Zhu Hongsan heard Zhao Mengguan's cautious answer, and said with a smile: "Old Zhao, don't worry!" I would never treat my own people badly! Now you should report on the situation of the peace talks in the north! ”

Zhao Mengguan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart when he saw Zhu Hongsan and Yan Yuese, but he knew that the emperor opposite was ruthless, and he was not his Huguang lineage, so it was better to be careful.

Zhao Mengguan gave a detailed account of the peace talks in the north, and explained in detail those with definite evidence and those without evidence but only estimated.

Zhu Hongsan actually already knew about the internal affairs of the mission, in addition to the intelligence agency of Jinyiwei, he also had the Dongchang system, so asking Zhao Mengguan today was just to see if he was honest and could entrust him with big things.

Since someone framed the prince outside Nanchang City last year, Zhu Hongsan felt that there were some things inside Jinyiwei that he didn't know, which made Zhu Hongsan too scared. As a dictator, if you can't know what your intelligence agencies are doing, is you still a dictator?

Therefore, Zhu Hongsan sent Luo Qifeng, the head of the East Factory, to investigate the attack on the prince on the grounds of investigating the attack on the prince, but in fact, secretly investigating what Jinyiwei was doing without him.

After more than half a year of investigation, many things have been found, but there has been no substantial progress. The main reason is that the herald died too suddenly, and died on the front line for no apparent reason.

When it comes to the army, Zhu Hongsan is even more afraid, if it's just Ma Rufeng in Nanchang who wants to clean up the prince, it's okay to say, but it will be troublesome if Jinyiwei and the army are mixed together.

But the investigation of Dongchang ended here, all the clues were broken with the death of the herald, and Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to send an order to Luo Qifeng to find out this first.

However, Zhu Hongsan didn't plan to leave it like this, in addition to Jinyiwei and Dongchang, he also had a secret spy system, that is, the intelligence system in the army. The secret agents in this system were all personally selected by Zhu Hongsan back then, and there was no problem with loyalty. But the news they sent back Ma Rufeng did not move, and he had nothing to do with the attack on the prince, which made Zhu Hongsan scratch his head a little.

Ma Rufeng has nothing to do with this, there is only one left, that is, someone in the Jinyi Guard is reaching out to the army. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but shudder, what does this person want to do? What do you want to do in collusion between the intelligence system and the military?

Therefore, Zhu Hongsan planned to select a person within the Jinyiwei system to secretly investigate this matter, so that Zhao Mengguan, who was an alternative in Jinyiwei, became the first choice.

Zhao Mengguan was born in Guangdong, not a descendant of Qian Lide, and Zhao Mengguan's ability is still good, recruiting pirates in Yong'an Prefecture and rebelling against Jin Shenghuan in Jiangxi have proved his ability, so Zhu Hongsan is ready to use him to rectify Jinyiwei.

After listening to Zhao Mengguan's report on going north, Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Old Zhao, you are very satisfied with this errand!" You also know that there are too many things about me, and you may not have noticed that you people who are not from Huguang have made you suffer some grievances! ”

Zhao Mengguan heard the emperor say this, moved to tears, he has been a little wife for a few years, he has been bullied by Qian Lide and Wang Xian, and now when he hears the emperor say this, he feels that the bullying he has been bullied is really worth it!

"Your Majesty. Your Majesty, please don't say that, it is the right thing for the last general to do errands for His Majesty, and His Majesty has also been promoted to the rank of the last general, and the last general has no grievances! ”

Zhu Hongsan saw that Zhao Mengguan was loyal, nodded and said, "Okay, you want to make me very happy, get up!" ”

"Lao Zhao, you know that I can't do everything in such a big stall, there are some problems in the Jinyi Guard, I need you to find out for me! Now that I have promoted you to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, in charge of the Nanzhen Fusi, before Wang Xian, you may take on this important responsibility? ”

As soon as Zhao Mengguan heard that the emperor asked him to take charge of the Nanzhen Fusi, and was also promoted to the commander of the Tongzhi, he was so excited that he had a cerebral hemorrhage. Jinyiwei is called the pro-army governor's mansion, the highest commander is the commander of Jinyiwei, the official position is the three products, and the following commanders are the two commanders who know the same. Although the commander is the nominal second-in-command, Chinese officialdom has always been the number one in command, so the two Tongzhi are basically deaf ears - ornaments.

However, Zhao Mengguan's command is not the same, and the emperor personally said that he would be in charge of the Nanzhen Fusi, so that Qian Lide had no right to intervene in the Nanzhen Fusi. What kind of agency is Nanzhen Fusi? Nanzhen Fusi is responsible for the legal discipline, military discipline, supervision, personnel management and other responsibilities of the guard, and is the Jinyi guard in the brocade guard, with huge power in his hands, which has always been personally controlled by Qian Lide in the past. Now that the emperor opened Chrysostom and handed over the Nanzhen Fusi to Zhao Mengguan, how could he not let him be grateful?

