Smuggling Daming

"Your territory?" Zhengde didn't have the slightest awareness of falling into the enemy's hands. Hearing Zhou Zhong's big words, he immediately retorted, "Don't you know that there is no king in the world? territory, but it has been taken back by me now, the officials and army here are all from me, so why is it your territory?"

"Hahahaha~, it's obvious that you Zhu family are short-sighted. You don't want to put the incomparably rich ocean, you insist on implementing some kind of sea ban, and even give up the coastal islands. This Shuangyu Port is the product of the sea ban. After hundreds of years It just developed, and after my improvement, it slowly became what it is today. If I hadn't wanted to give the smugglers an upright identity, how could it be so easy for officials and troops of Ming Dynasty to enter ?" Zhou Zhong laughed and said at this time, since he has already torn his face, he doesn't need to be polite with Zhengde, besides, he has never had any awe of the royal family.

Zhengde was very angry when he heard that Zhou Zhong scolded the royal family for being short-sighted. He just wanted to refute, but he heard Zhou Zhong go on to say: "Now is not the time to talk nonsense. Where are my wife and relatives? Hurry up and take them all away." Let them out, prepare another big boat, and I will take them away together!"

Zhou Zhong tightened his knife and said, although hijacking Zhengde is a serious crime to destroy the family, and even if he is given a boat, he may not be able to escape, but in this case, even if there is a glimmer of hope, he will try give it a try.

Zhengde was very unhappy when Zhou Zhong interrupted him, but he didn't dare to resist.Instead, he called Gu Dayong out loud and obediently. As a result, Gu Dayong was frightened to death as soon as he came in. Just now he heard something was wrong in the living room, but His Majesty had ordered before that as long as you don’t call him No matter what happened inside, he was not allowed to come in, so he could only keep guard outside. He didn't expect that His Majesty would be held around his neck with a short sword by Zhou Zhong. If there was any accident.That would be a big deal.

"What are you still doing in a daze, go and invite Zhou Zhong's wife and daughter over here!" Seeing Gu Dayong standing there in a daze, Zhengde yelled angrily, but Gu Dayong trembled in fright, and dared not have any more Delayed, rushed to the backyard to invite someone.But he knew that His Majesty didn't ask him to invite Zhou Zhong's family, but to invite another person.

Zhou Zhong put the short sword on Zhengde's neck and dared not relax at all. Although he tried his best to pretend to be calm on the surface, his mind was still spinning, thinking about how he could escape from Shuangyu Port safely. In addition, after he escaped.What about the remaining Nanyang Chamber of Commerce? Is there a way for me to take these people away?These questions jumped out of his mind one by one.But the answer to each question made him shudder.

But when Zhou Zhong's mind was in a mess, Zhengde suddenly said slowly: "Zhou Zhong, you don't have to be afraid, I don't have any malice towards you, and I don't want to do anything to you?"

"Shut up, now that your life is in my hands, you should be the one to be afraid!" Zhou Zhong roared angrily.He was in a state of disarray now, and he was very upset when he heard Zhengde's words.He was even more annoyed when he heard the other party expose the fact that he was afraid.

"Haha, I got it right. If you're not afraid, why is the hand holding the dagger shaking?" Zhengde didn't have the slightest awareness of being held hostage, and continued with a smile, "I see, are you Worried about your family, worried that you won’t be able to escape even if you have a boat, and even if you escape with your family, what will the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce do..."

"Shut up, if you don't shut up, believe it or not, I'll cut off your tongue. Anyway, you don't usually go up to court, so it doesn't make much difference whether you want your tongue or not!" Zhou Zhong said with a vicious face. He was talking nonsense without any vision, which put him on the verge of breaking out. If he made him anxious, it would not be impossible to kill Zhengde directly.

"Good scolding, his mouth is really not flattering, and everyone can be quieter if he cuts off his tongue." As soon as Zhou Zhong's words fell, a woman's voice suddenly came from outside, followed by the door of the living room. Open it, and a graceful lady walked in. She looked about 40 years old and looked very rich. Although there were some thin crow's feet in the corners of her eyes, it could be seen that she must have been a very beautiful woman when she was young.

Seeing that it was a middle-aged woman who came in, Zhou Zhong was taken aback for a moment, but what he didn't expect was that Jin Xuan stood beside this middle-aged woman and supported her, and besides this woman In her arms, she was holding an infant baby. If she guessed correctly, this baby should be her newborn daughter.

When Jinxuan came in, she saw Zhou Zhong holding a short sword on Zhengde's neck, her face turned pale with fright, and she called in a trembling voice, "Master, what's going on, why are you holding His Majesty hostage?"

Zhou Zhong saw Jinxuan helping a strange middle-aged woman come in, and handing over the child to her, and even looking at them, they seemed to be very close, which made him a little confused, and he couldn't figure it out for a while. What is going on here, and who is this middle-aged woman?

