Yue Qijie is different from Yang Wencong, although both of them are Ma Shiying's relatives, both of them also ascended to heaven through Ma Shiying's superior chicken dog, Yue Qijie is the governor of Henan, and Yang Wencong is the governor of Su Song. However, Yang Wencong has been in Nanzhili for many years and is familiar with the Donglin Party. But Yue Qijie is not good, he is an official in Sichuan, he made his fortune in Henan, and he has no connection with the Donglin Party, so when he first entered prison, he really frightened this old man in his sixties.

However, after Yue Qijie was imprisoned, he was like being forgotten, and no one paid attention to him, and he lived in prison for more than half a year, and Yue Qijie knew from the jailer that now the Qing army has occupied Nanzhili, and Suzhou, which is not far from Hangzhou, has been occupied.

In this way, Yue Qijie was imprisoned for two years, and when Yue Qijie was bored, a little eunuch in civilian clothes came to the prison and pointed out that the surname wanted to take Yue Qijie away.

There is no prison in Hangzhou, so Yue Qijie was imprisoned in the prison of Zhejiang Province, and now Ma Cheng's army is less than a day away from Hangzhou City, and all the officials in the city are panicked, and there are people who are in charge of a prisoner in the prison, so Yue Qijie was easily taken out of the prison.

After getting out of prison, Yue Qijie really felt the light of day, and asked the little eunuch who rescued him, but the little eunuch just didn't speak, just urged Yue Qijie to get into the sedan chair.

There was no way for Yue Qijie to follow this little eunuch, turning east and west in the city of Hangzhou, and came to a private courtyard next to the Yongjin Gate on the edge of the West Lake.

Yue Qijie got off the sedan chair and looked around, the environment here is elegant and looks like the courtyard of a large family, which is located in the West Lake, and the house prices are not cheap. However, if Yue Qijie can be fished out of the prison, ordinary people really can't do it.

The little eunuch said, "Please freshen up the Lord Yue, and the master will come to see the Lord Yue in a while!" ”

Yue Qijie heard the little eunuch say this, and basically knew who saved him, and who was the eunuch's master? It can only be the king of Lu in the city.

Thinking of this, Yue Qijie was honest and polite, and under the service of two beautiful maids, Haosheng took a bath, which was regarded as removing the old mud accumulated in two years.

After all the cleaning up, Yue Qijie, under the leadership of the little eunuch, came to a small courtyard in the depths of the courtyard, Yue Qijie entered the house and saw that it was Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, who saved himself.

Yue Qijie didn't know that Zhu Changshu had been proclaimed emperor, but he only knew that he was in charge of the country, so Yue Qijie stepped forward and said: "Minister Yue Qijie, please see the prison country!" ”

Yue Qijie was very respectful, after all, Zhu Changshu saved himself, but he didn't expect Zhu Changshu to be more respectful than him, so he quickly stood up and said modestly: "Don't call it a prison country!" Xiao Wang has decided to remove the emperor title by himself! ”

Zhu Changshu's short sentence revealed too much information, why is he so respectful to Yue Qijie? Why do you want to remove the emperor? Could it be that Zhu Changshu is called the emperor? But why did the emperor want to remove it? Yue Qijie didn't understand the situation, and was stunned for a while.

Zhu Changshu looked at Yue Qijie and was stunned, knowing that this old guy had just come out of prison and didn't know the specific situation, so he told the situation in detail what had happened in the past two years.

After listening to Zhu Changshu's speech, Yue Qijie knew that so many major events had happened in Nanzhili in the two years he was imprisoned. That bastard

The boy Ma Cheng was able to support the new emperor, and at the same time defeated the invincible Manchu Qing.

Ma Cheng basically grew up watching Yue Qijie, when he was a child, Ma Cheng was no different from the second generation of ordinary officials, he didn't study and fight every day, but who would have thought that such a loser would be able to do such a big thing. Thinking of this, Yue Qijie thinks of Di Qing in the Song Dynasty, when he was a child, he was idle, and he did harm the township, and only when he grew up did he grow up to be a famous general, it seems that the growth of famous generals is the same.

Zhu Changshu said the previous things, and then said curtly: "This little king didn't know that His Majesty the Emperor had ascended the throne in the southern capital, so under the instigation of Huang Daozhou and others, he didn't know how to die and set up his own prison country, and now the imperial army is outside the city, and Xiao Wang is willing to cut off the emperor's title and be willing to be an idle prince again." It's just that Huang Daozhou, Zhu Dadian, Zhang Lun and others in Hangzhou City can't recognize the situation clearly, and they have to rely on the city wall to fight against the imperial army. ”

For an old and cunning person like Yue Qijie, the most important thing at present is to get out of the dangerous place of Hangzhou as soon as possible, so no matter what Zhu Changshu says, Yue Qijie has to pat his chest and agree, as for whether he can do it out of the city, it depends on Yue Qijie's mood.

"Please rest assured that Ma Cheng, this child is a minister who has grown up since he was a child, and in front of Ma Cheng, the minister can give the prince an answer now, as long as the city is surrendered, the glory and wealth of the prince will be guaranteed!"

Zhu Changshu, an honest boy who has never seen the deception of officialdom, believed it when he heard that Yue Qijie was packing tickets here, and hurriedly prepared wine and food for Yue Qijie happily.

After pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Yue Qijie knew that Hangzhou City was not a place to stay for a long time, so it was better to get out as soon as possible.

"Lord, this kind of thing should be done sooner rather than later, now it is getting late, the minister can just take advantage of the night to go out of the city, please tell the minister, when will the city gate be opened?"

