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"Father!"
Realizing that something was wrong, the crown prince Zhu Gongzhu threw himself on Zhou Wang Zhu Suqin's body. He first checked his breathing and found that he was not breathing. He immediately hugged the body and cried loudly.
The expressions of the surrounding guards of Prince Zhou's Mansion all changed, and they actually didn't know what to do.
They didn't have the guts to kill the rebels and avenge the prince, so they still maintained their guarding posture without any other unnecessary actions.
"Squadron Captain, this old guy is really scared to death by you." The soldier commander next to him laughed.
Before joining the Tiger Banner, he was a tenant in Taiyuan Prefecture and had no good impressions of these vassal kings. Seeing that the vassal king, King Zhou, was scared to death, he felt very happy.
When he spoke, he did not mean to avoid others, which was heard by many people in the palace. The crown prince Zhu Gongzhen, who was holding the body of King Zhou in pain, raised his head and glared at him fiercely.
The soldier commander who noticed was not only not angry, but continued to ridicule: "I am so angry that my son actually does nothing but just lie on the corpse and cry. If this were my son, I would just sneer at him." Just pretend there is no such son on the wall."
After hearing this, Zhu Gongzhen's eyes turned red as he waited for the soldier commander to speak, and his teeth gritted loudly.
"waste."
The soldier commander who had been waiting for a while could only stare at the other party and cursed disdainfully.
But Zhu Gongzhen still didn't make any resistance and just held the body of King Zhou motionless.
"Okay, your method of stimulating generals is still effective for young men in their teens and 20s, but it doesn't seem to be of much use to such a prince who is half dead. Maybe he has been looking forward to this day for a long time." Tiger character. The squadron leader of Qi naturally understood that his men were deliberately provoking Prince Zhou and leading him to take action.
However, the Crown Prince of Zhou in front of him is also a man who has lived a long time. Even if the Tiger Character Banner did not capture the Zhou Palace, I am afraid that he would have been looking forward to the early death of such a long-lived King.
If the old King Zhou doesn't die, he, the Crown Prince of Zhou, may die first.
"I understand," the commander of the soldiers said with sudden realization, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Zhou is hoping that his father will die so that he can inherit the family property. No wonder he is not angry at all."
"You fart!" Zhu Gongxuan yelled angrily.
Even if he falls into the hands of criminals, he is not willing to bear the reputation of being unfilial.
The soldier commander glanced at him contemptuously and said, "If you think what I said is wrong, go ahead and avenge me for your death."
"I, I, I." Zhu Gongzhen's lips were trembling, and he said "I" several times, but he didn't say a word of the rest.
The soldier commander showed disdain and said: "If you don't dare to take action, why don't you dare to order the guards in front of you to take action? If you take action, see if I dare to kill you all."
As he spoke, he picked up the firecracker in his hand and pointed forward.
Bang!
As soon as he finished speaking, one of the guards dropped the weapon in his hand.
Someone took the lead, and the remaining guards also dropped their weapons and chose to surrender to save their lives very conscientiously.
"You, you!" Zhu Gongzhen looked at the guard who was protecting him, dropping his weapon and covering his head and squatting on the ground. His expression changed several times, and finally he sighed.
Seeing this, the soldier commander said with a disappointed look on his face: "It's really useless."
"Okay, arrest everyone!" The squadron leader of the Tiger Flag waved his hand to his soldiers.
A group of soldiers stepped forward, put away their weapons on the ground, and guarded the guards of Prince Zhou's Mansion.
"Can you let me bury my father?" Zhu Gongzhen faced the tiger-character flag soldiers who surrounded him. He looked at the squadron leader of the tiger-character flag with pleading eyes.
"No." The squadron leader of the Tiger Flag replied to him expressionlessly.
Although King Zhou was dead, how to dispose of King Zhou's body was not something he, a squadron leader, could decide on his own. After all, King Zhou's status was extraordinary.
Zhu Gongzhen's expression changed after hearing this, and he begged again: "My father's patio has been built, and it only needs to be sent to Yuzhou to be buried. Can't you even ask for this?"
The tombs of Zhou kings are located in Wuliang Town, Yuzhou. They were basically built since childhood. After the repairs were completed, a patio was left, and they were buried directly after death.
"I said I couldn't." The squadron leader of the tiger-character flag replied again.
Zhu Gongzhen's face turned red with anger.
Half of it was the anger that King Zhou could not be buried in the tombs of his family after his death, and the other half was the fear of being helpless about his fate.
"Give these guards of Prince Zhou's Mansion and Prince Zhou's body to the people of Xuanwu Guard outside, take Prince Zhou with you, and go together to capture the other people in Prince Zhou's Mansion." The squadron leader of Tiger Character Banner ordered his men.
The Prince of Zhou's Mansion is not only the King of Zhou and his son, but also other concubines and other children and grandchildren left by the King of Zhou.
Facing a group of wolf-like and tiger-like warriors with the Tiger Flag, the entire Zhou Palace could no longer resist and could only allow them to ravage them wantonly.
Fortunately, unlike the Ming army and ordinary rebel troops, the Tiger Banner's army had its own strict military discipline. Although the Zhou Palace was occupied, it did not unduly embarrass the maids and concubines of the Zhou Palace.
There was no such thing as playing with women. Instead, these women were kept in separate custody and specially assigned to guard them. Especially the young women in the Zhou Palace were likely to be betrothed to unmarried officers and soldiers in the army in the future.
The most important thing about the Zhou Palace is the wealth accumulated by successive Zhou kings.
After the gold and silver jewelry, antiques and jades, calligraphy and paintings, and house deeds in the palace were found, they were registered and sealed immediately. No one was allowed to get close to them, and a large group of soldiers were left to guard the Zhou Palace.
As for the soldiers of Xuanwu Guard, after completely occupying the Prince of Zhou's Mansion, they left the Prince of Zhou's Mansion and went back to resume their duties. All those who stayed in the Prince of Zhou's Mansion were soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag.
Just when Kaifeng Mansion was captured by Xiao Wu and others, Zhangde Mansion was also captured by another army of Tiger Flag, led by the army commander Chen Xunping.
The vassal king in Zhangde Prefecture is King Zhao, who was passed down from Zhu Gaosui, the third son of Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty.
According to the order of the old Zhu family, Gao Zhan, Qi Jian, Youhou Zaiyi, Chang Youci and Yi, the current King of Zhao is the nephew of the emperor Zhu Youjian, and is also the eighth King of Zhao. He was granted the title of King of Zhao in the 48th year of Wanli.
The frail and sickly King Zhao died in the Palace of Prince Zhou on the day Zhangde Palace was attacked by the Tiger-Character Banner army.
Historically, Chenggao King Zhu Chang?, who originally inherited the title of King Zhao and became the ninth King of Zhao, became a prisoner captured by the Tiger Banner army when he did not have the opportunity to inherit King Zhao.
The Zhao family has been enfeoffing vassal lands for many years, and their descendants have already spread all over Zhangde Mansion. There are countless registered and unregistered people.
As for the descendants of the Zhu family who were not registered, the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Character Banner were naturally unable to arrest them, but all the descendants who were registered were arrested and all their property was confiscated.
