The four great strategists under Zhu Hongsan were all broken, with sores on their heads and pus flowing from the soles of their feet. The only thing that was good was Ma Jiyuan, but it did not mean that he could not use methods, he just disdained it. The remaining Ma Mingyuan, Feng Ziyong, and Tong Yangjia were all the same guys. The nature was bad, and coupled with the experience in the officialdom for more than 20 years, they were all slick and had a deep mind.

On the other hand, the big families in Nanzhili, as Zhu Hongsan said, were all unsavvy country rich people. If Xu Jie and others were still alive back then, they would naturally be able to see Tong Yangjia's tricks clearly. However, when Xu Jie died, his descendants never became high-ranking officials again. They might have had some cleverness, but this method of playing with their opponents in their palms was gone.

These little aries in the political arena in Southern Zhili will naturally be cleaned from eating such a big bad wolf like Tong Yangjia, and they will not be left at all.

However, no one in the court saw through Tong Yangjia's tricks. His political ally Qian Qianyi could see the truth. However, Lao Qian didn't say anything. First, Lao Qian knew too much about the emperor's virtue. In order to survive a good end, it would be better to stay away from the big landlords in Nanzhili. Second, Lao Qian also hoped that Tong Yangjia would kill Ma Mingyuan. After all, Qian Qianyi was in the middle of the cabinet. If Ma Mingyuan was killed, his ranking could be raised, why not?

The second person to see Tong Yangjia's tricks clearly was Ma Mingyuan. As the person involved, Ma Mingyuan naturally knew what the soaring grain prices in the capital are now, and he also knew about Tong Yangjia's collusion with those big landlords. However, Ma Mingyuan did not take Tong Yangjia's little tricks to heart, because Ma Mingyuan's intelligence asymmetry, he did not know that Tong Yangjia had reached an agreement with the Qing Dynasty and was preparing to take action while the court was not prepared.

What Ma Mingyuan saw was that the court had reached a contract with the Qing Dynasty, and Zhu Youlang from Guangxi was beaten so hard that he dared not move. Without external pressure, the emperor could naturally guarantee his support. Therefore, Ma Mingyuan's decision was to wait until the food crisis in the capital was fermenting, and then a general liquidation for the landlords and Tong Yangjia who were hindering the new policy, completely clearing Tong Yangjia's stumbling block out of the cabinet team.

Ma Mingyuan, the candidate who took over Tong Yangjia, had already thought about it, that is, Feng Ziyong, who was sent to the local government as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Although Feng Ziyong and Ma Mingyuan were in opposition, they were his second cousin after all, and he was kind to him, and hoped that Feng Ziyong could understand his own difficulties. Of course, the other one of the four major strategists, his elder brother Ma Jiyuan, would never be allowed to enter the cabinet. As long as he was in the cabinet for a day, he would never be allowed to enter the cabinet.

Just when all forces were ulterior motives, the second batch of 3.8 million stones of grain from the Japanese dispatched troops was transported back. However, Zhu Hongsan did not let the merchant ship unload the goods on the dock with great fanfare, but used the night to sneak out the unloading at the Nanjing Guanyun wharf. Zhu Hongsan's decision to use the food in his hands to exchange for the silver of the landlords. Anyway, there is no shortage of grain now. 3.8 million stones of grain are enough for 200,000 poor people in and outside the city of Nanjing to eat for a year. If you add some alternative food such as potatoes and corn, it is not impossible to eat for two or three years.

The big landlords obviously did not have much silver in their hands. After seeing that the imperial court supplied rice almost unlimitedly, they gave up purchasing rice on the market. Naturally, the price of rice fell to a reasonable price of one silver dollar per stone. Zhu Hongsan obtained more than two million taels of silver through this small operation. In addition to the million taels robbed by Japan, Shenwu's three years of military expenditure was settled.

However, the big landlords did not think so. After the failure to raise prices, these guys had a second move, which was to petition! However, in the Ming Dynasty, it was not called petition, but petition.

As early as the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the drafting of the ban on "students are not allowed to interfere in politics". He wanted to use this to scare away Confucian scholars and make them dare not ask about politics. However, during the period of Wanli and Chongzhen, politics was corrupt, society was dark, class contradictions became increasingly sharp, and people's resistance struggles continued. Literary people broke through the ban on "students are not allowed to interfere in politics", gathered together to satirize current affairs, criticize people, and criticize people, and became stronger and stronger. Students often criticize county magistrates, scold Yousi, and compile songs to create public opinion. The so-called "Recently, people have been flooded with people, and insulted county magistrates for their children, and attacked Yousi by their students. If they were not to destroy officials, they would wove on the streets; if they were revenge, the songs were taught to Zimu."

Scholars sing a hundred harmony create a strong momentum. They use their own right and wrong standards to measure the gains and losses of court officials. They are opposed to the court to the point where "what the cabinet is, external arguments must be wrong; what the cabinet is, external arguments must be right", and this public opinion plays a powerful role in interfering in politics.

This tradition of interfering in politics reached its climax in the late Ming Dynasty, and the landmark incident was the "Liudu Prevention of Chaos and Gong Jie" which cursed Ruan Dacheng. Gong Jie is a big-character newspaper. We don't care what it says, but this illegal big-character newspaper actually achieved the purpose of interfering in politics, and Ruan Dacheng was forced to hide in the mountains and live in seclusion.

