"Kill my entire city?" Everyone looked solemn.
"What's going on? Did Zhang Ren say this?" Zhu Su also temporarily put aside the joy of being reunited with his two brothers and asked solemnly.
"These are the nonsense words Zhang Ren's traitor made when he was fleeing." Ru Taisu explained angrily. "It is precisely because of these words that I vowed to capture him alive and question him."
"At that time, because these soldiers were useless, the thief killed them out of the siege."
"Before leaving, the thief turned around and said cruel words to me, saying that when he turned back to lead the army to attack the city, he would massacre the entire city of Suzhou!"
"Leader..." Zhu Su frowned deeply. "It's just a bunch of homeless dogs, where did the army come from?"
"What, is there going to be a war?" King Yan Zhu Di looked eager to give it a try. "Speaking of which, Fifth Brother, what big thing did you do tonight? Why don't you tell me and my second brother?"
"Why is His Royal Highness the King of Yan so warlike?" Ru Lao's spray suddenly became angry again, and pointed the nozzle at Zhu Di: "You must know that if there is a war, the people will be devastated!"
"Now the enemy is hidden and we are clear. If the thief really hides a large army, we will lose the opportunity without knowing his whereabouts!"
"As a prince, he left the capital without authorization, and for his own convenience, he coerced the soldiers to open the door late at night. He took advantage of the power of the Tian family to commit such crimes and ruined the peace and invasion..."
"I will definitely impeach your two highnesses severely!"
"Lao Rutou, it's over, it's over..." Seeing that Zhu Di and Zhu Chong looked ugly, Zhu Su hurriedly stepped forward to smooth things over. "Second brother and fourth brother, didn't they just meet Zhang Ren and kill him?"
"Beheading the leader of the thief is a great achievement! At least he didn't let this guy hide anymore."
"That's right." Zhu Pingda nodded.
"This? The leader of the thieves is obviously the turtle in the urn..." Ru Taisu paused and laughed angrily. "Not to mention that a few ordinary thieves were let go because of this..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhu Su directly changed the topic: "Okay, Lao Rutou. You have made great contributions in this battle. No one will forget you if they forget."
"So, do you think that the 'big army' mentioned by these remnants of the Zhang family is in the hands of Zhang Shicheng's other missing son, Zhang Li?"
"That must be the case!" Ru Taisu's attention was diverted as expected. "That's why I want to capture the thief Zhang Ren alive and ask him about the whereabouts of the so-called army and his brother Zhang Li."
Zhu Su nodded. Ru Taisu's judgment was correct. A living Zhang Ren was indeed much more effective than a dead Zhang Ren. If the Zhang brothers kill only one of them, they will still survive. The other remnants of Zhang Shicheng can also support the other one. Only by killing these two people can we truly eliminate the root cause.
It was time to try every means to capture Zhang Ren alive in order to ask him about Zhang Li's whereabouts.
Not to mention, there is a "big army".
"Ru Yushi, there is no need to be angry." Zhu Di stepped forward and said. "Although I don't know exactly what happened, I think it was my second brother and I who unintentionally ruined the big thing you and Lao Wu planned tonight."
"Aren't there still people who escaped outside the city alive? I and my second brother will shoulder this responsibility, and we will surely capture and torture those thieves who escaped from the city."
Seeing that King Yan was brave enough to take action, Ru Taisu's face improved a little. Zhu Su smiled and said, "Fourth brother, there is no need to abolish Zhou Zhang."
"It's not bright in the east, but it's bright in the west. He ran away with Zhang Ren over there, but here I still caught the head of a thief."
With a wave of his hand, Chen Hui, who was tied up, was escorted up. Ru Taisu and the others looked at it with disbelief. Zhu Xi said carelessly: "Why is she still a female?"
"Can a woman be the leader of a thief?"
"Second brother, don't underestimate her. This woman has quite a lot of background." Zhu Su laughed, like a weasel who stole a chicken: "Her name is Chen Hui, but she is Chen Youliang's biological daughter!"
"Yo ho?"
Everyone's eyes lit up, and Zhu Xi's eyes changed immediately, and he looked at Chen Hui up and down: "How can Chen Jiu Si be so virtuous and capable of giving birth to such a beautiful girl?"
Zhu Su was embarrassed for a while. Why did his second brother look like an old prostitute in a prostitute?
