Nanjing City, Fengtian Temple.

In the morning, hundreds of officials gathered, and the saint still sat in front of the dragon case as an ornament.

Wang Lanping didn't say a word, stood in front of the hundred officials, and walked back and forth.

"Report!" A general rushed into the court.

"Emperor Bing, Wang Commander, Chuzhou General Liu Liangzuo did not follow the order of the imperial court, led the troops south, and confronted Cao Dingjiao's department in the Dingyuan battalion of the champion army in the area of Lijiapo in Jiangbei, and the conflict between the two sides may break out at any time, General Cao specially came to ask for an order, if Liu Liangzuo insists on going south, how will his troops respond?"

The officials in the court heard a lot of discussions, at this time the court was already a generation of new people replacing the old, the former Ma Shoufu's cronies and party departments were almost all cleaned up, these people were all alternate officials in the Ministry of Officials for a long time, and there was no factional dispute, and the ability may not be enough to be qualified to be the minister of the ministry, but Wang Lanping did not expect them to do much, he only asked for one point, be obedient, let him do whatever he wanted, as long as he could maintain political stability.

After listening to the report, Wang Lanping turned to Zhu Yousong and said, "Your Majesty, Liu Liangzuo is an important general of the imperial court, and the Chuzhou defense line he is stationed in is an important force to defend the Yangtze River, and the land of Chuzhou must not be lost, please ask the emperor to severely reprimand him and order him to immediately return to the garrison with his troops."

Zhu Yousong faced a Wang Lanping with 30,000 soldiers into Nanjing, he was already unable to parry, this blink of an eye, there were hundreds of thousands of people from all directions, no one is welcome to come, even if Wang Lanping is beaten away, then there are Li Lanping, Zhao Lanping, now it seems that General Wang has not made excessive demands on himself, life is relatively comfortable, is there a change in replacing someone else, he does not want to take this risk.

"According to what Qing said" Zhu Yousong nodded, and he had no right to refute.

Wang Lanping said to the messenger, "The emperor has an order, ordering Liu Liangzuo to return to the station immediately, if the disrespect is not respected, the imperial court will severely punish him, and order General Cao of the Dingyuan camp not to let a soldier cross the river."

"Yes!" The messenger folded away.

At this time, an official ran into the court in a panic, wheezing, kneeling and saying, "Your Majesty, Wang Governor Shuai, the front line is urgent, the military department has just received a six-hundred-mile rush from Yangzhou, because Liu Liangzuo's defense line is open, the captives cross the Huai River, such as entering a no-man's land, the soldiers are divided into two roads, one way is killing Yangzhou Mansion, no less than 180,000 soldiers and horses, the vanguard of its department is less than 100 miles away from Yangzhou City, Yangzhou Governor Shi Kefa asked the emperor to immediately send troops to rescue, the other way about 50,000 Tatar soldiers, invaded Huai'an Mansion, Huai'an Governor Zhao Mengcheng opened the city in the middle of the night to surrender, Huai'an General Zheng Sen had to retreat to the canal line, and the Manchu soldiers, the two sides fought for several days, Zheng Sen personally risked the arrow, so that the Manchu soldiers could not move forward after that, Zheng Zongbing worried, if Yangzhou is lost, he will suffer the enemy on his back, please the emperor immediately send troops to help"

This news was like a bomb exploded in the court, everyone was shocked into a cold sweat, Zhu Yousong's eyes widened even more, and he stretched his neck, "What, what, full, full of thieves called?" ”

It is not surprising that the Manchu ministers were so surprised, because the whole Jiangnan knew that the first assistant Ma Shiying asked Zuo Mao, the governor of Yingtian, to bring a large amount of gold and silver to Beijing to find Dolgon to negotiate peace three months ago, what kind of people are the Manchus, but they are a group of uncivilized barbarians outside the Guan, give them a little benefit, they will naturally not make trouble, so, Zuo Mao is the first to go, everyone is full of people, and they are waiting for Governor Zuo to come from the north to hear good news, from then on, the Ming court only needs to solve the bandits like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Now hearing the news of the sudden attack of the Manchurian army, how can they not be frightened.

