(This chapter is 6,000 words, lazy score!) ）

Li Chengen, who was waiting outside the door, heard movement in the house, and at first thought that the emperor wanted to play some flower work, after all, he used to play like this often. But the more I listened to the sound, the more wrong it became, why did the two of them start to do it in the end.

It was a big crime to fight with the emperor, Li Chengen hurriedly rushed in with the little eunuch, but when he went in, he found that Ma Ruyun was dead.

Zhu Hongsan was sitting on a chair panting, Li Chengen stepped forward to test Ma Ruyun's snort and said, "Emperor, it's out of breath!" ”

Zhu Hong scolded with a hideous face: "It's best if this slut dies, he doesn't know how to lift!" Pull out this slut's corpse and chop it up and feed it to the dogs! ”

Li Chengen did not dare to object, and took the little eunuch to carry Ma Ruyun's body out and handle it according to the emperor's instructions.

Strangled Ma Ruyun, who looked like Ma Xiaofang, with his own hands, Zhu Hongsan's spirit was already a little abnormal, watching Ma Ruyun's body being carried out, Zhu Hongsan said in his mouth: "Xiaofang, have you seen it?" Back then, your Ma family didn't agree to your marriage with me, but now you can see their faces clearly! I'm already the emperor, and they still look down on me, and they think I'm a hooligan, I don't understand bullshit, and I depend on them for all major national affairs! In the past, I remembered your affection back then, and I was very tolerant of your eldest brother and second brother, so don't complain about my cruelty now! ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he shouted to someone! A little eunuch walked in tremblingly outside, and Zhu Hongsan said to the little eunuch: "Spread the decree, Ma Jiyuan's daughter Ma Ruyun has been stabbed by me, and she has been corrected!" Ma Jiyuan's sons Ma Rufeng and Ma Shaoguang participated in the rebellion, and Ma Jiyuan had no way to teach his son, so he will now escort Ma Jiyuan to the capital for strict interrogation! ”

Yesterday, Zhu Hongsan issued an order to bring Ma Jiyuan to Beijing for interrogation, but Ma Jiyuan was an elder after all, so Zhu Hongsan still left Ma Jiyuan with dignity and did not let Ma Jiyuan take a flail, but this holy decree is different, the Qin crime is the heaviest crime, in addition to wearing a flail, he also has to stand in a cage, which is a great humiliation for a person from an intellectual background.

Zhu Hongsan's holy decree immediately set off a big storm in the court, although the emperor of the Ming generation likes to spank the minister's ass, but this kind of humiliation of standing in a cage with a flail and swaggering through the city has really not been, not to mention that this person is one of the emperor's four great strategists back then.

All the ministers of the court, headed by Feng Ziyong, immediately wrote to the emperor and asked Zhu Hongsan to take back his fate. However, although all the ministers are on Feng Ziyong's side, there are also people watching the excitement on the side, this is Tong Yangjia.

Tong Yangjia was overjoyed when he learned that the emperor treated Ma Jiyuan like this, which means that the Ma family forces that have occupied the imperial court for more than 20 years are finally disgusted by His Majesty the Emperor, which also means that Tong Yangjia is very likely to come to power as the first assistant.

However, Tong Yangjia is an old fox after all, and now the matter is unclear and he can't act rashly, Tong Yangjia sent a seven-grade imperial history on his side, and first wrote to the emperor to impeach Ma Mingyuan, saying that Ma Mingyuan is the seat teacher of Guo Huan, the governor of Liaoning.

Tong Yangjia just wanted to test the emperor's attitude at first, and knew that the emperor seized this matter and scolded Ma Mingyuan, saying that Ma Mingyuan was inferior to beasts, and at the same time ordered Dongchang to raid Ma Mingyuan's house, and Ma Mingyuan himself was also fortunate to enter the edict prison and wait for Ma Jiyuan to come and try it together.

