Zhu Changqing, the King of Lu on the city wall in Hangzhou, originally wanted to open the city gate in the night to welcome the Ma Cheng army outside the city. Unexpectedly, he met Fang Guoan at Genshan Gate. Fang Guoan was very respectful and kept his step away from Zhu Changqing. There was no way, Zhu Changqing had to patiently listen to Fang Guoan bragging here.

Just then, someone outside informed the surrounding army outside the city to be attacked, and Fang Guoan left Zhu Changqing and went out in a hurry to prepare.

Seeing Fang Guoan leave, Zhu Changqing breathed a sigh of relief, but he also heard the news that the army outside the city was about to attack the city, so he quickly came out of the city tower and lay on the top of the city to watch the situation outside the city.

At this time, it was already dawn and the troops outside the city had already assembled. Zhu Changqing did not understand military affairs, but when he saw the morale of the troops outside the city was full of rainbows, he knew that he would definitely not win.

Zhu Changqing was afraid that he would be implicated after his failure, so he grabbed the little eunuch beside him and asked, "What should you do now? How can Ma Cheng outside the city not resent me?"

Zhu Changqing's level is not high, and the little eunuchs around him are similar, so there is no good plan. After hearing Zhu Changqing's question, he quickly replied: "Master, why don't you give these soldiers some silver?"

This is definitely a bad idea. Not to mention whether the army outside the city can receive it, you, Zhu Changqing, is the one who guards the city, but gives the enemy money. What do the soldiers on his side think? But now Zhu Changqing doesn't care about so much, and quickly ordered the guards and small eunuchs who followed him to start scattering silver notes under the city, and shouted reactionary slogans such as "It's all from the Ming Dynasty, and your own people don't beat your own people!", "The King of Lu decided to withdraw his imperial throne and surrender to the city" and other reactionary slogans. (Don't think that Zhu Changqing's actions are stupid. His history has done more than this. When the Qing army besieged the city, Fang Guoan went out of the city to fight the Qing army. However, Zhu Changqing took out food and jewelry to comfort the Qing army, which damaged the morale of Fang Guoan's army, and was easily occupied by the Qing army.)

Zhu Changqing's actions hurt the soldiers guarding the city. Originally, these soldiers were still faithful to be loyal to the country, but now that they have seen the emperor surrender, how can they still be loyal? So a large number of soldiers on the Gen Mountain Gate began to flee.

Genshan Gate is the main battlefield for Fang Guoan to resist Ma Cheng, so the army is also the most combat-effective army. Now they are all running away, and the civilians and military personnel organized by other temporary cities naturally follow the same as the garrison troops. For a time, the city of Hangzhou was in chaos.

Fang Guoan at the Gen Mountain Gate was organizing soldiers to fight against Ma Cheng's attack, but saw soldiers on the city walls not far away running away, and the same was true when he looked into the city. Fang Guoan, who was unknown, quickly sent his personal soldiers to see what was going on.

Before the personal soldiers came back, Fang Guoan's son Fang Shiji rushed over and saw Fang Guoan shouting: "Dad, it's not good. His Majesty the Emperor just shouted on the city that he wanted to open the city gate to surrender, and even gave Zhou Ni outside the city silver notes. Our soldiers were gone and everyone ran away!"

Fang Guoan was shocked after hearing his son's words and cursed: "This Zhu Changqing is really not enough to make trouble!"

"Dad, the city is in chaos now, and this Hangzhou city cannot be defended. Let's take advantage of Zhou Ni's army not attacking and run away!"

Fang Guoan looked outside the city and saw that Zhou Ni's army had arrived on the moat, less than 200 meters away from the city wall, and he had already

After losing the army, only three or four hundred personal soldiers were left surrounded by Fang Guoan. Seeing this, Fang Guoan sighed and said, "Okay, retreat to the south gate and leave the city from there!"

The emperor surrendered and the general fled. How could the city be defended? So in less than ten minutes, all the soldiers on the city ran away and disappeared.

When Zhu Changqing saw that all the soldiers had run away, he brought more than 200 subordinates to the Genshan Gate, directed his subordinates to open the Genshan Gate, and then respectfully knelt in front of the Genshan Gate to welcome Ma Cheng's army.

The city was in a mess, but the Ma Cheng army outside the city did not dare to be careless. Who knew if this was a conspiracy in the city? So Zhang Guozhu, who was responsible for siege, saw this and quickly ordered the siege to stop the siege, and the soldiers retreated five hundred meters away to wait for the order.

Ma Cheng, who was in the back team, also saw the situation on the city. At first, only a small number of soldiers fled, and then a large number of soldiers fled. After a while, the city walls that were several miles long at Genshan Gate were completely gone.

After a while, Ma Cheng saw the gate of Gen Mountain opened, and a group of people left the city and knelt at the gate, looking like they were preparing to surrender.

Ma Cheng didn't dare to be careless and sent a hundred households to see what was going on. Soon the hundred households came back to report that the soldiers in the city had already fled. The person kneeling at the gate of the city was Lu Wang Zhu Changqing.

When Ma Cheng heard about it, he felt relieved and asked Zhang Guozhu's younger brother Zhang Guoyi to take over the Genshan Gate with a thousand people to prevent any changes. Then Ma Cheng led a large group of people into the Genshan Gate.

