Beijing City, the residence of Chen Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Chen Yan is receiving a mysterious guest, this time, the guest is not from the northeast, but from the southeast - Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials!

"Qian Butang, you are so bold, without the emperor's will, you dare to enter Beijing without permission? If this goes to the Imperial Tower, you won't be able to eat and walk around, hehe......"

Chen Yan took a sip of tea and said with a smile.

Qian Qianyi smiled bitterly: "Prime minister, I'm not a fool, I naturally know, but isn't there no way to be forced?" That Zhu Jie didn't leave us a way to live in Nanjing, and all the ministers and officials were plagued by him day and night, and they couldn't sleep and eat......"

"Oh? This living Hades also went on a killing spree in Nanjing City? ”

Chen Yan asked in surprise.

"What?"

Qian Qianyi sighed and said, "Prime Minister, why is this guy so restless? I have never seen such a terrible second pole, as soon as he arrived, he detained Yanzhou Hou, and even the thousands of households and commanders of Jinyiwei were cleaned up; It's only been a few days, and then he slashed the butcher's knife on the head of Gonggong Han, this is the garrison eunuch personally planted by the emperor in Nanjing, the henchman among the henchmen, and the left attendant of the military department, Zuo Xiaoqing, two unlucky guys, angered Zhu Jie, and was directly clicked by Zhu Jie......"

Chen Yan was shocked and said urgently: "What you said is true?" Even Han Zanzhou and Zuo Xiaoqing were killed by Zhu Jie? This is an important minister of the imperial court, and Han Zanzhou is a close minister of the emperor! ”

"And that's not all!"

Qian Qianyi continued: "Only three days later, Zhu Jie threatened to rectify the 14th Guards in Nanjing, and convened the commanders of the 14th Guards to discuss with the commanders, just because they were late, they ate a meal of the board, nearly 30 people, almost none of them escaped, and even more, there were several commanders and commanders such as Duan Ke and the commanders who were directly killed by Zhu Jie, Duan Ke was even killed on the spot, and it was unbearable to see, and the heads flew to the street, this is simply a butcher, a butcher!" ”

Chen Yan was really shocked, he knew that Zhu Jie would definitely not stop when he arrived in Nanjing, but he didn't expect that he would be killed so quickly, several commanders thought that the squire of the military department, coupled with the powerful Nanjing garrison eunuchs, would kill him if he said it, leaving no room at all!

"Prime minister, now up and down Nanjing City, there is already a rumor, and people are panicking, if Zhu Jie is allowed to make trouble like this, Nanjing City will be in a big mess! I also asked the cabinet minister to come forward to invite the emperor, transfer Zhu Jie, and return Nanjing to peace! ”

Qian Qianyi bowed down and said, both of them are the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, however, compared with Chen Yan, Qian Qianyi's Ministry of Rites is not half a star, Chen Yan is the second assistant, a cabinet scholar, Qian Qianyi is just a quiet department in Nanjing, and he has no fart rights, and in front of Chen Yan, he is only a low three!

"This ......"

Chen Yan was pleasantly surprised, but on the surface, he didn't show it, and hesitated: "Qian Butang, this matter is very difficult to do, you also know, why did Zhu Jie go to Nanjing, it was a courtier who unanimously opposed him to take charge of the Tianwei Army alone, the emperor had no choice, so he sent him to Nanjing, in order to appease him, but also to appease the old ancestor in the palace, he had to give him the sword of Shang Fang Tianzi, he could act cheaply, and now he wants to impeach him, I am afraid that it is impossible to succeed, don't say that the emperor does not agree, Even the one in the palace won't agree, that's her old man's godson, the real heart......"

Qian Qianyi remained silent, stretched out his hand and withdrew a stack of silver tickets, stuffed them into Chen Yan's hand, and said in a low voice: "Prime minister, you have the merit of offering treasures, and the merits are high, the emperor has taken you seriously, it is the time when the holy family is in its prime, and please help with it, this is a little bit of the heart of Nanjing Xungui and the officials of the six departments, please smile and accept it......"

Chen Yan glanced at it, and the first one was the 10,000 taels of silver and silver tickets with the Jiangnan Zhishan ticket number! There are more than a dozen of them below, that is to say, this is 100,000 taels of silver! A huge sum of money that will make anyone blush!

It seems that the nobles of Nanjing were really cornered by Zhu Jie!

"Prime Minister, I heard that since Zhu Jie's rise, there has been a lot of trouble for you, this time it is better for us to join forces with Nanjing and come forward together to kill Zhu Jie! What do you think? Please rest assured in Nanjing, all the officials, except for Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Ministry of War, have already expressed their stance to me, and they will go all out! ”

Chen Yan frowned and asked, "Everyone is going to make a move?" Do? Even if Zhu Jie offends some people, it is impossible to offend all the powerful people in Nanjing, right? How can it be? ”

Qian Qianyi said helplessly: "Prime minister, you are just afraid that you don't know, the first thing this Zhu Jie did when he arrived in Nanjing was to inspect the Longjiang Bao Shipyard, announcing that he would reorganize the Ming Dynasty and resume the tributary trade, you know, now the interests of the Ming Dynasty's overseas trade are amazing, and there are tens of millions of taels of silver in it every year, which are basically monopolized by the powerful and wealthy merchants in the court. Who can endure it? ”

Chen Yan sneered: "Qian Butang, are you joking?" Resumption of tributary trade? Where is it that simple? What about our fleet? Daming Shui said that recovery can be restored? The materials of the Three Treasure Eunuchs who went to the West back then were all destroyed, and without those materials, how could they build sea ships? How to build a battleship? How to know the sea route? Moreover, shipbuilding is a bottomless pit, and a large warship costs tens of thousands of taels of silver or even 100,000 taels of silver, where does the money come from? It's impossible! ”

Qian Qianyi said in a low voice: "Prime minister, I'm afraid you don't know yet, right?" Zhu Jie didn't know where he got the news, so he directly sent someone to force into Wenyuan Pavilion and snatched all those navigation materials. Hehe, this Zhu Jie lacks everything, that is, he is not short of money, as soon as he arrived in Nanjing, he used the Yongxing Bank in his hand to run on almost all the money in Nanjing City, and now Yongxing Bank is afraid that it will not be able to control the wealth of tens of millions of taels of silver in Jiangnan, shipbuilding? Isn't it a piece of cake for him? ”

Chen Yan was a little panicked, especially if it was the nobles of Nanjing who controlled overseas trade, he Chen Yan was also closely related to overseas trade, and he benefited from overseas trade no less than 100,000 taels every year!

It's all white money, and it's been cut off like this? No, absolutely not! Lao Tzu is not finished with him Zhu Jie!

(End of chapter)