Chapter Eighty-Three: The Good Minister
Chongzhen had already attracted attention from Yu Xiaotian's words at this time, and he didn't have the strength to get angry, but he didn't hide it, and nodded: "Not bad!" Xue Guoguan said that he asked me to make an order to persuade donations, but the result was not good, and he only raised less than 50,000 taels of silver! ”
Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "It's really not what Weichen expected!" Presumably, after the Holy Decree, it is estimated that many ministers are crying bitterly and crying poorly! ”
Chongzhen nodded and didn't speak, but Yu Xiaotian continued: "That's true! But can the saint know that when the saint is trying his best to raise money, these ministers are really poor and can't open the pot?
Definitely! Not to mention anything else, I'll just talk about Gao Qiqian and Xue Guoguan, after Weichen entered Beijing, he captured Gao Qiqian and Xue Guoguan, and then copied his family property, just Gao Qiqian, in Beijing, he bought four houses, just in Gao Qiqian's family, he copied 170,000 taels of Tibetan silver, and also obtained the voucher he lent to the businessman, and there were nearly 200,000 taels, in addition, Gao Qiqian's private house also hides all kinds of valuable jewelry, as well as a large number of valuable calligraphy and paintings!
If it is summed up, the family wealth that Gao Qiqian alone has accumulated over the years will exceed 500,000 taels!
The eunuch Wang Zhixin, Wang Youzuo has a lot of gold, is a well-known thing in the Jingshi, this time it is rumored that the Holy God persuaded donations, each of them only donated 2,000 taels of silver, but the Holy Lord can know that only Wang Zhixin's home, copied out nearly 200,000 taels of dirty silver, and only cash silver, not including other property!
And Wang Youzuo's family, he copied out 130,000 taels of dirty silver, and many other belongings totaled at least 300,000 taels!
And although Xue Guoguan was not the first assistant before, after Liu Yuliang was captured, he was promoted to the first assistant, but in recent years, Xue thief has served in the Beijing Division, and he is quite valued by the saint, so he has made an exceptional appointment to him and appointed him as a scholar of the Eastern Pavilion University, and he has great power in the court, and Xue Guoguan himself is really a greedy person.
This time, Weichen was only in the mansion of Xue Guoguan Jingshi, and he copied out more than 200,000 taels of Tibetan silver, and the rest of the valuables were even more numerous.
And Xue Guoguan offered a plan to ask the saint to persuade the ministers to donate, and he himself only donated a mere 3,000 taels of silver, which is really a big joke, for him, these 3,000 taels of silver are a drop in the bucket!
Also, those royal relatives of the Holy Lord, when they persuaded the donation, it is said that they all complained bitterly and cried poor one by one, but does the Holy Lord know how many evil things they have done over the years? How much money did you collect?
Let's not talk about the others, let's talk about Zhou Kui, the father of Queen Zhou, no one in the world knows, Zhou Guozhang's family is rich and rivals the country, but this time the saint persuaded him to donate, Zhou Guozhang did not pull out a dime, not even a tael of silver, but found the queen to cry poor, the queen was afraid that the saint would not be able to get by, so she handed over her private money of 20,000 taels of silver to Zhou Kui, but what about Zhou Kui after getting these silvers? He only donated two thousand taels of silver!
The remaining 18,000 taels of silver were actually put into his purse by him, which is good, Zhou Kui not only did not donate money because of the persuasion of the saint, but instead earned nearly 20,000 taels of silver!
There is also Natian Guozhang, who is also penniless in this persuasion, but his family is in the Gyeonggi area, occupying nearly 1,000 hectares of fertile land, and secretly colluding with unscrupulous Jin merchants to resell grain and sell it to Jiannu! Quite profitable!
Well, Weichen only said so much, and the others will not be listed one by one, thinking that Yang Sichang and Liu Yuliang, everyone in their homes have accepted a lot of bribes, even if they are not as good as the people listed above, but they also have nearly 100,000 taels of dirty silver hidden in the house of the Jingshi!
This is the minister on whom the Holy One depends! When the saint was working hard for the affairs of the state and had a headache for the financial vacancy, they were trying their best to get money and fill their pockets.
When the court was in trouble, and the saint wanted them to help the court get through the difficulties, these people were crying poor, and even didn't pull out a dime, sitting back and watching the saint be embarrassed!
Does the Holy One still think that these people are the pillars of the country, and they are loyal and capable officials? Moth! Da Ming was hollowed out by these moths, so that he was able to lead to such a scene now! Saying they're rats is too cheap for them! ”
Yu Xiaotian said loudly to Chongzhen.
Chongzhen heard this, once again blood gushed upward, almost wanted to crash to death on the dragon case, over the years, he almost every day for the financial shortage of worries, this time Yu Xiaotian led the troops to invade the Beijing Division, the court could not come up with the money to recruit troops to buy horses and pay to boost morale, so they had to persuade these people to donate.
But what about the result? All he heard were the voices complaining about the poor, those imperial relatives and relatives, and the same was true of officials, including eunuchs, each of whom was holding their own money bags and not pulling out a dime, but now it was good, it turned out that these people were all rich and rivaled the country, and they used their power to make a lot of money, and anyone who casually hid a hundred and eighty thousand taels of silver in their homes to play with them.
