Section 13: Dongchang Fanzi
Wang Chengen's face was very dark, and he stepped forward and shouted, "Stop! What people! Report your name, and then take a step forward to kill no matter what! A few black-clothed people remembered that they were still masked, took off the black cloth, and led the black-clothed man: "The slave is square!" "Slave Li Fengxiang!" "Minion Chu Charter!" "Slave Zhang Guoyuan!" Wang Chengen stepped back three steps, bird's! It turned out to be these palace governors, the eunuch Fang Zhenghua, the eunuch Li Fengxiang, the eunuch Li Fengxiang, the eunuch Chu Xianzhang and Zhang Guoyuan, the eunuchs of the Governor's Bureau, what are these goods for, Wang Chengen asked sternly: "What do you want?!" "The slave is willing to die for His Majesty!" Several chief managers kneeling on the snow shouted in unison. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Empress Zhou walked from behind and said, "Calm down, this palace asks you, how much do you know about this matter?" Several stewards hurriedly got up and bent down to reply: "Report to Your Majesty, the slaves and maids have been running back and forth in the palace from the chief steward of the king, and they often go to a post station, and they have known since then." Alas, it seems that there are no secrets in the palace, Wang Chengen was furious: "What a big dog! Dare to track the sprinklers! It's against you! Fang Zhenghua hurriedly apologized: "Mr. Wang forgives the sin, and the servants are also a last resort, for fear that His Majesty will leave us alone, and you always ignore the restaurant when you show loyalty to you several times." Empress Zhou asked sternly: "Can you recognize this palace?" Several chief managers were overjoyed after hearing this, and bowed three times and nine times to Queen Zhou, and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" "Flat, this palace can say ugly things in front, this is going to Heilongjiang for nine deaths, I can't allow you to turn back, are you willing to go?" "May I die for Your Majesty! I am willing to die for the Ming Dynasty! Empress Zhou nodded with satisfaction, feeling a strong sense of security in her heart, through today's incident, Empress Zhou deeply knew that it would not work without loyal people, and that there were people with strength, and only with strength could they crush all resistance, and ordered several palace managers: "This trip to Heilongjiang, the itinerary is all arranged by the director of the Flying Eagle Alliance, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" "Huh!"
Empress Zhou walked up to Li Fengxiang and took her hand and asked, "Sister Feng'er, how are you?" Li Fengxiang burst into tears with excitement: "My sister still remembers my sister, I miss my sister!" Holding Queen Zhou and crying, Queen Zhou pulled Li Fengxiang into the carriage to reminisce. Wang Chengen and several managers and pots, goosebumps all fell to the ground, away from this pair of good friends, a queen and a eunuch are people with stories.
Wang Chengen said to these managers with a straight face: "The Sprinkle family can tell you a few of you, you have to prepare yourself for all the expenses of going to Heilongjiang, and the Sprinkle family has prepared well." Fang Zhenghua laughed and patted Wang Chengen's shoulder and said: "Look at the stinginess of Manager Wang, the Sprinkle family has already been prepared, Manager Wang picked fat and threw thin ones in the palace, and the rest of the soup was picked up by the Sprinkler family." Wang Chengen exclaimed: "What! You've moved out all the food for the cubs in the palace! How do you let them live? Fang Zhenghua hurriedly replied: "Then what can I do, I still left five hundred cubs to spy on the news in the palace, and the rest is left to fate, don't hide it from the king, I even moved out the silver of the household department." Wang Chengen was dizzy and said with admiration on his face: "Manager Fang, the sprinkler family has served you, and you will not let go of the 10,000 taels of silver in the household department." "That's also silver, right, and the cannons that the head of the armory king can't move have also gotten." Wang Chengen patted his sore head and motioned to Fang Zhenghua to ask quietly: "The Sprinkle family asks you, wasn't this East Factory removed by His Majesty a few years ago, why is it still there, what's going on?" Gao Shiming, the eunuch of the Si Li palm seal, replied: "Report to the head of the king, this Dongchang has been withdrawn, and the people have been sent away, and there are only a few thousand people left in the palace on errands, but the tricks on the body have never fallen, and one day they will rise up and serve Your Majesty!" ”
