Ma Cheng heard Xu Zhenye say this and hurriedly asked: "Mr. Xu, this governor has been preparing for this matter for a long time today, and the Donglin Party supports the establishment of King Lu in Hangzhou, can't this kill Qian Qianyi?" ”

Xu Zhenye shook his head with a smile and said: "Master Hou, this matter is right, no matter what emperor it is, as long as this kind of thing happens, he must be killed first." It's just that the timing is not right today! Now the momentum of Yuanfu in the middle of the court is too strong and too strong, and no one on the Donglin Party side can fight against Yuanfu except for Qian Ge Lao, so His Majesty the Emperor naturally can't kill Qian Ge Lao in order to balance the courtiers, so Xia Guan said that Hou Ye chose the wrong time! ”

Ma Cheng suddenly realized when he heard Xu Zhenye say this, it turned out that he really did something wrong. Now the eunuch party occupies all the important positions in the court, while the Donglin party only occupies the Qingshui Yamen Rite Department, the criminal department with little power, and at the same time, the prestige status of Xie Xuelong, the secretary of the criminal department, cannot compete with the eunuch party at all.

The prestige of Wang Duo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is enough, but this unlucky old guy was arrested when he supported Zhu Lunkui to support the fake prince Wang Zhiming, although Emperor Zhu Lunkui did not say anything, and ordered to comfort Wang Duo. However, Wang Duo's status as a cabinet elder was dismissed and he became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites to succeed Qian Qianyi, which really shows that Zhu Lunkui is not very at ease with this old guy.

There are no famous figures on the Donglin Party side to compete with Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, and the emperor naturally can't kill the only prestigious and capable Qian Qianyi, so won't Ma Shiying's party be the dominant party?

At the same time, in addition to Ma Shiying's party controlling the government, his two sons Ma Cheng and Ma Xi are still leading the generals, and Ma Cheng is even the first to be the dragon. Therefore, suppressing Ma Shiying and cultivating Qian Qianyi to compete with Ma Shiying has become the established policy of the new emperor Zhu Lunkui. At present, Zhu Lunkui has no action, just because the Manchu Qing army of more than 400,000 troops is besieging the city, Zhu Lunkui is afraid that he will be oppressed, and Ma Cheng will take risks, after all, since the emperor can support the first, he can support the second.

Ma Cheng was frightened into a cold sweat when he heard Xu Zhenye finish speaking, and now although Ma Cheng has more than 100,000 troops defending the city, Ma Cheng knows that there are not many people he can really trust. If Ma Cheng ascended to the top at this time, Emperor Zhu Ming was very reactionary, everyone killed Zhu Lunkui and supported Lao Tzu as the emperor! It is estimated that except for the more than 1,000 Guizhou soldiers brought by Ma Shiying from Guizhou, most of the soldiers of the New Army will not fight Ma Cheng to the end. Of course, it is not how loyal these soldiers of the New Army are to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but that their contact with Ma Cheng is too short, less than a year before and after, and it is not enough to establish that kind of comradeship between life and death.

If Ma Cheng led his new army to life and death, and lived and fought with them for more than ten years, then the friendship between his comrades would be greater than Jun'en. Zhao Kuangyin was like this back then, everyone was a life and death brother who ate in a pot, there was no way when the old emperor was there, but as soon as the old emperor died, these generals had no feelings with the little emperor at all, at this time, even if Zhao Kuangyin didn't want to add a yellow robe, our brothers still had to be a duke and marquis!

What Ma Cheng needs most now is time, and he doesn't have the strength to flop with Zhu Lunkui at present, so Ma Cheng can only ask: "Mr. Xu, then what do you say now?" How can we appease His Majesty's heart? ”

Xu Zhenye stroked his beard with his hand and said: "This is simple, as long as it makes the emperor feel."

Just don't feel threatened! After all, Hou Ye has a great meritorious service, as long as it is not a last resort, the emperor will not attack Hou Ye! ”

Ma Cheng was right when he heard what Xu Zhenye said, as long as Zhu Lunkui was not crazy, he would not do it to himself immediately, after all, now that the Manchu army outside the city is besieging the city, it is completely self-destructing the Great Wall to do it to himself.

Thinking of this, Ma Cheng nodded: "In this case, the governor decided to hand over the task of guarding the inner city to Lu Siye, and it happened that the alliance between Lu Jiude and my father and son was dissolved, and the Military Intelligence Department was making Lu Siye not at ease in managing the governor!" ”

"Yes, what Master Hou said is very right! Since this is the case, it is better to praise Lu Siye and let the emperor make him a commander, so that it is easy to hide people's eyes. ”

"Mr. Xu is right, but the Military Intelligence Department is very important, who will be used by the Governor to replace Lu Siye?"

"This is simple, Hou Ye's second brother-in-law Zhang Erpei, he is the most suitable to take over the Military Intelligence Department!"

Zhang Erpei was elected by the ministry to become the county governor of Jiangxi Xinjian County a few months ago, but Zhang Erpei did not want to go to Jiangxi to suffer, so he stayed in Nanjing and dragged on without taking office. In the past few months, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has besieged the city, and Zhang Erpei's road to office has naturally been broken, and he has been wandering around the city during this time.

Ma Cheng listened to Xu Zhenye's recommendation of Zhang Erpei, this is a good candidate, first, his brother-in-law, there is no problem in loyalty. The second is that Zhang Erpei's family does not have much power, and even if Ma Cheng succeeds in the future, Zhang Erpei can only rely on Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng nodded when he heard Xu Zhenye finish speaking: "Okay, in that case, thank you Mr. Xu!" After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he got up and left, the matter here is over, Ma Cheng is not ready to stay for a long time, he has to rush back to the yamen to deal with official business.

