Luo Bingran was the second governor of Jiangnan to take over Ma Cheng, and was one of the four generals under Ma Cheng's previous commandments. It would be perfect for him to take the blame.

After hearing Wang Xian's words, Ma Cheng's face turned clear and cloudy. He stepped forward and grabbed Ruan Dacheng who had already walked to the door and advised: "My father-in-law, please calm down! Just now, the son-in-law was not a human being, and the father-in-law was just a big deal. Don't take it to heart!"

Ruan Dacheng was so angry that his face turned red, but his strength was not as strong as Ma Cheng, so he could only be pulled into the house and sat down again by Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng pressed Ruan Dacheng back into the seat, then knelt in front of Ruan Dacheng with a gurgle, hugged Ruan Dacheng's legs and begged: "My father-in-law, please see Ruan's face and the unborn child in Lizhen's womb. Forgive your son-in-law!"

Ma Cheng has nothing to do in the past few months, and he has sex with Ruan Lizhen again. Now Ruan Lizhen has also given up and doesn't care whether Cao Taiwang is at home or not, and openly stays with Ma Cheng and flies together.

Ruan Dacheng didn't know that his daughter was pregnant again, so he quickly asked, "What? Lizhen is pregnant again?"

"Yes, please rest assured, if you are a kid, and you still have the surname of your father-in-law this time, the son-in-law promises to let your father-in-law spread the family!"

Ruan Dacheng sighed after hearing Ma Cheng say this and said, "Get up, I really don't know if I owe you something in my previous life, so I have to worry about your bad things!"

Ma Cheng quickly stood up, called Wang Xian, and asked him to explain in detail how to frame Luo Bingran.

Luo Bingran was a general under Zhang Guozhu, and was one of the murderers of Wang Xian's family back then. However, Ma Cheng used to strictly prohibit Wang Xian from avenging his private revenge, so although Wang Xian hated Luo Bingran for being itchy, he had no choice but to do anything. Now Luo Bingran surrendered to Zhu Lunkui, Wang Xian naturally could not let him go with this opportunity.

"Marty, Master! Since Luo Bingran surrendered to His Majesty the Emperor, he will naturally take the blame. If an improper measure induces a mutiny, it will be enough for him to behead his head and search his house!"

After Ma Cheng and Wang Xian finished speaking, he said to Ruan Dacheng: "My father-in-law, what do you think of this?"

Luo Bingran has no relationship with Ruan Dacheng whether he dies or lives. After hearing Wang Xian say that, Ruan Dacheng nodded and said, "Okay, let's talk about it when I go back to the emperor!"

The scapegoat was found, Ruan Dacheng left Ma Cheng's place and returned to the palace to report to Emperor Zhu Lunkui to know.

Zhu Lunkui was unbearable when he heard that Luo Bingran was asked to be a scapegoat. After all, Luo Bingran had just defected to him, and it was really unauthentic to kill the donkey now.

Seeing Zhu Lunkui hesitating, Ruan Dacheng persuaded him on the side: "Your Majesty, for the sake of the current plan, you must first appease Ma Cheng. As for Luo Bingran, don't think about it! Ma Cheng calms down and asks him to quell the rebellion. I heard that King Lu is also in the eastern Zhejiang province, as well as King Tang of Fujian and King Gui of Guangxi, these vassal kings are not stable, so why not wipe them out with Ma Cheng's hand?"

Zhu Lunkui also knew the strategy of killing people with a knife, but he was afraid that the knife would kill him in the future, so that would not be fun.

"My dear, you can do it now, but what about the future? If Ma Cheng's power grows, how can I control him?"

"Your Majesty, if you don't appease Ma Cheng, what future will you have? Only by appeaseing Ma Cheng can you have time. Your Majesty can recruit soldiers and train a new army loyal to Your Majesty. At that time, Your Majesty will hold the emperor's majesty, and I believe that Ma Cheng will definitely not be able to compete with Your Majesty!"

Ruan Dacheng said it very tactfully. Your emperor is not at ease now, what else do you think of?

