"Your Highness, ahead is the Shandong boundary." On the border of Shandong, Zhang Kuishan pointed ahead.

Zhu Cihong nodded, looked at the beautiful scenery outside, sighed slightly, and retracted his head back into the carriage.

In fact, after so many days, Zhu Cihong was tired of sitting in the carriage, because the wheels were made of wood, the road was uneven, the carriage was very bumpy, and Zhu Cihong's skeleton was about to fall apart. Originally, Zhu Cihong wanted to abandon the carriage and ride on a horse to stretch out, but Queen Zhou was afraid that such a thing would happen in view of the fact that Zhu Cihong fell off the horse last time and was in a coma for three days, so now she does not agree with Zhu Cihong to ride a horse, and Zhu Cihong is very helpless.

A few hours later, Zhu Cihong and others passed through Dezhou and continued south to Jinan, the provincial capital.

This is an open place, and the front was suddenly blocked by a group of hundreds of people, looking at its clothes, this is undoubtedly the Ming army, but Liu Zeqing came here early with his own soldiers to wait.

"Your Highness, Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, brought people to greet you." Zhang Kuishan had seen Liu Zeqing once, and naturally saw at a glance who it was.

The carriage stopped, and Zhu Cihong first lifted the curtain to take a look before stepping out of the carriage. Empress Zhou also walked down under the service of Lanxiang Begonia.

Liu Zeqing's eyes flashed, and sure enough, it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Queen Mother, who really escaped from the encirclement of Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops.

"The last general, Liu Zeqing, the general of Shandong, see His Royal Highness the Prince, the queen!" Liu Zeqing calmed down, came forward to kneel and worship, and hundreds of soldiers behind him also followed and fell to the ground.

"Mr. Liu is exempt!" Zhu Cihong's right hand was raised.

Liu Zeqing hurriedly got up and looked at Zhu Cihong, his old eyes were full of excitement, and he even shed a tear, which couldn't tell whether it was true or not.

Zhu Cihong took a closer look at Liu Zeqing, this person was dressed in bright armor, his age looked like he was about forty years old, his body was burly, and he looked quite brave. However, Zhu Cihong scoffed at this, Liu Zeqing is not only ruthless and vicious, but also cowardly externally, fierce and domineering internally, and one of the earliest generals in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

"Your Highness, you have suffered a great calamity, but now you are much thinner than before, and the grief will be unbearable." Liu Zeqing wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with grief, but he didn't know when he saw Zhu Cihong last time, anyway, Zhu Cihong's memory didn't have such a thing, of course, no one would care about these at this time.

Liu Zeqing continued: "Since the capital was broken by Li thieves, the news of His Majesty's martyrdom came out, and the last general has been inquiring about His Highness's news all the time, I really can't swallow it, and I can't sleep at night, but fortunately, His Highness finally escaped, God bless me Daming!" ---------”

The image of a loyal minister, the image of a loyal minister!

Queen Zhou was moved to tears by Liu Zeqing's friendship, but the eunuch who had been following Zhu Cihong was completely expressionless, and sneered in his heart, he could see at a glance that this Liu Zeqing was acting, with his vision, Liu Zeqing was really acting too fake, and the one with a little status in the palace was not better than Liu Zeqing.

The corners of Zhu Cihong's mouth twitched slightly, although he was so disgusted that he wanted to vomit, but in this case, he had to be with him, and for a moment, Zhu Cihong pretended to be extremely moved and stepped forward to hold Liu Zeqing's hand.

"Liu Aiqing is really the pillar of my Ming Dynasty, and it is really a blessing for Ming to have a minister like Liu Aiqing with a humerus. His father was newly mourned, Liu Aiqing had to take care of his body, and in the future, he would counterattack Beijing with the prince, behead Li Zicheng, and comfort his father's soul in the sky. ”

"His Royal Highness has praised the last general, how can the last general be ----?"

