Han’s Son is Not a Slave

After the Burmese hands were used to cleanse the officials of the Yongli dynasty in Myanmar, Wu Sangui secretly detained Zhu Youlang in Shilongwei, on the border of Yunnan and Burma. His son-in-law Guo Zhuangtu personally guarded him. Without his warrant, no one could talk to Zhu Youlang. Meet.

Wu Sangui only met Zhu Youlang once that day. At that time, Zhu Youlang knew who was coming, but Wu Sangui did not dare to answer. When I asked again, I fell down and got up, and when I asked a few times, Wu Sangui called him by name.

"Are you a Han Chinese? Are you a minister of the Ming Dynasty? If so, why would you be a traitor and betray your country and betray your ruler Ruo this! Say, what is your conscience!"

In the face of Zhu Youlang's repeated questioning, Wu Sangui remained silent, only lying on the ground motionless.

Zhu Youlang only knew that Wu Sangui would definitely want him to die when he picked him up, so he sighed: "This is the case, I have nothing to say. However, I am a BJ person, can I allow me to die after seeing the Twelve Tombs? "

Wu Sangui heard the words, but said that this is not the case, please don't think too much about it. Zhu Youlang asked him why he said this, but Wu Sangui refused to say any more, and only ordered to help him out. At that time, he was ashen and sweaty, and he never came to see Zhu Youlang again.

Wu Sangui ordered Zhu Youlang to be detained separately from the empress dowager, empress Wang, prince and others. The only people serving Zhu Youlang were five small officials, three or four ugly little palace maids, and Deng Kai, the lame guard chief.

Zhu Youlang didn’t know whether Wu Sangui would hand him over to the Qing court, or executed him at yn. After several days of worrying, he asked Guo Zhuangtu to give him pen and paper, and wrote a letter of trust Guo Zhuangtu to Wu Sangui. In addition, he cut off his sleeves and wrote a secret edict and handed it over to a small official, saying to him: "Son, if you can escape, you can greet the King of Jin, the Duke of Yue and the thirteen families. If you can send troops to rescue me, I will In the future, I will be a practitioner."

Unexpectedly, this secret edict was found by the Qing army. Guo Zhuangtu immediately beheaded several small officials, leaving only Deng Kai and two palace maids, Zhu Youlang, which made Zhu Youlang even think that his death was coming. He simply gritted his teeth and went on a hunger strike.

The chief guard Deng Kai knelt down and hugged Zhu Youlang and wept bitterly, persuading him not to go on a hunger strike. Zhu Youlang cried: "After Zhu Yujia was captured, he still knew that he would not eat a meter of the Qing Dynasty or drink a single water from him. Is it possible that I am better than him?" (Author's Note: Zhu Yujia, Emperor Shaowu)

Guo Zhuangtu also came to persuade him, but Zhu Youlang still refused to eat, but Guo Zhuangtu had no choice but to report to his father-in-law Wu Sangui the letter written by Zhu Youlang and the incident.

After reading the letter Zhu Youlang wrote to him and the clothing edict found, Wu Sangui felt a little complicated. In the letter, Zhu Youlang called him an honorable minister of the Ming Dynasty and a hero of the new dynasty. He also mentioned that Emperor Chongzhen gave him a lot of love and trust, which made Wu Sangui feel particularly heavy, and seemed to see the anxiety of Emperor Chongzhen back then. And helpless, but the eyes that had high hopes for him also seemed to see Zhu Youlang's melancholy and sad eyes.

Wu Sangui savored the words in Zhu Youlang's letter over and over again. In particular: "The general is still a descendant of Shilu, that is, he does not care for his servants, but does not recite the name of the first emperor? That is, he does not recite the first emperor, and he does not recite the second ancestors? That is, he does not recite the second ancestors and himself. Is the grandfather like a father?" These sentences hit his heart again and again, making him uncomfortable.

