Xia Yunyi was taken aback when he heard Xu Fuyuan say this, of course he knew what was going on in Wuchang as a political envoy from Hubei, but he knew that the Huguang faction had an advantage above the court, and his own small political envoy was really insignificant. In addition, the governor Lord Liu intentionally or unintentionally connived at those people, so the matter of Wuchang can develop to the current state.

Xia Yunyi pondered and asked, "How did Your Majesty react when you heard it?" ”

The reaction was nothing, just pulled Zhao Dequan out and beat him! That's right! Also, His Majesty was completely fainted by Zhao De! ”

This news is much more serious than the land annexation in Wuchang, and it was not a bloody storm when the imperial power was transferred in ancient times. Xia Yunyi quickly stood up when he heard this, and asked, "What?" Your Majesty fainted? Didn't see a doctor? What's going on? ”

"The doctor didn't look for it, and the coma was very short, about half an hour!"

Xia Yunyi turned around the ground a few times and said, "The matter is important, Duke Yan, you and I will go with you to see the Governor!" ”

Governor Liu Sicheng has been busy to death these days, although he is not in charge of operations, but now the army is gathered in Wuchang, and the daily logistics supply is a large amount. The emperor had already decreed that he would seize Hanyang first, and as the advance station of the Northern Expedition, Liu Siyun naturally had to do his best for Zhu Hongsan.

Liu Siyun was sitting in the governor's yamen and was dealing with official business, and when he heard that the Chinese army said that the political envoy Lord Xia and the prefect of Wuchang Lord Xu were here, Liu Siyun hurriedly asked the servants to bring the two in.

Although Liu Siyi is not from Nanzhili, he is a student of Donglin boss Jiang Yueguang, and he is naturally close to Xia Yunyi and Xu Fuyuan.

"Two, what is the matter with coming to see the Governor today?"

Xia Yunyi pondered for a moment and said: "Lord Zhengtai, today Your Majesty went to Wuchang County to worship the ancestors, two things happened, let Wuchang Mansion talk about it!" ”

Next, Xu Fuyuan explained the two things to Liu Siyi in detail.

Liu Siyun also frowned when he heard Xu Fuyuan finish speaking, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty's fainting should be accidental, Your Majesty was born in the forty-third year of Wanli, and Chinese New Year's Eve he is eight years old today, it is the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and fainting should be a big injury!" However, the land annexation has been revealed early, and Liang Guan has misunderstood me! ”

In fact, Liu Siyun has been the governor of Huguang for three or four years, can he not understand the local situation? In the past, he openly or implicitly supported the Huguang faction to annex the land, and when he couldn't suppress it in the end, it was better to cause some civil unrest, and then force the emperor to clean up the Huguang faction himself.

Liu Siyun did this not because he saw that ordinary peasants were overburdened and he couldn't go away, but because he was ready to take this opportunity to clean up Ma Mingyuan and other reformers in the court.

The few Liu Siyun in the house are from Jiangxi, although the family is not rich, but it is also a well-off family, and there are thousands of acres of land outside Nanchang City. Xia Yunyi is simply a big landlord in Songjiang Mansion, although he is not as rich as the Xu family, he still has thousands of acres of land. As for Xu Fuyuan, it is even more amazing, Xu Fuyuan is the great-grandson of Xu Zhi, the first assistant of the Jiajing Dynasty, Xu Zhi, who used his brother's power to occupy the land in Huating, and his family is tens of thousands of acres of grain fields.

These people were all social elites at that time, and they were representatives of the mainstream consciousness, and the one who Ma Mingyuan made out to pay the grain for the whole mu and the officials and gods wanted the lives of these big landlords. Therefore, although the anti-horse movement was on the table of those big landlords in Nanzhili, in fact, their backstage was the scholars and doctors led by Jiang Yueguang and Qian Qianyi, the elders of the imperial court.

Although Jiang Yueguang is bright and majestic in the history books, Jin Shenghuan threw himself into the water and died after failing anyway. But Jiang said that Guang Huanhai has been up and down for many years, and he is also an old and spicy politician. Jiang Yueguang knew that he was now fighting against Ma Mingyuan on the surface, but the emperor did not send Ma Mingyuan back to his hometown, but lived in Beijing. As long as Ma Mingyuan is still in Beijing for a day, there is a possibility of recovery, so Jiang Yueguang wrote a letter to his disciple Liu Siyi, asking him to always pay attention to the movements of the Huguang Ma family, and accumulate black materials to launch a fatal blow to Ma Mingyuan.

If you Ma Mingyuan is a clean official like Hai Rui, it is really difficult to collect black materials. But Ma Mingyuan's crotch is also a butt of shit, in addition to Ma Mingyuan himself, his housekeepers, relatives, housekeepers, and even concubines and maids, as long as they can have a relationship with the Ma family, they all go to Huguang to stake a stake.

After Liu Siyun received the teacher's letter, he opened the door to these people who came to ask for land under the banner of the Ma family, as long as Ma Ge Lao had a note, it was no problem to take the land directly. Therefore, those few families have occupied more than half of Wuchang's grain fields in just a few years, and the connivance behind Liu Siyi is also one of the main reasons.

Liu Siyun has been planning for this matter for many years, and when he was about to succeed, he was stabbed open by Liang Guan, do you think he can not be angry? But angry is angry, Liu Sicheng has nothing to do, Liang Guan doesn't look at it as a seven-grade county order, but behind Liang Guan stands Chen Zilong, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Liang Guan and Chen Zilong fought against the Qing Dynasty together in Taihu Lake, and they naturally had a close relationship, so Liu Sicheng just scolded a few words and didn't say anything.

