Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 313
Although Emperor Chongzhen didn't know where Liugong Island was, it was not difficult to find out with the place name, and soon found out that it was in Weihaiwei.

Has this Wu Zhong betrayed him?Regarding this point, Emperor Chongzhen really wanted to find out.

If he had not betrayed, he was the leader of the two ships of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, 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 Jinyiwei, to prepare him to leave the capital.

Not long after, another decree ordered him to immediately go to the Hall of Martial Arts to have an audience.

In this regard, Li Ruolian was actually a little puzzled. If the civil uprising in the south was not resolved, he estimated that the emperor would probably send him to deal with the civil uprising.But logically speaking, it would be more appropriate for Wang Chengen, the admiral of Dongchang, to go. After all, the people from Dongchang were killed.

However, the civil uprising in the south has long since subsided, and more than 100 officials have been removed at one go, which has let the entire southern officialdom know the emperor's attitude and determination. There are laws as the premise, and there is a righteousness to prevent disasters for the people. Now, no matter whether it is in the civil society or in the officialdom, there is no voice of opposition at all.

When he arrived in front of the Wuying Hall, Li Ruolian suddenly came to his senses, guessing whether the emperor asked him to investigate the cause of Wu Changshi's death.Because of Wu Changshi's death, although on the surface it was said that he died of illness.But from the connection of various events, it seems that it is not as simple as illness and death.It's just that he fell into the water and caught the wind and cold. Why did he die in less than a month!

This is indeed a suspicious point, but from the perspective of the emperor of a country, this kind of thing is not worth mobilizing so many troops, let him be a dignified commander of Jin Yiwei, right?

With these doubts, he entered the palace to greet Emperor Chongzhen, waiting for the answer to the mystery to be revealed.

To his surprise, there was a map of Ming Dynasty hanging on the screen in the hall, with lines drawn and marked with a Chinese ink pen.

Li Ruolian immediately realized that the emperor's summons must be related to this map.But this made him even more confused.

Emperor Chongzhen saw a smile on his face, and after asking him to excuse himself, he stood up from his throne, walked to the screen, motioned for him to move forward, and then pointed to the map and said to him: "Wu Zhong is back. He is now We are still here, Liugong Island. We are scheduled to leave tonight for Haizhou and rest there for ten and a half days. 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 found out that this Haizhou was called Lianyungang in later generations, so it is much clearer.Of course, Li Ruolian must know about Haizhou.

Hearing what Emperor Chongzhen said, he was overjoyed.

To be honest, he was not optimistic about releasing Wu Zhong at the beginning.This kind of hidden spy thing is basically a narrow escape.But what I didn't expect was that Wu Zhong actually sent back the news and even rescued the person back.But after leaving the customs, there was no more news.This has happened in the past year, and he thought that Wu Zhong might be dead.

Unexpectedly, he was overjoyed to hear that Wu Zhong had returned. Wu Zhong was his former confidant.

But immediately, he realized again, how did the emperor know?Then Liugong Island is so far away from the capital, unless the emperor has passed the news in advance, otherwise the emperor would not know the distance, and it is not a good thing!
Thinking of this, he was sure once again that the emperor had another force, or the factory guard, whose ability to spy on news was at least much better than what Li Ruolian knew.More importantly, the means of conveying the news is so strange that it is impossible for people to detect it.

Thinking of this, Li Ruolian felt even more awe-inspiring, and his awe for the emperor became even greater.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't think that he had thought so much in his mind, but he just said to him with a smile: "Wu Zhong is a man who has worked hard and made great achievements. Even if he was bought by Jianlu, he still insisted on integrity. I am so relieved! You know people well." , I am also pleased."

Li Ruolian was confused again, just like Wu Zhong was plundered to Liaodong, how could he be bought by Jianlu?
However, he was puzzled in his heart, but he was very humble on the surface, and at the same time he was naturally 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 understand these news was of course by paying attention to the news sent back by the Class A wiretap seed on Wu Zhong.

