Zhu Yulu sat in the carriage, urging the escorts to speed up, since he learned that Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Beijing soon after, he was immediately helped up by Zhang Kentang and others to be this Shaowu Emperor, as a descendant of the Zhu family, originally he was also bent on reorganizing the rivers and mountains and recovering the Ming Empire.

But when he became the so-called emperor, he found that his so-called ideal was just a dream, and his emperor was simply a puppet, although with the assistance of Zhang Kentang and Zheng Zhilong, he built a grass platform team and set up six departments, but after he ascended the throne, he found that things were not as simple as he thought.

Let's not talk about how powerful the Dazhong Army is, just talking about the government affairs of Fujian, he has no power, almost all the military power is in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, and the government power is in the hands of those civil ministers.

What made him even more depressed was that after he ascended the throne, the old officials of the Ming Dynasty in Liangguang also raised Zhu Youlang, who was also a descendant of the Zhu family, in Guangdong, and established a Yongli regime.

Therefore, although he ascended the throne for half a year, the two Southern Ming courts not only lost a piece of land but also did not regain it from the hands of the Dazhong Army, but the situation became more and more erosive, and the Dazhong Army gradually vacated its forces from the north, squeezing their living space smaller and smaller.

This is not the reason why he wants to escape, the most important reason is that in the past month or so, rumors have been circulating throughout Fujian that Zheng Zhilong is talking about the Great Middle Dynasty and preparing to surrender to the Great Middle Kingdom.

Zhu Yulu did not know how this news came out, but many ministers expressed great concern about this matter, and repeatedly suggested to Zhu Yulu that Zhu Yulu should remove Zheng Zhilong.

But Zhu Yulu is at best a clay tire to be enshrined, and now his Shaowu regime, whether it is the army or finance, depends on Zheng Zhilong to support it, how can he depose Zheng Zhilong and seize Zheng Zhilong's military power?

Now his so-called Shaowu Army is actually the Zheng family's private soldiers, the military salary is issued by the Zheng family, and the soldiers and generals only recognize him Zheng Zhilong, how many people are willing to listen to him, the puppet emperor?

Therefore, Zhu Yulu summoned Zheng Zhilong a few years ago and asked Zheng Zhilong about his peace with the Dazhong Dynasty, but Zheng Zhilong flatly denied it.

The idiom says that the three people become tigers, and the rumors spread more, and they will be believed to be true, not to mention that the Zheng family and the negotiations between the Great Middle and North Korea are by no means groundless, and there are many old officials of the Ming Dynasty who fled from the north to the south in the past few months, and no one can tell how many people are really loyal to the Ming Dynasty and come to the two small courts of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and they can't tell how many of them have secretly defected to the Dazhong Army, come to act as lobbyists, or come to serve as a detailed work for the Dazhong Army.

In short, Zhu Yulu has to believe that Zheng Zhilong has begun to waver, which is undoubtedly bad news for him, his Shaowu Dynasty is based on Zheng Zhilong's Zheng Jun, if Zheng Zhilong once surrenders to the Great Middle Dynasty, then the first to suffer will definitely be him Zhu Yulu, he is the best vote for Zheng Zhilong to surrender to the Great Middle Dynasty, so after the New Year, Zhu Yulu really can't sit still.

So Zhu Yulu secretly recruited Zhang Kentang and other important ministers he trusted to his palace to discuss countermeasures, but Zhang Kentang and these people are all civil officials, and there are not many soldiers available in their hands, so they can't do anything with Zheng Zhilong, and Zhang Kentang is also afraid that once Zheng Zhilong surrenders, he will attack him first, so Zhang Kentang and others instigated Zhu Yulu to give up the throne and simply flee to Liangguang to join the Yongli Dynasty, even if the emperor can't be done, at least he can save his life.

So after thinking about it, Zhu Yulu felt that his life was still more important, not to mention that this kind of puppet emperor was not happy, and it didn't matter to him whether he was the emperor or not.

After the Shangyuan Festival, Zhu Yulu finally made up his mind, carried Zheng Zhilong on his back, and secretly asked Zhang Kentang to contact a commander named Fang Zhengming, and gathered more than 1,000 old Ming army troops loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and suddenly escorted Zhu Yulu out of Quanzhou Mansion and fled all the way in the direction of Guangdong.

What emperor is not the emperor, Zhu Yulu doesn't care at this moment, he just thinks about leaving this place of right and wrong quickly, how far and how far he goes, as for how Emperor Yongli will settle him, he can't care about it for the time being.

The general in charge of guarding Quanzhou is Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Zhibao never thought that Emperor Shaowu would choose to flee from Quanzhou at this time, and he didn't even want the emperor's position, so at first someone told him, saying that he commanded Fang Zhengming to lead more than 1,000 Ming army old troops, and when he left Quanzhou, he didn't care much, but just sent someone to chase Shangzheng Ming and ask him what he was going to do.

And Fang Zhengming replied, saying that he was ordered to go to Zhangzhou Mansion to reinforce the soldiers and horses south of Zhangzhou Mansion, and at this time the military aspect of the Shaowu Dynasty was not unified, although Zheng Zhilong's Zheng army was the strongest, but after all, Zheng Zhilong did not control all the soldiers and horses, and some of the Ming troops in Fujian did not all accept Zheng Zhilong's command, so although Zheng Zhibao was a little suspicious of the purpose of Fang Zhengming's trip, but at first he thought that at most Fang Zhengming was not used to their Zheng family's control of the military power of the Shaowu Dynasty, and wanted to leave here.

