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Volume 1: Young People's Struggle for Loyalty Chapter 410: Returning to Beijing to Spy

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    Fortunately, he used to be a pirate, and he has been engaged in maritime trade since then. He is still very proficient in making money.  Moreover, there is currently a gap in maritime trade in Liaodong.  From Shandong to Liaodong, to North Korea, and even to Japan, they are all very close.  The demand for Daming items in these three places is also very large, and currently there are no serious fleets operating in these three lines.  With Yu Ren¡¯s business vision, of course he would not let go of such an opportunity.  So as early as when he was planning the attack on Zhenjiang Fort, he had already sent people south to Taiwan and asked Xu Qian to send him a fleet.  It has been nearly a year since I left Taiwan.  He believed that Xu Qian and the others had already established a firm foothold at this time and should be much larger than before.  Therefore, Yu Ren proposed to transfer ten large ships to him.  As a result, Xu Qian gave him fifteen large boats and thirty small boats.  Yu Ren was overjoyed when he saw the fleet.  He calculated that if nothing unexpected happened to these forty ships, they could earn him at least four to five million taels of silver a year.  And this money can allow him to raise at least 50,000 troops.  With these forty ships, Yu Ren began to rebuild his headquarters on the island.  He must have been a pirate after all, and he always felt that a city built on land would be unsafe without the protection of the sea.  Although he no longer believed that the Jurchens could easily capture Zhenjiang City, he still evacuated the general to Pi Island.  Of course, there is another reason for this, because the waterway there is convenient, which makes it easier for him to control his maritime trade.  When all this is done, it will be March when the grass grows and the orioles fly.  Yu Ren counted the days and found that the day when Zhao Rui gave birth was very close.  At present, the situation in Zhenjiang has stabilized.  Even if the Jurchens immediately send a large army to attack, they can retreat to Phi Island calmly.  Therefore, Yu Ren decided to return to Beijing.  Firstly, you can see Zhao Rui, and secondly, you can also inquire about the situation in the DPRK and China.  Of course, the former is the main one.  Now that Yu Ren has a boat and money, it will be easy to return to Beijing.  The big ship went to sea and arrived in Tianjin within a few days.  Yu Ren turned the carriage again.  At this time, Yu Ren was eager to return home. When he left, he took almost everyone away. Only a few servant girls were left with Zhao Rui, and Zhao Nanxing had not yet let Zhao Rui move into Zhao Mansion!  The most important thing is that the standard of delivery in this era is too poor, and there is no caesarean section. If there is any accident, both children and adults may be in danger.  The more Yu Ren thought about it, the more worried he became. He wished he could fly to Beijing immediately.  But when the carriage arrived from Tianjin to the capital, it was already late at night.  In the capital city, the city gates are closed on all sides, so there is no way to get in.  Yu Ren could only wait.  With great difficulty, we waited until dawn the next day. It was already past the time to open the city gate, but the city gate still did not open.  Although Yu Ren was anxious, he had no choice but to wait patiently.  Who said there was no telephone in this era?  It was not until after Chen hour that the city gate opened.  As soon as the city gate opened, a large group of people lined up to go out.  There was a long queue of people leaving the city, but not many entering the city.  As a result, Yu Ren was squeezed by the group of people leaving the city and could not get in.  Although he was anxious, Yu Ren could do nothing. This was entering the city, not fighting on the battlefield. Yu Renkong had a lot of skills, but he couldn't use them. He could only wait patiently for the group of people leaving the city to finish.  When the crowd was almost gone, Yu Ren suddenly saw a familiar figure in the crowd.  It looks like Zhao Rui's second brother Zhao Peng.  Because he was sitting in a carriage, Yu Ren only had a quick glimpse when he opened the door curtain, so what he saw 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 for?  Thinking of this, Yu Ren shouted, "Brother Zhao." The man in the carriage heard Yu Ren's shout and raised the curtain again, and it turned out to be Zhao Peng.  When Yu Ren saw it was Zhao Peng, he stepped forward to meet him.  At this time, Zhao Peng had already ordered the coachman to stop the carriage that had left the city behind him by the roadside.  There were too many people leaving the city at this time, and there were also many carriages and horses. Once Zhao Peng's carriage stopped on the roadside, it would inevitably affect the people leaving the city behind and attract a burst of curses.  