The fall of Sichuan can be said to be an extremely heavy blow to Zhou State.

After losing Sichuan's population, grain, and well salt, Zhou's strength was greatly weakened, which shook Wu Sangui's determination and also damaged Zhou's civil and military confidence.

This led to the division of the Zhou Dynasty, and many surrender factions appeared, and their voices had already overwhelmed the pro-war factions.

When discussing affairs, some ministers actually hoped that Wu Sangui could surrender to the Ming Dynasty to protect their interests, which made Wu Sangui extremely angry and the discussions ended unhappily.

In the Palace of Zhou, Wu Sangui stood in the attic of Weiyang Palace, looking down at Chang'an City with a chessboard layout, and his expression was depressed.

At this time, Hong Chengchou saw that Wu Sangui had recovered from his calmness, so he went forward and bowed: "Your Majesty!"

Wu Sangui turned around and stared at Hong Chengchou, a little angry, "Why did the Prime Minister say nothing in the hall just now? Do you think I will be defeated?"

Hong Chengchou sighed, "Okay, I admit that I am actually a pessimist."

"Sure enough!" Wu Sangui was furious, "Even you think the Great Zhou is about to perish."

Wu Sangui was heartbroken. His subordinates only cared about their own interests and did not consider his situation. They all wanted to sacrifice him to protect their glory and wealth.

"Your Majesty, please calm down!" Hong Chengchou hurriedly saluted: "The Ming Kingdom is powerful and cannot be defeated by our Great Zhou, but our Great Zhou does not have a way to survive."

Hong Chengchou decided to tell Wu Sangui and Pan that he and Sun Kewang's concerns were confessed to Wu Sangui's plan.

Wu Sangui said angrily: "What way to survive is to persuade me to surrender to Zhao Zamao?"

The fall of Sichuan greatly affected the morale of the Zhou Kingdom, and some voices began to appear in the court, persuading Wu Sangui to surrender to Zhao Ming.

Hong Chengchou said, "Your Majesty, those who persuade you to surrender to Zhao Ming should be executed."

Wu Sangui was stunned, put away his anger and listened to Hong Chengchou continuing: "They surrendered to Zhao Zamao, and they still did not lose their high-ranking officials and generous salaries, but the emperor was worried about his life. Even if Zhao Zamao did not kill the emperor, he would probably put the emperor on the shelves and put him under house arrest for life, so the emperor would never surrender to Zhao Zamao."

This is what Wu Sangui is thinking. Although Wu Sangui is a military general, he has also studied.

Over the past thousands of years, the surrendered kings have a good ending. Not to mention the humiliation they suffer, they may die inexplicably, and even if they do not die, they will be under house arrest for life.

A real man stands tall and straight, how could he think of being kept by Zhao Zamao like a canary?

Furthermore, the emperor of the Song Dynasty was considered kind, but how miserable was Li Houzhu? Not only was he poisoned, but Xiao Zhou Hou was also fortunately favored by Fatty Zhao and ordered the court painter to paint on the spot, making Li Houzhu a laughing stock.

Wu Sangui thought about his beautiful Yuanyuan. If he had fallen into Zhao Zamao's hands and gave him this, his face would be lost.

Therefore, Wu Sangui would never surrender to Zhao Ming and would not be willing to be insulted like this.

"The Prime Minister is right. Those who persuade me to surrender have selfish intentions, but Zhang Zhao is just like him." Wu Sangui sighed, "It's still the Prime Minister who is loyal to me."

In fact, Hong Chengchou also wanted to be Zhang Zhao, the key is that he felt that Zhao Zamao would not let him go if he surrendered, so he supported Wu Sangui.

"It's great that the emperor can understand the minister's intentions." Hong Chengchou said emotionally.

At this time, Wu Sangui reacted, "The Prime Minister just said that the Great Zhou has other ways to survive, and I don't know what he said?"

After losing Sichuan, Wu Sangui no longer had the confidence to defeat Zhao Ming. However, he, the King of Zhou, had a good job and had not enjoyed enough, so he naturally did not want to be defeated and died, and his country was destroyed and his family was destroyed. Therefore, after discovering that it was not for him to surrender, he cared about the way of survival mentioned by Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou then said seriously: "Your Majesty, now between Dazhou and Zhao Zamao, fighting or surrendering is not the best choice for you."

