Chapter 960: Anger
When Princess Zhaohua Min Ruoxi came ashore in Tongzhou, it was naturally impossible to follow the car lightly. Zhuo Yi, the governor of Tongzhou, brought two thousand county soldiers as guards and escorted Min Ruoxi to the capital. It was not until this time that the important officials of the Chu State in Shangjing could know about this matter, and Tongzhou was only more than a hundred miles away from Shangjing.
In Shiliyi, the court officials led by Ma Xiangdong welcomed Princess Zhaohua who returned to China.
The soldiers of Tongzhou County were outside, and Min Ruoxi spread out layer by layer from the guards brought by Ming Kingdom, guarding the huge carriage dragged by four horses in the middle.
No matter what Ma Xiangdong and other officials of Chu were thinking, Min Ruoxi was still Princess Zhaohua of Chu, with a golden branch and a jade leaf, and their master.
"I welcome your princess, and I will welcome you." Ma Xiangdong was the leader and bowed and shouted.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the first one was Eunuch Le with a gloomy face, then Yinggu, and finally, Princess Zhaohua Min Ruoxi, who was also in a bad face.
There was no expected flat-body exemption, and there were only waves of embarrassing silence. All the court officials in the Chu State felt that the back of their necks and vests were cold, as if there were waves of cold wind pouring into them.
"This time I returned to China, I have opened my eyes." Min Ruoxi's cold voice echoed in everyone's ears, but what he said was extremely repulsive.
"The Chu State is in danger. Tens of thousands of troops are surrounded and the emperor is trapped. Seeing that the disaster is coming, even the people who are far away in Yuejing know that it has reached an extremely critical moment. I thought that the officials of Shangjing must have worked hard for the country. I didn't expect that they would go all the way and never heard of anything else. I heard that the intrigues and struggle for power and profit in Shangjing, and I don't want to resolve the difficulties of the emperor. I just think about my own selfishness. I don't know how to have the eggs under the collapse of the nest!"
Ma Xiangdong's face turned red. It was not that he didn't want to save him, but that he was not touching! What's more, Princess Zhaohua is not a native of Da Chu, but the Empress of the Ming Dynasty, but she is not qualified to spit out the saliva at the court officials of Da Chu here.
He bowed lower, but his words were less respectful: "Your Highness's return to the country is a happy event, but when he went to the capital, his Highness probably heard from him. Since the emperor was surrounded and the princes in the court were anxious, he thought about it day and night to rescue Your Majesty. Moreover, this is an internal matter of the Great Chu, so he dare not bother Your Highness to worry."
Min Ruoxi snorted coldly: "Are you saying that I am not qualified to take charge of going to Beijing?"
Ma Xiangdong raised his head, "I dare not. However, Your Highness is the Empress of the Ming Dynasty. He should not interfere in Chu's internal affairs. Although the Great Chu is in trouble, the Great Chu ministers will solve the problem."
Min Ruoxi looked at Ma Xiangdong with a cold face, with murderous aura in her eyes. Ma Xiangdong felt a little panicked, but at this moment, he could not let him bow his head, but just hardened his neck and looked at Min Ruoxi.
The coldness on Min Ruoxi's face gradually dissipated, and suddenly the princess smiled, "Okay, very good. I want to see, how do you solve this problem, but what regulations do you have?"
Since he started to start and tore his face apart, Ma Xiangdong also gave up, "Your Highness, this is a matter of Chu, and it is also a secret matter of Chu."
"What an internal matter, what a secret matter." Min Ruoxi snorted coldly, "The words are beautiful, but when it comes to doing it, they are completely different. Ma Xiangdong, you and Ma Xiangnan are brothers, but you are not as far away as him. Ma Xiangnan only does not say anything, but you are better, just say not do it."
"Your Highness, I dare not accept this." Ma Xiangdong's face turned red and he retorted.
"Did I even wronged you? Jiang Shangyan, come out?" Min Ruoxi shouted.
Behind the carriage, the swallows on the river flashed out.
Min Ruoxi pointed to Jiang Shangyan, "Do you know this person? Oh, I forgot that you are all important officials in the court who are responsible for heavy responsibilities, and you recognize him as a little pawn. The palace now tells you that he is a Chu native, once an officer of the eastern border army. He once followed Cheng Wuben and Jiang Tao went to the Ming Dynasty to fight and made great achievements. He was originally a third-rank general in the Ming Dynasty. However, the incident in Luzhou happened. This powerful general in the Ming Dynasty knelt outside the palace for a day and a night, just begging.
I beg His Majesty the Emperor of Ming to let him return to his country to serve Chu. The headmaster of the horse, kneeling outside the palace for a day and a night in the cold winter, do you know what it feels like? The Emperor of Ming Dynasty pity him and did not want him to kneel down and die like this. He even praised his loyalty to his homeland and specially ordered him to lead his personal soldiers back to fight. Such a loyal minister and general could not make it to the capital for two months after he arrived in Beijing. The adult present had seen him, or had he heard of him?"
