The horse's hooves "boomed" on the stone road, the two old men may be too old, walking too slowly, following the crowd at the end, looking at the distant emperor, old tears.

Zhu Youxiao, who was riding on a horse, was dressed in bright yellow light armor and carried the imperial sword at his waist, looking at the young monarch, many people sighed that the Ming Dynasty was going to be prosperous.

This is the vision of the real people, because they have seen with their own eyes what the emperor has done in Fengyang for the past two days.

Suzhou was famine, and the 200,000 silver money issued by the imperial court was embezzled by 180,000, and the remaining 20,000 taels were also exploited layer by layer, and in the hands of the poor people, it was often just half a bowl of gruel mixed with sand.

Chen Ce rode on the horse, and he also unconsciously straightened his waist, but he didn't say it, this kind of scene of people spontaneously kneeling to see them off is really too spectacular.

Liu Yuanbin was only in his early twenties, and when he saw this scene, a raging fire seemed to ignite in his chest, and he was proud of being the emperor's pro-army in the Yongwei battalion.

There is pride, at this age, if you don't have a little momentum, how can you make meritorious achievements, be rich and glorious?

In the past two days in Fengyang, people have been arrested everywhere, and the emperor's sacrifice to the ancestral temple has become a "trivial matter" that has not been mentioned much.

What is different from usual is that there is no chaos among the people who arrested the people this time, and the common people often just watch from the sidelines, clapping their hands.

Those places that were lawless in the past have been caught nine times out of ten.

The figure of the emperor gradually faded away, but the cavalry of the Yongwei battalion was still slowly leaving the city from the south gate, and the infantry queue behind was longer.

The people chatted slowly.

It's strange to say, in the past, the gentlemen of Donglin were all in the dynasty, and they couldn't eat enough, the heroes were rampant and lawless, and the scholars were transcendent, and they were all small landlords.

Ordinary scholars, even the officials of the yamen can't be provoked, and they can't be suppressed.

Now Wei Eunuch is leaning towards the government and the opposition, killing innocents everywhere, and killing all the gentlemen of Yingying without leaving a piece of armor, but this government is getting better.

On the Liaodong side, Jiannu did not survive for two years, Mao Wenlong went deep behind enemy lines, Denglai and Tianjin had a steady stream of material resources, and also contacted North Korea to gain a firm foothold.

In the area of the nine sides, the arrears of military salaries have been gradually repaid, and the monthly salaries have not been reported to be in arrears.

Isn't this going in a good direction?

Obviously, the group of people in Lu Xiangsheng, the new science and technology advancement scholar, are all talented young juniors, but the scholars in the Jiangnan area say that the imperial court is unfair.

It seems that the sages of Donglin are not necessarily true sages, and the so-called eunuchs in the court are not necessarily Qin Hui who has brought disaster to the country and the people.

No matter how reluctant the people were, the emperor's team eventually went south.

After leaving, what was left was a reshuffle of the upper level, and the disaster relief silver could really be implemented on the heads of the small people.

Even the factory guards on the street, the people are not afraid.

These people are the pioneers who govern those powerful people!

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Nanjing, at this time, the locals are more accustomed to calling it Jinling.

There is a grand garden in Nancheng, which is the residence of Zhu Guobi in Funing, named after the surname of his most beloved second lady Zhang Yu, which is not inferior to the mansion of Wei Guogong.

The cold wind is howling in the north, the soldiers guarding the gate are being frozen to the face red, the Central Plains, the drought for many years, the locust plague migration, the people are all over the wilderness, and the people who starve to death every day are beyond measure.

Jiangnan is still a piece of singing and dancing, just like the middle of spring, full of flowers and grass.

The green willow silk weaves a light smoke, the peach blossoms are like red clouds, and the mountains, rocks and streams are dyed with a layer of pink.

There are delicate peach petals floating on the clear stream, twisting and turning in the courtyard, flowing gracefully, suddenly passing through the exquisite stone mountain, suddenly bypassing the quaint grass pavilion, and gathering into a clear pond under the bridge.

The pond water is like a mirror, reflecting the pavilions and pavilions in the courtyard, the green willows and red peaches, and also reflecting the Zhu Guobi and Li Sancai standing by the railing in the grass pavilion.

Zhu Guobi was wearing a purple silk robe, and Li Sancai was wearing a straight-necked blue shirt often worn by corporals nowadays, with a placket in the middle.

