Ma Cheng retreated from Ma Shiying's study, looked at the clear starry sky and sighed, he didn't expect the inertia of history to be so big, so big that Ma Cheng didn't even have the power to stop it.

Ma Cheng originally thought that by virtue of being Ma Shiying's sister-in-law, coupled with a clever mouth, he would definitely be able to persuade Ma Shiying not to adopt the policy of "uniting and pacifying", but thinking that Ma Shiying put the real problem in front of Ma Cheng, what do you say you can do? If you want to solve internal problems, it will take time, so you must engage in the "joint capture and peace" set.

In fact, what Ma Cheng wanted to engage in was similar, it was nothing more than buying time for Nanming, but Ma Shiying said just now that Liankou was absolutely not good, it was politically incorrect, so Liankou became the only option.

There was no light pollution in the Ming Dynasty, and Nanjing was probably the only city in the whole of China that never sleeps. Ma Cheng stood in the courtyard and looked at the lights in Nancheng, and then said fiercely: "Your mother, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that history is so evil, is there really any son of destiny?" Yes, it can only be Lao Tzu! ”

Ma Cheng made up his mind to fight the Manchus, and for the next few days Ma Cheng stayed in the barracks and began to conduct inhumane training for the newly recruited 2,000 soldiers. The amount of exercise every day has been tripled by Ma Cheng, and the cultural classes that were originally taken in the afternoon have also been moved to the evening, and now the 10,000 taels of silver promised by Ma Shiying have been put in place, and with the money to buy lamp oil, Ma Cheng naturally can't waste time.

The subordinates naturally complained about the increase in training, and many hundreds of households found Ma Cheng and thought of reducing the training intensity, but they were all vetoed by Ma Cheng, they didn't know that the war was just around the corner, and one more day of training would give them more money to live. Although the soldiers were not satisfied, no one fled, because the food in Ma Cheng's army was so good, not to mention that they could eat meat every day, and they could eat chicken once every ten days, and this kind of living conditions were comparable to those of small landlords in the countryside.

On this day, Ma Cheng was training, and a Ma Fu family came to the Shenji Camp to find Ma Cheng, and Ma Shiying asked Ma Cheng to go home.

Ma Cheng frowned, he was so busy hitting the back of his head now, so do you have time to go home?

"My dad said he didn't say anything?"

The family shook his head and said, "The master didn't say it, he just said that the second master must go home at noon!" ”

Since Ma Shiying said so, there must be something seriously wrong, Ma Cheng had no choice but to clean up, hand over the training task to Gu Changwei and Xu Dahu, and then follow the family home.

Ma Cheng returned home and went to the study to see Ma Shiying, and then asked: "Dad, my son is training soldiers in the army, I don't know what to call my son back?" ”

Ma Shiying smiled and said to Ma Cheng: "My father is going to meet friends in the afternoon, you go with my father!" ”

Let yourself go with him for drinks and dinners? Ma Cheng was unhappy when he heard this, what friends can Ma Shiying have, except that the eunuch is a traitor, plus a group of old men, what can he do, isn't it just drinking and prostituting * prostitutes?

Thinking of this, Ma Cheng said: "Dad, my son has a lot of affairs in the army, and your friend and son are not familiar with it, why don't you let your eldest brother accompany you!" "Ma Luan is an intellectual, and he happens to have a common language with you stinky old men, and the master still has to train the army!

Ma Chengman thought that Ma Shiying could agree, but he knew that Ma Shiying smiled and said: "It's not that my father has to take you there, but that the proprietor wants to see you by name." ”

Ma Cheng was stunned when he heard this: "I want to see myself by name, but I didn't expect that I was already so famous in Nanjing?" Although Ma Cheng thinks so, he is still a little self-aware, he has no merit in his body. Who are Ma Shiying's friends, of course, they are all Jinshiju people, I really don't know why I want to see Ma Cheng.

Seeing Ma Chenghu's suspicion, Ma Shiying smiled and said: "Don't guess, this person today is my father's friend of the same year, Ruan Dacheng Ruan Jizhi!" ”

Ruan Dacheng is back? Ma Cheng knew that Ruan Dacheng couldn't stay in Nanjing anymore because he was squeezed by Hou Fangyu and others, so he had to return to his hometown in Tongcheng to live in seclusion. Now that he has returned to Nanjing, it is likely that Ma Shiying really can't fight against the Donglin Party alone, and he needs to bring in foreign aid Ruan Dacheng.

"Dad, but what happened to the court? The Donglin Party guys are not good for you again? "Ma Cheng talked to Ma Shiying before, Ma Shiying was very defensive of Ruan Dacheng, but now he needs Ruan Dacheng's help, it must be that these guys from the Donglin Party are becoming more and more threatening.

Ma Shiying's face immediately turned cloudy when he heard Ma Cheng say this, and he scolded: "Zhang Shenyan, this old immortal, mentioned the practice of the concubine's family not to be an official three days ago, although he did not name the old man, but he must be ready to come to the old man." The old man is lonely in the court, and it seems that he can only recall Ruan Dacheng. ”

Ma Shiying's daughter Ma Hongning was given to Zhu Yousong by her younger brother Ma Cheng, and Ma Shiying broke off the relationship with her daughter after remediation, so now Ma Hongning is just a waiter in Zhu Yousong's harem, and she is the lowest-level concubine who doesn't even have a grade. Originally, Ma Shiying thought that he would be able to hide from the Donglin Party in this way, but he didn't expect that the Donglin Party guys had great powers, and they didn't know where they learned the news, so they immediately moved to the table to bring down Ma Shiying.

