Chapter 57: Fang Yuegong is impeached
"Cheng Guogong, can this still work?" Zhou Kui hesitated.
At that time, the most favored by the emperor were the queen, Tian Guifei and Yuan Guifei, among which the emperor favored Tian Guifei the most. But Tian Guifei and the queen were not in harmony, and Tian Guifei gave birth to a prince, bribed the eunuch and palace maid who served Tian Guifei, poisoned the five princes born to Tian Guifei, and then used the mouth of the palace maid to say that it was Empress Dowager Li who was fighting for Li Guorui, the descendant of her mother's family, so she gave illness to the five princes.
"What's not going to work?" Zhu Chunchen said, "After Tian Guifei died, Yuan Guifei and the queen competed for favor, and Yuan Guifei had such a daughter as Princess Zhaoren, if Princess Zhaoren died, who would dare to fight with the queen in the future?" ”
"Then Li Guorui is the descendant of Empress Dowager Li, but Xu Yunzhen is only a descendant of Xu Da, and it is not appropriate to poison the princess in the name of a courtier, right?"
"Guozhang, you are confused, isn't Xu Da's eldest daughter Queen Renxiao, the emperor doesn't treat the descendants of the Xu family well, and Queen Renxiao can't stand it, so he condemns Princess Zhaoren."
"Hmm," Zhou Kui suddenly realized and nodded.
"The household department has already attacked Dingguo Gong, let's arrange it tonight"
The news that Nanjing and Hangzhou were captured by the Qing army has been transmitted back to Beijing in detail, Yangzhou was slaughtered, 400,000 troops in Nanjing and Hangzhou surrendered without a fight, the Qing army asked Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changshu to hand over 50,000 young and beautiful women, 20 million taels of silver, Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changshu ordered the army to rob the property of the beauties of the people, a small part of which was handed over to the Qing army, and more Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changshu enjoyed it themselves, and the tragedy of the Song Dynasty was staged again in the Ming Dynasty!
In addition, there is definite news that 200,000 Qing troops have gone north, and they may go north to attack the capital in the near future!
"Bastard Zhu Yousong, Zhu Changshu!" Chongzhen was furious in the court, "Emperor Taizu couldn't bear the people to be oppressed by the Mongols, so he raised troops to expel Hulu, restore China, establish Chen Ji, and relieve the people, and Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changshu These scum, with an army of 400,000 but surrendered to the 200,000 Qing demons, greedy for life and afraid of death to rob the people, what face do you have to face the ancestors and ancestors!" ”
"Emperor Taizu expelled Hu Lu and restored China; Emperor Chengzu conquered Mobei twice, and captured the Northern Yuan general Solin Timur, what a great achievement, Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changshu actually learned Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, and they were shameless! Ni Yuanlu also said indignantly, "Your Majesty, the precedent of the Song Dynasty is in front of you, and Weichen suggested sending a cavalry to ambush the Qing army on the way north, looking for an opportunity to annihilate it." ”
"Well, that's reasonable, Hubu Shangshu, your national food has come to that point? How much grain and horses have been collected?"
When Fang Yuegong heard the emperor call him, he hurriedly stood up and replied, "Your Majesty, Weichen has ordered the household department to set up porridge points in various places, and the merchants and wealthy households in the city have completed fundraising, and the emperor's relatives and officials are collecting donations. ”
"Why don't the emperor's relatives and officials take the lead?"
"Your Majesty, because the residences of the emperor's relatives and officials are relatively large, it will take some time for the dismissal and fundraising."
This Fang Yuegong is really good at talking, and forcing the donation to be said to be a fundraiser.
"Your household department should speed up the time, the royal relatives should also move quickly, the dismissed female dependents will be settled in logistics, and all the men will be incorporated into the militia! These people, the military department must be settled! ”
"Yes!"
"Anything else? If it's okay, just retreat! ”
"Your Majesty, the ministers have something to do"
Chongzhen was about to retire from the dynasty, and when he heard someone say that there was still something to do, he looked at it and saw that it was Guang Shiheng.
