"Is there still someone snatching me?" Chu Xunyu couldn't help but think of this when he saw a tall building in the distance.

"No, sir." A soldier next to him replied. He was once a subordinate of Zhang Shicheng and later surrendered. "That was Zhang Jiusi's wife. I heard that she couldn't bear to be humiliated, so she committed suicide."

"Suicide?" Chu Xunyu was stunned and shouted, "No! Zhang Shicheng will do the same. Hurry up and follow me to catch it!"

When Niu Tieta heard the spirit, he flew up and shouted: "Zhang Jiusi wants to die like this? It's so cheap. Master Niu hasn't settled the account of my rotten body. I was worried that I couldn't find where he was, but now I jumped out. It's great, I'll go!"

Chu Xunyu flew up quickly. He knew the methods of Niuti Tower. If Zhang Shicheng was taken by him, he would probably be skinned and cramped. He hurriedly chased him to stop him. As soon as he flew closer, he fell to the ground. It turned out that he saw Sun Mengqing bringing people to escort a middle-aged man with a disheveled head and a disorienting eyes. This man was wearing an exquisite dragon robe. Of course, he was also dirty at this time and his face was thin. I'm afraid he would be Zhang Shicheng.

When Niu Tieta saw Sun Mengqing, he became much more honest and did not dare to act rashly. Sun Mengqing's reputation was not only higher than Niu Tieta, but also had a good military service. This siege battle was the least casualties of Sun Mengqing's troops. Sun Mengqing's troops were always cautious in using troops and was well-known for their true teachings. Chu Xunyu understood this point. In every war, he would first use light cavalry as a vanguard to inquire about the reality of the situation, fight quickly and leave quickly, and help thoroughly. After finding the enemy's flaws, he led the army to attack. Therefore, because this siege battle did not find the flaws of Pingjiang City, he had been tentatively attacking. At least 80% of her strength was preserved.

Sun Mengming stood in front of the captured Zhang Shicheng with a calm expression, and asked coldly: "Are you Zhang Shicheng?"

Zhang Shicheng looked up at him, and suddenly broke free from the left and right and hit the pillar. A man rushed out from behind Sun Mengqing, hugged him tightly, and cried and said, "Are you still afraid of saving your life?" Chu Xunyu recognized that this person was Li Bosheng, who was originally Zhang Shicheng's old subordinate, and later surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang. This time, he had been persuading surrender during the siege of Xu Da. He had a strong personal relationship with Zhang Shicheng. Seeing that his old master wanted to find a short-sighted view, he couldn't bear it on the spot and cried to stop him.

Sun Mengqing nodded lightly, then waved his hand and asked someone to tie him up again, walked up to him and deliberately mocked Zhang Shicheng: "You are a hero for life, King of the Eastern Wu, and the former brutal Yuanmeng Party members were afraid of your reputation. Why are you afraid of being captured today? As the saying goes, killing people is just a lie, and the hero is sighing, and finally he is a hero of a generation."

Zhang Shicheng smiled bitterly, looked up at Sun Mengqing and said only one sentence: "I hate that the sun shines on you and will not shine on me." After that, he left.

Looking at his bleak back, Sun Mengqing ordered his side: "After all, he is a hero in the past. You should not neglect it. You should arrange food, clothing, housing and transportation with ease. If you want to find fault, insult or beat up the assassin, behead you!"

"Yes..." All the soldiers agreed.

With Zhang Shicheng's capture, the south was completely dominated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and there was no decent warlord force to compete with him. Chu Xunyu walked aimlessly on the destroyed streets. Looking at the soldiers coming and going in front of him and the embarrassed people, he couldn't help but sigh, when will such a chaotic world end? How many Han children died in this battle today are born from the same roots, so why are they fighting each other too urgently? The enemy should be the Yuan Meng forces.

However, after this battle, Jiangnan was pacified and another area was recovered. The people here could finally escape from tyranny. Just as they were thinking, Chu Xunyu suddenly walked to a broken temple on the street. The statue of Zhang Shicheng was enshrined, but it was pushed down by the soldiers and shattered on the ground. Chu Xunyu secretly laughed at herself, why, do you think he is the ancestor of the Three Qing Dao? It's really funny.

