Ma Cheng retreated from Ma Shiying's study, looked at the clear starry sky and sighed. Unexpectedly, the inertia of history is so great that Ma Cheng didn't even have the power to block it.

Ma Cheng originally thought that with his own son of Ma Shiying, and his clever mouth, he would definitely convince Ma Shiying not to adopt the policy of "union of enemies and suppressing enemies", but when he thought of Ma Shiying putting the real problems in front of Ma Cheng, what can you do? The state government is like this. If you want to solve internal problems, it takes time, so you must do the "union of enemies and suppressing enemies".

In fact, the "alliance of the enemy and the enemy" that Ma Cheng wanted to build is almost the same, it was just to buy time for the Southern Ming Dynasty. However, as Ma Shiying said just now, the enemy is absolutely not good, and it is politically incorrect, so the enemy becomes the only option.

There was no light pollution in the Ming Dynasty. Perhaps Nanjing was the only city in China that never sleeps. Ma Cheng stood in the yard and looked at the lights in Nancheng, then said ruthlessly: "Damn, I don't believe in history as evil. Is there really a son of destiny? If there is one, I can only be me!"

Ma Cheng made up his mind to have a fight with the Qing Dynasty. In the next few days, Ma Cheng stayed in the military camp and began to conduct inhumane training for the newly recruited two thousand personal soldiers. The daily exercise volume was tripled by Ma Cheng, and the cultural class I originally took in the afternoon was also moved to the evening. Now the 10,000 taels of silver that Ma Shiying promised has been in place. With money, Ma Cheng naturally cannot waste time.

Training increases the number of subordinates naturally complains. Many households found Ma Cheng and thought of reducing the intensity of training, but they were rejected by Ma Cheng. They didn't know that war was right in front of them, and one more day of training would give them more money to survive. Although the soldiers were not satisfied, no one fled because Ma Cheng's army had a good meal. Not only could they eat enough food every day, but they could eat chicken every ten days. This living conditions were comparable to those of small landlords in the countryside.

On this day, Ma Cheng was training. A Ma Mansion servant came to Shenji Camp to find Ma Cheng, and Ma Shiying asked Ma Cheng to go home.

Ma Cheng frowned. He was so busy that he was hitting the back of the head. How could he go home if he had time?

"My dad said nothing?"

The Ding family shook his head and said, "The master didn't say anything, he just told him to let the second master go home at noon!"

Since Ma Shiying said that, something serious must have happened. Ma Cheng had no choice but to clean up, hand over the training task to Gu Changwei and Xu Dahu, and then follow the servants home.

Ma Cheng returned home and went to the study to meet Ma Shiying, and then asked, "Dad, my son is training soldiers in the army. I wonder if there is anything to call my son back?"

Ma Shiying smiled and said to Ma Cheng: "You are going to make friends in the afternoon, so you can go with You Father!"

Ma Cheng was unhappy when he heard this. What kind of friends could Ma Shiying have? Apart from the eunuch party and a treacherous minister, and what could a bunch of old men do? Isn’t it just drinking and prostitutes?

Thinking of this, Ma Cheng said, "Dad, my son has a lot of affairs in the army, and your friend and son are not familiar with him. Why don't you let your elder brother accompany you?" Ma Luan is an intellectual and happens to have a common language with you, the stinky old man. I also need to train the army!

Ma Chengman thought Ma Shiying could agree, but then he knew that Ma Shiying smiled and said, "This is not because his father insists on taking you there, but because the boss calls on the name to see you."

Ma Cheng was stunned when he heard this: "I want to see myself by name, but I didn't expect that I was so famous in Nanjing?" Although Ma Cheng thought so, he was a little self-aware. He, Qiu Ba, had no fame. Who are all friends of Ma Shiying, and of course they are all Jinshi Juren. I really don't know why he wanted to see Ma Cheng.

Seeing Ma Cheng suspiciously, Ma Shiying smiled and said, "Don't guess, this person is a friend of the same year who is the father, Ruan Dacheng and Ruan Jizhi!"

Ruan Dacheng is back? Ma Cheng knew that Ruan Dacheng was run by Hou Fangyu and others and could not stay in Nanjing, so he had to return to his hometown in Tongcheng to live in seclusion. Now that he has returned to Nanjing, Ma Shiying may not be able to fight against the Donglin Party alone and needs to introduce foreign aid Ruan Dacheng.

"Dad, but what happened in the court? Are those guys from the Donglin Party not good for you?" Ma Cheng had talked to Ma Shiying before. Ma Shiying was very cautious about Ruan Dacheng, but now he needs Ruan Dacheng's help. That must be the threat of these guys from the Donglin Party is getting bigger and bigger.

When Ma Shiying heard Ma Cheng say this, his face turned cloudy and cursed: "Zhang Shenyan, the immortal, mentioned the custom of the concubines' family members not being allowed to be officials in front of the saint three days ago. Although I did not name the name, I must be prepared to come to me. I am alone in the court, and it seems that I can only recall Ruan Dacheng."

Ma Shiying's daughter Ma Hongning was given to Zhu Yousong by his beast brother Ma Cheng. Afterwards, Ma Shiying cut off relations with his daughter after remediation. So now Ma Hongning is just a selector in Zhu Yousong's harem, and is a lowest-level concubine with no rank. Originally, Ma Shiying thought that this would be able to hide from the Donglin Party, but he did not expect that the Donglin Party and the other guys were very powerful. He didn't know where to learn the news and immediately moved to the table to defeat Ma Shiying.

