Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 890 Wolf Ambition

Chapter 890 Wolf Ambition

"No need to enter the city." Faced with Ma Ye's hypocritical behavior, Zhu Su just snorted in his heart, and did not choose to enter the city alone or give up as Ma Ye said.

He rode his horse forward, stopped Madam Shezi who wanted to continue scolding Ma Ye, and said to the city: "You don't have to open the city gate. But I order you to send Tusi Aicui out of the city."

"Do you agree or not?"

"What...what?" Ma Ye was originally somewhat complacent, thinking that he had controlled Zhu Su with his words, and that he was already invincible. Whether Zhu Su chose to enter the city or not, he could deal with it. However, Zhu Su did not argue with him about entering the city at all, but pointed his sword at the core and asked him for Ai Cui directly.

This made him unable to react for a moment.

"What?" Seeing that he did not respond, Zhu Su continued, "Do you want to disobey my order?"

“This…” Ma Ye was confused for a moment, and after hesitating for a long time, he reluctantly said, “Your Highness… Your Highness, please forgive me. Ai Cui is the leader of the thieves, and I really can’t…”

"Whether Ai Cui is a thief or not, we will discuss it later." Zhu Su interrupted him. "Since it is my order, I will bear all the responsibilities."

Ma Ye choked and opened his mouth to argue, but Zhu Su was impatient and interrupted him again, saying, "From now on, I will take over the military and political power of Guizhou and come here to govern the affairs of this place. Guizhou Guard and Guizhou Vanguard are also under my jurisdiction."

"It's fine if you refuse to welcome me. But why do you disobey my order?"

"Are you the one who is rebelling, or are you from the Shuixi Yi tribe? Are the soldiers on the city also planning to join the rebellion?"

Zhu Su's cold eyes swept over the city wall, and many of the guards on the wall were shocked. It was their duty, and they obeyed the orders of their chief general Ma Ye to keep His Royal Highness King Zhou out of the city, which might be justified.

But if they were asked to follow Ma Ye and be labeled as traitors... these officers and soldiers would not be willing to do that.

"Your Highness, I didn't..." Ma Ye explained hurriedly.

"I will let you wait for one stick of incense!" Zhu Su still did not listen to his explanation, but spoke loudly to the city. "In one stick of incense, you can send Ai Cui out of the city and deliver her to the Shuixi Yi people."

"Or, I will regard you all as traitors... But now, the Duke of Liang is in Sizhou, the Duke of Cao is in Lianzhou, and the Duke of Qian is in Yunnan, all of them are near you."

"Whoever dares to disobey the imperial court and stir up a dispute between the Han and Yi people, I will dispatch the heavenly soldiers to surround them from three sides and turn them into dust!"

"Don't say that I didn't warn you!"

The sound was as loud as thunder in a flat land. The officers and soldiers on the city wall were thrown into confusion and an uproar broke out.

"Your Highness, we are innocent, innocent!"

"Your Highness, we have absolutely no intention of rebelling!"

For a while, the clanging sounds of discarded weapons could be heard from the city walls. Some people even knelt down towards Zhu Su and shouted loudly to show that they had no intention of disobeying the court.

The army of Guizhou Wei has lost its morale.

Mrs. Shezi looked at the young King of Zhou in surprise, but Zhu Su still had a serious expression. Even from several feet away, he could see Ma Ye's blackened face on the city wall, and he knew that he could no longer hold on.

So Zhu Su decided to add fuel to the fire.

"Or... you have another way out." Zhu Su said slowly to the people on the city wall. The officers and soldiers who were crying, expressing their loyalty, and complaining about their fate on the city wall suddenly quieted down.

"It's easy to prove that you didn't join the rebellion. If you don't hand over the chieftain of Aicui, you can hand over the head of the chief envoy who detained him to me." Zhu Su said. When he said this, his burning eyes finally met the panicked Ma Ye: "Either hand over the chieftain or hand over the head..."

"Everyone, make your own choice."

After saying this, Zhu Su did not listen to their reply, and immediately turned his horse and returned to the Shuixi Yi people without looking back. Mrs. Shezi raised her head and saw Ma Ye's horrified face. She felt relieved and turned her horse back to retreat into the formation with Zhu Su.

"This... Mr. Tongzhi?" Ye An was so frightened that he was at a loss. "What... should I do?"

Someone had already lit a stick of incense in front of everyone in the city and outside the city, and inserted it in the middle of the open space below the city. His subordinates looked at him with strange eyes. Ma Ye felt like his soul was about to die, and beads of sweat had already seeped out of his back.

He had no doubt that if he still detained Ai Cui, once the incense stick outside the city burned out, his so-called subordinates and comrades would take off his head without hesitation and send it to the presence of His Majesty King Zhou.

"What should we do? What else can we do? He has said that, how can we not release Ai Cui?" Ma Ye was quite annoyed and whispered to his confidant Ye An. "Your Highness didn't leave me any way out! Apart from releasing Ai Cui, what else can I do?"

"But... Sir, how can we let Ai Cui go!" Ye An had a sad face. They arrested Ai Cui to torture him into confessing that he had the intention of treason. But when they saw that Ai Cui refused to let go, they thought of forcing him to rebel against Shuixi by detaining him... But they had beaten him, and Ai Cui was already covered in wounds in the dungeon of the guard post, and was only hanging on for a breath. If they let him go, wouldn't he tell His Royal Highness the King of Zhou about his experience, or even report it to the court?

His Royal Highness Prince Zhou... obviously didn't take into account the fact that the Lord Tongzhi was a relative of the Empress, and he shouted to kill when he was outside the city. If he knew about this, wouldn't he have just taken their heads with a sword? Now, if he lets them go, he will die, and if he doesn't let them go, he will die too. He is really in a dilemma.

Ma Ye suddenly thought of this, and his brows furrowed deeply. He was a desperate man, and compared to the worry about his life, the fact that handing over Ai Cui cut off his path to advancement made him feel even more uncomfortable.

He frowned and thought deeply for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Hand it over! He has such a powerful aura that if I don't hand it over, I'm afraid he will really incite the soldiers to kill me."

"It doesn't matter that Ai Cui is injured. As long as Ai Cui can't speak and can't give a confession, even if they already know it in their hearts, what can they do to us?"

"Sir, do you want to... poison and mute Ai Cui?" Ye An asked in surprise.

"It's already poisonous, why just poison the mute." Ma Ye curled his lips slightly. He was still panicking just now, but now he has completely calmed down. A fierce light flashed in his eyes, and he whispered to Ye An:

"Go to the dungeon quickly and find a poison for Ai Cui to take before you bring her out."

"He doesn't have to die now, but I want him to die violently as soon as he returns to Shuixi!"

(End of this chapter)