Chapter 289 The Return of the Dragon King
Hou Xun and Donglin were preparing to abandon the Chongzhen court and establish a new court in Nanjing.
After Qian Qianyi returned to the southeast, he summoned the backbone of Donglin to discuss.
However, the scholar rebelled for three years and not everyone within the Donglin Party supported Qian Qianyi and Hou Xun's decision.
Although several bigwigs in the Donglin Party supported Qian Qianyi and established another emperor for their own interests was more beneficial to Donglin, their plans were not easy to mention clearly.
After all, the Donglin Party advocates loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, occupying moral high ground, and attacking others. This is also the reason why it attracts some young people to join Donglin.
After Qian Qianyi tested the words of many backbones, most of them supported his resolution, but some people still had a conscience and said that even if the emperor did not move south, he should let the prince come to Nanjing to prevent any accidents.
The prince of Chongzhen was already in his teens and was still difficult to control after moving south. The emperor Qian Qianyi wanted to establish was the emperor who was not qualified to be an emperor but was supported by Donglin.
Only in this way, an emperor with unstable legal system would be easily controlled by Donglin and maximized Donglin's interests.
Qian Qianyi discussed with everyone, and had a long conversation, but could not reach a consensus, so he could only let Hou Fangyu and others secretly contact and investigate the sect king and find a suitable candidate.
At this time, in Kaifeng City, King Fu Zhu Yousong was living in a yard.
After Luoyang City was broken, Zhu Yousong fell out of the city and fled to Huaiqing first. Later, Huaiqing was captured by the rebel army and came to Kaifeng City.
When Zhu Yousong escaped from Luoyang, he did not bring any money or property, and no one even followed him. He had no ability to make a living, so he could only seek help from other vassals and make a living by begging.
At first, others gave him some money, but as the situation worsened, Huaiqing, Wei Hui and Zhangde fell one after another, and the various vassals could not protect themselves, so no one cared about him.
After Zhu Yousong came to Kaifeng, he came to the King of Zhou last year. At first, the King of Zhou also gave Zhu Yousong a lot of money, but Zhu Yousong was used to spending money and eating, drinking, gambled in the city, and spent all the money that the King of Zhou helped him every few days.
The two encirclements of Kaifeng were destroyed by the King of Zhou's treasury. Now the Qing army is facing the Yellow River again and threatens Kaifeng. The King of Zhou pays another 500,000 taels to recruit heroes and buy military funds and grain. He tightens his belt and lives his own life. There is no money left, so he lets waste it.
Therefore, the King of Zhou reduced the silver support for the vassal kings who defected to him. Whoever came to him would only give him a few bags of flour.
Now Zhu Yousong can only go from the royal palace to three bags of flour every month, which is not enough for him to spend.
Gao Huan explained to Song Xiance and asked him to find Zhu Yousong, the Military Information Department quickly got news about Zhu Yousong.
Gao Huan then sent his cousin Gao Xun to Kaifeng City with several scouts from the Military Intelligence Department.
At this time, the group came to Kaifeng and stopped in front of a dilapidated neighborhood in the west of the city.
"Guowei! King Fu hid in this neighborhood. It is said that he was in brothels and gambling houses. He owed money and borrowed seals but did not pay it back, so he hid here!" a spy explained.
Gao Xun waved his hand and said, "Go!"
The group walked into a dirty and messy street, with dilapidated courtyards on both sides. Many people had special lanterns hanging in front of their houses. Those who knew how to do knew that the people living here were secret prostitutes.
At this time, Gao Xun followed Xi Zuo, who was leading the way, and Xi Zuo pointed to the yard and whispered: "King Fu is hiding here. I heard that there are several creditors looking for him, so it is best not to scare him away."
Gao Xun nodded and looked at the surrounding environment. He couldn't believe that King Fu lived in such a place.
At this time, Gao Xun was about to knock on the door and go in, but a group of people rushed straight to the side. Seeing this, Gao Xun quickly waved his hand and led his subordinates into the alley.
The group of men came over, and one of them pointed at the yard, "Boss, Zhu Yousong is inside!"
"Damn, if you have money to solicit prostitution, don't pay us back!" The leader cursed and ordered his subordinates, "Clog the back door and don't let him run away!"
After speaking, the man led the man over the wall and entered. He touched the house and heard the sound of conversation coming from inside.
"I am Zhu Yousong, the King of Fu. I put on my clothes and went to see the official. You are guilty of adultery and you want to behead you, do you know?"
Then the woman cried, "Your Highness, he forced the slave!"
"You're done! Blasphemy of the princess is a serious crime of raiding the house and extermination of the clan."
Finally, there was a panic-lost male voice: "Master, please spare me, I accept the punishment, and it's fine."
The man outside the door looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. He was playing with a fairy dance.
Zhu Yousong, the 200-pound King of Fu, looked at each other with a prostitute with the same surname as the boy, and was showing a successful smile. Suddenly, with a "bang", several men broke into the door, which shocked Zhu Yousong to stand on the spot.
Zhu Yousong was wearing a wrinkled scarlet dragon robe, with a winged crown on his head, and was standing beside the bed with a stunning force. A woman was wearing a bellyband, deliberately showing off her white patch, huddled at the foot of the bed. Under the bed was a middle-aged man, who had not fully lifted his pants, kept kowtowing, and was so scared that she burst into tears.
When Zhu Yousong saw the men coming in, he was so shocked that he forgot his lines.
The leader smiled slightly, gave a casual greeting, and joked, "Your Highness, this is a good idea! What do you say about the money you owe me?"
Zhu Yousong's arrogance of his might immediately weakened, and he did not have the majesty of a vassal king. He whispered: "Old Hou, am I raising money for you? I'm really tight on my hands recently!"
The man was the shopkeeper of the largest casino in Kaifeng City. He had a backer behind him and was not afraid of a down-and-out vassal king.
"Your Highness, I promised to pay it back at the end of last month. It's been a month since then. Could it be that he is a little boy?" the man sneered.
Zhu Yousong owed tens of thousands of taels in Kaifeng. He was about to finish the ticket and earn some travel expenses, so he went to Huai'an to avoid the limelight, but he didn't expect that the creditor would come to him.
Even if the other party doesn't pay it back, the other party can't do anything to him, but after all, it's a loss, and even if it's a vassal king, it may be attacked by others.
"Shopkeeper Hou, I really have no money. Look at what I am like now." Zhu Yousong blushed. He used to be tall, but now he is actually hiding in the tray to play the immortal dance. The old Zhu family's face has been lost.
The man in the lead ignored it. It was obvious that it was not the first time Zhu Yousong said that. He gave his subordinates a wink. The few people immediately looked in the room and finally found a gold book and a gold seal.
Zhu Yousong was shocked and said anxiously: "I can't give this to you, that's the seal and gold book of the Lone King."
The leader didn't care about so many people and was about to get it. With a "bang", Gao Xun led several men into the house.
Without saying a word, Gao Xun and others knelt on one knee and saluted Zhu Yousong and said, "I will meet your highness. General Gao has recovered Luoyang. Special missionaries will come to welcome Your Highness to the vassal!"
Zhu Yousong was stunned for a moment, while Gao Xun stood up and scolded the men: "Who are you? Do you dare to disrespect your Highness? Are you afraid of losing your head?"
Returning to Luoyang! Zhu Yousong reacted, as if the crooked-mouthed Dragon King had returned, and he was instantly excited.
(The update is late, there is still another chapter tonight.)
Chapter completed!