(This chapter is six thousand words, so I'm too lazy to score!)

Li Chengen, who was serving outside the door, heard something in the room. At first, he thought the emperor wanted to play some fun, but after all, he often played like this before. But the more he heard the sound, the more wrong it was. Why did the two of them start to fight in the end?

It was a serious crime to fight with the emperor. Li Chengen quickly rushed in with the eunuch, but when he went in, he found that Ma Ruyun was dead.

Zhu Hongsan was sitting on the chair and gasping heavily. Li Chengen stepped forward and tried Ma Ruyun's breath and said, "Your Majesty, I'm already exhausted!"

Zhu Hongsan cursed with a ferocious face: "It's best if this bitch dies, I don't know how to politely! Pull the bitch's body out and chop it up and feed it to the dog!"

Li Chengen dared not object and took the eunuch out to carry Ma Ruyun's body out and handled according to the emperor's instructions.

Zhu Hongsan was strangled to death by his own hands, and his spirit was a little abnormal. Seeing Ma Ruyun's body being carried out, Zhu Hongsan said, "Xiaofang, did you see it? Your Ma family didn't agree with your marriage with me back then. Now you can see their faces clearly! I am already the emperor, and they still look down on me, and they think I am a hooligan. I don't understand nothing, and I have to rely on them for national affairs! I used to think about your affection back then, and I am so tolerant of your elder brother and second brother, so don't blame me for being cruel now!"

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he shouted a person! A little eunuch came in tremblingly outside. Zhu Hongsan said to the little eunuch: "I have sent an order to assassinate me by Ma Jiyuan's daughter Ma Ruyun, and I have been rectified by me! Ma Jiyuan's son Ma Rufeng, Ma Shaoguang participated in the plot to rebel, and Ma Jiyuan was incompetent in his children. Now he escorted Ma Jiyuan to the capital as a criminal prisoner and was questioned for strict interrogation!"

Yesterday, Zhu Hongsan issued an order to bring Ma Jiyuan to Beijing for interrogation, but Ma Jiyuan was a cabinet master after all, so Zhu Hongsan still gave Ma Jiyuan a decent person and did not let someone wear shackles for Ma Jiyuan. However, this imperial edict is different. The imperial criminal is the most serious crime. In addition to wearing shackles, he has to stand in a cage. This is a great humiliation for a person from an intellectual background.

Zhu Hongsan's imperial edict immediately caused a big storm in the court. Although the emperor of the Ming Dynasty liked to hit the ministers in the butt, he had never been humiliated by standing in a cage with shackles and swaying in the market. Not to mention that this person was one of the emperor's four great strategists back then.

All the ministers in the court, headed by Feng Ziyong, immediately wrote a letter to the emperor, asking Zhu Hongsan to take back his orders. However, although all the ministers stood by Feng Ziyong, there were also some people watching the fun at the side, and this was Tong Yangjia.

Tong Yangjia was ecstatic when he learned that the emperor treated Ma Jiyuan. This means that the Ma family forces, which occupied the imperial court for more than 20 years, were finally disgusted by His Majesty, and it means that Tong Yangjia is likely to be the chief minister.

However, Tong Yangjia is an old fox after all, and now the matter is unclear, and he cannot act rashly. Tong Yangjia sent a seventh-rank censor from his own side to write a letter to the emperor to impeach Ma Mingyuan, saying that Ma Mingyuan was the master of Liaoning Governor Guo Huan. This time, Guo Huan's party affiliated with the prince to rebel, must have Ma Mingyuan's instructions.

Tong Yangjia just wanted to test the emperor's attitude at first, but he knew that the emperor had caught this and scolded Ma Mingyuan, saying that Ma Mingyuan was not as good as a beast. At the same time, he ordered the East Factory to confiscate Ma Mingyuan's house. Ma Mingyuan himself was also lucky enough to enter the imperial prison and wait for Ma Jiyuan to come and try it together.

The emperor's attitude was everything. When Tong Yangjia saw that the Ma family had indeed lost the emperor's trust, he immediately sent all his subordinates to impeach the Ma family. The emperor also responded to Tong Yangjia's memorials. As long as the official was impeached, he was immediately imprisoned. For a moment, the Jinyiwei was full of prisons, and most of them were officials of the Ma family in the court.

When the officialdom in Beijing was in chaos, on February 20, the 15th year of Shenwu, news came from the Nanjing Jinyiwei Fushu Department that Ma Jiyuan had no concern at all. After receiving the emperor's imperial edict, Ma Jiyuan immediately hanged himself, which saved the emperor's thoughts.

