Zhu Lunkui's face slowed down when he heard Qian Qianyi say this, Ma Cheng didn't expect the old money to be so powerful, and he immediately turned the tables with a word. Ma Cheng thought for a while and couldn't let Qian Qianyi run away like this, and then said: "Your Majesty, Qian Qianyi is a person who sells his reputation!" He didn't take a concubine according to the etiquette and law without permission, and his daughter also did the ugly thing of elopement, how could such a morally corrupt well-dressed beast be His Majesty's auxiliary? ”

Qian Qianyi was relieved when he heard that Ma Cheng began to pour dung and bury him, the emperor is now concerned about his loyalty, and he is not considered at all about moral issues. At the same time, the Donglin Party is an expert in pouring dung, and it is really not afraid of anyone when it comes to burying it.

"Hmph, if you say that the old man is morally corrupt, will your Ma family father and son be clean? Don't you know how Ma Shiying's concubine Aunt Zhao got it? Did you Ma Cheng do less moral things in Fengyang? ”

Ma Cheng heard that Qian Qianyi was also learning to splash dung here, and sneered in his heart, he still had a trick that he didn't use, and the next step was to ask Qian Qianyi to kill your old guy.

"Your Majesty, just in the morning, the minister heard the news from outside the city that King Lu was bewitched by some people of the Donglin Party in Hangzhou and was already in charge of the country! Because of this, the minister was afraid that the Donglin Party in the city would respond to the anti-party in Hangzhou, so he immediately decided to execute the guy who pretended to be the emperor outside the city to set the record straight! ”

Ma Cheng's words are ready to ask for Qian Qianyi's old life, King Lu was a strong contender for Zhu Yousong's throne back then, and now Zhu Yousong's whereabouts are unknown, and it is reasonable to support King Lu's ascendancy, Qian Qianyi fully supported King Lu's throne back then, and now Ma Cheng mentions this matter, which can't help but make people think about it.

At the same time, Ma Cheng was afraid that Zhu Lunkui would forget that Qian Qianyi supported King Lu back then, and he was still bewitching on the side: "Your Majesty, Qian Qianyi praised King Lu as the grandson of Mu Zong, Zhao Mu is not far away, and he is virtuous!" Who knows if Qian Qianyi wants to use this incident to attack the ministers who are loyal to His Majesty, so as to deal with King Lu in Hangzhou! ”

After Ma Cheng said this, Zhu Lunkui's eyes when he looked at Qian Qianyi changed a little, Qian Qianyi didn't expect Ma Cheng, this kid to be so ruthless, just to confuse himself just now, this is his killing move.

Qian Qianyi knew that he was about to face a catastrophe, so he quickly knelt down on his knees and kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, don't listen to Ma Cheng's demagoguery, the minister's loyalty to His Majesty is comparable to that of the sun and the moon, and His Majesty really doesn't know about King Lu's supervision of the country!" ”

"Don't know? That's not right! I just executed that guy who pretended to be the emperor outside the city, Qian Qianyi, you got the news and came to make trouble, it seems that Qian Ge Lao, you still have some prestige in the army defending the city! ”

As an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, the general of the Liaison Army is already a serious crime, and Qian Qianyi and King Lu of Hangzhou are not clear, if no one intercedes for Qian Qianyi today, he should be dead.

At this critical moment, Lu Jiude, who had been standing behind Zhu Lunkui, spoke: "Sage, the old slave thinks that Qian Ge Lao will not do anything to be sorry for the sage!" ”

As soon as Ma Cheng heard Lu Jiude's words, he knew that he was going to suffer, and it was a bit far-fetched to frame Qian Qianyi today, the Manchu army outside the city was besieging the city, and even Ma Cheng's military intelligence department was difficult to communicate with the outside, and it was really unreasonable to say that Qian Qianyi had a connection with King Lu in Hangzhou. Today, Ma Cheng wanted to take advantage of this incident to take advantage of Zhu Lunkui's hot-headedness, and then directly kill Qian Qianyi. But now there is an understanding person who is interceding for Qian Qianyi on the side, and it seems that he will fall short today.

