At this moment, Fang La was riding towards Suzhou. Zhu Meng's head had been put into a wooden box and hung on his mount.
Fang Qifu, who was behind him, also seemed to be in high spirits. Although the two brothers had already sent people to Suzhou to deliver the message.
But how could Zhu Meng's head be given to someone else? This thing is equivalent to a great achievement. How can we rest assured if we don't send it to him personally?
Zhu Chong had been imprisoned by Gao Zhang long before the Zhu family could rebel.
With the enthronement of his son Zhu Meng, the two leaders of Zhu's rebellion were all finished.
In addition, the prime ministers, generals and others were either killed on the spot during the pursuit, or they were taken outside Suzhou City and had their heads chopped off.
The remaining soldiers dispersed and were unable to cause any more waves.
After Fang La and Fang Qifu personally delivered Zhu Meng's head, Gao Zhang naturally greatly praised the cousins.
Asking Fang Baihua to take his eldest brother Fang La and his cousin Fang Qifu to settle down, Gao Zhang looked at the wooden box that had been re-covered with a smile on his face.
At this moment, after receiving the news, a group of officials rushed to Gao Zhang's ship from all directions. They all seemed very excited at this moment.
Tan Zhongguan, who had just returned halfway, was also among them. All the officials congratulated Gao Zhang, the person in charge of the order to quell the thieves.
As for the group of generals, they crowded excitedly around the wooden box containing Zhu Meng's head.
One or two even poked the head with their fingers.
It seemed that he wanted to pick up Zhu Meng's head and give it a kiss, or chop it into pieces. It seemed that this was the only way to express their overly excited mood at the moment.
With Zhu Meng's death, the Zhu family's rebellion in Jiangnan has come to a successful end.
As long as this head is sent to Bianliang in Tokyo, the happy days when everyone will be promoted and make a fortune are about to come.
Faced with these people who can't wait to send this head to Tokyo.
Gao Zhang excused himself that it was already dark and it would not be too late to wait until early tomorrow morning.
Today is a good time to reward the three armies as a token of congratulations.
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Gao Zhang stood on the deck and watched the civil and military officials excitedly board the dock and disperse.
Then he turned around and looked at the wooden box with the lid closed.
Gao Zhang walked slowly to the wooden box, thought for a while, and then whispered instructions to the smiling Yang Douzhi beside him.
"Yang Douzhi, could you please go to the dicang and bring up Zhu Chong?"
Yang Douzhi nodded, happily lifted up his front and walked away quickly.
Gao Zhang stood there, looking at the wooden box placed at his feet.
It's time to meet Zhu Chong, who is still alive among the Zhu family.
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Zhu Chong was imprisoned in the dark cell in the boat, and he had no idea how much time had passed outside.
At first, he kept yelling in the bottom cabin, but soon, a section of his tongue was cut off by those extremely cruel thieves.
After that, Zhu Chong had the good sense not to continue making trouble. He still wanted to live and saw his own son Zhu Meng come to rescue him.
He could only calculate how many days he had stayed here by the number of times the prisoner delivered meals.
By the dim oil lamp in the cabin, Zhu Chong's face looked pale because he had not seen the sun for a long time.
His eyes fell on the scratches he carved on the wooden board with his fingernails. Each mark represented a day.
Being imprisoned here, he would learn some news every day from the nagging prisoner who delivered meals.
He had just been imprisoned for a few days, and his beloved son Zhu Meng had already rebelled and claimed to be the King of Wu. The jailer couldn't wait to tell him the news.
But Zhu Chong didn't want to believe that this was true. Rebellion would be a serious crime that would punish Jiuzhou.
In the following days, every day he would look forward to new news from the jailer.
As a result, all the prison guards brought were bad news about the Great Wu Kingdom.
Either Xiuzhou was defeated, Wujiang was captured, or his own son led an army of 30,000 people, but was defeated by Gao Zhang's army.
What's even more outrageous is that within two days, the prison guard told him that the city of Suzhou was destroyed and the ship had arrived in Suzhou.
Such outrageous news made Zhu Chong happy. He felt that if he hadn't had a section of his tongue cut off, which made it difficult for him to speak, he might have laughed at the prison guard on the spot for his nonsense.
But several days passed, and the jailer did not give any useful information.
This made Zhu Chong's days in this damn bottom cell seem like years.
At this moment, Zhu Chong heard the noise coming from the direction of the stairs, and quickly turned around and looked over there.
Soon, he saw the jailer walking down the stairs, but soon, the feminine-looking man he had seen a long time ago also led two strong men down.
Yang Douzhi showed a strange smile when he saw Zhu Chong, who had messy hair and looked decadent and a little nervous.
"Zhu Chong, our family has good news for you. You and your son can finally be reunited."
Zhu Chong stood in front of the cell door, shaking the door vigorously, making a whooshing sound in his mouth, as if he was asking for the reason.
"You'll know in a minute, go ahead and take him up."
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When Zhu Chong was dragged onto the deck, the afterglow of the sky was still there, rendering the clear sky into beautiful colors from deep to light.
Zhu Chong, who had not seen the sky for a long time, slowly opened his tightly squinted eyes and greedily breathed in the fresh air outside the cabin.
It took a long time before I heard that clear yet devilish voice coming from my ears.
"Zhu Chong, we meet again..."
Zhu Chong looked at the smiling Gao Zhang, and squeezed out the deep-seated hatred from between his teeth, making a very vague sound.
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At Gao Zhang's signal, Zhu Chong, who was wearing heavy shackles, was dragged closer by the two strong men and knelt on the ground.
One of them opened the wooden box, and the other brought the torch closer.
Zhu Chong stared blankly at the head in the box, his whole body seemed to be petrified, and he froze in place.
After that, he seemed to be going crazy, and seemed to want to struggle hard and fight to the death with others.
But the extremely heavy wooden shackles and the heavy iron chains on his hands and feet gave him no chance to stand up straight.
Gao Zhang raised his hand and waved it, signaling the two strong men to step back, and then looked at Zhu Chong, who could only lie on the deck and continue to roar meaninglessly.
"Zhu Chong, in these years, as someone who has dominated Suzhou and Jiangnan, have you ever thought that you, father and son, would one day be like this?"
(End of chapter)
