In addition to Ma Cheng, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and a few other meritorious ministers, as long as the officials and soldiers who participated in the coup d'état were promoted to one level, the new emperor Zhu Lunkui looked at the Wuying Hall full of blood, and then said: "Since I have been proclaimed emperor, do I want to worship the ancestors and ancestors?" ”

Ma Cheng didn't expect this emperor to still be in this mood, outside the city is the hundreds of thousands of Manchu Qing troops, what are you still in the mood to do when the house is on fire? However, Ma Cheng didn't speak yet, but Ma Shiying spoke: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, it will be an auspicious day of the zodiac in three days, but the army of northern captives outside the city has gathered, and the enthronement ceremony should be simple!" ”

Zhu Lunkui nodded when he heard Ma Shiying say this: "Okay, let's discuss these things with the cabinet ministers of the six ministries, and please also ask the cabinet to discuss the matter of the year name." I'm a little tired, I want to go back to the palace to rest! ”

At this time, Lu Jiude, who came after receiving the news from Lu Siye, hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and said, "The slave welcomes the master back to the palace!" Then Lu Jiude took a few little eunuchs who were temporarily found to help the new emperor Zhu Lunkui back to the palace to rest!

The big and small officials in the Wuying Hall hurriedly bowed down to see the emperor off, and then under the leadership of Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the cabinet, they left the Wuying Hall covered with blood and went to the cabinet to discuss things.

The civil officials all followed Ma Shiying away, and only Ma Cheng was left in the hall with hundreds of personal soldiers staring at him with big eyes, Ma Cheng's personal soldier head Gu Yong had been promoted to a thousand households because of his participation in the coup d'état, and now he was full of joy, seeing that Ma Cheng was silent and did not speak, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked: "Lord Junmen, no!" Master Hou, what should we do next? ”

Hearing Gu Yong say this, Ma Cheng remembered that he had become the Marquis of Guiyang, and there were really few people who jumped from ordinary Qiu Bayi to Marquis in the history of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, but Ma Cheng was not happy in his heart, because he still needed to solve a lot of problems.

Ma Cheng thought for a while and said to Gu Yong: "Let's go, let's go to the cabinet and have a look!" ”

Ma Cheng followed the civil officials with his own soldiers and also came to the cabinet, the Ming Dynasty cabinet in the east of the imperial city Wenhua Palace, and Wuying Hall one east and one west, but there is no tall main hall of Wuying Hall here, just composed of five or six tall buildings.

Ma Cheng is still the first time to come to the highest government office of the Ming Dynasty, and he can't help but be a little curious about the buildings here, there are brocade guards guarding the door at the door of the cabinet, and seeing this group of Qiu Ba swaggering to enter, a hundred households hurriedly stepped forward to stop and asked, "Who are you?" Don't you know what place this is? ”

Gu Yonggang became a thousand-hundred-hundred This is His Majesty's newly sealed Marquis of Guiyang, and Lord Ben is the newly sealed Shenji Camp Qianhu, don't you kneel down to greet us when you see us? ”

According to normal rules, Gu Yong's position is bigger than that Jinyi Wei Baihu, but people are for the emperor, where can you look at the damn Qiu Ba? But today, Wuyingdian is making a lot of noise, these brocade guards all know that these people are the henchmen of the new emperor, and this Guiyang Marquis is still a great hero who supports the emperor, that hundred households dare not offend, and quickly knelt down on their knees and said: "My subordinates don't know that your lords are here, damn it!" ”

Ma Cheng is now full of worries and has no time to take care of these hundred households, but after asking where the ministers are, he walked into the Wenhua Hall alone.

The Wenhua Hall is composed of seven or eight buildings, in addition to the main hall of the Wenhua Hall in the middle, there are several wings around, with the name of the Heavenly Stem Branch, which is probably the office of the Cabinet, but now because the Emperor Zhu Yousong ran away, the cabinet is also unmanned here, except for the main hall, the other rooms are empty.

Now there are a lot of people in the main hall, in addition to the cabinet elders, the six books, and the Jiuqing Kedao, there are also a group of nobles here, making the main hall like a vegetable market.

Ma Cheng walked in from the main entrance, and no one in the hall noticed him at all, because everyone in the hall was arguing about something.

This matter is the issue of the new emperor's era name, which is a sign that the emperor is considered orthodox, called Fengzhengshuo. At the same time, it is an extraordinary time, and the name of the new emperor is even more representative, so the ministers of the court and the central government have expressed their opinions on this matter, and no one will let anyone.

Ma Cheng stood aside and listened for a while, and it turned out that the Donglin Party firmly believed that the new era name should highlight the legitimacy and represent the inheritance to the first emperor, so the new era name proposed by the Donglin Party was "Shaoguang". And the eunuch party led by Ruan Dacheng thinks that the new emperor has nothing to do with Zhu Di's branch at all, and if it is counted, it must be counted to Zhu Yuanzhang, so the new era name is calculated from Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu year name, so the new year name of the eunuch party is "Shaowu".

The word Shao represents succession and inheritance, so the Donglin Party believes that the new emperor is the successor to the Hongguang Emperor, and the Eunuch Party believes that the new emperor should inherit to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Ma Cheng originally came to the cabinet to talk to his father about military spending, but he knew that these ministers were in a hurry for a year name, and his father was also in a hurry, so he didn't have time to deal with Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng looked around, and just saw his eldest brother Ma Luan on the side, Ma Cheng approached and tugged on Ma Luan's sleeve, and then motioned for him to go out and say.

