Wuchang County Ling Liang saw that the emperor only punished the imperial prince Zhao Dequan, and then ignored the other families who forcibly occupied the land. Liang Guan wanted to stand up and speak again, but he didn't know that Xu Fuyuan, the prefect of Wuchang behind him, grabbed him.

"Lord Liang, this official knows that you are dedicated to the country, but don't make an inch, you are not afraid of death, but don't pull other colleagues!"

Xu Fuyuan knew that the Wuchang family was inextricably linked with the ministers of the DPRK and China, and it was difficult for them to see that it must be those who were unlucky enough to be outsiders.

Because the Ming Dynasty officialdom stipulated that locals could not be officials in their own provinces, most of the Huguang officials now come from Zhejiang and Nanzhili. Although these people also stand behind the Zhedong faction and the Donglin Party, Xu Fuyuan is a small prefect, and he is not arrogant enough to be able to stand up for him.

At present, although the various factions of the DPRK and China are fighting fiercely in secret, they maintain general stability on the surface, and Liang Guan must not be allowed to provoke disputes among the various factions.

Liang Guan is not a newcomer in the officialdom who doesn't know anything, he knows that he can't move the Huguang upstart on his own, and he still needs the support of the bigwigs in the DPRK and China, so Liang Guan didn't say anything.

Xu Fuyuan saw that Liang Guan was silent and relieved, this matter is very important, it is better to go back and discuss it with the Governor and the Political Envoy.

Zhu Hongsan originally had two purposes for returning to his hometown this time, one was to worship his parents, and the other was to visit his parents and fellow villagers. But because of the land annexation issue, Zhu Hongsan didn't have the face to visit his fellow villagers, so he went to meet his parents next.

The tombs of Zhu Hong's three grandparents and parents are three miles outside the county seat, and this place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the environment is good. After the death of Zhu Hongsan's grandfather, he was not buried in the ancestral tomb of the Chu clan outside the city, but chose a place to be buried by himself. Zhu Hongsan's father and mother were also buried here after their deaths.

Zhu Hongsan came to the grave and looked around, relieved himself, fortunately, the Qing army was different from the Liukou, and there was no habit of burning people's ancestral graves, and Zhu Hongsan's ancestral tombs had not been damaged in recent years.

The Chinese pay attention to moving the poor and building the grave, and now that Zhu Hongsan is rich in the world, he naturally wants to overhaul and repair his ancestral grave.

"Wuchang Mansion, I have decided to build the Imperial Examination Mausoleum, you organize the manpower!"

Xu Fuyuan frowned when he heard the emperor say this, now Wuchang has just experienced the war, and there are less than one million people in the entire Wuchang Mansion, and now the emperor is going to repair the ancestral tomb, what should I do with this conscription?

"Your Majesty, now that Wuchang Mansion is financially tight, there is a shortage of manpower, and it is necessary to recruit people to conquer the Manchu Dynasty, so it is really impossible to allocate manpower to repair the imperial tomb!"

The scholars of the Ming Dynasty still have some backbone, at least they can put forward reasonable opinions, if they are the scholars of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, they can only kneel and accept the order of Jun'en. Xu Fuyuan's opposition is indeed reasonable, the ancestral tomb of Zhu Hong's three families is three miles outside Wuchang County, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, ten miles around the imperial tomb is the mausoleum range, and every grass and tree in it belongs to the royal family, so Wuchang County will also be encircled into the mausoleum.

The solution is not nothing, either from the selection of a new site, or the entire relocation of Wuchang County, which is not something that can be completed in a moment and a half in peacetime, let alone in wartime.

Zhu Hongsan also knew that it was difficult for the local government, so he was not prepared to start building it now.

"Wuchang Mansion, you first choose a new address around Liangzi Lake, and then start the preliminary preparations, rest assured! I have allocated 100,000 silver dollars in advance from the Inner Treasury, which should be enough! ”

Xu Fuyuan knew that the emperor was rich, and now that he heard that there was no need to start work immediately, he also put his mind at ease and promised to choose a beautiful place around Liangzi Lake as the emperor's mausoleum.

Zhu Jiang asked after hearing it on the side: "Father, Wuchang is too far away from Nanjing, why don't you move the mausoleum of the emperor's grandfather and grandmother to Fengyang?" ”

Fengyang is where Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral tomb is located, but it was burned down during the Chongzhen period, and it is still in ruins. Zhu Hongsan did not want to move his mother's grave to Fengyang, although Zhu Hongsan crossed into the Zhu family, but he did not have any sense of identity with the Zhu family, this time he came back mainly to worship his mother, because Zhu Hongsan was weak and sick when he was a child, coupled with the early death of his father, it was his mother Zhao Chunhua who pulled Zhu Hongsan to grow up.

Zhu Hongsan looked at his parents' small tomb and sighed and said, "Zhu Jiang, you don't know, your grandmother is from Wuchang, and if you go to Fengyang, you will definitely be angry with the Zhu family!" Your grandmother's family has been from Wuchang for generations, so let's stay in Wuchang! ”

Zhu Jiang saw that his father had made up his mind to leave the mausoleum in Wuchang, and he didn't say anything.

After paying homage to the ancestral tomb, Zhu Hongsan entered Wuchang County and took a look at the former residence, but now the county is in ruins, except for some decent houses in Beicheng, other houses have been destroyed by more than ten years of war.

