15 Ghostly
If more people offend, there will definitely be more people who are impeached and attacked openly and secretly. People with different identities and weight impeached Wang Chengen, and more times will often arouse the suspicion of Emperor Chongzhen, and there will be no good ending in the end.
There were too many similar examples in the Chongzhen Dynasty! This is also the reason why Wang Dehua responded to Wang Chengen so confidently.
However, after hearing this, Wang Chengen strode to Wang Dehua and stared at him.
This made Wang Dehua a little stunned. I wonder what he meant?
Although I couldn't figure it out, I didn't have any fear at all. I looked back at Wang Chengen's eyes and thought to myself that the bridge we walked across was much more than the road you had walked. I wanted to show myself in front of the emperor, but I was still tender!
Wang Dehua was thinking, suddenly, Wang Chengen reached out and slapped him in the face. With a "slap", he slapped him hard in the face, even making him unable to sit still and fell to the ground.
"Old guy, at this time, he dares to threaten our family?" Wang Chengen looked down at him and shouted coldly.
When his godsons saw him, they felt their mouths hurt. The godfather slapped him a little hard!
Wang Dehua felt a huge pain in his mouth and vomited blood. The blood was mixed with the only few teeth. He looked at the teeth on the ground, covered his face, and was stunned for a long time before he slowly sat up again and looked up at Wang Chengen.
As the saying goes, you are afraid of being stunned, and you are afraid of being desperate.
Wang Dehua never expected that after he said so much, Wang Chengen didn't listen to it at all. Logically speaking, he had already said it clearly enough that he wouldn't understand it, right? After all, Wang Chengen was the godson accepted by Cao Huachun. How could he have fallen into Cao Huachun's eyes without any cleverness?
To be honest, Wang Dehua was already a little confused at this time.
At this moment, Wang Erbiao, who had been running back in a hurry, handed over a book book with both hands, and said respectfully: "Godfather, my son has taken it back."
So, Wang Chengen took the account book and read it. Seeing that he was like this, the people around him immediately approached with a lantern for him to make it easier for him to look through it.
I saw that the account book was closely recorded what someone had respected on a certain day. Just as I saw that Wang Chengen's pupils shrank, the weight of this account book was indeed not light!
After browsing it quickly, Wang Chengen closed the account book, his face becoming a little serious.
He has actually heard of some of the people and things involved in this account book, after all, this kind of thing is not a secret to the court today.
However, he really had to show his records in front of him, and there were more things he had heard of, and more things he had never heard of. In short, the number of gifts given to Wang Dehua was far beyond his expectations. This made him look a bit shocking.
What made Wang Chengen even more difficult was that there were many people from Dongchang in this booklet, and the amount was not small. The ability to take so much money to respect Wang Dehua only means that they have more on hand. So where did their money come from? No matter how much money is, it is definitely not clean!
After reading this account book, if Wang Chengen didn't know that Zhang Mingwei was from later generations, did not know that the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed in two years, and did not know that he would be the only one accompanying Emperor Chongzhen on the road, he would really not dare to investigate.
How could he not know the reason why three of them became tigers? The former chief minister Wen Tiren was trusted by the emperor, and he was the longest among the chief ministers of the Chongzhen Dynasty. But in the end he was attacked by the internal and external courts, and eventually lost the trust of Emperor Chongzhen and ended in disgrace.
Therefore, if it were Wang Chengen, his greatest possibility was to accept Wang Dehua's proposal, pay 50,000 taels of silver to the emperor, throw some unimportant people to pay, and he also gave 80,000 taels of silver, and the matter would be left in the end.
However, at this time, Wang Chengen and the emperor had a relationship of hanging, so they naturally had another choice. He told him to the left and right, "Look at him!"
After saying that, he turned around and left with the account book in his hand.
When Wang Dehua saw this, he was shocked and asked quickly: "Eunuch Wang, where are you going? You... do you really want to poke these into the sky?"
He thought Wang Chengen would be scared, but seeing Wang Chengen's appearance seemed to be going to report to the emperor, which surprised him.
When Wang Chengen heard this, he turned his head to look at him, and sneered, "Can you deceive the emperor?"
After saying that, he looked around his godsons, probably knowing what they were thinking, and then said coldly: "You must have heard what our family means. Do you know what to do in the future?"
