The two of them and two horses galloped past Wei Zhongxian's ancestral hall, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at it and found that there was no one walking around near this ancestral hall at all, and there was no one worshipping inside. Wei Zhongxian's reputation among the people was not very good, when the ancestral halls were built all over the country, they occupied many people's land and houses, and forced the people to respect Wei Zhongxian, and those who did not worship in the ancestral hall were sentenced to death. This extreme method not only did not help Wei Zhongxian bring a good reputation, but made his reputation even more stinky.

Wei Zhongxian's bad reputation among the people is also due to his deal with the Donglin Party. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang knows that the Donglin Party is not a good thing, Wei Zhongxian and the Donglin Party pinch each other, at best, it is a dog eats a dog, and there is no difference between justice and evil. However, there are quite a lot of clear streams in the Donglin Party, and the reputation among the people is relatively good, so the public opinion also favors the side of the Donglin Party, which invisibly makes Wei Zhongxian's reputation even more stinky.

After passing the ancestral hall, I ran for a while, a big mansion appeared in front, the smooth loess road was facing the main gate of this mansion, the main gate was extremely gorgeous, the three-open gate, the three animal heads on it, used extremely bright colors, and there was no ordinary gentleman's main entrance of the calm temperament, but showed a nouveau riche momentum. In front of the door, there were a few guards in cotton clothes, quite bright.

Ma Qianjiu snorted coldly from his nose and said: "The nouveau riche who is not qualified to stand on the Jinshi pole, our Ma family wants to come to ask this family for help, it is really a loss of face." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't speak, just glanced at Ma Qianjiu.

The two arrived at the door, turned over and dismounted, Ma Qianjiu walked to the door of the shirt house and reported a few words. At the beginning, the family saw the two of them hurrying to beat their horses, and they still looked a little disdainful on their faces. It wasn't until Ma Qianjiu became famous that he was in awe, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be the Ma Steward of the Baishui Ma family, and the second good man Zhu Baba of Baishui, you two wait a minute, I'll go in and report ......"

It turned out that the shirt family was not far from the Ma family, and Zhu Ba's recent activity had been transmitted to the ears of the villagers through long-term and short-term workers, and then radiated again, and it had spread for dozens of miles. After dinner, many villagers have to talk about Zhu Ba's story, some people listen to it as a joke, but some poor people listen to it as an inspirational story...... One day, I can also change from a long-term worker to a steward, how good would it be?

When the daughters-in-law in the four townships scold their own men, they often say: "Look at your cowardice, why don't you learn from Baishui Zhuba, fight for anger, and become a steward to let me take a look?" ”

This kind of gossip spreads the fastest in the countryside, one to ten, ten to hundred, and it won't take long for the story of Zhu Bugle, the second good man in Baishui, to resound throughout ten miles and eight towns.

It's a good thing to have this kind of reputation, for example, Song Jiang in "Water Margin" has a good reputation in the rivers and lakes, no matter where he goes, as soon as he signs up, others immediately bow down when they hear it, calling him big brother in his mouth, and admitting it in his heart.

Ma Qianjiu and Zhu Yuanzhang waited in front of the door for a while, and an old housekeeper greeted them and took the two of them to the courtyard of the shirt family.

After a while, when I arrived at the hall, the hall of this shirt house was also extremely gorgeous, with vermilion tables, emerald green teapots, and red curtains...... The colors are brighter, which is a little different from the scholarly taste of the Ma family, and it is really full of the smell of nouveau riche from the gate to the hall.

A middle-aged man in a silk coat sat in the hall with a clean face, and Ma Qianjiu quietly introduced to Zhu Yuanzhang: "This is the current patriarch of the shirt family, the shirt is big!" Don't look at his serious and amazing face, in fact, he doesn't have fart skills, if he hadn't relied on Shirt Twelve to become a father-in-law, he might not be playing in a mud pit now. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang still nodded silently, he could hear from Ma Qianjiuli's words that the traditional gentry family had the kind of disdain for the eunuch family, Ma Qianjiu was just an old slave, and he actually looked down on other people's family masters......

"Steward Ma, what did you have to do with me?" The shirt had a mocking look on his face: "Your Ma family has never been to our house, I thought that our shirt family would not be able to enter the eyes of your Ma family." This is different from those who have a jinshi pole and those who don't, hahahaha. ”

A touch of embarrassment flashed on Ma Qianjiu's face, but it quickly disappeared, and he arched his hand and said, "Master Shirt said that he laughed, isn't our Ma family just coming to the door?" Today I am on the order of our young master, and I came to give a gift to Master Shan. ”

"Gift-giving?" Shirt Da perked up, and a flash of joy suddenly shot out of his eyes: "What ceremony?" ”

The nouveau riche is really the nouveau riche, and as soon as he hears about the gift, it becomes like this...... Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head secretly in his heart, no wonder your shirt family is looked down upon, just this bearing, but it is far behind.

