Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the time had come, and the opportunity to send charcoal in the snow had come! He lowered his voice and said seriously: "I have thought of a way, but I don't know if it can be done." ”

Ma Qianjiu and the second young master were thinking that their heads were about to break, and when they heard Zhu Yuanzhang say that they had thought of a way, they both said anxiously at the same time: "Say it quickly......"

Zhu Yuanzhang said calmly: "For today's plan, we must break the wrist of the strong man, and give the title deed of Xigu Village to others before the county prince moves our family!" ”

"This ......" Ma Qianjiu and the second young master hesitated together, all the two hundred acres of land in Xigu Village would be too much of a loss to give away, and besides, is it too late to send it now?

Ma Qianjiu thought for a while and said, "Zhu Ba, your method may not be feasible, right...... I came to send it to Xigu Village at the end, but I was afraid that it was useless, and other people's families did not dare to accept it, and sent it to Xigu Village, our Ma family and Donggu Village, Nanyuan Village, the county master casually found another village in our family's industry, and we can still use 'trickery' to control us...... This is a palliative approach to the root cause. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly, and said seriously: "That's right, if you simply give away Xigu Village, it is indeed a symptom rather than a cure, and it is not of much use, but if you carefully consider the question of 'who to give it to', you can come up with some tricks." "He deliberately said the words 'to whom' very emphatically, dragging a long tail note.

The second young master immediately shouted stupidly: "Give it to the county master!" Let him check his own tricks...... Well, that's unlikely. ”

Ma Qianjiu shouted: "Give it to the Zhang family in Chengcheng and let him ask the county master to stop?" 'M afraid...... People may not be willing to accept it. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head slowly: "These two people can't be chosen, they are sharpening their knives and Huo Huo wants to slaughter us, isn't it a meat bun to beat a dog when they give gifts?" I'm talking about someone else...... A person who is hard enough in the background, is not afraid of the two county masters of Chengcheng and Baishui, and is very greedy, and swallows the meat sent to his mouth. If we give 200 acres of land in Xigu Village to such a person, he will jump out of the top tank for 200 acres of land and resolve the matter of investigating 'trickery' this time. ”

After listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Ma Qianjiu's face suddenly changed, it was a kind of surprise and a little shocking change, he only listened to a few words, and he knew that this plan was absolutely feasible, not only could resolve the crisis of the Ma family, but also make a new ally, against the county master and the Chengcheng Zhang family, which made them very uncomfortable.

This is really a plan to kill three birds with one stone, this guy named Zhu Ba actually wanted to get such a powerful strategy in a short period of time, it is too powerful. Ma Qianjiu was shocked by Zhu Ba's clever plan for a while, and actually forgot the interface.

Zhu Yuanzhang said to Ma Qianjiu: "Steward Ma, I'm not very familiar with the nearby wealthy masters, may I ask which family is closer to us and stronger?" ”

Ma Qianjiu woke up suddenly, and hurriedly pointed to the south: "Bai Shui Shan clan, his mansion is only five miles away from our Ma family, hurry up, and you can get to ...... in an instant."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Then what are we waiting for, Second Young Master, please take out the title deed of Xigu Village and the deed of sale of the villagers, and we will send it to the Baishui Shirt clan as soon as possible." ”

The second young master was still at a loss at the moment, his head was really not very good, and he didn't understand what was going on after listening to it, and muttered, "What's the matter?" In the end, do you want to give it away? What a. ”

Ma Qianjiu said with a smile: "Second young master, please hurry up, the old slave will explain to you when you turn around." ”

The second young master got up and reluctantly ran towards the Ma family's ancestral house, which was the place to collect important documents such as the Ma family's land and contracts. In the past, the eldest young master of the Ma family was in charge, but the eldest young master went to Xi'an Mansion, and the second young master, who was born lazy and incompetent, was not qualified to interfere at all. His little maid with two ponytails chased after him, shouting as he chased: "Second young master, slow down, your clothes are not buttoned yet, and your chest is still open......

"What does it matter to have an open chest? The backyard is full of ...... of his own family," the second young master said vaguely.

"It's just someone else, the third lady hasn't left the pavilion yet, if I see you like this, what kind of ......body will I become," the little maid exclaimed.

"What's that? That's my own sister, see my chest again? The second young master's voice gradually faded away.

Ma Qianjiu smiled bitterly and sighed at his back: "Second Young Master is really ...... Alas...... The Ma family is in his hands, which really doesn't make people worry, I just hope that the eldest young master can come back soon to preside over the overall situation. That's right...... Zhu Ba, I know the old steward of the Shirt family, and I will personally send these contracts over, you can also follow me, and meeting the masters of other families can be regarded as an eye-opener. I see that you are a smart and delicate person, and you will be the pillar of my Ma family in the future, see more people, experience more things, and do better things for the Ma family in the future......"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, he had the intention to take a look, the experience of the previous life, plus floating in the sky for hundreds of years as a bystander, he has read a thousand sails, but this does not mean that he does not need to see more, think and listen more, the more detailed he can grasp the surrounding situation, the more beneficial it is to him.

