Chen Zilong walked out of the gate of the governor's yamen, called his sedan chair and hurried to the yamen, where Huang Daozhou and others were locked up.

Although Chen Zilong is now the acting prefect of Hangzhou, everyone knows that he is a popular person around Ma Cheng, and the soldiers guarding the prison did not dare to stop Chen Zilong, so they respectfully put Chen Zilong in prison.

In prison, Chen Zilong saw Huang Daozhou who was stripped of his official uniform, Ma Cheng treated these Donglin Party well, and did not treat them badly, but just imprisoned them. Huang Daozhou, Zhu Dadian and others were also locked up in a single room because they were cabinet ministers, which was one of the few benefits.

Chen Zilong and the other jailers opened the door of the cell, and then* entered the cell, and saw his teacher Huang Daozhou, wearing a moon-white middle coat, sitting in the straw pile in the corner of the wall with his eyes closed. Now that August 15 has passed, the temperature in Hangzhou is very cold, and there is naturally no heating equipment in the cell, Chen Zilong saw the teacher shivering from the cold, and hurriedly shouted to the jailer: "Go and get a charcoal basin for the teacher to keep warm!" ”

The jailer didn't dare to offend Chen Zilong, so he had no choice but to go out and find a brazier, fill it with charcoal and bring it in.

With a lot of warmth in the charcoal cell, Chen Zilong knelt in front of Huang Daozhou and said sadly: "Teacher, the disciple is late, let the teacher suffer!" ”

Huang Daozhou closed his eyes and said indifferently: "Who does the old man think it is?" It turned out to be a celebrity around Ma Cheng, Master Chen must not be like this, where is the old man a student like you? This is unaffordable! ”

Chen Zilong couldn't do anything when he heard the teacher say this, and he didn't want to explain anything, after all, everyone has their own ambitions, since Chen Zilong recognized Ma Cheng, he had to follow Ma Cheng to the end.

"Teacher, Master Ma has promised the students that he will definitely send the teacher and all the adults to Nandu safely!"

Captured this time, Huang Daozhou was ready to die, and now when he heard Chen Zilong say this, he quickly opened his eyes and asked, "What about Your Majesty?" Does Ma Cheng also want to send His Majesty to Nandu safely? ”

His Majesty in Huang Daozhou's mouth is King Lu Zhu Changshu, Chen Zilong heard Huang Daozhou say this and smiled bitterly: "Teacher, Master Inspector promised to let go of the teacher and others, but how could he let go of King Lu?" ”

Huang Daozhou sighed when he heard Chen Zilong say this, he knew that although he was in a high position, he did not pose the slightest threat to Zhu Lunkui, the emperor of Nanjing, but King Lu was different, how could he allow others to snore next to the couch? Even if King Lu hits Nanjing now and captures Zhu Lunkui, Huang Daozhou will definitely persuade King Lu to kill Zhu Lunkui, after all, there are no two heavens and no two people, and there can only be one emperor in the world.

Chen Zilong saw that the teacher was stunned and didn't speak, so he had no choice but to quietly prepare to quit, and when Chen Zilong went out, Huang Daozhou said: "Among people, everyone has their own ambitions, since you want to assist Ma Cheng, don't forget your original intention of being an official!" Go, you and I have run out of master-apprentice fate, and we will be passers-by in the future! ”

Chen Zilong heard Huang Daozhou say this, and knelt outside the cell again and kowtowed to Huang Daozhou three times, which was considered the fate of master and apprentice.

The next day, Huang Daozhou and 24 other high-ranking officials of the Donglin Party were put in a flail and sent to Nanjing on a ship, where they were handed over to Emperor Zhu Lunkui. Walking with Huang Daozhou and others was Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, as well as his wife and children. However, Ma Cheng treated Zhu Changshu quite well, and did not detain Zhu Changshu, but prepared a big ship for him

Ride alone. Zhu Changshu saw Ma Cheng so courteous, and he still had a trace of fantasy in his heart, thinking that he would still be alive to see Zhu Lunkui.

