Zhu Hongsan, who was a later generation, immediately remembered the petrodollars used by the US imperialists in later generations when he heard Ma Mingyuan say this. After the United States occupied the oil-producing areas, it pegged oil to the dollar, and all oil trade was settled in dollars. Whoever wants to sell oil, good! Let's start with the central bank of the United States and exchange your country's currency for dollars. In this way, the US dollar has gradually become an international currency, and some small countries have become economic colonies of the United States.

In the past few years, Zhu Hongsan's group took advantage of the cheapness of industrial products to squeeze out all the handicraft industries in the southern Zhili and northern provinces, and white sugar and refined salt were things that the north did not have. If sugar and salt are settled in silver dollars, then the northern merchants can only exchange one or two or five dollars of silver for one of their own silver dollars, and then buy their own goods, so that the five dollars of silver will not fall into their own pockets!

Zhu Hongsan nodded again and again when he heard Ma Mingyuan put forward such a good idea, but he was still a little worried, that is, what to do in front of him? Although Ma Mingyuan's idea is good, it doesn't work for half a year or a year, and he needs silver in front of him!

"Mr. Ma, this plan is very good, but how to survive the current crisis?"

"Your Majesty, this is also simple, Chen Zizhuang and his party have been entrenched in the central government for a long time, and officials at all levels are intertwined, now is a good opportunity to clean them up, these people basically have huge family assets in Guangdong, and it is estimated that they can get millions of taels of silver by copying their homes, and those scholars who surrendered to the Manchus in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, their family property can also be used!"

Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but curse in his heart when he heard Ma Mingyuan say this, this Ma Lao Er is really ruthless, in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, he even calculated it! However, what Ma Lao Er said is also good, it is estimated that it is no problem to get a few million taels of silver in this way, and the financial crisis in this half a year can be alleviated. As long as Zhu Hongsan is given a chance to ease up, the power of industrialization is not something that ordinary people can stop!

Zhu Hongsan thought about it, although he would definitely leave infamy in the future generations if he did this, but the last thing he was afraid of was infamy! After Lao Tzu died, he didn't care about the flood! Good! That's it!

"Mr. Ma said it well, you will start operating after you go to work after the New Year, these Cantonese guys have taken advantage of Lao Tzu for so many years, and you should spit it out!"

Ma Mingyuan was happy when he heard that Zhu Hongsan had agreed to his idea, and the Guangdong merchant gang headed by Chen Zizhuang had made some money in recent years by relying on the geographical advantages and the support of the emperor. Now the big landlords and big commercial houses in Guangdong Province are basically owned by the gentry of Guangdong, and Huguang Xungui, who should have been in the top position, can only develop in the new industry. Now that the emperor has agreed to clean up the Guangdong faction, so that he has fought for the interests of Huguang Xungui, and his position in the Huguang faction has become more and more stable, even Tong Yangjia has to surrender to himself.

Historically, this ordinary meeting was called the Wenhua Palace, which was distinguished from the Yuntai call before the Ming Dynasty. As a result of this purge, Zhu Hongsan's clique got rid of the decrepit group of scholars and civil officials and replaced it with a civilian-official group that was in the prime of life and more effective. After these new literati who were deeply influenced by Zhu Hongsan, such as Ma Mingyuan, Chen Zilong, Zhang Jiayu, and Zhang Huangyan, came to power, Zhu Hongsan's group burst out with unprecedented energy!

Ma Mingyuan followed Zhu Hongsan very early, and discussed how to govern the country and Zhu Hongsan many times, so Zhu Hongsan appreciated some of the ideas of governing the country, and the two talked until late Ma Mingyuan went home from the palace.

When Ma Mingyuan left the palace, it was late, and the entire city of Nanjing was shrouded in the atmosphere of the New Year. Thanks to the surrender of Qian Qianyi and Wang Duo, the city of Nanjing was not slaughtered like Yangzhou in Jiangbei four years ago. Of course, some merchants and people still suffered some losses after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the city, but it was much better than the millions of people in Yangzhou City being killed, so the surrender of Qian Qianyi and others can only say that their personal character is not good, but it does not prevent the people of Nanjing from thanking them.

Similarly, in November this year, Hong Chengchou led all the troops out of the city to fight with Zhu Hongsan's new army, and originally thought that if the Ming army could not be destroyed, it could also retreat to rely on the strong city wall to defend the city. Therefore, the whole city of Nanjing was immersed in a sea of joy in the New Year of the second year of Shenwu, and everyone was happy that they could live another year in this troubled world.

On the mansion of Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo near the stone bridge in Beicheng, it is also full of the joy of the New Year. However, now this is no longer the Baoguo Mansion, but has been changed to the Tong Mansion, which is now the residence of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Cabinet and the university scholar Tong Yangjia.

Although the entire Tong Mansion was immersed in a sea of joy, there was no New Year's celebration in a secluded house in the backyard, which was Tong Yangjia's study.

There are two people talking in the study, one is Tong Yangjia, and the other is Qian Lide, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, the head of the big secret service.

Today is the Chinese New Year, and Qian Lide is Tong Yangjia's son-in-law, so Qian Lide returned to Tongfu Province with a family and gifts. But when they arrived at Tong's mansion, Qian Lide and Tong Yangjia went into the study to talk secretly.

