Xu Fuyuan, the governor of Wuchang beside Zhu Hongsan, was shocked by Liang Guan's words. He had worked in Wuchang for three years and of course he knew what the entire Wuchang Mansion looked like. But this has become a taboo in the officialdom. The strength of the Huguang faction in the court is not something that a seventh-rank county magistrate like Liang Guan can manage.

Huguang is where Zhu Hongsan made his fortune. In addition to thousands of soldiers, there were thousands of civilians who followed Zhu Hongsan south. These people were Zhu Hongsan's basic base and also Zhu Hongsan's most important team. It can be said that one-third of Zhu Hongsan's current civil and military officials come from these thousands.

These people were like buying stocks, and they immediately turned over hundreds or thousands of times after they went public. When they were in Guangzhou, these newcomers in Huguang used various relationships to make a lot of money. After Zhu Hongsan occupied half of the country, these guys began to develop their power by using their mixed relationships. In the court, they formed an alliance with Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia, and excluded and suppressed other local forces. In the local area, they used the rights they got to buy and sell land.

As Zhu Hongsan's long-lasting land, this phenomenon is even more serious. The Chinese have always paid attention to returning home in glory. After Zhu Hongsan occupied Wuchang, these Huguang upstarts immediately returned to their hometowns and started buying houses and land. Because most of the people who followed Zhu Hongsan to Guangdong were craftsmen and servants, these people were not well educated and blatantly seized the land when buying and selling land. Some local wealthy families in Wuchang were excluded and went bankrupt. Now 70% of the land in Wuchang Prefecture and 90% of the land in Wuchang County are concentrated in the hands of these people.

When Xu Fuyuan saw that Liang Guan was about to uncover the scar in front of the emperor, he quickly turned his eyes and signaled Liang Guan not to say anything.

Unexpectedly, Xu Fuyuan's small movement was looked at by Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Hongsan frowned and asked, "Wuchang County, if you have any truth, I will make the decision for you!"

Liang watched the emperor say this, and made a fuss about the current land annexation of Wuchang to the emperor.

Finally, Liang Guan said: "Your Majesty, this scale of land annexation was only in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. It reached its climax during the Jiajing period. There were hundreds of thousands of refugees from the north to the south in Wuchang Prefecture. In addition to the weather and climate of the Chongzhen period, a large number of landless farmers could not survive and participate in the bandits. This is one of the reasons! Now this situation in Wuchang Prefecture cannot be curbed. The situation of millions of refugees traveling across provinces during the Chongzhen period will reappear in Wuchang!"

Liang Guan himself was willing to do his best. He said this without hesitation, accusing the emperor of being the last emperor. Xu Fuyuan saw that Liang Guan was so brave, so if Liang Guan dies, don’t let me join me!

To everyone's surprise, the emperor was not angry, and there was no expression on his face. He asked after a while: "Wuchang Prefecture, what Wuchang County said is the truth?"

Xu Fuyuan wanted to say that Liang Guan was nonsense, but the emperor had already believed Liang Guan. What else could he say?

Xu Fuyuan had no choice but to tell the truth: "Your Majesty, what County Magistrate Liang said is basically correct!"

"I ask you, which landlords are the largest around Wuchang Mansion?"

Xu Fuyuan muttered in his heart, do you still need to ask?

"When you go back to your Majesty, Wuchang Prefecture has a total of 386,700 acres of grain fields. The one that occupies the most is the home of Mage, and their family occupies 100,000 acres! There is also the Qian family, the commander of the Jinyiwei, who occupy 50,000 acres, and the other Tie family, Duan family and others account for about 30,000 acres, and... there are also...

Zhu Hongsanyi frowned and asked, "Who else? Tell me quickly!"

"There is also the uncle Zhao Mingliang, the Marquis Zhao, his family occupied 50,000 acres! And the housekeepers and servants of various major families can also occupy tens of thousands of acres!"

The Ma Mingyuan family was originally a big landlord in Wuchang. Before leaving Wuchang, they had tens of thousands of acres of land. Their family still said that. However, Qian Lide's family was originally a businessman, and now they have occupied 50,000 acres of land. The Tieniu family and the gunpowder craftsman Lao Duan Tou family were originally poor, but now they have occupied 30,000 acres of land. What's more, his uncle Zhao Mingliang, isn't he in Nanjing? Why do he still have the energy to return to his hometown to occupy the land?

"Isn't Zhao Mingliang in Nanjing? Who is in charge of their family here in Wuchang?"

Liang Guan said from the side: "Go back to Your Majesty, Mr. Zhao is in Nanjing, but Mr. Zhao's son Zhao Dequan is at home!"

Zhu Hongsan didn't remember having another cousin Zhao Dequan, so he couldn't help but look back at Li Chengen.

Li Chengen quickly lay in the emperor's ear and whispered: "Emperor, Zhao Dequan beat the imperial envoy four years ago and was imprisoned in the imperial prison for half a year. Later, the prince spoke for him before he was released. However, the emperor removed his position as the Jinyiwei, probably returning to his hometown!"

After Li Chengen said this, Zhu Hongsan remembered this and said angrily: "Come on, go into the city and capture Zhao Dequan to see me!"

Zhao Dequan lived a very casual life after returning to Wuchang County in recent years. He renovated the Zhao family's old house in Wuchang County, and then recruited a large number of servants and maids to live the life of a master.

Today, Master Zhao was enjoying himself at home. Suddenly, a group of Jinyiwei, who was like a wolf and a tiger, rushed in outside the house, and tied Master Zhao up without any explanation.

