Chen Qisheng's whole body trembled, his face was as white as paper, and his brain was racing rapidly, trying to use his reason to resist the fear that swept through his body. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He didn't want to die, he wanted to survive in a desperate situation. And the last bargaining chip for his survival is that he has the big tree of Donglin, and he has the teacher and godfather of Zhou Yanru, the leader of the Donglin Party!

At the end of the day, he's still under the hood. No one will easily admit their fate.

There was a terrible silence in the hall.

Qin Shuhuai followed Li Jingting and others to raid Chen Qisheng's house in high spirits. Li Jingting and his subordinates are worthy of Jinyiwei, and their methods of raiding homes are extremely professional. In addition to rummaging through every cabinet and every bed in the Daotai Mansion, they also used a special small hammer to gently tap every floor tile and every wall—and smashed everything open with a strange sound. Not only that, they didn't even let go of the garden, dozens of people lit torches, inspected inch by inch of soil, and a pair of eagle-like sharp eyes could distinguish the slightest difference in the soil, and once they found that the soil layer in some places was different from the next one, they would immediately excavate.

Sure enough, after searching for two hours, they found two secret rooms and a secret pavilion, and seized a large number of silver tickets and gold and silver jewelry, including more than 800,000 taels of silver tickets, more than 10,000 taels of gold, plus two boxes of various jewelry, and more than 70 pieces of calligraphy and painting antiques.

According to Chen Qisheng's money, even if he saves ten lifetimes, he can't save it.

But there is still a big gap between these stolen silver and Chongzhen's estimates. Because according to Cheng Huaishan, he gave Chen Qisheng a rebate of ten taels for one introduction of salt, and Cheng Huaishan could give 100,000 taels of salt a year, so Chen Qisheng could receive one million taels a year for this alone. And Chen Qisheng is Tianjin Dao, how can the means of accumulating wealth be more than this?

If Chen Qisheng's family really only has this bit of property, then there is only one reason - that is, a large part of the bribes he received were given to officials higher than him!

If Chen Qisheng wants to go up, it will at least involve the household department in charge of salt transportation, the official department in charge of the assessment of officials, and he is still the Tianjin Military Preparation Road, which will definitely involve the military department. Judging from the fact that Chen Qisheng's son recognized Zhou Yanru as his godfather, Zhou Yanru must have also been involved in this case, and he was a member of the cabinet! And Zhou Yanru was greedy, so would other important cabinet ministers not have any interests? In other words, as long as this case is investigated, a large number of heads can be cut off from Tianjin to the cabinet, involving at least three of the six ministries and many important cabinet ministers. And that's just a conservative estimate.

The scope of this case far exceeded Chongzhen's expectations!

Chongzhen's hands were clenched tightly, and his nails pierced deep marks in the palms.

Chongzhen, who is old and serious, is not a reckless and impulsive emperor, and at this moment he has calmed down from the anger he just had.

He knew that if he wanted to investigate this case thoroughly, it would trigger a bloody battle between monarchs and ministers!

It is not difficult to cut off the heads of these people, but such a big action will make everyone from the officials in various places to the governors and the county officials to the small officials in danger, you must know that most of them are Donglin Party members. These officials don't need to check Chongzhen to know that at least eight of them should be beheaded for their crimes, and it is difficult to predict what they will do under this pressure!

If the people are in turmoil today, and the aliens outside the border are eyeing each other, needless to say, as long as those supervising dogs who hold heavy troops and dominate one side jump over the wall and do unpredictable things, then the Ming Dynasty will really fall into a situation from which it will never recover!

He found that he had thought simply. The roots of the big tree of the Donglin Party have penetrated deep into every piece of soil in the Ming Dynasty and into every blood of the Ming Dynasty. If you want to uproot it, you have to endure not only the pain of the skin, but also the risk of puss rupturing and bleeding to death!

But if it is allowed to continue to grow wildly, it is bound to crush the Forbidden City one day!

Where do I go?

Chongzhen's eyes were red, and he was silent for a long time.

The current Tianjin Yanyunwo case is not just a corruption case, but a fuse related to the life and death of the Ming Dynasty.

I, do you want to set it on fire, and then go to war against the Donglin Party all over the world?

Qin Shuhuai saw Chongzhen's hesitant expression, and also guessed what he was thinking.

This struggle against Donglin is indeed extremely dangerous. Its cruelty is definitely not comparable to the defeat of Wei Zhongxian. Because Wei Zhongxian was still loyal to the Ming Dynasty in the end, he also knew that he was grateful for the emperor's grace, and he also knew that the monarch wanted his ministers to die and his ministers had to die, so Chongzhen didn't spend much energy to bring him down at all.

However, the Donglin Party members are different! Every Donglin person is old and young, and they represent the interests of a large number of wealthy businessmen and gentry behind them, and it is absolutely impossible for them to be caught with their hands tied. What's more dangerous is that the Donglin Party controls the world's scholars, which is equivalent to controlling public opinion, if they unite to criticize and incite wantonly, Chongzhen is easy to fall into a lonely situation!

This is also the reason why Chongzhen knew that Donglin was misleading the country and hated Donglin in history, but he was powerless to bring down Donglin, so he could only be at their mercy. Historically, Chongzhen's reign of more than ten years has changed nearly fifty first assistants, and now it seems more like a silent protest. But this kind of protest is not trivial at all, because no matter how he changes, it is the Donglin Party that controls the situation in the end!

Now there are two choices in front of Chongzhen, one is to stop when he finds Tianjin Dao, so that he will be fine if he beheads Chen Qisheng all over the house. But the problem is that this gives a signal to the top of the Donglin Party, that is, Chongzhen does not dare to touch them, so these people are bound to be more rampant, and Chongzhen will not want to restrain them. The second is to decisively push to the end and completely start a war with the Donglin Party, but no one can predict what will happen next, and it is likely that after a bloody storm, the history of the Ming Dynasty will be completely rewritten.

The fight against corruption and Donglin is by no means as simple as imagined.

If you don't oppose it, you can lose the country! If you don't, you can also lose the country!

Chongzhen walked to the edge of the cliff of history, with the sword mountain on the left and the sea of fire on the right.

But Qin Shuhuai knows better than anyone that there is only a dead end if he does not purge the Donglin Party. Because in his previous life, he had already seen this result!

He was ready to make a decision for Chongzhen.

The hall remained silent, deathly. On the table, the flame of the candles danced and made a slight sound, illuminating the different expressions on everyone's faces very clearly.

Qin Shuhuai first broke the silence and said to Chen Qisheng, "Chen Daotai, we know that you can receive at least one million taels of salt rebates from the year you became Huaishan, so there must be more than this amount of money at home." If you want to live, you'd better confess honestly, where does the rest of the money go?"

A faint interrogation made Chongzhen's heart set off a stormy wave.

Brother Qin, does he want me to find out to the end? Does he want me to start an all-out war with the Donglin Party?

Brother Qin, are we really ready?