Zhu Yunwen's team was very professional and quickly formulated a plan to drive away wolves and devour tigers, taking the opportunity to weaken the power of the princes and complete the reduction of vassal states. However, the situation on the ground was more complicated than they imagined.
Before the plan even started, the nobles reacted violently. Fourth uncle Philip directly rebelled and fought. The Parisians had always disliked the king and did not want to resist at all. They immediately opened the city and surrendered, and the royal family fled in panic to Orleans in the south.
Zhu Yunwen and others were also in the city at the time, but his running skills had always been good and he already had sufficient experience.
He had noticed before that the citizens seemed dissatisfied with the king and the city did not seem safe, so he made preparations in advance.
When the turmoil broke out, Zhu Yunwen took out the priest's attire he had prepared and dressed up as a monk. At night, he set fire to the dung piles on the street, and then took advantage of the chaos and ran away. The Burgundians searched all over the city, but in the end they could not catch him.
The princess was pregnant at this time and was resting in a manor outside the city. Zhu Yunwen came here to meet with the princess and several cronies. At this time, the road to Orleans had been blocked by the Burgundian army. In a hurry, everyone could only find every opportunity to bypass the patrols and rebels and escape to the direction of Shenluo.
In a pro-French village called Donremi, the group received help from the villagers and were able to hide and repair temporarily. The princess gave birth to a baby girl here, and Zhu Yunwen named her Zhu Youzhen.
A few months later, the front line gradually stabilized, and Zhu Yunwen prepared to go south to Orleans to join the wandering royal family. Qi Tai dissuaded him, thinking that if he took the initiative to look for it at this time, he would be used as a scapegoat by the royal family, or even end up like Chao Cuo.
Zhu Yunwen was a little hesitant, and the group of people discussed it and decided to split up. Zhu Yunwen temporarily ennobled Zhu Youzhen as the princess of Joan of Arc, worshiped Qitai as the young master, and stayed to take care of the children; he used Huang Zicheng as the envoy, holding the talisman letter, to detour to Shenluo, and sent an envoy to Dadu to seek support; the princess went south with him.
After that, Zhu Yunwen took the princess and borrowed a donkey cart from the villagers to tour Orleans.
Not long after arriving in Orleans, as Qi Tai expected, Zhu Yunwen fell out with several major nobles of the royal family. The Duke of Orleans accused Zhu Yunwen of being the culprit and imprisoned him.
However, the Duke of Burgundy did not take Zhu Yunwen seriously at all, was not satisfied with the current results, and refused to make concessions to the royal family for Zhu Yunwen. Soon after, assassins sent by the Burgundians assassinated the Duke of Orleans, causing chaos in the court.
Zhu Yunwen took the opportunity to persuade the jailers and promised them that after he turned over, everyone would have high-ranking officials. The jailers had never seen this kind of wooing method before, and they were blown away by him. The jailer saw that no one was in charge, so he secretly let him go.
As the father-in-law of the Duke of Orleans, the Count of Armagnac was elected to restore order. After working around and appeasing everyone, he realized that Zhu Yunwen had run away at some point.
The count counted the time and suspected that Zhu Yunwen was related to the assassination and the subsequent chaos, and quickly sent people to search for him. However, Zhu Yunwen had already disappeared. The pursuers even found a poem he had left on the wall of a hotel in a small town outside the city. He mocked the French nobles for being stupid, arrogant and unworthy, and said that he must fight back and teach them a lesson.
The nobles in the palace were divided, and some people were so angry that they had to capture Zhu Yunwen. Others couldn't tell whether he was blowing it or not, thinking that there were too many enemies now and it was useless to hold him accountable. The idiot Orleans offended him just to shirk responsibility.
The Count of Armagnac could only go to the princess and ask her to declare Zhu Yunwen a false believer and have the church rule the marriage invalid. He also tried to learn the whereabouts of the child from her.
The princess agreed to break off the marriage, but always insisted that she did not know where the child was. Because Zhu Yunwen is a very alert person, everyone has seen that this person can run away. He must have moved the child long ago.
While they were hesitating, the princess secretly sent a trusted servant to Donremi Village to ask Qitai to take the children and run away. In order to prevent him from disobeying his warning, he also asked his servant to bring the seal that Zhu Yunwen forgot when he hurriedly escaped, and ordered him to move immediately after seeing it.
But the royal family and nobles are not stupid either. Her every move has been monitored for a long time. This child also has the right to inherit and will give other forces a reason to interfere. Therefore, the Earl of Armagnac and the Queen have agreed to control it first no matter what to avoid further troubles.
The destination was on the border of the Shinra and had to pass through several Burgundian-controlled areas. It was impossible to send the royal army to capture him directly. Therefore, the count sent a team of mercenaries to pretend to be bandits to capture the people.
Of course, at this time, there is actually no difference between mercenaries and bandits, so as long as they don't carry the royal flag, others can't tell the difference. The mercenaries followed the servant and found that he was indeed walking towards the village, so they followed him all the way.
Following to the vicinity of Donremi Village, the mercenaries believed that the target's situation was confirmed and were ready to take action. They spread out in formation and headed toward the village along the road.
There is a small river next to the village. The mercenaries are going to cross the river here and enter the village to arrest people. They are very excited to think that they can make more money by taking advantage of the situation. However, at the end of the small bridge over the river, a man in a cloak suddenly stood.
It's midnight in the middle of the night in this deserted country. Thinking about it, you know that there won't be any ordinary people standing here alone for no reason. The mercenary captain became alert and asked loudly who she was and what she was doing here. At the same time, he made a gesture and asked a few close veterans to look around to see if there was anyone ambushing him.
The man took off his hood, revealing short blond hair. He turned out to be a woman. She said her name was Jeanne and she studied under the Egyptian Tomb Sect. I happened to pass by here on my way home from the south to visit relatives. There was a Seris businessman from the "Jin Yiwei" trading company who told him that there were people here who wanted to do evil to innocent children, so he asked her to act chivalrously and expel these gangsters.
The mercenary captain asked everyone who had heard of this chamber of commerce, and everyone said they had never remembered it. The largest Oriental trading house in Marseille is "Yi Xiangrong" with the official background of the Purple Horde Khanate. They run a currency exchange business, so it would be good for most mercenaries to know this company.
And several of his subordinates came back one after another, saying that they didn't see anyone else.
The captain thought that this "Jin Yiwei" had never been seen before. I went to a place where I was unfamiliar with my life and only hired one woman. She must be a little bastard with no common sense. If you encounter this kind of fat sheep, you will eat it for free. It happened that this young woman still looked pretty, so she caught her together and shared it with the brothers.
The captain then shouted to everyone to work hard. The prince rewarded them greatly, and then took the lead and rushed forward.
