"What? Mo Kaixuan died in battle, Xi'an City was broken?!"

Zhu Cunshu, who was hiding in the Qin King's mansion, was in panic all day long, still heard the news that almost made him lose his soul.

The destruction of Xi'an City not only means that Zhu Cunshu's dream of emperor would be broken after only ten days of his life, but even worse, the Qin King lineage, which had lasted for more than two hundred years in Xi'an, would probably be cut off from now on.

The civil and military officials under Zhu Cunshu were as if they were in trouble when they heard the news, and their faces were pale.

Especially when they saw the constant shouts of killing from the city gates in the distance, there was a turbulent war outside the mansion, and there were rebel soldiers running away with their heads in their arms, and they felt even more anxious.

"By the way! Where is Mr. Zhang Pu? Please come out and give me advice!" At the critical moment, Zhu Cunshu finally remembered Zhang Pu, who had repeatedly offered him brilliant plans, and ordered his personal guards to invite Zhang Pu over.

Although Zhang Yongjiang and other civil officials were quite jealous of Zhang Pu, they also hoped that Zhang Pu would offer a plan to make everyone safe, so they stretched their necks one by one, looking forward to it.

In less than half a cup of tea, the personal guard finally came back, but Zhang Pu, who was looking forward to it, did not follow him.

Zhu Cunshu stepped forward and grabbed the guard's shoulder, and hurriedly asked, "Where is Mr. Zhang Pu? Where is he?"

The guard's shoulder was so painful that he was caught by Zhu Cunshu, but he didn't dare to scream. He had to grit his teeth and said, "Report to the prince, Mr. Zhang Pu is not in the guest room, but he left a letter to the prince."

"He must have left a brilliant plan for the prince!" Zhang Yongjiang said happily.

Zhu Cunshu's expression relaxed a little when he heard this, he let go of his guard's shoulders, and said hurriedly: "Come the letter quickly."

The guard endured the pain in his shoulders, took out a letter from his sleeve, and respectfully handed it to Zhu Cunshu.

Zhu Cunshu took it and saw the four big words "King Qin Kai Kai" written on the envelope. Zhu Cunshu hurriedly tore open the envelope, took out the letter, spread the letter, and when he saw clearly the contents of the letter, he was stunned.

The letter left by Zhang Pu only wrote twenty words, and the content was: "Prince, I have a step ahead. Please take care of the prince. Zhang Pu respectfully!"

Zhang Yongjiang and others could not see whether Zhu Cunshu's expression was happy or sad, and asked quickly: "Prince, what kind of peerless plan did Mr. Zhang Pu have come up with?"

Unexpectedly, Zhu Cunshu's face suddenly turned red and he cursed: "Zhang Pu! I'm your grandma!"

"puff!"

As soon as the scolding fell, Zhu Cunshu squirted out his old blood. Zhang Yongjiang and others, who were looking for a peek at the content of the letter, squirted their heads and faces, and then they fell down on their backs.

"Prince!"

Zhang Yongjiang and others were shocked and quickly helped Zhu Cunshu to the chair, patted his chest, and gave him peace of mind. They also ordered the servants to pour tea over quickly.

"Ho...ho..." Zhu Cunshu gasped for several consecutive breaths, and the agitation only stabilized after taking a sip of tea.

Seeing that Zhu Cunshu's emotions gradually calmed down, Zhang Yongjiang asked: "Prince, what did Mr. Zhang Pu leave for the prince, and made the prince so angry?"

"Bang!"

When he heard Zhang Yongjiang mention Zhang Pu's beast again, Zhu Cunshu slapped the table and cursed: "Don't mention that beast again. At this critical moment, he left me and ran away first!"

"What!"

"Zhang Pu deserves to die! He actually ran away!"

"Zhang Pu's thief came uninvited to instigate the prince to raise an army to calm the crisis, but now the prince is in trouble, he sneaks away by himself. He really doesn't act like a son!"

When Zhang Yongjiang and others heard the news that Zhang Pu ran away, they were all indignant and cursed. If Zhang Pu was right in front of them, they might have eaten Zhang Pu raw.

In fact, they hated Zhang Pu not for running away secretly, but for running away secretly, they didn’t call him. It was so fucking unkind!

Zhang Yongjiang gritted his teeth and said to Zhu Cunshu: "Prince, if you keep the green mountains, you are not afraid of burning firewood. Xi'an City is afraid that it will not be able to defend it. Please ask the prince to lead the guards of the royal palace quickly and leave Xi'an City quickly!"

At this time, Zhu Cunshu was also panicked and suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, I must leave Xi'an quickly!"

But when Zhu Cunshu looked at the extremely luxurious Qin Palace, he said reluctantly: "But the king of the grass and woody here is reluctant to let go. Please wait a moment. I ordered people to pack their bags first."

Ma Dan! How can you be a wealthy slave if you are almost gone?

Everyone was almost crying for the Qin King. Zhang Yongjiang made a quick decision and said, "Several commanders, please take people to escort the prince out of Xi'an City. It's too late!"

