Chapter 90 Can’t die at dawn

Chapter 90 Can't Die at Dawn

From beginning to end, Mu Tiantao never asked the emperor for his will, or even asked Emperor Zhu Yurao what he thought of his rough behavior.

When I returned home and took a shower, I saw that the butcher-like Mu Tiantao was gone, replaced by the elegant and kind man as before.

Mu Tiantao, who had been busy all day, just started to eat. Zhu Yuyao stood beside him and served him dishes, like a shy little daughter-in-law.

Mu Tiantao, who had eaten half of his meal, raised his head and looked at Zhu Yuyao and said: "The capital cannot be defended!"

Zhu Yuyao said: "Then we will live or die together."

Mu Tiantao frowned and said: "This is not how Yushan Academy teaches its students."

Zhu Ya'ao shook her head and said: "I am a princess, it is different."

Mu Tian Tao picked up a handkerchief and wiped his mouth and said: "If one day, Yushan is attacked, Yun Zhao will definitely run away, and he will run with great determination."

"He is a rogue bandit!"

"Wrong again, Li Hongji is a rogue bandit, Zhang Bingzhong is a rogue bandit, but Yun Zhao is not. He has always been based in Guanzhong, and has never stopped for a moment in governing and building Guanzhong.

I have to say, From a small family of thieves, he turned himself into a family of emperors step by step."

"In my eyes, he will always be a bandit."

"This is. Of course, in the eyes of the world, he has become an emperor, and he is an emperor chosen by the people."

"Shameless, he compares himself to Yao and Shun"

Mu Tiantao! He looked at Zhu Yurao with resentment and said: "If the emperors after the Ming Dynasty were all selected, then there is really no big problem for him to compare with Yao and Shun."

Zhu Yurao's body trembled slightly and he said awkwardly. : "Are you also optimistic about Yun Zhao?"

Mu Tiantao shook his head and said: "It's not that he is optimistic about him, the world is already his, whether it is in terms of strength or public support, the whole world , no one can match it."

"What about my father?"

Mu Tiantao nodded: "This is indeed a difficult problem."

Zhu Yuyao said with a tearful tone: "Is this why you told me that the capital cannot be defended?"

Mu Tiantao remained silent.

With Qingzhou Magistrate Ge Xuning coexisting with the city in Qingzhou, the entire Shandong Province has completely fallen under Li Hongji's hooves.

Immediately, Cangzhou, Hejian, and Jinzhou were all in emergency, and emergency documents were sent almost three times a day.

Li Hongji's army has arrived at the border of Hejian Prefecture. So far, Dou Wenguang, the prefect of Hejian Prefecture, is clearing the country.

Xingpingbo Li Yan stationed troops in Bazhou, vowing to fight to the death with Li Hongji...

Since contacting the Lantian Secret Service, Mu Tiantao's vision has changed in an instant Extremely vast.

Not only did he know that Li Hongji, who claimed to be the Emperor of Dashun, had arrived,When they arrived at the Cangzhou front line, they also knew that Liu Zongmin was heading towards Shunde Prefecture and Li Jin was heading towards Zhending Prefecture.

The army of thieves has cut off the canal, and Tianjin is also in danger.

The emperor has ordered the Liaodong cavalry, who had just eased the situation, to enter the pass. Cao Bianjiao, Bai Guangen, and Wang Pu rushed to reinforce the capital.

He also ordered Du Xun, the eunuch of the supervisory army, Jiang Xiang, the general of Datong, who did not have Datong territory, and Wang Chengyin, the general of Xuanfu, who did not have Xuanfu territory, to command 60,000 troops and horses to go to Jinan to defend.

At this time, eight months had passed since Li Hongji captured Jinan.

Datong Mansion has long been the place where Li Dingguo raised horses, and Xuanfu was also hired by Li Dingguo to have hundreds of thousands of farmers working on the land. Datong City and Xuanfu City are still under the trusteeship of Lantian officials. Down.

Lantian officials once sent countless official letters to Jiang Xiang, the commander-in-chief of Datong, and Wang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu, hoping that they could come back and govern the place well... Unfortunately, neither of these two people was willing to come back.

The broader Mu Tiantao's vision is, the less confident he is in Ming Dynasty. At this moment, he just wanted to have a good fight with the traitors.

The reason why he told Zhu Yuelao that there was no way to guard the capital because the people in the capital were scattered was because he hoped that Zhu Yuelao could understand his painstaking efforts and persuade the emperor to leave the capital and go south as soon as possible.

Mu Tiantao even believed that taking Lantian was the safest way for the emperor to go south.

However, he could not say this sentence no matter what.

Zhu Yuluo suddenly sat on Mu Tiantao's lap, with a flushed face, and said to him with almost all her strength: "I will fight to death here with you!"

Mu Tiantao put his arms around Zhu Yurao's still trembling waist and said, "Why do you have to die if you can live?"

Zhu Yurao shook his head and said, "There is no way to live."

Mu Tiantao said: "We can go south."

Zhu Yurao shook his head and said: "It's impossible. Shi Kefa, the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture, decided to raise troops to serve the king. The men, horses, food, grass, and armor were all ready. He suddenly discovered , this army refused to listen to him.

Not only the soldiers and horses refused to listen to him, but also the nobles in Nanjing City opposed the army.

Bai Guang. Well, Wang Pu, Cao Bianjiao also didn't come, saying that there was no food, ordnance, and they couldn't leave.

