Early the next morning, hundreds of fast horses formed a riding formation, escorting Shi Kefa out of Yangzhou City, and then by the river, he was eye-opening, across the river there were more than ten three-masted galleons, the two-layer deck exposed dense cannon muzzles, and a large banner with Mao characters was blown by the river wind.

As the guards boarded the huge Dongjiang warship, a wave of happiness arose in Shi Kefa's heart, he was not glad of himself, but of the entire Nanming Dynasty.

It is said that the south ships and the north horses, but this Mao Jue is evil, born in the wild land of Liaozuo, but he is even so proficient in warships, and the firepower of the Dongjiang River also made him see, and the Yangtze River natural danger that made the northern monarchs of all dynasties have a headache in front of such a gunboat, it is simply papery.

Mao Jue's requirements can be said to be harsh! But when you have the ability to seize Nanjing and destroy the Southern Ming Dynasty, you can put forward this condition, and you have to admit that this is a kind of mercy, after all, there is no greater gift than living, and in time, maybe there will really be a chance! So even if it's this Qin Hui, Shi Kefa is all right!

Shi Kefa didn't notice that Mao Jue himself was relieved to see him leave by boat, and the hunting sound was blown in the river breeze.

He was really frightened by the ability of these Jiangnan Shi clans to drill camps! Sending away Shi Kefa is also equivalent to sending away a burden in his heart.

"Whether it's reborn from the fire or collapsed, you can play by yourself first!"

Full of relaxation, he snorted with ridicule, and then Mao Jue was full of smiles again, and turned around to Huang Degong, who was pulled out of prison by him last night and was still wearing a bandage, and gently shook his clenched fist.

"What do you think about Lord Huang, are you really loyal? Or is it just a matter of staying true to your reputation? ”

That smile was like a profiteer trying to sell a zombie chicken feet and pig trotters that had been refrigerated for forty or fifty years.

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These days, let Jiangnan brew on its own, but also for the battle that may be about to start the battle to hide the strength, Mao Jue's fleet has been walking around between Xu Yang and Zhoushan to play, this is the first time to officially appear in front of Jiangnan Shiren, thirty to forty-five meters of hull, centipede eyes are so gloomy looking at the gun window, at noon, when this fleet appeared on the river in front of Nanjing, for the Southern Ming Dynasty that was already like a frightened bird, it was like a cold winter and the moon was poured a large basin of cold water, cold heart.

The fishing boats and merchant ships on the bank of the river are like small fry in front of the sharks, looking for the river or down the river in embarrassment, scattering and fleeing, they have been frightened once, and the Qinhuai painting boat, which has experience in escaping, hangs the white flag high, waving the centipede-like bulky oars towards the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River to dodge, and the crowd on the bank is like ants on a rainy day, and the porter pushing the rickshaw throws the car aside and runs away, and the guests on the car don't care about the wealth and wealth. After falling a few times, he fled from the ground in embarrassment.

In just ten minutes, there were almost no people in sight of the bustling Nanjing port.

The Ming Dynasty has two shipbuilding peaks, one is the treasure ship of Zheng He during the Yongle period, and the other is the Anti-Japanese War during the Jiajing period, when it is said that the Ming Dynasty has 20,000 large and small warships floating in the near sea, from the number has even been comparable to the Dutch at the peak, but unfortunately, the Western shipbuilding has always been a national policy, before and after the inheritance, vigorous development, but the Ming Dynasty is only a flash in the pan, the Qi family army was born, and the Toyotomi shogunate gradually pacified the Japanese Warring States, after there was no external threat, The Ming fleet was again in a lack of financial maintenance, and the harbor was full of decay and festering.

The southern capital, which is known as the southern ship and the northern horse, has not even been paid to produce any decent fleet, only the more than 20 Dongjiang rivers that have been patrolled have already eliminated the kind of Cangshan boats, rice boats, and the like that shrank on the shore and shivered, and it was the Nanjing Forbidden Army that came out to defend it.

Looking at the bronze cannons pushed out along the river, and the Southern Army's bird gunners and archers lined up in a messy formation, even Shi Kefa felt pale and funny.

The Dongjiang fleet pressure also caused great panic among the doctors of the Southern Ming Dynasty and even the royal family, which did not wait for the war, the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong actually fled first under the protection of Ma Shiying, followed by Jiang Yueguang, a scholar of Dongge University, Gao Hongtu, a doctor of the imperial history, Liu Zongzhou, a scholar of the Criminal Department, and other Donglin gentlemen.

Full of horror, Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Duo, a scholar and Zhao Zhilong, a scholar, and Xu Jiujue, the Duke of Wei, went out of the city to greet them, trembling behind the Beijing camp and waiting, seemingly supervising the war, but in fact they made up their minds that once the northern soldiers broke the city, they took the lead in proposing to surrender and compete for a better political position in the new regime.

