Ming Dynasty: Ask Zhu Yuanzhang to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 140: Old Zhu’s anger, Qin Wang Zhu Chong’s chess move!

The hall suddenly became extremely quiet.

You can hear a pin drop.

Zhu Yunhuan's pupils shrank slightly, countless thoughts churning in his mind, but he sat still without moving, and made no sound.

A gleam of light suddenly burst out from Lao Zhu's dragon eyes.

The next moment, his angry roar suddenly exploded.

"presumptuous!"

"You are about to die, and you still dare to spit blood and slander the King of Wu?"

The violent sound waves echoed in the hall for a long time.

Veins were faintly visible on Lao Zhu's neck.

The anger in my heart burned fiercely like a lit firewood.

"Your Majesty, I did not lie. Everything I said is true."

Nie Huan'er kowtowed, and his expression calmed down, not as nervous as before.

"Torture him!" Old Zhu shouted coldly, "Keep doing it until he tells the truth."

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Xi'an is thousands of miles away from Jinling City.

Transportation conditions in this era are limited.

It would be impossible to reach the destination within ten days unless one used an expedited express train of 800 li, changed people and horses, and drove desperately day and night.

Otherwise, it would take at least a month to walk from Jinling to Xi'an.

Although Qin Wang Zhu Chong claimed that the military situation was urgent and he wanted to rush back to Xi'an as fast as possible.

But in fact, after leaving Jinling City, he was not in a hurry to travel.

On the one hand, it is due to objective conditions, and working too fast is too tiring.

The bumpy rides of life were very real in this era.

The carriage had almost no shock absorption, and even though the road was paved with stone slabs, it was still bumpy.

Traveling so fast and sitting in a carriage for a whole day, one feels like one's bones are about to fall apart.

The second is that although Zhu Chong left Beijing, he continued to send people to spread news from Jinling City.

If it's too far away, it will be inconvenient.

At this time, Zhu Chong was in the post station, drinking with several trusted generals, waiting for information to be sent back from Jinling City.

"Why is there only wine? Where is the dancer?"

After Zhu Chong drank a few glasses of wine, he immediately started yelling loudly.

"Where is the postmaster?"

Hearing the shouting, the postmaster ran over in panic.

"What do you want, Your Highness?"

Zhu Chong was slightly drunk, half squinting his eyes, staring at the postmaster and said, "Why is there only wine in the post station? I want to see the dancers dance, go and call them for me."

The postmaster complained bitterly in his heart. The King of Qin was too difficult to serve, but he could only smile and say, "Your Highness, the post station is only responsible for providing accommodation, meals, and horses, but no dancers."

"Besides, summoning a dancer to the post station is against the court's laws and will be severely punished."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Chong flew into a rage, picked up the horse whip beside him, and whipped the postmaster fiercely:

"This world belongs to our Zhu family, and the laws are also the laws of our Zhu family. Are you talking to me about the laws of the court?"

"How dare you contradict me? I will beat you to death for being so ignorant!"

The postmaster was whipped several times and tried to dodge.

Unexpectedly, this move further aroused Zhu Chong's anger.

"I hit you, but you didn't just take it. You actually dared to hide?"

He quickly pulled out the sword that was on the table.

Click!

A knife pierced straight into the postmaster's chest.

In an instant, blood spurted out.

"what!"

The postmaster screamed miserably and fell powerlessly into a pool of blood.

Zhu Chong nonchalantly returned the knife to its sheath, kicked the postmaster's body, and shouted, "Come here, drag his body out to feed the dogs!"

Immediately, a guard came forward and dragged the postmaster's body out.

Witnessing this scene, everyone else in the post station trembled with fear.

I never thought that the King of Qin could be so cruel and merciless.

The postmaster was killed with a knife by him after he only said a few words of retort.

How could they know that Zhu Chong has always been like this.

Killing people for no reason was a common occurrence for him.

What's worse, sometimes they deliberately torture people or even kill them for fun.

After killing the postmaster, Zhu Chong was still furious and shouted, "Where are the others in the post station? Go and call the dancers for me to have fun with. Do you believe I will kill you all?"

The postman and the postmen were all terrified. The postman immediately whispered to the postmen, "Go to the best brothel in the county and pay to invite all the girls there to dance here."

The postmen were all embarrassed: "How can we afford to hire the girls from the county brothel?"

Being a postman is a hard job.

They are all poor people.

Even if you want to eat fishy things on a normal day, you can only go to the lowest-class brothel.

It would take another month or two to save up enough money before you can have a good time.

As for the brothels in the county town that were crowded with wealthy men, they dared not even think about it.

The postman stamped his feet anxiously and said, "What time is it now?"

