Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1094
In the lobby of Beizhen Fusi, Yu Taichu was instructing several thousand households to do something, when a fortune teller suddenly walked in.

Seeing this, Yu Taichu hurriedly waved several thousand households to retreat, and then hurriedly asked: "How is the situation? Is there any useful news?"

The fortune-teller hurriedly put the banner aside, then tore off his lips and the beard under his forehead, "My lord, I found out that Wu Zunzhou, the inspector of Jiangxi Province, and Zheng Xi, the fifth younger brother surnamed Zheng Guo, have come to Beijing in secret. In Tang Wang's mansion. The humble official suspects that they may be planning to raise troops!"

Hearing the words, Yu Taichu's face became heavy, at this moment, another guard in plain clothes hurried in.

"My lord, a secret agent is here to report that King Lu is going to leave Beijing in secret, brothers, do you want to stop him?"

At the beginning, Wang Yan brought King Lu to Nanjing to prevent King Lu from splitting with the imperial court. As long as King Lu remained in Nanjing, King Lu's territory could obey the central government in name, and the imperial court could slowly infiltrate King Lu's territory.

It has been four years since the king of Lu came to Beijing.In the past four years, the central government has gradually reduced the authority of the local government and gradually strengthened its control over the local government. If there is more time, the power of King Lu in Zhejiang can be gradually disintegrated.

Half a month ago, King Lu suddenly claimed that he was not sick, and the palace was closed without seeing anyone. It turned out that he wanted to leave Nanjing quietly.

When Yu Taichu heard that King Lu was going to leave Beijing secretly, his face turned cold, "It seems that they are really going to use force!"

The two people below were a little heavy when they heard this, "Then what should we do? Do we want to stop King Lu from leaving Beijing? As long as King Lu is left behind, people in Zhejiang will not dare to rebel."

Yu Taichu was silent for a while, but shook his head, "Don't stop, let King Lu go out of the capital, His Highness wants to solve them once and for all this time, we have to take a long time!"

The strength of the two kings of Tang and Lu is not weak, and it is not easy for the court to deal with it. Although Jin Yiwei has deliberately revealed a little information about the third prince Zhu to the king of Tang to create a rift in the cooperation between Tang and Lu, the two parties combined After all, there are three provinces and more than [-] troops, so Yu Taichu still felt a lot of pressure.

As he said that, Yu Taichu looked at the two of them, "Send your fast horses to Huguang and tell His Highness that they may be about to launch. I will go see General Gao and Old Chen Ge immediately!"

Overseas Zhejiang, a small island near the Zhoushan Islands, where the fifth prince Zhu Cihuan was placed under house arrest.

The Zhoushan Islands used to be King Lu’s anti-Qing base, and the Zhejiang Navy was very powerful. Therefore, King Lu placed Zhu Cihuan here, which can be said to be absolutely safe. Outsiders have no way of knowing. , and took Zhu Cihuan away.

The small island where Zhu Cihuan was placed under house arrest is in the northwest of Zhoushan. It is called Gualianshan Island. It is small in size, has no fishermen, and the buildings on it are extremely simple.

In a bamboo hut on the island, Xiao Qihui, governor of Zhejiang, was sitting in front of Zhu Cihuan.

Originally, the imperial court had ordered him to enter Beijing to accept the imperial court's inquiry and examination, but he claimed that his illness had been staying in Hangzhou.

"Your Highness, I don't know about that, what do you think about it?"

Zhu Cihuan originally wanted to live a normal life, but unexpectedly, he was still involved in political struggles, and even killed his father-in-law's family and hundreds of people in Hujiazhuang.

After Jiashen, at first he still had the idea of ​​restoring the country, but now that the world is settled, he has long since lost that idea, and just wants to live a good life, but now he is forced to be the banner of King Lu to seize power.

He didn't want to get involved in this matter at all, and King Lu was not a kind person. In order to prevent the news from leaking, he killed hundreds of people in Hujiazhuang. King Lu said he wanted to embrace him as emperor, but Zhu Cihuan was very clear about his intentions.

It has been ten years since his father's empire was destroyed, and he has no supporters. In the end, he can only become the puppet of King Lu. Regardless of his influence, he may be killed by poison in the end.

Zhu Cihuan really didn't want to participate in this matter, but he fell into the hands of King Lu and became a fish on the chopping board, without the right to choose.

"Princess and son, how are you doing now?" Zhu Cihuan did not answer Xiao Qihui, but asked in a low voice.

"Your Highness, you can rest assured that the concubine and the prince have been arranged by the officials to a better place. As long as His Highness agrees, they are absolutely safe!" Xiao Qihui said with a smile.

Zhu Cihuan's heart trembled, if he disagreed, it would be unsafe.

For a while, there was silence in the room, Xiao Qihui didn't urge him, but bowed his head to drink tea. After a while, Zhu Cihuan sighed, "Okay! I agree to King Lu's request, but you don't want to break your promise. , let our family live a normal life."

Xiao Qi knew how to hear words, and was immediately filled with joy, he put down his teacup and looked at Zhu Cihuan, "Your Highness, really?"

If King Lu really succeeds, Zhu Cihuan is willing to abdicate immediately and give up the throne to King Lu in exchange for King Lu letting him go, but he also knows that this is just his wishful thinking, and King Lu will definitely let him perform his tricks, and he What will happen in the end, he can't grasp it at all, it all depends on what King Lu thinks, life and death are controlled by others.

King Lu asked Xu Luo to guarantee the safety of his family and let him be an idle prince in the future, but whether he could believe this or not was a big question mark.

But even if King Lu breaks his promise in the future, Zhu Cihuan can only agree, because he is a timid person, and if he agrees now, at least he will be safe for a while.

At that moment, Zhu Cihuan's face was a little painful, and he nodded silently.

It's a big deal!

Seeing this, Xiao Qihui was immediately relieved, and his heart jumped with joy, with the banner of the Third Prince Zhu, the big event was half done!

Xiao Qihui smiled happily, and when he got up, he wanted to kneel down and salute Zhu Cihuan, but he thought about it, Zhu Cihuan was just a puppet found by His Royal Highness Lu Wang, who was used to scare and call others, sooner or later he would be taken away by Lu Wang, he didn't have to Seriously, so he changed kneeling to bowing, and said, "I pay homage to the prince!"

Seeing that Xiao Qihui didn't have any respect, Zhu Cihuan was terrified, worried about his own fate, nodded his head with difficulty, and closed his eyes in pain.

As long as Zhu Cihuan agrees, Xiao Qihui will ignore his feelings, "His Royal Highness is waiting here with peace of mind, I will go back and report to His Royal Highness King Lu, and escort the Crown Prince to Nanjing to ascend the throne in a few days!"

After talking about Xiao Qihui, he said his goodbyes and left. When it was dark, he went ashore at Ningbo Wharf by boat.

Beside the pier, two coolies unloading goods saw them get off the boat from a distance, and then took advantage of the carriage to leave quickly, one of them whispered: "Is it Xiao Qihui?"

"Yes, that's right, I've been monitoring it for days, and I know it even when it turns into ashes!" Another person picked up a bag of rice and replied aloud.

"It seems that they really hid the man at sea!"

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(End of this chapter)