"Brother Ma, Ling Zun will be able to give you a little more pocket money from now on."

A guard squeezed his eyes and smiled narrowly at Ma Luan.

The guards didn't have a salary, and the little belongings that Ma Luan had accumulated in the local area before were almost used to eat flowers and wine, otherwise, he wouldn't have asked other colleagues to share the expenses together.

Although Ma Shiying is not a Qing official, he is not greedy, and his family is not rich or frugal, so he should drink it, so there is no extra silver subsidy for Ma Luan.

Now with a salary of 40,000 taels of silver a year, I want to be more generous to the old horse and give Ma Luan more subsidies.

Thinking of this, Ma Luan also had a smile on his face, and just wanted to say something, when he saw his own Lao Tzu and Shi Kefa, Qian Qianyi and other ministers finally come out, he was frightened and immediately straightened his face, pressed the waist knife in his hand, and didn't dare to move at all.

Today's court meeting also seems to be very relaxed, after all, it is just a matter of the prince's victory, Ma Shiying and Shi Kefa both have a little relaxed smile on their faces, but Ma Luan saw that Lu Zhenfei and Wang Jiayan and other tide stalls had a little unspeakable solemnity, and his heart moved, knowing that under the surface of the easy court meeting, there must be an undercurrent surging.

"The old man and Shi Daolin have been walking very close recently......

Ma Luan did not agree with some of Ma Shiying's decisions. There is a clear difference between the views of the people and the court, and there is also a clear difference between the military and the court.

As far as Ma Luan is concerned, among the people, due to the continuous efforts of the Information Department, the image of the prince has been unprecedentedly tall and straight, and any behavior that criticizes the prince will be spurned and insulted, even if it is a scholar and talent that the people have always respected, as long as there is a slight disrespect for the prince in their words, they will definitely be booed by those citizens.

As for the situation in the countryside, Ma Luan, a son who has lived in the city for a long time, is not very clear, but it is expected that the prestige of the prince will not be low.

Because of the gentry in the countryside, there are now many people who are interested in the prince.

Prestige is something that cannot be seen or touched in ordinary times, but Ma Luan believes that prestige in the military is much more important than that of the people. Because of the events in March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, coupled with Liu Zeqing, the Nanjing Rebellion, and the razing of the salt barons, the prince's thunderous and resolute style has convinced everyone in the army.

Unlike the emperor's forbearance and tolerance of the warlords, the prince's method of acting is easier to convince the people.

The emperor has a reputation for perseverance, but his actions are indecisive, and he has never been really decisive.

Liu Zeqing has been operating in Caozhou for many years, doing all kinds of evil, assassinating court officials, the emperor has always endured, at a critical juncture, transferred Caozhou soldiers to Beijing, Liu Zeqing refused to accept the order, and later actually lived in Huai'an, spying on Xuzhou or Yangzhou, like a strong domain.

Such a scumbag, if it weren't for the prince's categorical killing, what would it be like now, how could the Qingjiang area make such a big cause?

This one thing alone, whether it is the guards of the guard office, or the royal forest army of Yulin and Gongsheng Town, or the soldiers of the Jingying Forbidden Army directly under the direct management of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, when it comes to the prince, they are all praised.

The generals were bent on Qingjiang and seeking military merits.

Generals such as Wei Yue were only the general banners of a hundred households when they were in Yanjing, and now they are all generals at the level of deputy generals of the general town.

With the deepening of the prince's Northern Expedition, the opportunity for these generals to be crowned marquis in the future is really very good, and now the Ming Dynasty has lost half of the country, and most of the old relatives of the former relatives have stayed in Yanjing to surrender thieves except for a few families who have followed them to Nanjing.

In the future, after the peace is settled, the titles of these noble families will definitely not be kept, and a large number of new lords will come into being. If you can't grasp this opportunity, then you will be sorry for your ancestors, and you will be sorry for your children and grandchildren, and you really don't have the face to live in the world.

This kind of thinking is not only shared by generals, but also by ordinary lower-level military attaches and soldiers.

The smoother the prince fought in Qingjiang, the more ideas the people below became, and the more the army's heart was towards Qingjiang. As a guard, Ma Luan knows much more about the heart of the army than the people above, his old man is obviously recommended by the prince, but now because of his power, he is very close to Shi Kefa, and Ma Luan believes that in the hearts of the courtiers and even the royal family, Shi Kefa is more reliable than the old man of his own family in terms of character after all, and it is really the day when the poor dagger sees him, either he wins, or the fate of the Ma family is not so wonderful.

It's just that he was forced back by the sharp light in Father Yan's eyes when he wanted to take a little bold idea.

Ma Shiying was a senior official, and after the recovery, he had several victories over the thieves, and he was also very good at governing the place, and was known as the only capable official in the area of Nanzhili, a general like Huang Degong, who was also cultivated by him, Ma Luan wanted to say that Ma Shiying had been separated from the army, and as soon as he said this, he was afraid that he would be beaten to death.

So now he can only watch from the side, but fortunately, he is a little guard, and these adults don't take him very seriously, but they just walk over from the court with different expressions, and slowly the news is at the south end of the Huangji Gate.

