After knowing Zhou Yanru’s true intention, a group of civil servants agreed.

"Yes, please consider the many refugees outside the city. It is better to place the resettlement envoys to concentrate on resettlement of refugees!"

"Didn't Your Majesty appoint him as the refugee resettlement envoy in the capital? In addition to the capital city, there are many refugees, and they are also His Majesty's people!"

“…”

Emperor Chongzhen sat on the imperial throne and listened to them talking nonsense.

He found that these civil servants were very afraid that their husband would serve as the commander of the Jinyiwei, and kept emphasizing the difficulties of resettlement of refugees in the capital. However, since resettlement of refugees was so difficult, they did not mention a word at all, saying that they would donate money or anything else to help.

If it were the past, Emperor Chongzhen might have been led by the words reported by these civil servants.

But at this time, Emperor Chongzhen felt that he was sitting on the clouds and watching a group of clowns performing below.

The reason was that the appearance of the gentleman made him understand the purpose of these civil servants' words clearly, so it was naturally impossible for them to lead them away again!

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen was a little impatient when he didn't hear anything new and immediately said coldly: "Sir, you can't compare with your ability. In your opinion, it is difficult to resettle refugees, but this is the case?"

After saying this, he snorted heavily, then glanced at the ministers below, and raised his voice and said, "However, it is very simple for the gentleman to resettle the refugees and will not delay him from taking over the Jinyiwei. I believe that if the Jinyiwei handed over to the gentleman to take charge of the Jinyiwei, it will definitely revitalize the Jinyiwei's functions and make me feel at ease!"

"..." Zhou Yanru and others were stunned when they heard these words from Emperor Chongzhen.

Isn’t it just to revitalize the functions of the Jinyiwei? If you say so bluntly, then the factory guards will definitely be rampant in the future?

How can this work? It definitely won’t work!

So, Zhou Yanru reported again: "Your Majesty, tens of thousands of refugees outside the city are hungry, and if you are not careful, it is a matter of life. I think you must not treat such important things as a joke just because Zhang Anjie ordered a few words casually. Your Majesty, that's all the lives of people!"

At the end of this, he seemed to be a little choked, as if he was really sad for the experience of those refugees.

However, his real intention was actually his previous purpose, which was to tell Emperor Chongzhen that Zhang Mingwei would just take care of the refugees and never take over the Jinyiwei anymore!

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen understood what he meant, and that was the same. Seeing Zhou Yanru's hypocritical behavior, he was furious and could no longer suppress his anger. He slapped the table and shouted sternly: "I ask you, before sir, who have you cared about the refugees outside the city? Isn't life a stake? Come on, tell me, how do you care about it?"

Speaking of this, he was a little excited, and immediately stood up, pointed at Zhou Yanru and others and shouted: "Have you done anything for refugees? The sir's notice has been posted. Have you ever donated some money and food? Don't tell me that you have no money and food. Which of your mansions can't make a piece of old clothes for cold protection? Can't squeeze out a bowl of rice or a steamed bun? If you really want to do this, will the refugees outside the city die every day before? Human life is at stake, do you have the nerve to talk to me about human life?"

The emperor was furious and was quite angry. The ministers could not face such anger directly. They all had to kneel down or be scolded.

After hearing Emperor Chongzhen say it, Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant who was the first to be criticized. He never expected how Emperor Chongzhen's eloquence would become so sharp?

He could not bear such accusation, so he immediately argued: "Your Majesty, the refugees outside the city can only save a cold-proof clothes, a bowl of rice, and a steamed bun! If it is really possible, how could the Wei-Minist care about a piece of clothes and a steamed bun! Alas, it is really useless!"

When the other ministers heard it, they were about to agree, but they heard a "bang" sound. Emperor Chongzhen slapped the table and shouted: "You still dare to argue! Mr. He was originally penniless, so I rewarded him with 20,000 taels of silver, but he donated all of them! There was also the 50,000 stone of grain, which was also all the inventory in the grain shop under his name. Did he say that it would be a waste of money anyway? Seeing the civil and military officials in the court, who is really caring about the people like a gentleman, and he doesn't ask about the results, but just trying his best?"

"..." Only his roar was left in the hall, and many ministers were silent.

Some people compared Zhang Mingwei in their hearts, feeling ashamed, so they remained silent. However, more of them, they just couldn't find a reason to refute for a while.

Zhou Yanru's khan came down on the spot. However, if he didn't say anything, the position of the chief minister would definitely not be stable and he had no shame to sit. Therefore, after swallowing, he said a little indifferently: "Your Majesty clearly understands, some people are well-known..."

As he was talking about this, he suddenly saw something flying over and was startled. He didn't even bother to say anything and hurriedly avoided it.

It was almost time for him to say that, but in the end, Zhou Yanru still didn't dodge and smashed on his forehead and then landed on the ground.

Zhou Yanru felt a little painful, so he quickly covered his forehead with his hands and looked down, but he saw that it was an imperial pen.

"I was really blind before, so I would have made you the chief assistant!" Emperor Chongzhen pointed at Zhou Yanru with his finger and shouted sternly, "With something like you, how could the atmosphere in the Ming Dynasty be good? If you have the ability, you will show me your reputation? If you really have a good reputation, you can live a lot of refugees outside the city, and the Ming Dynasty will not end up in the current situation!"

After saying that, he pointed at Zhou Yanru in disgust and shouted: "Come on, put this thing in the imperial prison!"

When the Jinyiwei School Captain who was serving in the hall heard this, he immediately stepped forward to take Zhou Yanru away.

If it were the past, officials might have advised the emperor. After all, Zhou Yanru was the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty. Not only did he scold him in person, but he also had to be imprisoned in the imperial prison just because he said something. That would be too much.

However, in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, no official spoke for Zhou Yanru. He either coveted the position of chief minister, was afraid of the emperor who was furious, or was not ashamed of Zhou Yanru.

In fact, there was another very important reason why Emperor Chongzhen imprisoned Zhou Yanru in the imperial prison, which was that Zhou Yanru was the chief minister who was promoted to Fushe and asked him to sit in this position was to humiliate Emperor Chongzhen himself.

At this time, although the leader of Fushe, Zhang Pu, was dead, Fushe was still there. Emperor Chongzhen imprisoned Zhou Yanru in the imperial prison, which gave Zhang Mingwei a chance to investigate him. As for the position of the chief minister, after he heard Zhang Mingwei's recommendation, he had already sent someone to pass on the candidate chief minister.

After losing his temper, Emperor Chongzhen left with a swing of his sleeve.
Chapter completed!