Ma Lu faced everyone and said with an indignant face: "Then Yang Peng treats those poor ghosts and mud legs preferentially, and now he still wants to attack us nobles!" If we don't stand up and resist, we will only die! ”

Two or three people immediately echoed indignantly, but these two or three people seemed to be scattered among the great crowd. Most of them looked at each other and didn't speak.

Seeing that most of the people didn't speak, Ma Lu was very dissatisfied, and shouted: "Why don't you speak, are you going to let the Ming people slaughter you?" ”

A thin middle-aged man said: "How can we want to be slaughtered, but, just in the current form, what can we do?" The million-strong army of Daliao has been defeated, what else can I do? Several nobles nodded in agreement.

Boom! Malu slapped it on the coffee table. Everyone was startled, and the originally noisy study fell silent in an instant. Ma Lu glanced at everyone, and said angrily: "You are so cowardly, can you still call yourself a Khitan?" Everyone was not convinced, but no one dared to openly refute Malu.

Ma Lu said: "When we were oppressed by the Mongols, we sacrificed our lives to resist, and finally drove out the Mongols and replaced them, which is why we have today's wealth!" If we had been as cowardly as we are now, we would all be slaves of the Mongols today! You, you," Malu pointed to the crowd with his finger, "If it weren't for the hard work of the past, would you have been able to sit tall in this magnificent house in a mink fur jacket and gold and jade jewels?" Everyone thinks what Ma Lu said makes sense, but if you want to fight with the Ming people, few people are willing, there are too many rich and noble lives, and there is no longer the momentum that the sky and the earth are not afraid of!

I only heard Malu continue: "Only resistance, only desperate, is the way out!" As he spoke, he glanced at the crowd in the hope of getting a response. However, only the two or three people still agreed, and most of them hung their heads and made muffled gourds.

Seeing that everyone didn't respond, Ma Lu was very annoyed, and said with a hideous expression: "Today's matter, you have to do it if you are willing, and you have to do it if you don't want to!" Whoever dares to say a word," he said, pulling his right hand to his waist, pulling out a scimitar, and slamming it on the desk. When everyone saw this, their hearts jumped.

Maru's wolf-like eyes glanced at everyone and said, "I called you here today not to discuss matters with you, this matter has not been discussed at all!" If you agree, if you dare to say a word, I'll cut off his head now!" ”

Everyone looked at each other, feeling that this was simply chasing ducks to the shelves! I was very angry, but no one dared to say a word!

The scene was cold for a moment, and a middle-aged fat man wearing gold and jade and brocade mink fur said with a smile on his face: "Oh, why bother!" We are all Khitans, and now that the country is in danger, we naturally have an unshirkable responsibility! Since Master Malu is willing to take the lead, we will naturally follow suit! ”

A middle-aged man with a short stature and a thin body that looked like a mouse more than a human hurriedly echoed: "That's it! We are all willing to follow Master Malu and serve the Great Liao Empire, and we will never give up! ”

When everyone saw that the two of them had expressed their positions, they were depressed and helpless, so they had to express their willingness to follow Ma Lu and Yan Yunren to fight to the end. One by one, they cried and mourned, and they were afraid that the old lady was not so sad if she died.

Seeing that everyone's attitude had changed, Ma Lu was very happy to express their loyalty to the Great Liao Empire, and said loudly: "That's right!" This is the loyal minister of the Great Liao Empire! ”

The fat man said: "We are willing to be loyal to the Great Liao Empire, and we will never give up!" It's just that I wonder if Master Malu already has a plan? The Ming army is very strong, our million army has been defeated, if it is a head-on duel with the Ming army, I am afraid that there is no chance of victory! Everyone nodded in agreement, all looking worried.

Ma Lu said: "As for how to act, we have to come up with an idea together!" Let's talk about it! ”

Everyone looked at each other, and scolded Malu's mother in their hearts: Fuck, this dog's Malu is simply a mallet, he has no idea at all, but he forced us to go against Daming with him!

The fat man said, "I have an idea. Immediately, all eyes fell on him.

