Ma Cheng came out of the main hall of Qianqing Palace and followed Ma Shiying out of the Qianqing Gate. Seeing that his father didn't say a word, Ma Cheng had no choice but to follow behind. From the Qianqing Palace, take the Jingyunmen Arrow Road, and pass through the Jinshui River is the office of the cabinet.

According to the rules, Ma Cheng had to go through Xiehe Gate to Xihuamen from here to leave the palace, but today Ma Cheng wanted to figure out why Ma Shiying let Qian Qianyi go, so he had no choice but to shout in the back: "Dad!" Father! My son has something to ask you! ”

Ma Shiying was followed by a bunch of eunuchs and civil officials, and seeing that Ma Shiying's father and son had something to say, they hurriedly left under the leadership of Ruan Dacheng.

Ma Shiying sighed, stopped and waited for Ma Cheng to come up, and then asked, "Cheng'er, what do you have to say!" ”

This place is located in the palace, although there are not many forbidden troops guarding it, but it is also a lot of people, so Ma Cheng is not polite, and came to Ma Shiying and asked in a low voice: "Dad, why did you help Qian Lao Ghost speak just now?" Or the son will be able to kill this old guy today! ”

Ma Shiying frowned and said, "Your method of planting is too deliberate, do you think the emperor didn't see it?" Even if the old man doesn't stand up to intercede for Qian Qianyi, the emperor will definitely not do anything to Qian Qianyi! ”

After Ma Shiying finished speaking, he hated iron and steel: "Cheng'er, you have now been knighted, and you are also a member of the party, can you think about it before doing anything?" It is absolutely impossible for the emperor to let you and my father and son dominate the government, so this Qian Qianyi will definitely have nothing to do. And what are you thinking about in the future, give the old man a message first, don't let the old man know so passively? ”

Ma Cheng saw that his son was unhappy, and quickly explained: "Dad, it's not that the son doesn't inform you, it's just that the son is afraid that his father will be kind and unwilling to die, so the son can only hide it from his father!" ”

Ma Shiying waved his hand impatiently, and then said, "Okay, didn't the emperor arrange for you to go to the house?" Go get busy! ”

Ma Shiying turned around and left after speaking, Ma Cheng didn't know what happened to Ma Shiying today, so he had no choice but to turn around and leave. But Ma Shiying didn't go far, turned around and stopped Ma Cheng, and then said meaningfully: "Cheng'er, you have to do it yourself!" ”

Shape up or ship out? Although Ma Cheng was illiterate in this era, he was highly educated in later generations, so he still knew what these four words meant. The literal meaning of these four words is to warn you to dispose of it properly and do it well!

Do a good job Ma Cheng knows, it is nothing more than doing his own job to guard the city, but what is the proper handling? Could it be that Daddy let himself properly dispose of those nobles? Ma Cheng remembered that there were many people attached to Ma Shiying among these nobles at that time, could it be that Ma Shiying couldn't bear to see these guys being beheaded by their homes? But this is not like Ma Shiying's character.

Ma Cheng stood in front of the Concord Gate and thought about Ma Shiying's words, and after waiting for a while, Ma Shiying had already walked away, and the little eunuch who was leading the way in front of Ma Cheng saw that Ma Cheng was not leaving, and waited for a long time before he dared to step forward and ask, "What is the matter with Master Hou?" ”

Ma Cheng was interrupted and remembered that it was inappropriate to stay in the palace, so he shook his head and said, "It's nothing, please send the little father-in-law out of the palace!" ”

Coming out of Xi'an Gate, Ma Cheng arranged for Gu Yong to transfer five hundred soldiers first, and then rushed to the Wei Mansion with these wolf-like guys. Riding on the horse, Ma Cheng was still thinking about Ma Shiying's self-righteousness, and after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't figure out Ma Shiying's end

What do you mean. But at this time, Ma Cheng remembered the mysterious smile of Ruan Dacheng in the Qianqing Palace just now, probably this old guy knew what Ma Shiying meant.

Ruan Dacheng is now an auxiliary minister in the cabinet, in charge of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, plus Ruan Dacheng's daughter Ruan Lizhen has actually become Ma Cheng's concubine, so the relationship between Ruan Dacheng and Ma Cheng is not bad.

"Well, Ruan Dacheng, this old guy is cunning and cunning, he must know what he means by the phrase "do it himself", why don't you go to Ruan Dacheng tonight to help analyze it!" Ma Cheng made up his mind to put down his thoughts, and there was a big cake waiting for him to eat in front of him, that was the Wei State Mansion.

The approximate location of the Wei Mansion was between Zhanyuan Road and Daquanfu Lane in Nanjing in later generations, and the Zhan Yuan in later generations was just the back garden of the Wei Mansion at this time. It is close to Nanjing Confucius Temple and Yingtianfu School, and has always been a place of nostalgia for people and inkmen, so regardless of the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty or later generations, the land price here is every inch of land.

Ma Cheng took 500 people to Xufu Street in front of Wei Guogong's mansion, there was no other person's mansion here, and only Wei Guogong was the only one on the entire street. At the gate of Xufu Street, there is an archway inscribed by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, and the civil official gets off the sedan chair and the military attache dismounts, this is Zhu Yuanzhang's reward for the number one hero Xu Da, but after more than 200 years, Xu Da's descendants can no longer live up to his bravery.

Ma Cheng carried the emperor's holy decree, and did not need to dismount here in the archway, but rode directly to the door of the Wei Mansion. I saw that this gate was magnificent, the sixty-four copper nails on the door were shining, and the lintel was six pairs of households, marking the identity of the Xu family second only to the royal family, and the two majestic stone lions at the door also represented the glorious past of the Xu family.