Zhu Yousong's face was full of horror, and he raised his hand and asked, "Wang Aiqing, this, why is this, didn't Zuo Maodi go to negotiate peace with the Manchurians?" This peace has not yet been decided, why did the Manchurians start the war first? ”

Wang Lanping said, "Your Majesty, colleagues, full of wolf ambitions, intentions that my Han family is not a day or two in the world, Zuo Maodi's move to the north is really a humiliation, and today's Manchu is enough to prove that maybe Lord Zuo has been loyal to the emperor."

Among the ministers of this palace, there are very few people who do not have a trace of hope at all for the move of negotiating peace, and there are very few people who think that the disaster is far worse than the disaster of Li Zhang, which is also limited by the situation at that time, and Wang Lanping is a person of later generations, of course he knows.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, including the common people and the military and the people, all know one thing, the Manchu Tatar army and the people are only about 200,000 in total, but our Heavenly Dynasty has hundreds of millions of soldiers and civilians, even if the Manchus have the idea of invading the Han people's world, they don't have the courage, can 200,000 people be thrown into the Han people to find it?

According to the historical records, when Dolgon forced Wu Sangui to kill 200,000 people into Shanhaiguan, he didn't dare to think about the Han family's world, the difference in strength of the Manchurians was too great, Dolgon's idea was just to think of Beijing to get some benefits and leave, but he didn't expect Li Zicheng to really not fight, since the defeat of a stone army, he actually gave up the capital of the world, at this time Dolgon wanted to go back to the customs and a little unwilling, Beijing was too prosperous, so he tentatively sent troops to chase Li Zicheng.

Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng ran thousands of miles, giving up most of Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi and other places, and in a blink of an eye, these places have become borderless land, Dolgon is a little stupid, and they all wonder that this Han people are rich, this is all fertile land, since no one wants it, then I'm not welcome, this can make a fortune, don't pick up things for nothing.

Waiting for Dolgon to chase to Tongguan, he won again if he didn't slip away, this time he understood a little, the Han people looked strong, in fact, vulnerable, which made him more confident, and slowly had the idea of dominating the world, waiting to enter the Central Plains step by step, seeing the fertile fields of the Central Plains for thousands of miles of fertile land, he had already made up his mind to pay attention, not to go back to the customs to fish, the Central Plains is too fertile.

Therefore, it is Li Zicheng and Nanming's stupidity that nourished Dolgon's ambition step by step, if the Ming army could quickly send troops to the Yellow River Valley, he would not dare to go south to invade the territory by borrowing Dolgon's courage, now it is too late, the military strength of the Manchurians swelled up as quickly as a snowball, the Eight Banners Brigade 180,000, and the Ming army and the Shun army surrendered a total of about 600,000 generals, and the weapons were also greatly improved, almost on par with the Ming army, and occupied the Central Plains, divided the world, occupied one of them, and the food was sufficient, There was a steady stream of soldiers.

This is not the most important, the most deadly is that the land occupied by the Manchus is all firmly controlled by the Qing court, the common people don't care who is the emperor, and since Li Zicheng occupied the Central Plains, the disaster is too heavy, the people hate the Ming court and also hate Li Zicheng's Shun court, and then Li Zicheng became a soldier and wealth, so many provinces have no owner in a blink of an eye, officials and garrisons have run away, all kinds of thieves and bandits take the opportunity to sit big, a small ruffian on the street to hack a handful of people that are commonplace, because there is no official, there is no court.

Later, the Manchurians came, made a list of the people, sent officials to stabilize the market, and announced that there would be no taxes for ten years, and the people who scavenged and ate in the soil certainly supported them, and it didn't matter who became the emperor, the important thing was to have a good life.

The common people did not object, even a large number of well-educated people also accepted, you must know that at this time Dolgon had not issued a national 'shaving order', did not oppose the Han clothes, and they had no reason to object, (Dolgon's first shaving order was shortly after entering Beijing, but just after it was issued, it was blocked by the Hanchen and the people of Beijing who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and under the current situation at that time, Dolgon decisively terminated, until the Qing army occupied the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the whole people' The 'shaving order' was implemented throughout the country, because at this time the Qing army had completely established itself in the land of the Han people, and as soon as this order was issued, the mountains and rivers changed color, and within one day, the anti-Qing and Ming forces in the world rose and fell one after another, as long as 17 years, but due to the arrival of the protagonist, all this will change the trajectory).

