The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 362 The Death of Zhu Youjian
Eunuch Du was seriously injured and fell to the ground dying. Liu Zhaosun held the eunuch's hand.

"Duke Protector of the Country, you are unharmed. It shows that God has blessed Zhu Ming and protected Duke Protector of the Country. It's a pity that we can't see you..."

Du Xun's head tilted, he stopped breathing, his eyes were wide open, and he died with his eyes open.

The Duke of Protector leaned over and gently closed his eyes, saying earnestly:
"Brother, have a safe journey! Don't have your balls cut off in your next life. Be a man who stands tall and proud."

Looking around, only Zhao Yuanzhi was slightly injured, while everyone else was unharmed.

"God will destroy Zhu Ming, I will protect him!"

Liu Zhaosun glanced at the assassin's body on the ground and was still furious.

"Damn Zhu Youjian, he actually wanted to kill me!"

After their companions were killed, the remaining assassins fled without looking back.

Lin Yu chased after him with a long sword, Pei Dahu raised his longbow and covered him from behind, and Zhao Yuanzhi protected Liu Zhaosun in front.

Lin Yu and Pei Dahu cooperated with each other and killed the last few assassins one by one.

The surviving assassins fled out of the palace in panic, like fish that had escaped a net. Big Lin wanted to chase them, but Liu Zhaosun shouted:
"Don't chase them. There are soldiers everywhere outside the palace. They won't survive! Follow me and kill the emperor!"

The Cining Palace was right in front of him, and the Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youjian was there, waiting for him.

The path to revenge is cleared, and the path to supreme power is cleared.

You have to walk the rest of the road by yourself.

"I am going to kill the king today. Are you willing to follow me?"

Pei Dahu gnashed his teeth and said, "Thirteenth Master, I have followed you since the time of Sarhu. He dared to kill Madam Zhang. If I don't kill him today, I, Pei Dahu, will not be a human being!"

Zhao Yuanzhi said bitterly:

"None of the Zhu family is a good person. They treat us Jinyiwei like dogs. Back in the capital, Emperor Tianqi's father killed many of Captain Shen's brothers. He even chased us to Tianjin and almost killed Captain Shen and Yang Jinglie. He even didn't let babies and women go. I have wanted to kill him for a long time!"

Lin Yu said nothing, looked up at the Duke of Protectorate, and nodded silently.

Liu Zhaosun said to everyone with a stern expression:

"Alright, you are all my followers. Wu Xiao is still in Shaanxi, and we don't know whether he's alive or dead. If he dies, it's all the fault of this bastard emperor. Shaanxi is in turmoil, the Central Plains is in danger, and the world has become like this. The emperor can't escape responsibility!"

"There are many reasons to kill the king today, but I only need one, and that is to avenge Madam Zhang. One reason is enough! I, Liu Zhaosun, never kill innocent people, but I will never let a wicked person go!"

A wisp of green smoke ignited in the treasury on the north side of the Forbidden City, which soon turned into a raging fire. Pei Dahu said in a deep voice:
"The soldiers were guarding the gates, and no one could get in. It was the eunuchs who set the fire."

Liu Zhaosun asked, "Is this our internal support?"

Zhao Yuanzhi shook his head. He had close ties with the Suoyi Guards and was quite familiar with the intelligence.

"That damned Wang Chengen suddenly turned against us and killed all the secret agents in the palace. They weren't our people. It must be that the eunuchs guarding the treasury wanted to take advantage of the situation and fish in troubled waters."

The three of them talked as they walked, and accompanied the Duke of Huguo to the front of the Cining Palace. Looking around, they found that the Han generals, palace maids and eunuchs on duty had already fled.

"Traitor, we will kill you!"

A blurry figure suddenly appeared from behind the big pillar of the main gate of Cining Palace. When everyone looked closely, they saw a thin eunuch rushing out from behind the pillar, holding a sword longer than himself, and rushing towards Liu Zhaosun and others at the top of his lungs.

"die!"

Liu Zhaosun stepped forward, drew his sword, and cut off the sword in the eunuch's hand with a single blow. Then he elbowed the eunuch, and the eunuch was knocked flying.

"This is a personal grudge between me and Zhu Youjian. It has nothing to do with anyone else. Get lost!"

The young eunuch held a half-broken sword, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and staggered towards Liu Zhaosun.

"We are blessed by the Emperor, and I will not allow a warrior like you to act so recklessly here!"

Liu Zhaosun's eyelids twitched, and when he saw the little eunuch staggering, he couldn't help feeling pity.

He held the goose-feather knife upside down and hit the staggering figure with the handle.

The young eunuch was knocked back a few steps, and under the gaze of everyone, he actually stood up again, but his body was no longer stable.

"With our family here, you..."

Before he could finish his words, his body suddenly shook, and then he was taken away by a huge arrow.

