There was a great drought in the north, and there were thieves everywhere, and the Ming court naturally couldn't ignore it, not only Zhu Cijiong was trying to find a way, but the Manchu Dynasty was also thinking of a way. Before this solution could be figured out, the Donglin Party jumped out to impeach Xu Guangqi again.

What's going on here?

The reason for this is that it is still for money, disaster relief and thieves need money, and the Manchu civil and military did not have the idea of hitting the treasury, and that little silver could not last for two years, and they all thought that taxes should be increased. The so-called "division party" headed by Xu Guangqi advocated the collection of a transaction tax on salt, tea, cloth, and other goods, with 30 taxes and 1, which can be more than 10 million taels a year; However, the Donglin Party, headed by Qian Longxi and Cheng Jiming, advocated increasing the tax on farmland, increasing the tax by three points per mu of land, and collecting almost 10 million taels more a year.

Just when the two parties were arguing, the spokesmen of the Donglin Party began to impeach Xu Guangqi again.

This time, it was naturally Qian Qianyi who fanned the flames behind and set off a party dispute, hoping to pull Xu Guangqi off the horse and enter the cabinet to pay respects to the prime minister. The theory of "division party" was also put forward by him, which probably means that Xu Guangqi relied on himself to be the emperor's teacher, formed a party for privacy, and excluded dissidents.

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but be furious when he saw the impeachment, he finally saw that some of the Donglin Party's speech officials were not tools for supervising hundreds of officials at all, but tools for party struggle, and they only knew how to exclude dissidents regardless of whether they were right or wrong.

He doesn't know if Xu Guangqi has formed a party or not, state affairs have been difficult to this extent, and they still jumped out to make trouble, it seems that it will not work if they don't clean it up.

At this time, Zhu Cijiong had firmly controlled Jingying through Qin Liangyu, and had won over Luo Yangxing through Rixinglong's shares, Jinyiwei had been firmly held in his hands, not to mention Dongchang, Cao Huachun had already been his cronies. This capital is now in his Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong's final say, so naturally he will no longer let these clowns jump.

After Zhu Cijiong saw the impeachment fold, he immediately summoned Cao Huachun to him, stuffed the fold into his hand, and asked undoubtedly: "Who is making trouble in the dark this time, have you found out?" ”

Cao Huachun opened the recital, glanced at it slightly, and replied affirmatively: "It's Qian Qianyi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites." ”

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he gritted his teeth and said: "It turned out to be Qian Qianyi, but he forgot about this dog traitor, did he do the last two impeachments?" ”

When Cao Huachun heard this, he replied with a little hesitation: "Whether he has not found out yet, but the first time he took the lead in impeaching Lord Xu Guangqi, Qu Shiyun was his cronie, and the second time he took the lead in making trouble, Huang Zongzhou, was his close friend, and he must have something to do with him." ”

Zhu Cijiong is so angry, Qian Qianyi, a traitor, originally thought that he surrendered to the Qing army because of the situation and had to surrender, but he never thought that this guy was a bad guy with pus on the soles of his feet from the beginning, he couldn't help but snort coldly: "Hmph, 'The water is too cold to go down', this time I let you not even see the water." ”

Cao Huachun listened to the words of the little emperor and was directly circled, the word "traitor" in the previous sentence had not been created in the Ming Dynasty, he didn't know what it meant, but the word "dog" was added in front of it, which was not a good word. The latter 'the water is too cold to go down' is even more inexplicable, and he doesn't know it at all.

'The water is too cold to go down' Cao Huachun naturally didn't know what it meant, it was a classic sentence that Qian Qianyi said more than ten years later when the Southern Ming Dynasty fell.

At that time, the Qing army was under the city of Nanjing, and Liu Ru, one of Qin Huai's Bayan, that is, Qian Qianyi's wife, persuaded Qian Qianyi to throw himself into the water and die with him. Qian Qianyi was speechless in thought, and finally walked down to the pool to try the water, and said, "The water is too cold to go down"! Liu Ru is still loyal and martyred, "trying to sink into the pond", but he held Qian Qianyi hard.

Later, Qian Qianyi led a cadre of ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty to open the city in the torrential rain to welcome Duoduo, the commander of the Qing army, and became a shameless dog traitor. In other words, now this high-sounding and self-proclaimed leader of the Donglin Party is not as loyal to the Ming Dynasty as a dusty woman when he dies!