Zhu Changshu was overjoyed when he heard Yue Qijie say this, and hurriedly said: "The guard of Genshan Gate is the henchman of this king, please ask Ma Dushi to enter the city from Genshan Gate, and the time will be set in three days, how about it?" ”

"Okay, please rest assured, the minister will definitely bring the news!"

Yue Qijie had eaten and drunk enough at this time, and after getting up to say goodbye, under the leadership of a small eunuch, he came to the Genshan Gate of the North Gate. The guard of Genshan Gate is Zhu Changshu's henchman, and he has already received the news, and after opening the city gate, he released Yue Qijie.

Yue Qijie, who escaped, turned around and looked at the Genshan Gate of the Black Hole behind him, and rushed along the official road without looking back.

Yue Qijie trotted all the way for five miles, and was relieved to see that no one was following him, so he hired an ox cart on the side of the road and rushed to Tangqi Town, forty miles away, unhurriedly, Zhu Changshu gave him information that Ma Cheng had occupied Tangqi Town.

Ma Cheng occupied Tangqi on August 12, which was only forty miles away from the city of Hangzhou, and Ma Cheng used this place as his headquarters, preparing to start the siege after a day's repair.

After dark tonight, after Ma Cheng patrolled the camp according to the rules of the army, he was ready to go to bed, when the soldiers came in to report that his aunt Yue Qijie was coming.

Ma Cheng was stunned when he heard that his uncle was coming, there has been no news of this Yue Qijie for more than two years, Ma Cheng and Ma Shiying thought that he died in the chaos, but they didn't expect to appear from Hangzhou.

Ma Cheng and Yue Qijie had a good relationship, and when they heard that their uncle was coming, they naturally didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly went out of the camp to greet them.

Yue Qijie stood at the door and saw Ma Cheng who came out to greet him, if Ma Cheng was still a little young two years ago, now Ma Cheng is as sharp as a steel knife, it seems that the battlefield is really a training person.

With the help of the angry wind lamp at the gate of the camp, Ma Cheng saw an old guy standing in front of him, it was his cheap uncle Yue Qijie. Ma Cheng hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "It turns out that it is really my uncle, and the family thinks that my uncle is not in the chaos, I don't know how my uncle came to Hangzhou?" ”

Yue Qijie sat in the ox cart for a few hours, and the old bones were about to fall apart, so he took Ma Cheng's hand and walked to the camp, saying as he walked: "The old man is very tired, let's talk about it when I go in!" ”

After entering the big tent, Ma Cheng ordered someone to serve tea, Yue Qijie didn't care about drinking tea, and hurriedly asked about the situation at home, his wife and children were in Nanjing, although I heard that Ma Cheng kept Nanjing, but it was reliable to listen to the parties.

Yue Qijie heard Ma Cheng say that everything was fine at home, and his eldest son Yue Bin was also elected as the head of the Ministry of Works. Yue Qijie breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that his family was fine.

Ma Cheng finished retelling the events in Nanjing, and then asked, "Uncle, where have you been in the past two years?" My dad searched everywhere around Nandu but couldn't find it, and my aunt cried a lot about it! ”

Hearing that his old wife was worried about him, Yue Qijie sighed: "Hey, when Huang Degong died on the battlefield, the old man had no choice but to put on makeup and change his clothes and flee back to the southern capital, but at that time, the southern capital had been besieged by the northern captives, and the old man could not enter the city, so he could only flee to Hangzhou!" ”

mentioned Hangzhou Yue Qijie was angry, and scolded: "This gang of killers in Hangzhou City, seeing that the old man in Nandu was besieged and lost power, he actually put the old man in prison, if it weren't for these guys who couldn't take care of the old man in order to fight for power and profit, the old man may no longer be alive now!" ”

In the past two years in prison, Yue Qijie has not been happy, and now when he mentions sadness, Yue Qijie cries and laughs for a while, and his spirit is a little abnormal. Ma Cheng doesn't care whether you Yue Qijie is dead or alive, he only cares about how you get out of the city. Ma Cheng received a secret report from the military intelligence department in the city, and the defeated general Fang Guoan re-entangled fifty or sixty thousand horses, preparing to fight with him again in Hangzhou City.

"Uncle, now that Hangzhou City is tightly guarded, how did my uncle get out of the city?"

Hearing Ma Cheng say this, Yue Qijie remembered Zhu Changshu's incident, he wiped his tears and said: "The old lady is lonely, how can she escape from Hangzhou City?" It was King Lu who sent someone to release the old man, in order to bring a message to his virtuous nephew, he just wanted to be an idle prince, so he was willing to open the gate of Genshan in three days and surrender the city! ”

Ma Cheng heard that King Lu was going to surrender, and he didn't believe it very much, Ma Cheng had heard the words praising the Ming Dynasty in later generations, what the Son of Heaven guarded the country, the king died, didn't the emperors of the Ming Dynasty not surrender? Why does this King Lu want to surrender? Very suspicious.

Ma Cheng thought about it again and again and asked, "Uncle, do you think this King Lu really surrendered?" ”

Ma Cheng thought that Yue Qijie could have a good suggestion, but he knew that Yue Qijie said: "This old man doesn't know, you are the god of war, how to fight is your business, the old man is just a mouthpiece, now the old man is tired, you arrange for someone to prepare a place for the old man to live!" ”

Ma Cheng saw that Yue Qijie had no choice but to send someone to arrange a place for this Uncle Yue to rest.