Ma Jiyuan is here to look at Zhu Hongsan's black history, and Zhu Jiang was dumbfounded when he heard it. Of course, there were three parties to the Guojiazhuang incident, of course Zhu Hongsan and Zhu Hongyi couldn't say it, and Ma Ruyan couldn't say such a shameful thing to his son, so it was the first time that Zhu Jiang heard that his mother was robbed by his father.

However, as Zhu Hongsan's son, how can he defend his father, Zhu Jiang said: "This is also forgivable, after all, my father and my mother are the same age, plus that Guo Huaiyi must be very old, my mother must not be happy when she marries him!" ”

Ma Jiyuan sneered: "Okay! This matter is considered your father to do the right thing, but the matter of Xinyang is experienced by the old man! ”

Zhu Jiang knew about Xinyang, Jiang Pengju bragged about how brave he was in Xinyang City, how he saved the emperor, and drank wine with the emperor, and Zhu Jiang's ears were calloused.

"Grandpa, what's going on in the battle of Xinyang? Didn't my father take people thousands of miles to rescue my grandfather's family? ”

"Fart, did you listen to Jiang Pengju, that bastard said, he is your father's person, of course you have to speak for your father!"

Ma Jiyuan said dryly, picked up the teacup and took a sip of it, and then said: "It was true that your father went to Xinyang to save the old man back then, and it was also true that he fought a bloody battle with Kou in Xinyang City, but do you know? The battle of Xinyang was fought for a day, and your father saw that the Liukou was powerful, so in order to escape for his own life, he actually let go of the city gate he guarded, and let the million-strong army of the Liukou enter the city, and the 80,000 people of Xinyang were all used as shields by your father! Now the soldiers of the army slaughter the people, all because of your father! ”

"But... But didn't my father save my grandfather's family? Zhu Jiang is still here to defend Zhu Hongsan.

"Of course, your father saved the old man's family, but what about the female dependents? The old man's original partner, your two aunts were killed on the spot by your father, and your father said that it was a burden to flee with a woman. Only your grandmother escaped under the protection of Jiang Pengju's life! ”

Zhu Jiang is now completely unable to defend Zhu Hongsan, no matter what, killing the whole family is really not a good person's doing.

"Grandpa, since your father treats you like this, why do you still serve your father?" Zhu Jiang is right, since Zhu Hongsan killed your whole family, it stands to reason that you and Zhu Hongsan don't share the genius, why did you become Zhu Hongsan's adviser when you arrived in Wuchang?

Ma Jiyuan sighed and said: "Your father has a saying that often hangs on his lips, that is, his daughter-in-law is the good of others, and his son is his own good. When he killed the old man's family and his daughters in Xinyang, but he saved the old man's ancestors and grandchildren for three generations, your three uncles and two cousins can stay alive under the million-strong army of rogues, thanks to your father! And your father knows the way of employing people, the old man arrived in Wuchang and immediately entrusted him with a heavy task, and there is no doubt about employing people, this is exactly the means that a successful emperor should have, the old man thinks about the hundreds of millions of people in the world, in order to end this troubled world as soon as possible, so he decided to help your father! ”

Zhu Jiang came tonight to prepare to find Ma Jiyuan to solve his doubts, but after listening to Ma Jiyuan's words, the doubts in his heart deepened, and his father, who was originally bright and majestic in his heart, has also changed, can only a shameless villain like his father live in troubled times? Wrong! There must be something I haven't figured out!

Ma Jiyuan looked at Zhu Jiang's contemplative appearance and felt very sad in his heart, Zhu Jiang, a child who was pampered after birth, suddenly found that his father was like this, and he really couldn't accept it.

Ma Jiyuan picked up a newspaper from the table and handed it to Zhu Jiang: "Look at this newspaper, this is just sent from Jingshi today!" ”

Zhu Jiang took it and was taken aback, the first article in the newspaper recorded that Chen Zizhuang, the first assistant, colluded with Lu Daqi, the minister of King Gui, and secretly hid a letter insulting the queen mother, and was a bad element who mixed into the revolutionary team, and was a black model in Zhu Hongsan's group, how could this kind of garbage be the first assistant? Therefore, the wise Shenwu Emperor Zhu Hongsan saw through Chen Zizhuang's mask of hypocrisy, and with the help of his second assistant Ma Mingyuan, he found out the moths in his team.

"Grandpa, Chen Shoufu is a traitor? This.. It can't be! ”

Ma Jiyuan smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know what character Chen Zizhuang has?" But if you think about it again, who benefited the most from the fall of Chen Zizhuang? ”

Zhu Jiang thought for a while and said, "Is it the second grandfather?" He's now Shousuke! ”

"This is only visible on the surface, your second grandfather is a vested interest, but the initiator behind it is your father!"

