Zhongcuigong

Yue Yangzheng was telling him endlessly about blackmailing Zhou Kui, the father of the country.

Knowing that Zhou Kui would not give out 200,000 taels of silver at once, they deliberately blackmailed him twice. Zhou Kui finally compromised for the sake of the Zhou family's inheritance. It is said that he vomited two basins of blood...

Zhu Cixiang imagined his grandfather feeling so distressed that Yinzi was bleeding, and he couldn't help but laugh:

"This greedy miser will vomit blood in the future. If I wasn't worried that my mother wouldn't be able to bear it, I would have raided the Jiading uncle's house!"

Yue Yang cupped his hands and said:

"Your Highness, unlike Zhu Chunchen who is stupid, Jiadingbo is as cunning as an old fox. At present, the Jinyiwei has not obtained enough evidence to search Jiadingbo's house. He is your grandfather. If there is insufficient evidence, you cannot do it easily, otherwise he will be infamy..."

Zhu Cixi nodded:

"Let him struggle for a few days first, and let Li Ruolian pay attention to investigating the transaction between Zhou Kui and Jiannu. Once the evidence is confirmed, even if it is my grandfather, Zhou Kui will still be doomed. Have all the fines of other dudes been received? If you want to resist to the end, just give it to me."

The palace raided the family and exterminated the entire clan!"

Yue Yang cupped his hands and said:

"Pay it. After those people knew that their traitorous son had offended His Highness, they immediately sent the money to Jinyiwei Town Fusi. In order to protect the family, three of the princes paid an extra fifty thousand taels!"

Zhu Cixi smiled:

"Money is so easy to earn, why does my father worry about money every day? How is the situation of Wen Tiren who was dismissed from office? I really hope that his family will also be rich!"

Speaking of Wen Tiren, Yue Yang shook his head with a complicated expression:

"Reporting to Your Highness, this Wen Tiren is really strange. As the longest serving cabinet minister in the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, he is usually arrogant, domineering and dictatorial.

But Jin Yiwei has no evidence that he has committed corruption and occupied people's property. According to reliable information, his property does not exceed 50,000 taels of silver, and his daily life is equally frugal."

Zhu Cixiang was surprised:

"Oh, could it be that I have misjudged him? Has Huzhou, Wen Tiren's hometown, sent anyone to investigate?"

Yue Yang cupped his hands and said:

"Your Highness, Wen Tiren's hometown Jinyiwei also investigated, but did not find any hidden property on him. He seems to be an upright official!"

Zhu Cixi remembered that Wen Tiren was included in the Ming History (The Story of the Traitor) for one reason: cultivating cronies, aggravating party strife, and harming the country and the people.

A person who can flatter his superiors and bully his subordinates, and who has firmly held the position of chief minister for eight years, cannot be a waste. He must have some special skills, otherwise he would have been pushed out of office by others.

After Wen Tiren came to power, he did not make much achievements in political affairs, but he was definitely good at suppressing the Donglin Party, which almost made it impossible for the Donglin Party to raise its head.

Integrity is most likely a way for Wen Tiren to protect himself. He usually offends too many people, so naturally he does not dare to let others catch him.

Of course, no matter why Wen Tiren is incorruptible, this is at least something he deserves to be praised for.

But this does not prevent him from doing things such as "building a party for selfish reasons and ruining the country."

Although he always insisted in front of Chongzhen that he was "without a party", in order to bring down Qian Qianyi in the case of Qian Qianqiu, he made enemies on all sides and made him seem to be a "lone minister".

However, there were still eunuchs like Xue Guoguan to help. Later, in the case of Yuan Chonghuan, Zhou Yanru and the eunuchs conspired to bring down Qian Longxi.

Then he secretly instructed the eunuchs and eunuchs to continuously impeach Zhou Yanru.

In the end, Chen Zanhua, the Criminal Division, impeached Zhou Yanru for being arrogant and arrogant, and succeeded in causing Zhou Yanru to be dismissed and Wen Tiren to take over.

It can be seen that everything Wen Tiren did was for his own power and position, and he even deliberately provoked fights for his own power and position regardless of the dangers of party strife.