As for the Donglin Science advocated by going to people to save the principles of heaven and being loyal to the king, I'm sorry, I can't remember it for the time being!

In this saber rattling, the Dongjiang sailors who had been patrolling in the center of the Yangtze River for more than half an hour had no intention of attacking at all, but put down a big boat, and hung the big flag of the historical character that burned out two holes on the bow of the ship, and shook it rapidly on the river bank.

"The two countries are at war and do not kill the envoys, and they are not allowed to release arrows! No arrows! ”

Shi Kefa also has enough face, the Nanjing Forbidden Army welcomed him, and the governor of Jiangfang personally greeted him, but after seeing Shi Kefa, whether it was Xu Jiujue or Qian Qianyi, they all obviously showed a look of disappointment and jealousy, full of ridicule, and Qian Qianyi also hugged his fist happily.

"Zuo Gong's high apprentice Shi Gebu, now the regent makes me the southern capital, I don't know what you have to do?"

These words obviously satirized that he did not die, but instead took refuge in Mao Jue and treated him as an outsider, but when Qian Qianyi said this, he completely forgot how he got to the north.

However, it is completely different from him, a ghost who is afraid of death, although Shi Kefa has no great talent, but this loyalty is still admirable, and he is not afraid of death, not to mention a sarcasm, he can't care about wiping the sweat on his head, shaking his big sleeves, he is shouting loudly in a hurry.

"Lord Qian, the reason for the right and wrong will be explained later, this pavilion is now going to enter the palace immediately, and it is a matter of life and death for my Daming! Be quick! Fast! ”

In the end, he was born in Donglin Jinzhi, and he knew the virtue of Donglin people too well, and as soon as he finished shouting this, Shi Kefa turned around and pointed directly to the middle of the river, pointing to the black guns lined up and shouting at the Dongjiang gunboats on the riverbank: "Before noon, if you don't get a reply, Mao Reyi's army will bombard Nanjing City!" ”

There is no cannon to use any big truth, and the Nanjing ministers, who were supposed to stand on the moral high ground to criticize Shi Kefa, were immediately shocked, and they said every more thing they said, and they hurried into the city with Shi Kefa.

But to the embarrassment of the ministers, the emperor ran away! In desperation, Shi Kefa had no choice but to run out of the city again, rowing to the middle of the river, and the order that the fleet got was just to scare, according to the uninhabited warehouse by the river, after the bombardment of an unmanned warehouse by the river, the old faces of the Donglin people and the Jiangnan family put down the cruel words, and come back at noon tomorrow! If there is no reply, Yingtian will really be beaten into a pile of stones.

Seeing these killing machines disappear from their sights down the stream, both Qian Qianyi and Shi Kefa breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the beads of sweat on their foreheads, and their backs were already soaked.

It can be said that Nanjing City still has 30,000 guards in the southern capital, and there is a strong city behind it to rely on, but people have no heart to win, which makes the fleet of thousands of people scared, which can be seen in the defeat of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

But I have to praise, Zhu Yousong is still very good at escaping, Li Zicheng broke Luoyang, he was a mad run from Luoyang to Fengyang, it was only half a day, he was about to run out of southern Jiangsu and sneak into Zhejiang, or a few noble fast horses ran for their lives, so they chased the emperor of more than 300 catties near Suzhou.

And after catching up, Zhu Yousong didn't even believe that the northern army did not attack the city, and refused to go back, and in the end, a few nobles sweated and said that Ma Shiying, a bachelor with armor, Ma Shiying forced the royal car to turn north, and this effort was delayed for more than half an hour.

When Zhu Yousong returned to the Nanjing Imperial Palace, it was already midnight, but at this time, who cared about the palace rules or not, the civil and military officials, and the noble ministers as long as they were qualified to go to the court were all gathered, and the entire Xuanzheng Hall was brightly lit, and even the few petty officials who were not qualified to go to the court took advantage of today's chaos to guard the emptiness and hid outside the palace to eavesdrop.

There's no way, this is related to your own net worth and life, and your official fortune is prosperous?

On the one hand, they want to advertise themselves as loyal ministers and righteous men, far away from Shi Kefa, for fear of getting close to some stigma, but since returning to Nanjing, Shi Kefa has never said anything about the north, what is Mao Jue's attitude, what is the purpose of sending him, and everyone who hooked is itchy, and then they are anxious, surrounded by the side, and the ministers are eager to stick to him.

In terms of qi cultivation kung fu, Shi Kefa is extraordinary, no matter what his colleagues around him say, or whisper ridicule, or scold loudly, he just hangs his head and closes his eyes, keeps his mouth shut, and is really not shocked.

The anxious wait lasted until a sharp voice pierced the court.

"The emperor has arrived!"

