Wei Bao secretly thought, it seems that Wei Zhongxian must have spent a relationship, maybe it is to let Wei Guangwei protect this Wu Kongjia like he tried to protect me!

From this point of view, Wei Zhongxian really plans to vigorously cultivate Wu Kongjia, and this Wu Kongjia really has Wei Zhongxian's trust.

Because Wu Kongjia is a poor scholar and has no money to bribe Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian promoted Wu Kongjia definitely because he likes this person.

It turned out that there was such a person behind the scenes to help the Wang family deal with the Xiong family, and this matter was really difficult to do.

However, President Wei still said very resolutely: "No matter who it is!" Now that we've done this, we can't give up halfway! If Wei Zhongxian wants to kill the Wang family's brothers and sisters and his mother, I don't dare to touch it, at least I have to say something for them! ”

Fan Toutou, Lin Wenbiao, and Wu Sanfu nodded one after another, all secretly admiring Wei Bao's regard for the powerful like dung! Attaboy.

Wei Bao and Wei Zhongxian had secretly corresponded and established a secret communication channel, but Wei Bao did not tell anyone, including the closest people around him.

Wei Bao saw Li Chengne's face was embarrassed, and said to Li Chengnei: "Brother, go back and rest early, you are more close to Leshui and Paradise these days, you don't care about this matter." ”

"What is this talking about? Since we are brothers, I must not let my brother wade into troubled waters alone. Li Chengnei said resolutely: "I must go." Moreover, everyone knows the relationship between the two of us, what difference does it make if I go or not?"

Wei Bao was greatly moved by Li Chengnei's words, Wei Bao never expected that Li Chengnei was also a little bloody, nodded and smiled: "Cheng, then let's go and have a look." Let's not go to fight, or say a fair word for the Xiong family, it's really not good, I still have a friendship with that Xiong Zhaojue, and I can also persuade his brother and sister, the hero doesn't suffer the immediate loss, if it doesn't work, let's leave the capital for the time being! ”

Li Chengnei nodded and said: "If this is very good, unless it is absolutely necessary, don't be evil to others, the officialdom in the capital is complicated." ”

"The sister of the Xiong family must be very beautiful, right?" Wu Xuexia suddenly remembered something and asked Wu Sanfu softly.

Wu Sanfu didn't think about it, nodded and said, "It's beautiful!" ”

Wu Xuexia couldn't help but snort softly, and said to Wei Bao: "I'm going with you too." ”

"You're not going, are you? It's getting dark. It's not good for girls to go out at night. Wei Bao laughed.

Wei Bao is not in a hurry about Xiong Zhaojue's family being made by the Wang family again, the only taboo is to offend Wei Zhongxian.

But the scale of this intervention is still in Wei Bao's own hands, and he can handle the scale, so he is not anxious at all, and his mind is still relatively relaxed.

"I'm going." Wu Xuexia pouted her ruddy little mouth.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, and did not dissuade again.

The people then went to the bear's house.

Wu Kongjia is just in his early forties this year, and he is not completely a child of a poor family, and there are few children of a poor family who can support a person this year!

Wu Kongjia and Zheng Zhongfei have many similarities, and they can be regarded as a strengthened version of Zheng Zhongfei, at least very good at communication, otherwise they would not have caught up with the 9,000-year-old who was high and powerful.

At this time, Wu Kongjia's status was at least the status of Wei Zhongxian's forty grandsons, and he was a very prominent newcomer in the eunuch group.

He quietly watched as a group of people kept brushing insulting language on the gate and wall of Xiong's courtyard.

They did a very smart job, and they didn't blatantly run to the walls of the Xiong family's courtyard to beat people, but just used insulting language and words to put pressure on the Xiong family.

Their purpose was to make it impossible for the Xiong family to gain a foothold in the capital.

Wu Kongjia also knew that it was Wei Bao who helped the Xiong family behind his back.

For the outside world, Wei Bao is still very mysterious, everyone only knows that he and Dong Li's younger brother Li Chengnei are righteous brothers and righteous brothers, and they are Sun Chengzong's disciples.

In the eyes of the forces in the capital, whether it is Sun Chengzong or Li Chengnei, it is nothing.

