Since three years ago, merchant ships from Myanmar town in the south have been constantly doing business with certain cities in the Jiangnan region. This matter is no secret in the Jiangnan business community, and the government knows very little.

However, they believe that this kind of business has nothing to do with Myanmar town itself. It is just the needs of Xiao Ruxun, who is in Myanmar town. Myanmar is positioned as a garbage dump in the Central Plains, with no market and no demand.

What really needs is Xiao Ruxun himself, but it doesn’t matter if he just wants to go around with the overlord Xiao Ruxun.

So when you come, you do business. If you don’t come, you won’t go to Myanmar, but to Luzon.

When Luzon was still under Spanish rule, a large number of Ming coastal merchants went to Luzon to do business, mainly buying spices. After returning to China, they made several times the profit in an instant.

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

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

Now Luzon is very friendly to the Ming Dynasty. The merchants of the Ming Dynasty were basically unobstructed in the port cities of Luzon, and the price of spices is slightly cheaper than before.

The Ming merchants basically did not go to places outside Luzon. They had no interest in crossing the Strait of Malacca to reach Myanmar. They lacked interest in Myanmar. They basically needed spices from Southeast Asia, which was the most valuable.

They didn't know that Luzon was actually controlled by Xiao Ruxun. The expense of all the spices they purchased was basically Xiao Ruxun's income, and hundreds of thousands of silver entered Xiao Ruxun's pocket instead of the Luzonians' pocket.

It can be said that the Ming government officials in Jiangnan basically ignored Myanmar. Everyone did not interfere with the rivers. Even Yunnan was not interested in Myanmar. Chen Yongbin had never been to Myanmar once in a few years, although Myanmar was nominally a defense zone in Yunnan.

So when the town of Myanmar was suddenly declared a rebellious town on the fourth day of June, and the local government suddenly realized what to do to Myanmar, but found that there was nothing to do at all. Myanmar's merchant ship had already left and could not find a single one.

Many local businessmen came to the government to talk about this matter, saying that they thought it was strange and they paid the deposit, but they didn't want the goods. What's going on?

Now they all know that it is not easy.

Could it be that I heard some wind in advance and ran away?

They have just received documents sent by the imperial court in a hurry, which can be said to be very fast. How could the merchant ships in Myanmar know 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 just ran away just after running. What is really worth noting is the disappearance of a military general in Nanjing.

Xiao Ruzhi did not go to the government office for no reason to click Mao.

Ye Mengxiong, who received the news, sent someone to Xiao Ruzhi's mansion to investigate the news. At that time, Ye Mengxiong didn't know about the court's coup, so he simply sent someone to investigate and see where Xiao Ruzhi went.

Then he found the testimony of the witness who left Nanjing a day ago, saying that Xiao Ruzhi followed a big cart and left the city, as if she was heading north of the city. She thought she was just going out of the city for an outing, but she didn't come to Dao the next day.

This is not normal.

When Ye Mengxiong was still strange, news of the court's coup came.

Xiao Ruxun bewitched the emperor and tried to launch a mutiny. Chen Yiguan was obsessed with the idea of ​​experiencing Xiao Ruxun's tricks, so he took the initiative to defeat Xiao Ruxun's conspiracy. The mutiny failed. The emperor was ashamed and issued an edict to abdicate, and the eldest son Zhu Changluo ascended the throne to the throne.

Xiao Ruxun was rebellious and had already been sentenced to death, while Myanmar Town was a rebellious town. The court ordered Yunnan Governor Chen Yongbin to attack Myanmar Town, pacify it, depose it, and capture Xiao's family and wait for disposal.

After learning the news, although Ye Mengxiong realized that Xiao Ruzhi's disappearance seemed to be a minor matter, what made him even more confused and angry was that the emperor's abdication of the new emperor ascended the throne, they only knew one result, and they could not get any useful information from Chen Yiguan's explanation.

Xiao Ruxun rebelled and then surrendered?

Dead?

What a joke?

Didn’t you just win a battle? Why did you suddenly rebel?

There are quite a few officials who have the same ideas and doubts as Ye Mengxiong, but there are not many people as angry as Ye Mengxiong.

Ye Mengxiong admires Xiao Ruxun very much. His relationship with Xiao Ruxun dates back to the Battle of Ningxia in the 20th year of Wanli. After six years of friendship, Ye Mengxiong asked himself that no one knows Xiao Ruxun better than him in the officialdom.

When he parted in a small pavilion outside the capital, Ye Mengxiong had expected him, asking him to never forget his oath to support the world. Later, when he saw him become the most powerful general in the Ming Dynasty step by step, Ye Mengxiong was really happy and felt that as long as the Ming Dynasty had Xiao Ruxun, he could ensure the safety of the country.

Since the separation, the two have never stopped communicating with letters. During the holidays, Xiao Ruxun would send people to give him gifts. Even when he was fighting in the north, the envoys from Myanmar would not forget to send him a New Year's gift.

The two of them had a correspondence three months ago. Why did Xiao Ruxun become a traitor this time? Still dead?

Ye Mengxiong felt unacceptable to all this. Facing the fact that the new emperor ascended the throne and Xiao Ruxun's "death", he was both angry and sad, and he was reluctant to go to the government office.

This made many people very anxious.

As one of the few people who actually hold power in Nanjing, Ye Mengxiong has a high status. As soon as this incident happened, officials from all six ministries of Nanjing rushed over to find Ye Mengxiong. Not only that, even Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, left behind in Nanjing, came.

A group of people asked each other over and over again but had no result. No one knew what the matter was and what impact it had on everyone's future after changing the new emperor. So, a group of people finally decided to submit a statement to the court to ask the court for the final analysis.

Of course, we should put it on the grounds of congratulating the new emperor on the ascension of the throne.

Since the new emperor has ascended the throne, it means that at least the capital has stabilized. They are far away in Nanjing and cannot affect the capital no matter what. They can only ask the court for the whole story 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 Myanmar to inquire about the news, but on the other hand, he silently pressed down the news that Xiao Ruzhi was missing without sending it, and ordered Xiao Ruzhi's deputy to take over Xiao Ruzhi's task and not to speak out.

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

When the city of Nanjing was in an uproar, 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 in Siam.

Landing in Siam, crossing the Indochina Peninsula, and transferring to another sea boat on the west side, saving time traveling through Malacca and directly reaching the Yangon port in Myanmar.

Wu Guang, the mayor of Yangon who succeeded Yuan Yan, met Xiao Ruxun in the official office and was stunned.

Then, according to Xiao Ruxun's order, he prepared to send Xiao Ruxun and others to Nan'an City, the capital of Myanmar, and began to check the various inventory numbers in Yangon and the number of civilians who can be recruited. He calculated according to the maximum proportion of mobilization, so that he could complete this task within two days and report it to the capital.

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

Faced with the order issued by Xiao Ruxun, Wu Guang was not sure about this.

"It's going to fight."

Xiao Ruxun just explained it briefly.

It is June 13th.

It was not until June 15 that the news of the new emperor ascended the throne and Xiao Ruxun's rebellion had just spread to Kunming, Yunnan. Yunnan Governor Chen Yongbin was quite surprised to know the drastic changes in the capital and that he had been arranged such a task.
Chapter completed!