In the next few days, Luo Bingran used various means to remove the two guerrilla Gu Changwei and Xu Dahu of the Shenji Battalion and replace them with his own henchmen and generals.

The actions of the generals in the army made Luo Bingran scratch his head, Gu Changwei was not familiar with it, but Xu Dahu was too familiar with him. In the past, Xu Dahu was one of the hundred households in Ma Shiying's standard camp, and his status was higher than that of Luo Bingran, who was a thousand. Now that Xu Dahu has been bullied by himself like this, is Ma Cheng really not good?

Luo Bingran went to find Qian Qianyi with this question, and told Qian Qianyi what had happened in the past few days in the army. Qian Qianyi didn't expect it to go so smoothly, Ma Cheng didn't even struggle to completely hand over the military power, so far, Qian Qianyi completely believes in Ma Cheng.

At this time, the whole city of Nanjing, from the emperor to the lowest level of citizens, all believed that Ma Cheng was not a person who loved the power of the stack at all, and even some scholars compared Ma Cheng to Guo Ziyi who pacified the Anshi Rebellion, but he didn't know that Lao Guo Quanxia knew that he saw that he was juxtaposed with Ma Cheng, and he didn't know if he could be angry.

In this way, Ma Cheng has completely become a rich man from a big warlord who leans towards the government and the opposition, but the task given to Ma Cheng by history has not yet been completed, and Ma Cheng can withdraw from the stage of history so early.

On July 21, the second year of Shaowu in the Ming Dynasty, a dusty war horse came to the treasure gate in Nanjing, and immediately sat a knight covered in dust, and this knight shouted while running: "One hundred thousand urgent!" Get out of the way! ”

When the merchants of the Jubaomen saw the knight coming, they hurriedly dodged a road, and the ambassador defending the city also hurriedly moved the horse away and let the knight pass. After the knight left, an old farmer who was waiting to go into the city to sell vegetables sighed and said: "Hey, I don't know where the war is going on again, we fight and kill every day, how can we live as ordinary people!" ”

The voice of the old peasants represents the majority of the citizens of Nanjing, who used to be far away from the Northern Theater of Operations, but since the first year of Hongguang, the war on the far edge of the world has finally come to the eyes of the citizens of Nanjing. Fortunately, there was a Ma Cheng who could fight in Nanjing, so that Nanjing would not repeat the mistake of Yangzhou Massacre. Now seeing the war breaking out again, the citizens of Nanjing really have mixed feelings in their hearts!

The knight who delivered the letter came to Hongwu Gate, and according to the daily process of eight hundred miles of urgency, he had to send it to the military department first, but this matter was too important, so it could be sent directly to the cabinet.

The knight handed the letter stained with three chicken feathers to the brocade guard of Hongwumen, and the brocade guard did not dare to slack off, and ran to the cabinet in the palace. Qian Qianyi was on duty in the cabinet today, and when he opened it after receiving the letter, he was really frightened.

This letter was sent by the prefect of Huzhou, and the letter contained only a few sentences, but the content was very amazing. On the first day of the seventh month, King Lu was officially proclaimed emperor in Hangzhou.

Since the siege of the city by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in May last year, Nanjing has lost contact with the outside world, and King Lu, who is far away in Hangzhou, has been enthroned as a prisoner of the country with the support of some intellectuals. At the same time, there are several provinces around Hangzhou, such as Huzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion, etc., although the territory is not large, but these mansions are located in the Taihu Lake Economic Circle, very rich, so the strength of King Lu is still very good.

At that time, it was understandable that King Lu was in charge of the country, Nanjing broke the news, and Hangzhou didn't know what happened to the emperor, and it was normal to set up another emperor to continue to fight with the Manchus. After King Lu took charge of the country, he greatly encouraged the anti-Qing forces in various places around Taihu Lake

Some anti-Qing guerrillas joined the Luwang regime one after another, and for a time Luwang concentrated more than 100,000 troops under him, and the momentum was very great.

