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Chapter five hundred and ninety-ninth secret conversation between uncle and nephew

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Zhu Hongsan was born in the grassroots era. At that time, in order to fool the Ma family into his own chariot, he appointed many officials and made many wishes. In order to win the support of the vast number of literati, he even brought out the real system of the Northern Song Dynasty like the Northern Song Dynasty. Although this made Zhu Hongsan's early development smooth, a large number of literati from the north were attracted by the loose political system of the Shenwu court and served as an official.

However, as the territory grew, Zhu Hongsan increasingly discovered that prime ministerial power was a constraint on him. As a later generation, Zhu Hongsan knew that if he did not want to repeat the mistakes three hundred years later, this society would need to be adapted. However, Zhu Hongsan now found that he had entered a vicious circle. If he wanted to have the ability to change China, he had to occupy the whole country. To occupy the whole country, he had to defeat the Qing Dynasty first. To defeat the Qing Dynasty, he had to rely on these literati, but if he had to rely on these literati, he would not want to change the existing China.

Zhu Hongsan, Guangdong, realized this, so he spent a lot of effort to support the new literati influenced by him to the throne, such as Chen Zilong, Zhang Jiayu, Zhang Huangyan, and Qian Yiai. At the same time, Zhu Hongsan was also planning to tighten the monarchy in his hands, but the literati group led by Ma Mingyuan was not a good meal. Every time the conflict between monarchy and prime ministers was Zhu Hongsan defeated.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the prince Zhu Hai who was leaving, and smiled bitterly in his heart: "This is the successor he chose, and he has completely become the spokesperson for those stinky old ninths. He forgot that as the emperor, he naturally has to oppose the civil service group? How can I feel at ease to hand over the country to him after my death?"

Zhu Hongsan was sad about his successor, and Tong Yangjia also returned to his home with the unlucky Tong Tuchang.

Tong Tuchang went to wash first, changed his clothes before coming out to pay homage to his uncle.

After saluting his uncle Tong Yangjia, Tong Tuchang sat down and asked, "Uncle, why did you disagree with the beating Fang Fengnian court stick just now? Don't you want to avenge your nephew?"

"Nonsense, why don't I want to take revenge? But you don't know, if the uncle promises the emperor to take a court stick, tomorrow! No tomorrow, our uncle and nephew will become lonely in the afternoon, and those civil servants will leave us one after another. Who will talk for us then?"

Although Tong Tuchang is a third-rank governor, it is not enough to compare with Tong Yangjia. He does not understand the political struggles of the top leaders.

However, Tong Tuchang didn't think deeply. What he wanted to ask was why the emperor transferred him back.

"Uncle, why did the emperor come to Beijing this time? The Beijing inspection is far away every three years. The letter from the uncle only wrote to me that I would come back soon. Is there anything inconvenient to say in the letter?"

When Tong Yangjia heard Tong Tuchang talk about this, he sighed and said, "There is no way to let you come back. The report is false. It is true to be sent to the north for peace talks!"

Tong Tuchang heard that his uncle wanted to go to the peace talks himself, so he couldn't pull himself in his pants. Back then, he framed Tong Guonai and other Qing generals in Fujian, which made them flee in a panic. Now, can he spare himself when he sent him to the door?

Tong Tuchang knelt down and crawled a few steps, hugged Tong Yangjia's thigh and cried, "Uncle, my nephew really dare not go! My nephew was hated by many Qing generals in Fujian. I will definitely be alive when I go there this time! Uncle, you promised my father to take care of me for the rest of my life!"

Tong Yangjia saw Tong Tuchang's bear-like kick and kicked him away, scolding: "You are also a third-rank official now, why don't you get up for me!"

Tong Tuchang followed this uncle for more than 20 years and was afraid of this uncle. When he heard that his uncle was angry, he couldn't cry and sat down again.

Tong Yangjia glanced at Tong Tuchang and cursed: "Do you think I don't care about you? There's really nothing I can do!"

"Chang'er, you don't know, your uncle, I am in charge of the Ministry of War. We know that we are now at the end of our strength. In order to return to the old capital this time, the emperor has completely saved up all the money, grain and flowers he has saved in the past three years. You go to Guangdong to see that several arsenals are working hard to produce and replace people and machines, and it is impossible to meet the needs of the frontline. The rice in Luzon and Annan has been harvested. Last month, Annan reported that the rice price in Annan has risen to one tael, two taels of stone, and it takes one tael, five cents to transport it to Guangdong, and two taels of silver and one stone to arrive in Nanjing, which is almost the same as the local rice. How do you think this battle will be fought?"

Tong Tuchang muttered: "Who doesn't know that the large tracts of land in Annan and Luzon are all from Fu Wenlong. One-third of the rice produced in Luzon is from his family, so he can donate some!"

Tong Yangjia glared at Tong Tuchang and cursed: "What are you talking crazy? Why don't your Qiongzhou iron ore shares donate them as military expenses?"

Tong Tuchang holds one-twentieth of Shilu Iron Mine, which looks quite small, but it is equivalent to silver dollars. With other returns, Tong Tuchang is worth several million silver dollars now.

"Uncle, aren't there still a lot of sweet potatoes and wheat in Guangdong? Isn't it enough to ship them all!"

"Those things are OK for hungry people to eat, but the army can eat those things. All the sweet potatoes are fed to pigs, and all the wheat is turned into wine and transported to the north for silver dollars!"

"Isn't it okay to go to the peace talks and ask the Ministry of Rites to send someone? Why do you have to ask your nephew to die?"

