Zhu Lunkui's cultural level is similar to that of the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and they all graduated from primary school. At this level, it would be good to be able to recognize 500 commonly used Chinese characters, and as for expecting him to have any opinions on national affairs, there is no need to think about it. So Zhu Lunkui didn't have much to do after listening to Ma Cheng, so he had to sigh and say: "Since that's the case, do what Ma Qing said!" ”

Zhu Lunkui's meaning was not unexpected by Ma Cheng, Zhu Lunkui was originally a clan, the Ming Dynasty because of Zhu Di's successful rebellion, the emperors of the past dynasties were very strict with the management of the clan, and they were not allowed to go out of the city for ten miles without the willingness of the magistrate. Therefore, Zhu Lunkui, who has no knowledge and no knowledge, has no say in the country's major politics at all, and can only listen to these professional bureaucrats under him.

Ma Cheng listened to Zhu Lunkui's suggestion to him, and was just about to express his opinion on the implementation of the rationing system in the city, when he knew that at this time, a small eunuch outside came in and said, "Master, the old Qian Ge outside asks to see!" ”

Qian Qianyi came, Ma Cheng knew that the big thing was not good, but he didn't expect the Donglin Party guys to be so well-informed, and he didn't know about Nancheng in less than half an hour. In fact, the reason is very simple, the Donglin Party has been operating in Nanzhili for nearly a hundred years, although Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and others have eliminated the top level of the Donglin Party, but the middle and low-level officials are still there.

There were more than 20,000 soldiers in Jubaomen City, as well as a large number of middle and low-level officials, who were inextricably linked to the Donglin Party, so after the incident, someone quickly passed the news to Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi was overjoyed after receiving the news, this time was definitely a great opportunity to eradicate the Ma family's father and son. Regardless of whether the Zhu Yousong outside the city is true or not, Ma Cheng will definitely not be able to escape the crime of deliberate recklessness. If it's fake, you Ma Cheng will execute the criminal without trial, what are your intentions? If it's really more complete, Ma Cheng, you even dare to kill the emperor, will you kill the emperor in the future?

Qian Qianyi is a very high-quality person, and he was a famous young literati in the Nanzhili area when he was young. In the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, Qian Qianyi even won the Tanhua of that year, and this scenery made his life reach its peak.

But this is also the pinnacle of his life, although Qian Qianyi's level is quite high, but he also has the problem of looking ahead and backward in his bones. After being a sergeant, Qian Qianyi was born in the Donglin Party, and under the training of Ye Xianggao, he entered the Hanlin Academy of the Prime Minister's Preparatory Class and became an editor.

Originally, Qian Qianyi should have developed according to the inherent routine of cultivating officials in the Ming Dynasty, advanced to the Hanlin Academy, and then served as a local official, and then served as an important official at the level of a squire when he returned to Beijing to familiarize himself with government affairs, and then enter the cabinet to pay respects to the prime minister. But I didn't expect Qian Qianyi to be a person who not only restrained himself, but also Lao Tzu, in the same year when he was just a jinshi, his son Qian Shiyang died, and Qian Qianyi had no choice but to return to his hometown to worry about the system.

The Ming Dynasty Ding Wei system was three years and twenty-seven months, but Qian Qianyi's backstage Ye Xianggao in the court after Ding Wei was over, was sent home, so Qian Qianyi's plan to go out of the mountain again was put on hold.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, the new emperor Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, and Ye Xianggao, who returned home, re-emerged from the mountain as the first assistant, and Qian Qianyi, who was a disciple, naturally followed the chicken dog to ascend to heaven, and rose again as the chief examiner of the Zhejiang Township Examination. It stands to reason that Qian Qianyi has entered the fast lane like this, and will soon return to the central government as a waiter.

But I didn't expect that there was a fraud case in Zhejiang, and Qian Qianyi, as the chief examiner, was implicated and punished.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, the teacher Ye Xianggao was persecuted by the eunuch party and resigned, Qian Qianyi was in internal and external difficulties, and had no choice but to resign and return to his hometown Changshu.

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Ye Xianggao died of illness, and Qian Qianyi became the leader of the new generation of the Donglin Party because of his profound level. This year, Qian Qianyi made a comeback again, mainly responsible for the compilation of the records of the Divine Sect. However, in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian and other eunuchs had become a climate, Qian Qianyi was excluded, and in the same year, he was impeached by Yu Shi Cui Chengxiu and Chen Yirui, and Qian Qianyi was dismissed and returned to his hometown.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, and Qian Qianyi, as the head of Donglin, naturally had to go out of the mountain again, but this time he offended Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, two traitorous ministers. picked up Qian Qianyi, an intellectual, who was an opponent of others, and soon Wen Tiren turned over Qian Qianyi's fraud case in Zhejiang Science and Technology that year, and Qian Qianyi was dismissed again and returned to his hometown.

By the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Qian Qianyi was fifty-nine, and at this time he had seen through the officialdom and the society, and at this time he was not ready to go out of the mountain again, but to send his love to the mountains and rivers here in Nanjing, and lived a life of reading and discussing poetry with his concubine Liu Ru.

But you don't want to be an official, but the official position has found you. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen hanged himself in Beijing, and there was a vacancy in the Ming Emperor. The Donglin Party in Nanjing began to look for suitable candidates, and Qian Qianyi, as the head of Donglin, was inevitably involved in politics again.

This time, Qian Qianyi learned to slip, Donglin Party, you can make trouble if you want, anyway, it is impossible for me Qian Qianyi to help. It is precisely because of being a turtle with a shrunken head that although Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and other eunuchs in the court brutally suppressed the Donglin Party, Qian Qianyi was as stable as a mountain, and in April of the first year of Hongguang, he even became an important official position of the Ministry of Rites.

