On the road from Taishan to Wencun, a fast horse galloped.

Taishan was restored the entire territory the year before yesterday. Chen Bingwen, the Manchu green camp formerly stationed in Taishan, knew that Guangzhou had fallen, and King Pingnan Shang Kexi died. After King Jingnan Geng Jimao surrendered to Ming Dynasty, he took his confidants to Wen Village to ask King Tang and General Hu Ben to surrender. Because he was quick to see the opportunity, Chen Bingwen was spared from his death. Now he is a deputy voyage school in the 10th town of the Taiping Army. He is now suppressing bandits in the south of Guangxi. Guo Zhiqi, a great minister of the Yongli court who fled from Yunnan to Guangxi, was discovered by Chen Bingwen's subordinates.

After Taishan was restored, due to the lessons of the famine in Wencun, King Zhu Yue of the Tang Dynasty asked Wang Xing to organize the military and civilians of Wencun to move to Taishan and sent people to recruit refugees to reclaim deserted fields in the county. In this way, Taishan could be self-sufficient in just one year and no longer needed assistance from the outside world, especially Guangzhou.

After Zhou Shixiang issued a call to serve the king to the Ming army along the coast of Guangdong, the King of Tang immediately persuaded Wang Xing to respond. Later, in order to reduce the conflict between Zhou Shixiang and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures, sent letters to the two, hoping that they could put aside their prejudices against Zhou Shixiang and the Taiping Army and responded to the call to serve the king as the governor. However, after receiving the letter, Zhang Xiaoqi said that the Tang Fan interfered in politics was not a blessing for the country. In order to make Lian Chengbi stand by himself, Zhang Xiaoqi moved out the old affairs of the Tang Fan in the Chongzhen Dynasty and persuaded him.

The old story of the Tang vassal states that in the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Manchus sent Duoluo Prince Ajige to attack Beizhili and other places. The Qing soldiers entered the Sierra to defeat Baodi and approached Beijing. The capital was martial law. At that time, the Tang King Zhu Youjian, whose fief was in Nanyang, Henan, was eager to submit a memorial to seek the king. Emperor Chongzhen refused. The Tang King ignored the national rules of "the vassal kings do not control the troops" and recruited troops and horses. He led a thousand guards from Nanyang to the north to serve the king. When he arrived in Yuzhou, the governor Yang Shengwu submitted a memorial and ordered him to return. Unfortunately, the Tang King had to go back to Nanyang, fought with the peasant army in the middle, and fought several battles, and each other won and lost.

In the early Ming Dynasty, because of the crisis of Chengzu's rebellion, Chengzu was extremely strict with the vassal kings after that. The vassal kings could enjoy themselves in the palace, but they could not raise troops to support the generals and leave the vassal subordinates. Therefore, even though the Tang King Zhu Youjian only saw that the country was forced by the Eastern Captain, he brought his own guards to the king, he still made Emperor Chongzhen furious and ordered his subordinates to discuss and depose them as commoners and sent the Jinyiwei to imprison the King of Tang to Fengyang Prison.

Zhang Xiaoqi mentioned the old story of Tang Fan back then, which was obviously to remind Lianchengbi to prevent the recurrence of the old story of Longwu. At present, the Qing army invaded Yunnan and Guizhou in large numbers, and the court and Guangdong were not informed. However, the Taiping Army successively damaged the Qing army in Guangdong and restored the entire province of Guangdong. Therefore, Zhang Xiaoqi was very worried that the thief scholar who had a strong army would make a fuss about the King of Tang.

Since the southward transition, Hongguang has supported the four towns in Jiangbei, Longwu has supported the Zheng family in Fujian, and Emperor Yongli has supported the military power of Guangxi, Qu Shisi and others. In other words, since the southward transition, the three emperors have ascended the throne and became emperor because they have received support from the army. Now that the court is in decline, Guangdong is strong, the thief scholars have made many disrespectful actions towards the court twice. Therefore, Zhang Xiaoqi's concerns are unreasonable. In addition, this time, Zhou Shixiang crossed Lianchengbi, the Guangdong Governor issued a call to serve the king, attacking those soldiers who were unwilling to respond, and even sent troops to imprison Qinzhou, which was short of capturing the Governor Lianchengbi under the city. All kinds of behaviors are very domineering, which makes people feel angry, and they don't look like a minister.

Lianchengbi didn't like Zhou Shixiang. The delay in relocating from the Governor's yamen made him feel no good about Zhou Shixiang. In addition, the Gao Lei General Gao Jinku who finally attracted rebellion. Therefore, after Zhang Xiaoqi said this, Lianchengbi naturally became alert to the King of Tang. He was the governor of Guangdong appointed by Yongli. He could not betray Yongli and support the King of Tang.