Zhu Lunkui frowned when he heard Lu Jiude say this, and asked, "Lu Daban, tell me, why didn't Qian Qianyi do something sorry for me?" ”

"Sage, now that the Northern Capture Army is besieging the city, and the news inside and outside the city is cut off, it should be impossible for Qian Qianyi to have any dealings with King Lu. And even if you take 10,000 steps back, Qian Qianyi has a relationship with King Lu, and you want to be unfavorable to the saint, but what good is it to Qian Qianyi? ”

After Lu Jiude finished speaking, he stared at Ma Cheng's eyes and said: "Sage, the old slave heard the news from the secret agents outside the city, King Lu has appointed Huang Daozhou as the first assistant, even if Qian Qianyi passes, can King Lu still order Huang Daozhou to give Qian Qianyi the position of first assistant?" So the old slave thought that what Ma Cheng said was untrue! ”

Ma Cheng heard Lu Jiude say this, and immediately knew that Lu Siye had betrayed him, but it was also reasonable, he was an uncle and nephew, and he was just Lu Siye's superior, so people naturally wanted to ask Lu Jiude for instructions on everything.

But what does this Lu Jiude mean, in the past, Lu Jiude was Ma Shiying's hardcore ally, and since Fengyang supported Zhu Yousong, the two have been standing on the same front against Donglin Party and Han Zanzhou. Thinking of Han Zanzhou and Ma Cheng, he suddenly understood that Han Zanzhou was a political ally of the Donglin Party before, and Lu Jiude naturally wanted to find Ma Shiying to unite in order to deal with Han Zanzhou.

But now that Han Zanzhou has hanged himself, there is no common enemy, and there is no need for the alliance of interests to continue. On the contrary, now that Ma Shiying's power has increased greatly, the Donglin Party has become the weak side, and Lu Jiude naturally wants to unite the weak side for his own power, so it is not surprising that Lu Jiude can stand up and intercede for Qian Qianyi.

Zhu Lunkui's face softened a lot when he heard Lu Jiude say this, he thought for a while and said: "Qian Qianyi, I will believe you once, there is nothing to do with you here, go down!" ”

Qian Qianyi didn't expect that he originally wanted to clean up the Ma family's father and son today, but he ended up like this, but this is already good, if Lu Jiude didn't intercede for himself, it is likely that he would have landed now. Hearing Zhu Lunkui say this, Qian Qianyi stood up and glanced at Lu Jiude gratefully, and then withdrew from the main hall of Qianqing Palace without saying a word.

Waiting for Qian Qianyi to go out, Zhu Lunkui asked, "Is that person pretending to be the emperor dead?" ”

Ma Cheng heard Zhu Lunkui say this, and hurriedly said: "The dead can't die anymore, the minister fired five shots!" ”

"Well, I still wanted to see this person, can the body be transported back to the city?"

Ma Cheng heard Zhu Lunkui say this and knew what the emperor thought, this was because he was afraid that someone would find out Zhu Yousong's identity. You must know that the identity of Emperor Zhu Yousong is very special, although he is dead now, he can't let others find his body, otherwise there will be a lot of bad things in the future.

"Your Majesty, tens of thousands of people have died in the offensive and defensive battles outside the city in the past two months, there are dead people everywhere, and some wild dogs eat the dead and eat red eyes, I'm afraid that the corpses are long gone now!"

In fact, what Ma Cheng said was, and it was true that tens of thousands of people died outside the city. Ma Cheng was afraid that these corpses would rot and spread the plague in the city, so after each battle, he had to send hundreds of people from the city to bury these dead bodies, so Ma Cheng's statement that there were dead bodies everywhere outside the city was not accurate. However, there are many wild dogs, after all, those carcasses are not buried deeply, and it is not uncommon for them to be dug up by rain or wild dogs.

