Xu Zhan was also very hesitant when he heard Ma Cheng say this, Xu Zhan thought very highly of himself, and he had always been honest with a guy like Ma Cheng who was born in the eunuch party, but what Ma Cheng said was also very reasonable, and he should really stand up and be responsible for this matter as a magistrate.

Ma Cheng saw this stinky old nine hesitating, knowing that this old guy was still thinking about some bad things between the Donglin Party and the eunuch party, Ma Cheng then persuaded and said: "This lord, when the country is in danger now, can't the adults let go of the partisan dispute?" Do you have to watch the emperor and the people of Li suffer? ”

Ma Cheng has risen to the height of the country, Xu Zhan can't help but express his position, Xu Zhan bowed down and said: "Since Ma Junmen said so, then Xu Zhan is disrespectful, please rest assured Ma Junmen, Xu Zhan will definitely move the people of Lishui County to the southern capital safely at the specified time!"

Ma Cheng knew that these stinky old nine would eat soft or hard, and they would immediately be unbearable when they talked about the big truth.

"Well, there are more than 200,000 homeless people outside the city, please Lord Xu! By the way, the official warehouse in Lishui County must also be relocated to the southern capital, and the food for guarding the city is very important! Ma Cheng didn't care about the lives of the people, mainly because he liked the iron factory outside Lishui County and the millions of stone of grain in the official warehouse, which was the most important thing.

Xu Zhan nodded solemnly, and then asked, "May I ask Ma Junmen, can such an important matter be made by His Majesty the Emperor's decree or the cabinet's writings?"

Xu Zhan is also right, this time more than 40,000 people in Lishui City will be relocated, and more than 200,000 displaced people outside Nanjing will enter the city, without the emperor's holy decree.

Ma Cheng dared to say that this was his own decision, Ma Cheng also had no choice, according to the procrastination of the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty, Ma Cheng's application today would take five days at the earliest, let alone go to the emperor to ask for a holy decree.

However, there are policies and countermeasures, Ma Cheng thinks that he will do it first, and wait until he goes home tonight to find Lao Tzu Ma Shiying to ask for a text, so Ma Cheng flickered Xu Zhan and said: "This rest assured, the cabinet's document is in the governor's yamen, and the governor will send someone to take it and send it to Lishui County, please go back to organize the relocation first!"

Xu Zhan didn't expect that the admiral of Congyipin would also lie, nodded and hugged his fists to leave, and returned to Lishui to organize the county officials and inspection departments to begin to assist in the relocation.

Ma Cheng is still planning to defend himself here in Zhengyangmen, but the emperor who is far away in the palace is already preparing to move the capital.

In the middle of the night of April 25, the news of the destruction of Yangzhou City and the martyrdom of Shi Kefa reached Nanjing, and Zhu Yousong, the Hongguang Emperor, was really frightened. He had only been emperor for a year, and he didn't want to hang himself like his cousin Chongzhen.

On the morning of the next day, that is, the 26th, Zhu Yousong had a very rare morning court, and the question of the discussion was very simple, what to do next!

The ministers also received the news last night, and no one expected that hundreds of thousands of soldiers around Yangzhou would all vote for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, did they have no patriotic feelings at all?

But who can take care of those Qiu Ba at this time? Everyone is thinking about their future and fate, so this court meeting is unusually free of the previous noise, and dozens of civil and military ministers in the main hall stand there like wooden chickens and dogs.

Seeing that the minister didn't speak, Zhu Yousong was really a little angry, okay! Why did you ministers quarrel so much for their official positions before? Now it's time for you to speak, why are you all silent?

The situation was urgent, Zhu Yousong really couldn't wait, stood up with a big belly and asked: "Everyone, now that the Beiyu army is in Jiangbei, what should we do next, but everyone is talking!"

What to do? What else can I do, there were originally more than 100,000 troops in Nanjing, but in April, Ma Shiying had already transferred the elite army in Nanjing in order to resist Zuo Liangyu upstream, and now in addition to Ma Cheng's 25,000 people in Nanjing, there are less than 60,000 other old and weak people.

Zhu Yousong waited for a quarter of an hour, but no one spoke to the Chinese military minister, and the angry Zhu Yousong scolded: "Back then, it was you guys who had to let Shu be this emperor, and now that the country has become like this, why don't you speak?" It's talking! Ma Shiying, what do you say to do? ”

What Zhu Yousong said is also reasonable, it was Ma Shiying and others who supported him to take the throne back then, and these guys also followed the chicken dog to ascend to heaven, and now that the country is not good, you don't speak one by one, so there is this good thing!

Ma Shiying heard Zhu Yousong ask that he had no choice but to stand up and say: "Your Majesty, now it is urgent to prevent someone in the city from taking the opportunity to make a rebellion, and the minister suggested that the Ma Cheng Department outside the city be transferred to the city to garrison various places, so as to guard against Xiaoxiao!" Ma Shiying is not an old fox, and I will say it when the emperor asks him to speak, but he doesn't speak human words, but proposes to let his son go into the city.

