It took Ma Shiying two days to take control of the entire city of Nanjing, during which Lu Jiude's Beijing camp maintained a wait-and-see attitude towards the first qiē matter, which also helped Ma Shiying and others to eradicate a small number of courtiers and troops loyal to Emperor Yixing.

Zhu Yousong, the king of fortune, stepped on the blood all over the ground, and finally walked into the imperial city of Nanjing, according to the ideas of Ma Shiying and others, here, he will become the new king of the Ming Dynasty.

The new era name has also been determined, and after a grand burial ceremony for Emperor Yixing, next year will be the first year of Hongguang.

Regarding the death of Emperor Yixing, many courtiers did not explore too much. In fact, everyone understands the game behind this, for the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yixing and Emperor Chongzhen are not the perfect emperor image in their hearts.

"The Son of Heaven and the scholars rule the world together!" But for scholars, in this world, they are enough.

The so-called "arbitrary era" of Yixing in the hearts of the scholars ended in a hurry, and it took only a year from beginning to end, which made the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, especially the Donglin Party excited, in their opinion, Ma Shiying and others were just some traitors who killed the monarch, and since ancient times, evil did not suppress the good, and they would sooner or later be cleared out of the court by the righteous forces of Donglin.

And Zhu Yousong, who is about to ascend the throne, cannot have any huge impact on the government because of his improper position, so it is said that the future Ming Dynasty Hall will be the world of Donglin, and the clean wind and righteousness will fill the entire Ming Dynasty.

Ma Shiying looked at this qiē coldly, and he had been up and down for more than 20 years, and he had already seen through the party and government of the courtiers. The so-called Donglin is except for a small number of cadres. Most of the rest were nothing more than inflammatory, relying on Donglin's fame and influence to satisfy their own personal goals. The current court. Having military power in his hands is the most important thing, Liu Liangzuo's 20,000 horses and soldiers can conquer Nanjing without bloodshed, which fully illustrates this point.

But unexpectedly, just a few days after settling down, on the fifth day of the second lunar month, there was chaos in the city of Nanjing. Liu Liangzuo restrained the soldiers and horses under his command unfavorably. The plundering when entering the city was not completely eliminated, although Ma Shiying strictly ordered him to control his soldiers and horses. A similar situation cannot be repeated, but it has not achieved the desired effect.

This made Liu Liangzuo very surprised. The soldiers and horses under his command don't know what's going on, but there is a tendency to intensify. From plundering ordinary people, he began to turn to the wealthy families, squires, and even ministers in the court in Nanjing.

Although Liu Liangzuo is a martial artist, he also knows that there must be no chaos at this time. Sent henchmen to picket military discipline and thoroughly investigate the matter, but they have never been able to come up with a definite result, but one thing is certain, it seems that someone is secretly fueling the trouble. instigated and instigated his own soldiers to do so many things in the city.

The news was sent to Ma Shiying, and Ma Shiying immediately became vigilant, but wanted to investigate it thoroughly. At the moment, I really don't have the ability. Nanjing was initially decided, and Ma Shiying was anxious about Zhu Yousong's ascension to the throne, and he had to try his best to erase his murder of the monarch little by little. There is no time to investigate such a thing.

In desperation, Ma Shiying had no choice but to ask Lu Jiude. Please ask the Beijing camp to be responsible for the security of the city of Nanjing. But even so, on the night of the fifth day of February. More than a dozen ministers were still looted in their homes, looting not to mention their goods, and killing five of their courtiers.

However, these more than ten people are still the backbone members of the Donglin party, so Qian Qianyi and Huang Zongxi, the leaders of Donglin, can no longer bear it.

In the early hours of the morning, more than 1,000 officials and Confucian scholars gathered outside the palace gate, claiming that Liu Liangzuo and the perpetrators would be severely punished. Ma Shiying had to run in all directions, and finally suppressed the matter.

However, the Donglin Party regarded Ma Shiying and Liu Liangzuo as mortal enemies.

In the turn of the day, there were several confrontations in the Beijing Division, that is, the conflict between the soldiers and horses of Confucianism and Liu Liangzuo, the unarmed Confucian suffered a great loss, the blood of the killed was like a river, and more than 200 innocent lives were buried under Liu Liangzuo's sword.

In this way, Ma Shiying could no longer do anything, and could only watch the situation in Nanjing get worse day by day. At this time, he could only frequently send letters to Huang Degong, Zheng Zhilong, and Zuo Mengeng, asking them to travel day and night to Nanjing as soon as possible to quell the chaos in the city.

But the expected reinforcements did not arrive, but they got a news that made Ma Shiying even more devastating.

Zhu Ping'an raised troops in Shandong, listed Zhu Yousong, Ma Shiying and others as rebels, and announced to the world that they had rebelled against the king, and tens of thousands of elite divisions of Yang Tinglin of the Shandong Army began to move south. Huaiyang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong responded one after another, and jointly pushed Tang King Zhu Yujian to supervise Nanjing, and people from all walks of life advanced to the south and Zhili line.

And the most unexpected thing is that Zheng Zhilong of Fujian Province changed his court in an instant, joined the ranks of the rebel army, and raised 70,000 troops to the north along the river.