The emperor's attitude is everything, Tong Yangjia saw that the Ma family had indeed lost the emperor's trust, and immediately sent his subordinates to impeach the Ma family's party, and the emperor also responded to Tong Yangjia's party's plays, as long as the official was impeached and immediately imprisoned, for a time the Jinyi Wei Prison was overcrowded, and most of them were officials of the Ma family party in the court.

When the officialdom in Beijing was in turmoil, on February 20, the fifteenth year of Shenwu, the news came from the Fusi of Jinyiwei Town, Nanjing, that Ma Jiyuan did not worry about the emperor at all, and Ma Jiyuan hanged himself immediately after receiving the emperor's holy decree, which saved the emperor's thoughts.

But Zhu Hongsan was furious when he received the news, Ma Jiyuan, why did you die? Doesn't it mean that you died soon after me? Good! You think you'll be fine when you're dead? I let you die, and you won't be able to live in peace!

Zhu Hongsan immediately issued a holy decree to show Ma Jiyuan's head to the public, and at the same time, the emperor was still angry and changed Ma Jiyuan's surname to a dog, Ma Jiyuan, you are a dog if you are gone! Next, Zhu Hongsan killed the imperial concubine Ma Ruyan in the palace, and Ma Jiyuan's adoptive father Ma Guoan dug up the grave and corpse!

Zhu Hongsan has the most ruthless means in addition to these, Ma Jiyuan's son still has Ma Shaoguang left, and Ma Jiyuan's grandson is still a few, Zhu Hongsan executed Ma Shaoguang Lingchi, and several grandsons were castrated and changed to a dog surname and sent to Liaodong as a slave.

When Ma Mingyuan heard that his brother was changed to a dog's surname after his death, he cried loudly: "Father, I didn't expect you to be right back then!" ”

When Ma Mingyuan's son Ma Guoxiang was about to die outside Chenzhou City, he took Ma Mingyuan and Ma Jiyuan's hands and told them not to covet power after assisting Zhu Hongsan successfully. Ma Guoxiang said back then, Zhu Hongsan is ruthless and black-hearted, and he will do whatever it takes to achieve great things, and it is no problem for this kind of person to share hardships together, but it is absolutely impossible to share wealth and prosperity together, so Ma Guoxiang let his two sons must float away afterwards.

But Ma Mingyuan's fame is too heavy, and he still wants to be a famous minister like Zhang Juzheng, how can he look at the power in his hands and not want it? As for Ma Jiyuan, he didn't look down on Zhu Hongsan at all, and he didn't believe that Zhu Hongsan could unload the mill and kill the donkey, so the two brothers took Lao Tzu's earnest teachings completely as the wind in their ears.

Ma Guoxiang has been dead for nearly 30 years, but at this time Ma Mingyuan remembered what his father said back then, but what else can he do if things have come to this point?

On February 25, the fifteenth year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan announced the abolition of the crown prince in the world, and at the same time, it also represented that Zhu Hongsan officially began to be ruthless against the Ma family and the party that had controlled the government for more than ten years.

On the second day of the prince's abolition, Tong Yangjia, who was the second assistant, first fired at Ma Mingyuan, this time Tong Yangjia did not fake others but personally played, impeaching Ma Mingyuan for a total of 18 major crimes and minor crimes. In addition to the old tune of controlling the government and occupying the imperial tomb, the party attached to the prince rebelled against him.

Rebellion is a big crime of losing his head, the key is that Guo Huan knows that he is Ma Mingyuan's disciple throughout the country, and Ma Mingyuan's home also received letters to and from Guo Huan, indicating that Ma Mingyuan knew that the prince was ready to take advantage of King Qin's rebellion to seize the throne.

With these real charges, coupled with the fact that the emperor is no longer protecting Ma Mingyuan, the next step is very simple, in addition to the emperor's decree to officially designate Ma Mingyuan as a prisoner, there is also a wave of reversal of horses in the court.

