Chapter 542 Yu Qian and Yu Shaobao Block the Way!

"Master Ma, do you really not know what kind of organization this is?" Zhu Di tapped the mahogany armrest of the sofa with his fingers, staring at Ma Quan with burning eyes.

Ma Quan's heart suddenly tightened.

But he looked a little embarrassed, and said with a face of 'frankness and sincerity': "Your Highness, I really don't know. I only know that Prime Minister Hu... no, it's Hu Weiyong and Lu Ben, who secretly formed this organization, which seems to be specially used to deal with Your Highness. There is a very strict access system. At best, I can only be regarded as leaving the peripheral identity and entering their inspection sequence. When I can really enter the core sequence, I am not sure."

"After all, my identity is complicated. Although I am a conservative, I am also the concubine of the Crown Prince and the father of His Highness Yunwen's main wife. I think that Hu Weiyong and Lu Ben have not conducted a comprehensive and in-depth inspection of me, and will never let me enter their core."

Zhu Di retracted his gaze and nodded.

After a moment of silence, he waved his hand and said, "This time, I would like to trouble Lord Ma to personally accompany me to the north. I also hope that Lord Ma will remember the conversation between me and you today."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Ma Quan quickly responded.

Would he dare to forget?

Unless he wanted to make the Ma family exterminate the tribe.

At the same time, he also knew that the conversation was over and it was time to leave.

But there was one thing that puzzled him.

Since this person had already learned from him that Hu Weiyong and Lu Ben had formed a force specifically targeting him.

Why didn't they mention that he should strive to enter the core layer?

He was still waiting for this person to take the initiative to speak.

Ma Quan saw that Zhu Di had no intention of speaking, so he could only carefully test: "Prince, do you want me to find a way to get into the core layer of this organization?"

Zhu Di glanced casually, "Do what you can."

Just do what you can?

Ma Quan was very disappointed, but he didn't show it. After bowing, he turned around and walked out of the carriage.

Standing at the connection between the carriages.

Looking through the glass of the carriage door, he frowned as he saw the scenery along the way.

At some point, a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he said in his ventriloquy: "Although I didn't get this guy to ask me to find a way to enter the Anti-Yan Alliance, this time it was a blessing in disguise and the harvest was very great."

That's right!

No matter how hostile he was to this guy in the past.

But he and many people had to admit that this guy really had the demeanor of a king.

He always kept his word.

Since this guy promised that the child born by the crown prince and his daughter would get a fertile land in Shangzhou in the future and get industrial support from Yanhua.

Then it must be right.

As long as he does his job well and assists the crown prince honestly, and doesn't have any unnecessary delusions, these will all be available after the crown prince succeeds to the throne.

'Life is like a play, it all depends on scheming! '

Ma Quan couldn't help but be complacent and distracted while thinking.

In fact, he is the core layer of the Anti-Yan Alliance.

Although Lü Ben and Hu Weiyong had hidden many things from him, he also knew many secrets of the Anti-Yan Alliance.

So why did he remind this person that Hu Weiyong and Lü Ben had formed such an organization against this person, but did not mention the Anti-Yan Alliance.

Didn't he say that he was already in the core layer?

First of all, if he told this person directly that he was already in the core layer, wouldn't it be telling this person how much he hated this person before?

Only a fool would do this.

In fact, if you want to say hate.

Some, but never to the point of gritting teeth and hating to death.

If one day the reform momentum is strong, he, a "firm conservative", will definitely turn against him without hesitation.

Compared with losing some interests, even a large part, saving his life is the most important thing.

He pretended to hate this person more for the conservatives to see.

As an official with some ability but not outstanding, if he wants to seek greater power and a higher position.

He must be scheming and standing in line.

Otherwise, how could his two daughters marry high!

How could he become a third-rank official?

The reformists are the ones who charge forward.

It is too easy to ruin one's life and property. Most reformists throughout history have not had a good ending.