Whether his godsons can understand it or not, whether they have the same idea as him or not, as long as they recognize him as their godfather, they can only stand with him, otherwise they will have to change their families. But who would know if such people will betray them again in the future, so other eunuchs generally won't want them.
Therefore, after Wang Chengen said this, his godsons could only respond repeatedly, saying that they knew what to do.
Of course, we can't just be tough. After they responded, Wang Chengen comforted them and said, "Don't worry, what this old thing said will never appear in our family."
After saying that, he turned around and strode.
Wang Dehua looked at his back and was stunned. Such a freak appeared in the Chongzhen Dynasty. Don’t he know that the situation was so bad and he still had to add fuel to the fire? Almost everyone has a share in giving gifts. What kind of ability does Wang Chengen have to dare to be an enemy of the public? Believe it or not, even after the emperor saw it, he could only raise it high and let it go!
After all, it is absolutely impossible to govern the Ming Dynasty with the emperor alone!
Thinking of this, he looked at Wang Chengen's godsons and immediately sneered and said, "Our family advises you to make plans early. Your godfather is obsessed with and overconfident, and wants to be enemies with everyone, and he will definitely not have a good end!"
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In the main hall, Zhang Mingwei and Emperor Chongzhen finally had a bed, the prince laying a bed beside him, and Princess Kunxing's bed was in the side hall, and you could hear him talking.
Emperor Chongzhen himself was not sleepy at all. He continued to catch Zhang Mingwei and asked with anticipation: "The prince went south, and the sir has already arranged it. What should we do in the capital?"
Leaning on the bed railing, I don’t know how many similar questions have been discussed in later generations. Zhang Mingwei only needs to modify them slightly based on the current time point, and the answer will be.
Therefore, he did not hesitate much and immediately replied: "It is very simple, rectify the administration, investigate spies, implement money and grain, and train new troops..."
Before he could finish his words, Emperor Chongzhen was shocked, so that after a while, he came to his senses and immediately interrupted Zhang Mingwei's words, asking in confusion: "Sir, I can understand how to rectify the administration, implement money and grain, train new troops, etc. But what's going on with the investigation of spies?"
To be honest, since he learned that it was probably a collusion between inside and outside the palace and killed his fifth son, he has been very sensitive to spies like this.
Zhu Cilang next to him was also a curious baby. He lay on the bed, held his head with his hands, stared at Zhang Mingwei with a curious look on his face. Obviously, even he was surprised by this statement.
Zhang Mingwei said with a serious expression: "Your Majesty doesn't know that after Jianlu entered the pass, he issued an order to enfeoff the eight major Jin merchants in the pass as the eight imperial merchants to repay them for their contributions before Jianlu entered the pass. Think about it, how many important things did these eight Jin merchants do for Jianlu to get this order?"
"What?" Emperor Chongzhen was shocked when he heard this. As the emperor, he knew that being able to get Jianlu to issue such an order would definitely give Jianlu too much help, which would result in such a reward. However, he could not imagine what the group of merchants did to give Jianlu so much help, so he immediately asked.
After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei said with a hatred: "Smuggling food, selling iron tools and other things that are urgently short of building the enemy, these are all huge profits..."
"That's all?" Zhu Cilang couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he heard this, and then interrupted and asked. Why do you feel very ordinary when you listen to these things!
After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei immediately turned to look at him and said seriously: "Those are not enough? The prince thought about it. What is lacking in the pass? Why are the thieves everywhere and the people are living in poverty? Isn't it just a shortage of food? But the Shanxi merchants collected grain from nearby provinces and sold them to Liaodong. Think about it, they starved to death and forced the people in the pass to rebel, but supported the Jianlu of Liaodong. Do you think this is a big deal? Not to mention, one of the reliances of Jianlu to defeat the imperial army was to rely on their excellent military equipment. Where did these come from? Just those Tungus savages, can they mine and build their own weapons?"
In terms of military ordnance, of course, it is also related to the contribution of the Ming army to be the transport brigade leader, but it is definitely not all.
As soon as he said this, Emperor Chongzhen slapped the edge of the bed with hatred and shouted sternly: "Damn it, damn it, they all deserve to die. I will issue an order to destroy them all tomorrow!"
Chapter completed!