Zhu Hongsan was so angry that he had nothing to say. He asked, "Ma Jiyuan, you are the chief minister. I ask you that the Northern Expedition is imminent and the fiscal gap is so big. What do you think you should do?"

"Your Majesty, now the entire Huguang area is unified. I believe that the taxes of Huguang and Jiangxi are very low. I suggest that Liao pay is collected in these two provinces!"

As soon as Ma Jiyuan said this, he immediately became a mess in the hall. Liao guarantor was levied in the 46th year of Wanli, mainly for the military needs of Liaodong. Except for a few areas such as Guizhou, an average of nine li silver was levied per mu of land in the country, totaling 5.2 million and sixty-two taels. During the Tianqi period, the levy was levied, salt and other miscellaneous silver. In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the land rank was increased from nine li to one cent and two li, and more than 6.67 million taels of silver were distributed. In addition to the military waste, more than 5.22 million taels of silver were levied, plus tariffs, salt and miscellaneous silver, a total of 7.48,298 taels of silver were levied.

The Liao and Chongzhen periods were the last straw that crushed the camel of the Ming Dynasty. The northern provinces were already in turmoil, and the collection of these two taxes was immediately full of chaos. Therefore, when Zhu Hongsan was in charge of the state in Guangdong, he issued an edict to abolish these two unreasonable charges.

Jiangxi and Huguang have just been conquered for a few years, and no one has cultivated a large area of ​​land. Now they are levied. It is estimated that the people will definitely have bandits.

What made the ministers in the hall angry was that Ma Jiyuan was clearly from Huguang, but now he had to attack his own class and first impose taxes in Huguang. This is really a killing of relatives for justice!

Although Zhang Jiayu was just a prefect, today he had a special order to attend the court meeting. He saw the ministers in Huguang and Jiangxi in the court excitedly and knew that the time was coming. Zhang Jiayu squeezed his eyes at Tang Yuanji, the Censor of Huji, who was standing beside him. Tang Yuanji was born in the second-class Jinshi in the 16th year of Chongzhen, and it was the same year that Zhang Jiayu was recommended to join the ranks of the Censor of Kedao. Today he will be the first shot.

Tang Yuanji stood up and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I have the foundation!"

Zhu Hongsan nodded: "Say!"

"I impeached the chief assistant Ma Jiyuan to collude with twelve families including Xu Bengao, Jiangsu Province, with the intention of greeting Gui and Zhu Youlang in the capital!"

When Tang Yuanji said this, the hall was quiet. Everyone knows that Tang Yuanji was from Guangdong. In the past, Guangdong people were not bad with Ma Jiyuan because of their opposition to Ma Mingyuan. Now Tang Yuanji jumped out and fired the fire. Why is this? You must know that everyone is not a fool. Chen Zizhuang of the Guangdong faction has been demoted back to Guangdong. Now there is no one in the court who is qualified to enter the cabinet. What do they jumped out and opposed Ma Jiyuan and wanted to do?

Tang Yuanji had just finished speaking, Chen Shijie, Wu Yijin, Li Zhen, Gao Laming and Yang Banghan, who belonged to the small group of Zhang Jiayu, all stood up and said in unison: "I'm going to discuss it!"

When Zhu Hongsan saw the Guangdong faction collectively firing at Ma Jiyuan, he knew that these ministers had definitely planned it. Ma Jiyuan knew too much, and he did not accept gifts or embezzle. He only had more than a thousand acres of land he rewarded him in his family. Except for a sugar factory in Leizhou, there was no industry outside, and his younger brother Ma Mingyuan, who was a bribe, was not a member of the same place.

Ma Jiyuan is a good minister, Zhu Hongsan admitted, but now Zhu Hongsan does not need good people. What he needs is someone who can get money. Zhu Hongsan thought about it and decided to abandon Ma Jiyuan. He is really not suitable to be the prime minister.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Remember!"

Although Zhu Hongsan's words only had one word, Ma Jiyuan's heart was immediately disheartened. The court had two ways to deal with such memorials that were impeached in person. One was that the emperor accepted it and then kept it for the first time and did not send it. The scientific name was "Yanli", which was the emperor's unwilling to deal with a certain minister. Another one was serious, that was Mingfa, which was what it was like now. Read it out and everyone discussed it and saw what to do.

Of course, Ma Jiyuan could not be so stupid as to conspire with Xu Bengao and others to welcome Zhu Youlang, but Tang Yuanji's selection was too coincidental. It happened that Ma Jiyuan said he would impose taxes in Jiangxi and Wuchang. Officials from the two provinces were dissatisfied with Ma Jiyuan. Now when he heard this comment from Tang Yuanji, he naturally jumped out and beat the dog in the water.

After receiving the emperor's order, Tang Yuanji read out his impeachment in the court. He summarized Ma Jiyuan's sins in five ways:

The first one is rebellion. You, Ma Jiyuan, came from Huguang and followed Your Majesty for the longest time. Why did you still welcome Feng Gui and Zhu Youlang? This is a rebellion!

The second is to seek fame and reputation. He was originally from Huguang, but now he has finished reciting scriptures and beat monks and imposed taxes on Huguang. Ma Jiyuan is a gentleman on the surface, but behind his back he is a treacherous minister like Qin Hui.

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The fourth article is incompetence. When Ma Mingyuan was the prime minister, the court was operating normally. Look at what Ma Jiyuan did when he came to power, causing the people's livelihood in Guangdong to wither. Now Guangdong's commercial activities have been reduced by half. This is all your fault!