Zhu Guobi is the seventh grandson of Zhu Qian, the general of Jingnan.

During the Wanli period, because of the blessing of the ancestors, he attacked the Marquis of Funing.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, resigned from the post of the garrison of the lords with illness, and was recommended by the ministers, and Zhu Guobi was given the command of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army in Nanjing, and was in charge of the garrison.

Within a few months, Yang Lian was angry and resigned, but by mistake he was allowed by the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military Xian petitioned for him, and Zhu Guobi had just been the garrison of Nanjing, and he also went up to complain for Yang Lian.

Zhu Youxiao's approach at that time was to hide directly in Nanhaizi, and he didn't even look at it, and all these pieces naturally fell into the hands of Wei Zhongxian.

At first, Wei Zhongxian was on the cusp of the storm, so naturally he couldn't retaliate.

Later, Zhu was recruited by the school and left Wei Zhongxian to preside over government affairs in Beijing, during which Wei Zhongxian began to re-raise the old accounts and retaliate against the Donglin party members who had petitioned for Yang Lian according to the list.

Zhu Guobi was deprived of his salary by Wei Zhongxian because of that performance at that time, and he was repeatedly sparse, all of them were like a vast sea, and there was no news.

Obviously, either the emperor didn't know what Wei Zhongxian was doing in Beijing, or he knew it, but he was deliberately conniving and acquiescing.

In either case, it was not what Zhu Guobi expected.

He looked at himself and Li Sancai's reflection in the water with fascination, and said:

"Alas! The emperor has come to Jinling..."

When Li Sancai heard this, his heart sank, his flying spirit tightened a little, and he responded in a low voice: "Yes, Fu Ninghou must have heard about what happened in Fengyang, right?" ”

He was admitted to the Jinshi in the second year of Wanli, and was awarded the head of the household department at the beginning, which is a starting point that many people can meet but cannot seek.

Lu Xiangsheng is a talent like this, Zhu Youxiao's second-year list of the Apocalypse, and now it is compiled by the Hanlin Academy, and Li Sancai is the head of the household department as soon as he comes in, who believes it if he doesn't trust it?

Originally, Li Sancai was also ready to show his strength and make a difference.

But because he was too young and vigorous at that time, he said a word for a certain impeached Donglin bigwig, and he was demoted from Jingshi to a place.

At that time in the local area, to be honest, it made Li Sancai.

In those years, Li Sancai went everywhere, his political achievements on the surface have always been outstanding, and he was also an official in Nanjing, and he met Zhu Guobi, who had not yet attacked the Marquis of Funing, in a certain Qinglou, and the two hit it off at first sight, and the relationship was extremely close.

It was precisely because of Li Sancai that Zhu Guobi felt that the Donglin Party was all people like him, and began to take the initiative to make friends with the Donglin Party.

Li Sancai is actually the starting point of the party struggle that caused Emperor Wanli a headache.

At that time, Li Sancai became the backbone of the Donglin Party because he was very good at packaging himself, and as time went by, the Donglin Party's call for him to join the cabinet and assist the government became higher and higher.

The ruling party at that time was the Zhejiang Party headed by Fang Congzhe.

The Zhejiang Party was naturally unwilling to let a Donglin Party enter the cabinet and pose a threat to itself, so it began to find ways to destroy Li Sancai's talented sage character.

In addition, Emperor Wanli actually knew what kind of goods the Donglin Party people were, so he didn't say anything, but he just didn't say anything.

Originally, Emperor Wanli wanted the Donglin Party to know how many catties and taels he had, and stop always thinking about pushing his own people into the cabinet.

But no one expected that this time the Donglin Party had made up its mind that it would definitely push Li Sancai into the cabinet, and it would be on the same page as the ruling Zhejiang Party.

This back-and-forth party struggle that continues to this day has also been formed.

First, the ruling party Zhejiang Party was defeated, and Taichang believed in Donglin, which led to the situation that Donglin was prosperous in the early years of the Apocalypse, and then Zhu Youxiao launched Wei Zhongxian, and the eunuch party rose.

In the past 30 years of party struggle, the Donglin Party has liquidated other parties, and the Eunuch Party has also bloodied Donglin several times, and many people have died.

His Donglin sage character, coupled with Zhu Guobi's status and power in Nanjing, has nothing to do to lecture and develop a group of believers, and his small life is comparable to that of the Emperor Tu.

But the next stop of the emperor's southern tour is Nanjing, and this little day will not be happy.