I saw that after the woman came in, she didn't care about Zhengde's being held hostage. Instead, she gave Zhengde a hard look, and then handed the daughter in her arms to Jinxuan who was beside her. , you are already the emperor, and you can’t even do such a trivial thing, let you recognize a relative to do this, and now you are being held hostage by your own brother, what a shame!"

For this woman's reprimand, Zhengde did not dare to resist at all, but kept smiling. Zhou Zhong was even more stunned. He never thought that there would be people who would dare to reprimand Zhengde in this world, and Zhengde Still dare not resist, who is this middle-aged woman?Why did she say that Zhengde was held hostage by his younger brother?It was obviously held hostage by yourself, okay?

Just when Zhou Zhong was full of doubts, I saw the woman who had reprimanded Zhengde walked up to Zhou Zhong, looked at Zhou Zhong earnestly with tears in her eyes for a long time, and finally cried out: "My son, these Nian has caused you to suffer, quickly let go of your emperor brother, and let the three of us have a good chat!"

"Emperor...Emperor Brother?" Zhou Zhong was even more shocked when he heard this. At the same time, he wondered if the woman in front of him was mentally ill, otherwise how could he say so many inexplicable words.

At this moment, the crying woman seemed to want to hug Zhou Zhong, but Zhou Zhong took two steps back and said, "Wait a minute, who are you? Why do you say that I am Zhu Houzhao's younger brother? What's the matter?"

Seeing Zhou Zhong's confused face, the middle-aged woman in front of her was crying like rain, she opened her mouth several times but couldn't say anything, her tearful eyes only looked up and down at Zhou Zhong, His eyes were full of kindness, but Zhou Zhong's heart trembled when he met this kind of eyes, because he remembered the eyes his mother had looked at him in his previous life.

At this time, Zhengde suddenly sighed and said: "Zhou Zhong, no, I should call you second brother now. The person in front of me is our mother, the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty. As for your background, it is one of the biggest secrets of our royal family of the Ming Dynasty." , and at the same time it is the greatest shame, the royal father spent countless manpower and material resources in order to find your whereabouts, but unfortunately there was no clue in the end, and even before he died, he still missed you and told me to find you."

As Zhengde said, he finally revealed a secret in the court. It turned out that the woman in front of Zhou Zhong and the others was Zhengde's mother, Empress Dowager Zhang, and Zhou Zhong's identity was not Zhu Yunwen's descendant, but Zhengde's. His younger brother Zhu Houwei.

At the beginning, Empress Dowager Zhang and Emperor Xiaozong had two sons and two daughters, but they never thought that there would be a descendant of Zhu Yunwen lurking in the palace, Zhou Hai who was also named Wang Hai.

Zhou Hai hated Zhengde's family very much, even to the point of madness, and he had been lurking in the palace for many years and had many helpers in the palace. As a result, under his plan, the two little princesses died young. The young Zhengde was also given a miracle drug by him, which caused him to lose his fertility.

The last prince, Zhu Houwei, also did not escape Zhou Hai's poisonous hands, but this time Zhou Hai did not hurt Zhu Houwei, but stole him from the palace, but it was this plan that made Emperor Xiaozong finally find him. A trace of clues finally exposed Zhou Hai.It's a pity that Zhou Hai was very shrewd. When he saw that something was wrong, he immediately ran away with Zhu Houwei. As for the remaining comrades, they were all executed by Emperor Xiaozong in a rage.

Zhu Houwei disappeared with Zhou Hai, so Emperor Xiaozong would not let his son be alone, so in the next few years, he spent a lot of manpower and material resources to find Zhou Hai's trace, but unfortunately he found nothing until his death Still brooding over this matter.

After Zhengde ascended the throne, although he didn't like government affairs, he always kept his father's last wish in mind, so he has been sending people to look for Zhou Hai's traces in the past few years.Originally, this incident has been going on for more than ten years, and it is even more difficult for Zhengde to find Zhou Hai, but he did not expect that he was lucky, and finally found a clue about Zhou Hai, and even followed this line to find Zhou Hai. The clue led Jin Yiwei to find Zhou Hai who lived in seclusion in Songjiang Mansion. Unfortunately, before Jin Yiwei was happy, he got the news that Zhou Hai had died at sea, leaving Zhou Zhong and his family to live their lives.

Originally, when Jin Yiwei heard that Zhou Hai died in an accident, he wanted to go to the Zhou Mansion immediately to arrest him. After all, Zhou Hai committed a heinous crime, and his family would also be implicated. However, Wu Shan, who was in charge of the matter at the time, discovered that Zhou Zhong He was about the same age as the missing prince Zhu Houwei, so he suspected that Zhou Zhong was the prince back then, so he found an opportunity to live in Zhou's mansion, intending to take the opportunity to find out Zhou Zhong's real identity. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)