Zhu Cijiong knew that he couldn't come to this kind of shameless villain, so he could only play yin with them. Obviously there is no excuse not to say it, and it is easy to do bad things, villain, villain, this kind of villain who even surrendered to the Qing army in order to survive, you go to deal with him clearly, he doesn't want to do everything to save his life, I don't know how many people will be pulled into the water by him.

It's different for this yin player, I'm yin for you, how can you drop, do you dare to scold me?

In fact, as early as when the Donglin Party and Xu Guangqi were arguing about where to increase the tax, Zhu Cijiong had understood that the reason why the Donglin Party did not agree to levy the transaction tax was because they were standing behind the Jiangnan Shidafu bureaucracy, and those people were all local tyrants, and they didn't know how much business they had under their names.

Zhu Cijiong always thought that the richest man in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was the Jin merchants, but in fact, he was mistaken, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Jin merchants were just rising, and the real wealth in the world was the industry controlled by the Jiangnan Shidafu Group.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the drought and military disasters have been raging in the north, and Jiangnan has not been affected at all. Otherwise, the capital would have fallen, where would they get the money to support King Lifu to establish the Nanming regime, and where would they get the money to organize hundreds of thousands of troops to confront the Qing army, and they survived for nearly 20 years.

It's a pity that they are a bunch of literati who talk about misleading the country after all, and they are not vulnerable to attack in front of the murderous Qing army, they only know how to fight for power and profit, and the Qing army will scatter as soon as it comes, fleeing and surrendering, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops in the air but they have not made a decent resistance.

Of course, those are the things of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and now the Chongzheng Emperor is in charge, they want to mislead the country, want to lose, and want to give the rich Jiangnan to the Qing army, and there is no chance, our little emperor Zhu Cijiong is preparing to teach them how to behave at this time.

The first thing to teach is naturally Qian Qianyi, who has been hiding behind his back and fanning the flames, as well as Cheng Jiming, the left attendant of the Ministry of Officials, and Qian Longxi, the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials, who only know how to safeguard the interests of the Jiangnan Shidafu Group regardless of the national disaster, as well as those Donglin Party officials who only know how to attack dissidents, regardless of whether they are loyal or not.

How to clean it up? Zhu Cijiong has already thought about it, aren't you ignoring the national disaster? Don't you want to increase taxes regardless of whether the peasants live or die? Well, let you go where the national crisis is most serious, and if you want to increase taxes and force the peasants to rebel, then let you collect taxes yourself.

So, the next day, Zhu Cijiong issued an edict and agreed to increase the farmland rent tax of three cents per mu, and at the same time, Qian Qianyi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, was the governor of the right capital of the Imperial Inspectorate of Shaanxi Trilateral Military Affairs, responsible for the suppression of the peasant armies in Shaanxi and Shanxi. Cheng Ji, the left attendant of the Ministry of Officials, was ordered to be the political envoy of Shaanxi Cheng Xuan Si Zuo Bu, and Qian Longxi, the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, was the political envoy of Shaanxi Cheng Xuan Si Right Bu Political Envoy, responsible for local affairs in Shaanxi. In the Rites Section, Qu Shiyun and other officials are the governors, governors, and governors of Shaanxi prefectures. Yang He, the former governor of Shaanxi, was demoted to the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and other officials were appointed separately.

Now Qian Qianyi was dumbfounded, he was finally promoted to the second grade as he wished, but he was not a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, let alone a cabinet to worship the prime minister, but was sent to Shaanxi to be the governor, and even Cheng Jiming and Qian Longxi were implicated by him and were thrown into the nest of anti-thieves!

This is no longer a matter of stealing chickens and rice, and if you don't do it, you will lose your life. But they had nothing to say, and when they were told to go to court, they were all impassioned, looking like they were doing their best for the country and the people.

Now give them the opportunity to do their best, to serve the country and the people, and also give them a promotion, do they dare to refuse? Wouldn't that be a slap in the mouth, ruined his career, and his reputation stinky, and this life would be over.

Qian Qianyi is a person with ideals, ambitions, and ambitions, so he naturally does not want to end his career. He can only comfort himself, Shaanxi is not necessarily how dangerous, then Yang He has been the governor for three years, nothing at all, it is better to go over and survive for a few years, as long as the Donglin Party does not fall, he will always have the opportunity to kill back to Beijing and enter the cabinet to take power!