Chapter 274: The Second Minister's Problem
Ma Mingyuan organized a speech and said, "Brother of the people, you are also a well-read poet. Of course, you know what the consequences of those who talk about benevolence and righteousness in troubled times will be! You saw that memorial just now. There are only four prefectures that we can actually control, including Nanxiong, Shaozhou, Gaozhou, Huizhou, and Luodingzhou, only nominally respect the King of Chu. Because Chaozhou Prefecture is close to Fujian, it is dominated by the King of Tang. If the King of Tang does not perish for a day, the King of Chu will not have legality at all, so the order of the King of Chu is also a helpless act!"
Chen Zilong is not a young angry young man who just graduated. He has been in the officialdom for several years and has served as a county magistrate. He just couldn't accept such bloody political conspiracy for a while.
Chen Zilong nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Zhongming for your advice. Brother Yu prepares it. After the arrangements are made, we will go to Zhaoqing Mansion to take office!"
Seeing that Chen Zilong accepted the fact, Ma Mingyuan was also very happy. He quickly asked someone to go out to arrange Chen Zilong's residence and said, "Brother Renzhong, let's stay in my house these days. It's just that evening, we two brothers will talk at night!"
"Okay, then I'll disturb you!"
Ma Mingyuan arranged Chen Zilong here, but Chen Zizhuang, the chief assistant of the cabinet, was at Zhu Hongsan.
It turned out that when Qian Qianyi saw that Zhu Hongsan did not see him, he immediately came to the cabinet to find Chen Zizhuang. Chen Zizhuang used to be Qingliu, and both father and son had a good relationship with Qian Qianyi. Although the Qing Dynasty went south to break into Nanjing and Qian Qianyi surrendered, it was not Qian Qianyi's own decision.
However, Chen Zizhuang was very disgusted with Qian Qianyi's appointment to go to Beijing to become an official. There is no problem in offering the city. After that, you will go home and stay in seclusion. It would be bad if you get a rat tail and go to Beijing to lick the anus.
But when Chen Zizhuang felt very uncomfortable when he saw Qian Qianyi kneeling in front of him in his sixties, he had no choice but to get up and find Zhu Hongsan to see if he could get Qian Qianyi a job.
When Chen Zizhuang saw Zhu Hongsan, he asked: "Superior State, how are you going to treat Qian Qianyi?"
"Hmph! How do you treat him? It would be nice if you don't kill him. Could it be that he will continue to be an official and will not be able to be a contributor in Guangdong in the future?"
"It was a helpless move for Qian Qianyi to offer Nanjing as a regent. At that time, the emperor fled, and the chief assistant Ma Shiying had already escaped. No one in the city presided over it. There was an opponent of the Qing Dynasty!"
"This is reasonable, but it's unreasonable for Old Man Qian to shave his head and become an official in Beijing!"
Chen Zizhuang nodded, and this one was really impossible to escape. It seemed that he had to persuade the King of Chu from other aspects.
"The regent, don't you know if the regent is determined to restore the Central Plains and revitalize the Ming Dynasty?"
"Of course, I want to do Guangwu's business!"
"It is of course good for the State Supervisor to have such ambition, but the State Supervisor did not think that the northern territory had fallen. A large number of officials became traitors. If Your Highness does not forgive Qian Qianyi today, what will happen to those traitors in the future?"
Zhu Hongsan was stunned. He didn't expect this reason. Yes, now he heard that the Qing Dynasty had already opened a tuition to recruit scholars, and a large number of northern literati participated in the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty and became officials. In addition, the officials who surrendered in the Ming Dynasty in the past, this was a considerable force. If they were not appeased, the great cause of the Northern Expedition would be much more difficult in the future.
After understanding it, Zhu Hongsan quickly called Cao Fang and asked him to go outside to pick up Qian Qianyi's family.
When Zhu Hongsan saw Cao Fang going out, he quickly said to Chen Zizhuang: "Fortunately, Mr. reminds me, otherwise I will make a big mistake!"
"Haha, Qian Qianyi is not very good, but he has served as the leader of the Donglin Party for a long time, and the south is his disciple and old official. With the help of Qian Qianyi, the current dilemma of Your Highness the Superintendent will be alleviated to a certain extent."
Chen Zizhuang was talking about the fact that the prefectures in Huizhou, Gaozhou, Nanxiong and Shaozhou in Guangdong were lip service to Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Hongsan also nodded repeatedly. He has had a headache for these prefectures in the past few months. I hope Qian Qianyi will have a solution.
After a while, Cao Fang brought Qian Qianyi's family to the house. Old Man Qian hadn't seen him for a few years and was still so fairy-like and looked like a god. "Hedong Jun" Liu Rushi was much more plump, with a very charm of a milf.
Liu Rushi was holding a child over one year old in his hand. It seemed to be Qian Qianyi's seed. Unexpectedly, Old Man Qian was over 60 years old and had good combat effectiveness. Behind Qian Qianyi was a young man in his twenties, who should be Qian Qianyi's eldest son, Qian Yiai.
Qian Qianyi went through a lot of hardships to see the King of Chu. The current King of Chu is very different from the King of Chu three years ago. Zhu Hongsan now holds great power for a long time and is powerful without being angry. In addition, he is 1.75 meters tall, far taller than the people of the same period in the Ming Dynasty. He wore the prince's four-claw dragon robe and a crown woven with gold silk on his head. He sat there with a look of a king.
Qian Qianyi thought of giving saluted to his former mortal enemy for the sake of life, so he couldn't help but feel sad, but there was no way, and he had to bow his head under the roof!
