"Your Majesty, Weichen Pan Zenghong participated in Wei Zhongxian's many illegal acts, not only giving and receiving privately, selling *official*man*lords, the party fighting against differences, filling private pockets, persecuting the people, so that the people's resentment is boiling, Weichen implores Your Majesty to convict Wei Zhongxian in prison to calm the hearts of the people, Your Majesty!" As he spoke, Pan Zenghong knelt down and shouted.

At this time, many ministers also knelt down and shouted in unison: "The ministers seconded the proposal."

Seeing so many ministers asking the emperor to do his own thing, Wei Zhongxian was a little flustered, and now only Wei Zhongxian and some of his more important henchmen are still standing.

Chongzhen took a look, heh, these civil officials are really powerful. Want me to do Wei Zhongxian? Okay, but I'm going to have to make you bleed back and forth.

Chongzhen was expressionless at this time, and said to Wei Zhongxian lightly: "Father-in-law Wei, what do you have to say?"

"Your Majesty" Wei Zhongxian knelt down as he spoke, "The slave and maid have indeed done a lot of wrong things before, and the slave and maid confess their guilt. ”

The officials, who had already done a good job of "vicious warfare" (in fact, it was a mouthpiece), were stunned when they heard this.

Is this a Shenma situation? How did this old gelding confess his guilt? Conscience found? No, there are ghosts in there.

As soon as Wei Zhongxian's words came out, even the eunuchs were dumbfounded. I'll go, what's the matter? How can you admit it? If you want to die, don't drag us into the water!

In line with the mentality that friends of the dead will not die and the poor will not die, at this time, some members of the eunuch party have already participated in the queue to impeach Wei Zhongxian, because Wei Zhongxian's words just now have made them feel that "nine thousand years old" may have gone crazy.

Just when some eunuchs hesitated to change the court, Wei Zhongxian continued: "Although the slave and maid are lawless, the heart of the slave and the maid is always loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the royal family, and Your Majesty."

At this time, Chongzhen was silent, as if everything that happened below had nothing to do with him.

"Eunuch, you are clever words, I think you are better than Qin Hui." A kneeling minister immediately scolded.

"Wang Yushi, are you comparing Your Majesty to Zhao Kuo, who unjustly killed Yue Fei?" Wei Zhongxian smiled gloomily.

"Eunuch, you spew blood." That Wang Yushi said angrily.

Chongzhen, on the other hand, sat high on the throne and looked at them with interest. Dog eats dog is the most interesting, Chongzhen said in his heart.

"Your Majesty, although the slaves and maids have done these wrong things, dare to ask who among the hundreds of officials here has not been corrupt and bribed and filled their own pockets?" Wei Zhongxian said, "The slave and maid are well aware of the difficulties of Liao affairs and the emptiness of the treasury. Today, in order to show their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, the slave maid is willing to donate all the family property to His Majesty to help His Majesty sweep Liaodong and create a peaceful and prosperous era. ”

As soon as Wei Zhongxian said this, the civil officials who impeached him scolded Wei Zhongxian's ancestors for the eighteenth generation (although they have been scolded countless times a long time ago), even if you admit your guilt yourself, why do you say all the unspoken rules of officialdom?

"Eunuch, you are talking nonsense, how can we do things that fill our own pockets and spew blood." Another official scolded Wei Zhongxian, and then turned his head to Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, don't spare the thief, Wei Zhongxian will not come out for a day, and the people's will will be undecided."

At this time, Chongzhen finally spoke: "Oh? Is it? Wei Zhongxian donated all his family property for my Daming, this heart can be shown, this move can be promoted, I see that he is also loyal to my Daming, this time I will save him from death! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty," Wei Zhongxian bowed.

"Your Majesty, don't, don't spare Wei Eunuch." The ministers knelt down and said.

"Although Wei Zhongxian has a great fault, he has a great heart and can donate all his family property for Daming, so I can save him from death. Now that the Liao affairs are getting worse, and the treasury has no silver, and you, who keep reading the books of the sages and sages, and do things like the Son of Heaven, why don't you donate money to help me pacify the territory of the Ming Dynasty and return the people of the world to a peaceful and prosperous world? Chongzhen said angrily. Sometimes people just have to be scared.

"Your Majesty's words are wrong, we are doing things for the country, and our income is not high, so why should we donate two pieces of silver to Your Majesty?" A minister said with an innocent look on his face.

"Really? How much property you have in your family, you will know it when you check it out of Jinyiwei or Dongchang. Chongzhen sneered.

Want to pretend to be honest in front of Lao Tzu? Dream on!