Zhu Hongsan stood in front of the ruins of his house, looked at the courtyard that could still be vaguely seen, and said with emotion: "Zhu Jiang, it was here that you spent your childhood!" ”

Zhu Hongsan walked into the courtyard from the gate, pointed to a pile of ruins on the side and said, "This is the wing room, which was here when I married your mother-in-law!" ”

"The main room is your grandmother's room! I remember that there was also a kennel on the left side of the gate, and I had a local dog named Rhubarb, and then he got sick and died! There is a small corner gate on the other side of the courtyard wall, and in front of it is a grocery store, your grandfather died early, and it was your grandmother who ran such a grocery store to raise me! ”

Zhu Hongsan led Zhu Jiang's father and son to walk in the ruins, and Zhu Hongsan casually told his son some things about his childhood.

When he came to the well in the backyard, Zhu Hongsan looked at the well and saw that the well had dried up, sighed and said, "This is the place where I make sugar, and your uncle Zhu Hongyi gave me a hand back then!" Speaking of this, Zhu Hongsan remembered that Zhu Hongyi was not tolerated by his stepmother back then, so he could only live in his own home.

Zhu Jiang fell into deep thought after seeing his father mention Zhu Hongyi, and he didn't dare to disturb, so he had to stand on the side and wait.

Zhu Hongsan thought of the current Huguang faction from Zhu Hongyi, and Zhu Hongsan really listened to what the Wuchang County Order said in the morning, and land annexation is a very serious problem. These Huguang factions relied on their own power, and in addition to occupying land in Huguang's hometown, they also encroached on local land in Guangdong, Nanzhili, and Zhejiang. According to the intelligence of Dongchang, Qian Lide's family has encroached on more than 20,000 acres of grain fields in Nanzhili, and this is only his family, and other Huguang upstarts have not yet been counted.

Zhu Hongsan has always been decisive in his work, either he doesn't do it or does it, but Zhu Hongsan made a mistake in the matter of Huguang's upstart.

The Huguang faction is different from the Guangdong faction back then, the current Zhedong faction and the Donglin faction, the Huguang faction is the foundation of Zhu Hongsan, these people abandoned their families and businesses back then and followed Zhu Hongsan to flee for their lives, and now that you eat meat, can't we drink soup?

Zhu Hongsan did the same thing back then, and immediately after arriving in Guangdong, he distributed most of the unimportant factories and mines in his hands to these Huguang upstarts, and Zhu Hongsan originally thought that with his own support, these people could become early capitalists. But there is a gap between reality and ideals, and after making huge profits, these guys did not invest in expanding production, but bought houses and land everywhere.

Zhu Hongsan is also very troubled now, he is not worried about land annexation, now that the population of the Central Plains is decreasing, there is a large amount of land in Henan, Shandong and other places, and there will not be a situation where there are many people and little land. Zhu Hongsan's headache was that these Huguang nouveau riche he supported were completely detached from his original hopes, and became the Junker landlord class in Germany in later generations, rather than developing into a pure bourgeoisie like in Britain.

Zhu Hongsan thought for a long time and didn't have a safe way, he looked at Zhu Jiang beside him, and couldn't help but think of a test, and asked what this son thought.

"Zhu Jiang, you said that the land around Wuchang is seriously annexed now, but these are some of my old men and friends, what do you say I should do?"

Zhu Jiang listened to his father ask him these things, his expression perked, this is his father's test of himself, and he must answer well.

Zhu Jiang thought for a while and opened his mouth and said: "Father, these uncles and uncles followed their father to fight in the south and the north back then, and now they should get some benefits, but everything has a limit, and the situation in Wuchang is really a bit too much!" Therefore, Erchen thought that these people should spit out part of the land and return it to the landless peasants! ”

Zhu Jiang's idea is decent, and it is not a proper solution. But Zhu Hongsan didn't say anything, Zhu Jiang used to be a gentleman, flying eagles and lackeys in Guangzhou, and then went to be a soldier, fighting abroad for three or four years, and it is understandable that he has no understanding of government affairs.

Zhu Hongsan didn't say good or bad, but nodded after listening to Zhu Jiang's suggestion. Zhu Jiang thought that his father was satisfied with his statement, and he was very happy in his heart.

After Zhu Hongsan finished shopping in Wuchang County, he left Wuchang County and returned to Wuchang City. Xu Fuyuan, the prefect of Wuchang, did not return to his yamen, but went directly to the yamen of the political envoy.

Xia Yunyi, the political envoy, was very busy, and when he saw Xu Fuyuan coming in, he smiled bitterly: "Gong Yan, this official is so busy here that he hits the back of his head, but you accompany His Majesty to visit the mountains and rivers!" How did you get back? ”

Xu Fuyuan is a native of Songjiang, Nanzhili, and has close friends with Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi, and is one of the founders of the "Several Societies", which is one of the peripheral organizations of the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty.

Xu Fuyuan listened to Xia Yunyi's teasing, and did not laugh at each other, but said in a low voice: "Yi Zhong, Your Majesty went to your hometown in Wuchang County today, something happened!" ”

Xia Yunyi was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Yi Zhong, Wuchang County Ling Liang Guan Liang Yan is as you can recognize it! Is that the one who organized the rebel army in Taihu Lake with Renzhong back then? Liang Guan and Chen Zilong organized a rebel army in Taihu Lake that year, and Zhu Hongsan was recommended by Chen Zilong to become a county magistrate after occupying Nanjing.

Xia Yunyi was reminded by Xu Fuyuan before he remembered that this was his own person.

"What's wrong? That Liang Guan angered His Majesty? ”

"That's not true, but Liang Guan has pierced the matter of the annexation of the land around Wuchang, and now the emperor already knows about it!"