Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu on the city wall of Hangzhou, originally wanted to take advantage of the night to open the city gate to welcome the army of Ma Cheng outside the city. Who would have thought that when he came to Genshan Gate, he met Fang Guoan, and Fang Guoan was very respectful, never leaving Zhu Changshu, there was no way, Zhu Changshu had to be patient and listen to Fang Guoan's braggadocio here.

At this moment, someone outside reported that the Zhou rebel army outside the city was preparing to attack the city, and Fang Guoan left Zhu Changshu and hurriedly went out to prepare.

Seeing Fang Guoan leaving, Zhu Changshu breathed a sigh of relief, but he also heard the news that the army outside the city was going to attack the city, so he hurriedly came out of the city tower and lay on the head of the city to watch the situation outside the city.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and the army outside the city had been assembled, Zhu Changshu did not understand military affairs, but when he saw the morale of the army outside the city, he knew that his side would definitely not win.

Zhu Changshu was afraid that he would be implicated after the defeat, so he grabbed the little eunuch beside him and asked, "You say, what should I do now?" How can Ma Cheng outside the city not resent this king? ”

Zhu Changshu's level is not high, and the little eunuchs around him are similar, where is there any good strategy, hearing Zhu Changshu's question, he quickly replied: "Master, do you want to give these soldiers some silver taels?" ”

This is definitely a bad idea, not to mention whether the army outside the city can receive it, as far as you, Zhu Changshu, as the defender of the city, give the enemy money to the enemy, what do the soldiers on your side think? But now Zhu Changshu couldn't care so much, and hurriedly ordered the guards and eunuchs who followed him to start throwing silver tickets under the city, and shouted some "It's all Ming people, your own people don't fight your own people!" "King Lu decided to withdraw the emperor's name and surrender the city" and other reactionary slogans. (Don't think that Zhu Changshu's actions are very stupid, he did more than this in history, when the Qing army besieged the city, Fang Guoan went out of the city to fight the Qing army, but Zhu Changshu took out food and jewelry to comfort the Qing army in the back, which damaged the morale of Fang Guoan's army, and was easily occupied by the Qing army. ）

Zhu Changshu's actions made the soldiers defending the city heartbroken, originally these soldiers were still confident in their loyalty to the country, but now they see that the emperor has surrendered, so what loyalty do they have? So the soldiers on the Genshan Gate began to flee in large numbers.

Genshan Gate is the main battlefield of Fang Guoan's resistance to Ma Cheng, so the army is also the most effective army, and now they are all fleeing, and the people and guards of the temporary organization of other city gates naturally follow suit, and for a time Hangzhou City was in chaos.

Fang Guoan on the gate of Genshan was organizing soldiers to prepare to resist Ma Cheng's attack, but seeing that the soldiers on the city wall not far away had fled, and the same was true when he looked into the city, Fang Guoan, who did not know the situation, hurriedly sent his own soldiers to see what was going on.

Without waiting for the soldiers to come back, Fang Guoan's son Fang Shiji rushed over, and saw Fang Guoan shouting: "Dad, it's not good, just now His Majesty the Emperor shouted in the city to open the city gate and surrender, and also sent silver tickets to Zhou Yi outside the city, our soldiers' morale is gone, everyone has run away!" ”

Fang Guoan was taken aback when he heard what his son said, and scolded: "This Zhu Changshu is really not enough to succeed and more than to lose!" ”

"Dad, now that the city is in chaos, this Hangzhou city can't be defended, let's take advantage of the fact that Zhou Reverse's army is not attacking, let's run!"

Fang Guoan looked outside the city, Zhou Rebellious's army had already arrived at the edge of the moat, less than two hundred meters away from the city wall, and his own side was there

After losing the army, only three or four hundred soldiers were left around Fang Guoan. Seeing this, Fang Guoan sighed and said, "Okay, retreat to the south gate and go out of the city from there!" ”

The emperor surrendered and the lord fled, how can this city be defended? So in less than ten minutes, the soldiers in the city ran away.

Zhu Changshu saw that the soldiers had run away, so he took more than 200 of his men to the Genshan Gate, commanded his subordinates to open the Genshan Gate, and then respectfully knelt in front of the Genshan Gate to greet Ma Cheng's army.

There was a mess in the city, but the Ma Cheng army outside the city did not dare to be careless, who knows if this is some conspiracy in the city, so Zhang Guozhu, who was in charge of the siege, saw this and quickly ordered to stop the siege, and the soldiers retreated to 500 meters away to wait for the order.

Ma Cheng, who was in the rear team, also saw the situation in the city, at first only a small number of soldiers fled, and then a large number of soldiers began to flee, and after a while, the mile-long city wall here at Genshan Gate was completely gone.

After a while, Ma Cheng saw the gate of Genshan Gate open, and a group of people went out of the city and knelt at the gate of the city, apparently preparing to surrender.

Ma Cheng didn't dare to be careless, and sent a hundred households to see what the situation was, and soon the hundred households came back to report that the soldiers in the city had fled quickly, and the person kneeling at the gate of the city was Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu.

When Ma Cheng heard about it, he made up his mind, and first asked Zhang Guozhu's younger brother Zhang Guoyi to take a thousand people to seize the Genshan Gate to prevent any accidents, and then Ma Cheng led a large group of men and horses into the Genshan Gate.

