Lu Jiude slandered the emperor to kill Ma Cheng. Now Ma Cheng is in the Jinyiwei Zhao Prison. Although he has three hundred guards, these three hundred people can fight, but no matter how hard he can fight, the number of people is limited. There are still 80,000 guards in Nanjing. The admiral is Lu Jiude's nephew Lu Siye. Lu Jiude's plan is to take this opportunity to kill Ma Cheng in one fell swoop and then report one to a punishment. Anyway, Ma Cheng died and died in the Zhao Prison. Feng Kezong was in charge of the Zhao Prison. What happened has nothing to do with Lu Jiude.

Zhu Lunkui hated Ma Cheng so much that his teeth were itchy, but he was not yet at the point of hating him to die. Now he couldn't help but hesitate when Lu Jiude said this.

Seeing Zhu Lunkui hesitating, Lu Jiude continued to encourage and said, "Emperor, now is the best opportunity. If Ma Cheng is not killed this time, there will be no such a good opportunity next time!"

Zhu Lunkui thought deeply for a moment, then said firmly: "No, Lu Ni's army is in Suzhou now, I still need someone to command the army, Ma Cheng must not move!" After Zhu Lunkui said that, he remembered Ma Cheng's uncooperation, and said angrily: "You go and pass the order to Feng Kezong, let him give Ma Cheng some bitterness, so that this arrogant guy can have a long memory!"

When Lu Jiude heard Zhu Lunkui say this, he knew that Ma Cheng escaped another disaster, which is likely to be the last disaster. Now Feng Kezong is afraid of Ma Cheng and is afraid of death, so he dares to punish Ma Cheng. Lu Jiude sighed in his heart, then bowed down to pass the imperial edict.

It is true that Zhu Lunkui hated Ma Cheng, but he hated Zhu Chang, the King of Lu who rose up even more. In Zhu Lunkui's heart, Ma Cheng and the Qing Dynasty could only be considered a problem at most. If it was not possible, Zhu Lunkui could escape south. After all, there was still a large area of ​​land in the south. However, Lunkui was a big problem. As long as Zhu Lunkui was defeated this time, Zhu Lunkui would lose the legitimacy of the emperor, and no one in the country was obeying Zhu Lunkui's orders. Then Zhu Lunkui would be able to truly have the general situation.

Zhu Lunkui wanted to let Ma Cheng go, but Ma Cheng didn't want to let Zhu Lunkui go. Just as Zhu Lunkui couldn't bear to deal with Ma Cheng, Ma Cheng discussed with a group of confidants in the prison about how to deal with Zhu Lunkui.

Ma Cheng and Wang Xian, Gu Yong were drinking tea with enough wine and food, while Feng Kezong, a governor of the Jinyiwei, stood behind Ma Cheng and bowed his head and smiled.

Ma Cheng picked up the teacup and took a sip, curled his lips and said, "Old Feng, tea leaves are just like this. This is the most important thing in this hou. Go and get some tomorrow, just like this today!"

Feng Kezong resisted the urge to curse and nodded repeatedly and promised: "Please rest assured by the Marquis of Zhenguo. Tomorrow, no! I'll go buy this year's Biluochun tonight!"

Ma Cheng put down the teacup, then waved his hand and said, "Old Feng, you can go out. We have something important to discuss, but you are not inconvenient to listen!"

After receiving Ma Cheng's instructions, Feng Kezong quickly put down the teapot and then went out to carefully close the door. After leaving the door, Feng Kezong's face turned clear and cloudy. He whispered to a Jinyiwei School Captain outside the door: "Take a few people, hide outside the room, discuss what Ma Cheng and his subordinates should write down in detail, and then report to our governor to know!"

The captain nodded and whispered: "Please rest assured by the governor, the villain must do it!"

After Feng Kezong made arrangements, he went to the front yard. He just served Ma Cheng for dinner, but he had not had any water and rice in his mouth, so he took this opportunity to go for some meal.

The Jinyiwei School Captain went to find a few

The literate subordinates, as soon as they arrived outside Ma Cheng's door, saw a group of Guiyang Marquis' guards standing at the door. A tall and big guy glared and scolded: "What are you doing? Do you want to assassinate my Marquis?"

The captain did not think that he could deal with one hundred ordinary people, but when he saw these wolf-like guards, he did not dare to offend these killers. He had no choice but to laugh and said, "Sir, my governor is afraid that the marquis will give you any instructions, so he let the villain come and listen to the greeting!"

The guard at the door pushed the captain aside and scolded, "You guys still want to serve my marquis? Why don't you get out of here!" After that, the guards stepped forward one after another and drove out the unlucky Jinyiwei. The captain had no choice but to take his subordinates and run away in shame and go to the front yard to ask Feng Kezong what to do next.

When Ma Cheng and Feng Kezong went out, he asked his guards to surround the yard. This was the imperial prison of the Jinyiwei, with many people and eyes. Ma Cheng didn't want his arrangements to be heard by outsiders.

After the guards surrounded the yard, Ma Cheng whispered to Wang Xian: "Wang Xian, how are you preparing outside the city?"

"Please rest assured, the brothers outside the city are ready, so wait three days to start the action! The Yiwei Department first entered the city. If there is not enough staff, you can still transfer people!" Wang Xian said and pondered for a while, then said, "Mr. Marquis, since you want to make a big fuss, why not establish a new king?"

