Two flowers bloom, and then another branch.

Just when Chang Yu led his troops to fight bloodily against the thieves, the capital was peaceful, and it could even be said that there was good news one after another.

Because just yesterday there was a news from the palace that in order to welcome the spring and pray for blessings, the prince will set up a stage in the open space between the Daming Gate and the Thousand Steps Corridor in the south of the palace, and invite the rich and noble in the city and the officials and ministers above the sixth grade to have fun for three days!

As soon as this news came out, the capital trembled three times, not to mention what its purpose was, whether it was to welcome the spring or pray for blessings, and no one cared, but the four words of the monarch and the ministers have made a large number of people ecstatic!

Which people?

Jingguan and some local tyrants!

The so-called monarch and ministers are happy together, which means that the emperor will also participate in the appearance, and this is a good opportunity for some officials who have served in Beijing to meet the saints.

And for those local tyrants and businessmen in Beijing, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have the opportunity to spend money to buy tickets and go, not to mention that there is an invitation this time.

Of course, there are also people who play drums in their hearts, and they won't let us donate, after all, Emperor Chongzhen has done this before, but no one responded.

But after thinking about it for a while, donating is voluntary, and it's a big deal not to donate!

But no matter what, as soon as the news came out, the capital shook.

In the past, the emperor prayed for blessings, and the participation of ministers was normal, but there were also plays in the palace, and there were special theaters in the palace, such as Shufangzhai was the royal theater of the Qing court.

However, this kind of special stage outside the palace to invite the city's powerful officials to attend, and I heard that even the palace concubines will participate is absolutely unprecedented, so as soon as the news came out, people aroused curiosity.

At the same time as the news came out, the magnates in the city and the famous businessmen and tyrants received the invitation, which was not an ordinary invitation, but from the palace special, which was fine for officials, but for those businessmen it was really to be framed and treasured, and the major event of the glorious lintel could be used as a braggadocio to talk about.

From nine o'clock in the morning, the Daming Gate will open the door to welcome guests, although the Daming Gate does not belong to the palace, but ordinary people can also come here at will on weekdays, after all, there are major yamen, not to mention that there is a special royal road prepared for the emperor, how can ordinary people enter.

It's just that these magnates and wealthy people in the city who hold invitations should no longer be ordinary people, according to the regulations, each person can bring two family members or family members, and there is a eunuch responsible for guiding the service when entering the Daming Gate.

As for the range of activities, it is not small or small, it is impossible to enter the palace, but you can visit the entrance of the thousand steps corridor and the left and right, of course, you can not enter at will, as for the middle of the royal road, if you are not afraid of death, you can try to walk.

Three big platforms have been set up in Daming Gate, there are plays, there are tunes and juggling, it is said that there are any boxing matches to bet on fun, there are curtains around the stage to prevent wind and keep warm, there are soft chairs and stoves under the stage, tea and pastries, it is said that they are all tributes in the palace.

At ten o'clock, Daming has been bustling, as lively as Qianmen Street, the powerful and rich people who entered the house introduced each other to greet each other, there were groups to visit the thousand-step corridor, and there were groups of three or five invited to sit under the stage to watch the excitement, in short, this is definitely an excellent social platform, after all, the non-official is neither expensive nor rich, and there is no white ding.

On the Chengtian Gate (today's Anmen), one tall and one short stood two, Chongzhen looked at the bustling crowd in the distance due south with a solemn face, and the sound of opera loomed in his ears.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong stood behind him, his face could not hide his excitement, and he kept biting his lip, this play was presided over by him personally!

"Are they all called?" Chongzhen looked into the distance expressionlessly and asked lightly.

"Back to my father, the Beijing official has more than six grades, a number of famous businessmen and wealthy people, as well as more than 80 noble relatives such as Bohou Gong, a total of nearly 500 posts" Zhu Cihong said quickly, and then smiled slightly: "This time, I will get 1.8 million taels if I am the worst, and it is really hard to say if there are more."

When it came to Qian Chongzhen, he rarely smiled: "My son is getting smarter and smarter, it's rare that you can come up with such a method."

Zhu Cihong was praised and affirmed by Chongzhen, and his heart suddenly burst into joy: "The child doesn't dare to take all the credits, Chang Yu once ordered the child to do this."

Oh, Chongzhen raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Zhu Cihong: "I thought that your plan was inspired by the thief who entered Beijing in a dream to force silver, could it be that you told Chang Yu about this dream?" ”

Zhu Cihong was shocked, and quickly shook his head and said: "This dream is not trivial, how can the child talk nonsense, that Chang Yu doesn't know."

Only then did Chongzhen retract his eyes and turn around and look into the distance: "This Chang Yu is really a very person, and his scheming is like this, it's really rare!" ”

"Yes, Chang Yu is scheming and loyal to our family, if he uses it well, he should be like Wei Zhongxian, or even more so." Zhu Cihong said in a low voice.

Hearing the name of Wei Zhongxian, Chongzhen couldn't help but be stunned, then squinted his eyes and then sighed long, Wei Zhongxian was killed by him, and he was impatient to kill him as soon as he took the position, but it was also the thing he regretted the most, if he could do it again, he would definitely not kill Wei Zhongxian.

