Daming: My brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 319 Take down Zhou Kui!Snatch Zhu Cihong!

A heavy male voice suddenly appeared.

The owner of the voice is Cao Wenzhao, the general of the Qianfeng Battalion.

Cao Wenzhao looked at Zhou Kui at this moment and said, "I have seen His Royal Highness Prince Xin, and I will invite him here. I will have a look and talk about it."

Zhou Kui didn't expect that Cao Wenzhao wanted to verify Zhu Cihong's identity, so he brought the two-year-old Zhu Cihong over.

Cao Wenzhao directly brought over Zhu Cihong who was dressed in hemp, looked at it carefully, and then suddenly ordered: "Close the city gate! Take Zhou Kui!"

Zhou Kui was taken aback.

"Bold! Do you want to resist the decree?!"

Zhou Xian, a family member who left the palace with Zhou Kui, asked a question at this time.

Zhou Kui also came back to his senses, and asked in a cold voice: "That's right! You actually want to prevent His Majesty from letting His Highness King Xin go to the ground for peace. Are you not afraid of being known by His Majesty, and everyone will die?!"

As Zhou Kui spoke, he looked at Zhu Cihong again: "Also win the trust of the prince! What do you want to do?!"

Zhou Kui is quite regretful now, regretting that Cao Wenzhao should not have easily taken away Prince Xin's son Zhu Cihong just now, otherwise, once these people really found out that it was a false imperial decree, he could still take Prince Xin's son as a hostage!
Although Xin Wang Shizi is his grandson, in Zhou Kui's view, he can be used when it is time to use it, even if it means letting him die!
Historically, Zhou Kui has indeed done this.

When Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, Zhu Cihong fled to his house to seek asylum, but he directly sacrificed Zhu Cihong, hoping that this would win Li Zicheng's favor.

"Grandpa!"

In this life, because Zhu Cihong didn't know Zhou Kui's nature, he felt panic when he saw himself being taken away from his grandfather by Cao Wenzhao, so he cried out.

Zhou Kui also didn't agree, just looked at Cao Wenzhao, and continued: "As the imperial decree said, to bury King Xin and let King Xin go out of the city first to stop the coffin first, it is His Majesty's official decision, and the time is also His Majesty's official decision." Yes, delay time, you should know the consequences!"

"Take the son down!"

Cao Wenzhao gave an order first.

Seeing this, Zhou Kui became even more flustered, but on the surface he still pretended to be calm and ordered: "Sacrificing to King Xin cannot be without a son! After all, the son is the only blood of King Xin! You are still resisting the order by doing this!"

Cao Wenzhao said calmly at this time: "I have already obtained the imperial decree that Zhou Kui, Yue Weng of Xin Wang, hijacked the coffin of his son and Xin Wang, and planned to go out of the city to cause chaos. I will wait here for arrest!"

As he said that, Cao Wenzhao looked at Zhou Kui and asked, "So, where did your edict come from?"

After Cao Wenzhao asked, he took out an imperial decree.

Zhou Kui was shocked when he saw it.

Immediately, Zhou Kui gave Zhou Xian a wink.

Zhou Xian understood, and suddenly yelled: "The matter has been revealed, copy the guy, force your way out of the city! Take the Yongding Gate!"

All of a sudden, many dead soldiers rushed out of many nearby houses.

These dead soldiers, each with big arms and round waists, armed with flintlocks, rushed towards the Qianfengying official school defending the city.

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But the Qianfeng Battalion had already made preparations. As rounds of gunshots rang out, the corpses of the dead men from the Zhou Mansion who rushed over were strewn across the field.

Not long after, Liu Zongmin also led a team of Xichang officials to rush from the two wings of the gate and surrounded Zhou Kui and others.

Liu Zongmin also rode on the horse and shouted: "Zhou Kui! Capture him without a fight! Princess Xin has already explained everything to His Majesty, and everything you have done now is useless!"

As Liu Zongmin said, he came over to Cao Wenzhao with another imperial decree: "By decree, we will take away Zhou Kui and others."