My father vomited blood, and while he was unconscious, I secretly looked at these people. Memorial, brother, as you said, the Ming Dynasty is over."

Mu Tiantao picked up the desperate girl and placed her on the brocade couch, kissed her forehead and said, "You are already very tired. It's safe here, you can take a nap."

Zhu Ayao looked at Mu Tiantao shyly and said, "Stay with me."

Mu Tiantao smiled. : "There is no rush, we have plenty of time. If your father is willing to let you marry me, we will live very well in the future."

Zhu Ayao reached out and took Mu Tiantao's sleeve and said : "Wait until I fall asleep before leaving..."

Mu Tiantao smiled, sat on the edge of the brocade couch, held Zhu Yurao's cold little hand, and told her about Liang Ying from the academy...

This is what they always say when they are alone. Liang Ying, who is not tired of topics, is a little silly, a little smart, and a little weird, can always create enough fresh topics for them.

"When I left Yushan Academy, Liang Ying told me that if I was willing to stay, she could consider marrying me... I told her because she considered the possibility of marrying me, I just ran away... You didn't see her face, it was almost turning dark."

"Hahaha..."

"Another time, this bitch actually did it. Tell me if you want to see you taking a shower, and she also said she can help me dig holes in the wall..."

"Obscene!"

"Yes, me too. That's what I said."

"Hahaha, do you regret it?"

"I don't regret it, I can take my time in the future..."

"Nonsense... I'm so sleepy."

"Then close your eyes and sleep well, I'll be watching over you outside."

"Don't tear my clothes...you can take your time. Untie it slowly... I didn't bring a change of clothes..."

Mu Tiantao smiled and put the blanket on Zhu Ailao's body, and sang in a low voice: "Brother Crab, crab, brother,

Eight legs,

Two big eyes,

One hard and wide

A crab has eight legs,

Two eyes are as big and wide,

The two clips are sharp,

it can’t be rolled over when walking,

a crab With eight legs,

It can’t be rolled over even if it’s in the water.

The two clamps are sharp and pointed.

It can’t be shaken off even if it is clamped. ,

Brother Crab,

eight eight legs,

two big eyes,

a hard shell .

Brother Crab,

one by one,

eight legs,

please don’t pinch them. I,

a crab with eight legs,

two clamps so big and wide,

can’t even roll over them when I walk.

If you are caught by it, you can’t shake it off,

Crab, Brother Crab,

Eight, eight legs,

Two big eyes,

One hard and wide..."

Mu Tiantao sang for a long time. This was a children's song that his mother once sang to him. I don't know why today. , seeing Zhu Yurao's panic, fear and stubbornness, he couldn't help but want to comfort her, and this children's song that always calmed him down should also be effective for this poor princess...

Xue Xiucai has appeared at the door twice. Mu Tiantao knew that it was the Lantian spies who were here. Those people were always punctual and the agreed time would never change. , as accurate as the huge self-ringing bell he had seen in Yushan.

Zhu Yaorao held her sleeves tightly, and Mu Tiantao took off his shirt, gently covered her body, and then tiptoed out of the hall. He had just left, and Zhu Yaorao was pure white. A string of tears rolled down his little face.

After closing the door and asking the maid to take care of him, Mu Tiantao followed Xue Xiucai directly to the huge back house of Prince Mu's Mansion.

Seeing seven or eight large cars parked in the back house, Mu Tiantao frowned slightly and said to the two men in black who were covering their eyebrows randomly: "How did you bring these in?"

A man in black with a familiar voice spread his hands and said: "Load the goods, transport the goods, and then deliver them to the corner door of your house. The old guy opened the door and we came in."

Mu Tiantao said with some sadness and anger: "Are the people guarding the city dead?"

The man in black chuckled and said: "Why do I think you don't want the goods?"

Mu Tiantao asked: "How much goods?"

A man in black lifted up the oilcloth on a carriage, pointed at the twenty wooden barrels on the carriage and said: "One thousand, two hundred kilograms of gunpowder "

Another man in black opened the cover of another carriage and said: "Five thousand grenades."

As the covers on the carriage were lifted one by one. , Mu Tiantao sighed.

One thousand and two hundred kilograms of gunpowder, five thousand grenades, eight hundred flintlock muskets, six hundred kerosene bombs, three hundred phosphorus bombs, and thirty thousand artillery shells were just like this. The spy was sent to the back house of his house in a big way.

Mu Tiantao couldn't even figure out where the sentinels who were watching his house outside had gone. Could it be that they were not interested in these things?

The man in black with a familiar voice spread his hands and said: "Fifty thousand taels of silver from Chenghui."

Mu Tiantao pointed to the front hall and said: "There is plenty of silver, you can take it Are you leaving?"

The man in black smiled and said, "Unload the goods and load up the money."

Soon, the goods on the carriage were unloaded and piled up. At the same time, 50,000 taels of silver were also loaded onto the carriage. The man in black at the head said to Mu Tiantao: "This is just a hiding place. I was worried that you might need it urgently, so I sent it to you first.

If you still have money, let’s discuss the next deal.”

Mu Tiantao said: “I want as much as you want.”

Hei Yi. The man sighed and said: "Don't push yourself to death. Good times are coming. Just like our Majesty said, everyone should take care of themselves. It would be an injustice to die before dawn."

Mu Tiantao said: "I won't die."

The man in black was overjoyed, patted Mu Tiantao on the shoulder and said: "Well done, as long as you don't seek death, you can study in the academy The things you get are enough for you to survive safely."