Come? Only by comforting Ma Cheng and letting him suppress other rebellious vassal kings. Emperor, you can take this opportunity to show your own armed forces. What will happen then?

Zhu Lunkui pondered for a long time, then sighed and said, "That's all. Lu Daban proposed an order to restore the Marquis of Guiyang, Hou Ma Cheng, the Central Army as the Grand Governor of the Central Army, and manage military affairs in Nanzhili, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places. The civil servants under the jurisdiction of the territory below the fifth rank, and the military generals below the second rank shall be decided by Ma Cheng! Impress this!"

At this point, the mutiny that started from June of the second year of Shaowu to the end of August completely ended. Because August of the second year of Shaowu was the leap month month, it is called the leap month mutiny in history. Although this mutiny is not recorded in later history, there are many descriptions of mutiny in history that have been described by previous unofficial history.

During the Battle of Nanjing, the Qing Dynasty did not effectively control the city gate. Although it occupied the Taiping Gate for a short time, it was quickly driven out by the Ming army, so the losses in Nanjing were not too great. However, during the leap month mutiny, nearly 100,000 ordinary citizens in Nanjing were killed or injured. The prosperous Qinhuai River was located on the main battlefield, so it was most severely damaged.

In later generations, it was a taboo for the respected people. Ma Cheng's descendants blamed the cause and effect of this incident on Zhu Lunkui's incompetence and Luo Bingran's improper handling. However, no matter how many descendants of later generations covered Ma Cheng's, the fact is the fact. The casualties of nearly 100,000 people in Nanjing were counted on Ma Cheng.

Hundreds of years later, those historians who had nothing to do after eating and had nothing to do gave Ma Cheng an objective and fair evaluation: Ma Cheng is also a jackal and tiger!

The word Jackal and Tiger comes from the seven-loving poem by Wang Can of the Han Dynasty: "There is no chaos in the West, and Jackal and Tiger is in trouble." Here Jackal and Tiger refers to Dong Zhuo, who is in trouble with the government. From this point, it can be seen that later historians compared Ma Cheng to the tyrannical Dong Zhuo.

In August of the second year of Shaowu, Ma Cheng was not aware that later generations compared him to the treacherous minister Dong Zhuo. Ma Cheng was very happy after receiving the emperor's imperial edict. His preparations for more than two years were finally rewarded.

Outsiders don’t know why Ma Cheng is happy, but Ma Cheng himself knows that with this imperial edict, Ma Cheng has finally been upgraded from a chess piece to a chess player and has the qualification to initially compete for the world. Although Ma Cheng is now the weakest among all forces.

Although Ma Cheng was once the brilliance of an undefeated war god, he had to be politically inferior to Ma Shiying. There was no Ma Cheng's position in the small court in Nanjing. When outsiders mentioned Ma Cheng, they could only say that he was Ma Shiying's son or a general under Zhu Lunkui. Although Ma Cheng had more than 100,000 powerful troops in his hand, he had to rely on these two people to have political status.

But now it is different. With this imperial edict, Ma Cheng became a legitimate warlord and a vassal of separatist areas. Although he was nominally controlled by Zhu Lunkui, whether he listened or not was Ma Cheng's own business.

With a legitimate order, Ma Cheng immediately began to prepare for the Eastern Expedition. General Ma Cheng plucked up all the weapons and armor of the Weapon Bureau, and also transported all the autumn grain that had just been collected from the Ministry of Revenue Warehouse.

Ma Cheng, a 150,000 army outside Nanjing, wanted to take away 100,000, leaving 50,000. Although Ma Cheng was preparing to go out to stand on his own, his family was still in Nanjing. In order to ensure the safety of his family, Ma Cheng left behind 50,000 people to commander Ma Xi. Although Ma Cheng looked down on Ma Xi very much, he was his younger brother after all. With blood guaranteed that Ma Xi was the person Ma Cheng should trust the most.

