After everyone was settled, the boatman began to put the wine and food on it. Intellectuals naturally could not drink big fish and meat. So the wine and food prepared today were very light, and only a braised rice dish was considered a dish with a strong taste. Other vinegar fish, Song Sao-santhemum, osmanthus duck, snail shrimp, etc. were very light.

Xu Fuyuan said a few words in the scene before the meal started. The pastry that Ma Cheng had just eaten was half hungry and half full. After listening to Xu Fuyuan's speech, he immediately told a braised small braised steak and started chewing it.

Hou Fangyu, who was sitting next to Ma Cheng, was an absolute family member. Seeing Ma Cheng's mud legs that had never eaten meat, he couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Brother Zhonghe, why don't you eat meat at home?"

Hou Fangyu's old man was Hou Xun, and his grandfather was Hou Zhipu, a minister of Taichang Temple. He was a serious scholar. Hou Xun passed the Jinshi in the 44th year of Wanli, and then went to the Censorate to be the Censorate. From then on, he became an out of control. From the Censor, he served as the Taipu Shaoqing, the Minister of War, the Minister of War, and the Governor of the Seven Towns of Baoding. This kind of identity experience is not comparable to that of Ma Shiying.

So Hou Fangyu hates Ma Cheng sitting next to him very much. This guy doesn’t know etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shamelessness. What do you think of a big car shop in this kind of occasion? He sways his cheeks and eats and drinks.

Ma Cheng also looked down on Hou Fangyu very much. When he heard this guy ridicule him, Ma Cheng retorted: "Yes, my father is strict in discipline and is not allowed to eat without studying. My elder brother is a juren and can only eat half full, let alone me, a white child!"

What Ma Cheng said was directly poking Hou Fangyu's lung tube. The lowest identities on this table were Hou Fangyu and Ma Cheng. The others were either Jinshi or Juren, only Hou Fangyu was a scholar and Ma Cheng was a Bai Ding. Although Ma Cheng was belittling himself just now, he was indeed a coward in secret. You are not much better than me.

Hou Fangyu didn't expect that Ma Cheng was so stupid that he was very vicious. Hou Fangyu was so angry that he was about to speak back when the two performers suddenly increased their voices and started crying.

Wu Weiye, who was listening to the opera, sighed and said, "Stop, stop singing!" It turned out that the two singers were singing the plot of Yue Fei's unjust death in Fengboting. Wu Weiye felt distressed when he heard it, so he told them to stop.

Wu Weiye picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then sighed: "When Emperor Gaozong passed through the south, the situation was similar to the current situation. However, at that time, there were Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Li Gang and others, which lasted the Song Dynasty for another hundred years. But our dynasty is now full of holes, and I really don't know when it can last!"

Xu Fuyuan heard Wu Weiye joke, "My brother is pessimistic. Although the late emperor was in trouble and was arrogant, I heard that the general of Shanhaiguan Wu Sangui had borrowed 100,000 cavalry from the Qing Dynasty to enter the pass. The 200,000 army of the 200,000 army was defeated and defeated, and had retreated to Beidu!"

"Brother Wang is right. Just five days ago, news came from the north that the Qing Dynasty had occupied the Beidu, and Chuang Ni had retreated to Shanxi. It seems that he couldn't hold on for long." Chen Zilong was a military officer, so he still knew some inside information.

"Dear brothers, I heard that the court intends to send an envoy to cede the north of the Yellow River to the Manchu and Qing dynasties in exchange for working with the Manchu and Qing dynasties to fight against the rebellion!" The person who said this was Ma Cheng's eldest brother Ma Luan, and Ma Luan's old man was the chief assistant Ma Shiying, so his words were not groundless.

Ma Cheng knew that in history, the Southern Ming regime did send a delegation to Beijing, intending to negotiate with the Qing Dynasty to deal with Li Zicheng, and finally proved that the peace talks were a failure, so in history, this became one of the evidence that Ma Shiying harmed the country and the people.

Ma Cheng knew that except for the brothers here, they were all Donglin Party. Now that the eldest brother talked about this matter in front of these Donglin Party, he would definitely be refuted.

Ma Cheng was about to explain to his elder brother, but then Xia Yunyi nodded and said, "Yuan Fu is really foresighted in doing this. He is our biggest enemy. It is also feasible to use the Qing army to quell the rebellion!"

Ma Cheng knew that Xia Yunyi was a hardcore anti-Qing faction, but what he said just now really surprised Ma Cheng. The most important thing was that after Xia Yunyi finished speaking, the others agreed, as if Ma Shiying was doing it very well.

Ma Cheng wiped the oil from the corner of his mouth and asked, "Brother Xia, why did he negotiate with the Qing Dynasty? Who came up with such an unethical idea?"

As soon as Ma Cheng finished speaking, Ma Luan scolded: "What are the nonsense of the second brother? This is proposed by his father!"

It was indeed Ma Shiying. Ma Cheng cursed in his heart. It was not unfair to have Ma Shiying described as a traitorous minister by later generations. At this time, Ma Cheng ignored Ma Luan's scolding and asked quickly: "Brothers, you must not discuss peace with the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty has been coveting my wealthy Central Plains for a long time. It was a good idea to have the natural danger of Shanhaiguan. Now that the Qing Dynasty has occupied Beidu, it will definitely become a major concern for my Ming Dynasty!"

