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After Zhu Jiang and Ma Rufeng got the answer here in Fang Fengnian, they left satisfied. Fang Fengnian saw the two of them leave, but he really couldn't calm down in his heart.

Chinese scholars and doctors have a kind of family and country thinking for the country and the people, the Confucian classic "The Book of Rites and the University" said, "The ancients want to be clear and virtuous in the world, first rule the country; Those who want to rule their country must first gather their families; Those who want to gather their families must first cultivate their bodies; Those who want to cultivate their bodies must first correct their hearts; Those who want to correct their hearts must first be sincere; If you want to be sincere, you must first know it, and you will know it in Gewu. Character and then know, know and then sincerity, sincerity and then heart, heart and then body cultivation, body cultivation and then family Qi, family Qi and then national governance, national governance and then the world is peaceful. ”

The meaning of this sentence is that those who want to promote righteousness and virtue in the world must first govern their own country well; If you want to govern your country well, you must first manage your own family and clan well; If you want to manage your family and clan well, you must first cultivate your own character; If you want to cultivate your own character, you must first correct your thoughts; To correct one's thoughts, one must first make one's thoughts sincere; If you want to be sincere in your thoughts, you must first make yourself gain knowledge, and the way to acquire knowledge lies in the cognitive study of everything. Knowledge can only be gained through the study of the understanding of all things; After acquiring knowledge, ideas can be sincere; When the mind is sincere, the mind can be correct; Only after the mind is correct can we cultivate character; After cultivating character, you can manage the family well; Only when the family is well managed can the country be governed; Only after the country is well governed can the world be peaceful.

Of course, leveling the world does not mean sweeping the world, that is the work that emperors should do. In Confucianism, the peace of the world refers to appeasing the people of the world, so that they can have enough food and clothing, and live and work in peace and contentment.

Fang Fengnian and Ma Jiyuan and other second-year alumni associations of the Apocalypse are all outstanding representatives of scholars, and naturally they want to complete the highest moral pursuit of this scholar and level the world.

This purpose is good, but the bad is so bad in the world, and it is not the same as your own home. To govern the world, we need all kinds of scholars and bureaucrats, and where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and these scholars are dressed like dogs, but in fact they are no better than the hooligans in the market, and they are all very small-minded, and they all want the country's major policies to be implemented according to their own plans. In this way, a group of scholars of different sizes, united by a common goal, was formed among the scholar bureaucracy, which was the predecessor of the later parties.

Later generations defined a party as a form of organization in which a group of people unite to achieve their political ambitions for a common political position and a common political goal. If this setting is followed, the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty was a political party with distinctive characteristics.

The political ideology of the Donglin Party is very distinct, one is to oppose emptiness and nothingness, and talk about empty words. The Donglin Party took Donglin Academy as a position, and through lectures, debates, discussions, writings, and books, it violently attacked and criticized Wang Yangming's "Xinxue" and all kinds of emptiness, emptiness, and mystical propositions and teachings propagated by Wang Xue's late stream in terms of moral cultivation and epistemology, thus promoting the upsurge of the trend of practical learning. The second is to advocate seeking truth and being pragmatic, practical and practical. Although the main content of the lectures and academic research of the Donglin Party bigwigs is also the Confucian classics and historical works, they are all pertinent and practical in terms of content, form and method, emphasizing proceeding from reality, paying attention to practical learning, doing practical things, being practical and seeking practical benefits.

At the same time, the political proposition of the Donglin Party is also very clear, mainly to open up the way of speech, oppose eunuch interference in politics, and oppose mining taxes. In this way, a political party with ideas, ideas, leaders, and complete rules and regulations is not at all an old-fashioned political party like the late Ming Dynasty, and those interest groups that were combined for various interests could contend with.

But now it's different, after the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the backbone of the Donglin Party have died in the troubled times, and some of the remaining old guys are also getting older, and they have a bit of a green and yellow taste. However, the interest groups that were suppressed by the Donglin Party have grown. Now the most famous is the Chu Party, the reason is very simple, the emperors are all from Huguang, so naturally let the Chu Party become bigger.

The Chu Party is headed by Ma Mingyuan, and his political proposition is also very simple, that is, equalizing land rights and developing industry and commerce, although Ma Mingyuan is a first-class landowner in Huguang, but under the influence of Confucianism's "Xiuqi Zhiping", Ma Mingyuan is similar to other scholars, he also wants to leave his name in history, and he also wants to become Zhang Juzheng's kind of person who saves a dynasty.

Ma Mingyuan's political proposition was good, but the process was too radical, using public power to forcibly carry out the verification of acres of land, and at the same time, in the prefectures and counties where the verification was completed, new policies such as the integration of officials and gentry to pay grain and apportionment of land into mu began to be implemented. This kind of new policy wants the life of the local big landlords, so it was only in the tenth year of Shenwu that Suzhou made a change in Suzhou.

But these big landowners in the south of the Yangtze River forgot that it was Emperor Zhu Hongsan standing behind Ma Mingyuan, according to the degree of ruthlessness Zhu Hongsan was not inferior to the ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, and when the Suzhou Revolution occurred, Zhu Hongsan did not make any big moves at all. After the big landlords behind him jumped out one by one, they began to suppress it frantically, and the entire city of Suzhou was washed in blood by the new army, which was even more tragic than the Manchu Qing Dynasty massacre of the city. Although the cost of doing this was very large, the effect was obvious: after the big landlords were killed, the land was distributed to the landless peasants, which greatly alleviated the land annexation conflict, and at the same time, the industries of the big landlords were absorbed by the Huguang faction and became the cash cow of these new upstarts.