Ma Qianjiu stretched out his hand into his arms, took out a large stack of land deeds and deeds of sale, and said with a smile: "This is the title deed of Xigu Village and the deed of sale of the villagers, a total of more than 200 acres of land, more than 40 households, the second young master asked me to give all my surnames to Master Shirt at one time, I hope that our two families can be closer and closer in the future." ”

"Two hundred acres, ah......" Shirt Da was really happy to fall from the sky, and jumped up from the chair at once. Although the shirt family became popular as a eunuch by relying on the shirt twelve to become an official and made a lot of money in the palace, after all, the foundation is thin, there is no wealth but no land, and the power is much smaller than that of the gentry who have been officials for several generations. The most important thing for Chinese is the field, no matter how much money they have, they feel that their hearts are not solid if they have no land, and they have always wanted to get more fields and leave roots for future generations. Now someone has given him 200 acres of land, and he is really happy.

He said excitedly, "Give it all to me?" Is it really for me? ”

Ma Qianjiu nodded: "Of course, if you think I'm joking, let's sign a contract for transfer now." ”

Shirt Da jumped up and down happily, waved his hand, and said, "Come on, take the four treasures of the study." ”

Ma Qianjiu picked up the pen and wrote on the paper: "There are more than 200 acres of fertile land in Xigu Village, which was originally owned by Baishui Ma, and is now voluntarily transferred to Baishui ......."

After writing, he drew a girl, and took out a seal from his arms, which turned out to be the seal of the second young master, stained with a little vermilion mud, and "snapped" to cover a bright red seal.

Shirt was overjoyed, and quickly came over, took out his seal, and was stained with vermilion, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind...... You say this person is smart, he didn't react until now, you want to say that he is stupid, but he thought of it before the seal, shook his hand, put the seal back, and said in a deep voice: "No, I came to give me two hundred acres of land with white invincible, there is a problem with this!" What do you want from me? ”

"Hey!" Ma Qianjiu was asked by him, and he couldn't answer for a while, so he couldn't say directly, we are going to push you out to fight with the county order, right?

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly took a step forward, stretched out his hand and patted Ma Qianjiu's back, indicating that he would hand it over to him to deal with, and then he said in a low voice: "Master Shan, you are really wise, our Ma family came to give gifts this time, and we really have something to ask for." ”

"Oh? Tell me what is going on, and if you don't say it well, I can't ask for this field. His voice began to turn cold.

Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his voice and said: "Our Ma family got a news, this Baishui County Commander Chen Guanyu is a member of the Donglin Party......

"What?" Shirt was taken aback: "The county master is the Donglin Party?" ”

Not only was the shirt taken aback, but Ma Qianjiu was also taken aback: What is Zhu Ba doing here? Can such nonsense be done? Ma Qianjiu hurriedly squeezed Zhu Yuanzhang's hand and signaled him not to talk nonsense. Zhu Yuanzhang pinched back and asked him to listen quietly.

The shirt family helped Wei Zhongxian set up a shrine, but he was a staunch eunuch in the party, and the people in the eunuch party hated the Donglin party the most, he immediately asked: "What is the evidence?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "Have you ever read the book "Xing Ge Regulations and Workers"? ”

Although he didn't know how to learn, he barely knew about this book, and he said curiously: "I've heard that this book was written by Hai Rui, what are you doing with this book?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "Hai Rui is a famous clear stream, known for his two-sleeved breeze. Those who sell their fame and reputation in the Donglin Party have always talked about Hai Rui and regarded him as their role model...... A few days ago, the county magistrate suddenly brought back a few villagers who planned to 'send' to our Ma family, and read out a few sentences from the book "Xing Ge Regulations and Workers" in the hall: The county sent female households to the fields and other items, and they were all forbidden to be exempted. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Listen, this is clearly the tone of the Donglin Party's speech." ”

When Shan Da heard this, he was immediately annoyed: "Yes, this kind of thing has been around for a long time, who will have nothing to eat and support to take care of?" Only the group of bastards of the Donglin Party have the face of a righteous person all day long, this is not right, that is not right, it seems that in addition to the Donglin Party, everyone else in the world is corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and they are lawless, in fact, they have done a lot of bastards. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded seriously and said: "The county lord read these words in the hall, who will dare to 'send) the villagers in our county in the future?" Our Ma family can't get new fields, anyway, our Ma family's fields are already a lot, but for the shirt family, it's ......"

He deliberately dragged a long tail note here......

Shirt Dayi slapped the table: "Fuck, our shirt family doesn't have much land, and we are still looking forward to more villagers coming to our house to 'trick' it, what is he Chen Guanyu going to do?" Break the roots of our family? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly, he knew that the shirt had already taken the bait, in the Ming Dynasty, once anything was involved in the party struggle, there was no right or wrong at all, the eunuchs in favor of the Donglin Party were all opposed, and the eunuchs opposed by the Donglin Party were all in favor. Everything the eunuch said that the Donglin Party was wrong, and if the eunuch party did not say anything, the Donglin Party would also say that the eunuch party was a corpse vegetarian meal.

Now the fuse has been successfully lit...... The next thing is none of his business, Zhu Yuanzhang pulled the corner of Ma Qianjiu's clothes, signaled, Ma Qianjiu understood, and quickly arched his hand at the shirt and said: "Master Shirt, let's go back, the title deed of Xigu Village ......"

Shirt snorted coldly, and the seal in his hand "snapped" and covered the contract: "I accepted this contract, I want to see how the people of the Donglin Party come to treat my shirt's 'trick'." ”