Ma Shiying said this, and other ministers also had ideas, and they all stood up to offer advice, what to transfer the Weisuo army from Jiangxi and Zhejiang to Jingqinwang, what to send envoys to negotiate peace with Beiyu, Xu and Jiangbei, etc., these ministers said vigorously, but none of them satisfied Zhu Yousong.

Zhu Yousong doesn't care about the government, and no matter how many people die in Yangzhou City, what he cares about most is his own life, now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has hit the doorstep, the most important thing is to flee for his life, what else does King Qin's peace talks care about?

Although Zhu Yousong thinks so, these ministers are all human spirits, and they don't want to bear the reputation of traitors. When the Tumubao changed that year, Xu Youzhen just said a word about moving south, and was scolded by Yu Qian and some other upright ministers. There is also Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department of the Chongzhen Dynasty, who still negotiated peace with the Manchus according to Chongzhen's instructions, and knew that Chen Xinjia was beheaded as a scapegoat after the matter was revealed.

With these traditions, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee still dared to say that they ran away, so these ministers all knew what Zhu Yousong wanted, but no one said it.

(Here I would like to explain to you the unspoken rules of officialdom, although I am not a leader, but I am also a person in the system, and I still have a certain understanding of officialdom.) You may think that the ancient Chinese emperor is a hall of words, what do you want to do is not a word? Why do you have to ask your subordinates to put it forward before you pass it? This is the operating rule in officialdom, a good political environment is flexible, that is, it can move forward in a curve from left to right, and bounce back when it hits a wall, so as to ensure that no big mistakes are made. But if you think about it, if the emperor says nothing and no one is right, then the political environment loses this flexibility, and it is easy for such a policy to go on regardless of whether it is right or wrong. There are too many people who have made this kind of mistake in history, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Anshi, Huizong of the Song Dynasty, etc., they have all made this kind of mistake. Chongzhen also committed this kind of mistake back then, after losing political flexibility, he could only go one way to the black, the country is yours, and the minister will kill if he disagrees with you, so what do we care? In this way, in the later period, there was no one to share the responsibility for Chongzhen, so the Ming Dynasty also died! If book lovers understand this, they will also understand what democratic centralism is, democracy is in centralization first, this is the great wisdom of officialdom! ）

It's a pity that Zhu Yousong is not his cousin Chongzhen, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen can be called a politician, and Zhu Yousong is just a greedy and afraid of death. Since your ministers cherish their feathers and refuse to speak, then I will come by myself!

"I heard someone outside say that the capital was moved? What do you think? ”

When the ministers of the DPRK and China saw that the emperor had begun to lose face, how could he propose it and run away as the head of state?

Wang Duo, a scholar of Dongge University, was a nerd, and he couldn't bear it anymore when he saw that the emperor was so shameless, so he stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, who did you listen to this?" This man deserves to be killed! ”

Zhu Yousong dared to say what he thought, stretched out his hand and casually pointed at the little eunuch beside him and said, "Just listen to him!" When the little eunuch heard the emperor put a basin on his head, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed and shouted, "Slave, slave didn't say it!"

Up to now, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty knew that the emperor was preparing to run away, and Zhu Yousong was also flushed, but at this time he didn't care about it, and then asked: "What do you say about moving the capital?" Where to go? ”

Zhu Yousongman thought that he had become a leading bird, and these ministers should be able to speak! The minister who knew that Zhu Yousong still didn't say a word after saying the Manchu Dynasty.

This made Zhu Yousong angry, this big fat man stood up and pointed at the minister of the DPRK and the central government and scolded, but what can I do if I scold? If people just don't speak, can you still move the capital by yourself? After scolding for a long time, Zhu Yousong was also tired, so he had no choice but to wave his hand and disperse.

When he returned to the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yousong sent all the palace maids and eunuchs around, leaving only the confidant eunuch You Er, and then took You Er's hand and cried: "You Er, these ministers are really angry, what do you say I should do?"

You Er is one of the few eunuchs who ran out of the palace with Zhu Yousong, and he is also the best person among these guys, and now he sees the emperor crying bitterly and cries: "Master, the slave is different from them, and the slave is willing to die for the master!"

You Er is not talking nonsense when he says this, the last person who stayed with Chongzhen after Chongzhen hanged himself was the great eunuch Wang Chengen, and it was these dead eunuchs who resisted to the end in the palace back then.

Zhu Yousong also cried when he saw You Er's true feelings: "Okay, You Er, I will give you one thing, you go and prepare." I decided to leave Nandu alone in a few days, as for who this emperor loves, he will do it! ”

You Er heard that Zhu Yousong was about to pick a son and quit, so he hurriedly asked, "Master, where are we going?"

Zhu Yousong thought for a while and said, "Let's go to Taiping Mansion and find Huang Degong!"

You Er nodded, and asked again, "What about the ladies of the harem?"

Zhu Yousong has not been idle for more than half a year, and there are more than ten high-grade concubines in the harem.

Zhu Yousong gritted his teeth and scolded: "Who cares who at this time?" You remember, bring the Empress Dowager Zou and a few henchmen and eunuchs, and don't notify anything else, you know? ”

You Er saw that Zhu Yousong had made up his mind, so he didn't say anything, and began to prepare to flee after bidding farewell to Zhu Yousong.