Princess Min Ruoxi of Zhaohua went ashore in Tongzhou, so it was naturally impossible to follow lightly. Zhuoyi, the www.biquge.info of Tongzhou County, brought 2,000 county soldiers as escorts to escort Min Ruoxi all the way into Beijing. It was not until this time that the important ministers of the Chu State in Shangjing were able to know about this matter, and Tongzhou was only more than a hundred miles away from Shangjing.

Ten mile post, the courtiers led by Ma Xiangdong greeted the returning Princess Zhaohua.

The soldiers of Tongzhou County were outside, and Min Ruoxi brought the guards from the Ming Kingdom, spreading out layer by layer, guarding the huge carriage dragged by four horses in the middle.

No matter what Ma Xiangdong and other Chu courtiers think, Min Ruoxi is still the Zhaohua princess of Chu State, a golden branch and jade leaf, and their master.

"Greetings to Her Royal Highness Princess." The horse headed the east, bowed and shouted.

The carriage curtain was lifted, and what came out was Gonggong Le with a gloomy face, then Aunt Ying, and finally, Princess Min Ruoxi of Zhaohua, who also had a bad face.

There was no expected flat body, there were just embarrassing silences, and all the courtiers of the Chu State who were dressed in their bodies only felt cold and swishing on the back of their necks and vests, as if there were bursts of cold wind pouring inside.

"This time I returned to China, this palace has opened my eyes." Min Ruoxi's cold voice echoed in everyone's ears, but the words he said were extremely repulsive.

"The state of Chu has reached the autumn of peril, hundreds of thousands of troops are surrounded, the emperor is trapped, seeing that the catastrophe is coming, even the palace this person who is far away in the capital of Yue knows that it has reached a very critical moment, I thought that the princes of Shangjing must be exhausted, working hard for the country, I don't want to come to this way, I haven't heard of anything else, but I have heard that the intrigue in the capital, fighting for power and profit, not thinking about the difficulty of solving the king, but only thinking about his own selfishness, I don't know that under the nest, there are eggs!"

Ma Xiangdong's face turned red, it's not that he doesn't want to save it, it's just that he can't help people! What's more, Princess Zhaohua is not a native of Da Chu now, but the queen of Da Ming, but she is not qualified to spit on the courtiers of Da Chu here.

The body bowed lower, and the words that came out of his mouth were not so respectful: "His Royal Highness's return to the country is a happy event, but the matter of going to Beijing, His Royal Highness is probably hearsay, since the emperor was surrounded, the princes of the court and the central government are all anxious, and they are thinking day and night to relieve the siege for Your Majesty." And this is an internal matter of Da Chu, and I don't dare to worry about His Highness. ”

Min Ruoxi snorted coldly: "Are you saying that I am not qualified to take care of the affairs of Beijing?" ”

Ma Xiangdong raised his head, "Don't dare." However, Her Royal Highness is the queen mother of the Ming Dynasty, and in the internal affairs of Chu, it is true that she should not return to her beak more. Although Da Chu has difficulties, he has his own ministers to solve them. ”

Min Ruoxi looked at Ma Xiangdong with a cold face, with a murderous aura in his eyes. Ma Xiangdong was a little flustered in his heart, but at this moment, he was not allowed to bow his head, just stiffened his neck and looked at Min Ruoxi.

The cold on Min Ruoxi's face gradually dissipated, and he suddenly laughed out loud, "Okay, very good." I'd like to see how you solve this problem, but what kind of charter do you have? ”

Since he started and tore his face, Ma Xiangdong also broke the jar, "Your Highness, this is a domestic affair of Chu, and it is also a secret matter of the State of Chu." ”

"It's a good internal matter, a good secret matter." Min Ruoxi snorted coldly, "It's beautiful to say, but when you do it, it's the opposite of the other, Ma Xiangdong, you and Ma Xiangnan are brothers, but you are not as far away as him." Ma Xiangnan only does not say, you are good, just say not do. ”

"Your Highness's words, the minister dare not accept it." Ma Xiangdong's face flushed and retorted.

"Am I still wronging you, Jiang Shangyan, you come out." Min Ruoxi shouted.

Behind the carriage, Jiang Shangyan flashed out.

Min Ruoxi pointed at Jiang Shangyan, "Do you know this person?" Oh, this palace forgot, you are all important ministers of the court, and you know him as a pawn there. That palace now tells you that he is a Chu man, once an officer of the Eastern Frontier Army, once went to Daming with Cheng Wuben and Jiang Tao to fight, and made great achievements. But after the Luzhou incident, this high-ranking and powerful general in the Ming Dynasty knelt outside the palace for a day and a night, just begging His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to let him return to China to serve Chu. Ma Shoufu, in the cold winter, knelt outside the palace for a day and a night, do you know what it's like? Emperor Ming pitied him and didn't want him to kneel to death like this, but appreciated his loyalty to his homeland, and specially ordered him to lead his own soldiers back to fight in the country. Such a loyal and good general, after arriving in Beijing, he couldn't take a step into Shangjing for two months, and the adult present had seen him, or had he heard of him? ”

Ma Xiangdong really didn't know, and the officials behind him naturally knew, but they didn't take this matter seriously and naturally didn't pay attention to it. Now it is being taken by Min Ruoxi to talk about the situation.

