In Kinmen and Prince Lu’s Mansion, the prince Zhu Hongheng and Prince Ningjing Zhu Shugui were both worried.

"Yanping and his son are fighting each other, and we are in a dilemma."

Zhu Shugui was the eighth-generation grandson of Emperor Taizu, descendant of the fifteenth prince, Liao King Zhu Zhi, and the younger brother of Zhu Shuya, the king of Changyang King. In the 15th year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong captured Jingzhou, and Zhu Shugui, King Hui and his royal family lived in the lake. Two years later, Chongzhen hanged himself in Coal Mountain, and the Manchus entered the pass. King Fu became emperor in Nanjing. Zhu Shugui and his brother Changyang entered the court and were named General Zhenguo. Later, the Qing army went south, and Zhu Shugui was separated from his brother during the escape.

At that time, Zheng Zunqian, a hero, came to Shaoxing to welcome the King of Lu as the governor. Because he did not know where King Changyang was, Zhu Shugui was appointed King Changyang. Later, Zheng Hongkui supported the King of Tang as Emperor Longwu. Zhu Shugui congratulated him on the occasion, and Emperor Longwu also recognized his title of "King of Changyang". Soon, Zhu Shugui learned that his brother was still alive and submitted a memorial to return the title of King of Kings. Emperor Longwu then changed him to King Ningjing and went to Fang Guoan's army to serve as the governor.

After the Qing army crossed the Qiantang River, Zhu Shugui fled and met with the king of Lu on the way. He was welcomed to Xiamen by Zheng Cai. At this time, Emperor Longwu was dead, and King Gui was supported as Emperor Yongli. Zhu Shugui went to pay homage. Emperor Yongli ordered him to stay in Zheng Hongkui's army. In the second year of Yongli, Zhu Shugui ordered him to supervise Zheng Chenggong's army at the same time. Later, the power of the Southern Ming Dynasty gradually collapsed, and only Zheng Chenggong maintained a greater strength and waited for the royal family in Siming Prefecture to avoid chaos. Zhu Shugui went to surrender. Zheng Chenggong treated him with the king's courtesy and let him live on the islands of Kinmen and Xiamen.

In the ninth year of Yongli, because Emperor Yongli and Zheng Chenggong's forces were far apart, Emperor Yongli specially approved Zheng Chenggong to set up six officials to facilitate governance, and at the same time allowed him to appoint official positions. Military officers could reach the first rank and civil servants could reach the head of the six ministries. Every time Zheng Chenggong was awarded an official title, he invited Zhu Shugui and the Ming Dynasty royal family to watch the ceremony to show respect for the system.

Among the kings of the Jinxia royal family, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, was the most respected. However, he was old and plagued by illness. Therefore, the royal family recommended Zhu Shugui as his eldest son, and he only followed his horse's lead in everything.

Zhu Shugui came to Kinmen to visit King Lu. Prince Zhu Hongheng of Lu accompanied him to use tea in the hall. Now the main event of Jinxia is naturally that Yanping and his son turned against each other. The father wanted to kill his son, but the son refused to stop him. With the support of the generals and his uncle Zheng Tai and others, the prince's power had already been established and he did not let his father be divided.

In order to make his father change his mind, Zheng Jing cut off the food and grass of the army, which forced Yanping to relieve the siege from Fuzhou. On the way to withdraw the troops, the army was chased by Dasu's elite soldiers, and the general Ma Xin and more than 4,000 soldiers were killed. After Yanping heard the news, he was even more heartbroken. He beat his chest and tragic gangster to harm his elite soldiers and strong generals, destroying the restoration of Fujian. He was no longer sick since then. The army is stranded in Fuqing. There is news that Yanping was so angry that he vomited blood by the stranger. He had been unconscious for many days. The person in charge of the army was Yanping's younger brother Zheng Xi. In this way, Zheng Jing refused to give in. It was rumored that Yanping had no intention of killing his wife and killing his son at all. It was Zheng Xi who made a proposition. It is not known whether it is true or false.

