However, in Yunnan, Li Dingguo's army retreated step by step, with most of the soldiers killed and injured, and they were unable to protect the Yongli regime. Myanmar's attitude gradually changed. Just at this time, a court coup occurred in Myanmar, and King Mangda, who is still friendly to the Yongli regime, was executed by his younger brother Mangbai.

On May 23, the younger brother of the Burmese king, Mangbai, with the support of his ministers, launched a court coup, executed Mangda and proclaimed himself king. The new king saw many ministers coming to congratulate him, but Zhu Youlang was very angry. In fact, Zhu Youlang did not want to come, but because he was in a dilemma, he was in a dilemma and could not bring out many decent congratulatory gifts. But Mangbai thought they were not like poor people at all, and felt that they were deceived by him. The king's attitude towards Zhu Youlang and others also changed, and in addition, the situation of the Yongli regime was over, so he had the idea of ​​getting rid of them.

Mangbai gave an excuse that Zhu Youlang did not send a gift, so he sent an envoy to ask for it. But he didn't get anything. He ordered the envoy to blame him in person: "I have worked hard for two years. Your emperor and ministers should thank me heavily. In May of the previous year, my king planned to kill you, but I still refused. You people are ungrateful to repay you." After saying that, he left angrily. The Yongli officials tried their best to defend themselves, but the other party was unmoved, and since then the relationship between the two parties gradually deteriorated.

On July 16, the 10th year of Shenwu, the king of Myanmar, Mangbai, decided to eliminate the officials accompanying Yongli. He sent someone to notify the Yongli court officials to cross the Jinsha River to discuss matters. In view of the tense relationship between the two sides, the civil and military officials of Yongli were suspicious and afraid. On the 18th, the Myanmar envoy said: "My king is afraid that you have other intentions, so he wants you to go to the riverside to "drink water" together and swear to the heavenly alliance. This can also strengthen trade exchanges, otherwise we will cut off relations and your life will be more difficult."

Zhu Youlang and the civil and military ministers did not know what to do. Mu Tianbo, Duke of Qian, who was in Yunnan, replied: "Your Xuanwei Office was originally a place where I was enfeoffed in China. Now my king and his ministers have arrived, and it is the upper country of the Celestial Empire. Should your king and his king and his ministers respond here, which is the ritual of the lower country. How can you trap my king and his ministers here? How can you do this trick? Let me tell the king and say that my emperor of the Celestial Empire is just a man of destiny. Now I have reached a land of no life. How can I be bullied by the natives? Although my king and his ministers are in poverty, I dare not be rude. If you have a million soldiers in your country, there are thousands of them, and my ministers will just die with the destiny of heaven. But after my king and his ministers die, someone will come to settle accounts with you."

Although beautiful words are easy to say, Zhu Youlang still had to send someone to the Burmese side insisting. But who will go to the appointment? Zhu Youlang finally decided to go with Grand Secretary Wen'an Hou Ma Jixiang, eunuch Li Guotai and others, but the two proposed to go with Guizhou Duke Mu Tianbo. Mu is a person valued by the chieftains in the southwest border states. Ma Jixiang and others believe that Mu Tianbo would not cause accidents.

At dawn on the second day, Ma Jixiang and others summoned officials from all over the river to the Burmese Army's garrison tower, preparing to "drink water" and leave only thirteen internal officials and the lame general Deng Kai to guard the "palace". In the morning, civil and military officials arrived at the tower and were surrounded by 3,000 Burmese soldiers. The commander of the Burmese side ordered people to drag Mu Tianbo out of the encirclement. Mu Tianbo knew that there were variables, so he seized the sword of the guard and fought back, killing nine Burmese soldiers. Generals Wei Bao, Wang Sheng, and Wang Qilong also grabbed the firewood stick and fought back, but were all killed because they were outnumbered.

All other officials who were deceived to "drink cursive water" were killed, including Ma Jixiang, Ma Xiongfei, Wang Weigong, General Wang Zijin, Chen Qian, etc. The general was appointed as the Tongzong An Chaozhu, Ren Zixin, Jin Shu, Zhang Gongji, Ding Diaoding, etc., internal officials Li Guotai, Li Maofang, etc., and Zhang Bozong, the Jiwangfu official. Later, it was counted that a total of 42 people were killed this time. After the Burmese army murdered the entourages of the Yongli Dynasty, they immediately rushed into the residences of the monarchs and ministers of Yongli, killing more than 300 people, and at the same time plundered women.

Seeing this, Zhu Youlang hurriedly decided to hang himself with the Empress of the Central Palace. Deng Kai, the general guard, advised: "The Empress Dowager is old and falls in a foreign land. The emperor is already unfaithful to lose the country. Now he is unfilial to the Queen Mother. How can he see Emperor Gao underground?" Emperor Yongli gave up his plan to commit suicide.

Finally, the Burmese soldiers gathered 25 people including Emperor Yongli, Empress Dowager, Empress, Prince, etc. in a small house, and insulted the rest of the personnel and the families of the entourage officials. Most of the more than 100 people of Emperor Yongli, including Liu and Yang, King Ji and concubines, hanged themselves to death. When the Burmese soldiers were plundered, the Burmese ministers led the news and pretended to order the Burmese soldiers: "The king has orders here, so that the emperor and Duke Mu should not be hurt." However, Mu Tianbo was already killed while "drinking water".

