Chongzhen, the emperor, has very complex thoughts and behaviors, and throughout the five thousand years, there has never been such a strange emperor as him in all dynasties.

He is very diligent, the early dynasty is almost uninterrupted, forgetting to sleep and eating, and even sleepless is commonplace for him, except for the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the entire Ming Dynasty, no emperor has been so diligent as him, and there are only a handful of emperors like him in history.

He is also very frugal, he eats basically coarse tea and light rice, and many of the clothes he wears are even patched, as for the palace he lives in, let alone the new ones in his hands, the old ones have not been repaired, and I am afraid that all dynasties and dynasties will not be able to find him such a thrifty emperor.

It stands to reason that a diligent and thrifty emperor like him should have a Daoming monarch, and according to his diligence and frugality, I am afraid that few emperors in the entire history can compare with him.

However, the Ming Dynasty died at the hands of a diligent and thrifty emperor like him!

Amazing? Weird?

In fact, it is not surprising at all, because he is not only diligent and thrifty, but also suspicious by nature, rigid and self-serving, of course, if he is only suspicious by nature and stubborn for his own use, he will not lose the country.

Chongzhen's biggest problem is that he is not only suspicious by nature, stubborn and self-serving, but also easy to be fooled, and fooling him are some treacherous villains, these people only know how to fight for power and profit, there is no Ming in their eyes, the purpose of fooling him is not to eliminate dissidents, but to frame Zhongliang, so that the Ming Dynasty is corrupt and rampant behind, the loyal ministers are about to die, and the retreat is retreating, the court is full of traitors and vain ministers, and there is no one who can turn the tide, so the Ming Dynasty is under the governance of such a diligent and thrifty emperor, and the country is gone!

Chongzhen is really pitiful, pathetic, and lamentable.

The so-called "poor people must have something to hate", like this, he was fooled by Wang Yingxiong, a big traitor, and even regarded a serious corruption as two important ministers of the court to dump each other, and there is no one who is confused.

All kinds of signs show that Wang Yingxiong is abusing his power, promoting cronies, forming a party for personal gain, and crazy money, Wang Weizhang, whom he recommended with Tang Shiji and Zhang Jie, is obviously a corrupt official, and Chen Yaoyan, who he promoted, not only has a problem with qualifications, but also handles the case is extremely fucked, Wang Yingxiong arranged them to be in charge of Bashu in order to let them help him collect money, and his younger brother Wang Yingxi is his agent to collect money.

However, Chongzhen believed Wang Yingxiong's nonsense, believing that Wang Yingxiong was deceived by Tang Shiji and Zhang Jie when he recommended Wang Weizhang, and believed that when the officials elected the prefect of Chongqing, Wang Yingxiong did not interfere at all in order to avoid suspicion!

Even, under the joint efforts of Wen Tiren and Wang Yingxiong, what Huang Chenghao peeked into the position of the secretary of the ministry, and wanted to enter the cabinet as a minister, he also believed this kind of nonsense!

He also thinks that he is fair and will not favor anyone in his heart, but he ignores the charges provided by Huang Chenghao, and instead believes the nonsense of Wen Tiren and Wang Yingxiong, thinking that Huang Chenghao is far-fetched to frame Wang Yingxiong, which is caused by the two important ministers of the court leaning against each other!

Chongzhen began to wander again at this time, these two people, one is a cabinet scholar and a secretary of the ministry, the other is the imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, one is in charge of the promotion of officials, and the other is in charge of the supervision of officials, the positions are quite important, and it is not good to wronged anyone.

Zhang Bin received the news from Cao Huachun, and he couldn't cry or laugh, this Wen Tiren and Wang Yingxiong can really fool, and this Chongzhen is really easy to fool.

Wang Yingxiong was blatantly corrupt in the court, was repeatedly impeached, and sent his cronies to his hometown to forcibly seize and collect money, but he was fine!

Huang Chenghao peeked at the position of the secretary of the ministry, and wanted to enter the cabinet as a minister, this kind of baseless, nonsense made out of nothing can also be believed!

I don't believe the obvious facts, just listening to people's fools, Chongzhen's IQ is really worrying?

This Wang Yingxiong must be cleaned up, not to mention his serious corruption, he also controls the officials, and promotes all the corrupt officials, cows, ghosts, snakes and gods who are attached to Wen Tiren, and is corrupt everywhere, let him continue like this, and the Ming Dynasty will become a world of corrupt officials and corrupt officials!

