After a brief period of consternation, Ma Shiying gradually recovered from the shock.

Whatever is beneficial to Wu Zheng, it is beneficial to himself.

The determination of this line of thought made Ma Shiying decide to follow Zhu Yujiao's idea and fill in the gaps in the plan.

After careful consideration and deliberation between the two monarchs and ministers, Ma Shiying repaired the plan from another direction.

It was precisely this that made Wu Zheng categorically refuse.

Zhu Yujiao asked Ma Shiying to take the words, and asked Wu Zheng to canonize Wu Xiaomei (Zhu Chenyu as the queen) after recognizing his ancestors and returning to his ancestors to inherit the unification, and swore in the temple that the prince must be selected from among the heirs born by Zhu Chenyu.

Ma Shiying is greedy by nature, but he is indeed loyal to the Ming family for most of his life, which is not difficult to understand, Wei Zhongxian is a eunuch, and he does not dare to slack off on the defense of the border army, and he knows that the building will fall, the skin will not exist, and Mao will be attached to the truth, not to mention that Ma Shiying is also from a serious imperial examination.

Therefore, as long as it does not pose a threat to Wu Zheng's vital interests, Ma Shiying prefers the continuation of the Ming family, perhaps this is an obsession in his heart.

Of course, his initial admonition was that Wu Zheng canonized Wu Xiaomei as the queen, so as to treat the descendants of the clan well, which also made this matter seem less ridiculous, of course, this was just a cover-up and self-deception.

The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, and Zhu Yujiao, who was awakened by Ma Shiying's words, immediately thought of the second half of the condition.

That is, the future prince candidate, must be selected from Zhu Chenyu's heirs.

Zhu Yujiao was above the court, and when she heard that the ministers unanimously supported Wu Zheng as the emperor, she was bittersweet.

She was the initiator of this matter, but when it really came to pass, she regretted it again.

She felt ashamed of her father, the spirit of the ancestors and the ancestors in the sky, and the Ming Room was actually cut off in her hands.

This thought made her heart twist like a knife, and she couldn't have a moment of peace.

It is not difficult to understand that she is just a woman under twenty, and she has this emotion of gaining and losing, which is normal for people.

Therefore, after being woken up by Ma Shiying's words, Zhu Yujiao immediately thought of this remedy.

In her opinion, as long as Wu Zheng becomes the emperor, canonizes Zhu Chenyu as the queen, and establishes Zhu Chenyu as the crown prince, then the bloodline will return to the clan after a generation.

In other words, Wu Zheng is a transition, just an expedient move to contribute to the revival of the Ming Chamber in troubled times.

Zhu Yujiao knew that once Wu Zheng ascended the throne, there would be no chance between herself and Wu Zheng in this life, so Wu Xiaomei was the only choice.

And this point has also been agreed by Ma Shiying.

In Ma Shiying's view, this is indeed a wonderful plan for everyone to be happy and benefit together.

So, the monarch and the ministers hit it off, and Zhu Yujiao ordered Ma Shiying to come to Dantu, obviously to sacrifice the army, but it was actually to test Wu Zheng's meaning.

didn't want to, Wu Zheng resolutely scolded Ma Shiying in front of him and said: "Ma Shiying, I took you in and let you live in the temple, not for you to plot against me." Even if I want to take it in this world, I don't need to spend so much dirty thought, I can snatch it from the hands of the Tartars with real knives and guns, do you still need to wait for the monarch and the ministers to conspire to calculate Lao Tzu? ”

Ma Shiying was confused, he couldn't have imagined that Wu Zheng would react so much to this matter.

In his opinion, this is a once-in-a-lifetime good thing, Wu Zheng got what he wanted, the princess had a knot, and there was a successor to the Ming family, how good was it?

It can be seen that Wu Zheng was so angry that Ma Shiying had to kneel down and ask for guilt.

A cabinet minister kneels down to others, and this kind of strange thing can only be seen in this kind of troubled times.

Wu Zheng did not avoid it at this time, looked at Ma Shiying coldly, and saw that Ma Shiying was in a cold sweat, and he hurriedly explained: "Lord, Ma really has no selfish thoughts about this matter, just considering the coexistence between the lord and the Ming family, that's all, I hope the lord will be aware of it." ”

Wu Zheng finally spoke, "A lie needs a hundred lies to cover up, and there are no less than ten people who know about this matter, do you think you can hide it?" ”

When Ma Shiying heard this, Huo Di raised his head and said, "Then ...... Kill. ”

Kill people to eliminate future troubles?

Wu Zheng laughed angrily at this, "Kill whom?" You? ”

Ma Shiying was really scared, he trembled with fear.

"Don't pretend!" Wu Zheng said sharply, "This set is not easy to use in front of me." ”

Immediately, Ma Shiying stopped shaking, and replied embarrassedly: "The lord is a lenient person, so naturally he will not do such a vicious thing." ”

Wu Zheng was so angry by this sentence that he dared to love this old thief to prevent trouble before it happens, and to block himself with words.

"Even if this matter can be hidden, you can know that once I recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors, I will be subject to others for the rest of my life, the Zhu clan has millions of people, although after this troubled era, the victims have been eight or ninety, but even if ninety percent, the Zhu clan relatives in various places will also be 100,000, and then the Zhu clan relatives will come one after another, asking the court to reward, occupy a high position, embezzle the state funds, and exploit the people, this world has to repeat the current scene, how to deal with it then?"

Ma Shiying responded again and again: "The lord is as wise as a torch and has a foresight, and his subordinates are not thoughtful, and I hope the lord will forgive me." ”

Wu Zheng shouted angrily: "Get up, follow me back to Beijing." ”

……。

When he returned to Yingtianfu, the Qing court mission had already arrived.

Unlike the last peace talks, Wu Zheng was not among the negotiations.

This time, it was Chen Zilong, the first assistant, who was in charge personally, and Wang Yi, the deputy capital of Yushi, and Dong Zhining as the assistant to negotiate with the Qing court.

To Wu Zheng's relief, he learned from Hong Chengchou that Qian Sudian was still alive, and there were still hundreds of soldiers in Yizhen who survived.

Qian Qiaogong even ran back and forth between the Qian family and the Guogong Mansion, and even dragged Qian Jinxuan together, begging Wu Zheng to save his uncle Qian Sudian.

Wu Zheng should have responded, but he couldn't think of a good way for a while.

In fact, including Qian Qiaogong, everyone understands that as soon as Hong Chengchou arrived, he made it clear that Qian Sudian and hundreds of Ming troops were alive, that is, to show the chips in his hand, if Qingtai Chao mentions it first, if it is next, Hong Chengchou will open his mouth with a hammer.

But if it is really to use Zhenjiang City to coerce each other, will the Qingtai Dynasty agree or not? If you don't agree, it will chill the hearts of the whole army, and if you agree, then the tens of thousands of soldiers who died in this battle will not be chilled in the spirit of the sky?

This is a very difficult thing for everyone to do.

Wu Zheng specially went to see Chen Zilong for this matter.

"Dare to ask Shoufu, can the Qing mission propose to return the Yizhen Ming army?"

Chen Zilong shook his head and said, "How can they mention it?" At the moment, all we are talking about is who is at fault in this battle. ”

It is strange to say that the two sides had an armistice agreement before, but such a large-scale battle was fought, involving three directions, four battlefields, and hundreds of thousands of troops.

And now, the two sides are sitting together, arguing with each other about who broke the armistice first, as if the next-door neighbors had a quarrel and then argued with each other about who provoked first.

It makes people laugh.