But in the eyes of this group of imperial historians, this is a traitor, so Chongzhen didn't dare to bring it up in the court, so he could only fiddle with it in private. Later, when the incident happened, there was no way but to kill Chen Xinjia, who handled it, to appease these royal historians.

Zhu Hongsan has not appointed the official position of Zuodu Yushi now, because he is afraid that he will release these-stirring sticks to delay his major affairs. But since he has inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's legacy, he must go down according to Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement. Ma Mingyuan and the others have proposed that Zhu Hongsan re-establish the imperial history system many times, but Zhu Hongsan has prevaricated for various reasons.

But for a country to develop healthily, it is not possible to do without supervision institutions, so Zhu Hongsan did not plan to completely ban the imperial history system, but the time has not yet come.

In Zhu Hongsan's mind, the position of the imperial history of the left capital must be held by an upright but not pedantic person, but there were many upright people in the late Ming Dynasty, and there were even fewer who were not pedantic. Originally, Chen Zilong should have been a good candidate, but his qualifications were too low and he was not a candidate for Sangong at all. Zhu Hongsan thought for a long time, there was no way to just leave this position vacant first, anyway, he was only limited to Guangdong now, and there were not many officials under him, and the institution of Yushi was not too needed now.

Zhu Hongsan was thinking nonsense in the house, Zhang Jiayu had already sent the order of the prison to Feng Ruoshu of the cabinet. Feng Ruoshu has devoted himself to the work of Shoufu in the past two months, although he is almost seventy years old, but as the saying goes, power is a man's aphrodisiac. Old man Feng burst out a second spring in this aphrodisiac.

Now Feng Ruoshu has to work five or six hours a day, which is fatal for a sixty-eight-year-old man, but the more he works, the more energetic he becomes.

Old man Feng is now very satisfied with his position, and Zhu Hongsan, the superintendent, basically doesn't care about government affairs, but is only interested in some strange and obscene skills, and a large number of government affairs are handed over to the literati doctors headed by him. Isn't this the system of hypocrisy that has been admired by literati throughout the ages?

Sometimes Feng Ruoshu fantasized that he would lead the army to complete the Northern Expedition and support the Ming Chamber, and when the time came, he would definitely be able to surpass the sages of the Ming Dynasty. may be able to surpass Zhang Juzheng and Yu Qian. After all, Yu Qian only defended Beijing, and Zhang Juzheng only delayed the fall of the Ming Dynasty. They can be compared with themselves, maybe after their death, the emperor will give themselves the title of Wenchen, Wenzheng.

Thinking that he could get a higher title than Zhang Juzheng Wenzhong in the future, Feng Ruoshu couldn't help but get slightly drunk. When I think of being happy, I can't help but twist three strands of beard in my hand to be happy.

At this time, Zhang Jiayu sent Zhu Hongsan's order to the cabinet and handed it over to Feng Ruoshu.

Feng Ruoshu looked at Zhang Jiayu and didn't give him a good look. Feng Ruoshu looked down on Zhang Jiayu for surrendering Li Chuang in Beijing at that time, so he was very disgusted with Zhang Jiayu.

Zhang Jiayu also knew that this old man Feng didn't have a good impression of him, but he couldn't help it, he was now the first assistant, countless levels higher than his own secretary. After handing over the order of the King of Chu to Feng Ruoshu, Zhang Jiayu stood on the side with low eyebrows and waited for questioning.

The order was very short, that is, to ask the cabinet to prepare 10,000 weapons and equipment and allocate them to Fu Wenlong, the governor of Nanyang.

Fu Wenlong read the order at a glance, frowned, and asked, "Yuanzi, why did the prison state allocate 10,000 soldiers and horses to Nanyang?" ”

"Back to Yuanfu, Lord Fu, the governor of Nanyang, came back in the morning, and the Franc machine slaughtered more than 20,000 of my Ming people in Luzon, and the King of Chu* was furious and ordered Lord Fu to immediately start a war against the Franc Machine." Zhang Jiayu recounted the incident of Fu Wenlong in the morning.

"It's ridiculous, now Guangdong is in ruins, and hundreds of millions of people in the north are looking forward to the king's division, how can the king of Chu send troops to Luzon thousands of miles away to fight with the Francophiles at this time?"

Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia, who were dealing with official business on the side, saw Feng Ruoshu angry and hurriedly stood up to watch King Chu's order.

Ma Mingyuan was in charge of the household department, and knew that all the forces in Guangdong had been exerted for the war in Nanzhili, and he really had more than enough strength to start a war with the Francophone people.

"What Lord Yuanfu said, now the household department has no money, for the war in Nanzhili, two million taels of silver have been used this month, and now the household department still has less than 500,000 taels of silver, so it really can't be fought."

Tong Yangjia is a squire of the military department, the more the army expands, the greater his power, plus Tong Yangjia is not dealing with Ma Mingyuan, although it has not yet reached the point where everything must be reversed, but he has to refute whatever Ma Mingyuan proposes.

"Master Ma can't say that, could it be that the people in the north are my people of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of Luzon are not?"

Seeing Tong Yangjia jump out to refute himself, Ma Mingyuan was very annoyed, this Tong Yangjia is like a toad on the top of his feet, not biting and disgusting. After entering the cabinet for more than two months, this guy will squeeze himself whenever something happens, and this time he must be good-looking.

Ma Mingyuan was just about to open his mouth to speak, Feng Ruoshu shouted: "Don't quarrel with the two of you, it just happens to be all here, let's discuss this matter." "Feng Ruoshu means to push the court.