It turned out that after Wu Zhong landed on Liugong Island, he first prevented his subordinates from massacring the people of Liugong Island. The reason was that the merchants in the south of the Yangtze River from the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty did business. Maybe the Ming Dynasty will pay attention to this side, which is not conducive to trade.

At this point, Emperor Chongzhen felt that Wu Zhong would basically not betray, and had confidence in Wu Zhong, and then continued to watch.

Later, under Wu Zhong's arrangement, the two ships were supplied with high-priced supplies for their voyage.At the same time, he used the excuse that his mouth was out of touch, so he ate a big meal at a high price at the home of the patriarch surnamed Liu on the island.During this time, he found a chance to talk to the patriarch alone, and clearly explained to the patriarch that as soon as they left, he would go to the government office and ask them to convey to the commander of Jin Yiwei, saying that Wu Zhong was back and would rest in Haizhou a period of time.

Although he didn't say it clearly, leaving the clan leader surnamed Liu confused, Emperor Chongzhen knew that Wu Zhong had not betrayed him at all. He was just trying every means to contact the Jinyiwei commander as soon as he returned to land, which is enough to prove this. .

After receiving this key information, Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed, and immediately summoned Li Ruolian in secret.

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

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Haizhou was not big or prosperous at this time. After all, the Ming Dynasty opened sea routes, so people and goods traveling from south to north all used canals.

After Wu Zhong and his party arrived here with two boats, one boat stopped at Zhudao outside, but the boat with gold, silver and jewels arrived in Haizhou.

As the ship slowly approached the pier, listening to the noisy local accent on the pier, well, although the accents were different, they were all in official language, and all that caught the eye were Daming costumes, and there was no eye-catching money rat tail.Scenes of struggling to survive in Liaodong flashed through Wu Zhong's mind. He saw emaciated compatriots with numb expressions, but in front of his eyes, there were people coming and going, with different expressions, laughing, frowning, no matter what. , all looked so kindly.

All of a sudden, he really wanted to shout out: I'm finally back!
However, this cannot be done.If he was so happy, the subordinates behind him would definitely doubt his loyalty to Jianlu.Of these people, who knows how many people would not want to be slaves?After all, they are different from themselves, they are spies sent by the emperor to Liaodong.

He was thinking about it, when suddenly, a flattering voice came from the shore: "My lord, do you want to hire a helper, or what kind of business are you looking for?"

Looking closely, he naturally knew the identity of this person, he should be an idiot, robbing business here.

In fact, Wu Zhong didn't think about any business at all in his heart at this time, but he was just worried.

Although he took a certain risk and asked the patriarch surnamed Liu of Liugong Island to inform the government, but whether the message could reach the Jinyiwei yamen and the commander, he was not sure at all.

In fact, Wu Zhong contacted Jin Yiwei without placing any hope at all.After all, in terms of time, even if the message goes well, the Commander is still in the capital, and it will take a lot of time to report to the emperor after hearing it, and then come to Haizhou to find him.

After dispelling this unrealistic idea again, Wu Zhong returned to reality, and said to the Yaman on the shore: "There is a good inn, take me to the master, and give me a reward!"

Just as the man was about to respond, suddenly, someone rushed over from behind and rushed to respond loudly: "Master, I will take, I will take you there, I know a very good inn..."

Hearing that there was someone robbing the business, the Yaman immediately became angry, turned his head, and found that he was also dressed as a Yaman, but he was just a stranger, at least he didn't have any impression, so he immediately shouted: "On that road? Didn't you see that I greeted you first?"

"What's the use of saying hello first? That master hasn't disembarked yet, and he hasn't made a deal with you yet!" The person who came later said disdainfully, "The key still depends on the master. Shop around, isn't it? My attitude is the worst." Well, it will satisfy the master, you know?"

