Bi Ziyan is an honest man, Chongzhen is quite clear about this, Bi Ziyan has never played right and wrong in front of him, and never interfered in the government affairs, he has done his own things conscientiously every day, and Bi Ziyan is also quite capable, if the bad finances of Daming had not been carefully coordinated by Bi Ziyan and carefully calculated, it is estimated that it would have collapsed long ago!

Bi Ziyan is also famous for his good temper, he hasn't even seen Bi Ziyan angry, he didn't expect Bi Ziyan to be so angry at this time, and he came here to complain!

What did this Zhang Jie Shi Fan do, even an honest person like Bi Ziyan was so angry!

Chongzhen was stunned for a while, and then he was surprised: "Jinghui, what's wrong with you, get up first." ”

When Bi Ziyan heard this, he struggled to get up from the ground, and then lifted up the thick stack of official documents, and said angrily: "Your Majesty, take a look, if the officials of the Ming Dynasty are like them, then I don't have to be the head of the household." ”

Chongzhen directly glanced at Wang Chengen, asked him to present the stack of official documents, and then opened it and looked at it seriously.

The top two seem to be normal, they are the official documents sent by Zhang Jie to the household department to urge the household department, urging the household department to quickly distribute the food and salary of the Fujian Navy Division and the Qi Jiajun.

But Chongzhen knew that this official document was very abnormal, because Zhang Bin had never asked the household department to bear the food and salary of the Fujian Navy Division and the Qi Family Army, and Zhang Jie also issued a notice to increase the Fujian taxes, which were enough to support the food and salary of the Fujian Navy Division and the Qi Family Army, but he also came to urge the Ministry of Households to quickly distribute the food and salary of the Fujian Navy Division and the Qi Family Army, what did he want to do after collecting those taxes?

Sure enough, there was an official document sent by the Ministry of Households to Fujian to report the political envoys, saying that Zhang Jie, the governor of Fuguang, and Shi Fan, the governor of Fujian, ordered an increase in taxes in Fujian, and that the collection was thirty percent, and he did not receive the document from the Ministry of Households, so he wanted to ask what was going on.

The official documents in the back are a bit messy, most of them are official documents from the Ministry of War asking for the transportation expenses of the post station, and the list and bills signed by officials at all levels when eating and living at the post station are also attached, and many bills are marked with a big red cross!

Chongzhen noticed that under these red crosses, without exception, all of them were signed and sealed by Zhang Jie and Shi Fan.

He looked at the amount on it again, his face immediately became extremely ugly, a meal is a few hundred taels, and each post station asked for two hundred taels of carriage and horses, from the capital to Fujian, this way down, the cost of silver is more than 10,000 taels!

These two guys, are you going to eat Daming?

If every official is like them, Daming's annual tax revenue of 50 million taels is not enough, because there are tens of thousands of local officials at all levels in Daming, and basically all of them serve in different places.

The last few are the records of the words and deeds of Zhang Jie and his party in Fujian, and the beginning is basically a sentence, the former governor Zhang Bin strictly practiced frugality, stipulating that all post stations in Fuguang should not be extravagant and wasteful, no matter who they receive, at most three dishes and one soup, otherwise they should be punished with bribery.

This is a good official, not only is he honest, but he also stipulates that all officials under him are not extravagant and wasteful, and the three dishes and one soup are also poking at Chongzhen's itch, because his lunch and dinner are three dishes and one soup, he thinks this is very good, he can save money, but he can eat enough, and he can't help but add a few points to Zhang Bin's good impression.

However, Zhang Jie and Shi Fan's words and deeds in the back were angry, they really wanted to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, they really asked for chicken, duck and fish, they actually said that three dishes and one soup were fed to dogs, they were to send beggars, and eating three dishes and one soup was a brain disease!

Chongzhen suddenly felt that Zhang Jie and Shi Fan were scolding him, scolding him for being a dog, scolding him for being a beggar, and scolding him for having a sick brain!

What's more, if others don't give it to them, they will reprimand and scold them at every turn, and they also threaten to remove others from their posts and let people get out!

It is simply unreasonable, Chongzhen slapped the table angrily and scolded: "Shameless, such abuse of power, extravagance and waste, eating and taking cards, do they really have no royal law!" ”

Bi Ziyan was indignant and said: "Your Majesty, these are not the most terrible, extravagance and waste, eating and taking cards are just a waste of tens of thousands of taels, and the most terrible thing is to expropriate and extort violently, filling your own pockets!" ”

Chongzhen was shocked: "What did you say? ”

Bi Ziyan said solemnly: "Your Majesty, Fujian has added 30% of the tax, and Weichen has never let his subordinates issue this kind of official document, Weichen is brave, may I ask the emperor, have you ever made this kind of will?" ”

Chongzhen hurriedly shook his head and said, "Of course I wouldn't make such a will, isn't this forcing people to rebel!" ”

Bi Ziyan nodded coldly and said: "Weichen knows that the emperor will not let them be so tyrannical, they are inheriting the legacy of the eunuch party and preparing to bring disaster to the country and the people." ”

Disaster to the country and the people, this is quite serious, Chongzhen hurriedly asked: "Jinghui, what do you mean by this, what is inheriting the legacy of the eunuch party and preparing to bring disaster to the country and the people?" ”

Bi Ziyan is also out of the way, he wants to risk his life to stab the remnants of the eunuch party, he wants to poke a hole in the sky, and he wants to stab Wen Tiren, the bastard, is sleeping!