Zhu Changshu has practiced many times along the way, and how he cried bitterly after seeing Zhu Lunkui, he said that the emperor was forced by Huang Daozhou and others, hoping that the emperor could spare him and let him be an idle prince.

Zhu Changshu sat on the dream of being a prince, and the ship arrived at the wharf of Wujiang County, which was still more than 50 miles away from Suzhou, and the vice general of the escort fleet decided to stop the ship here to rest. Just when everyone was sleeping at night, a group of people dressed in black appeared on Zhu Changshu's boat. These people lightly infiltrated the ship, killed all the sailors, and then woke up Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu.

Zhu Changshu found a group of black-clothed people appearing in front of him, and immediately knew what was going on, and shouted, "What are you doing?" This king is Zhu Lunkui's uncle, aren't you afraid that Zhu Lunkui will kill you? ”

The black-clothed man led by him didn't speak, took out the portrait and looked at Zhu Lunkui, nodded after confirming the target, stepped forward and killed Zhu Changshu with a knife, and then killed Zhu Changshu's main concubine Chen, side concubine Cao, two sons and a daughter in the boat, and finally scuttled the bottom of the ship, creating the illusion of a sinking ship.

It wasn't until dawn the next day that the adjutant general in charge of the escort found that Zhu Changshu's boat had sunk, and when Zhu Changshu's body was fished up, he was already dead and could no longer die. The adjutant general did not dare to conceal the news, and hurriedly reported it to Qi Biaojia, the governor of Nanzhili in Suzhou.

Qi Biaojia sighed after receiving the report, he originally knew that Ma Cheng would never let go of Zhu Changshu. Although the relationship between Ma Cheng and Emperor Zhu Lunkui is not good, they are consistent in maintaining Zhu Lunkui's imperial power, because Ma Cheng's rights also come from Zhu Lunkui, and naturally Ma Cheng does not want Zhu Changshu to live in Nanjing.

Although Zhu Changshu's death became inevitable, the procedure that should be taken still had to be taken, Qi Biaojia immediately wrote to Zhu Lunkui, the emperor of Nanjing, and explained the matter in detail, but now Qi Biaojia is already Zhu Lunkui's courtier, so he naturally wants to be ashamed of His Holiness, so the cause of Zhu Changshu's death is attributed to the shipwreck.

Zhu Lunkui in Nanjing breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the news, he was too afraid that Zhu Changshu would go to Nanjing, Zhu Changshu's bloodline was closer than him, what if he was used by someone with a heart when he arrived in Nanjing? So death is the perfect ending.

Although Zhu Changshu died, but what should be done must be done, Zhu Lunkui immediately issued an edict of guilt, saying that he was sorry for Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, and originally wanted to take the king of Lu to Nanjing to enjoy happiness, but he didn't expect that Zhu Changshu would die halfway through the day. In the end, in order to hide people's eyes, Zhu Lunkui also executed the deputy general in charge of escorting to compensate Zhu Changshu.

Just when Zhu Lunkui was calling for King Lu, Huang Daozhou and others were safely sent to Nanjing. Zhu Lunkui was completely different from these people, not to mention going to the dock to greet them in person, and specially ordered Huang Daozhou to live in the temple outside the city.

The emperor did this, everyone naturally saw it in their hearts, and understood what the emperor meant, and the Lin Party in the middle of the dynasty wrote to the emperor under the leadership of Qian Qianyi, and wanted to enable Huang Daozhou and others. Naturally, Ma Shiying's party did not do it, so they wrote against it one after another. I finally drove the zodiac away back then, and now it's back, how can this work?

However, in recent months, Emperor Zhu Lunkui has cultivated a large number of officials loyal to him, and with the help of these officials, Huang Daozhou was reinstated

Three days later, the emperor issued an order to order Huang Daozhou to enter the cabinet.

