Chapter Seventy-Four: Holding the King of Chu Hostage
Since Ziyi and Gongzixie took over the city defense of Wangcheng, they have implemented a new tax law under the pretext of defending against the enemy, and have made huge ill-gotten gains.
Zhong Wuregret asked them to load their soft belongings into the car and prepare to flee, but in fact, it was for the convenience of robbing money.
Under Ziyi's order, there was an atmosphere of preparation for war in the city, the young and strong were busy reinforcing the city wall, most of the shops in the royal city were closed, women and children were staying at home, and groups of soldiers were patrolling the streets, and the whole royal city showed a solemn atmosphere.
Zhong Wuregret transferred Xiangui to the beauty guard and lived in the palace together, the forbidden army of the palace has been transferred to the city defense to assist in defending the city, and Ziyi's soldiers surrounded the palace of the king of Chu, in fact, the king of Chu has been isolated from the world.
However, Zhong Wuregret and the King of Chu did not pay attention to the tension of Wang Cheng, and still sang songs night after night.
Sooner or later, when Cheng Jia and Pan Chong led the army to appear under Yingdu, Ziyi showed a real panic.
Cheng Jia is not dead! In the royal city, the Ruo Ao family still has huge power lurking.
In addition, the perverse actions of Ziyi and Gongzixie were also fiercely opposed by the ministers of the DPRK and China. In addition, in order to resist the armies of Cheng Jia and Pan Chong, Ziyi expropriated in the royal city, which also aroused great indignation among the people, and the soldiers and civilians of the entire royal city had no intention of fighting.
When Ziyi stood at the head of the city and saw Cheng Jia's mighty military chariot galloping back and forth, raising dust in the sky, his face turned white with fright. As soon as he walked down the city, he heard the voice of the soldiers he sent to monitor the city defense generals: "If you don't hurry up to the city, do you want to rebel against the enemy?" ”
The man said loudly: "My arrows are used to defend the state of Chu, but now my brother is under the city, what is it that brothers kill each other, my arrows cannot be stained with my brother's blood, I will not go to the city." ”
"If you don't go to the city, I'll kill you," Ziyi's government soldiers threatened.
"If you kill me, you won't go to the city, all of us are our brothers below, we have shed blood and fought hard together to defend the Chu State, how can we bear to kill each other now, and watch them die at our hands.
If I am guilty, even if I am sent to the army and sent to the remote wilderness, it is worth the bloodshed, but in the face of my own brothers, my hands are weak. ”
It turned out that this part of the soldiers defending the city were all Chengjia's old troops.
As soon as he saw Ziyi, the Nafu soldiers hurriedly stepped forward to explain.
"Needless to say, I heard it all." Ziyi said to the disobedient little leader, "The people below the city are your original brothers, right?" Yes, together you have shed blood for the state of Chu, but they are now rebels. You don't say anything about disobedience, but you are still here to bewitch people's hearts, and you are clearly a spy of the rebels. And they came, and cut him down, and sent his head to the gates of the cities for demonstration. ”
Ziyi's guards couldn't help but say, grabbed the little leader and cut it off, and then used a bamboo pole to pick up people's heads, parade in all directions, and warn everyone of the end of disobedience.
Although the soldiers were intimidated, their inner dissatisfaction was even greater. Ziyi killed several more soldiers in the city defense, and only then could he barely suppress the resentment of the soldiers.
Cheng Jia and Pan Chong were not in a hurry to attack the city, but just surrounded the royal city.
"How can this be?" Ziyi was in a hurry in the house, and at this time he was in chaos, and when the army besieged the city, he was helpless. Gongzixie, like him, has no way to deal with it.
Gongzi Xie only taught the king of Chu the knowledge on the book, he himself had no experience in governing the military and politics, and he had never encountered strong winds and waves. He followed Ziyi closely, just because he wanted to wait for Ziyi to win the phase, so that he could get a piece of the pie, but now, it would be good to be able to save his life.
