After Ma Cheng heard Wang Xian finish talking about this poisonous plan to kill people with a knife, he secretly praised in his heart: People say that these literati are stinky and black-hearted, but now it seems that this is the case, Lao Tzu will only fight and kill, and Wang Xian will hand over the problem to Zhu Lunkui with a strategy, and sure enough, people are not educated!

Ma Cheng knows that Zhu Lunkui and Zhu Chang are sworn enemies politically, and that is absolutely right, with you without me, with me without you! This Qi Biaojia is Zhu Chang's important minister, and he also stated his attitude at that time that Zhu Lunkui was a rebel, so as long as Qi Biaojia does not surrender, then Zhu Lunkui must kill this old guy. This is not a question of arbitrariness, but of whether politics is right or wrong.

Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong, is the last legitimate emperor of the Ming Dynasty, this emperor is not everyone can be the emperor, you must first have a close bloodline (legal system), minister support (public opinion), only with these two points can be a legitimate Ming emperor.

But back then, Zhu Yousong ran away without designating an heir in order to survive, and Zhu Lunkui's ascension to the throne was completely due to the support of Ma's father and son, so Zhu Lunkui only accounted for public opinion.

Zhu Chang of Hangzhou is just the opposite of Zhu Lunkui, Zhu Chang is the grandson of Zhu Zai of Ming Muzong, the nephew of Emperor Wanli, and Zhu Yousong's cousin, so according to the bloodline, as long as Zhu Yousong is dead, of course Zhu Chang will not be allowed to be the emperor. However, the ministers who supported Zhu Yousong were all in Nanjing, and this public opinion was a little less meaningful.

This is the main contradiction between Zhu Lunkui and Zhu Chang, in order to give themselves the name of legitimate inheritance to the throne, Zhu Lunkui and Zhu Chang must eliminate each other, and there is no possibility of alleviating it at all.

And this Qi Biaojia is Zhu Chang's supporter, as long as Qi Biaojia does not surrender, then Zhu Lunkui must kill Qi Biaojia for his own legitimacy, so as to prove the legitimacy of Zhu Lunkui's rule. Ma Cheng thought of Qi Biaojia's stubborn appearance just now, and he scolded endlessly when the knife was on the end, it seemed that it was impossible to surrender at all, so that Zhu Lunkui would naturally carry the black pot of killing celebrities.

Thinking of this, Ma Cheng smiled and said: "Okay, what Mr. Wang said is very right, how can this governor kill Wenchen and celebrities?" Let's hand over Qi Biaojia to His Majesty the Emperor to deal with! ”

Hearing Ma Cheng say this, Wang Xian nodded and retreated, and went out to let Qi Biaojia, who was alive and dead, be put into the prison car, and then escorted to Nanjing, while Ma Cheng was dreaming of killing people with a knife in the big tent.

Lucheng is more than 150 miles away from Nanjing, and even if the prisoner car goes slowly, it will arrive in Nanjing in 10 days. In order to highlight that he did not kill celebrities, Ma Cheng had already let people spread the news in Nanjing, saying that Qi Biaojia, the rebellious governor of Susong, was captured by Ma Cheng, but Ma Cheng did not kill him, but escorted him back to Beijing and handed it over to the emperor for disposal.

After Zhu Lunkui received the news, he didn't think much about it at first, but ordered someone to put Qi Biaojia in the prison of the Criminal Department, and wait for the three law divisions to be tried before dealing with it. Zhu Lunkui's abacus is also very fine, Qi Biaojia, a rebellious minister, will definitely be designated as Ling Chi, and then Zhu Lunkui will use the emperor's identity to demote Qi Biaojia's crime by one level, and change from Ling Chi to beheading, so that Zhu Lunkui can also get the reputation of being a sympathetic literati.

Zhu Lunkui didn't care about this matter, and Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng didn't care about this matter either. Now that the Battle of Nanjing has ended, there is no more sword hanging over everyone's heads. The threat of not having this group of scholars and doctors stinks Lao Jiu immediately reappeared, and began to divide into gangs and factions to fight with each other.

