Although Emperor Chongzhen didn't know where Liugong Island was, it was not difficult to check the place name, and he soon knew it was in Weihaiwei.

Did Wu Zhong betray this? Emperor Chongzhen really wanted to figure out this.

If he had not betrayed, he was the leader of the two Qing ships this time, so it would be much more convenient for him to do things; if he had betrayed, it would be more troublesome!

Thinking of this, he sent an order to Li Ruolian, commander of the Jinyiwei, to prepare for leaving Beijing.

Not long after, another decree was made to rush to Wuying Palace to meet him immediately.

Li Ruolian was actually a little puzzled about this. If the civil rebellion in the south was not settled, he probably would have sent him to deal with the civil rebellion. However, logically speaking, it would seem that it would be more appropriate for the admiral of the Dongchang Factory, Wang Chengen, to go, after all, it was the Dongchang Mansion who was killed.

However, the civil unrest in the south has long subsided. The black hats of more than 100 officials were removed in one breath, which made the entire southern officialdom know the emperor's attitude and determination, and the premise of the law, and the great righteousness of preventing disasters for the people. Whether in the people or in the officialdom, there was no opposition at all.

When he arrived in front of Wuying Palace, Li Ruolian suddenly came to his senses and guessed that the emperor would ask him to investigate the cause of Wu Changshi's death. Although Wu Changshi's death was said to be dying of illness on the surface, but in connection with various events, it seemed that it was more than just dying of illness. It was just a mistake and fell into the water and was infected with the wind and cold. Why did he die in less than a month?

This is indeed a doubt, but from the perspective of an emperor of a country, there is no need to mobilize such a group of troops and let him be the commander of the Jinyiwei, a commander of the Jinyiwei, come forward?

With these doubts in mind, he went into the palace to greet Emperor Chongzhen, waiting for the answer to the mystery to be revealed.

What surprised him was that there was a map of the Ming Dynasty hanging on the screen in the hall, with red strokes and marked lines.

Li Ruolian immediately realized that the emperor's summons must have something to do with this map. However, this made him even more confused.

After seeing Emperor Chongzhen smiling and asking him to avoid tribute, he stood up from the imperial throne, walked to the screen, signaled him to move forward, and pointed to the map and said to him: "Wu Zhong is back. He is still here now. Liu Gongdao is scheduled to set off tonight to Haizhou, and rest there for ten days and half a month. I want you to go south immediately and rush to meet Wu Zhong."

Haizhou is under the jurisdiction of Huai'an Prefecture. Emperor Chongzhen was not familiar with this, but after asking, he realized that this Haizhou was called Lianyungang in later generations, so he knew much more. Of course, Li Ruolian must have known Haizhou.

He was immediately overjoyed when Emperor Chongzhen said this.

To be honest, he was not optimistic about the release of Wu Zhong. Such a lurking spy was basically a life-and-death death. But unexpectedly, Wu Zhong actually sent back the news and saved the person. But after he came out of seclusion, there was no news. It has happened in a year, and he thought Wu Zhong was probably dead.

Unexpectedly, he was overjoyed when he heard that Wu Zhong was back. Wu Zhong was his former confidant.

But immediately, he realized again. How did the emperor know? Liu Gong Island is so far away from the capital, unless he had sent news to the emperor in advance, otherwise the emperor would not know this distance, and it would be better than the emperor!

Thinking of this, he once again confirmed that the emperor had another force, or the factory guard, and his ability to spy on news was at least much better than Li Ruolian knew. What's more important is that the means of delivering messages were strange and it was hard to understand.

Thinking of this, Li Ruolian felt even more awe in his heart, and his awe of the emperor became even more awe.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't expect that he had thought so much in his heart, but just said to him with a smile: "Wu Zhong is a man who has worked hard and made great contributions. Even if Jianlu bribed him, he insisted on being honest. I feel so relieved! I am also pleased with your understanding of people."

Li Ruolian was confused when he heard it again. Just like Wu Zhong, he could still be bribed by Jianlu?

However, he was confused in his heart, but he was very modest on the surface, and naturally he was happy.

Emperor Chongzhen stopped talking nonsense and then began to assign tasks to him.