Shang Yang, Wang Anshi and the like are everywhere.

As a person who is used to scheming, he will definitely not be stupid enough to be an innovator.

He can only choose to be conservative.

If you want to stand out among the conservatives, you have to cater to the conservatives.

Especially, some key figures.

For example, Hu Weiyong.

Although Hu Weiyong was driven out of the court, he had many students and former officials. Hu Weiyong said a word to his students and former officials, and many people supported him.

Not to mention Lü Ben.

Chang Yuchun left early.

Although Lü Ben was only the father of the prince's concubine, he always played the role of the prince's father-in-law.

He had a great influence on the prince.

He had a good relationship with the officials of the East Palace and could influence the prince's decision.

At the beginning, when the prince wanted to choose a concubine who could represent the conservative faction for the grandson, his daughter was able to enter the prince's sight and eventually become the grandson's concubine.

Lu Ben played a great influence.

Secondly, he did not directly tell this person that he was already a core member of the anti-Yan alliance.

He just wanted to leave a foreshadowing.

When he joins the anti-Yan alliance in the future, it will be a great achievement for him to monitor the anti-Yan alliance! ?

However, I don't know what the King of Yan is thinking.

He didn't even take the initiative to bring up this matter.

He was forced to bring it up himself.

This person just said lightly, do what you can.

"Hey, maybe this is the confidence of people with real ability." Ma Quan sighed and whispered to himself.

People with no ability or insufficient ability try to gain social connections.

People with ability simply disdain this.

Just like this prince.

In the world, most of the so-called elites are actually like him. They have some ability, but this ability is not enough for them to do what they want with their ability.

So everyone must try to gain social connections.

Who is better at gaining social connections?

Over time, social connections and gaining social connections have become a kind of ability with a positive connotation.

…

After a brief moment of regret for the loss, Ma Quan soon smiled again, and whispered with a faint smile: "Overall, this is a blessing in disguise, and this conversation was successful."

…

Tap, tap, tap...

The rhythmic collision sound came into the car.

Zhu Di stood in front of the car window and looked outside.

At a certain moment, he retracted his gaze and sneered to himself: "A typical speculator!"

As he spoke, he shook his head.

Ma Quan was not a staunch conservative.

This is a politician who is good at opportunism!

"It can be used."

Zhu Di walked back to the table, spread out a piece of paper, picked up a pen, and wrote a few words on the paper in cursive: core, periphery, inspection...

After putting down the pen.

Looking at the words written.

After a moment, he smiled, "I didn't expect that because of my appearance, this kind of secret organization appeared in this era."

He didn't completely believe what Ma Quan said.

Just like Ma Quan said that he had not yet become a core member, this needs to be investigated.

But he believed in the core, periphery, and inspection.

If there were no such things.

Ma Quan would not have said it without thinking.

From these words.

He knew that this force targeting him had a very complete and strict system.

The officialdom of Yanhua had a similar system.

Ordinary officials, in the eyes of the central government, were just policy executors.

Belonging to the periphery of the officialdom.

Once promoted to a county civil affairs officer at a certain age, they would enter the central government's inspection sequence.

They are called sequence officials.

When promoted to county civil officials, their importance increases a bit, and they are called echelon officials in the cabinet.

Going up.

Once promoted to provincial civil officials.

They belong to the core echelon.

Such officials are called reserve cabinet members, and they have a great chance to enter the cabinet as cabinet ministers.

Unexpectedly, Lü Ben and Hu Weiyong also came up with a similar strict system to deal with him.

No wonder the father's Jinyiwei didn't notice it.

If it weren't for the explosion in the tunnel, Ma Quan was forced by Tie Xuan to accompany him back to Jinling.

If he hadn't directly told Ma Quan that whoever dared to take the throne of the Ming Dynasty, except Xiong Ying, would dare to fight back to the Central Plains and pull him off the throne.

If Ma Quan was not essentially a speculator.

If these three conditions hadn't come together by accident, he would not have discovered this strict organization targeting him.

