When Zhu Hongsan returned home, he first went to his mother's house to visit his mother, and his mother Zhao Chunhua has become more and more old in the past two years. chatted with my mother for a while, picked out some interesting anecdotes in the past few days and told my mother, and my mother also told Zhu Hongsan to pay attention to his body.

After coming out, he returned to his own yard, and finally said that his mother had changed the house a few years ago, but he didn't buy a new one, he just bought the neighbor's house, and opened a small moonlit door on the wall.

I went back to the house and got some food for myself, because he had too many secrets, Zhu Hongsan didn't hire anyone in this house, and he did everything by himself when he was young.

Xiao Cui came to her door and shouted, "Young master, young master"

Zhu Hongsan came out of the house and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Young master, a few days ago, a scholar came to you, saying that his name was Ma Mingyuan, I said that you went out, and he asked you to come back to his house, saying that he had something to tell you."

"Okay, I got it." Zhu Hongsan thought: "Ma Laosan is back, didn't he go out to study?" ”

Ma Mingyuan finally ranked first in the township examination in Chongzhen's three years, and his ranking was not low, fifth. After the exam, I went to Beijing to take the Jinshi exam for Chongzhen for four years, but the local exam may not be feasible if it is put in the whole country. Chongzhen didn't pass the exam for four years, returned to his hometown for a few months and said that he wanted to go out to study, I heard that he went to Nanzhili, and he ran for three years, but he didn't expect to come back now.

Zhu Hongsan thought: "Is there something wrong with Xiaofang?" Thinking of this, I didn't wash my face, so I went out and rode on my horse and galloped away.

Soon rushed to Majiazhuang, Zhu Hongsan stepped forward and patted the door of the Ma family, and it was Ma Youfu who opened the door, the second son of the housekeeper Ma Kui, who was the gatekeeper in the Ma family. At first glance, it was Zhu Hongsan, everyone in the Ma family knew Zhu Hongsan after Ma Xiaofang's blind date banquet, and they all became the aunt of the Ma family after Zhu Hongsan's eighty percent, plus Zhu Hongsan would be a man, and he would not come to Ma Mansion empty-handed. So except for Master Ma and Ma Guoxiang, everyone who saw Zhu Hongsan greeted him with a smile. Ma Youfu looked at it and immediately smiled: "The third master is here?" Looking for our young lady? ”

Zhu Hongsan took out a tael of silver and threw it to Ma Youfu and said, "Second brother, let's have tea." I'm looking for the second young master today and help me call out. ”

"Okay, Third Master, you wait a minute." As he spoke, he trotted all the way in to report.

Zhu Hongsan stood at the door for five minutes and saw Ma Mingyuan come out. I haven't seen Ma Mingyuan for a few years, he is more handsome, inherited from his mother's excellent genes, about 1.9 meters tall, with a smooth and fair face, revealing an angular cold handsomeness. Ma Lao Er is twenty-five years old this year, and he is at the peak of adult men in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Hongsan thought viciously: "Beautiful men can't be humane, maybe Ma Lao Er is just a good thing, a silver-like wax gun head." ”

Ma Mingyuan hurriedly greeted him, and said, "I haven't seen you for three years, Lieutenant Fengguo is getting more and more handsome." ”

Zhu Hongsan said with a smile: "Where is it, it is far from the second brother Ma, and the second brother Ma is from eighty to eighteen." ”

Eighteen years old was an old girl in the Ming Dynasty, Ma Mingyuan scolded in his heart: "Bastard boy, my mouth is still so bad, saying that I only like old women." ”

Ma Mingyuan came to the front and said, "I originally wanted to invite you to sit in the house, but my father is at home, you know, haha, let's go to the tea shed on the road over there and sit down." ”

It is said that the tea shed is a shack built with pampas grass on the side of the road, and there is an old man who stays here and buys some tea for the passing merchants. There just aren't many people right now. Zhu Hongsan and Ma Mingyuan chose a relatively remote table to sit on. The servants of the Ma family, who owned themselves, served good tea to the two.

Zhu Hongsan picked up the teacup and drank it dry, and said, "What is the second brother looking for me for?" It won't just be for tea. ”

Ma Mingyuan saw Zhu Hong drinking tea like a cow, and said with a wry smile: "I really don't know what my sister likes about you, rude and rude." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "What Xiaofang likes about me is this kind of true temperament, with a character of saying one thing and saying two things, unlike you cultural people, who obviously hate me in my heart and want to die, and still pretend here." ”

Ma Mingyuan thought for a while and said, "It could also be this reason." You know the Hou Fangyu who went on a blind date with Xiaofang before, and now he is hot in Nanjing. Together with Mao Xiang, Chen Zhenhui, and Fang Yizhi, they are known as the four sons of Jiangnan. ”