"You have seen it too. When His Royal Highness Prince Qin says to kill someone, he kills. He is not joking with you."

"If you want to save your life, stop hiding it and take out all your belongings."

"Only if we get rid of this living devil safely can we survive."

"Otherwise, this day next year will be the anniversary of our death."

The postmen all looked pale, but still no one responded.

The postman became more and more anxious. Just as he was about to speak again, he heard a postman sigh:
"How could we not know that?"

“But I really don’t have any money!”

"At this juncture, even if we want to sell our property, it's too late."

"Where do we have any money?"

"Even if you kill us and skin us alive, we still can't get it out!"

The postman was stunned for a moment, and then he knew that he was telling the truth.

He thought for a moment, and suddenly an idea came to his mind: "Then let's go find the county magistrate and ask the county government to pay."

"No matter what, we are working for the court, so the money should be paid by the government."

When the postmen heard this, they all thought it made sense, and they all hurried off together.

Inside the inn.

Zhu Chong sat down again and drank a glass of wine, then cursed at his trusted generals beside him: "This Li Jinglong is really a waste!"

"The Duke of Cao was killed so easily by a little kid."

"What a useless piece of trash."

"It's a pity that my king and my third brother still have hope in him."

Away from Jinling City, it is impossible for news to be transmitted in real time.

At this time, Zhu Chong had just received the news that Li Jinglong was killed by Zhu Yunhuan.

Huang Zicheng thought that Li Jinglong was provoked by him and went to stop Zhu Yunhuan.

Little did they know that in secret, the King of Qin and the King of Jin had also put in a lot of effort.

Although neither of them showed up in person.

But the information that was leaked by the servants intentionally or unintentionally in private was all to encourage Li Jinglong to act bravely.

He even deliberately lied about the military situation in the northern border and hurriedly left Jinling City two days before the opening of the Daming Military Academy. In addition to avoiding attending the opening ceremony, he also secretly signaled to Li Jinglong, telling him that our prince had run away, so you know what to do, right?
Otherwise, Li Jinglong was not a fool and would not have lost his mind and bumped into Zhu Yunhuan's head.

It was the overt and covert provocations from the King of Qin and the King of Jin that made Li Jinglong so self-righteous as to misunderstand Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions, leading him to do such a stupid thing and thus die.

If it weren't for the misleading of the King of Qin and the King of Jin, Li Jinglong would at most not take the initiative to become a disciple.

But he will definitely be a coward and won't jump out to cause trouble.

Zhu Chong drank another glass of wine and cursed fiercely: "Duke Cao's mansion has so many servants and guards, don't you know to take them all out?"

"Also, why did he go to the military academy to cause trouble? He couldn't even bring a guard with him. Didn't he know to stop him in the street?"

"Fool!"

"Fool!"

He was very angry and kept cursing.

However, he never thought that if Li Jinglong really did what he wanted, he would not be the only one beheaded, and his son would not be able to inherit the title, but his entire family would be wiped out!
However, what does this have to do with Zhu Chong?

Li Jinglong's entire family died in exchange for King Wu's humiliation at the opening ceremony of the Ming Military Academy. This was a good deal for him.

Unfortunately, Li Jinglong is useless!
Zhu Chong picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

To be honest, the wine at the post station is not very tasty.

It's far worse than the Prince Qin's Palace.

But since he committed the crime last year, he was sued.

After Zhu sent someone to summon him to Jinling City, Zhu Chong never drank again.

Although he acted recklessly, he definitely didn't want to bring bad luck to Old Zhu.

That's not a joke.

Although Lao Zhu would not kill him, he was really cruel when he beat him with a stick!
Not long ago, he was beaten by Zhu Yunhuan because of the assassination attempt on Zhu Yunhuan.

When Zhu Chong thought about it, he felt a burning pain in his buttocks.

Now he has finally escaped from Jinling City.

Escaped from under Lao Zhu's nose.

You can drink to your heart's content now.

Therefore, no matter how good the drink is, he will drink it to his heart's content first.

The same goes for the dancer.

It's been a long time since I've seen a dancer dance.

Zhu Chong felt like he was about to suffocate.

"Your Highness, the King of Wu was completely indifferent to the military warnings from the north. He also strictly ordered all the generals in the capital not to leave the capital, and did not allow the Ministry of War to dispatch food and troops to prepare. Isn't he afraid that the Northern Yuan Dynasty will really be difficult to conquer?"

A trusted general asked in confusion.

The idea of sending spies from the Northern Yuan Dynasty to report military intelligence was thought up by the King of Qin and the King of Jin together.

I thought that no matter what Zhu Yunhuan was like, he would make some preparations for this.