The sky was shining, after a night of fighting, a few feet in front of a tragic scene after the war, the dead bodies were piled up, fragmented, and the deaths were different, Dongchang Fanzi cleaned the battlefield and counted the number of enemies, which surprised Fang Zhenghua! Overnight, with his own 3,000 Dongchang veterans, he fought bloodily and killed 5,000 enemies! Lose a thousand! After thinking about it for a while, I was afraid, but I still took advantage of the night raid, and sure enough, a veteran topped three recruits. Guoba and others went to help and were shocked when they saw it, this Dongchang fan is really worthy of its reputation, all of them are ruthless characters, one to block ten, and the experience of fighting with the army is really old-fashioned, and he hugged his fists at Fang Zhenghua and admired: "Dongchang really lives up to its reputation!" Fang Zhenghua modestly replied: "There, there, it's just luck." Guoba ordered the Eagle Warriors: "Take off the thighs of those dead war horses, touch them with salt and dry them, and eat them on the way." When Fang Zhenghua heard this idea, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up to the pot and ordered the Dongchang people to cut off the horse's legs, bury the corpses of their comrades-in-arms, and take everything they could, including warm clothes and pants, Heilongjiang is cold at this time, "The rear of the chief manager of the newspaper found Li Zicheng's army ten carts of grain and grass!" An Dongchang fan returned excitedly, "Hahahaha!" Sure enough, it was rewarding! It's all up to the Eagle to distribute! And our grain trucks and supplies are all handed over to the Flying Eagle! "Yes!" Guoba smiled and said: "No, no, as long as you don't starve Your Majesty, the crown prince and others." Fang Zhenghua nodded and said, "This is a must." Empress Zhou also came to the battlefield, looked at the bloody scene on the battlefield and retched, looked at the corpse of Dongchang Fanzi who died in battle, and instructed Fang Zhenghua: "These warriors died for the Ming Dynasty, so that they can be buried, remember their location, and take them back to the cemetery in the future." Fang Zhenghua kowtowed with tears of excitement on his face when he heard this, this is to be buried with the royal family and nobles, the eunuch has only two highest honors in his life, one is valued by the emperor, one is to be buried in the royal mausoleum after death, and the last one is at least the supreme glory! Dongchang Fanzi buried his head in the snow and kowtowed to thank him, and secretly wept, everything was worth it! Wang Chengen is so jealous, you have to get benefits for your little cubs, or someone will play with you! Looking at Queen Zhou anxiously, Queen Zhou nodded at Wang Chengen and announced loudly: "All those who died for the Ming Dynasty will be brought back to the cemetery in the future!" Let the descendants of the royal family always remember these Ming warriors! "Thank you, Your Majesty! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”
Si Li Bingbi, the eunuch Li Fengxiang, was full of emotion in his heart, and Dongchang could make a comeback again! At the beginning, after Zhu Youzhen got rid of Wei Zhongxian, a big traitor, he actually listened to the slander of the Donglin Party, saying that after the emperor, you and I have read the book of sages and sages, why do you want to leave this despicable institution Dongchang, it is better to remove the Dongchang institution, you and I govern the country with one heart and one mind, don't be suspicious of each other and lose trust, wouldn't it be better, I didn't expect Zhu Youzhen, who was naïve and without the emperor's skills, to agree, and frankly withdrew the Dongchang, and tens of thousands of Dongchang were all sent home, leaving less than 3,000 people in the palace to stay in the palace and obey orders. If it weren't for Wang Chengen's efforts to keep Jinyiwei and tell Zhu Youzhen about the benefits of keeping Jinyiwei, he could spy on the intelligence of Houjin in Liaodong, maybe Jinyiwei would also make Zhu Youzhen clean.
Without Dongchang to monitor the civil and military officials, it is equivalent to the emperor having no eyes and ears, losing the transparency of the situation in the Ming Dynasty, unable to grasp the real situation, and often making wrong judgments. It is convenient for corrupt officials to embezzle money and the emperor does not know. Zhu Youzhen also did even more self-harming things, and his mind was quite open to cooperate with the Donglin Party, and listened to the Donglin Party's suggestion to abolish the country's business taxes! The Donglin Party celebrated happily for three days, because the Donglin Party was the spokesperson for the interests of Ming merchants and landlords.