Chu Xunyu saw that some Pingjiang people in the temple were dared to go in and sit on the ground trembling. After the defeat, they were all refugees. Among them, a boy aged 7 or 8 was eating a few fennel beans to satisfy his hunger. So Chu Xunyu felt unbearable. When he walked in, the refugees were so scared that they stood up. Chu Xunyu quickly signaled everyone to sit, and he also sat casually beside the child, took out the meat patties and handed them over. The child was envious and reached out to take them, but the mother beside him grabbed him and didn't dare to raise his head.

"Take it, it's okay." Chu Xunyu turned around and looked around. He saw that the dozen or so refugees around him were looking at him with hunger and fear. He couldn't bear it now, so he took out the package, which contained a lot of jerky meat and bread, and clear water. The city had been besieged for ten months. The city had been cut off from water and food. He only relied on the remaining amount to fill his hunger. Even the war horses were killed and cooked. He pressed the skin of these refugees with his hand and could sink. The child was lifted up by Chu Xunyu and saw that his ribs were thin and stripped off, as if there was a skin on the outside. During the trapped days, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to send letters to persuade him to surrender several times. Zhang Shicheng swears to never obey. Seeing the current miserable situation of these refugees, Chu Xunyu was extremely angry. How could he, Zhang Shicheng? Can such a half-year-old child accompany him to bury this empty emperor dream with him?

Seeing Chu Xunyu take out so much food, everyone hesitated for a while, and finally someone reached out to take it carefully. Chu Xunyu distributed the things to everyone, but they didn't give it much. Chu Xunyu did this on purpose. He told everyone: "You have been hungry for so long and cannot overeat at one time, otherwise you will be overwhelmed to death. Eat less and more meals to help your body recover."

The refugees nodded and chewed their heads down. Chu Xunyu looked at the refugees, with their hands and feet cracked skin and their eyes covered with bloodshot. They grabbed food with their black and gray palms to eat. They were moved and said, "He Zhang Shicheng is so hateful. He actually made the people suffer. Don't panic. From now on, he will never cause any storms."

As soon as these words came out, these people stopped the food in their hands, looked at each other, and then put down the food in their hands. It seemed that they could not eat it anymore. Only the child knew nothing and continued to eat it. Chu Xunyu was very puzzled, so he asked, "What? Don't you hate Zhang Shicheng? He made you like this, don't you want him to die?"

"Actually... actually... he is very nice to us..." The child's mother muttered in a low voice, but a man behind her immediately pulled down the corner of her clothes and signaled her not to speak for Zhang Shicheng, so as not to make Chu Xunyu unhappy and suffer the disaster of killing.

"What?" Chu Xunyu was a little stunned. He didn't expect that these people who had lost their families would say this. He asked curiously: "Are you joking?"

Seeing that no one around dared to answer his questions, Chu Xunyu understood what was going on, so he signaled his waist card, which was the waist card of the lie, and then made up a lie to tell them: "Everyone saw that his lower position is not low. This time, Zhang Shicheng was captured alive by us. Whether he died or not will be decided in the future public trial. He recruited beauties, levies and intensive care, and pursued pleasure. All evils are evils but no good, and his crimes should be punished. But seeing that you seem to have endless intentions, you can tell me that in the future, the public trial will also let the world understand what kind of person he is. Good is good, evil is evil. If the sin does not die, you can still open the door."

These refugees looked around and didn't know whether they should believe it. Chu Xunyu repeatedly comforted him, and finally someone spoke and said the whole story. It turned out that it was not Zhang Shicheng who refused to surrender, but that most of the soldiers and civilians in the city jointly wrote a letter to the letter, willing to share life and death with Pingjiang City, and that everyone was unwilling to surrender.

"How is that possible?" Chu Xunyu couldn't believe it, "Why? Didn't he harm the people? Why did you die with him?"

"Who said?" One person replied in a low voice from behind, "It was the court that harmed us, it was you, not Zhang Shicheng."

"What?"

Everyone told them about their experiences over the years. Since ancient times, Jiangnan has the richest place. The rice market in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has been harvested, and the world is rich. This is the important granary of the entire court. It also comes with other industries, including breeding, fishing, weaving, etc., which has become a rich area. Therefore, since the Yuan and Mongolian Dynasty came to power, it was afraid that this place would be used as a place for the uprisings by the Han people, so it strictly controlled the place and was given heavy taxes. All the taxes the people in Jiangnan had to pay were more than other places.

