It's the end of June in the blink of an eye.

The holy decree has not come down yet, and Su Tiancheng has thought about the matter of contacting Nanjing Jingying, and he has also put it down for the time being.

During this time, he was not idle, and he wanted to do a good job as the magistrate of the grassroots level of the Ming Dynasty, it was far from being so simple, delegating power was just Su Tiancheng's unrequited love, and in a short period of time, he couldn't do it at all, and the officials up and down the Ming Dynasty were used to obeying the arrangements of the main leaders, and they would never make decisions without authorization.

Kuang Siming's mansion has been cleaned up, and after discussing with Qu Qingze, Kuang Siming's family finally returned to the mansion and lived temporarily, but they were not allowed to leave the mansion for a single step, otherwise they would be killed, which was also because the conditions in the prison were too poor to accommodate it. Qu Qingze knew Su Tiancheng's promise, and took responsibility with Su Tiancheng to let Kuang Siming's family return to the mansion to live temporarily.

The remaining sixteen salt merchants left the prison one after another, and each family sent 500,000 taels of silver.

Qu Qingze admired the five-body throwing to the ground, he couldn't imagine that Su Tiancheng was so powerful, he was simply killing people without seeing blood, and let the rest of the salt merchants obediently take out the silver, which is another nine million taels of silver.

The treasury of Jiangning County is already heavily guarded, with three layers inside and three layers outside, and more than 25 million taels of silver, which is almost equivalent to the annual financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty, that is to say, the silver taels in the treasury of Jiangning County can cover the expenses of the Ming Dynasty for a year, including the expenses of all officials and the army.

It's a pity that Su Tiancheng only has the share to look at these silvers, and he doesn't dare to touch a penny of silver.

The gentry and merchants of Jiangning County began to visit Su Tiancheng.

They did not come to the door empty-handed, but they all brought with them goods, a few thousand taels of silver, and a few hundred taels of silver, and they accumulated a lot.

All this silver also went into the treasury of the county government.

Su Tiancheng is also very strange, Zhu Youzhen is short of silver, he is already miserable, so much silver, isn't he red-eyed, if he allows himself to use this silver, in a short period of time, he can completely change many unfavorable situations.

Su Tiancheng didn't know what to say, and there was already a mess in the capital.

Zhu Youzhen sat in the Heart Nourishing Palace, his face turned blue.

Liu Yulie, the squire of the military department, was in charge of Shandong military affairs, and was responsible for the heavy task of exterminating Kong Youde, so he did not act prudently, he was very arrogant, and he did not know how to keep it secret, and sent the magistrate to Kong Youde's military camp to negotiate, unilaterally believing that Kong Youde was afraid of the imperial army and accepted the appeasement, and he did not expect to be deceived by Kong Youde, and after mastering the details of the officers and soldiers, he launched a surprise attack, and the officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses.

Zhu Youzhen was furious and had already made up his mind to let Liu Yulie go to prison.

A wave of unsettled waves, the staff member Hua Yuncheng played, impeached Min Hongxue, the secretary of the ministry, favoritism, and the appointment of private individuals, and pointed directly at Wen Tiren, the second assistant of the cabinet, and everyone knew that Min Hongxue was Wen Tiren's sworn friend.

Zhu Youzhen was very cautious, and ordered to summon Hua Yuncheng to ask about the things reflected above, Hua Yuncheng was not afraid at all, and told the specific cases of Min Hongxue's greed for ink and abuse of power in person, and pointed out that Min Hongxue had the support of Wen Tiren, and they formed a party in the DPRK and China for personal gain, and all officials who did not meet their own requirements and officials who were unwilling to be attached to them were tried their best to squeeze out.

Zhu You's secret prosecutor ordered Jin Yiwei to investigate, and the information he got was mainly about Min Hongxue's problem and Hua Yuncheng's reaction, which was basically true, but Wen Tiren was not involved for the time being.

The battle between Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, Zhu Youzhen is clear, the struggle between the ministers, he acquiesces, as long as it is within the controllable range, but if it is too much, he still has to take action.

What's even more annoying is that the Hanlin Academy edited the Zodiac Zhou, because he was sick, at the beginning of the year, Shangshu asked to resign and return home, and you will go home when you go home, but in the middle of Shangshu, he secretly satirized Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, saying that the two only knew that Lu Dao deceived the upper and lower, and did nothing, making the court miserable, and asked the emperor to be far from the villain.

Zhu Youzhen was furious, dismissed Huang Daozhou, and demoted him to a commoner, but he didn't expect that in the recent period, Xu Eryi, the director of the Ministry of Industry, was negligent again and avenged Huang Daozhou.

This is tantamount to a slap in the face of Zhu Youzhen.

None of this is a big deal.

The incident in Jiangning County has aroused Zhu Youzhen's great concern.

Zhu Youzhen was very happy to receive the secret fold of Jinyiwei's performance, as well as Tang Shiji, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, Yin Wang Daozhi of Yingtianfu Mansion, and Ma Jiagan of Yingtianfu Tong, Zhu Youzhen was very happy, Su Tiancheng did things bravely and strategically, copied Kuang Siming's house, and got more than 10 million taels of silver, with such a huge amount of money, he can do a lot of things.

But another secret letter made him hesitate.

This secret fold was handed over by Cao Huachun, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, and there was a recital of Wang Zhen, the eunuch of Nanjing Town, who said that Su Tiancheng, the magistrate of Jiangning County, had ill-intentioned intentions and had backbones, and he was afraid that he would become the biggest rebel and thief in the Ming Dynasty.