How so?

Because he regretted it, Zhu Youxiao had specifically told him before his death that Wei Zhongxian's "conscientious loyalty" can be counted as a big thing, "However, it was a young and frivolous, who did not understand power and had no experience in politics, where could Chongzhen, who was young and frivolous, not understand power and no political experience, could listen to it, he couldn't see that this eunuch who was cursed by the government and the opposition could calculate a big matter, and all he heard was how he brought disaster to the country and the people, and harmed Zhongliang, and he just wanted to kill him as soon as possible!"

So after he came to power, he was really killed immediately.

Then in the past few years, he finally knew why Zhu Youxiao was so mediocre, and he could still keep the country and the people safe, and he was conscientious and diligent, but he made the building collapse, the sky was angry, and even the treasury was wiped out!

At this time, I found out the value of Wei Zhongxian, although this goods are arrogant and domineering, but they are loyal to the royal family, and they will make money for the royal family, only the commercial tax can make tens of millions of dollars a year, and when Chongzhen was in power, the commercial tax did not have this to say, and for example, the tea tax collected from Jiangsu and Zhejiang every year is several million, but since his death, a total of twelve taels have been collected!

What's more, in addition to helping the royal family collect money, Wei Zhongxian also has another big role, that is, to suppress the civil official group headed by the Donglin Party.

Everything pays attention to a balance, especially the emperor's imperial skills, once one side loses the balance, it will be a big disaster.

And after Wei Zhongxian's death, the Donglin Party literati group, which had lost its suppression, broke out and got out of control, and even Chongzhen, the king of a country, was shameless, and the situation was out of control!

But why is Wei Zhongxian's reputation so bad, in addition to his own arrogance and domineering, he has also framed Zhongliang for selfish desires, but don't forget another reason, his opponent is the big landlords, big businessmen and civil official groups in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Donglin Party and other civil and cultural official groups have long been reduced to the spokesperson of big landlords and big businessmen, and the right to speak and the direction of public opinion at that time were precisely in the hands of these literati and ministers.

This is not to whitewash Wei Zhongxian, for example, he levied commercial taxes, etc., and it was only those big landlords and big businessmen in the position, who had targeted ordinary people, which is why he didn't see ordinary people scolding him but set up a thousand-year-old shrine for him.

Do you still remember Wei Zhongxian's words before he died, "I die, Daming dies"

It's just that Chongzhen, who was young and had no political experience, didn't understand the meaning of these words, and thought it was a curse, but ten years later, he understood it and regretted it! (Historical records record that in the seventeenth year, it was he who secretly ordered Wei Zhongxian to re-bury him, and the tomb site was still the Biyun Temple in Xiangshan that Wei Zhongxian chose before his death)

However, Chongzhen didn't seem to want to talk to Zhu Cihong about this topic at this time, and asked instead: "Is your grandfather still making trouble?" ”

"Son, you went to his house to warn, and it finally stopped, otherwise there would be no trouble today" Zhu Cihong had a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

"I actually can't figure it out, like Chengguo Gong, Dingguo Gong and Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen, these people have already been scraped and cut flesh, why do you still want to give them posts, is it possible that they still expect to pick money from them again, how can they be fooled and bet with you again. And it's weird that they actually took the post and really came! ”

Chongzhen looked at Zhu Cihong with a puzzled expression.

Zhu Cihong couldn't help laughing: "The child was puzzled before, but Chang Yu said that gambling is one of the human nature, born with a vicious disease, those who win want to win more, and those who lose want to turn over, how can these people just be cut off their flesh and have this opportunity not to think about turning over, even if they don't invite them, they will come by themselves, and even if they don't bet with children, they are still valuable"

Don't!

Chongzhen instantly understood the key, these nobles who had just been cut off their flesh turned their hearts into it, and the people who came were all powerful and rich people in the capital, with a lot of fat and a large market, and they would definitely shout hard to find someone to bet on, which would invisibly add fuel to the fire of the boxing match and make a live advertisement.

Chang Yu's son has really studied people's hearts thoroughly, Chongzhen looked at the south from afar, and was full of emotion, but I don't know if that kid had calculated that he approved this matter, how much attack he provoked by the cabinet ministers, and how much pressure he was under to resist, hey, I miss Wei Zhongxian so much!

Every guest who participated in this royal party, in addition to eating and drinking, there are special eunuchs and palace maids to serve, these people are serving the emperor, what an honor this is, think about it is a little fluttering, and some people even think that even if this is a charity party asking for donations, just for this over-standard treatment, he will be dozens of hundreds of taels of silver!

At noon, a simple luncheon was held outside the Daming Gate, and the crown prince Zhu Cihong showed his face and said some brief words, which was nothing more than to let the guests participating in the party eat, drink and have fun, and then disappeared.

Then soon the main drama was served, Wei Dahai, the master of ceremonies, personally presided over the boxing match, introduced the rules of the event, and after the betting process, after the entry of all the Ming Tuo and the secret support, the prince's wealth drama was staged, and at this time Chang Yu was fighting with the thieves in the northwest valley.

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