Needless to say, the reason why Emperor Chongzhen was able to learn about these news was of course the news sent back by paying attention to Wu Zhong's Class A eavesdropping seeds.

It turned out that after Wu Zhong climbed onto Liugong Island, he first stopped his subordinates from massacre and silenced the people of Liugong Island. The reason was that the Qing Dynasty and the merchants in Jiangnan of Ming Dynasty were engaged in trade, and they might often stay here in the future. If they were to kill people now, maybe Ming Dynasty would pay attention to it, which would be unfavorable for business.

In this way, Emperor Chongzhen felt that Wu Zhong would basically not betrayal, and he had confidence in Wu Zhong, and then continued to watch.

Then, under Wu Zhong's arrangement, he supplied the necessary sailing of two ships at a high price. At the same time, he used the excuse of fading out the birds and had a big meal at the home of the Liu clan leader on the island. In the meantime, he found an opportunity to talk to the clan leader alone and explained it clearly to the clan leader. As soon as they left, they immediately went to the government and asked them to convey it to the commander of the Jinyiwei, saying that Wu Zhong was back and would rest in Haizhou for a while.

Although he did not say it clearly, which made the Liu clan leader confused, Emperor Chongzhen knew that Wu Zhong had not rebelled at all. He just tried every means to contact the commander of the Jinyiwei as soon as he returned to the land, which was enough to prove this.

After obtaining this key information, Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed and immediately summoned Li Ruolian secretly.

Not long after, Li Ruolian hurriedly left Wuying Hall with excitement, rushed back to the Jinyiwei Yamen, summoned a group of Jinyiwei elites who had already been named, and immediately left the capital, and rushed to Haizhou with a quick horse.

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Haizhou was not big at this time, nor was it prosperous. After all, in order to open sea routes, the Ming Dynasty traveled south and north, whether it was goods or people, they all walked through the canal.

After Wu Zhong and his group arrived here, a boat stopped on the bamboo island outside, but the ship with gold, silver and jewelry arrived in Haizhou.

As the ship slowly approached the dock, listening to the noisy local accent on the dock, well, although the accent was different, it was all in Mandarin, and all the Ming Dynasty costumes were attracted. No one saw the dazzling rat tail of money. Wu Zhong's mind flashed through his struggles when he was in Liaodong, and he saw his skinny and numb compatriots, but in front of him was a bustling, with guests coming from south to north, with different expressions, laughter and frowning. No matter what, he looked so kind.

Suddenly, he wanted to shout out loudly: I'm finally back!

However, you can't do this. If you act so happy, the subordinates behind you will definitely doubt their loyalty to Jianlu. Who knows how many of these people are unwilling to be slaves? After all, they are different from themselves, they are secret spies sent by the emperor to Liaodong.

He was thinking, suddenly, a pleasing voice came from the shore and said, "You are going to hire a helper, or what kind of deal to do?"

Looking closely, I naturally knew that this person's identity should be a tooth, catching a business here.

In fact, Wu Zhong didn't think about any business at all at this time, he just had more worries.

Although he took a certain risk to let the Liu clan leader of Liu Gongdao inform the government of the government, he was at a loss as to whether the oral message could be transmitted to the Jinyiwei Yamen and the commander.

In fact, Wu Zhong had no hope at all and contacted the Jinyiwei. After all, from the perspective of time, even if the message went smoothly, the commander was in the capital. After hearing this, he reported that the emperor would come to Haizhou to find him again.

After rescinding this unrealistic idea again, Wu Zhong returned to reality and said to the tooth on the shore: "But you have a good inn, take me to me and give me a reward!"

The tooth was about to respond, but suddenly someone rushed over from behind and rushed to respond loudly: "This master, I will take you there, I know a very good inn..."

When he heard that someone was robbing the business, the tooth became popular immediately. He turned around and found that he was dressed up as a tooth, but he was just a stranger. At least he had no impression of it. So he immediately shouted, "Didn't you see that I greeted you first?"

"What's the use of greeting you first? That master hasn't gotten off the boat and hasn't made a deal with you!" The person who later said disdainfully, "The key is to look at this master. It's not like shopping. I have the best attitude to satisfy this master. Do you know?"

