Just when Zhu Hongsan was in the palace and Xinna's nobleman Anna Hu Tian and Emperor Hu, Ma Mingyuan did not rest.

Ma Mingyuan is in charge of finance and civil affairs in the cabinet. Ma Mingyuan was in charge of this area when he was in Huguang, which is also familiar with it.

However, Ma Mingyuan is not as elegant as usual now. He almost pulled apart a long beard. Ma Mingyuan was not alone in the house, but also Wang Yunchang, the Minister of Finance.

Wang Yunchang was invited by Ma Mingyuan to the Ma Mansion in the afternoon. Today, there was a topic about the "Please set up a bank to issue silver coins". News had already been heard in the palace that His Majesty the Emperor hinted that Ma Mingyuan would pass this "Please set up a bank to issue silver coins" at tomorrow's court meeting. So Ma Mingyuan invited Wang Yunchang to discuss the matters of tomorrow's court meeting.

As Feng Ruoshu's disciple, Feng Ziyong's junior brother was naturally the Feng clan party. However, Wang Yunchang was also the Minister of Finance and knew the importance of this memorial. As long as the memorial was passed, the Ministry of Finance immediately surpassed the Organization Department and became the largest department, so that Wang Yunchang would go further on the road to entering the cabinet.

Ma Mingyuan thought more profoundly. Ma Mingyuan has always regarded himself as Zhang Juzheng. What he wanted to be a minister who was to protect the world. Of course, it would be even more perfect to take the opportunity to attack political enemies when completing his established goals.

Ma Mingyuan's "Please set up a bank to issue silver coins" has a great impact. If it is passed, it means that all the silver circulating on the market will be invalidated and the value of the currency will be lost. If it wants to be circulated, it must be exchanged for official silver coins, and the actual silver content of silver coins is only nine cents. A large number of investors will lose eight cents of silver when exchanging one tael of silver. This is not the time to exchange the fire, so this proposal is of course boycotted by the large players.

In fact, after the memorial was passed, it had a great impact on the Huguang faction. After the Huguang faction came to Guangdong, these upstarts rushed to capture land and completed the original accumulation of capital in a short period of time. In addition to being inferior to the Guangdong faction in traditional industries, they have long surpassed the Guangdong faction in some emerging industries, such as shipping, silk reeling, printing and dyeing, iron manufacturing, etc., so this memorial actually has a greater impact on the Huguang faction.

However, the foundation of the Huguang faction is Zhu Hongsan. In addition, the leading figure Ma Mingyuan is well aware of the current financial situation. The Huguang faction will naturally fully support any policy of Emperor Shenwu. Because to restore the Ming Dynasty, 70% to 80% of the annual fiscal revenue will be invested in the military, and now there is less than one million taels of silver in the treasury. The fastest channel for money is to search houses, but Zhu Hongsan can use this method when external threats are greater than internal threats, so naturally playing with money like a soft knife is still acceptable to people.

Wang Yunchang looked through Ma Mingyuan's memorial, which had been revised a lot by Ma Mingyuan. In order to reduce the resistance to policy implementation, Ma Mingyuan relaxed the collection period for fire consumption for two years. That is, if it is implemented now, there is no fire consumption. As long as the silver content can meet the official standards, nine cents and two cents can be exchanged for one liang of silver coins. At the same time, the credit limit for private money banks was also relaxed, and it was stipulated that loans could be made at the fixed exchange rate of the central bank in two years, giving them some preparation time.

Although Ma Mingyuan made a lot of concessions, he estimated that the Guangdong faction would still object. After all, the deadline was only two years, and in two years it would be followed, and the Guangdong merchants would suffer great losses. Even if Ma Mingyuan made concessions in the new policy, the fundamental contradictions were unresolvable, and Wang Yunchang was not optimistic about tomorrow's court meeting.

After reading the memorial, Wang Yunchang handed it to Ma Mingyuan and said, "Sir, I guess Yuan Fu and the others will still object tomorrow. If they are not done well, they will have to discuss it in court!" Last time, because of the opposition of the Guangdong faction, Zhu Hongsan finally decided to discuss the court, but he didn't expect to draw. There are now seven people in the cabinet, namely Chen Zizhuang, Huang Yingxiu, Liu Dalin, Ma Mingyuan of the Guangdong faction, Feng Ziyong, Tong Yangjia of the Huguang faction, and Fu Wenlong of the pro-Huguang faction. Last time Ma Mingyuan neglected, he thought that his side had an absolute advantage, but he didn't expect that Feng Ziyong voted abstaining vote during the vote. The reason was quite sufficient, that is, the new bank policy had a huge impact, and there was no buffer period, which was really Meng Lang, so he asked His Majesty the Emperor to return to Ma Mingyuan's memorial.

So this time Ma Mingyuan revised the memorial and specially called Feng Ziyong's iron-core Wang Yunchang to tell him a message. This time it was the emperor's intention, so that Feng Ziyong would not be ungrateful.

After hearing Wang Yunchang's words, Ma Mingyuan picked up the teacup on the teahouse, took a sip and asked, "This time it's the emperor's intention. Does Lord Feng still dare to object to the emperor?"

Hearing Ma Mingyuan's words, Wang Yunchang cursed in his heart: "Mr. Feng is really, why do you gods want me to get involved in the fight?"

Wang Yunchang thought so in his heart, but he smiled and said, "Don't worry, Lord Ma, I will pass the news to Lord Feng. This time it's the emperor's intention. I think Lord Feng will not abstain from the right!"

Seeing Wang Yunchang say this, Ma Mingyuan nodded with satisfaction, picked up the teacup and said, "It's late, I won't send you to Lord Wang!"

