Chapter 124 Nanjing Jinyi New Barracks
But how could Zhao Peng make Zhu Yousong and the nobles get what they want? He replied: "Go back to Your Majesty, my 10,000 elite soldiers are vicious veterans who came down from the battlefield. I will never dare to lead troops into the capital privately, so I temporarily settled in Yangzhou to resist the bandits and Jiannu going south. If Your Majesty asks me to hand over 10,000 elite soldiers, I will naturally obey the order. If Your Majesty only has an imperial edict, I will naturally return to Yangzhou to lead troops into the capital. I just don't know that the lord present can lead these ten thousand elite soldiers?"
Duke Xu Hongji of Wei was the first to stand up: "I am willing to lead these 10,000 elite troops for the garrison of Nanjing to ensure the peace of the capital!" As he said that, Xu Hongji suddenly started to cough repeatedly, and people were almost unable to stand firm.
Baoguo Duke Zhang Guobi stood up: "Duke Wei, you are old and weak, how can you take on this important task?" As he said that, he turned to Zhu Yousong and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to lead this ten thousand elite troops!"
Xu Hongji stopped coughing and pointed at Zhang Guobi and said, "I am Duke of Wei and the leader of the nobles in Nanjing! Although I am old, the prince's title of civil and military talent can take on this important task!"
A group of nobles including Liu Kongzhao and Zhao Zhilong were dissatisfied and stood up one after another, saying that they could take on heavy responsibilities. In fact, they were all for the sake of fighting for these ten thousand elite soldiers.
Zhu Yousong was also unsure of his mind, so he turned to ask Ma Shiying: "Ma Aiqing, what do you think?"
Ma Shiying turned around and looked around the arguing nobles, thinking in his heart: Although Duke Wei is the leader of the nobles, he is already old and weak. Liu Kongzhao is the admiral of Caojiang and commands the navy. What does the elite boys have to do with him? Zhao Zhilong is a new noble, and his foundation is not stable. It seems that Duke Baoguo Zhang Guobi is the most suitable. This person is with him to support King Fu ascend the throne, which is also considered his own person. So Ma Shiying bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I think Duke Baoguo Zhang Guobi is loyal to you and is most suitable to lead these ten thousand elite soldiers!"
Zhao Peng was secretly planning in his heart: You old nobles have been riding on the heads of the people for almost three hundred years. The military households with strong combat power in the early Ming Dynasty were exploited by you so much that they were not even as good as farmers. But your family is rich but they don’t have to pay a penny of taxes. Like the civil servants and gentry groups, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty have become one of the three major cancers of the Ming Dynasty. This time, after the prince’s success in the transformation of the sect, you support the King of Fortune just abolished your titles! Sorry, although your ancestors have made contributions to the Ming Dynasty, you have long been corrupted and become the cancer of the Ming Dynasty after nearly three hundred years. In the past, there was nothing in peace, but in the troubled times, if you don’t eradicate you old nobles and let the people live a good life, the Ming Dynasty will perish!
Although Zhao Peng is not a Ming fan and has no feelings for the Ming Dynasty, what he was sad about was that after the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and China began a dark era of nearly three hundred years. From then on, Eastern civilization was far behind the West, which was the most heartbreaking thing. Since he came to this era, he would definitely not let the tragedy happen again. Another thing is Princess Kunxing. He had true love for the princess, and his true love came from the heart. Although Zhu Ma was a princess, he was gentle and virtuous, and had no princess’ airs at all. I don’t know how many times healed compared to those women who had no princess’ fate but had princess’ illness in later generations.
Maybe the prince Zhu Cilang will not be able to make such cruelty after ascending the throne, but he can make his cruelty. At that time, as long as his girlfriend tells the prince's brother, what kind of virtue are those nobles when they break into the capital, Zhu Cilang will definitely understand.
Zhao Peng shook his head and said, "But will Zhu Yousong abdicate obediently? Do you think it's possible?"
"Of course I know it is impossible, but we also need to be polite and then soldiers, right? If we persuade King Fu to abdicate and return to the orthodox, if King Fu doesn't listen, morality will be with us!" Shi Kefa said.
Chen Zilong said: "Master Shi Ge, we should act with both hands. You will come to court to report to King Fu tomorrow. We must also take action here and arrange troops first. If King Fu is obsessed with it, we should act quickly and not prepare time for them."
Qian Qianyi said: "Master Shi Ge, King Fu will definitely not give in. Wen Feng has more than 10,000 elite troops. He should launch a siege change with force to help His Highness regain the throne. After the prince ascended the throne, Ma Shiying should not be spared easily! This thief is a remnant of the eunuch party, which has caused me to be upright in Donglin. He will be dismissed from his post and investigated! It would be best to seize the reputation of this thief."
Chapter completed!