Although Ziyi killed the little leader, he himself knew that the soldiers of the city defense would not use their lives for him at all, and once Cheng Jia began to attack the city, his death would not be far away.
"That whore might have a way." Gongzi Xie said.
"Yes, let's get that whore thief and talk about it." A sentence reminded Ziyi. He hurriedly called someone to find Zhong Wuregret.
Zhong Wuregret came unhurriedly and slightly drunk.
I heard Ziyi asking him for advice.
Zhong Wuregret said to Ziyi: "Cheng Jia has been operating in the royal city for a long time, and most of the city defense soldiers are old departments, and if the Ao family is powerful in the city, once the inside and outside are combined, it will be easy to break the city." ”
"I know all this, that's why I called you over to discuss countermeasures." Ziyi was a little impatient.
"Therefore, I think it is much more convenient to take the king of Chu to other counties and towns and order the ministers there than in the royal city." Zhong Wuregret said.
"This is your strategy of 'coercing the king to order the ministers'?" Childe Xie asked.
"Yes!" Zhong Wuregret said: "However, Cheng Jia and Pan Chong must be allowed to let us out of the city. They don't dare to attack the city now because the master sent troops to surround Doufu and Panfu, and I think what they are afraid of is the burning of jade. ”
"Jade burning?" Gongzi Xie thought about it and immediately praised: "Good words, good words!" ”
"So I want to salute first and then soldier, what about me, take Pan Chong and Cheng Jia's wife, go outside the city to negotiate with them, explain the stakes to them, once the master is forced to be urgent, he will first burn the two mansions and kill the tiles, the women will be raped first and then killed, and the men will be killed first and then raped......"
"No, it's too insulting to the master's reputation to say this." Gongzi Xie hurriedly stopped.
"Okay, okay, the details are negligible," Zhong Wuregret said, "I will tell them, the main thing, don't let us out of the city, both sides will lose, let us go, and each will get what he gets." ”
"That's a solution!" Ziyi nodded after deep thought.
"However, where to go, we have to think about Zhou Xiang." Gongzi Xie said.
"I've already thought about these things, so let's go to the capital where the young master is in charge." Zhong Wuregret said.
"Jia Song's feelings for the king are sincere, but they don't agree with us......" Ziyi hesitated.
"As the same master, it is normal to have some disagreements, when you still bite your tongue with your teeth, not to mention that the masters are all knowledgeable and respected talents. I don't have any thoughts of my own, but it's not normal. However, there are better places for masters to go, and we can go there. Zhong has no regrets, but retreats into advance.
"Okay!" Ziyi thought about it for a while, and in a hurry, he really couldn't find a more ideal place, so he had to nod in agreement with Zhong Wuregret's plan.
In this way, Zhong Wuregret came to Doufu and Panfu respectively, took Cheng Jia and Pan Chong's wife with him, and they took three carriages out of the city to Cheng Jia's camp.
There was no suspense in what happened.
Cheng Jia and Pan Chong entered the royal city, while Ziyi and Gongzi Xie held the king of Chu hostage, took the gold and silver treasures in the palace and their families, and fled to the capital ruled by the young Fu Jia Song.
Before escaping from the royal city of Yingdu, Zhong Wuregret secretly summoned Doulan, Xiangui, and Qu Rong together. He said to everyone very seriously: "Sisters, this time with the King of Chu is extremely dangerous, please be careful." When a person is in a desperate situation, anything crazy can be done. What I'm afraid of is that Ziyi will have this situation, so from now on, we can't look at Ziyi with the mentality of ordinary people.
If the king of Chu wants to protect, you must also protect yourselves, and my good sister will feel distressed if she loses a hair. ”
Hearing this, Xiangui glanced at him, as if to say that this kind of love talk should not be told to her.
However, Xiangui was very surprised by Zhong Wuregret's analysis of a traitor from the perspective of human nature.
Doulan was accustomed to Zhong Wuregret's jumping thinking, but Qu Rong's brows tightened.
