Ma Cheng made a drastic effort to rectify the army outside Nanjing, but the backyard caught fire. The sixteen unlucky ghosts killed by Ma Cheng have extraordinary identities, and two of the commanders are still the direct bloodlines of Xungui, and after these guys were killed, their families immediately found their own principals to cry out for grievances, and with Wei Guogong adding fuel to the fire, it was originally just a very ordinary military law and became a royal lawsuit.

On the third day, under the tandem of Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, Zhang Gongri, the Marquis of Longping, Li Zushu, the Marquis of Linhuai, Sun Weicheng, the Marquis of Huaining, Liu Zuochang, the Marquis of Anyuan, and Deng Wenyu, the Marquis of Dingyuan, took the sixteen bitter masters to see the emperor Zhu Yousong with great momentum.

Zhu Yousong was listening to the play in the harem at this time, and heard that a group of nobles entered the palace to worship him, Zhu Yousong thought that something big had happened, and hurriedly asked people to bring these nobles in.

I knew that as soon as these nobles entered the Qianqing Palace, they began to kneel and cry bitterly, in addition to saying that the ancestors had shed their blood for the Ming Dynasty, they also scolded Ma Cheng for nothing, and he was simply a disaster to the country and the people, and Zhao Kuo was not in the world.

Seven or eight nobles plus sixteen bitter masters, for a time the entire Qianqing Palace became a vegetable market, so that Zhu Yousong couldn't hear anything at all.

Zhu Yousong scolded angrily: "Don't cry! What the hell is going on? Xu Hongji, you have the highest title here, what the hell are you talking about! ”

Xu Hongji heard the emperor say this, and hurriedly climbed a few steps forward, and then said: "The saint is above, that Ma Cheng relied on the favor of the saint, and on the first day of his tenure, he beheaded the commander of the sixteen guards, and also passed on the head of the battalions. This is completely ignoring the majesty of the saint and the law of the court! ”

Xu Hongji's big hat is very seriously buttoned, and contempt for the emperor is a great disrespect, one of the ten evils, enough for the three clans of Ma Chengyi. However, Xu Hongji was not wronged Ma Cheng, among the sixteen commanders who were killed, there were the commanders of the front guard of the government army and the left guard of the government army, these two guards have been the pro-army of the Son of Heaven since the Hongwu period, and killing them for no reason is considered disrespectful to the emperor.

Zhu Yousong was furious when he heard Xu Hongji say it, it's not that Zhu Yousong hated Ma Cheng for killing his own pro-army guards, Zhu Yousong was born in Beijing and grew up in Luoyang, do you know who is the commander of the avant-garde of your army? Today, Zhu Yousong is angry because he just talked to Ma Cheng a few days ago, asking him not to provoke these nobles, and now it has only been a few days, and Ma Cheng has killed more than ten noble people, which is obviously treating what the emperor said as a fart.

Although Zhu Yousong is not a fool, he is only a middle-aged person, Zhu Yousong also knows his ability, so he handed over the government to Ma Shiying and others, as long as he ensures that his own rights are not lost, Zhu Yousong does not care about other government officials. Now Ma Cheng has caused trouble for Zhu Yousong twice in a few days, so Zhu Yousong is really a little angry, and ordered the little eunuch to go outside the city to deliver the decree and let Ma Cheng meet him immediately.

At this time, Ma Cheng didn't know that the court's nobles had sued him, and he was still leading his subordinates to reorganize in the barracks.

In the past few days, Ma Cheng's four major generals have collected a total of 5,400 people, and these people are all elite soldiers selected from the twenty-four guards. Although there are a lot of people, they are still a lot worse than Ma Cheng expected. There was no way for Ma Cheng to repeat his old tricks and recruit troops from the homeless camps outside the southern city again. Fortunately, there were many people outflow from Nanjing, and 10,000 people were recruited in two days, and it is estimated that the soldiers will be full in two days.

