"Dead, he's finally dead!"

Hangzhou, Lu Wangfu.

Hearing that Emperor Yongli and his imperial concubine Dubin Tianhou, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, did not feel sad, he was very sad in the public place on his face, but after returning to his residence, the joy in his heart could not be hidden.

Emperor Yongli has collapsed, and if the prince who is the most qualified prince in the Ming clan to ascend the throne and claim the emperor is the second, no one dares to call him the first, and he will finally be able to sit on the coveted throne!

"Finally got out of it, and when I ascended the throne, I had to pacify the western thief first, and then slowly figure it out to Na Su." Zhu Yihai thought in his heart.

If before he was a sincere vassal king who was bent on defending his family and country, but now he was only one step away from that supreme authority, and the greed in his heart was enough to devour his reason, making him full of plans on how to obtain and keep his throne.

He also gathered several of his loyal aides to discuss how to ensure that he could ascend to the throne, and what to do once he ascended the throne.

In the eyes of him and his cronies, there are two major tumors in the Ming Dynasty, one is naturally Sun Kewang, who was criticized and murdered by the Yongli Emperor, and the other is Su Yan, who is righteous and awe-inspiring, and actually controls the soil emperor in the provinces south of the Yangtze River.

If he can ascend to the throne, he must first pacify the western thief Sun Kewang, and then make a move on Su Yan, take away his military power, and protect the peace of the royal family.

But Zhu Yihai didn't consider one question - that is, will Su Yan really let him ascend the throne as he wishes?

The answer is clearly no.

Zhu Yihai set up a mourning hall in the palace of King Lu, and late at night on the second day of worshipping Emperor Yongli in the spirit of the sky, several uninvited guests broke into his mansion.

Late at night, Zhu Yihai, who was still asleep, suddenly woke up, he returned to the hellish Yanzhou Mansion in his dream, he was not the king of Lu at that time, the Qing army broke through the Yanzhou Mansion and launched a brutal massacre of the city, he hid in the pile of corpses to pick up a life.

From time to time, he would dream back to the pile of corpses and wake up from his sleep.

But this time, after waking up, he suddenly noticed that there was a person standing in the room at some point.

"You, who are you?" Zhu Yihai didn't invite his princess to sleep tonight, so he was the only one in the house.

The man didn't answer Zhu Yihai, he stepped forward, covered Zhu Yihai's mouth and pressed it on the bed, and with his other hand took out a silver needle from his arms, and under Zhu Yihai's fierce struggle, the silver needle went straight behind his ear.

"Greetings to His Royal Highness the King of Chu."

In the next second, he only had time to hear this low sentence that seemed to come from hell, Zhu Yihai felt a tingling pain behind his ears, and then his eyes went dark, and his consciousness quickly fell into the dark abyss.

Zhu Yihai, in the house.

The next day, the slaves and maids who came to serve Zhu Yihai were horrified to find King Lu's stiff body, and with a scream that pierced through the sky, the entire Lu Wangfu suddenly boiled.

Lu Wangxue is still at this critical juncture.

The emperor of the front foot has just died, and the person closest to the throne of King Lu of the back foot has hanged, and it is not very convincing to say that there is nothing strange in this.

However, Su Yan still pretended to send someone to investigate, and then disclosed the cause of King Lu's death - he claimed that King Lu died because the emperor died and was overly sad, this cause of death was somewhat nonsense, but combined with Zhu Yihai's extremely sad appearance in public before his death, it still blocked the mouths of Youyou.

This can deal with the people outside, but it can't deal with the cronies around King Lu, but they know that King Lu is actually very happy these days, and has been waiting in the palace for the ministers of the court to play and let him ascend the throne as the emperor, how can this be too sad and die?

But they didn't dare to publicize it, because Zhu Yihai's sons all died in the hands of the Qing army, and only two *** could not inherit the title, and as soon as Zhu Yihai died, King Lu's lineage was cut off, and they were completely reduced to ownerless people.

Therefore, they decisively chose to be mute.

(Note: Although it is recorded that after the fall of Zhoushan, the son of King Lu was martyred together, after checking the information of Zhu Yihai's heirs, it was found that Zhu Yihai's fourth, fifth, and sixth sons were martyred after the breakthrough of Shaoxing, and the last son was after King Lu died of illness in 1662 (this chapter is not finished!) )

Chapter 260: King Lu Yixu

The posthumous son who was born, so he is set as the heir of King Lu. ）

On the other side, Guangzhou Prefecture.

After hearing the bad news of the emperor's death, Zhu Chenggong, who had moved the palace to Guangzhou, beat his chest and was overwhelmed with grief, although he was only loyal to the late Emperor Shaozong, but he also knew that the death of Emperor Yongli at this time would cause a heavy blow to the Ming court.

The war between the two kings of Qin and Chu was inevitable, and Su Yan had already shouted the slogan of killing the national thieves and conquest of Sun in the west, and he had only two choices at the moment - neutrality and no war, or assisting Su Yan.

It is impossible for him to join Sun Kewang's side, not to mention the relationship between Su Yan is his brother-in-law, just because the emperor died on his territory, he has the biggest suspicion, which is enough to make people in the world avoid Sun Kewang.

For this point, of course, some people think that Sun Kewang is probably wronged, because the soldiers and horses he sent to escort the emperor and the general He Jiuyi were also seriously injured, and many of his escort soldiers and horses were killed and injured, but Sun Kewang's notorious reputation on weekdays made many people subconsciously attribute it to his ruthlessness.

Along with Zhu Chenggong, Li Dingguo, who had already seized Quanzhou, the gateway to Guangxi, was also entangled, although he had long known that Sun Kewang was plotting against him, but he did not expect him to be so bold and dare to openly attack and kill the emperor.

He wanted to break with a rebellious minister and thief like Sun Kewang and avenge Emperor Yongli, but he was worried that Feng Shuangli would backstab him in the back of his buttocks, so he stopped at the outskirts of Guilin and did not dare to move forward rashly.

Kong Youde hurriedly seized this opportunity to consolidate Guilin's city defense, he was overjoyed after hearing the news of Yongli's death, and called the destiny of heaven in the Qing, but he did not know the situation in the north of the Qing court, and still fantasized that the Qing court could seize this opportunity to regain the lost territory in the south.

When I returned to Nanjing, the original Nan'an County Palace, which was renamed the Chu Palace, was already noisy.

The ministers of Nanjing, while rejoicing that the position of the courtiers on the Yongli side were vacant after the death of the courtiers, and on the other hand, they were worried about which clan should be elected to the throne in order to maximize their interests.

Some of them also advocated persuasion and asked Su Yan to ascend the throne and become emperor, so that they could have the merit of being a dragon, but their voices were forcibly suppressed by Su Yan - he was not in a hurry to become emperor before eliminating Sun Kewang.

However, the biggest problem is that after the Jiashen National Disaster, the Ming clan was scattered all over the place, and even if they did not die, they were far away from Nanjing, and they were not close to the bloodlines of Chongzhen and Yongli Emperors, so they were not suitable candidates for support.

Since there was no suitable person to support him, Su Yan decided to temporarily vacate the throne and call himself the king of Chu to supervise the country, and everything was focused on killing the national thief.

Regarding Su Yan's decision to call himself the prisoner, the ministers of Nanjing somewhat guessed Su Yan's ambitions, but most of them had no idea of opposing it, Su Yan's ability is obvious to all, and his character is better than that brutal Sun Kewang, so what is it difficult to accept with him?

Chapter 260: King Lu Yixu