Zhu Yousong rushed to Zhou Hao's room, took Zhou Hao's hand, and said excitedly: "Brother Zhou, Ma Shiying and Liu Zeqing have promised to support me!" ”

Although Zhou Hao would have expected this, but the speed of the development of things exceeded his imagination, somewhat surprised, today is April 28, a moment can not be delayed, late will change, so he said to Zhu Yousong: "Now you immediately go and ask Ma Shiying to send troops to protect you to Nanjing, not a little later." ”

Zhu Yousong said: "Then will you go with me?" ”

Zhou Hao said secretly, Lao Tzu has been waiting for this day, how can he not go, and said, "Of course, I will go with you." ”

Zhu Yousong was overjoyed: "Great, I'll tell Gonggong Lu right now, and ask him to let Ma Shiying send troops to escort me south to Nanjing." ”

Zhu Yousong rushed out of the room, Zhou Hao watched Zhu Yousong go away, showing a smile, the future is finally hopeful, no matter whether Nanjing is a mine array or a sea of swords, this way will go on.

Zhou Hao was a commoner, and he couldn't discuss with Lu Jiude's bigwigs, so he could only implement his ideas to them through Zhu Yousong.

In the Huai'an Yafu, Ma Shiying stomped back and forth, thinking about how to reply to Shi Kefa, the day before yesterday he and Shi Kefa had reached an agreement, and he assured Shi Kefa of his support for King Lu, not long ago Huai'an Governor Lu Zhenfei also came to the Yafu, and he made it clear that he was on the side of King Fu.

Ma Shiying was pacing back and forth, when suddenly a guard came in with a letter and handed it to Ma Shiying, saying that it was sent by Shi Kefa. Ma Shiying opened it and saw that Shi Kefa's letter directly stated the reasons why Fu Wang Qi could not be established, such as greed, lewdness, alcoholism, unfilial piety, abuse, not studying, and interference. Now, Ma Shiying looked at this letter and could only sneer in his heart.

"I'm sorry, Master Shi."

After a while, a guard came in and said to Ma Shiying, "Father-in-law Lu asks to see you." ”

Ma Shiying hurriedly put away the letter, Lu Jiude walked in alone, and said to Ma Shiying: "Tomorrow, please lead your troops to escort King Fu to Nanjing, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ”

Ma Shiying nodded and said, "How many soldiers and horses?" ”

Lu Jiude said: "At least 50,000, so as not to have a special situation in Nanjing, and at the same time, in the name of the governor of Fengyang and the three towns, you sent a letter to Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, to announce the support of King Fu, so that Nanjing can be prepared." ”

……

On the palace in Nanjing, all the ministers looked at each other, Shi Kefa kept walking back and forth, and Qian Yiqian, the leader of the Donglin Party, was more like being slapped by someone.

Shi Kefa took out Ma Shiying's letter to Han Zanzhou for everyone to see, Qian Yiqian finally couldn't help it, and said, "How can this be?" ”

Lu Daqi, the squire of the Nanjing Military Department, said: "Anyway, the raw rice has been cooked, and my generation has no soldiers in our hands, if we anger those warlords, once we rise up and rebel, how can it end." ”

Nanjing Hubu Shangshu Gao Hongtu and Youdu Yushi Zhang Shenyan are all bigwigs in the Donglin party, they were originally most afraid of King Fu ascending the throne, but now they never thought that what they were most worried about happened, and they all looked at the party leader Qian Yiqian, hoping that he could come up with some solutions.

Qian Yiqian's face was pale, like a bamboo shot killed by frost, he looked down on this group of generals from his bones, and he was preparing to write a congratulatory table for King Lilu these days, and a splendid article had just come out, but the situation had changed so dramatically. Now even if he is 10,000 dissatisfied, he is helpless, the general soldiers of the four towns are on the side of King Fu, and they can control 300,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, and they can't afford to provoke them.

Qian Yiqian is now only looking forward to the early dissolution of the meeting, and going back to hug his concubine Liu Ru to tell his hardships, but Shi Kefa is walking back and forth, while discussing with everyone how to welcome King Fu tomorrow, and there is no dissolution of the meeting at all.

At this time, Lu Daqi said: "King Fu will arrive in Nanjing tomorrow, let's prepare how to greet it, it's too late to say anything now." ”

Among them, the most angry is probably Shi Kefa, he never expected that Ma Shiying would betray him, the most important thing is that his letter to smear King Fu was sent to Ma Shiying, once he uses this as a handle, he may not be able to keep his position in the government and the opposition in the future.

……

Zhou Hao had already taken out his treasure box from the cave where the wooden box was hidden, opened it and saw that the various guns in it were still in good condition, and said to himself, the future of the Ming Dynasty depends on this box. When he returned to Huai'an City, it was already late, and when he thought that he would be in Nanjing tomorrow, Zhou Hao couldn't contain his excitement.

