Zhu Hai heard Ma Mingyuan say that his uncle Ma Jiyuan wanted to go further, and Zhu Hai knew that his two uncles were not good people. At that time, the eldest uncle and the second uncle were both the great strategists of his father, Zhu Hongsan, but the eldest uncle Ma Jiyuan was an official in Henan, so the second uncle was the earliest to come to Zhu Hongsan's side, so the second uncle had to press the eldest uncle in everything he did in the future.

If the second uncle is loyal and generous, it's nothing, the eldest brother wants to be an official and let it be for you. But the second uncle Ma Mingyuan is a very famous person, and he can't let outsiders get involved in his rights at all, even his own brother. The eldest cousin Feng Ziyong is a good example, just said a few fair words for the Cantonese faction in the cabinet, but was expelled from the cabinet by the second uncle Ma Mingyuan, and is now serving as the governor of Liangguang in Guangdong with one less province.

Uncle Ma Jiyuan was naturally unhappy because of the suppression of his second uncle Ma Mingyuan, he was all the emperor's adviser back then, didn't your second brother Ma Mingyuan come earlier? The position of the cabinet is your own? Can't my brother have a good time?

Of course, Ma Mingyuan's answer is no, with Ma Mingyuan's exclusion in the cabinet, coupled with the impetus of Emperor Zhu Hongsan, Ma Jiyuan has been very unsatisfactory in the past ten years, and has been eating bananas in Luzon, Nanyang.

Zhu Hai just heard that his uncle was transferred back by his father to be the governor of Liangjiang, this is a fart oil crotch job, why give it to uncle? Could it be that the father wants to support the second Qin king, Zhu Jiang?

Ma Mingyuan ignored Zhu Hai's heart on the side, and said: "Your uncle always thinks that the old man is suppressing him, but he doesn't want to think about it, can there be two people from the Ma family in the cabinet?" Why was your eldest cousin kicked out of the cabinet, do you think it was mine that didn't allow him? You would be wrong to think so, it is simply that His Majesty will not allow him, and he will be driven out of the cabinet by my hand. But your uncle didn't think so, I wrote him a letter to explain at that time, but he scolded me in the reply letter, scolding me for forgetting the fundamentals in order to be an official, forgetting the childhood confidant relationship with Feng Ziyong, and forgetting the kindness of my uncle Feng Ruoshu's promotion! ”

Zhu Hai listened to Ma Mingyuan complaining here, and felt that he had indeed wronged Ma Mingyuan, according to his father's temper, he must not let both of the Ma family brothers enter the cabinet, and there is also a cousin of your Ma family and Fu Wenlong, a relative of the Ma family. There are a total of seven people in the cabinet, and your Ma family accounts for four, so what do you want others to do? Is it that the emperor also did it for your Ma family?

As Zhu Hai grew older and his political experience matured, he discovered more and more that his father's methods were sophisticated, and he used Ma Mingyuan as the big boss to kick out Feng for his own use, and did not let Ma Jiyuan enter the cabinet. Because there is no majority in the cabinet, the ministers of the cabinet must use the authority of the emperor to suppress each other in order to get political opponents, so the power structure can be balanced.

Zhu Hai thought of this and admired his rogue father Zhu Hongsan more and more, and now the seven prime ministers are Chen Zizhuang, Ma Mingyuan, Tong Yangjia, Liu Dalin, Fu Wenlong, Qian Qianyi, Jiang Yueguang, these seven people are divided into four factions, the Guangdong faction, the Huguang faction, and the Huguang faction is also divided into Ma Da and Ma Er, and there is the Donglin Party, none of these four factions has more than three people, and they cannot account for the majority in the cabinet.

Zhu Hai didn't know how such a subtle political arrangement could be figured out by his father, it seems that there is still a gap between himself and his father!

Zhu Hai was thinking nonsense here, Ma Mingyuan was pouring bitter water there, saying how hard he worked, and for a while both of them forgot what they should do.

It was here that Ma Mingyuan's son Ma Shaojun probed his brain outside the study and was immediately seen by Ma Mingyuan.

Ma Mingyuan didn't have a good face when he saw this son, it was because he couldn't get on the wall.

"You are a rebel, why are you shrinking your head, the prince is not an outsider, come in and talk!"

Ma Shaojun lowered his head in response, and when he entered the house, he was about to lie on Ma Mingyuan's ear to speak, Ma Mingyuan glared and said, "Is it a gentleman who is sneaky?" Say it to your face! ”

In fact, Ma Shaojun already knew that his sister was raped by the prince Zhu Haiqiang in the backyard, but this matter was too embarrassing, so it was better to quietly tell his father. How did he think that Ma Mingyuan asked him to say it to his face, Ma Shaojun had no choice but to give up his hand and said: "Father, the eldest sister in the back house is going to hang herself, and several aunts have gone to persuade her, but the eldest sister doesn't listen at all, and asks my father to take a look!" ”

When Ma Mingyuan heard that it was his daughter, he was annoyed, this daughter was pampered by himself, and he didn't know that he was going to hang himself, so the prince saw the joke.

Ma Mingyuan's old face turned red, and he had to explain to his daughter, he was afraid that the prince would have some ideas, whether he had no way to teach his daughter.

"Prince, you sit down first, the old man goes to persuade Ning'er, this kid doesn't know what's going wrong, the old man will go back as soon as he goes, let's have a drink tonight!"

Ma Mingyuan was anxious about his daughter, and got up and rushed to the back house after speaking. Zhu Hai only remembered the wrong thing he had committed at this time, seeing Ma Mingyuan go out, he also wanted to stand up and walk away, how did he know that there was still a Ma Shaojun in the house!

