Yongli Ming Dynasty

Chapter 36 Breaking Out
Li Chengzhi took his men and left to find a way out of the house. Before Deng Mingwu sent anyone to invite them, everyone in the backyard had already come to the middle courtyard.

The door of the study room opened, and Concubine Wang Shuyu and Ma Yuying walked into the room with a group of women from the palace.

When the two saw the young man sitting behind the table with his eyes closed in deep thought, their expressions relaxed, as if they had found their backbone.

"Your Majesty, what's going on outside? I heard that there are soldiers surrounding the mansion. What happened?"

Concubine Wang Shuyu said anxiously
"Your Majesty, don't worry. It is said that there is some trouble in the east of the city. The people in the city are afraid that someone will take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos, so they sent troops to protect the palace." Zhu Lang stood up and greeted
"What chaos? I heard that there was a rebel army attacking the city," the concubine said in panic.

The scene before him reminded him of the situation several years ago. It was the same situation back then. The city gates were suddenly closed, and then the city was in chaos. Soon the old prince also led everyone in the palace to flee.
This escape also made the huge palace become sparsely populated, and even the two eldest sons of the palace died on the way.
They have only been living in Guangdong for less than a year. Are they going to flee again? Thinking of this, Wang Shuyu was even more panicked.
"What nonsense! Who is so bold as to spread rumors in the mansion and intimidate the imperial concubine? Do you really think there are no laws in my mansion?" Zhu
Lang's face was filled with anger, and he shouted coldly at the servant who followed him into the backyard.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me"

Seeing the prince in front of them look cold and angry, the people behind him also panicked and knelt down to admit their mistakes.
"Your Highness, please don't blame them. I asked this question on my own and it has nothing to do with them."

Wang Shuyu was also startled and quickly tried to persuade him. However, after this incident, Wang Shuyu gradually came to her senses and was no longer as frightened as before.
"Your Majesty, don't worry. If it was really a rebellion, how could the elders of the previous dynasty not send someone to inform me of such a major event? Now that there is no news, it means that the matter is not a big deal."

"Besides, the Zhaoqing army is now gathered. Even if there is a real rebellion, there is nothing to be afraid of. The elders of the previous dynasty should have been dealing with this matter by now, so they didn't bother to send a letter. I believe someone will come to the palace to report soon."

"Your Majesty, don't worry. I will take care of everything."

Zhu Lang said comfortingly
After hearing Zhu Lang's words, Wang Shuyu and others' expressions finally eased.
Zhu Lang finally had the opportunity to read the book carefully and see the people in the backyard who had entered the room.
Next to the two concubines was a young girl wearing a red phoenix robe. The girl had a pretty face and looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old. At this moment, like everyone else, she stared closely at Zhu Lang in the room.

If memory serves me right, this person is Wang Yue, the princess of the Prince of Gui's Mansion. Yes, Zhu Lang already has a princess, but after he came to this world, he has been busy fighting for power and was afraid of being discovered, so he rarely went to the backyard and had almost no contact with the princess.
Strictly speaking, this was the first time Zhu Lang met his Princess Gui.
"Please accompany the queen to sit over there."

Zhu Lang walked up to the red-robed girl, expressionless on his face. He was about to give her a warning, but when he got closer, he realized that the girl was trembling slightly.
Zhu Lang was stunned for a moment, then gently patted the girl on the back. The girl finally woke up from her dream, nodded heavily to Zhu Lang, and helped the two concubines sit on the chairs beside them.

Zhu Lang glanced around the room. There were servants kneeling in the study hall, and Li Guoyong was standing outside the study with a terrified look on his face.

Wu Jisi, dressed in a bright red military officer's robe, stood guard at the door, tightly grasping the scabbard at his waist. However, he seemed to be holding the hilt too tightly, and his knuckles turned white one by one. However, Wu Jisi was completely unaware of it, and his face was full of panic.

Zhu Lang frowned slightly, looked at the eunuchs and women kneeling below, and spoke in a cold voice:

"My Ming Dynasty has a group of cabinet ministers in charge, and tens of thousands of Ming soldiers outside to protect us. What is there to be afraid of? I am a vassal king of the country, and my palace has its own laws. Now, just a little trouble has happened, and you are panicking. How can this be tolerated?"

The palace servants in the backyard looked worried when they heard Zhu Lang's words, but Zhu Lang ignored the reactions of the crowd and shouted to Li Guoyong on the side:

"Li Guoyong, what is the situation outside the hospital now?"

"Ah, yes. The people in the mansion don't know the reason, so they are all gathered outside the study. I will ask them to leave now."

Li Guoyong was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and said quickly
"Take the people out and separate the people outside the courtyard. One group is for eunuchs, and the other group is for maids. Let two reliable elders in the mansion supervise them separately. Don't let them get mixed up and spread rumors."

"If they want to stay outside the courtyard, we will ask them to sit quietly outside the courtyard and not make any noise. We will then assign ten people to go to the kitchen to prepare meals, and then deliver them to the courtyard once they are ready."

