Ma Cheng heard Ruan Dacheng reject him, and he was not angry, but said with a smile: "In this case, please ask your father-in-law to report to the emperor, the son-in-law is in poor health, and he really can't lead the troops to the battle!" ”

Ruan Dacheng was very angry when he saw Ma Cheng like this, and scolded: "Ma Cheng, what are you going to do? ”

Of course, Ma Cheng couldn't say that he wanted to learn from Sima Zhao, so he found a reason and said: "Father-in-law, it's very simple, you see that the emperor is so distrustful of my father and son, and forgets the merits of supporting the establishment back then, and the son-in-law has no choice, for the sake of his family, he can only do this!" ”

Ma Cheng rolled his eyes after speaking, and then said: "Please father-in-law to the emperor, the son-in-law's family is in the southern capital, so please don't be afraid that the son-in-law has different intentions, the son-in-law's family is a hostage!" ”

Ruan Dacheng sneered in his heart when he heard Ma Cheng finish speaking, the one who has become a big thing in ancient and modern times is not a ruthless person, and it is useless to use his family to restrain him. But today Ma Cheng has already said this, and Ruan Dacheng also knows that his persuasion is useless at all, so he has no choice but to get up and go back to deliver a message to the emperor.

Ma Cheng also followed out of the door, and at the door, Ruan Dacheng turned around and said again: "Boy, the old man passed on your meaning to the emperor, but I don't know if the emperor can agree to the old man!" ”

"The son-in-law knows the difficulties of the father-in-law, so please ask the father-in-law to pass on the words of the son-in-law!" After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he bowed down and sent Ruan Dacheng to the sedan chair.

Ruan Dacheng didn't dare to delay, and directly let the sedan chair man carry him to the palace. Emperor Zhu Lunkui was also waiting for news from Ruan Dacheng, and when he heard that Ruan Dacheng was coming, he hurriedly passed it on.

Zhu Lunkui saw Ruan Dacheng enter the hall, and asked urgently: "What did Ma Cheng say?" ”

Seeing Zhu Lunkui's anxious appearance, Ruan Dacheng sighed in his heart, this emperor's kung fu is really not as good as Ma Cheng.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister went to see Ma Cheng, and Ma Cheng asked to supervise Jiangnan!"

Zhu Lunkui frowned when he heard Ruan Dacheng finish speaking, but Ma Cheng's request was not impossible, and it was okay to give Ma Cheng some power at this time, but Ruan Dacheng's following words made Zhu Lunkui angry.

"Your Majesty, in addition to these Ma Cheng, you also ask for self-determination below the second rank of military generals and the fifth rank of civil officials!"

Zhu Lunkui stood up after hearing Ruan Dacheng's words, and scolded: "What does Ma Cheng want to do? Does he want to set up a separate court? This one is absolutely not going to work! Unless I'm dead! ”

Ma Cheng wants to be an official, which can also be said to be greedy, but if he wants the appointment and dismissal power of civil officials, he is already challenging the authority of the cabinet and the emperor, as long as Zhu Lunkui is not a puppet emperor, he will definitely not agree to this matter.

Zhu Lunkui scolded and shouted to Lu Jiude beside him: "Lu Jiude, you go!" You lead the Jinyi guards to arrest Ma Cheng, the villain, and put him in prison! ”

Ruan Dacheng heard that Zhu Lunkui was crazy and wanted to arrest Ma Cheng, and hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, don't do it!" Now that the Lu rebel army is in Suzhou, and it will rush to Zhenjiang in a few days, how can it destroy the Great Wall at such a critical juncture? ”

Ruan Dacheng still hasn't said a word, the things of the past few days have been seen, Ma Cheng has absolute control over the 150,000 elites outside the city, and at this time, if you arrest Ma Cheng, it is difficult to ensure that the 150,000 people outside the city do something.

Although Ruan Dacheng persuaded Zhu Lunkui hard, Zhu Lunkui at this time was already carried away by Ma Cheng, and he didn't care what Ruan Dacheng said, but just asked Lu Jiude to arrest people.