After hearing Ma Cheng's words, Xia Yunyi laughed and said, "Zhong and my brother were a little worried. The entire northern clan of the Northern Lu clan was less than one million people, and the armor was only more than 200,000. It was the opponent of the 100 million Han people in the Central Plains! In the past, the imperial court was busy dealing with the bandits inside the pass, so the Northern Lu became bigger. Now, as long as we join forces with the Northern Lu to wipe out the bandits first, then concentrate our million-strong army of the Ming Dynasty, and under the leadership of several generals, we can drive the Northern Lu to the outside of the pass!"

When Ma Cheng heard Xia Yunyi's relaxed statement, he secretly scolded these stinky old men and women who knew how to talk about war on paper. Although you thought it was good, you never thought that the four towns in Jiangbei on the Great Wall would become pawns of the Qing Dynasty.

Ma Cheng also wanted to continue to explain why he could not negotiate with the Qing Dynasty. Hou Fangyu around him was a little unhappy. Hou Fangyu's life experience and status were no less than Ma Cheng, and Hou Fangyu was also a famous scholar in Zhili. Now, he heard that Ma Cheng and Qiu Ba were making a fuss about the decisions of the officials in the court. Hou Fangyu felt that he should teach this boy who did not understand the rules a lesson.

Hou Fangyu sarcastically said, "Brother Ma, it's enough for the public in the court to care about these things. You should train your soldiers well!"

Ma Cheng was furious when he heard Hou Fangyu say this. Now there are only juren and jinshi on the table. Xia Yunyi, Xu Fuyuan and Chen Zilong are already forty years old, Wu Weiye, and Mao Xiang are much bigger than Ma Cheng. These people are still respected by Ma Cheng.

But what is your Hou Fangyu? According to your identity, your Hou Xun is just a minister of the Ministry of War, and your son is still the chief assistant! Hou Fangyu's fame is just a scholar who is hanging his neck, and his identity is two miles away from my general. As for your age, Hou Fangyu is only five or six years older than me. What big cloves are you pretending to be?

Ma Cheng looked at Hou Fangyu and glared and cursed: "Brother Hou is right. I am indeed Qiu Ba, but I know how to serve the court if I don't study! But what about Brother Hou? I linger in Huajie and Liuxiang in Nandu, and set fire to Ruan Dacheng's house for a prostitute. Ruan Dacheng will give you money to redeem your concubine. I really can't learn this and donkey, and I don't want to learn it!"

The Liudu incident that Hou Fangyu had done was indeed a bit unauthorized. In order to please you, Ruan Dacheng gave you money to redeem Li Xiangjun, but you turned over and burned his benefactor's house. Although Hou Fangyu could gain a moral foothold, he did something too much.

Now that these bad things have been revealed by Ma Cheng, Hou Fangyu pointed at Ma Cheng angrily and couldn't speak.

Seeing Hou Fangyu's angry look, Ma Cheng continued to curse: "What? Are you not convinced? Are you not a literati? Now I will give you a poem. Mr. Hou should be selected in both dynasties, so I will bear to say to Taohua Li Xiang! You want to go!"

After saying that, Ma Cheng stood up and bowed, said goodbye to the people in the house and turned around and got off the boat. These intellectuals were very ambitious and talented, which really disappointed Ma Cheng!

The two lines of poetry that Ma Cheng said were written by Zhang Wentao, a literati of the Qing Dynasty, in order to ridicule Hou Fangyu. The two dynasties in the poem refer to the Ming and Qing dynasties. But now no one of the people in the Southern Ming Dynasty believed that the Ming Dynasty could perish so quickly, so the people on the boat understood the two dynasties as taking the imperial examination twice. Hou Fangyu became a young man and passed the scholar at a young age, but this juren failed to pass the exam twice for six years, so what Ma Cheng said was very appropriate.

When Ma Cheng heard this poem, it became a different meaning in Hou Fangyu. This is Ma Cheng ridiculed that he was still a scholar after many years of examination, but he was lingering in Nanjing and had sex with the famous prostitute Li Xiangjun. Hou Fangyu was so angry that he was half-hearted that he was about to get off the boat and argue with Ma Cheng, but he knew that he had already landed on a small boat.

Ma Cheng boarded the boat and asked the boatman to find a place near to get ashore, and then hired a carriage to go home. He wanted to go home and ask Ma Shiying in detail what was going on.

Ma Cheng returned to the mansion and grabbed a servant and asked, "Who is my father back?"

The servant saw that it was Ma Cheng and quickly said, "Second Master, it's only noon, and the master will not be able to come back in the afternoon!"

Ma Cheng was anxious when he came back. He forgot that it was noon now, so it seemed that he had no choice but to wait at home. Ma Cheng asked the servant to go to Shence to pick up his horse, and then came to his father's study alone, waiting for Ma Shiying to come back here.

Now the new dynasty is busy with affairs, and Ma Shiying is busy in the cabinet until it is late.

Ma Shiying walked into the study and saw his second son sitting in the room. This surprised Ma Shiying very much. This son never went into the study before without any trouble. How did he change his sex today?

While taking off his official uniform under the service of his family, Ma Shiying asked, "Cheng'er, is there any trouble to find a father?"

Ma Cheng sat here for an afternoon, finally waited for Ma Shiying back, and quickly stepped forward and asked, "Dad, is the court going to deal with the bandits with the Qing Dynasty?"

Ma Shiying didn't say anything when he heard Ma Cheng's question, but sat down and took a sip of tea before asking, "Cheng'er, who did you hear?"

"Dad, my son went out with his elder brother to make friends at noon, and I heard what the elder brother said during the meal!"

Ma Shiying snorted and cursed: "Luan'er is already thirty years old, and she is still so unstable when she is thirty years old. How can you go out and talk about such a major thing?"
Chapter completed!