This time, Ma Cheng supported the new emperor Zhu Lunkui, and Qian Qianyi even obtained the status of a cabinet assistant minister out of thin air. From a chess piece to a chess player, Qian Qianyi waited for thirty-five years, and in these thirty-five years, Qian Qianyi was cautious, afraid that he would be dismissed again, Qian Qianyi even patted Ma Shiying's sycophants, so Qian Qianyi was very disgusted with the Ma family father and son from his heart, and swore that he would have the opportunity to ruin the Ma family's father and son.

Therefore, Qian Qianyi immediately left for the palace after learning the news, and this time he was going to prepare to completely exclude the Ma family father and son from the core of power.

Entering the Qianqing Palace, Qian Qianyi saw Ma Cheng sitting on the embroidered pier at a glance, but he didn't expect that Ma Cheng had a seat, and Qian Qianyi, who was an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, had to stand to answer the emperor's questions. Thinking of this, Qian Qianyi's personal hatred and national hatred came to his heart, and after saluting, he said: "Your Majesty, the minister and Ma Cheng have the heart of not being subordinate!" ”

The heart of disobedience is to rebel, and this basin can't stand it on the head of the leading general, but it has no effect on Ma Cheng. It's very simple, two months ago, Ma Cheng led his troops to support Zhu Lunkui as the emperor, saying that he had a heart of disobedience and even Zhu Lunkui himself did not believe it.

"Haha, Mr. Qian is in vain, anyone can doubt me, but I can't doubt Ma Qing!"

After Zhu Lunkui finished speaking, he looked at Qian Qianyi, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Qian, but what is the holiday with Ma Qing?" Speak up, I can make peace for you! ”

"Your Majesty, there is evidence that the minister said that Ma Cheng has the heart of disobedience. Just now, there is outside the South Gate Jubao Gate

The person claimed to be the emperor, but Ma Cheng went to the trial without the three law divisions, and he actually killed that person with his own hands! What do you want to do? Is that the person instructed by you to kill people after the matter is revealed? ”

Zhu Lunkui was originally still full of smiles, but when he heard that there was a emperor from outside the city, his face immediately turned cloudy, and his face turned from a smile to a face full of frost. This is also very understandable, no emperor wants to lose his power, not even his own pro-Laozi, let alone Laozi.

Zhu Lunkui didn't want to be the emperor two months ago, but after becoming the emperor, he immediately began to clear the threat of his throne, and there were still a few remote clans in the city who died unexplained, and it was Zhu Lunkui's black hand under the Jinyi guard.

Now hearing that his titular son Zhu Yousong has returned, Zhu Lunkui hurriedly asked: "Ma Cheng, is what Qian Qianyi said true?" ”

Ma Cheng stood up unhurriedly, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, Qian Qianyi is confused, what he said is, the minister has seen the emperor, and the person outside the southern city is definitely fake, so the minister will correct the law on the spot and deter Xiaoxiao!" ”

Qian Qianyi originally had a bad impression of Ma Cheng, but now he heard Ma Cheng scold himself for being old and confused, and scolded angrily: "Ma Cheng, child!" You said that person is not the emperor, so why don't you let it in and inquire in detail? Why beat him to death outside the city? You say, what kind of conspiracy do you have? ”

Qian Qianyi's small abacus sounded, you Ma Cheng said that person was fake, why did you kill him? If it's really more complete, what is the crime of killing the emperor? Enough for your whole family to be beheaded. But Qian Qianyi forgot who Ma Cheng's Laozi was, he was the famous traitor Ma Shiying in the late Ming Dynasty, and Ma Cheng didn't learn anything else by Ma Shiying's side for more than a year, but he learned a lot of various methods of leading the water to the east and borrowing ladders to climb over the wall.

"Your Majesty, it was also a helpless move for the minister to kill the person who pretended to be the emperor at that time, and hundreds of thousands of Manchu troops outside the city were eyeing him, could the minister still keep him to interfere with the army's heart?" After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he stared at Qian Qianyi with small eyes like poisonous snakes and then said: "It's that Qian Qianyi is very suspicious of this, the minister remembers that at that time in the Wuying Palace, Qian Qianyi was the last person to bow to His Majesty, could it be that Qian Qianyi wants to take advantage of this fake emperor incident to set up a new monarch?" ”

Ma Cheng's words were ready to ask for Qian Qianyi's old life, Lao Qian was indeed the last to kowtow at that time, but it didn't mean that he wanted to set up a new emperor by himself. At the same time, now the royal clans in the city have been secretly killed by Zhu Lunkui, even if Qian Qianyi wants to set up a new monarch, there is no one to choose.

But Zhu Lunkui didn't think so, Zhu Lunkui's original bloodline was not very pure, his ancestor was Zhu Di's younger brother Zhou Wang Zhu, if it was ranked to 108,000 according to the normal order, it would not be his turn Zhu Lunkui to be the emperor, so Zhu Lunkui's most sensitive thing was that his subordinates were disloyal.

Qian Qianyi saw that Zhu Lunkui's eyes had changed when he looked at him, and he quickly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please don't listen to Ma Cheng's reversal of right and wrong!" Since the minister is loyal to His Majesty, he is His Majesty's minister, and on the day of His Majesty's accession to the throne, Xiaoling is red, which shows that His Majesty is the successor chosen by Emperor Taizu Gao, how can it be established by His Majesty without authorization? ”

Intellectuals and turtles are different, Qian Qianyi affirmed Zhu Lunkui's legal status from the legal point of view with one mouth, while Ma Cheng, a turtle, is still talking nonsense about supporting the emperor.