"Lunch is ready. Take it to the Concubine first, then send it to the guards guarding the front and back of the central courtyard, and then distribute it to everyone in the courtyard..."

Zhu Lang stood in the study, issuing orders one after another. Zhu Lang said one thing, and Li Guoyong wrote it down. Everyone in the room looked at the young man in the room and listened quietly to Zhu Lang's words.

Li Guoyong wrote down Zhu Lang's instructions and hurried out of the study to do his work. As soon as the voices in the room stopped, everyone's eyes immediately fell on the young man.
But Zhu Lang no longer cared about the people in the room. He walked back to the table, took a copy of Zhu Zi's Annotations on the table, opened a page at random, and started reading.
Everyone in the room looked at the calm young man behind the desk, and recalled the clear and logical orders just now. They couldn't help but feel awe in their hearts, and the panic on their faces gradually disappeared.
Zhu Lang held a book in his right hand, seemingly concentrating on it. However, if someone approached him, they would find that the book in his hand was turned upside down.

Zhu Lang's left hand, hidden under his sleeve, trembled slightly. This was not fear, but an excitement that brought together anxiety, fear, joy and other emotions.
Su Guansheng has already been ordered to enter the court. He is a natural lone minister and can only rely on Zhu Lang. It is impossible for him to form his own faction. In other words, Zhu Lang can use the soldiers, money and food in his hands at will.
By controlling the money and food in Su Guansheng's hands, he could truly support and subdue the nearly 10,000 troops under Li Mingzhong and Jiao Lian, and get rid of his dependence on Ding Kuichu.
As long as he gets through this, he will have soldiers and food in his hands, and he will truly have the strength to compete with Ding Kuichu, and he will be able to make his own voice heard in Guangdong Province and influence the situation in Guangdong Province. This is the true meaning of "the sea is wide for fish to leap, and the sky is high for birds to fly"

Zhu Lang clenched his hands tightly under his robe, seemingly concentrating on the book in his hands, but his mind had already drifted away.

Li Chengzhi led the two out of the middle courtyard and headed straight for the gate of the mansion, but was stopped right after he left.
"Guard Li, are you going out again?" Wu Tai stood in front of the mansion gate and blocked his way.
"Oh, it seems you know who I am. Since you know who I am, why don't you get out of the way and stop hindering me from doing my job?"

Li Chengzhi pretended to be arrogant, raised his head, and tried his old trick again, and was about to leave the mansion.
"Guard Li just entered the mansion, why is he in such a hurry to leave?" Wu Tai remained motionless and blocked Li Chengzhi's way.

"What I'm doing is none of your business. Get out of the way, or don't blame me for being rude."

Li Chengzhi's face was really a little impatient this time.
The reason he had a fight with this man when he entered the mansion just now was because he felt somewhat guilty.

Now that he knew that the one causing the riot outside the city was not his uncle, he had no mood to play along with the governor's guards.
His uncle commanded a large army, and he was the prince's confidant. There were only a few people in the city that he was afraid of, and the personal guards of the governor's mansion were obviously not among them.

"I have received military orders to protect the palace. If Guard Li doesn't explain clearly, I'm afraid he won't be able to leave the palace," Wu Tai said in a faint voice.
Li Chengzhi looked at the determined man in front of him, and his heart sank. It seemed that this door was not so easy to get out.

It's not that he hadn't thought about climbing over the wall and leaving, avoiding the main gate of the palace, but he had already sent people to check, and there were at least three or four hundred soldiers surrounding the palace. If he was not careful, he might be discovered.

The soldiers from the Governor's Office clearly had ill intentions. If he left the Governor's Office in this way and was discovered by the soldiers, they would probably label him a suspicious person and arrest him directly.

Even if his identity is confirmed later, they can still say that it was because of their suspicious behavior, and I can't do anything to them.

Li Chengzhi had several thoughts in his mind, but his expression remained unchanged. He said impatiently
"Today, a servant from the mansion took a little princess out for a walk. Now that the city is in turmoil, I am following the order of the prince to take the princess back to the mansion. Why don't you get out of the way?" "Really? It's such a coincidence? How about this, Guard Li, tell me where the princess is and I'll send someone to take her back to the mansion?" Wu Tai still blocked the door and said lightly.
But Li Chengzhi's face was furious at this time, and he shouted
"You go find the princess for me. Who are you to dare to do errands for me? I have tolerated you for a long time. If you don't get out of the way, I will not be polite."

Li Chengzhi strode forward, but Wu Tai stepped sideways and blocked him. The two of them collided with a bang and each stepped back a few steps. Seeing this, the soldiers on the sidelines also surrounded them.

Wu Tai looked indifferent and said
"The Governor's Office has issued an order that there is a riot outside the city. To ensure the safety of the palace, no one is allowed to enter or leave."

Li Chengzhi's face was furious when he heard this.

"There are rebels outside the city. It would be fine if your governor's office did not go to quell the rebellion, but instead surrounded the palace and even dared to prohibit the palace's personnel from entering and leaving."