At this time, Zhang Bin couldn't help but think of the rumor that Li Zicheng had scavenged 70 million taels of silver from corrupt officials after entering Beijing, and there were only 1,000 officials in the capital who could force out 70 million taels of corruption, that is to say, there were few Beijing officials at that time who were not greedy, and moreover, at least tens of thousands of taels, and more even hundreds of thousands of taels or hundreds of thousands of taels!

He has never been able to understand why those officials are so greedy and why they dare to be so greedy, and now he seems to understand, perhaps it is precisely because Wen Tiren and Wang Yingxiong spared no effort to promote the "great cause of corruption" of the Ming Dynasty that the corruption situation behind it will be formed!

So as the predecessor of the corruption world, the promoter of the "great cause of corruption" of the Ming Dynasty, and the idol and leader of many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, how much is Wang Yingxiong Wang greedy?

Zhang Bin estimated that hundreds of thousands of taels should not be able to do it, at least hundreds of thousands of taels, millions of taels or even millions of taels are not impossible.

If you can bring out the hiding place of these dirty silver, and then let people go to Chongzhen to report and expose it, Wang Yingxiong can still fool around and come to the ghost.

It seems that it's time to add some fierce material, otherwise Chongzhen, a fool, won't clean up Wang Yingxiong at all!

Four days later, near Tongguan, on the official road from Shaanxi to Henan, more than ten horsemen were escorting two carriages to the east, and the traders, civilians, and even the fast horses of the Ming army saw the flag on the carriage in front of them, and they all grabbed it aside, and no one dared to grab the road with them, because the flags planted at the four corners of the carriage were written with the words "Patrol of the Metropolitan Procuratorate" and "Imperial History of the Left Command"!

Chen Yaoyan is not afraid of the patrol of the Metropolitan Procuratorate because he has the support of Wang Yingxiong, a scholar of the Cabinet and the Ministry of Officials, he thinks that he can be lawless with this backstage, ordinary people do not have his backstage, nor do he have the courage to do so, the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the master that no one dares to provoke in the locality, not to mention that this is still a Imperial History of the Imperial Guard.

This group of people was none other than Li Guangchun, Ni Sihui, Zhang Pan, and others who rushed to the capital from Chongqing Prefecture, which is about 4,000 miles away from the capital, and they had been traveling for eight or nine days, driving more than 200 miles a day, and they were only halfway away.

The official road near Tongguan is very difficult, and the mountain road in the Qinling Mountains has to fight, Zhang Pan and their horseback riding does not have much impact, the main thing is that the carriage can't run, in this rugged official road to run too fast, the carriage has to fall apart.

Zhang Pan was carefully controlling the speed of the horse at this time, while opening the road in front, while looking back from time to time to see if the carriage was keeping up, he was thinking in his heart which post station to go to rest today, a fast horse on the east suddenly rushed towards them, and the man seemed to have seen the flag of the Metropolitan Procuratorate before rushing over.

Zhang Pan's eyes narrowed, raised his hand to let the people behind him stop first, and then held the handle of the knife in his hand and beat the horse to meet him.

Zhang Bin has already confessed, if Wen Tiren and Wang Yingxiong are forced to have no choice, it is very likely that they will send someone to intercept and kill Li Guangchun, and he naturally does not dare to let people get close to the carriage.

The speed of the horses on both sides is not very fast, but they are not far from each other, coupled with such a hedge, it is almost a blink of an eye The two of them are about to meet, Zhang Pan is about to draw the knife, but the person on the opposite horse suddenly strangled the war horse under the crotch, and laughed: "Xiaopan, what do you want to do, don't move the knife, brother is afraid that you can't do it." ”

When Zhang Pan heard this, he hurriedly reined in the war horse, and then said in a daze: "Brother Cha, why are you here?" ”

The person who came was Zhang Cha, who was ordered by Zhang Bin to run wild day and night, just to intercept Li Guangchun and his party in the middle of the road.

He changed horses all the way and ran wildly for a few days, his face was full of dust, and Zhang Pan didn't expect him to come at all, so it was normal that he didn't recognize him. Fortunately, he knew that Zhang Pan's martial arts were amazing, so he spoke out in advance, otherwise Zhang Pan would give him a knife like lightning, and he might not be able to block it.