The fat man smiled slyly, stretched out a finger, and said, "Now we have a golden opportunity!" Hearing this, Malu couldn't help but ask urgently;" What a good opportunity? Say it! ”

The fat man said: "If we confront the Ming army head-on, it will be self-defeating." But now there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, that is, the Ming Emperor Yang Peng is in the city. Almost all of the Ming troops were stationed outside the city, and there were not many troops in the city and they were all near the city gates on all sides, while Yang Peng's palace only had about a thousand Feifeng female guards and secret guards. If we gather all the guards together, it should be no problem to make up a million people, if we use this to raid the palace, there is a good chance that the ten to one troops will succeed! ”

Ma Lu's eyes lit up, and he nodded again and again: "Not bad, not bad!" Good plan, good plan! The Han people have a saying that the thief captures the king first, let's give him a thief to capture the king first! We will gather all our forces to raid the palace and capture Yang Peng! Isn't it what we need to do then? No matter how many soldiers and horses there are in the Ming army, no matter how strong the combat power is, there is no bullshit! That's it! Then he glanced at everyone, and said in an ordered tone: "You all go back and prepare, and tomorrow in the middle of the night, you will each lead the soldiers and horses to the palace!" Everyone was depressed, but the fat man promised without hesitation, and when everyone saw this, they had no choice but to follow suit.

After the meeting was dismissed, the nobles left Maru's mansion and returned home.

In the evening of the next day, Maru paced back and forth in the hall, looking impatient.

Hurried footsteps were heard at the door. Malu stopped and looked towards the door, and when he saw that the servant who had been sent out to inquire about the news had returned, he immediately asked, "How is the situation?" Are all the houses ready as I command? ”

The servant hurriedly saluted and said, "If you go back to the master, all the families have been prepared according to the master's instructions!" Malu couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. A cronie next to him immediately patted his ass and said: "The master's order, which one dares to disobey!" When the master gives an order, he must do it well! If he makes the master unhappy, how can he still mess around in Dading Mansion! ”

Ma Lu laughed proudly, turned his head and ordered: "Immediately take out the wine and meat for everyone, let everyone eat and drink, and then go to kill the Ming people!" The cronies answered the promise and ran down. A moment later, there was a noise in the backyard, eating and drinking, fists and singing, so lively.

In the middle of the night, Dading Mansion was silent. There was not a single pedestrian in the streets and alleys, only the husband shuttling through the streets and alleys, snapping and barking, and the occasional dog barking in the distance.

At this moment, the gate of Malu's house suddenly opened, and Malu, who was dressed in military uniform, led nearly a thousand of his subordinates to rush out of the gate and ran straight towards the palace. At the same time, several other nobles also led all their subordinates to the palace except for the mansion.

Several groups of people converged on the street not far from the palace. There were only three or four of the more than a dozen Malu families, and they couldn't help but feel strange and asked, "What about the others?" A nobleman said, "I don't know, maybe they're just behind." Malu said, "Wait for them." The nobles nodded. So a few families of two or three thousand people waited in the street. However, the time of a pillar of incense has passed, but still no one has appeared.

Malu said angrily, "What the hell are they doing? Why is it so grinding? Then he said to everyone: "Don't wait for them, let's attack the palace first!" Two or three thousand of us are enough! Everyone looked at each other, and their hearts were very bottomless, but now there was no way to turn back, so they could only follow Malu towards the palace. Seeing that the palace was getting closer and closer, everyone's hearts couldn't help but rise to their throats.

Ma Lu led everyone to the gate of the palace, and immediately launched a fierce attack regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, and the shouts of killing immediately rang out, and the silence of the night was completely broken.

Ma Lu and the others originally thought that they would encounter strong resistance to attack the palace gate, but the battle was unexpectedly smooth, and thousands of men and horses rushed up without encountering any resistance and smashed open the gate of the palace. Thousands of people poured into the palace, and Ma Lu and the others were extremely excited, leading the people and horses straight towards the backyard of the palace.

At this moment, countless torches suddenly lit up all around, illuminating the scene into daylight. Malu and the others were caught off guard, taken aback, and quickly stopped to watch. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, you are startled when you see it, and you can see that the shadows and shadows are all the Ming Army under the lights shining in all directions!

The rabble is a rabble, and they were all excited just now, but now when they saw this scene, they were all frightened and weak, and they all ran backwards. However, at this moment, there was a loud bang, and the palace door behind him closed heavily! A strong rain of arrows flew down from the palace gate, and many of the rebels were shot down, and they stopped in a panic, not daring to run to the palace gate again.

The rebels were surrounded in the square in front of the palace, bewildered and worried.

Malu couldn't understand how this could happen, but when the matter had come to this, he simply tried his best, and immediately raised his scimitar and shouted, "Brothers, don't be afraid! There aren't many of them! Rush with me! Shouting the bento and rushing forward first, only a hundred and ten brainless people subconsciously followed.