His face was straight, and he said impassionedly: "Your Majesty, do you know? Chongzhen three years, the eunuch party against the case hastily ended, I don't know how many eunuch remnants are still hidden in the court, this tax three achievements are Wei Zhongxian set the rules, the rampant corruption of the eunuch party is simply appalling, these three percent is only the people above, they themselves have to be corrupt, their subordinates are also corrupt, the general eunuch tax envoy, the tax will reach at least fifty percent. At that time, as long as Wei Zhongxian heard that where there was money and where he was rich, he would send tax envoys to collect taxes, these eunuchs took the secret claims, they couldn't understand one, they collected fifty percent, and less than half of what was paid to the imperial court, and the rest all went into Wei Zhongxian and their own pockets, but if the people couldn't pay evenly, they would slander the people for resisting taxes, forcing the machine owners to shut down, the kiln owners to shut down, the salt workers to resist taxes, the miners to riot, and the citizens to boycott the market. I don't know how many people have been forced to break up by their wives and families! ”

"Ahh , Chongzhen doubted: "Is it so serious, why haven't I heard of it?" ”

Bi Ziyan went out anyway, he did not shy away from saying: "Your Majesty, what the eunuchs are best at is to deceive the heavens, the Apocalypse Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian's tax envoy, no one in the government and the opposition does not know, but the first emperor does not know, such as Cui Wensheng, the governor of the river, Xu Zhiji, the deputy of Dali Temple, Cao Qincheng, the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, Li Shi, the weaving lieutenant, etc., are countless, these people will scrape the ground every time they go to a place, and the people are angry and resentful, and the people will not stop if they are not happy!" Although the Shaanxi people's uprising, Suzhou's people's uprising, and Yunnan's people's uprising in the Apocalypse Dynasty all had a reason, the root cause was because the eunuch party tax made the tyrannical collection and extortion of the people, forcing the people to have no way to live, so they would disregard their lives and confront the imperial court! ”

These Chongzhen had vaguely heard of it, but it seemed that they were all people resisting taxes and gathering people to rebel, and no one had told him that these were all caused by tyranny and extortion, and he was still a little skeptical: "Is the corruption of the eunuch party really so rampant?" ”

The reason why he purged the eunuch party was not because the eunuch party was seriously corrupt, but because Wei Zhongxian was powerful and intended to rebel, his father, brother and several nephews all died in vain, and he didn't want to take any more immortal medicine to die violently, so he set the eunuch rebellion case, that is to say, the eunuch party rebellion, not the eunuch corruption case.

He really didn't know how serious the corruption of the eunuch party was, because Wei Zhongxian committed suicide directly in fear of crime, and he didn't even have the opportunity to interrogate, and the dirty silver of the eunuch party also disappeared with Wei Zhongxian's death, and he didn't even find one or two.

Wei Zhongxian has covered the sky with one hand for so many years, there are more than ten mansions in the capital, and there are tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land in the suburbs of Beijing, it is absolutely impossible to say that one or two pieces of silver are not greedy, but unfortunately, he just didn't find the silver, so he didn't know how serious the corruption of the eunuch party was.

Bi Ziyan saw that Chongzhen was still suspicious at this time, so he had to explain helplessly: "Other places don't dare to say that it's true, but there is something that Weichen can vouch for with his head, which is absolutely true." At the beginning, Weichen was demoted to the southern capital to serve as the head of the household department, but it was precisely because he was not used to the corruption of the eunuch party that he resigned in anger. At that time, in order to please Wei Zhongxian, Fan Jishi, the imperial history of Jiangdu, said that the treasury of the imperial horse supervisor of the Taifu Temple in the southern capital had accumulated more than 100,000 taels of silver, and Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed when he heard the news, and sent his adopted son Hu Liangfu to the Taifu Temple in the southern capital to ask for more than one million taels of silver. Where did the imperial horse supervisor of the Taifu Temple in the southern capital get a million taels of silver, and as a result, Hu Liangfu didn't get a tael of silver, so he went back to Wei Zhongxian and made a suggestion to sell the pasture of the imperial horse supervisor of the Taifu Temple in the southern capital to offset the million taels of silver. The pasture of the Imperial Horse Supervisor of the Taifu Temple in the Southern Capital is where the Ming Dynasty cultivates war horses, and most of the forage for the cavalry during the war is also supplied by it, if it is sold, it will not break the legs of my Ming Iron Horse! Weichen strongly objected, but the grassland was finally sold by Wei Zhongxian, in order to corrupt one million taels, regardless of the safety of the Ming Dynasty, they sold the grassland of the imperial horse supervisor of the Taifu Temple in the southern capital, so that the imperial court could no longer produce war horses, and the price of war horses also skyrocketed, and the soldiers in each town were equipped with fewer and fewer war horses. ”