But Zhu Hongsan was furious when he received this news. Ma Jiyuan, why are you dead? Is it wrong for you to die soon? Okay! Do you think you will be fine if you die? I will not be at ease even if I die!

Zhu Hongsan issued an imperial edict to behead Ma Jiyuan. At the same time, the emperor was still unhappy and changed Ma Jiyuan to the surname Gou. Ma Jiyuan, you are gone, you are a dog! Next, Zhu Hongsan killed the imperial concubine Ma Ruyan in the palace, and Ma Jiyuan's adoptive father Ma Guoan digs the grave and stole the corpse!

In addition to these, Zhu Hongsan also had the most ruthless means. Ma Jiyuan's son was left with Ma Shaoguang, and Ma Jiyuan's grandson was left with several. Zhu Hongsan executed Ma Shaoguang and Lingchi. After castration, several grandsons were replaced by the Dog surname and sent to Liaodong as slaves.

Ma Jiyuan's experience was spread to the Jinyiwei Zhaozhu. When Ma Mingyuan heard that his brother was changed to the surname Gou after his death, he burst into tears: "Father, I didn't expect you were right back then!"

When Ma Mingyuan's son Ma Guoxiang was about to die outside Chenzhou City, he held Ma Mingyuan and Ma Jiyuan's hands and told them not to be greedy for power after assisting Zhu Hongsan successfully. Ma Guoxiang said back then that Zhu Hongsan was cruel and unscrupulous, and he did not make any moves to accomplish great things. Such people can share hardships with each other, but it is absolutely impossible to share wealth and honor together, so Ma Guoxiang asked his two sons to float away afterwards.

However, Ma Mingyuan is too fame and fame, so he still wants to be a famous minister like Zhang Juzheng. How can he see the power he gets instead? As for Ma Jiyuan, he doesn't respect Zhu Hongsan at all, and he doesn't believe that Zhu Hongsan can kill the donkey, so the two brothers completely regard my teachings as a warning.

Ma Guoxiang has been dead for nearly thirty years, but then Ma Mingyuan remembered what his father said back then, but what else can he do if things have reached this point?

On February 25, the 15th year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan announced that the world would depose the crown prince, which also represented that Zhu Hongsan officially began to attack the Ma family party, which had been controlling the government for more than ten years.

On the second day after the prince was deposed, Tong Yangjia, who was the second assistant, first fired a fire at Ma Mingyuan. This time, Tong Yangjia did not pretend to be others but came on the stage in person. There were eighteen major crimes for impeaching Ma Mingyuan. In addition to the old tune of re-adjusting the government and occupying the imperial tomb, the party was attached to the prince to rebel.

Conspiracy to rebel is a serious crime. The key is that Guo Huan is known throughout the country to be Ma Mingyuan's disciple, and he also received letters from Ma Mingyuan's home, indicating that Ma Mingyuan knew that the prince was preparing to take advantage of the rebellion of the Qin King to seize the throne.

With these real charges and the emperor no longer protects Ma Mingyuan, the next step is very simple. In addition to the emperor's order to formally identify Ma Mingyuan as an imperial prisoner, there is also a wave of horse-turning waves in the court.

From early March to September, more than 3,000 Ma Mingyuan's followers were arrested in half a year. Of course, there were Ma Mingyuan's family, subordinates, classmates, friends, and so on in the same year. Some families who had some connection with the Ma family were also arrested as criminals.

The most typical one is a vegetable farmer in the suburbs of Beijing. Perhaps this vegetable farmer never thought that he could have contact with a senior official like Ma Mingyuan. However, because the vegetable farmer gave the Ma family half a year of vegetables, he was arrested as a Ma Party and sentenced to a prison sentence. There were more than a thousand innocent passers-by arrested in all other places.

At the end of September, when the imperial edict came down, Ma Mingyuan was sentenced to death for his contribution, which was considered to be the emperor's gift of face. The other Ma Mingyuan's only son, Ma Shaojun, three adult grandsons, and two underage grandsons were executed. Ma Mingyuan's daughter was noble because of her status, after all, she was the niece of the queen Ma Xiaofang. Zhu Hongsan general Ma Mingyuan's daughter was sentenced to death, and other female family members sold the Jiaofangsi.

Most of the other Ma Mingyuan's followers were executed, and their families were either exiled or exiled. Among them, Ma Mingyuan's number one followers Chen Zilong had the best ending. Perhaps Zhu Hongsan thought of his friendship with Chen Zilong back then, so he just demoted Chen Zilong to the people and returned to his original home and was surveilled by local officials to live in.