"Your Highness is the future Regent. How dare the Governor's Office prohibit His Highness from entering or leaving? What do you want to do? Rebellion?"

The soldiers were slightly agitated when they heard Li Chengzhi's words. The guards from the governor's office were naturally indifferent, but the other soldiers from Guangdong Province who were transferred there became slightly flustered when they heard the word "rebellion".
Aren't they here to defend the palace? How did it become a rebellion?

"I have been ordered to welcome the princess back to the mansion. If anything happens to the princess, all of you will die."

"You two follow me closely. If anyone tries to stop me, I will kill them immediately."

A trace of coldness flashed across Li Chengzhi's eyes. The three men lifted their robes, revealing their armor, drew their long swords and rushed forward.
The group of soldiers behind them looked at the unsheathed swords in the hands of Li Chengzhi and the other two, and the armor on their bodies. Their eyelids jumped. Are these people serious?
"Let's see who dares"

Wu Tai shouted angrily, and subconsciously moved to block the leader Li Chengzhi

Li Chengzhi's expression was icy, and he suddenly slashed down with the long sword in his hand.
Wu Tai didn't expect that Li Chengzhi would actually dare to kill someone with a knife. At the critical moment, he suddenly stepped back and almost fell to the ground.

The steel knife in Li Chengzhi's hand suddenly cut through the air, making a sharp whistling sound.
"Are you fucking crazy?"

Wu Tai was shocked and angry. This was in front of the palace. How dare Li Chengzhi kill someone with a knife?

"I said, if anyone dares to stop me, I will kill him without mercy."

Li Chengzhi looked grim and walked forward with a knife in hand.
"Okay, okay, do you really think you're the only one who dares to take action? Guards of the Governor's Office, listen to my order, arrest these three people. Except for Li Chengzhi, the other two will be killed or alive."

Wu Tai's face was cold. The more anxious Li Chengzhi was, the more he couldn't let him leave the house.

He had just confirmed that the King of Gui was still in the palace. Li Mingzhong listened to the King of Gui's instigation and wanted to rebel against Lord Ding. At this time, he must have let Li Chengzhi go out of the city to make contact. As long as he captured Li Chengzhi, he would have achieved a great success.

Li Chengzhi and the other two tightly grasped their swords, and the seven or eight governor's guards in the back also surrounded the left and right
A dozen Guangdong soldiers in the back looked at the crowd blankly, not knowing why they suddenly started fighting.
"Slow down, take your time"

A loud shout came from afar, and the guard who had been knocked down by Li Chengzhi when he entered the mansion just now came running towards them with a piece of gray cloth wrapped around his head to stop the bleeding.
The two sides, who were originally on the verge of a fight, suddenly stopped and looked at the figure running over.
The guard wrapped in gauze heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that neither side had taken action. He ran to Wu Tai's ear and whispered something. After Wu Tai heard the guard's words, his expression changed slightly.

Wu Tai's expression changed several times, but he finally stepped forward and waved his hand to dismiss the crowd.

"Let them go"

Li Chengzhi and the other two looked at each other, wondering what news Wu Tai had heard and why he was so determined just now, and now he suddenly let them go.
But Li Chengzhi couldn't care less about this at this time. With Li Chengzhi as the spearhead, two guards on the left and right, the three of them still maintained their formation and walked out of the mansion.
After walking more than ten meters, they saw that the soldiers in front of the gate really didn't care about them, so the three of them left quickly.

Wu Tai looked at Li Chengzhi walking away at the end of the road with a gloomy expression on his face.

The news he just received was nothing else but knowing that the rebels outside the city were not Li Mingzhong at all, but some Grand Secretary Su Guansheng who came from nowhere.

In other words, Li Mingzhong did not cause any rebellion at all, Li Mingzhong was not a traitor, and Li Chengzhi was still the same general and nobleman.

If he really hurt Li Chengzhi just now, I'm afraid that Li Mingzhong would find an excuse to lead his troops into the city and chop off Wu Tai's head.
He attacked the palace guards in front of the palace gate. He was the nephew of a general in the court. Even Ding Kuichu would find it difficult to save him.

Wu Tai couldn't help but feel lucky that he didn't fight back. Although there was a conflict, no one was injured, so the matter could still be resolved.

He is Ding Kuichu's personal soldier, and he is acting on orders, so Lord Ding will naturally protect him.
Although Li Mingzhong commands a large number of troops, Lord Ding is the one who commands the most troops in Guangdong Province. Li Mingzhong is just a general of a foreign army. How dare he cause trouble in front of Lord Ding for such a small matter?

Wu Tai thought about this and couldn't help but feel relieved. He looked up at the palace in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

Lord Ding sent people to surround the palace without finding out the whole story. I am afraid that the prince has been dissatisfied. Lord Ding was really too reckless this time.

Wu Tai was still thinking about his own safety, but he had no idea that his gentle release had already cut off his master's last chance of winning.

Li Chengzhi had already taken off his armor and quickly ran to the south of the city. He left the city through a gap in the city wall and headed straight for the military camp.
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