After a while, the second young master took the title deed and deed of sale of Xigu Village, a thick stack, Ma Qianjiu and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have time to look at it carefully, they put it in their arms casually, and hurried to the outside of the courtyard. The family had already prepared two horses and were waiting at the door.

Ma Qianjiu turned over a horse, turned his head, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang, "Do you know how to ride a horse?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Yes." ”

Ma Qianjiu was shocked again, in this year, horses are very expensive things, a good horse costs twenty taels of silver, not just anyone can afford it, most of the ordinary villagers don't know how to ride horses, like Zhu Ba, this ** cow baby, if you can ride a bull slowly, it's not strange, but it's very rare to be able to ride a horse.

"Where did you learn this skill?" Ma Qianjiu couldn't help but ask: "I can read and write, settle accounts, and ride a horse...... If you say that you are a rich young master, I will believe it, and if you want to say that you are a cowherd baby, I really don't believe it. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said casually: "My family originally had thin family assets, and it was sent to the Ma family after it was dilapidated...... It's not that he was born to herd cows. ”

Ma Qianjiu agreed with this explanation, which dispelled his curiosity.

The two men let their horses gallop south, and both horses were the best horses, and they were running very fast. First of all, I ran wildly along the loess road repaired by the Ma family themselves, and after a while, I ran onto the official road, and after running along the official road for a while, there was a fork in the road in front of me, and it could be seen that this road was not an official road, and it was a road built by a certain gentry at their own expense. The wide loess road is sprinkled with gravel and paved with great neatness.

"This is the road built by the Bai Shui Shirt clan themselves...... Ma Qianjiu explained.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, he knew that the wealthy businessmen and gentry in this year usually had to pay out of their own pockets to build a section of the road to connect their own gate with the official road, otherwise the luxurious carriage would not be able to drive into the house, how much loss of face?

The two of them ran along the road of the shirt for a while, and an ancestral hall appeared on the side of the road in front of them, this ancestral hall was extremely magnificent and solemn, not only carved beams by Zhu Hu, but even covered with glazed yellow tiles, almost like a palace.

"Huh? How did the Shan family build like a palace? Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly curious.

"That's not the family ...... of the Shirt family" Ma Qianjiu lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "That's the nine-thousand-year-old ancestral hall." ”

"Nine thousand years old? Ancestral Hall? Zhu Yuanzhang woke up suddenly, in his huge memory treasure house, there is indeed such a thing, in the late Ming Dynasty, during the Apocalypse, there was a great eunuch dictatorship, this person named Wei Zhongxian, who claimed to be 9,000 years old, excluded dissidents, and arbitrarily dictated national politics, so that people "only know that there are loyal and virtuous, but do not know that there is an emperor". After Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, succeeded to the throne, he cracked down on and punished the eunuch party, punished Wei Zhongxian's ten crimes, ordered him to be arrested and punished, hanged himself, and the rest of the party was completely purged.

At that time, Pan Ruzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, pretended to take the opportunity to plead and build a shrine for Wei Zhongxian on the edge of the West Lake, Wei Zhongxian was very happy and promoted Pan Ruzhen to the secretary of the Nanjing Criminal Department. All parts of the country are scrambling to build a shrine for Wei Zhongxian.

The ancestral hall that appeared in front of Zhu Yuanzhang was undoubtedly Wei Zhongxian's ancestral hall.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so smart, the moment he figured out this link, he immediately understood who the backer of the Bai Shui Shirt clan was, but he still pretended not to understand and asked Ma Qianjiu: "Manager Ma, what is the origin of this Bai Shui Shirt clan?" ”

Ma Qianjiu said in a low voice: "This white water shirt is ...... It is the home of a eunuch among the officials, and this eunuch is a member of the eunuch party......"

As I expected, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

Ma Qianjiu continued: "The Shirt family was originally a dilapidated family, and there were many children in the family, and they actually gave birth to twelve children, and they were so poor that they couldn't live anymore, so the lord of the Shirt family was ruthless, gritted his teeth, and sent the twelfth child in the family to the palace to be a eunuch. ”

"After this shirt was officially introduced, he was transferred to Wei Zhongxian's hands...... Within a few years, Wei Zhongxian rose to the throne with the help of the Hakka family and became nine thousand years old...... The value of the twelve has also risen, and he has become a hot eunuch. Everyone was afraid of his power and didn't dare to call him by his original name, so they gave him the nickname Thirty-Two Gonggong. Ma Qianjiu said in a low voice: "The thirty-two father-in-law gained power, and the Shirt clan also became powerful, and he became a tyrant in Baishui, not to mention that the county lord had to go around when he saw the Shirt clan, and even the lord of Xi'an Mansion did not dare to provoke this great god......"

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was as black as ink, hearing this, it aroused his anger towards his children and grandchildren, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not angry, and there were many times of the dictatorship of the great eunuchs, Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian...... One is more hateful than the other, one is more stupid than the other, how did my Ming Dynasty become like this?

"Although this shirt clan is powerful, but because the family has been defeated, it does not have much land, and it is extremely greedy for land, let's send a village two hundred acres of land, and the shirt clan will definitely swallow it." Ma Qianjiu sighed.