There was a sharp sound of breaking the sky, and more than 100 people fell to the ground as if they had encountered a strong storm, and Malu himself was wounded by an arrow, and was carried back by his cronies. Ma Lu was frightened and angry, and shouted loudly: "Yang Peng, if you are a man, you will fight me alone!" ”

I only heard a general with a helmet and armor standing on the front steps laughing: "You are not worthy of competing with me!" ”

Ma Lu's gaze immediately fixed on Yang Peng's body. It was the first time he saw Yang Peng, and when he saw that the legendary and terrifying Emperor Ming turned out to be a young man, he only felt a little incredulous, and then pointed his scimitar at Yang Peng and shouted: "Yang Peng, I want to fight you to the death!" ”

"Are you worthy of challenging Your Majesty?" A familiar voice came from Yang Peng's side. Ma Lu looked at it, and what caught his eye was a chubby figure. Maru's eyes widened, "It's you!" You actually surrendered to the Ming Dynasty! It turned out that the fat man standing next to Yang Peng was the nobleman who gave advice to Ma Lu the night before. What's going on here?

It turned out that the fat man's name was Godahun, and he was called by Malu to go to the secret business last night, and learned of Malu's attempt, so he wanted to get rid of him. However, Malu put on a posture of a bachelor, and if he objected on the spot, he was afraid that he would not be able to leave Malu's mansion. Therefore, Godahun pretended to be obedient and gave advice to Malu to get out. After leaving the Malu Mansion and returning home, Godahun immediately discussed with his wife, who was shocked and hurriedly asked Godahun to report to the emperor. Ge Dahun already had this intention, and when he heard his wife's words, he immediately no longer had any doubts, and immediately rushed to the palace overnight to ask to see Yang Peng. After seeing Yang Peng, he told him what he knew.

Yang Peng was not surprised to learn about this, it can be said that it was all in his expectation. Immediately praised Godahun for a while, and then arranged it. Therefore, when Malu and the others came to raid the palace tonight, they simply came from looking for a way to die, and they ran headlong into the trap prepared for them. In fact, even without Godahun's informant, Malu and the others would not have succeeded. With Yang Peng's shrewdness, since he had attacked the local gentry and nobles, how could he not be on guard against them! Therefore, there was no whistleblower from Godahun, and Malu and others also killed themselves, but Godahun's whistleblowing saved Yang Peng a lot of effort.

Godahun raised his voice to everyone: "Everyone, listen, His Majesty Ming is just going to punish the nobles who have broken the law, and it has nothing to do with anyone else, you don't help the rebellion, Your Majesty can not blame the past!" ”

Malu was shocked, and immediately yelled at everyone: "Don't listen to him! He's a liar! The chief servant of the courtyard looked at each other, and a chief worker with a big knife threw away the big knife in his hand, knelt down, and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty spare your life, we are just forced, not to betray Da Ming, betray Your Majesty!" Seeing this, everyone immediately followed suit, and knelt down to beg for mercy, and for a while, thousands of people knelt on the ground, and the voices of pleading came and went.

When Malu saw this, he was so angry that he pointed at them and shouted: "You bonesless rebels! ”

Yang Peng waved his hand, and even a dozen secret guards rushed up. Several other nobles were captured, and Malu still wanted to resist, but he was the opponent of the secret guards, and he was immediately removed from his joint and cut his arm, and he fell to the ground. Ma Luwu shouted and scolded endlessly, nothing more than saying that Yang Peng was not a hero and did not dare to fight him alone. Yang Peng just took it seriously when a wild dog was barking, but the secret guard was not happy, and when he saw him scolding badly, he couldn't help but smash his mouth a few times with the scabbard, and when he landed on the mouth, his mouth was full of blood and white teeth, and he couldn't scold anymore.

Yang Peng waved his hand, and the secret guard escorted Ma Lu and several other nobles down.

Yang Peng glanced at the people kneeling on the ground and said, "Since you were all coerced and did not cause any losses, I forgive your sins!" The people were overjoyed and hurriedly prostrated their heads in thanksgiving. Yang Peng said again: "Let's all go home." Everyone agreed, stood up, and hurried out of the palace.

Yang Peng said to Shi Ping: "Immediately lead the army to confiscate these nobles who dare to rebel!" Shi Ping said yes and led a team of soldiers out of the palace.

The night was noisy, and several nobles, including Ma Lu and others, were broken into their homes by the wolf-like Ming army, and the personnel were all driven out and their property was confiscated. Several nobles wept and cried, and there was a lot of mourning. The nobles who had a wait-and-see attitude were terrified when they saw this scene, and they were only worried that they would end up like that. Frightened, they did not dare to resist at all, and rushed to the palace in person, wanting to apologize to Your Majesty in exchange for Your Majesty's forgiveness. However, Yang Peng didn't plan to see them, everyone was helpless, and they didn't dare to go back, so they knelt outside the palace gate and waited for Yang Peng's reception.