Zhou Kui was a little unwilling to believe this result for a while, but then he couldn't help but cursed: "This unfilial daughter dares to betray her father!"

Zhou Kui obviously scolded Princess Xin Zhou.

But Zhou Kui obviously ignored that it was his own indifference and selfishness that caused all this, because he was obviously the one who snatched away the only child first!
You must know that Tianqi declared that King Xin died suddenly, so he deliberately did not continue to pursue the family of King Xin, and Zhu Cihong, the blood of King Xin, could still inherit the title of King Xin.

But Zhou Kui still wanted to take Zhu Cihong as a hostage in order to protect himself, and tricked him into opening the city gate.

How could this not make Zhou's disappointment in his father.

Not long after, Zhou Kui was escorted by Liu Zongmin to Zhang Gui, and Zhang Gui had received the decree from the apocalypse to interrogate Zhou Kui in the imperial prison of Jinyiwei North Town Fusi.

Dong Tingxian was also in prison at this time.

Therefore, when he saw Zhou Daodeng and Zhou Kui being taken to prison one after another, he immediately stood up and shouted through the prison door: "You guys, why did you come in too?! No one can escape?!"

Zhou Daodeng and Zhou Kui looked at Dong Tingxian expressionlessly when they were escorted in.

For a while, Dong Tingxian could only slam the prisoner with all his strength and sulk.

"how so?!"

When Zhou Kui was escorted in, he slammed the cell door hard.

As soon as Zhou Kui was escorted in front of Zhang Gui, Zhang Gui said first, "Zhou Kui, tell me why you did this. Wouldn't it be good to be your prince and father-in-law?"

Zhou Kui smiled disdainfully and said: "Uncle Guo, why don't you ask yourself. What kind of good Ming Dynasty has been made by you and Your Majesty! The number of children that can be bought is getting less and less. Those who enter the government cannot be treated as slaves. As long as they are able to speak Chinese and practice Chinese customs, they are all protected by the Emperor Gang and the National Law, and the adopted children have to share the family property! This is to strengthen the so-called slavery system left by the Taizu! You do this , not to mention being the father-in-law of a prince, even being the father-in-law of an emperor is not as good as before! Even the life of an ordinary Juren is not as good as before!"

Zhang Gui nodded: "My lord understands. You are dissatisfied with the imperial court's system of prohibiting slavery, and you are also dissatisfied with the fact that there are not many people selling their children, so that you can't buy a large number of children at a low price, and then train them to become talents." , sold out, right?"

Zhou Kui snorted.

boom!
Zhang Gui suddenly slapped the gavel and said sharply, "Don't you have disdain on your face! If you are really dissatisfied with the slavery system, I believe you are not brave enough to collude with foreigners like Zhou Daodeng and Dong Tingxian. Murder the emperor!"

"Actually, it should be because you, Zhou Kui's family, only make a living by selling people, especially when a large number of people in Ming Dynasty were starved of food, your business became better and better, and any girl from a poor family could be trained to become a talent." , Selling it is a high price! But now, the imperial court has implemented a new policy, so that fewer and fewer people sell children and daughters, and the number of buyers has been further reduced by prohibiting slavery! This has greatly reduced the income of you, the prince’s father-in-law, and even now It is no longer possible to maintain a luxurious life, and even can only rely on the prince's support to survive! Don't you think so?"

Zhou Kui raised his eyes and glanced at Zhang Gui: "Since Uncle Guo knows, why bother to ask more questions."

Zhang Gui patted the gavel again: "My Lord wants you to answer now!"

Only then did Zhou Kui reply: "Yes!"

Then, Zhou Kui said angrily: "My father-in-law is still the emperor's father-in-law, and he should understand that he can live a more comfortable life by taking advantage of the fact that the life of the Han people is getting cheaper and cheaper. Why does the uncle of the country just have an endless relationship with your majesty?" The tossing and tossing has made life difficult for the rich and powerful in the world! The life of ordinary people is getting better and better, but the question is, Uncle Guo, are you an ordinary person?"

(End of this chapter)