The battle in the palace city is not over, and the battle in Nanjing is not over, although Ma Cheng's new army has super combat effectiveness, but Lu Siye's inner city defenders have more than 20,000 people, plus the soldiers and horses who obey Lu Siye's orders, the inspection department, and the city gates, Lu Siye has 50,000 or 60,000 people, which is more than twice that of Ma Cheng's new army.

The residence of Li Zhan, the head of the household, is in Sanyuan Lane, Yumin Lane, Xicheng, which is not far from Jubaomen, and he also heard the loud noise from Jubaomen in the morning.

After a while, the family came back to report that the Jubaomen was blown open, and a large number of troops outside the city poured into Nanjing.

"The army? Where did the army come from? Is it the Northern Captive? ”

The family shook his head in horror: "Master, it's a new army wearing red clothes outside the city!" These guys are fierce and tight, and if they see the soldiers of the Terracotta Division, they will kill them, and they will almost arrive at our house! ”

Li Zhan was taken aback when he heard that it was Ma Cheng's army, could it be that Ma Cheng had a mutiny like a few years ago? But now that the emperor is very good to Ma Cheng, what is he not satisfied with?

Li Zhan was frightened at home, although Ma Cheng's new army was like a wolf and a tiger, but the military discipline was not bad, except for dealing with those who resisted the soldiers and horses, they did not rush into the houses and loot, so Li Zhan's family spent the morning without danger.

At noon, the shouting and killing outside the door was lowered, and Li Zhan was about to send a family member out to have a look, but before the family member went out, there was a knock on the door.

This scared the family members of Li Zhan's mansion enough, and a family member asked tremblingly, "Who is outside the door?" This is the residence of Master Li, the official of the household department, what are you going to do? ”

The people outside the door heard that there were people inside, and shouted: "Open the door quickly, we are the guards of the Marquis of Zhenguo, and the Marquis of Zhenguo has come to protect Lord Li from entering the palace!" ”

Everyone knows who the Marquis of Zhenguo is, and the family in the door breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that it was Ma Cheng, and hurriedly went in to report to Li Zhan that he knew.

Li Zhan frowned when he heard that Ma Cheng came to pick him up, he had nothing to do with Ma Cheng, but he had a good relationship with Ma Shiying's eldest son Ma Luan. However, Ma Cheng should not harm himself, so Li Zhan prepared and asked the family to open the door after putting on the official uniform.

There were more than a hundred new troops standing in front of the Li Mansion, and it was indeed Ma Cheng's protector on their uniforms. Li Zhan arched his hand and asked: "Several, the old man is Li Zhan, I don't know what is the matter with the Marquis of Zhenguo?" ”

The first hundred households saw Li Zhan come out, and said sullenly: "A certain person is a rough person, I don't know what the Hou Ye is looking for an adult, please enter the palace, and I will understand when I see my Hou Ye!" ”

Li Zhan knew that they didn't know if he asked these Qiu Ba, so he had no choice but to get on the sedan chair and follow these guys into the palace. At this time, the battle in the southern city was over, but the corpses on the ground had not been cleaned up. Miyagi Xikamon is similar here, full of dead people and blood donations. Seeing this, Li Zhan knows, something big must have happened this morning.

When he came to the gate of Cining Palace, Li Zhan found that there were several sedan chairs parked at the door, and it seemed that he was not alone in coming today. Li Zhan followed the little eunuch who led the way into the apse of Cining Palace, and found that there were already several people sitting inside, and it was Ma Shiying who was sitting in the center. The first one to sit on the left is Zhang Jie, then Yang Weiyuan and Tian Yang, the first one on the right is Ma Shiying's brother-in-law Yue Qijie, the second is Yang Wencong, the third is Ma Shiying's eldest son Ma Luan, and the fourth is Ma Cheng, the marquis of Zhenguo, and the fifth

It's Marcy.

