Chapter 716: The Palace Is Besieged
The walls of the Prime Minister's House collapsed several times, as if they had just been subjected to heavy shelling, but the gate did not collapse, but a large crack was made in the battlements on both sides, and the rain flowed down the crack
The iron gate was open, and there were no guards at the door, probably all of them went to save people, Zhao Changshu stepped on the brakes lightly, slowed down slightly, and the car rushed straight into the gate
At this moment, a black stretched Lincoln suddenly rushed out of the gate, and the two cars were about to collide as soon as they entered and exited
Zhao Changshu was shocked in his heart, suddenly braked, and at the same time slammed the steering wheel with both hands, and the car was suddenly thrown sideways, and finally slammed into the cracked wall handle on the side of the gate
Fortunately, the Hummer was moderately strong off-road, and the roof was sturdy, and it was not directly smashed by the collapsed wall, but the four wheels were buried by broken bricks
The driver of the extended Lincoln also reacted very quickly, and almost at the same time as Zhao Changlan made a movement, the extended Lincoln also threw out sideways under the effect of the sudden braking, but the Lincoln slid away from the gate, so there was no impact on the collapsed wall
Zhao Changshu saw that there was no big problem in his car, and let out a long breath in his heart, stuck his head out of the car, and just wanted to ask the driver of Lincoln's car about his sister's whereabouts, but saw Lincoln's window fall suddenly, and at the same time, a black hole muzzle stuck out of the window and aimed at himself
"I'm damned," Zhao Changshu scolded secretly, his head instantly retracted, and he bowed down in the cab, and shouted at the same time: "Don't shoot, I'm here to save people."
The driver of Lincoln was a young man in high spirits, but he was already a chicken in the soup, and he did not shoot, but opened the door and walked towards the Humvee, shouting in English: "Somebody get out of the car"
"Don't shoot, I'm here to save people," Zhao Changshu shouted in English again, but this is my sister's home, there can't be bad people, and he can't shoot rashly with others
Zhao Changshu shouted as he opened the car door, and walked down with his hands raised in the air
The young man looked at Zhao Changshu and asked, "Who are you?"
Zhao Changshu was about to answer, but he heard a familiar voice from the lengthened Lincoln: "Brother, I'm here, why are you here?"
Then Zhao Changshu was pleasantly surprised to see his sister Zhao Ziwei get down from the extended Lincoln and run towards him with open arms
"Sister, you're injured," Zhao Changlan hugged and pounced, but Zhao Ziwei found that the clothes on her sister's arms had been torn, and the tangled gauze had been stained red with blood
"It's okay, I'm fine, it's just a little injury, why are you here," Zhao Ziwei said in a surprised voice
The young man with the gun looked at the two people who were hugging each other, blinked and put the gun away, he was a personal bodyguard hired by Zhao Ziwei, and his nervous mood relaxed when he saw that Zhao Changshu was not a bad person
"Don't talk about how I came here, this matter is long, Ziwei, you are in a hurry, what are you doing, it's okay to go to the house," Zhao Changshu asked
Zhao Ziwei woke up from the surprise of suddenly seeing her brother, and hurriedly said: "I'm about to go to the palace, I'm going to find my mother and old Roy, you can go with me."
"Aunt Lin, Old Roy," Zhao Changshu said suspiciously, he didn't know why Aunt Lin was also in the palace
"Oh, it's King Roy VIII, hurry up, I don't know if they are buried in the ruins," Zhao Ziwei said as she pulled Zhao's spear and ran towards the lengthened Lincoln
Before Zhao Changshu could understand what was going on, he was pulled by his sister into the extended Lincoln, and the car restarted and sped away towards the palace
Zhao Changshu sat in the back seat of the car, looked back at the Prime Minister's Office behind him, and said uncertainly: "No one in the Prime Minister's Office has been buried."
"Yes, but they were all rescued, except for two maids who were stoned to death, a gardener who broke his leg while jumping off the building, and the other people were not very problematic, and I just wanted to jump out of the window during the earthquake, but before I could jump, I was thrown back into a corner of the room, and fortunately, the fallen pillar happened to be framed by the wall and became a natural shelter, but the steel bars in the pillar still cut my arm, and Michael Jayne just dug me out."