From the beginning of March to September, more than 3,000 of Ma Mingyuan's henchmen were arrested in half a year, of course, there were Ma Mingyuan's family members, subordinates, classmates, friends, the same year, etc., and some people who had a little connection with the Ma family were also arrested as Qin criminals.

One of the most typical is a vegetable farmer in the suburbs of Beijing, probably this vegetable farmer never thought that he could still have contact with a high-ranking official like Ma Mingyuan in his life, but because this vegetable farmer sent vegetables to the Ma family for half a year, he was arrested as a horse party and sentenced to beheading, and a total of more than 1,000 innocent passers-by were arrested.

At the end of September, the imperial court decree came down, Ma Mingyuan was given a meritorious death, which was considered a little face given by the emperor, and the other Ma Mingyuan's only son Ma Shaojun, the adult grandson, and the minor grandson were all executed, Ma Mingyuan's daughter because of her noble status, after all, she was the niece of the queen Ma Xiaofang, Zhu Hongsan gave Ma Mingyuan's daughter to death, and the other female dependents sold the sect.

Most of Ma Mingyuan's henchmen were executed, and their families were either confiscated or exiled, among which Ma Mingyuan's number one henchman Chen Zilong had the best end, probably Zhu Hongsan thought of the friendship with Chen Zilong back then, but he just cut Chen Zilong to the people, and returned to his hometown to be placed under residential surveillance by the magistrate.

Ma Mingyuan sighed after receiving the decree of death, and said to the little eunuch who came to deliver the decree: "This father-in-law, the old man has another wish before he dies, I want to meet Tong Yangjia, okay?" ”

This kind of big thing and small eunuch dared to decide, and hurried back to the palace to tell Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan also wondered when he heard it, why did Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia want to see him in the end after fighting all their lives? However, Zhu Hongsan also wanted to know why, so he ordered Tong Yangjia to meet Ma Mingyuan.

Tong Yangjia was also very puzzled when he received the holy decree, he didn't know why Ma Mingyuan wanted to see him, did he want to humiliate himself before he died? Tong Yangjia originally didn't want to go, but he couldn't help it when the emperor's decree came down, so he had to follow the eunuch who passed the decree to Jinyiwei's edict.

Seeing Ma Mingyuan, Tong Yangjia also jumped, and Jin Yiwei tortured Ma Mingyuan in order to extract a confession of who was in the same party. Ma Mingyuan's ten fingernails have been pulled out, and his body has been brushed and washed without a piece of good meat. Although Tong Yangjia knew that Jinyiwei tortured Ma Mingyuan, he was still touched when he saw Ma Mingyuan's miserable appearance.

Tong Yangjia covered his nose with a handkerchief and asked, "Ma Mingyuan, why do you want to see the old man when you are going to die?" ”

Ma Mingyuan laughed miserably, leaked out the gums that had been extracted, and said: "Tong Yangjia, you and I have been fighting all our lives, and now you are very relieved to see the old man like this?" ”

"Hehe, of course, I want you to build a crime against the old man back then, do you think of it now?"

Ma Mingyuan sighed and said: "Tong Yangjia, although you and I don't deal with each other, they are all literati battles!" Now that you win, the old man has nothing to say, but people are dying and their words are good, can you listen to what the old man says? ”

Now that Ma Mingyuan's henchmen have been swept away, and no one in the DPRK is speaking for Ma Mingyuan, Tong Yangjia feels that he will not fall for Ma Mingyuan's strategy, and it is nothing to listen to.

"Okay, for the sake of the face of the old man who has worked with you for more than 20 years, you can say it!"