At this moment, Ma Cheng received news that the little eunuch who passed the emperor's decree was outside the camp. Ma Cheng frowned when he heard this, why did the emperor find himself so quickly? However, Ma Cheng's strength is weak now, so he didn't dare to be disrespectful to the eunuch who delivered the decree, so he hurriedly ordered someone to put down the incense case, and then personally went to the gate of the camp to greet him.

After reading out the emperor's decree, Ma Cheng became even more confused, and he didn't say anything in the decree, just asked Ma Cheng to enter the palace quickly, and the emperor had something important to look for him. However, this is not difficult for Ma Cheng, under the power of a hundred taels of silver, Ma Cheng easily knows the whole story.

It turned out that the bitter lord of the sixteen dead ghosts sued himself! Ma Cheng secretly scolded in his heart: These sixteen dead ghosts are really damned, since this is the case, don't blame the young master for being ruthless.

Ma Cheng said to Gu Zhong beside him: "Gu Zhong, go and throw the heads of the sixteen commanders a few days ago into the dung pit!" ”

Zhang Guozhu was next to Ma Cheng, although he was a descendant of the Ma family, but seeing Ma Cheng's methods like this, he couldn't help but stand up and say: "Lord Junmen, isn't this too much... ”

Ma Cheng didn't wait for Zhang Guozhu to finish speaking, and glared: "What? They should have violated military law and had their heads cut off, but now they went to the emperor to sue Lao Tzu, didn't they let Lao Tzu vent his anger? ”

Zhang Guozhu sighed when he heard Ma Cheng say this, and stopped talking.

The emperor's order was to be executed immediately, and Ma Cheng got up and took a hundred personal soldiers, mounted his horse and rushed to the palace. Ma Cheng's camp is in the big school field outside the south city, and when he enters the city, he has to pass through the Jubao Gate, and when he passes through the East Street of Nancheng Fu, Ma Cheng looked at the direction of his house and said to Gu Zhong beside him: "Gu Zhong, you go to the Qianbu Corridor to find my father, and tell my father what happened!" ”

Although Ma Cheng is not afraid of Xungui's counterattack, but the success of the previous few days has made Ma Cheng have some shadows in his heart. That's why Ma Cheng wanted to inform Ma Shiying, and based on Lao Ma's political experience, he would definitely be able to come up with a perfect solution. New book bag network

Gu Zhong took the order and left, and Ma Cheng took his own soldiers and followed the little eunuch through Xi'an Gate to enter the imperial city again.

This time, Zhu Yousong didn't let Ma Cheng wait too long, and when he heard that Ma Cheng was coming, he immediately let him enter the Qianqing Palace. As soon as Ma Cheng entered the house, he was scolded by Zhu Yousong: "Ma Cheng, what did I say to you a few days ago?" Have you forgotten? ”

The few nobles kneeling in the room applauded in their hearts when they heard the emperor's anger, and they couldn't wait for the emperor to directly order Ma Cheng to be cut with a thousand knives.

Xu Hongji hurriedly beat the drum on the side: "Sage, this Ma Cheng's methods are vicious, there is no one in his eyes, and he doesn't put the sage in his eyes at all, this kind of person should be executed immediately!" ”

The ancestor of Liu Zuochang, Marquis of Anyuan, was Liu Sheng, a Ming general in the Yongle period, and Liu Sheng also served as the commander of the Shenji Battalion, but now Liu Zuochang did not remember the incense of the Shenji Battalion at all and vowed to kill Ma Cheng.

"The saint is above, the nephew of the minister is the commander of the avant-garde of the government army, just because he went a little late, Ma Cheng actually beheaded the nephew of the minister and showed it to the public, and asked the saint to be the master of the minister! Woo woo woo ... ”

Several other nobles also cried bitterly when they heard Liu Zuochang say this, anyway, they asked the emperor to cut off Ma Cheng's dog head to avenge their relatives.

