There was a chaotic situation in the capital.

This situation has lasted for several months. Since the emperor was trapped in Luzhou, Shangjing City was in trouble. The remaining chief assistant Ma Xiangdong Ziwang was not enough to suppress the ministers. When Min Ruoying was there, everyone naturally took it as the leader. But now the emperor is surrounded by the enemy country. Whether he can come back is still a matter of whether he can come back. Ma Xiangdong immediately sat on wax.

Some people have the initiative to negotiate peace with the Qi people immediately, and even if they ceded land and paid compensation, they had to redeem the emperor.

Some people advocated that young and strong people should be recruited immediately, and re-armed hundreds of thousands of troops to the border to compete with the Qi people.

Something else, another small group of people, actually began to conspire to decree. The emperor saw that it was no longer possible and was trapped in the hinterland of Qi. The hope of killing him back was slim. If he supported the new emperor at this time, the merit of supporting him would be enough for them to survive for the rest of their lives.

The ministers of the Chu Dynasty who had their own thoughts ran around and shouted in the capital. For a moment, all kinds of sentient beings were revealed before the world.

Of course, Ma Xiangdong hopes that Min Ruoying will come back with all his strength. His lifelong wealth and honor will be all about Min Ruoying. If Min Ruoying fails, he doesn't have to think about it. His position as chief minister will come to an end.

But the war is harmonious, and the government and the country are clearly divided, and the momentum is evenly matched. The daily discussion ends helplessly in one blushing and red-hearted debate after another, and no one can convince anyone.

If Ma Xiangdong had a deep experience and had enough people to be willing to be left behind and the position of the chief minister of the court, he would naturally be able to conquer everyone, but in the eyes of the chief minister of the court, this chief minister was not a lucky minister, three dukes and nine ministers, and six officials, who would be willing to conquer him?

If you want to say that the person who can shock the court was there, there was one person in the capital, the empress dowager in the palace. However, in recent years, the empress dowager has grown older and has a very poor health. She is a minor illness every three days and a serious illness every ten days. Her already weak body is unable to withstand this major blow after receiving the news that Min Ruoying and tens of thousands of troops were besieged by Luzhou. She suddenly fell ill and is still suffering from serious illness. Not to mention making any decisions, she can't even get up.

Time passed day by day in the quarrel among the court officials. In this chaos, the news that Yan of Jiang Shangyan led five hundred subordinates to return was actually hidden in the piles of documents, no one discovered it or paid attention to it.

Jiang Shangyan was a general holding heavy troops in the Ming Dynasty, but in Da Chu, he was nothing. Although he was also a powerful general in the eastern border army before, he had been resigning for many years. Who else in the capital could remember that he was the number one person?

The five hundred subordinates he led were all cavalry, one man and two horses, carrying a large number of weapons. When he returned from the Ming Dynasty, the Xinning County Magistrate's Office gave him a road line, which allowed him to smoothly reach the capital of Shangjing. However, such an army that seemed to be of unknown origin in Shangjing was naturally unsuccessful.

Even if there is a Gu Baoxin from Xinning Wuteng, it is not enough. Going to the capital, at the foot of the emperor, the central and central area of ​​the court, is the county magistrate of a remote area, that's the onion?

Jiang Shangyan was anxious and looked up at the walls of the capital every day, but he couldn't stop entering. He wanted to lead his troops to leave and go straight to the battlefield, but he knew in his heart that on this route, he was afraid that with his current identity, he would be unable to move forward unless he entered the city and let the big figures in the capital agree.

He sent people to the city to submit his prayer book to the court corridor every day, but it was always a rock sinking into the sea and there was no sound heard. This made Jiang Shangyan feel a sense of powerlessness from the depths of his heart for the first time in several years. In the Ming Dynasty, he was a general. Not to mention entering the capital, it was easy to meet the emperor, but in the Great Chu, what was he now?

The small camp was trapped outside Shangjing City, surrounded by spies from inner guards. The guards in Shangjing City looked vigilantly. Fortunately, these people did not allow this army to enter the city, but they did not prohibit them from changing into the city in groups of three or three every day. After entering the city several times, Jiang Shangyan finally found out the current situation in Shangjing City.

In the face of national crisis, the dynasty of the dynasty did not unite and overcome national crisis. Instead, they took this opportunity to fight for power and profit, which made Yan Weiran sigh on the Jiang Shangshang sigh.

No, I don’t know, I was shocked. Looking at the current Da Chu, and thinking about the Ming Dynasty on the side, Jiang Shangyan felt bitter in her heart. It’s not that the Ming Dynasty did not fight for power and profit. There are naturally a world of martial arts. Everyone loves the official hat. However, in the Ming Dynasty, those who want to have an official hat are mostly talented and knowledgeable, and want to make achievements and do something. The strict examiner system of the Ming Dynasty also blocked those who are in corpse and have a bare position as much as possible. In the Ming Dynasty, officials are not so easy to be. In the emperor’s words, official positions are responsibility. If you become this official, if you fail to fulfill your responsibility, you will be held accountable and let you get out of here. It would be light.