He saw that Zhang Pan's hand was released from the hilt of the knife, so he stepped forward and patted Zhang Pan's shoulder, and then pointed to the carriageway: "Go over there and talk about it, your lord has something important to explain." ”

As soon as the two of them came to the side of the carriage, Li Guangchun had already poked his head out, and he couldn't help but ask, "General Zhang Chaxiao, why are you here, is there something wrong?" ”

Zhang Cha hurriedly arched his hand and said in a low voice: "Lord Li, our lord asked me to inform you that things have changed, Wang Yingxiong deceived the emperor with clever words, and it is probably not enough for the evidence and Lord Ni to come forward as a witness." ”

When Li Guangchun heard this, his face couldn't help but change slightly: "This is not enough, so what should I do?" ”

Zhang Cha elaborated in a low voice: "What our lord means, let me replace Zhang Pan and escort you and Ni Shilang and his son into Beijing, while Zhang Pan hurried back to Chongqing Mansion with a whip, borrowed some elite from General Qin, and secretly found out the place where the Wang family hid gold and silver, and then it will be like this again." ”

Zhang Cha's voice is getting lower and lower, but Li Guangchun's eyes are getting bigger and bigger, this Lord Zhang is really bold!

However, to deal with shameless people like Wen Tiren and Wang Yingxiong, it is really not possible to use normal means, he listened to Zhang Cha's narration, and immediately nodded and said: "That's okay, let's continue to hurry, General Zhang Pan, you can go back again." ”

Zhang Pan arched his hand at him, and then said to Zhang Cha: "Brother Cha, you have traveled nearly two thousand miles in the past four days, are you okay?" ”

Zhang Cha patted his chest and boasted: "Brother, it's okay to run another two thousand miles, if you weren't more familiar with Chongqing Mansion than me, I wouldn't change with you, and it would be a little bit of a matter to run over directly." ”

Zhang Pan smiled when he heard this: "Brother Cha, you still have to escort Master Li and them back to Beijing, the affairs of Chongqing Mansion will be handed over to the younger brother." ”

After saying that, he waved goodbye to everyone, and then turned his horse's head and galloped in the direction of Chongqing Mansion, while Zhang Cha took his place and escorted Li Guangchun and Ni Sihui father and son to the capital.

Zhang Bin is not a pale man who went to Chongqing Mansion to investigate Wang Yingxiong's lair, and he also sent someone to investigate Wang Yingxiong's mansion in the capital.

At about midnight that night, on Shiwangfu Street in Nanxunfang, Beijing, a man in black suddenly appeared on the wall of a small courtyard near the residence of Wang Yingxiong, a scholar of the cabinet and a secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu, and I don't know what gesture he made, a man in black suddenly appeared in the courtyard, and the two exchanged gestures, and soon swept to a small room in the corner of the courtyard, and the man in black who appeared in the courtyard gently learned a cat meow, and the door of the small room opened, and the man in black who had just appeared on the wall flashed and ran directly in. The door shut, and the courtyard was quiet again, as if it were uninhabited.

At this time, it was already dark outside, but the room was brightly lit, and several people in black were around a small table as if discussing something, and the man in black who came in directly tore off the mask on his face and said in a low voice: "What, Nengqi, haven't you found it yet?" ”

Ai Nengqi sighed and said: "Ruhe, you should think of a way, it's been ten days, and we have also searched all the rooms in Wang Yingxiong's mansion, but we still haven't found anything, this guy won't transport the silver back to his hometown, right?" ”

Zhao Ru walked to the table, looked at the sketches on the table, and said unhurriedly: "You have searched so many rooms?" ”

Ai Nengqi nodded and said: "Yes, Wang Yingxiong rarely spends the night in the main mansion at night, we have carefully searched the study, bedroom, and lobby of his main mansion many times, and we have also searched the rooms of his concubines a few times when they went to dinner in the cloudy days, and we even searched the firewood room and thatched house, but we found a lot of silver, but we didn't find any secret rooms." ”

When Zhao Ru heard this, he said curiously: "A lot of silver? How much? ”

Ai Nengqi estimated: "I am afraid that the total number of zero and zero will add up to five or six thousand taels." ”

Zhao Ru couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this: "Five or six thousand taels are all fragments, and Lord Huang has estimated them together, and he has been greedy for at least three or four hundred thousand taels in the past few years." ”

Three or four hundred thousand taels is not a small amount, it is a big pile, Ai Nengqi said dejectedly: "Maybe he smuggled it back to his hometown, anyway, we didn't find the secret room where he hid the silver." ”

Seeing his discouraged appearance, Zhao Ru couldn't help but comfort: "Don't worry, it doesn't matter if Zhao doesn't come, if you can't do it, find a secret room, and stuff him with three or four hundred thousand taels when the time comes." ”

When Ai Nengqi heard this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded: "Brother Ru, do you mean to plant it?" Three or four hundred thousand taels, this money will be confiscated, and we can't get it back if we stuff it! ”

