When the prince saw Ma Mingyuan, he didn't care about saluting, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle, what happened in the court tonight?" Is it really as the rumors say, uncle, you have been dismissed? ”

Ma Mingyuan didn't say anything with a blushing face, just nodded, which proved the correctness of the rumors.

Seeing Ma Mingyuan confirm the rumors, Zhu Hai sat on the chair and muttered, "Is this true?" What can I do, what can I do! ”

Ma Mingyuan glanced at the depressed prince and said: "Your Royal Highness the prince, rest assured, although the old minister has been deposed, the new first assistant is the eldest brother Ma Jiyuan, and there is no problem with your prince's position!" ”

"But! But uncle, can't uncle help Zhu Jiang when he comes up? Zhu Hai is afraid of this, after all, Zhu Jiang is Ma Jiyuan's grandson.

"Hmph, prince, don't worry, eldest brother, I know him too well, he is a Taoist gentleman, and his reputation is more important than his life. He will definitely not ruin his reputation for the sake of Zhu Jiang! ”

Zhu Hai breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Ma Mingyuan say this, and then asked: "But my uncle was dismissed, what if he can't recover in the future?" ”

Ma Mingyuan thought about it, this is a problem. Although the emperor now allows himself to recuperate at home, seeing that he will soon be able to recover himself in the future, who can say for sure what will happen in the future, he still has to make some preparations by himself.

"Prince, you are like this, when your uncle comes, you go to meet him, now the secretary of the Ministry of Finance is still vacant, you recommend Chen Zilong, the political envoy of Zhejiang, to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Finance!"

Zhu Hai asked hesitantly, "I'll say?" What if the eldest uncle disagrees? Why don't you talk about it with your uncle! ”

Ma Mingyuan shook his head and said: "Prince, you don't know, my eldest brother has been suppressed by me for many years, and when he sees me, he is angry, and he can't agree to anything he can." It's different when the prince goes to say it, the relationship between the eldest brother and Chen Zilong is also good, plus the prince's recommendation, this matter will definitely be done! ”

Ma Mingyuan knew that his eldest brother was a pure conservative, and as soon as he came to power, he would definitely completely abolish his preparations for the new policy. The most important part of the new deal is the Ministry of Finance, as long as there is his absolute confidant Chen Zilong, the new deal cannot be completely abolished, and whether he can recover in the future depends on this new deal.

Zhu Hai had no choice but to nod and agree when he heard Ma Mingyuan say this, and after the two nephews discussed for a while, Zhu Hai got up and said goodbye.

Yangzhou is not far from Nanjing, in the second night in Yangzhou Ma Jiyuan received the cabinet decree, it turned out that his younger brother Ma Mingyuan was unlucky, was dismissed, the emperor promoted himself to the cabinet first assistant.

Ma Jiyuan did not delay at all after receiving the decree, and boarded the passenger ship back to Nanjing that night, and rushed to Nanjing on the morning of the third day to meet the emperor and prepare to perform his new duties.

After Ma Jiyuan entered the palace and saw the emperor, Zhu Hongsan asked: "Big brother, now that the war in Guangdong is urgent, the Jingshi is going to ask for big brother here!" I am fighting in the front, and the rear must be stable, I wonder if the eldest brother has any ideas? ”

Ma Jiyuan didn't sleep all night last night, and he prepared a recital on the boat, and when he heard the emperor ask, he quickly took out the recital in his sleeve.

Zhu Hongsan looked at it a few times and was so angry that he was angry, and the twists and turns were very simple, just three.

The first is to let Zhu Hong issue an edict to the whole country, and he will never engage in anything like a new deal that shakes the will of the people in the future.

Article 2 The exchange mechanism of silver dollars and silver taels, which are due at the end of the year, will be abolished, and this kind of thing will be used to collect money, and the silver taels and silver dollars will be circulated in the market together in the future.

The third is even more ruthless, and now in order to fight the war and the treasury is empty, the emperor is asked to give up the enterprises in his hands and sell them to the Jiangnan gentry to raise silver.

After reading these three, Zhu Hongsan resisted the urge to throw the fold in Ma Jiyuan's face, Zhu Hongsan gritted his teeth and smiled: "Big brother, your three are ruthless enough!" ”

Ma Jiyuan said solemnly: "Your Majesty, the country is based on scholars, how can you engage in such a chaotic government?" What did Wang Anshi make the Northern Song Dynasty look like back then, did Your Majesty hope that the Ming Dynasty would also be like that? In the past, His Majesty may have been instigated by Ma Mingyuan, but now the minister is the first assistant, which is to set things right and make the people of the world feel at ease, so that the government can be as stable as a mountain! ”

Zhu Hongsan was right after thinking about it, it was really difficult for him to go to the rear of the war and make trouble, so he would take a step back and talk about it later.

"But wasn't this second article passed by the cabinet when it was in Guangdong? This is also going to be scrapped? ”

"Your Majesty, this kind of silver coin exchange is simply a bad government, the right to issue silver coins is in the hands of the imperial court, but the right to exchange is in the hands of some people in Huguang, the minister heard that Ma Mingyuan has a few money deals, and a money village under the name of Tong Yangjia is responsible for the exchange of silver coins, obviously one or two silver dollars They have to exchange one or two or five silver dollars, and five dollars of silver have far exceeded the fire consumption. It is a small number of people who benefit from this kind of bad government, and it is the majority of the people in the country who suffer, so this policy must be stopped, and silver and silver dollars will circulate together in the future! ”

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect Ma Jiyuan to be ruthless enough, and the exchange of silver coins for their Ma family accounted for the majority, but now Ma Jiyuan can not want it at all. But this has nothing to do with Zhu Hongsan, he used eight coins of silver as a tael for circulation, and he has already made a lot of money, as for the Ma family and the Tong family, he doesn't care.