Pei Dahu raised the bow, and the bowstring still vibrated.

"Things that don't overestimate their capabilities!"

Liu Zhaosun wanted to say something, but Zhao Yuanzhi stepped forward quickly, raised his knife and was about to chop off his head, but the Duke of Huguo shouted to stop him.

"Leave the body intact and bury it with honor."

The four of them walked past the corpse of the young eunuch and arrived at the gate of the Cining Palace. Liu Zhaosun said to his three subordinates:
"Don't interfere in the feud between me and Zhu Youjian. Stay outside and kill anyone who approaches."

"Duke Protector of the Country, I'm afraid there's an ambush in the palace..."

Pei Dahu wanted to try to persuade him, but Liu Zhaosun waved his hand and pushed the door open to enter the Cining Palace.

With a creaking sound, the door of the Cining Palace was pushed open from the outside.

This was Liu Zhaosun's second time to come to the Cining Palace. The last time was in the first year of Chongzhen. On the night when the Kaiyuan army attacked Beijing, Ping Liaohou personally led the soldiers into the palace to guard Zhu Youxiao and his queen and concubines.

And this time, he returned to the old place to kill someone.

He wants to avenge his wife.

Liu Zhaosun didn't have much affection for Zhang Yan. Apart from the sexual pleasure they had, his impression of Zhang Yan was very indifferent.

He didn't know what was so memorable about this woman.

However, when he heard that Zhang Yan had died, he felt like someone had cut out a piece of his flesh and blood.

This woman was devotedly in love with him, maybe it was just pure love, or maybe she had other motives. He didn't want to think about it anymore. He was used to seeing conspiracies and tricks, and now he just wanted the world to be simpler.

Now, Zhang Yan is dead, bleeding from all seven orifices. Before her death, she had heated up the meat that the emperor had given her as a reward, waiting for her husband to come home and enjoy it.

Now, the lady of honor is dead and has become a horrible corpse.

If Jin Yu Ji is the white moonlight and Yang Qing'er is a political marriage, then Zhang Yan is the fireworks, food, sex and nature, allowing him to truly taste the flavor of a woman.

Now, Zhang Yan is dead.

Kaiyuan is a tripod with three legs. If one leg is missing, it will not be able to stand firm. The balance that he has worked so hard to establish will soon be broken.

Chaos and disorder are coming.

He could imagine Kang Yingqian's panic-stricken look and Old Kang's shaking beard.

All the hard work is in vain in the end.

After Zhang Yan's death, it is unknown where this power-hungry military supervisor will go.

Originally in history, in the 17th year of Chongzhen, after the Shun army broke into the city, the God of War on Coal Hill cut off his daughter's arm, forced Queen Zhou to death, and forced Queen Yi'an Zhang Yan to hang herself to death.

In this dimension, Zhu Youjian sent eunuchs to poison Zhang Yan.

History is always strikingly similar.

Zhang Yan will eventually be killed by Zhu Youjian. ~-~~
The time traveler returned to reality and saw that the hall was in a mess.

The ground was littered with torn memorials and broken utensils. A curtain with auspicious cloud and dragon patterns swayed in the wind, and a figure swayed behind the curtain.

The body of the palace maid was lying on the ground, and the pools of blood made people dizzy.

Liu Zhaosun held the goose-feather knife in his hand and shouted loudly:
"Zhu Youjian, get out!"

The shouts echoed in the hall, and the sound seemed to have life and did not leave for a long time.

"Zhu Youjian, get out!"

The goose-feather knife slashed at the curtain, chopping left and right until the blood-stained curtain was chopped into countless pieces.

Behind the curtain, Emperor Tianqi sat on a pear wood armchair with disheveled hair, a long sword leaning against his side, and his body covered in blood.

"You beast, you still want to kill people before you die!"

Zhu Youjian smiled coldly, grabbed the sword, and pointed it weakly at the Duke of Huguo, all his imperial aura gone.

"Those are my concubines. I cannot let them be humiliated!"

Liu Zhaosun opened his mouth wide and his throat moved.

"I didn't allow any soldiers into the palace. I'm the only one here! What are you afraid of?"

Zhu Youjian suddenly jumped up.

"You beast! It's a pity that I can't kill you. I let you escape today, but General Zhang will kill you! The southern scholars will kill you! The 800,000 princes and relatives will kill you, and the people's hearts and minds will kill you! Liu Zhaosun, you..."

The Duke of Huguo looked at Zhu Youjian with a distorted expression, and the scene of Zhang Yan bleeding from her mouth and nose appeared in front of him, and his face gradually became hideous.

The two lunatics glared at each other:

"I! I! I, the dog-footed I! Zhu Youjian, Shaanxi and the Central Plains are in chaos, and you are adding to the chaos!"