Zhong Wuregret looked at Qu Rong and secretly felt heartache. Qu Rong is now completely different from before.
Qu Rong is a girl who dares to love and hate, and she is also a girl who has no scheming. In the past, she attached too much importance to the surface, so that when she saw Zhong Wuregret becoming absurd, she couldn't bear the pain in her heart, and wanted to get married in a hurry to transfer the pain in her heart. As everyone knows, the water is more flowing when the knife is drawn, especially after coming to the royal city, when he gradually learned the true face of Zhong Wuregret's "lewd face", he felt even more painful about his rash actions.
Since Qu Rong's father is the head of a county, the reputation of the family must make Qu Rong abide by women's morals, she can only bury her love for Zhong Wuregret deep in her heart, and rarely say a word every day except for desperately practicing martial arts and guarding the King of Chu.
Zhong Wuregret handed over a crossbow to Qu Rong and asked Doulan to train Qu Rong as soon as possible. This kind of weapon, Zhong Wuregret did not dare to equip his team on a large scale, and the power of the secret weapon could only play a role in turning things around at a critical moment. But because he took into account the danger of being "kidnapped" with the King of Chu this time, he prepared one for Qu Rong.
When Qu Rong took the crossbow, she couldn't help but shed tears. She was not only sad that she was not Zhong Wuregret's "own person", but also moved by Zhong Wuregret's concern, if she was her own person, the hand crossbow had already been equipped in her hand.
The days of "being fled" began, Zhong Wuregret brought all the veterans of the Lu 1st team, Ming 1st team, and Yuan 1st team to secretly protect the king of Chu, and Tang Zhong still stayed in the royal city to expand the work in the field of intelligence.
After the king of Chu left the royal city under the coercion of Ziyi, the government was temporarily represented by Cheng Jia.
On the first day of the court meeting, there was a scene of anger among the ministers. Some ministers accused Cheng Jia of not allowing Ziyi to hold the king of Chu hostage. Some ministers agreed that Cheng Jia's handling was appropriate, if Ziyi hadn't been released, maybe there would have been a river of blood in the royal city. The vitality of the Chu State was greatly damaged, and the happiest was the enemy country.
However, in general, the courtiers were not only angry at Ziyi's great rebellion, but also saddened by the cowardice of the king of Chu. Fortunately, Xiong Lu's younger brother is still young, otherwise, some ministers would have put forward a motion to establish a new king.
Seeing this kind of scene, Cheng Jia and Pan Chong were secretly happy, if they could take this opportunity to get rid of Ziyi and Gongzixie, they would have much less trouble in the future, and they would each be one step closer to achieving their goals.
This time, in dealing with Ziyi's actions, the two maintained unprecedented unity and unity.
In the end, because he was afraid that Ziyi would be too irritated and unfavorable to the King of Chu, the result of the court meeting decided to only check the family property of Ziyi and Gongzixie first, and talk about other things later.
It is also strange to say that on the second day after the king of Chu was coerced, there was the righteous indignation of the people everywhere in the royal city, especially in the public places such as teahouses and restaurants, many people scolded Ziyi and Gongzixie, thinking that they were the masters of the king of Chu, but they openly rebelled, and moreover, taking the opportunity of the Chu state to quell the rebellion, they were tyrannical and looting people's wealth, which was simply the rebellion accomplice of the Qunshu countries.
What is particularly intolerable is that they actually kidnapped the king of Chu and fled.
The great image of the state of Chu, a great country, was destroyed by Ziyi and Gongzixie, making it ridiculed by other countries. In the eyes of the people, these two people are worse than the heinous criminals.
Needless to say, all this is Zhong Wuregret's masterpiece, and he knows better than anyone in the world today the importance of public opinion guidance.
The indignation and denunciation of Ziyi and Gongzixie from all over the city quickly spread to the surrounding capitals and counties like ripples thrown into the water by a boulder.
For Ziyi and Gongzixie, there is a tendency to become rats crossing the street, and everyone shouts and beats.