Entering the cabinet is a big deal, and now there are three people in the cabinet, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and Qian Qianyi, if one more is added, it will inevitably divide the rights of Ma Ruan and the two, at this time Ruan Dacheng also knew that things were not good, and immediately joined forces with Ma Shiying to oppose Huang Daozhou's entry into the cabinet.

However, the opposition of the two of them did not lead to anything, and Emperor Zhu Lunkui issued a decree to bypass the cabinet and directly let Huang Daozhou enter the cabinet. At this time, in order to deal with his sworn enemy Ruan Dacheng, Huang Daozhou did not want any prestige and integrity, regardless of the criticism of the government and the opposition, and immediately took over the emperor's decree.

Huang Daozhou deserved to be the vanguard of the anti-eunuch party, and the first thing he did when he took office was to impeach Ruan Dacheng's hardcore and military secretary Tian Yang, saying that Tian Yang did not resist when the Qing army occupied Yangzhou, but led people to flee back to Nanjing.

Now that Ruan Dacheng has become the target of everyone, the first thing Huang Daozhou did when he came up was to deal with him. Ma Shiying saw that Ruan Dacheng was going to be unlucky, so he immediately fell into the well, sent in the snow, and impeached Ruan Dacheng's other hardcore, Zhang Youyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry. In this way, under the joint attack of the Donglin Party and Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng lost all the military department and the engineering department, and became a bare-bones elder.

And Ma Shiying and the Donglin Party won a big victory in this party dispute, and the secretary of the military department belonged to Zhu Dadian, a corrupt official who had just surrendered, and the throne of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry belonged to Ma Cheng's cheap master, Song Yingxing.

After Ruan Dacheng lost power, he took leave to hide at home to recuperate, and the next step was the battle between the Donglin Party and Ma Shiying.

The first step is the candidate for the governor of Zhejiang, after receiving Ma Cheng's letter of recommendation, Ma Shiying also did not shy away from his relatives and recommended his brother-in-law Yue Qijie. However, the Donglin Party recommended Luo Wanxiang to be the imperial historian, but Luo Wanxiang was only a person in the first year of Hongguang, and his qualifications were a little worse than Yue Qijie. However, there is no suitable candidate in the Donglin Party, and in recent years, because of Ma Shiying's unremitting efforts, those high-ranking officials of the Donglin Party have been dismissed and returned home, and now there are only a few high-ranking officials who remain in Nanjing, so they have no choice but to choose from the middle-level officials.

The position of governor finally belonged to Yue Qijie, not because Ma Shiying's side was strong, but because Emperor Zhu Lunkui considered Yue Qijie to sit in prison for himself in Hangzhou for two years. This is a great political capital, and being trapped in the enemy camp can be alone, which is exactly the model that Zhu Lunkui wants to establish, so he finally selected Yue Qijie as the extremely important governor of Zhejiang.

By the time Yue Qijie's appointment reached Hangzhou, Ma Cheng had already led the army to set off, and the king of Lu in Hangzhou was solved, but there was another vassal king in Ningbo, that is, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu who established himself under the support of Zhang Guowei, Qian Sule and other officials in eastern Zhejiang.

Zhu Yihai is the least threatening to Zhu Lunkui around Nanjing, Zhu Yihai's bloodline is about the same as Zhu Lunkui, the first king of Zhou, Zhu Hu, is the fifth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, and the first king of Lu, Zhu Tan, is the tenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang. Although the bloodlines are very far away, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, is the younger brother of Zhu Di, the emperor of Yongle, and he was born to a mother, so the natural relationship is closer to that of King Lu, so compared to Zhu Changshu, Zhu Yihai is much less of a threat to Zhu Lunkui.

However, it is also a threat in the small, and it must be eliminated no matter what, so the holy decree makes it clear that Ma Cheng is on behalf of the Son of Heaven to go out on the expedition and sweep away the Quartet, and the first one around Nanjing is Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, and the second is Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, who is entrenched in eastern Zhejiang.