Ma Shiying saw Li Zhen coming, pointed to the seat next to Zhang Jie and said, "Dexiu is here, sit down, I'll wait for you!" ”

Li Zhan cautiously sat beside Zhang Jie, and then asked, "Yuanfu, what happened in the city today?" Why are there dead everywhere? ”

Ma Shiying looked at these henchmen in the room, and then said, "There is an important matter to discuss when everyone is summoned today!" Last night, the old man received news that the master of ceremonies Lu Jiude and his nephew Lu Siye conspired to rebel and prepared to surrender to the north after holding the emperor hostage, so the old man asked Zhonghe to lead troops into the city to quell the rebellion! ”

Ma Shiying's words were half-truthful, and he didn't say his embarrassment last night, and at the same time, Ma Shiying was Ma Cheng's son after all, so he covered up for his son, saying that he led the troops into the city on his own orders.

Ma Shiying said it tactfully, but no one in the room was a fool, who didn't know what the relationship between Lu Jiude and the emperor was, and Lu Jiude's strength was not enough to hold the emperor hostage, so it seemed that something must have happened last night, Ma Shiying was furious, so he let his son Ma Cheng lead the troops into the city.

Zhang Jie, who was the secretary of the ministry and the highest-ranking official under Ma Shiying, first asked, "Yuan Fu, is the emperor okay now?" ”

Ma Shiying didn't speak, Ma Cheng said on the side: "When Lu Jiude launched, the emperor fled to Cining Palace, and now he is with the Queen Mother, and he is very safe!" ”

Zhang Jie breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the emperor was fine, and then said: "Lu Jiude is plotting rebellion, and he deserves to die for his natural crimes, and we don't have any opinions!" ”

Ma Cheng was not happy when he saw these guys say this, did you let you come to see the excitement today? It is for you to express your opinions, and since you refuse to say it, then Lao Tzu will force you to say it.

Ma Cheng stood up and said, "Uncles, the kid is young, and he doesn't understand many things, but the kid knows, so why is Lu Jiude sitting big?" Isn't it because of the emperor's favor? Now when the country is in crisis, if the king is not virtuous, the country's fortune will not prosper, so the kid thinks that Zhu Lunkui should be abolished and Zhu Lunsheng, the king of Yan, should be appointed as the new king! And my father is so great, the emperor only gave a mere duke, so the kid also thinks that my dad should be the regent, the Duke of Wu, the general review of military affairs, plus nine tin, and the sword to the palace! ”

Ma Cheng's words were like throwing a bomb in the pit, and the house was completely chaotic. If Ma Cheng's words in the first half are still acceptable, what is the second half of the regent, Wu Guogong, the overview of military affairs, the addition of nine tin, and the sword to the palace, isn't this a precondition for the usurpation of the throne by traitors in the past dynasties? Especially Wu Guogong's article, as long as he is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, it is absolutely unacceptable.

In the 276-year history of the Ming Dynasty, from the founding of Zhu Yuanzhang to Zhu Youzhen's hanging, a total of 36 princes were sealed, whether dead or alive, but there was no Duke Wu. The reason is very simple, because Wu Guogong was a knight before Zhu Yuanzhang was called emperor.

After Zhu Yuanzhang captured Nanjing and defeated Chen Youliang, Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, named Zhu Yuanzhang as the Duke of Wu in the sixteenth year of Zhizheng. Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty, there was no longer the title of Wu Guogong, and now Ma Cheng proposed to crown his Lao Tzu as Wu Guogong, and the intention of usurping the throne and self-reliance has been revealed.

Everyone in the room is not a fool, and they know that although Ma Cheng pretends to be stunned on the surface, it must be Ma Shiying's meaning behind it. Therefore, everyone else is debating whether the emperor should be abolished, but no one questions whether it is right to ask for the title of Duke of Wu.