Soon after, everyone was amazed to see that Godahun, who was also a nobleman, had walked out of the palace with a happy face, and they couldn't help but shout.

Godahun walked up to everyone with his hands behind his back and smiled and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

One hurriedly asked, "How were you able to enter the palace?" ”

Godahun smiled and said, "Your Majesty summoned me. Then he said with a grateful face: "Heaven's grace is great! Your Majesty is not guilty of my past crimes, and has also given me the right to be a Ming merchant, and I can enjoy the preferential treatment of commerce and trade within the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty! I have nothing to do but do my best to be a businessman and pay more taxes to the empire! "The so-called 'Ming merchants' can be said to be a high-end symbol of the business world, not all merchants in the Ming Dynasty can get the rights of 'Ming merchants', only those with a good reputation and active tax payment can obtain such rights. What are the benefits of getting this power? That's a lot! For example, government procurement, most of the government procurement is only for the 'Ming merchants', and there is the right to operate the newly developed territory, and the businessmen with the identity of 'Ming merchants' can have priority to obtain the right to enter. This is a huge advantage in newly developed land, and you can make huge profits. There are many more perks like this. Therefore, 'Daming businessmen' in the Daming business community is all businessmen are eager to go, and because of this measure, more and more businessmen in Daming are developing in the direction of honest management. As a result, the system can be said to be a win-win situation.

When everyone heard that Godahun had obtained the privilege of being a 'Ming merchant', they couldn't help but be hot. One of them hurriedly said, "Brother Godahun, can you teach us how to obtain His Majesty's understanding?" The other hurriedly continued: "It's best to tell us how to get the privilege of the 'Ming Merchant'!" If Brother Godahon tells us, we will repay you! Everyone nodded in agreement.

Godahun sighed. Seeing this, everyone's hearts couldn't help but tighten, and they hurriedly asked, "Brother Godahun, why are you sighing?" ”

Godahun glanced at the nervous crowd and said, "I'm afraid it's difficult to get the privilege of 'Ming Merchant' like me. However, it is not difficult for His Majesty to forgive you, after all, although you were coerced by Malu, you did not really participate in his rebellion. The crowd eagerly asked how they could obtain His Majesty's forgiveness.

Godahun motioned for everyone to be quiet, and then said, "First of all, the land, and you have to donate all the land. His Majesty needs land to be distributed to ordinary civilians. Everyone only felt a pain in their flesh, but thinking that they could save their lives in this way, they could only endure the pain and cut their love, and they all nodded their heads to express their willingness.

Godahun continued: "The second is about the previous chaos in the Liao Imperial Court. Your Majesty's meaning, all the people's property that you have taken advantage of the opportunity to loot must be handed over. Everyone nodded. Godahon reminded: "Don't be clever, this matter must not be sloppy! If Your Majesty finds out that you have something to hide, even the gods will not be able to save you! Everyone's hearts were cold, their faces changed, it turned out that each of them was thinking carefully in their hearts just now, and when they heard that Godahun had exposed, they were naturally uneasy, and they swore that they would never dare to deceive His Majesty the Emperor.

"In the end, it's a life lawsuit."

Everyone looked at each other when they heard this, and they all looked at a loss. It turned out that in the context of looting people's property, although they did not instruct their subordinates to kill the people, but the fox is fake and the tiger is mighty, where will those dog slaves have the opportunity to bully the people, where will they be polite, with fists and kicks and sticks, where is the life of the weak?

Several nobles were swaying and panicking to the extreme, and the others were all pale and unable to help themselves. Everyone thought of the most terrible result, to repay the debt, to repay the life.

Godahon smiled: "You don't have to worry so much! I have made it clear to Your Majesty that those murders were not instructed by everyone, but were completely caused by the actions of his subordinates! Your Majesty is wise enough to understand this! ”

When the people heard this, it was as if a drowning man had grabbed a piece of driftwood, and they wept with gratitude, and they thanked him one after another. Godahun hurriedly returned the salute and said, "You don't have to thank me, I didn't do anything. If you want to thank us, your Majesty the Emperor! Everyone reacted and bowed vigorously to the palace, and kept thanking Dade in their mouths.

Godahun waited for everyone to be busy for a while, and said, "I ask Your Majesty, and Your Majesty has agreed. All you need to do is hand over the killers and compensate the families of the victims. When everyone heard this, they agreed one after another, and then bowed to Godahun and thanked him.

Godahun said: "As long as you do this, Your Majesty will not be guilty of the past." What do you think? Everyone said, "I must do it!" Do it! Then they all stood up, thanked Godahun, and hurried home. Godahun looked at the busy backs of everyone and smiled proudly. With his hands behind his back and whistling gracefully, he boarded his carriage.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.