Chapter 315: Bribing the Emperor
"Playing the recital? Hehe! Wang Rui didn't care.
Long before he took strong control of the armies in Dengzhou and carried out the land reform of "fighting local tyrants and dividing the land", Wang Rui estimated the possible situation.
Based on Wang Rui's understanding of Emperor Chongzhen through historical materials in later generations, when Emperor Chongzhen is indeed a trusted person, he will treat each other with his heart.
Wang Rui himself judged that Emperor Chongzhen in this period still trusted himself, a hero who killed captives. If the court really wants to ask, Wang Rui also has a corresponding countermeasure.
In fact, this is also the standard style of traditional martial artists, packaging themselves as a rude military general who is greedy for money and sex.
Therefore, everything that happened in Dengzhou Laizhou can be explained as the money-greedy Wang Zongbing is just doing nonsense.
As long as the imperial court and the emperor have not realized that Wang Rui is changing the social structure and directly acting against the gentry and civil officials who are the foundation of the country in the Ming Dynasty, then it is still possible to "kill people according to them, and divide them according to the land"!
"My lord, do you need to do anything about it?" Zhang Er saw that Wang Rui's expression was calm, so he relaxed his heart.
"Just wait and see." Wang Rui thought about it again before answering.
"My lord, it's not right! Inappropriate! Fang Yuan, who hadn't left yet, interjected.
"Ah, Wen Yuan has a clever plan?" Wang Rui said with a smile.
"There's a clever plan. It's just that the adult's money bag is about to suffer a little. Fang Yuan replied with a smile.
"The most bad thing for us is money, Wen Yuan, please speak!" Wang Rui waved his hand angrily.
"Spend money to avoid disaster! Take out a part of the silver money from the harvest of this earth attack and give it directly to the saint. Fang Yuan said his idea.
"Send money to bribe the emperor? Haha......" As soon as Zhang Er heard what he said, he laughed directly, and almost sprayed Fang Yuan in the face. Nima, your clever plan is to send money to bribe the emperor?
This simple bad idea can be said to be a clever plan, and Lao Tzu has a clever plan every day! It's a shame that he still thinks of himself as Zhuge Kongming at every turn.
"Zhang Er, don't laugh. That's a brilliant idea. Think about it, what is most lacking in the Holy World today? Lack of money! For example, this salary, the salary of this official, and the expenses for disaster relief and risk removal in various places, which one does not need money? It is estimated that the emperor will have a headache when he hears the word 'money'! Okay, let's send money to the emperor. ”
This time, in the two prefectures of Denglai, "fighting local tyrants and dividing the land", although a lot of land, grain, and goods were distributed to the people, the benefits of the Dengzhou army were still the greatest. Not to mention the most important benefit of the people's heart, the land and silver money are also very large. The floating silver alone has harvested more than two million taels.
However, there is a particular point in how much money is given. If you send less, you can't achieve your goal. If you give too much, you are afraid of attracting the greed of others. Fang Yuan interjected.
"Zhang Er, you go and do it. Give the emperor 300,000 taels, and take another 20,000 taels to send the eunuchs and Wen Tiren, Liang Tingdong and others. The goal is not high, as long as the emperor does not think that Lao Tzu is killing officials and rebelling. Wang Rui thought about it and ordered.
"Yes, sir!" Zhang Er said yes and went out.
"Come back!" Wang Rui suddenly stopped Zhang Er again: "Lao Tzu, who purged the Manchurian spies and suppressed those who betrayed the country and sought glory, is a credit to the country!" That's right, Lao Tzu has to ask for credit to the soldiers! ”
While Lord Wang was discussing how to deal with the court's questioning, Emperor Chongzhen and the elders were also worried about what had happened in Denglai recently.
In the Wenhua Palace, several cabinet ministers were arguing over Wang Rui's affairs. Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, Mo Xiaofang, the prefect of Anqiu, Qingzhou Prefecture, and some officials of the Daoist language, have recently written to impeach Wang Rui, the general of the expedition to the east, for killing the officials of the imperial court and slaughtering the villagers.
