Ma Mingyuan actually knew that his eldest brother was dissatisfied, but there was only one person in the Ma family who could enter the cabinet, and that could only be himself. Back then, in order to compensate the eldest brother, he had already brought the eldest brother's in-law Fu Wenlong into the cabinet, but he didn't expect that the eldest brother was not satisfied, and he wanted to argue with himself in the prince's affairs. Although Ma Jiyuan had already written to Ma Mingyuan afterwards to explain what happened to him, explaining that he only wanted to ensure the longevity of the Ma family, but it was okay to deceive children for this reason, and it could deceive the political old fritter Ma Mingyuan.

Because of this, Ma Mingyuan has actually become a loner, and he has no allies within the Huguang faction. Now it is because of the strength of the Cantonese faction that the Huguang faction has given up the dispute and united under the command of Ma Mingyuan to fight to the death with the Cantonese faction. But as long as the Cantonese faction fell, it was the beginning of the break of the Huguang faction. Ma Mingyuan also knew what was going on, so he recruited Chen Zilong to be his military advisor.

And after more than ten years of ups and downs, Chen Zilong is no longer the angry young man he was back then. After the experience of Beijing officialdom, the experience of Nanjing officialdom, and the stimulation of the country's collapse and family collapse, Chen Zilong has become a political old fritter who is not inferior to Ma Mingyuan. In addition, Ma Mingyuan supports his eldest son Zhu Hai, and like Chen Zilong's morality, when Ma Mingyuan showed favor to himself, he immediately joined Ma Mingyuan's camp and became one of Ma Mingyuan's dogs.

Today, Chen Zilong went to Guangzhou to meet Zhu Hongsan, preparing to go to Zhejiang with the Northern Expeditionary Army. And Ma Mingyuan was just in time for such a moment, so he asked Chen Zilong to give him advice.

Chen Zilong listened to it for a long time behind the screen, and he also knew very well about Ma Mingyuan's "Ask the Bank to issue silver coins", and there was also a credit to Chen Zilong, and Ma Mingyuan also asked Chen Zilong's opinion back then. Just now I heard Wang Yunchang leave before he came out from behind the screen and walked to the house and sat down.

Chen Zilong waited until the servant cleaned up the tea and replaced it with new tea before saying to Ma Mingyuan: "Brother Zhongming, I see that there will be a repeat over there tomorrow when the court will meet Feng Ziyong!" ”

Ma Mingyuan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Among people, how can you see it?" ”

Chen Zilong took a sip of tea, and then said: "Brother Zhongming, haven't you seen this "Please Lili Bank Issue Silver Coins" clearly, the main obstacle is the local gentry, and it is a large number of officials standing behind them. This book is folded, and it undoubtedly cuts off their income, so it's strange if they don't make trouble! ”

Ma Mingyuan sighed, and he also knew the root cause. After the unification of the currency, a large part of the "fire consumption" of local officials' income will be gone, and cutting off people's financial means is like killing your parents, and it is strange that people don't mess with you. Ma Mingyuan is also a person in the system, and he is also good at fire consumption. But he can't help it, he is in charge of finance, and now the financial situation is tight, and there is no way to sustain without additional income. But this is not the main reason, the most important thing is that Ma Mingyuan, as a hardcore prince, if he can't complete the emperor's task, he will lose points to the prince, and it is very likely that Zhu Hai will lose the position of the prince, so Ma Mingyuan was completely forced by Zhu Hongsan to do this.

"Among the people, I can't help it, now the country is like this, and the treasury is empty, and now the Northern Expedition is imminent, everything is in vain without silver, so I must go on this recital!"

"Hey! Zhong Ming, you have to think about it, Zhang Taiyue just moved his epidermis back then, you know what the situation of his family is after his death! ”

"Among people, I also do this in the hope that the crown prince will ascend to the throne in the future and protect my family, as for the reputation behind me! Among people, when we were in Huguang, did you forget, didn't we want to be Shang Ying and Zhang Juzheng? ”

Chen Zilong heard his friend mention his dream when he was young, sighed and said: "There is no good end for all reformers, Zhongming, you can think about it!" ”

Ma Mingyuan gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "If those guys don't agree tomorrow, then don't blame me, I still have a piece of money, you can take a look at it!" After Ma Mingyuan finished speaking, he took out a thin fold from his cuff and handed it to Chen Zilong.

The fold is very short, only less than 500 words, Chen Zilong read it at a glance and ten lines, after reading it, Chen Zilong was frightened into a cold sweat, and shouted: "Zhong Ming, who gave you this fold?" Don't leak it out, once it is revealed that you are ruined and have no place to bury you, even if the prince ascends the throne, he will not rehabilitate you! ”

Ma Mingyuan handed over to Chen Zilong is the later Manchu Yongzheng Emperor engaged in "the official gentry and the grain are integrated on an errand", you must know that in China's 3,000-year-old tradition, officials and nobles have always been not taxed, this tradition was not broken until the Manchu Yongzheng Emperor, of course, Yongzheng was scolded as a thief to death, tampering with the edict, getting the wrong position, mutilating his brother, forcing his mother to die, etc. The reason why intellectuals bury an emperor so much is precisely because they have eaten the cake for thousands of years and were kicked over by Emperor Yongzheng. An emperor who touched the cake of intellectuals was scolded like this, and it is really hard to say what Ma Mingyuan, who is an intellectual, will be scolded if he gets on this fold.