Zhu Hongsan pursed his lips and said: "It's just a few guys who rely on their parents and sons, Wen can't govern the country and prosper the country, and military can't pacify the world, this kind of people have the most in any dynasty, I generally call them waste." ”

Ma Mingyuan's eyes lit up and said, "Oh? It seems that the virtuous brother has a lot of ideas in his heart, so what kind of person can you talk about to govern the country and prosper the country? ”

Zhu Hongsan had seen those things in the Ming Dynasty in his previous life, and there was a passage above that was very right, at this time Zhu Hongsan retold the sentence of Mingyue back then: "Talents are divided into three kinds, the first is the most ordinary, just like your father, your uncle and father-in-law, etc., they are called ordinary talents, this kind of person is the most, and it is the cornerstone of a dynasty."

The second is to govern the country, like the three Yangs of our dynasty, Li Dongyang, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, they are all such talents, if they meet a good emperor, they can create a good dynasty, such as Xuanzong and Xiaozong.

The last kind I call the demon, this kind of talent is a hero in troubled times, and in prosperous times, it is a capable minister who governs the world, such as Cao Cao in history, and Zhang Juzheng of our dynasty, they have the ability to save the fate of a dynasty, this kind of person we can only offer on our knees. But the second type of people is common, and the third type is not common. ”

Ma Mingyuan heard this kind of remarks for the first time, you must know that Zhang Juzheng's reputation at this time is not very good, not to mention the issue of personal style, when governing the country, officials at all levels want to live and die, and the reputation can be good? He asked, "Lieutenant Bongkook, what kind of talent do you think you are?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Myself, of course I'm a waste, what can I do if I eat and wait to die?" ”

Ma Mingyuan said with a smile, and then said: "I have been wandering outside in the past few years, and I have seen the dilapidated state of the north. ”

Zhu Hongsan's heart moved, and he thought: "What is this stupid fork doing when he has nothing to say about this?" Of course I know what kind of people are needed, but does he obviously mean that a third kind of people are needed, is he going to be a third kind of people? ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Second brother, don't be embarrassed for me, I am a clan, I eat and wait for death every day, and I have to report to the magistrate when I go out of the city for ten miles, so I have that knowledge." ”

Ma Mingyuan lowered his head and fiddled with his teacup, and said: "The things on your Zhuangzi are not something that unknowledgeable people can make, it is steel and gunpowder, is this still like eating and waiting for death." ”

Zhu Hongsan was so frightened that he almost jumped up, and he wanted to find the dagger on his waist to kill people, but seeing that there was no one around, the servants of the Ma family were also standing ten meters away from him, suppressing his desire to draw a knife, and said in a low voice: "Ma Er, what do you want to do?" ”

Ma Mingyuan smiled: "How is it?" Did I say yes? Did you just pull out a knife? Take it out and let me see, how is the steel you made? ”

Zhu Hongsan pulled out the dagger on his waist, thrust it into the table, and entered the wood by half an inch, which was made by the iron ox with thousands of steel, which was close to the point of high-carbon steel, and it was really sharp.

Ma Mingyuan looked at it, his eyes lit up and said: "Good knife, this knife is worth at least a hundred taels of silver, is it good to give it to me." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "You tell me what you know, of course you can give it to you if you say that the master is happy, and you can give it to you if you don't like to hear it, but it is just inserted in you and brought back." ”

Ma Mingyuan smiled: "Won't Xiaofang be sad if you kill me?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Lao Tzu's life is almost gone, what do you want a woman to do?" ”

"Well, it really has the essence of a hero. Let me tell you, do you know how many times our Ma family has blocked the prying eyes of the government for you? ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "I would like to hear about it." ”

Ma Mingyuan took a sip of tea: "You feel that you are quite secretive yourself, but you underestimate the ability of the official mansion and the Jinyi Guard." When you bought a large amount of pig iron, someone in Jinyiwei paid attention to you, it was our Ma family who told Jinyiwei that Zhuangzi was our Ma family's industry, where to produce pig iron and sell it for money, plus my uncle is now the right capital of BJ, or do you think you can get good? Mass production of steel and gunpowder, what are you going to do? Fengyang's imprisonment is all light. ”

Zhu Hongsan's face turned several times and asked, "Why do you want the Ma family to help me?" Don't say those bad reasons why your sister likes me, seriously. ”

Ma Mingyuan sighed and said: "You know that I went to Beijing three years ago for the scientific examination, it was okay at that time, and the road was quite peaceful, but after the bandits flowed to the Central Plains in the past two years, the north has become more and more dilapidated, and I came back from Shandong when I came back."

Shandong is quite peaceful, but it is also rampant bandits, I arrived in Nanzhili and heard the rebellion of Dengzhou Kong Youde Geng Zhongming, killing thousands of miles without a rooster crying. However, the officials and the army were not effective in suppressing bandits, and the provinces only managed themselves, and as long as the bandits left their own territory, everything would be fine, resulting in more and more bandits.

