Chapter 42: The Beginning of the First Contradictory Struggle 2

86_86695 Ma Songhua has been restless these days. Ma Songhua, who has been a county leader for 12 years, is the first time he has encountered such a tricky thing.

If a person's affection is not good, no matter how good the person's cultivation is, there will be something to show in his behavior. Even those cabinet scholars will react to the level of qi cultivation kung fu, let alone a small official like Ma Songhua. The clerks and servants in the county government all know that recently, the second master of Zhijiang County has not been in a good mood.

Ma Songhua should feel uneasy. Half a month ago, he sent a monk Jingming, who was in Jiangbei and could walk across black and white, to Wang Shuhui to demonstrate. As a result, only Jingming's attendant Xiao Shami returned. This little novice didn't know what frightened him, his head was greatly stimulated, and he asked for a long time, but he didn't come up with a reason. Shi Daoxin is such a big living person, and he has disappeared without a trace.

Ma Songhua is not an ordinary person, he dared to propose to Zhu Youzi, a clan, and rejoiced his son who was a tuberculosis ghost. It's because he's not an ordinary Bapin County Cheng.

Ma Songhua's family is a big family in Zhijiang County. Of the 300,000 acres of land in Zhijiang County, nearly half of them are under their family's door. The long-term workers and peasants who carry the land to their families are no less than two thousand. It can be said that if the previous Zhijiang County Orders did not tie up their families, the Zhijiang County Yamen would not want to collect taxes.

Ma Songhua, as the head of the Ma family in Zhijiang, not only installed people to control the county government, but also colluded with local patrols and various river thieves and bandits to control the black and white roads in Zhijiang County. In addition to using the county government, their family wantonly looted and annexed the land of their own county. It also controls the illegal salt trade from Yiling County to Jingnan County, and the counties on both sides of the Yangtze River.

Ma Songhua has the largest salt merchant in Huguang, the former governor of Huguang, and Zhang Tianlu, the nephew of Zhang Wenda, the current secretary of the household department, as a backer, and Ding Ding, a patrol soldier from various counties in Jiangbei as a helper. There are also various boats on the river to help the river pirates and provide transportation for him. There are all kinds of mountain bandits on land to fight competitors for him.

There is a reliance on the top and bottom, and Ma Songhua, who eats all black and white, is the soil overlord of Zhijiang County. Even the governor of Jingzhou Prefecture has to give him three points of face. In the entire Jiangbei region, except for a few vassal kings, no one can be taken into his eyes. It wasn't until the news came out that Zhu Youzi, a prince of Zhijiang who had not been taken seriously by him before, was going to restore his title, that he was a little uneasy.

It is true that the vassal clans of the Ming Dynasty were not treated by the emperor, and it was true that they were feared and monitored by officials at all levels. However, as long as they are honest and have no idea of winning the throne, they are all the emperor's rebels. No matter how the officials attacked, how the people hated it. Whether the vassal kings encroached on the land, or were lustful and greedy for money, the emperor would protect them. This is not just the law of the ancestors, which can be explained in one sentence. In a feudal patriarchal society, the feudal ethics of blood thicker than water is not a joke.

Originally, a royal family like Zhu Youzi, even if they were not close relatives of the emperor, made a mistake and took the title, they were generally just heirs to the prince from generation to generation. However, the Zhijiang Palace's offense was done by two generations of Zaifu, and the nepotism of the civil officials was intertwined, which made everyone think that Zhu Youzi had little hope of inheriting the prince. That's why there is a local tyrant like Ma Songhua, who dares to go up and bully and bully.

However, as long as Zhu Youzi is still alive, he has the qualifications and hope to inherit the title of King Zhijiang. Whether it is true or not, Zhu Youzi's succession to the prince may be preserved. This is the reason why Ma Songhua felt uneasy after hearing the vague news.

In modern society, there is a god-level online writer who has said something like this. He said he was most afraid of being told that he was sorry. Because from a psychological point of view, once a person has done something that is sorry for someone. In general, instead of thinking about how to make up for their mistakes, they hope that everyone does not know or forget about it.

People who have done wrong things have a deep fear of the person they are sorry for. Because of the darkness of human nature, he would like to wish that the person he was sorry for would disappear. Even the person he was sorry for fell into the well when he encountered misfortune. What's more, they will personally eliminate the people they are sorry for in order to achieve their own inner peace.

Wang Shuhui has read this passage, and he thinks it is extremely correct. In "Jiupin Sesame Official", Bao Longxing's experience is proof. After Wang Shuhui learned of the grievances between Zhu Youzi and Ma Songhua, he immediately regarded Ma Songhua as his first enemy in the late Ming Dynasty.

Ma Songhua did not disappoint him either. When Ma Songhua knew that the second person who sold illicit salt in Zhijiang was Zhu Youzi's son-in-law Wang Shuhui. His first reaction was not to come to apologize and repair the relationship, but to send the river thief demon monk Shi Daoxin to threaten Wang Shuhui.

In Wang Shuhui's view, Ma Songhua's actions are an empirical evidence of his speculation and a completely normal reaction. Wang Shuhui has made a decision after fully understanding Ma Songhua's background.

People like Ma Songhua are considered in that aspect, whether it is his feudal bureaucratic identity, his status as a large landowner, or his identity as a private salt merchant. All these have determined that he is Wang Shuhui's inevitable enemy. As for the enemy, Wang Shuhui is not afraid to destroy their bodies. He was already in his heart and sentenced the Zhijiang Ma family, the entire family to death.