There were also mountains in the Ming Dynasty. Whether it was civil officials or military generals, everyone had their own small group, but they were surprisingly consistent, orderly and orderly to the outside world.

The Great Chu, like the current country and the seeds are about to be destroyed, and they are still fighting happily in the nest.

"The Great Chu, the country is destroyed in no time!" Yan Shang of the Jiang outside the city sighed sadly.

"General, general." Jiang Chusheng ran in from outside with an excited look on his face, "There is hope, there is hope."

"What's hope?" Jiang Shangyan finally reported it after a while, "Is it our report? There is already news from the court?"

Jiang Chusheng shook his head repeatedly, "No, it's the Empress's car that empress has arrived in Shangjing. Now he has arrived at Shiliyi. The court officials headed by the Chief Auxiliary Ma Xiangdong will all go to Shiliyi to welcome him. I heard that it was the Empress Dowager in the palace. After learning that the Empress's return to Shangjing, she was halfway through illness and sent the Zhongguan to Shiliyi together!"

"The Empress is here!" Jiang Shangyan jumped up, "Let's go, let's welcome the Empress."

"Yes!" Jiang Chusheng nodded repeatedly: "I'm going to gather my brothers now."

"Slow down." Jiang Shangyan suddenly reacted again. He was in Chu State now and was not a number one person at all. He took these hundreds of cavalry to Shiliyi, but he was afraid that someone would cut it off halfway and treat it as a ill-conspiracy guy. "I'll just go alone. You are in the camp. I'll restrain my brothers. Since the Empress has arrived in Shangjing, our hard days are about to end."

The Yan on the river was so excited that he could not suppress his excitement, but Ma Xiangdong was worried at this moment.

After Min Ruoxi came ashore from Quanzhou and showed her travels, she did a lot of things with great fanfare. Whether it was Hu Yicai or the inner guard, they all came to Shangjing. But surprisingly, because of the disputes in the capital, these things did not appear in front of Ma Xiangdong at the first time, and were flooded by memorials from all over the world. In addition, after Min Ruoxi changed the ship from Quanzhou, she rushed straight to Shangjing City at a very fast speed. When the ship arrived in Tongzhou, she got off the ship to change the horse, and went straight to Shangjing City. It was not until this time that Ma Xiangdong finally received the notice.

It was not until this time that the important officials of the court realized what had happened. The Empress of the Ming Dynasty, Princess Zhaohua of the Great Chu, and the emperor's sister, returned to the Ming Dynasty and was almost at the capital. The court realized that the many ministers were shocked and angry.

It can be seen from this that the chaos in Chu State has reached such a ridiculous level.

After receiving the urgent report from Tongzhou, Ma Xiangdong then ordered people to read out the memorials of Hu Yicai in Quanzhou and the relevant memorials of Quanzhou Neiwei, and finally learned about what Min Ruoxi did in Quanzhou, and couldn't help but be worried.

The capital was already in chaos, but now another princess Zhaohua has come, and I don’t know whether it is a disaster or a blessing.

More importantly, would Cheng Wuben really withdraw from Wanzhou to Jinghu? His Majesty's resignation without permission was a serious crime. Cheng Wuben really did this? But looking at what Min Ruoxi did in Quanzhou, it seemed that he was sure that all this would happen. Millions of taels of silver, hundreds of thousands of stones of grain, and the hundreds of warships led by Ning Zhiwen had already entered Jinghu County. However, Zeng Lin from Jinghu County did not report it to the court in just a word.

Ma Xiangdong was shocked and a vague idea flashed through his mind. Cheng Wuben must have colluded with the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, how could the Empress of the Ming Dynasty have learned about Cheng Wuben's next action?

As soon as I thought about it, I suddenly felt cold sweat.

Although Princess Zhaohua and the emperor were brothers and sisters, they were not harmonious, but on the contrary, they had many rifts. Princess Zhaohua returned to Beijing with great fanfare at this moment, naturally for a reason. What scared Ma Xiangdong the most was that the Ming Dynasty concluded that the emperor could not come back, and Princess Zhaohua returned to Shangjing to interfere with the great affairs of Chu.

The Ming Dynasty had bad intentions! This was Ma Xiangdong's first judgment.

As the chief minister, I naturally know more than ordinary people. At this point in this battle, Ma Xiangdong still doesn't understand how Ma Xiangdong was. Da Chu was a huge fool for the Ming Dynasty. They aroused the Three Kingdoms War, but then they retreated incredibly, but completely trapped the Great Chu army. Now, judging from the configuration of Qi ** team surrounding the emperor, this is a conspiracy, a major conspiracy set up by Qi Ming.

Now the Ming army is making great contributions in Zhaoguan and assisting Wu Teng in the northwest. In Ma Xiangdong's view, it is purely a fake compassionate person. I am afraid that what they want is to make Qi Chu fight longer and fight more fiercely. I am afraid that Chu State can't hold on anymore, so I specially cheer the people of Chu and make a supportive look. But only God knows how much effort he really put in.

But no matter how much I think about it, Princess Zhaohua still needs to receive grandly when she returns to Beijing. As for the next step, I can only look at it while watching. I have to figure out what Princess Zhaohua has planned to make a decision before I can deal with it.
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