"Bah! The false king Zhu Ming dares to insult my father!" Chen Hui, who had turned away and said nothing, turned his head and spat directly at Zhu Ping. Zhu Ping was furious and stepped forward to slap him. She slapped her, and Zhu Su quickly stopped her: "Second brother, calm down, calm down."
"Kill this woman again, and Lao Rutou will really fight to the death with you!"
Feeling Ru Taisu's "impeachment" warning look behind him, Zhu Xi finally endured it. Zhu Su waved his hand and asked someone to gag Chen Hui. Zhu Ming stared at her back and said bitterly: "Lao Wu, leave the matter of interrogating this woman to your second brother and me."
"How dare you insult me like this? I must avenge you for spitting!"
"Second brother, why are you so angry with the prisoner?" Zhu Su comforted him while muttering in his heart. It seems that Chen Hui is not easy to get along with. Zhang Ren was her concubine. When she saw Zhang Ren's head being thrown to the ground, there was no sadness in her eyes.
After hearing what her group had just said, she must have guessed what kind of torture she would endure next, but her face remained as calm as before.
His thoughts must be extremely sinister and deep. Can such a woman get any useful information out of her mouth? Zhu Su felt something was wrong...
After the group of people reunited, they headed to the government office together. The first was to send the captured Chen Hui and a group of dead soldiers to the dungeon for imprisonment, and the second was to have Wei Guan and other Suzhou officials dispatch officers to the government office to make announcements to pacify the people. Third, Zhu Su and Zhu Xi and Zhu Di reunited after a long separation. Naturally, they had to find a place to rest and have a good talk.
"Why are the second and fourth brothers here? Where is the third brother?" In the quiet room of the government office, Zhu Su poured a cup of tea for Zhu Chong and Zhu Di and asked with a smile.
"Didn't I just say that the fourth child and I thought that you were all alone in Suzhou, so we came here to keep you company." Zhu Ping smiled a little far-fetched. "As for the third child..."
"He has been in a daze in the palace these past few days. Even if he leaves the palace, he will probably only sneak into the imperial palace at the foot of Bifeng Mountain. Who is willing to come to Suzhou Mansion with us?" Zhu Di curled his lips.
Zhu Su was stunned and asked him carefully what had happened in the past few days since he left Beijing.
It turned out that after he left the capital, Lao Zhu was worried that a guilty minister would be unable to plead for mercy in the prince's palace, so he coaxed the young prince who was still unaware of the incident outside the palace to stand up for him, and unnecessarily involved his sons in this Jinyiwei incident. In the whirlpool of "Beijing Cha", Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di were all summoned into the palace.
The three of them had finally regained their freedom in the imperial palace. How could they bear it if they were suddenly forced to live the same kind of life in the palace? Within a few days, the three brothers began to complain, especially the youngest Zhu Fan.
When Zhu Su left, Zhu Fan gained some basic knowledge of physics and chemistry and showed great interest in it. For his brothers, Zhu Su did not hide the knowledge of later generations. Those manuscripts that must not be shown to others were completely open to Zhu Fan. At that time, he dived directly into a pile of manuscripts and drawings he had written.
Even when he was recuperating, Zhu Fan "unreasonably" pulled himself up from the bed and asked questions. He also personally went to glass kilns, cement kilns, hydraulic mills and other places to inspect and verify on-site with reference to the drawings, often for a whole day.
"After you left, he plunged into the steel-making kiln in the back mountain that had made little progress. He said he must free up the so-called steel-making furnace. When his father sent someone to drag him back to the palace, he still refused to leave. Yeah." Zhu Di said.
The third brother actually wants to mess with the steel furnace! One thing is that the steel furnace failed many times and the temperature was always not up to standard. Zhu Su himself almost gave up. After all, he only knew so much about steelmaking, and he had already told all of it to the craftsmen at the Ministry of Works.
After all, steelmaking is no better than glass soap and is a heavy industry. Its urgency is no more than that of cement, which has a wider range of uses. It cannot be done overnight, and there is no other quick way to do it.
Zhu Su felt a little funny when he thought that the third brother, who was always well-dressed, was working in a steel-making kiln full of shirtless men, and might even be shirtless himself.
"Speaking of fourth brother, you said your secret was revealed. You two must have gone crazy in the palace and snuck out now, right? Why are you thinking about me?" Zhu Su said with a teasing tone.
(End of chapter)
