Wang Chengen, who was on the side, couldn't help but jump when he heard this number. This Wei Liangqing has been from a farmer to a noble man with purple in less than two years, and he can save such a large amount of money and food, presumably it is the silver that Wei Zhongxian stored in the hands of his nephew.

But this Wei Liangqing is really honest enough, if you take 30,000 or 50,000 taels out, maybe Your Majesty will let it go gently. But taking out 300,000 taels at once, it can be seen that Wei Zhongxian is corrupt and perverts the law on weekdays, Your Majesty is a young man, in case you get angry when you hear it, can your uncle and nephew escape today?

Wei Liangqing's head was on the ground motionless, and his heart was secretly drumming. However, he would like to ask Wei Zhongxian what he told him before leaving, "... If Your Majesty refuses to let go of you, my uncle and nephew, it will naturally be all about it. If Your Majesty can really open the net, let you live, and leave the incense of my Wei family. The 300,000 taels of silver that I have deposited in your house will be handed over to Your Majesty as atonement money. You must remember that if you are driven out of the capital, you must bring some valuable belongings with you, and you must not touch the large belongings in the Marquis of Suning's mansion.

Today, your uncle and I have finally seen through, if I am still the 9,000-year-old, you will be fine with the money in this world. But now your uncle and I are just a lost dog who has been driven out of the capital, and if you still want to keep this money, it is the way to die.

Not to mention those Donglin Party members who regard our Wei family as an enemy who kills their father, they are the gentry and wealthy families in the countryside, seeing that my Wei family is losing power, and you are returning to your hometown with a large amount of property, you also have the heart to seek money and kill your life..."

Although his uncle told him a thousand times before leaving, Wei Liangqing still felt that there was a trembling force when he said it at the moment. This 300,000 taels of silver is not a small amount, if His Majesty turns his face and investigates his uncle for being corrupt and perverting the law, won't his confession cost his uncle and his own lives? However, Wei Liangqing still listened to Wei Zhongxian's words after all, and after a fierce ideological struggle, he finally blurted out the truth to Chongzhen.

Zhu Youzhen just glanced at Wei Liangqing lying on the ground a few times with interest, and then said jokingly: "300,000 taels is not a small amount, you must not slap a swollen face and become fat, there is no joke in front of you." ”

Wei Liangqing stiffened his head and replied with some trepidation: "The minister doesn't dare, the minister is willing to go back now and offer his majesty the property." ”

"Since you are so hearted, then I will accept it for the people of the Ming Dynasty. You don't have to take out this money, I will give you an account room, how much money you spent on building this Academy of Agricultural Sciences is recorded in the account, and when the 300,000 taels of silver are spent, I will allocate funds to you again, do you think it's okay? Zhu Youzhen said gently.

Wei Liangqing's heart was first tightened, and then relaxed, he felt that his heart was steady, and he hurriedly thanked Chongzhen for his kindness.

After instructing Wang Chengen to send Wei Liangqing out, Zhu Youzhen casually instructed: "Wang Companion, you pick a young eunuch with good foot strength, let him assist the Marquis of Suning, and if there is any problem, go to the palace as soon as possible to report." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Chengen took the order and left the room with Wei Liangqing. Zhu Youzhen closed his eyes and recuperated, and then heard footsteps sound again.

Wang Chengen walked in with Tian Ergeng, and Tian Ergeng at this time was no longer the one Chongzhen had seen at the beginning, the commander of the Jinyi Guard and the governor of Zuo Du who was full of ambition in a flying fish robe.

Today, Tian Ergeng was wearing a half-new brocade official uniform, and his face was much haggard. Although he waited for more than an hour, there was no change on his face, and he still looked like he was pleasing to the eye.

Zhu Youzhen rubbed his eyebrows and looked at the expressionless former Jinyi Guard commander in front of him. He looked at it for a while and gave up, this Tian Ergeng is different from Wei Liangqing, after all, he is a person who has been in charge of Jinyiwei, such a person wants to hide his emotions, it is not something that a person like Zhu Youzhen can observe.

Zhu Youzhen put down his hand, and then said gently: "Tian Ergeng, you have only been in charge of Jinyi Wei for less than 3 years, but you have done a lot of things." After Wei Zhongxian left the capital, the chapter impeaching him was only about 10 letters a day. But the impeachment of your field is more than 30 letters a day. You used to be the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and you can be regarded as an important minister in the court. Why don't you give me an idea of what I should do? ”

After the exile of the benefactor Wei Zhongxian, the eunuchs who had once been in power seemed to disappear overnight, and the officials who had shaken their heads and tails at Wei Zhongxian and his commander of the brocade guards suddenly became as if they did not know him for farming.

The most infuriating thing is that those eunuch party officials who obviously befriended Wei Zhongxian all day long suddenly changed their bodies after Wei Zhongxian stepped down and became righteous gentlemen. The Donglin Party only wanted to remove them from their official positions as the leaders of the eunuch party, and then drive them out of the capital.

