"Father is not good!" Ma Shanfang rushed into the room and shouted loudly.

"Panic what?" Ma Yilong put down the book in his hand and said unhappily.

"Father, the Li family brothers in Jiaozhou are officials." Ma Shanfang hurriedly stood up and breathed a sigh of relief, and said.

"How is that possible?" Ma Yilong didn't believe it, the Li brothers were just showing off their talents, how could they be qualified to be officials?

"I heard that it was Chamberlain's old man who went to see the emperor, and the emperor named the eldest of the Li family as the chief of Yidu County, and the second eldest of the Li family as the master of Licheng. Father, the third child of the Li family is the general soldier of Fujian, and now the Li family has directly caught up with the emperor, our family and the Li family have enmity, will they use the emperor's hand to deal with our Ma family? Ma Shanfang said urgently.

Ma Yilong also lost his cool when he heard this, stood up, and paced around the room.

Ma Yilong's father is Wanli twenty-four years of Jinshi, from the county to Guizhou political envoy, died a few years ago, and Ma Yilong himself is also a person, although he has tried many times but is also a celebrity in the local area, Zhucheng Ma family is also a famous gentry home in Jiaodong!

Relying on the fact that the family has a jinshi, since 30 years ago, the Ma family began to accept contributions, usury for mergers, etc., and now almost half of the fields in Zhucheng County belong to the Ma family, and even the next prefecture and county also have the fields of the Ma family.

Jiaozhou and Zhucheng, although one is Qingzhou, the other is Laizhou, but it is Linxian, ten years ago, when Ma Yilong's father was the political envoy, it was the most powerful time for the Ma family to merge, and there was a conflict between Jiaozhou and the Li family. The Li family was just an ordinary landlord, with hundreds of acres of land at home, and there was not even a talent at that time, so they were naturally not the opponents of the Ma family. Relying on collusion with the government, the Ma family forcibly occupied 500 acres of fertile land of the Li family, and almost forced the Li family to die.

The relationship between the two families has always been very bad, and the Ma family naturally does not take the Li family, who has no fame, in their eyes, but the Li family has always regarded the Ma family as a great enemy. It wasn't until Ma Yilong's father died in office a few years ago, and the third son of the Li family was admitted to the Wujinshi and soon became the chief soldier of Fujian, that the Ma family knew that something was wrong and tried to ease the relationship, but the Li family ignored it at all.

Originally, a general soldier was nothing, but he was just a military general, and his status was not much better than his own person! Ma Yilong had many Jinshi exams in the same year, and his ancestors also had a lot of connections, so he was not afraid of the Li family. However, now, when he heard that the Li family was directly awarded by the emperor, Ma Yilong was really a little scared.

"Father, the emperor went on a killing spree in Jinan Mansion, almost all the officials of Jinan City were arrested and put in prison, and more than a dozen gentry in Jinan Mansion were raided. And in the past few days, news came from the Qingzhou capital that the emperor sent a large number of troops to Qingzhou, the Qingzhou prefect was so frightened that he hanged himself, and the Qingzhou officials such as the governor were connected to the nest, and I heard that now Jinyiwei is raiding the gentry outside Qingzhou City. Zhucheng County is subordinate to Qingzhou, and after Jinyiwei copies Qingzhou City, will he come to Zhucheng? Then the boss of the Li family became the county leader of Qingzhou attached to Guo Yidu County and became the emperor's eagle dog, how could he let go of our Ma family? Father, I'm afraid that a catastrophe for our family is not far away! Ma Shanfang said in horror.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the scholar is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty, why are you so cruel to the gentry?" Ma Yilong sighed, "Since Your Majesty is unkind, my Ma family can only be unjust!" ”

"Fang'er, you go to the Ma'er Temple and invite Bai Gu here!" Ma Yilong commanded in a deep voice.

Ma Shanfang's eyes lit up: "Father, you want to ......"

