Chapter 913 Zhu Youlang flees
Li Guodong's estimate was correct. Zhu Youlang in Guangzhou was about to run away. The Huai-Fu coalition forces arrived at the city of Guangzhou. Because the two armies lacked troops, they could not surround Guangzhou. However, when Zhu Youlang climbed the Five Immortal Gate Tower and looked at the Huai Army formation from afar, he was frightened by the clean and well-equipped Huai Army so that his legs became weak, which further strengthened his determination to escape.
"Your Majesty, keep the green mountains here, and you are not afraid of burning firewood. We can go to Wuzhou first. If the thief Li comes again, we can also run to Yunnan." Ren Zixin, the chief officer of the pseudo-Elementary Uniform Guard, said softly when he helped Zhu Youlang up.
Zhu Youlang nodded gently: "I naturally understand. Let's prepare when we go back. You go to Taiping Gate to the west first, and then find a way to get a few boats. I'll go back and disguise, and we'll leave the city this afternoon."
Ren Zixin knelt down and said, "I will go now."
After Zhu Youlang returned to his pseudo-palace, he immediately asked his confidants to pass on the order: "Let both the mother and the queen disguise, and only bring their personal palace maids to gather here."
After Empress Dowager Ma and Empress Wang received Zhu Youlang's oral order, they naturally knew that Zhu Youlang was going to run away, so Empress Dowager Ma, Empress Dowager Wang, and their personal palace maids all dressed up. Empress Dowager Ma changed into a dark blue coarse cloth dress with patches from his confidant eunuch, wrapped a dirty headscarf on his head, and a gray-bottomed face was coated with a pot bottom. In a blink of an eye, the originally graceful and wealthy empress dowager turned into an old rural lady; while Empress Wang changed into a light blue coarse cloth dress and a hat on his head. The queen who originally had a mother's favor in the world became a village girl.
The two personal maids also changed into coarse cloth clothes and became village girls. After the two personal maids and queens were dressed up, they temporarily became sisters and became three sisters of village girls, and Empress Ma became their mothers. They set out with the three of them, and six confidant eunuchs, two young and short eunuchs disguised as half-aged children, and four other eunuchs, one disguised as an old woman's husband, one disguised as a husband of a village girl's eldest sister, and the other two disguised as brother-in-law.
"Mother, we are not waiting for Your Majesty?" asked Queen Wang.
"Don't wait. Your Majesty won't go with us. He has another group of people." said Empress Dowager Ma.
The pseudo-Elemental Guards who escorted Empress Ma and Queen Wang all disguised themselves as farmers and followed Empress Ma and the others from afar. The western gate of the palace was opened by the confidant eunuch, and the group sneaked out of the palace like a thief and headed straight for Taiping Gate.
Zhu Youlang was dressed as a businessman, his close eunuch disguised himself as a friend, and more than a dozen Jinyiwei lieutenants also disguised as a businessman, and the group carried the boxes out of the palace. Outside the palace, there was a row of vehicles Deng Hengduo. Zhu Youlang asked someone to put the boxes full of gold, silver and treasures on the big cart, and he got into a bus himself. Then the convoy drove towards Taiping Gate.
No one in Guangzhou's big or small officials knew that Zhu Youlang was going to run away. Whether it was Su Guansheng or Gu Yuanjing, they were busy arranging the city defense work.
Zhu Youlang arrived first and arrived at the gate of Taiping Gate. The defenders guarding the city gate had been replaced by Ren Zixin. When the Jinyiwei saw a convoy coming, a small flag officer walked forward: "Stop, the war is imminent, no one is allowed to leave the city at will!"
"Lao Liu, let them go." Ren Zixin walked out.
"Yes! Obey the order!" The Jinyiwei Xiaoqi saw that it was Ren Zixin's speech, so he asked someone to open the city gate and release Zhu Youlang and others out of the city.
Not long after, another team of peasants dressed up came over, and there were six female relatives in this peasant team. Since Ren Zixin was guarding the city gate, the pseudo-Embroidered Uniform Guard turned a blind eye and let the group go.
Seeing that Yongli and his family were out of the city, Ren Zixin said to the Jinyiwei under his command: "I will go out of the city and come back later. Please be careful of the city gate and do not let anyone in and out!"
"promise!"