With the Manchu faction gaining a foothold in the Central Plains, it was a matter of time before they went south, but Song vigorously killed the King of Jin and Zuo Liangyu fled eastward, which made all this earlier, and the Jiangnan was in chaos, and the Manchus had no reason to miss this great opportunity.

Yangzhou City is a barrier related to Nanjing, and it must not be lost, but where does Wang Lanping have reinforcements for Shi Kefa, at present, 300,000 Ming troops are killing Nanjing City, and the civil strife has not been pacified, and there is naturally no way to talk about resisting the Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Yousong drooped his head, looked at the ministers in frustration, looked at Wang Lanping again, and said, "Then, how should I resist the enemy?"

A person flashed upward, about thirty years old, and he showed a lot of high-spiritedness in his gestures, he was promoted by Wang Lanping unusually, the new head of the Ministry of War, there is a way to be a Qing official in office three fires, all want to have a good name, he arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, Dingnan Hou, at this critical juncture, I should use thunderous means to quickly quell the civil strife, and then send troops to Yangzhou, defeat the arrogance of the thieves"

Wang Lanping was very satisfied when he heard this, because this sentence showed a point, civil strife, who is in chaos? Of course, it was not Wang Lanping in the court, but several general soldiers and governors outside the city, who were in trouble with the government and the opposition, and there was nothing to be 'cleared by those people'.

As soon as this remark came out, a number of officials immediately echoed and agreed, and there was also an implicit layer in their words that Ma Shiying was the first evil in this matter, and it should be eliminated first.

Wang Lanping said, "Then colleagues, tell me how to quell the civil strife?" ”

The new waiter of the Ministry of Officials is really anxious, "The first evildoer, Ma Shoufu is also, if you talk about the 'Qingjun side', he Ma Shiying is the one who really demagogues the emperor"

The new Zuodu Yushi is also an official in his thirties, and the only advantage of using them is that the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, dares to think and dare to do, and is eager to make meritorious contributions, and will not think too much about the current situation, he took out a copy of the fold from his arms, "Your Majesty, the ministers have received secret reports in recent days, saying that the nine governors of the general army are ' Qing Jun side's name to raise troops, in fact, is the benefit of Ma Shiying, Ma Shiying privately promised them high-ranking officials, completely ignoring the court etiquette, the minister also received a secret report, there is a secret road in the Ma Mansion, the minister sent people to guard outside the Ma Mansion day and night, and finally seized a person stolen from the Ma Mansion, and found a letter from Ma Shiying's personal soldiers from him, the minister, to join him Ma Shiying, in a high position, but colluded with the foreign governor, intending to murder the emperor, the minister asked the emperor to immediately issue an order, put Ma Shiying in prison, and the Inspectorate was strictly interrogated"

A eunuch came running and took away the recitals and letters.

After Zhu Yousong saw it, he was surprised again and again, "What, Ma Shiying actually asked his son to attack the palace at night?" ”

As soon as Zhu Yousong shouted, he immediately made a noise downward, "Rebels and thieves...... He's forcing the palace ......"

Wang Lanping smiled secretly, he finally realized what it means to fall into the well, but Ma Shiying's life and death did not play a big role in forcing Beijing this time.

Zhu Yousong didn't know what to do, so he asked Wang Lanping in an embarrassed way, "Then, what does Dingnanhou think?" ”

Wang Lanping didn't plan to discuss with him, so he directly ordered, "The emperor has decreed that Ma Shiying colluded with the foreign governor to do the matter of sealing the marquis without authorization, and the crime is extremely heinous, that is, he will be dismissed, handed over to the Inspectorate and Dali Temple for investigation, and all family property will be confiscated at one rate."

At the moment, Wang Lanping ordered that the city gate of the whole city was wide open, and only more than 10,000 newly recruited recruits were used to stand in the city, without a trace of resistance, but in private, the 30,000 troops of the champion army were ready to go, and the armament was complete, and the grain and grass were sufficient.

That night, Wang Lanping came to Zhu Yousong's palace alone.