddenly saw a familiar figure in the crowd. It looked like Zhao Rui's second brother Zhao Peng. Because he was sitting in the carriage, Yu Ren hurriedly took a look when he opened the curtain, so he was not real.
Yu Ren was even more anxious. Zhao Peng was riding in a carriage, with several cars following behind him. What are you going to do?
Thinking of this, Yu Ren shouted, "Brother Zhao."
The man in the carriage heard Yu Ren's shout and lifted the curtain again. It was indeed Zhao Peng.
When Yu Ren saw that it was Zhao Peng, he went up in three or two steps. Zhao Peng had already ordered the coachman to stop the carriage behind him that had already left the city on the side of the road. At this time, there were too many people leaving the city, and there were also many carriages and horses. As soon as Zhao Peng's carriage stopped on the side of the road, it would inevitably affect the people who left the city behind him and would attract a burst of curses.
Zhao Peng didn't care about these curses at all, and was jumping out of the car with excitement and coming to Yu Ren.
"Yu Ren. Why are you back? We heard that you went to Guangning and are worried about you." As he said that, Zhao Peng carefully looked Yu Ren up and down, as if he wanted to see if there were any missing parts on Yu Ren's body.
Yu Ren pulled Zhao Peng to the side of the road and told him briefly that he did not go to Guangning, but to Zhenjiang. Then he asked why Zhao Peng took such a large group of cars and horses out of the city.
Only then did Zhao Peng tell him the reason.
It turned out that since the defeat of the Battle of Guangning, although the Jurchens were finally deceived back to Liaoyang by Yu Ren, the people in Beijing were still scared. To be more precise, not only the people, but also from princes and ministers to ordinary people, their greatest hope was to go to the south. This happened that this year was the year of Beijing inspection, which was equivalent to the modern election year. Officials from all over the country had to come to Beijing to report their duties, and then the Ministry of Personnel scored based on their performance in the past few years, and then decided to advance and re-arrange their positions.
Therefore, such an abnormal scene appeared in the officialdom: many officials would rather demote than try their best to squeeze south, even if they were sent to Lingnan, which was sent to the wild land, they were happy. The officials sent to the north were all frowning, and no one dared to go to Liaodong.
It is said that such a joke happened. An official was sent to Liaodong by the Ministry of Personnel. As a result, this guy was afraid that he would not dare to go, so he went to the emperor to seek revenge, that is, to resign. But the emperor refused to let him go and told him that if you dare not go, you would kill you.
As a result, the guy had to take office. But he came back crying before he walked out of the capital. Then he found the emperor and said, "You should kill me!" Even if you kill me, I dare not go to Liaodong!"
After hearing what Zhao Peng told him, Yu Ren couldn't help frowning even tighter. He really didn't expect that these Ming officials would be afraid of the Jurchens to this extent.
Even if the officials are like this, let alone the people. Therefore, any family in Beijing with some conditions quietly transported their families and property out of Beijing and moved them to Jiangnan.
At this time, Beijing City can be said to be full of plants and trees.
Since Zhao Rui was about to give birth, he never left. When Zhao Rui was born, Zhao Nanxing, who had always shown no concern for his daughter, quickly instructed his second son Zhao Peng to prepare a carriage and take Zhao Rui back to his hometown. At this time, the war was in chaos, and he was worried about leaving his daughter and his little grandson here.
When Yu Ren heard that Zhao Rui had given birth, and was in the carriage behind, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. He quickly ran to the carriage behind and opened the curtain. Sure enough, he saw Zhao Rui half-lying in the carriage, with her close-fitting girl Yun'er sitting next to her. Next to them, there was a woman in her twenties, holding a newly born baby in her hand.
Suddenly seeing Yu Ren, Zhao Rui was also surprised and couldn't help but burst into tears.
Yu Ren was also excited. He looked at Zhao Rui first, and then turned his gaze to the baby in the woman's hand. "Is this our child?"
When Zhao Rui heard Yu Ren talk about the child, her face showed a proud look and nodded heavily.
Yu Ren leaned over and looked. The little guy looked almost exactly the same as him. Yu Ren trembled and reached out to him. "Come on, let dad hug him."
As soon as the nurse sent the child to Yu Ren's hand, the little guy opened his mouth and started crying. It seemed that he was not very welcome to this father who had returned from afar.
Seeing this, Yu Ren quickly handed over the child back to the nurse and then talked to Zhao Rui.
"Thanks a lot!"
After hearing this, Zhao Rui showed a happy smile on her face. For her, the greatest happiness in life is to be able to see her husband return safely.
"It's worth it if you can come back safely!"
Yu Ren nodded heavily, "Don't worry, for our children, I will pay close attention to my safety in the future and will never do anything deep into the tiger's den."
Yu Ren used to do this kind of thing, and he also liked it very much. Although his status is already very high, he still has the spirit of a knight in his bones. So, he likes to take risks. But when he saw Zhao Rui and their children, he decided not to do that kind of adventure stupid thing anymore. After all, he is already a general, and is no longer the little pawn who charged back then.
When Zhao Rui heard this, she showed a happy smile on her face.
Chapter completed!