Once the Jiangnan Daily was published, the southeast was shaken! The tragic news that Hai Rui was killed by Emperor Wanli plunged the people into great grief.

From Nanjing to Shanghai, from Yangzhou to Guangzhou, men, women, young and old, regardless of whether they had seen Hai Rui or not, all beat their chests and cried loudly.

Especially in the ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River where Hai Rui had been the governor, the whole city was in mourning, and everyone was in mourning as if they had lost their parents. People spontaneously built mourning halls in their homes to observe mourning for him.

Jiangnan Group also entered the first level combat readiness state!

The group ordered all militiamen and workers' guards to leave their jobs and prepare for war. Under the leadership of the armed forces cadres, they went to the nearest group arsenal to receive arms and defend their homes!

A conscription order has been issued to all retired coast guard and security group personnel, ordering them to report to the nearest people's armed forces department and become a mobile armed force directly under the group!

At the same time, he ordered all companies in the group to immediately switch to military production and work overtime to produce strategic materials such as weapons and ammunition, bedding, medicines, and field food.

Although the group has already stockpiled a large amount of strategic materials, due to various limitations, their shelf life is short.

Moreover, since this is a decisive battle for revolution, we must anticipate the enemy and be lenient. This is not the time to consider wasting money. We must produce at full capacity first!

All civilian ships, vehicles, and livestock were also requisitioned...

In a word, this is truly a matter of life and death! All resources, production, and manpower must be concentrated in the group and under the control of the group. We must go all out to win this war first!

But the group did not immediately declare war on the Zhu Ming royal family.

Because the incident happened suddenly, a large number of the group's employees were scattered outside the actual control areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong. Considering that once a war breaks out, even if the group's workers and peasants cadres working in Jiangxi, Huguang and other places that have been included in the integrated area are still short and have strong vassal power, they may be attacked by the vassal kings and royal family members, resulting in casualties.

Not to mention the immigration offices and representative offices in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan and Shandong. After the war, those staff and prospective immigrants will definitely become the targets of concentrated fire from the vassal forces!

Therefore, the most important priority now is to use the precious time difference caused by the difference in communication speeds between the two sides to evacuate personnel to the nearest area under the actual control of the group as much as possible.

In order to buy time for the great retreat, the Special Operations Group also took action, trying their best to kill eunuchs and messengers leaving Beijing, so as to delay as much as possible the date when other places learned of Wanli's order.

But the mainland is too big. Some places are too far from the actual control area of ​​the group. For example, the staff and immigrants in Shaanxi can only take shelter in Shanxi first. Although the jealous party lacks moral integrity, their ability to bet according to the wind is not to be underestimated. They will not choose the wrong side.

In addition, the group has thousands of bank branches and hundreds of transshipment and warehousing centers outside Southeast China... This is the problem with a large family and business, there are so many jars and cans.

However, the group strictly ordered all cadres and personnel involved in the retreat to put people first. Only after ensuring the safety of people can the group's property be considered.

However, a blessing in disguise. Because Emperor Wanli lost his temper and declared war on the Jiangnan Group, Zhao Hao no longer had to worry about the silver note run crisis.

As long as my bank runs away fast enough, who can the people turn to for a bank run?

Go to Jiangnan? Sorry, Jiangnan is on level one combat readiness, all market transactions have been stopped. Although Jiangnan Bank is our own child, we cannot treat it specially.

After the war is won, silver notes will become legal tender, so there will be no need to worry about bank runs...

But the premise of "running away is the best strategy" is to have a convincing reason to flee - what better reason is there than the emperor's imperial edict to seize and arrest people? If bank employees don't run away, will they die?

Thanks to Wanli for the Shenlong set, my friend!

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Of course, although the group did not declare war openly, with such a big fuss, even a blind man could see that they were going to fight the old emperor to the death.

The cadres and employees of the group, the common people in Jiangnan, and the merchants and factory owners were of course eager to have it.

When Wanli reinstated the maritime ban, they were clamoring to kill him. They even sent representatives to Pudong to petition. Now that the group is finally taking action, they are naturally rubbing their hands, ready to join in the fight.

What is somewhat surprising is that the officials, gentry and powerful families in Jiangnan also responded positively, and were not at all influenced by the ideas of loyalty to the emperor in the books of sages.

This is because their interests have long been tied to the Jiangnan Group, and it is difficult to distinguish them from each other. If the group really loses, they will also have to make a list.

Secondly, compared to Emperor Zhu's family rule, Zhao Hao's way of playing is obviously more in line with their long-term interests. The Jinshen Group is not a noble family, nor a vassal. Their power does not come from inheritance, but from studying, taking the imperial examinations and becoming an official.

The cadres of Jiangnan Group also rely on reading. To put it bluntly, it is still the way of civil servants governing the country. Who has ever lost to a scholarly family in this regard? It's just a change of track.

Moreover, their starting point is still much higher than that of the children of ordinary people. If they can't get through the exam in the mainland, they can go abroad to develop. It is better than taking the hellish imperial examination in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Thirdly, the credit also goes to Alliance Leader Wang.

After the Jiangnan Daily made its position clear, the Yingtian Daily, which had already established a radical anti-imperialist style, went into full swing!

It must be said that Wang was really good at manipulating public opinion. He actually pinned the much-publicized Longsha prophecy on Wanli!