Zhu Hongsan nodded, even if Ma Jiyuan is justified in the first two, but what about the third? Let Zhu Hongsan hand over the factory in his hand, this is Zhu Hongsan's life.

"Big brother, the factories in my hands are arsenals, gunpowder factories, trading houses, fleets, and iron mines, these things are the foundation of the army, how can this be handed over to outsiders?"

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't want His Majesty to hand them all over, these military-related things are naturally in your hands, but the trading houses, the fleet, and the imperial villages all over the country must be handed over, has Your Majesty forgotten the disaster of Wanli?"

In order to collect money, Emperor Wanli set up tax customs and city offices all over the country, which made people angry and resentful, and there was a tragedy in Suzhou where citizens killed the eunuchs. But Zhu Hongsan is different from Wanli, his industries did not rob the local gentry, they were all self-made by Zhu Hongsan and started his own business, at most, even if he used the imperial power to do some monopoly business.

Ma Mingyuan continued: "Your Majesty, now because of the new policy, most of the gentry in the country are resentful, and they are not worried about the instability of the government, these imperial houses and commercial houses are just to appease the gentry!" ”

Zhu Hongsan heard that there was no way to stabilize it, so he could only grit his teeth and admit it. After Zhu Hongsan thought it through, he wrote a quasi-character with a red pen on Ma Jiyuan's recital, which can be regarded as fully agreeing with Ma Jiyuan's proposition.

Ma Jiyuan's abolition of Ma Mingyuan's new policy spread throughout the city of Nanjing in less than an hour. Tong Yangjia scolded Ma Jiyuan in the house, and scolded Ma Mingyuan after scolding, this bastard had to recommend his eldest brother, and now he has a loss of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year.

Ma Mingyuan also smiled bitterly after knowing Ma Jiyuan's twists and turns, he didn't expect that his eldest brother was really ruthless, no matter what else, he would stab himself first.

Ma Mingyuan said softly: "Big brother, do you know how much money our family will lose because of your twist and turn?" ”

The prince went to meet Ma Jiyuan the next day, and Ma Mingyuan thought the same, Ma Jiyuan was definitely a princeling, not to mention the respect for the prince, and assured the prince that he would support the prince in accordance with the laws of his ancestors.

According to Ma Mingyuan's explanation, the prince recommended Chen Zilong to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, and Ma Jiyuan agreed after careful consideration.

Ma Jiyuan thought that he was good at government affairs, but the financial matter was too professional, Chen Zilong had been a political envoy in Zhejiang for a year, and he was the domain in charge of money, so it was appropriate for him to manage money. and Chen Zilong also has a good relationship with himself, plus Chen Zilong was born in Songjiang Mansion in Nanzhili, so he will definitely be a good help for himself.

In this way, the new policy, which was just about to start in the second year of Shenwu, was completely finished under external military pressure and the counterattack of the old internal forces. As the newly appointed first assistant Ma Jiyuan, because he stood on the side of the old forces, he became a famous minister praised by scholars.

And as the faint monarch Zhu Hongsan in the mouth of the old forces, he was not in the mood to manage what others said about him at this time, and all his energy was on the royal conquest. Zhu Hongsan also found that the whole country is in a mess now, and no new policies can be implemented to the end, and only after occupying the whole country can the country be governed according to his own wishes.

On December 15 of the second year of the Ming Dynasty, there were fifteen days to celebrate the New Year, but the hard-pressed Ming Emperor Zhu Hongsan wanted to lead the army to fight in Guangdong.

On this morning, on the large playground outside Zhengyang Gate, 60,000 troops lined up in a neat line waiting for the emperor.

Zhu Hongsan was dressed in military uniforms, riding a high-headed horse, and under the protection of a thousand brocade guards, he led all the generals out of Zhengyangmen and came to the front of the big playground.

The 60,000 troops knelt on one knee and shouted three long live, which was really angry.

Zhu Hongsan took the crown prince Zhu Hai to cut off the three sacrifice flags, and then twenty soldiers with loud voices read out the text of this rebellion.

The essay was written by Qian Qianyi, Qian Qianyi as a university scholar, this essay is really full of flowers, and in the essay, Qian Qianyi scolded Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui. From the scolding of his ancestor Zhu Di to the pseudo-Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang, all the emperors scolded a dog's blood. And in the end, Zhu Youlang's King Gui was swept to the end, and King Gui was demoted to a concubine.

After the text was read, the last letter cannon sounded eighty-one, symbolizing the emperor's personal expedition, and then Zhu Hongsan got on his horse and set off.

Zhu Hai knelt on the ground and cried: "Father, my sons wish my father a victory!" ”

Zhu Hongsan rode on the horse and nodded, and said: "Prince, you are in charge of the country at home, and everything is discussed with the first assistant and the cabinet, if you don't understand something, you can write to ask me!" ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he saw Zhu Huai, the king of Chu kneeling beside Zhu Hai, Zhu Hongsan added another sentence: "And I am out of the house, you want brotherly love, if I know that your brothers are tearing each other down, be careful that Lao Tzu comes back and spans your ass!" ”

Zhu Hai and Zhu Huailian said that they didn't dare, Zhu Hongsan nodded, turned the horse's head and followed the army under the escort of a thousand brocade guards.