Zhu Jiang heard his father ask him if he still wanted to be a soldier, Zhu Jiang lowered his head and remembered what his mother said to him in Guangzhou.

"Son, do you want you to be a vassal king who eats and waits for death for the rest of your life? Do you want you to be subservient to your brother Zhu Hai forever? Do you want to be an adult and never see your mother? ”

Ma Ruyan's words have always surrounded Zhu Jiang's heart, he has also read books, and knows that there is only one throne, and that position has always been the eldest son, but why is it the eldest son? Is he worse than Zhu Hai? Wasn't Zhu Hai born half a year earlier than himself? Why did he want to be the emperor, but he had to go to the fiefdom and be lonely for a lifetime?

Zhu Jiang didn't understand the importance of the throne before, but as he got older, he felt more and more the temptation of that position, and he was really unwilling.

And coming out to be a soldier is the road to heaven designed for himself by his own mother Ma Ruyan, Zhu Hai was born as the eldest son to occupy the sky, and the third Zhu Huai has the support of Tong Yangjia, and Zhu Huai also lives up to expectations, he is young and very knowledgeable, as if he is an old pedant, but this makes him have a very good reputation in Shilin, and he occupies people. But although he was born in the Ma family, his grandfather Ma Jiyuan has always supported the prince, and the forces of the Ma family all support the prince Zhu Hai. I don't get support from the ministers of the foreign dynasty at all, thinking about it, only the army has no prince to stretch out his hand, and his own uncle Ma Rufeng is a senior general of the army, and he can only take the road of joining the army.

My father often said that the gun came out of power, and his own power could not be relied on, so he had to join the army and fight a way out by himself. Only by joining the army and getting in touch with the generals of the army is that Zhu Hai will become the emperor in the future and have the army in his hands, and it may not be the last laugh when the time comes!

Thinking of this, Zhu Jiang put down his chopsticks and said firmly to Zhu Hongsan: "Father, the son doesn't want to be a waste, and the son wants to share the worries of his father as a descendant of the Zhu family!" ”

Hearing his son say this, Zhu Hongsan sighed, he didn't expect this son to also embark on the road to succession. If you are a ruthless person, it's okay to say (Zhu Hongsan, won't your conscience hurt when you say this kind of thing?) It's good to let his son go to the domain, but he can't do anything to his son. Anyway, it's going to rain and the mother wants to get married, let him go!

"Son, since you have chosen this path, don't regret it, you are a father and son at home, and you are a monarch when you go out. If your father asks you to go to the field army, you won't grow up by your father's side! When you arrive in the army, you are an ordinary soldier, definitely not a prince, if you make a mistake, even your father can't protect you, do you know? ”

Zhu Jiang was very happy when he heard that his father had finally promised him, stood up and said: "Please rest assured that my son will not be ashamed of my father if he goes!" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said: "You go to Zhao Guodong to be a platoon commander first, remember, you must not take out the identity of the prince to suppress people, I will give Zhao Guodong an order, let him be strict with you, if you are disobedient, don't blame your father for not being emotional!" ”

"Please rest assured!"

"Okay, you can go to Zhao Guodong to report after eating!"

At this time, Li Chengen brought up the crab roe soup dumplings that had just been made in the kitchen, and Zhu Jiang was in a good mood and saw his favorite food, so he ate seven or eight steamed buns in a row.

Seeing his smiling son eating steamed buns, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, there will probably be no such scene of father-son filial piety in the future, the children are all older and have their own thoughts.

Zhu Jiang said goodbye after breakfast and went out to prepare his luggage, Zhu Hong sent his son out with three eyes, and sighed in his heart, he felt that the position of the emperor was easy to do, but when he really sat down, he found that this position was the most uncomfortable position in the world, and his ministers could come to you if they were in difficulty, but who did you find if you had difficulties? Since Zhu Jiang himself chose this path full of thorns, Zhu Hongsan, as a father, had no reason to stop him.

Zhu Hongsan sighed, drank the porridge in the bowl in a few sips, he still had to rest for a while, and this morning he had to hold a pre-imperial meeting to discuss the military situation.

Ma Jiyuan received news from the Military Aircraft Department yesterday that a pre-imperial meeting would be held this morning, so he was ready early. Although Ma Jiyuan did not enter the cabinet, Zhu Hongsan gave him the same treatment as the cabinet elder in order to praise his four major strategists. Today, Ma Jiyuan got up and took out the big red python robe given by the emperor, this thing is still the first day to wear. After all, the temperature in Luzon in Nanyang is 30 degrees all year round, and wearing this kind of heavy official uniform is almost like death. But when you arrive in Zhejiang, you are not afraid, it is already October, and it has snowed here in Zhejiang, and it is the season to wear python robes.

Ma Jiyuan was implicated by his younger brother and was demoted to Luzon for two years, and this was the first time he participated in the Imperial Conference, of course, he had to prepare his best outfits. Ma Jiyuan is forty-five years old this year, he already has a slender body, and he relies on clothes, he is really full of aura.

The family members who served him on the side and dressed also praised: "The master really has the prestige of being an official!" ”

Ma Jiyuan smiled slightly, if it weren't for the fact that only one member of the Ma family could enter the cabinet, and he was now also an elder in the cabinet, thinking of this, Ma Jiyuan couldn't help but be full of anger towards his second brother Ma Mingyuan. He obviously doesn't care about his qualifications, fame, and ability is not inferior to him, just because Ma Lao Er got carried away and wanted to stretch out his hand for the imperial examination, he was implicated and went to Luzon.