Ren Zixin left the city and was waiting by the river outside the city for a long time. Two merchant ships were parked on the river. Ren Zixin drove himself and caught up with Empress Dowager Ma and Empress Wang's small team, invited the Empress Dowager and the Empress on the car, and then rushed to the horse again, and soon caught up with Zhu Youlang's convoy.
"Your Majesty, please come with me. The ship has been found." Ren Zixin knelt in front of Zhu Youlang's car.
The convoy headed straight to the riverside west of Guangzhou City, and arrived at the riverside. Ren Zixin got out of the car and walked towards the two boats parked on the dock by the riverside.
"Your descend, you can take a boat to Wuzhou immediately, and Your Majesty will give it to you temporarily. I have to go back and stabilize the guys in the court, otherwise I will not be here, and the civil and military officials will be in chaos." Ren Zixin explained to his confidants.
Ma Jixiang went to Haojing and had not yet returned. Ren Zixin, the current pseudo-King Jinyiwei, had the final say. He could not follow the pseudo-Emperor. He had to go back to Guangzhou City first to help Zhu Youlang block some guys who wanted to meet the saint, creating the illusion that Zhu Youlang was still in the city. Later, he had to arrange for people to disguise themselves as Emperor Yongli to climb the city gate to boost morale.
The Jinyiwei hurriedly untied the cables, and the two merchant ships left the dock and headed towards the wide river.
The Pearl River, to the west of Guangzhou, sails along the main river to lead to the Beijiang River. However, the Pearl River Delta rivers are crisscrossing and the waters are very complicated. If you sail along the main river to the north for a section of your way, you will have a tributary that can lead to the Xijiang River.
If you go south, there is a river flowing through Foshan to the Xijiang River. However, the river surface in the south of Guangzhou City has been controlled by the Zheng family army and the Huai Army Navy. Zhu Youlang definitely did not dare to go south to enter the Xijiang River channel, but chose to sail north and then enter a tributary to lead to the Xijiang River. The Pearl River Delta rivers are crisscrossed, and there are many river channels to enter the Xijiang River.
The two ships sailed northward. After walking more than twenty miles, a water intersection appeared in front of them. Sailing northwards was to enter a small tributary; going eastwards was to enter the Beijiang River; entering the westwards was to lead to the Xijiang River.
It was getting darker, and Zhu Youlang, who was sitting on the boat, was worried, afraid of meeting his opponent's fleet. After a night of sailing, the two merchant ships finally entered the Xijiang River. He breathed a sigh of relief. Now my family is finally safe.
Just as Zhu Youlang was fleeing to Wuzhou like a stray dog, an uninvited guest came to Liang Yuan Mansion in Guangzhou City.
Liang Yan pushed the door and walked into the study room, but saw a person sitting inside. He was so scared that he pointed at the person incoherently: "You! You! Who are you? How could you be in my study room?"
"Dr. Liang was frightened!" The man turned around and bowed to Liang Yuan, "I am the Jinyiwei, this is my waist card. Please check it out!"
After the man finished speaking, he took out a waist sign from his waist and handed it to Liang Yan.
Liang Yan took the waist card and looked at it, and suddenly shed a cold sweat, and she was shocked: Spy of the Jinyiwei? Could it be that the bribery of Jiexian (Yang Mingjing) and I were exposed?
The Jinyiwei smiled and said, "Doctor Liang, Yang Futai is you recommended to Master Su Ge? This person embezzled and bribed, lied that he had a army of 100,000. In fact, he had surrendered to Mr. Li long ago! The person you recommended by Doctor Liang committed the crime of corruption, plus the crime of deceiving the emperor, this is a serious crime that implicated the nine clans!"
Liang Yan was so scared that he had a cold sweat, and his back was already wet.
"Zhang Baihu forgives the crime. This is all the matter of Master Su, and it has nothing to do with the officials." Liang Yan was so scared that he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
"Hmph! Isn't Master Su Ge blinded by you? What crime does he have? At most, he is not allowed to recognize others and convict him of a crime of misunderstanding. And you are the crime of deceiving the king!" The man paused for a moment and said heartbrokenly, "The country is in trouble, and you are the treacherous and treacherous people do not want to serve the country, but they will be filled with their own pockets and their crimes are unforgivable!"
Chapter completed!