Although Chongzhen had guessed that these people would definitely not be very clean and should not be too poor, Chongzhen never thought that these people's families would be so rich, and the silver hidden in their homes was far more than the silver in his inner pocket.
Yu Xiaotian's words can be said to be a very heavy blow to Chongzhen, originally Chongzhen still had a trace of illusion about these nobles and officials and these officials, but after listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, his fantasy was completely shattered, broken like scum.
At this time, Chongzhen's hatred for these people has exceeded his hatred for Xiaotian, if it weren't for these bastards, who deceived and concealed the big fish, why would Daming fall to such a point now? Why should he suffer this sin every day?
Even at this time, Chongzhen still had an inexplicable pleasure, feeling that this time Yu Xiaotian entered Beijing, arrested and killed these guys, and raided their homes, at least it was a very happy thing.
Don't you guys all hold on to your money bags? I tried hard to persuade you at the beginning, please take out a little silver to help me tide over the difficulties, you don't do it, now it's good, didn't you still end up with a traitor Yu Xiaotian fired at the bottom, and in the end I didn't get a little cheap? Should! I really deserve it!
Now he finally understands, looking at him working so the surface, going to bed late and getting up early every day and even working all night for the next day, but in fact, those officials and those magnates in the Ming Dynasty have long been rotten to the extreme, and they are simply becoming officials for the sake of making money, and doing everything to make money.
Yu Xiaotian said that these people are traitors, but in fact, they really did not lose this group of guys, just from the amount of money they got from these guys, you can know how many shady things they have done in private.
As an emperor, of course, he is well aware of this truth, and he has never thought that the officials of the Ming Dynasty are all as clean as a mirror, and it is not a big deal to accept some gifts in private, and it is not a big deal to engage in some small actions, as long as these people can do things for the court, then these small mistakes are actually tolerable.
But what he never expected was that these guys were so big, and they had amassed so much wealth at every turn, and of course he knew how the money came from, either they were greedy or bribe-taking, but the money always had to come out of the place, either it was extorted from the people, or it was deducted from public funds.
The reason why the Ming Dynasty is in such a situation now, these people are definitely to blame, drinking the blood of the soldiers for the generals, greedy for the salary of the army and filling their own pockets, of course, the soldiers will not work for the Ming court.
For the officials, they tried their best to fill their pockets, and the common people must have a very sad life, no wonder the officials and soldiers were so unable to fight, no wonder the Ming Dynasty would be so chaotic, all because of the nonsense of these guys.
Chongzhen's mouth was full of bitterness at this time, and he even had a feeling of nausea wanting to vomit, his whole heart was shattered into slag at this moment, and this pain was only known to him, and he couldn't express it to anyone.
Yu Xiaotian glanced at Chongzhen, who was almost collapsed, sympathetically, and said after a while: "Holy Lord, now you should know that Weichen has not wronged these people, these people do have a way to die, and it is never a pity to kill them!" ”
Chongzhen closed his eyes, leaned on the dragon chair, and gritted his teeth and said, "Kill!" Kill it! Damn these people! They do have a way to die! ”
"The saint doesn't have to feel sorry for these people, if they are not eliminated, there will be no hope for the revival of our Han nation, only by killing them all can we restore the former glory of our Han people!" Yu Xiaotian continued.
Chongzhen opened his eyes weakly, glanced at Yu Xiaotian, and sneered: "These people really deserve to die, but are you Yu Xiaotian so innocent?"
Although you keep saying that it is for my great country, but you have done so many things with all your heart, do you think I will believe that you are really so selfless?
Since you are good for me, you can play a chapter, but what you have done in Fujian, do I really not know?
You have made provocations and privately occupied Taiyuan Island, but you refused to bring Taiyuan Island under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, encircled Weitou Bay, forced merchants to pay taxes, encircled land in various parts of Fujian, and smuggled a large number of immigrants by land.
You support the army and respect yourself, elevate the official government, bring disaster to the township, bully men and women, and force you to buy and sell, are these things your so-called loyalty to the court?
You know that I am guarding against you, and I intend to control you, but this time you took advantage of Jiannu's southward march to enter the pass and plunder, and brazenly raised troops to the north, straight into Tanggu, and coveted the Beijing Division.
With what you have done, how can I not guard against you? Now that you have been wronged one by one, are you really wronged? Am I really wrong to blame you for treating you like this?
I'm afraid that if you don't have the heart of submission, it will not be a day or two sooner, and it will never be a temporary intention, and you will enter Beijing to come to the so-called Qingjun side!
You led the army to the north this time, made full preparations, built a strong force in Fujian early, and must have made sufficient material preparations in advance for this northward trip.
If you don't have enough food, even if you have tens of thousands of soldiers, I'm afraid you won't be able to fight a decisive battle with Jiannu, let alone support you for such a long time!
So don't take me seriously as a fool, you just want to deceive the people by means of guò!
You went north this time, step by step, taking advantage of my jealousy of you, putting me in a disadvantageous position, step by step letting me step into the trap you set in advance, and letting me turn the back of the people!
Now you do! But you still keep saying that you are for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and I see what you have done, but it is just Sima Zhao's heart! You have deceived the people of the world, but you cannot deceive me!
In fact, what you really want to do is just to seek power and usurp the throne, so you have to sing praises for yourself in front of me again! ”
(Thank you again for the reward of the Desert Laughing Spring Breeze Brothers!) )