Yesterday's great change in the court, both of them were present, and they saw with their own eyes how Chen Zizhuang changed from a first assistant to a subordinate prisoner.

Tong Yangjia sighed and said: "I really didn't expect Ma Lao Er to be so forbearing, and with such a good deck of cards in his hand, he could leave it until now!" ”

"Father-in-law, do you think Chen Zizhuang can really be convicted?" Although Qian Lide is very clever, his political sensitivity is much worse than that of Tong Yangjia, and he thought that the emperor would be able to save the lives of Chen Zizhuang's family in the end.

But Tong Yangjia has followed Zhu Hong for more than 30 or 20 years, and he knows the character of this emperor who is ruthless and ruthless and crosses the river and demolishes bridges.

"Virtuous son-in-law, if Ma Lao Er had made a move a year ago, according to His Majesty's shrewdness, he would definitely have been able to find the flaws, and Chen Zizhuang would have been treated as an official at most! But now it's different, we have arrived in Nanjing, and the influence of those people in Guangdong is minimal, so Chen Zizhuang's life and death are not in His Majesty's heart at all, and His Majesty is now worried about how to make up for the power vacuum left by Chen Zizhuang! ”

Qian Lide nodded understandingly, and then asked: "In the morning, there was news from the palace that Elder Ma Ge took over the position of first assistant, and his father-in-law is the second assistant!" Congratulations to my father-in-law! ”

Tong Yangjia shook his head: "You don't understand, the second assistant is also a chess piece, it's just a relatively large chess piece, and only by becoming the first assistant can you become a chess player!" ”

Qian Lide is not interested in these, he is the leader of the brocade guard, the most important thing for him is the holy family, and then the amount of silver, and it has no practical significance for him to be an official. This time, the Cantonese faction was collectively unlucky, and the land, farms, commercial houses, and fleets in Guangdong could be vacated a lot, and Qian Lide was the idea of these properties.

"Hehe, father-in-law, if those Cantonese guys are unlucky, will our Huguang Xungui be able to make a windfall again?"

What Qian Lide said was exactly what Tong Yangjia was worried about, according to Ma Mingyuan's methods, the property of those Guangdong factions must be used to buy people's hearts, and he was already in a weak position in the Huguang faction, so he was not Ma Mingyuan's opponent.

Seeing Qian Lide's big fat face, full of smiles that were ready to make a fortune, Tong Yangjia was angry.

"Virtuous son-in-law, the old man asked you to secretly follow and investigate Luo Qifeng in Dongchang, how did you do?"

mentioned that Qian Lide's fat face of the Dongchang Investigation Team immediately turned cloudy, and he said with a sad face: "Father-in-law, that Luo Qifeng has superb methods in handling the case, and now he has traced the secret agent I arranged in the army!" ”

The incident of the prince in distress outside Nanchang City was planned by Qian Lide and Tong Yangjia, and the logistics office was Tong Yangjia's apprentices and grandchildren, and it was very simple to transfer the water-soaked gunpowder to a force, even if this article was investigated, it could only be regarded as a dereliction of duty in the logistics department, at most, the head was exiled from the head, and Tong Yangjia could not be traced.

But it's hard to say about the herald who pretended to pass on the order, that herald was a secret agent of the Jinyi Guard, but the herald didn't know that he didn't work for the emperor, but only commanded Lord Qian's personal soldiers.

In order to delay the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhu Hongsan sent a large number of swords, guns and armor to the north to the anti-Qing forces, all of which had to be transported by Jinyiwei. Naturally, Qian Lide also used this channel to transport some sugar and salt, and the silver he earned was regarded as a small treasury of Jinyiwei, and he usually engaged in welfare for his subordinates. Emperor Zhu Hongsan also knew, Zhu Hongsan saw that his subordinates were very hard, the north was an enemy-occupied area, and those spies of Jinyiwei often had to risk their lives to carry out tasks, so they turned a blind eye to Jinyiwei's smuggling behavior.

However, with the spread of Jinyiwei's stalls, there are Jinyiwei's secret strongholds in prefecture-level cities across the country, and the silver money brought by this kind of smuggling has increased year by year. Qian Lide saw that this kind of silver was worth millions of taels every year, and his heart began to move. He knew that Emperor Zhu Hongsan was mean and unkind, in order to leave a way back for himself, and also to have some means of resistance in the future, Qian Lide began to reach out to this extra silver.

Chin saved between 100,000 and 150,000 taels of silver from this silver every year, and then handed it over to his relatives. With this money, Qian Lide developed an intelligence network of dozens of people in the army, completely serving himself, and that herald was a person in this system.

At that time, Qian Lide listened to Tong Yangjia's fool and felt that he would definitely be able to solve the crown prince Zhu Hai outside Nanchang City, so he used his secret army to help Tong Yangjia. Qian Lide thought that he got on the ship of the king of Chu, as long as he helped the king of Chu kill the crown prince, and then the king of Chu ascended the throne, then he and his descendants would be able to eat and drink spicy. But how could I think that people are not as good as heaven, there are also people secretly protecting Dongchang, Zhu Haifu has a big life, and he actually survived among the tens of thousands of cavalry in the Manchu Dynasty, which can make Qian Lide jump into the river.