Wu Sangui nodded. He must be unable to beat him. He will definitely not surrender. These two are dead ends for Wu Sangui.

Seeing that Wu Sangui agreed, Hong Chengchou confessed: "I'm showing up. I'm not a war-oriented faction, but an escape-lost faction."

"Is the Prime Minister asking me to escape?" Wu Sangui frowned.

Hong Chengchou walked to the map, pointed to the map and said, "No, you can't beat me, and you can't surrender, so you can only escape."

As he said that, Hong Chengchou pointed to the Western Regions and said, "In fact, I have reached a consensus with Prime Minister Sun, and in the past six months, a lot of population and materials have been transferred to the Western Regions!"

"Western Regions?" Wu Sangui had a calm face.

Hong Chengchou nodded and said, "When the Jin Kingdom rose and the Liao Kingdom fell, Yelu Dashi fled to the Western Regions, and established the Western Liao here, dominating the Western Regions for more than a hundred years. Now, since our Great Zhou Dynasty is difficult to defeat Zhao Mao, why not retreat to the Western Regions?"

Wu Sangui thought about it and found that compared to defeat and death, moving to the Western Regions was indeed an option.

"The two prime ministers have decided long ago, why not tell me earlier?" Wu Sangui couldn't help but complain after he figured it out.

Hong Chengchou hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty atonement. Before Sichuan was in hand, I may not be able to fight in the Great Zhou Dynasty, so I did not tell you because I was afraid that you would shake your decisive battle and cause chaos in the country. Now, Sichuan has been lost, and you will die again, so I told you."

Wu Sangui waved his hand, accepted his statement, and asked, "The Prime Minister thought he should withdraw to the Western Regions, and will he issue an order to move the capital now?"

Hong Chengchou was startled and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, you must not. I think the court officials cannot know about retreating to the Western Regions at the moment!"

Wu Sangui frowned and said, "Since you can't beat Zhao Zamao, you should transfer the earlier, the better? Wait until Zhao Zamao calls him, it will be too late to transfer again."

Wu Sangui recognized his plan to escape to the Western Regions. Since he decided to escape, he should transfer the materials in the pass to the Western Regions as soon as possible while Zhao Zamao did not attack.

In this way, Zhou State's life in the Western Regions would be easier. Otherwise, if people run over, they will have nothing to do with it, and what is the meaning of it.

Hong Chengchou explained: "If the emperor directly issues an order, then neither the emperor nor the minister will leave."

Wu Sangui said in confusion: "Why is this?"

Hong Chengchou said in a deep voice: "Once the emperor gives an order, Zhao Zamao will definitely attack immediately, and will not let the emperor and general Guanzhong be empty. Secondly, the interests of many ministers in the court are in Guanzhong. Most of them will not follow the emperor to the Western Regions and will definitely surrender Zhao Zamao immediately. Finally, the front-line generals knew that the emperor was going to escape, and would not fight to the death to resist Zhao Zamao's attack. In this way, once people know that the emperor wanted to abandon Guanzhong and flee to the Western Regions, the Zhou State would inevitably collapse instantly."

Wu Sangui is a smart man, and he understands it at a glance. Thinking of those who persuaded him to surrender, he nodded quickly, "The Prime Minister is right, and he really cannot issue an order directly, but how should he evacuate?"

Hong Chengchou said in a deep voice: "On the surface, the emperor should continue to be in charge of the war, pursue the promotion of peace and stability of the people's hearts, but secretly transfer materials, craftsmen, gold and silver to the Western Regions. When Zhao Zamao launches an attack, he will retreat to the Western Regions."

If Zhao Ming heard Hong Chengchou's words, he would have thought that hundreds of years later, the bald man knew that the situation was hopeless and tried his best to transfer gold and silver to Taiwan.

Wu Sangui nodded heavily, "The Prime Minister is right! Then, let's stabilize the court officials first, and then try to transport more money to the Western Regions before Zhao Zamao attacks."
Chapter completed!