Wei Zhongxian walked on the road leaving the Qianqing Palace, and as soon as he returned to the celebrant supervisor, he was suddenly hugged by a person on the thigh.

"The emperor wants to deal with me, can you save me, save me?" Kebaba pleaded bitterly.

Wei Zhongxian kicked her away without emotion, sat on the chair of Wang Ansi's palm print, lifted the cup of tea and took a sip, and said coldly:

"I heard that you went to Xinuan Pavilion tonight to find the emperor?"

"I, I heard you say that the emperor didn't canonize me, so I went to test it." Kebaba sat on the ground in a daze, and the tears on his face didn't know whether it was true or not.

"Who do you think the emperor is?" Wei Zhongxian threw the tea on the ground, "Is it still the original sixteen-year-old hairy child?" ”

"He is now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty! Kebaba, you are looking for death by yourself! ”

"I, I don't know that the emperor's attachment to me in the past is all pretended!" Kebaba trembled with fright and shook his head stiffly: "What now?" ”

"Hmph." Wei Zhongxian thought for a while and sighed: "Fortunately, the emperor left some kindness for you, and did not kill you, but drove you out of the palace." ”

"Otherwise, tonight will be your death!"

"Well, since you can't keep it here, I'll send someone to send you out of the palace, and then send you five hundred taels of silver, and it won't be in vain for you and me."

"Is there really no choice, I've been in the palace for fifteen years, I'm not reconciled..."Ke Baba looked at Wei Zhongxian and begged him to persuade the Emperor of the Apocalypse again.

Wei Zhongxian did not agree, but squatted down and stuffed a silver ingot into her hand.

"After you leave the palace, whether it's a green house or a restaurant, do something serious, and don't think about it when you go back to the palace."

"That way, we might be able to meet again."

Kebaba has no choice, and there are two people in the world who can condone her struggle for power and profit, one no longer values her, and the other is also difficult to protect herself when she crosses the river.

Without the connivance of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, she would just be an ordinary nurse.

Before sunset, Wei Zhongxian didn't go to Dongchang, he helped Kebaba pack up his things, and watched a few fans escort her out of Daming Gate.

There is a huge harem, and no one came to see it off.

Kebaba was desperate, and followed Fanzi out of the palace like a walking corpse, and on the bumpy carriage, she once again heard the bustle of the street and smelled the fireworks in the world.

Ke Baba clenched the silver ingot in his hand, and suddenly felt that Beijing City was so good and how good it was to be alive, but fortunately, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was not ruthless and arranged a way out for her.

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Early the next morning, Zhu Youxiao, who had just arrived at Xinuan Pavilion, found that there was a neat and tidy note on the imperial case, and the payment was made by Zhao Bingzhong, the secretary of the household department.

Zhu Youxiao opened it and thought it was very interesting.

The content of this note is Zhao Bingzhong's summary of the income and expenditure of the imperial court in the 48th year of Wanli, and found that there was a deficit of more than 1.4 million taels, and it was recommended to check it.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, this is Wei Zhongxian's counterattack to the recent impeachment of him by the provincial officials.

In the case of Donglin Academy, Dongchang arrested more than 200 scholars and sent them to prison, and there should be no more people left who are still alive, and that Yushi Feng Sanyuan is afraid that it is the worst.

Suddenly, such a big case arose, and in addition to facing the saint, the Donglin Party naturally impeached Wei Zhongxian, and used their public opinion advantage to promote Wei Zhongxian as a "eunuch party".

Now the government and the opposition are already "full of complaints" about the emergence of the eunuch party.

Lao Wei's journey has begun, and Zhu Youxiao doesn't want to interfere, so he has been running to Nanhaizi recently.

A look of ignorance and playfulness.

Fortunately, Emperor Chengzu built Nanhaizi in the past, and staying here, it can be regarded as having flowers, grass and woods, which is more comfortable than in the palace.