Wang Shuhui has raised the security level of Wangfu Town. Three teams of armed men equipped with modern mechanical crossbows patrol the town of Wangfu day and night. Everyone's daily training is all on the gun. The security team of Zhu Youzi's father and daughter is also equipped with a hand crossbow. Zhu Youzi and Zhu Weiyan also wore stab-proof clothing at the request of Wang Shuhui. All the armed men in the battalion, including the first and second class soldiers, wore stab-proof vests and hard hats.

After making full preparations, Wang Shuhui communicated with his mother's uncle, second uncle and third uncle, who had the most experience in officialdom.

After listening to Wang Shuhui's introduction to the situation, the chief housekeeper Liu Huaiyi, the second housekeeper Liu Huaizhong, the third housekeeper Liu Huaishu, and the three eldest uncles of Zhu Weiyan looked at each other for a while, and did not speak for a long time. In fact, the three well-informed old men of the palace who knew the details of Zhijiang County expected that there would be such a day when they heard the news of Wang Shuhui's sale of illicit salt from their fourth brother Liu Huaiji.

In fact, in their opinion, as long as the Zhijiang Royal Mansion does not participate in the private salt trade, Ma Songhua, the local tyrant and overlord of Zhijiang County, will not offend the Zhijiang Royal Mansion as a clan. If Ma Songhua is a simple local tyrant and does not have the identity of officialdom, he may organize the gangsters to endanger the hài clan.

But Ma Songhua is a county magistrate in Zhijiang County. With such a clear officialdom identity, he has to pay attention to strategy and be afraid of doing things. However, in their opinion, this time things will not be good. As the saying goes, taking away people's wealth is like killing parents, Wang Shuhui blatantly violated the interests of the Ma family in Zhijiang, Ma Songhua will never just forget it.

waited until he learned that Wang Shuhui had broken the bones of Monk Jingming and scattered ashes. The three old men knew that the Zhijiang Royal Mansion and the Zhijiang Ma family were already torn apart, and it was a situation that would never die. This nephew and son-in-law, who resembles a military man, even said in front of them that he wanted to destroy the Ma family. The three old men had to use their brains to think of countermeasures.

After a period of silence, Liu Huaiyi spoke first, and he said to Wang Shuhui, "The guest of honor knows what this Ma Songhua is most afraid of. ”

Wang Shuhui thought for a while and replied, "Ma Songhua should be most jealous of his father-in-law's clan identity. ”

Liu Huai nodded and said to Wang Shuhui, "What Yibin said is right, offending the clan is a big crime similar to rebellion." No matter how the guest of honor is going to deal with the Zhijiang Ma family, he must rely on the identity of the clan in order to be justified. ”

Seeing Wang Shuhui nodding thoughtfully, the second uncle Liu Huaizhong said, "Actually, the prince should have inherited the title of the king of Zhijiang County a long time ago." Today, I am very disgusted with Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng. For the old prince who dared to fight against the Zhang family back then, he didn't say anything on the surface, but he actually praised it in his heart. Otherwise, there would not be two generations of Zhijiang Wang Shizi, who were not moved to Fengyang and banned. ”

When Wang Shuhui heard this, he also felt that this was indeed the case, and he asked, "I have also thought about what the second uncle said. It's strange to say, with the seniority of Lord Yuezhang, inheriting the prince should be a matter of course. How could the imperial court have been ignored for so long. ”

The third uncle, Uncle Liu Huai, said at this time, "Yibin doesn't know anything. There must be a reason for the inheritance of this prince. If the people below don't mention it, the Emperor of Heaven will naturally not talk to himself. Our Zhijiang Mansion used to live a down-and-out life, and the old prince and the old prince were both of heavenly blood, and they were very proud. At first, he disdained to talk about it, but later, his family was degraded and he was unable to handle it. ”

At this time, Wang Shuhui understood what the three uncles meant by what they said for a long time. The meaning of these three old elves is that they want Wang Shuhui to contribute money to help the palace run the matter of inheriting the title. After his father-in-law Zhu Youzi had a prince, he could act unscrupulously in the name of the palace.

It's just that these three old men, do they want Wang Shuhui to put on the big skin of the palace and survive the crisis, or do they want to use Wang Shuhui's financial resources to help the palace inherit the title. This is a matter of the benevolent and the wise.

Wang Shuhui actually knows what is going on. He also has the ability to make the royal family inherit the title. Speaking of which, in terms of etiquette, it is a matter of course for his father-in-law Zhu Youzi to inherit the prince. It's just that there's no money to run it. Wang Shuhui had thought before that as long as he got a large mirror from modern times, he would pay tribute to the emperor as a tribute. What kind of official status and the like, it will naturally come about. The emperor Lao'er restored the title to his father-in-law, not like a joke.

However, Wang Shuhui was very resistant to putting on the skin of a feudal bureaucrat. What's more, he is also very hesitant to let his father-in-law not become a prince. Who knows what Zhu Youzi, a good young man, will become after becoming a prince.

You must know that Zhu Youzi, who is only in his thirties this year, will be a county king in his prime once he recovers the prince. He can't marry a lot of mothers-in-law for himself with three wives and four concubines. With his mother-in-law, naturally, he will have a lot of brothers-in-law before long. It is unknown whether having so many relatives of three aunts and six aunts at once will affect his anti-feudal cause.

became the son-in-law of the prince, and the cause of rebellion would not be untenable in name. This is what Wang Shuhui hesitates the most in his heart