Ma Shaojun did not follow Ma Mingyuan, but stayed in the house to watch the prince. Ma Shaojun saw that Ma Mingyuan was leaving, and the prince was also leaving, so he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the prince and said, "Okay!" Prince, I have played with you since I was a child, I didn't expect you to be such a person, my sister thinks about you day and night, but she does such rude things to her, you still want to leave now? When my father comes back in a while, he will definitely drag you to the emperor to fight a lawsuit! ”

Zhu Hai saw that he couldn't leave, so he quickly explained: "Big cousin, just now this palace was carried away by Ning Er's beauty, I'm really sorry!" ”

"Good! You're done with a word of sorry? No, I must go to court today! Zhu Hai and Ma Shaojun were entangled here, Ma Mingyuan was anxious about his daughter, and walked quickly to the backyard.

Ma Ning'er can be said to be Ma Mingyuan's political insurance, if something happens to Ma Ning'er and the prince's marriage, he will definitely be squeezed out of the core of power at that time, so Ma Mingyuan cares more about this daughter than himself.

Ma Mingyuan came to the gate of Zhan Yuan and saw a group of people at the door, Ma Mingyuan said angrily: "What are you doing here?" Still not scattered? ”

Ma Mingyuan looked at the housekeeper Ma Fu who was also here, and asked, "Ma Fu, what's going on?" Why are there so many people around? ”

Ma Fu saw the old man coming and hurriedly saluted: "Second young master, the old slave doesn't know, the eldest lady's maid in the garden suddenly came out and said that the young lady was going to hang herself, and the old slave brought someone here!" Ma Fu was the second son of Ma Youfu, the housekeeper of the Ma Mansion in Wuchang, and the second uncle of Zhu Hongyi's wife Ma Chunhua, so he still used the old name for Ma Mingyuan and called him "Second Young Master".

"Who's in the yard now?"

"A few ladies are here, and they are persuading them inside!"

It turned out that Ma Mingyuan's concubines came, Ma Mingyuan nodded and said, "Ma Fu, you take people to disperse, I'll go in and have a look!" ”

Ma Mingyuan walked into Zhan Yuan quickly and came to his daughter Ma Ning'er's show building, now that Ma Ning'er is an adult, Ma Mingyuan refuses to enter because of etiquette, so he can only stand outside the door to greet him.

"Madame! Madam! The old man is here! ”

After a while, Ma Mingyuan's four concubines came out of the room, and they heard Ma Ning'er scolding in the building: "You fox spirits get out of here, you are the one who is angry with my mother!" ”

Those concubines were all Ma Mingyuan to Xinna, Guangdong, so naturally they were not treated by their daughter-in-law Ma Ning'er, and now Ma Ning'er is in a bad mood and makes them angry.

A seventeen or eighteen concubine whispered: "What kind of cow, what's wrong with the crown princess?" It's not that I've lost my virginity! ”

This sentence is being heard by Ma Mingyuan, Ma Mingyuan was shocked after hearing it, what he was most afraid of was his daughter's business, and now he heard the concubine say that his daughter had lost her virginity, Ma Mingyuan thought that Ma Ning'er had just arrived in Nanjing Huahua World and was lured by that wild man to lose her body, which is worth it!

Ma Mingyuan asked in a low voice: "Liuniang, what did you say?" ”

Called Liuniang, that is the concubine who just entered the Ma Mansion last year, born in Yangzhou thin horse, very favored by Ma Mingyuan, and now he is very scared when he sees the old man asking himself fiercely: "Master, the slave family is not clear, but I heard the eldest lady say that the young lady has lost her virginity!" ”

After Ma Mingyuan heard this, he still cared about etiquette, raised his feet and entered the show building. After entering the daughter's embroidery room in the show, I saw my wife Cuiniang sitting in front of the bed with my daughter. Ma Ning'er, the eldest lady of the Ma family, cried pear blossoms with rain, her eyes were red, and there was a red mark on her neck, which seemed to be about to hang herself and be rescued.

Ma Mingyuan's wife Cui Niang was Ma Mingyuan's wife Ma Feng's personal ring, Ma Feng saw that Ma Mingyuan's wife did not give birth to children, so she made the decision to give Cui Niang to her son as a little wife, but she didn't expect Cui Niang to be very competitive and gave birth to her eldest son Ma Shaojun. And Ma Mingyuan's wife was not in good health after giving birth to Ma Ning'er, and died a few years later, leaving the six-year-old Ma Ning'er to be raised by Cui Niang, so the relationship between Cui Niang and Ma Ning'er is as close as a mother and daughter. And after the death of Ma Mingyuan's wife He, he also helped Cui Niang to be the main room, which can be regarded as giving his concubine Ma Shaojun a background.

Ma Mingyuan saw that his daughter was just crying, and he was anxious, but as a father, he couldn't directly ask his daughter why she lost her body, so he could only shout to Cui Niang: "Cui Niang, what the hell is going on?" Ning'er was fine when I went out in the morning, why did it become like this in the afternoon? ”

Cui Niang sighed, stood up and pulled Ma Mingyuan to the outhouse. After Ma Mingyuan came out, he asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" Why did I hear Liuniang say that Ning'er lost her body? ”

"Master, I also listened to what Ning'er said, just now the prince came, the two of them had a good chat, I don't know why the prince suddenly went crazy, and Ning'er was in the pavilion in the lake... That's what Ning'er is! ”

When Ma Mingyuan heard that he was losing his body to the prince, he breathed a sigh of relief, Ma Ning'er's daughter is his political capital for the next few decades, and there is absolutely no room for loss, but fortunately, if he loses his body to the prince, the meat is still rotten in the pot. But when he turned around and thought about it, Ma Mingyuan scolded angrily: "This bastard prince, how can he be the same as his father, he is really a son who is a father!" ”