Not all the 100,000 troops Ma Cheng took away to attack King Lu. In Ma Cheng's heart, the manchu Qing Dynasty in the north was much more threatening than King Lu. So Ma Cheng handed over the 40,000 troops to Ma Bao of Taiping Prefecture to guard against the Qing Dynasty in Jiangxi.

The army also ordered Ma Bao to seize Jiangxi according to the situation. If Jiujiang cannot defeat him, he must occupy Anqing and push the defense line upstream of Nanjing to a hundred miles west.

There is no problem here in Jiangxi, but no one guards Yangzhou. Originally, Ma Cheng had four generals under him, and although Ma Xi was a bullshit, Luo Bingran was still okay. It was good to defend the city if he couldn't attack. So Ma Cheng originally wanted to bring Zhang Guozhu by his side, and Luo Bingran guarded Zhenjiang to guard Zhenjiang for the threat from the Qing army in Yangzhou.

But Luo Bingran is so desperate that he insists on hugging the emperor's thigh. Not to mention the whole family being killed, there is a loophole in Ma Cheng's strategic deployment.

Ma Cheng thought about the fact that he had no generals under his command, it was not Xu Dahu, Gu Changwei and others who were not capable enough, but their background was too low. In the army that was of particular origin, let Xu Dahu, who was still a hundred households a year ago, commanded those deputy generals and generals. Can those people be convinced?

There was no choice but to give up. Zhenjiang, a strategic important place to defend Yangzhou, could only be put aside first. When we arrived in Zhenjiang, we might even talk about it. Maybe there were talents in the local army.

After all, Ma Cheng set the day of his expedition on the third day of the first lunar month. After all, he didn't know when he would come back this time, so he would let his subordinates have a reunion at home for the Spring Festival.

Ma Cheng also returned to the Ma Mansion in Chaotian Palace and was about to leave himself, and there were still many things to talk to Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying's attitude was very strange in this mutiny, neither helping Ma Cheng nor Zhu Lunkui. At first, Ma Cheng was worried that Ma Shiying would have a foolish and loyal mind, so he stood in the face of the emperor to deal with his son. But he didn't expect Ma Shiying had this attitude, so before leaving this time, Ma Cheng had to openly talk with Ma Shiying.

Ma Cheng took his wife, concubine and children back home, and asked his wife Gu Miaoyin to lead the other concubines and children back to the backyard, and went to see Ma Shiying alone.

When he arrived at Ma Shiying's study, Ma Cheng knelt down on his knees and said, "Son greets his father!"

Ma Shiying looked at Ma Cheng, sighed and said, "Get up, are you ready? When will you come out?"

"Back to my father, my son is leaving in the third grade of junior high school!"

Ma Shiying nodded and said, "Do you have something to ask for your father when you come back this time? You ask!"

After hearing Ma Shiying say this, Ma Cheng didn't hesitate and opened his mouth and asked, "Dad, aren't you afraid that your son will lead the Ma family to a dead end?"

After hearing what his son said, Ma Shiying smiled bitterly and said, "Of course I'm afraid, but what's the use of being afraid? Cheng'er, you only see Cao Cao and Sima Yi succeed, but not Huo Guang, what will happen to Wang Mang!"

"Dad, of course my son knows! But what can I do now? If my son doesn't make a big effort this time, can the emperor let our Ma family go next? No powerful ministers in history ended up? Zhang Juzheng made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty at that time, but what about his son? Not all the little emperor Wanli starved to death?"

Ma Shiying didn't want to refute when she heard her son say this. Zhang Juzheng's eldest son Zhang Jingxiu did not starve to death, but committed suicide. But Ma Cheng was right. Regardless of whether he starved to death or not, it was a fact that his whole family was liquidated after Zhang Juzheng's death.

Ma Shiying stood up and came to Ma Cheng's side, patted Ma Cheng's shoulder and said, "Cheng'er, you are old, and if you have your own ideas, then do it. My father will provide you with a good backing! As for what will happen in the future, let's talk about it in the future!"
Chapter completed!