He successively brought down Qian Qianyi, Qian Longxi, Zhou Yanru and others. Later, in order to maintain his position, he instructed Zhang Jie to recommend Lu Chunru to try to overturn the case.

Wen Zhenmeng, who impeached the emperor Te Jian and joined the cabinet, excluded He Wuzuo, and falsely accused Zheng Huang, who was preparing to impeach him, saying that he "forced his father and his mother", which eventually led to Zheng Wei's execution by Lingchi.

For the sake of his own power and position, he cultivated cronies and eliminated dissidents, which made the political situation in the late Ming Dynasty turbulent.

Who wrote the History of the Ming Dynasty? It was compiled by the Donglin Party and some literati who took refuge in the slave establishment. They would never show mercy to Wen Tiren who suppressed the Donglin Party and was unable to raise its head in the court.

Zhu Cihong carefully recalled the evaluation of Wen Tiren in Ming history. He really couldn't find any suggestion that Wen Tiren was corrupt or bribery. If he had such a scandal, Ming history would slander him even more.

Wen Tiren did nothing wrong in suppressing the Donglin Party, but suppressing Zhu Cihong was Wen Tiren's biggest failure in his life.

It can be said that all those who stood against Zhu Cihong, whether civil servants or military generals, would not be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. In their eyes, they only had their own family selfish desires and interest groups. Zhu Cihong was very sure of this.

Zhu Cixiang generally would not argue with people who were blackmailed by Ming history, because most of them still had some achievements in the Ming Dynasty, but their achievements were only discredited.

But this Wen Tiren really put Zhu Cixiang in a bit of trouble. He once suppressed the Donglin Party forcefully, and he was really honest as an official, which was rare in the late Ming Dynasty.

Although he formed a party for personal gain, he did not harm the people, but he did little in political affairs. Now that he has been dismissed from office, will Zhu Cixiang want to destroy his family?

Just when Zhu Cixiang was thinking about how to deal with Wen Tiren, the voice of the young eunuch Erxi came:

"Young master, the emperor has summoned you!"

Emperor Laozi summoned him, and Zhu Cixiang immediately got up and went to Qianqing Palace.

"See you, Father!"

Seeing the emperor's arrival, Chongzhen's face filled with sadness could hardly show a smile:

"Your Majesty will be given a seat without any formalities!"

"Thank you, Father!"

Zhu Cihong thanked him and sat down beside him:

"I wonder why my father summoned my son?"

Chongzhen smiled awkwardly:

"Your Majesty, I will tell you the truth. The Ming Dynasty is asking for money everywhere. I wonder if your Majesty still has any money. My father is temporarily borrowing two million taels. How about paying it back in the future when the treasury is sufficient?"

"Damn it, the emperor asked me to borrow money personally. Wasn't he too proud to ask for money before?"

Chongzhen's straightforwardness surprised Zhu Cixiang. He felt that his father was really different from before, and seemed to have become shameless!

Since the emperor had no shame in borrowing money, Zhu Cixiang certainly would not let Chongzhen open his mouth and drop his chin. He cupped his hands at Chongzhen and smiled:

"Father, I still had more than two million taels of silver two days ago, but I spent 1.2 million taels to pay you silver rewards and soldiers' pensions. Currently, I still have more than 1.3 million taels for you.

No need to pay it back!”

The soldiers fought bloody battles for the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Chongzhen was supposed to receive the silver reward, but Zhu Cixi settled the matter himself and gave Chongzhen another 1.3 million taels.

Chongzhen was overjoyed:

"Okay, you are really my good son. Father and son work together to cut off the gold. They have people send all the money to the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs. My father doesn't want a penny!"

Zhu Cixi shook his head:

"Father, I really hope you can be more greedy. At least half of the money placed in the treasury will be divided up by corrupt officials!"

"Your Majesty, you don't know. All the soldiers and horses of the Qin King are asking for military pay. If you want them to contribute, the military pay must be solved first. Otherwise, when will the slaves be driven out of the pass?"

Is this the Ming Emperor?

Chongzhen is really difficult. Historically, Chongzhen mainly tried to appease Zu Dashou, Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing, Wu Sangui, etc., fearing that they would lead their troops to defect to slaves or rogue bandits. Like the Ming Dynasty, he invited everyone from the time when the princes were in charge of the country.
Chapter completed!