At this time, the Manchu Qing army's more than 400,000 troops were besieging Nanjing, and some knowledgeable generals under King Lu thought that they should take advantage of the Qing army's unpreparedness to fight in the back. But the timid and fearful King Lu dared to do this, and strictly ordered his generals not to provoke the Qing army.

When the Qing army was defeated by Ma Cheng and Nanjing and Hangzhou communicated again, it was discovered that the emperors of both sides had changed. King Lu thought that Zhu Yousong was still the emperor in Nanjing, but Zhu Lunkui in Nanjing City did not expect that King Lu would dare to call himself a prisoner.

For a while, the two sides began to fight, and King Lu said that Zhu Lunkui's bloodline was estranged and he could not inherit the unification. Zhu Lunkui said that his throne was passed on from Zhu Yousong, and there was the Queen Mother as proof. King Lu said that the Queen Mother Ma Hongning was not Zhu Yousong's queen at all, and she was not qualified to be called the Queen Mother. Zhu Lunkui said that you are not qualified to be King Lu, you ran away when the Qing army came, but now you want to come back and be the emperor, there is no door!

The two sides fought for several months, and finally Zhu Lunkui made concessions and established King Lu as the emperor's uncle, and later after Zhu Lunkui's death, King Lu ascended the throne. This is already the greatest sincerity that Zhu Lunkui can come up with, so knowing that the news reached King Lu's side but blew up, King Lu is older than Zhu Lunkui, whether he can survive Zhu Lunkui is not certain, if he dies in front of Zhu Lunkui, then he won't get any benefits?

At the same time, the law of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the rules of succession to the throne were to have a successor, no grandson, a father to die, and a brother to a brother. Then there is a reason for the nephew to die and let the uncle be the emperor? What's more, according to the ranking of the royal family, King Lu Zhu is often Zhu Lunkui's grandfather, and what Zhu Lunkui does is not in a proper manner at all.

Therefore, after receiving the news from Nanjing, Hangzhou categorically rejected Zhu Lunkui's proposal, and at the same time, Zhu Chang's subordinates began to persuade Zhu Chang to become the emperor himself and conquest the rebellious Zhu Lunkui.

Zhu Chang doesn't have much ability, but he has a turbulent heart. Therefore, under the influence of officials with different intentions, Zhu Chang ascended the throne on the first day of the seventh month.

The fact that Zhu Chang is the emperor is not trivial, and now there are two emperors in the Ming regime. There is a strange setting in Chinese history, when the world is in turmoil and warlords are divided, it is no problem to claim the king and hegemony, and many warlords can do business peacefully. But as long as one party is the emperor, no matter how good the relationship is, he will conquer you, and he will look like an undying enemy.

This premise comes from the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, before the Qin Dynasty, there was no truly unified dynasty in China, and Zhou Tianzi was only the co-ruler of the world, and had little control over the princes and kings. After the unification of Qin Shi Huang, there was also a historical regression, but it was unified again under Liu Bang's forceful means. At this time, China only has unified hardware requirements, and the software is not yet available.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Confucianism was revered, and this software began to be officially injected into the Chinese computer. Regardless of the reason for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's exclusive respect for Confucianism, this concept of great unification has completely penetrated into the hearts of intellectuals. After the imperial examination system of the Sui and Tang dynasties, all those who controlled the imperial court became Confucianists, and the theory of great unification completely became the consensus of all the common people in the world.

In the future, no matter what the background of the warlord is, whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang who was born in the poor or Chen Youliang, who was born as a petty official, as long as he is the emperor, he must fulfill the responsibility of the emperor, that is, to unify the whole country.

Therefore, when King Lu played the banner of the emperor, he officially expressed his determination to fight with Zhu Lunkui to the end, either Zhu Lunkui died

Zhu Chang died.