Several guards and commanders of the Qin Palace shared the same relationship with the Qin King. If the Qin King was in trouble, they could not escape. At this time, when he heard Zhang Yongjiang's orders, he immediately reacted. The two guards and commanders set up the King of Qin and ran out, while the other was to rectify the guards.

At this time, Zhu Cunshu was still thinking about the bottles and jars in the palace, and struggled and shouted: "What are you doing? Are you going to rebel? Oh! Go to the treasure house and bring my coral tree here, and the dog-head gold that Yunnan Dusi presented to me..."

My life is almost gone, so I don’t care about coral trees or gold. Everyone turned a deaf ear to the ears and fled out with the King of Qin.

...

"What? The prince has escaped!"

"Then what are we doing here? The prince has given up on us. Why should we beat the prince to death?"

The news of the King of Qin's escape soon reached the rebel soldiers on the front line. The loyal soldiers of the King of Qin, who were originally fighting to fight to the death on the front line, completely lost their fighting spirit. They either surrendered to the official army or turned around and fled.

The escorts of the wealthy clans who were forcibly conscripted by Mo Kaixuan took off their military uniforms and returned to the mansions of the major clans, becoming the escorts of the major clans again.

Seeing that the King of Qin was defeated, the major families were also panicked. More than ten most prominent tribe leaders of the rich and powerful families gathered at the residence of the Zhou family, the largest family in Xi'an, to discuss how to survive this disaster.

Before the King of Qin launched an army, many families of major families had sex with the King of Qin. When King Ning started his army, the major families were rushing to place bets on the King of Qin, intending to help the King of Qin to seize the world and thus become the new emperor's follower minister.

It is precisely because of the help of major tyrants that the King of Qin quickly occupied Xi'an City at the beginning of his rebellion and swept over half of the Guanzhong Plain in just a few days.

Unfortunately, all of them took a look. They originally thought that the King of Qin had the money and food supply from Jiangnan, and received strong support from the powerful and noble gentry in the world. In addition, they connected with Mongolia outside, so it should be easy to seize the world.

But they never expected that the situation had taken a sharp turn for less than half a month after the King of Qin raised his troops. First, Wang Kaiyuan defeated Weinan and blocked the passage of the King of Qin to the east into the Yellow River, forming a situation of closing the door and beating dogs.

Then Hong Chengchou led the Yansui border army to provide assistance quickly and met with Lu Xiangsheng. The prefectures and counties in various places surrendered, and 100,000 official troops surrounded Xi'an.

By this time, the major families still had certain expectations for the King of Qin. After all, 100,000 Iron Cavalry of Mongolia were attacking Datong. If Datong was captured by Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty would definitely turn all its attention to the Mongols, and the siege of Xi'an could be solved.

Therefore, even if the King of Qin did not follow the rules and forced the guards of the major families to join the army, the major families turned a blind eye and endured this tone.

But once again, they never expected that the official army was so capable, the Qin King's Army was so useless, with a total of 110,000 troops, and Xi'an City, the Qin King's Army had not even been able to survive for half a day and was captured by the official army.

At this time, the major families of Xi'an were finally panicked. You must know that at the beginning of the Qin King's rebellion, in order to express their loyalty to the Qin King, all the major families wrote letters of loyalty to the Qin King. If these letters of loyalty fell into the hands of the official army, they would be killed by the official army as rebels!

Fortunately, they had learned that the generals who led the army to encircle and suppress the Qin King's army were cruel to the refugees and tolerant to officials and gentry. The local officials who had surrendered to the Qin King turned to the court. Hong Chengchou did not even give them a deal, but instead gave them the opportunity to atone for their merits. Therefore, they all believed that their families might be treated leniently by Hong Chengchou like those local officials who rebeled and surrendered again.

Zhou Yuming, the head of the Zhou family, looked around everyone and said in a deep voice: "Clan leader, Xi'an city is broken, and the Qin king is unable to make any move. We must clear our relationship with the Qin king. We can only make meritorious contributions, atone for our sins, and capture the Qin king alive to the court. Do you have any objections?"

Lin Hongtao, the head of the Lin family, responded: "Brother Zhou said so much. As long as we take the merits and atone for the King of Qin to the court, the court should forgive me for the previous sins."

"What sin?" Zhou Yuming said shamelessly: "I have no sins at all. Those loyalty letters were written by the King of Qin forcing me to wait. If I don't write them, the King of Qin will kill my whole family. In this case, I have to write those loyalty letters against my will. But in fact, like Xu Shu, we are all in Xi'an and in the court!"

“Yes, yes!”

"We are not guilty at all!"

"The loyalty and trust are all forced by the rebel King Qin!"

"I never thought of deviating from the court."

Zhou Yuming's words won unanimous approval from the patriarchs, and all patriarchs quickly reached a consensus. The so-called loyalty and trust were written under the threat of the Qin King's life and death, and they were all against their will and could not be counted.