The court discussion was the deliberative system of the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the affairs of the court were all political affairs that were "related to great interests", and they had to be discussed by the courtiers. The specific method of court deliberation is mostly in the form of discussing issues according to departments. In the Ming system, the results of the court meeting must be reported to the emperor, and when the court disagrees, the emperor should be summarized and heard for ruling.

And convening the court is one of the responsibilities of the first assistant. Now that Feng Ruoshu had ordered the court to be convened, all the people in the cabinet immediately summoned all the qualified civil officials in Dongguan to participate.

At this time, there were not a few civil officials under Zhu Hongsan's hands, and now there are cabinet members Feng Ruoshu, Ma Mingyuan, and Tong Yangjia in Dongguan, plus Fu Wenlong, the governor of Nanyang, who has just arrived in Dongguan, and Zhang Bingwen, the servant of the Criminal Department, Gong Dacheng, the magistrate of Dongguan County, and Wang Yunchang, the disciple of Feng Ruoshu, and Zhang Jiayu, the secretary of the prison state, a total of eight people. Other qualified ministers are either divided into towns or leading troops.

Eight people gathered with little effort. Everyone went to the small conference room next to the cabinet and began the deliberations.

Feng Ruoshu, as the first assistant of the cabinet, spoke first. "Colleagues, I brought you to the court today for one thing, that is, the question raised by Lord Fu about the battle against the Franc man, now please ask Lord Fu to tell me about the situation."

Fu Wenlong stood up and told him how the Francophiles had slaughtered the Ming people in Luzon, and finally told him about the ships that the prison had promised to equip his army.

After Fu Wenlong finished speaking, Feng Ruoshu said: "Let's discuss it, and come up with a charter for the prison country to decide." ”

Ma Mingyuan was squeezed by Tong Yangjia just now, and the anger in his heart had not dissipated, so he stood up and fired first.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think we should return this order of the prison state, and now there is no silver in the household department. The 10,000 people in the north already need to be supplied with all their might, and now they are starting a war in vain, which will not benefit the great cause of the Northern Expedition at all, so I hope to return the order to transfer troops from the prison country. ”

Ma Mingyuan's words were completely out of axioms, but he didn't expect to offend Fu Wenlong as soon as the words came out.

Fu Wenlong, as the direct executor of the plan, is related to his future official position. Fu Wenlong had considered the candidates for opposition before he came, but he didn't expect Ma Mingyuan to oppose him at all. Fu Wenlong's daughter-in-law just married Ma Mingyuan's nephew Ma Shaoguang, plus Fu Wenlong and Ma Jiyuan were friends in the same year, so I thought that Ma Mingyuan could support him, but I didn't expect Ma Mingyuan to be the first to oppose him.

Fu Wenlong immediately stood up again and said: "Master Ma said this difference, the great cause of the Northern Expedition is important, isn't the matter of Luzon important?" Aren't the people of Luzon the people of the Ming Dynasty? ”

On the side, Tong Yangjia saw Fu Wenlong standing up to refute Ma Mingyuan, and hurriedly beat the drum on the side. "What Lord Fu said is that the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. All the people in the world are the people of my Ming Dynasty, how can Master Ma favor one over the other? Master Ma shouldn't be dissatisfied when he sees Lord Fu being reused by the prison state, right? ”

Tong Yangjia's mind is extremely vicious, and what he said is to drive a wedge between the two families. Fu Wenlong is also an old fritter in officialdom, so he doesn't know Tong Yangjia's thoughts. But now on this occasion, Ma Mingyuan expressed his opposition, if he offended Tong Yangjia, then his battle plan would really be empty, so Fu Wenlong had no choice but to take the olive branch handed over by Tong Yangjia and temporarily form an alliance with him.

When Ma Mingyuan heard Tong Yangjia say this, he scolded angrily: "Tong Yangjia, you villain, do I mean this?" You're misinterpreting me! ”

"You know what it means."

At this time, Wang Yunchang on the side spoke, "Don't make noise, two adults, let's listen to Yuanfu's meaning!" "Wang Yunchang is Feng Ruoshu's proud disciple, so he naturally knows that Old Man Feng does not agree with King Chu's order, and moving out of Feng Ruoshu at this time is also taking advantage of the situation to oppress people.

Gong Dacheng, the Dongguan County commander under Tong Yangjia, stood up and said: "Lord Wang, Yuan Fu has already said just now that we will discuss it, why do you still want to use the topic to play, do you want to take advantage of the situation to suppress people?" ”

Wang Yunchang, whose mind was broken, was very annoyed, he didn't look down on this Gong Dacheng in the first place. Gong Dacheng was originally a lifter, and he didn't know who to give the silver to get a magistrate. I didn't expect to follow the king of Chu in Huguang, and now he has become the magistrate of Dongguan, you must know that the power of Dongguan County is greater than that of a prefect. And he is a two-ranked jinshi, and now he has to use the power of the teacher to be a man in the ministry.

Wang Yunchang looked at Gong Dacheng and said, "What are you?" It's just a lifter, and you dare to talk to my two Jinshi? ”

Wang Yunchang's words immediately offended Tong Yangjia, Gong Dacheng was scolded by Wang Yunchang for lifting people, Tong Yangjia himself is just a showman, isn't that a thing?

"Wang Langzhong, what do you mean by that? The prison has an order for meritocracy, do you want to oppose the prison state when you say this? ”

Seeing Tong Yangjia angry, Wang Yunchang didn't dare to talk back to Tong Yangjia, everyone knew that Tong Yangjia was a popular person of King Chu, and it was uncomfortable to talk back to him.