When Chongzhen heard this, his face turned green, the reason why the anti-thieves in the northwest could not be exterminated also had a lot to do with the war horses, because the imperial army was not matched with three steps and seven steps, and the anti-thieves were more than four steps and six horses, and the ratio of war horses was almost half of that of others.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but say coldly: "What do you mean, Zhang Jie and Shi Fan are the remnants of the eunuch party?" ”

Bi Ziyan nodded affirmatively and said: "Absolutely, their corruption methods are exactly the same as those of the eunuchs, these thirty percent is just the beginning, if they are not controlled, they will gain an inch, and they will collect more and more, until they provoke a popular uprising, and they will say that they are rebelling against taxes and taxes!" For more than 200 years since the Ming Dynasty was established, why did not Diao the people resist taxes and rebel, until the Wanli Dynasty, the eunuch tax envoys levied everywhere and extorted violently, which caused continuous changes among the people everywhere. When it comes to the Apocalypse Dynasty, it is not called the people to change, but directly calls the people to resist taxes and rebel, and the people who are forced to rebel are really reversed, but they have nothing to do, at this time, they still want to repeat the old tricks and continue to expropriate and expropriate, Your Majesty, you can't let the remnants of the eunuch party continue to plague the country and the people! ”

As soon as Chongzhen heard this, he immediately felt a little displeased, what he was most disgusted with was that the minister pointed fingers in front of him, telling him that he couldn't do this, he had to do that, I am the king of a country, do you still need to teach!

Wang Chengen, who had not spoken next to him, saw Chongzhen's expression, and hurriedly put on the most humble appearance, and cautiously arched his hand: "Your Majesty, Weichen suddenly thought of something, and I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

Chongzhen is not annoyed by this, as long as you follow his hair, he will not be angry, Wang Chengen did this very well, he felt a feeling of being respected from the bottom of his heart, so he nodded without hesitation: "Let's talk about it." ”

Wang Chengen said respectfully: "Weichen remembered Wang An, the eldest prince in the palace at the end of Wanli, at that time, Wei Zhongxian was just a little eunuch, without any authority, the prince appreciated him quite a lot, and slowly promoted him to be a steward eunuch, but as long as Wei Zhongxian wanted to play something, the prince would stop or even punish him, so Wei Zhongxian did not become a scourge at that time." Later, in the early years of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian gradually gained the trust of the first emperor by virtue of the favor of the Hakka family in front of the first emperor, and he let the Hakka slander the prince in front of the first emperor, causing the prince to be confiscated into Nanhaizi, and then he sent someone to Nanhaizi to kill the prince, so far, he was no longer controlled, so he became lawless, and finally caused the disaster of the eunuch party. ”

He meant to tell Chongzhen, treacherous ministers, if you don't care, they will get an inch and get worse, but he didn't say it explicitly, just told it as a story, and it was a story related to the eunuchs.

When Chongzhen heard this, he pondered for a while and figured out that the remnants of the eunuch party must be managed, and if they are allowed to do mischief, it will definitely cause a catastrophe.

At this time, his mood was different, because these were things he came up with on his own, not how others taught him how to do them.

Bi Ziyan was still a little angry at the beginning, he was here to persuade the emperor to clean up the remnants of the eunuch party, a eunuch dared to interject, if it wasn't for the emperor in front of him, he would have to scold the eunuch angrily, but he never thought that Wang Chengen would suddenly tell the story, and listening to the meaning of this story, he was still hinting to the emperor that he wanted to clean up the remnants of the eunuch party!

Bi Ziyan was muttering there, but Chongzhen suddenly waved his hand and said, "Jinghui, you go down first." ”

Immediately afterwards, he said to Wang Chengen: "Chengen, you go and ask Wen Tiren to come over." ”

What does the emperor mean by this, is he going to clean up the remnants of the eunuch party?

Bi Ziyan went down with doubts, but Wang Chengen walked towards Wenyuan Pavilion with a hard head.

Chongzhen really wants to clean up the remnants of the eunuch party, and he has already become suspicious of Wen Tiren, because things in Fujian are too weird.

Wen Tiren said that Zhang Bin engaged in Fujian's anger and resentment, and the people were not happy, but judging from Wang Chengen's description, this was not the case at all, but the governor of Fuguang and the governor of Fujian recommended by Wen Tiren had a big problem.

By all indications, these two people are the remnants of the eunuch party!

Chongzhen has begun to wonder if Wen Tiren is a remnant of the eunuch party?