Walking out of the main hall of the Wenhua Palace, Ma Cheng asked his eldest brother Ma Luan: "Big brother, you have been arguing about an era name until now?" "Qiandu Chinese Network

Ma Luan snorted, he was tied up by his younger brother last night, although he was promoted to one level, he was still not very satisfied in his heart. Ma Cheng saw that his brother was cautious and hurriedly apologized: "Big brother, are you still angry about what happened last night?" This is all the younger brother can't help it, where can the younger brother explain in detail at the last moment? So please forgive your younger brother! ”

"Second brother, although you did the right thing to support the new monarch last night, can't you discuss it with your father and eldest brother? He also tied up his father with me, do you know that you are not filial? ”

Ma Cheng heard Ma Luan say this, and hurriedly compensated for it, promising that he would never do this again in the future.

Seeing that Ma Luan's anger gradually subsided, Ma Cheng asked, "Big brother, you didn't get an official position this time?" Ma Cheng knows what virtues his father has, and if he has this opportunity, he will definitely promote his son and henchmen.

Ma Luan heard Ma Cheng say this, and hurriedly rushed into the room with his fists and said: "I have my father's trust, and the approval of the elders of the court, the foolish brother is now the imperial history of Zuo Du!" ”

The Imperial History of the Imperial Capital is a high-ranking official of the fourth grade, and the level of the Imperial Court is the same as that of the Six Ministries, and the main responsible officials are the two Imperial Historians of the Left and Right Cities, the two Deputy Imperial Historians of the Left and Right Cities, and the Imperial History of the Left and Right Cities.

When Ma Cheng heard that Ma Luan had become a fourth-grade high-ranking official, he hurriedly congratulated: "My brother is here to congratulate my eldest brother!" "The four-rank official is a node for the promotion of an official, and only those above the fourth rank can be called high-level officials, and those below the fourth rank can only be called middle- and low-level officials. At the same time, because the Metropolitan Procuratorate belongs to the clear stream of science and technology, and the four grades of the imperial history must be promoted to a half-level appointment, so if Ma Luan goes to the local area, he can directly be a political envoy from the third grade.

Promoted to get rich and die of his wife, the three happy events of middle-aged men, Ma Luan is also a person of officialdom, he can become a fourth-grade official before the age of thirty, and he is still a very noble imperial history, so he is naturally still proud in his heart.

"You and I are brothers, why are you so polite?"

Ma Cheng came to ask for money this time, and after patting Ma Luan a few words of sycophancy, he hurriedly asked the matter: "Big brother, now that the northern captives have landed in Zhenjiang, the next step is to besiege the southern capital, and the younger brother still needs military salaries here, can you ask the eldest brother for a favor and let the bigwigs in the DPRK and China study the matter of military salaries first?" ”

Ma Luan looked at the crowd that was still arguing, sighed and said, "You have seen the situation inside, do you think that my brother, a four-grade Yushi, can talk inside?" ”

Ma Cheng looked inside and sighed, originally Ma Cheng thought that he was desperate to establish the new emperor, and with the pressure of the Qing army outside the city, these ministers would definitely be able to put aside the dispute and fight the enemy together, but now it seems that Ma Cheng is thinking too much. These guys didn't restrain because of the change of emperor, how should they be, thinking of this Ma Cheng, he deeply regretted how he found these guys when he was redundant, and he should directly support his father as the emperor.

Although Ma Cheng thinks so in his heart, he also knows that it is not realistic, and now the influence of the Zhu Ming Dynasty is still very great, if Ma Shiying establishes himself as the emperor, let alone unity, the forces loyal to Zhu Ming in the city will immediately be able to rebel.

Seeing that he couldn't play a role here, Ma Cheng had no choice but to ask his eldest brother Ma Luan for the general's salary, and he took the soldiers out of the palace, and there was still a lot of work waiting for him to deal with the work of defending the city in Nanjing.

After last night's turmoil, the entire Nanjing city already knew that the Ming Dynasty had a new emperor, although the people were still panicked, but there was no longer the feeling of losing the country last night, and it seemed that the new emperor's role in uniting people's hearts was still some.

Ma Cheng walked to the vicinity of the Confucius Temple in Nancheng, although there was no prosperity in the past, but the patrol soldiers on the street increased, the law and order gradually improved, and many businesses began to open their doors to do business.

Ma Cheng rode to the vicinity of the Huaiqing Bridge and found several soldiers standing on the bridge, interrogating a woman. This woman is of medium stature, probably in her twenties, and she is wearing a palace robe, and at first glance she looks like a palace maid who ran out of the palace.

Ma Cheng didn't care about it, and walked up to the Huaiqing Bridge with his own soldiers, and when the soldiers on patrol saw Ma Cheng, they quickly knelt down on one knee and said that they would meet the military lord!

Ma Cheng knew that this was his own soldier, nodded and was about to go down the bridge after saying hello, but the palace maid who knew that shouted: "This lord is Ma Cheng Ma Junmen?" ”

Ma Cheng was stunned when he heard someone call him, there are a lot of people in Nanjing who know themselves, but it is a little unusual for a palace maid to know her name. Ma Cheng stopped his horse and asked, "Who are you?" How do you know the name of the Dove? ”

The palace maid came to Ma Cheng for a blessing, and then said: "People's girl Li Xiangjun! I want to ask Ma Junmen if he knows where my Hou Xianggong goes? ”