Seeing Ma Mingyuan sending tea to see the guests, Wang Yunchang quickly stood up and bowed to say goodbye.

It was said that it was night, but Wang Yunchang dared to go home and sleep with his concubine. He went out and quickly got into the sedan chair and rushed to Feng Ziyong's mansion to deliver the message.

Just after Wang Yunchang left, a man came out from behind the screen in the Ma Mansion study. He was of medium figure and wearing a gray cloth long gown. He looked elegant and elegant. He was Chen Zilong, known as the "Three Sons in Yunjian".

Chen Zilong was the prefect of Zhaoqing. He was responsible for the important task of relocating refugees in military farms. He has done a great job in recent years. In addition, he has a good relationship with Emperor Zhu Hongsan. This time, he was appointed as the governor of Zhejiang when he was preparing to enter Nanjing. Chen Zilong was on the surface a student of Qian Qianyi, and was from Zhejiang. He used to be one of the backbone of the Fushe Society. He was a hard-core Donglin Party member, so Qian Qianyi recommended Chen Zilong as the governor of Zhejiang this time.

But what Qian Qianyi didn't expect was that he was obviously his own student, but in fact Chen Zilong was Ma Mingyuan's party.

Chen Zilong is three years younger than Ma Mingyuan. When Ma Mingyuan was traveling to Nanzhili, he fell in love with him at first sight. In addition, these two were great intellectuals who were great for the country and the people, and they met too late. Finally, Chen Zilong and Ma Mingyuan went to Wuchang, Huguang and met the magical boy Zhu Hongsan.

After returning to Nanzhili, Chen Zilong continued to run for this broken dynasty, but some intellectuals represented by Qian Qianyi in Nanzhili were drunk and dreaming of drinking and playing with women every day, and ignored the national affairs. Chen Zilong was very disappointed with Qian Qianyi when he saw this, but Chen Zilong was just a juren at that time, and his status could not be reached at all. He had no choice but to go home and study behind closed doors.

Hard work pays off. Chen Zilong finally passed the imperial examination in the tenth year of Chongzhen. However, when he arrived in Beijing, he found that it was similar to Nanjing. The big bosses in the court fought for power and did nothing but did not do personnel. Chen Zilong resigned from his post in anger and returned to his hometown to serve as his mother. But a few years later, the world was in chaos, and the emperor hanged him, Li Zicheng occupied Beijing and established the Dashun regime.

When the country was destroyed, Chen Zilong resolutely bid farewell to his wife and children, and came to Nanjing alone, becoming a military officer. Chen Zilong originally thought that the country was like this, and the big men in the court should have seen the situation clearly, but he thought that the small court in Nanjing only had one year's life and had "three major cases". Then Chen Zilong saw the ugly appearance of his teacher Qian Qianyi, and knelt outside Nanjing to welcome the Qing army into the city during heavy rain. Qian Qianyi's kneeling completely made Chen Zilong give up on his teacher and not worthy of his confidante Liu Rushi. At this point, Chen Zilong completely broke up with the Donglin Party in his thoughts. After Chen Zilong returned to his hometown, he sold his property and organized a rebel army to resist the Qing army in the Songjiang area.

At this time, a group of Jinyiwei found Chen Zilong under the banner of King Chu, saying that the King of Chu had arrived in Guangdong and invited Chen Zilong to meet him. Chen Zilong then remembered the agreement with the boy that year, and led the team to join Li Zhi, who was still on Chongming Island at the time. He was appointed as the army by Li Zhi. Half a year later, he came to Guangdong to meet with Zhu Hongsan, Ma Mingyuan and other old friends at that time.

In fact, with the relationship between Chen Zilong and Zhu Hongsan, it is not an exaggeration to give it to the minister directly, but Zhu Hongsan has now opened up the situation in Guangdong. Although there are very few officials, the normal bureaucratic structure is still there. With these structures, Zhu Hongsan cannot be in vain. This is also a characteristic of ancient China, and the emperor can't do anything.

Chen Zilong* didn't care about Zhu Hongsan's inability to appoint him an important official position. In fact, he really wanted to go to the place and took it step by step with his ability instead of relying on his relationships. So when Zhu Hongsan appointed him as the Tongzhi of Zhaoqing, he agreed with mercy.

Chen Zilong and Zhang Huangyan were probably the only capable, ideal and courageous officials in the late Ming Dynasty. When they were in office at Zhaoqing, Chen Zilong actively cooperated with the prefect Xu Dali and did a lot of things to resettle refugees. After Xu Dali left a year later, he recommended Chen Zilong to the court to take his place.

While handling government affairs, Chen Zilong increasingly discovered that Qian Qianyi's theory was not suitable for this troubled times. Instead, it was the correctness of the sentence Zhu Hongsan proposed that "practice is the only criterion for testing truth". Through his correspondence with Ma Mingyuan, Chen Zilong and Ma Mingyuan became closer and closer, and now he has become Ma Mingyuan's confidant military advisor.

Although Ma Mingyuan is the leader of the Huguang faction, there are many factions in the Huguang faction. Originally, Ma Mingyuan could still rely on his elder brother and Feng Ziyong, but with Ma Xiaofang's death, Fu Wenlong actually proposed to let Ma Ruyan be the queen, which has violated Ma Mingyuan's core interests, that is, to ensure that Zhu Hai's position as the prince must be stable. Therefore, since the struggle for the empress, Ma Mingyuan became increasingly alienated from his elder brother. Ma Mingyuan also knew that his elder brother Ma Jiyuan was not satisfied because he occupied the cabinet and Ma Jiyuan was unable to enter the cabinet for a long time.
Chapter completed!