Just when Zhu Hongsan was in the palace and the nobleman Anna Hu Tianhu Emperor of Xinna, Ma Mingyuan did not rest.

Ma Mingyuan is in charge of finance and civil affairs in the cabinet, and Ma Mingyuan was in charge of this part when he was in Huguang, and he is also familiar with it.

But now Ma Mingyuan is not as elegant as usual, and a strand of long beard is about to be broken by him. Ma Mingyuan is not alone in the house, there is also Wang Yunchang, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance.

Wang Yunchang was invited to Ma Mansion by Ma Mingyuan in the afternoon, and today he will discuss a topic, that is, about the "request for the establishment of a bank to issue silver coins". There has been news from the palace that His Majesty the Emperor has hinted that Ma Mingyuan will pass this "Ask the Bank to issue silver coins" at tomorrow's court meeting. That's why today Ma Mingyuan invited Wang Yunchang to discuss the matter of tomorrow's court meeting.

Wang Yunchang, as Feng Ruoshu's disciple and Feng's self-used junior, is naturally a member of the Feng family. But Wang Yunchang is also a secretary of the Ministry of Finance and knows the importance of this recital. As long as the fold is passed, the Ministry of Finance will immediately surpass the Organization Department to become the largest ministry, so that he Wang Yunchang will also go one step further on the road to the cabinet.

And Ma Mingyuan thinks much more far-reaching, Ma Mingyuan has always regarded himself as Zhang Juzheng's second, he wants to be the minister of Qingtian, of course, it would be more perfect to take the opportunity to hit political opponents when he completes his set goals.

Ma Mingyuan's "request for the establishment of a bank to issue silver coins" has a great impact, and if it is passed, it means that all the silver in circulation in the market will be invalid and lose the value of the currency. If you want to circulate, you have to exchange it for official silver coins, and the actual silver content of silver coins is only nine coins and two cents. Large households will lose eight cents of silver if they exchange one or two pieces of silver, which is not counting the fire consumption when exchanging, so this proposal is of course resisted by large households.

In fact, the impact on the Huguang faction is also very great, the Huguang faction of these upstarts came to Guangdong, in a short period of time to complete the original accumulation of capital, in addition to the traditional industry is not as good as the Guangdong faction, in some emerging industries, such as shipping, silk reeling, printing and dyeing, iron manufacturing and other industries have already surpassed the Guangdong local faction, so this fold actually has a greater impact on the Huguang faction.

However, the foundation of the Huguang faction is Zhu Hongsan, and the leading figure Ma Mingyuan is well aware of the current financial situation, so the Huguang faction will naturally fully support any policy of Emperor Shenwu. Because in order to restore the Ming Dynasty, seventy or eighty percent of the annual fiscal revenue should be invested in the military, and now there are less than one million taels of silver in the treasury. The fastest way to make money is to raid the house, but Zhu Hongsan can use this method when the external threat is greater than the internal threat, and naturally playing with the soft knife of money is still more acceptable than the raid.

Wang Yunchang looked at Ma Mingyuan's recital, which had been revised a lot by Ma Mingyuan. In order to reduce the resistance to the implementation of the policy, Ma Mingyuan relaxed the collection period of fire consumption by two years, that is, if it is implemented now, there is no fire consumption, as long as the silver content can meet the official standard, nine coins and two cents can be exchanged for a silver coin of one tael. At the same time, the credit limit for private banks has been relaxed, stipulating that loans can be made at a fixed exchange rate set by the central bank after two years, giving them some time to prepare.

Although Ma Mingyuan made a lot of concessions, he estimated that the Guangdong faction would still oppose it, after all, the time limit was only two years, and after two years, they would have to come in accordance with the regulations, and those big Guangdong businessmen would suffer great losses. Even if Ma Mingyuan made concessions on the new policy, the fundamental contradiction is irresolvable, and Wang Yunchang is not optimistic about tomorrow's court meeting.