Lu Jiude couldn't help it

, I had to take the captain of the five hundred brocade guards to the Zhenguo Marquis Mansion in Nancheng to arrest people.

This is the second time Lu Jiude has come to Ma Cheng's mansion, the last time he came to deliver the decree, he only brought a dozen guards, but this time he brought five hundred brocade guards.

Five hundred people were huge, and as soon as they approached Majia Lane, they were seen by the people of Mafu, and the men guarding the door saw so many brocade guards wearing flying fish suits coming, and they were frightened and hurried into the house to report the news.

There are 300 guards in Ma Cheng's mansion, which is a benefit given to him by the emperor, and is under the jurisdiction of the Honor and Guard Department of the Zhenguo Mansion. The commander of the Honor Guard Division is now Gu Yong, and when he heard that there were a large number of brocade guards outside the door, he hurriedly took people out to see what was going on.

Gu Yong came to the door and saw that the middle of these brocade guards was the chief eunuch Lu Jiude, Gu Yong recognized the great eunuch Lu, stepped forward and hugged his fists and asked, "Grandpa Lu, what are you doing with so many palace guards?" ”

There are also many kinds of brocade guards, and the brocade guards in the palace are different from the brocade guards who patrol the streets, and they are also dressed differently. The brocade guards in the palace were all wearing bright yellow flying fish suits when they were on duty, which was very eye-catching. Many later histories said that the flying fish suit was exclusive to the brocade guard, in fact, this is wrong, the flying fish suit and the python robe, the bullfighting suit are the same, it is the emperor's reward to the subordinates of the clothes, and the color of the flying fish suit is basically red, and a small part is blue. There is only one bright yellow flying fish suit, and that is only worn by the Han generals who are responsible for protecting the emperor in the palace.

Gu Yong is now the commander of Zheng Sanpin, but he is not enough in front of Lu Jiude. However, Lu Jiude was very insidious, and he didn't want to have a bad relationship with Ma Cheng, so when he saw Ma Cheng's cronie Gu Yong coming out, Lu Jiude smiled and said: "It turned out to be the great hero Lu Commander, and our family was ordered by the emperor to invite the Marquis of Zhenguo to go to the Imperial Prison!" ”

Lu Jiude said it politely, but everyone knows what kind of place the edict is. Jinyiwei Imperial Prison is a royal prison, which can bypass the normal judicial process of the state, and anyone can be arrested with a single edict from the emperor. When Gu Yong heard Lu Jiude say this, his eyes widened and he scolded: "What? Your Majesty has decreed that my family will be arrested? You're a false proclamation, aren't you? ”

When Lu Jiude heard Gu Yong say this, he had no choice but to take out the holy decree from his bosom and said to Gu Yong: "Commander Gu, how dare our family lie to you about such a big matter?" This is the Emperor's decree! ”

"I don't know how to read, and I don't want to read any edicts! My life belongs to my lord, and I want to arrest my lord! After Gu Yong finished speaking, he took out the steel knife from his waist and scolded: "First ask the steel knife in Grandpa's hand!" ”

Gu Yong is the commander, and the guards of the Marquis Mansion of the Commander of the Kingdom have drawn their waist knives one after another, and they are ready to fight with Jinyi Wei in Majia Lane.

Although the number of these guards is far less than that of Jinyiwei, their momentum is not weaker than that of Jinyiwei. In order to protect his own life, Ma Cheng's guards who left behind to protect him are naturally all hand-to-hand combat masters, and everyone has more than ten or twenty lives in their hands, not to mention that these brocade guards brought by Lu Jiude are not at all inferior to the most elite Bayala soldiers of the two white flags.

Lu Jiude was also a person who led troops in Fengyang back then, and when he saw the looks of these guards, he knew that it was hard stubble, and his subordinates did not look at the number of people who were more than others, but they were definitely not opponents when they really fought.

The Jinyi Guards also drew out the embroidered spring knife under the leadership of a thousand households, although the momentum was not as good as that of people, but they couldn't lose the formation, so these five hundred Jinyi Guards also had a decent array to prepare for battle.