Zhu Jiang was stunned when he heard Ma Jiyuan say this: "No, the newspaper said that Chen Zizhuang colluded with Lu Daqi first!" ”

"Do you know why Chen Zizhuang can become the first assistant? There were only four of us who followed your father to Guangdong, the old man, Ma Mingyuan, Feng Ziyong, and Tong Yangjia, and your second grandfather has always called himself the emperor's chief adviser, but what was the result? Your father's first assistant after taking charge of the country was Feng Ruoshu, of course, at this time, your second grandfather didn't dare to have any ideas, but Feng Ruoshu was followed by Chen Zizhuang, why do you say? ”

Zhu Jiang is now an adult, and he has some understanding of the bullshit in officialdom, and said: "Was it that we were in Guangdong at that time and wanted to win over the gentry in Guangdong?" ”

Ma Jiyuan said appreciatively: "Yes, you are right, because of your father's low background, most of the gentry in Guangdong did not support your father, so Feng Ruoshu proposed to resign himself and handed over the position of first assistant to Chen Zizhuang to win over the local gentry in Guangdong!" After Feng Ruoshu's death, he was nicknamed "Wenzheng", which was also the emperor's reward for him! But now that it has arrived in Nanjing, the influence of the Guangdong gentry is gone, and in turn, there are still a large number of gentry in Zhejiang and Nanzhili to be wooed, but there are so many positions in the court, what do you do with the emperor? ”

"Could it be... Could it be that in order to win over the gentry of Nanzhili, it is necessary to get rid of Chen Zizhuang, who has made great contributions to this dynasty? ”

"This is not true, it is a foregone conclusion to get rid of Chen Zizhuang here in Nanjing, and Chen Zizhuang himself should be aware of it. Although the emperor is shameless, he is still very good to his own people, if Chen Zizhuang returns to his hometown at this time, he can still return to his hometown with honor, but Chen Zizhuang wants to be attached to the throne, which annoys your second grandfather, and it doesn't matter what the letter is written. ”

Although Ma Jiyuan is far away from the court, he has many years of experience in the sea and has rich experience in officialdom, and after seeing the Di report, he immediately guessed the cause and effect of the incident.

Ma Jiyuan changed his words and said to Zhu Jiang: "Child, you listen to your grandfather's words, your personality is not suitable for this troubled world, and you are not suitable for being an emperor, the war in Yangzhou is over, you should go back and be a prince of peace!" Grandpa promised you that after returning to Nanjing, I would find you a virtuous and beautiful woman to be the princess, and as long as my grandfather lived for a day, he would not let you be bullied! ”

Zhu Jiang knew that his grandfather Ma Jiyuan had always supported the crown prince, so he didn't say anything after listening to his grandfather's persuasion. But Ma Jiyuan will be wrong, he thought that after his own hard persuasion, Zhu Jiang already knew that he was not the material to be the emperor, Ma Jiyuan said happily: "In a few days, the old man will send someone back to Beijing to report the victory, and you happen to be going back, how about this task entrusted to you?" ”

Zhu Jiang's heart moved when he heard Ma Jiyuan say this, and it happened that he had a lot of things to ask his father in his heart, so he could take this opportunity to ask clearly.

Zhu Jiang stood up and said, "Okay! The last will be ordered! Rest assured, Lord Governor, the last general will complete the mission! ”

Ma Jiyuan looked at Zhu Jiang's distant figure and was overjoyed, he really didn't want a tragedy of brothers in the Shenwu Dynasty, and now Zhu Jiang could retreat under his own persuasion It was really a satisfactory solution.

The city of Yangzhou was breached on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and on the twelfth day, all the surrounding states and counties were finally pacified. Yangzhou city has returned to normal order, although after several years of massacres, bones are still found in the city from time to time, but the Chinese are probably the most tolerant people in the world, as long as there is a glimmer of life can live strongly. Therefore, the only tens of thousands of people left in Yangzhou City have also begun their own lives, after all, life will go on no matter what.

In fact, Nanjing had already received the news as early as the eighth day of the first lunar month, but today was the official victory, and in addition to the military representatives, there were also several hundred selected prisoners of war who returned to Beijing to hold a ceremony to present prisoners of war in Nanjing.

Zhu Jiang, as a battalion commander, was not qualified to be a prisoner, but under the recommendation of Ma Jiyuan, this face-revealing errand was returned to Zhu Jiang.

In this way, Zhu Jiang took the various flags of the Qing army that had been captured, as well as 300 selected prisoners, plus 200 officers and soldiers escorted to Beijing, and boarded the ship back to Beijing on the 12th day of the first lunar month.

Now the entire Yangzhou Canal and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River belong to Zhu Hongsan, so Zhu Jiang and others quickly entered the Yangtze River through the Guazhou ferry and came to Nanjing on the 14th of the first month.

This kind of fleet of ships that reported success had someone return to Nanjing early to inform that Emperor Zhu Hongsan ordered the crown prince Zhu Hai to go to the dock to meet the fleet instead of himself.

Therefore, Zhu Hai came to the wharf outside Jinchuan Gate on the morning of the 14th and waited for the arrival of the fleet.

Zhu Jiang stood at the bow of the boat and saw the crowds on the dock from a distance, and a Huangluo umbrella cover was very eye-catching, and he thought that his father Zhu Hongsan had come to greet him personally. It has been almost a year since Zhu Jiang left Guangdong, and he has not seen his father for a long time, and now his father is in front of him, and he is very excited.

How do you know that after going ashore, I found that it was not my father who greeted me, but my eldest brother, the crown prince Zhu Hai.

didn't find that his father, Emperor Zhu Jiang, couldn't help but feel a little lost, and stepped forward and arched his hand: "Brother Prince is here, the younger brother is polite!" "Zhu Jiang has been in the army for a long time, and there is no such thing as kneeling down in the army when he sees his superiors, so he is a little slack in etiquette.

The crown prince Zhu Hai couldn't have a seizure, but a young official wearing a seven-rank green robe official uniform beside the prince stood up and shouted: "King Qin, don't you, as a prince, obey the laws of the imperial court?" Why didn't you give a great gift when you saw the prince? ”

The crown prince is the prince of the country and the future emperor, and now Zhu Jiang was negligent and did not salute, and was immediately caught by the officials around the prince.