"This martial artist is good at killing the officials of the imperial court, and he is complicit in rebellion. According to the old minister's opinion, he should be ordered to send a messenger to defeat the army, so as to prevent the court from suffering in the future...... "The more the cabinet scholar Cheng Ji's life is said, the more outrageous it becomes, and finally he even said that he would send troops to fight.
Cheng Ji life, the word Jingzhi, the north Zhili people, its seat teacher is the Donglin boss Ye Xianggao. He had a good relationship with Sun Chengzong, and he had some understanding of the audacity of Wang Rui and the former Laizhou army, so he didn't choose to say anything when he was angry.
"Jing Zhigong is cautious!" Another member of the Donglin Party in the cabinet, He Ruzhong, hurriedly stopped it.
How can you say that Wang Rui did not pull the flag to rebel, but if he really rebelled, who can he send to crusade? The Manchurian army that made all the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty flee when they heard the wind was killed like Wang Rui killing chickens and sheep, and sent troops to fight? I really don't want this Ming country.
"Ladies and gentlemen, whether this Zhu Wannian and Mo Xiaofang's recital is really true remains to be discussed. If you make a judgment, I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of the soldiers who killed prisoners for the country! ”
Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen nodded slightly, Wen Tiren continued: "Now that Lord Sun, the governor of Denglai, and Lord Liu, the superintendent of the army, have not yet come up, do we need to put it on hold first?" Leave it to the two adults? ”
"What Wen Qing said is reasonable, the truth is unclear at present, let's wait for Sun Qing and Liu Qing's recital to come up, and then discuss." Emperor Chongzhen also felt that Wen Tiren's words were more practical, and immediately ended this meaningless controversy.
After the ministers retreated, Emperor Chongzhen picked up a piece of music and looked at it, which was a piece of music from the head of the household department Bi Ziyan to ask for an increase in Liao's salary.
After the Manchurian invasion last year, the imperial court was not only unable to allocate the huge salary of the soldiers on the nine sides, but even the salaries of the officials of the Beijing division became a big problem. In a word, Emperor Chongzhen at this time was already forced to be pants!
What's even more tragic is that the civil officials of the Donglin Party, whom he trusted during his lifetime, actually made up a terrifying lie that Emperor Chongzhen had 30 million taels of silver in the treasury before he was martyred.
After the army of the thief Li Zicheng entered the capital, he grabbed a lot of gold and silver treasures, and the historical data of later generations said that there were 60 million taels. However, none of these came from the royal family, but from the hands of many honorable civil officials.
"Hey!" After Chongzhen read the recital, he sighed heavily. He is a benevolent emperor who is a bit of a young man, and he always feels that this increase in salary is to exhaust himself and fish. However, in the face of all parties reaching out to ask for money, he had no way.
There is a saying in the world, called "a penny forces a hero to death", in fact, a penny can also force Emperor Chongzhen to death.
"Holy Lord, good news, good news!" Just when Emperor Chongzhen was worried, Cao Hua Chunle ran in.
"Good news?" Chongzhen was still frowning, since he ascended the throne, he had never been truly comfortable for a day. Don't talk about the good news, no bad news is the biggest piece of good news.
"Lord Wang has sent silver to the Holy Lord! Snowflakes of silver! Cao Huachun shouted with a twinkle in his eyes.
"Ahh How many were delivered? Emperor Chongzhen asked eagerly.
"300,000 taels, 300,000 taels!" Cao Huachun added excitedly.
"Where?" Emperor Chongzhen stood up suddenly. He was so excited! It's always the ministers who ask him for money, why is there still someone who sends silver?
"It's already in His Majesty's inner treasury, Holy Lord!"
"Okay, good, good!" As soon as Emperor Chongzhen heard that the silver had entered his inner treasury, a big stone finally fell in his heart.
In the past few years since he ascended the throne, he has used the inner library to make up for the household department, and his own inner library is almost running a mouse.
"That's right, Cao Banban! Which king is this money giver? Emperor Chongzhen finally asked.
There are a lot of adults with the surname Wang inside and outside the court, and I have never seen such a generous one before!