The era of the Ming Dynasty was very different from before, in the Han and Tang dynasties, the imperial examination was actually not the absolute mainstream, and the real power was still the heroes and scholars from all over the country, and those who were admitted were not the landlords of the scholar clan, or the landlords of the Shu clan, but basically they all needed the court's Yulu, and the land was given to the lord or something, but by the time of the Ming Dynasty, the development of the economy, there were more and more things to catch sons-in-law under the list.

The catch of sons-in-law under the list is a matter that originated in the Song Dynasty, that is, when the imperial examination was held, on the day of the list, the rich gentry from all over the country set out their families to compete to choose the first scholar to be their son-in-law, that scene is simply a robbery, and the market calls it "catching sons-in-law", of course, although the sons-in-law are not young, and most of them have wives, but most of the people who do this kind of thing of catching sons-in-law are rich, basically the picture is the care of a person with an official body, if there is no official person's care, Basically, it is normal for a landlord to lose his land.

The fall of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, can also be seen as the fact that the landed gentry used the huge wealth in their hands to influence and control a large number of so-called scholars, and then affected the national policy, making the tax system of the Ming Dynasty almost impossible to collect all kinds of commercial taxes, salt taxes, and tea taxes, and finally could only be passed on to the **** who could not evade taxes.

Correspondingly, these people are more concerned about the safety of their wealth, after all, in the north, the thief has carried out the killing of big households to the end, this "immortal" claims to have captured Li Zicheng and controlled the imperial capital, but everything is not very clear, but it seems that he has taken a fancy to his own food, Qian Qianyi immediately bowed down and said: "The old man is willing to ...... The army receives food, but the road is dazzling, and there are many floods along the way, but I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up with the army. ”

Li Xiangqian glanced at him and said: "Whoever wants your food, we naturally have money, spend money to buy your sister's food, only need your people, don't hoard Juqi, you also know, we are going to fight Liaodong first, and then Shaanxi, we are very busy, and we need a lot of food." ”

"Yes, yes."

Li Xiangqian took a full view of the performance of these old men in front of him, and he generally had a bottom, his requirements for the situation in Jiangnan were very low, quiet, no civil war, and no ****** anything in the Southern Ming Dynasty, obediently waiting for them to make a surprise attack, first to stabilize the north, and then talk about other things.

With the military leaders of the north, suddenly, at the time of a stone battle, that is, Li Zicheng, Wu Sangui, and Dolgon suddenly gathered together, so that Li Xiangqian came directly to a pot of stew, and the generals in the south are too different, the military leaders here are not strong, but too scattered, once the beheading fails, the rout is scattered, it is a huge disaster, as the saying goes, thieves are like combs, soldiers are like grates, it is really tens of thousands of soldiers to make trouble in Jiangnan, then the loss of GDP is too great.

Therefore, the biggest purpose of his trip to Jiangnan this time, food is still secondary, mainly to gain time, before the Council of Elders can not spare the manpower to control Jiangnan, temporarily deter these "literati", he is not so naïve, thinking that what kind of monarchy and ministers, national interests, or moral etiquette can bluff them, these people, when it is time to surrender, the action is still very fast.

He just wanted to summon the Millennium Falcon according to their preparatory "program" to shock and scare these natives, when he heard a loud voice from outside, "You dogs, dare to stop it, believe it or not, in just a few days, I, Donglin Zhengren, are all over the government and the opposition, so I will teach you a hard lesson." ”

The sound of many people pushing and shoving came, and it was getting closer and closer, Li Xiangqian's program was disturbed, and he was not anxious, what they needed was to convince these literati in Nanjing that if they dared to set up a new monarch or become independent, they would have a dead end, and there was absolutely no way to live, it was enough, and the rest was not in his thinking.

A group of young men in different costumes and menacing manners rushed over, all of them were short, holding wooden sticks wrapped in canvas, staring at each other, followed by a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old boy, who came over with an anxious face at this time, and after seeing Li Xiangjun, he didn't care about the others, so he said: "Miss Li, are you okay, I heard that the official is unreasonable, so I came to arrest you, and asked these friends for help, don't be afraid." ”

Li Xiangjun bowed his head and said, "I'm fine, thank you son." ”

Then, the little boy seemed to find out that the people sitting next to him were all the celebrities and gentry in Nanjing, and they were all respected by him as elders, so he also bowed and said, "The juniors have disturbed your uncles." ”

I don't know why, this son's actions are straightforward, he looks polite, and he is not pretentious, but he is also a character, it seems that people are coming for Li Xiangjun, so he glanced at Li Zhengmao and said: "Li Fuyin, who is this, and who are these people, it looks quite capable of fighting." ”

Li Zhengmao listened, seemed to shudder, he has seen the millennium falcon, although he is not sure, whether these people are "immortals" or not, but the mysterious origin is not able to run, and he did not dare to hide it at the moment, and hurriedly said: "This is the son of Hou Dazhen, Hou Fangyu, Hou Gongzi is young and promising, and Mao Xiang, Chen Zhenhui, Fang Yizhi, collectively known as the four sons, came to Nanjing, and came to participate in the township test. ”

He wanted to say something nice, but he immediately noticed that the "immortal's" face immediately changed, and he seemed to be very dissatisfied.

He has a bad heart, could it be that this "immortal" has taken a fancy to Li Xiangjun, a woman, so he is dissatisfied with Hou Fangyu, who is suddenly close to him? How is this good, Li Zhengmao's relationship with Hou Fangyu or his father Hou Sui is average, the father and son are from Henan, because of their father's corruption, after being demoted, they lived in Henan, and after avoiding Li Zicheng's army, they moved to Nanjing City, that is, they just nodded their heads, and thought about it seriously, he didn't know whether these people were immortals or ghosts, but what Li Zhengmao knew completely was that he had to curry favor with them and had a good chance to live.

Li Zhengmao also started to make up his mind, but for Li Xiangqian, this matter is a bit wronged, he has no idea about Li Xiangjun, he has just left the mine star for less than a month, he has not been so bad, and the reason why his face has changed a little is of course because he heard the name Hou Fangyu.

Before leaving the imperial capital, they were very short of time, so they could only use the search method to lock down some influential people in Jiangnan who might cause trouble, and then simply made a list, such as the four princes of the late Ming Dynasty, such as Qian Qianyi and others.