"What?" Chongzhen despised this person very much, but he didn't have a chance to attack him, except for surrendering, he didn't make any mistakes, most of the officials who surrendered were retained in the court, and they couldn't talk about it when they were all taken in the name of surrender.
"Weichen heard that the Duchess of Dingguo died of anger last night because the household department forced the donation too much."
"Oh, no wonder I didn't see Dingguo Gong today, you go to condolence for me."
Guang Shiheng vomited blood, he discussed with Chengguo Gong, originally wanted to impeach Fang Yuegong, the secretary of the household department, but the emperor lightly asked him to condole!
"Your Majesty, Weichen wants to impeach the household department Shangshu Fang Yue Gong, forcibly donating to the descendants of the meritorious heroes, so that the descendants of the meritorious heroes died, the emperor, Xu Yunzhen is the first meritorious descendant of the founding of this dynasty Wu Ning, Wu Ning Rong Ma life, the king of Zhongshan, worthy of the Taimiao, the portrait of the meritorious temple, for the Ming Dynasty to establish an immortal meritorious service forced to donate the hearts of the people, Taizu for the reward of Wu Ning, the Duke of Wei Dingguo, hereditary replacement. And now, the head of the household has asked Dingguo Gong to donate all the food and property, what is the difference between this and copying the house! If this continues, the soldiers will be cold, and the soldiers will be cold, how to fight! ”
"This decision to eat the whole people together and donate all the civil and military officials of the emperor's relatives and the country was proposed by me, do you mean that I am wrong? Xu Da has been fighting horses all his life, making great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, Taizu was named the king of Zhongshan, and the prince of Wei Guogong, so many rewards, isn't it enough? The country is currently in crisis, if Xu Da is still in the world, Xu Da will also voluntarily donate to relieve the crisis for the country, and never be Cao Hong! ”
Cao Hong is a person in the Three Kingdoms period, rich but stingy, Cao Pi borrowed money from him when he was young, he refused to borrow, and later Cao Pi became the emperor, looking for a crime to put Cao Hong in prison, and later someone pleaded to avoid being a concubine.
Chongzhen deliberately proposed Cao Hong, just to tell other imperial relatives that if you don't donate it and don't cooperate, Cao Hong will be your end!
Guang Shiheng didn't expect Chongzhen to stop all the responsibility, the emperor used to cherish the most feathers, any official was impeached, the emperor would shift the responsibility to others, the most unjust of which was Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, after the defeat of the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin, the Ming Dynasty was in a difficult situation both internally and externally, Chongzhen let Chen Xinjia and Houjin negotiate peace, but he didn't expect the peace to be leaked out, public opinion was in an uproar, Chongzhen pushed all the peace matters on Chen Xinjia, and then killed him.
Guang Shiheng thought, now that Mrs. Xu of the Dingguo Mansion is dead, and Cheng Guogong comes to him to impeach the Hubu Shangshu, and the matter of the whole people eating together and forcing donations is making a big fuss, then the emperor will put the responsibility on Fang Yuegong, the secretary of the household department, because he is afraid of taking the charge.
But now, the emperor has taken the responsibility on his shoulders!
"Hubu Shangshu, but you forced you to donate too much?" Chongzhen asked Fang Yuegong.
Fang Yuegong quickly understood what the emperor meant, "Enlighten the emperor, after the emperor issued the policy, Weichen considered that the emperor's relatives and ministers had too many relatives and property, so they asked them to donate after they were ready, but after Weichen asked the people to donate, the emperor's relatives and relatives had not donated a cent, nor had they dismissed the domestic servants, so every day tens of thousands of people gathered around the household government to supervise, and the ministers had to go to the Dingguo Mansion with the people to start fundraising. ”
Well, Chongzhen is very satisfied, the ball has been kicked to tens of thousands of people and the emperor, see what else you can say about Guang Shiheng.