"The emperor was besieged in Luzhou, no matter whether the emperor can escape and return, but the destruction of the eastern border army is probably irreparable, the eastern border army is gone, and the eastern part of Great Chu will be in turmoil, and the princes can have a charter to deal with it? Yes, yes, yes, but there is a decision? Min Ruoxi continued to question. I'm afraid there aren't any, right? Zhuo Yi, have you seen this kind of newspaper? ”

On the other side, a Da Chu official with an embarrassed face flashed, bowed down and said, "Your Highness, no." The voice is as small as a mosquito humming, this person is naturally Zhuoyi, the county guard of Tongzhou. He didn't expect that as soon as the princess arrived in Beijing, she immediately had a conflict with Shoufu, the most important thing is that it seems that it seems that the princes of the imperial court are standing with Ma Shoufu in this matter, for him, this is not good to be a man, the things in the capital, on the way from Tongzhou to the capital, he knows everything, and he has nothing to say.

Since the defeat of the front, the ministers in Shangjing City have indeed done nothing, they have quarreled with each other, and they were caught by Min Ruoxi and reprimanded him, but Ma Xiangdong was unjustifiable, his face was blood-red, and he just looked at Zhuo Yi with hatred.

"You said that this palace is not qualified to manage, too, this palace is now the queen of the Ming Dynasty, and it is true that she is not qualified to manage the affairs of Dachu, but this palace is still the daughter of the first emperor, and she is not qualified to manage it, so she can't say that she is not qualified. Let's go! ”

Min Ruoxi dropped this sentence, turned around and brushed his sleeves into the carriage. Cao Gu glanced at the officials who were at a loss, sneered and followed Min Ruoxi, and with a bang, the carriage door closed tightly, and Grandpa Le stood high on the wheel, shouting in a sharp voice: "Let's drive!" ”

As soon as the two words landed, the innermost Ming army guards responded in unison, and as soon as the queue was united, the carriage was immediately protected in the middle, and the carriage slowly started forward.

The princess drove this move, and Zhuo Yi, who was in charge of the guard, had to move, and he hurriedly waved to the east, "Shoufu, send the princess into the palace first, and then come back to ask Shoufu for guilt." ”

Two thousand soldiers guarded the princess's carriage and slowly walked towards the city, leaving a group of stunned courtiers at Shiliyi.

"Looking for someone to take care of us? Who is this? One of the officials was a little ignorant and muttered to himself.

Ma Xiangdong glared at him fiercely, "Who else can there be, naturally it is the Queen Mother, her old man." ”

"The Queen Mother is seriously ill, how can she take care of things?" And humane.

Ma Xiangdong's gaze swept over from everyone's faces one by one, and said slowly: "Princess, now is no longer the time for us to quarrel, no matter what, we must first organize soldiers and horses, grain and grass, and prepare to support the six eastern counties, otherwise, I am afraid that we will end up in danger, not only the Queen Mother will not spare us, but in the future, His Majesty the Emperor will return, how will we explain?" ”

"But I didn't prepare anything before, and now in a hurry, how can it be done?"

"To make a plan first, the important thing is not whether it can be done, but to show the attitude." Ma Xiangdong hated the way that iron does not become steel. "Princes, hurry back to the court, I'm afraid that the Queen Mother will summon us soon. When the time comes, if we can't say that there is a single ugly man, I'm afraid that we will all have to eat and hang. ”

A group of people hurriedly got on the horse, sat in a sedan chair, and quickly headed towards the capital, until this time, everyone finally reacted, they did have nothing to do during this time, and they quarreled with each other, everyone subconsciously, it seemed that the emperor could not come back, but what if the emperor came back?

Thinking of the emperor's ruthlessness and retribution, everyone couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Jiang Shangyan did not enter the city with these people, but excitedly returned to the station of his troops, and after he learned that the queen mother was about to arrive at the ten mile station, he flew to meet the queen mother among the courtiers. also learned from the queen that Cheng Shuai would inevitably withdraw to Jinghu County to fortify again, and the queen mother also promised him that he would soon lead an army to Jinghu to support Cheng Shuai.

Of course he believed the words of the queen mother, and now he had to be ready, ready to receive the army, ready to march to Jinghu, and being able to fight under Cheng Shuai again made him extremely excited. And the five hundred Chu troops who returned with him, after getting the news, were also cheering, and it had been almost two months since they arrived in Shangjing, and they were all about to go crazy.

It's just that Jiang Shangyan didn't know that when he was cheering, his old boss, Jiang Tao, was already running towards the gate of King Yama's palace with 10,000 cavalry, never looking back.

This night, the lights of the various ministries and offices in the capital have been on, all the officials are busy, and the chief officials are gathered in the public hall of the first assistant, discussing all night, and the Great Chu Dynasty finally began his normal operation at this moment.

At the fifth watch, when the rooster reported the dawn and the sky was dawning, the door of the palace gradually opened, and the eunuch was ordered to rush to the public corridor of the first assistant.

The Queen Mother summoned the first assistant to see the three princes and nine secretaries, and the six books. The Queen Mother, who had been sick for a long time, miraculously recovered most of the time on the night Princess Zhaohua returned.