Chapter 12 (12) Zhang Xianzhong's wonderful poems

The rogues began to attack the city, and the soldiers defending the city were unable to catch them, so the general went to Zhu Huakui: "Your Majesty, lend me some money to send to the soldiers to motivate everyone."Otherwise, the soldiers would not use their strength. I said you people... Furious, Zhu Huakui went into the inner room and came out with a chair: this chair was used by Emperor Taizu.Cultural relics, valuable!You put it up for auction to see if you can raise some money. The guard of Wuchang was named Zhang Qi, and he didn't have too many eyes. When he saw the chair, he blurted out the truth: "My lord, this chair of yours was obviously built just this year..."

What?Zhu Huakui was furious immediately: Do you dare to despise my royal family and say that the king is lying?Come, hold this guy down for the king, and beat him forty times. The unlucky Zhang Qi suffered forty boards for nothing, so he was helped out of the city, came to Zhang Xianzhong, and said, "Your Majesty, do you want to enter the city?"If you want to enter the city, I will take you in. Zhang Xianzhong said: "It's the same thing whether you can enter or not enter this ruined city, but you Wuchang people are so enthusiastic, so let's go in." The bandits swarmed into the city, first captured Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, and then ransacked the palace of the Chu king. They found more than 30,000 taels of gold, 1.8 million taels of silver, and countless gold, silver and jewels.

So Zhang Xianzhong personally interrogated the King of Chu: You have so much gold, silver and jewels, why don't you give them to the guards? Zhu Huakui said with a smile: Your Majesty's words are wrong.They are soldiers, and it is their rightful duty to die for the country. Why should they take my gold and silver? Zhang Xianzhong said: Your words are quite reasonable.In view of your sympathy for guarding the treasury for this king, I promise you to die with the whole body, and you can choose your own way of death. Zhu Huakui said: This king is indifferent by nature, neither greedy nor extravagant, just likes gold, silver and jewels, why don't you please tie my whole body full of gold, silver and jewels and throw them into the river?

Zhang Xianzhong said: Are you still indifferent?I have convinced you... So he put the king of Chu into a bag, stuffed it with ingots, and threw it into the river with a plop.Seeing the bubbling and bubbling of the water surface, Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu with doubtful bloodlines, was already in bliss. After killing the king of Chu, Zhang Xianzhong was refreshed, and led his entourage to the Yellow Crane Tower, and wrote a poem: The rolling Yangtze River will go and not return, Separate turtles and snakes from each other. Guishan is like Li Chuang. Our father is standing on Snake Mountain.

When the poem was completed, he took over the urgent report: report!The old Zuo who killed a thousand swords is back again. Zhang Xianzhong smiled and said: I understand what Lao Zuo means.He doesn't want us to settle down in Wuchang, so how about we go to Hunan to see the scenery and take a detour to Shuchuan? So Zhang Xianzhong raised his troops to enter Shu via Hunan, but Zuo Liangyu has lived in Wuchang ever since.