Episode 103 The Prince Escapes

When the prince heard the attached attaché's whispered report, his face changed greatly, and Jiang Meilu, who was sitting opposite him, suddenly became nervous, and his right hand was full of touch to the bottom of the suitcase. That's her pistol.

The prince's face was red and white, listening to the secret report, while staring at the wooden floor under his feet fiercely, and he didn't look at Jiang Meilu, but his hand grabbed the armrest of the Ming-style sofa fiercely, and his fingertips were so white that he almost pinched out the hard yellow rosewood.

After a while, he leaned back on the couch and let out a long sigh. Then he turned his face and asked the attaché:

"So, how much money did we lose in total?"

The attaché was stunned, he also knew Chinese, but he didn't understand what it was to suddenly say such a sentence. He was one of the prince's confidants, named Pachai.

Prince Ananta stood up in exasperation, paced, and continued to curse fiercely in Chinese:

"Those agents are all taking money for nothing, and the situation in Spain is unstable during this time, and I let them keep an eye on it. We have millions of dollars in Spanish Republican government bonds, and now they have fallen by at least 20%, right? ”

Pachai was still looking at him blankly, not understanding what was going on when His Royal Highness the Prince spoke a long paragraph of Chinese at this time, and it was still inexplicable. But I didn't dare to ask.

The prince looked at him, patted his head, and said in Thai:

"You see, I forgot all about it, and I've been speaking Chinese...... You go to the study first, and I'll come over right away, and we'll talk about it. ”

Then he turned to Jiang Meilu and smiled apologetically in Chinese:

"Miss Jiang, I'm smiling, there is a little trouble in overseas investment...... After being absent for a while, Miss Jiang drank tea first. ”

Then he followed Pachai to the study. Jiang Meilu made a false alarm at this time, and slowly took her hand out of the box.

But...... From the Spanish election, we know that the situation in Spain is becoming more and more chaotic day by day, is there something big happening now?

……

The prince and Pachai went to the study and closed the door. Then the prince said:

"Show me what you said."

Without saying a word, Pachai put a stack of newspapers on the table, spread it out, pointed and said:

"Your Highness, this stack of newspapers I just bought...... This stack of newspapers was delivered by the hotel...... Look at this one, look at this one......"

The first to be rolled out are two copies of "Nanyang News", which are exactly the same, and the date is also the same day. The front pages of the two copies are put together, and at first glance there is no difference. But Pachai pointed out separately:

"Look here, look here."

A front-page headline on the left reads:

"Bangkok Electric Shock Kidnapping Case - Siamese Power Figures Hijacked!" 》

The prince stared at the headline, his eyes widened, and he skimmed it quickly. His whole body fell into cold, and his hands grasped the lower end of the newspaper, almost crushing it.

"Your Highness...... Your Highness ......," Pachai called out to the prince carefully, and after drawing his attention, he whispered, "the problem is not here...... Look at it again......"

He pointed to another copy of "Nanyang News", which was also on the front page, in the same position, but with another piece of news printed:

"Siam's 100-year-old rosewood plantation is being cut down today, and the price of rosewood will fall for the first time in 400 years!" 》

The prince couldn't believe his eyes, and compared the two newspapers again, and found that all but the front page headlines were the same.

"Your Highness," Pachai whispered, "this piece of red sandalwood was sent by the hotel...... I bought this kidnapping case in Bangkok outside. ”

The prince's hands trembled, and he opened another newspaper. This is a copy of the Jinling Business Daily, and the headline on the side page is also a kidnapping case in Bangkok. But the same newspaper he brought to his room from the hotel, and the headline on the side page was a different story.

Then, he read several more copies and found that the kidnapping case in Bangkok had become a hot news in the newspaper he bought outside of Pachai. On the newspaper delivered by the hotel, the same newspaper and the same place must have another unrelated news printed on it.

In other words, I read the newspaper in the hotel for the past two days, and I don't know anything about Bangkok! The information contact between himself and the outside world is completely "blocked"!

The prince bit his lip, his face turned pale, and large drops of sweat rolled down. He muttered:

"They...... In order to stabilize me, they printed a separate version for me...... It's over, it's over...... They all know...... Teacher Sawan Susi was kidnapped, and they did it......"