After this battle, Ma Mingyuan's prestige in the DPRK and China increased greatly, and at the same time, more and more people in the Huguang faction took refuge in Ma Mingyuan's door. Even Ma Mingyuan's nemesis, Tong Yangjia, does not dare to oppose Ma Mingyuan in person now.

But in response to the sentence just now, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and it is not a monolith within the Chu Party, although Ma Mingyuan is powerful, not everyone listens to him, at least Ma Jiyuan, the boss of the Ma family, opposes Ma Mingyuan's new policy.

It's not that Ma Jiyuan is a conservative, Ma Jiyuan advocates moderate reforms, and it takes one to two generations to solve the stubborn problem of land annexation, so that there is no need to kill so many people, and it can also alleviate the crisis of the country, isn't that good?

Of course, there are many people who have the same idea as Ma Jiyuan, and most of Ma Jiyuan's second-year alumni association are supporters of this idea. These people were all middle and low-level officials in the provinces during the Chongzhen period, and they had strong experience in grassroots administration. Therefore, these people all supported Ma Jiyuan's idea and used relatively mild means to redeem the land in the hands of the landlords.

In the fourth year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan went on an expedition to Guizhou and handed over the affairs of the DPRK and China to Ma Jiyuan to deal with. Ma Jiyuan has steadily implemented a moderate new policy in the past few years in the absence of the emperor, and has achieved some results in Nanzhili. But Zhu Hongsan was very unhappy when he came back, Zhu Hongsan couldn't wait to build the city of Rome one day, where could it take a hundred years, one or two generations to slowly implement this new law? In addition, Ma Jiyuan inevitably offended the Chu Party establishment in his work, so Ma Jiyuan was naturally demoted by the emperor and went home, and the moderate new deal stopped.

Although Ma Mingyuan has gone home, the strength of his Apocalypse Second Year Alumni Association is still there, and these people are very unaccustomed to Ma Mingyuan's radical policies, so they are secretly accumulating strength and want to regain the right to speak in the cabinet.

Fang Fengnian is the specific operator of this matter, and now that the new policy has been implemented, Ma Mingyuan's role in the emperor is not as important as before. At the same time, because of the uproar in the court for the name of King Gui Zhu Youlang, the prince was also reprimanded by the emperor, and Ma Mingyuan, as the prince's teacher, must have lost his holy family. This is also a good opportunity for the second year of the Apocalypse Alumni Association, as long as the operation is reasonable, it is very likely that Ma Mingyuan will be removed from the altar and replaced by his own person Ma Jiyuan to re-emerge from the mountain.

Fang Fengnian watched Zhu Jiang and Ma Rufeng go out, and sighed in his heart, this Zhu Jiang is really not a good candidate for emperor, but now there is no way, I can only talk about this road to the dark. Today is the twelfth day of July, and three days later it will be the fifteenth, and it is also the time of the Great Dynasty Meeting, which is the time of the decisive battle with Ma Mingyuan.

Just when Fang Fengnian turned around and entered the house, in an ordinary mansion in Xicheng, which was only three streets away from Fang's mansion, two old men over sixty years old were talking in detail in the house. If Fang Fengnian was here, he would definitely be able to recognize these two old guys as the big names in the cabinet, one is Qu Shiyun and the other is Li Zhi.

In the room, Li Zhi sat in the main seat, and Qu Shiyun sat at the bottom. Li Zhi ranks sixth among the cabinet elders, although Qu Shiyun is older than Li Zhi in terms of fame and age, but in the officialdom, those who pay attention to attainment are the first, and you will be ranked behind when you enter the cabinet late.

Li Zhi asked in a low voice, "Elder Qu Ge, have you arranged it over there?" ”

Qu Shiyun smiled and said, "Of course, just wait for Elder Li Ge's news, and then launch it together!" ”

Li Zhi was relieved when he heard Qu Shiyun say this: "Elder Qu Ge, Zhang Jiayu has been operating this matter for three years, if we can't give the Chu Party a fatal blow, then we will waste our efforts!" In the end, we have to face the counterattack of the Chu Party! ”

Now the Donglin Party is not in charge, and the Guangdong Party has three or two big cats and kittens in the center, and they really can't afford to toss.

"Elder Li Ge, please rest assured, although we in Donglin do not have any great power, but we still have the mind to serve the country and the people, as long as we have a breath of air, we must not let these corrupt officials in the DPRK and China run rampant! Three days later, as long as Li Ge Lao's side launches, our Donglin will definitely follow! ”

Li Zhi listened to Qu Shiyun's affirmation, and his heart was relieved. Now the Chu Party is too powerful, and it has overwhelmed the other parties, and the Zhejiang Party is still better, after all, the relationship between the Zhejiang Party and Ma Jiyuan is very close, and Ma Mingyuan is still merciful to the Zhejiang Party. However, there is no mercy on the Donglin Party and the Cantonese Party, and this year, by various means, the two governors of the Donglin Party and the Cantonese Party, one political envoy, and three probationary envoys have all been dismissed.

The enemy bullied the head, so Li Zhi and Qu Shiyun decided to fight back and take revenge on the Chu party.