Although Ma Shiying has several henchmen in the DPRK, they are all people who speak lightly, and the only one Liu Kongzhao is still a nobleman and has no say in the government at all. In the end, Ma Shiying really had no choice, so she decided to write a letter to Ruan Dacheng, hoping that her friend of the same year would go out to help.

Ruan Dacheng is a Jinshi in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, one subject earlier than Ma Shiying, but Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng are in the same year of the Nanzhili Township Examination in the forty-third year of Wanli, but Ma Shiying is not good at studying and is only a late Dengke.

Ruan Dacheng was born in Tongcheng County, which was later known as Zongyang County, Anhui Province, Ruan Dacheng studied very well when he was young, and he also wrote poems and composed music, such young talents of course had to be called into the Donglin Party, and Ruan Dacheng's teacher was Gao Panlong, the boss of Donglin.

With the escort of the Donglin Party, coupled with Ruan Dacheng's contribution to the struggle to defeat the non-Donglin Pavilion elder Shi Jikai and others, he was ranked among the backbone of Donglin, and was nicknamed "Tianjiuxing is not blocked" in the "Donglin Point General Record", at this time Ruan Dacheng was the political star of the Donglin Party.

However, Ruan Dacheng, who had an identity and status, began to be complacent, and in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, there was a vacancy in the office, and Ruan Dacheng was supposed to be in this important position, but Ruan Dacheng's teacher Gao Panlong and Zuo Dacheng did not deal with Zuo Guangdou, so Zuo Guangdou dismissed Ruan Dacheng in the name of "Chadian is near, Dacheng is not available", and was ready to use Wei Dazhong, who was also a general of Donglin.

Ruan Dacheng was young and vigorous at the time, and when he saw that the duck that originally belonged to him flew, he turned to Wei Zhongxian, who had not yet made a fortune at that time, and with Wei Zhongxian's help, Ruan Dacheng finally got his wish. However, Ruan Dacheng's official did not last long, and the terrible pressure of the Donglin Party made him abandon his official position and flee back to his hometown within a month of taking office, and Ruan Dacheng completely broke with the Donglin Party.

When Wei Zhongxian was in power, Ruan Dacheng was summoned to Beijing as Taichang Shaoqing. He knew that he was born in Donglin, and he became an anti-Donglin model, so it was estimated that it was difficult to please both sides, so he acted very carefully. After a while, seeing the chaos in the government, he returned to his hometown and planned to wait and see the situation.

When Chongzhen ascended the throne and Wei Zhongxian fell, Ruan Dacheng was thrown into the eighteenth layer of hell because the party was attached to the eunuch party, and the emperor personally issued an order to exempt Ruan Dacheng from all fame, but Ruan Dacheng had no choice but to go home to send love to landscapes and dramas, and prepare to be a rich man.

But Ruan Dacheng didn't want to play with the Donglin Party, and after Chongzhen entered Anhui in the eighth year, Ruan Dacheng went to Nanjing for refuge. At that time, some young literati in the Restoration Society, such as Hou Fangyu, Gu Gao, Yang Tingshu, Huang Zongxi, etc., hated him as a person, and used the Liudu incident to drive Ruan Dacheng away. This time, Ruan Dacheng was very embarrassed, his home in Nanjing was burned, his own beard was burned all, if he wasn't old enough to have neat legs and feet, he would have been burned to death in the fire.

What the Fushe did was indeed a bit excessive, which made Ruan Dacheng lose face, so Ruan Dacheng hated Hou Fangyu and others very much in his heart, and vowed to make him look good in the future.

At this time, Ma Shiying's letter was sent to Ruan Dacheng, Ma Shiying's letter was written very sincerely, saying Ruan Dacheng, you helped me become the governor back then, and now my brother has become the first assistant, and my brother has nothing to do to come to Nanjing to be a helper for my brother.

Ruan Dacheng is also an old fritter who has been in the officialdom, and at a glance, he knows that Ma Shiying must have encountered difficulties in Nanjing, so he needs to help himself. Ruan Dacheng has been waiting for this opportunity for fifteen years, and after receiving Ma Shiying's letter, he did not hesitate at all, and immediately took the whole family to Nanjing.

After listening to Ma Shiying's tortuous experience, Ma Cheng asked: "Dad, my son doesn't know Ruan Dacheng, why do you have to see your son today?" ”

Ma Shiying didn't know why Ruan Dacheng wanted to see his second son: "I don't know why for my father, anyway, it's not an outsider, you can go with it!" ”

Ma Cheng thought about it, anyway, he hadn't seen this white-faced traitor, so it was better to go and see it.

The father and son changed into their home clothes, and then went out to ride a sedan chair and a horseback to Ruan Dacheng's mansion in Nancheng.

Ruan Dacheng's mansion is located in Liuye Lane in Nancheng, which is located in the Qinhuai River and not far from the Confucius Temple, which is a good place for every inch of land. Ruan Dacheng's home was burned down by a fire, but Ruan Dacheng had money and spent a lot of money to rebuild it.

When he came to Ruan Dacheng's mansion, his family stepped forward to report, and soon Ruan Dacheng personally went out to greet him.

Ma Cheng was very surprised when he saw Ruan Dacheng, Ruan Dacheng was wearing a brown silk robe, a mountain and river scarf, and a big beard on his chest, if he didn't know him, he thought he was an ordinary landlord.

Ma Cheng came to this era and found that the descriptions in the history books must not be believed, Ma Shiying is not the kind of white-faced traitor written in the book at all, at first glance, he looks like he has sores on the top of his head and pus on the soles of his feet, and Ma Shiying in reality is like an old teacher who teaches. This Ruan Dacheng is the same, standing there is a rich family member.