(Thank you book friend "XCL1988XP" for 11 commuter passes!) I'll keep it up! ）

Tong Tuchang and Tong Yangjia have a deep relationship, after all, they have been together for more than ten years, and now they are at the door of the house, Tong Tuchang is very excited.

Tong Tuchang said to the men who greeted him: "Get up!" Is my uncle back? ”

"Back to the second master, the master has just come back from the cabinet and is changing clothes in the study! The second master waits, and the slave and maid go in and report! ”

Tong Tuchang took out two taels of silver and handed it to the doorman: "No need, I'll go in by myself!" ”

Tong Yangjia's mansion was the mansion of Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, but with Zhu Guobi's bad luck, this mansion was given to Tong Yangjia by Zhu Hongsan, and it is now called Tong Mansion.

As soon as Tong Tuchang entered the second gate, he saw the housekeeper Tong Fu come out to greet him.

Tong Fu saw Tong Tuchang and quickly knelt down on one knee and said: "The second master is back, it just so happens that the master was still thinking of you just now, saying that you can come back this afternoon, let the old slave come out to greet you!" ”

"Good! Tong Fu, get up, take me to my uncle! ”

Tong Fu took Tong Tuchang to the study of Tong's Mansion in Sanmen, Tong Yangjia was wearing a navy blue robe and was standing at the door to greet Tong Tuchang.

Seeing that his uncle came out to greet him in person, Tong Tuchang hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on his knees: "Uncle is above, my nephew has saluted my uncle!" ”

Tong Yangjia nodded, stretched out his hand to help the nephew and said, "Get up quickly!" The old man originally thought that you would not be able to come back until the New Year in the north, but he would have thought that he would complete the errand so quickly! In the morning, when the old man was in the cabinet, he heard that the mission had returned, and he knew that you were going home in the afternoon, so he left his work and came back to see you! Let's enter the house, let Tong Fu put on the reception banquet in a while, and uncle will wash the dust for you! ”

Tong Tuchang followed Tong Yangjia into the house, and a servant served tea, Tong Yangjia asked, "Is this so?" Can the journey go smoothly? ”

"Uncle, the south of the Yellow River is not bad, there are many displaced people, but not many are starving to death. But crossing the Yellow River and entering the boundary of Shandong is a different situation, there are dead people everywhere, and there is a rotten grave not far from the official road, which is better to cover it with a thin layer of soil, and more is a pile of dead bodies that no one cares about. My nephew listened to the Jinyi Wei Qianhu who escorted us and said that Shandong is not bad, and there is a large area of cannibalism in neighboring Henan, and I heard that there are only a dozen living people in the entire Henan Province, and the population in other places is either fleeing or making other people's food, which is too miserable! ”

Tong Yangjia sighed and said: "No way, since the six years of Chongzhen's Liukou wandering, there has been no Ansheng, either Liukou or Manchu Qing, and now it has become a place of three cares, naturally miserable." ”

While the uncle and nephew were talking, the family set up a banquet, and the two began to drink in this study.

After the dishes were served, Tong Yangjia drove the servant out and asked in a low voice, "Now tell your uncle about the details of the peace talks!" ”

Tong Tuchang told Tong Yangjia in detail about what happened after leaving Nanjing, except for the fact that he broke his shoes with Xiaozhuang, and even met Tong Tulai in detail.

Tong Yangjia listened to Tong Tuchang without saying a word, and after Tong Tuchang finished speaking, he asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty promised to hand over Wuchang to the Manchu Qing?" ”

"The emperor didn't say yes himself, but he didn't object either!"

Tong Yangjia nodded and said: "It should be about the same, Wuchang is alone, and it is a big number to transport money and grain to more than 200,000 people in Wuchang every month, so it is better to give it to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and shrink the battle line to Jiujiang, so that it is convenient to replenish!" ”

Although Wuchang has been plagued many times by many forces, after all, there are still more than 200,000 people, and these people's monthly grain has to be transported from Jiangxi, which is really not cost-effective. Tong Yangjia is in charge of military logistics, and he naturally knows Menqing.

"Uncle, you asked me to lure the Manchus to attack us, and my nephew wants to ask why? Was it really just to distract the emperor? ”

Tong Yangjia heard his nephew ask, sighed and said, "Hey! Child, in the past, your official position was relatively low, and you didn't know some things in the court. Uncle did this partly to distract the emperor's attention, Qian Lide's stupid fool was accidentally noticed by the emperor, and I was helping him. But the main reason is that I don't want Ma Mingyuan to continue to be bigger! ”

Tong Tuchang asked puzzledly: "Uncle, can the Manchu Qing Dynasty attack without letting Ma Mingyuan become bigger?" The nephew doesn't understand! ”

"Now on the bright side, Uncle and Ma Mingyuan are fighting against each other, but I know my own difficulties, uncle, I have been overwhelmed by Ma Mingyuan! Half a year ago, the old man got a message from Qian Lide, that is, Ma Mingyuan had a booklet with two national policies, one was called Spreading Ding into the Mu, and the other was called the official gentry as an errand and paying grain! ”

Tong Tuchang has also been a political envoy for more than half a year, and he still knows some government affairs, and now he gasped in fright when he heard his uncle say this.

"Shhh These are two ruthless moves, if Ma Mingyuan announces these two policies to the public, he will immediately become the enemy of the world's readers! ”

"You know what, you just see the surface. Ma Mingyuan is cunning and cunning, does he dare to take it out without the emperor's acquiescence? The appearance of this pamphlet in his house is proof that the emperor is ready to begin implementing these two items! ”

"Uncle, this is a good opportunity, why don't we take this opportunity to take down Ma Mingyuan in one fell swoop?"