Pachai approached the prince again and whispered:

"Your Highness, no wonder they have sent people to follow us when we go out these days, saying that they want to protect us for fear of being assassinated again...... That's not to protect us at all, it's to keep us in a glass enclosure, isolated from the outside world! Your Highness, maybe even the waiters in the hotel are from Dongchang! ”

The prince raised his head and muttered:

"No wonder...... No wonder in the past two days, I think those waiters are a little weird...... I thought Daming's hotel was like this...... Yes! ”

He looked back in the direction of the living room, squinted his eyes and whispered:

"That female manager of Cartier, maybe they sent it too! I said, why didn't the general manager come, but an assistant manager...... It was also said that the general manager was sick...... It's too coincidental, isn't it? ”

Pachai also squinted his eyes and asked:

"Your Highness, what do they want to do when they send someone to replace Cartier's manager?"

"Don't want to do anything!" The prince said hatefully, "I'm afraid that I will communicate with someone for a long time and inadvertently leak things outside to me!" If they had explained it to the general manager of Cartier in advance, they would have been afraid that he would be scared and show his feet! That's when a female agent arrived! This woman, presumably, also knows a little bit about jewelry, and they think they can fool me......"

……

There was silence, and both of them felt a strong sense of fear. They feel like they are prey at the hunter's gun, they don't know it, but the hunter can pull the trigger at any moment and kill himself.

Pachai was also frightened and his face was as white as paper. In the princely mission in Nanjing, he was the only one who knew about it. Now he can be said to be more scared than the prince. Because the prince is the prince of a country, and he is the head of the Ming Dynasty on behalf of the Kingdom of Siam, his identity is very important, even if the Ming side doubts him, he will not dare to do anything to him for a while. But he is just a small person, and the "relevant departments" of the Ming Dynasty can kidnap again, just like kidnapping Sawan Susi, and then torture himself.

Pachai hesitated, and said with a glimmer of hope:

"Your Highness, they may just suspect us, without evidence...... When there was evidence, they started to arrest people. ”

The prince suppressed his voice and said angrily:

"Just suspicion? Just suspicious, is it necessary to go to Bangkok to kidnap Sawan Susi? Do you need to print a newspaper specifically for me? Tell you, they've affirmed it! …… Now there are no arrests, the only reason is that there is no conclusive evidence, you are right! …… Maybe they were torturing Mr. Sawan Susi, but Mr. Sawan Susi hadn't said anything yet...... No, it may have been said, just because it was a confession from torture, and maybe the law of the Ming Dynasty could not be used as evidence for conviction...... They're still collecting more convincing evidence......"

"It's over...... It's over......" The sweat on Pachai's head kept dripping, and he almost couldn't stand under his feet. Suddenly, he raised his head and said, "Your Highness, let's run quickly!" While they still haven't confiscated the net, they can still run away! ”

"Where are you going?"

Pachai blurted out:

"Let's take refuge in the Siamese embassy! They can't rush in and arrest people......"

"Shit, shit!" The prince raised his hand and slapped him on the head, and said angrily, "Use your brain! Even if they can't go in and arrest people, is there a future for us to hide inside? Can you run away? I'm telling you, they're not going to go in and arrest people, they're just going to contact Bangkok and force Bangkok to come forward! Father didn't dare to offend Da Ming because of this! This time I really went too far, and my father knew that if I didn't do what the Ming said, Siam would be the second in the East Indies! And my brother, that kid has been staring at me for a long time! As soon as I'm done, the next king will be his!

"My father is sick in bed, and no matter what happens, the military and political ministers of the court will throw themselves at my brother's door! Then my brother will order the Siamese embassy in Nanking to hand us over! …… Hmph, let me tell you, I can think of what Zhu Yourong's girl will do! Most of the time she would have pretended to return me to Siam and let Siam dispose of me, and most likely she would say that she hoped that the Siamese royal family would spare me my life and let me repent of my sins for the rest of my life in a monastery...... Hmph, I know that girl! pretended to have a soft heart, so that Daming was still like a gentleman in front of the world, and his hands were not stained with blood......

