Gao Mingheng's meaning was obvious, that was to question Ma Mingfeng's resoluteness to die and to be respectful. With his loyal friendship with Ma Mingfeng over the past two years, this was actually very rude.

But Ma Mingfeng smiled bitterly and said, "I believe that after the Kaifeng system floods, the two thieves will definitely complain first, saying that ours is not. In order to cover up the crime, they will not only lead the army north, but also prevent us from going to the capital. I guess the reason why Huang Shu dares to be so bold is that there must be backstage support behind it. As far as I know, this person is a member of the Donglin Party..."

"Donglin Party? Are you also a member of the Donglin Party? And your respectful teacher is Mr. Shi Zhai. Since Huang Shu is a member of the Donglin Party, shouldn't he cooperate with you sincerely? But why did he stab the knife in the back?"

Ma Mingfeng looked at Gao Mingheng's puzzled expression and shook his head and said, "I am not a member of the Donglin Party, but a member of the Fushe. Although the Fushe has a high understanding of the Donglin Party in some aspects, it is not the same thing. Even in the Fushe, I am not a formal member. It's just that because my teacher, Mr. Shi Zhai, is in the Fushe, I can barely be considered a member of the Fushe. In fact, the entire Fushe, except for the family teacher and Chen Zilong, no one has any friendship with me, and I have many political opinions and Fushe, so I am just a nominal member of the Fushe, or an external member, not the core, that's all. There are even many members of the Fushe who have had a feast with me, so it's not surprising that the Donglin Party members like Huang Shu stab me in the back."

"Is this the case? It is said that the members of the Donglin Party take the world as their responsibility, and care about family, state and everything in the world. Does it even have the capacity to tolerate others? It is said that the Donglin Party can save our Ming Dynasty. Is all this false?"

Gao Mingheng's face was inevitably disappointed and he sighed murmurly.

In the dark night, a group of high-ranking officials stood at the top of the city wall, silently looking at the flood not far from the city wall, and were deeply worried about the fate of the country. They didn't know where the road was ahead, and sighed from each other.

Who can sleep on such a night? These people who can’t fall asleep are all silently thinking about their own thoughts.

Early the next morning, the flood slowly receded. After all, it was spring. Although the melting of ice and snow made the river have a certain amount of river water, the number was not too large. The middle of the night was enough to drain most of the river water into the low river channel.

Ma Mingfeng and others looked outside the city and found silence outside the city. They clearly saw that there was no one in the military camp outside the city, and it seemed that they had already taken the opportunity to retreat.

Ma Mingfeng's heart was a little heavy. After such a lot of water, I don't know if Li Zicheng survived. If he died, the rebel army would probably split instantly. Although the Ming Dynasty might be able to survive for a few more years, with Chongzhen's nature, Daming would be finished sooner or later. Even if this is true, Chongzhen would probably take away all the foundation of the Ming Dynasty before the fall of the country.

This was definitely a very heavy blow to Ma Mingfeng's plan. If this was the case, Ma Mingfeng probably would have to lead an army to expedition overseas and establish his own colony there.

However, when Ma Mingfeng ordered people to clean up the battlefield in the city's urn city, he did not see Li Zicheng's body. At the same time, he saw a big hole in a section of the city wall.

This section of the city wall was originally a bit incomplete, which was something that Ma Mingfeng deliberately ignored, and it was also a "channel" that he originally planned to leave for Li Zicheng to escape.

Ma Mingfeng felt a little relieved. Li Zicheng was indeed not an ordinary person. The city was full of water. He could actually find this broken wall accurately, destroy it, and escape smoothly, and finally not disappointed himself.

In this case, he knew that Li Zicheng would definitely flee back to Shaanxi next, and then desperately recruit soldiers in Shaanxi, then lead troops from Shaanxi to Shanxi, and then attack the capital in order to achieve his hegemony.

In this case, Ma Mingfeng should also plan for himself as soon as possible, strive to strengthen his strength during this period, and lay a solid foundation for future management of Nanming.

Therefore, after some consideration, Ma Mingfeng wrote a secret letter to Zhou Yanru, the chief minister of the cabinet at that time, in which he explained Huang Shu's conspiracy in detail, and at the same time apologized to Zhou Yanru. He could not see Huang Shu's conspiracy clearly, which caused the overall situation of the fight against the trespassing army to be damaged. However, he did not ask Zhou Yanru to help him clarify these things, but instead made a request to Zhou Yanru...

After writing the letter, Ma Mingfeng sent his confidant Lao San to take the letter and ride a fast horse to Zhou Yanru, and instructed the Lao San to go directly to Nanjing to find him after delivering the letter.

After explaining all this, Ma Mingfeng took the soldiers to Yangzhou for refuge.

Among them, in addition to Gao Mingheng's refusal to go to Yangzhou but riding alone to the capital, one was to report what happened in Kaifeng to Chongzhen in detail, and expose the crimes of Huang Shu and Yang Wenyue. The second was to hope that Chongzhen could transfer Ma Mingfeng to the capital to defend against the attack of the rebels.

However, Gao Mingheng did not know that after leaving Henan, his small seventh-rank inspector censor was really a bit light. Emperor Chongzhen listened to Huang Shu and Yang Wenyue's "achievements" because of preconceptions. Or he would rather believe that Huang Shu and Yang Wenyue killed tens of thousands of troops of the rebel army by flooding, forcing the rebel army to retreat than listen to the rebel army's rebel army until the end, even if it counterattacked, he would not be sure of winning.

Because the two made such great contributions, Chongzhen immediately appointed Huang Shu as the right assistant censor of the Censorate, governor Huguang, Sichuan, and Yang Wenyue as the deputy minister of the Ministry of War, and the governor of Baoding, Shandong, Shanxi, Tianjin, Laideng and other places.

In this way, Chongzhen handed over all the troops of the provinces of the rebel army to these two people except Henan, which shows his favor for them.

As for Henan Governor Ma Mingfeng, Bazhou Military Preparatory Deputy Envoy Yue Qijie and others, although they did not achieve brilliant results when dealing with the rebel army, they still won tens of thousands of people, which was considered to have made minor contributions, which offset their previous crime of ineffective combat, so their positions were all not promoted or reduced.

However, because Henan has been deserted for thousands of miles and is deserted, Kaifeng City is also abandoned, and if you want to restore it, you have to wait until the King of Chuang is pacified. So how to resettle Ma Mingfeng next has become a problem that Chongzhen needs to consider.

"This Ma Luan is really a headache. If you say that you have some skills, you often cause trouble for me. You always have achievements and have achievements. Such people are not pure at all, and it is worrying to deal with them. Forget it, I'll leave this problem to the cabinet for a headache."
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