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Chapter 908 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey

Qu Shixi and his group of people insisted on forcing the emperor to issue an order to deal with Li Fugui. Zhu Hongsan was so annoyed by these guys that he had no choice but to say, "Let's do this, Li Fugui is a marquis. If the title is a major event in the court, your cabinet will hold a meeting to study it! I am tired and I need to rest!"

After Zhu Hongsan said that, he quickly stood up and returned to the back, and continued to sleep with the beauty in his arms. Qu Shisi and others could not help but see Zhu Hongsan running away. They couldn't run in and pull the emperor to relent!

Qu Shixi took Xu Shimin to the cabinet and reported the matter to the chief minister Feng Ziyong, and Qu Shixi persuaded Feng Ziyong. If the consequences of this matter are too serious and no one can follow the national laws at that time, how can the country govern it?

It is not unreasonable for Zhu Hongsan to kick this ball to Feng Ziyong. Feng Ziyong was the county magistrate and Li Fugui was his prison chief. Later, he became the head of the class and was one of Feng Ziyong's confidants. If it were other nobles who committed crimes, Feng Ziyong would definitely not care. From the perspective of scholars suppressing nobles, he might even take ruthless measures, but Li Fugui is different. After all, he has to talk about some old friendships.

Finally, with the help of Feng Ziyong, the cabinet decided to issue an order on behalf of the emperor to denounce Li Fugui. As for the princess' marriage is a royal matter, it is not convenient for the cabinet to interfere. The cabinet reported the news to the emperor, and Zhu Hongsanyi saw that it was almost the same. These nobles were all their old friends. They were scared by the two slaughtering one's hands. How could they really be ruthless?

The cabinet and the emperor reached a consensus, so Zhu Hongsan issued an order to denounce Li Fugui, and at the same time warned all the nobles in the capital to not do this in the future. The emperor would ignore the crime.

This matter is nothing in the eyes of the emperor, but it is amazing in Li Fugui's eyes. The rights of nobles all come from imperial power. If the emperor loses his favor, what is the meaning of nobles?

After being scolded by the emperor, Li Fugui was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat. When he returned to the mansion, he quickly let his son Li Gui destroy the memorial he had just written. At the same time, Li Fugui felt bitter in his heart. It seemed that he was not as important as those scholars who were so naughty.

The news spread in the capital very quickly. The next day, the news of Guangning Hou being beaten up spread throughout the city's circle of nobles. These nobles had all kinds of mentality. Ma Mingyuan and other civil servants despised Li Fugui's character. In their eyes, he and Li Fugui's dirty people were all humiliated in the court. Therefore, Jiang Huan was applauding Li Fugui among civil servants.

The nobles who were born in military generals also looked down on Li Fugui very much. Back then, Li Fugui was just a jester of the emperor. He had no civil servants' strategy or military achievements. He just flattered the emperor, and made several small contributions. Now he was on par with us. God was really blind. Now Li Fugui is in trouble because God can't stand it anymore. How can you become a marquis like you? So the generals were watching this with a laughing attitude.

The third part of the nobles, that is, the craftsmen with the lowest origins, can't help but feel sad. These people are similar to Li Fugui, and they all have low origins. Now seeing the marquis Li Fugui being humiliated by a seventh-rank censor, although they are full of righteous indignation, they have no choice but to stand up for Li Fugui. These nobles have to warn their families and children to keep a low profile in the future and never make any trouble.

During the Li Fugui incident, the forces in Beijing have different attitudes, but they all have the mentality of watching the fun. However, one person became interested in Li Fugui, and this person was the unlucky general Zhu Yuan.

In fact, Zhu Yuan didn't pay attention to Li Fugui at the beginning. After all, Li Fugui's identity is much worse than Zhu Yuan. Although Zhu Yuan has now been demoted to the General of the Assistant State, Zhu Yuan is a prince after all, and his status is much stronger than Li Fugui.

However, Zhu Yuan is now worried about his own affairs. It is very simple. After he failed his job in Henan, he was demoted to General of the State. Although his father Zhu Hongsan did not let him go and go to the vassal state, how could Zhu Yuan not get angry? But what could Zhu Yuan do if he got angry? He was born too late and was much younger than those older brothers. The resources in the court were almost divided up by several brothers at this time. It was Zhu Yuan's turn to have only three or two kittens left.

However, among these kittens, there is a jackal in cat's skin, which is Chen Mingxia, a military aircraft of the Military Affairs Office.

Chen Mingxia was born in Donglin. If he governed the country, he could only be considered ordinary. However, if he played with the government politics, Chen Mingxia was deeply influenced by the predecessors of the Donglin Party.

Everyone else watched the Li Fugui incident this time, but only Chen Mingxia saw the trick. There were such unpopular nobles in the court, led by Li Fugui, but these nobles held a large amount of resources, and their manpower and money were no less than those of the two classes.

Of course, this is not the prince, the King of Qin, and the King of Chu who do not understand and cannot see this. Instead, the prince and other princes have already had amazing resources and really look down on the things that are low-level nobles such as Li Fugui. To put it bluntly, it just didn't knock it out.

No matter how small the flies are, they are still meat, and these low-level nobles are not small flies. Chen Mingxia immediately noticed that this was an opportunity, an opportunity to help Zhu Yuan grow bigger.