Furthermore, Tang Fan did not get formal recognition from the Yongli court. After Emperor Longwu ascended the throne in Fujing, he appointed his second brother Zhu Yuyou as the King of Tang. Later, Zhu Yuyou arbitrarily claimed to be the emperor in Guangzhou and gave the title of Tang to his third brother Zhu Yue. Since its establishment, Zhu Yuyou's Shaowu regime has been an enemy of the Yongli regime in Zhaoqing. Neither side recognized the other's orthodox party. One was to ascend the throne according to the Emperor Shenzong, and the other was to ascend the throne according to the brother-to-brother and inheritance system. Just in terms of the righteousness of the Taoist rule, both sides made sense as the ascend the throne. However, this was an emperor's dispute. Zhu Youlang and Zhu Yuyou were willing to give in. The final outcome was an internal strife in Guangdong, Shaowu died and Yongli fled.

Yongli did not recognize the Shaowu regime, so he naturally would not recognize the Tang vassal Zhu Yue, as the Tang vassal. If Wang Xing had not welcomed Zhu Yue to Wencun, Zhu Yue would have died long ago. After Princess Changle was brought to Kunming by Grand Secretary Guo Zhiqi, Yongli was sobering to please the people and win over the Tang vassal power left by Longwu and Shaowu's lineage, he attached great importance to Changle Zhu Shuyi. But until he abandoned his country and fled to Myanmar, he had never issued a formal edict to enthrone Zhu Yue. Therefore, Zhu Yue, the Tang vassal, was a title of Emperor Shaowu, and had not been included in the genealogy. If he did not recognize him as the Tang vassal, Zhu Yue would be a commoner and even had to take on the title of a great rebellion.

"Brother, brother, brother, brother," but Emperor Yongli Zhu Youlang was the least willing to see the four words. Brother, Shaowu, brother, brother, and brother, competed with him for the throne. Who can guarantee that Zhu Youye would not come here too? Even if Zhu Youye took the initiative to express support when Yongli ascended the throne in Zhaoqing, and persuaded the Zheng family of Jinxia to support Yongli. In order not to be plotted by the army, he insisted on staying in Guangdong to resist the Qing Dynasty, and refused to leave Wencun even if he was on the verge of starvation. All signs show that King Zhu Youye of Tang really supported Yongli with sincerity. But compared with the four words "Brother, brother, brother, brother, brother," it is so pale and powerless. The more the King of Tang did, the greater the suspicion of the Yongli court of Yongli. Just ask, Zhu Youye could change Zheng Sen, who had strong soldiers, to support Yongli with just one word. Will Zheng Sen support him again and again in the future?

So Zhu Yue did not do anything out of the ordinary, but just a letter that simply wanted to fight the overall situation of the Qing Dynasty and saved the emperor made Lian Chengbi and Zhang Xiaoqi very afraid.

Lian Chengbi was determined to ignore the persuasion of King Tang. He would rather hide in Qinzhou as his governor than bow to Guangzhou, and would not say that he had the idea of ​​owning King Tang ascending the throne. With the ascending the throne of King Tang, everyone in Guangdong is beneficial, but he has no benefit in the city wall, because he is now the highest official of the Ming court in Guangdong, and has the power to control the county and king. Even if this power has never been implemented, he is nominally the number one person in Guangdong. If you change to the lintel, what are the benefits of even the city wall? The thief scholar is unwilling to let him go back in Guangzhou. He has no soldiers or generals to cater to the thief scholar, and even participate in the tyrant support, so he can get a share of the water for him!

The letter did not work, and King Zhu Yue of Tang was a little disappointed, but then he thought about it. The Yongli court had never recognized his title of Tang Fan, so why did he ask the governor and governor to join forces with Zhou Shi?

Wang Xing brought his soldiers to the 10th town of the Taiping Army. After going to Guangxi from Zhaoqing, the King of Tang stayed in Wencun. His subordinates wanted King of Tang to go to Taishan County. After all, the conditions there were much better than Wencun, but the King of Tang refused to go. He only said that although Wencun was a small place, the mountains and rivers were beautiful. If he could live here in the future, he would have no regrets in his life.

When Guangzhou was broken, the Tang Wang's family was in trouble. Only one concubine escaped with him. Ten years later, Fenghua's concubine has now become a middle-aged woman. The hard life in Wencun torture not only the anti-Qing military and civilians, but also the Tang Wang and his wife.

Early in the morning, the King of Tang carried a hoe to the palace, which was actually just a few open spaces behind a few slightly larger thatched huts. There were a few bits of land on it, and some side dishes were grown on it, which were planted by the King of Tang and his wife themselves.