"Tong Yangjia, the old man estimates that your next step is to deal with Feng Ziyong! Feng Ziyong is not your opponent, you will soon be able to become the first assistant! What the old man said is that you have to remember that you are the head of civil officials, and you must not let Your Majesty kill again, now that the country has just been decided, you really can't stand the toss. ”

Ma Mingyuan saw it very accurately, Tong Yangjia was preparing to clean up Feng for his own use, but when Tong Yangjia heard that Ma Mingyuan asked him to persuade the emperor to kill less, his heart still went to his heart. Although Tong Yangjia is ruthless, he is a civil official representative after all, and he does not want the Ming Dynasty to return to the Zhu Yuanzhang period.

Although Tong Yangjia agreed with what Ma Mingyuan said in his heart, he didn't say so, but sneered: "Ma Mingyuan, why do you care about these things when you are going to die?" Tong Yangjia finished speaking, brushed his sleeves and left.

Ma Mingyuan watched Tong Yangjia leave and sneered in his mouth, he had such a good intention to remind Tong Yangjia today, and the words he said today were for the emperor.

Ma Mingyuan is worthy of being the top strategist under Zhu Hongsan, and he has already analyzed the reason when he was unlucky. The main reason why the emperor ruthlessly cleaned up Ma Mingyuan was not that Ma Mingyuan participated in the prince's rebellion, but that the emperor finally wanted to get rid of the domination of civil officials and wanted to regain power.

Emperor Zhu Hongsan was attached to the Ma family when he started his family, and the Ma family was a Dashi family, so naturally Zhu Hongsan had to be courteous to these Dashi clans and great intellectuals after the founding of the country. However, the greed of the civil class is endless, they are naturally opposed to the imperial power, and it is not enough to give them the right to govern the country, they also want the virtual monarch to be in reality. It's the emperor, you can be a rubber stamp and it's over, just play with you in the palace, and this country can have us civil officials.

Of course, this was also the direction of social development, and at the same time the Magna Carta movement in Britain also began to restrain imperial power, and China was no exception. In fact, this kind of development has sprouted in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the early years of the Longqing Emperor and the Wanli Emperor, it was these emperors who did not care about anything as a symbol, and there was a new policy of Longqing created by the famous ministers Xu Jie, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.

These civil officials led by Ma Mingyuan had a good calculation, but what they encountered was not the noodle melon emperor like Longqing, but Zhu Hongsan, who was similar to Zhu Yuanzhang. Although Zhu Hongsan came from later generations and also knew that democracy was the general direction of social development, but the ass decided the head, and his thinking changed after becoming the emperor, no one wants to be a puppet emperor, do you want to govern the country according to your ideals? Lao Tzu still wants to draw a circle according to his ideals!

In this case, the conflict between the imperial power and the relative power is inevitable. However, Zhu Hongsan needed these civil officials and scholars in the early stage, so he had no choice but to pinch his nose as a rubber stamp. But after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was different, Zhu Hongsan held the military power in his hands and couldn't bear it anymore. What is wrong with the use of troops in the Northeast, it should be recuperated! What is wrong with the development of business, we should pay attention to agriculture! What kind of reckless military force, great achievements, etc., in the end you are the emperor or Lao Tzu is the emperor, so the conflict between Zhu Hongsan and these literati and doctors has become inevitable.

Ma Mingyuan saw this clearly before he said those words, because Tong Yangjia is also a civil servant, and there is no essential difference between him and Ma Mingyuan, Tong Yangjia must also suppress the monarchy when he comes to power, and when Tong Yangjia and Zhu Hong have three conflicts, at that time, his words will make the emperor feel that Tong Yangjia is also the same as Ma Mingyuan? As long as the emperor thinks so, it will be Tong Yangjia's death, and Ma Mingyuan's own revenge can be avenged.

Everything has been arranged, and Ma Mingyuan has no worries in his heart, now that his eldest brother and son are dead, what else can he worry about?

Ma Mingyuan looked at the poisonous wine in front of him, and said with a wry smile: "Thirty years of hard work will be exchanged for a glass of poisonous wine, okay!" Good! Good! Ma Mingyuan drank the poisonous wine after saying three good things in a row.

