Ma Mingyuan has lived a very leisurely life in the past two months, his home was burned down by the troublemakers, but the emperor gave him a courtyard on the shore of Xuanwu Lake. Although this annex is not as big as the original Mafu, it is next to the emperor's annex, which also proves its important position in the emperor's heart.

Ma Mingyuan was having dinner tonight, and Ma Fu, the housekeeper outside the door, ran in.

"Sir, sir! A group of palace guards outside the door said that His Majesty the Emperor had a will to let the master enter the palace immediately! ”

Hearing Ma Fu say this, Ma Mingyuan was stunned, why did His Majesty still call himself so late, could it be that the matter of the new deal has changed?

The emperor summoned Ma Mingyuan and did not dare to delay, quickly got up and changed into official clothes, and when he went out of the gate, he saw a thirty-person brocade guard standing at the door.

Led by a brocade-clothed Wei Xiaoqi, he saw Ma Mingyuan come out and knelt down on one knee and said, "Pavilion Elder, Your Majesty has summoned, please enter the palace with us!" ”

Ma Mingyuan picked up the small flag, took out a 100 yuan money bill from his sleeve and handed it to him, and asked in a low voice: "This little flag, what is Your Majesty looking for Ma so late?" ”

The little flag put the silver ticket into his arms and said in a low voice: "Elder Ge, my subordinates don't know the specific things. But we came out with ten teams, and His Majesty announced the cabinet, the Military Aircraft Department, the ministers, and the Jiuqing Kedao adults into the palace, there should be something big going on! ”

When Ma Mingyuan heard that all the high-ranking officials in Beijing were announced into the palace, something big must have happened. I don't know the little flag in front of me, and I can't do anything, I can only take one step at a time.

Ma Mingyuan got into the official sedan chair, and the little flag sent ten brocade guards to open the way, and he took the rest of the people to the other adults' mansions.

Ma Mingyuan's courtyard is outside Nanjing, and he has to pass through the Taiping Gate to enter the city, and the city gate has been closed at this time, but Ma Mingyuan has a holy decree, and the ambassador guarding the door hurriedly opens the door to welcome Lord Shoufu. Although Ma Mingyuan's residence is the closest to the palace, if he wants to enter the palace, he has to bypass the entire palace and enter from Hongwu Gate, so when he rushed to Hongwu Gate, many people had already gathered at the door.

Wang Yunchang is Ma Mingyuan's hardcore, and when he saw his boss coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute.

"Motosuke is here!"

Ma Mingyuan nodded, said hello to Fu Wenlong, Zhu Dadian and others at the same time, and asked Wang Yunchang in a low voice: "Yuan Lu, what's going on?" ”

Wang Yunchang shook his head and said: "Yuanfu, I don't know, I just heard from Jinyiwei that something big happened in the imperial court, and Your Majesty let us enter the palace!" ”

Ma Mingyuan saw that he couldn't ask anything, so he had to wait here.

After Qian Qianyi, who was farthest away, arrived, the palace gate opened, and Li Chengen walked out of the palace gate and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, everyone should follow our family in!" ”

The officials were arranged according to their official positions and entered the palace under the leadership of the first assistant Ma Mingyuan.

Entering the Wenhua Palace, Ma Mingyuan saw that Tong Yangjia was here early, and Ma Mingyuan thought in his heart: Why did this old guy come first? Could something have happened?

Zhu Hongsan frowned, looked at the ministers and said after saluting: "Calling you Aiqing so late is a big event, Mr. Tong, tell me!" ”

Tong Yangjia bowed down and said the matter of Guangxi. As soon as Tong Yangjia's words fell, the hall was immediately full of discussions.

Zhu Hongsan saw that these guys were so rude, and waved his hand, and the Han generals standing on both sides of the hall shouted: "Silence! Mighty! Then the noise in the hall slowly faded.

Zhu Hongsan rubbed his head and asked, "That's the way things are, what should I do if I take a look?" ”

Gong Dacheng, the secretary of the equipment department, was overjoyed, he was in the army system, and now he was going to fight, and the power in his hands naturally rose.

Gong Dacheng hurriedly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, King Gui is a capricious villain, and now when he should work together to deal with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he is doing such perverse things. The minister proposed to send a general to lead the army to Guangdong to fight King Gui. I believe that as soon as the king arrives, the rebels will disappear like a fire! ”

As soon as Gong Dacheng said this, although the ministers scolded Gong Dacheng for being shameless in their hearts, and said that King Gui was a rebel in order to pat the emperor's ass, they also stood up and seconded Gong Dacheng. After all, now they are sitting here with their buttocks, and Zhu Hongsan has already occupied the capital first, and also worshiped Xiaoling, which is much stronger than King Gui in terms of legitimacy.

Zhu Hongsan heard that the ministers unanimously agreed to start a war with Zhu Youlang, Zhu Hongsan nodded and said: "Since all Aiqing agrees, I am ready to drive the expedition in person, what do you think?" ”

The Emperor's words exploded like a bomb in the crowd, and the ministers objected.

Ma Yunlong stood up and said: "Your Majesty is the foundation of the country, how can you easily leave Beijing?" The disaster of Yingzong is still in front of him, and the minister does not agree to His Majesty's expedition! ”

As soon as Ma Yunlong's words came out, some middle and low-level officials also opposed it, anyway, they were not ready to let Zhu Hongsan go out of Beijing.