Zhao Ru said proudly: "What is three or four hundred thousand, my lord said, if it is a hard fortress, then it should be donated to the imperial court." ”

When Ai Nengqi heard this, he nodded abruptly and said: "Yes, this amount of money is nothing to adults, if it really doesn't work, we will find a place to secretly stuff it for him, and see how Wang Yingxiong's bastard will quibble when the time comes." ”

Zhao Ru shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This is just a strategy with no choice, you can tell me, what else is special about Wang Yingxiong's mansion, I will search with you in the past two days." ”

Ai Nengqi was overjoyed when he heard this: "That relationship is good, with the help of the wise and martial brother Ru, we will definitely succeed." ”

Zhao Ru rolled her eyes and said angrily: "Okay, don't pat yourself on the back and get down to business." ”

Ai Nengqi laughed a few times and then pointed to the sketch on the table and said: "I feel that the back garden is a little abnormal, Wang Yingxiong often goes to not talk about it, and there is a nursing yard patrolling inside, which is like this in ordinary people's homes." ”

Zhao Ru nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, let's go to the back garden tonight to search, when do you usually leave." ”

Ai Nengqi estimated the time, and said unhurriedly: "Wang Yingxiong usually goes to bed at about three o'clock, and we usually go to bed at about four o'clock. ”

Zhao Ru nodded again, and then pointed to the sketch and asked about the situation of Wang Yingxiong's mansion, and the sound of the four o'clock just sounded, and a group of more than ten people set off from the courtyard, and a few ups and downs came to the periphery of Wang Yingxiong's mansion.

They found a hidden corner behind Wang Yingxiong's mansion, silently climbed over the fence, and soon entered the back garden.

This back garden is not very big, there are not many flowers and trees, just a rockery and a pavilion are a little hidden, and there seems to be nothing to cover in other places, Zhao Ru borrowed some dim moonlight to quickly glance at it, and then pointed to the rockery near the backyard of the mansion, signaling everyone to go over and search.

A group of people grabbed a few patrols of the nursing home and soon came to the rockery, this rockery is a bit special, the middle is empty, and there is a set of stone tables and stone chairs inside, Zhao Ru looked at it a little and waved his hand to signal everyone to go inside to search.

Everyone quickly touched the inside and skillfully groped around, but, unfortunately, after groping for a while, everyone didn't find anything.

After a while, the sound of the watch sounded again, and everyone almost at the same time drew out the short blade that they carried, pinched the handle of the knife, and beat it around rhythmically with the sound of the watch.

This time there was finally a development, everyone knocked a few times, a black shadow suddenly jumped up from the ground and pointed to the ground under his feet, signaling that it was not normal, Ainengqi immediately quickly lay on the ground with his face on the ground, and knocked lightly on the last louder, and then he stood up with his hands dancing, obviously, it was empty underneath.

Everyone immediately surrounded them, touching and buckling, but unfortunately the stone slab on the ground was very large, and it almost fit the next few stone slabs, so they had no idea where to start.

Zhao Ru lay on the ground and groped carefully for a while, then stood up and pushed the rockery next to him, which seemed to have no effect, but he was keenly aware that there was a cylindrical mountain stone that seemed to be a little loose.

He held the stone pillar with both hands and pushed and turned and pulled, but there was still no reaction, but he was not discouraged, but patiently pressed against the stone pillar and groped up, Mo Suo for a while He finally found a small opening similar to a keyhole, this naturally did not bother him, he quickly took out a special thin wire and poked it in a few times, and the keyhole was quickly turned by him.

But the slate on the ground still didn't react, so what's going on?

He thought about it, then held the stone pillar with both hands and turned it left and right, and this time, the stone pillar was finally able to turn.

It's a pity that he turned around a few times, but the stone slab on the ground still didn't react at all, what is going on, is it a fake mechanism?

He stopped and thought about it and pushed the stone pillar hard, a little hard, but he could push it, he finally understood, this is not a moving mechanism, but something like a door lock, a chain lock, no wonder Wang Yingxiong dared to build the secret room in the back garden, if he hadn't received special training in Dongfan, he really couldn't open this thing.

He grabbed the stone pillar and pushed it hard, and sure enough, the stone slab on the ground was lifted, and when it was halfway through, the stone pillar happened to be on the stone table, and the door opened, and a dark hole appeared in front of everyone.

Ainengqi excitedly took out a special fire fold, gently blew the fire, and shone down, it was a downward step, he immediately flew down the steps without hesitation, and sure enough, there was a secret room below, and there were many chests of gold, silver and jewelry!