Although Ma Shiying had several gangs in the court, he was all slight and said nothing. The only one, Liu Kongzhao, was a nobleman, and had no say in the government. In the end, Ma Shiying had no choice but to write a letter to Ruan Dacheng, hoping that his friends of the same year would come out to help.

Ruan Dacheng was a Jinshi in the 44th year of Wanli, one year earlier than Ma Shiying, but Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng were in the same year of the Nanzhili provincial examination in the 43rd year of Wanli, but Ma Shiying was not good at studying and passed the exam one later.

Ruan Dacheng was born in Tongcheng County, Nanzhili, which is later Tongyang County, Anhui Province. Ruan Dacheng studied well when he was young and could write poems and compositions. Of course, such a young talent would be summoned to the Donglin Party, and Ruan Dacheng's teacher was the boss Gao Panlong of the Donglin.

With the escort of the Donglin Party, and Ruan Dacheng made great contributions in the struggle to overthrow the old masters of the Black Donglin Group, Shi Jike and others, he was therefore ranked as the backbone of the Donglin. He was nicknamed "The Heavenly Star Is Not a Protected" in "Donglin Point General Record". At this time, Ruan Dacheng was the political star of the Donglin Party.

However, Ruan Dacheng, who had a status, began to become complacent. In the spring of the fourth year of Tianqi, officials and officials were vacant. Ruan Dacheng should have taken this important position, but Ruan Dacheng's teacher Gao Panlong and Zuo Jianshi Zuo Guangdou were not dealt with. Therefore, Zuo Guangdou dismissed Ruan Dacheng in the name of "the closer to the observation of the dictionary, Dacheng was not available", and was preparing to use Wei Dazhong, who was also a general of Donglin.

Ruan Dacheng was young and energetic at that time. Seeing that the duck that originally belonged to him had flew, he turned to Wei Zhongxian, who had not made a fortune at the time. With the help of Wei Zhongxian, Ruan Dacheng finally got his wish. However, Ruan Dacheng could not be an official for long, and the terrible pressure from the Donglin Party made him abandon his official position and flee back to his hometown before one month of taking office. From then on, Ruan Dacheng and the Donglin Party completely broke up.

When Wei Zhongxian was in power, Ruan Dacheng was summoned to Beijing as the Taichang Shaoqing. He knew that he was from Donglin and became a model of anti-Donglin. It was probably difficult to please him on both sides, so he was very careful. After a while, he saw the chaos in the government, and returned to his hometown, intending to wait and see the situation.

When Chongzhen ascended the throne, Wei Zhongxian fell, Ruan Dacheng was sent to the 18th level of hell because of his eunuch party. The emperor personally issued an order to exempt Ruan Dacheng from all fame and fortune. There was no way Ruan Dacheng could only go home to express his love for the mountains and rivers and dramas, and prepare to be a rich man.

However, Ruan Dacheng didn't want to play with the Donglin Party. After the bandits entered Anhui in the eighth year of Chongzhen, Ruan Dacheng ran to Nanjing to take refuge. At that time, some young literati in Fushe, such as Hou Fangyu, Gu Gao, Yang Tingshu, Huang Zongxi, etc. hated his character and used the Liudu incident to drive Ruan Dacheng away again. This time, Ruan Dacheng was in a very embarrassing situation. He was burned at his home in Nanjing, and his beard was burned all over. If he hadn't been old, he would have been burned to death in the fire.

Fushe did a little too much, which made Ruan Dacheng lose face, so Ruan Dacheng hated Hou Fangyu and others very much, and vowed to make him look good in the future.

At this time, a letter from Ma Shiying was delivered to Ruan Dacheng. Ma Shiying wrote this letter very sincerely, saying that Ruan Dacheng, you helped me become the governor, and now that my brother is developed and becomes the chief minister, I have nothing to do to come to Nanjing to be a helper for my brother.

Ruan Dacheng is also an old fox who is in the officialdom. He knew at a glance that Ma Shiying must have encountered difficulties in Nanjing, so he needed to help himself. Ruan Dacheng had been waiting for this opportunity for fifteen years. After receiving Ma Shiying's letter, he did not hesitate at all, and immediately brought his whole family to Nanjing.

After listening to Ma Shiying's tortuous experience, Ma Cheng asked: "Dad, my son does not recognize Ruan Dacheng, why do you have to see his son today?"

Ma Shiying didn’t know why Ruan Dacheng wanted to see his second son: “I don’t know why, I’m not an outsider anyway, so you can follow me too!”

Ma Cheng thought about it and it would be fine. Anyway, he had never seen this treacherous minister, so he might as well go and take a look and open his eyes.

The father and son changed into home clothes, then went out to take a sedan chair and the other rode a horse to Ruan Dacheng's mansion in Nancheng.

Ruan Dacheng's mansion is located in Liuye Lane, Nancheng. It is located not far from the Qinhuai River, and it is a good place where every inch of land is valuable. Ruan Dacheng's home was burned by fire, but Ruan Dacheng had money and spent a lot of money to rebuild it.

When they arrived at the door of Ruan Dacheng's mansion, their family came forward to report, and soon Ruan Dacheng went out to greet him in person.

Ma Cheng was very surprised when he saw Ruan Dacheng. Ruan Dacheng was wearing a brown silk man's robe, a mountain scarf on his head, and a big beard on his chest. If he didn't recognize him, he would think he was an ordinary landlord.
Chapter completed!