Sometimes, a person's personality is also influenced by the environment.

For example, if the people around you are humble and polite, and smile at each other every day, then the originally short-tempered person will also become gentle.

For example, if the people around you are irritable and insult and abuse at every turn, then the originally mild-tempered person will also become irritable.

Everything Zhang Bin did refreshed Chongzhen's perception of courtiers.

He volunteered to go to Fujian to exterminate the pirates, not only did he not want the imperial court to allocate a penny of food, but he only went for a few months, and got him more than a million taels of silver.

Moreover, according to his promise, in the future, the annual income of the city division will be nearly two million taels, which is almost half of the annual tax income of the entire Ming Dynasty, that is to say, he alone can bring him half of the Ming Dynasty's income!

Such a capable minister, where to find it.

Because of these, Chongzhen, who is suspicious by nature, actually has a little bit of trust in Zhang Bin at this time.

In such a desperate environment at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen can be said to be irritable every day, and it is really not easy to gain his trust.

This little bit of trust, of course, is not only based on this million taels, but also related to Zhang Bin's reporting to Chongzhen in every detail.

When he first arrived in Fujian, he convened the five major merchant gangs, raised two million taels of military expenses, and then gathered the guards to go to Yuegang to recruit Zheng Zhilong, and promoted Yu Chenglong and other generals on meritorious deeds, because Chen Eryi Yang Fengyin violated him and had to take it down, etc., Zhang Bin would write a letter every few days to let Chongzhen know what he was doing.

No, Chongzhen's decree that he asked him to send silver was only sent out a few days ago, and he sent another letter, but this time it was not a good thing, and this time there were other things attached to it.

In the middle of the play, he sent Wu Wenjie to Fujian on the order of Wei Zhongxian to make trouble, and then set up a Hongmen banquet to assassinate him, how could he catch him, and finally, when interrogating Wu Wenjie, he actually tried a major corruption case that affected almost the entire Fujian officialdom!

Fujian Chengxuan Political Envoy Wang Ruoji, Political Envoy to the Left, Political Envoy Guo Xiyu to the Right, Zhang Yiming, Punishment Envoy to Probation, and Chen Eryi, Commander of the Fujian Xingdu Division, were all promoted by Wei Zhongxian, and they continued to bribe Wei Zhongxian in order to be promoted and re-elected, and the amount involved was hundreds of thousands of taels!

Their money is placed there, the officials of Zhengerpin are less than 100 taels a month, where does so much money come from, it is not by corruption, the corruption income of officials at all levels of the Fujian Xingdu Division has been confiscated by Zhang Bin, adding up to hundreds of thousands of taels, which also proves from the side that Wang Ruoji, Guo Xiyu, and Zhang Yiming have corruption problems.

This reason must not be believed by Chongzhen, because there is also a confession of Wu Wenjie, the grandson of Wei Zhongxian's godgrandson and the son of Wu Chunfu, the secretary of the backbone of the eunuch party.

Finally, Zhang Bin also attached a proposal for the appointment and dismissal of officials.

He suggested that Bi Maokang, the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry of the Southern Capital, be promoted to the post of political envoy to the left of the Fujian Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, and to be promoted to the former Quanzhou prefect, and now Cai Shanji of the Quanzhou Patrol Sea Road was appointed as the political envoy of the Fujian Chengxuan Political Envoy Division.

These two people are honest and honest, diligent and capable officials, and they have both been belittled because they are unwilling to join the eunuchs, and they are not the kind of people who tend to be inflammatory.

As for reminding candidates for probation, Zhang Bin said frankly that after the eunuch party was rampant, it was really difficult to find a few officials like Bi Maokang and Cai Shanji who had both integrity and just the right qualifications, and he could not find a suitable candidate for this position.

In addition, there is also the problem of the management of the city's shipping department, it turned out that the four officials of the Fujian Municipal Shipping Division were in collusion to help Wei Zhongxian swallow the Ming Dynasty's taxes, and they have all been arrested, and now he is only temporarily appointing and dismissing a promotion and an official.

And the promotion of Wang Zheng was originally a push official, because of his outstanding achievements in the interrogation of Chen Eryi and Gao Cai, and the pursuit of dirty silver, he temporarily let Wang Zheng take charge of the city department, which is not a position that Wang Zheng is good at after all, he proposed to let Wang Zheng take up the post of punishment according to the prosecutor and envoy to take Cai Shan's succession to Quanzhou Patrol Channel, as for the promotion and deputy promotion of the city department, please also ask the emperor to decide.

Zhang Bin finally concluded that now that the new city of Yuegang has been built, and the army is also stepping up its preparation and drills, the pirates in Fujian will be exterminated next year, and then the Yuegang will definitely gather maritime merchants to bring a large amount of tax revenue to the Ming Dynasty.

As long as honest and honest officials can be promoted, Fujian will surely return to its former prosperity, and Yuegang will once again become the "southern treasury of the Son of Heaven."

Chongzhen closed the fold and thought about it for a long time.

Zhang Bin's meaning is very clear to him, that is, to replace all the main officials in Fujian with people he is familiar with, so that he can let go of his hands and feet to do a big job, exterminate the pirates in Fujian, and develop Yuegang.

If some corrupt officials like Wang Ruoji, Guo Xiyu, and Zhang Yiming are sent to restrain him everywhere, then the development of Fujian and even Yuegang will be affected, and I don't know if so many taxes can be collected at that time.

Will you agree to his request?

Chongzhen is notoriously suspicious, and he has another bad problem, that is, he likes to gamble, once he thinks he can win, he will bet wildly, and even bet his whole net worth up!

Like Yuan Chonghuan, who blew out the myth of Pingliao for five years, Chongzhen believed it, and immediately bet wildly, almost giving Yuan Chonghuan whatever he wanted, and even Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, and he endured such a big thing.

However, this gamble was lost in a mess for various reasons, and Huang Taiji even led the army directly to the capital, so angry that he directly cut Yuan Chonghuan with a thousand knives.

There is another bigger gamble, that is, Yang Sichang Chongzhen's ten-year proposal of "four positive six corners, ten sides of the net", to eliminate the peasant rebel army in one fell swoop!

Chongzhen also believed, for this reason he frantically increased the salary, training and salary, Chongzhen ten years, the Ming Dynasty's taxes skyrocketed to nearly 11 million taels, Chongzhen 12 years, it rose to an exaggerated 17 million taels, Chongzhen ten years to Chongzhen 12 years, the three years of taxes collected exceeded the total tax of the seven years of the Apocalypse Dynasty and nearly 10 million taels!

As a result, unfortunately, because Huang Taiji made trouble, he lost this big bet again!

In short, he likes to gamble, usually he doesn't believe in anyone, doubts everything, but once he thinks he can win, once he decides to bet, then, anything can be bet.

Zhang Bin's performance in the past few months made him convinced that as long as he was given enough support, he would be able to earn more than two million taels of tax silver from Fujian and Yuegang in a year, which is equivalent to nearly half of the tax revenue of the entire Ming Dynasty now, which is just the appointment and dismissal of several officials.

Chongzhen picked up the list suggested by Zhang Bin and said directly to Cao Huachun, who was standing aside: "Companion, according to this plan, dismiss Wang Ruoji, Guo Xiyu, and Zhang Yiming, and promote Bi Maokang, Cai Shanji, and Wang Zheng, and hand them over to the Ministry and the Cabinet after they are written, and let them send them out as soon as possible." ”

He was betting on Zhang Bin, and at the same time, he wanted to test it to see who else in the court officials dared to go against his will.

Wei Zhongxian is dead, if any of you still have a species, jump out and try it!