"Interesting..."

"Brother..."

After a sigh, the train continued to move towards Jinling with a rumble.

While adding water and coal at the stations along the Jiangsu and Zhejiang routes.

Zhu Di noticed that this was once the richest province in the Ming Dynasty.

Now, the tax has doubled. Logically, the province with the bigger cake has not seen any wealth in the people.

On the contrary, he saw many low triangular shacks built illegally along the railway line.

In the dirty and messy shack area.

When the train passed by.

Seven or eight-year-old children who were obviously malnourished, dark and bare-chested, stood in front of the shack, with dull eyes, watching the train passing by enviously.

These children all have one feature.

Obvious malnutrition.

But their stomachs are round.

He knows the reason.

It is caused by eating Guanyin soil or dogtail grass seeds that are difficult to digest and difficult to defecate.

…

Qihua, Jindouzi and other children stood in front of the window, watching the children who passed by a larger shack area with no end in sight, looking at the train with dull eyes and envy.

Qi Hua turned her head and looked at Zhu Di, reluctantly saying, "Father, let's stop and help them, okay?"

Everyone came back to their senses and looked at Qi Hua.

Zhu Di asked with a smile, "How do you want to help?"

"Father, I want to take out the money I saved, let's exchange it for food and distribute it to these people, okay?"

"Father, there's me!" Jin Douzi raised his hand and said weakly, "But I didn't save much money, just more than fifty silver coins and ten gold coins in total."

"Fourth uncle, I'm willing too."

...

The other children spoke up one after another.

Zhu Di smiled and rubbed Qi Hua's little head, "If you really want to help, you can give this money to Lord Ma. When Lord Ma returns, let him help exchange the money you donated for food and distribute it to the people. We have to hurry back to Jinling."

Besides, they are not suitable for this.

They were already suspected by their eldest brother.

If we stop and help the refugees here, we will be accused of buying people's hearts.

However, the kindness of the children is also worthy of recognition.

We should also support them.

Dongxu looked at Ma Quan, "Mr. Ma, how many poor people like this are there in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces? Does Mr. Ma have specific data? If so, after arriving in Jinling, we can contact the Yanhua maritime merchants in Jinling and ask us In the name of the government, a batch of grain was purchased from Yanjing to provide relief to these victims.”

The junior brother may not understand the master's worries.

But they older ones knew.

If they do this in their own name, the impact will be within control.

Ma Quan couldn't help being embarrassed and hesitated: "In recent years, animal-drawn agricultural machinery has been widely spread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. There are many farmers who have lost the opportunity to rent. Although millions of people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang moved to Yanhua, but..."

But it’s really a drop in the bucket.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang were originally provinces where the gentry was very powerful.

The beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Fifty percent of the land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is controlled by gentry and businessmen.

In fact, this is also the reason why His Majesty imposed heavy taxes on Jiangsu and Zhejiang after the founding of the country.

The main purpose is actually not to take revenge on the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang because they followed Zhang Shicheng.

In fact, it was to suppress the gentry power in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

weaken the wealth of gentry families.

But it was like Emperor Sui Yang suppressing the family.

The elites can always shift the burden to the common people.

In the end, the Elites suffered three points of damage.

The common people have to take over seven points!

The early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Divide the land among the people.

These tenants, who were completely dependent on the gentry, were not willing to become yeoman farmers.

Because, at that time, being a self-cultivated farmer was not as comfortable as farming for the landlord.

At that time, no one could have imagined that rural village societies would appear later.

They would never have thought that the development of animal-driven agricultural machinery would completely lose their chance of survival.

The gentry owns 50% of the land!

How many tenants were attached to these lands?

Millions of immigrants.

For Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is just a drop in the bucket.

As the local chief envoy, he certainly wanted to dump all these unstable factors and heavy burdens on Yanhua.

After all, such a group of people are struggling on the line of life and death. Their eyes are green and hungry. A random spark can ignite a raging fire.