Yue Qijie is the oldest among the people in the house

Big, he is a few years older than Ma Shiying, he saw Ma Shiying sitting there without saying a word with his eyes closed, and he knew that what Ma Cheng said must have been agreed by Ma Shiying. Ma Cheng's impassioned speech just now, in fact, the most important thing is that in the second half, Ma Shiying added Jiuxi to seal Wu Guogong, as for who will be the emperor, it doesn't matter.

Yue Qijie thought for a while and stood up and said, "Everyone, everyone! The old man is the oldest, is it good to listen to the old man? ”

Yue Qijie's official position is not as high as Zhang Jie's, but after all, he is the oldest, and when the others saw that he was about to speak, they stopped arguing and sat down again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the old man thinks that although there is no threat around the southern capital now, don't forget that in Yangzhou, a hundred miles away, tens of thousands of soldiers from the north have been eyeing the enemy, and the important towns of Jiujiang and Wuchang in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are still in the hands of the north, that is, Zhejiang, Nanzhili, and more than 100,000 troops of the Tang King in Fujian threaten the flank, and in this case, it is really not suitable to set up a new monarch!"

Yue Qijie is worthy of being the strategist who has followed Ma Shiying for the longest time, and knows what Ma Shiying thinks, after Yue Qijie finished speaking, Ma Shiying opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Brother Zixing is right, although the emperor has a small fault, but he will not be deposed, and now the country is in danger, and he still needs a long monarch!" ”

Ma Shiying's words set the tone for the debate, that is, not to abolish Zhu Lunkui, and then Ma Shiying glared at Ma Cheng and said: "Ma Cheng'er, you are a Qiu Ba who doesn't know how to write and ink, do you know what a regent is?" Do you know the meaning of Wu Guogong? Do you know what Nine Tin is? Do you think your Lao Tzu is Wang Mang and Cao Cao? In the future, let's talk about these bastard words of regent, Wu Guogong, Jia Jiuxi, and sword shoes in the palace, don't complain that the old man doesn't remember the relationship between father and son! ”

Ma Shiying scolded Ma Cheng here, although Ma Cheng was not allowed to mention anything about Wu Guogong in the future, but he forgot one thing, that is, to take an overview of the important affairs of the military state, everyone in the house except for Ma Cheng and Ma Xi are all old fritters, so they naturally know that Ma Shiying doesn't want to let go of the right, as for the others, they are just false names.

After Ma Shiying finished speaking, he stood up and came to the door, and said to everyone: "Since it has been decided, then you and I should go to welcome the emperor back to the Qianqing Palace!" ”

Zhang Jie and the others nodded again and again, followed Ma Shiying out, and went to the front hall to greet Zhu Lunkui.

Yue Qijie saw that Ma Cheng was confused, deliberately stayed at the end, came to Ma Cheng's side and asked in a low voice, "What?" Not happy? ”

Of course, Ma Cheng was not happy, the original plan today was perfect, it was best to be the emperor himself, and at the very least, he would also be the emperor of Ma Shiying, but now it is completely contrary to his original intention. Now go and welcome Zhu Lunkui back to the palace, isn't that the same as before?

"Uncle, do you think my father is crazy, and the emperor still wants to be a courtier?"

Yue Qijie patted him on the shoulder with a smile after hearing Ma Cheng finish speaking, and then said: "Boy, your experience is still too little, fighting is different from being an official, you can learn more behind the old man in the future!" ”

After Yue Qijie finished speaking, he looked at Ma Luan in front of him, and then said to Ma Cheng: "Boy, the old man is old, your two cousins are just middle-aged people, and they will rely on you to take care of them in the future!" After Yue Qijie finished speaking, he left Ma Cheng and quickly caught up with the people in front.

Yue Qijie's few words of gibberish made Ma Cheng even more confused, but Ma Cheng has one advantage, that is, if you don't understand, you don't want to, anyway, the sky is falling with Ma Shiying, what does it have to do with Lao Tzu.