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Chapter 475 Unfavorable Qian Qianyi

Zhu Hongsan touched his beard after hearing what Ma Jiyuan said, and nodded. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang and southern Zhili were the most intense areas of resistance. Some of the intellectuals died from their families. These people were typical examples that Zhu Hongsan needed to commend. But don’t forget that many people became traitors.

After the Qing Dynasty occupied Nanzhili, he encountered desperate resistance from various places. Dorgon then adjusted his strategy and sent Hong Chengchou to serve as the governor of the six provinces in Jiangnan. Although Hong Chengchou was not very good, his abilities and skills were definitely first-class. Nanzhili and Zhejiang, which were originally full of wars, gradually became more moderate under the means of Hong Chengchou as the main and suppression as the auxiliary. Among them, some of the backbone-free families in Nanzhili played an absolute role.

In the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, there was also a large warlord in Susong, where Zhang Shicheng was very popular among the local people. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang's scruples, the taxes of Suzhou, Songjiang and Huzhou were the heaviest. Hong Chengchou seized this point and immediately reduced the taxes of these three prefectures after taking office, thus leaving a good impression among the big families of the three prefectures. In addition, Hong Chengchou was fighting against various rebels. Except for Guangdezhou, most of the rebels in other rebels were wiped out, and a large number of gentry surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. For example, Zhang Guowei, Qian Sule and others had no place to gain a foothold in Nanzhili, and they had no choice but to escape to Zhoushan.

Eastern Zhejiang is different from Southern Zhili. Eastern Zhejiang is the old nest of King Lu. Most of the aristocratic families here join the ranks of supporting King Lu. Therefore, the Qing army basically focused on suppressing and extermination of Eastern Zhejiang, so there were a large number of righteous troops in eastern Zhejiang.

Zhu Hongsan had just arrived in Jiangnan and followed the King of Lu to raise an army, so the local tyrants in eastern Zhejiang must be rewarded, but the only ones that could satisfy them were official positions and land. Now that the central government has empty many locations, the land is in trouble. However, what Ma Jiyuan said just now reminded Zhu Hongsan that the land in eastern Zhejiang is not enough for southern Zhili, but there are many local scholars in northern Zhejiang, Huzhou Prefecture, Jiaxing Prefecture, and Hangzhou Prefecture, all of which have submission to the Qing Dynasty. The family property and land of these people should be able to satisfy the appetite of the resistance faction in eastern Zhejiang and their own Huguang and Guangdong upstarts.

"Mr. Ma is right, let me pass the imperial edict on the inspection department of Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces to confiscate the property and land of the scholars who defected to the Qing Dynasty, waiting for processing!"

Everyone was very happy when Zhu Hongsan said this. The civil and military officials present were either old subordinates of Huguang or newcomers in Guangdong, or the resistance faction in eastern Zhejiang. Now they heard that they could share money and land. How could they not be happy? Zhang Huangyan was about to object when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, Chen Zilong beside him gently stabbed him. Now he immediately became the enemy of all officials. This is not a good thing. Zhang Huangyan thought for a while and could not speak up. He knew that even if he disagreed, the Zhang family behind him would force him to agree. The Zhang family was a great gentry in Ningbo, and a member of the Wanli period was released.

A cabinet grandson and a minister of the Ministry of War, have scholars as officials from generation to generation, and they can be said to be very glorious in Ningbo. When the Zhang family fought to Zhejiang, the Zhang family firmly stood on the side of King Lu. The princess of the King of Lu was the daughter of the Zhang family. It is conceivable that the Zhang family supported the Qing Dynasty. Of course, the Zhang family made a lot of efforts in the past two years. Many Zhang family members died in the battle with the Qing Dynasty. In order to support the rebel army, the Zhang family leader even sold most of the Zhang family's land to support the rebel army. Now it is time to divide the fruits, if Zhang Huangyan, who is a branch of the Zhang family, raised an objection, the Zhang family leader would definitely ask the family law to clean up the portal.

Looking at the Zhejiang East official whose eyes were full of red light, Zhang Huangyan sighed in his heart. It seemed that this was the second time that he had "followed the case"!

The "Shun Case" was fabricated by Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng in order to deal with the Donglin Party in the south. After Chongzhen came to power, a large number of Donglin Party officials were activated, and these Donglin shit-making sticks were really not very good. After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, most of these people defected to Li Zicheng. So Ruan Dacheng, who was a "elebrant party" back then, made such a Shun Case that was created by the Donglin shit-making sticks in order to revenge on these Donglin shit-making sticks.

Regardless of right or wrong, the important juncture of the Southern Ming Dynasty needed to unite all forces to the outside world to consume a lot of internal forces, which led to Zuo Liangyu from Huguang being exclaimed of "clearing the monarch", thus allowing the Qing army in the north to find a loophole and head south to occupy Nanjing.

Now that it is the second "sentence case", Zhang Huangyan really doesn't want to see the imperial court fall into civil strife again. Of course, Zhang Huangyan would not raise objections in front of so many people. He is going to choose an opportunity to raise it to the emperor at night.

Zhu Hongsan looked at all the officials around him and couldn't help but laugh in his heart. These stinky old men said one by one, "What is the great principles of serving the country and the people?" Now, seeing that he can get benefits is not a happy old face like a chrysanthemum! It seems that what you are doing for the king and the people is fake, and only real interests are real.

Ma Jiyuan and the ministers next to him were happy and continued, "Your Majesty, since this is the case, do the traitors who have served as officials in the Qing Dynasty also follow this example?"