Ma Xiangdong really didn't know, and the officials behind him naturally knew it, but they simply did not take this matter seriously and naturally ignored it. Now they are being used by Min Ruoxi Yingjinger.
"The emperor was besieged in Luzhou. No matter whether the emperor could escape or not, the destruction of the eastern border army is probably irreversible. The eastern border army is gone, and the eastern part of the Great Chu will inevitably be in chaos. Do you have a law to deal with it? Is it a peace or a fight, but there is a decision?" Min Ruoxi continued to question. "I'm afraid there is not even one? Zhuo Yi, have you seen the news of this?"
An awkward official flashed out on the other side and bowed and said, "Your Highness, no." The voice was as low as a mosquito, and this person was naturally Zhuo Yi, the governor of Tongzhou County. He did not expect that as soon as the princess arrived in the capital, he immediately had a conflict with the prime minister. The most important thing was that it seemed that the imperial court officials stood with the prime minister in this matter. For him, this was not easy to be a human being. On the way to the capital, he knew everything and said everything.
Since the front line was defeated, the ministers in the capital did not do anything. They were just quarreling and were caught by Min Ruoxi and scolded her with pain. However, Ma Xiangdong was indecisive, his face turned bloody, and he just looked at Zhuo Yi hatefully.
"You said that I am not qualified to manage it. That's right. I am now the Empress of the Ming Dynasty and I am indeed not qualified to manage the affairs of Da Chu. But I am always the daughter of the late emperor and I am not qualified to manage it. I can't say that I am not qualified to manage it. I will find someone who is qualified to manage you and come and talk about it well. Let's go!"
Min Ruoxi dropped this sentence, turned around and walked into the carriage. Cao Gu glanced at the at a loss of time, followed Min Ruoxi with a sneer, and slapped, and the carriage door was closed tightly. Eunuch Le stood tall on the shaft of the carriage and shouted in a sharp voice: "Come on the car!"
As soon as the two words fell to the ground, the Ming army guards at the innermost part answered in unison, and as soon as they lined up, they immediately protected the carriage in the middle, and the carriage slowly started and moved forward.
When the princess car drove, Zhuo Yi, who was in charge of the escort, had to move. He hurriedly bowed to Ma Xiangdong, "Prince's assistant, please send the princess into the palace first, and then come back to apologize to the Prime Minister."
Two thousand county soldiers guarded the princess' carriage and slowly headed into the city, throwing a group of dumb court officials at Shiliyi.
"Let me find someone to care about us? Who is this?" An official was a little confused and said to himself.
Ma Xiangdong glared at him fiercely, "Who else can you? Of course, it's the Empress Dowager."
"The Empress Dowager is seriously ill, how can she take care of things?" He also said.
Ma Xiangdong's eyes swept over the faces of the crowd and said slowly: "You guys, it's not the time for us to argue. No matter what, we must first organize troops, food and grass, and prepare to support the six eastern counties. Otherwise, we are afraid that our fate will be in danger. Not only will the Empress Dowager spare us, but how can we explain to the future Emperor when he returns?"
"But things were not ready before, and now in a hurry, how can we get things done?"
"First make the plan. The important thing is not whether it can be accomplished, but whether it is necessary to show your attitude." Ma Xiangdong said with a little regret. "Donalds, hurry up and go back to the court, I am afraid that the Empress Dowager will summon us soon. If you can't tell me a Zi Chou Yin and Mao, I am afraid that we will all be in trouble."
A group of people hurriedly got on the horse, and the sedan chair was sitting on the sedan chair, and quickly headed into the capital. Until this time, everyone finally realized that they had been quarreling for nothing during this period. Everyone subconsciously seemed to think that the emperor could not come back, but what if the emperor came back?
When everyone thought of the emperor's ruthlessness and vengeful nature, they couldn't help but sweat.
Jiang Shangyan did not go to the city with these people, but returned to his troops' garrison excitedly. After learning that the Empress was about to arrive in Shiliyi, he went to meet the Empress among the court officials. He also learned from the Empress that Cheng Shuai would inevitably retreat to Jinghu County to set up defenses again, and the Empress also promised him that he would soon lead an army to Jinghu to support Cheng Shuai.
Of course he believed in the Queen's words. Now he had to be prepared to accept the army and set out to Jinghu. Being able to fight under Cheng Shuai again made him particularly excited. The five hundred Chu troops who returned to China cheered after receiving the news and arrived in Shangjing City for almost two months, and they were almost crazy.
But Jiang Shangyan didn't know that when he was cheering, his old boss, Jiang Tao, was already running towards the gate of the Hall of King Yama, and never looking back.
That night, the lights of the departments and yamen in Shangjing were on, and all the officials were busy, while the chief officials gathered in the chief minister's general and discussed all night. At this moment, the Dachu court finally began his normal operation.
At the fifth hour, when the rooster was dawn and the sky was dawn, the door of the palace gradually opened, and the eunuch was sent to rush to the main auxiliary's gallery.
Chapter completed!