Xia Yunyi and Xu Fuyuan are both Chen Zilong's people, and they don't know Liu Siyi's plan, and after seeing Liu Siyun angry, he hurriedly asked: "Master Taiwan, what should I do now?" Why don't you mobilize your colleagues from the DPRK and China to participate in those Huguang factions that occupy an area? ”

"What did the emperor say when he learned about the situation in Wuchang?"

"The emperor didn't say anything, just pulled Zhao Dequan out and whipped him, and returned all the land occupied by the Zhao family, and didn't say anything to the other families!"

"I see, since the emperor has no will, then we don't have to do anything, what should we do!"

Hearing that Liu Siyi was ready to leave it alone, Xia Yunyi was a little anxious, what should you do if the governor doesn't care about the people of Huguang? Now that the Northern Expedition is imminent, if something happens in the rear of Huguang, won't it delay the Northern Expedition?

"Lord Maker, this...

"Okay, you can't do anything to persecute the official, if those nobles are not from the Ma family, if they are not the emperor's cronies, what do you say the official can do? The official still has something to deal with, so I won't send it! After Liu Siyi finished serving tea and sending off guests, Xia Yunyi and Xu Fuyuan had no choice but to go out of the governor's yamen.

Xu Fuyuan stood at the door of the governor's yamen and asked, "Yi Zhong, now that the governor is no longer ready to take care of it, what should we do?" Do you want to write a letter to inform the person? ”

Xia Yunyi thought for a while and said: "No, Chen Renzhong and Ma Mingyuan are close, you can't talk to him about this matter!" It's not that I don't believe in human character, but his subordinates are not sure! ”

"So what should I do? We can't afford to do nothing! The Northern Expedition is imminent, and if there is a big mess in the rear at that time, it is your responsibility and mine! ”

"These court bigwigs don't dare to take care of their own officials, Duke Yan! The official decided to write to the emperor in person, would you like to sign it? ”

Xu Fu didn't understand it, and wrote to the emperor? Isn't the emperor in Wuchang now? What else do you use to get into the book?

"Yi Zhong, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to write to the emperor, you don't know in the morning, the emperor has made it clear that he won't deal with it, isn't your book in vain?"

Xia Yunyi said with a smile: "Gong Yan, my brother has also learned some intrigues and tricks in the past few years as an official, where should I hand over the book through normal channels?" ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the rules and regulations of the normal channel had to be handed over to the general administration department of the Beijing Division, and then someone handed it over to the cabinet according to the urgency of the matter, and the cabinet in charge of the cabinet decided what to do next after deliberation. If the matter is not important, it will be sent directly to the competent department for handling, and if it is important, a cabinet office meeting will be convened, which will be jointly deliberated by several cabinet elders, and only when the decision cannot be made will it be handed over to the emperor, and the emperor will make a decision.

"Yi Zhong, of course I know, didn't it hand it over to the General Administration? Do you want ... At this time, Xu Fuyuan also reacted and looked at Xia Yunyi with wide eyes.

"That's right! These court bigwigs are afraid of the retaliation of those Huguang factions, and this official is not afraid! This official just wants to make a fuss all over the world and force those bigwigs to come out! Gong Yan, do you have the courage to do it with this official? ”

Xu Fuyuan was also an anti-Qing righteous warrior back then, and he was also the master who rolled up his sleeves when he came up with blood, and he laughed when he heard Xia Yunyi say this: "Okay! Xia Yizhong, my little brother will accompany you crazy today! ”

After the two discussed, they returned home and began to write a recital, what they didn't know was that it was a simple recital, but it caused a bloody storm in the court, and thousands of people fell to the ground because of such a recital.

At this time, in the governor's yamen, Liu Siyun did not do nothing as he said, but after Xia Yunyi and Xu Fuyuan left, he personally wrote a letter to his teacher Jiang Yueguang, explaining in detail what happened today, and at the same time reminding his teacher that now that the matter has been revealed, Ma Mingyuan's side must be prepared, and ask the teacher to prepare for the worst.

Just when the undercurrent of Wuchang officialdom was surging, Zhu Hongsan was ready to set off and return to Beijing. According to Zhu Hongsan's itinerary before, he had to wait here in Wuchang to capture Hanyang before leaving. However, after Liang Guan lifted the lid on the annexation of Wuchang land, Zhu Hongsan felt that something must have happened in Jingshi, and he had been away from Jingshi for more than three years.

So Zhu Hongsan stayed in Wuchang for three days, inspected the army, and then took his Praetorian Guard division, took the navy's warship, and returned to Nanjing downstream.

Zhu Hongsan returned to the wharf outside Jinshanmen in Nanjing on 12 October, and the emperor personally returned to Beijing to naturally mobilize the people, and the wharf was already full of people, under the leadership of the crown prince to welcome the emperor.

Zhu Hongsan got off the boat, and the prince hurriedly stepped forward and kowtowed: "Erchen congratulates my father Emperor Desheng on returning to Beijing!" Long live the father, long live, long live! After the prince finished speaking, there was immediately a shout of three long live voices on the dock.

I haven't seen the prince for three years, and he has grown to a full 1.8 meters, half a head taller than Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Hongsan stepped forward to help the prince up, and saw that the prince had been a lot calmer in recent years, and he still had a short beard on his lips.