Ma Cheng rode a horse to Zhu Changshu, looked at the king of the Ming clan who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a smile: "King Lu, get up, you have merit this time, and the emperor will know according to the truth!" As for what the emperor does with you, it depends on what the emperor means! ”

Zhu Changshu was taken aback when he heard Ma Cheng say this, didn't he say a few days ago that he would ensure his safety? Why do you want to give yourself to Zhu Lunkui this time?

"General, a few days ago, Yue Qijie had promised to guarantee the safety of this king, why did he change his mind now?"

"Hehe, that's what Yue Qijie promised you, you should go to Yue Qijie, anyway, Bendu didn't promise you! What's more, you said that you opened the city gate last night, what time is it now? After the time has passed, the previous agreement will naturally not be counted! ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he didn't talk to Zhu Chang, and said to Gu Yong behind him: "Send someone to protect King Lu tightly!" "Ma Cheng said it well, strict protection is imprisonment, Zhu Changshu regretted this in his heart, but what else can you do if things are already like this? There was no way, Zhu Changshu had to accept his fate.

Ma Cheng is now complacent, where can he take care of such an unlucky prince as Zhu Changshu, Ma Cheng rode along the empty street, because the soldiers defending the city were defeated suddenly, and there was no encounter, so the security in Hangzhou was not bad, and there was no murder and robbery.

Ma Cheng rode his horse slowly to the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang, which is now the seat of the cabinet of the Luwang court, because Fang Guo'an was defeated suddenly, and it was still morning, these cabinet ministers were completely unprepared, and they were caught by Ma Cheng's subordinates.

Looking at a row of senior officials kneeling on the ground, Ma Cheng didn't pay attention to them at all, after Qi Biaojia's matter, Ma Cheng knew that this group of Donglin Party stinky old nine was stinky and hard, and reasoning with them was completely playing the piano to the cow, so this time Ma Cheng

didn't plan to play some tricks to win people's hearts, so he directly ordered people to arrest all the senior officials above the fourth grade, and put them in the prisoner car after picking off their official uniforms, preparing to kill these stinky old nine one by one after a while.

Standing at the door of the governor's yamen, Ma Cheng issued the first order to enter Hangzhou, ordering Chen Zilong, the senator of the army, to act as the Hangzhou Mansion, and wait for the will of the imperial court to come down. Chen Zilong was originally a magistrate, and those officials below the fourth rank were retained in their original positions, so Chen Zilong would soon be able to restore the stability of Hangzhou City.

The middle and low-level officials below the fourth grade are easy to handle, in addition to Chen Zilong and Ma Cheng, there are also a large number of talents prepared for him by Ma Shiying, although the level of these guys is not very good, but there is no problem with loyalty. But the candidate of the governor of Zhejiang made it difficult for Ma Cheng, the Ming Dynasty did not have the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty, so the governor of Zhejiang was the highest military and administrative officer of Zhejiang Province.

Ma Cheng thought of noon from the morning, and he didn't think about this candidate. The original governor of Zhejiang was Sun Jiaji, and his water quality ability was good, but this guy was from the Donglin Party, and now he was locked up with those court ministers, and Ma Cheng would never dare to use it.

But now there is no one available in Ma Cheng's hands, and when Ma Cheng is in a dilemma, the soldiers outside the door spread the word that the old man Yue Qijie is here.

When Ma Cheng heard this old guy coming, he scolded in his heart: Lao Tzu is fighting in front, you eat and drink enough and sleep until three poles in the sun before you get up, and now you run to Lao Tzu and take five to six, are you embarrassed?

Ma Cheng thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare to bring it out at all, so he quickly got up and went out to greet his aunt.

Yue Qijie is in good spirits after a few days of rest, although he has been imprisoned for two years and is emaciated, his eyes are sharp, his steps are firm, and he looks like an old fox.

Coming to Yue Qijie's side, Ma Cheng bowed and saluted, and then asked, "Uncle, is it okay to rest?" ”

Yue Qijie nodded: "It's not bad, it's just that the marching bed is a little hard, the old man's old bones are a little unbearable, and the old man has been imprisoned in Hangzhou for two years, and he hasn't experienced the amorous women of the West Lake, so I hope that the virtuous nephew will find a few more amorous women for the old man to comfort the old man's injured heart!" ”

Ma Cheng listened to this old guy so shameless and scolded in his heart: You are in your sixties, what else do you need from the West Lake woman? Not afraid of dying on a woman's belly right away?

"This is natural, please rest assured, the little nephew will send someone to do it, please come into the house and drink tea!"

Although Ma Cheng scolded Yue Qijie in his heart, he still pretended to be extremely respectful on the surface, and hurriedly invited Yue Qijie into the three halls of the governor's yamen to serve tea.

After Yue Qijie entered the house, he looked at the furnishings of Santang, and asked with a smile: "Virtuous nephew, but what problems have you encountered?" Say it, the old man has been an official for many years, and he can give you some ideas! ”

Ma Cheng heard Yue Qijie say this before he remembered that the old guy in front of him was also an old fox, and quickly said the question he had just thought in his heart, and asked for advice on how to prevent such an important province as Zhejiang from falling into the hands of the Donglin Party.

Yue Qijie smiled and listened to Ma Cheng's words, and then said unhurriedly: "Virtuous nephew, the candidate to solve this problem is in front of you!" What do you think of the old man? Is it competent to be the governor of Zhejiang? ”