Hearing this, it seems that this person did not break the rules.However, this person's words made him feel a little uncomfortable, as if he often called people around.

Thinking of this, he was immediately overjoyed again, just for this point, that master would definitely not be happy to deal with this kind of person.At least in terms of humility, I definitely have the upper hand.

Thinking of this, he didn't continue to get angry, but turned his head, with a smile on his face, bent slightly and said: "Master, if you choose a villain, you will definitely..."

Before he finished speaking, Wu Zhong interrupted him with a slightly surprised voice: "Needless to say, I will go with you, but I must satisfy my master!"

"Okay!" The toothpaste agreed, but at the same time, he found that the old man pointed at the man coming from behind, and he was immediately dumbfounded. What's going on?Why would you choose him?
Of course Wu Zhong didn't care about this Yaren's feelings, and immediately got off the boat with five or six of his subordinates, walked to the man's side, and tried to suppress the joy in his heart: "Lead the way!"

At this time, he still had doubts in his heart.

Because, this person is not a toothman at all, but a Jinyiwei Xiaoqi, or Wei Minghua, his right-hand man when he was still the Jinyiwei General Banner in the capital.

Logically speaking, even if Wei Minghua is on business in Haizhou, he wouldn't be a dentist, right?Just rushing in this posture, as if he was waiting for himself here.But how is this possible!
This possibility, calculated from the time, was immediately ruled out by Wu Zhong.

At this time, he had doubts hidden in his heart, but he couldn't ask immediately, so he could only follow along and find a chance to ask carefully when he turned around.

Not long after, Wei Minghua took them into Haizhou City and arrived at the largest inn in the area, named Tongfu Inn.

After entering, Wu Zhong was of course satisfied with the inn, and gave Wei Minghua a reward and asked for a good yard, showing that he was a wealthy businessman.

Wu Zhong could clearly feel that his men were very happy, but he couldn't help but feel a little anxious when he couldn't find a chance to talk to Wei Minghua alone.

Wei Minghua obviously knew what he was thinking, and said to him: "My lord, the wine in this inn is famous here..."

Upon hearing this, Wu Zhong was satisfied, and immediately ordered the shopkeeper to bring them good wine and food.

Next, needless to say, Wu Zhong began to pour wine himself.

He was the head of the line, at least in name, with him at the head.This is just ashore again, no one will have any doubts.Everyone was exhausted from sitting on the boat, and their mouths faded away. Once the good wine and food were served, they naturally let go of eating.

As a result, within half an hour, a group of people were all drunk.Even Wu Zhong himself drank a lot, but he had something on 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 room.

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

Just as soon as they met, Wu Zhong was overjoyed and wanted to ask Wei Minghua a question.

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

Wu Zhong was taken aback when he heard this, and he immediately understood that Wei Minghua was here for him, and he seemed to know his affairs.So where is he taking himself?

Puzzled in his heart, he followed a few steps, only to find that Wei Minghua took him to a courtyard next door.

Pushing open the courtyard door, Wu Zhong found that there were two people standing behind the door. Although they were wearing ordinary clothes, he immediately felt that they were elite soldiers.

It seemed that they knew that Wei Minghua would come and bring others, so the two didn't ask any questions at all, they just stayed vigilant after closing the door.

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

When he entered the door, he found a person sitting at the main seat drinking tea.Just one glance, Wu Zhong froze for a moment, 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 would know who it was.

For some unknown reason, Wu Zhong felt a pang of pain in his heart, his tiger's eyes turned red, and he immediately knelt down on one knee, raised his head with fists in his hands and said excitedly, "Wu Zhong, a hundred households of Jinyiwei, sees the Commander!"

The person in the main position is of course Li Ruolian, commander of Jin Yiwei.When he saw it, he immediately put down his teacup, stood up quickly, stepped forward quickly, helped Wu Zhong up with his own hands, and said excitedly, "I'm sorry for you!"

(End of this chapter)