After reading it, Chen Zilong quickly stood up and came to the side of the fire candle, and lit the fire. Ma Mingyuan didn't stop it, just watched the twist turn into a wisp of green smoke.

Chen Zilong burned all the twists and turns, and said in a low voice: "Zhong Ming, who told you this dangerous idea, this is completely pushing you into the fire pit, and now that the world is in chaos, it is the time when the gentry of the whole world need to unite and forge ahead, and this twist and turn will not push them to the Manchu side?" ”

"Among people, do you know who gave it to me? It's our Shenwu Emperor! ”

Chen Zilong was taken aback when he heard Ma Mingyuan say this, but he didn't expect that this was Emperor Shenwu's idea. Chen Zilong really doesn't know if this emperor is shrewd or stupid, this kind of radical policy may not be successful when the world is peaceful, and now that the world is in chaos, he still wants to carry out reforms?

"Zhong Ming, how can the emperor be so ignorant, and now the world is in turmoil, and he still has to implement the "official gentry and errand pay for food", isn't this pushing the gentry of the whole world to the Manchu Qing Dynasty? ”

Ma Mingyuan shook his head indifferently and said: "Don't be anxious, listen to me first, this idea is not unique to the past few days, it was when I was chatting with the emperor in Wuchang, talking about how to solve the general trend of the world, and the emperor told me this idea!" ”

Chen Zilong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard that bastard emperor was not going to implement this policy, sat down and took a sip of water, and said: "Zhong Ming, and this kind of thing must not be said, you know that if this matter is leaked, we will all die without a place to be buried!" ”

Ma Mingyuan didn't know the importance of this matter, he was young and vigorous back then, and he was fooled by Zhu Hongsan into taking the world as his own responsibility, and promised to have the opportunity to implement this change, but with the growth of experience and official position, he knew that it was so easy to implement, and it was completely used by Zhu Hongsan's bastard back then.

Although Ma Mingyuan secretly scolded Zhu Hongsan in his heart, he still had to maintain his image of serving the country and the people on the surface, and said to Chen Zilong: "The original intention of this twist and turn is good, if Your Majesty can succeed in the Northern Expedition and restore the Ming Dynasty, I want to invite the virtuous brother among the people to implement this new law with me, what do the virtuous brothers of the people think?" ”

How did Chen Zilong not know that Ma Mingyuan was going to pull himself to share the charge, but if the change was successful, he would immediately become a big figure in history, and as a literati, he didn't want to leave a strong mark in history, even if he was notorious.

Chen Zilong gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Brother Zhongming, I promise you, but you must wait until the whole country is peaceful, do you know?" ”

Ma Mingyuan nodded when he heard Chen Zilong say this, after all, pulling one is one, and it is better for two people to be scolded together than to carry it alone.

Tonight will definitely be a sleepless night, just when Ma Chen and the two were talking at night, across the Feng Mansion more than a dozen streets from Ma Mansion, Wang Yunchang and Feng Ziyong were also conspiring.

Wang Yunchang passed Ma Mingyuan's news to Feng Ziyong, and then asked, "Elder Feng Ge, how can you see how this matter can develop tomorrow?" ”

Feng Ziyong sighed, he was the representative of the moderate faction of Zhu Hongsan's group. Feng Ziyong opposed Ma Mingyuan's new banking policy last time, in fact, he didn't want to implement the new law when the foundation was unstable, although now Jiangxi and Fujian have fallen into the hands of Emperor Shenwu, but Guangdong's overall strength is still the weakest. The new law is good, and Feng Ziyong also knows what the current financial situation is, but if there are any problems in the implementation of the new law that affect the overall goal of rejuvenating the Ming Dynasty, then the new law is better than not being implemented.

Feng Ziyong also talked to Zhu Hongsan about the new law, thinking that now was not the best time to introduce a new law, but Emperor Zhu Hongsan had been carried away by the victory, and thought that now was a good time to launch a new law with a great victory in the north. And Feng Ziyong was deeply educated by Feng Ruoshu to be an emperor faction, and when he saw that the emperor was so insistent, he didn't say anything else.

Although Feng Ziyong did not raise objections, he still resisted the new banking law in his heart. Today, I heard Wang Yunchang bring Ma Mingyuan's message, and said with a sigh in my heart: "Senior brother, what do you think of this matter?" ”

Although Wang Yunchang is Feng's junior brother, he is a few years older than him, but there is no way, the career leader is the first, so he can only reply respectfully: "Elder Ge, if you purely from the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, the humble post completely agrees with this new law, and the establishment of the bank will greatly increase the power of the Ministry of Finance, and the humble post is of course happy." However, from the perspective of the general trend of the country, the implementation of the new law is indeed a bit out of time! ”

Feng Ziyong heard Wang Yunchang say this, and asked, "You also objected to this?" ”

Wang Yunchang dared to give Feng Ziyong an accurate answer, and it was better not to be implicated in the high-level struggle.

Wang Yunchang heard Feng Ziyong's question and hurriedly said: "Elder Ge, the humble position is just a book, these national affairs are still decided by a few adults in the cabinet, and the humble position is carried out according to the regulations!" ”

Feng Ziyong looked at this slippery head, stood up and said: "This pavilion is deeply favored by the king, and we must not see the country in danger, so this pavilion has decided to oppose the implementation of the new law tomorrow!" ”