Feng Ruoshu's death only made Zhu Hongsan sad for a short while, which was already very good for the unsympathetic Zhu Hongsan, and the next step was to prepare for the enthronement ceremony.

On the 29th of the lunar month, a passenger ship from the South Seas stopped at the wharf in Guangzhou. This is very common in Guangzhou, and now Nanyang is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and every day there are merchant ships and passenger ships from Nanyang docking at Guangzhou Wharf.

A tall middle-aged man got off the boat, it was Ma Jiyuan, who was assigned to Luzon as a county magistrate. But now he is no longer the county commander of Qipin, dragging the blessing of his nephew Zhu Hai, Ma Jiyuan now succeeds Fu Wenlong and becomes the governor of Nanyang, from the feudal official of Yipin.

There was a luxurious carriage parked on the dock, and Ma Fu, the housekeeper of the Ma Mansion on the side of the carriage, saw Ma Jiyuan getting off the boat and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"Welcome back uncle, the second master has prepared a banquet in the house, please get in the car!"

Ma Jiyuan looked at the carriage and frowned, he was an honest official, and he looked down on Ma Mingyuan's luxurious enjoyment.

But after more than half a year of living in Nanyang, Ma Jiyuan has also matured a lot, and he is no longer the same Ma Jiyuan who pointed at Zhu Hongsan's nose and scolded him before.

Ma Jiyuan got into the carriage and came to Ma Mingyuan's mansion, Ma Lao Er was standing at the gate to greet him, Ma Lao San, Ma Jingyuan also came, standing behind Ma Mingyuan, Ma Mingyuan's sons also came out to greet the uncle.

Seeing Ma Jiyuan tanned by the sun of the South Seas, Ma Mingyuan said: "Big brother, you have suffered!" ”

Ma Jiyuan smiled and said, "It's okay, Luzon is not as hard as outsiders think, but the temperature can't stand it." ”

"Big brother, don't say it, go into the house, rest and rest, let's eat after washing!"

Ma Jiyuan went into the house to take a bath, and after freshening up, Ma Mingyuan and Ma Jingyuan took the whole family to salute Ma Jiyuan. Now that the old people of the Ma family are dead, Ma Jiyuan has become the head of the family.

After the ceremony, they sat down to eat, the three brothers of the Ma family had a table, and the children had a table outside.

Ma Mingyuan saw Ma Jingyuan bowing his head to eat and not talking, knowing that this brother was unhappy that he had treated him badly in the past few years.

"Third brother, don't be angry, the second brother used to be bad and didn't care about you, but don't forget, no matter how you have the blood of the Ma family!"

Ma Jingyuan is also in his thirties this year, and he is also an official, so he naturally knows about this situation, but he has been suppressed by Ma Lao Er all the year round, and it is impossible to have no resentment in his heart.

Ma Jiyuan sighed and said: "Second brother, I went to Changhua before I came back, and I was going to pick up the second Shaoji, but I didn't expect to go to find out that Shaoji had been dead for a month, and the local officials said that he was killed by gunpowder when he was opening the mine!" ”

Ma Mingyuan was shocked when he heard the news, what was killed by gunpowder, Qiongzhou Mansion is Tong Yangjia's territory, and Tong Tuchang is the person in charge of Changhua Iron Mine, it is not easy for them to kill a person, I didn't expect the Tong family to be ruthless to this point.

"I didn't expect that I, Ma Jiyuan, would have to experience the pain of losing my son when I was old!"

Although Ma Jingyuan was not welcomed, but after all, it was the Ma family, and when he heard the news, he asked: "Big brother, is Shaoji's nephew the Tong family's hand!" ”

"Needless to say! Third child, you see, Tong Yangjia killed us this time! Do you still want to stay out of it? ”

As soon as Ma Mingyuan came to power, he found that his previous forces were basically wiped out by Tong Yangjia, and in order to seize power as soon as possible, he had to unite the entire strength of the Ma family.

Ma Jingyuan nodded, he also knew the cruelty of political struggle, Tong Yangjia doesn't care if you are a son-in-law or a concubine, as long as you are labeled as a Ma family, it is ruthless suppression.

"Big brother, what do you say?" Ma Jingyuan, who made up his mind, said. "We can't let Shoki's nephew die in vain."

Ma Jiyuan shook his head and said: "In the past, we were naïve, thinking that the King of Chu started from our Ma family, and he must not treat the Ma family badly, but now it seems that the saying that a companion is like a tiger makes sense." If we immediately counterattack Tong Yangjia now, whether we can succeed is another matter, I am afraid that the big board will come down on the side of King Chu. ”

Ma Mingyuan was very surprised, he didn't expect that this Taoist brother had opened his head in Luzon for more than half a year.