Zhu Youlang's temporary palace was covered with corpses and could no longer live. Myanmar officials asked Zhu Youlang and others to move to another place for temporary residence. There were still internal officials in Mu Tianbo's house, and more than 200 women gathered together, "the mother cried with her son, the wife cried with her husband, and the daughter cried with her father, and she was shocked to hear that for dozens of miles." After the looting, the survivors could no longer live, and the monks from nearby Myanmar temples sent food to survive.

On the 21st, the Burmese side cleaned up the original residence of the monarch and ministers of Yongli, and asked them to move them back here and brought them food and clothes. On the 25th, they sent them bedding, silver, cloth and other items, saying: "The Burmese King really had no intention. It was because the Jin and Gong vassals killed local people, and the Burmese people hated them to the core, so they took revenge."

After this blow, Zhu Youlang was completely disappointed with his future, but he was unwilling to be sent to Zhu Hongsan's hands. That would be even more uncomfortable than death. On October 18, Zhu Youlang said to General Deng Kai: "The Empress Dowager fell ill again. If God's will irreversible, Zhu Hongsan's traitor came to kill me, so you don't care about the connection. But I hope you can make the empress dowager's bones return to their hometown."

The reason why the Myanmar authorities did not kill Zhu Youlang immediately was because Zhu Hongsan's army had occupied Yunnan at that time. At this time, Zhu Hongsan's rear army commander Zhou Yu and 80,000 soldiers were on the border between the Ming and Myanmar. Zhou Yu wiped out all the more than 10,000 remaining troops of Li Dingguo half a year ago, and Li Dingguo also died in the army.

Originally, he killed directly according to Zhou Yu's intentions, including the Burmese King and Zhu Youlang, all of them were killed. But at this time, Zhou Yu was no longer the deputy battalion commander of the year, but one of the nine dukes of the new dynasty. Someone around Zhou Yu had a complaint, and Zhu Youlang's identity was very special. Although the emperor had ordered his life and death, everyone knew that many people in the court were old ministers of Zhu Youlang at that time, such as the current governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Lu Daqi. Killing Zhu Youlang was very simple, but those scholars did not dare to offend the emperor, so Zhou Yu, who was the direct executor, would be in trouble.

Zhou Yu thought about it and it was right. Now is not a war era. The power of Chinese literati in the North has gradually overwhelmed the power of military generals. Just in case, it would be better to keep Zhu Youlang's life!

In this way, Zhou Yu was able to write a letter from the Myanmar government and asked them to hand over Zhu Youlang. Seeing that the Qing army was unstoppable, Mangbai also wanted to use this to please the emerging Shenwu regime. Under Zhou Yu's coercion and inducement, Mangbai sent Zhu Youlang and his family to Zhou Yu in November of the tenth year of Shenwu.

After Zhou Yu accepted Zhu Youlang, he did not go to see Zhu Youlang in person at the suggestion of the counselors around him, but offered Zhu Youlang a delicious meal. After all, Zhu Youlang is not able to take care of his life and death from now on, and everything is up to the emperor of Beijing.

The Yongli regime, which poses the greatest threat to Zhu Hongsan, was eliminated and Zhu Youlang was captured, but Zhou Yu did not dare to do anything without the emperor's order, so he sent a thousand soldiers to escort Zhu Youlang back to Kunming. Zhou Yu himself and his remaining troops were stationed on the Ming-Myanmar border.

Zhou Yu treated Zhu Youlang well and did not treat him badly. He regularly offered food to Zhu Youlang and his wife, the queen mother, the prince and others. However, Zhu Youlang still felt a little regretful, so he might as well commit suicide at that time.

After half a month's journey, Zhu Youlang returned to Kunming where he had been away for more than three years. The city was still the same city and the people were still the people, but they were no longer Zhu Youlang's subjects.

The governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Lu Daqi, had already received news from Zhou Yu, and was about to stop and wait outside the city gate this morning. Lu Daqi's staff advised Lu Daqi not to do this. Although Lu Daqi had been Zhu Youlang's minister, he was now eating Zhu Hongsan's meal. And the emperor Zhu Hongsan was obviously petty. What if he really felt that you, Lu Daqi and Zhu Youlang had an old relationship?

But Lu Daqi didn't care about the dissuasion of his subordinates. Although he was Zhu Hongsan's minister, he had been Zhu Youlang's cabinet master after all, and he could not be so shameless in his life.

When Lu Daqi saw that King Gui's car arrived, he quickly walked in a few steps, stepped forward and knelt down and said, "Old minister Lu Daqi, pay homage to Your Majesty!" If Zhu Hongsan was here, he would be angry. In order to win people's hearts, Zhu Hongsan stipulated that the scholars and officials would not have to kneel down when they saw the emperor. Now that Lu Daqi was receiving Zhu Hongsan's salary, he actually knelt down to worship his former master, which was a bit too much.

At this time, Zhu Youlang had already taken off his dragon robe and changed into an ordinary cloth robe. When he saw the old man, he also burst into tears. Zhu Youlang stepped forward to help Lu Daqi up and said, "Mr. Lu, now you are the minister of His Majesty Shenwu. You don't have to salute me, the prince, let Your Majesty know that something is wrong!" In order to survive, Zhu Youlang had already abdicated to Zhu Hongsan by himself, and was still his own King of Gui.

Lu Daqi stood up with Zhu Youlang's support and said in tears: "As long as I have been a minister for Your Majesty for one day, I will always be your Majesty's minister!"

When Zhu Youlang saw that Lu Daqi was so loyal and sighed at his destiny, he couldn't help but hug Lu Daqi and cried bitterly.
Chapter completed!