After receiving the imperial edict for death, Ma Mingyuan sighed and said to the eunuch who came to pass the eunuch, "This father-in-law, I still have a wish before I die. I want to meet Tong Yangjia?"

The eunuch dared to settle down in such a big matter and quickly returned to the palace to report to Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan was also puzzled when he heard this. Why did Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia fight for the rest of their lives and want to see him in the end? However, Zhu Hongsan also wanted to know why, so he ordered Tong Yangjia to meet Ma Mingyuan.

Tong Yangjia was also puzzled when he received the imperial edict. He didn't know why Ma Mingyuan wanted to see him. Did he want to humiliate him before he died? Tong Yangjia didn't want to go, but he had no choice but to follow the eunuch who sent the imperial edict to the Jinyiwei's imperial prison.

When Tong Yangjia saw Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia, he was also jumped. The Jinyiwei used to torture Ma Mingyuan in order to force a confession. Ma Mingyuan's fingernails had been pulled out, and his body was washed with no good meat. Although Tong Yangjia knew that the Jinyiwei tortured Ma Mingyuan, he was still touched when he saw Ma Mingyuan's miserable appearance.

Tong Yangjia covered his nose with a handkerchief and asked, "Ma Mingyuan, you are about to die, why should you see me?"

Ma Mingyuan laughed bitterly, leaked the gums whose teeth were removed, and said, "Tong Yangjia, you and I have been fighting for a lifetime. Now, aren't it very satisfying to see me like this?"

"Hehe, of course, I think you were guilty of persecuting me when you were charged with persecuting me. Did you think of it now?"

Ma Mingyuan sighed and said, "Tong Yangjia, although you and I don't deal with each other, they are all fighting for the will of literati! Now that you win, I have nothing to say, but I am about to die, and my words are good. Can you listen to me say something?"

Now that Ma Mingyuan's gangsters have been wiped out, no one in the court has spoken for Ma Mingyuan. Tong Yangjia feels that he will not fall into Ma Mingyuan's plan, and it's nothing to listen to.

"Okay, for the sake of my experience of working with you for more than 20 years, please tell me!"

"Tong Yangjia, I guess you will deal with Feng Ziyong in the next step! Feng Ziyong is not your opponent, you will soon become the chief assistant! What I said is that you must remember that you are the head of civil servants and never let Your Majesty kill again. Now the country has just settled, and it really cannot withstand the tossing."

Ma Mingyuan saw it very accurately. Tong Yangjia was preparing to deal with Feng Ziyong, but Tong Yangjia heard Ma Mingyuan ask him to persuade the emperor to kill less, and he still went to his heart. Although Tong Yangjia was cruel and ruthless, he was a civil servant representative after all. He did not want the Ming Dynasty to return to Zhu Yuanzhang's era. Officials went to court every day like they were dying. When they came home from get off work, the whole family had to celebrate, and celebrated that they had another day of life.

Although Tong Yangjia agreed with what Ma Mingyuan said in his heart, he did not say that, but instead said sarcastically: "Ma Mingyuan, why are you still caring about these things when you are about to die?" Tong Yangjia said and left.

Ma Mingyuan looked at Tong Yangjia leaving and sneered. He had such kindness today to remind Tong Yangjia that what he said today was for the emperor to hear.

Ma Mingyuan is worthy of being a top strategist under Zhu Hongsan. He had already analyzed the reason when he was in trouble. The main reason for the emperor to deal with Ma Mingyuan was not that Ma Mingyuan was involved in the prince's rebellion, but that the emperor finally wanted to get rid of the civil servant's rule and regain power.

When Emperor Zhu Hongsan started his family, he relied on the Ma family. The Ma family was a great genius. Naturally, after Zhu Hongsan founded the country, he would be courteous to these great geniuses and great intellectuals. Zhu Hongsan re-established the deformed prime minister. This is what Zhu Hongsan means. However, the greed of the civil servant class is endless. They are naturally in opposition to the imperial power. It is not enough to give them the power to govern the country. They also hope that the virtual king will be in the real world. It is only if the emperor is the emperor, you just need to be a rubber stamp, just play with yours in the palace. This country is enough to have us civil servants.

Of course, this is also the direction of social development. During the same period, the British Magna Carta movement began to restrict imperial power, and China was no exception. In fact, this development had already begun in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. In the early years of Emperor Longqing and Emperor Wanli, it was these emperors who did not care about their affairs and acted as a symbol that led to the new Longqing policy created by famous ministers Xu Jie, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.

