After admitting his mistake to the Empress Dowager Cisheng, the way to borrow money from the emperor's relatives was naturally cut off. Since the emperor couldn't borrow money from the emperor's relatives, the first assistant naturally couldn't borrow money from the ministers. Since the emperor's relatives can't come up with money, how can the ministers have money? Could it be that the ministers of the Jokhang court are all corrupt and pervert the law? Otherwise, how could they have so much money? If they do come up with the money, isn't that tantamount to announcing to everyone that I have a financial problem?

Therefore, the plan to use "donations" to survive the financial crisis has completely failed. Now it can only last one day and count as one day.

Faced with such a situation, Emperor Chongde couldn't help but feel resentment towards several people. Among these people, the first one is Xue Bingting, not only because Wang Dehua found out that Xue Bingting was corrupt, but also because the matter of "happy donation" was thought up by Xue Bingting, and even Li Guorui's goal was determined by Xue Bingting. As a result, this operation not only failed to get him money, but instead caused the "Nine Lotus Bodhisattva" incident, which made him die a son in vain and lose face in front of the world. Although he knew about this "Nine Lotus Bodhisattva", which Xue Bingting couldn't predict, it didn't prevent Emperor Chongde from being angry with him.

There is another person who also makes Emperor Chongde a little dissatisfied, and that is the palm seal eunuch Wang Dehua. Generally speaking, when a eunuch has already served as a palm seal eunuch, the emperor will not let him continue to serve as the eunuch of the Dongchang Admiral. It's just that Emperor Chongde trusts Wang Dehua very much, and he feels that although Cao Huachun, who is a possible successor, is loyal, he seems to be a little too simple, and he is afraid that he will be easily deceived by those traitors, so he has always let Wang Dehua serve as the East Factory. Now it seems that Wang Dehua alone can't afford these two burdens - if he had been better at you, how could Li Guorui have died in prison? If Li Guorui hadn't died, then he wouldn't have come to the "Nine Lotus Bodhisattva", and maybe Ahri would still have money......

However, Wang Dehua's loyalty is still capable, and he still believes it. Therefore, Emperor Chongde decided to let him give up the position of the eunuch of the Dongchang Admiral and hand it over to Cao Huachun.

As for Xue Bingting......

"Corrupt officials should be damned!" Emperor Chongde said to himself.

Emperor Chongde was about to ask the eunuch to find Wang Dehua and Cao Huachun, but he heard a report from outside that the queen and Tian Guifei were coming together.

Emperor Chongde was a little puzzled, generally speaking, when he was dealing with government affairs in the Qianqing Palace, the concubines would not take the initiative to disturb him, and now the queen and Concubine Tian came together, which was obviously very unusual.

"Is something bad going on?" Emperor Chongde's heart pounded.

The queen and Concubine Tian came in, and Concubine Tian kowtowed to him, kneeling on the ground and not getting up. The queen said:

"Your Majesty, there were two more accidents in Chengqian Palace today, and the concubine came to show your majesty and ask for the decree to be issued."

Emperor Chongde was taken aback when he heard this, glared at Concubine Tian and asked, "What is the accident?" ”

Concubine Tian choked up and said: "The concubine is deeply sinful, and God has punished her, and some ominous things are in the palace of the concubine." Since Ahri's death, his nursing mother has been delirious and often cries, and recently went home for treatment, but she did not expect to hang herself on the fifth watch today. Less than half a day after her family reported her death by hanging herself to the palace of the concubines, the two palace maids who had served Cihuan also hanged themselves. ”

This incident is very unusual, there has never been a case of three people committing suicide in half a day like this in the palace, and Emperor Chongde suspects that there must be something strange here. looked at Concubine Tian for a moment, and felt that it didn't seem to have anything to do with her. Changing to the queen, he asked, "Queen, you are the master of the harem, what do you think of this matter?" ”

Queen Zhou owes herself and says: "Your Majesty, the concubines feel that the nurse has raised Ahri for five years, and she belongs to the monarch and ministers, and she is like a mother and son." Once Ahri died, she was grief and despair, and she died for it, and she should be committed. As for the two palace maids, it should be like this. ”

Speaking of this, Queen Zhou paused, and said: "After all, they are Ahri's nurse and close attendant, and they share weal and woe with Ahri, so there should be no other reason for this matter." ”

Although Emperor Chongde still had some doubts in his heart, he also knew that this matter should not be investigated deeply, so he nodded and said: "What you said is very true, just commend them, and you can deal with this matter." ”

Empress Zhou responded, and retreated with Concubine Tian.

After Zhou Hou and Concubine Tian left, Emperor Chongde called Wang Dehua and Cao Huachun, instructed Wang Dehua to concentrate on the affairs of the ceremonial supervisor in the future, handed over the affairs of Dongchang to Cao Huachun, and encouraged him a few words, and let Wang Dehua go down first. Then he said to Cao Huachun: "Cao Banban, some people say that Xue Bingting is corrupt and perverts the law. This matter is not trivial, now that you have taken over the East Factory, you will investigate this case for me, and help me dig out all the money that this moth has embezzled! ”

Cao Huachun knelt down to accept the order, and then went too.

Emperor Chongde sighed, he knew that there must be something corrupt in Xue Bingting, to be honest, Emperor Chongde also knew that there was really no minister like Hai Gangfeng in the court now. If you really want to check, one counts as one, and all of them have problems. Of course, he hated corrupt officials, but at this time, he inexplicably had such a thought: "It would be great if Xue Bingting was a big corrupt official like Yan Weizhong!" ”

Yan Weizhong was the first assistant a few decades ago, and when he fell, a total of more than 30,000 taels of gold and nearly 3 million taels of silver were seized from his home.