The family first looked at the old man and smiled, but suddenly became gloomy, not knowing if he had said something wrong, so he didn't dare to speak and stood beside him with his hands down.

Ma Jiyuan finished getting dressed and walked out of the big tent and walked towards Zhu Hongsan's tent. When I arrived at the place, I found that I was not the first to come, Tong Yangjia and Qian Qianyi had already arrived.

Ma Jiyuan looked down on Tong Yangjia the most, not mentioning political disputes, and his second son died there when he was assigned to serve in the Changhua Iron Mine, although there is no evidence to prove that Tong Yangjia did it. But at that time, the Changhua Iron Mine was in charge of Tong Yangjia's nephew Tong Tuchang, which couldn't help but make Ma Jiyuan suspect that his son's death was inseparable from Tong Yangjia.

Seeing that the enemy Ma Jiyuan didn't pounce on him today, he was already restrained, so he could still greet him. Ma Jiyuan just arched his hand at Qian Qianyi, and stood down without speaking.

Seeing that Ma Jiyuan hated himself so much, Tong Yangjia couldn't help it, of course Tong Yangjia knew why Ma Jiyuan was like this, but there was no way, could it be that I didn't kill your son in the past? Ma Jiyuan's son really wasn't killed by Tong Yangjia, because killing a nobody is really a lot of money, and there is no benefit at all. Tong Yangjia, as a political old fritter, is talking about attacking its vital points, hitting it with one blow, and playing it will be absolutely perfect, and if you kill an inconsequential person, you will end up with it, and Tong Yangjia doesn't bother to do this.

Qian Qianyi came late, and he didn't know about the dirty affairs of Tong Yangjia and Ma Jiyuan, but he knew that the Tong family and the Ma family had never been harmonious, but in the officialdom, he paid attention to laughing on the surface and stabbing him in the back, that is, the struggle between Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia had become public, but on the surface, he still maintained a harmonious atmosphere. Now seeing Ma Jiyuan's demeanor, it was not only strange, but he secretly walked to Tong Yangjia's side and asked, "Elder Tong Ge, why is Governor Ma like this?" ”

"Qian Ge doesn't know, the old man and the Ma family have never dealt with each other, Ma Lao Er is treacherous and slippery, and he can get by on face, Ma Lao is a Taoist gentleman, he has never had a good face for me like this, and the old man is used to it!"

Qian Qianyi couldn't help but look at Ma Jiyuan twice when he heard Tong Yangjia say this, and thought to himself that he didn't expect that the two brothers of the Ma family had very different personalities, and the younger brother was full of bad water, and the elder brother was indeed like this, it was really strange in the world.

Slowly there are more and more officials in front of the big tent, civil officials have Tong Yangjia, Qian Qianyi, Ma Jiyuan, Li Zhi, Yu Shilong, Chen Zilong, Qian Sule, Zhang Huangyan, Zhang Guowei, etc., military attaches are divided into two factions of land and sea, there are Zhao Guodong, Zhao Guoliang, Han Shirong, Han Sanqiang, Zhang Quan and others, Jinyiwei was originally Qian Lide to attend the meeting, but last night was beaten by Dongchang, and can only recuperate at home.

This group of people is divided into several small groups outside the big tent, one side of the Huguang faction, one side of the Zhedong faction, and one side of the military on land and sea, from which it can be seen that Zhu Hongsan's current officials are divided into forces.

At nine o'clock in the morning, a eunuch came out of the big tent, it was the great eunuch Li Chengen, looked at the people standing, and shouted loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, the emperor has a will, and orders you to enter!" ”

All the officials were divided into two queues, the civil officials were headed by Tong Yangjia, and the military attachés were headed by Zhao Guodong, and the two columns entered the tent. There are three stools in the big tent, this is the treatment for Tong Yangjia, Qian Qianyi, and Ma Jiyuan, Tong Qian and the two are elders, so they naturally have seats, and Ma Jiyuan has the treatment of the elders of the pavilion given to him by the holy decree, and the others are not treated so well, so they can only stand aside.

Less than ten minutes after everyone stood still, the little yellow door at the door shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has arrived!" When everyone in the tent heard that the emperor was coming, they all got up and saluted, of course the civil officials did not have to kowtow, but the military attachés still had to kowtow.

Zhu Hongsan, wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, entered the big tent from behind, came to the dragon chair in the middle and said, "Everyone is here!" Get up, three gentlemen, please be seated! After saying that, Zhu Hongsan sat on the dragon chair, and the ministers also got up one after another, waiting for the emperor's lecture.

"Everyone, since Yan King Zhu Di rebelled, Emperor Jianwen disappeared, and the imperial power fell into the hands of Zhu Di, a rebel minister, for more than 200 years, but Lao Tzu is not an unreasonable person, and he can't beat Yan Wang to death with a stick, and there have been several good emperors in the early stage of Yan Wang's line, such as Renzong, Xuanzong, and Xiaozong, but bastard emperors account for the majority, such as Wuzong, Shizong, Shenzong, Xizong, and Zhu Youzhen, who claims to be thrifty."

Zhu Hongsan scolded the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty here, and the more he scolded, the happier he became, and finally stood up with a hooligan breath, rolled up his two sleeves, and began to make a lot of nonsense.