Although Gao Hongtu was very angry, he also knew the seriousness of the situation, if he couldn't pay them immediately, these rebels would really come to the palace and loot on a large scale, and everyone in the mansion would be in danger of their lives. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info includes his family, wife and children.

The servants around Gao Hongtu were also angry, but more fearful, the only thing they could do now was pray, and almost everyone present held their breath, everyone was waiting for the master's response.

"Today is a bath holiday, so the cabinet immediately went to notify the household department to pay the silver, and pay everyone."

The leader of the rebels was still a little uneasy, shook his head and said: "It's not that we can't believe the adults, in case the news reaches the military department, and the court transfers troops, the brothers will be miserable." Therefore, the cabinet lord should first take some gold and silver goods from his own house to compensate the brothers, there are not many of us, just a few hundred, and fifty thousand taels of silver is enough to send it away. ”

"Yes! We don't want to embarrass the old man, as long as 50,000 taels of silver! Su Wenge's old family is rich and well-known in the land of Qilu, so he definitely won't care about the mere 50,000 taels of silver, and it is enough to move some casually from the mansion. ”

"Yes, we are not greedy, as long as 50,000 taels, we don't have to trouble the Gao Ge boss to go all the way to the household, this bit of money must be a dime a dime for the Gao Ge Lao!"

"Fifty thousand taels of silver is already very little, don't hesitate anymore, brothers, please make a quick decision!"

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The other rebels also shouted, the crowd was raging, gossiping, and summed up in one sentence: people can't go, and the salary has to be paid, as long as 50,000 taels!

Gao Hongtu saw that the plan to delay the army did not work, and his forehead was so anxious that some sweat stains were soaked, so he was helpless, and then found Gao Fu Cangtou, who was in charge of the warehouse of the mansion, and asked him to immediately go to the treasury to take out the silver deposit and pay the sergeants on the spot.

Cangtou led a group of servants to wander in the treasury for a long time, and when he came back, he told Gao Hongtu with a sad face that the gold, silver, and copper coins in the treasury were all added together, and the total was only 30,000 taels, which was not enough for the amount demanded by the sergeants.

Gao Hongtu's old house is in Shandong, the family has thousands of acres of fertile land, and also operates a lot of shop industry, it turned out to be very rich, although it is not the richest man in Shandong, but it is not far behind, Chongzhen later due to the destruction of the war in the north, the old house of the Gao family was razed to the ground by the Tartars and thieves, the shops were closed, and a large number of fertile fields were abandoned, and since then they have gone into decline.

At this moment, the family is temporarily living in Nanjing, and there is not much money left in the mansion, and only his wife and a minor son are left by his side.

After receiving more than 30,000 taels of silver, the rebels still refused to leave, and their excuse was that the salary was still a little short, and if they did not make up their salary, they would be killed.

At this time, the Cangtou servants in the Gao Mansion all felt a chill, could it be that God was destined to really let the big guy be hacked to death by the rebels!

Just when everyone had nothing to do, Gao Hongtu's wife Liu Gaoshi took the initiative to stand up, and Liu Gaoshi ordered people to take all his jewelry and hand them to the mutinous sergeants, and promised to meet the demands of the mutinous sergeants and try to make up for the shortage of silver as soon as possible.

At this time, the leader of the rebels felt that the heat was almost over, and decided to give Mrs. Gao a thin noodle, so he shouted and asked his battalion soldiers to evacuate the same way.

A crisis that almost destroyed his family has finally been resolved, and Gao Hongtu is angry but also afraid.

The chaos is not trivial, the Beijing camp has long lost its sharpness for hundreds of years, and it has always been stable, but now it has suddenly changed, if you want to say that there is no commander behind the scenes, you don't believe it when you kill him, it must be Ruan Dacheng, Ma Shiying's gang of shameless traitors!

Gao Hongtu's face was indignant. However, for a moment, he let out another long sigh. What can he do if he understands this, he is already unable to protect himself at this moment. Nandu had this incident, and he, the head of the household department, bore the first responsibility, and he was dismissed from his post at the least, and he was sent to prison for questioning at the worst. That's something that doesn't have any doubts.

Sure enough, the next day, the snowflakes had already been sent to Zhu Youhua's bookcase, almost all of which were notes on the impeachment of Gao Hongtu for dereliction of duty and provoking a mutiny, as well as the notes on asking Liu Kongzhao and Zhao Zhilong for the crimes, and severely punishing the rebellious soldiers, and there were also many notes on Gao Hongtu's defense of grievances.

The former is mostly Ma Shiying's cronies, up to the left governor of the Imperial Inspectorate Li Zhan, down to the supervision of the imperial history Li Chong, and Yang Wencong and others in the military department, almost pouring out of the nest; Most of the middle ones were played by neutrals such as Gu Xichou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Lu Zhenfei, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and the latter was undoubtedly a group of Donglin Party led by Lu Daqi, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, and Jiang Yueguang, a scholar of the Ministry of Industry.

However, no matter how much support those Donglin Party members had, Gao Hongtu would be blamed after all, and it would be difficult to block the world's mouth without punishment, so Zhu Youhua ordered him to be removed from his post on the spot and sent to the Criminal Department for questioning.

Zhao Zhilong and Liu Kongzhao also quickly organized a group to go to the palace to ask for guilt, and Zhu Youhua demoted the two of them to three levels for dereliction of duty and fined them for one year. Of course, these are all for outsiders to see, in fact, Liu and Zhao know that they will not be idle for too long, not only will there be no loss but will be rich, the emperor promised to take charge of the household department, and give Beijing an additional salary of 200,000 taels every year, needless to say, these salaries must go into their own pockets.

As soon as the matter came out, the interrogation was very rapid, and the case was closed in less than three days, and all of them were taken to the vegetable market to behead the public, so that those Donglin party members had nothing to say.

With the departure of Gao Hongtu, Shi Kefa, Zhang Shenyan, Liu Zongzhou and other powerful bigwigs in Donglin, only Jiang Yueguang and Lu Daqi were left in the cabinet, and the important power departments were either occupied by Ma Shiying and his cronies, or occupied by the neutrals. The era of the Donglin Party calling for wind and rain in the cabinet is over, and the rest can only survive.

Zhu Youhua also got the financial power of the household department as he wished, and also controlled the cabinet and the ministry, obtained the human rights, and became a veritable emperor supreme!

Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now it is stepping forward from the beginning.

It's never been such a comfortable day since the crossing!

While Zhu Youhua was in a good mood, he did not take it lightly, and he had only taken the first step after all.

The Tartar iron cavalry was aggressive, and the southern invasion was imminent. The central officials, finances, and military affairs are still in chaos, coupled with the fact that the feudal towns support the troops and do not listen to orders, under this circumstance, it is really difficult to expel the Tartars and recover the country! It took a lot of energy to deal with one Donglin Party alone. With the current situation, if you don't deal with it well, I'm afraid that you won't be able to do it again!