Zhao Mengguan is also a person with a delicate heart, where do you not know what the emperor has when he hears the emperor say this? Zhao Mengguan hurriedly knelt down on his knees and said: "The last general thanks Your Majesty for his trust, and the last general guarantees that after taking over the Nanzhen Fu Division, he will definitely eliminate the outlaws in the Jinyi Guard, so that the Jinyi Guard and others will be in the hands of His Majesty!" ”

What Zhu Hongsan wants is Zhao Mengguan's words: "Okay! As long as you do your errands with your heart, I promise that I will not treat you badly if the Northern Expedition succeeds in the future. You go down, what should Li Chengen do if you explain the specific matter! ”

Zhu Hongsan watched Zhao Mengguan follow Li Chengen out, and snorted coldly in his heart: Qian Lide, I hope you don't know about this matter, if the matter in Nanchang is really what you did, don't complain about friendship!

After explaining the matter of Zhao Mengguan, Zhu Hongsan left this matter behind, although Qian Lide was a little out of his control, but Zhu Hongsan was the founding emperor, he believed that if he wanted to take down Qian Lide now, he only needed a holy decree, and Qian Lide's arrangement in front of the imperial power as solid as iron and stone was not much different from eggs.

Now Zhu Hongsan is worried about his own internal problems, and now after his own efforts, the situation around him is quite stable, Yangzhou in the north is handing over to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is estimated that the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not make any moves within a year. Guangxi's Zhu Youlang is also preparing to enter Sichuan, although Sichuan has been scooped enough by Zhang Xianzhong and Haoge, but there are still millions of people, which is not a big piece of fat.

After Zhu Youlang suffered a loss in Wuzhou two years ago, he should be able to rein in. After handing over Wuchang to the Qing army, the Qing army and Zhu Youlang officially exchanged fire, and when the time came, he could hold Jiujiang and Nanchang by himself, and he could ensure that the entire Jiangxi Province was in his hands, and as long as he gave himself two years, his strength would be doubled.

Thinking that the idea of his youth was realized little by little, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but smile, after more than 20 years of operation, now he finally saw the light!

The main problem in front of Zhu Hongsan now is the problem of the gentry in Nanzhili, these guys have been entrenched in Nanzhili and Zhejiang for many years, and the older family began to operate in Nanzhili in the Tang and Song dynasties, and their influence is even more intertwined and deep-rooted. Most of them were agricultural, so it was natural that the population was firmly tied to the land, and the peasants and tenants were not allowed to leave their land.

However, the Xinxing Xungui Group represented by Zhu Hongsan started with industry and commerce, and they needed a large amount of cheap labor and cheap raw material supply, and on the land where the population was fixed by the landlords, silk, tea and other raw materials were still firmly in the hands of the big landlords, so Zhu Hongsan's nouveau riche and the big landlords had irresolvable contradictions.

When Zhu Hongsan first entered Nanjing, he had already taken the opportunity of fighting the surrender faction to eliminate some landlords, but more big landlords did not surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but started to ride the wall, which made Zhu Hong's thirty points difficult. It would be nice to say that in peacetime, just make up a few crimes, and then send Jinyi guards and troops to raid their homes, but now it is a time of war, and the ruthless means are likely to push them to the Manchu side. Although the righteousness of the family and the country was shouted by these landlords and old wealth, Zhu Hongsan didn't believe that they could have such a high consciousness, and he shouted that he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty when his life was gone?

Zhu Hongsan plans to take advantage of the fact that there has been no major war in the past two years to solve the gentry of Nanzhili once and for all, which can not only resolve the acute land contradictions, but also solve their own worries, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Zhu Hongsan picked up the prince's recital and looked at it, the prince has done very well in the past few days, setting up eight porridge factories outside the city to give porridge to those homeless people, and at the same time slowly releasing 500,000 stone rice snatched from the Wa Kingdom in the city. What Zhu Hongsan thought was that anyway, those big landlords had money in their hands, and the cost of the rice they robbed was zero, since you wanted to raise the price of grain, it was with Zhu Hongsan's mind. Although 500,000 stone rice is not much, but you must know that Zhao Guoliang is still grabbing on the side of the Wa Kingdom, it is estimated that millions of stones are no problem, and now there are three silver dollars for one stone of rice in Nanjing, and more than four taels of silver, Zhu Hongsan estimates that those big landlords can hold on for more than a month, after all, they have a lot of industries, but the cash silver is only a few million taels.

When they sucked up almost their cash, Zhu Hongsan was looking for a random name to raid their homes, and the rice sold at that time returned to his hands without a penny, thinking of this Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart: The ancients did not deceive me, and if the money is fast, you still have to learn Yongzheng's set, and it is better to copy the house quickly!

Just when Zhu Hongsan was hopeful for the future, Tong Tuchang, the hero of the peace talks, also returned to his home. Of course, his home is in Fujian, and he is on his way to Nanjing, and now he is going to the home of his uncle, Tong Yangjia, the second assistant to the cabinet.

Tong Tuchang came to the door of his uncle's house, and when the doorman saw Tong Tuchang coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "The second master is back!" Slave and maid to the master, please say! ”

Although Tong Tuchang is Tong Yangjia's nephew, his age is not much different, so Tong Yangjia calls Tong Tuchang the second master in his house, after all, Tong Yangjia has already had a son born, and it will be unhappy to call Tong Tuchang the young master's wife.