By the middle of the night, before the child was born, Zhu Hongsan's face became more and more ugly. This is a midwife who came to Zhu Hongsan and said: "Master, Mrs. has a difficult birth, do you want to protect the adult or the child?" ”

Zhu Hongsan's face was distorted, and he took out a horizontal knife from Zhu Hongyi's waist from behind, put it on the midwife's neck and said, "I want your grandmother's adults and children, if not, I will go to the county seat to kill your whole family." ”

The midwife was so frightened that she hung in her pants and hurriedly fled back to the house.

Zhu Hongsan sat on the ground, his heart was extremely discouraged, and said to Zhu Hongyi: "Big brother, is it that I have done too many things without virtue before, and God won't let me have a son?" ”

Zhu Hongyi patted Zhu Hongsan on the shoulder and said: "Then there is this matter, we have killed not a thousand but five hundred, why haven't we seen a ghost come to seek revenge?" It's okay, Xiaofang, they will be safe with mother and child. ”

Just then there was a loud cry of a baby in the room, and the child was born. After a while, the midwife came out and said happily: "Congratulations to the third master, he is a little young master, and the mother and son are safe." ”

Zhu Hong was overjoyed and shouted, "Big brother, I have a son." He laughed.

Looking at the scared midwives and doctors, Zhu Hongsan said: "Okay, everyone has worked hard, two hundred taels of silver per person." Your rewards. ”

Midwives and doctors expressed their gratitude.

Zhu Hongsan didn't have time to deal with them, so he broke into the house in a few steps to visit Ma Xiaofang and his son.

When I entered the house, I saw Ma Xiaofang lying on the bed with a snow-white face, with a small cloth bag on the side.

When Ma Xiaofang saw Zhu Hongsan coming in, she showed a smile and said, "Master, I finally gave birth to a son for my master." ”

Zhu Hongsan hugged his son and said with a smile: "Madame, I've worked hard, I'll take a look at my son." ”

Inside the bag is a small face, with closed eyes, a pink nose, and a wrinkled face. At this time, Zhu Luo came into the house and said, "My brother looks so ugly, like a little monkey." ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Daughter, you were like this when you were just born." After speaking, he said to Ma Xiaofang: "I don't care about any customs and habits, now I want to name my son, he will be called Zhu Hai, and he will be rich all over the world in the future." This is my sister-in-law Zhu Hai, haha... ”

The next day, Ma Xiaofang's birth of a son-in-law spread to Majiazhuang, except for Ma Guoxiang, who was old and did not come, all the other men came, the birth of this child means that the Ma family is completely tied to Zhu Hongsan, and in the future, Zhu Hongsan will be rich and noble, and Zhu Hongsan will be ruined.

Of course, there are also unhappy ones, Tong Yangjia is one. The birth of Ma Xiaofang's son means that Ma Mingyuan and Ma Jiyuan's position is becoming more and more stable. After Tong Yangjia went home, he said to his wife: "You go and see your two daughters, let them also give birth to sons, and our future wealth will be on the two of them." ”

Then on March 15, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Ma Ruyan also gave birth to a son, and Zhu Hong's name was Zhu Jiang. The Ma family came to the door again to celebrate, without mentioning it.

In May of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng in February and did not take it, and the imperial court ordered the governor Ding Qirui, the governor of Baoding, Yang Wenyue, and the general soldier Zuo Liangyu, Hu Dawei, Yang Dezheng, Fang Guoan, etc., to lead 200,000 troops to rescue Kaifeng.

Li Zicheng found that the Ming army intended to lead an army of 400,000 to fight the Ming army in Zhuxian Town, which lasted more than half a month. In the early stage, the official army fought okay, but in the later stage, Zuo Liangyu's left butt may have found that the official army was going to be unlucky, and he actually led his own men and horses to attack friendly troops, plunder friendly mules and horses, and then led the army south to Xiangyang.

Li Zicheng took advantage of Zuo Liangyu's escape to lead his troops to attack, defeated the Ming army, captured more than 70,000 Ming troops, and beheaded countless people. Since then, the Central Plains official army has no mobile corps to fight a decisive battle with the Liukou, and can only besiege the lonely city and be broken by Li Zicheng.

At the end of June, Zuo Liangyu ran to Xiangyang, and after gaining a foothold in Xiangyang, he began to plunder the place, and soon formed an army of 400,000. However, these 400,000 are all local peasants, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined.

Zhu Hongsan learned from Ma Mingyuan in July that Zuo Liangyu had come to Xiangyang. Ma Mingyuan also found that the situation was urgent, so he came over to ask what to do on the same day? Zhu Hongsan has patronized the birth of his two sons in the past few months, and there are still two pregnant women to give birth in September, so the preparations have slowed down a little.

Zhu Hongsan said to Ma Mingyuan: "The second brother is in an urgent situation, you first take the people who can go first, and I will follow up with the rear team." ”

The first batch of Ma families left first, plus all the craftsmen and family members, plus Ma Xiaofang and Ma Ruyan. Now Ma Ruyan is out of confinement, and her body is recovering well, so she can go on the road. The difficult thing is the Dong family sisters, they are now eight months old, and if they want to leave, they are afraid that they will give birth halfway, so they can only stay at home.

Except for the bulky equipment that can be easily carried, all the bulky ones are discarded. But in this way, 200 carts were also loaded. Zhu Hongsan, the escort army, let the second, third, fourth, fifth and Ma Mingyuan go first, after all, there were too many of them. Now all six battalions were fully equipped with artillery batteries, and each battalion had no problem facing 3,000 cavalry.

