Hearing Tong Yangjia say this, Zhu Hongsan looked at Tong Ma and the others with interest and asked, "Mr. Tong tell me your reason." ”

"Your Majesty, now that the Qing army in the north has arrived in Jiangxi and Fujian, they are about to attack Guangdong, and at this time, they are entangled in the queen and are completely internal friction. It's better not to set up a queen now, and it's not too late to wait until Your Majesty's Northern Expedition is successful! ”

Tong Yangjia's words were so righteous that even Zhu Hongsan nodded again and again, and said: "Mr. Tong is really a pillar of the country!" Several other prime ministers blushed, feeling that they were still inferior to Tong Yangjia. The room was full of people, only the roots of Ma Mingyuan's teeth were itchy. Only he knew what Tong Yangjia thought, but he didn't expect him to come up with a great truth for the country and the people, gain face in front of the emperor, and also get benefits from himself. But now there is no way, Ma Mingyuan asked Tong Yangjia, but he only broke his teeth and swallowed it in his stomach and endured it.

Zhu Hongsan stood up after listening to Tong Yangjia's words, walked a few steps and said, "I haven't slept well in the past few days, and I can see the queen's face when I close my eyes. After all, I and the queen recognized each other when they were young, real childhood sweethearts, and the two had no guesses. Therefore, I decided to follow the example of Emperor Taizu Gao and not make an empress. Cao Fang, proclaim the decree! ”

Cao Fang took out a holy decree in his arms, it turned out that Zhu Hongsan had already had an idea, and the holy decree had already been written.

"Fengtian carries the emperor's system and says: Queen Ma, who is from Wuchang County, Wuchang Prefecture, is from Wuchang County, Wuchang Prefecture, and has no guesses when she was a child. The current Empress Ma Shi, I was very sad, and found that I was extremely similar to Emperor Taizu Gao, I decided to follow the example of Emperor Taizu Gao, not to set up a queen, and named Empress Ma as filial piety and grace Wen Mu Duanjing Chongtianyu Shengzhang Empress, Qin this! ”

Then Cao Fangyou took out a holy decree, and then read: "Fengtian carries the emperor's system and says: Ma Ruyan Shu Gong An Chun, named the imperial concubine, responsible for taking care of the harem, Qin this!" ”

Unexpectedly, the emperor still named Ma Ruyan as the imperial concubine, which is already one step away from the queen. Before the ministers could react, Cao Fang took out another holy decree and read it.

"Fengtian carries the emperor's system and says: The crown prince Zhu Hai is already twelve years old, and I am determined to establish the east palace west of the palace for the prince to live, and now appoint Chen Zizhuang as the prince's young master, Ma Mingyuan as the prince's young master, and Zhu Hongyi as the prince's young guard. At the same time, the second son Zhu Jiang was the king of Qin, the third son Zhu Huai was the king of Chu, the fourth son Zhu Yuan was the king of Yan, the fifth son Zhu Lang was the king of Yue, the sixth son Zhu Bo was the king of Jin, Zhu Hongyi was the king of Xiangyang County, the eldest daughter Zhu Luo was the princess of Changping, the second daughter Zhu Yu was the princess of Yuyang, and the third daughter Zhu Xiang was the princess of Changsha. ”

The ministers didn't expect Zhu Hongsan to be so generous today, all his sons were crowned kings, and all his daughters were crowned princesses. The most incredible thing is that the third Zhu Huai, the son of Dong Huan and the grandson of Tong Yangjia, was named the king of Chu. You must know that the King of Chu is Zhu Hongsan's previous title, and in ancient China, the official positions that the emperor has done cannot be done by others. For example, Li Shimin, he served as a Shangshu Ling, and in the future, Shangshu Ling will be called Shangshu Servant. Zhao Guangyi in the Song Dynasty served as the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, and when he became the emperor, the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion was vacant, and the officials who came to manage Kaifeng Mansion should be called Quan Zhi Kaifeng Mansion, which means temporary agency.

But today, the emperor's edict gave the king of Chu to his third son, Zhu Huai, which can't help but make the minister think about it. Tong Yangjia didn't expect Zhu Hongsan to be so generous today, it seems that he is the last laugh today.

In fact, Zhu Hongsan did this to implement the wolf pack plan that Feng Ruoshu said, his son can't become a greenhouse flower, there is only one big position, and the capable person lives in it. Even if the crown prince Zhu Hai can't meet Zhu Hongsan's expectations in the future, Zhu Hongsan will replace him mercilessly, and these sons will become the prince's spare tire. Of course, except for the crown prince, the other sons are still very young, and the youngest Zhu Bo is only six months old, but Zhu Hongsan believes that with his diligent sowing, he will definitely find a suitable heir to the empire.