More than three times, it is strictly forbidden to privately store weapons, and to control the study of Han children to prevent them from raising their ideology. Every year, they have to contribute thousands of white and tender girls from Jiangnan to Yuan Dadu to enjoy the fun of Yuan Meng nobles. If they refuse to obey, they will be tortured to death. Therefore, over the years, the seemingly wealthy Jiangnan people have actually lived a miserable life. Every household has only barely enough food to make a living. Any daughter who has a child dare not show up easily, so as not to be harmed by Yuan Meng nobles.

But all this changed in Zhang Shicheng's hands. After Zhang Shicheng arrived with the earliest group of rebels, he killed dog officials, opened granaries, drove away the Yuan and Meng forces, established the Eastern Wu king regime, and offered kindness to the people. He promulgated the "Agriculture and Sectarian Order" and the "Academic Order", which could not help but cancel all kinds of taxes originally established by the Yuan and Meng Dynasty. He was exempted from taxes for three years, leading the army and the people to cultivate land and farm, and was self-sufficient. At the same time, he vigorously established education so that children could read books and learn to go to, and opened up imperial examinations, and valued the children of study. All kinds of things made it possible for the people of Jiangnan to be bathed in the spring breeze and drink sweet rain. As for saying that he married many wives as concubines, to be honest, the people did not care at all. Some people were happy to marry their daughter to this grass-roots emperor. He was always open-minded and never forced to do so.

A woman is kind to others, and marrying him may be a good thing. And how many wives can Zhang Shicheng marry alone? That is, to add up all the entire King of Eastern Wu regime, only a few nobles, and how many women can he have? To be honest, it is much better than sending thousands of daughters to the north to serve as slaves every year to live a life worse than death. So the people thought of their kindness and took the initiative to build temples and sacrifices. Now the temple where Chu Xunyu is located is one place. The people cannot bear such a good life being destroyed, so they swear to follow him to the death. Speaking of this, there are still people crying, picking up the head of the statue of Zhang Shicheng on the ground, wiped it clean, and put it back on the table. Compared with this, Zhu Yuanzhang's army besieged the city and killed it in a dark place, which surprised Chu Xunyu and never expected it to be such an ending.

"Sir, can you say something nice to the King of Eastern Wu?" Someone asked Chu Xunyu carefully.

Chu Xunyu lowered his head and was silent. He didn't know what to say. Zhang Shicheng had heard of his wiseness back then, but he didn't expect that it would be like this, which made the people grateful and swear to follow him to the death. But he hated why he surrendered to the powerful and nobles. In the later period, he couldn't help but become depressed in the will of opposing Yuan and surrendered to the court. This is what made the world angry. Perhaps, this was the case for heroes throughout their lives, and they were also slandering them all over the world.

Chu Xunyu thought about it for a few days and decided to go back to Jiankang to find Xu Da, Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen and Zhu Sheng to explain clearly Zhang Shicheng's merits and demerits, whether to live or die, he must be justified in the world, leaving a fair reputation in the world. As a result, all this is not needed. Xu Da ordered people to take Zhang Shicheng back to Jiankang from the water. He had been on a hunger strike in the boat. After returning to Jiankang City, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Li Shanchang several times to persuade him to surrender, but Zhang Shicheng still refused.

Later, on a lonely night, he hanged himself in the prison cell and accompanied his wife and children. After the fourteen years of his storm, this hero in troubled times who had been in the past, served as the emperor of the fortress for several years, was considered to have fulfilled his lifelong wish. After being captured, he refused to be complacent and had his own experience. What he left for future generations is the back of the heroic and open-minded man who was so arrogant that he was still the name of a hero of a generation.

After his death, he was buried outside Pingjiang City, Suzhou according to his wishes. Zhu Yuanzhang brought people to see him for the last time. When Zhu Yuanzhang raised his army, he had few soldiers and had many of them supported him. This kind of kindness is known to everyone in the King of Western Wu, but he hated him for surrendering to Yuan Meng in his later years, assisting the evil in his later years, and attacking the Han rebel army. He was born with the same roots, so why are they too anxious to fight each other? This is Liu Bowen quoted Cao Zijian's poem to evaluate his later years. Zhang Shicheng said that God helped Zhu not help him. He was wrong. It was not because of his bad luck, but because he harmed himself and became the victim of the "temptation" policy of the Yuan Meng court, a tragic victim with short-sighted vision.
Chapter completed!