The fifth article is to form a party. Now look at the court. Ma Jiyuan accounts for most of the party. What do you want to do? Do you want to learn from Wang Mang, the Han Dynasty?

This impeachment was written by Zhang Jiayu. Zhang Jiayu knew Zhu Hongsan so well, and the emperor Zhu Hongsan was suspicious. At that time, Ma Jiyuan's whole family died at the hands of the emperor, and it was impossible to say that there was no thought in his heart. So, as long as the emperor had a little doubt, it was the time when Ma Jiyuan died.

Zhang Jiayu discussed with Ma Mingyuan very well yesterday and agreed not to take ruthless measures against Ma Jiyuan. However, after Zhang Jiayu left Ma Mingyuan's mansion, he went to meet Tong Yangjia, the second-ranked figure of the Huguang Sect.

Tong Yangjia agreed to Zhang Jiayu very much that as long as the horse was successful, he would send a place for the three ministers of the cabinet to Guangdong, and recommended Zhang Jiayu to serve as the local governor. At the same time, he also agreed to persuade the Huguang faction to give up a quarter of the factory in Guangdong to the Guangdong faction.

Unlike Ma Mingyuan's stinginess, Tong Yangjia was generous and tight. Zhang Jiayu agreed to Tong Yangjia without thinking at all, and then he fired a fatal blow to Ma Jiyuan at today's court meeting.

But Zhang Jiayu still underestimated Ma Jiyuan. Who is Ma Jiyuan? He is also an old fox who has been in the officialdom for many years. After the initial panic, Ma Jiyuan quickly grasped the key to the matter, that is, the driving force behind this matter must be his good brother Ma Mingyuan.

Thinking of Ma Jiyuan's heart was desolate. He was seven or eight years older than Ma Mingyuan. In his early years, he left his hometown in Huguang to join his uncle who was an official, so he didn't have a good relationship with this younger brother. But no matter how bad the relationship was, he was still the younger brother of a compatriot! Now this younger brother is trying to kill his elder brother for the position of chief minister. This really makes Ma Jiyuan feel cold.

"Brother! Since you are ruthless, don't blame your elder brother for being unrighteous!" Ma Jiyuan nodded to Wang Yingdou, the Tongzhengsi Zhengqing behind him.

Wang Yingdou was the same year as Ma Jiyuan, and was from Xianning, Huguang, so he was naturally Ma Jiyuan's best friend. Yesterday, he received a memorial jointly signed by Hubei governor Xia Yunyi and Wuchang prefect Xu Fuyuan, impeaching Ma Mingyuan and some Huguang upstarts to occupy land in the Wuchang area, causing many lives.

Wang Yingdou was also a Huguang faction. After receiving this memorial, he showed it to Ma Jiyuan as soon as he saw it. Ma Jiyuan was so angry that he scolded his good brother Ma Mingyuan. However, he was still in love with brothers at that time. After Ma Jiyuan was angry, he decided to press the memorial and wait for time to talk about his brother so that he would not go too far.

But now, in order to protect himself, Ma Jiyuan doesn't care about those things anymore. The most important thing now is to suppress Ma Mingyuan's arrogance, so he ordered Wang Yingdou to throw out the memorial.

Just after the Tang Yuanji's impeachment memorial was finished, Wang Yingdou stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to do! The Tongzhengsi Department just received a joint letter from Hubei governor Xia Yunyi and Wuchang prefect Xu Fuyuan! Please watch it!"

Zhu Hongsan knew what was going on when he heard it was Xia Yunyi's memorial. Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "Remember!"

Wang Yingdou read Xia Yunyi's memorial in the court. As soon as the memorial was released, the hall was filled with an uproar. No one expected that in just a few years, the Ma family occupied so much land in Wuchang and even caused deaths!

Just after Wang Yingdou finished reading the memorial, more than 20 ministers stood up in the court, all of Ma Jiyuan's best friends, Donglin Party, and generals of Zhejiang East Sect. The identities of these people are much stronger than the Guangdong Sect just now. There are five ministers, three ministers, and six nine ministers. These people said in unison: "Your Majesty, Ma Mingyuan and others occupy land in Wuchang, which has violated the national law. Please punish Your Majesty!"

At this time, the two brothers of the Ma family had already broken up, and their subordinates ignored so many of them. The cabinet elder Wang Yunchang led the Ministers of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Taxation, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and impeached Ma Jiyuan, and the court was in chaos for a moment.

Tong Yangjia was overjoyed when he saw the chaos. He hoped that the Ma brothers would be unlucky, and that would be his turn to take office.

But Tong Yangjia was a little naive in his mind. Now half of the officials in the court are the best friends of Erma. Even if you, Tong Yangjia, can't be the chief minister, so you can only choose between Erma.

Emperor Zhu Hongsan also had no idea. Now that the two horses are in power, they will have to deal with the Donglin Party and suppress Ma Mingyuan, and offend the Huguang faction. The Huguang faction is its own basic foundation and must not be offended. However, the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang East faction are too powerful in Zhejiang, Nanzhili, and if they want to fight the Northern Expedition, they will have to be stable in the rear. It is not the time to deal with the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang East faction at this time.

Zhu Hongsan thought about it and decided to choose Ma Mingyuan. After all, the Northern Expedition is important now. Without money, the Northern Expedition cannot continue at all. Only when Ma Mingyuan comes to power can he get money.
Chapter completed!