please make me king

Chapter 1343 Door Court
"Kill, kill!"

"Bang, bang!"

The sounds of fighting and gunfire echoed one after another, resounding outside the window, Wang Xie, the head of the Jiexiu Wang family, walked around the house anxiously, helpless for a while.

"Master!" At this moment, the door creaked open, and Wang Xie looked up, and it was his most trusted butler who came in.

"How's it going, how's it going outside?" Wang Xie calmed down, and then asked hastily.

"The situation is not very good!" The old housekeeper shook his head with a heavy face and said, "The gate has been lost, and the second gate has been blown open by Jianlu. The guards and Ding Zhuang in the village are desperately resisting."

"However, Jianlu is wearing iron armor, so he is invulnerable to swords and guns, and hard to hurt with arrows, so it is difficult to strike."

"Just now I asked my nephew to get the oil and lighted the second passage, and I can still guard it for a while."

Speaking of this, the old housekeeper couldn't help but paused, and then said: "According to the old slave's opinion, the Patriarch should escape from the tunnel as soon as possible."

"Although the hometown is lost, as long as the owner is still there, the family business in Zhangjiakou and the shops and workshops in various places are still there, and sooner or later we can make a comeback"

"No, I can't swallow this breath!" Unexpectedly, Wang Xie interrupted the old housekeeper's suggestion and cursed loudly.

"Gou Ri's Fan Yongdou and the Tartars don't play by the rules, I swear against them this time!"

"Master, harmony makes money, and harmony makes money!" The old butler couldn't help reminding immediately after hearing the words.

"Master, you are quite old, how can you still be the same as when you were young?"

"What do you know?" Wang Xie said with a sneer when he heard the words, "If we were copied by Fan Yongdou this time, and we suffered a loss, which 'master' would dare to trust us in the future?"

"Don't look at how big our family is, how much of it belongs to us, and how much belongs to those 'lords', I think you know a little bit in your heart!"

"We are other people's 'scrooges'. If we can't even keep the money, who would want to 'keep the money'?"

It turned out that in the Ming Dynasty, although there were wealthy businessmen from the wealthy side on the bright side, the intervention of honorable officials was indispensable behind the scenes.

If there is no backing, even if the family property is tens of millions, it cannot be guarded; if there is a backing, even a middle-of-the-road person can start from nothing.

Although this Wang family is clearly doing their own business, in fact, like several other merchants, they are just "bearers".

It's just that the three families of Wang, Ji, and Hou are the beneficiaries of the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, while the Fan family is the beneficiary of the Hou Jin, that's all.

For Wang, the loss of Jiexiu's hometown can certainly be sustained, but the loss during the process cannot be accounted for to the people behind it.

"This..." The old housekeeper was silent for a moment when he heard the words, and he couldn't help but said with some hesitation, "Actually... In fact, the old servant has a few words in his heart. I don't know if I should say it or not?"

"I shouldn't say it!" Wang Xie immediately interrupted the old housekeeper's temptation after hearing this.

Master and servant have been together for decades, Wang Xie knew what he wanted to say when he opened his mouth.

It's just that some things can be thought but not said, so Wang Xie didn't give him a chance to speak at all.

The old butler was also clever, he stopped talking when he got to the point.

"Then...then what should we do now?" The old housekeeper couldn't help but change the topic.

"Let the women and children go first, I have some relationship with that Zhang family, let them go to that wall to hide for a while." Wang Xie couldn't help but decide after hearing this.

"If there is no result in three to five days, I am afraid that Zhang Bi will not be able to hold on, so let them hide in the mountains and hide their names, so as to wait for the world to be peaceful."

Wang Xie's plan is very simple, if Donglu is just passing by here, it is natural to avoid the limelight for a while.

If Donglu really gains power, it is estimated that the people behind it will not be able to protect their royal family, so naturally they can only walk into the mountains.

"Understood, I'll make arrangements now!" The old butler nodded upon hearing this, and went to pick out the "seeds".

Seeing that the old housekeeper had left and there was no one in the room, Wang Xie couldn't help but sighed, and muttered to himself: "His Royal Highness King Shun, whether or not you have a destiny will depend on the two days' effort."

Wang Xie was emotional for a moment, and then pushed the door out.

When I looked at the door, I saw the smoke outside. It turned out that it was the smoke produced by setting fire in the yard to prevent the Houjin soldiers from attacking.

"Wang An, Wang An, where is Wang An?" Wang Xie couldn't help shouting.

"My lord, I'm here. I don't know what's going on?" The servant next to Wang Xie heard this, and quickly passed the message to Wang An, and Wang An really ran over in a hurry.

"How long can I resist?" Wang Xie asked seriously.

"Also... there should be no problem before dark!" Wang An is the guard of the Wang family, and now he is commanding the guards.

"That's it!" Wang Xie gritted his teeth and couldn't help but ordered, "I don't think there's much firewood left."

"In a while, you send more than a dozen people to pile up firewood and oil outside the granary, and then move dozens of bags of grain to burn."

"When it's burning, you tell the tartar on the opposite side. Just say what I said, everything is negotiable, otherwise, we are really in a hurry, and we will kill him!"

"I burned the Wang's Manor and all the grain, tea, silk and other items to a clean slate, so that nothing will be left behind!"

"Master...you...Aren't you afraid that he will jump over the wall in a hurry?" Wang An was startled when he heard this, and he couldn't help reminding him quickly.

"It's come to this point, I can't even keep the family business that my ancestors passed down, so what am I going to do?" Wang Xie couldn't help sneering when he heard this.

"If I die, I will die here too; even if the Wang family's property is burned, it cannot be taken over by others!"

"Yes... I'll do it now!" Wang An was stunned, and left involuntarily.

After Wang Xie arranged everything properly, he took heavy steps and climbed up to the tallest building in the courtyard step by step.

He stood on the top floor and looked out, only to see that the courtyard was full of fireworks, and only the golden soldiers wrapped in wet quilts tried to rush over several times, but they were all burned away.

As a last resort, I had to go to the water from a distance to try to put out the fire.

It's just that the fire in the yard is very intense, and it's not enough to help. How can we extinguish the fire in a short while?

"It's well cooked, well done!" Wang Xie couldn't help but yelled twice, and then looked to the south from a distance.

King Shun, King Shun, if you want to take over the world, can't you even deal with these Eastern barbarians?
Yes, from last night to today, Wang Xie had made up his mind a long time ago. If the rebel army can help him get rid of the back golden soldiers, he will give the rebel army the share of the "behind the people".

Now that the situation in the world is changing, who can be alone?

Originally, Wang Xie planned to wait and see the success or failure, and then decide whether to find a new backer.

However, the current situation is stronger than others, and the Fan family colluded with Donglu and made a move first. If the Wang family can't find a new backer, they will probably be wiped out by others.

After comprehensively comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the three companies, Wang Xie realized that Yijun was the best candidate in his mind.

One is that King Shun is famous for his benevolence and righteousness, and he cherishes feathers, so he will not eat his own family alive.

The second caravan of the Wang family passed through Henan, and they also felt the atmosphere under the rule of the rebels.

Of course, the most important thing is that the rebels have already taken control of Shanxi, and there is a high probability that they will help the Wang family get rid of their original "employee" in the future.

In this way, one increase and one decrease, for the Wang family, it is just a change of "new master" and will not cause new losses.

The only question now is, can the generals under King Shun understand the "words" passed by King Jiexiu?

(End of this chapter)