At that time, Li Fengxiang and several governors didn't know the doorway inside, without the Ming commercial tax, where the silver of the treasury was collected, how could the country run without the commercial tax and silver, and the border guards would pay the silver from where and collect the local agricultural tax of the Ming Dynasty. Li Fengxiang and several chief managers immediately entered the palace to see the emperor, and made it clear that the disadvantages of this exemption from business tax outweigh the advantages, and that they cannot be exempted from business tax, and that they must increase the intensity of collecting business tax, otherwise the consequences will be very serious, and the conceited Zhu Youzhen disdains these opinions, but thinks that these eunuchs are destroying the good situation of harmony and harmony with the Donglin Party that has been hard to get, and they actually coaxed several eunuchs out, saying that they will mention business tax again and cut off their heads! Sure enough, after Zhu Youzhen took power for a few years, he deeply felt the importance of this business tax, and even let the treasury cut eighty percent of the tax revenue! I regret that my intestines are green, and I can't collect it if I want to.
The civil officials of the Donglin Party are rich in their own way, and they are even richer than their own emperor! Zhu Youzhen cheekily mentioned the idea of collecting business taxes several times, but was strongly opposed by the hundreds of officials of the Donglin Party, saying that he could not compete with the people for profit, that he should count when he spoke, and that he should pay attention to the emperor's golden signboard.
Zhu Youzhen saw that the amount of silver in the state treasury was getting smaller and smaller year by year, and the increased collection of agricultural taxes could not fill the holes in the money demanded everywhere, and the silver for the relief grain of the drought-stricken people throughout the country, and the salary and silver of the border generals had been in arrears for several years, and there had been mutinies. Zhu Youzhen remembered that it was really a big failure to remove the East Factory at the beginning, and it was simply a knife from the palace. Zhu Youzhen suffered such a big loss, and wanted to rebuild the East Factory, how easy it was to say, he was suppressed by the Donglin Party everywhere, and finally there was no recruitment, Zhu Youzhen sent the remaining Dongchang Fanzi to dig silver mines to fill the treasury, but they were all surrounded and killed by the Donglin Party and local businessmen and landlords, and they also sent the heads of Dongchang Fanzi up, crying about how Dongchang Fanzi bullied all sexes, fish and meat township, indiscriminately killed for no reason, created unjust cases, and the remnants of the Wei Party were rekindled, and the emperor wanted to be the master of the people.
Zhu Youzhen's vomiting of blood almost separated from the fart, and he felt deeply frightened, since he was hollowed out by the Donglin Party, desperately increasing agricultural taxes, the result was that the people were forced to rebel, the peasants revolted everywhere, Zhu Youzhen sent troops to suppress and suppress, empty the national air, and eat up the old capital of the Zhu family. Since then, a vicious circle has been created, and the entire Ming situation has gotten out of control.
Since then, the revoked Dongchang has not been in the majestic style since then, and the remaining Dongchang fans can only nest in the palace on errands, mowing the grass to feed the horses, washing the toilet and washing the dishes, beating the little eunuch and bullying the little palace maid to pass the boring days, almost ten years, I feel that the style on my body is about to degenerate, Li Fengxiang and a few managers looked at their slightly fat belly and thought about whether they could still fly, alas, each shook his head and sighed but could not do anything.
In recent days, I got a secret report from the little eunuch, saying that Wang Chengen has been running very diligently to Queen Zhou since the emperor was infected with wind and illness and did not go to the court, and he secretly observed and found that great changes had occurred in the palace, and he had ignored the loyalty to Wang Chengen several times, and he didn't want to miss such a good opportunity to make a comeback, so he could only secretly observe Wang Chengen's every move, and they would do whatever Wang Chengen did, quietly convened the old department of Dongchang, and secretly prepared.
Although Fang Zhenghua and the others also know that going to Heilongjiang is the point of no return, it is better than dying in the palace, at least they can be buried in the royal cemetery in the future, and they will die well, at least this trick that has been hard for many years will not be useless.