Tong Yangjia sighed, his nephew is quite smart, but his analysis of the court is not in place. Now this emperor is not an emperor like Wanli and Tianqi, he is held hostage by some literati with righteousness, and he does not dare to move anything. Emperor Shenwu is a ruthless man, and he has always been ruthless in dealing with the stabbing Wenchen.

Tong Yangjia hated iron and scolded: "What do you know about this guy? It's not like you don't know what kind of heart our emperor is? Do you say that the old man dares to oppose it directly? ”

Tong Tuchang thought about it, but now it's a pity not to take advantage of this good opportunity.

"But uncle, it's a pity not to take advantage of this opportunity now, right?"

"Uncle naturally knows, but you have to plan it carefully. When you didn't come back, your uncle had already released the news and let the big landlords in Nanzhili know, and now some people in Nanjing's civil official circle already know that some people have begun to go to Ma Mingyuan's mansion to scold the street every day! ”

"Uncle, does this work? Ma Mingyuan has the emperor's trust, but scolding the street can make the emperor change his mind? ”

"Hehe, you don't understand this, uncle doesn't want the emperor to change his mind, but to let the big landlords like Ma Mingyuan and Nan Zhili become fire and water, so that the emperor has no room for maneuver between Ma Mingyuan and the big landlords, so he can only take one of them!"

After Tong Yangjia finished speaking, he looked at Tong Tuchang looking at himself with an idiot face, and scolded with hatred: "You guy came back this time to read more books, don't always go to the brothel if you have nothing to do!" ”

Tong Tuchang couldn't help blushing a little when he heard his uncle talk about his hobby, but what does it have to do with Ma Mingyuan falling out with the big landlord?

After Tong Yangjia trained his nephew, he continued: "Think about it, if there is no war in Nanzhili in the past two years, the emperor will definitely stand on Ma Mingyuan's side and forcefully implement the two new policies, as for those big landlords, of course, one by one will not die!" But at this critical time, the Manchu Qing and Zhu Youlang raised troops together to attack? What should you do? ”

Only then did Tong Tuchang understand how vicious his uncle's methods were, and first let out that Ma Mingyuan wanted to carry out a new policy, and naturally those big landlords in Nanzhili could not agree. At this time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to attack again, but the emperor was roasted on the fire, and Ma Mingyuan was sacrificed to ensure the safety of Nanzhili, and Bao Xinzheng wanted to push the big landlords of Nanzhili to the Manchu side. According to Tong Tuchang's understanding of the emperor, he will definitely abandon Ma Mingyuan in order to ensure his rule, and when the time comes, the first assistant will step down, and the uncle of the second assistant will naturally be able to ascend to the throne.

Thinking of this, Tong Tuchang hurriedly got up and poured a glass of wine for Tong Yangjia, and congratulated: "Nephew, congratulations to the uncle for being the first assistant!" Tong Yangjia laughed and drank the wine.

However, Tong Tuchang still didn't understand one thing, according to his uncle, he was against the new policy, and the emperor supported the new policy, if the war calmed down, what if the emperor wanted to implement the new policy?

"Uncle, although the emperor can give up Ma Mingyuan for himself, but my nephew knows that the strength of the Manchu Qing is far inferior to ours, and sooner or later the Manchu Qing will be defeated, what if the emperor still wants to implement a new policy at that time?"

Tong Yangjia drank a glass of wine and sneered: "Then let's implement it!" ”

"What? Implementing the New Deal? What about those big landlords in Nanzhili? ”

"You guy, when did I say that I formed an alliance with those big landlords in Nanzhili. The emperor's new policy is beneficial to the imperial court and harmless, uncle I am naturally responsible for the imperial court and the emperor when I become the first assistant, and my uncle will advocate the implementation of the new policy at that time! As for those big landlords, they have been beautiful for hundreds of years, and they should also make a place for us Huguang upstarts! ”

Tong Tuchang listened to Tong Yangjia's cold words, and a chill was in his heart, he was really glad that he was Tong Yangjia's nephew, or he didn't know how he calculated! This time, in order to bring down Ma Mingyuan, he actually used dozens of big landlords in Nanzhili as stepping stones, you must know that Emperor Zhu Hongsan's character is either not to do it, or to do it. Now these big landlords are embarrassed by Zhu Hongsan, and these guys will naturally not be able to go well in the future. Thinking of dozens of big landlords with a total of nearly 10,000 people, half of whom were about to lose their heads, Tong Tuchang felt that his neck was also a little cold.

In fact, those landlords in Nanzhili fell in love with Tong Yangjia as soon as they came up, although Tong Yangjia was not from Huguang, but as a representative of Huguang's upstarts, how could he speak for your old class. Although Tong Yangjia and Ma Mingyuan do not deal with each other, they are highly consistent in safeguarding the interests of Huguang Group, the difference is only that they both think that they should be the spokesperson of Huguang Group.

So when Tong Yangjia learned that the new deal booklet was in Ma Mingyuan's hands, he was overjoyed, and this was a good opportunity to bring down Ma Mingyuan. And those big landlords in Nanzhili are just tools for Tong Yangjia to achieve his own goals. In Zhu Hongsan's words, you are all rich people, and the ideas that Lao Tzu came up with with his ass* eyes can play you to death!