Zhu Yuan was sighing at his fate, and after hearing Chen Mingxia’s visit, he quickly came out.

The two walked into Zhu Yuan's Yan Wang Mansion, the current General's Mansion of the State of Supplementary State, sat down. Zhu Yuan clasped his fists and asked, "I wonder what's wrong with Mr. Chen coming to find a boy?"

Zhu Yuan has encountered more things in the past six months than ordinary people have encountered in more than ten years. He has seen more people in the past six months, so he has grown up quickly and is polite in everything he does now, and he no longer looks as arrogant as half a year ago.

Chen Mingxia nodded when she saw Zhu Yuan's growth. If she was hit by such a little bit of blow, then Zhu Yuan would have no value in assisting him.

"Your Highness of the King of Yan, today Chen has something to discuss with the King of Yan!"

When Zhu Yuan heard Chen Mingxia call him King Yan, he smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Chen is wrong. The boy is no longer a title. Now he is just a general of the auxiliary country."

"Hehe, no matter what title King Yan is now, Chen has promised King Yan that he will definitely be able to support King Yan to that throne!"

Zhu Yuan was very grateful to Chen Mingxia for saying this. Now his title has been reduced to several levels. I didn’t expect that Chen Mingxia could still say this. It was really not easy.

Chen Mingxia coughed and said, "Have you heard about the King of Guangning in the past few days?"

Zhu Yuan was stunned when he heard Chen Mingxia say this. The noble Zhu Yuan did not contact him. The nine dukes Zhu Yuan knew, but there were too many marquises, so Zhu Yuan could remember his name.

"This, the kid hasn't gone out at home these days, so I don't know, Mr. Chen, who is this Guangning Hou?"

"King of Yan, this Marquis of Guangning is the earliest Li Fugui who followed His Majesty. After the founding of the country, he was named Marquis of Guangning. Speaking of which, this Marquis of Guangning still has some relationship with King Yan. Just a few months ago, His Majesty the Emperor decided to marry Princess Changsha to the son of Marquis of Guangning!"

Chen Mingxia said this and Zhu Yuan remembered that it turned out to be the nobleman who was born in a prison. The Princess of Changsha married Li Fu and Zhu Yuan also knew that it was just that Zhu Yuan had just been demoted to the general of the auxiliary country at that time, and he was in the mood to take care of these troubles.

Zhu Yuan nodded and said, "Mr. Chen, the kid of the third sister's marriage knows that he married the son of the Marquis of Guangning. He heard that the third sister's mother's mother was very unhappy. In the end, the third sister begged the boy's mother's wife, and the father agreed to the marriage!"

Zhu Yuan said this but was very dissatisfied with it. He was born with a noble background. He was the founding emperor and his mother was a princess of a fallen country. He lived in the royal blood of two dynasties. Where can he pay attention to an ordinary nobleman like Guangning Hou? It’s just that Zhu Yuan and Zhu Xiang are very close, so he realized that this was the case. If it were a princess who had a distant relationship, Zhu Yuan might not have heard of Guangning Hou’s title.

"Okay, since the King of Yan knows that the Marquis of Guangning is great. Now that the Marquis of Guangning is being beaten, he needs someone to comfort him. The King of Yan might as well go and comfort him and bring the Marquis of Guangning under his command!"

Zhu Yuan was stunned. The Marquis of Guangning was born in a humble family and was just a fifth-rank doctor. Let him conquer him? What is Chen Mingxia trying to do?

"Mr. Chen, the Marquis of Guangning is from a humble background and has a low official position. I heard that he was also excluded from the core circle of nobles. What's the use of such a person to subdue him?"

Chen Mingxia smiled slightly when he heard Zhu Yuan's question: "The King of Yan does not understand the composition of the circle of nobles. Although Ma Mingyuan and Feng Ziyong Tong Yangjia are first-class nobles, among them, there are also a large number of low-level nobles, thirty-six marquises, and sixty-three earls. In addition to these, there are many hereditary governors, assistants, thousand households, etc. Among them, most of these people were followed by His Majesty in the past! The help the old minister said was these people!"

Zhu Yuan was confused by Chen Mingxia. These people had low titles, many of them were just empty titles and had no official positions. What could these people do? But Chen Mingxia said this must have a role. Zhu Yuan quickly asked: "I don't know what these people have. Please explain it to Mr. Chen!"

"Okay, when the King of Yan came out to open the mansion, did Your Majesty give the King of Yan a few factories and several mines in Guangxi?"

Zhu Hongsan is quite generous to his son. Each son has to give some industries when he becomes an adult. Zhu Yuan now has a Guangdong wood factory, two sugar factories in Leizhou, one salt factories in Lianghuai, and three mines in Guangxi. These factories can produce more than 20,000 silver dollars in output for Zhu Yuan every year. Although Zhu Yuan has been demoted to the General of the State, the industries in his hands have not been taken back.

Zhu Yuan nodded when he heard Chen Mingxia say this and said, "Yes, when the kid opened the mansion, his father rewarded some industries!"

Chen Mingxia laughed and said, "Don't you know, who is taking care of these industries in His Majesty the Emperor?"
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