As soon as Zhu Yousong saw Zhou Hao coming back, carrying a box, he said curiously: "Brother Zhou, what is this?" ”

Zhou Hao said: "Some firearms from foreign countries. ”

Zhu Yousong thought it was a fun thing, but when he heard that it was a firearm, he didn't have the slightest interest, so he went back to look at the crickets in his bamboo cage.

Zhou Hao returned to the wing, and when he thought that he would see the bigwigs in Nanjing City tomorrow, Shi Kefa and others in historical legends, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep, he wanted to see what this patriot who had been famous for the ages was like.

Zhou Hao quietly closed the door and opened the history of the late Ming Dynasty, his heart fluctuated, maybe he could change the fate of the late Ming Dynasty and change the direction of history according to everything he knew, even if he couldn't, the Manchu army drank the Yangtze River and hit the south of the Yangtze River, and it was not impossible for him to become a pirate tycoon with the power he had slowly accumulated, and it was not impossible for him to become a pirate tycoon. The worst-case scenario could be to die in politics in officialdom. During the struggle or killed by enemy troops.

Thinking of this, Zhou Hao couldn't help but open the box full of various guns again, and suddenly there was a sharp knock on the door, and Zhou Hao hurriedly closed the box and hid it under the bed.

Opening the door, Lu Jiude looked hurried, stood outside the door, and as soon as the door opened, he said to Zhou Hao: "Is Your Highness here here?" ”

Zhou Hao was shocked and said, "Why is His Highness gone?" ”

Lu Jiude said: "I was still there a while ago, I am going to ask His Highness to change into clean and tidy clothes, and tomorrow I will meet the group of officials in Nanjing, and when I approach His Highness's house, the person is gone." ”

This next week, Hao was in a hurry, in case something happened to Zhu Yousong, then his plan would be in vain, so he hurriedly came out of the room with Lu Jiude and sent soldiers to search for Zhu Yousong throughout the city.

Lu Jiude ordered the gate of Huai'an City to be closed, and it was expected that it was unlikely that King Fu would go out of the city, and the whole city would block the news, and resolutely not let the news leak, once the forces against King Fu learned of the news, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The general soldiers of the four towns learned that King Fu was gone, and they were all anxious like ants on a hot pot, they had prepared an army of 50,000 to escort King Fu to the south tomorrow.

Zhou Hao put the box under the bed, locked the door, and hurriedly went down to the fourth place to look for King Fu.

The whole Huai'an City, the figures are panicked, the lights are like dragons, it has reached midnight, people still haven't been found, Lu Jiude found Ma Shiying, and discussed that otherwise open the city gate to look outside, all the places in the city that can be found have been searched, Ma Shiying has no other way, so he had to agree.

Zhou Hao walked around to a low hill in the north of the city, on this small hillside was a sparse forest, and at night, the sound of insects was endless.

"King Fu shouldn't come here!"

Zhou Hao was about to go back, only to see a black figure flashing, Zhou Hao was startled, a young man walked towards Zhou Hao, to get closer, through the firelight, it was not who the Fu King was.

Zhou Hao was ecstatic, hurried over, grabbed the young man, and said emotionally: "Your Highness, where have you been, you scared us to death." ”

At this time, Zhu Yousong found out that it was Zhou Hao, so he threw himself into Zhou Hao's arms, and scolded loudly, it turned out that Zhu Yousong was idle and had nothing to do, and was going to catch a few crickets in the nearby mountains, but he didn't expect to get lost, if Zhou Hao hadn't come in a hurry, I'm afraid he would stay here for one night.

After crying for a long time, Zhou Hao finally coaxed him to be happy, Zhu Yousong handed a bundle of bundled weeds to Zhou Hao's hand, and said, "You help me open it to see if the crickets in the bread have escaped, I caught it in one night." ”

His Royal Highness, who is so playful, will be the emperor in the future, how will the Ming Dynasty prosper, Zhou Hao could only smile bitterly, and then helped slowly peel off the grass layer, there were several crickets in it, Zhu Yousong saw that the crickets did not escape, smiled innocently, and said to Hao: "Let's go, let's go back, Gonggong Lu and they must be in a hurry." ”

When Lu Jiude saw Zhou Hao come back safely with King Fu, he was immediately overjoyed and wanted to reward Zhou Hao with one hundred taels of silver.

Zhou Hao hurriedly said: "I am loyal to protect King Fu, and this matter should also be done." ”

Zhu Yousong said: "What is a hundred taels of silver, Brother Zhou, in the future, I will make you a big official in Nanjing, and then you will have as much silver as you want." ”

Zhou Hao saw that Lu Jiude and the general soldiers of Zhuzhen were not good-looking, and hurriedly said: "It will be dawn soon, Your Highness will prepare your clothes and set off for Nanjing." ”

Everyone looked for Zhu Yousong for a whole night, and in a panic, they found it, and they had no intention of resting, preparing a convoy of mules and horses, and going south at dawn.