Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 59

At the end of the court meeting, everyone dispersed, Zhu Cihong and Zhu Yousong returned to their respective mansions, and so did the other civil and military ministers.

Standing outside the palace gate, Qian Qianyi was about to get into the sedan chair when he saw Ma Shiying striding towards his sedan chair, so he stopped and greeted him.

"Your Majesty, please draft the imperial edict when you turn around. Don't make any mistakes and make His Highness unhappy like today."

Looking at Qian Qianyi's old smiling face, Ma Shiying was so angry that Zhu Yousong suddenly stood up today and spoke with lightning speed, but he was caught off guard.

Seeing Fu Wang sitting on the chair with a sluggish expression again, although he is dozens of years old, he behaves more like a child than Zhu Cihong, which is really out of character.

At this moment, Ma Shiying regretted it in his heart. He thought to himself, if he knew that he would not support King Fu, it would be great if he could wait for a few days, a period of time, until the prince came to Jinling.

I really shouldn't have listened to the rumors at the beginning, thinking that the prince, King Ding, and King Yong were all captured by Li Chuang, so I went to support King Fu's ascension to the throne.

It's a pity that I have already embarked on a road of no return. In the struggle for imperial power, for thousands of years, it's either you die or I live. There has never been a second choice, especially for a high-ranking minister like myself.

At this moment, he was already thinking, after Zhu Cihong ascended the throne, would he be punished by the three tribes of barbarians, or be punished by the nine tribes?

Thinking of this, Ma Shiying couldn't help shivering, feeling as if he was standing in the snow in the middle of winter and being blown by the biting cold wind. With a shiver, he returned to reality from the spiritual world in his mind. Sentence, but found that people have gone far.

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"His Highness is so powerful. He scared all the ministers to the ground in the main hall. They didn't dare to say a word. If you can't pass the throne, I can call you Your Majesty, haha."

Seeing Zhu Cihong's high spirits in the hall, pointing out Jiang Shan, Liu Bao was really happy for him from the bottom of his heart.

Not only because Zhu Cihong is his master, Zhu Cihong can only be honored if Zhu Cihong honors him, and if Zhu Cihong insults him, he will definitely be humiliated, but also because he has been serving Zhu Cihong for ten years and has been waiting for the day when he ascends the throne. Today finally came, he And Zhu Cihong can be regarded as having survived.

"Haha, it makes you happy, hey, why are you crying?" Zhu Cihong realized that tears flowed from Liu Bao's eyes as he spoke.

"Slave is so happy." Liu Bao was really happy, that's why he wept with joy.

Just when Zhu Cihong was about to stand up and wipe away Liu Bao's tears with his sleeves, a warrior ran in from outside the study. When he saw Zhu Cihong, he half-knelt on the ground and said.

"Your Highness, Mr. Li Wenkui, Mr. Zhang Ruowang, and Mr. Zhou Yuantong are all back. Now they are asking for a meeting outside the courtyard. I wonder if Your Highness will announce their arrival?" The warrior was a guard outside Zhu Cihong's study, responsible for reporting.

"Xuan." Zhu Cihong waved his sleeves, and the warrior walked out of the study, replaced by Li Wenkui and the others.

"Sit down, do you have any good news for me?" Zhu Cihong didn't pay much attention to the etiquette of monarchs and ministers, and the inertia of modern people's thinking, so he always set up seats for them.

The three of them looked at each other after hearing this, and they didn't know who should say it first. In the end, Zhu Cihong called Zhou Yuantong's name and asked him to say first, "Zhou Yuantong, tell me about the result of your trip to Huai'an."

Huai'an Mansion is Liu Zeqing's residence, and Liu Zeqing has tens of thousands of horses there.

"Liu Zeqing said that he was also forced by the pressure of Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, and Huang Degong at the beginning, so he turned to King Fu. Now that the real emperor is here, he will naturally pledge his allegiance to you."

"Here is a letter written by Liu Zeqing, please take a look." After finishing speaking, Zhou Yuantong took out a sealed letter from his pocket and put it on the desk in front of Zhu Cihong.

After reading it for a while, Zhu Cihong finally understood the content of the letter. Because the ancients did not use punctuation marks when writing, it took him a long time to understand what it meant.

"Okay!" After reading the letter, Zhu Cihong clapped the case and agreed, and dropped a brush on the table worth ten taels of silver to the ground and broke it.

"I didn't expect that I said today that they would write me a letter to support me. I didn't expect this letter to come." It's just a coincidence.

At this moment, Zhu Cihong even wondered if he had the talent to make his words come true, and what he said would come true.

Next, Li Wenkui and Zhang Ruowang said that what they saw and heard at Zuo Liangyu and Zheng Zhilong's place was similar to what Zhou Yuantong said, and even the last two took out a letter from their pockets.

"Now King Fu and the others can't afford to make trouble anymore, the Crown Prince's ascension to the throne is a foregone conclusion." Liu Bao said excitedly.

He knew that with the support of the troops of the three towns, King Fu would no longer have any advantage over Zhu Cihong, and then King Fu and his henchmen could only be like chickens and ducks on the chopping board, letting Zhu Cihong slaughter them.

At this moment, King Ding suddenly ran in from the outside, ran to Zhu Cihong's side and said, "Is the emperor going to be the emperor?"

"Then can you let me be a general? I want to lead troops into the battlefield. I want to personally capture that traitor Li Zicheng and avenge our country and family."

Seeing that the [-]-year-old Ding Wang actually said such words, Li Wenkui hurriedly said, "Ding Wang, we are here to discuss important matters with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Please stay outside for a while, and don't disturb us."

The Ming Dynasty has never allowed the prince to lead the army to fight, or even to be a general. The Hongwu period is not counted. In the past, the Tang king wanted to lead the army to the north to serve the king, but he was reprimanded by Chongzhen, and he was even locked up in Fengyang circle and was not allowed to go out.

It can be seen how much Daming was afraid of the vassal king's command of soldiers, but Ding Wang actually said in front of Zhu Cihong that he was really not afraid of death.

But then, an unexpected scene appeared. Zhu Cixiang touched Prince Ding's head with great satisfaction and said, "When Zhu Cijiong grows up, he will become a general and help his brother to fight the enemy."

"Okay, when you grow up, the emperor will make you a general and lead an army of [-] to wipe out the bandits in the world."

"Your Highness, you can't. My Ming Dynasty has never allowed vassal kings to command troops. If King Ding is really allowed to be a general in the future, I'm afraid there will be criticism from the generals in Chinese and Chinese, and there will be more troubles in the future."

Li Wenkui felt that Zhu Cihong's move to change the political tradition of Ming Dynasty was extremely dangerous, so he knelt on the ground to persuade him regardless of offending Zhu Cihong.

"If King Ding wants to lead the army, why not? My two brothers share the same father and mother and are close relatives. What do I have to fear?"

(End of this chapter)