Xu Zhenye was very conflicted when he saw Ma Cheng leaving, and this Ma Cheng behaved more and more like a hero. If people like Ma Cheng are just outstanding generals like Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang, but now that the country is in chaos like this, people like Ma Cheng are very dangerous.

Thinking of this, Xu Zhenye began to worry about himself, he is currently in the third rank of official residence, and he is really a high authority, but Xu Zhenye knows that the higher he climbs in the officialdom, the more ruthless he falls, Zhang Juzheng is more like an emperor than Wanli back then, and Wanli has to stand beside him to reply, what about himself? Xu Zhenye has offended too many people in order to climb up, and he is too deeply involved with the eunuch party, even if Xu Zhenye turns his head to the Donglin Party now, Xu Zhenye will not have a good result when Ma Shiying falls.

Xu Zhenye thought about his own thoughts, and he didn't care about any government affairs, so he sat on the chair and began to be in a daze.

Ma Cheng left the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry and hurriedly returned to the Yingtian Mansion, and as soon as he arrived at the door, Ma Cheng shouted: "Go quickly, find the prefect's Wu to Lao Tzu!" and Xu Zhan, Wang Xian, and Lu Siye are all here! After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he hurriedly walked into the yamen, and the guards at the door began to look for someone according to Ma Cheng's instructions.

The Ming Dynasty official government yamen is the government and the government is one, the front and the back of the house, the prefect of the original Tianfu is Wu Jiazhou, the prefect of the Tianfu is the capital, the prefect is one level higher than other prefects, so Wu Jiazhou is a vice-provincial treatment, from the three products.

However, the deputy provincial level is not useful in Ma Cheng, just because the distance between the Ying Tianfu Ya and the gates of the southern city is moderate, so Ma Cheng will occupy the Yashengsheng, and Wu Jiazhou has no choice but to live in the backyard in the past few months.

Although the fight outside the city is in full swing, the Wu family has a comfortable life. In the past half a month, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has stopped attacking the city

, Wu Jiazhou is even more panicked, and today he is enjoying the shade in the back garden with his concubine.

Wu Jiazhou and the concubine Zhao were laughing, when they heard the family outside scolding angrily: "What are you doing? Who are you? ”

With the sound of words, a bunch of soldiers rushed in with hula outside the door, led by Ma Cheng's personal captain, Qianhu Gu Yong.

Gu Yong looked down on anyone except Ma Cheng, let alone a civil official like Wu Jiazhou. Gu Yong saw Wu Jiazhou and a young woman hugging each other, and said contemptuously: "Wu Governor's Mansion is so Yaxing!" ”

Wu Jiazhou saw that these Qiu Ba broke into his house without asking for instructions, and asked angrily, "What are you doing?" Is there any royal law? The official's private house is also said to be entered? ”

"I'm sorry, Lord Wu, my family's military affairs are urgent, and your family dares to stop the last general from performing official duties, and there is no way for the last general to break in!"

Hearing that it was Ma Cheng again, Wu Jiazhou didn't dare to get angry, so he had to ask: "Okay, the Marquis of Guiyang has no relationship with this official, and the official's yamen has been occupied by you, what are you looking for this official for?" ”

Yes, the official's yamen has been occupied by you, and the official can't afford to provoke it and can't hide? Now that you're an otaku at home every day, what else do you want to do?

Gu Yongna knew what Ma Cheng was looking for Wu Jiazhou to do, but Ma Cheng's order had to be carried out unconditionally, so Gu Yong didn't ink with Wu Jiazhou, waved his hand to the soldiers behind him, and came up seven or eight to set up Wu Jiazhou and walked out.

Wu Jiazhou was laughing with the concubine just now, he didn't wear a few clothes, only a pair of underwear, and now he was put out of the door, and angrily scolded these Qiu Ba for being excessive.

Gu Yong didn't care how Wu Jiazhou cursed, and took this guy to the second hall of the prefect's yamen in front, where all the officials had already arrived except for Ma Cheng. Xu Zhan was originally a subordinate of Wu Jiazhou, but now when he saw Shangguan appearing in front of him in disheveled clothes, he couldn't laugh out loud.

At this time, even if Wu Jiazhou Hanyang was good, he couldn't bear it, and he jumped to his feet angrily and scolded: "Ma Cheng, you are too much, this official is going to the cabinet to join you!" ”

Now Qian Qianyi is a cabinet elder, although he has no rights, he is also a figure, so Wu Jiazhou still has some confidence in his heart.

Ma Cheng didn't care about Wu Jiazhou, who was thunderous, but said with a calm face: "Okay, everyone is here, His Majesty the Emperor has a will!" After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he took out the emperor's decree and read it, and several officials sitting in the room heard that it was the emperor's decree, and quickly got up and knelt down to receive the decree. Wu Jiazhou was angry just now, but you dare not accept the emperor's holy decree? I had no choice but to kneel down and receive the order.

The holy decree is very simple, that is, let Ma Cheng take over the government affairs of the southern capital, and let Ying Tianfu and the two counties of Shangyuan and Jiangning under his jurisdiction be controlled by Ma Cheng.

This is a big deal, Wu Jiazhou didn't care if he was untidy, stood up and asked: "This is impossible, since ancient times, the military and the government have been separated, and it is not a joke to let the generals be in charge of civil affairs?" ”

Ma Cheng heard Wu Jiazhou say this, and asked in a deep voice: "What, does Lord Wu want to resist the decree?" ”

What Wu Jiazhou said just now didn't go through his brain, and he regretted it a little as soon as he finished speaking, he is just a third-grade official, what do you like to do what you like, what does it have to do with him? So Wu Jiazhou heard Ma Cheng ask and hurriedly said: "No, no, the lower officials have absolutely no intention of resisting the will, and the lower officials will definitely obey His Majesty's will!" ”