Wu Sangui felt pity for Zhu Youlang, not because Zhu Youlang said in his letter: "I don't know what kindness and virtue of the Qing Dynasty to the general, and the enmity and resentment of the servant to the general. Thought it was thick, but felt it was thin, and after that, history has biography, books have records, why should a general be like a human being!" It was because he felt that he was forced by the current situation, never himself. What he really wanted to leave, like taking Zhu Youlang back now, was never his original intention. If he had a choice, he would rather Zhu Youlang stay in Myanmar forever and die on his own. However, the change in the situation made him have to bring people back, and it may even be possible to return to Ming Ming again anyway. After 16 years of struggle, at the end of the day, he went back to the past. Wu Sangui couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

Wu Sangui didn't know how to reply to Zhu Youlang's letter. After thinking about it, he finally got Zhu Youlang back, how to make him go on hunger strike and die. But I don't know how to convince him, do you really tell Zhu Youlang that he, the King of Pingxi in the Qing Dynasty, is now watching and betting, and has already bet on him? As long as the southeast is divided, will he be the emperor again? Surely not!

Unsure of his decision, Wu Sangui called Hong Chengchou, Hu Shouliang, Fang Xianting, Xia Guo and others to discuss the matter. Except for Hong Chengchou, everyone else is his confidant, and he doesn't worry that things will leak out. After Hong Chengchou arrived, he glanced at one of Wu Sangui's cadres, but asked him to find Ma Bao.

Wu Sangui didn't understand why he came to Ma Bao. Hong said that Ma Bao was the leader of the Daxi generals, and he was also a fierce general. In the future, whether it was anyway or not, he would always rely on Ma Bao, so he needed to know about this matter and let him participate in it. Can play the effect of closing the heart. Wu Sangui felt good after hearing this, so he ordered someone to summon Ma Bao~www.NovelMTL.com~ After Ma Bao arrived, everyone had read Zhu Youlang's letter. Xia Guoxiang handed the letter to Ma Bao. Ma Bao was not literate, so Fang Xianting read it for him, and told the prince that he had secretly welcomed Zhu Youlang back.

Ma Bao was taken aback when he heard this, and even burst into tears. He had deep feelings for Emperor Yongli, and only knew that Wu Sangui would definitely kill the emperor, so "Plop Tong" knelt in front of Wu Sangui and cried, "I beg your lord to be kind and spare. The Son of Heaven!"

"General Ma Bao, get up quickly, when did this king say that he wanted to harm the emperor?" Wu Sangui helped Ma Bao up.

"Then the lord?..."

Ma Bao was a little puzzled. Wu Sangui glanced at Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou nodded slightly, and Wu Sangui told Ma Bao that he wanted to embrace Zhu Youlang against the Qing Dynasty.

"It's just that we can't raise the flag right now, and we have to wait for the situation in the southeast to be settled." Hu Shouliang said.

"It's natural. Although I, Ma Bao, are rough people, I know that this matter is very important, and it affects the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. How can I be sloppy." Ma Bao wiped away his tears, he could understand Wu Sangui's approach. If it was Wu Sangui, he would probably bet on these two sides as well.

Fang Xianting said: "With Emperor Yongli, we will have a bargaining chip to compete with the Qing court, as well as a bargaining chip against the gd regime."

Ma Bao was confused again when he heard this, Fang Xianting shook his head and said: "Compared with the Qing court and gd, we are weak and weak, and we are the weakest party of the three parties, so we must have the emperor in hand, so that we can have great righteousness and greatness, otherwise , I'm just waiting for others to be the king's forerunner in the end. If so, why bother?"

Hu Shouliang added, and he said, "If we don't support Zhu Youlang, we don't care who we compete with, the disadvantage is us."

Ma Bao understood and nodded. Xia Guoxiang frowned and said, "But I can't tell the emperor's details right now, but the emperor wants to go on a hunger strike, what should I do?"