Ma Cheng had just come to Xu Mansion a month ago to make trouble, so the guards at the door knew who Ma Cheng was, so when they saw Ma Cheng coming with hundreds of soldiers, they closed the door one by one and retreated into the courtyard.

Ma Cheng didn't come to play this time, seeing that the gate was closed, Ma Cheng scolded: "Gu Yong, take someone to open the gate, arrest all the people in the Wei Mansion, and then start counting the property!" ”

The emperor had a holy decree to reward Ma Cheng with the Duke of Wei, so it would be Ma Cheng's home from now on. Of course, Gu Yong knew that this would be his home in the future, so he scolded the soldiers behind him: "You boys have all heard the orders of the military gate, go in and be careful, take something that doesn't belong to you and cut off your own hands!" ”

The five hundred soldiers agreed and began to rush into the Wei State Mansion, and the entire huge Wei State Mansion immediately jumped with chickens and dogs.

Ma Cheng rode on the horse and looked at the gold plaque high above, with four gilt characters written on it, Zhongshan Wangfu! Ma Cheng sneered and said to Gu Yong beside him: "Gu Yong, what do you say that Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan back then, knows what his descendants look like this?" ”

Gu Yong said with a smile: "I don't know about this last general, but this maid ring on the Wei Mansion is so beautiful!" ”

At this time, the soldiers had already escorted the family Ding Yahuan out of the gate in batches, and several young Yahuan stood pitifully at the door, Gu Yong is eighteen years old this year, which is the age of complaining, so looking at these beautiful women is really drooling.

Seeing Gu Yong's virtue, Ma Cheng scolded with a smile: "You guy, forget that you haven't married yet!" "Gu Yong is Gu Changwei's eldest son, and Gu Changwei was Ma Cheng's constant follower back then, although there is a hundred households

job, but the family is also very tight, so Gu Yong has not come to the door to propose marriage when he is seventeen or eighteen.

After Gu Changwei became an official, Gu Yong has been following Ma Cheng as a personal soldier, so he has no time to go on a blind date.

"Okay, today Lao Tzu will promise you, as long as you fancy it, Lao Tzu will give it to you!" Ma Cheng is in a good mood today, and these maids have become his own house slaves, so he can naturally do whatever he wants.

When Gu Yong heard this, he quickly knelt down on his knees and thanked: "The last general, thank you for the success of the military gate!" After saying that, Gu Yong got up and was about to choose Yahuan, and when he saw Gu Yong so anxious, he laughed.

At this time, Ma Cheng's personal soldiers had already arrested the people of the Wei Mansion, and there were more than 200 people standing at the door, led by the old Wei Duke Xu Hongji's wife Deng Shi, followed by Xu Hongji's sons and unmarried daughters.

Deng is the wife of Xu Jiujue and Xu Wenjue, she still doesn't know what her two precious sons have done, and when she saw Ma Cheng rushing in with a group of wolf-like soldiers, she asked tremblingly: "Ma Cheng, what do you want to do?" Don't you know that this is the Duke of Wei's mansion? ”

Seeing this middle-aged beauty, Ma Cheng immediately stepped forward to take a look, although this Deng family is actually in his forties and has grandchildren, but because of proper maintenance, he is still the same as in his thirties, and his skin is a pinch of water.

Ma Cheng turned around twice in front of the Deng family, looked up and down seven or eight times, and then smiled: "What? You don't know what happened to your sons? ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he took out the emperor's holy decree from his bosom and read it aloud: "Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei, colluded with Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, and other twenty-five lords, intending to open the city and surrender to the north, and now the twenty-five lords will be raided and punished by the nine clans!" Guiyang Hou Ma Cheng made a meritorious contribution to resisting the northern captives, and rewarded Ma Cheng with the Duke of Wei's mansion, and the Duke of Wei was enslaved! ”

Deng collapsed to the ground after listening to Ma Cheng's recitation, she knew that her two sons were doing things these days, but she didn't expect to take refuge in the north, and now the whole family has become Ma Cheng's slaves, this kind of feeling of falling from the nine heavens to the mortal world is really uncomfortable.

Ma Cheng didn't care about the Deng family who was sitting on the ground, and looked at the few young men behind him, these people were Xu Hongji's sons, and the enemy's son naturally couldn't stay, and Ma Cheng didn't want to play any game of cutting grass and not eradicating roots. Ma Cheng said to Gu Yong behind him: "According to the holy decree, all the men in the Xu family will be beheaded and executed immediately!" ”

After listening to Ma Cheng, Gu Yong stepped forward with more than a dozen personal soldiers to arrest these young men, and the wives and concubines of these men immediately cried and shouted. Gu Yong followed Ma Cheng to kill countless people, and he could be delayed by the cries of several women, so he stepped forward and pressed these people in front of the Duke of Wei's mansion and cut off the heads of these people with a knife. The ladies of the Xu Mansion saw their sons and father-in-law beheaded, and they fainted one by one.

After killing the adult men, Ma Cheng pointed to the underage children in the crowd of Xu Mansion and said to Gu Yong: "Your Majesty's holy decree says that the adult men will be beheaded, and these minors will be sent to the palace and serve the emperor after castration!" ”

As soon as Ma Cheng's words came out, the female dependents of the Xu Mansion immediately cried and shouted to their mother, but the emperor's holy decree could not be violated, Gu Yong took his own soldiers to step forward to separate these children from their mothers, and then sent them to the palace, as for what to do, it is not Ma Cheng's responsibility.