In October of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty can be described as a group of demons dancing wildly, and all kinds of impeachment performances are endless, Chongzhen silently cooperated with the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, and the Qi Party to take down Wei Zhongxian's diehard loyalists one by one, but he has been ignoring the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian by the ministers.

Perhaps, he felt that the time had not come, and perhaps, he felt that the twists and turns of impeachment were not comprehensive and accurate enough.

Finally, an inconspicuous small character wrote a piece of music into Chongzhen's eyes, on October 26, Jiaxing Gongsheng Qian Jiazheng impeached Wei Zhongxian for ten crimes: one with the emperor, two contempt for the queen, three for military power, four without two ancestors, five grams of cutting the vassal king to be knighted, six eyes without saints, seven indiscriminately rewarded, eight to cover up the side of the work, nine to exploit the people, ten to blaspheme the name.

Chongzhen immediately began to act, summoned Wei Zhongxian to an audience, and ordered the eunuch to read Qian Jiazheng's recital in front of Wei Zhongxian.

In the face of these crimes, Wei Zhongxian was shocked and speechless, he knew very well in his heart that what Qian Jiazheng said was right, he had done all these things.

What is surprising is that such a heinous crime Chongzhen actually just demoted Wei Zhongxian to the ancestral tomb Sixiang of Fengyang, the central capital!

What's even more unexpected is that Wei Zhongxian didn't know how to restrain himself at this time, he actually took dozens of carts of property, thousands of guards, swaggered through the city, and rushed to Fengyang, and the pomp was bigger than when Chongzhen was the king of letters!

When Chongzhen learned the news, he remembered the empty treasury again, and finally became angry.

This dog thing, the treasury was made empty by him, but he himself swaggered away with dozens of carts of property, which is unbearable!

Chongzhen immediately ordered the Jinyi Weiqi School to take Wei Zhongxian back to Beijing for interrogation, but it depends on how much money he is greedy.

When Wei Zhongxian learned the news, he didn't know if he felt guilty or had a ghost in his heart, so he committed suicide on the way!

As soon as Wei Zhongxian committed suicide, the thousands of guards accompanying him immediately dispersed dozens of carts of property, and the cronies who collected wealth and kept money for him everywhere also disappeared without a trace with the silver taels he embezzled.

Wei Zhongxian died, the treasury and the inner treasury, the north and south capitals, and the fifty or sixty years of accumulation of the Ming Dynasty from the Longqing Dynasty to the Tianqi Dynasty were swept away by him, and not a single copper plate was left for Chongzhen, and he still owed 1.3 million taels!

At this time, not to mention the military rations and salaries, even the war horses have no grass to eat, because Wei Zhongxian even sold the pasture of the imperial horse supervisor, let alone raising war horses in the future, even the pasture of the existing war horses has to be bought!

Chongzhen tried his best to be a good emperor, but as soon as he took power, the treasury was empty, he had empty ambitions, but no financial support, so what could he do?

He did things later, and every time he was restricted, he succeeded in failure, and this is precisely the reason.

For example, the Shaanxi peasant uprising that began in July of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian has been ignoring it, so that within a few months, it has developed into dozens of shares and hundreds of thousands of people.

Wei Zhongxian can ignore it, anyway, he is a eunuch, there are no descendants, who cares about the flood after he dies, but Chongzhen can't ignore it, he wants to pass it on to future generations.

He wants to take care of it, but he can't afford to organize an army to encircle and suppress, what should he do?

It just so happened that at this time, the imperial envoy Yang He proposed a strategy to appease him, Chongzhen immediately pulled down his face, asked the vassal kings from all over the country for help, begged grandpa to tell grandma, begged them to donate some money, so as to appease the rebellious people in Shaanxi, as a result, the vassal kings from all over the country picked and squeezed, and only donated a total of 100,000 gold coins and 50,000 taels of silver to him, and it was a drop in the bucket to appease dozens of peasant armies with this money, so Yang He's appeasement failed!