This court meeting ended like this, on the surface, Ma Mingyuan was a big winner, no queen was established, the prince's position was stable, and the prince had already sat in the East Palace. And he, Ma Mingyuan, has also become the young master of the crown prince, and he is very hot. But Ma Mingyuan knew that he was far from being the biggest winner, and this time his opposition to Ma Ruyan as the queen had caused a rift in the Ma family, and the eldest brother Ma Jiyuan was bound to divide part of the Ma family's forces to leave him. When the dynasty was dispersed, Fu Wenlong's cold words to himself were proof.

And the big winner behind the scenes is Tong Yangjia, this old guy first got a prefect and a fellow governor from himself, and won the emperor's appreciation at the court meeting, but he didn't expect that in the end the emperor would crown Zhu Huai as the king of Chu, what does this mean? Could it be that the emperor wants to reveal a signal to himself that the prince is incompetent and will change the prince?

The more Ma Mingyuan thought about it, the more he felt that Emperor Zhu Hongsan's political methods were sophisticated, and now Zhu Hongsan was completely different from the previous Huguang boy, there was no trace of youthfulness, and various means of differentiation and disintegration emerged one after another, and he was already a qualified emperor.

Just when there was a lot of uproar in Guangzhou for the queen's affairs, Zhang Jiayu, who was far away in Nanxiong Mansion in the north, had already received Zhu Hongsan's holy decree, ordering himself to prepare for the Nanxiong Prefect and Shaonan's soldiers, but he could act cheaply. This order is too important, Ganzhou in Jiangxi is already in an emergency, and Wan Yuanji, the military department appointed by the Tang king, has already sent three letters to ask for reinforcements from him. But without Zhu Hongsan's order, he didn't dare to act rashly, even if he wanted to, he couldn't move, and without Tiger Fu, those new army masters didn't care about themselves at all.

With the decree of His Majesty the Emperor, there are also several ships of weapons and equipment, and now Guangzhou is expanding the army, I heard that Emperor Zhu Hongsan has recruited another 50,000 people, and is stepping up training, so the weapons transported are still mainly cold weapons, and firearms are only enough to equip one regiment. But this is not bad, plus Ma Liang's regiment, the new army already has two regiments of 7,000 people, and 3,000 cold weapon troops, Zhang Jiayu feels that he can compete with the Qing army.

After receiving Zhu Hongsan's order, Zhang Jiayu ordered Ma Rufeng to be the commander of the newly formed new corps, and then led two new corps and 3,000 cold weapon troops to Ganzhou to rescue.

Nanxiong is the southern gate of Guangdong, and Ganzhou is the starting point of the Meiling Ancient Road connecting Nanxiong, so Ganzhou has become the first line of defense to defend Nanxiong.

In June last year, Wan Yuanji, who guarded Ganzhou, was appointed by Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, as the secretary of the military department. At the same time, the Manchu troops had already occupied Nanchang, Yuanzhou, Linjiang, Ji'an and other places in Jiangxi. A month later, Jianchang was occupied. In the whole of Jiangxi, only Ganzhou is left alone in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the troops in the city are also very thin. Li Yongmao, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, then ordered the deputy general Xu Bida to hold Taihe and resist the Manchu troops. After a few days of defeat, he retreated to Wan'an and fled to Ganzhou.

In August, the rebel general Bai Zhizi entered Wan'an, and the governor of Jiangxi, Kuang Zhao, was captured alive. At that time, the edict of the Tang King happened to come to Ganzhou, and Li Yongmao managed the military together with Yang Tinglin and Liu Guosheng. Soon the king of Tang summoned Li Yongmao back to serve as the right attendant of the military department, and asked Zhang Chaoyan to replace him. As soon as Li Yongmao took office, he promoted Wan Yuan Ji to the right attendant of the military department and the right deputy capital Yushi and the governor of Jiangxi, and led the armies of Jiangxi and Huguang.

At this time, Zhang Tongchang, a scholar from Zhongshushe, led the reinforcements of the Yunnan army to Jiangxi, and got the news that Nanjing had been lost, so he retreated to Ji'an. Yang Tinglin left them to guard the city together and treated them with the etiquette of hospitality. Their generals Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing made meritorious contributions many times, but Wan Yuanji was very strict with them, and the generals in Yunnan slowly became unhappy. And Zhang Anben, a close confidant of Wan Yuanji, was one of the four battalions of thieves between Tingzhou and Ganzhou, brave and good at fighting, and established the battle exploits of recovering Fuzhou after surrendering, and also recruited the other three battalions of thieves. Yuanji thought that the new army could be relied on and despised the troops in Yunnan, so the troops in Yunnan were disheartened.