These civil servants led by Ma Mingyuan have a good idea, but they did not encounter a dough emperor like Longqing, but Zhu Hongsan, who was similar to Zhu Yuanzhang. Although Zhu Hongsan came from later generations and knew that democracy is the general direction of social development, his butt determines his head. After becoming the emperor, his thoughts changed. No one wants to be a puppet emperor. Do you want to govern the country according to your ideals? I also want to draw a circle according to my ideals!

In this case, the conflict between imperial power and prime minister's power is inevitable. However, Zhu Hongsan needed these civil servants and gentry in the early stage, so he had no choice but to pinch his nose as an rubber stamp. But it was different after the founding of the country. Zhu Hongsan could no longer bear the military power in his hands and could no longer bear the stinky old man. What is wrong with the Northeast military use, you should rest and recuperate! What is wrong with business development, you should pay attention to agriculture! What is hard military force, how to be very happy about merit, etc. Are you emperor or I am the emperor? Therefore, the conflict between Zhu Hongsan and these literati and doctors has become inevitable.

It was because Ma Mingyuan saw this clearly that he said that, because Tong Yangjia was also a civil minister and was no essential difference from Ma Mingyuan. Tong Yangjia would definitely suppress the power of the monarch when he came to power. At that time, Tong Yangjia would definitely have a conflict with Zhu Hongsan. At that time, his words would make the emperor feel that Tong Yangjia was the same as Ma Mingyuan? As long as the emperor thought so, it would be Tong Yangjia's death period, and Ma Mingyuan would be able to avenge his own great revenge.

The matter has been arranged, and Ma Mingyuan has no worries. Now that his elder brother and son are dead, what else can he have to worry about?

Ma Mingyuan looked at the poisonous wine in front of him and smiled bitterly: "Thirty years of hard work will be exchanged for a cup of poisonous wine, good! OK! OK!" Ma Mingyuan said three times and drank the poisonous wine.

After drinking the poisoned wine, Ma Mingyuan remembered the scene when he met Zhu Hongsan at the age of fourteen, and then thought about his return from studying abroad and talking to Zhu Hongsan Village. He also thought about his guidance on the way south to Guangdong and his dedication to governing the country. Thinking of this, Ma Mingyuan said softly: "Your Majesty, I am here!" After Ma Mingyuan said that the poison attacked and he returned to that world.

Ma Mingyuan was dead, Ma Jiyuan was dead, and now two of Zhu Hongsan's four great strategists had died, but the remaining two were not ready to stop. The second month after Ma Mingyuan's death, Tong Yangjia began to fire at the chief assistant Feng Zi.

Feng Ziyong saw that the two brothers Ma Mingyuan had already developed a desire to retreat, but you should climb to this position. Did you say you want to retreat? Tong Yangjia impeached Feng Ziyong and Ma Mingyuan to collude. Anyway, both the Ma family brothers are dead now, and there is no evidence to die. Tong Yangjia can say anything.

In the end, Feng Ziyong was also imprisoned by Zhu Hongsan, and the charge was that the party affiliated with Ma Mingyuan. Feng Ziyong was sentenced to a death sentence. However, before the execution, Zhu Hongsan thought of Feng Ziyong's deceased father Feng Ruoshu. If Feng Ruoshu hadn't personally gone south from Beijing to open up the situation in Guangdong for Zhu Hongsan, Zhu Hongsan would not have developed so quickly in Guangdong. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan decided to keep Feng Ziyong's life. Before the final execution, Zhu Hongsan pardoned Feng Ziyong and asked him to return to his hometown in Sichuan to support his old age, and his descendants would not be able to take the imperial examination.

The three people standing in front of Tong Yangjia have been eliminated. The next step is to Tong Yangjia as the chief assistant. According to Tong Yangjia’s expectations, he can govern the country according to his own intention, but he has killed so many people, and it is not something that Tong Yangjia said he could stop.

Emperor Zhu Hongsan has now completely become his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang. In the second year after Ma Mingyuan's death, in May of the 16th year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan used the Gansu relief case to kill more than 1,560 officials from all over Gansu Province, and there were tens of thousands of families of officials involved in the case.

However, this case was drizzling compared to what happened later. In September of the 16th year of Shenwu, a dam collapse occurred in the northern section of the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River water flowed back to Wuchang, killing thousands of people. Zhu Hongsan used this case to execute all the entire Yangtze River coast from Sichuan, Guizhou, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Jiangsu, Anhui along the coast, from Sichuan, Guizhou, and Huguang, Jiangxi, and Jiangsu, and Anhui in the lower reaches of Jiangsu, Anhui, and all the officials in charge of water conservancy facilities, civil affairs, livelihood, disaster relief and grain releases in various provinces along the coast, with more than 2,600 officials involved in the case.

