"What's wrong?" Ma Shiying heard the voice and looked over, looking at Gao Jie and Li Chengdong in surprise.

"Lord Zhongcheng, it's not good." Gao Jie's eyes were glazed and he said with difficulty.

Ma Shiying frowned and waved his hand, and the singers and attendants in the hall retreated one after another, the door was closed, and he and Gao Jie were left in the hall.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on?" Ma Shiying asked lightly.

"Say it, tell me the truth!" Several people in the hall have formed a community of interests, and there is nothing to hide, Gao Jie said to Li Chengdong.

"Yes, Lord." Li Chengdong agreed, and said to everyone, "Lord Zhongcheng, generals, just now, several brothers in our army were patrolling the mountain road outside the camp and caught a person with suspicious behavior. The brothers, who did not know his identity, got him off their horses and found a letter from him.

The brothers were illiterate, so they took the letter back to the camp, and when they found the literacy, it turned out to be written by Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Huaiyang, to Lord Shi Kefashi, and the letter said, "......"

Speaking of this, Li Chengdong hesitated.

What does the letter say? Just say it! Ma Shiying said impatiently.

"The letter said that Emperor Chongzhen did not die, but was rescued from Beijing by Chen Yue, the governor of Tianjin, and is now heading south by sea and will arrive in Huai'an in a few days." Li Chengdong gritted his teeth and explained the contents of the letter. Then he let out a sigh and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, although he was only a general, he also knew the shock of the news in the letter.

"Ahh Ma Shiying was taken aback, stunned and speechless.

"What?" Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo jumped up and shouted at Li Chengdong.

"Your Majesty, he didn't die?" Huang Degong also stood up, his face incredible.

"What you say is true? Where's the messenger, bring him here! After half a ring, Ma Shiying reacted and said hurriedly at Li Chengdong.

"The brethren used a tripping horse, and the horse ran so fast that the messenger fell off his horse and fell to his death." Li Chengdong said with a weak heart.

"However, from him, I found the document issued by the governor of Huaiyang and the waist card he carried with him." Li Chengdong said and handed the waist card to Ma Shiying along with the seized letter.

Ma Shiying took the letter, read it carefully several times, and confirmed that it was Lu Zhenfei's handwriting, he and Lu Zhenfei were the governor of Fengyang, the other was the governor of Huaiyang and the governor of Caoyun, and they were the two people with the highest status in Jiangbei.

The letter is true, and the news in the letter is also true, which means that Emperor Chongzhen is really alive and will soon go to the south!

"Hehehe......" Ma Shiying suddenly smiled bitterly, he tried his best to participate in the support, and did not hesitate to treacherously join forces with Gao Jie and other generals to support King Fu, in order to get the merit of support, for his future position of power, seeing that things were about to succeed, but with this letter, everything before became in vain!

As long as Chongzhen is alive, he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and all the Fu Kings, Gui Wang, and Lu Wang, all have to stand aside!

"This letter must be fake, Lu Zhenfei is lying!" Liu Zeqing jumped up all of a sudden, and shouted, "It's been more than a month since the fall of Beijing, Chongzhen should have come back long ago if he wanted to escape, how could he wait until now." It must have been Lu Zhenfei who didn't want His Royal Highness King Fu to ascend the throne, so he made up this lie. ”

Among the people present, the most reluctant to see Chongzhen alive is probably Liu Zeqing, when the thieves attacked Beijing from Shanxi, he received the holy decree of King Qin early, he was in Linqing, Shandong, six or seven hundred miles away from Beijing, but he did not lead the troops to Beijing King Qin, when Liu Fangliang led the army along from Henan to kill, he did not dare to engage the battle, led the troops all the way south.

If Chongzhen returned to the south safely and continued to be the emperor in Nanjing, if others didn't say it, he Liu Zeqing would probably be liquidated.

"It should be fake, don't say so much, hurry up and take King Fu to Nanjing to ascend the throne." Liu Liangzuo also said on the side.

King Fu ascended the throne, and everyone present had the merit of supporting it, and the feudal lord could be described as a prince. If Chongzhen is still the emperor, he and the others are just the same as before, they are still ordinary generals, and everyone can calculate this account!

"The two brothers Liu are right, it's better to ask His Royal Highness King Fu to ascend the throne quickly." Gao Jie was born as a thief, and he didn't have much affection for Chongzhen and Daming, all he cared about was his own interests in the future.

"This, isn't this a rebellion?" Huang Degong, who had been silent, was dumbfounded when he heard it, and couldn't help but shout.

"What rebellion, whose rebellion? Beijing fell to the emperor and martyred, the country cannot be without a king for a day, why is it wrong for us to invite His Royal Highness King Fu to ascend the throne as soon as possible? Gao Jie turned around and looked at Huang Degong viciously. Li Chengdong, who was beside him, pressed the handle of the knife on his waist, but waited for Gao Jie's order.

Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo moved silently towards the door, blocking Huang Degong's retreat.

"You guys, what do you want to do?" Huang Degong was shocked and angry, and said sharply.

"Mr. Huang, now we have no way out, you now have the title of Earl Jingnan, and you have your own station, but the brothers are lost dogs, the future glory and wealth are in this group, if you agree to be with the brothers, if not, you can only be sorry!" Gao Jie said sadly, "Dangchang" pulled out the knife from his waist.

With Gao Jie's words, Li Chengdong and Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo also pulled out their weapons and surrounded Huang Degong in the middle.

"Stop!" Seeing that a fire was about to break out, Ma Shiying, who had been in a daze, came back to his senses and scolded angrily, "Look at what you have become, don't put away the sword for me!" ”

In a short period of time, Ma Shiying has already thought clearly, Gao Jie and several people have no way to retreat, how can he not be himself, if Chongzhen continues to be the emperor, he will rely on his joint local army to cross Nanjing to support the succession of King Fu, and there will be no future in Daming in the future!

Dismissal and demotion, imprisonment, anything is possible. On the contrary, if you fight once and succeed in supporting King Fu to ascend the throne, then the future is bright.

"General Huang, not to mention whether the news that Chongzhen is alive is true or false, but even if it is true, you and I have no way out, it is taboo to interfere with the change of the throne with the army, and Chongzhen will definitely not tolerate it. Moreover, Chongzhen has been in power for more than ten years, and he has caused great chaos in the world, and even the fall of the capital division and the Ming Dynasty have almost perished, how can such a person continue to be the Son of Heaven? On the contrary, His Royal Highness King Fu is benevolent, and he will be able to prosper as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Ma Shiying walked up to Huang Degong and persuaded him bitterly.

Huang Degong looked at the people around him with weapons in hand, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and sighed, "Everything is up to Lord Zhongcheng!" ”