Zhao Peng didn't care about these curses and jumped out of the car with excitement on his face and greeted Yu Ren.  "Yu Ren. Why are you back? We heard that you went to Guangning and were worried about you." As he said that, Zhao Peng looked Yu Ren up and down carefully, as if to see clearly what was on Yu Ren's body.  It's not like there are missing parts.  Yu Ren pulled Zhao Peng to the side of the road and simply told him that he did not go to Guangning, but to Zhenjiang. Then he asked why Zhao Peng brought such a large group of carriages and horses out of the city.  Only then did Zhao Peng tell him the reason.  It turns out that since the failure of the Battle of Guangning.  Although the Jurchens were eventually captured by Yu?Successfully deceived him back to Liaoyang.  But the people in Beijing were still frightened.  To be more precise, not only the common people, but also the princes and ministers down to the common people, their biggest hope at this time is to go to the south.  It just so happens that this year is the Beijing-Inspection Year, which is equivalent to the modern election year. Officials from all over the country have to go to Beijing to report on their duties. Then the Ministry of Personnel will rate them based on their performance in the past few years, and then decide on promotions and relocations, and rearrange positions.  Therefore, there was such an abnormal scene in the officialdom for a while: many officials would rather be demoted than work hard to squeeze to the south. Even if they were sent to Lingnan, a wilderness, they were happy.  The officials who were sent to the north all had sad faces, and no one dared to go to Liaodong.  It is said that there is also such a joke. An official was sent to Liaodong by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. However, the guy was too afraid to go, so he went to the emperor to ask for retirement, that is, to resign.  But the emperor refused and told him that if you dare not go, I will kill you.  In the end, the guy had no choice but to take up his post.  But he didn't go far out of the capital before he came back crying. Then he found the emperor and said, "You'd better kill me!"  Even if you kill me, I won't dare to go to Liaodong!  After hearing what Zhao Peng told him, Yu Ren couldn't help but frown even more.  He really didn't expect that these Ming officials would be so afraid of the Jurchens.  ??If this is true for officials, let alone the common people.  Therefore, all the families in Beijing who had some conditions quietly moved their families and belongings out of Beijing and moved to the south of the Yangtze River.  At this time, the city of Beijing can be said to be full of soldiers.  Since Zhao Rui was about to give birth, she never left.  When Zhao Rui gave birth, Zhao Nanxing, who had always shown he didn't care about his daughter, quickly and quietly ordered his second son Zhao Peng to prepare a carriage to take Zhao Rui back to his hometown.  At this time, the war was in chaos, and he couldn't worry about leaving his daughter and his little grandson here.  Yu Ren was overjoyed when he heard that Zhao Rui had given birth and was in the carriage behind.  He quickly ran to the carriage behind him, opened the door curtain, and saw Zhao Rui half-lying in the carriage, with her personal maid Yun'er sitting next to her.  Next to them, there was a woman in her mid-twenties sitting, holding a newborn baby in her arms.  Seeing Yu Ren suddenly, Zhao Rui was also overjoyed and couldn't help but burst into tears.  Yu Ren was also excited. He first looked at Zhao Rui, and then turned his attention to the baby in the woman's hands.  "Is this our child?" Zhao Rui heard Yu Ren talking about the child, with a proud look on his face and nodded heavily.  Yu Ren went over and took a look.  The little guy looks almost exactly like him.  Yu Ren stretched out his hand tremblingly.  "Come, let daddy hold him." As soon as the wet nurse put the baby into Yu Ren's hands, the little guy opened his mouth and started crying.  It seemed that he did not welcome the father who had returned from afar.  Seeing this, Yu Ren quickly handed the child back to the wet nurse, and turned to talk to Zhao Rui.  "Thank you for your hard work!" After hearing this, Zhao Rui showed a happy smile on his face.  For her, the greatest happiness in life is to see her husband return safely.  "If you can come back safely, it's worth all the hard work!" Yu Ren nodded heavily, "Don't worry, for the sake of our children, I will pay close attention to my own safety in the future, and I will never go into the tiger's den again.  Something happened." Yu Ren used to do this kind of thing, and he also liked doing it.  Because although his status is now very high, he still has the spirit of a knight in his heart.  So, he likes to take risks.  But the moment he saw Zhao Rui and their child, he decided not to do such risky and foolish things again.  After all, he is now a general and no longer the pawn who charged back then.  When Zhao Rui heard this, a happy smile appeared on his face.
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