Although Shang Yi was a military officer because of the superiority of literature in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Fuzhi was different from ordinary scholars of the Qing Book. He now had the fame of a juren. After all, he had no official position. Shang Yi was a second-rank military general and had a title. At the same time, Wang Fuzhi had a good impression of Shang Yi, thinking that he could achieve such a success if he was so young. His future achievements might not be inferior to Qi Jiguang. Xu Wei was famous for Hu Zongxian when he was an aide to Hu Zongxian, and Shang Yi was now considered Wu Qi's confidant. Therefore, based on these considerations, Wang Fuzhi believed that being an aide to Shang Yi was not considered a humiliation. At the same time, he proposed that he could leave Shang Yi at any time, and he was prepared to go to Beijing to refer to it once the scientific examination was resumed.
Shang Yi naturally knew his thoughts about Wang Fuzhi, but he also knew that the Ming Dynasty could not resume the scientific examination. Therefore, he agreed to Wang Fuzhi's conditions, so Wang Fuzhi packed his luggage overnight and set off early the next morning based on Shang Yi's army.
After two more days, the troops finally arrived in Changsha. Wu Yan was waiting here a little anxiously. When he saw Shang Yi arrive, he couldn't help but be very happy. He hurriedly recruited Shang Yi and told him about the situation of the rebellion in Zhejiang.
Shang Yi then realized that the Zhejiang rebellion actually started on August 3rd, and it was initiated by Lihai Institute in Jiaxing Prefecture. For some reason, the military households of Lihai Institute launched a rebellion on the night of August 3rd, killing all the Qianhu and other officials in the institute, and occupied the entire institute overnight. It soon received the response from other garrisons. Three days later, the nearby Sanshan Institute, Guanhaiwei, Linshanwei and other places launched rebellions. The rebels immediately gathered thousands of troops, and first captured the entire county and killed a group of officials in the county government. After learning about it, the officials of Jiaxing Prefecture were afraid of being held accountable, so they did not dare to report to Nanjing, which was delayed. One day later, the rebels captured Jiaxing City and successively captured the entire Jiaxing Prefecture. Then they marched to attack Hangzhou Prefecture.
It was not until this time that the rebellion could not be concealed. The governor of Zhejiang from Hangzhou Prefecture reported to Nanjing. After receiving the report, Shi Kefa, the Minister of War, who was left behind in Nanjing, was shocked and hurriedly mobilized people to quell the rebellion. However, the Ming army left behind in Nanjing sent troops to rescue Hangzhou Prefecture because of its corruption and incompetence, was defeated by the rebels. As a result, Hangzhou Prefecture and Huzhou Prefecture were also continuously lost.
Shi Kefa couldn't help but be shocked, because Nanjing was only more than 300 miles away from Hangzhou and arrived in a few days, so the Nanjing area also caused panic, fearing that the rebels would invade Nanjing, and the nobles fled to Jiangbei one after another. While Shi Kefa was dispatching troops from Jiangbei to protect Nanjing, he wrote to Wu Xuan for help, asking him to send a team of troops to rescue Nanjing immediately.
After receiving the letter, Wu Yan was also very surprised. Although he was pursuing Zhang Xianzhong in Huguang, the loss of Nanjing should have nothing to do with him, his authority to supervise Nanzhili, so he also had the crime of dereliction of duty. Moreover, Chen Yan was still staring at him at this time, worried that he would not be able to catch his feet. Once Nanjing was lost, he would definitely not miss this opportunity. Moreover, the court also needed someone to bear the responsibility for the loss of Nanjing, so he could not escape any connection.
But now Wu Yan is not at ease with anyone except Shang Yi, so he first ordered Liu Liangzuo to lead the army immediately, go to Nanjing for rescue, and then immediately ordered people to find Shang Yi and ask him to return.