Xu Fuyuan, the prefect of Wuchang beside Zhu Hongsan, was surprised when he heard Liang Guan say this, he has worked in Wuchang for three years, of course he knows what the entire Wuchang Mansion is like. But this has become a taboo in officialdom, and the strength of the Huguang faction in Chaozhong is not something that Liang Guan can manage.

Huguang is the place where Zhu Hongsan made his fortune, in addition to thousands of soldiers who followed Zhu Hongsan south, there were also thousands of civilians, these people are Zhu Hongsan's basic plate, and they are also Zhu Hongsan's most important team, it can be said that one-third of Zhu Hongsan's current civil and military officials come from these thousands of people.

These people are like buying stocks and buying original stocks, which are immediately multiplied hundreds or thousands of times after listing. When they were in Guangzhou, these Huguang nouveau riche made a lot of money by using all kinds of connections, and after Zhu Hongsan occupied half of the country, these guys took advantage of the intertwined relationships and began to develop their influence on a large scale, and formed an alliance headed by Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia in the DPRK and China to crowd out and suppress other local forces. At the local level, it is to use the right to buy and sell land.

And Wuchang County, as Zhu Hongsan's Longxing land, this phenomenon is even more serious. The Chinese have always paid attention to returning to their hometowns, and after Zhu Hongsan occupied Wuchang, these Huguang upstarts immediately returned to their hometowns and began to buy houses and land. Because most of the people who went to Guangdong with Zhu Hongsan at that time were craftsmen and servants, these people had little culture, and when buying and selling land, they blatantly seized by force, and some large households in Wuchang were squeezed out and bankrupt by them, and now seventy percent of the land in Wuchang Mansion and ninety percent of the land in Wuchang County are concentrated in the hands of these people.

Xu Fuyuan saw that Liang Guan was going to uncover this scar in front of the emperor, so he quickly glanced at Liang Guan and signaled Liang Guan not to say it.

How do you know that Xu Fuyuan's small movements were looked at by Zhu Hongsan, Zhu Hongsan frowned and asked: "Wuchang County, what do you have to do according to the facts, I will call the shots for you!" ”

Liang watched the emperor say this, turned his heart sideways, and told the emperor about the current land annexation situation in Wuchang.

Finally, Liang Guan said: "Your Majesty, there was such a scale of land annexation in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it reached its climax in the Jiajing period, and there were hundreds of thousands of displaced people from the north to the south in Wuchang Mansion. Now the situation in Wuchang Mansion cannot be contained, and the situation of millions of displaced people wandering across provinces during the Chongzhen period will reappear in Wuchang! ”

Liang Guan himself was open-minded, and this sentence was already unceremoniously accusing the emperor of being the last emperor. Xu Fu saw that Liang Guan was so bold to die, if you Liang Guan wanted to die, don't pull me up!

To everyone's surprise, the emperor was not angry, and there was no expression on his face at all, but after a while, he asked: "Wuchang Mansion, what Wuchang County said is the truth?" ”

Xu Fu was so far away that he wanted to say that Liang Guan was all blind, but the emperor had already believed Liang Guan, what else could he say?

Xu Fuyuan had no choice but to tell the truth: "Your Majesty, what Liang Zhixian said is basically correct!" ”

"I ask you, who are the biggest landlords around Wuchang Mansion?"

Xu Fuyuan muttered in his heart, do you still need to ask?

"Back to Your Majesty, Wuchang Mansion has a total of 386,700 mu of grain fields, and the one that occupies the most area is Ma Ge's hometown, and their family occupies 100,000 mu! There is also the Jinyi Guard's command envoy Qian family, they occupy 50,000 mu, and the other Tie family, Duan family, etc. probably occupy 30,000 mu, and. . . And also.. ”

Zhu Hongsan frowned and asked, "Who else?" Say it! ”

"There is also His Majesty's uncle Zhao Mingliang and Zhao Houye, his family occupies 50,000 acres! There are also housekeepers and servants of major families, who can also occupy tens of thousands of acres! ”

Ma Mingyuan's family was originally a big landlord in Wuchang, and they had tens of thousands of acres of land before leaving Wuchang. However, Qian Lide's family was originally a businessman, and now they have also encroached on 50,000 acres of land. The Tie Niu family and the gunpowder craftsman Lao Duantou's family were originally poor and destitute, but now they also occupy 30,000 acres of land? What's even more annoying is his uncle Zhao Mingming, isn't he in Nanjing? How can you still have the energy to go back to your hometown and encroach on the land?

"Isn't Zhao Mingliang in Nanjing? Who is in charge of their family here in Wuchang? ”

Liang Guan said on the side: "Back to Your Majesty, Marquis Zhao is in Nanjing, but Marquis Zhao's son, Zhao Dequan, is at home!" ”

Zhu Hongsan remembered that there was also a cousin Zhao Dequan, and he couldn't help but look back at Li Chengen.

Li Chengen hurriedly leaned in the emperor's ear and whispered: "Emperor, Zhao Dequan beat the messenger four years ago and was imprisoned for half a year, and then the prince spoke for him before he was released, but at that time, the emperor dismissed him from the official position of Jinyi Guard, probably returning to his hometown!" ”

After Li Chengen said this, Zhu Hongsan remembered what was going on, and said angrily: "Come on, go into the city and arrest Zhao Dequan to see me!" ”

Zhao Dequan has lived a very chic life after returning to Wuchang County in recent years, he renovated the old house of the Zhao family in Wuchang County, and then recruited a large number of servants and maids, and lived the life of a big man.

Today, Master Zhao was enjoying himself at home, and a group of wolf-like brocade guards suddenly rushed in outside the house, and it was impossible to say that they tied up Master Zhao.

