Siwei showed a helpless smile and said: "Your Highness, it is better to speak frankly than to use clever words to deceive. Unlike some Han people, who say what they say and mean what they mean. My ancestor Sihong believed in the words of Han officials and fought hard against the Burmese soldiers, but could not wait.
The Han soldiers reinforced the army, but they were finally defeated and died."
Zhu Yongxing nodded, expressing deep sympathy, then looked at Siwei and said: "Then look at -"
"God's envoys will not die easily." Siwei narrowed his eyes, "Your Highness must be a trustworthy person and will do his best to help our clan and achieve our decades-long wish. Please discuss the details with the Great Witch.
"
Zhu Yongxing blinked, nodded sincerely, and said: "Okay, as long as I still have breath, I will fight for this to the end."
Siwei hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: "Your Highness, what do you think of Ah Zhu? She is the apple of my eye and the most beautiful girl in the village."
"Azhu is indeed beautiful." Zhu Yongxing's thoughts have not yet changed. He is just thinking about his next plan when China is about to sink.
"Can Your Highness take her out of Burma and into Yunnan?" Siwei noticed Zhu Yongxing's perfunctory behavior and was not satisfied, so he spoke more straightforwardly.
"Take A-Zhu?" Zhu Yongxing blinked, still a little confused, but he vaguely guessed some of Siwei's meaning, but he was not sure yet, so he asked tentatively: "My life will be very dangerous in the future, and I may be
People who betrayed themselves to the Qing army might also be killed. So, would it be safer for Ah Zhu to stay in the village?"
"God's envoys will never die." Siwei repeated stubbornly, then sighed softly and said slowly: "The chieftain of the Burmese faction is dissolute and shameless, and many good girls in the village are -" After a pause,
He continued: "Although I have always deliberately hidden A'Zhu, there is no airtight wall in the world. A'Zhu must leave here to avoid bad luck. A'Zhu is smart, virtuous, and proficient in Sinology, so he will not be annoying to His Highness.
, I hope that Your Highness will not be cold and heartless and let her down."
Zhu Yongxing lowered his eyelids. Although he admired Mengzhu's beauty, it was still a bit sudden to talk about marriage immediately. Besides, his mind was now full of survival, growth, resistance to the Qing Dynasty, or how to escape after failure, so he immediately stuffed a beautiful woman into his mind.
Coming here made him uncomfortable.
"Well, it depends on Ah Zhu's intention, right? Who knows if she is willing to live and die with me and wander around?" Zhu Yongxing said casually, wanting to delay it so that he could think about it carefully.
"Ah Zhu bit you very hard, right?" When Siwei heard that Zhu Yongxing had no objection, he couldn't help stroking his beard and smiling, and glanced at Zhu Yongxing's wrist, "The girl's thoughts, she has been willing for a long time.
But Your Highness didn’t give you any gift of love, maybe you don’t know the customs of our clan?”
"Reach out your hand and bite your brother. The more you bite, the deeper your love for your sister becomes. The green hills remain forever, and those tooth marks are like seeing a human being." Biting hands is a unique way for these young men and women of the Miao ethnic group to express their love. If a girl bites
If the bite is very gentle and very polite, the young man will understand that the girl is expressing rejection or hinting that he has someone he likes; if the girl bites hard, or even bites blood, it means that the girl is very devoted to him and is willing to accept the love of the young man.
After "biting hands" to confirm their love, young men and women should each take out their most beloved souvenirs, such as rings, earrings, bamboo hats, waist baskets and other gifts, and give them to each other as tokens of love to show that they will be together for life.
Zhu Yongxing blinked, feeling very weird and interesting about this custom. After a long while, he grinned bitterly, said nothing more, stood up, bowed, and left.
He still needs time to wake up, time to think carefully, and he needs to formulate a practical plan. But he needs a force to start a business, because he is a clan member who is not valued by others. From the time when Emperor Yongli led important people on a boat,
But he knew this because he had to go overland. Even if he returned to Yunnan, who among the generals with troops would be willing to obey his orders?
Although fate often causes people to encounter some strange things that no one can predict; fate also often causes people to fall into some sad and ridiculous situations, leaving people with no choice at all; destiny
More often than not, some people who should never be together will meet, and some people who should never be separated will be separated.
It's just that people with real courage will never give in to fate. They have already learned to be patient in difficulties and endure in adversity. As long as they have the opportunity, they will stand up and continue to struggle. Zhu Yongxing will never
Admit that you are a person without courage.
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The small dock by the river was busy and chaotic. There were all kinds of shabby things thrown away by officials of the Ming Dynasty floating in the river. They floated and sank with the wind. Looking down from the sky, they looked like a piece of rags.
Terrible floral fabric.
Emperor Yongli was sitting in the cabin, looking out blankly through the window. His eyes had no focus, and he didn't know what he was looking at, or he was looking at nothing. But in his heart, he was thinking about sailing away from Yunnan as soon as possible.
The farther away you are, the better, to avoid Qing troops from chasing you.
Thousands of civil servants and generals from the small imperial court fled in panic, disarmed themselves in front of the Myanmar Pass, and fled into Myanmar. On the 30th, they marched to the river (about Bhamo, close to the Irrawaddy River). On the second day of February, the king of Myanmar sent
Four passenger ships came to greet them. Due to the small size of the ships, Emperor Yongli selected 646 officials to accompany Sangong southward by the waterway. Some of the officials paid their own money to hire ships to accompany them; the remaining more than 900 people
The commander-in-chief Pan Shirong protected the Prince of Min and others on horseback and headed overland to the city of Ava in Myanmar.
Emperor Yongli had been scared to death by the Qing army. As soon as the ship arrived, he boarded the Burmese passenger ship surrounded by Ma Jixiang and Li Guotai. Not only the civil and military officials accompanying him, but also many people were unaccounted for on the ship. Even the Queen Mother and the East Palace were not taken care of.
, Emperor Yongli wanted to set sail by boat.
The Queen Mother was furious when she saw this, and cursed: "The emperor has not yet arrived at Dianpei, so he is ignoring his mother?" Zhu Youlang then ordered the ship to be stopped, and it was temporarily moored on the shore, anxiously waiting for all the land and water personnel to be arranged before sailing.
The boat went south and continued to flee.
The passenger ship shook slightly, and Emperor Yongli's blank eyes turned slightly, showing some anger, and asked the eunuch next to him: "Let's go and have a look, tell the civil and military officials to hurry up, it's so slow, when can we set off south?"
Before the eunuch could go out, the curtain of the cabin was raised, and two officials led by the Duke of Guizhou, Mu Tianbo and the Prime Minister Ma Jixiang, came over. They bowed politely and reported: "Your Majesty, Commander-in-Chief Pan Shirong sent the general envoy Zhu Yunjin.
Jiang Chengde of the Chinese army came to start the memorial, and the Crown Prince of Min fell into the Yi people's village on the way and refused to go south..."