Ma Mingyuan went back and began to prepare. On July 20, it was finally ready. Looking at the first batch of more than 5,000 people, Zhu Hongsan said to Ma Mingyuan: "Mr. and his entourage have a heavy responsibility, and it is all up to Mr. to decide, and Mr. Daquan can decide whether to live or die." After speaking, he said to the four battalion commanders: "You heard, what Mr. Ma said is what I said, if you don't listen, don't blame Zhu Hongsan for not being emotional." The four of them said that they would definitely obey Mr. Ma's words.

Ma Mingyuan arched his hand and said: "Please rest assured, Mingyuan will definitely take them to Hengzhou Mansion safely, and we will meet in Hengzhou Mansion." After speaking, Ma Mingyuan turned over and set off on horse.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Ma Xiaofang and Ma Ruyan and said, "Take care of my son, I will be able to go to Hengzhou Mansion by the end of the year at the latest." ”

Ma Xiaofang, Ma Ruyan and Zhu Hongsan said goodbye in tears.

The first battalion of Qian Yong and the sixth battalion of Zhang Sanqiang remained, and the others were Tong Yangjia, Qian Fatzi, and Zhu Hongyi.

Qian Fatzi was going to be the first to leave, so Zhu Hongsan was left behind, this guy was in charge of the intelligence agency, and he ran away, how did he know about the situation of the rogue.

The situation is not as bad as thought, Zuo Liangyu did not go south after occupying Xiangyang, and the scourge is only around Xiangyang, far from Wuchang. In the past few months, Zhu Hongsan has also used the equipment left behind to get a few artillery pieces, so that the artillery pieces of each battalion have reached eighteen, which has increased a little firepower.

Good news came in September, on September 16, Dong Zhen gave birth to a boy, Zhu Hongsan named Zhu Huai, and on September 28, Dong Huan gave birth to a girl, and Zhu Hongsan named Zhu Yu. Zhu Hongsan likes girls, hugging Zhu Yu every day, and the little fish screams. Dong Huan, who was a little unhappy in this way, was comforted a little.

In October, the news came that Zhang Xianzhong went to Anhui after falling out with Li Zicheng in July, and pulled up more than 400,000 horses, this time going to Xinyang, Henan, and coming to Zuo Liangyu in Xiangyang. Just when all the officials of the Ming Dynasty were waiting for Zuo Liangyu's 400,000 army to give Zhang Xianzhong a head-on attack, Zuo Liangyu went south to Wuchang in December and ran away. The war finally burned to Wuchang, Zhu Hongsan's hometown where he had lived for more than 20 years.

After learning that Zuo Liangyu was going south, Zhu Hongsan began to speed up the evacuation. At this time, some ruffians in Wuchang County came to find Qian Fatzi and wanted to go with Zhu Hongsan.

Qian Fatzi came to Zhu Hongsan and said, "Big brother, you see that these brothers in the city have been following me for a few years, and they have usually done a lot of things, so I'm really embarrassed to leave them behind." ”

Zhu Hongsan scolded: "When do you care about others when are you a fat man." "But how to say that the fat man is also Zhu Hong's brother for more than three years, he has to give face, and there is no way to add more than 40 people.

Li Fugui didn't know where to learn the news and came to Zhu Hongsan to go together, Zhu Hongsan said: "Your old Li is in his forties and doesn't seem to have lived enough, I heard that you made a little girl a concubine last year?" It's quite a life. ”

Li Fugui said: "Third master, take me away, Zuo Liangyu, I heard that bad things are done in Xiangyang, in order to make money, put the local rich people on the fire and roast them until they are dry." Lao Li is not afraid of death, but my sons can't die. ”

For the sake of Li Fugui's failure to do so many immoral things for himself, he brought his family of eighteen with him. In this way, Zhu Hongsan's second batch of teams also reached more than 2,000 people, nearly 100 carts.

Zuo Liangyu arrived in Wuchang in December, and the first step was to get money, and the horse team went out in all directions, harming the township, and Wuchang County, which was less than twenty miles away from Wuchang Mansion, naturally did not run. Several groups of officers and soldiers from the small left battalion have been found in the farm, but they were all killed by Zhu Hongsan.

On the morning of December 30, that is, the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhu Hongsan and his party finally finished preparing and the team set off immediately. Zhu Hongsan stood on a hill on the edge of the farm, watching the winding procession below march slowly, and then looked at the county seat of Wuchang in the distance, where he had lived for twenty years. said to Zhu Hongsan beside him: "Big brother, let's go." Auntie, you don't bring them? ”

Zhu Hongyi said: "I have broken off with them since my father's death, and my surname is Zhu not Zhao, how can they resign themselves to fate." ”

Zhu Hongsan knew that no one would be able to survive when Zhang Xianzhong came in May next year.

At this time, it was snowing in the sky, and the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the county town in the distance was already shadowy and could not be seen clearly, and only an outline could be seen clearly. Zhu Hongsan thought that he was participating in the world hegemony, looking at the snow scene, he suddenly thought of the chairman's poem, and couldn't help but read it out loud: The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting.

Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, only reckless; Up and down the river, suddenly lost and surging.

Mountain dance silver snake, the original Chi wax elephant, want to be higher than the heavenly public test.

It must be a sunny day, and look at the red dress, which is extraordinarily enchanting.

There are so many delicate rivers and mountains, leading countless heroes to bend their waists.

Regret the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, slightly lose the literary style; Tang Zong and Song Zu are slightly less coquettish.

A generation of Tianjiao, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle.

All the past, count the romantic characters, and look at the present!

Tong Yangjia on the side was shocked when he heard it, this poem was magnificent, and the emperor was full of anger. I couldn't help but praise: "The lord's Qinyuan spring is really full of imperial spirit, and I hope that the lord can succeed in the Ming Dynasty." ”

Zhu Hongsan laughed and said, "Okay, Mr. Tong borrowed your auspicious words." ZTE Daming, just start today. ”