In the upper capital, there was chaos. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This has been going on for months. Since the emperor was trapped in Luzhou, Shangjing City has exploded, and the first auxiliary horse to the east is not enough to suppress the ministers, when Min Ruoying was in the past, everyone naturally took the lead, but now the emperor is besieged in the territory of the enemy country, can he come back or two words, Ma Xiangdong immediately sat on the wax.

There are those who advocate that they should immediately negotiate peace with the Qi people, and even if they cede land and pay compensation, they must redeem the emperor.

Some people advocate that they should immediately recruit young and strong people, rearm hundreds of thousands of troops to rush to the border passes, and fight with the Qi people.

What's more, another handful of people actually began to plot the abolition of the establishment. The emperor saw that it was not good, he was trapped in the hinterland of Qi State, and there was little hope of killing him back.

The ministers of the Chu Dynasty, each with their own thoughts, ran and shouted in the capital, and for a while, all the living beings were in front of the world.

Of course, Ma Xiangdong hopes that Min Ruoying will come back with all his beards and tails, his wealth and wealth are all tied to Min Ruoying, if anything happens to Min Ruoying, don't think about it, his position as the first assistant will come to an end.

However, the war is peace, there is a clear distinction between the government and the opposition, and for a while they are evenly matched, and the daily deliberations are all helplessly ended in one blushing argument after another, and no one can convince anyone.

If Ma Xiangdong has deep qualifications and enough popularity, he can naturally subdue everyone if he is the left-behind minister and the position of the first assistant of the court, but in the eyes of the court boss, this first and auxiliary lord is not a fortunate minister, the three princes and nine kings, and the six hall officials, who is willing to obey him?

If you want to say that there is someone who can deter the court, there is another person in the capital, that is, the queen mother in the palace. But in the past few years, the Queen Mother has grown older, her health is very bad, she has a minor illness in three days, a major illness in ten days, and her already extremely weak body, after getting the news that Min Ruoying and hundreds of thousands of troops were besieged in Luzhou, she couldn't bear this major blow, and suddenly fell ill, and she has been riddled with scabies, not to mention making up ideas, and she can't even get up.

Time passed day by day in the quarrels of the courtiers. And in this chaos, the news of the return of Jiang Shangyan and his 500 subordinates was actually hidden in a mountain of cases, and no one found or paid attention to it.

Jiang Shangyan is a general with heavy troops in Daming, but in Dachu, he is nothing, although he was also a fierce general of the Eastern Frontier Army before, but after leaving office for many years, who else in Beijing can remember that he is the number one person.

The five hundred subordinates he led, all cavalry, one man and two horses, carrying a large number of weapons, when he returned from the Ming Dynasty, there was a road issued to him by the Xinning County Guard, which allowed him to have a smooth ride in the territory of Chu and arrived all the way to Shangjing, but such an army that looked unknown in the garrison in Shangjing naturally did not want to enter Shangjing.

Even if there is Xinning Wuteng's guarantee, it can't be done. Shangjing, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the center of the imperial court, the county guard of a remote area, is that green onion?

Jiang Shangyan was anxious, looking up at the wall of the capital every day, but he couldn't enter the door. He had the intention of leading his troops to leave straight and go straight to the battlefield, but he knew in his heart that on this route, he was afraid that with his current identity, he would not be able to move an inch, unless he entered the city and let those big people in Beijing agree.

Every day, he sent people into the city to deliver his prayer books to the court corridor, but he was always in the sea, and he did not hear a sound at all. This made Jiang Shangyan feel a sense of powerlessness from the depths of his heart for the first time in several years, in Daming, he is a heavy general, let alone entering the capital of Yue, it is easy to see the emperor, but in Dachu, what is he now?

The small camp was trapped outside the Shangjing City, surrounded by spies from the internal guards, and the vigilant eyes of the Shangjing garrison, but fortunately, these people did not allow this army to enter the city, but they did not prohibit them from entering the city every day. After Jiang Shangyan entered the city several times, he finally found out the situation in Shangjing City clearly.

At the head of the national crisis, instead of uniting to overcome the national crisis, the adults of the dynasty took advantage of this opportunity to fight for power and profit, which made Jiang Shangyan sigh.

It's not better than not knowing, it's more frightening. Look at today's Da Chu, and then think about the Ming Dynasty on the side, Jiang Shangyan is bitter in his heart, not that there is no struggle for power and profit in the Ming Dynasty, where there are people, there are naturally rivers and lakes, and the official hat is loved by everyone, but in the Ming Dynasty, most of those who want to get an official hat have real talent and learning, and they want to come out to make contributions and do a career, and the strict examiner system of the Ming Dynasty has also blocked those who are in the dead food position as much as possible. In Daming, officials are not so easy to be. In the words of the emperor, the official position is the responsibility, and when you become this official, if you can't fulfill the responsibility, then you must be held accountable, and it will be light for you to get out.

Daming also has mountains, whether it is a civil official or a military general, everyone has their own small group, but externally, it is surprisingly consistent, orderly and orderly.

is like the current Da Chu, who is about to lose the country and extinguish the species, and is still happily fighting in the nest.