"If you have so much money, you can take it easy."

However, Emperor Chongde also knew that Xue Bingting would definitely not have so much money there, not that he believed that Xue Bingting was more disciplined than Yan Weizhong, but because Yan Weizhong had been the first assistant for fourteen years, and Xue Bingting had only been the first assistant for three years, where could he get so much money?

"I only hope that Mr. Yang can eliminate Zhang Bingzhong as soon as possible." Emperor Chongde could only think like this.

Emperor Chongde waved his hand to let Cao Huachun leave, but saw that Wang Dehua had actually returned.

"What's wrong?" Emperor Chongde asked.

"Your Majesty!" Wang Dehua knelt down and reported the good news first, "Governor Yang sent back the good news, and the official army broke Zhang Bingzhong in Agate Mountain and beheaded more than 2,000 ranks. captured many wives and concubines of Zhang Bingzhong. Governor Yang is mobilizing his officers and troops to pursue the victory in order to annihilate them completely. ”

When Emperor Chongde heard this, he said with joy: "I know that Mr. Yang is reliable!" Or Mr. Yang is reliable! ”

lowered his head, but saw that Wang Dehua's face didn't seem to be happy, so he knew that there must be something else, so he asked again: "Is there anything else?" ”

"Your Majesty," Wang Dehua's voice trembled a little, "Huang Zide came out of Shangluo Mountain, and did not go south, he just shook a shot to the south, and then ......"

"Where did Huang Zide run to?" Emperor Chongde stood up suddenly.

"Huang Zide came to Henan." Wang Dehua said, "Huang Zide first attacked Song County, Song County was defenseless, and Huang Zide was drummed down, and the county order and others were all lost. Huang Zide, the thief, let people take the seal letter of Song County, pretended to be a helper, deceived the city gate of Ruzhou, and then occupied Ruzhou. ”

"Huang Zide occupies Ruzhou? Has it been verified? Emperor Chongde asked, he knew that if this news was true, it would be really troublesome. Part of the main army of the imperial court is now in Liaodong, which cannot be moved; Then part of it was in Huguang, where Zhang Bingzhong was being suppressed; There is also a part in Shaanxi, guarding against Huang Zide. Nowadays, the entire Central Plains region is very empty. There were few troops that could be mobilized immediately. And this year Henan is a drought again, the local disaster report is full of people, Henan is now full of displaced people, Huang Zide even if there are few people, as long as he enters Henan, in a blink of an eye, he can be wrapped up tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 people. When the time comes, how much will it cost to suppress them?

"Your Majesty, it's been verified." Wang Dehua said, "The yellow thieves occupied Ruzhou, and they also sent a letter to other places, claiming that they wanted to 'hang the people and cut down crimes', and there were many rebellious words. ”

When Emperor Chongde saw that the news was confirmed, he couldn't help but feel weak in his legs, so he sat down in his chair and didn't speak for a long time.

"Your Majesty......" Wang Dehua whispered.

"The ministers all know, right?" Emperor Chongde asked.

"Mr. Fan, Mr. Zhang, Mr. Chen, and Fu Bingbu are already there." Wang Dehua replied.

"Immediately drive the Wuying Palace......"

……

In the Wuying Palace, several ministers kowtowed, and Emperor Chongde gave them a seat. When they sat down, the emperor immediately asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, you should already know about Ruzhou, right?" I don't know what to do about this? ”

Ministers, you look at me, I look at you, but they don't speak.

Emperor Chongde knew that these people were worried about saying too much and making more mistakes. He directly named him: "Mr. Fan, now that you are the first assistant, what do you think should be done?" ”

Since Fan Fuchun entered the cabinet, he has always adopted the Buddhist system as an official, that is, the emperor agrees with what he says, and everyone agrees with what he says, and never makes a head bird, therefore, some crazy students in Jiangnan even compared him to Wang Gui of the Song Dynasty and called him "the old man of the Three Decree Pavilion".

But the Buddhist system of official law is indeed effective, those officials are bigger than him, one by one because of ineffective work or some other reason, only he, although he has no credit, but has never made any mistakes, and is not annoying, with seniority slowly promoted. Now as soon as the former Shoufu Xue Bingting had an accident, he actually became the Shoufu. Now that the emperor has asked a question, he still follows the old habit, planning to see what everyone says, and then see what the emperor says, and then just follow everyone's meaning, but I didn't expect that the emperor actually called his name directly.

"Old minister...... The old minister ......," Fan Fuchun said hurriedly, "The old minister thinks that all localities should be strictly ordered to strengthen their precautions and not give the yellow thieves a chance to take advantage of them...... Other than that...... In addition, it is necessary to quickly mobilize the army to suppress it. ”

"Where to mobilize the army for repression? Where does the money come from to mobilize the army? Emperor Chongde asked.

"Minister...... The minister ......" Fan Fuchun's forehead began to sweat, "The minister thinks that he can ...... Troops were transferred from Huguang...... Or transfer Liu Zeqing from Shandong and Liu Liangzuo from Anhui...... As for the opening of the silver, the old minister felt that he should ask the household department ......"

Fan Fuchun hurriedly flew up and kicked the ball to the feet of Tobe Shangshu and Chen Fasheng, a scholar of Dongge University.