In the first year of Chongzhen, it was only one province in Shandong, and now the six northern provinces are all bandits. When I went to Jiangnan, what I saw was that the scholars in Jiangnan ignored the affairs outside the window and only read the books of sages and sages, chanting poems every day, and didn't care about the life or death of the people in the north.

When I got home, I saw that you were busy with your stuff in the Zhuangzi, and I started to want to see it with an interesting attitude, but after seeing it, I found that you had a big plan, which helped you get through a few crises. I've given it to you, it's up to you. ”

Zhu Hongsan watched Ma Mingyuan sit down, and said slowly: "Do you know why the Han people have existed for thousands of years, and they have not perished after several major crises, but some prominent nations at that time perished in the hands of the Han people, because of what?"

It is because of people like you, this kind of idler who has nothing to do and worries about the country when he is full, and it is precisely because of you that my Han nation can be inherited for tens of millions of years, you are the third kind of person, and Zhang Juzheng, Wang Anshi and other people are the same kind of people. ”

Zhu Hongsan took a sip of water, moistened his throat and said, "Have you noticed it, why are the bandits more and more suppressed?" That's because some people continue to join the bandits, the news from the north, the bandits have grown from tens of thousands of people a few years ago to nearly one million now, and the end of the march is hundreds of miles apart, and the smoke and dust brought up are all over the sky, this is no longer something that Yue Fei and Zhang Juzheng can pacify, this is already the end of the dynasty. ”

Ma Mingyuan was shocked by the end of the dynasty, and he said: "Isn't it true that you can't do it?" ”

Zhu Hongsan shook his head and said: "The most important thing in quelling the rebellion in the north is food, but the north is a piece of erosion, a little grain is a drop in the bucket, and large-scale grain transportation is impossible to achieve because of the lack of local officials, and when millions of rebels arrive in one place, they will eat up the grain in that place within a few days, and then coerce the people who have no food to go to the next place, this is the truth of the north, and it is also the truth that there is no solution." ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "What if you are the governor of the five provinces? ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "I will be heavily stationed in Shanxi to fortify along Fenshui when the rebels have not rushed out of Shaanxi, blocking the road for the bandits to enter the east. In the south, the Sichuan troops were transferred into Hanzhong, and as long as the three passes of Dasanguan, Meridian Valley and Chencang Road were held, the thieves would not want to go south into Sichuan. In addition, heavy troops were deployed to guard Huangguan. The road for the thieves to enter Henan was cut off. Then it was just a matter of waiting, waiting for all the bandits in Shaanxi to starve to death. ”

Ma Mingyuan pointed at Zhu Hongsan and said, "You... You... What is the black heart of your heart, and you want to starve to death for millions of people in hundreds of counties in Shaanxi? ”

Zhu Hongsan said gloomily: "That's better than them coming out and eating up all the grain in Shanxi and Henan, you look at it now, it's not a matter of starving millions of people, how many people have died in the six northern provinces, it's more than the whole SX people, the lesser of two evils." But this worked three years ago in Chongzhen, but now it doesn't work, the bandits have become a big trend, and it is irreversible. ”

Ma Mingyuan sighed, and after a long time, he said, "Then what do you want to do?" ”

Zhu Hongsan thought that the opportunity had come, this Ma Mingyuan was quick in thinking, his ideas were not pedantic, and it was worth fighting for. Then Zhu Hong's three righteousnesses said awe-inspiringly: I am the blood of Taizu, seeing the country ruined into this, I want to learn the story of Han Guangwu and reorganize the Daming rivers and mountains, but I need the assistance of Mr., Mr. is talented, such as Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty, Zhuge of the Shu Han Dynasty, and Liu Jiye of the founding of the country, I don't know if Mr. can help me? ”

Ma Mingyuan looked at Zhu Hongsan, who was only fifteen years old in front of him, and listened to his words about learning the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Liu Bei Sangu Thatched House, and wanted to laugh in his heart. However, Zhu Hongsan's ambition really didn't expect it, and he originally thought that he wanted to protect himself in this troubled era, but he didn't expect this person to be Liu Xiu directly.

He said that he was very tempted, but the time has not yet come, Daming still has half of the country, the future is unknown, and he has not figured out the pros and cons of various pros and cons, and it is too early to promise him. Thinking of this, Ma Mingyuan haha and said: "I had a very happy chat with Brother Xian today, it's not early, Brother Fool is going home, you promised to give me this dagger." ”

Zhu Hongsan made a gesture of please, and Ma Mingyuan went home with a dagger.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Ma Mingyuan's back and said: "Dead guy, you still don't give up on the Ming Dynasty, you will know that the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum will be burned in February next year." After saying that, he took the horse and went home to rest, without mentioning it.