"Your territory?" Zhengde did not fall into the awareness of his opponent at all. When he heard Zhou Chong say such a big talk, he immediately retorted, "Don't you know that the whole world is the king's land? Although Shuangyu Port was not the territory of the Ming Dynasty before, it has been taken back by me now. The officials and troops here are my people. Why is it your territory?"

"Hahahaha~, it is obvious that your Zhu family is short-sighted and has a very rich ocean. They have to implement sea bans. Even the coastal islands have given up. This Shuangyu Port is a product of the sea ban. It took hundreds of years to develop, and later it was my improvement that it gradually became what it is today. If I hadn't wanted to give the smuggling merchants a righteous identity, wouldn't it be so easy for the Ming officials and army to enter?" Zhou Chong said with a smile at this time. Since he had already broken up, he had no need to be polite to Zhengde, and he had never had any awe of the royal family.

Zhengde was so angry when he heard Zhou Chong's scolding the Royal Rat, he was so angry that he wanted to refute him, but Zhou Chong continued: "Now is not the time to say this nonsense. Where are my wife and relatives? Let them out quickly. Also prepare a big boat, and I want to take them away with me!"

Zhou Chong tightened his knife and said, although hijacking Zhengde was a serious crime to destroy the family, and even if he was given a ship, he might not be able to escape. However, in this case, even if there is a glimmer of hope, he would still give it a try.

Zhengde was very unhappy when he was interrupted by Zhou Chong, but he did not dare to resist. Instead, he called Gu Dayong outside in a very obedient voice. As a result, Gu Dayong was scared to death as soon as he came in. He just heard something wrong in the living room, but His Majesty had ordered before that as long as he didn't ask him to come in no matter what happened inside, he could only stay outside. Unexpectedly, His Majesty was actually put on his neck by Zhou Chong's short sword. If there was any accident, something big would happen.

"Why are you still standing there? Come and invite Zhou Chong's wife and daughter!" Seeing Gu Dayong standing there in a daze, Zhengde yelled angrily. As a result, Gu Dayong was so scared that he shivered and did not dare to delay any more. He ran to the backyard to invite someone, but he knew that His Majesty did not ask him to invite Zhou Chong's whole family, but to invite another person.

Zhou Chong put the dagger on Zhengde's neck and dared not relax at all. Although he tried his best to act calmly on the surface, his mind was turning rapidly, thinking about how he could escape from Shuangyu Port safely. In addition, after he escaped, what should the remaining Nanyang Chamber of Commerce do? Does he have a way to take these people away? These questions jumped out of his mind, but the answers to each question made him shudder.

However, just when Zhou Chong's mind was in a mess, Zhengde suddenly said slowly: "Zhou Chong, you don't have to be afraid. I actually have no malice towards you. I don't want to do anything to you?"

"Shut up, now your life is in my hands. You should be the one you should be afraid of!" Zhou Chong roared angrily. He was in a mess now. He was very irritated when he heard Zhengde's words, and he heard the other party expose the fact that he was afraid, which made him even more angry.

"Haha, I'm right. If you're not afraid, why would your hand holding the dagger tremble?" Zhengde did not realize that he was hostage, and continued with a smile, "I understand, are you worried about your family? You can't escape even if you have a boat, and even if you escape with your family. What should you do if the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce..."

"Shut up, believe it or not, I will cut off your tongue. Anyway, you don't usually go to court, so there is no big difference between whether to have a tongue!" Zhou Chong said fiercely. He was in a bad mood and Zhengde had no eyesight to talk nonsense, which put him on the verge of an outbreak. If he angered him, it would not be impossible to kill Zhengde directly.

"It's good to scold him. His mouth is indeed unpleasant. Everyone can be quieter after cutting his tongue." As soon as Zhou Chong finished speaking, he heard a woman's voice suddenly coming from outside. Then the living room door opened, and a graceful lady walked in. She looked about forty years and looked very rich. Although there were some fine crow's feet at the corners of her eyes, it was obvious that she must have been a very beautiful woman when she was young.

Zhou Chong was stunned when he saw that the middle-aged woman came in, but what he didn't expect was that Jin Xuan was standing beside the middle-aged woman and supporting her, and in the woman's arms, she was holding a baby in a cradle. If he guessed correctly, the baby should be his newborn daughter.

When Jinxuan came in, she saw Zhou Chong holding a short sword on Zhengde's neck. She immediately turned pale and shouted in a trembling voice: "Mr., what's going on? Why do you want to threaten Your Majesty?"