Originally, more than 20 ministers around Zhu Hongsan were talking and laughing, after all, his wife was promoted and made money, and he was very happy to have three happy events in life today. A few old guys were wondering if they were going back to take a concubine and have a three-day happy ending. But when he heard Ma Jiyuan's small voice, he immediately heard all the noises. The boat was quiet and even the noise of the crowds in the salt pier outside the sea were heard.

None of these ministers was foolish. I just realized that Ma Jiyuan was really particular and dared to speak up for the benefit of his colleagues. Now I realized that Ma Jiyuan didn't think so at all. What he wanted to do was Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi was secretly happy at first because he couldn't bring tens of acres of fertile land in Changshu. All he could bring was gold, silver, fine and soft. He didn't know that the bastard was cheaper. Now with the emperor's words, he could legally get his own things back, and perhaps he could add tens of thousands of acres of land. Thinking of this, Qian Qianyi couldn't help but be happy. It seemed that his unlucky son-in-law was pretty good to him.

Qian Qianyi didn't expect that the conversation changed immediately. How could Ma Jiyuan say that he was a traitor when he was an official in the Qing Dynasty?

The Qian family was originally a big landlord in Changshu County, Suzhou. The family had a huge amount of money. However, when Lao Qian was born, he didn't find the right time and was displaced all his life. When he was young, he offended people and was dismissed. He also stayed in prison for several years. After he was released from prison, he worked at home for more than ten years. When Emperor Hongguang came to power, he finally became the Minister of Rites and was waiting to enter the cabinet. At this time, he met Zhu Hongsan, a disaster star in his life, and not only was he robbed of tens of thousands of taels of silver, but his daughter was also stolen. Most of the books in his home were burned by Zhu Hongsan. His newly married wife Liu Rushi was raped to the point of being unconscious by the bastard Zhu Hongsanqiang.

However, these are nothing in the eyes of Shangshu Qian. As long as he can enter the cabinet, everything is a cloud. Next, the Qing Dynasty crossed the Yangtze River and occupied Nanjing. Qian Qianyi originally thought that with his prestige, the savages of the Qing Dynasty must invite him to come out of the mountain, and the most time can enter the cabinet as a cabinet master. Therefore, when the Qing Dynasty's conscript order came, Qian Qianyi went to Beijing with great pleasure.

But he didn't expect that although the Manchus did not read the Four Books and Five Classics, they still saw clearly what Qian Qianyi had to eat and do nothing, so they gave him a free servant from the Minister of Rites and asked him to write books. Seeing that he was really a widow's son this time, he had no hope, so he returned to his hometown in Changshu in dishearteningly.

Unexpectedly, when I went back to Changshu, my eldest wife and young wife were abducted by Zhu Hongsan. Lao Qian was so angry that he couldn't jump into the Yangtze River. However, Lao Qian thought it through with Liu Rushi's guidance. Since the whole family was going to Guangdong, it would be better to go to Guangdong as well. I heard that his daughter was still favored by the King of Chu, and maybe he could still realize his dream of entering the cabinet.

After Qian Qianyi came to Guangdong, he was also idle by Zhu Hongsan for a while. Because Zhu Hongsan thought the same as the Qing Dynasty, you, Qian Qianyi, can’t do anything except write two wrong poems, what’s the point of asking for you? This is because Zhu Hongsan left Qian Qianyi for the sake of his wife, and according to Zhu Hongsan’s personality, he had already sent him to Luzon to start a mine.

However, Lao Qian finally came to work hard after more than 40 years of unluckyness. He caught up with the great development period of Zhu Hongsan's group. If Zhu Hongsan wanted to counterattack Nanzhili, he would have to deal with local scholars. Although Qian Qianyi had a bad character, he had a good appeal among the scholars in Nanzhili. In addition, Qian Qianyi could indeed make trouble, which made Lao Qian enter the cabinet, which made Lao Qian's dream of cabinet come true.

However, it was precisely because Qian Qianyi was too eager to enter the cabinet that offended the Guangdong faction and the Ma family, and Ma Jiyuan attacked Qian Qianyi by dealing with the traitor.

Qian Qianyi was so anxious when he saw Ma Jiyuan pointing his gun at him. Although he was shameless, he could not do such a thing as a ants on a hot pan after being impeached. Qian Qianyi looked at the ministers around him and hoped that someone would come forward to say good things to him.

At this time, we can see that Qian Qianyi's past character came, and none of the more than 20 ministers spoke for Qian Qianyi. Even his political ally Tong Yangjia looked at the sky and pretended not to see it.

Qian Qianyi complained in his heart, who told him that he was too snobbish in his usual manner and offended everyone. The ministers present included the Huguang faction, who were led by Ma Jiyuan and Tong Yangjia, and no one stood up without saying anything. There was also the Guangdong faction, who were angry that Qian Qianyi used methods to get Huang Yingxiu away. Now seeing Qian Qianyi was in trouble, it was already considered a kind-hearted person if he didn't come up and stepped on him, so he could speak for him. The rest were Zhejiang faction, and these people were all hard-core anti-Qing factions. Knowing Qian Qianyi's past, he was not ashamed of his character, let alone speaking for him.

Qian Qianyi saw that no one on the left and right pleaded for him, so he could only take off his official hat and knelt down on his knees and said, "Your Majesty, I beg for bones!" Old Qian was unwilling to accept that he had just become a cabinet master for less than two months and was about to retire and go home. He was probably the cabinet master with the shortest cabinet qualification in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Just when everyone thought Qian Qianyi was about to get out, Lao Qian's student Zhang Huangyan couldn't stand it anymore. He threw away Chen Zilong, who was pulling him, and stood up to speak generously for Lao Qian.
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