Tong Yangjia sighed and said, "There is no way. The emperor wants to have a peace talk, but uncle, I don't want the peace talk to be successful. I have no choice but to send my own people. You are my nephew. Who else can I trust if I don't trust?"

Tong Tuchang was shocked when he heard Tong Yangjia say this, and quickly asked in a low voice: "Uncle, destroying the peace talks? This is a serious crime to deceive the emperor!"

"Chang'er, there's no way, it's all forcing me! Last year, the Crown Prince Zhu Hai secretly joined the army in Jiangxi. I learned this news from Qian Lide. I originally planned to use some means to kill the prince in front of the army, but I didn't know that Qian Lide's stupid thing was not done, and even made the emperor suspect me. Uncle had no choice but to hope to have a hope of destroying the peace talks with you this time. It would be best to let the Qing army go south. At that time, the emperor would not be embarrassed by the uncle!"

When Tong Tuchang heard that these were all bad ideas, was he going to negotiate or challenge him?

"Uncle, can the emperor forgive you as soon as the war begins?" Tong Tuchang knew that emperor Zhu Hongsan and always liked to settle accounts in the autumn.

Tong Yangjia said confidently: "Don't worry, uncle has made arrangements. As long as the war begins, Qian Lide will send all the people he handles to the battlefield. There is no sight on the battlefield, and everyone will be able to do their destiny!"

"But uncle and nephew have already had a feud with the Qing Dynasty, so I'm really not sure how to accomplish this!"

"Don't worry, this is the father-in-law of the Qing emperor Shunzhi, Tong Tulai, is Tong Yangzhen's second son. Uncle and Tong Yangzhen have not yet had the fifth brothers. You can go find Tong Tulai then!"

"But... but can the emperor agree to me?"

"Chang'er, you don't know. The emperor originally ordered Ma Mingyuan's Jiang Wenyun in the same year. However, after my uncle recommended you, the emperor ordered you to go to Beijing to report your duties. It seems that we still have a chance!"

When Tong Tuchang saw that his uncle had all arranged it, he couldn't object, so he sighed and said, "Then my nephew has listened to my uncle. I wonder if he can have good luck to escape from death this time?"

Just as Tong Yangjia's uncle and nephew were conspiring, Prince Zhu Hai also returned to the East Palace.

The more Zhu Hai thought about the fact that his father's expression was worse, the more he was not wrong. He didn't say anything wrong! Zhu Hai thought about it and decided to go to someone to discuss it.

Zhu Hai found his little eunuch Shuangxi, and asked him to change into casual clothes with him. He came out from the side door of the East Palace and found a carriage to go to Shangyuan County to meet Qian Yiai.

Qian Yiai arrived at the Organization Department to select officials in the first month of the year. As an official who was specially ordered by the emperor, he naturally did not have to rank with other juren and took over as the sixth-rank magistrate of Shangyuan County.

After arriving in Shangyuan County, Qian Yiai went to see the prefect of Yingtian Ma Jingyuan. Ma Laosan learned from the prince that the young man was the prince's counselor and was very polite to Qian Yiai. With Shangguan's support and Qian Qianyi's help, Qian Yiai quickly started working in Shangyuan County.

It is now March, and a large number of refugees escaped from the war in the north. In addition, the hundreds of thousands of people brought by Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, these people were all left to Yingtian Prefecture by the cabinet, and the Yingtian Prefecture's subordinates were allowed to arrange military farming in Shangyuan, Jiangning, Jurong, Liyang, Lishui, Gaochun, Jiangpu and Liuhe counties.

To put it simply, this is a population of 500,000 or 600,000, and Jiangpu and Liuhe are both in Jiangbei. There are enemy-occupied areas where they cannot farm, so naturally these refugees have to be digested by other counties.

Qian Yiai was so busy these days that he was hit on the back of his head. There were quite a few refugees in Shangyuan, but there were only 70,000 to 80,000. In the past few days, Qian Yiai begs for alms everywhere, asking the rich families in the city to pay for the food, and also going to the prefect and the governor's yamen to coordinate various farm tools. It is not until now that Qian Yiai really realized that this county magistrate is not easy to be a county magistrate!

Today, Qian Yiai had just finished the work of farming, and a new document came to the prefect's office. Some arsenals in Guangdong had been loaded and shipped. His Majesty the Emperor ordered a place to be selected in Xuanwu Lake to form the Shangyuan Arsenal. This work naturally fell on the head of Shangyuan County.

At this moment, the yamen runner outside the door came in to report that a young man named Ma asked for a meeting.

Qian Yiai knew that the prince was coming, so she stood up and greeted her with a wry smile.

This is not the first time Zhu Hai came to Qian Yiai's place. He came to the second hall of the county government office and sat down and said, "Zigao, you are very busy! Are the county magistrates happy to do their job?"

There are no outsiders in the house except for Double Happiness. Qian Yiai naturally avoids anything and smiled and said, "Your Highness was joking. I didn't know the difficulties of the county magistrate. Now I know that it is not easy for the lower-level officials to do it! There is a needle under the top of the thousand lines, and you can find you anything. Your Highness looks at my official documents. Some police departments issued catching thieves, some of the Ministry of Industry issued hygiene, and some of the Taxation Department wanted to collect spring taxes. Your Highness said, can I still be happy?"

Zhu Hai looked at the stack of documents on the table and laughed: "Zi Gao Dacai, Pang Shiyuan was able to handle government affairs for one month in half a day. I think you can handle government affairs for half a day in half a day!"
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