Emperor Chongzhen took the first step to issue an edict to "severely criticize" Wang Zhizheng's various behaviors in Jiangnan, and published the criticism edict to the world. The edict of the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" wrote in a stern tone: Wang Zhizheng, the prince of Chongguofu, was ordered to organize regimental training in Jiangnan, clear out the bandits, and control the bandits in the south of the Yangtze River, organize thousands of soldiers and horses, and send troops to garrison the arsenal to protect the commerce of Jinling City, which is very good, but it should not conflict with local colleagues in Jinling.

Everyone is doing things for the Ming court, can not be poured into each other, should work together, this time in Jinling to kill the "anti-party" matter, should be reported to the Jinling local first, the most basic should be to the south of the Dali Temple to report the situation, prepare individual cases, so as to maintain the balance of yin and yang.

Wang Zhizheng will work in Jiangnan for a long time in the future, pay attention to these problems, in addition, in the name of the individual to acquire Qinhuaihe's shares, although this matter does not violate the law of the country, but caused a very bad impact, it is recommended to restrain their own behavior in the future, do not buy shares on a large scale!

This time I am not happy to punish, if you commit it again next time, then I will send Qin to Nanzhili to ask about the situation, if the impact is not good, I will punish you!

This inverted edict was sent to Wang Zhizheng's study in Wuku Lane by the emperor.

When Wang Zhizheng received the edict, he couldn't help but want to laugh out loud, the emperor is too cute, if he makes a mistake in the future, he will send a messenger to investigate, and when your messenger is sent to Jinling, my task is also completed, this emperor and himself are really tacit.

After receiving the edict, Wang Zhizheng smiled and invited Qin to go to the emperor for tea.

The emperor smiled and saluted Wang Zhizheng: "Master Hou, I haven't seen you for a long time, you are still radiant and majestic!"

Wang Zhizheng waved his hand and smiled: "It's a joke, the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, eat well, have fun, how can it not be glorious, you have also worked hard, if you are not in a hurry to return, just play in my alley for a few days!"

The emperor smiled and waved his hand and said: "Master Hou, this is not possible, you know, I have the emperor's order, I don't dare to ...... this thing of spending time and drinking."

Wang Zhizheng immediately changed his ugly appearance, stared at the emperor and said unhappily: "What, you have the imperial destiny with you, which is greater than my imperial destiny?"

As soon as Wang Zhizheng said this, the emperor immediately patted his chest and said: "Master Hou, don't you know that I also worked hard from the Praetorian Guard, you are an old leader, I dare not buy your account?, it's just ......?"

Wang Zhizheng waved his hand and said: "Okay, okay, good words a few times, lighter than boiling water, come, sit down and drink tea!"

Wang Zhizheng pointed to the coffee table, the emperor sat down carefully, Wang Zhizheng poured the tea, the emperor carefully took a sip of the tea, and then said with a smile: "I don't know if it is convenient for Lord Hou to talk here, right?"

Wang Zhizheng nodded and said, "I know you have other secret orders!"

The emperor changed his serious expression and said: "The emperor asked me to explain to you, and then do what should be done, the edict is just a perfunctory cabinet!"

Wang Zhizheng laughed: "The emperor is really worried, I can still read the emperor's edict that once served in the cabinet!"

Let's say, he took a sip of tea and said lightly: "Please give it to the emperor, Wang Zhizheng is in charge, don't do a good job, don't go back to Beijing to recover!"

Wang Zhizheng nodded and shouted at the door: "Call Zhou Cheng over!"

After a while, I heard Zhou Cheng outside the door say respectfully: "Master Hou, I'm here!" "Come in!"

At this time, Zhou Cheng bowed over and walked over.

Wang Zhizheng pointed at Zhou Cheng and said to the emperor: "Do you know Zhou Cheng?"

The emperor hurriedly stood up and saluted, "Brother Zhou!"

Zhou Cheng nodded at him and smiled: "What, you are also from the Praetorian Guard?"

The emperor hurriedly said: "It's Brother Zhou, in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, he entered the Praetorian Guard as a centurion, named Hu Daying!"

Zhou Cheng smiled, pointed at Hu Daying and said, "I know, you are the centurion of Huang Boss of the Great Sword Battalion, and you will follow Huang Zongxi to establish a second-class merit in attacking Stone Mountain!"

Hu Daying hurriedly grinned and said: "If you want to talk about meritorious service, you can't talk about it, it is still Hou Ye promoted, and then Hou Ye retired, I was transferred to the Shenji Battalion, and then I was on an errand in Miyagi, because the errand was done well, the little commander [Wang Liangfu] sent me to the guard of honor of the Praetorian Guard to protect the emperor's holy car!"

Wang Zhizheng thought in his heart, at this time, Emperor Chongzhen was still very sober, he sent his old subordinates to be the emperor's errand just to show his own attitude, I began to use your Wang Zhizheng's old department, this is my trust in you!

Wang Zhizheng smiled and nodded, and said, "Big Eagle, there is a future! I asked Zhou Cheng to come over and give you a booklet, which is the details of the shares received during this period of time, and the list of Qinglou restaurants that account for the shares!"

Zhou Cheng always carried the account book with him, and when he heard Wang Zhizheng say this, he immediately took out the account book in his arms.

Wang Zhizheng asked: "Put the backup ledger away, and this ledger will be forwarded to the emperor by the big eagle!"

Hu Daying carefully took the account book, and then put it in his arms without looking at it, and hugged Wang Zhizheng: "Please rest assured, I will hand over this account book to the emperor safely!"

Wang Zhizheng nodded and said to Zhou Cheng: "You roughly tell Daying about the situation!"

Zhou Cheng nodded, he was already familiar with this project: "There are a total of 369 Qinglou plus restaurants in Nanzhili, and there are a total of 75 brothels in Qinglou that we currently collect shares, another 236 teahouses, and 64 pawnshops! In addition, we have a total of 199 Qinglou that collect protection funds! Except for a few expedient measures, the stock funds are all 50%, and this account book has the specific income and expenditure status of each restaurant and Qinglou!"

Hearing this, Daying grinned and said: "Brother Zhou's memory is really good, I don't have such a good memory as you, the first time I was an emperor, I still have to remember so much data!"

Wang Zhizheng waved his hand and said: "No need, there are all the records in it!" You remember, tell the emperor that if all these taxes are collected and can be collected smoothly, the commercial income of the entire Nanzhili can be worth fifteen times the annual financial revenue of the Ming Empire!"

Hearing this, Hu Daying, who didn't know anything about the data, couldn't help but be dumbfounded: "What......? Five times as much!"

Wang Zhizheng smiled and nodded: "Yes, fifteen times, this is the reality of the situation! At present, most of this money is still in the hands of the Nanzhili bureaucracy!"