The two divisions of the Shandong army, Yue Jinfeng and Qiu Ze, launched an attack on Zuo Mengeng from the front line of Suizhou, and Zuo Mengeng could not withstand the artillery fire of the Shandong army, so he had to retreat to Luyi and rely on his own more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city.

And Yang Tinglin's department also entered Henan, uniting Yue Jinfeng and Qiu Ze to attack Zuo Mengeng. Zuo Mengeng was terrified and kept sending distress documents to Nanjing Ma Shiying. But how can Ma Shiying have troops to send now.

Internal and external troubles made Ma Shiying exhausted.

But Huang Degong, who was far away in Luzhou, stabbed Ma Shiying's heart hard at this time.

On the tenth day of the first month of February, Huang Degong announced that he would raise troops anyway, and marched into Wuchang with Huang Gongfu, who was preparing for the Huguang army, cutting off Zuo Mengeng's way back. When Ma Shiying heard this, he immediately vomited blood.

Zhu Yousong, Ruan Dacheng, Liu Kongzhao and others were in a panic all day long, and they all came to the house to visit.

Everyone was relatively speechless, and there was a gloomy cloud.

"We were cheated by Zheng Zhilong!" Ma Shiying paused on the sickbed, but suddenly said such a thing.

Everyone was stunned.

Ma Shiying continued: "Now it seems that Zheng Zhilong has a plan. Zheng Hongkui ran in Nanjing, in order to encourage us to take risks. Zheng Zhilong is very smart, he doesn't want to be charged with killing the king, but he pushed us to the front, he has a strong army, and he just came to clean up the mess at this time. He had already colluded with Zhu Ping'an, otherwise, he had promised to send troops to Shandong earlier to contain Zhu Ping'an, why was the thunder heavy and the rain small. Now he is raising troops with Zhu Ping'an to assist Zhu Yujian in taking the position. How can there be so many coincidences in this world? ”

Ruan Dacheng smiled bitterly, "Yao Gong, even if you know, Zheng Hongkui is slippery and doesn't leave his hands, but we haven't caught him, even if we tell the world now, who will believe the people in the world?" ”

Liu Kongzhao nodded again and again, "That's right, it's already an embattled situation right now, we can't sit in the trapped city, we have to find a way to escape!" ”

Zhu Yousong didn't speak, sat in his seat, and just kept shedding tears.

Ma Shiying sighed angrily, "What other good way is there now, Huang Degong and Zheng Zhilong betrayed one after another, Zuo Mengeng himself is difficult to protect, we have no available soldiers in our hands, what can we use to resist Zhu Ping'an and Zheng Zhilong's army?" ”

"You can't sit still!" Ruan Dacheng said indignantly.

"There is another way", everyone was overjoyed, and looked at Ma Shiying in unison, Ma Shiying frowned and drank a bowl of medicinal soup handed over by Ma Luan, and then continued: "Jiang Yueguang and Gao Hongtu were both people and horses when we supported King Fu at the beginning, and they were relegated to Guangxi at the beginning, but now it seems that it is not a bad thing, and they finally have a place to stay." ”

"It is not too late to support the Fu King, and they also have a correspondence, and their words are also uneasy. Now, Zhu Ping'an and others support Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, and they are bound to avenge Emperor Yixing, and they are also in a catastrophe! ”

"What does Yao Gong mean, let's go to Guangxi to join them?" Liu Kongzhao asked suspiciously.

Ma Shiying spread out her hands, "Is there a better way to do it?" ”

"But this mountain is high and the road is far away, you and I are powerless people, and there are only some generals at home, how can we get rid of the siege and chase along the way?" Ruan Dacheng said with a worried face.

"So, now, let's find someone to help!"

"Who else will come to the aid of this king!" Zhu Yousong was disheartened and wiped away a handful of tears.

"What the prince said is wrong, right now in Nanjing City, there is another person who can help us, and he has to help!"

"Who?"

Ma Luan's eyes lit up, "What my father said didn't mean Lu Jiude, who is now in charge of the Beijing camp?" ”

Ma Shiying nodded, "That's it!" ”

"How can the eunuch talk about faithfulness, now that we are in a desperate situation, he can be worthy of us if he does not fall into the well, how can he be expected to follow us to Guangxi with the soldiers of the Beijing camp!" Liu Kongzhao was unimpressed by Ma Shiying's suggestion.

Ma Shiying shook his head, "This is a bad statement, when he first supported King Fu, Lu Jiude also made a lot of contributions, and escorted King Fu all the way from Hongze Lake to Nanjing. Don't forget, how did King Lu die? ”

After being reminded by Ma Shiying, everyone remembered the past. After the fall of Jingshi, the ministers of Nanjing elected a candidate to succeed the throne, King Fu and King Lu were among them, and many of the courtiers were inclined to support King Lu to succeed him.

But Lu Jiude made a decision immediately, and rushed to Hongze Lake Wujiadun in the starry night to welcome King Fu to Nanjing to take over the throne. On that night, Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, drowned in Hongze Lake for no apparent reason, which also made the Nanjing courtiers have to unanimously support the enthronement of Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu.

Now that I think about it, it is clear that Lu Jiude did something in it. If this is the case, then he will definitely not dare to stay in Nanjing, waiting for Zhu Ping'an and others to enter the city, I am afraid that at this time, he is already planning a way out! (To be continued) R655