"Long live your majesty, long live, long live!"

is also impatient, under the support of the great eunuch Tian Cheng, a pair of stubby radish legs are like flying, Zhu Yousong rarely ran on the dragon chair quickly, and without waiting for the ministers to finish saluting, he couldn't wait to lean forward half of his body.

"Scholar, what does the Lord Regent mean?"

"Mr. Shi, I beg you, you must say a few more good words for me! As long as the regent agrees to make me the king of Fu and occupy the fief of Henan, no, half, give me half of the fief! I'll go out of the city and surrender! ”

The emperor has no heart to protect the country, and in the entire court, the faces of the ministers kneeling on the ground are also blue, and they sigh more than once, this moral double standard is once again revealed, and Gao Hongtu, who "hung up the crown and left", was full of indignation, patted his thighs angrily and knelt straight, and shouted in pain.

"Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, a saint! The grandson of Emperor Wanli of Daxing, when he is with the country, how can he bow his knees to the savage man of Liaodong, that rough martial artist? Your Majesty is like this, is it worthy of the ancestors and ancestors? ”

"Your Majesty think twice!"

Then, a group of ministers also knelt on the ground one after another, kowtowing heavily.

Now Shi Kefa understands Ma Shiying a little, he has seen the ugliness of this group of ministers vividly, in an afternoon, it took most of his strength to call these well-dressed colleagues back, hundreds of war horses ran out of breath, but now they are here to pretend to be good people, and their sanctimony is simply a true portrayal of them!

In a group of gentlemen, the real villain also looked cute, and against the ministers, Ruan Dacheng, the secretary of the military department who had been beaten as a eunuch, stood up bravely and shouted indignantly.

"Now that the Northern Army is in the city, where are you waiting? Now it's a talk? How shameless are you? ”

"Besides, there will be no reply tomorrow, the heavy artillery of the Northern Army is about to come to the city! In the first battle of Yangzhou, the regent fired thousands of cannons, the defenders were cut into flesh in an instant, the city collapsed, and the people were killed and wounded. Thou shalt not be a subordinate! Not for the Son of Man! ”

This is the ability of the Donglin Party, and it is worthy of the loss, listening to Ruan Dacheng's accusations, Zuodu Yushi Li Zhan knelt straight without blushing and without beating his heart, and bowed highly.

"The ministers are also returning to their hometowns, scattering their family assets, and calling on the volunteers to fight a decisive battle with Beikou to the death! You are the remnants of the eunuch party, what face do you have to talk with the palace as a minister in front of the princes? The most shameless is that you are such unscrupulous and unrighteous people, if it is not you? How did Daming get to where it is today? ”

After scolding, this Li Zhan knelt down heavily in front of Hongguang again, kowtowed and said, "The ministers implore Your Majesty to behead this traitorous minister!" ”

The Donglin Party's consistent big move, attacking all over the screen, followed by this Zuodu Yushi, and hundreds of people knelt on the ground with a hula, kowtowing heavily together.

"I beg Your Majesty to behead this traitor!"

Listening to this piece, Ruan Dacheng's old face was angry, and he couldn't help but snort coldly.

But just when this party was fighting again, a roar rang out violently from the hall!

"Enough!"

Indeed, Zhu Yousong is dim, lazy, greedy and lustful, but compared to Emperor Chongzhen, his only advantage is that he does not die to save face, and his husband can bend and stretch!

"When the country is dying, you are all still making noise for your own selfish interests, and you should all be killed!"

The emperor is the emperor after all, the first time Zhu Yousong was furious, he really shocked the ministers, and the ministers knelt dumbfounded, and they didn't dare to come out.

It's a pity that Zhu Yousong was only handsome for three seconds, which frightened the ministers, and he was full of smiling faces, nodding at Shi Kefa and asking flatteringly: "Sir, don't go around in circles, how did the regent order you to negotiate, do you sometimes have a good discussion!" ”

At this time, Shi Kefa was obviously a little disheartened, he knelt up straight, clenched his fists and said coldly.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister is under Doctor Zuo! The first lesson taught by the teacher is to be loyal to the monarch and filial piety to his father, the minister does not dare to forget for a moment, the minister is not rebellious, the minister is still His Majesty's courtier, once the country is subverted, the minister is willing to die in this Dan Palace to repay the country with death! Mao rebels and has no life! ”

"And what are you doing here?"

Even if Shi Kefa wept blood to express his loyalty, Zhu Yousong still made a 180-degree turn in his attitude, his smiling face was gone, and he snorted coldly angrily.

"Back to Your Majesty, that Mao made a proposal to the minister, and the minister thought that it would be beneficial to the Jiangshan Sheji, so he did not die in Yangzhou and brought it back to Nanjing to obey the Holy Judgment!"

"Mao Jue wants to make peace!"

In an instant, the entire court seemed to be frozen by magic, both the emperor and the ministers were silent and dumbfounded, and in the entire hall, only the night wind could be heard howling......

(End of chapter)