After drinking the poisonous wine, Ma Mingyuan remembered the scene when he met Zhu Hongsan at the age of fourteen, and then thought of the conversation between himself and Zhu Hongsan on the way south to Guangdong, and then thought of the guidance he and Zhu Hongsan had on the way south to Guangdong, as well as his dedication to governing the country, thinking of this Ma Mingyuan said softly: "Your Majesty, the minister has gone!" After Ma Mingyuan finished speaking, the poison attack occurred and he returned to that world.

Ma Mingyuan is dead, Ma Jiyuan is also dead, and now two of Zhu Hongsan's four great strategists have died, but the remaining two are not ready to stop. In the second month after Ma Mingyuan's death, Tong Yangjia began to fire at Shoufu Feng for his own use.

Feng Ziyong saw that Ma Mingyuan and his brothers had already retreated, but you should climb to this position, did you say that you wanted to retreat? Tong Yangjia impeached Feng Ziyong and Ma Mingyuan for collusion, anyway, now that the Ma family brothers are dead, there is no proof of what Tong Yangjia says.

In the end, Feng Ziyong was also imprisoned by Zhu Hongsan, accused of being attached to Ma Mingyuan by the party. Feng Ziyong was sentenced to a summary decision, but before the execution, Zhu Hongsan thought of Feng Ziyong's dead ghost father Feng Ruoshu, if Feng Ruoshu hadn't personally gone south from Beijing to open up the situation in Guangdong for Zhu Hongsan, Zhu Hongsan's development in Guangdong would definitely not be so fast. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan decided to leave Feng Ziyong with his life, and before the final execution, Zhu Hongsan pardoned Feng Ziyong and asked him to return to his hometown in Sichuan to retire, and his children and grandchildren were not allowed to take the imperial examination.

The three people who stood in front of Tong Yangjia have all been eradicated, and the next step is for Tong Yangjia to be the first assistant. According to Tong Yangjia's expectations, he can govern the country according to his own intentions, but so many people have been killed, it's not that you Tong Yangjia can stop if he says he can.

Emperor Zhu Hongsan has now completely become his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, in the second year after Ma Mingyuan's death, that is, in May of the 16th year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan took advantage of the Gansu fraud case to kill more than 1,560 officials in Gansu Province, and the families of the officials involved in the case are tens of thousands.

In September of the 16th year of Shenwu, the embankment of the northern section of the Yangtze River and the lake burst and the water of the Yangtze River poured into Wuchang, killing thousands of people. Zhu Hongsan took advantage of this case to execute all the officials in charge of water conservancy facilities, civil affairs and people's livelihood, and disaster relief and grain release along the entire Yangtze River, from Sichuan and Guizhou in the upper reaches, Huguang and Jiangxi in the middle, and Jiangsu and Anhui in the lower reaches, and more than 2,600 officials were involved in the case.

In February of the seventeenth year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan took the opportunity to check the army, and the head of the general, Qian Yong, died, and his family members were filled with the army, and there were five division commanders, eight deputy division commanders, and seven military judges who died with Qian Yong, so it can be said that Qian Yong's power in the army was eliminated.

Next, Zhu Hongsan let go of his hands and feet to kill, Zhao Guodong, the head of the five major armies in the army, committed suicide in the fifteenth year of Shenwu because of the case of King Qin, Qian Yong was given death in the seventeenth year of Shenwu, and the remaining Wang Jinbao, Zhou Yu, and Ma Kun did not escape well, Wang Jinbao was executed in the twentieth year of Shenwu, Zhou Yu committed suicide in the nineteenth year of Shenwu, Ma Kun was considered a good death, and died of illness in the twentieth year of Shenwu, but after his death, his family property was confiscated and his title was also cut.