Wang Xian has always been a staunch rebel. He has no good impression of the Ming Dynasty at all. It would be better for Ma Cheng to ascend the throne and become emperor, so that he can best match Wang Xian's wishes.

Wang Xian's suggestion is indeed very tempting. Ma Cheng has been suppressed by Zhu Lunkui for more than half a year, and he is very unhappy, both politically and militaryally. If he wins the Nanjing defense battle according to Ma Cheng's arrangement, he should send a large army to occupy Yangzhou, and then go upstream along the Yangtze River to occupy the important town of Wuchang, and ensure the safety of Nanjing, and then take action to deal with the small courts in various parts of the south.

However, Emperor Zhu Lunkui had no strategic vision and only knew immediate interests. He wanted to eliminate dissidents when he saw Lu Wang supervising the country. This idiotic behavior disappointed Ma Cheng too. However, Ma Cheng knew that this was all determined by Zhu Lu Lu. For an emperor like him who had a low birth and impure blood, the threats of the Ming Dynasty royal families such as Lu Wang, Lu Wang and Lu Wang were far greater than those of the Qing Dynasty, so it was inevitable to clear the internal threat first.

The power cannot be seized right in front of us, which makes Ma Cheng very uncomfortable. Now most of the army outside the city obey Ma Cheng's orders. Although the 80,000 city guards in Nanjing were under the jurisdiction of Lu Siye, the combat effectiveness of these 80,000 mobs was not comparable to that of the new army. According to Ma Cheng's estimate, as long as the new army is given half a day, they can occupy the entire Nanjing city.

However, it is easy to fight and Zhu Lunkui is easy to kill, but the next thing is difficult to deal with. Although Ma Cheng is so glorious now and is invincible with the title of a famous general, there are not many subordinates who Ma Cheng can truly believe in.

Ma Cheng started his business too short, and it will take two years and four months from April of the 17th year of Chongzhen to the present. Most of Ma Cheng's subordinates are either newly recruited soldiers or military households from Guizhou. In the minds of those newly recruited soldiers, the Ming Dynasty was orthodox. Military households from Guizhou believe that Ma Shiying is their master. Ma Cheng is just a relatively outstanding son of Ma Shiying.

Ma Cheng now has only one trusted civil servant

Xu Zhenye, Wang Xian, and only ten confidants including Gu Changwei (two of the Twelve Kings died in the Battle of Nanjing). In addition to these, there is also the upstart Gu Yong in front of him. This guy is the nephew of Ma Cheng's concubine Gu Xiying, and there is no problem with loyalty.

However, Ma Cheng and his confidants were too low-level soldiers. Gu Changwei and others were just low-level officers two years ago, and Gu Yong was even a big-headed soldier and had no influence in the army. Now, all the main generals who control the army are military households from Guiyang Guards, such as Zhang Guozhu, Ma Bao and others, who are the backbone of the current army.

If Ma Cheng kills Zhu Lunkui to proclaim himself emperor now, or supports Ma Shiying to proclaim himself emperor, the attitudes of these backbone generals will become the key. Ma Shiying's attitude is very strange now. He neither supports Ma Cheng's coup nor Emperor Zhu Lunkui. This time Ma Cheng was cheated of Ma Cheng is an example. Ma Shiying took sick leave a few days ago on the grounds of being sick, and hid at home without showing up. Ma Shiying's attitude made Ma Cheng unable to figure out whether Ma Shiying could support him if he had a mutiny.

So after thinking about it for a while, Ma Cheng decided to first rely on Zhu Lunkui to demonstrate his personal strength, and after Gu Changwei, Xu Dahu and other confidants truly grew into independent generals, they were considering follow-up issues.

After listening to Wang Xian's suggestion, Ma Cheng shook his head and said, "It's not the time yet. Now the enemy is out. We must first deal with opposition forces such as Lu Wang and others!"

Wang Xian also knew what Ma Cheng was considering, but what he could say, so he had no choice but to nod and agree.

"Gu Yong, go and tell the guys from Yiweisi to try not to kill people and not to create any uncontrollable situation!"

Although Gu Yong was the commander of Yiwei Department, the two generals of Yiwei Department were An Zhennan and Tian Boguang, who had a higher identity than Gu Yong. An Zhennan used to be a thousand guards around Ma Cheng, and Gu Yong was still an underworld of An Zhennan. Not to mention Tian Boguang, he was the nephew of Ma Bao, a general under Ma Shiying, and he was related to Ma Cheng. Now he asked Gu Yong to command them. Gu Yong was very worried that these two guys would not obey the orders.

When Ma Cheng saw Gu Yong frowning, he knew what the guy was thinking, and cursed: "What are you afraid of? I just told these two guys that I said that if someone died, they would have their heads!"

With Ma Cheng's order, Gu Yong felt much more relieved, so he nodded and agreed.

"Mr. Wang, in addition to the city, there is also Zhenjiang, where has Lu Wang's army gone?"

"Mr. Lu Wang's army is still repairing in Suzhou. Maybe he doesn't want to leave anymore and is planning to stay in Suzhou for the New Year."

It's only the end of August, and there are more than three months left before the Chinese New Year. When they come, the cucumbers and vegetables will be cold.

Ma Cheng said angrily: "Don't these guys know the truth about the noble god of soldiers? When King Lu arrived, he asked Zhang Guozhu to give up Zhenjiang and retreat to Longtan camp at the end of September! There was also Ma Bao, so he asked him to give up Taiping Prefecture and retreat to Dasheng Pass to station in Dasheng Pass!"
Chapter completed!