Zhu Hongsan was upset when he heard this, and said to Ma Mingyuan: "Mr. Ma, you are the first assistant, what do you think?" ”

Ma Mingyuan stood up and said, "The minister agrees that His Majesty will go out in person!" Your Majesty is different from Yingzong, Your Majesty started from the army, and is naturally familiar with the matter of marching and fighting, plus Guangdong is the foundation of our dynasty, and sending a general is afraid that it will not convince the generals of Guangdong. Moreover, most of the food supply in Nanzhili now is counting on Guangdong, and only His Majesty personally leads the team to coordinate all parties, so the minister agrees with His Majesty to go on the expedition! ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded in his heart when he heard Ma Mingyuan say this, what Ma Mingyuan said was very right. Feng Ziyong, who is now in charge of Guangdong, Feng Lao Er is one of his four great strategists, except for Ma Mingyuan, Ma Jiyuan, and Tong Yangjia, who are also from the same background, who can order him? In addition, Zhou Yu, the leading general of Guangdong, is very old, and he follows him in Huguang, except for Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong in the army, no one else can command him at all, so it seems that only by going there himself can he coordinate all parties.

Just when Zhu Hongsan bowed his head and thought about his thoughts, a civil official among the ministers stood up, it was Cao Guang, the imperial historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a book!"

Zhu Hongsan thought that he had some suggestions for the war in Guangdong, and said: "Let's hear it!" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister impeached the first assistant Ma Mingyuan!" After Cao Guang finished speaking, he opened the music in his hand and said: "Chenjiang West Provincial Supervision Imperial History Cao Guang is respectfully playing!" In order to thank God for sacrificing his life to repay the holy judgment, he punished the treacherous and dangerous thieves and thieves with the Qing Dynasty government to end the trouble, and the ministers impeached the traitor Ma Mingyuan for eight major crimes! ”

Cao Guang talked eloquently in the main hall, scolding Ma Mingyuan, and summarized Ma Mingyuan's sins into eight, namely:

First, "the law of the bad ancestors", Emperor Gao dismissed the prime minister, and Ma Mingyuan encouraged His Majesty to set up a cabinet premier.

Second, "stealing the power of the king", Ma Mingyuan used His Majesty's joy and anger to make a blessing, and the civil and military officials thanked Ma Mingyuan more than His Majesty, and were more afraid of Ma Mingyuan than His Majesty.

Third, "cover up the emperor's governance", His Majesty has good governance, Ma Mingyuan will definitely make his henchmen tell others that this is Ma Mingyuan's proposal and facilitated, and want the world to know that His Majesty's good deeds are attributed to him Ma Mingyuan.

Fourth, "Persistent theft of party henchmen", His Majesty ordered Ma Mingyuan to draft a document to reply, and Ma Mingyuan took it home and asked his henchmen to write it on his behalf.

Fifth, "risking the military exploits of the imperial court", Ma Mingyuan's son Ma Shaojun did not involve the army once, but pretended to be the military exploits of Nanzhili and awarded the post of pacification by Jinyi.

Sixth, "the great handle of the dethroned Zhizhi", Xu Xueshi in the Ministry of Rites was dismissed for speaking out about righteousness, and his elder brother Xu Yingfeng, a scholar in the middle of the house, was also ostracized. The ministers inside and outside have been slandered by Ma Mingyuan countless times.

Seventh, "losing the hearts of the people in the world", the relocation and promotion of civil and military officials, Ma Mingyuan was granted according to the amount of money they bribed. will bribe Ma Mingyuan and have to exploit the soldiers; The officials bribed Ma Mingyuan, and had to beat and scold and gather the people. As a result, the soldiers and people were displaced, and the corruption and poison of officialdom spread all over the country, causing His Majesty to lose the hearts of the world.

Eighth, "the customs of the world", Ma Mingyuan's dictatorship, social customs have changed greatly. Those who bribe are recommended to those who are like thieves, and those who are clumsy are deposed by those who are like Boyi and Shuqi. Those who are upright are seen as deliberately and excessively contrary to common sense, and those who are good at drilling are seen as experienced and good at doing things. There is no greater corruption of customs since ancient times. Ma Mingyuan is fond of money, everyone in the world advocates greed for money, Ma Mingyuan is fond of flattery, and everyone in the world advocates flattery. The origin is not clear, how can it be clarified that the obscenity?

Cao Guang read out this "Please Punish the Traitorous Ministers" in the court, and the entire court was silent. Ma Mingyuan was even more shocked in his heart, he didn't expect this Cao Guang to be the first to attack.

You must know that Cao Guang is no one else, it is the same year that he Ma Mingyuan Chongzhen has been in the past ten years, and now your same year has come forward to count all your eight major sins, what face do you have to do it?

In fact, most of the eight major sins mentioned by Cao Guang are fabricated, and the first bad ancestor law is not true, and the cabinet prime minister system was determined by Zhu Hongsan, where to deal with Ma Mingyuan or something. However, Ma Mingyuan, as the first assistant, still has a certain responsibility not to dissuade His Majesty. The second, third and fourth items are simply taken out of context, Ma Mingyuan, as the first assistant, of course has to do things, and if he does things, he will offend people, so naturally some people say bad things about Ma Mingyuan and so on behind his back. The fifth item is even more nonsense to say that Ma Mingyuan's son took the lead in leading the army, and Ma Shaojun's Jinyi Wei Zhenfu was personally sealed by the emperor. Six, seven, eight, these three are quite reliable, Ma Mingyuan excludes dissidents ruthlessly, and also accepts bribes, but these Zhu Hongsan know that collecting some money is nothing in Zhu Hongsan's eyes, what Zhu Hongsan wants is that you can work. If the minister doesn't work and accepts bribes, then he is really not far from death.