On the official road from Kunming to Yongchang, crying and shaking, tens of thousands of people chased the emperor's convoy with their elderly and young people. They didn't know where they were safe, but they knew that it might be safer to follow the emperor. After all, the emperor's carriage was guarded by the army, and they knew nothing about where the emperor was going. In order to chase the emperor's carriage, the people chased with all their feet.

The retreat was extremely hastily. The Yongli court did not send any personnel to organize the people to retreat. The King of Jin only ordered the people to withdraw. In addition, no troops were sent to organize the retreat, which led to the great retreat of Kunming City falling into panic and extremely chaotic scenes from the beginning. The general Jin Tongwu, who accompanied the escort, was only focused on guarding the emperor's carriage and ignored the people. As a result, a large number of Kunming people caught up with the sage from the West City, and the entire retreat team, including the guards, fell into chaos.

No one knew how to solve the chaotic scene in front of him, and no one stood up to maintain order. Everyone was running west desperately. In some crowded areas, there were even tragic scenes of people trampling against each other. The carriages and mule carriages in Kunming City collided with the carriages of the emperor's convoy in the night. As a result, more than a dozen cars were overturned on the road, making the team even more chaotic. In the chaos, there were rogue markets taking advantage of the fire. The howling of the woman who had robbed the bag made all the people feel sad and mournful.

The emperor's carriage consists of more than one hundred horse-drawn carriages. Emperor Zhu Youlang himself sat on the largest carriage in the middle of the convoy, followed by the carriages of the empress dowager and the queen-in-law, followed by the carriages of the prince and others. Some of the status magistrates and palace maids in the inner court were squeezed into the carriages and slowly moved forward with the convoy. The status magistrates and palace maids could only pull the carriages with their hands and follow them. No matter how slowly the carriages were, the palace maids and internal prisoners had been walking for so long, and the physical strength could not be supported. Some people kept letting go of their hands and squatting on the side of the road in despair, begging the passing vehicles to take them with them, but no one paid attention to them.

There were only a few hundred carriages distributed to the inner court, but only more than twenty carriages were distributed to the accompanying officials. Among them, the chief minister of the cabinet, Ma Jixiang, occupied 17 carriages, and the Ma family had five or six carriages, while the rest were filled with Ma Jixiang's corruption and bribery gains in recent years. The large and small boxes were filled with carriages, causing the wheels to roll out the deep marks on the ground. Wang Kun, the Sili Superintendent, also obtained six carriages, which were also filled with his income in recent years. His disciples, like ordinary palace maids and internal supervisors, could only follow the carriages.

The Grand Secretary Fu Gang, Lei Yuelong, the Six Ministers, the Minister of the Secretariat, and other officials all had carriages. Their families were at least taken care of and were assigned to the carriages. However, more officials with the carriages could only follow the team with two legs. I don’t know how many officials took off their official robe and threw it on the road in anger, and then left the Holy Carriage without looking back. They were really desperate about the emperor and the Ming court.

The eldest princess of Changle, Meng Wang, also got a carriage to carry on her. She sat in the car with the three palace maids who served her. Looking at the scene of escape in front of her, she felt very sad. She thought of the scene in Guangzhou City ten years ago. At that time, she was only seven years old and was carried by her wet nurse and ran out of the city in panic.

"Your Highness, where are we going? Can we still come back?"

Cui'er is the youngest and is a native of Kunming. She has only been in the palace for more than a year. She has passed this escape scene and is choking in a low voice. She is really afraid and worried. She is afraid that her parents and younger brother will not escape from the city, and she is afraid that she will never see her relatives again.

The other two palace maids, one of whom is the oldest, who is in his forties, is an old palace maid who follows the sage all the way from Zhaoqing. The palace calls her Mother He. There is also a palace maid named Qin, who is 19 years old and is a native of Kunming like Cui'er.

Mother He experienced the nightmare of the emperor's escape from Zhaoqing, and she was old, so she was not as scared as Cui'er and Qin'er. She just sat there and looked outside silently. Qin'er was also afraid, but she did not cry, looking at His Royal Highness like a frightened little rabbit.

Changle turned around and looked at Cui'er with tears on her face, shook her head slightly: "I don't know if we can come back."