"The criminal Qian Qianyi led his family to pay homage to the governor!" After that, Qian Qianyi was about to kneel down and kowtow.
Zhu Hongsan now has a request to him. Although he is so angry that he is very angry, he is doing enough face.
Zhu Hongsan quickly stepped forward to support Qian Qianyi and said, "Don't be too polite, please sit down quickly!" After that, he helped Qian Qianyi sit down under Chen Zizhuang.
Zhu Hongsan said: "I have a lot of things just now, so I have been slow to treat my father-in-law. Please don't take it to my heart!"
Qian Qianyi dared not say anything. "Your Highness the Superintendent is busy with all kinds of things every day, and the criminal is a crime, so how dare you ask for it!"
"My father-in-law should not belittle himself, and everything in Nanjing should not be counted on my father-in-law. In order to protect one million people in Nanjing, my father-in-law still has more contributions than demerits!"
Zhu Hongsan is now Qian Qianyi's master, and this sentence has given Qian Qianyi a certainty.
Old Man Qian was in a much better mood when he saw Zhu Hongsan spare him.
"This time, the old minister went south to join the governor's country, and wanted to assist the governor's country in the northern expedition to the Central Plains and revive the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the old minister is willing to die for the governor's country before he dies!"
"This old bastard is so shameless. He beats a snake with a stick. He doesn't call himself a criminal minister, but he changes to an old minister. He still has to learn from Zhuge Liang before he dies?" Zhu Hongsan cursed in his heart, but he cannot show it on the surface.
Zhu Hongsan laughed and said, "It's easy to talk about the official position of my father-in-law, but my father-in-law has arrived thousands of times and should not have visited your grandson. Yuting gave birth to a son for me a month ago. Now he is in Guangzhou. My father-in-law should go and see him first and reunite with his family. As for the official position, I will discuss it with the cabinet, and I will definitely satisfy my father-in-law."
Qian Qianyi also knew that it was impossible for him to get any beauty, and now this is the only way.
Zhu Hongsan looked at the plump Liu Rushi and couldn't help but think of the affair he had with her when he left Beijing the previous year, and his lower body was itchy.
"Hello, I'm a man from Hedong, is this child the son of his father-in-law?"
Seeing Zhu Hongsan laughing at her lewdly, Liu Rushi, "Hedong Jun", couldn't help but turn red. She thought of the scene of being raped by Zhu Hongsanqiang at that time. She quickly lowered her head and said, "Your Highness, the master's third son, is the master's third son, who is one and a half years old this year."
When Zhu Hongsan saw Liu Rushi's face flushed, he couldn't help but be stunned, and the face of Zhutou San leaked out.
Chen Zizhuang beside him was really angry to see Zhu Hongsan like this. No one could have seen his subordinates drooling, let alone this woman was his nominal mother-in-law.
Chen Zizhuang coughed and said, "Responsible State, we have some things to discuss. Should we arrange for someone to send money to Guangzhou to meet the princess?"
After being interrupted by Chen Zizhuang's fantasy, Zhu Hongsan quickly said, "Yes! Yes! Cao Fang, you are going to give 5,000 taels of silver to Lord Qian to settle down, and then use my boat to send lor Qian to Guangzhou!"
Qian Qianyi led the family to thank him and went out. Zhu Hongsan looked at Liu Rushi's plump buttocks and drooled. Chen Zizhuang next to him was so angry that he was angry.
The King of Chu is good at everything, but he is too lustful. There are many princesses in the mansion, and he still has to mess with her. When Chen Zizhuang saw Qian Qianyi's family go out, he shouted: "Responsible for the country, the king must have the majesty of the king. How can you be like today!"
The ministers scolded Zhu Hong for not blushing or white in his face and said, "Mr. Chen is right. I must change it in the future and will never make any mistakes again!"
Chen Zizhuang was so angry that he heard Feng Ruoshu say that the King of Chu was good at everything, with a genius and aptitude, and was not inferior to the founding Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. But one disadvantage is that he is too lustful. He was originally lustful and was not a disease for men of this era. The scholar-officials were not three wives and four concubines. But the King of Chu was the best wife and liked to seize his wife and daughter the most. Look at the princess in his mansion, except for the official Ma Xiaofang, he all took it. There were princesses of Chongzhen and princesses of Changsha. If it weren't for the fact that the King of Chu had too many other advantages, Chen Zizhuang would really have the urge to resign.
When Zhu Hongsan saw Old Man Chen so angry that he quickly said, "Don't take it to heart by Lord Chen. I am lustful and will not delay the serious business!"
Hearing Zhu Hongsan say this, Chen Zizhuang was so happy, he knew not to delay the serious business.
"Mr. Chen is here. I have something I want to discuss with Mr. Chen!"
When he heard that there was a serious official, Chen Zizhuang quickly sat upright and bowed his hand and said, "Please tell me!"
"Mr. Chen, I have thought about it these days. It has been two hundred years since the founding of the cabinet system by Chengzu Zhu Di. Several major officials in the cabinet have neither the name of the prime minister nor the power of the prime minister, nor the head of all officials. Their official ranks are only the fifth rank, and it is really unreasonable to govern the country. Therefore, I have been thinking for a long time and want to reset the prime minister system. I don't know what Lord Chen means!"
Zhu Hongsan's words were like thunder in Chen Zizhuang's ears. Re-establishing the prime minister means that the power in his hands increased. That literati did not want to be inferior to one person, and Zhu Hongsan's words were simply fatal to an orthodox scholar like Chen Zizhuang.
Chapter completed!