Although Sun Chengzong is extremely famous, extremely famous, and has a very lofty status, he is also the governor of Jiliao and the emperor, but he does not have much power, because he has not formed a faction.

Li Chengnei is even more nothing, because everyone knows that Dong Li Niangniang has a gentle personality, never forms gangs, is an idler in the palace, has no influence, and the relationship with the Emperor of the Apocalypse is also very ordinary.

Therefore, even if he knows that Wei Bao has a bit of a background, Wu Kongjia doesn't know how big it is.

So, Wu Kongjia decided to make another move and further test Wei Bao.

"With Wu Gongzi in charge of our Wang family, I am relieved." Wang Huazhen's son Wang Anbang flattered Wu Kongjiadao.

Wu Kongjia smiled indifferently, he actually received 3,000 taels of silver from Wang Anbang, so he didn't care about this matter, on the one hand, not many people knew about him, and someone asked him to do something, so he was naturally overjoyed. On the other hand, Wu Kongjia knew very well that Duke Wei had the desire to kill Xiong Tingbi and then quickly. Thirdly, Wu Kongjia originally calculated that no matter whether it was the Minister of Donglin or the Minister of Neutrality, no one would care about this matter.

Who knew there would be a Wei Baolai.

"Don't worry, it's not a big deal! I don't think Wei Bao dares to come over! Wu Kongjia said. He had let people get here for almost an hour, knowing that Wei Bao must have gotten the news, he just wanted to see if Wei Bao dared to come.

If Wei Bao has a false name and does not have a strong backer, Wu Kongjia even wants to take advantage of the situation to end the Heaven and Earth Society!

The business of the Heaven and Earth Society in the capital is not small.

And the reason why Wu Kongjia was appreciated by Wei Zhongxian was because he reported Wu Yangchun, the wealthy man in his hometown, who helped Wei Zhongxian get a large amount of silver, so Wei Zhongxian began to appreciate him.

This time, Wu Kongjia planned to concoct the same method, and after taking away the Xiong family, he would bring down the Heaven and Earth Society.

"If he knew that Wu Gongzi was here, he would never dare to come!" Wang Anbang nodded in agreement.

The two of them were talking, but Wei Bao had already brought someone over.

Neither Wang Anbang nor Wu Kongjia had ever seen Wei Bao, but on this big night, a large group of people suddenly came to this alley, and both of them guessed that Wei Bao was coming, and they couldn't help but be secretly a little frightened.

Wang Anbang had someone under him who knew Wei Bao, and reported softly: "Son, it was Wei Bao who personally brought someone here." ”

Wang Anbang hurriedly said to Wu Kongjia: "Wu Gongzi, it's Wei Bao who is here!" ”

Wu Kongjia originally knew that Wei Bao was in charge of the Xiong family's affairs, but he was just testing Wei Bao's reality, so he asked for trouble with the Xiong family again. I thought that Wei Bao should not care about the affairs of the Xiong family anymore, after all, many people know that he is the person of Wei's father-in-law, a nine-thousand-year-old person, no matter how hard you Wei Bao is in the background, dare to take care of the affairs of the nine-thousand-year-old?

Accidents are accidents, Wu Kongjia and Wang Anbang are naturally not afraid of Wei Bao's arrival.

They didn't bring Jinyi Wei or people from Shuntianfu, but brought more than a dozen healthy servants of Wang Anbang's family.

Wei Bao led everyone to the door of Xiong Zhaojue's house.

Xiong Zhaojue's current home is the courtyard given to him by Wei Bao, an ordinary courtyard house in the capital, with houses on three sides, a total of more than 200 square meters.

"Who are you?" The steward of the Wang family asked.

"Who are you? Why nuisance homes? It was Fan's head that answered.

The external affairs of the Tiandi firm are all in charge of Fan Datou, and on such occasions, Lin Wenbiao does not speak, Lin Wenbiao is mainly responsible for the confidentiality work around President Wei, the security work, and the operation of the entire Tiandihui Statistics Office.

In fact, in addition to the President's Guard and the General Administration of Statistics, there are also a few people from the Prosecutor's Office who are hidden in the shadows, but they are generally not visible, and are only responsible for the liaison between the Prosecutor's Office and the President's Secretariat, and do not participate in the security and security work.