On November 12, the second year of Shenwu, the food crisis that had been in trouble in Nanjing for many days had been lifted, and the people in the city began to prepare for the New Year. Scholars were also preparing for the spring exam next year.

Next year is the third year of Shenwu, which is also the year of the great competition set by the court. Therefore, after the autumn examination in the second year of Shenwu, many students from all over the country did not go home, but stayed in Nanjing to prepare for the exam.

On the morning of the 12th, these scholars found a post posted on the gate of the Imperial College in Nanjing, which scolded Ma Mingyuan, who was the scholar who wanted to write to the court to ban scholars' privileges and exposed the "spreading the ranks into the acres, and the officials and gentry as part of their jobs to pay grain" to scholars across the country.

As soon as this big-character newspaper was released, scholars in Nanjing were immediately in an uproar. The fact that they dug their own graves came from Ma Mingyuan, an imperial examination prodigy, and all the students didn't believe it. However, it's easy to say that the Imperial College is not far from the Ma Mansion in Nancheng. Hundreds of scholars rushed to Ma Mingyuan's mansion together and asked Ma Mingyuan to give an explanation.

Of course, the door of the outer door of Ma Mingyuan's mansion was not open, and Ma Mingyuan did not come out to give these passionate young people an explanation. In the eyes of these young people, this is amazing. We are the reserve force of the country. You, Ma Mingyuan, are you, no one will be seen when you become the chief minister? With the promotion of those who are interested, hundreds of students set fire to Ma Mingyuan's mansion.

Ma Mingyuan was already in the mansion, but he didn't expect that these gangs would dare to burn their home. Fortunately, Ma Mingyuan was still young and had neat hands and feet. He did not die in the fire, but the huge Ma Mansion was burned to a piece of white ground.

The news came to the palace and made Zhu Hongsan very happy. These Nanzhili stinky old Jiu finally couldn't help but take action. They were not afraid of you, but they were afraid that you wouldn't. Now Zhu Hongsan has the means to put the shit basin on those stinky old Jius.

Zhu Hongsan immediately sent five hundred Jinyiwei and two thousand inspectors and soldiers to surround several streets around Mafu Street, hoping not to run away a troublemaker.

The Jinyiwei arrested a total of 272 people, including 37 leaders. After the list was reported, Zhu Hongsan was stunned when he saw it, because the first leader was Hou Fangyu, a native of Guide Mansion, Henan.

After Hou Fangyu was occupied by the Qing Dynasty in Nanjing, he was separated from Li Xiangjun. He had no choice but to return to his hometown in Guide, Henan to take refuge, and at the same time he was inquiring about Li Xiangjun's news everywhere.

When Hou Fangyu thought that the Ming Dynasty was over, the King of Chu, Zhu Hongsan, who had been looked down upon by him, emerged and could defeat hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in Jiangnan and re-occupate Nanjing.

Henan is a distance from Nanjing. The news from Nanjing is bizarre and everything is available. It is said that the heavenly soldiers and generals borrowed by the King of Chu will spit out red lights and sacrifice magic weapons to take the enemy's head thousands of miles away. Anyway, there are all kinds of news.

As a scholar, Hou Fangyu believed in a gentleman who did not speak strange powers and was indisputable. He did not believe in these things. However, he was very interested in the shameless King of Chu. He wanted to go to Nanjing to see what was going on, and also wanted to visit Li Xiangjun. At this time, news came from the Nanjing Ministry of Rites that the autumn examination was held in Nanjing in the second year of Shenwu, and the spring examination was reopened in March of the third year of Shenwu next year to select materials for the country.

Hou Fangyu, who received this news, said goodbye to his old father, wife and children and came to Nanjing alone.

Hou Fangyu has been in trouble for many years but has not left his books. He can easily pass the imperial examination in Nanjing, so he stayed to wait for the spring exam in March next year.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Ma Mingyuan suddenly wanted to implement the new policy. Hou Fangyu's family is a famous landlord in Henan. Although the land does not have 100,000 mu of land, there are 100,000 or 20,000 mu. If this new policy is implemented, it will take Hou Fangyu's life. At the same time, Hou Fangyu thought that Ma Mingyuan, who had a close friendship with his father, was like this. Hou Fangyu was so angry that he followed the team to the Ma family.

Zhu Hongsan was also funny when he saw Hou Fangyu's name. He remembered the fact that he came to Wuchang to marry Ma Xiaofang and was finally disturbed by himself.

Zhu Hongsan said to Ma Mingyuan, who was sitting, "Mr. Ma, all the thirty-seven people in the leadership have been caught. Guess who there is?"

Ma Mingyuan was stunned when he heard Zhu Hongsan's question. Could it be that there are people he is familiar with?

"Mr. Ma, the first one is your Ma family's family's family's family's family, Hou Fangyu, that Hou Chaozong!"

When Ma Mingyuan heard that Hou Fangyu was a little embarrassed. The relationship between the Ma family and the Hou family was between the two generations. Hou Xun and Ma Mingyuan's eldest uncle Ma Guoan, might as well have become relatives with the Hou family. At the same time, Ma Mingyuan also had dates with Hou Fangyu when he was traveling to Nanjing and admired his knowledge and literary talent. Unexpectedly, he became an opponent now.

Ma Mingyuan thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, I want to see this Hou Fangyu, please forgive me!"

"Oh? Why did Mr. Ma go to see him? "
Chapter completed!