Zhao Dequan also served as a brocade guard, and knowing that these guards wearing bright yellow flying fish suits were the emperor's guards, Zhao Dequan couldn't help but tremble with fright. He knew that the emperor was coming today, but he didn't ask for an order to return to his hometown, but sneaked back, so he didn't dare to go out to meet the emperor. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor and his relatives must go to the Zongren Mansion to report when they leave the capital, and the most serious violations of the law will be beheaded.

Zhao Dequan was carried outside the city by the brocade guards, and when he saw Emperor Zhu Hongsan's gloomy face standing at the gate of the city, Zhao Dequan was frightened and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Emperor's cousin, cousin is wrong!" My cousin was wrong! ”

Seeing Zhao Dequan's hanging appearance, Zhu Hongsan was angry, pointed at Zhao Dequan and asked, "Do you know it's wrong?" What do you say you're wrong? ”

Zhao Dequan knew what he was wrong, hearing the emperor say this, his brain turned rapidly, and he lay on the ground and said, "I... I.. I do not know! ”

Zhu Hongsan said to Zhu Jiang: "Zhu Jiang, you tell him!" ”

Zhu Jiang stepped forward and asked, "Uncle Cousin, is it true that you forcibly occupied 50,000 mu of land in Wuchang Mansion?" ”

When Zhao Dequan heard this, he quickly shook his head and said, "No, absolutely not!" ”

Zhu Hongsan saw that Zhao Dequan was dying and still denied it, and couldn't help but scold: "You still want to deny? Tell me the truth, if you don't tell the truth, I'll cut off your head! ”

Zhao Dequan knew that this cousin was ruthless, and when he heard that he was going to cut off his head, he quickly rolled and cried: "Auntie! Uncle! Look at your son, who will cut off his nephew's head for a little land, aunt! Your second brother's family is about to die! My nephew will go down to see you soon! ”

Zhu Hongsan is now the emperor, and when he returned to his hometown, he naturally hugged a large group of people, in addition to the Jinyiwei who protected the emperor, there were also the prefects, Tongzhi, and Tuiguan of Wuchang Mansion, a bunch of officials in Wuchang County, and the naval and army generals stationed in Wuchang. Everyone saw the emperor's cousin rolling all over the ground, shouting for his aunt to see his good son, and hundreds of people were silent.

Zhu Hongsan was decisive in his life, that is, his sons were respectful when they saw him, this was the first time that someone sprinkled in front of him, and Zhu Hongsan's face turned white for a while.

Zhu Hongsan turned around and pulled out the waist knife from Jinyiwei's hand, and was about to hack this shameful cousin to death, who knew that Zhu Jiang next to him stepped forward and grabbed Zhu Hongsan's wrist and shouted: "Father, the second uncle is such a son!" ”

Zhu Hongsan made up his mind when he heard Zhu Jiang say this, right! Although the second uncle didn't treat himself well back then, for the sake of his mother, he also had to leave a queen for the second uncle!

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan let go of his waist knife, took out the horsewhip that beat the horse, and stepped forward to slam Zhao Dequan who was lying on the ground.

Zhu Hong's breath was urgent, he didn't come up in one breath, and he fainted with a dizziness.

It took a long time for Zhu Hongsan to wake up, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that there were people all around, and everyone was looking at him nervously.

Zhu Hongsan knows what is wrong with him, Zhu Hongsan likes to eat pickles, the taste in Huguang is heavy, the daily intake of salt is too much, plus drinking, big fish and meat, Zhu Hongsan has already suffered from the rich and noble disease of this era, high blood pressure!

Zhu Hongsan waved his hand to disperse the crowd: "Everyone disperse, help me up!" ”

Zhu Jiang was scared enough by Zhu Hongsan just now, if his father had anything bad just now, now that his strength is weak, he must be the crown prince, and when he can get a trap, he will worship Buddha and burn incense. Now seeing Zhu Hongsan wake up, Zhu Jiang fell to the ground with a stone in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward to help his father.

Zhu Hongsan saw Zhu Jiang's true feelings, and his heart was also very moved, now that the children are older, this kind of expression of true feelings is rare. No matter how the sons compete for the throne, their feelings for their father are still true.

Zhu Hongsan patted Zhu Jiang's hand, signaling that he was fine, and then walked to Zhao Dequan, who was kneeling on the ground.

The emperor fainted just now, but he frightened Zhao Dequan, if the emperor really has a good one, he will definitely not be able to get out of the relationship, and then no uncle or aunt will be good!

Now seeing that the emperor woke up, Zhao Dequan quickly knelt down and cried: "Your Majesty, I was wrong, I will never make Your Majesty angry again!" ”

Zhu Hongsan waved his hand and said, "Zhao Dequan, for the sake of the second uncle, I will spare your life today!" Lee Seung-eun! ”

"The old slave is here!"

"Send a team of brocade guards to escort Zhao Dequan to Nanjing, and detain him in the edict prison for another half a year, no! One year! and give back all the land he illegally and forcibly seized! ”

At this time, Zhao Dequan didn't dare to reply, so he had to bow down and accept the order, and honestly followed Jinyiwei back to Nanjing to be punished.

Zhao Dequan was disposed of, but what about how many others? Zhao Dequan's family only occupies 50,000 mu, and the Ma family has 100,000 mu of land, which is what makes Zhu Hongsan nervous.

The Ma family didn't talk about it, they followed Zhu Hongsan from the beginning, and the first pot of gold was obtained with the help of the Ma family, and now it is really unreasonable to turn around and deal with the Ma family.