After purging the courtiers in Yongli in Burma by the hands of the Burmese, Wu Sangui secretly imprisoned Zhu Youlang in Shilongwei on the Yunnan-Burma border, and his son-in-law Guo Zhuangtu personally guarded him, without his warrant, no one could meet with Zhu Youlang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wu Sangui only met Zhu Youlang once when he picked him up that day. At that time, Zhu Youlang knowingly asked who was coming, but Wu Sangui didn't dare to say right. Asked again, then fell to the ground, and asked a few times, Wu Sangui called the name should be.

"Are you Han? Are you a Ming courtier? If so, how can he be a traitor and a traitor! Say, "Where is your conscience?" ”

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

Zhu Youlang only said that Wu Sangui would want him to die when he took him, so he sighed and said: "It's like this, and I have nothing to say." However, I am a BJ person, can I be allowed to die after seeing the Twelve Tombs? ”

Wu Sangui heard this, but said that the matter did not come to this, please don't think about it too much. Zhu Youlang asked him why he said this, but Wu Sangui refused to say anything more, and only ordered him to help him out left and right.

Wu Sangui ordered Zhu Youlang to be detained separately from the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, the Crown Prince and others, and the only people who waited for Zhu Youlang were five small internal officials, three or four ugly little palace maids, and Deng Kai, the chief soldier of the lame guard.

Zhu Youlang didn't know whether Wu Sangui would hand himself over to the Qing court or execute himself in YN, and after a few days of fear, he asked Guo Zhuangtu to give him a pen and paper, and wrote a letter to trust Guo Zhuangtu to give to Wu Sangui. In addition, he cut off his sleeves and wrote a secret edict to hand it over to a small internal official, and said to him: "Son, if you can escape, you can pay tribute to the King of Jin, the Duke of Yue, and the Thirteen Families. ”

Unexpectedly, this secret edict was searched by the Qing army, and Guo Zhuangtu immediately killed a few small internal officials, leaving only Deng Kai and two palace maids Zhu Youlang, which made Zhu Youlang think that his death was coming, so he simply gritted his teeth and went on a hunger strike.

Deng Kai, the chief soldier of the guard, knelt down and hugged Zhu Youlang and cried bitterly, persuading him not to go on a hunger strike. Zhu Youlang cried: "After Zhu Yulu was captured, he still knew that if he didn't eat a meter of the Qing Dynasty and didn't drink a single water from him, could I still be better than him?" (Author's note: Zhu Yulu, Emperor Shaowu)

Guo Zhuangtu also came to persuade him, but Zhu Youlang still refused to eat, so Guo Zhuangtu had to report the letters written by Zhu Youlang and the matter of the last incident to his father-in-law Wu Sangui to know.

After reading the letter written by Zhu Youlang to himself and the clothes and ribbon edict that were found, Wu Sangui was in a somewhat complicated mood. In the letter, Zhu Youlang called him the lord of the Ming Dynasty and the Xiongzhen of the new dynasty, and mentioned that Emperor Chongzhen had a great love for him back then, which made Wu Sangui's mood become extremely heavy, and he seemed to see the anxious and helpless eyes of Emperor Chongzhen back then, but he had high hopes for himself, and he 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 is not a servant, and he does not read the call of the first emperor?" That is, if you don't read the first emperor, you don't think about the two ancestors? That is, if you don't think of your two ancestors, and don't think of your own ancestors, if you are your father? These words struck his heart again and again, and they made him uncomfortable.

Wu Sangui felt a little pity for Zhu Youlang, not because Zhu Youlang said in the letter: "I don't know what kind of grace and virtue he has in the Qing Dynasty, and what hatred and resentment he has against the general. "It's because he feels that he has come to this day step by step, and he is also forced by the current situation, and he has never really wanted to go, just like taking Zhu Youlang back now, it has never been his original intention. If he had a choice, he would rather Zhu Youlang stay in Myanmar forever and fend for himself. However, the change in the situation forced him to bring people back, and it was even possible that he would return to the light again. After 16 years of struggle, and in the end, he returned to the past, Wu Sangui couldn't help but feel embarrassed, and he made people happy.

Wu Sangui didn't know how to reply to Zhu Youlang's letter, he thought about it, and finally got Zhu Youlang back, how could he make him die of hunger strike. But he didn't know how to convince him, did he really tell Zhu Youlang that he, the king of Pingxi of the Qing Dynasty, was now watching and betting, and had already bet on him? As long as the southeast divides the victory, will he be the son of heaven again? This is definitely not going to work!

Wu Sangui couldn't make up his mind, so he asked Hong Chengchou, Hu Shouliang, Fang Xianting, Xia Guoxiang and others to discuss the matter. Except for Hong Chengchou, the rest of the people are his confidants, and they don't worry that things will leak. After Hong Chengchou arrived, he glanced at Wu Sangui's subordinates, but asked him to find Ma Bao.

Wu Sangui didn't understand why he was looking for Ma Baolai, Hong said that Ma Bao was the head of the generals of the Great West, and he was a fierce general, and he would always rely on Ma Bao in the future, whether it was anyway or not, so he needed to know about this matter and let him get involved, so it could have the effect of retracting his heart. Wu Sangui felt good after hearing this, so he ordered someone to summon Ma Bao.

After Ma Bao arrived, everyone had already read Zhu Youlang's letter. Xia Guoxiang handed the letter to Ma Bao, who was illiterate, so Fang Xianting read it for him, and informed the prince that he had secretly welcomed back Zhu Youlang.

Ma Bao was taken aback after hearing this, and even though he was in tears, he had deep feelings for Emperor Yongli, and only said that Wu Sangui would definitely kill the Son of Heaven, so he knelt in front of Wu Sangui and cried and begged: "Please be gracious to the prince and spare the life of the Son of Heaven!" ”

"General Ma Bao, hurry up, when did this king say that he wanted to harm the Son of Heaven?" Wu Sangui helped Ma Bao up.

"What about the prince? ...”

Ma Bao was a little puzzled. Wu Sangui glanced at Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou nodded slightly, and Wu Sangui told Ma Bao about wanting to support Zhu Youlang and oppose the Qing Dynasty.

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

"This is natural, although my Ma Bao is a rough person, I also know that this matter is very important, and it is related to the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers such as me, how can I be hasty." Ma Bao wiped away his tears, he could understand Wu Sangui's approach. If he were Wu Sangui, I am afraid he would also do these two bets.

Fang Xianting said: "With Emperor Yongli, we have a bargaining chip to compete with the Qing court, and we also have a bargaining chip to compete with the GD regime. ”

Ma Bao was puzzled 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 forces, so we must have the Son of Heaven in hand, so that we can have a great hand of righteousness, otherwise, we will only be the first to be the king for others in the end." If so, why bother? ”

Hu Shouliang added, he said: "If we don't support Zhu Youlang, we don't care who we fight with, and we will be the one who is disadvantaged." ”

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

(To be continued.) )