The reason why Zhu Chang finally made up his mind to be the emperor was the issue of blood, Zhu Chang was a direct descendant of Zhu Di, the king of Yan. And Zhu Lunkui is from Zhou Fan, and when it comes to bloodline, he has to talk about Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zhu Chang feels that he has taken the moral high ground. In fact, Zhu Chang's bloodline did bring benefits to him, and after Zhu Chang became emperor, Jiaxing and Huzhou, around Hangzhou, immediately supported Zhu Chang under the leadership of the local gentry, and completely severed relations with Zhu Lunkui in Nanjing.

This 800-mile expedited letter was sent by the prefect of Huzhou, who hanged himself after writing the letter, which can be regarded as fulfilling the last bit of loyalty for Zhu Lunkui.

Qian Qianyi did not dare to delay after receiving the letter, and took the letter to the palace to meet the emperor. Zhu Lunkui has been in a very good mood these days, and the taste of holding power has made him very comfortable. But the good times didn't last long, and after Zhu Lunkui received Qian Qianyi's report, he immediately turned cloudy, standing in the Qianqing Palace and scolding Zhu Chang, the king of Lu.

"Zhu Chang, a fat pig, he is not worthy of the surname Zhu, he is not the descendant of Emperor Taizu! I immediately made an order to cut off Zhu Chang's title and remove Zhu Chang's clan status! ”

This is already the most severe method that Zhu Lunkui can use, but Zhu Changyuan is in Hangzhou, and Zhu Lunkui's method has no practical significance.

After Zhu Lunkui finished venting, he sat on the dragon chair and gasped, stared at two eyes and asked, "Qian Qianyi, what do you say should be done?" ”

Zhu Lunkui's temper has become bigger and bigger since he collected military power, and he used to call Aiqing to Qian Qianyi, a pavilion elder, but now that he has the power in his hands, he began to call him by his name.

Hearing Zhu Lunkui ask himself, Qian Qianyi hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, since Zhu Chang disobeys the mandate of heaven, he naturally wants to raise a teacher to fight!" ”

When Zhu Lunkui heard that he was going to send an army to fight, he said in fear: "Do you want to send Ma Cheng?" "This is what Zhu Lunkui is unwilling, Zhu Lunkui has used various means in the past six months, and it is easy to bring Ma Cheng home to pick up the child, so can this guy be easily released?

Zhu Lunkui was afraid, Qian Qianyi was even more afraid, but Qian Qianyi had already thought of a way before he came, Qian Qianyi smiled: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the new Governor Luo Bingran has completely controlled the army, plus the city and various prefectures and counties, Your Majesty has 200,000 tigers and wolves, and it is not like a fire to deal with Zhu Chang's rebels!" ”

Zhu Lunkui felt relieved when he heard Qian Qianyi say this, yes! I still have 200,000 tigers and wolves, what are you afraid of?

Ma Cheng left a large number of troops to Zhu Lunkui, there were 150,000 troops outside the city, plus 30,000 new troops of Zhang Guozhu in Suzhou, 20,000 new troops of Ma Bao in Taiping Mansion, and 200,000 people could still be afraid of Zhu Chang's rabble? What's more, these 200,000 troops are not temporarily organized peasants, just half a year ago, these 200,000 Qing troops fell into disarray, and dealing with Zhu Chang is naturally the same as Qian Qianyi's words, as simple as burning pigs' hair!

Zhu Lunkui nodded and said: "To deal with Zhu Chang, you don't need my elite soldiers to fight, just let Suzhou Admiral Zhang Guozhu go!" Back then, Zhang Guozhu could take 5,000 people to guard Zhengyangmen, but now 30,000 people can't beat 100,000 rabble? ”

Zhang Guozhu is Ma Cheng's descendant, although he surrendered to Zhu Lunkui, he could not let Zhu Lunkui be completely at ease. Just took this opportunity to let Zhang Guozhu play and consume Ma Cheng's strength.

Qian Qianyi nodded again and again when he heard Zhu Lunkui say this, and immediately wrote a holy decree according to the emperor's will, and sent 800 miles to expedite it with the seal and send it to Zhang Guozhu in Suzhou.