The court meeting is dispersed, and you can see the large self-striking bell in the temple from the perspective of Ma Luan, which is much more accurate than the time and hourglass of the bell and drum tower, as long as you learn how to read the hour, the rest of the matter will be very easy.

"At four o'clock, after another moment, I will be on duty, and at five o'clock I will finish the shift, and the palace door will be locked before and after two o'clock...... That's none of our business. ”

Before taking over the shift, the guards also relaxed and whispered and laughed in front of the temple gate.

If you stand in the palace on duty, it will be bitter, you have to stand in front of the emperor, you can't say that you can't laugh, you can stand down for a whole few hours, your back hurts, it's better to go to training for bow and arrow equestrianism, and the endorsement is also successful.

"It's strange, why didn't someone come to the guard office to lead the class, and the imperial minister didn't come down."

Ma Luan is also on duty like his colleagues, but the ministers who lead the guards have not come out today, the guards in the palace have not withdrawn, and the few noble ministers who serve in front of the palace every day have never seen their figures.

They didn't see anyone, so the guards had to wait here honestly, and after a long time, they saw a minister leading the class, followed by a group of third-class guards, but in the middle was a person wearing a first-class military attache uniform, who was striding towards the palace.

"Someone from the Governor's Mansion?"

"Is this too early or late to summon?"

"That's it, if you want to see it, you should see it on the platform, why did you summon it to the main hall?"

"It's not simple, time is tight, the emperor is too lazy to move, just see you in the main hall."

There are certain rules for the emperor to summon ministers, and when he meets his ministers and close ministers in Yanjing, he is generally in the Wenhua Palace. Summoning foreign ministers and junior ministers, generally in Zuo Shunmen or platform, an ordinary first-class military attaché, but he doesn't know what is right, and he actually makes trouble for the honor of being summoned by the Emperor's Palace.

The palace of Nanjing has not been repaired much until now, only the palace where the two queens live has been slightly repaired, the emperor's bedroom has also been pasted some, and some necessary auxiliary buildings have been added to the place where the people live in the palace.

In spite of this, coming in from the central axis, the majestic and spacious that the imperial family lives in is still incomparable to any building in the folk, this Huangji Hall is also the original Fengtian Palace, now everyone's name is Suiyanjing, so it is also called Huangji, towering and towering, eleven bays triple turnip, the tall golden silk nanmu is now rare to get one, the hall is divided into three layers, like a blooming lotus platform, the main hall in the middle of the arch guard.

The palace of this scale, and the general regulation of the main hall of Yanjing, is much larger than the Yamato Hall built by the Qing Dynasty in later generations, and many ministers come to this kind of hall for the first time, trembling, not to mention that when the play is right, the mind is clear, and can accurately answer their three generations of resumes and their own name experience, even if they are qualified!

The palace is too big, so the emperor is not easy to see courtiers in this kind of hall, and the hall here in Nanjing is in disrepair, the color paintings in many places fall off, the whole hall inside and outside are mottled, and the extreme base is dilapidated.

Originally, the court meeting was not wanted to be held here, but later many ministers suggested that it was better to see the ministers in such a palace than to see the ministers in such a palace, and it also made the monarch and ministers work together, but it was much better than in other places.

Seeing that the people were getting closer and closer, all the guards shut up, just concentrating on who the martial minister was. They didn't get close enough to recognize the visitor, and most of them had smiles on their faces, all of them showing very close looks.

It turned out to be the newly promoted Zuo Du Governor, Qiu Yuanyi, the chief military officer and training officer of the Beijing camp.

At the age of thirty, before entering Nanjing, he was just a general in Tianjin Fubiao, and he didn't even add the governor of the capital, but he was the commander of Tianjin Wei and knew that after entering Nanjing, he rose faster than anything else, and first was responsible for training troops in Da Nei, and some of the veterans of Fubiao were the backbone, and the two towns of Gongsheng Yulin were set up, and they trained day and night.

Later, the top was also to protect him, of course, the main thing was to prevent idleness, the two towns of Da Nei were not called to him to manage, it happened that Huaiyuan Marquis Chang Yanling was ordered to reorganize the Nanjing Forbidden Army, Chang Yanling was an earl, and his position was to take charge of the governor's office, although he was not the governor of the capital, but his authority was no different from that of the governor, as for Qiu Yuanyi, he was cheap, and he directly did the governor of the Beijing camp, although the rebuilt Dangjiang water division was not under his control, this time it was also a high authority, and he was a real pillar general.

For more than half a year, the general went to the Zuodu Governor to Governor Jingying, and Qiu Yuanyi should also be satisfied.

Because of the experience of doing things in the Ouchi, although the guard office is not under Qiu Yuanyi's control, but when it is said that Qiu Yuanyi is also responsible for training the bow horse array, he was not less red-faced at that time, but now he is very affectionate when he sees him, and when he sees him coming, the guards have a smile on their faces.

When Qiu Yuan arrived, everyone smiled on their faces, and at the same time greeted him with their eyes, and they were all silent.

After all, the emperor is still in it, otherwise, everyone will rush to it.

(To be continued)