Forbidden City, Hongde Palace.

The king of the military department Shangshu played the Southern Jiangxi military disaster in Jin, and Chongzhen was furious.

"I think that at the beginning, my Ming Dynasty was like the sun, illuminating the universe, and all countries came to the court.

Why since I ascended the throne, thieves have been everywhere, natural disasters and man-made disasters have occurred one after another, the imperial court has difficulty paying taxes, and the people in various prefectures and states have been boiling with grievances.

Now that Wei Gelding has already subjugated the law, why is the government still so difficult?

What's the root of the problem?

How am I going? ”

After Chongzhen finished speaking, he looked at the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, but everyone lowered their heads and was silent.

"I have the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, but there is one person available?"

Chongzhen sighed a little lonely and stopped talking.

"Your Majesty, it's a military disaster, the military disaster has brought down the country, forced the people to death, and messed up the country." The right attendant of the household department, Li waited, and came out of the crowd and began to speak.

"Your Majesty, the minister is in charge of the military department, and the trouble of the military department is only limited to the rebellion of the slaves outside the Guan, not a major trouble, but more worrying than the military troubles is the rebellion of bandits in the Central Plains provinces, and most of the soldiers are used to suppress bandits every year, and the more the chaotic people are suppressed, this disaster is far better than the military disaster."

The crown prince Taibao and the king of the military department made a further speech on the Jin Dynasty.

"Wang Shangshu, this is a bad word.

The border salary of the Wanli Dynasty is only 500,000 taels, but since the beginning of the current dynasty, the border salary has increased to 4.77 million taels, which is more than nine times that of the Wanli period.

The cost of border salaries is huge, and the annual tax revenue of the imperial court is only more than three million taels.

Where does this pay come from, from the treasury, from the people?

If the people have two taels or three dollars of silver per month, they will not be thieves.

It's a military disaster, a border salary, and a disaster of Liao's salary. The right attendant of the household department, Li Zhiqing, tried not to flinch on the basis of reason.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although this dynasty has not been open for a long time, the emperor has governed the country well, and the people of the world all kowtow to praise him."

Just when Li Shilang and Wang Shangshu were facing each other, a man who was with the mud jumped out and slapped his ass.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the reason why the country is rampant with bandits is because of the Central Plains Prefecture, which is caused by continuous disasters..."

"Aiqing, I remember that there were times when disasters were rampant during the Yongle years, right? Why can you grace the world and benefit the world at that time? ”

Li Shilang and Wang Shangshu, who were still arguing in the court, jumped out of the previous topic after a few words from the two muddy langs.

This is because if the border salary and the Liao salary are cut off, the layers of deductions of officials at all levels of the imperial court will be broken, and the layers of exploitation of local officials will also be broken.

This is the so-called pulling a hair and moving the whole body.

Therefore, the courtiers did not allow such a thing to happen, even if what Li Shilang said was right, no one would agree.

This is because after the Wei party ended its control, the courtiers were then controlled by the Donglin party.

And the Donglin Party is more corrupt.

These two Lang Zhong are the-stirring sticks they have bought, and they must stand up and ease the atmosphere when they need to.

"Zhong Aiqing, don't take care of my face, if it is my dereliction of responsibility, I will definitely investigate myself, if it is a mistake in the government, you can be blunt, I want to know how to prosper the Ming Dynasty."

was stirred up by these two langs, and the courtiers stopped talking, and Chongzhen had no choice but to speak again.

"Holy Wisdom!"

"Holy Wisdom!"

The two Lang Zhong began to pat on the back again, and the courtiers knew that this early dynasty should be over, otherwise it would not be able to continue.

Chongzhen also knew that this was a signal, and he was a little disheartened when he heard these praises, and waved his hand to end today's morning dynasty.

After the early dynasty, Chongzhen began to write alone in the study.

He put pen to paper and wrote four big characters, "Revitalize the Ming Dynasty".

When he picked it up and admired it carefully, Wang Chengen came.

"Wife, how about taking a look at what I wrote?"

"Okay, wow, the atmosphere is awe-inspiring, and it can already be a faction of its own."

Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge of the inner palace, supervised the East Factory, and held the brocade clothes and guards hostage.

When Chongzhen was still the king of Xin, Wang Chengen was sent by Dongchang to Xinwangfu to spy on Zhu Youzhen, but Wang Chengen has always accompanied Zhu Youzhen to grow up, and both of them are young, as time goes by, over time, he and Xiao Zhu Youzhen have a deep relationship.

When Zhu Youzhen fell into the water, only Wang Chengen, the little eunuch, jumped into the water without hesitation to save him.

Since then, Zhu Youzhen will confide in Wang Chengen no matter what is on his mind.

And Wang Chengen also swore to protect Zhu Youzhen to the death, and the two can be said to rely on each other.

It can be reflected from his title to Wang Chengen, "wife" is the title of the eunuch who trusts him very much, and some emperors call him "companion", such as Zhu Youxiao once called Wei Zhongxian.

"I want to give this ink guarantee to the right servant of the household department, the secretary of the military department, Li Zhiwen and Wang Zaijin The two ministers at today's court meeting, bluntly stated, bitterly stated the disadvantages of the times, and they are not the important ministers of the court."

"There is a holy king, and there must be direct ministers below, and the reason why they have the courage to speak out is because they believe that the emperor is sage." Wang Chengen flattered.

"Li Beiwen has played many times, asking for the people's life, such as increasing the repair of embankments, relief of locust plagues, flood-stricken areas, reducing half of the salary, and canceling taxes in poor counties.

Chongzhen said with relief.

"Your Majesty, the ministers really don't want to disappoint your interest, today Li Shilang said that the border salary, Liao salary, is actually because the border salary, Liao salary is an additional burden for the people, it is really not good for the Ming Dynasty, fat the private pockets of corrupt officials outside, and the faint officials who are greedy for money at home are regarded as the way to make money.

Today's incident, Li Zhilang may have offended many people. ”

Wang Chengen said something a little awkwardly.

"What do you mean by that?" When Chongzhen heard this, he immediately became suspicious and asked puzzled.

"Your Majesty, this morning, in the early morning of the dynasty, Jinyiwei 800 miles of secret report, sent to investigate the Shanxi Chengxuan political envoy Si Zhen's disaster silver grain theft case, returned, he not only found out where the silver grain went, but also found Shanxi wealthy merchants, officials, border troops, private Tatars, Jiannu secret letters.

The list of people involved in it is very widespread, including not only officials from various parts of Shanxi, but also officials from all parts of Jiangnan and military generals from border gates.

In addition, there are also account books in which Shanxi wealthy merchants borrowed silver and bribed Wei Gelding with various officials. ”

When Chongzhen heard this, his face changed greatly, he stood up with a pout, and said sharply: "Show it to me." ”

"The minister has already brought it."

"Bring it in."

"Yes."

Wang Chengen waved his hand, and his eunuchs came in with a large box of letters.

This is all collected from the East Factory,

At this time, Wang Chengen was in charge of the East Factory, which had 36 towns and eight wharves under the East Factory, and there were more than 10,000 secret agents, killers and undercover agents under the East Factory.

These people incarnated in various identities and were distributed throughout the Ming Dynasty.

However, all officials above the third grade are under the supervision of Dongchang, naturally including Luo Yangxing, the head of the crown prince and the prince who is famous for hundreds of households.

When Li Ruolian sent the secret letter back to Jinyiwei, Wang Chengen got the secret letter as soon as possible, and he put those secret letters together with the secret letters collected by Dongchang and carried them over.