Ma Cheng rode his horse to Zhu Changqing, looked at the Ming vassal king kneeling on the ground, and said with a smile: "King Lu, get up, you have made a contribution this time, and this governor will tell the emperor about it! As for how the emperor deals with you, it depends on the emperor's intention!"

Zhu Changqing was shocked when he heard Ma Cheng say this. Didn’t he say that he would ensure his safety a few days ago? Why did he give himself to Zhu Lunkui this time?

"General, Yue Qijie has promised to ensure the safety of this king a few days ago. Why has he changed his mind now?"

"Haha, that's what Yue Qijie promised you. You should go to find Yue Qijie. Anyway, this governor didn't agree to you! What's more, when did you say that you opened the city gate last night? After the time passed, I naturally couldn't count the previous agreement!"

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he did not talk to Zhu Changqing, and said to Gu Yong behind him: "Send someone to protect Lu Wang!" Ma Cheng said it nicely, and strict protection means imprisonment. Zhu Changqing regrets this in his heart, but what else can you do if things have already happened? Zhu Changqing has no choice but to accept his fate.

Ma Cheng is now full of complacent intentions, so how could he care about such an unlucky prince like Zhu Changqing? Ma Cheng rode his horse along the empty street. Because the soldiers who defended the city suddenly suffered a sudden defeat, there was no encounter, so the public security in Hangzhou was pretty good, and there was no murder or robbery.

Ma Cheng rode his horse slowly to the Zhejiang Governor's Office. This is now the seat of the cabinet of the Lu Wang court. Because Fang Guoan was defeated suddenly, and it was in the morning, these cabinet ministers were completely unprepared and were arrested by Ma Cheng's subordinates. None of them ran away from the auxiliary Huang Daozhou to the six ministers of the ministers.

Looking at a row of senior officials kneeling on the ground, Ma Cheng ignored them at all. After Qi Biaojia's incident, Ma Cheng knew that these Donglin Party's stinky old masters were stinky and hard, and reasoning with them was completely against the bull's piano, so this time Ma Cheng

He didn't plan to play some fun tricks that would win people's hearts. He directly ordered people to arrest all senior officials of the fourth rank or above, stripped the official uniforms and locked them in the prison van, preparing to kill all the stinky old nine people one by one after another after a while.

Standing at the gate of the governor's yamen, Ma Cheng made the first order to enter Hangzhou, and ordered the army Senator Chen Zilong to take over the Hangzhou Prefecture and wait for the imperial court's order to come down to say that Chen Zilong was originally a local official, and those officials below the fourth rank were all retained in their original positions, so Chen Zilong would soon restore the stability of Hangzhou City.

It is easy to deal with middle- and low-level officials below the fourth rank. In addition to Chen Zilong and Ma Cheng, there are a large number of talents prepared by Ma Shiying for him. Although these guys are not of good level, they are completely free of loyalty. However, the candidate for Zhejiang Governor made Ma Cheng difficult. There was no governor of Fujian and Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty, so the governor of Zhejiang was the highest military and chief executive of Zhejiang Province. Such a senior official should be carefully considered. Maybe he would use someone like Qi Biaojia to give Ma Cheng his eyes.

Ma Cheng thought of noon from the morning and didn't think about this candidate. Originally, the governor of Zhejiang was Sun Jiaji, and he had good water abilities, but this guy was the Donglin Party. Now he was bound with those ministers of the court, so Ma Cheng would never dare to use it.

But now Ma Cheng has no one to use. Just when Ma Cheng was in a dilemma, the personal soldiers outside the door passed a message to the gentleman Yue Qijie.

When Ma Cheng heard this old guy coming, he cursed in his heart: I am fighting in front of me. You eat and drink and sleep until the sun is over 3 o'clock. Now you run to me to take five or six. Are you embarrassed?

Ma Cheng thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare to take it out at all. He quickly got up and went out to greet his aunt.

Yue Qijie was in good spirits after these days of rest. Although he was locked up for two years, his eyes were bright and his steps were firm. He looked like an old fox.

When he came to Yue Qijie, Ma Cheng bowed and asked, "Uncle, can you rest?"

Yue Qijie nodded: "It's not bad, but the camp bed is a bit hard, and I can't stand this old bone. I've also been imprisoned in Hangzhou for two years and have not yet experienced the passion of the West Lake women. So I hope my nephew will find more passionate women for me to comfort my injured heart!"

When Ma Cheng heard this old guy be so shameless, he cursed in his heart: Why do you want a woman from West Lake when you are over 60 years old? Are you not afraid of dying on the woman's belly immediately?

"Of course, please don't worry, my uncle. I will send someone to do it now and ask my uncle to come in to have tea!"

Although Ma Cheng cursed Yue Qijie in his heart, he still pretended to be extremely respectful on the surface and quickly invited Yue Qijie to the three halls of the governor's yamen to serve tea.

After entering the house, Yue Qijie looked at the furnishings of the three halls and asked with a smile: "Nephew, have you encountered any problems? Tell me, I have been an official for many years, so I can give you some ideas!"

When Ma Cheng heard Yue Qijie say this, he remembered that the old guy in front of him was also an old fox. He quickly told the question he had just thought about and asked how to avoid an important province like Zhejiang from falling into the hands of the Donglin Party.
Chapter completed!