Zhao Dequan also worked as an Embroidered Uniform Guard. Knowing that these people wearing bright yellow flying fish suits were the imperial guards around the emperor, Zhao Dequan couldn't help but trembled all over. He knew that the emperor was coming today, but he did not ask for an order to return home, but ran back secretly, so he did not dare to go out to welcome the emperor. According to the Ming Dynasty's rule, the royal family members who left the capital had to report to the clan mansion. The most serious violation of the law would be beheaded.

Zhao Dequan was carried by the Jinyiwei to the outside of the city. When he saw the emperor Zhu Hongsan standing at the gate of the city with a gloomy face, Zhao Dequan was so scared that he quickly begged for mercy: "Emperor's cousin, my cousin is wrong! My cousin is wrong!"

When Zhu Hongsan saw Zhao Dequan's ugly appearance, he was furious and pointed at Zhao Dequan and asked, "Do you know you were wrong? What did you say you were wrong?"

Zhao Dequan didn't know what he was wrong. He heard the emperor say this and his brain teasers quickly, he lay on the ground and said, "I...I...I don't know!"

Zhu Hongsan said to Zhu Jiang: "Zhu Jiang, tell him!"

Zhu Jiang stepped forward and asked, "Cousin, is it true that you have occupied 50,000 acres of land in Wuchang Prefecture?"

When Zhao Dequan heard that it was this matter, he quickly shook his head and said, "No, absolutely not!"

When Zhu Hongsan saw that Zhao Dequan was about to die, he couldn't help but scold: "Do you still want to deny it? Tell me the truth, and if you don't tell the truth, I'll chop your head!"

Zhao Dequan knew that this cousin was ruthless. When he heard that he wanted to chop his head, he quickly rolled in and cried: "Aunt! Aunt! Look at your son, you have to chop off your nephew's head for a little bit of land. Aunt! Your second brother's family is about to be defeated! My nephew will go down to see you, aunt!"

Zhu Hongsan is now the emperor, so when he returned home, he naturally surrounded a large group of people. In addition to protecting the emperor's Jinyiwei, there were also the prefect, Tongzhi, Promoter, a group of officials from Wuchang Prefecture, as well as the navy and army generals stationed in Wuchang. Everyone saw the emperor's cousin rolling around here and shouting to let his aunt see his good son. There were hundreds of people in the field silently.

Zhu Hongsan was decisive in his life. Even his sons respectfully saw him. This was the first time that someone had tantrums in front of it. Zhu Hongsan's face turned pale for a moment.

Zhu Hongsan turned around and pulled out the knife from the Jinyiwei's hand and was about to kill this embarrassing cousin. However, Zhu Jiang beside him stepped forward and grabbed Zhu Hongsan's wrist and shouted: "Father, my second uncle is just such a son!"

Zhu Hongsan was calm when he heard Zhu Jiang say this. Yes! Although his second uncle was not very good to him back then, he had to leave a queen for his second uncle for his mother!

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan let go of his waist, took out the whip of the horse, and stepped forward to thrust at Zhao Dequan who was lying on the ground. Zhao Dequan rolled around the ground, and asked grandpa to spare his life!

Zhu Hongsan became angry and did not breathe, and he fainted.

After a long time, Zhu Hongsan woke up. When he opened his eyes, he saw that there were heads around him, and everyone was looking at him nervously.

Zhu Hongsan knows what he is doing. Zhu Hongsan likes to eat pickles. He has a strong taste in Huguang area and consumes too much salt every day. In addition, drinking and big fish and meat, Zhu Hongsan has already suffered from the wealth disease of this era and high blood pressure!

Zhu Hongsan waved his hand and let the crowd disperse: "Everyone will disperse, help me up!"

Zhu Jiang was scared by Zhu Hongsan just now. If his father had nothing to do with him just now, he would be the prince who ascended the throne. If he could get a ban, he would worship Buddha and burn incense. Now seeing Zhu Hongsan wake up, a stone fell to the ground in his heart and quickly stepped forward to help his father up.

Zhu Hongsan was also very moved when he saw Zhu Jiang’s true feelings. Now that the children are old, this kind of true feelings is rare. No matter how their sons compete for the throne, their feelings for themselves, the father are still real.

Zhu Hongsan patted Zhu Jiang's hand and signaled that he was fine, then walked to Zhao Dequan who was kneeling on the ground.

The emperor fainted just now, but he scared Zhao Dequan. If the emperor was really good, he would definitely not be able to escape from his relationship. At that time, no uncle or aunt would work!

Now that he saw the emperor awakening, Zhao Dequan quickly knelt down and cried, "Your Majesty, I was wrong, I will never make Your Majesty angry again!"

Zhu Hongsan waved his hand and said, "Zhao Dequan, I will spare your life for the sake of my second uncle today! Li Chengen!"

"I'm here!"

"Send a team of Jinyiwei to escort Zhao Dequan to Nanjing and be imprisoned in the imperial prison for another half a year. No! One year! All the land he illegally seized and robbed was distributed back!"

At this time, Zhao Dequan did not dare to speak back, so he had to bow and accept the order, and honestly followed the Jinyiwei back to Nanjing to be punished.

Zhao Dequan was dealt with, but there were a few other companies? Zhao Dequan's family only occupied 50,000 mu, while Ma's family had 100,000 mu of land. This is what made Zhu Hongsan's brain-wrenching.
Chapter completed!