Seeing this, Zhou Yuming couldn't help laughing, looked at everyone and said slowly: "My patriarchs, since everyone has no objection, then gather the guards of the servants who fled back to the mansion. The King of Qin is protected by the guards of the royal palace. We are the old bones alone, but we can't take over the King of Qin.

Besides, His Majesty the Emperor has issued a clear order that as long as it is a rebel or an official army, as long as it can be taken down the King of Qin and presented it to the court, they can be named as a uncle. Maybe who among us will be fortunate to be named His Majesty the Emperor and become a superb uncle!"

The patriarchs looked at each other and said in unison: "Brother Zhou said so much, we all listened to Brother Zhou's arrangement!"

...

At this time, Zhu Cunshu was sitting in the carriage, constantly judging the chaos in Xi'an through the carriage curtains.

The 110,000 rebels were defeated like a mountain, so naturally many rebel soldiers took advantage of the chaos to rush into the houses and rob the people of the people of the people of Xi'an. This time the people of Xi'an were in great trouble.

Seeing this, Zhu Cunshu not only did not sympathize with the people of Xi'an at all, but instead hoped that the rebels would become more and more chaotic. As long as more rebels rushed into the people's residences and committed evil, the imperial government army would have to focus more on quelling the chaos in the city. In this way, Zhu Cunshu could take advantage of the chaos to escape from Xi'an.

After about one stick of incense, hundreds of Qin Wang Mansion guards protected Zhu Cunshu, Zhang Yongjiang and others to the city gate, and were about to leave the city.

At this moment, Zhou Yuming's shout came from behind the King of Qin: "Prince, wait for us! Wait for us!"

Zhu Cunshu frowned, and Zhang Yongjiang said in confusion: "Prince, they are the patriarchs of the major tribes in Xi'an who support the prince's uprising. Judging from this, it seems that they want to escape with the prince."

Zhu Cunshu felt a little calm when he heard this. Sure enough, Zhou Yuming and others came to the Qin King's team and stopped and shouted: "Prince, we have already written a letter of loyalty to the prince. It is a relationship with the prince. When the official army comes, they will never let us go. Please show our compassion and take us with us!"

Zhang Yongjiang said happily: "Prince, we have fewer people from outside the pass, and we haven't brought enough silver. You might as well ask them first if they have taken the money to escape."

Zhu Cunshu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he shouted loudly: "It's not impossible to take you with you, but I'm just hastily before leaving and has not brought all the money. This..."

Zhou Yuming shouted hurriedly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, we have brought out most of our wealth, and we have enough money to ensure that the prince can be the master no matter where he goes!"

Zhu Cunshu was overjoyed and waved to his hands and shouted, "Then come over quickly, I am going to leave the city!"

Perhaps because of the loyalty of the patriarchs of the major tribes, Zhu Cunshu thought he was sure to take them, but he did not expect that the major tribes would rebel. Zhang Yongjiang and others also wanted to have surrenders to go with them. Therefore, everyone relaxed their vigilance against the major tribes and watched Zhou Yuming come to the front with thousands of guards.

Seeing Zhou Yuming and others coming over, Zhu Cunshu even asked with a smile: "Clan leader, how much money have you brought here? The destination of our trip is the territory of Outer Mongolians. We have to use money to open the way. If we bring less money, we won't be able to bring less."

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yuming suddenly changed color and shouted in a deep voice: "Come here! Take down the thief Zhu Cunshu for me!"

Thousands of guards and servants had already learned that the purpose of the major clan leaders was to capture Zhu Cunshu. So when Zhou Yuming finished speaking, thousands of guards rushed over and quickly took down the King of Qin and seized the guards of the royal palace who were caught off guard.

This sudden change made Zhu Cunshu completely stunned. Even though he was tied up by the guards of the major families, he still did not react at all.

Zhang Yongjiang angrily rebuked: "What are you going to do? Don't forget that you have written a letter of loyalty to the prince. Even if you present the prince to the court, the court will not forgive you!"

Zhou Yuming laughed and said, "Loyalty to Xin? Didn't the rebel Zhu Cunshu force us to write? If we don't write about Zhu Cunshu, we will destroy our nine clans. In order to protect our family, we were forced to write loyalty to Zhu Cunshu against our will, but we are all in Xi'an and in the court!"

Hearing Zhou Yuming's shameless words, Zhu Cunshu finally woke up and said furiously: "What a thief, you dare to turn the tables. Before I raise my army, you kept instigating me to rebel, but now you don't admit it?"

"Play!"

Zhou Yuming slapped Zhu Cunshu twice with his backhand and shouted, "At such a situation, you, the dog thief, are you going to pull us into a sinking place? Be your dream of Qingqiu! Men, don't listen to this dog thief's rude words. Let's present this dog thief to the court, please give it to you!"

"Yes, Clan Chief Zhou!" The guards of the servants agreed with a loud promise.
Chapter completed!