"Da Chu, the country will die without a day!" Jiang Shangyan, who was outside the city, sighed gloomily.

"General, General." His personal guard, Jiang Chusheng rushed in from outside with an excited face, "There is hope, there is hope." ”

"What's hopeful?" Jiang Shangyan reflected after a while, "Is it our performance, the imperial court already has news." ”

Jiang Chusheng shook his head again and again, "No, it's the queen's car that has arrived in Beijing." Now it has arrived at Shiliyi, the court officials in the court headed by Shoufu Ma Xiangdong, will go to Shiliyi to meet, I heard that it is the queen mother in the palace, after learning the news of the queen's return to Beijing, the illness is half cured, and the lieutenant is sent to Shiliyi together! ”

"The Queen Mother has arrived!" Jiang Shangyan jumped up, "Let's go, let's go meet the queen mother." ”

"Yes!" Jiang Chusheng nodded again and again: "I'll go and gather the brothers." ”

"Wait." Jiang Shangyan suddenly reacted again, he is now in Chu State, he is not the number one person at all, and he ran to Shili Post with these hundreds of cavalry, but he was afraid that people would intercept him halfway through the road and kill him as a bad guy. "It's good for me to go alone, you are in the camp, okay to restrain the brothers, since the queen has arrived in Shangjing, our hard days will come to an end."

Jiang Shangyan was excited, but Ma Xiangdong was worried at the moment.

Min Ruoxi went ashore from Quanzhou, after revealing his whereabouts, he did a lot of things with great fanfare, Hu Yicai, or the internal guards, they all had excerpts to Beijing, but surprisingly, because of the disputes in Beijing, these things did not appear in front of Ma Xiangdong for the first time, and were submerged by the vast number of twists and turns in various places, and after Min Ruoxi changed ships from Quanzhou, he went straight to the capital at a very fast speed, the ship went to Tongzhou, got off the boat and changed horses, and went straight to the capital, until this time, Ma Xiangdong finally received a report.

It was only at this time that the important ministers of the court reacted to what had happened. Empress Daming, Princess Zhaohua of Dachu, the emperor's own sister, returned from the Ming Dynasty, and was about to arrive in the capital, and the court knew that many ministers were shocked and angry.

It can be seen from this that the chaos in Chu has reached an absurd point.

After receiving Tongzhou's urgency, Ma Xiangdong ordered someone to dig out the excerpts of Hu Yicai in Quanzhou and the relevant excerpts of the Quanzhou internal guard, and finally understood what Min Ruoxi did in Quanzhou, and couldn't help but worry.

There is already chaos in Beijing, and now there is another princess Zhaohua, and I don't know if it's a curse or a blessing.

More importantly, will Cheng Wuben really withdraw directly from Wanzhou to Jinghu? Abandoning His Majesty and withdrawing from the army without permission is a big crime, Cheng Wuben would really do this? But looking at what Min Ruoxi did in Quanzhou, it seems that he is sure that all this will happen, millions of taels of silver, hundreds of thousands of stone grain, and hundreds of warships led by Ning Zhiwen have all entered Jinghu County. But Zeng Lin of Jinghu County did not report to the imperial court without a word.

Ma Xiangdong made a radical move, and a vague thought flashed in his heart, Cheng Wuben must have colluded with Da Ming. Otherwise, how could the queen of the Ming Dynasty know everything about Cheng Wuben's next move?

As soon as I thought of this, I immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Although Princess Zhaohua and the emperor are brother and sister, the two are not harmonious, on the contrary, they have a lot of differences. Princess Zhaohua returned to Beijing with great fanfare at the moment, naturally for a reason. And one of the things that frightened Ma Xiangdong the most was that the Ming Dynasty concluded that the emperor would not come back, and Princess Zhaohua returned to Shangjing to intervene in the heir affairs of the Chu State.

Da Ming has bad intentions! This is Ma Xiangdong's judgment for the first time.

As the first assistant, he naturally understands more things than ordinary people, and this battle has been fought to this point, how can Ma Xiangdong still not understand, Da Chu is a big deal in the Ming Kingdom. They evoked the Great War of the Three Kingdoms, and then they retreated unbelievably, but completely trapped the Great Chu army, and now judging from the configuration of the Qi army that surrounded the emperor, this is a conspiracy, a big conspiracy set up by Qi Ming.

Now that the Ming army is making a big show in Zhaoguan and assisting Wu Teng in the northwest, in Ma Xiangdong's view, it is purely a cat crying mouse fake compassion, I am afraid that what they want is to let Qi Chu fight for a longer time and fight harder, for fear that the Chu State will not be able to hold on, and they also deliberately cheered up the Chu people and made a group of supporters, but only God knows how much effort is really put in.

can be imagined, but when Princess Zhaohua returned to Beijing, she still had to be grandly received. As for the next step, we can only watch and see, and we must first find out what the idea of this Princess Zhaohua is going to deal with it.

After making up his mind, Ma Xiangdong made a tribute to the Queen Mother and convened important ministers to discuss, but fortunately, this time, everyone still agreed on the same opinion. No matter what, the Ming people must not be allowed to interfere in the government affairs of the Chu State, even if she is Princess Zhaohua.