In the past, the Donglin Party in the DPRK was strong, and Ma Shiying had to unite with Ruan Dacheng in order to fight with the Donglin Party in order to protect himself, but now the feng shui is turning, and Ma Shiying is dominating the family in the DPRK with the credit of his son Ma Cheng, which makes Ruan Dacheng, another aspiring to be the first assistant, unhappy.

Therefore, at present, the government is divided into three forces, the first of course is Ma Shi and his traitorous party, these people are headed by Ma Shiying, Zhang Jie, the secretary of the ministry, Li Zhan, the secretary of the household department, Zhang Sunzhen, the imperial historian, and Huang Erding in the matter are the minions, forming an anti-revolutionary * life group that controls the government and blocks the way of speech.

The second force is led by the elder Ruan Dacheng, plus some unlucky officialdom who were oppressed by the Donglin Party, such as Shangshu Tian Yang of the Ministry of War, and Zhang Jinyan of the Military Department, in order to end the history of Ma Shiying's party controlling the government.

The third group is, of course, the Donglin Party, because of Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng's repeated blows, and now the Donglin Party is no longer prosperous a few years ago, and some of the bigwigs from the Donglin Party in the DPRK and China, such as Zhang Shenyan, Huang Daozhou, Liu Zongzhou and others have been kicked out of the political arena, and now the only one who is still some fame in the Donglin Party is Qian Qianyi, and only Xie Xuelong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, is left in the six Shangshu. However, after all, the Donglin Party has been deeply cultivated in Nanzhili for many years, and although its influence among high-level officials has become smaller, it still has some energy among low-level officials and the people.

As the head of the Donglin Party, Qian Qianyi is really worried to see his side being oppressed like this by the Eunuch Party, but he is unable to support himself alone, and it is a little difficult for him to protect himself, where can the Jedi fight back? However, fortunately, in order to contain Ma Shiying, Emperor Zhu Lunkui has relied on Qian Qianyi for more than a year, so that the Donglin Party has survived under the joint strangulation of the Ma Party and the Ruan Party.

This time I learned that Qi Biaojia was arrested in Nanjing, and the happiest person was Qian Qianyi. Although Qi Biaojia is not a big man in the Donglin Party, he is still a figure after all, and he also served as the governor of Jiangnan in the Hongguang Dynasty. At the same time, Qi Biaojia and Qian Qianyi also have a teacher-student friendship, when Qian Qianyi was in trouble, he opened a museum at home to teach apprentices, and many Jiangnan scholars went to Changshu to listen to Qian Qianyi's class. The ancient literati paid the most attention to the teacher, and since then, Qi Biaojia has worshiped Qian Qianyi as a teacher.

With these reasons, Qian Qianyi was very sure to persuade Qi Biaojia to come to the court to help him fight against Ma Shiying.

Qian Qianyi found an opportunity to visit Qi Biaojia in the prison of the Criminal Department, and now the official of the Criminal Department is Xie Xuelong, Qian Qianyi is naturally on the ground in the Criminal Department, and he saw Qi Biaojia very easily.

Although Qi Biaojia did not bow his head in front of Ma Cheng, when he saw the teacher Qian Qianyi coming, he quickly stood up and said respectfully: "The teacher is here, the students are polite!" ”

Qian Qianyi saw that Qi Biaojia was covered in stains, her hair and beard were stuck together, and seeing the student's appearance, Qian Qianyi said sadly: "Youwen, you have suffered!" ”

Qi Biaojia heard Qian Qianyi say this, and said with a wry smile: "The teacher taught students loyalty and filial piety back then, and now students must be loyal to my lord!" ”

Qi Biaojia knew why her teacher came to see her, it was nothing more than persuasion, so Qi Biaojia blocked Qian Qianyi's words early to avoid embarrassment from the teacher.