The good thing about the Zhu Ming royal family in Jinxia is that they are treated politely, but in fact they are just relying on others. When Yanping was in Jinxia, ​​he was very polite to the royal family at least on the surface. However, since the prince Zheng Jing took over the power of Jinxia, ​​the treatment of the royal family has been worse than that of the day. Zhu Shugui came from Xiamen this time, one to visit the seriously ill King Lu, and the other to discuss with Prince Lu whether the royal family had left Jinxia and headed to Nandu.

"There is one thing that I'm afraid you don't know. Before I came, Feng Xifan, the son of Feng Chengshi, had come to me. He told me that Zheng Jing secretly received Wu Sangui's envoy, and the envoy brought him the title of Prince Fujian." Zhu Shugui revealed an astonishing news.

"Wu Sangui's envoy, Prince Min's title?" Zhu Hongheng was startled by the news and said in a lost voice: "Yanping has been given the title of Prince Dingwu. How can the prince still accept the title of Prince Yongli?"

Zhu Shugui smiled bitterly: "All are unfilial, how can you still not stand a prince's title?"

Zhu Hongheng worried, "If Nandu knows this, it's a bad thing."

"It's going to rain, my mother wants to get married, Zheng Jing caused trouble, so he went there. It's no longer safe here. We'll choose a date to gather for a while. Let's discuss it with you." Zhu Shugui had already made up his mind before coming to Kinmen and persuaded all the royal families to go back to Nandu no matter what.

"well."

Zhu Hongheng sighed and was about to say that his father's biggest thought now was to worship the Emperor Taizu's tomb before his death, but when he heard the royal palace manager come hurriedly and shouted: "Criminal, your highness is afraid it won't work anymore. Go and have a look!"

"It was fine just now, why didn't it work!"

Zhu Shugui and Zhu Hongheng were both shocked and rushed to the residence of King Lu. After entering the house, they saw King Lu lying on the bed and gasping for breath, their faces were black and blood stained on their beards.

"Father!"

Zhu Hongheng rushed forward and saw his father's appearance, tears fell down. Zhu Shugui also sighed secretly. Seeing that there was half a bowl of medicine left on the table, he turned around and asked the maid who served King Lu: "Have you taken the medicine?"

At this moment, the extremely weak King Lu struggled to wave to Zhu Shugui, and said with great difficulty: "King Ningjing, come here, I'm afraid I can't do it anymore."

Zhu Shugui hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed King Lu's hand, comforted him and said, "Uncle Lu, you are fine, just have more rest."

"You don't need to comfort me. I know my illness. I know you're going to let me finish it," Zhu Yihai took a breath, held Zhu Shugui tightly with one hand and his son tightly with the other, and said with difficulty: "After I die, don't bury me in the Kinmen and burn my bones to ashes. Put them in the jar. You take the jar back to Nandu, bury me, outside the Xiaoling Mausoleum."

Because he said so much in one go, Zhu Yihai coughed violently, and Zhu Hongheng helped him up crying.

"After I die, you don't stay here again. Remember, you must go back, you must go back." After saying that, Zhu Yihai poured out blood and shouted: "Taizu, your children and grandchildren are unfilial!" He passed away suddenly.

"Father!"

Zhu Hongheng cried into tears, and everyone in the room was crying. Zhu Shugui was sad and reluctantly stood up to pull Zhu Hongheng up and advised him: "Uncle King of Lu has gone. As the prince, you should prepare for the funeral immediately. I will inform the royal family and Zheng Jing. Be sure to do the affairs behind Uncle King of Lu more decent. You should also write a memorial to the court. In the future, the King of Lu will still want you to attack."

"I"

Zhu Hongheng was confused by his father's death, and he didn't think so much. Seeing this, Zhu Shugui asked the people from the Prince Lu's Mansion to prepare immediately, and he went to inform the royal family and Xiamen. After coming out of the Prince Lu's Mansion, because King Yongxing Zhu Linwei was in Kinmen, Zhu Shugui asked someone to inform Zhu Linwei first. Unexpectedly, after the followers went there, they reported back and forth that King Yongxing had brought people out of Hong Kong in the morning.

"Have you left the port? Do you know where you went?" Zhu Shugui frowned, wondering where Zhu Linwei went to leave the port at this time.

"I asked the people from the Yongxing Palace that it was that the Yongxing King wanted to go to the south capital."

"Um?"
Chapter completed!