Zhou Chong saw Jinxuan holding a strange middle-aged woman in, and handing the child over to the other party. He even looked at their appearance and seemed to be very close. This made him a little confused and couldn't figure out what was going on for a while. Who is this middle-aged woman?

After the woman came in, she did not care about Zhengde being held hostage. Instead, she glared at Zhengde fiercely, then handed the daughter in her arms to Jinxuan beside her, and then scolded Zhengde: "Nonsense, they are all emperors, but they can't even do such a small thing. It's like this to make you recognize a relative. Now they are even hostage by your own brother, what kind of decent style!"

Zhengde did not dare to resist the woman's reprimand, but kept smiling. Zhou Chong was even more shocked. No matter what, he never expected that there were people in this world who dared to reprimand Zhengde, and Zhengde did not dare to resist. Who is this middle-aged woman? Why did she say that Zhengde was held hostage by his younger brother? It was obviously his own hostage?

Just as Zhou Chong was full of questions, the woman who had scolded Zhengde walked to Zhou Chong, looked Zhou Chong seriously with tears in her eyes, and finally cried and cried: "My son, you have suffered over the years. Let's put aside your brother quickly, let us have a good chat!"

"Emperor...Emperor Brother?" Zhou Chong was even more shocked when he heard this. At the same time, he was also wondering whether the woman in front of him had a sick mind, otherwise how could she say so many inexplicable words?

At this moment, the crying woman seemed to want to hug Zhou Chong, but Zhou Chong stepped back two steps and said: "Wait a minute, who are you? Why do you say I am Zhu Houzhao's younger brother? What's going on?"

Seeing Zhou Chong's confused look on his face, the middle-aged woman in front of her was crying like rain. She opened her mouth several times but couldn't say anything. Her tears only looked up and down at Zhou Chong, her eyes full of loving expressions. In contrast to this gaze, Zhou Chong's heart trembled because he remembered the gaze he looked at him in his previous life.

At this time, Zhengde suddenly sighed and said, "Zhou Chong, no, I should call you second brother now. The person in front of me is our mother, the empress dowager of the Ming Dynasty. As for your life experience, it is the biggest secret of our Ming royal family and the greatest shame. The father spent countless manpower and material resources to find your whereabouts. Unfortunately, there was no clue in the end. He even missed you until his death, and told me to find you."

Zhengde said, and finally told a secret from the palace. It turned out that the woman in front of Zhou Chong and the others was Zhengde's mother, Empress Dowager Zhang, and Zhou Chong's identity was not a descendant of Zhu Yunwen, but Zhengde's younger brother Zhu Houwei.

At that time, Empress Dowager Zhang and Emperor Xiaozong had two sons and two daughters, but they never expected that there was a descendant of Zhu Yunwen lurking in the palace, Zhou Hai, who was also the pseudonym Wang Hai.

Zhou Hai hated Zhengde's family very much, and he had even reached the point of being crazy. He was lurking in the palace for many years and had many helpers in the palace. As a result, under his plan, the two little princesses died in the end. Zhengde, who was at that time, was also given a strange medicine by him, resulting in the loss of the ability to give birth.

The last prince Zhu Houwei also did not escape Zhou Hai's poisonous move, but Zhou Hai did not hurt Zhu Houwei this time, but stole him from the palace. However, it was this plan that made Emperor Xiaozong finally find a clue and finally exposed Zhou Hai. Unfortunately, Zhou Hai was very smart. When he saw that something was wrong, he immediately took Zhu Houwei away. As for the remaining accomplices, they were all executed by Emperor Xiaozong in anger.

Zhu Houwei disappeared with Zhou Hai, so Emperor Xiaozong would naturally not let his son ignore it. Therefore, in the next few years, he spent a lot of manpower and material resources to find Zhou Hai's traces, but unfortunately he found nothing in the end and was still worried about this matter until his death.

After Zhengde ascended the throne, although he did not like the government, he always kept his father's last wish in his heart, so he has been sending people to find Zhou Hai's traces in recent years. It has been more than ten years since this incident, and it is even more difficult for Zhengde to find Zhou Hai, but he did not expect that he was lucky enough to find a clue about Zhou Hai. In the end, he followed this clue and actually allowed the Jinyiwei to find Zhou Hai who lived in seclusion in Songjiang Prefecture. Unfortunately, before the Jinyiwei was happy, he received the news that Zhou Hai died at the sea, leaving only Zhou Chong and his family to survive.
Chapter completed!