The main responsibility of the Public Prosecutor's Office is to monitor the official bodies of the Statistical Office and the entire Heaven and Earth Society.

"Hehe, it's horizontal enough, dare to meddle with our affairs!" The steward of the Wang family was very arrogant, and said sharply: "Either hurry up and get out, or die here." ”

When Wu Kongjia heard this, he frowned, because he felt that the people of the Wang family were a little arrogant.

Wu Kongjia supported the Wang family, but did not control the Wang family.

The housekeeper also relied on the people around Wei Zhongxian, so he was a little carried away.

Wang Anbang felt that the house slave steward was doing a good job, and he couldn't wait to kill all the people in the Xiong family, so he naturally agreed to hate the people who helped the Xiong family.

Wang Anbang had also inquired about Wei Bao before, and probably knew that Wei Bao was the chief boss of Tiandi Firm, and that was it.

Wang Anbang also thought that Wei Bao and the Xiong family might be old friends and had known each other for a long time, but he didn't know that Wei Bao and Xiong Zhaoqi had only known each other two days before the scientific expedition.

Now that the scientific examination has only been completed for one day, the examination will take a total of nine days, that is to say, Wei Bao and the Xiong family have only known each other for 11 days.

"It doesn't matter who dies." Fan's head choked coldly. President Wei didn't say anything, he had to keep answering each other.

Wang Anbang couldn't help it, raised his hand to interrupt the steward who was still about to speak, and said directly to Wei Bao: "You are the leader, right?" Who are you? I'm Wang Anbang! Wang Huazhen is my father, this is a private matter between us and the Xiong family! Do you have to wade into troubled waters? ”

"I can't take care of your private affairs, but Xiong Zhaoqi is my friend, I just hope that my friends will not be bullied." Wei Bao responded coldly.

"I'll be bullied, what do you want to do?" Wang Anbang said angrily: "You are a businessman, what's the big deal?" Do you know how many dignitaries in the capital are friends with my family? Play with me, I'm afraid you can't afford it. ”

With Wang Anbang's anger, more than ten people brought by the Wang family immediately surrounded him.

There were only a few people around Wei Bao.

Although there are more than 50 guards of the President's Guard in secret, more than 50 senior agents of the General Administration of the Statistics Department of the Heaven and Earth Society, and hundreds of people on guard, whether it is day or night, these people are secretly on guard, and they will not come out without orders.

President Wei was beside him, and there were only a few followers on the surface, and the others were Li Chengnei, Wu Sanfu, Song Yingxing, Wu Xuexia and Fan Datou.

"What? Want to get your hands dirty? Wei Bao glared.

Wei Bao didn't want to suddenly clash with Wu Kongjia, but if the other party wanted to do it without saying a word, he could only accept it.

Wei Bao was by no means afraid of Wu Kongjia, he didn't want to cause a big incident, and the relationship he had just established with Wei Zhongxian would be shattered.

Wei Bao still attaches great importance to the set of relationships he has secretly established with Wei Zhongxian.

If he offends Wei Zhongxian, he knows very well that his path in the Ming officialdom will be over, and at least in the next two or three years, Wei Zhongxian's position will be irreplaceable.

Because Wei Zhongxian has a relationship with the Emperor, his alliance with the Emperor of the Apocalypse is unbreakable.

If the emperor doesn't die, what can Wei Zhongxian do?

And President Wei did not reject Wei Zhongxian from the bottom of his heart, so he never thought of going against the course of history and trying to get rid of Wei Zhongxian or something.

Before Wei Zhongxian was killed, the Ming Dynasty was basically not short of money, or it was not as poor as Chongzhen.

During the reign of Jiajing, Yan Song was in power for more than 20 years, with Mongolian Tatars in the north and Japanese in the south; During the Wanli period, he did not go to court for decades, but launched the three major expeditions of Wanli; The Emperor of the Apocalypse worked as a carpenter every day, and the Ming Dynasty was able to run smoothly during the three emperor periods, and there was no sign of the weakness of the Ming Dynasty's military, why is this? In addition to Zhang Juzheng's life extension for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty reused eunuchs to collect taxes in various places, and the mining tax, salt tax, and commercial tax greatly enriched the emperor's internal funds. As soon as the cannon sounded, there were 10,000 taels of gold, and the reason why Wanli swept the world was because he had money in his hands.