When the tooth heard this, it seemed that this person did not break the rules. However, the person's words made him feel uncomfortable, as if he often used people.

When he thought of this, he was immediately happy. Just because of this, the master would definitely not be happy to deal with such a person. At least in terms of humble attitude, he would definitely have the upper hand.

Thinking of this, he did not continue to get angry, but turned his head, smiled on his face, and bent down slightly and said, "This master, if you choose a villain, you will definitely..."

Before he could finish his words, Wu Zhong interrupted him with a little surprise voice, "No need to say it, just follow you, but you must satisfy me!"

"Okay!" The tooth agreed, but at the same time, he found that the master pointed at the person coming from behind and was stunned. What's the situation? How could he choose him?

Of course, Wu Zhong would not care about the feelings of this tooth. He took his five or six subordinates and immediately got off the boat, walked to the man, and tried hard to suppress the joy in his heart and said, "Lead the way!"

At this moment, he was still confused.

Because this person is not a tooth, but a small flag of the Jinyiwei, and his capable subordinate when he was still in the capital, named Wei Minghua.

Logically speaking, even if Wei Minghua works in Haizhou, he will not be a bad guy, right? Just because he is just waiting for him here. But how is this possible!

This possibility, calculated from time, was immediately eliminated by Wu Zhong.

At this moment, he had doubts in his heart, but he couldn't ask immediately. He could only follow him and find an opportunity to ask carefully.

Not long after, Wei Minghua took them into Haizhou City and came to the largest inn in the local area, called Tongfu Inn.

After entering, Wu Zhong of course expressed his satisfaction with the inn, and gave Wei Minghua a reward of money and asked for another good yard, showing that he was a rich businessman.

Wu Zhong could clearly feel that his subordinates were very happy, but he couldn't find the opportunity, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious when he talked to Wei Minghua alone.

Wei Minghua obviously knew what he was thinking, and then took the initiative to say to him: "This master, the wine in this inn is famous here..."

When Wu Zhong heard this, he became convinced and immediately ordered the shopkeeper to bring them good wine and dishes.

Next, it goes without saying that Wu Zhong started to make wine himself.

He was the head of a group of people, at least in name, led by him. This was just ashore, and no one would have any doubts. Everyone was exhausted from sitting on the boat, and their mouths faded out of their birds. When they served, they naturally let go of their food.

As a result, in less than half an hour, all the people got drunk. Even Wu Zhong himself drank a lot, but he had something to do in his mind, so of course he wouldn't get drunk.

After putting down these subordinates, he pretended to go to the toilet and left the door.

As soon as he went out, he immediately rushed to the courtyard gate. As expected, Wei Minghua was there.

As soon as they met, Wu Zhong couldn't help but feel happy and wanted to ask Wei Minghua questions.

However, Wei Minghua turned around and left, and said at the same time: "You can't come out for too long, move quickly!"

Wu Zhong was stunned when he heard this. He immediately understood that Wei Minghua came for him and seemed to know his own affairs. So where is he going to take him?

With doubts in his heart, he followed a few steps, but found that Wei Minghua took him to a yard next door.

When Wu Zhong opened the gate, he found two people standing behind the door. Although he was wearing ordinary clothes, he immediately felt that they were elite troops in the army.

It seemed that they knew that Wei Minghua would come and would bring people, so the two of them didn't ask at all, but just closed the door and were alert again.

In this way, Wu Zhong became even more curious, who Wei Minghua took him to meet?

When he entered the door, he found someone sitting in the main seat for tea. Just after a glance, Wu Zhong froze because he was very familiar with this person. Even if he didn't look at his face, even if he was wearing ordinary clothes, he knew who it was.

For some reason, Wu Zhong felt a sense of sorrow in his heart, his tiger's eyes turned red, and he immediately knelt on one knee, clasped his fists and raised his head and said excitedly: "Wu Zhong, a hundred households of the Jinyiwei, meet the commander!"

Of course, the person in the main position was Li Ruolian, the commander of the Jinyiwei. As soon as he saw it, he immediately put down his teacup, stood up quickly, stepped forward, and personally helped Wu Zhong up with both hands, and at the same time, he also said excitedly: "You've been miserable!"
Chapter completed!