One uses a hoe to weed, and the other carries a bucket to pour water. The couple is happy. When they are tired, sit down and rest for a while; when they are thirsty, they use a scoop of water to drink; when they are sweating, they use a scoop of water to apply a scoop of water to drink. When they are sweating, they use a smear of sleeves. Every move is like an ordinary person, without any wealth.

The Tang King lived a hard life. He remembered that when he was very young, he was locked up by his grandfather with his father and two brothers. His grandfather even wanted to die with his father and son, and he was so cruel that he wanted to starve them to death.

The King of Tang remembered clearly that his eldest brother Zhu Youjian was only 12 years old, his second brother Zhu Youyou was 10 years old, and he was only 4 years old. He didn't know why his grandfather hated them, but he only knew that he and his father, and his brother were locked in a dark little house. If it weren't for the secretly secretly that Zhang Shutang, the prince's official, helped to send them some brown rice, they would have starved to death in that house.

16 years, 16 years!

The Tang King was scooping water and drinking suddenly trembled. He thought that he was already 20 years old when he came out of the room, but his father was dying and passed away since then. However, his grandfather still had no intention of refusing his concubine's son to be the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and wanted to cancel the eldest brother Zhu Youjian's position as the prince. Later, Chen Qiyu, a local official in Nanyang, could not bear it while mourning his father, so he warned his grandfather that the cause of his prince's death was unknown and he rashly changed the hereditary candidate. Maybe the court would blame him in the future. In this way, the grandfather, as the King of Tang, became scared and quickly appointed his eldest brother Zhu Youjian as the "father-grandson". This cruel grandfather also passed away.

Zhu Yuyou smiled bitterly, wondering whether he should hate the cruel grandfather. He sighed and sat down with the help of his beloved concubine. The suffering he suffered in childhood and the hardships he suffered over the years made others look older. He looked like an old man in his sixties or seventies, but he was actually only 49 years old.

The King of Tang admired his elder brother very much because he was really brave. He remembered that on the day when his elder brother became the Queen of Tang, he killed two uncles Zhu Qiyan, who murdered his father, and Zhu Qiyan, the King of Anyang, because of this incident, offended many ministers of the court. He ignored the dissuasion of the royal officials and resolutely recruited troops to the north to serve the king. As a result, less than half a year was released from the dark cell, he was trapped in the royal prison in Fengyang that was afraid of the royal family. In the prison, the eunuchs guarding the tomb of Fengyang could not ask for bribes, so they tortured their elder brother by using the method of locking. The elder brother suffered almost ill and survived for seven years, and finally saved his life.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, the governor of Fengyang, Lu Zhenfei, went to the prison to pay homage to Zhu Youjian. Zhu Youjian had been worn out a lot of his aura at that time. When Lu Zhenfei was polite, the latter was very fond of him and sent someone to take special care of the King of Tang. Later, Lu Zhenfei wrote a memorial to Emperor Chongzhen for the crime of abuse of the royal family and asked to give kindness to the royal family. After Chongzhen received the report, he issued an order to kill Shi Ying, the chief of the Tang king, who bullied the king of Tang. A year later, at the request of Liu Liangzuo, Guangchang, Zhu Youjian was released and was named King of Nanyang. It was also in that year that Zhu Youjian was supported by the Zheng family to ascend the throne to the emperor in Fuzhou.

When the eldest brother died, Zhu Yue and his second brother Zhu Yuyou fled to Guangdong. Later, Guangdong's Grand Secretary Su Guansheng and others supported their second brother Zhu Yuyou to become emperor. Then Tang Gui fought against each other. Guangzhou city was broken, and they escaped from the city and came to Wencun.

Scenes of past events emerged from the minds of King Zhu Yue of Tang, and his expression became more and more lonely. His father died, his brothers died, and his two sons died in Guangzhou. Now, he is the only one in the world.

The King of Tang started to cough. The suffering of childhood and the severe malnutrition made King of Tang worse and worse.

Mrs. Tang, known as the princess outside, held the King of Tang's hand nervously with one hand and gently patted him on the back with the other hand.

"Your Highness, go back to the house to rest. Just do the rest of my life alone." Mrs. Tang looked at her husband with concern, her eyes full of softness.

The Tang King calmed down, and he smiled, rolled up his trousers like an old farmer, and then stretched out his waist to get the hoe.

"Sow a grain of millet in spring, and it will turn into ten thousand seeds in autumn. There is no idle field in the world, and the farmer still starves to death. At noon, the day when the wheat is hoeing, sweat drips into the soil. Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard to eat."

The lady also laughed and did not dissuade her husband anymore, but turned around to pick up the water. Just as the lady had just lifted the bucket, Wang Xing's general, Chen Qing, who was staying in Wen Village to protect the Tang King, ran over in a hurry.
Chapter completed!