For the more than 1,000 Ming soldiers, Zheng Zhibao didn't think about them, they left just in time, and their Zheng family had to pay money to support them.

But then Zheng Zhibao found out that things were not as simple as he thought, when Fang Zhengming ran, Zhang Kentang also disappeared, and then news came out from the palace that Emperor Shaowu also disappeared suddenly, and Zheng Zhibao realized that something was wrong.

So Zheng Zhibao sent people to immediately chase after Emperor Shaowu and his party in the south, and at the same time hurriedly sent someone to report to Zheng Zhilong.

But at this time, his movements were already much slower, and Emperor Shaowu, escorted by Zhang Kentang and Fang Zhengming and others, had already moved away from Quanzhou Mansion and was about to enter Zhangzhou Mansion.

When Zheng Zhilong heard the news, Emperor Shaowu had been running for almost a day, so Zheng Zhilong was stunned, and he was a little numb for a while.

You must know that the reason why he Zheng Zhilong can justifiably control Fujian now, the most important thing is that he used to be the chief military officer of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Shaowu is the foundation of his foothold, Emperor Shaowu is here, he can justifiably run the soldiers and horses, but now Emperor Shaowu suddenly abandoned him, which is equivalent to a complete break with him, and he is no longer a general of the Shaowu Dynasty.

And some time ago, because of the identity dispute between Emperor Shaowu and Emperor Yongli, his Zheng family has been in trouble with the Yongli Dynasty of Liangguang and Guangzhou, and the Yongli Dynasty has offended the whole of the Yongli Dynasty, and now Emperor Shaowu has also abandoned him and fled, which is equivalent to making him lose the political foundation on which he has a foothold, even if he wants to be a vassal to Yongli now, it is estimated that the Yongli Dynasty will no longer trust him.

Therefore, the sudden escape of Emperor Shaowu is undoubtedly a major blow to Zheng Zhilong, with Emperor Shaowu here, he still has a little political capital, and he can justifiably recruit soldiers and horses in Fujian to fight against the Great Middle Dynasty, but without Emperor Shaowu, his identity is very embarrassing, so that he no longer has a legal identity, at best, even if it is a private army, he has no name.

So after hearing the news, Zheng Zhilong was so shocked that he was a little in a hurry, and immediately ordered to send someone to Zhangzhou Mansion as soon as possible, in order to order the defenders of Zhangzhou Mansion to intercept Emperor Shaowu before Emperor Shaowu fled to Guangdong, so that he would still have room for maneuver.

But Zheng Zhilong finally slowed down half a step, just when his people rushed to Zhangzhou Mansion, Emperor Shaowu and his party had already fled into Guangdong one step in advance, Zheng Zhilong's soldiers and horses stationed in Zhangzhou, although they suspected the purpose of their group, but because the leader was Zhang Kentang, the official of the Shaowu Dynasty, and accompanied by Fang Zhengming, the commander of the affairs, and they claimed to have been ordered by the Holy Decree to go to Guangdong and the Yongli Dynasty to negotiate peace, so although the local guards were suspicious, there was no reason to intercept them, Therefore, before Zheng Zhilong's military order arrived, he let them go from Zhangzhou Mansion and entered Guangdong.

By the time Zheng Zhilong's army arrived at Zhangzhou Mansion, the Zhangzhou garrison wanted to chase Emperor Shaowu and his party again, but it was already too late, and he could only watch Emperor Shaowu escape to the control of the Yongli Dynasty.

In this way, Zheng Zhilong was out of ideas, so Zheng Zhilong immediately summoned his subordinates and others to discuss how to deal with this matter.

Such a major event, for Zheng Zhilong's family, undoubtedly made everyone confused, although most of them also knew that Zheng Zhilong was currently discussing with the Dazhong Dynasty to accept the matter of the Dazhong Dynasty's appeasement, and some people proposed that since Emperor Shaowu had fled from Fujian, they no longer had the official body of the Ming Dynasty.

But there are also people who think that it is too early for them to surrender to the Great Middle Dynasty, after all, the Great Middle Dynasty has not yet given them a clear answer to the future status and identity of Zheng Jun, and now they are eager to surrender to the Great Middle Dynasty, which is obviously not the best policy, and now although Emperor Shaowu has fled from Fujian, but they are not without cards in their hands, the Yongli Dynasty must not want to watch them such a strong force fall to the Great Middle Dynasty, so even if they were very unhappy before, But as long as they have soldiers, horses and warships in their hands, then the Yongli Dynasty will not easily sit back and watch them surrender to the Great Middle Dynasty.

Therefore, some people suggested that if they want to sell for a good price, they can now vote for the Yongli Dynasty first, and then bargain with the Dazhong Dynasty, if the Dazhong Dynasty wants to completely destroy the Ming Dynasty, then they have to offer them a good price.

Zheng Zhilong listened to the opinions of these civil ministers and military generals, and he was a little out of idea for a while, originally he wanted to agree to the conditions of the Dazhong Dynasty now, and surrender to the Dazhong Dynasty to pull him down, but because the Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian did not allow him to raise private soldiers privately, he had soldiers and horses on hand this year, so he could have a hard waist, once the capital was gone, his Zheng family would be equivalent to becoming the meat of the army, and he could only let the Dazhong Dynasty slaughter it.

So after Zheng Zhilong thought about it again, he decided to contact both sides at the same time, first to see who had the highest price, and then said, after Emperor Shaowu fled from Fujian, Zheng Zhilong finally stopped fighting in Zhangzhou, and sent his subordinates to follow Emperor Shaowu and rushed to Guangzhou.