As soon as the princess came out, she easily defused the aggressive offensive of Shi Kefa and Huang Daozhou. The aftermath work was handled in an orderly and well-founded manner, and he did not forget to buy people's hearts in the capital for Fang Yuan, which won the praise of the people.

Fang Yuan was greatly satisfied when he saw it, and secretly praised it, this is the real legendary virtuous helper!

Chongzhen and Queen Zhou on the Chengtian Gate glanced at each other, and Queen Zhou sighed, "Jiao'er has the grace of the world, and I am ashamed of myself." ”

Chongzhen was silent, and deep down in his heart, he was extremely conflicted, hoping that Fang Yuan would ruthlessly clean up these officials and breathe a sigh of relief for his more than ten years of nests. However, he was worried that Fang Yuan had completely controlled the situation in the capital, so there was no need for him to exist.

Shi Kefa and Huang Dao looked at each other, they came with great momentum, but they were dissolved by the princess who came forward and understated, so they could only be speechless.

The princess announced the punishment of Mrs. Yuan and Fang Zhenghua in public, and said in a deep voice, "The Regent Palace's palace did not protect its shortcomings and enforced the law impartially. Next, Ma Yishan and Luo Yangxing, you two should do things in accordance with each other! ”

Shi Kefa and Huang Daozhou seemed to have come to make trouble, but in fact, they helped Fang Yuan and lifted a stone to shoot themselves in the foot!

Luo Yangxing got the princess's order, and hurriedly shouted, "Starting from Fan Jingwen, a scholar of the cabinet and a scholar of the Ministry of Industry, according to the size of the official rank, I came to report the donated family property one by one. ”

Fang Zheng incarnated as the eunuch of the ceremony, and Mrs. Yuan, as the biological mother of the prince regent, was also punished according to the law because of the incident of Chen Sesame and rotten grain many years ago, and the hundred officials were immediately solemn, where would they dare to have a fluke mentality?

Baiguan had privately obtained Zhou Jian's promise before, as long as half of the family wealth was handed over, it would be considered a pass. These words could not be said in public, but they could only be known by heart, and one by one they honestly came to Jinyiwei and wrote down the donated silver, land, and real estate.

Jin Yiwei is also waiting for the battle, one by one the amount of donated silver and the number of reports and revelations in the impermanence book, once it is found that there is a big discrepancy, or did not donate half of the silver, family property, Jin Yiwei will be arrested on the spot and taken back to the edict for strict interrogation.

At the beginning, these officials still had the idea of not ruling the people, and they had a fluke mentality, anyway, in the list of reports and exposures, there may not be their own children, and they should donate as little as possible. Until Jin Yiwei arrested more than ten people in a row and returned to the prison, there was also a cabinet scholar Xie Sheng, four or five high-ranking officials at the level of Jiuqing and Shilang. Only then did he know that Fang Yuan would not pay attention to any law and rule the people, and how many people who came to hit the muzzle of the gun would all be killed.

Even the cabinet scholars and Jiuqing have to be arrested and interrogated, what luck can they have? And the psychology of this gambling size is looking for death, even if no one reports and exposes it today, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will report it in the future, and if you can escape the first day of junior high school, you can still escape the fifteenth?

After a whole day of counting, three or four hundred officials, large and small, finally all donated silver, and after Ma Yishan counted the amount, the total amount of silver was 7.36 million taels, 630,000 mu of land, and 767 real estates.

Fang Yuan personally went to Chengtianmen and reported the results of this donation of silver to Emperor Chongzhen.

Chongzhen called on hundreds of officials to donate silver before, and cried with a handful of snot and tears, and only got 20,000 taels of silver. Now that Fang Yuan came, coercion and temptation, under the premise of donating only half of the family property to pass the customs, hundreds of officials donated such a large sum of silver, land, and real estate, which was a slap in the face alive!

Chongzhen was so angry that he almost spurted blood, his hands were trembling, and he said in a trembling voice, "I'm so angry!" I'm so angry! These rebels and thieves, rebels and thieves! ”

Fang Yuan saw that he had placed the name of the chaotic minister and thief directly on the heads of the hundred officials, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, this is just the corruption of the court officials, and what about the inner court?!" I'm afraid it's more than that, can Your Majesty allow your ministers to clean up the inner court thoroughly?! ”

Cleaning up the inner court is extremely sensitive, and it also involves infringing on imperial power and Chongzhen's attitude, Fang Yuan will not act rashly without asking Chongzhen's permission.