"I have worked hard to maintain order. I quelled the rebellion in the southwest, crushed the Jiannu when it broke out in Liaodong, fought against the Russian Empire, and conquered the Japanese pirates in the east! I killed the red-haired barbarians, killed the bandits! I was planning to send you to Ganghwa Island to reunite with your brother. You are the ruler of the world, but you only care about yourself. I stood in front and bled and sacrificed, and you stabbed me in the back!"

Liu Zhaosun swung his sword and cut off a strand of Emperor Tianqi's hair:
"Killing me is fine, but you even spared the Imperial Madam. Do you know that without me, there would be no one left in the world who would be king or emperor?"

Zhu Youjian looked at the broken hair falling to the ground, raised his sword and cursed:

"Liu Zhaosun, you still have the nerve to speak so shamelessly here!"

Zhu Youjian's eyes were wide open and bloodshot!
"Without you, the Ming Dynasty wouldn't have suffered so many disasters! Without you, Emperor Taichang wouldn't have died after only three years on the throne!"

"Without you, Yansui Town wouldn't have protested for military pay. Without you, there wouldn't be any bandits in Shaanxi! Without you, Liaodong could have been pacified!
"You enslave the people of the world, just for your own selfish desires! For your illusory world of universal peace!"

"You are the culprit who brings disaster to the world!"

Zhu Youjian spoke faster and faster, and his dense words shot at Liu Zhaosun like a rain of arrows.

"When I was Prince Xin, I constantly thought about avenging my father and brother. From the day I ascended the throne, I've been thinking about how to bring you down! How to grind you to dust!"

"All the patience has finally come to this day!"

Liu Zhaosun asked murderously, "Do you want to kill me so much?"

Zhu Youjian laughed out loud towards the sky.

"How can I allow others to sleep soundly beside my bed? The power of the world belongs to you, not me! It's a pity that I wanted to kill the villain, but I was powerless to do anything. I died a worthy death. How happy I am! Hahahaha!"

Liu Zhaosun had a complicated expression as he looked Zhu Youjian up and down, looking at this young man who was strong, arbitrary and self-righteous, and looking at this monarch who had aged prematurely due to his busy state affairs.

For a moment, the Protector of the Country was like a powder, and began to sympathize with Zhu Youjian, no matter whether his reign was Chongzhen or Tianqi. No matter how he had treated himself, he was a pitiful man.

The expression in the Duke of Protector's eyes changed, and he was silent for a long time. Finally, he looked at the concubine lying in a pool of blood.

At this time, the dark clouds dispersed to let the sunlight shine through, illuminating the magnificent corner tower of the Forbidden City.

Those young and beautiful lives inexplicably became the emperor's burial companions because of Zhu Youjian's reckless actions.

Just as he was desperately searching for a reason to keep Zhu Youjian alive, in Shaanxi and Henan, hundreds of thousands or even a million starving people were eating their own or other people's sons or daughters.

Liu Zhaosun could forgive Zhu Youjian, find countless reasons and excuses for Emperor Tianqi, and even pretend that Zhang Yan was still alive.

However, in this case, Liu Zhaosun would become the most arrogant person.

Should people be responsible for their own actions?

Of course, but why shouldn't I give them (the enemy) a chance to take responsibility for their mistakes?

Who am I to forgive those who do wrong?

If so, that would be extreme arrogance.

"I can't continue to be arrogant."

After Liu Zhaosun finished speaking to himself, he raised his goose-feather knife.

"That's not a reason."

This was the last sentence he said to Zhu Youjian.

With a wave of his hand and a slash of his sword, Emperor Tianqi's head and body were separated and he fell to the ground with a bang.

Liu Zhaosun's expression remained unchanged.

In the corner of the hall, a woman was sobbing softly.

"Who are you?"

The Duke of Huguo stretched out his goose-feather knife and stabbed the woman in the back.

"Turn around, I, Liu Zhaosun, do not kill women!"

Queen Zhou turned around with a look of resentment on her face, holding a dagger tightly in her hand.

"Your husband killed my woman, I'm going to seek revenge on him. I don't kill women, so go away."

Liu Zhaosun turned around and was about to leave.

"Liu thief, you will not die well!"

Suddenly, a cold light flashed, and Empress Zhang had already stabbed the dagger at her own neck.

"you·····"

When he reached out to block it, the dagger had already cut his throat, and a stream of blood spurted onto Liu Zhaosun's face.

The queen collapsed to the ground, making a gurgling sound from her mouth, and her pair of black and bright eyes stared at the Duke of Protectorate until they lost their luster.

"what!"

Liu Zhaosun swung his knife wildly, chopping the surrounding tables and chairs into pieces.

Half an hour later, the Duke of Huguo walked out of the Cining Palace and said to Pei Dahu, Lin Yu and others:

"We have avenged our great hatred. Now let's deal with Zhang Chun, that ungrateful bastard. The emperor was forced to death by this man. He must pay for the emperor's life!"

(End of this chapter)