In the blink of an eye, it was late September, the weather was getting colder and colder, and the wind and sand began to visit the capital from time to time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Youxiao, who has been staying in the Forbidden City, really wants to learn from Emperor Qianlong, and now he will come to the south of the Yangtze River to avoid the cold, be a merry emperor, and go to a place like Daming Lake to see what summer rain lotus.

But Zhu Youxiao knew that the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty would not want their Emperor His Majesty to go out of the Forbidden City to observe the people's feelings.

And now, Zhu Youxiao's imperial power has been improved, but the power of civil officials is still strong, and he can't do his own thing at present.

Unless, one day, the wealth and army of the Ming Dynasty are controlled by him.

"Your Majesty, it's windy and sandy outside, let's go inside", Empress Zhang didn't know when she appeared behind Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but hold her pair of soft wattles.

Zhu Youxiao didn't speak, just smiled, and stroked the hair of his queen's face, after a month of recuperation, Queen Zhang's complexion was much better, and her skin became more and more condensed, beautiful and charming.

Zhu Youxiao, who couldn't bear the queen to accompany him to blow the wind outside the hall, led Empress Zhang into the main hall, the sensible Gong E was busy serving hot tea, and the small yellow door by the door was also busy closing the door, and two pots of charcoal fire were brought to the heels of Zhu Youxiao and Empress Zhang.

Zhu Youxiao and Empress Zhang did not rush to sit on the kang, but waited for Gong'e to warm the kang with a warm pot before being invited by the Ke family to sit on it.

This is his own imperial life, there are no seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards in the transmission, and there is no family of ordinary people, there is only one queen, a nurse with the status of a semi-slave.

For the huge Forbidden City, there is really no more deserted family than the royal family.

At one moment, the eunuch in the imperial dining room walked in: "Your Majesty, you can eat." “

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and ordered to eat here, and not long after, the little yellow men walked in with red lacquered wooden boxes containing dishes.

Since the war in Liaodong, the imperial court used millions of taels of silver to supply the Guanning iron cavalry every year, which led to the increasing pressure on the treasury and the fact that it had already been unable to make ends meet.

Because of this, the emperors of the late Ming Dynasty were not as corrupt and extravagant as the Manchu literati said.

In order to save money, from Wanli to the Apocalypse, the specifications of the emperor's meals have dropped again and again, and now, not to mention what is the full banquet of the Manchu and Han Dynasty, even the chicken, duck and fish meat can not be placed on a few plates.

Fortunately, whether it is Zhu Youxiao or Empress Zhang Yan, they are already accustomed to this kind of frugal imperial life, and it is enough to be well fed, not to mention, there are still hundreds of people in the Ming Dynasty who can't even eat enough.

Zhu Youxiao had just eaten a few bites of food, and when he saw Wang Chengen hiding outside the hall, he hurriedly shouted: "Come in, what are you hiding outside?" ”

Seeing this, Empress Zhang hurriedly ordered people to remove the food, and she and the Hakka family also hid behind the screen.

Wang Chengen walked in embarrassedly and said: "I originally wanted to wait for Your Majesty to finish eating and then come to report, otherwise Weichen's pile of twists and turns will make Your Majesty hungry until midnight." ”

Zhu Youxiao, who often stayed up late for surgery in the early stage, was actually used to this kind of irregular work, and it was common for him to be hungry and hungry, but the only difference was that he used to have surgery to save people, but now he has surgery to save the country.

"Don't talk so much nonsense, now pick up a few important things and tell me, and put the rest here first, and I will deal with it later."

Zhu Youxiao took the basic important fold from Wang Chengen's hand as he spoke, and then listened to Wang Chengen's words while flipping through them:

"The first thing is that Wei Gonggong came from Nanjing, he has begun to win over the Shilin people in accordance with His Majesty's instructions, but few are willing to contact him, but he is in accordance with His Majesty's "Daming Daily" is very effective, among which there is a famous Jiangnan madman who criticized the Donglin Party for misleading the country and the people, there are Wuxi Yaren and their pen war, and now dozens of people have participated in the discussion, and there are thousands of newspaper subscribers in just half a month."

"Very good, tell Li Jinzhong, expose more of the shortcomings of the Donglin Party, don't be afraid of spending money, in order to let the people see the Donglin Party clearly, it is worth spending more money, in addition, considering that many low-level people are mostly illiterate, you can spend money to hire down-and-out literati or storytellers to talk about newspapers and newspapers in every village and township, and at the same time encourage folk artists to change operas and scripts to satirize the Donglin Party."

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and as he spoke, Wang Chengen immediately recorded it with a small brush.

Then, as soon as Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he reported again: "In addition, Your Majesty, according to my Dongchang eyeliner report, Donglin tycoon Qian Beiyi met with Jin merchant Fan Yongdou in Suzhou Tiger Hill on July 3, and got the content of the conversation between the two. “

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be surprised: "This Jin merchant is worthy of being a Jin merchant, and his reaction is faster than that of the imperial court, let your people continue to keep an eye on them, and that batch of grain!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Chengen responded, and was about to retreat, but Zhu Youxiao hurriedly stopped him again: "Wang Chengen, do you know these eight Jin merchants?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen also knows something, I heard people say that the eight Jin merchants specialize in business inside and outside the pass, and they are rich enough to rival the country, and since the Zhengde period, the power of the eight Jin merchants has grown stronger and stronger, and their children are half studying and half taking the imperial examination, so that the combination of officials and business, business is easy to do, and officials are also easy to do, and now many ministers in the court have people from the eight Jin merchants, and there are also eunuchs from the inner study hall, such as the former master of ceremonies Wang An and the former first assistant Han Yi."

Wang Chengen said.

Zhu Youxiao nodded, he naturally knew what kind of collective the Eight Jin Merchants were, to put it bluntly, it was a group of traitors who sucked the blood of the Ming Dynasty and then transfused blood for Houjin.

But this collective power is so deep-rooted and intertwined inside and outside the imperial court, even if Zhu Youxiao wants to dig up this tumor, he can only think in the long run.

"In the future, send more people to supervise the people of the Eight Great Jin Merchants, and in addition, for three days and so on, Dongchang must give me a detailed information of the Eight Great Jin Merchants, and carefully check which of them are officials in the court, how many industries they have in their families, etc."

Zhu Youxiao ordered.

Wang Chengen responded with a "yes" and retreated.

Empress Zhang walked out at this time and grabbed Zhu Youxiao's arm: "Your Majesty, let's eat." ”

Zhu Youxiao did not speak, but immediately ordered, "Pen and ink wait!" Suddenly, a little yellow door took out the four treasures of the study.

Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything, just wrote down three words on a piece of rice paper and circled them in circles.

These three words are: Donglin Party, Jin Shang, and Houjin.