Back to the end of the Ming Dynasty when the emperor

Chapter 11
While Zhu Yousong was secretly practicing Qi Zenggong, the governor of Fengyang, Ma Shiying, secretly met Han Zanzhou, the eunuch with a lot of money and gifts.

After the two met and exchanged pleasantries, Ma Shiying went straight to the point, "Elder-in-law, what about Zhezi?"

Han Zanzhou's white faces were pinched together with a smile, and he said in his unique sissy voice: "Brother Yaocao, Shi Kefa was convicted for his words, and was demoted and fined. Yuan Xun, and also strongly recommended by Duke Baoguo, brother's promotion to fill the vacancy is naturally a certainty."

"Borrowing my father-in-law's auspicious words." Ma Shiying bared her teeth, and her smile was not very strong, "Did Ma say that Li Zhan, the Minister of Taichang Temple, has followed through on the trick, and he will go to court early the day after tomorrow?"

Han Zanzhou took a look at Ma Shiying, and as a sophisticated man, he immediately understood that he was determined to win the position of Minister of War, or that he had a plan in mind, and his purpose of coming today was not to inquire about this, but to target Jiang Riguang, Sima Zhaozhi. The heart is showing day by day.

"The emperor has already seen Lombok."

"Oh, what did the emperor say?" Ma Shiying's eyes widened immediately. What he cares most about now is not whether he can be the Minister of the Ministry of War, but Li Zhan's book.

As long as Li Zhan impeaches Jiang Riguang, Ma Shiying must be the Minister of the Ministry of War with the title of Dongge University Bachelor, and he must be the chief minister of the cabinet.It stands to reason that there should be no problem with this excerpt. If he opposes the emperor's ascension to the throne, can the emperor still use him?Didn't Shi Kefa's bad luck fall on this?But he still wanted to know the result earlier through Han Zanzhou.

But Han Zanzhou didn't dare to talk nonsense about this matter, because he was good at observing words and expressions, he just didn't see the direction of the wind from Zhu Yousong's face this time, so he shook his head and sighed: "Brother Yaocao, I heard that the emperor has been a little weird recently?"

Ma Shiying really heard about it. His son Ma Luan told him yesterday that the emperor seemed to have changed. His eyes and demeanor were completely different from before.

Ma Shiying smiled at the time, because his son is a general, of course he looked at people from the perspective of a warrior, but how could this be possible?

Ma Shiying didn't take it seriously at all, thinking that his son had an occupational disease. In his impression, Zhu Yousong was bloated, walking wobbly as if he had no roots on his feet. From King Fu to the emperor, he drank and enjoyed women all the time. His body had already broken down. It's my son who missed it.

But since he came out of Zhu Yousong's bedroom that day, he also noticed that his majesty the emperor's temperament was very different from before.

"Brother Yaocao, not only his temperament, but also his living habits have changed..." Han Zanzhou told about Zhu Yousong's abnormal behavior in the past few days.

"Abstain from drinking and sex, enjoy flowers and practice martial arts, and let Luan'er send people to hunt wolves for him, and ordered Zheng Hongkui to be ordered urgently. What is your majesty doing? Does he want a court discussion?" Ma Shiying couldn't turn his head, and said to himself .

"Brother Yaocao, good advice, our family arranged the papers in order on purpose. The emperor looked at these papers, sometimes frowning, sometimes shaking his head. At that time, he only said a few words, "after the early court, the imperial pen personally approved" and ordered our family to sort the papers. Accepted. Our family doesn’t dare to ask more questions, Zhenjiang is only two hundred miles away from here, General Zheng will definitely be able to enter the capital before the early court, and he has just returned to his post in a hurry, I don’t know what the emperor’s plan is..."

"Thank you, father-in-law, and Ma will leave." Ma Shiying couldn't listen to the rest of the words, and Chong Han Zanzhou arched his hands and turned to leave.

Of course he knew that Zheng Hongkui was not a simple character. At this juncture, the emperor urgently ordered Zheng Hongkui. Could it be that the emperor wanted to use Zheng's army at a distance?Thinking of this, he had to go back and make some preparations.

"Father," seeing Ma Shiying's gloomy face, Ma Luan couldn't help but said, "If this stupid king doesn't know what's good, I'll kill him. You might as well be the emperor. If we can help him to this position, we can put him to death." Pull it down."