"But my brother, that kid is so narrow-minded that as long as he succeeds to the throne, he can't tolerate me alive! In less than two years, he will declare that I have 'died of depression' in the monastery! And God knows how I died! Hmph, as for you, Pachai, you won't be so troublesome, you may lose your head in Daming! ”

Pachai's face was so frightened that it took a long time before he said in a trembling voice:

"That'...... Then let's find a way to run to ...... Run to ...... By the way, run to Daqing! Your Highness, as long as we can run to the Great Qing, the Great Qing Dynasty will definitely not hand us over to the Great Ming! They will also treat us as guests, and they will also give you a large sum of money to continue to be a prince in Beijing, just like the Ming Dynasty did to Princess Liaoyang! Your Highness, how's it going? ”

The prince licked his lips, thought for a moment, shook his head, and said:

"No, I don't want that! …… I know what you mean. Yes, as long as we arrive in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty will definitely treat us as a propaganda banner: look, even the princes of the Ming Dynasty are not persecuted by the Ming Dynasty and have fled to our Qing Dynasty! …… It's like Da Ming is using that Liaoyang princess!

"Hmph, why will the Qing Dynasty continue to recognize me as the prince of Siam? They must have recognized me as the rightful King of Siam! Just as the Ming Dynasty recognized Shang Gui as the legitimate king of the Ryukyus...... In fact, the Ryukyu royal family is still in Japan! …… But what's the point of that? A lifetime of being an idle aristocrat in the 'magical land' of the Northern Qing Dynasty, just like this, doing nothing all his life? No! ”

The prince looked at Pachai, who had been stunned, and showed a feverish sneer, the corners of his mouth cracked, showing snow-white fangs, and said word by word:

"No, things are turning around! The initiative is still on my side! It should be ...... now They should be made to think that I am trying to get to Manchuria, when in fact we are going to get a boat and sneak back to Siam quietly...... When I returned to Bangkok, I took advantage of the support of the military and political ministers to launch a coup d'état and succeed to the throne with lightning speed. In this case, a dead move becomes a live move...... Once I became the king of Siam, there were many ways to solve problems with the Ming Dynasty......

"I can pay compensation, I can cut the land, I can also grant more preferential privileges to Daming, and I can even give them the right to operate the railway and a part of the tax right...... They won't be so brainless. Da Ming also knew that it was unrealistic to ask a foreign king to pay for his life for the sake of a prince...... Those ministers in Nanjing will persuade Zhu Yourong to accept these favorable conditions, instead of thinking so much about avenging her grandfather...... Zhu Yourong's girl had no idea, and she was soft-hearted, Bacheng would agree......

"In case, if the Ming Dynasty has a tendon and must send a threat of force, then we will make a desperate bet and ask for the protection of Britain, France, and the United States...... At least one of these three countries would be interested in getting involved...... The Ming Dynasty will not lose the traditional sphere of influence of Siam for this matter, right? If you take another 10,000 steps back, you will really be desperate, and it will not be too late to go out into exile at that time, and you will be much more relaxed, you can bring enough money, and you can go to wherever you want. …… Pachai got it? ”

Pachai was dumbfounded, already dumbfounded. He was suddenly glad that His Royal Highness the Prince was such a thoughtful person, and he could quickly choose the best way in a crisis. He immediately consulted with the prince and made a plan to escape.

……

The prince and Pachai returned to the living room. The prince apologized to Jiang Meilu with a smile, so Miss Jiang waited for a long time. Then he asked to follow Miss Jiang to Cartier to see their products, and then talk to their jewelry designers.

Jiang Meilu felt a little nervous, but she was also glad that the East Factory had done all the work. Now even if you take them to Cartier, the relevant personnel there have already been arranged, and they will not goof. However, I just don't know how long I can communicate with the prince with my knowledge of three-legged cat jewelry without revealing my stuffing.

While he was speaking, Pachai had already gone to the treasurer of the mission, and took the prince's signature, and withdrew all the cash from the treasurer, which amounted to fourteen thousand thousand yuan. Most of these banknotes are in the denomination of 50 Ming Yang, which is also the largest denomination of Ming Yang. Pachai went back to his room, rolled up the money, and hid it in his clothes, tied around his waist, and inside his trouser legs. Then he took two more pistols and hid them on his body.

At this time, the prince was in the living room, pretending to be impatient and calling out to Pachai. Pachai came running with a smiling face, apologized again and again, and at the same time gave the prince a look, indicating that he was ready.

At this time, the prince was very gentlemanly and invited Jiang Meilu to walk to the elevator with him.

"Ding—"

With a crisp bell, the grille elevator door of the precious rosewood slowly opened, and the elevator lady inside bowed with a smile and invited His Royal Highness the Prince to enter.

The prince, Pachai, and Jiang Meilu entered the elevator.

The elevator doors slowly closed again.