When the time comes, it will still be him, the chief envoy, who will take the blame.

But the prince doesn’t want to!

Conservatives don’t want to!

But there is nothing he can do to solve the problem of feeding millions of people.

Although he is the chief envoy.

But he didn't dare to ask the gentry to stop driving away the tenants.

Second, we dare not order those industrial and commercial owners to expand their recruitment, or to establish a shareholding system for employees.

After all, the people standing behind these industrial and commercial owners are all Jinling dignitaries!

If the grandson hadn't warned him through his daughter, he wouldn't be allowed to eat dick.

Perhaps, he is also the behind-the-scenes supporter of these industrial and commercial owners!

What should he do in this situation?

Let’s serve it cold!

We can only grit our teeth and take out a little bit from the local treasury every year for relief.

Do some work-for-relief business.

The rest, these millions of refugees, can dig some wild vegetables, dig some Guanyin soil, build some shacks on the imperial land along the railway line, and barely survive.

Apart from that, there was nothing he could do.

If only he had a solution.

He had already solved it.

It's not that he wants to be the great master of Qingtian.

Rather, if this problem can be solved, it will be a great political achievement and a victory can be reported to the prince.

Get a ticket to the cabinet!

…

When Qihua heard Ma Quan's complaints, she couldn't help but frown and said in a bad tone: "You are not doing anything. In our Yanhua, officials like you would have had their heads chopped off long ago!"

Zhu Di came with a glare.

Qihua suppressed her anger and asked, "Master Ma, if we donate, can you ensure that the donated food will not be corrupted?"

Ma Quan suddenly raised his head and said solemnly: "Princess, I can't guarantee anything else. This official dares to use the head on his neck to guarantee this matter! This is related to the official's official title. Who dares to make the idea of ​​donating this batch of food? The officer will let his head fall to the ground!”

The corners of Qihua's lips twitched.

‘My eldest brother’s concubine’s father is a real villain. ’

Hey!

At this moment, the train suddenly jolted and braked suddenly.

Everyone's expressions changed instantly.

Subconsciously, I thought of the tunnel explosion a few days ago.

Dongxu and the others took the lead in closing the curtains, seizing positions near the windows, and surrounded Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun in the middle.

Ma Quan couldn't help but marvel at this scene.

After a while.

The car door opens.

A conductor got off the front of the car and pedaled at a trot, "Your Majesty, there is a group of young scholars in front of you, blocking the way and asking to see Your Majesty!"

Zhu Di couldn't help but frown slightly.

Lifting the car curtain, through the car window, I saw a group of scholars wearing Confucian shirts on the railway in front.

There are also some scholars among them.

Wearing student uniform similar to Yanhua.

"King Yan!"

"We want to see King Yan!"

"Your majesty, King Yan, don't you even dare to see us scholars who are powerless to restrain a chicken?"

…

Noisy shouts also came from the front.

Zhu Di looked at Ma Quan.

Ma Quan's expression changed and he waved his hands hurriedly: "Your Majesty, even your subordinates don't know."

As he spoke, cold sweat broke out on Ma Quan's anxious forehead.

I began to scold this group of scholars in my heart.

Don't call this person suspicious.

He even doubted whether the people in Jinling were preparing a second show of force for the prince.

Zhu Di also suspected that this was another show of force.

After a brief pause, he looked at Ma Quan and Tie Xuan, "Thank you two governors, go down and communicate with these scholars and ask them to send representatives to the train."

There are about hundreds, nearly a thousand scholars outside.

It is definitely not possible to let all these scholars get on the train.

After speaking, Zhu Di stood up and walked towards the office carriage provided for him.

A moment later.

Five young men followed Tie Xuan and the others and walked towards the train.

One of the young men asked in a low voice, and another calm teenager around him, who was about fourteen or fifteen years old, said: "Yu Qian, are you afraid? Do you think the King of Yan can agree to our request?"

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