Zhu Yousong was originally a person who didn't have much opinion, listening to those nobles crying here, he hated Ma Cheng in his heart for causing trouble for himself, and said angrily: "Come on, take Ma Cheng to Jinyiwei Prison, and Jinyiwei will try it together with the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies!" ”

The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is the territory of these nobles, and Liu Zuochang is the official of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, and Ma Cheng is naturally better off than dead if he falls into their hands. Liu Zuochang was overjoyed when he heard the emperor say this, and hurriedly promised: "Please rest assured, the saint, the ministers will definitely be able to judge impartially!" ”

Before Ma Cheng could say anything when he entered the house, he was about to be escorted away by the Jinyi guard, and the angry Ma Cheng scolded: "Xu Hongji, you bastards, you bastards, dare to deceive Your Majesty!" ”

At this time, Jin Yiwei had already walked into the house to escort Ma Cheng away, Ma Cheng knew that if he didn't speak now, he would have no chance to speak, and he would still have good fruit to eat in the hands of these nobles?

Ma Cheng shouted in a hurry: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to say!" ”

Zhu Yousong heard Ma Cheng say this, and felt that it was a little too much to not let Ma Cheng speak, after all, Ma Cheng's sister was one of the concubines, thinking of this, Zhu Yousong asked, "What else do you have to say?" ”

Jin Yiwei listened to the emperor and asked Ma Cheng to speak, so he didn't do anything but stood behind Ma Cheng and waited for the order.

Seeing that he had finally won the opportunity to speak, Ma Cheng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, there is a reason why the ministers killed these people!" First, these people did violate military law, and the ministers killed them in accordance with the military law. The second is that after these people arrived at the barracks, they spoke arrogant words and were disrespectful to His Majesty, and in order to set the record straight, the minister ordered them to be killed! ”

Ma Cheng had already thought of a countermeasure when he came, and it was not good to deal with this group of nobles only with the law of the imperial court, all of them were super marquises, and they had a special relationship with the royal family, and several of them were married to Zhu Yuanzhang's son in the first generation, and the military law did not necessarily work on them.

However, Ma Cheng has not learned anything else in the past few months, and he has learned a lot of methods to refer to deer as horses and frame them with Ma Shiying. If normal means don't work, then use extraordinary means, and pouring dung to bury Ma Cheng is definitely an expert.

Zhu Yousong is the king of the domain, and what he cares about most is the issue of legitimacy, so Zhu Yousong heard that someone was theorizing about himself behind his back, and hurriedly asked: "Ma Cheng, you say, how do they disrespect me behind my back?" ”

"Your Majesty, the nephew of Liu Zuochang, Marquis of Anyuan, and Zhang Quanli, the commander of the avant-garde of the government army, was arrested by the minister's personal soldiers, not only did not kneel down to worship His Majesty's holy decree, but also said that His Majesty was from a dirty background and was not worthy of being the emperor at all, and the natural minister was not worthy of being this admiral! There is also Deng Tong, the nephew of Deng Wenyu, the Marquis of Dingyuan, who is spreading the rumors in the army that His Majesty killed the second virgin in the harem at night! The minister listened to these guys' wild words, so he immediately decided to kill these sixteen people! ”

Ma Cheng said that these are all lace news that circulated in later generations, most of which were arranged by some old and young people of the Donglin Party Zhu Yousong, but at that time in Nanjing, some people did doubt Zhu Yousong's background, thinking that he was a fake lucky king at all, and what Ma Cheng said was just adding oil and vinegar on the basis of rumors. As for Zhu Yousong's killing of the two virgins, it was completely made up by Ma Cheng according to the legends of later generations, anyway, those sixteen people are dead, Ma Cheng doesn't make it up as he wants?

Ma Cheng is very enjoyable, but Zhu Yousong is serious, what Zhu Yousong cares about most is his legitimacy, and now someone has come to bring up the old matter again, how not to make Zhu Yousong angry? There is also the issue of Zhu Yousong's style is purely a rumor, Zhu Yousong is lustful, but there are hundreds of women in the palace, what virgins do you need to find outside?