Zhu Lunkui breathed a sigh of relief in his heart when he heard Ma Cheng say this, what he was most afraid of was to determine the identity of the person outside

, If it's fake, it's okay, if the body is pulled back and found to be real, don't talk about Ma Cheng, even he Zhu Lunkui will also encounter the most serious political crisis. Emperor Taishang is nominally Zhu Lunkui's father, if he dies outside the city, then what are you Zhu Lunkui? So Zhu Lunkui had to confirm that the body could not be identified.

Zhu Lunkui actually knew who that person was in his heart, if it was really a fake Ma Cheng, he would definitely get that person into the city alive, and then the Ma family father and son would make a big fuss and use this incident to fight the remaining Donglin Party. Now that Ma Cheng killed that person on the spot, the identity of that person is self-evident.

Now that Zhu Yousong's death is not clear, it is good, Zhu Lunkui can just send an edict to find the emperor, which not only rounds Zhu Lunkui's filial piety, but also prevents Zhu Yousong from really coming back to point fingers.

Zhu Yousong is now dead Zhu Lunkui's thoughts, he pretended to shed a few tears, and then said: "The emperor is suffering among the people, and his sons are not filial!" Lu Daban, you will send Jinyi Wei to search for it vigorously among the people in a while, and you must find the Emperor Taishang as soon as possible, so that I can fulfill my filial piety! ”

What Zhu Lunkui said was all, and now he can only manage the city of Nanjing, and the Emperor Zhu Yousong is definitely not in the city, and it is just a pretext to let Jinyiwei look for it among the people. However, the emperor's words were holy decrees, and Lu Jiude hurriedly bowed down and said that he would do his best to find the emperor.

The more Zhu Lunkui looks at Ma Cheng now, the more he likes it, this Ma Cheng not only supports himself as the emperor, but also solves the emperor who poses the greatest threat to him, which is really the first hero. If it weren't for the fear that the reward would be too heavy, Zhu Lunkui would definitely be an official in the second Feng Ma Cheng.

"Ma Qing, the responsibility of defending the city is entrusted to you, what else do you have to do?"

Ma Cheng was thinking about Lu Jiude's matter just now, and when he heard Zhu Lunkui say this, he remembered that he still had the most important thing to do, that is, to implement the rationing system in the city.

Ma Cheng hurriedly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, now that the transportation inside and outside the city is cut off, the food of millions of people in the city should be taken under the control of the military, otherwise there is likely to be panic!" Therefore, the minister is willing to ask His Majesty to issue an order to implement rationing in the city! ”

These are all trivial matters, and the most important thing for Zhu Lunkui at present is the stability of the imperial power, so Zhu Lunkui agreed without thinking about it: "Okay, I promise you, Ma Qing will be in charge of the government affairs of the whole city of Nandu from today!" ”

Ma Cheng was originally the town guard of the southern capital, responsible for the military and security of the whole city, and now the emperor handed over the government affairs to him, Ma Cheng became the de facto emperor of Nanjing, and the power in his hands was greater than that of his son Ma Shiying. However, Ma Cheng is not satisfied, those ordinary people do not dare to oppose themselves without the holy decree, Ma Cheng is worried about those noble ministers, this is the main purpose of Ma Cheng's visit today.

"Your Majesty, the minister wants to rule over the nobles and hundreds of officials in the city, please ask Your Majesty for permission!"

Zhu Lunkui was stunned when he heard Ma Cheng say this, and asked hesitantly: "Them?" These nobles are all heroes of the Ming Dynasty, so it's not good! ”

"Your Majesty, these nobles have a lot of grain at home, and they are still buying grain in the market, and now the grain in the city has risen to six taels of silver and one stone, if it is not stopped, it will exacerbate the panic in the city!"

Zhu Lunkui heard Ma Cheng say this, and thought about it, nodded and said, "Okay, I will also promise you this one!" Let it go, I'll do it for you! ”