Yes, it was the well-known and deeply rooted Longsha prophecy that caused Tan Yangzi to be exposed for boasting and had to ascend to overseas!

The Longsha prophecy is about Xu Xian, the great master Xu Zhenjun, who killed a rebellious dragon. Unexpectedly, the dragon was pregnant, and its offspring escaped from the dragon's belly. His disciples wanted to kill the little dragon, but Xu Zhenjun stopped them, saying that it had not yet done any harm and should not be killed. At the same time, he also predicted that:

"One thousand two hundred and forty years after my immortality, eight hundred earthly immortals will appear in the territory of Yuzhang and the land of Wuling. If the little snake causes harm at this time, those eight hundred people should kill it. If it does not harm anything, it should not be killed."

Later his disciples used this to predict that one thousand two hundred and forty years after Xu Zhenjun ascended to heaven, it would be the Longsha period, and the world would be in chaos. When that time comes, eight hundred earthly immortals will reincarnate to quell the chaos, and then they will be included in the immortal class and enjoy eternal immortal blessings.

This is the so-called "Longsha prophecy", which has been very popular since the Song Dynasty. In this dynasty, some people have calculated that the 1,240 years after Xu Zhenjun ascended to heaven fell during the Wanli period of this dynasty!

Wang Shizhen then announced loudly that it was now very clear - the little snake had let Xu Xian down and had indeed turned into an evil dragon causing chaos!

And who was that evil dragon? Yes, it was the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun!

If it wasn't an evil dragon, why would he re-impose the sea ban? As a king and father, why would he want to cut off the lives of his people?

If it wasn't an evil dragon, why would it send mining supervisors and tax collectors to plunder his empire and bring disaster to the people?

If he wasn't an evil dragon, how could he, as an emperor, kill the loyal and patriotic Hai Qingtian? !

Therefore, he is not a true dragon emperor at all, but an evil dragon transformed to bring disaster to the Ming Dynasty!

The 'Longsha Prophecy' also said that at this time when the world is in chaos, eight hundred earthly immortals will come to kill the evil dragon and quell the chaos!

You know, ten years ago, Tan Yangzi and his disciples had reserved all the places for the eight hundred earthly immortals.

At that time, celebrities from Jiangnan flocked to it, and those who were capable got a place in the immortal class. If someone didn't have the status of an earthly immortal, it meant that he was not a real upper class, and he was embarrassed to say hello to people when he went out...

However, ten years had passed, and none of the eight hundred earthly immortals had ascended to heaven, but many had died, and people thought they had been fooled. This was also the reason why Alliance Leader Wang's reputation had suffered for many years, his prestige had declined, and he almost died of depression.

Even Chef Wang felt that his senior brother had deceived him, so he cut ties with him. Not to mention other people.

Now everyone knows why we have been unable to ascend, it turns out that we have not yet slain the evil dragon!

Yes, without going through the bitter cold, how can the plum blossoms smell so fragrant? Is there any easy way to become an immortal just by sitting there?

The hard-earned results are sweeter!

We were too impatient and we all blamed the senior brother wrongly.

Therefore, quasi-earth immortals such as Tu Long, Wang Xijue, Li Panlong, Feng Menglong, Feng Mengzhen, and Xu Wei also published articles, expressing that they had an obligation to slay the dragon and prove their truth!

One of them was a Suzhou guy named Feng Menglong, who was only seventeen years old, the youngest in the Earthly Immortal Team... He inherited his father's position. Although he was a second-generation immortal, he was not vague at all, and the supplements and jokes he wrote were very vivid.

Feng Menglong portrayed Emperor Wanli as the ruthless King Zhou, and Concubine Zheng as the bring disaster to the country and the people. He made up obscene jokes about the two of them every day.

This makes people wait for new series every day, wanting to see what new moves Mr. Feng, who uses the pen name "Wu Yilong", can unlock for Wanli and Concubine Zheng so that they can criticize them harshly.

Wang was worried that Feng Menglong's pornography would lower the tone of the newspaper. But he saw that the circulation of Yingtian Newspaper had skyrocketed.

Wang Shizhen couldn't help but sigh, this child was born at a good time. Back then, he didn't dare to admit that he wrote the pornographic book...

He then strongly invited Feng Menglong to join the Yingtian Newspaper and trained him as his successor, but that is a story for later.

Back to the point, in short, many people in the "Eight Hundred Earthly Immortals" are actually royalists. But when it comes to their own immortality, they can only borrow Wanli's dog head for use.

As for what to do if he still cannot become an immortal after killing the evil dragon? He can go and settle accounts with Wang Shizhen... It has nothing to do with Jiangnan Group.

Don't underestimate the influence of these 'Eight Hundred Earthly Immortals'. Before the rise of Jiangnan Group, they were the ones who thought for the whole society. What they said was the public opinion. Their thoughts were the trend of thought in society.

Even now, the Jiangnan Group has firmly grasped the general direction of public opinion and has taught people to think for themselves through literacy campaigns, but they still retain a strong social influence, especially on those diehards who refuse to accept change and always take their words as the guiding principle.

Seeing that they had all abandoned the emperor, the diehards and royalists knew that the situation was hopeless. Who dared to sing a different tune at this time?

If you try to stop a chariot with your arms, you will only be crushed to dust...

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