The examples they gave were mainly in four aspects, one was to expand the Jiangning County Inspection Department, which increased to more than 3,000 people, these sergeants, after investigation, were Xiong Tingbi's former personal soldiers, these personal soldiers, had already left the army, and it had been almost ten years since they returned to seclusion, and they didn't want to serve the imperial court, but gathered under Su Tiancheng's command, what did it mean.

The second is that Su Tiancheng bought a mansion in the suburbs of Jiangning County, and court officials, after taking up their posts in one place, are not allowed to buy mansions privately, Su Tiancheng bought a mansion before he took office, obviously with ulterior motives, thinking of taking root in Nanzhili and expanding his own power, maybe he was preparing to rebel.

The third is that Su Tiancheng wanted to contact the Nanjing Jingying, without the holy decree, the civilian officials could not contact the army, Su Tiancheng proposed to contact the generals of the Tokyo camp and the Xijing camp in front of Wang Zhen, which was a big reverse move.

Fourth, Kuang Siming's mansion was raided and a large number of firearms were found, Su Tiancheng actually thought that it would be equipped with the Jiangning County Inspection Department, intending to strengthen his own strength, which further illustrated that Su Tiancheng had ill intentions.

After watching the secret recital, Zhu Youzhen felt like a basin of cold water was poured on him.

He wouldn't easily believe Wang Zhen's secret music, but he also had to think.

If these things are true, then, in a few years, he will have a headache about Nan Zhili.

Qu Qingze, who was lined up next to Su Tiancheng, didn't notice these things, and didn't report anything.

Based on this situation, Dong Chang had already left the capital and went to Nanzhili, the purpose of which was to go to Jiangning County, and after an unannounced visit, he would directly contact Su Tiancheng.

Later, Jin Yiwei once again played a secret fold, saying that Su Tiancheng once again confiscated 9 million taels of silver from the salt merchants, and the silver deposit in the treasury of Jiangning County had reached 25 million taels.

In this, there are Qu Qingze's twists and turns, which specifically emphasizes that Su Tiancheng did not use a penny of silver, and has been waiting for the emperor's will, and many gentry and businessmen have visited, sent silver, and all entered the treasury.

Many things were mixed together, which made Zhu Youzhen upset.

Minister of the court, he didn't know who to trust.

Now the focus is to wait for Dong Chang's news.

Looking at Wang Chengen beside him, Zhu Youzhen finally spoke.

"Father-in-law, you are optimistic about Su Tiancheng, what do you think of such a big thing happening in Jiangning County."

"Your Majesty, the slave maid thinks that Su Tiancheng is brave and strategic, and it is gratifying to do such a big thing, and the emperor can issue an order as soon as possible to order the household department to escort the silver into Beijing."

He looked at Wang Chengen, he still completely trusted the eunuch who was by his side at this moment, at least one of them, for so many years, Wang Chengen had never formed a party for personal gain, did not use his trust, and befriended ministers, in this regard, Cao Huachun could not compare.

"I don't know my heart if I know people, father-in-law, I should be more careful when I look at people in the future."

Wang Chengen chuckled in his heart, why would the emperor say such a thing, this is a very serious thing, could it be said that Su Tiancheng did something rebellious.

All this time, he had been feeling that something was wrong.

There is a fight between him and Cao Huachun, the two are not convinced by each other, Cao Huachun, as the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, has always wanted to gain the emperor's greatest trust, but there is a lesson from Wei Zhongxian in front of him, the emperor is very attentive, Cao Huachun cannot be as he wishes, but Cao Huachun's power should not be underestimated.

Two days ago, Cao Huachun played a secret fold.

This is not an uncommon thing, Cao Huachun temporarily acted in the East Factory, on weekdays, there are a lot of dense folds played, but this time it is a little different, the emperor saw Jinyiwei and Nan Zhili, Ying Tianfu after the play, he was very happy, but Cao Huachun played, the emperor's mood immediately changed.

There must be something strange in this.

Just now, the emperor asked about Su Tiancheng, and it is very likely that this twist and turn is related to Su Tiancheng.

Wang Chengen immediately thought of Wang Zhen, the eunuch guarding Nanjing.

Wang Zhen is Cao Huachun's best friend.

Wang Zhen is a eunuch guarding Nanjing Town, such a big thing happened in Jiangning County, Tang Shiji, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Yin Wang Daozhi of Ying Tianfu Mansion, and Ma Jiagan of Ying Tianfu Tong, all of them have come up, but Wang Zhen did not play, which is not normal.

Moreover, in the past, Nanjing's household department had been on the song, saying that Su Tiancheng lingered on the Qinhuai River and was immoral, Wang Chengen knew very well that the relationship between Nanjing's household department and Wang Zhen was extraordinary.

Thinking of this, Wang Chengen immediately became cautious.

has been in the palace for so many years, what kind of cruel struggle has not been seen, speaking of which, everything is done for a reason, if his speculation is true, Wang Zhen must have impeached Su Tiancheng, in order to avoid knowing the Tao, the twist and turn was directly handed over to Cao Huachun, and Cao Huachun was handed over to the emperor, so that he could avoid himself.

Cao Huachun can go directly to the Heart Cultivation Palace, and he can see the emperor alone.

Wang Chengen felt a cool breath in his heart, Cao Huachun did this, he definitely didn't want to deal with Su Tiancheng directly, Su Tiancheng was just the magistrate of Jiangning County, and it was not worth his hands.

Cao Huachun's goal is aimed at himself.