For another example, since May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian has stopped most of the Liaodong Army's food and salary, the thirteenth battalion soldiers stationed in Ningyuan mutinied, and the governor Bi Zisu sent nine consecutive twists and turns to ask for wages, but the treasury and the inner treasury have no money, and the newly appointed household secretary Bi Ziyan can only watch his younger brother being held by the rebellious army, beating and urging him every day, and finally dying of hunger strike for thirteen days!

It wasn't until the tax collection in the first year of Chongzhen that Chongzhen took out 800,000 taels and let Yuan Chonghuan take it to quell the mutiny, and 800,000 taels is also a drop in the bucket for the more than 100,000 Liaodong troops who have been in arrears for several months, so the situation in Liaodong is getting worse and worse, and in the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led the Houjin Iron Cavalry to detour through the Mongolian steppe and hit the capital of the Ming Dynasty!

There were more and more peasant rebels, and the Houjin attacks became more and more frequent, forcing Chongzhen to levy more and more Liao, training and suppressing salaries, and organizing the army to encircle and suppress and resist.

And the people of the Ming Dynasty were already living a difficult life, and he increased the taxes again, forcing more people to take risks and join the ranks of the peasant rebel army, and the peasant rebel army was therefore more and more suppressed, and Chongzhen was forced to increase taxes again, so, repeatedly, the Ming Dynasty fell into an endless vicious circle until it perished!

Of course, this is all what happened when Zhang Bin did not cross, and now, Zhang Bin is here, and, at this time, he has climbed to the high position of governor of Fujian, and history has finally begun to shift under his influence.

Just as the news of Wei Zhongxian's suicide came back to the capital, and Chongzhen was helpless in the face of the empty treasury and inner treasury, Zhang Bin's recital arrived, and there were two copies at once.

One copy was usually sent by the British minister Zhang Weixian, but the other was handed over by the cabinet, Chongzhen took two copies of the identical fold, and hated Wei Zhongxian even more, dog thing, knowing that Zhang Bin, the governor of Fujian, was promoted by me, and even privately intercepted the fold sent by Zhang Bin to me!

At the same time, he was also impressed by Zhang Bin's thoughtfulness, this Zhang Bin was really smart, and he knew how to send a copy to the British public Zhang Weixian, so that even if Wei Zhongxian intercepted the report sent to the cabinet, he could also know what happened in Fujian.

What happened in Fujian this time?

Chongzhen opened the fold and saw that Zhang Bin actually advocated that he would arrest Gao Cai of Fujian City, Gao Cai was really helping Wei Zhongxian to be greedy for the tax and silver of Fujian City, and also levied in Yuegang in the name of collecting taxes, and the most important thing was to collect the corrupt tax and silver and the corrupt income of officials at all levels confiscated by the Fujian Bank Division, Zhang Bin actually copied out more than one million taels!

Chongzhen was so happy that he almost jumped up from the dragon chair, more than one million taels, Zhang Bin actually copied out more than one million taels of the eunuch party's corruption in Fujian, it was great, he had to send someone to escort him to the capital immediately, this more than one million taels was too important to him.

It's not that Chongzhen hasn't seen money, and it's not that Daming can't collect a million taels of taxes, as long as the taxes start to be collected next year, four or five million taels can still be paid.

However, the treasury and the inner treasury have long been emptied by Wei Zhongxian, and this year's taxes have somehow been squandered by him, and now, he is really poor, the poor jingle rings, to put it mildly, at this time, he can't take out 10,000 taels of silver!

After Chongzhen finished reading the recital, he immediately asked Cao Huachun to draft a decree, and asked Zhang Bin to quickly send someone to send the more than one million taels of silver to the capital, so that this decree would not need to go through the cabinet, because Zhang Bin can be regarded as his cronies, and what he wants Zhang Bin to do, a decree or even a dictation is enough, he believes that Zhang Bin will definitely implement it without hesitation.