Cui'er burst into tears even more when she heard this. She sobbed and said aggrievedly: "Your Highness, didn't Mr. Guo say that the prince-consor's soldiers are very capable of fighting? Even the Manzhou Tartars have never beaten him. Why didn't he come to save us?"

Changle was stunned and didn't know how to answer Cui'er's words. Thinking of the husband whom he had not met in Guangdong, Changle felt a pain in his heart for no reason, and his nose was sore. He only had one thought in his heart: Does he know me?

"Where is General Jin, where is General Jin? The King of Jin has a handwritten order!"

Zhu Youlang, who was resting in the car, suddenly heard the shouts of soldiers outside, saying that Jin Tongwu was guarding the emperor with the hand order of King Jin. He couldn't help but lift the curtain and looked out, and found that Jin Tongwu had seen the hand order of King Jin's hand order, suddenly led people to beat the horse and turned around. Zhu Youlang was shocked and hurriedly sent the eunuch Qi Er to ask what had happened.

After asking, Qi Er came over and reported, "Old Master, General Jin received a command from King Jin to burn all the Kunming grain warehouses to avoid the enemy's resources, so he brought people to go back and burn grain."

When he heard that King Jin wanted Jin Tongwu to burn Kunming's grain storage, Zhu Youlang frowned and said dissatisfied: "How can this be done? If the Qing army found that there was no food after entering the city, wouldn't it be a must for the people? Is it my will to pass on my will that the Kunming grain storage must not be burned, so it would be left to the Qing army."

"Your Majesty, this?"

The Duke of Qian, Mu Tianbo, who was riding a horse to guard the side, heard the emperor's will and was so scared that he almost fell from the horse.

Qi Er was also stunned. No matter how little he knew, he knew that food could not be left to the Qing army, but he didn't know why the emperor insisted on leaving the food to the Qing army. He was stunned, not knowing whether to give the food to the Qing army. When Yongli saw that he was still, he said angrily: "You slave, I said that food should not be left to the Qing army, why don't you go and send the imperial edict quickly!"

"Yes, the emperor, I will go and pass the order now."

Seeing that the emperor was angry, Qi Er had no choice but to answer and ran over and told Jin Tongwu the imperial edict. Jin Tongwu, who was about to take people back to burn food, frowned after hearing the emperor's imperial edict, and finally sighed and obeyed the emperor's will.

The Grand Secretary Fu Gang heard that the emperor was not allowed to burn Kunming's grain storage, and was shocked. He said to the Grand Secretary Lei Yuelong, who was squeezed into a carriage: "The emperor is a woman's kindness. Guizhou is poor and the people are poor. It is extremely difficult for the Qing army to raise grain along the way. The King of Jin voluntarily gave up Kunming to implement a strong wall and clear the country, in order to prevent the Qing army from raising food. Without food, the Qing army would not be able to gain a foothold in Kunming, and it would be even more impossible to pursue the Holy Lord. Now, the emperor did not allow the burning of grain, but left all the food to the Qing army. Isn't this let the Qing army eat and drink enough and have the strength to chase us?"

Lei Yuelong shook his head and said bitterly: "The emperor has issued an order, what can we do?"

"No, the food must not be left to the Qing army. Let's go and advise."

Fu Gang was about to pull Lei Yuelong to make a statement without saying a word, but heard the exclamation of Emperor Yongli from the front: "Where is my great treasure, where is my great treasure?"

Big treasure?

Fu Gang and Lei Yuelong both changed color, and the treasure was the jade seal. Could it be that the jade seal was lost?

"How come you servants dealt with me? You actually left my treasure behind. Are you damn it?"

Emperor Yongli was so angry that his face turned pale when he heard the news that he had lost his jade seal. Wang Kun rushed to the scene and said, "Your Majesty, why don't Lao Nu send someone back to find him?"

Unexpectedly, Emperor Yongli shook his head and said indifferently: "Forget it, if you lose it, you will lose it. When you arrive in Yongchang, you can ask someone to carve it again." After that, he added, "Carry one again with gold."

"I understand."

Wang Kun responded, but cursed the people below what to do. He actually lost the emperor's jade seal. What if he could do it for the Qing army!

In the distance, Fu Gang and Lei Yuelong looked at each other. The two sighed at the same time, and turned around and got into the carriage, never mentioning the matter of burning food again.
Chapter completed!