Not to mention destroying everything, at least it can make the opening ceremony of the Ming Military Academy less perfect.

Unexpectedly, apart from the two of them running away, the King of Wu didn't care about it at all.

It was as if he had already known the truth of the intelligence and concluded that the Northern Yuan Dynasty would never move south.

"He is also gambling!" Zhu Chong sneered, "In the past few years, the Northern Yuan Dynasty has been beaten by our Ming Dynasty and can only defend itself, without any ability to fight back."

"Especially in the past few years, Lan Yu defeated the Northern Yuan Dynasty in Buir Lake, which caused great damage to the Northern Yuan Dynasty's vitality."

"From a common sense perspective, the probability of the Northern Yuan Dynasty leading a large army southward at this time is very low."

"Only Zhu Yunhuan dares to gamble."

Speaking of this, Zhu Chong felt a little depressed.

Both he and the Prince of Jin left the city of Jinling, using the excuse that the Northern Yuan was about to march south in large numbers.

If the Northern Yuan Dynasty did not make any move, and Zhu Yunhuan accused them of passing false information in front of Zhu, he would probably be severely punished by Zhu.

He was a little distraught.

Now we can only hope that the Northern Yuan Dynasty really moves south!
Although the hope is slim, there is still a chance.

If it really doesn't work, you can also secretly send troops to provoke the Northern Yuan Dynasty and stimulate it to move south.

Anyway, it’s a border area and the emperor is far away.

Isn't it just allowing me, a vassal king stationed at the frontier, to do whatever I want?
at this time.

A fast horse came galloping from a distance, dismounted at the post station, and then walked in quickly.

A trusted general hurried forward, took the secret report from the man, and quickly handed it to the King of Qin.

When Zhu Chong unfolded it and took a look, his expression suddenly changed.

Several trusted generals looked at each other, and then turned their gazes to Zhu Chong.

"I can't believe that Lu died? Died so quickly?"

"Is Zhu Yunwen still crazy?"

Although Concubine Lu had been promoted to the position of legitimate wife long ago, Zhu Chong never called her "sister-in-law" in private unless in person or in the presence of other outsiders.

The generals in front of him were all his trusted ones, so Zhu Chong did not hesitate to call them "Lü".

In his eyes, Chang was his eldest brother's wife and his sister-in-law.

Lu was originally just a concubine.

Could it be that just because she was promoted, she suddenly turned from a sparrow into a phoenix?

Zhu Chong looked down on Lu from the bottom of his heart.

A trusted general hurriedly asked, "The Concubine Lu passed away? The mother of the King of Wu?"

"She is just an adoptive mother." Zhu Chong corrected him: "Zhu Yunwen is her son."

"I've never heard that Concubine Lu had any illness before. How could she die so quickly?" The trusted generals were puzzled.

Zhu Chong said coldly: "My third brother once told me that our good nephew Zhu Yunhuan would definitely find a way to get our father to kill Lu."

"Originally, I didn't believe it."

"How can Zhu Yunhuan be so powerful that he can kill anyone he wants?"

"Now it seems that I underestimated him."

"He is much more powerful than I thought."

"Lu's death stimulated Zhu Yunwen, who was emotionally agitated and spoke nonsense."

"He has been imprisoned by Zhu Yunhuan."

"In this case, Zhu Yunwen will never have a chance to turn things around."

Several trusted generals looked at each other in surprise.

It turned out that the King of Wu had Concubine Lu killed by His Majesty the Emperor?
Such a shocking secret, casually spit out from the mouth of the King of Qin, made them all feel uneasy.

I just wish I were deaf and didn't hear these words.

As for King Xian's madness, although it was horrifying, it was not too confidential.

I heard it, and it doesn’t matter much.

Zhu Chong suddenly laughed again.

"It's better to die!"

"With the death of Lu, the chess pieces I arranged will be able to play a role."

"Zhu Yunxun, my dear nephew, just enjoy the generous gift that the king has given you."

A hint of success appeared in the corners of his eyebrows.

It was as if he had already seen Zhu Yunhuan's miserable appearance after being plotted against.

"If Big Brother were still alive, I would never fight with him."

"But my eldest brother is no longer here. Among the brothers who are still alive, I am the eldest son."

"Why should the throne be passed on to you, my grandson, instead of me?"

"Zhu Yunxun, Zhu Yunxun, if you don't fight for the position of crown prince, I will let you be a carefree prince for the sake of my elder brother, and live a happy life without worries."

"But you insisted on standing up and fighting for the throne that originally belonged to me."

"Then it's no wonder that I, your uncle, am rude to you."

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(End of this chapter)