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"Your Royal Highness, the queen mother, the last general has prepared a banquet in Jinan, just wait for His Royal Highness and the queen mother to arrive, and then wash the dust for His Royal Highness and the queen mother." After some hypocrisy and grievances, Liu Zeqing said his arrangement.

"There is General Lao Liu." Zhu Cihong nodded and returned to the carriage.

The banquet was set up in the mansion of Liu Zongbing in Jinan City, and the governor of Shandong and the officials of Jinan City came, but most of them were mainly military generals, in this era of war, only with military power did they have the right to speak, as the general soldier of Shandong, Liu Zeqing naturally covered the sky with one hand in this Shandong, and the former superior civil officials were completely suppressed, and even the governor of Shandong did not dare to say a word to any opinion of Liu Zeqing.

Zhu Cihong and Queen Zhou sat on the top of the head, after three rounds of drinking, Queen Zhou didn't like such a scene, and after telling Zhu Cihong, she went back to the post house early to rest.

Seeing this, Liu Zeqing's eyes flashed, the queen mother went back to the post house to rest in advance, which was exactly what he wanted, and only the prince was left with a hairy boy, and he could better implement the plan here. Since deciding to go with King Fu to the end, Liu Zeqing has not taken Zhu Cihong in his eyes at all.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the last general just got a few jars of excellent century-old wine the day before yesterday, and I am willing to give them to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to taste." Liu Zeqing said, beckoning to the back of the main hall, and suddenly a beautiful maid came up holding an old wine jar with mud on the surface.

"A century-old wine?" Zhu Cihong was stunned, very interested, he Liang Liu Zeqing didn't dare to lie to him so clearly, saying that there is a hundred years of fine wine must be true, at least for a few decades.

Zhu Cihong liked to taste wine in his previous life, but he was just an ordinary retired soldier and an orphan, and most of the wine that he could taste was very ordinary on the market, and there were very few wines that were really okay, and even fewer of them were aged wine for more than ten years.

"Why don't you pour it for Prince Ben!" Zhu Cihong was salivaing excitedly, a hundred years of wine, it makes people excited when they think about it.

The people below are also staring at the wine jar one by one, as long as they are officials of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they have a little real power, there are naturally some squires at all levels who scold them on weekdays, gifts are necessary, and there are naturally a lot of fine wines received, but most of them are about twenty or thirty years old, and more than fifty years are very rare, let alone a hundred years.

Liu Zeqing was quite proud, this was sent by a wine-making family in Shandong half a year ago in order to appease him, there were only a dozen jars, and he had drunk most of them, only the last few jars remained, and he couldn't bear to take out two jars in order to please the prince.

Liu Zeqing thought, if he drank it all in a few days, he would definitely let the wine-making family send him more than a dozen jars, although the family had already said that there was no more, but he would not believe that the family really did not hide any secrets, and when the time came, the knife would be on the neck, at most a few dishonest people would be killed, and he would not believe that the family would not take it out obediently.

Liu Zeqing was in a state of flux, the beautiful maid had already opened the Chen seal, and suddenly the room was full of mellow fragrance, it was really the best aging, and it was hard to find in the world.

The maidservant poured a full cup for Zhu Cihong, and the wine worm in Zhu Cihong's heart had already been aroused, and she couldn't wait to take it up and taste it carefully. The entrance is warm, mellow and sweet, making people have an endless aftertaste and intoxication.

"Hahahaha, good, it's really a superb aging, Liu Aiqing has a heart." Zhu Cihong laughed.

"Go, pour a glass for each of you, and everyone will taste it together."

"Wechen and others have thanked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for the reward!" All of a sudden, the hall was full of joy.

Zhu Cihong was very excited to be able to drink a hundred years of fine wine, and after a few glasses of wine, his cheeks were slightly red, but he was a little drunk. Secretly sighed, his current body is only fifteen years old, and his alcohol consumption is not good.

Liu Zeqing was smiling, but he was sneering in his heart, and concluded that the crown prince Zhu Cihong was a good drinker, and immediately decided to implement the next step, the wine was charming, and he didn't believe that this hairy boy was not obedient.

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