After cleaning up the officials of the Yongli Dynasty in Myanmar by using the hands of the Burmese people, Wu Sangui secretly detained Zhu Youlang in Shilongwei on the border of Yunnan-Burma, and his son-in-law Guo Zhuangtu personally took care of it. Without his warrant, no one could meet Zhu Youlang.

Wu Sangui only met Zhu Youlang that day. At that time, Zhu Youlang knew that he had asked who was coming, but Wu Sangui was silent. After asking again, he fell to the ground and stopped coming up. After asking several times, Wu Sangui called him the name.

"Are you a Han person? Are you a minister of the Ming Dynasty? If so, why would you be willing to traitor and betray the king? If so! You said, where is your conscience!"

Faced with Zhu Youlang's repeated questions, Wu Sangui kept silent and just lay motionless.

Zhu Youlang only thought that Wu Sangui would have to die when he picked him up, so he sighed and said, "It's already like this, I have nothing to say. However, I am from Beijing, can I allow me to die again after seeing the Twelve Tombs?"

When Wu Sangui heard this, he said that things would not come to this point, so he asked the emperor not to think too much. Zhu Youlang asked him why he said this, but Wu Sangui refused to say it again and ordered him to help him out. At that time, he was ashamed and sweating profusely. From then on, he never came to see Zhu Youlang again.

Wu Sangui ordered Zhu Youlang, Empress Wang, Prince and others to be detained separately. The only people who served Zhu Youlang were five small officials, three or four ugly little palace maids and Deng Kai, the general of the lame guards.

Zhu Youlang didn't know if Wu Sangui would hand him over to the Qing court or execute him in Yunnan. After a few days of worry, he asked Guo Zhuangtu to give him paper and pen and wrote a letter to Guo Zhuangtu for Wu Sangui. In addition, he cut off his sleeves and wrote a secret edict to a small internal official, saying to him: "Son, if you can escape, you can greet the King of Jin, the Duke of Guangdong and the Thirteen families. If you can send troops to rescue me, I will be a practitioner in the future."

Unexpectedly, the secret edict of the clothes and belt was found by the Qing army. Guo Zhuangtu immediately killed several small internal officials, leaving only Deng Kai and two palace maids Zhu Youlang. This made Zhu Youlang even think that his death was coming, so he gritted his teeth and went on a hunger strike.

The general guard Deng Kai knelt down and hugged Zhu Youlang and cried bitterly, advising him not to go on a hunger strike. Zhu Youlang cried and said, "After Zhu Youyou was captured, he knew that he would not eat one meter of the Qing Dynasty and not drink a single water of him. Is it better than him?" (Author's note: Zhu Youyou, Emperor Shaowu)

Guo Zhuangtu also came to persuade him, but Zhu Youlang still refused to eat. Helplessly, Guo Zhuangtu had to urgently report the letters written by Zhu Youlang and the incident that happened.

After reading the letter Zhu Youlang wrote to him and the searched robbery, Wu Sangui was in a complicated mood. In the letter, Zhu Youlang called him a minister of the Ming Dynasty and a heroic town in the new dynasty, and mentioned the kindness of Emperor Chongzhen's love and trust in him back then, which made Wu Sangui's mood particularly heavy. It seemed that he saw the anxious and helpless eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, but had high hopes for him, and it seemed that he could see Zhu Youlang's melancholy and sad eyes.

Wu Sangui savored Zhu Youlang's words over and over again. In particular, "The general is still a descendant of the world's fortune, and he does not pity his servants, but does not recite the call of the previous emperor? He does not recite the previous emperor, but does not recite the second ancestor, but does not recite the second ancestor, but does not remember the father of his own?" These sentences hit his heart again and again, making him uneasy.

Wu Sangui felt a little pitiful to Zhu Youlang, not because Zhu Youlang said in his letter: "I don't know what kind of kindness and virtue of the Qing Dynasty is to the general, and what kind of hatred and resentment of the general. The general thinks he is wise and becomes foolish, and he thinks he is generous but feels weak. After Yi, there are historical records and books. Why should the general be like a human being?" But because he felt that he has come to this day step by step, and was forced by the current situation. He has never really wanted to leave. Just like taking Zhu Youlang back now, it was never his original intention. If he could choose, he would rather Zhu Youlang stay in Myanmar forever and die by himself. However, the changes in the situation forced him to bring people back, and he might even return to the Ming Dynasty anyway. After 16 years of struggle, he went back to the past. Wu Sangui couldn't help but feel sad, and luck made people feel bad.

Wu Sangui didn't know how to reply to Zhu Youlang's letter. After thinking about it, he finally got Zhu Youlang back and how to make him die of hunger strike. But he didn't know how to convince him. Should he really tell Zhu Youlang that he, the King of Pingxi of the Qing Dynasty, is now watching and betting on him, and he has bet on him? Just wait for the victory and loss in the southeast to decide, and he will support him as the emperor again? This is definitely not possible!

Wu Sangui was unsure of his mind, so he asked Hong Chengchou, Hu Shouliang, Fang Xianting, Xia Guoxiang and others to discuss the matter. Except for Hong Chengchou, the rest of the people were his confidants and did not worry about the leak. After Hong Chengchou arrived, he glanced at Wu Sangui's cadre and asked him to find Ma Bao.

Wu Sangui was puzzled why he was looking for Ma Baolai. Hong said that Ma Bao was the leader of the surrendered generals in the West and was also a powerful general. In the future, whether it was anyway or not, he would always rely on Ma Bao, so he needed to know about this matter and let him participate in it, so he could calm down. After hearing this, Wu Sangui felt good and ordered someone to summon Ma Bao.

After Ma Bao arrived, everyone had read Zhu Youlang's letter. Prime Minister Xia handed the letter to Ma Bao. Ma Bao was not very literate, so Fang Xianting read it for him and told the prince that he had secretly welcomed Zhu Youlang back.

Ma Bao was shocked after hearing this, and then she burst into tears. He had deep feelings for Emperor Yongli and thought that Wu Sangui would definitely kill the emperor. So he knelt in front of Wu Sangui and cried and begged: "Please be kind to the prince and spare the emperor's life!"

"Genius Ma Bao get up quickly. When did I say that I would like to harm the emperor?" Wu Sangui helped Ma Bao up.

"That prince?"

Ma Bao was a little puzzled. Wu Sangui looked at Hong Chengchou, and Hong Chengchou nodded slightly. Wu Sangui told Ma Bao about the attempt to embrace Zhu Youlang to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

"But we can't raise the flag at the moment, we have to wait for the situation in the southeast to be decided." Hu Shouliang said.

"This is naturally. Although I, Ma Bao, are rough, I know that this is of great importance. It affects the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, so how can I be hasty?" Ma Bao wiped away his tears. He could understand Wu Sangui's approach. If he were Wu Sangui, he would probably have done these two bets.

Fang Xianting said: "With Emperor Yongli, we have the bargaining chips to compete with the Qing court and the Guangdong regime."

Ma Bao was confused again when he heard this. Fang Xianting shook his head and said, "Compared with the Qing court and Guangdong, we are weak and are the weakest of the three parties. Therefore, we must have the emperor in our hands to have great power. Otherwise, we will only be the leader of the king for others in the end. If this is the case, why bother?"

Hu Shouliang added, and said, "If we don't support Zhu Youlang, we don't care who will compete with those two families. The disadvantage will be us."

Ma Bao understood and nodded. Prime Minister Xia frowned and said, "But we can't tell the emperor the details now, but the emperor is going to take a hunger strike. What should we do?"
Chapter completed!