Chongzhen was skeptical of his words, and was even more worried that after he took the opportunity to clean up the inner court, the imperial power would be completely hollowed out, and said in surprise, "This, the eunuchs of the inner court have more silver?!" ”

Regardless of whether Chongzhen believes it or not, historical records have long proved that after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the silver he tortured on the eunuchs would not be less than that of the officials. In terms of corruption alone, there is no essential difference between eunuchs and officials. The only difference is that the eunuchs are attached to the imperial power, perhaps more loyal to Chongzhen than the officials.

Although Fang Yuan is known as the eunuch party, he is now looking for money on a case-by-case basis, preparing for war, and preparing to recover Liaodong, of course, he will not let go of the fat sheep of the eunuchs.

Fang Yuan said slowly, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Silver, is the eunuch in charge?" Is the income of the royal field in Gyeonggi managed by eunuchs? Is the cost of the palace managed by eunuchs? With so much fat and so many years, Your Majesty thinks that the eunuchs have not filled their pockets?! Of course, it doesn't include the jewels and jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings smuggled out of the palace by the eunuchs for resale, these together are not astronomical amounts? ”

Chongzhen said, "But the amount of the emperor's silver treasury, I am checking it at any time!" ”

Fang Yuan asked rhetorically, "Your Majesty went to the silver treasury to verify the physical object?" Do you know that what the eunuchs handed over to His Majesty is just the number of accounts, how much is the difference between it and the real silver?! ”

Chongzhen said hesitantly, "I have never carefully verified. ”

Fang Yuan continued, "Your Majesty still remembers that Emperor Yongle, Emperor Jiajing, and Emperor Wanli have all been hit by Heavenly Fire, and Emperor Wanli has encountered it twice. burned down the Qianqing Palace, Kunning Palace, and the three major halls were all burned down! Does Your Majesty really think it's a heavenly fire? ”

Chongzhen asked in a daze, "What is it not Tianhuo?" ”

Fang Yuan said lightly, "Since it is a heavenly fire, why is there no heavenly fire between Emperor Yongle and Emperor Jiajing, after one hundred and thirty years." During the period of Emperor Jiajing and Emperor Wanli, there was a sudden and dense appearance of heavenly fire. As for Your Majesty, there has been no heavenly fire for sixty years?! According to what Chen can see, this is not a heavenly fire, but a man-made disaster. ”

"Emperor Yongle's heavenly fire was a few months after the main hall moved in, which was obviously because the civil and military officials and eunuchs in the palace were dissatisfied with Emperor Yongle's relocation of the capital, and deliberately created a heavenly fire as a warning. Emperor Jiajing and Emperor Wanli both reigned for decades, and they did not like to go to the court in person, so they were supervised by the celebrant supervisor. After burning the palace, Emperor Jiajing, Emperor Wanli had to allocate silver from the imperial silver to rebuild, and the cost was huge. These three heavenly fires are clearly the black accounts of the imperial silver treasury that have been in power for decades, and the imperial silver has been corrupted too much, eaten too much, and has not been paid at all. ”

Seeing that Chongzhen was silent, he obviously didn't want to give up the eunuch power in the palace, and there were at least two or three thousand people in this group, which could be regarded as an armed force.

Fang Yuan said again, "Your Majesty really thinks that these gang are loyal? Do you remember when you forced Xungui to donate, but the little prince suddenly died of a vicious illness?! ”

The dead little prince mentioned by Fang Yuan was the second son of Empress Zhou, Zhu Cixuan.

He suddenly mentioned this old incident, and Queen Zhou, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly asked, "Cixuan dreamed of the deceased queen mother, scared out of illness, scared to death!" ”

Fang Yuan looked at Empress Zhou and said slowly, "The time point is just after the donation to Xungui, isn't it too coincidental?" Why didn't the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace pretend to be the queen mother and scare the little prince to death? ”

Chongzhen and Empress Zhou glanced at each other, and it was indeed because the little prince dreamed of the Empress Dowager Liu and advised him not to force Xungui too much, and the little prince was scared to death. After the death of the little prince, Chongzhen immediately stopped forcing donations.

The eunuchs and palace maids in the palace dare to harm even the little prince, what else dare not do?

Empress Zhou grieved the loss of her beloved son, gritted her teeth and said, "Your Majesty, I agree with what the concubine said, and the inner court should be rectified." ”

Chongzhen also thought of the old accounts that owed the salary before, and the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace demolished the palace in the harem to sell the money, and he also felt the same way, since Fang Yuan was willing to take the lead in cleaning up the eunuchs, let's clean it up!

He nodded and said, "Donkey, go ahead and do it!" ”

As soon as Chongzhen opened his mouth, the eunuchs and palace maids who were serving were so frightened that they turned pale, they were about to face a catastrophe!