Speaking of the danger just now, Zhao Ziwei still had palpitations, and her tone was a little low, and when she said Michael Jayne, Zhao Ziwei raised her finger and pointed at the young man who was driving, obviously Michael Jayne was him
"Thank you for saving my sister," Zhao Changshu said sincerely
"Mr. Zhao, that's my job," Michael Jayne said without looking back
Zhao Changshu didn't ask Michael Jayne why he was not injured, although the earthquake on Pico Island came violently, but the building of the Prime Minister's Office was not high after all, as a professional bodyguard, if he could not jump out of the window and escape at the first time of the earthquake, he would not be a qualified bodyguard
"By the way, what did you say just now, Aunt Lin is also in the palace," Zhao Changshu suddenly thought of what his sister had just said that her mother was with Roy VIII, so he asked
"Oh, brother, I never told you, my mother married Roy VIII half a year ago and became his eighth princess, so she has been living in the palace," Zhao Ziwei said
When Zhao Ziwei spoke, the expression on her face was very natural, and it was obvious that she was in favor of her mother marrying Roy VIII
The law of the Pique Kingdom is very strange, very different from most countries in the world, it implements monogamy, but the state in order to encourage the people to be active, high-end talents will not be exiled abroad, allowing elite talents to be polygamous, the country has a perfect elite evaluation system, this system is just like the title evaluation of China, the higher the title, the more wives can be married
At the same time as the system of polygamy was enacted, the national law also severely cracked down on immoral behaviors that undermined family harmony, such as extramarital affairs, and were immediately sent to prison cells if they were discovered
If you get married, and find a woman who makes you fall in love at first sight, then you work hard to get up, work hard, as long as you work hard to step into the ranks of the national elite, you can justifiably marry another wife
Although the Pique Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, their king is not like the king of the United Kingdom, Spain and other constitutional monarchies, just an honorary position, there is no real power in his hands, the king of the Pique Kingdom is not only the honorary head of the country, but also the highest administrative head, so the king's title is the highest, and he can marry up to eight wives
Zhao Changshu still knows a lot about the affairs of the Piqu Kingdom, so he didn't comment on Aunt Lin's remarriage, in fact, he didn't have the qualifications to comment, Aunt Lin didn't have any blood relationship with him, he was just very worried about the safety of Aunt Lin and Roy VIII now
If Roy VIII died, his son Roy Bingley, who had been studying in England, would return to China to succeed him, and Zhao Changshu had no friendship with Bingley, and Bingley received a British education from an early age and belonged to the pro-American faction
Zhao Changshu also heard his sister say that the relationship between Bentley and their father Zhao Tianlong has always been bad, he thinks that his father Roy let Zhao Tianlong serve as the country's prime minister is a mistake completely, and he has always opposed the Tianlong Consortium getting involved in the national economy too much, he thinks that it is very dangerous for Lao Roy to rely on the Tianlong Consortium so much, and sooner or later the state power will fall on Zhao Tianlong's head
Roy Bentley's judgment is not unreasonable: when a country's economy is wholly dependent on a particular consortium, the country's regime is likely to become a vassal of a consortium
But Roy VIII is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, if it weren't for Zhao Tianlong who saved the Piqu Kingdom single-handedly, and has been working diligently in the position of prime minister over the years, maneuvering between several major powers to seek survival for the Pico Kingdom, the Pico Kingdom has already been incorporated into the territory of M country, with the population and area of the Pico Kingdom, Lao Roy can't even get a mayor, let alone be a free king
Therefore, the father and son are diametrically opposed in their attitude towards the Zhao family, the better Roy VIII treats Zhao Tianlong, the more Bentley looks at the Zhao family unpleasantly, but after all, Bentley is only a prince and has no rights, so in a fit of anger, he went to England to study and rarely returned to China
Zhao Changshu is keenly aware that if Bingley becomes the king of the Pico Kingdom, all the efforts made by Hua Guo on the Pico Island issue will become meaningless, and any oil field or any use of the Pico Kingdom to contain M Country will become a joke and nonsense
Thinking of these questions, Zhao Changlan's brows couldn't help but furrow slightly
Zhao Ziwei was worried about her mother, but she didn't speak, and the atmosphere in Lincoln became silent
The Prime Minister's Palace was not far from the Imperial Palace, and in less than ten minutes, Lincoln reached the perimeter of the royal palace's perimeter, and the royal palace wall was much taller and stronger than the Prime Minister's Palace, but at this time there were still many collapses
Through the collapsed part of the wall, you can see that the buildings inside the palace have also collapsed in a large area, and there are people busy inside
However, Zhao Changlan didn't care about this, he was surprised to find that there were loaded soldiers every few meters on the periphery of the palace, especially at the entrance of the palace gate, where four soldiers gathered
"What's going on, why don't they save people and stay outside the palace," Zhao Changshu thought of him, and a bad premonition suddenly appeared in his heart
Zhao Ziwei also opened her mouth wide, looking at the soldiers with loaded guns, obviously she didn't understand what was going on in the palace, and what surprised her the most was that she didn't know any of the soldiers standing at the gate of the palace at this time
"Parking"
Although the front windshield of the lengthened Lincoln was affixed with a special palace pass, it was stopped by the soldiers at the gate of the palace
"Don't you see the pass in front of you, let us in," Michael Jayne said as he lowered the window and poked his head out to the guards
Zhao Ziwei also lowered the window and poked her head out and said to the soldiers: "I let me in, I want to save the king and princess."