After reading the recital, Wang Yunchang handed it to Ma Mingyuan and said, "My lord, tomorrow I estimate that Yuanfu and they will still oppose it." If you can't get it, you have to discuss it! "Last time, because of the opposition of the Guangdong faction, Zhu Hongsan finally decided to discuss in court, but he didn't expect a draw. The cabinet now has a total of seven people, namely Chen Zizhuang, Huang Yingxiu, and Liu Dalin from the Guangdong faction, Ma Mingyuan, Feng Ziyong, and Tong Yangjia from the Huguang faction, plus Fu Wenlong from the Huguang faction. Last time, Ma Mingyuan was negligent, he thought that his side had an absolute advantage, but he didn't expect Feng Ziyong to abstain from voting when he voted. The reason is still very sufficient, that is, the impact of the bank's new policy is huge, and there is no buffer period, so please ask His Majesty the Emperor to return Ma Mingyuan's performance.

So this time, Ma Mingyuan revised the fold from the new, and specially called Wang Yunchang, the hardcore of Feng Ziyong, to let him pass on a message, this time it was the emperor's intention, so that Feng Ziyong should not be ignorant.

After Ma Mingyuan listened to Wang Yunchang's words, he picked up the teacup on the tea party, took a sip and asked, "This time it is the emperor's intention, does Lord Feng still dare to oppose the emperor?" ”

Hearing the displeasure in Ma Mingyuan's words, Wang Yunchang scolded secretly in his heart: "Lord Feng is really, why do you immortals want me to get involved in a fight?" ”

Wang Yunchang thought so in his heart, but said with a smile on his lips: "Don't worry, Lord Ma, I will pass the news to Lord Feng, this time it is the emperor's intention, I don't think Lord Feng will abstain!" ”

Seeing Wang Yunchang say this, Ma Mingyuan nodded with satisfaction, picked up the teacup and said, "It's getting late, and this pavilion won't send Lord Wang!" ”

Seeing Ma Ming serving tea to the guests, Wang Yunchang quickly stood up and bowed to say goodbye.

said that it was the same night, Wang Yunchang dared to go home and sleep with his concubine in his arms, and when he went out, he hurriedly got into the sedan chair and rushed to Feng Ziyong's house to deliver the news.

Just after Wang Yunchang left, a person came out from behind the screen in the Mafu study, with a medium build, wearing a gray cloth shirt and a long shirt, looking dashing, it was Chen Zilong, who was known as the head of the "Three Sons of the Clouds".

Chen Zilong is the prefect of Zhaoqing, with the important task of resettlement of displaced people in Tuntian, he has done a very good job in recent years, and he has a good relationship with Emperor Zhu Hongsan, and was appointed as the political envoy of Zhejiang when preparing for the Northern Expedition to Nanjing. Chen Zilong is ostensibly a student of Qian Qianyi, plus he is a native of Zhejiang, and he was also one of the backbones of the Fushe before, and he is a hardcore Donglin Party member, so this time Qian Qianyi recommended Chen Zilong to serve as the political envoy of Zhejiang.

But what Qian Qianyi didn't expect was that he was obviously his student, but in fact, Chen Zilong was Ma Mingyuan's party.

Chen Zilong is three years younger than Ma Mingyuan, when Ma Mingyuan traveled to Nanzhili, he hit it off at first sight in Nanjing, plus these two are great intellectuals for the country and the people, and they hate to see each other late, and finally Chen Zilong and Ma Mingyuan went to Wuchang, Huguang, and met the magical boy Zhu Hongsan.

After Chen Zilong returned to Nanzhili, he continued to run for this ruined dynasty, but some intellectuals represented by Qian Qianyi in Nanzhili were drunk and dreamed of death, and they knew every day that they drank and played with women, and they didn't care about national affairs. Chen Zilong was very disappointed with Qian Qianyi when he saw this, but Chen Zilong was just a man at that time, and his status was not on the stage at all, so he had no choice but to go home and study behind closed doors.