But on the other hand, on the side of Ma Cheng's personal guards, there was no formation, but three

Five people worked in groups, one in front and one behind, and each of them took out a short-handled firearm from his bosom. Lu Jiude saw that this was over, people still had firearms, and if he really wanted to fight, he would definitely be slaughtered on his side.

Just as the two parties were about to confront each other, a voice shouted from the gate of the Zhenguo Marquis's Mansion: "Gu Yong, what are you going to do?" Don't quit yet! ”

Lu Jiude let out a sigh of relief when he heard this voice, it turned out that Ma Cheng had come out.

Ma Cheng's guards heard their master coming out, and quickly got out of the way and let Ma Cheng come to the front. Ma Cheng still looked like he was going to die, lying on a stretcher, and the four Mafu family members came to Lu Jiude with the stretcher.

"Father-in-law Lu, these guards of Benhou are all men who don't rub sand in their eyes, and they don't have much knowledge, please don't take it to heart!"

Lu Jiude dared to say something, and quickly explained: "It's nothing, there was just a misunderstanding just now!" How is Zhen Guohou's health? ”

Ma Cheng pretended to have a sad face and said: "It's still not good, you can't sit down, you can only lie on your stomach!" I wonder what happened to Grandpa Lu this time? ”

"In this case, there is no need for the Marquis of Zhenguo to kneel down to receive the order, the emperor asked the old slave to invite the Marquis of Zhenguo to go to the edict to learn some things!"

Gu Yong heard Lu Jiude say this on the side, and said angrily: "Master Hou, the emperor treats us like this, it's better to do the opposite!" According to the merits of the Hou Ye, going to King Lu will definitely be reused! After Gu Yong finished speaking, he looked at Lu Jiude with a look at a dead man.

Lu Jiude knew how powerful Ma Cheng's three hundred guards were, as long as Ma Cheng nodded now, he would immediately be in a different place. Thinking of this, Lu Jiude was sweating in fright, and hurriedly persuaded: "Marquis Zhenguo, the emperor definitely didn't mean this, he just wanted to ask the marquis to understand the situation!" ”

To Lu Jiude's surprise, Ma Cheng scolded Gu Yong: "Bastard, what did you say? How could Lao Tzu do such an unfaithful and unrighteous thing? His Majesty the Emperor is affectionate and kind to my Ma family, and Ma Cheng can't repay it with broken bones, how can he go to King Lu? ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he said to Lu Jiude: "Please let Gonggong Lu lead the way, and Benhou will go to the edict!" ”

Gu Yong was very anxious to see that Ma Cheng had to go to the edict, but at this time, Wang Xian, who was behind Gu Yong, pulled Gu Yong and said a few words in his ear. After hearing this, Gu Yong immediately shouted: "Gonggong Lu, can the emperor have a decree to remove my marquis from the title of marquis of Zhenguo?" ”

Lu Jiude didn't know why Gu Yong asked this, so he had to reply: "That's not true. ”

"That's good, my family's marquis title is still there, then our personal guards will have to take on the duty of protection, and we will also follow to the edict!" After Gu Yong finished speaking, he waved at his subordinates, and the three hundred guards stepped forward to protect Ma Cheng Tuan Tuan and squeezed the brocade guards aside.

The leader of the Jinyi Wei Qianhu did not dare to speak, in terms of identity, he was far inferior to Gu Yong's command, that is, those ordinary guards also had hundreds of households and thousands of households, and a few of them had made great contributions to the hereditary Jinyi Guard. The Qianhu didn't dare to offend, so he had to turn his head to look at Lu Jiude, wanting to ask what to do.

Seeing this, Lu Jiude couldn't help it, the emperor really didn't say that Ma Cheng would be exempted from the title, and the family's pro-army guards followed it. In addition, these guys are full of combat effectiveness, and if they really want to fight, they are not opponents in this regard, so Lu Jiude can only nod, which can be regarded as acquiescing to what Gu Yong did.