According to etiquette, the Marquis only needs to bow to the Prince and does not need to kneel down.
When Lan Yu saw King Chu, she kowtowed loudly, startling everyone.
This is obviously going too far.
"What are you doing, Marquis Yongchang? Please get up quickly." Zhu Zhen hurriedly bent down to help Lan Yu.
"Your Highness saved the Crown Princess, and the general has nothing to repay, so I can only kowtow to Your Highness." Lan Yu said loudly.
"That's my sister-in-law." Zhu Zhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, wondering if I should just follow my sister-in-law and call you uncle. But they always had their own differences. After all, Lan Yu didn't dare to let the prince call him uncle.
"Yes, but for the general, this is a huge favor!" Lan Yu said and kowtowed again. In fact, he was even more grateful to Lao Liu for getting rid of the Lu family. This not only helped the Crown Princess get rid of a big disaster, but also indirectly saved her life.
Grandson.
But he couldn't say this kind of thing out loud, or in private. He could only kowtow to show his gratitude.
Lao Liu didn't expect him to be this kind of blue jade, so he quickly grabbed him and said, "Do business first, and we'll talk about other things later."
"That's fine." Lan Yu then stood up.
Watching this scene, Marquis Yongjia was secretly frightened, feeling that Lan Yu was so artificial to show the Guangdong civil and military forces the Huaixi Gang's support for the King of Chu.
It's normal to think about it. The emperor has firmly tied the princes and the chiefs of the mountains in Huaixi through marriage. They have already worn a pair of trousers...
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After the King of Chu led all the civil and military officials to kneel down and worship as expected, Lan Yu opened the sealed card box and took out the bright yellow edict.
Everyone held their breath and knelt down to listen to the order.
It wasn't until they were almost suffocated that Lan Yu read loudly: "I have sent an order to Yongjia Marquis Zhu Liang's grandfather and son to return to the capital immediately for an audience. The seal of General Zhengnan is temporarily handed over to the King of Chu to control the armies and stand by where they are. I hereby express my gratitude to you."
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"Ah?" Everyone never expected that there would be such a decree, that the emperor would recall Zhu Liang's grandfather before the war started!
Except for King Chu, everyone raised their heads and looked at Yongjia Hou.
Zhu Liangzu was as dumbfounded as a clay statue. He didn't expect that what he had been waiting for day and night was for him to be relieved of his military power and recalled to the capital for questioning.
Even when the King of Chu loudly accepted the order, Zhu Liangzu still didn't respond.
"Accept the order, Marquis Yongjia." Lan Yu coughed.
Only then did Zhu Liangzu come back to his senses and said in a robotic voice: "Your Majesty Zhu Liangzu has accepted the order."
Then he took the edict with both hands and looked at it sideways and vertically with his eyes wide open. He didn't find that Lan Yu mispronounced a word...
"How could this happen?" He murmured: "Is the emperor not going to attack Yunnan anymore?"
"The sacred concerns are far-reaching, how can I imagine this?" Lan Yu scolded him with a straight face: "This is not something that Marquis Yongjia should worry about. You'd better pack up quickly and return to the capital with Mr. Ling."
As he spoke, he pointed at the Jinyi guards who had come with him and said, "They will be responsible for the security of your father and son along the way, so there is no need to bring personal soldiers."
"..." When everyone heard this, they said in their hearts, "What a good guy." He made no secret of it, he was just being escorted.
Not only Lin Zhongmo and others, but also He Zhen looked shocked. They never expected that the emperor hated the chaos in Guangdong so much that he would rather rectify Guangdong first than attack Yunnan.
He Zhen felt chills running down his back on a hot day, and then he was extremely glad that he had not made a mistake. He was even more grateful to His Highness the King of Chu for giving them the opportunity to rein in the situation.
The joys and sorrows of people are not the same as others, but the generals under Marquis Yongjia felt that the sky was about to collapse.
They are all close friends of Marquis Yongjia. They followed Marquis Yongjia when he was working for the Yuan army. They have been together through life and death for so many years, and they have long shared weal and woe.
Moreover, they are still not dealing with Huaixi. If Zhu Liangzu is taken away, will they become fish meat on the blue jade chopping board?
Someone couldn't help but jumped up and said: "Marquis Yongjia can't leave! Otherwise the army will mutiny!"
As soon as this statement came out, the situation in General Zhengnan's mansion suddenly became tense.
"That's why the emperor sent me to be the villain." Lan Yu narrowed her eyes and said coldly: "Do you think I am afraid of killing people?!"
The generals were frightened for a while, knowing that Lan Yu, the god of death, was simply the reincarnation of Chang Yuchun. His behavior was exactly the same as that of his brother-in-law.
"Yongchang Marquis, you don't have to scare us!" But they were not too scared. Someone said bravely: "Guangdong and Guangxi's hundreds of thousands of troops are really in chaos, can you still kill them all?"
"Hahaha, don't the hundreds of thousands of troops belong to Marquis Yongjia?" Lan Yu laughed loudly and said: "They are the army of the imperial court, and they eat the emperor's food and wages. I want to see how many of them will follow you to cause trouble?"
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"..." The expressions of the generals were stagnant. Lan Yu was right. Except for their direct troops, no troops would follow them to cause trouble.
The 100,000 troops marching to the South were all transferred from the north. Their families, young and old, were all in the mainland, and each of them had an iron rice bowl given by Boss Zhu, which could be passed down to future generations. How could they rebel with Zhu Liangzu?
It was precisely because Zhu Liangzu knew this that he never dared to be presumptuous in front of Lao Liu...
"Catch them!" They shrank, but Lan Yu was not polite to them and waved her hand violently.
A group of royal guards wanted to step forward to take him away.
"Why arrest us?!" The generals were frightened and angry. Many subconsciously touched their waists, but in vain. Then they remembered that His Highness the King of Chu was also coming to receive the order, so they had handed over all their weapons.
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"You are all rebelling. If I don't arrest you, who will be arrested?!" Lan Yu laughed ferociously: "Whoever dares to resist arrest will be shot to death!"
Upon hearing the order, the Jinyi guards drew their swords and placed them on the necks of the generals.
Now they didn't dare to be arrogant and could only be controlled obediently.
"Master Marquis, please say something..." The generals tied their arms and looked at Zhu Liangzu with sorrow and anger.
Zhu Liangzu had a look of resignation on his face. Since the emperor had captured his father and son, it was impossible for him to keep his subordinates. This was the intended meaning of the question, and there was nothing to make a fuss about.
"No wonder I had to come to Guangzhou to receive the order. It turned out to be to divert the tiger away from the mountain." He smiled sadly at Lan Yu: "If I guessed correctly, there should be another group of people going to my Nanning camp."
"What do you call your Nanning camp? It belongs to the imperial court." Lan Yu snorted and said, "Yes, Marquis Dingyuan led his people there. They should have entered the camp by now."
"Absolute, absolutely amazing!" Zhu Liangzu raised his thumb to the north and smiled at the King of Chu who was watching the show: "What does it mean to be ginger or old to be spicy? Your Highness should learn from it."
"You talk too much." Lao Liu didn't answer his question at all.
"Yes, your highness will no longer hear the general's nonsense from now on." Zhu Liangzu nodded, and suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to him.
"Your Highness, all the mistakes are the general's fault and have nothing to do with my brothers. Just now they were excited, they said what they said, and they couldn't do what they said." Zhu Liangzu was really worried that Lan Yu would kill them as soon as he got started.
Lao Liu kowtowed heavily and said:
"Please, Your Highness, please show your noble hand and let them live."