The hard work paid off, and Chen Zilong finally became a jinshi in Chongzhen's ten years. But when he arrived in Beijing, he found that it was similar to Nanjing, and the bigwigs in the court were vying for power and profit, and they did everything but did not do personnel, so Chen Zilong resigned in anger and returned to his hometown to serve his old mother. But within a few years, the world was in turmoil, the emperor hanged himself, and Li Zicheng occupied Beijing and established the Dashun regime.

When the country was ruined and the family was destroyed, Chen Zilong resolutely bid farewell to his wife and children, came to Nanjing alone, and became a military officer. Chen Zilong originally thought that the country was like this, and those bigwigs in the DPRK and China should see the situation clearly, but he thought that the small court in Nanjing only had a one-year lifespan, and there were "three major cases". Immediately afterwards, Chen Zilong saw the ugliness of his teacher Qian Qianyi, and knelt outside Nanjing to welcome the Qing army into the city when the heavy rain was heavy. Qian Qianyi's kneeling completely made Chen Zilong die for his teacher, and he was also unworthy of his confidante Liu Ru. At this point, Chen Zilong completely broke with the Donglin Party ideologically, and after Chen Zilong returned to his hometown, he sold his property and organized a rebel army to resist the Qing army in the Songjiang area.

At this time, a group of Jinyi guards found Chen Zilong under the banner of the King of Chu, saying that the King of Chu had arrived in Guangdong and asked Chen Zilong to go to Guangdong to meet. Chen Zilong then remembered the agreement with the young man back then, so he led the team to Li Zhi, who was still on Chongming Island at the time, and was appointed by Li Zhi to join the army, and came to Guangdong half a year later to meet with Zhu Hongsan, Ma Mingyuan and other old friends at that time.

In fact, with the relationship between Chen Zilong and Zhu Hongsan, it is not too much to give a waiter directly, but Zhu Hongsan has now opened up the situation in Guangdong, although there is a shortage of officials, but the normal bureaucratic structure is still there. With these frameworks, Zhu Hongsan can't be done in vain, which is also a characteristic of ancient China, and the emperor doesn't want to do anything.

Chen Zilong* didn't care about Zhu Hongsan's inability to appoint him to an important official position, in fact, he really wanted to go to the place and come step by step with his own ability, rather than relying on his relationship to make people look down on him, so when Zhu Hongsan appointed him as Zhaoqing Tongzhi, he readily agreed.

Chen Zilong and Zhang Huangyan were probably the only few officials with ability, ideals, and courage in the late Ming Dynasty. When he arrived in Zhaoqing, Chen Zilong actively cooperated with the prefect Xu Dali and did a lot to resettle the displaced people.

While dealing with government affairs, Chen Zilong found more and more that Qian Qianyi's theory was not suitable for this troubled era, but the correctness of the sentence "practice is the only criterion for testing truth" put forward by Zhu Hongsan back then.

Although Ma Mingyuan is the leader of the Huguang faction, there are many factions in the Huguang faction. Originally, Ma Mingyuan could still rely on his eldest brother and Feng for his own use, but with the death of Ma Xiaofang, Fu Wenlong actually proposed to make Ma Ruyan the queen, which has violated Ma Mingyuan's core interests, that is, it is necessary to ensure the stability of Zhu Hai's position as the crown prince. So from that time to the time of the struggle for the queen, Ma Mingyuan and his eldest brother became more and more estranged. Ma Mingyuan also knew that his eldest brother Ma Jiyuan was not satisfied, because he occupied the cabinet, and Ma Jiyuan could not enter the cabinet for a long time.

At that time, Zhu Hongsan's four major strategists Ma Mingyuan, Feng Ziyong, Ma Jiyuan, and Tong Yangjia, except for Ma Jiyuan, who did not enter the cabinet, had already entered the cabinet, which was the real purpose of Ma Jiyuan as the queen.