When the officials heard this, they immediately began to sweat. Nine of the ten here are unclean buttocks, who is not greedy for thousands of taels, if Jin Yiwei is allowed to investigate like this, corruption and bribery are secondary, and bullying is a felony. Moreover, if you are bitten back by the eunuch party like this, saying that you ignore Daming, then the game is really over.

Seeing that those officials were sweating nervously, Wei Zhongxian was secretly happy in his heart, hum, fighting with our family, you are still a little tender.

"I'm joking with you, I know that all the ministers are the pillars of my Ming Dynasty, how can I ignore the country and enjoy my own wealth?" Chongzhen said with a smile, but the smile was a little incomprehensible.

God is you, and ghosts are you, what is that? Give the stairs and let us go down? The ministers said depressedly.

It turns out that Chongzhen is not so kind.

"It's just that this treasury is empty, and there are rebellions in Liaodong, and the soldiers of the Nine Sides have not been paid for a long time, I believe that you will actively donate money to help my Ming tide over the difficulties, right?" Chongzhen Road.

Hmph, still want steps? Okay, give the money.

At this time, the ministers also understood, and you are going around to fight the autumn wind?

Forget it, since it's all said and done, let's give a little bit!

"Wechen is willing to donate 700 taels", "the minister is willing to donate 1,000 taels", "the minister is willing to donate 200 taels"......

Ministers, you are talking about a thousand and eight hundred, and you still look bold. Chongzhen's face suddenly turned cloudy, and he said, "I didn't hear clearly, say it again, Wei Zhongxian, or you send a servant to calculate how much money they have for the ministers."

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he was about to say "obey the order", but when those "pillars of the country" heard it, they immediately changed their words, "the minister donated 50,000 taels", "the minister donated 100,000 taels", and "the minister donated 200,000 taels...... Immediately, they all donated more than 10,000 taels

"Okay, it is worthy of being the pillar of my Ming Dynasty, and I really have a Ming in my heart, come, take a pen and paper, and write it down for the secretaries." Chongzhen laughed loudly.

People don't know the seriousness of the matter if they don't push it.

After the number of donations from all the ministers is registered, a statistic, heh, more than 17 million taels, the amount is really a lot, more than the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty in two years, and there is money now.

Next, it is time to announce the verdict against Wei Zhongxian, in fact, Chongzhen already has a plan in his heart.

"Wei Zhongxian, Er and the Hakka clan have done a lot of evil, and the crime is unforgivable, but if you have a great heart and donate all your family property for the country, I will spare you a death, that is, deprive Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family of all official titles, and send Fengyang to guard the mausoleum in the middle capital, and you will not be allowed to leave Fengyang for life. The eunuchs and others were all demoted to commoners and had their property stolen. "Chongzhen is right.

Keshi, the nurse of Chongzhen's elder brother Emperor Tianqi, was formerly known as Ke Yinyue, also known as Ke Baba, a native of Hebei, and was named "Mrs. Fengsheng". The Hakka family was originally the wife of Hou Ba'er (Hou Er) in Dingxing County, with a charming appearance, vicious and cruel, and a sexual * lewd *. After Ming Xizong succeeded to the throne, he gave the Ke family and Wei Zhongxian a marriage, making them a "food" couple. and Wei Zhongxian stirred up the chickens and dogs outside the harem, and did a lot of evil.

Wei Zhongxian breathed a sigh of relief at this time, although the glory and wealth were gone, at least his life was saved.

And those ministers were full of anger at this time, although they broke Wei Zhongxian, they also lost a lot of money, and Wei Zhongxian was not dead, but was sent to Fengyang.

As for the eunuchs who played the role of playing soy sauce, they were miserable, and they were dismissed from their homes without even saying a word from beginning to end.

This time, the eunuch party lost, and the civilian clique also lost, and the only big winner was Chongzhen.

The next day, Wei Zhongxian's family property was harvested, and after statistics, Wei Zhongxian's family property accumulated over the years was really not a small amount: 1.13 million taels of gold, more than 13 million taels of silver, more than 3 million stones of grain, and countless treasures.

Looking at the numbers in the newspaper, Chongzhen smiled from ear to ear, this Wei Zhongxian is really rich, this time he really made a lot of money.

(Some people may think that this number is too exaggerated, but if you compare it with Liu Jin's family property during the Ming Wuzong period, you will know that after Ming Wuzong killed Liu Jin, he obtained 80 bundles of large jade belts from Liu Jin's family, 2.5 million taels of gold, more than 50 million taels of silver, and countless treasures.) ）