Qian Qianyi sighed and asked, "Youwen, now Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng in the DPRK are in chaos, and Ma Cheng is in power outside the DPRK

, the emperor's monarchy is on the sidelines, and the old man hopes that Youwen will give up the dispute between Zhou Lu and help the old man! ”

King Zhou is Zhu Lunkui's previous knighthood, and Qian Qianyi did not call Zhu Lunkui the emperor in order to avoid irritating Qi Biaojia, but used the old title, Zhou Fan.

After listening to Qian Qianyi's words, Qi Biaojia bowed deeply and said: "Teacher, you solved the doubts of the students back then, so the students respected the teacher, but now they are their own masters, please don't talk about it anymore!" After Qi Biaojia finished speaking, he returned to the cell and lay down on the pile of straw on the ground, closed his eyes and ignored Qian Qianyi again.

Seeing this, Qian Qianyi couldn't persuade him, but Qian Qianyi didn't want it to end like this, Qi Biaojia didn't agree, he had a trick to force Qi Biaojia to agree.

Qian Qianyi did not go home when he came out of the prison of the Criminal Department, but transferred into the palace, where he was going to meet Emperor Zhu Lunkui.

In the past few months after Ma Cheng left, Zhu Lunkui had a very leisurely life, and he didn't know that he was happy for the king without Ma Cheng giving him eye medicine, and now he heard the eunuch's report that his henchman Qian Qianyi came, and quickly asked Qian Ge Lao to come in.

"Mr. Qian, what is the matter with seeing me today?" Today, Zhu Lunkui is in a good mood and calls Qian Qianyi Mr.

Qian Qianyi got up from the ground after saluting, and then asked, "Does Your Majesty know that Qi Biaojia is being detained in the prison of the Criminal Department?" ”

Of course, Zhu Lunkui knew that he also asked the three law divisions to interrogate, ready to buy people's hearts!

"I know about this matter, I have arranged for the trial of the Three Law Divisions, and I am ready to severely punish these rebellious rebels!"

Qian Qianyi ignored Zhu Lunkui's official tone, and then asked: "Your Majesty, Qi Biaojia is a talented person and has a clear reputation, why don't you fight for this kind of capable official to be reused?" ”

Qian Qianyi's proposal Zhu Lunkui also thought about it, but Qi Biaojia was not ready to surrender to Zhu Lunkui at all, but scolded the officials who went to persuade him to surrender, and at the same time said that the loyal ministers did not care about the two masters, and he was willing to be loyal to Zhu Chang, the king of Lu, so Zhu Lunkui couldn't get off the stage.

Now hearing that Qian Qianyi is going to persuade Qi Biaojia to surrender, Zhu Lunkui couldn't help but say with some embarrassment: "Mr. Qian, I also know that Qi Biaojia has a clear name, but the ministers I sent to persuade him to surrender were all scolded by him, I'm afraid that Mr. Qian can't do it, right?" ”

"Please rest assured Your Majesty, Qi Biaojia will not surrender but he can't let go of it in his heart, as long as His Majesty can give Qi Biaojia a step, the minister can guarantee that Qi Biaojia will definitely die for His Majesty!"

Zhu Lunkui heard Qian Qianyi say this, and thought about it for a while, Qi Biaojia has a high prestige in Nanzhili, and if he can really come over to help him, it will be a help. So Zhu Lunkui asked: "Since Mr. Qian said so, what step do I want to give Qi Biaojia?" ”

"This is very simple, now that the southern capital has been decided, the life and death of the first emperor are unknown, Your Majesty can give the first emperor a nickname, and then give amnesty to the world! Qi Biaojia is the governor of Jiangnan of the former emperor Jianba, and His Majesty can take this opportunity to reinstate Qi Biaojia, so that His Majesty's wish will not be achieved? ”

Now the official statement about Zhu Yousong's whereabouts is that life and death are unknown, but Nanjing has been under siege for more than a year, and the surrounding prefectures and counties have already been recovered, so if Zhu Yousong was still alive, he should have shown up. However, the emperor and these ministers in the court all knew in their hearts that the unlucky ghost Zhu Yousong had already been beaten to death by Ma Cheng outside the Jubao Gate, and now it is just a cover to say that life and death are unknown.