All the senior military attaches in the other armies were purged, Zhu Hongsan's Praetorian Guard commander Han Sanqiang was killed, Han Shirong, who followed Qian Yong's bloody battle in Jiangyin, Zhao Guoliang of the Japanese dispatch army was killed, Duan Fei, who won the Russians in the northeast, was killed, and finally even Zhu Hongsan's son-in-law, Li Yuanyin, the king of Jianning County, did not escape, and Zhu Luo's husband Zhao Hu was killed in the eighteenth year of Shenwu. The vacant positions of these senior generals have been replaced by generals loyal to Zhu Hongsan, these generals were all born in the boy battalion back then, and only they can get Zhu Hongsan's absolute trust.

From the 15th year of Shenwu to the 20th year of Shenwu, 80 percent of the 100 officials of the Chinese military forces of the DPRK were killed, 36 governors of 29 provinces were killed, the second governors of several provinces were also killed, and hundreds of other high-ranking officials at the provincial level, such as political envoys, envoys of the imperial government, and capital divisions, were killed, not to mention minor officials such as the prefect and the prefect. Some people have estimated that of the 278 Jinshi in the 12th year of Shenwu, only 11 of them lived to the 21st year of Shenwu, and the rest were either killed or exiled by the army.

From the 15th year of Shenwu to the 20th year of Shenwu, 30,000 or 40,000 officials were executed in these five years, and more than 200,000 people including their families. As the first assistant, Tong Yangjia naturally can't watch the emperor continue to kill like this, who will still work after the officials are killed? How else is the country governed?

Tong Yangjia had no choice but to write a book to ask Zhu Hongsan to kill people, but Zhu Hongsan, who killed the red-eyed, could stop. Didn't you Tong Yangjia disagree? Good! Kill you all together.

In the twenty-first year of Shenwu, Shoufu Tong Yangjia was imprisoned for impeaching him for corruption, of course, this is definitely slander, although Tong Yangjia is rich, but compared with Ma Mingyuan, Feng Ziyong and others, it is not enough to see at all. However, Zhu Hongsan waited for this opportunity, and soon the verdict came down, Tong Yangjia followed in the footsteps of Ma Mingyuan and was given to die, his nephew Tong Tuchang was killed, and the rest of the party were killed, even Gong Dacheng, the father-in-law of Tong Yangjia who had been dead for two years, was also attached to the party and Tong Yangjia was dug up.

So far, among the one hundred and seven founding titles awarded by Zhu Hongsan when he founded the country, all of the nine dukes were killed except for Feng Ziyong, only six of the thirty-eight marquis survived, and the sixty people of the earl were the worst, not one left, all of them were killed by Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Hongsan is even better than Zhu Yuanzhang in this regard, although Zhu Yuanzhang is easy to kill, but four of the 34 founding heroes survived, the proportion is far more than Zhu Hongsan.

In fact, there is a reason why Zhu Hongsan was ruthless to his brothers back then, similar to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Hongsan's background is not good, of course, he can't eat like Zhu Yuanzhang, but he also belongs to the bottom of society. When Zhu Yuanzhang started, he was attached to the Huaixi General Group and the Zhedong Group, and Zhu Hongsan was similar, attached to the Huguang Group, the Guangdong Party and the Donglin Party.

Of course, in the early stage, everyone worked together for a common goal, and the contradictions were not intense. But after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was different, these people grew up with you back then, what did you know about Menqing when you were a child, and now that you are the emperor, we naturally have all kinds of privileges.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's Huaixi generals beat Yushi on the street, and now Zhu Hongsan's Huguang Group has embezzled land and factories everywhere, which has already committed the emperor's rebellion. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang ruthlessly cleaned up the Huaixi generals, and Zhu Hong ruthlessly cleaned up the Huguang Group three times, the fundamental reasons are almost the same, they just don't want these interest groups to endanger the monarchy.

But no matter how Zhu Hongsan killed, there was one thing he couldn't solve by slaughtering, and that was the issue of the successor of the empire.