In February of the 17th year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan took advantage of the opportunity to investigate the army and the generals' head of the army was killed. His family was in charge. Five division commanders, eight deputy division commanders and seven military judges died with Qian Yong. It can be said that Qian Yong's power in the army was eliminated.

Next, Zhu Hongsan let go of his hands and feet and killed Zhao Guodong, the head of the army, had committed suicide in the fifteenth year of Shenwu due to the case of King Qin. Qian Yong was sentenced to death in the 17th year of Shenwu. The remaining Wang Jinbao, Zhou Yu, and Ma Kun did not escape. Wang Jinbao was executed in the 20th year of Shenwu. Zhou Yu committed suicide in the 19th year of Shenwu. Ma Kun died of illness in the 20th year of Shenwu. However, after his death, his family property was confiscated and his title was also removed.

All senior military officers in other army were purged. Han Sanqiang, the chief supervisor of Zhu Hongsan's Imperial Guard, was killed. Han Shirong, who fought bloody battles with Qian Yong, was killed. Zhao Guoliang, the dispatched army stationed in Japan, Duan Fei, who defeated the Russians in the Northeast, was killed. In the end, even Zhu Hongsan's son-in-law, Li Yuanyin, did not escape. He and Zhu Luo's husband, Zhao Hu, were killed in the 18th year of Shenwu. The positions of these senior generals were replaced with military generals loyal to Zhu Hongsan. These generals were all from the Boy Camp that year, and only they could get Zhu Hongsan's absolute trust.

From the fifteenth year of Shenwu to the twenty-year of Shenwu, 80% of the civil and military officials in the court were killed, 36 governors from twenty-nine provinces were killed, and the second governors from several provinces were also killed. Other provincial governors, censors, and other provincial high-ranking officials were killed, not to mention small officials such as prefects and counties. Some people have estimated that among the 278 Jinshi in the twelfth year of Shenwu, only eleven people could survive to the 21st year of Shenwu, and the others were either killed or exiled.

From the fifteenth year of Shenwu to the twenty-year of Shenwu, there were 30,000 to 40,000 officials executed in the past five years, and more than 200,000 of their families. As the chief minister, Tong Yangjia naturally couldn't watch the emperor continue to kill like this. Who would work if the officials killed them? How can this country be governed?

Tong Yangjia had no choice but to write a letter to let Zhu Hongsan kill someone, but Zhu Hongsan, who was red-eyed, could stop. Don’t Tong Yangjia disagreed? OK! Kill you together.

In the 21st year of Shenwu, the chief assistant Tong Yangjia was imprisoned for someone to impeach him. Of course, this is definitely a slander. Although Tong Yangjia was rich, it was not enough compared to Ma Mingyuan, Feng Ziyong and others. However, Zhu Hongsan waited for this opportunity. The sentence was soon concluded. Tong Yangjia followed Ma Mingyuan's footsteps and was sentenced to death. His nephew Tong Tuchang was killed, and the other accomplices were killed one after another. Even Gong Dacheng, the father-in-law who had been dead for two years, was also affiliated with Tong Yangjia, and was scattered in the grave and dug up the body.

At this point, among the 107 founding titles granted by Zhu Hongsan when he founded the country, all nine dukes were killed except Feng Ziyong. Only six of the 38 marquis survived. The 60 Counts were the worst, and none of them were left, and they were all killed by Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Hongsan was even better than Zhu Yuanzhang in this regard. Although Zhu Yuanzhang was easy to kill, four of the 34 founding heroes survived, which was far more than Zhu Hongsan.

In fact, there was a reason why Zhu Hongsan took ruthless measures against his brothers back then. He was similar to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Hongsan was not from a good background. Of course, he was not as unbearable as Zhu Yuanzhang, but he also belonged to the bottom of society. When Zhu Yuanzhang started his business, he was affiliated with the Huaixi General Group and the Zhejiang East Group, and Zhu Hongsan was similar, relying on the Huguang Group, the Guangdong Party and the Donglin Party.

Of course, in the early stage, everyone worked together for a common goal, and the contradiction was not fierce. But after the founding of the People's Republic of China, these people grew up with you back then. You knew what kind of people you knew when you were a child. Now that you become an emperor, we naturally need all kinds of privileges.

When Zhu Yuanzhang's Huaixi generals beat the censor on the street, now Zhu Hongsan's Huguang group embezzled land and factories everywhere, which has violated the emperor's rebellion. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang took ruthless measures to deal with the Huaixi generals and Zhu Hongsan took ruthless measures to deal with the Huguang group. The fundamental reasons are similar. They don't want these interest groups to endanger the power of the monarch.
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