"The emperor is unkind, and he uses the gentry as dogs, so naturally we can't sit and wait to be killed!" Ma Yilong sneered, "Bai Gu's true identity is the Holy Maiden of the Wenxiang Sect, and she is the daughter of Xu Hongru of the Wenxiang Sect back then. Although Xu Hongru's uprising was suppressed by the imperial court, but the Wenxiang Sect members were scattered all over Shandong, as long as Bai Gu ascended to the heights as the saint of the Wenxiang Sect, and then we secretly supported it, it was easy to set off a turmoil in Shandong, and then I would like to see if the emperor still had the heart to do something to the gentry and officials? What is the Li family, when the Wenxiang Sect Army gathers tens of thousands, conquers Jiaozhou City, and kills the Li family cleanly! ”

"That Bai Gu turned out to be the Holy Maiden of the Smelling Fragrance Sect? Impossible! Ma Shanfang couldn't believe it.

"Absolutely, its true identity is only known to a few people." Ma Yilong stroked his beard and said.

"Father, how could you have something to do with the Smelling Fragrance Sect?" Ma Shanfang asked.

Ma Yilong sighed: "It's not me, it's your grandfather." Your grandfather mistakenly entered the Wenxiang Sect when he was young, oh, it was still called the White Lotus Sect at that time, and Xu Hongru at that time was a senior brother, and then for some reason he opened his mind to study, and he was only promoted in the examination one after another, so he broke off contact with Xu Hongru. When Xu Hongru was righteous, your grandfather was participating in politics in Guizhou at that time, thousands of miles away, so naturally he was not implicated. Xu Hongru failed and was killed, but his daughter escaped, I don't know how I heard that the previous generation found our family, and there was no way to be a father, I was afraid that my grandfather would not dare to report to the official, so he placed his daughter in the Ma'er Temple, which is the white aunt. ”

"I see." Ma Shanfang still couldn't believe that the middle-aged nun in the Ma Er Temple was actually the holy daughter of the Smelling Fragrance Sect.

"Father, if you do this, our Ma family will also be involved, Xu Hongru, the leader of the Wenxiang Sect, will not be able to do it when he is alive, can he do it now with only one saint, if it fails, our Ma family will probably be wiped out by the Nine Clans." Ma Shanfang said in fear.

"Hmph, do you think you can end well if you don't do anything? As you just said, once Jinyiwei comes to Zhucheng, with the Li family and our festival, our family will definitely be killed, and it is inevitable to kill our family. What do you care about the nine clans when the family is dead?

Besides, we are not shirtless, tomorrow our father and son will leave Zhucheng in the name of going to Penglai to play, and then you go to Penglai, and secretly join the Wenxiang Sect under the pseudonym of your father, even if your father dies in the future, our Ma family will not be implicated. As long as Shandong is in turmoil, where will Jinyiwei still have the kung fu to pay attention to the gentry? The court needs money and food to suppress bandits, and naturally needs the help of the gentry, so when the time comes, the father will take the opportunity to break away from the Wenxiang Sect, and maybe he can still wait for the opportunity to make a contribution. Ma Yilong snorted coldly.

"Jiannu was driven out of Liaodong by the imperial army, and the Mongols also surrendered, the imperial army is too powerful, father, if you can't do anything by smelling incense, you still don't want it." Ma Shanfang persuaded bitterly.

"Confused! If you don't do anything, you can only be slaughtered! Anyway, it's death, it's better to fight, at least you can kill the Li family! Don't say more, you immediately pack your bags and take refuge on Penglai Island! Ma Yilong said sharply.

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At the beginning of May in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Wenxiang Sect suddenly raised an incident in the area of Zhucheng County, Qingzhou Prefecture, and gathered thousands of poor believers in just a few days. In mid-May, the Wenxiang rebellion army suddenly raised troops to attack Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou Li scattered all his wealth to recruit young people to help defend the city, Wenxiang Sect attacked the city for several days, plundered the countryside and then turned to the north, killed to Pingdu Prefecture, Jiaodong County was a piece of erosion.

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