But Zhang An's soldiers were originally thieves, and when they lived in Ganzhou, they still raped women, robbed property, and sent them to reinforce Huxi, they were burned and robbed all the way through. At this time, the Manchu troops came to fight Ji'an, and the other soldiers refused to fight, and the new army was still in Huxi. Therefore, the troops in the city of Ji'an collapsed without a fight, and the city was breached. Wan Yuanji retired to Soakou and sent a letter to Ganzhou to tell the story of the Yunnan troops' crime of abandoning the city and fleeing, and the Yunnan troops simply went west.

In July, the Qing soldiers rushed to Soakou, and Wan Yuan Ji was unable to defend himself, so he hid in Ganzhou City. The Qing soldiers took advantage of the victory and drove to the city of Ganzhou.

Wan Yuan Ji has always been very talented, shrewd and diligent. After the fall of Ji'an, the soldiers did not listen to orders, and he sat on the city wall in a daze, saying not a word to the generals. On the other side of the river, the Qing barracks were all over the foothills, and he said that they were empty camps. When soldiers or civilians escaped from the Qing barracks and said that the enemy was strong, Yuan Ji accused them of being spies and beheaded them. Liu Yuansheng, the governor of Jiangxi, ordered a general named Zhang Cong to lead troops to reinforce Hudong, and when the siege of Ganzhou was urgent, Liu Yuansheng personally went out of the city to Xuedu to call Zhang Cong. Zhang Cong's troops crossed the river and advanced, but when they reached Merlin, they were ambushed and returned, and when they reached the river, many people died in the river fighting for boats. Liu Yuansheng was so annoyed that he crossed the river on the first day of May and fought again, but he was caught and fled back when a large number of troops returned fire.

The new army that had been sent to Huxi heard that Ji'an had been lost and returned to the capital. Yang Tinglin personally went to invite them over, and fought with the Qing troops in Meilin, but failed again, so Yang Tinglin evacuated the new army and entered the city himself to defend the city with Wan Yuanji. Since Liu Yuansheng's defeat, reinforcements from all over the country did not dare to go forward to fight.

When the Tang King heard that the periphery of Ganzhou had not yet fallen, he rewarded and comforted the officers and soldiers here, named Ganzhou as the Loyal Mansion, and crowned 10,000 Yuan Ji as the secretary of the military department. Guo Weijing and Yushi Yao Qiyuan recruited troops along the way and recruited 8,000 people. Wang Qilong, the general of Wan Yuanji, led 4,000 troops, Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing, Yunnan aid generals, led 3,000 troops, Su Guansheng, a scholar, also sent so many people, Ding Kuichu, the governor of Liangguang, also sent 4,000 troops, and Yang Tinglin collected fleeing soldiers and got several thousand. These troops came to Ganzhou one after another and set up barracks outside the city. The generals wanted to fight, and Wan Yuan Ji asked to wait for the sailors to come and attack together. At that time, the Zhongshushe people came to Yige to recruit 3,000 sand soldiers, and Gong Lu, the head of the Ministry of Officials, and Li Suiqiu, the head of the Ministry of War, recruited 4,000 sailors, all of whom were stationed in Nan'an and did not dare to come.

Wang Qi, the director, said to Yuan Ji: "Luo Mingshou, the general of the sailor, is a pirate, fierce and difficult to control, Gong Yu and Li Suiqiu are as careful with them as a loving mother doting on her son. Besides, the water is shallow now, and the big ship can't sail, so how can it come as promised? "Wan Yuan Ji didn't listen. In October, when the Qing troops heard that the sailors were coming, they set fire to 80 of their ships on the river at night, killing countless people. As a result, the troops in Guangxi and Yunnan fled without a fight, and the other troops also fled slightly. There were only more than 4,000 soldiers left in the city of Ganzhou, and only more than 2,000 people from the rear battalion of the water division outside the city. General Xie Zhiliang had more than 10,000 troops in the capital and did not come to the rescue, and Yang Tinglin transferred 8,000 wolf soldiers from Guangxi to cross the mountains, and these wolf soldiers refused to rush to help. At this time, I heard that Tingzhou had been defeated, and people's hearts were even more shocked and frightened.