"Big brother, it seems that you have a high opinion, let's hear it!"

"The first goal of the King of Chu now is to resist the Qing army, and if the one does well, the one will be favored by the King of Chu. Isn't he Tong Yangjia so domineering now that he has done a good job of iron ore for the King of Chu in Qiongzhou? And you, the second child, why did the King of Chu suppress you? Isn't it also reaching out to the township to try to destroy the relationship between the king of Chu and the Cantonese scholars? ”

Hearing the eldest brother mention his glorious history, Ma Mingyuan blushed a little.

"Then may I ask the eldest brother, what should we do?"

"It's very simple, work hard to run errands, and let the King of Chu see that our Ma family is useful to him, so that it will naturally ensure the prosperity of my Ma family!"

"But the revenge of Shaoji's nephew is gone?"

"Of course we have to report, but not now, we have to collect evidence of Tong Yangjia's uncle and nephew, but don't act rashly, strive to kill with one blow, and kill Tong Yangjia!"

Looking at Ma Jiyuan, whose face was deformed, Ma Lao Er and Ma Lao San saw their brother become like this for the first time, and it seemed that Ma Jiyuan's death was very touched by his son.

Less than half an hour after the Ma family banquet ended, two secret reports were placed on Zhu Hongsan's desk, one from Jinyiwei and one from Dongchang, Zhu Hongsan looked at the two secret reports that were not very different, and it seemed that these two intelligence agencies were very responsible.

Seeing Ma Jiyuan's anger over his son's death and Tong Yangjia, Zhu Hongsan was very happy. In fact, Ma Shaoji's death has nothing to do with Tong Yangjia, it is the hand of Zhu Hongsan's order to Jinyiwei, only in this way can the Ma brothers and Tong Yangjia's uncle and nephew be on the same footing, and he can balance between the two of them, and the imperial power can be preserved.

"Good fight! It's better to have a fight than a pool of stagnant water, as long as the army is in my hands, no matter how chaotic it is. Well! Now Tong Yangjia has been hit a little too much by himself, he should help him! ”

No matter what lack of moral ideas Zhu Hongsan pondered here, the second year of Hongguang passed quickly, but the New Year was not the third year of Hongguang, but the first year of Shenwu.

On the first day of the first month of the first year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu, officially ascended the throne in Guangzhou Mansion, proclaiming the world, and another local force joined in the competition for the world.

The enthronement ceremony is far from being as grand as later generations proclaimed, what auspicious clouds descend from the sky, the appearance of the white turtle, etc., all of which were imposed on Zhu Hongsan by the descendants of Zhu Hongsan in order to elevate his status.

The enthronement ceremony was very simple, at sunrise in the morning, Zhu Hongsan wore the clothes of the vassal king to accept the persuasion of the ministers, then the Guangzhou gentry persuaded to advance, and then the persuasion of the citizens. Zhu Hongsan agreed to be the emperor in desperation, and then went back to change his clothes and put on the emperor's crown clothes. The tiara consists of two parts, the tiara, which is a cylindrical cap roll covered with a wooden tiara. The front and back of the crown plate are round, symbolizing the round heaven and the earth; The crown plate is painted blue and black on the top and yellow and red on the bottom, symbolizing the yellow of heaven and earth; The jade beads are strung together with colorful silk ropes and hung on the front and back of the crown plate, symbolizing the passage of time; It was made of silk and cotton and hung over his ears to remind the king not to listen to slander. When the crown of the Great Tomorrow is worn on the head, it should be low in front and high in the back, symbolizing the care of the Great Tomorrow Son for the people, which is also the nurturing grace of the Son, and it is necessary to add the four words of Long Live Qisheng in it, so that the nickname becomes eighteen words, and the ministers are all against it. This is four words more than Zhu Yuanzhang's wife Ma Dajia, only two words less than the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, and there are two words in it, which is the emperor's special name, you Zhu Hongsan don't want to be ashamed of our ministers.

The cabinet headed by Chen Zizhuang is all opposed, but Zhu Hongsan is not the emperor of Jiajing who comes to power halfway, and he does not compromise with the minister at all, seeing that the minister does not agree, he is even more ready to enshrine his mother Zhao Chunhua as the emperor, the reason is very simple, Wu Zetian can be the emperor, why can't his wife be? In the end, Chen Zizhuang and other ministers were troubled by Zhu Hongsan, so they had no choice but to retreat and agree to this strange nickname, so the only eighteen-character nickname appeared among the empress dowagers of the Ming Dynasty.