Zhao Bingzhong, the head of the household, has always had dealings with Wei Zhongxian, and at this time, such a note suddenly came, and it is difficult to say that it was not the latter's instructions.

Zhu Youxiao's actions were also very simple, he was angry, and then handed over the matter to Wei Zhongxian's Dongchang to deal with, so that he could implicate a group of people again.

As for why he supported Wei Zhongxian at such a time, the reason is even simpler, if you don't give a clear signal, how dare he let go of the bite?

Next, just stay in Nanhaizi and watch the big show.

Thanks to Wei Zhongxian's big moves in front, Zhu Youxiao was able to quietly summon Wang Zaijin, who had been appointed as the governor of Zhili a month ago, in the Nanhaizi Palace.

In the past half a month, Wang Zaijin has made secret visits to various places in Zhili, and Jinyiwei commanded Liu Qiao to assist him, making him even more handy.

After all, with the intervention of the factory guard, it will be smooth to check things.

"Your Majesty, the ministers have basically found out, and the grain reserves in various parts of Gyeonggi, the silver and equipment stored by various ministries and governments are all attached to the table." Wang Zaijin said, presented a detailed table, and said in his mouth:

"Chen and Liu Qiao, patrolling all over Gyeonggi, it is not uncommon for displaced people to grab grain on the streets, and Gyeonggi is still like this, what about other places?"

"Whenever the minister thinks of it, he is heartbroken, and he hopes that the emperor will implement the new policy as soon as possible."

Zhu Youxiao nodded and lowered his gaze.

According to the table, the grain stored in the granaries in various granaries in Gyeonggi at this time was really pitiful.

For example, Tongzhou Cang, which has always survived a lot, has only a few hundred stones of edible grain, and most places only have a few stones to dozens of stones left.

In some places, it is even more terrible, when you open the granary, you can only see rats, but you can't see food.

As for the equipment of the six government treasury, they are either in disrepair and can no longer be used, or they are empty, and the guns in the arsenal in some places can even be traced back to the Jiajing period.

This situation is more serious than Zhu Youxiao expected.

"What is your suggestion, tell me about it." Zhu Youxiao closed the table and asked.

Wang Zaijin said respectfully: "The minister thinks that the three-year exemption of the land of Huaibei implemented by His Majesty in the first court meeting is a very good idea, but it is really difficult to implement. ”

Looking at Wang Zaijin sentence after sentence, Zhu Youxiao also nodded slowly, he went down and walked around, and when he came back, he basically explained everything he could say.

The DPRK and the Central Government are dominated by civil officials, while in the localities, the gentry and the wealthy right occupy absolute dominance.

They grasped the arteries of the country's economy, formed chaebols, landlord cliques, and cooperated with various parties in the DPRK and China for the sake of interests.

Political power, economic power, are in their hands.

In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination was extremely important, Xie Ren was a township official, the children of the Haoyou family, and there were some scholars from Jinshi, Juren, and Gongsheng, as soon as they arrived in the place, they directly had the right to be exempted from servitude, and the opportunity to make friends with powerful people and abuse the township.

If upright local officials defend the people and crack down on the right, they will actually have a conflict with the entire interest group, and will soon be attacked by the chaotic parties in the DPRK and China.

In the end, you will either lose your official position or end up in disrepute.

In this way, officials who really do things are constantly kicked out of the court, and the rest are some officials who have no temperament and ability.

These people communicate with local elites and the DPRK and China parties at various levels, and firmly hold the country's economic lifeline and local power.

The most intuitive manifestation is that the scholars with high backgrounds are exempt from tax exemption and exemption, and the squires with big families collude with officials to reduce or reduce taxes, so that they occupy the tuntian, and most of the people become tenant farmers and suffer from oppression.

The final result is that the table that Wang has obtained after his secret visit to Jin Mingcha, the magnates are getting richer and richer, but the country is getting poorer and poorer.

This is still known as the Gyeonggi important land at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and what other places are like can be imagined.