"Huh? Nonsense!" The nature of father and son, these words reached Ma Shiying's heart, but even so, Ma Shiying stared at him with triangular eyes and his face sank. Admiral Zhao invited me here."

Ma Luan agreed, bowed and left.

Not daring to delay after receiving the imperial decree from the emperor, Zheng Hongkui handed over the military affairs of Zhenjiang to the deputy commander-in-chief, and then entered the capital city with a sentry bodyguard cavalry. It's already dark.

Thinking of seeing Shengjia again tomorrow, but he didn't expect the emperor's decree to come to the post house, and half an hour later he would call for a meeting at the West Terrace alone. Zheng Hongkui had a premonition that there was something important, otherwise it would be impossible for the emperor to call him back to Beijing just after he arrived. And summoned overnight.

In the posthouse, Zheng Hongkui didn't even have time to drink his saliva. He dressed neatly in his official uniform of a third-rank military officer, brought only two entourages with him, flew off the oolong horse, left the posthouse, and entered the imperial city like an arrow.

After the eunuch reported, let Zheng Hongkui come in to see him.Then Zhu Yousong heard the sound of people smashing the ground outside, a figure flashed, and a burly man came in from outside, came to Zhu Yousong and knelt down on the ground, "Mr. Zheng Hongkui sees you."

Zhu Yousong fell in love with Zheng Hongkui the first time he saw him. This man was in his prime, with a good-looking appearance, a melon-seeded face with a wide top and a narrow bottom, two black trowel eyebrows, and two piercing eyes, revealing Resolute and upright, with a straight nose and wide mouth, black beard, broad shoulders and thick back, one can tell that this is a brave general.

"I love Qing." Zhu Yousong spoke calmly, with a friendly smile on his face. After Zheng Hongkui stood up, he said again, "I asked you to be in charge of Zhenjiang's defense. I wonder how Qing feels?"

In fact, Zhu Yousong was looking for something to say, because he didn't know anything about Zheng Hongkui. Even with the memory of this body and the knowledge of later generations, the first meeting can only be a concept. If you want to know a person, face to face Talking is a great way.

Zheng Hongkui didn't understand Zhu Yousong's meaning, why is the emperor acting like a parent, oh, this is to see my determination to resist the Qing Dynasty, so he quickly replied: "Return to your majesty, if you eat the king's salary, you should repay your favor, your majesty." Don't worry, you are here in Zhenjiang!"

Zheng Hongkui's words were resounding, and Zhu Yousong nodded with great satisfaction, "It's rare for Aiqing to be loyal. If I was as loyal and brave as Aiqing in civil and military affairs, how could my Ming Dynasty succeed to the Southern Song Dynasty? I always thought that I was a great Ming Dynasty The problem is internal rather than external, so I have changed my focus and want to keep Qing by my side, is Qing willing?"

Zhu Yousong didn't talk much, but the vigilant Zheng Hongkui had already heard that now Daming had only half of the country, and the Dashun Army and Tartars could fight over at any time, but the emperor said that the problems of Daming were internal and not external, which meant that the emperor wanted to rectify the court Now, this Chao Gang should indeed be rectified, and let himself be a servant in Beijing. How can such a love be ignorant of flattery?
Thinking of this, Zheng Hongkui hurriedly knelt down, "Thanks to Your Majesty's great love, I have no choice but to repay Your Majesty's kindness."

"Okay, there is a vacancy in the Jinyiwei. The general will be the commander of the Jinyiwei to command the Tongzhi, and give the flying fish suit and the embroidered spring knife!"

From the general of Zhenjiang to the second-in-command of Jinyiwei, he was not promoted but demoted one level in terms of official position, but this is a Beijing official, and Jinyiwei is the emperor's personal guard, so being a member of Jinyiwei is a great honor in itself , let alone the Commander Tongzhi who is second only to the Commander of Jinyiwei?He who once served as an envoy of Jinyi Weijindu to Chongzhen certainly knew how much trust the emperor had placed in him, so Zheng Hongkui was flattered and kowtowed heavily to thank him, "The minister leads the decree, thank you Lord Long En..."

(End of this chapter)