However, those eunuch officials who were not held accountable, in order to clear their names and completely separate themselves from the eunuch party, actually demanded the killing of Wei Zhongxian, Tian Ergeng and other eunuch leaders, and did not have their family wealth to fill the treasury. Suddenly, he, the former commander of the Jinyi Guard, who was demoted, became a scourge that everyone feared to avoid in the Jinyi Guard, and he became a real loner.

In order to save his life, Tian Ergeng spent most of his family money and finally brought the words to Wang Chengen. He begged Wang Chengen to move His Majesty and demote him from the capital, no matter where he goes, as long as he is far enough away from the capital.

He can see it, as long as he stays in the capital for a day. Those officials who have been hit by him will not be able to let him go. Only by running to a place that these officials could not see, could he escape this fate.

His Majesty summoned him today, and Tian Ergeng thought that the money he spent had worked. But Chongzhen's question made him a little frightened, although the tone of this question was gentle, but the content was too difficult to answer.

But Tian Ergeng knew that today was his last chance. If he can't get Chongzhen to release his doubts about him today, then maybe Chongzhen will throw him to those officials who are full of grievances because Wei Zhongxian set off the Donglin case.

Tian Ergeng gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that His Majesty should not listen to these corrupt words, and disposes of the minister." ”

"Oh? Why? ”

"Because the minister is still useful, the minister can be an eagle dog for Your Majesty, and clean up the officials in the court and the local government for Your Majesty, and obstruct Your Majesty's plans."

"Haha, Jinyiwei is my royal eagle dog, is it possible that without your Tian Ergeng, I can't command Jinyiwei?" Zhu Youzhen sneered teasingly.

Chongzhen's ridicule did not make Tian Ergeng give up, he lowered his head and insisted on saying: "As soon as Your Majesty's golden mouth is opened, who in the Jinyi Guard dares not obey the order, but in this case, where is Your Majesty's reputation?" In today's brocade guards, there is no order from His Majesty, and there is no one else who dares to arrest the doctor except for the ministers. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at this thoughtfully, he was called the cool official of Da'er Tian Ergeng by the people of the time, and it seemed that he was not as thoughtless as rumored. Also, this person was also born in a family of scholars and entered Jinyiwei with the shadow of his ancestors, he is not a reckless man without knowledge.

The room suddenly fell silent, and Zhu Youzhen was silent for a long time before he said expressionlessly: "I am not Wu Zhou, I don't need to come to Junchen and Zhou Xing." I, Da Ming, am not a martial artist, and I don't need a cool official who fabricates charges. In the past few years that you have been in charge of Jinyiwei, you have handled a lot of unjust cases, and you should have been punished by national law, but today I am a Ming Dynasty with internal and external troubles, and I don't want to rise up in prison as soon as I ascend the throne, so I will put your head on your shoulders for the time being. But what about this capital, you can't stay still. I give you two ways, one is to give me an inventory of the military cantonment matters near the capital, if you can do it well, the previous affairs will be written off; The second is to remove yourself from your post and fill the army in Yunnan, and I will forget you as a person. ”

Chongzhen's speech was very slow, as if he wanted Tian Ergeng to hear every word he said. When Chongzhen gave Tian Ergeng two options, Tian Ergeng was a little ecstatic, which was much better than the best ending he imagined.

Choosing to fill the army in Yunnan was the ending he most hoped for before entering the palace. Yunnan is high and far away, and the road is difficult to travel, the influence of the Ming court on Yunnan is not very high, and it is almost a place isolated from the interior of the Ming Dynasty. He went to Yunnan, and no matter how much he hated him, there was nothing he could do.

But just before entering the upper study, when the things he wanted were close at hand, Tian Ergeng couldn't make a decision. Compared with Yunnan, the road to clear the military tun is obviously more difficult. As the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he usually heard a little about the problem of the military tun, those hereditary officers colluded with the local gentry and town guards and eunuchs to embezzle the fields of the military households, but did not pay the taxes that the military households should pay, resulting in the excessive burden of the military households and the continuous flight.

For those officers, the more the military household fled, the more land he controlled, and the more military salaries were withheld, and the officer was a manager, and he did not need to be responsible for the particle silver handed over by the military canton, which became a strange phenomenon, the officials of the military cantonment had a lot of power, but there was no responsibility at all, and the encroachment on the military households' fields became more and more frequent.

But the most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty implements a fixed tax system. That is to say, during the Taizu period in the early Ming Dynasty, it was formulated how much tax you paid as a military guard, and more than a hundred years have passed, and you still have to pay so many taxes as a military guard. It doesn't matter whether the population of your military garrison has increased or not, and whether the fields have decreased, it will always remain the same.

This kind of fiscal policy, which was conceived by beating the head, is completely inelastic. When the population of the military garrison grows and the wasteland is reclaimed, the state cannot overcollect. When military households began to flee and a large number of fields were occupied by local gentry, the state would not lose its harvest.

The end result was that the military families fled and became homeless, while the officers became large landowners. The state tax revenue was barren, but the local gentry, military officers, and local town guards and eunuchs were stuffed with pockets.

If you want to clean up the military camp, you will inevitably offend the local gentry, the local town guards and eunuchs, and the officers who are the direct beneficiaries. This road is not only difficult, it is simply a life of death.