Emperor Tianqi trusted Wei Zhongxian because the three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty, the Attack Case, the Red Pill Case, and the Palace Removal Case were all aimed at his father Zhu Changluo, and he preferred the eunuchs who grew up with him than the Donglin Party. Wei Zhongxian's strongest ability is not to suppress the Donglin Party, but to collect taxes. Wei Zhongxian aimed at the Jiangnan region where industry and commerce and foreign trade were developed, and re-established the industrial and commercial tax and sea tax that were abolished by the Donglin Party in the last year of Wanli. When the eunuch party was destroyed, Wei Zhongxian left 20 million taels of silver in the emperor's pocket, without which Chongzhen could not last 17 years.

At the beginning of Chongzhen's succession, the henchmen of the eunuch party were all over the world, so the Donglin party was used to fight against the eunuch party. The first thing the Donglin Party, which was full of benevolence and morality, was to abolish the eunuch tax collection system after taking power, and they believed that the commercial tax, mining tax, and sea tax were to loot the people's fat and ointment, so they uprooted the tax system established by Wei Zhongxian, which greatly reduced the tax burden in the rich areas of Jiangnan, and Jiangnan Province alone accounted for one-third of the country's taxes at that time. Then the question arises, what should I do if the soldiers on the Liaodong front can't pay their salaries, then increase taxes. In this way, the taxes of the rich decreased, while the taxes of the poor peasants increased.

Wei Zhongxian raised taxes on the rich, but the Donglin Party raised taxes on the poor, not to mention the taxes paid by the poor, and the poor peasants in the northwest could not survive the natural and man-made disasters and revolted. When the money left by Wei Zhongxian was spent, the originally abundant Neiku rats moved because of lack of food, and the military salaries of the front-line soldiers could not be paid, but the strength of Houjin was constantly increasing. In the end, the peasant uprisings in the Guannai continued, the official army could not pay the military salary for more than a year, and surrendered frantically, Li Zicheng led 60,000 miscellaneous troops, and led hundreds of thousands of surrendered Ming troops when they arrived at the city of Beijing.

Before Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he repeatedly asked to "take the money and leave", and even called himself a "thief", only asking for a military salary of 1 million taels, and going home to be the king of the northwest, mainly if there was no money, the surrendered Ming army would not slaughter him. But Chongzhen only raised 200,000 taels, knowing that he was powerless to return to the sky, lamenting that "I am not the king of the dead country, the ministers are all the ministers of the dead country", and a small eunuch next to him cried "If the Duke of Wei is here, the situation will not be like this".

Chongzhen suddenly woke up and remembered the words of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, "Wei Zhongxian is loyal and can calculate great things", but it was too late to regret it.

After the fall of Wei Zhongxian, the Donglin Party chased and killed the eunuchs all over the world, and it was always necessary to go to the homes of the eunuchs who collected taxes to search for stolen money. The Donglin Party slandered the eunuch party as a housekeeper, but there is no record in the history books how much money the eunuch party embezzled, which can be said to be negligible, which makes the Donglin party embarrassed, even if the eunuch party collects more taxes, it is also into the emperor's pocket. However, after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he liquidated the Donglin Party, and found 70 million taels of dirty silver in the capital alone.

When Chongzhen hanged himself, there was only one little eunuch by his side, and the ministers were already waiting for the new emperor to ascend the throne, and Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, successfully unlocked the achievement "The Water is Too Cold"! Before Chongzhen hanged himself, he hatefully said "All civil officials can be killed", it was too late. In addition to taxes, Wei Zhongxian put aside personal grievances and used Sun Chengzong, Zhao Nanxing, Yuan Keli and others against his will, Wei Zhongxian is not useless.

At least in President Wei's opinion, Wei Zhongxian definitely has some use.

Even compared with the Donglin Party, President Wei felt that Wei Zhongxian could be regarded as a loyal minister!

Just when President Wei was about to call someone to fight, Wu Kongjia spoke.