Lord Wen specially selected Chongzhen to be anxious about holding a "longevity celebration" when he had no money, and offered this big red envelope through Queen Zhou and Tian Guifei blowing pillow wind.

Wen Tiren's reasons are of course very good -

"Long live the lord of a country, concerned about state affairs, working for the people, lamenting all night, Wei Chen is the head of the cabinet, only on behalf of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and the people of the whole country to offer some heart, in order to show the return of the government and the opposition and congratulate His Majesty the Emperor on his long life......"

Wen Tiren repeatedly emphasized that the gold and silver treasures he "presented" to Emperor Chongzhen were the thoughts of everyone in the country, and were used to show his supreme respect to His Majesty the Emperor. Hearing these words, Emperor Chongzhen Long Yan was very happy, and in the end, he even turned his back to secretly wipe away his tears......

On the surface, Lord Wen pushed this "heart" to the "whole people", so that Emperor Chongzhen got this perfect rhetoric while being happy, and of course he naturally and deceitfully "laughed", and even deliberately forgot the words "bribery" and "stammering" in his heart.

As the celebration drew to a close, Lord Wen looked at Emperor Chongzhen with a spring breeze on his face, and said in his heart: "There are people who do the business of killing heads, and no one does the business of losing money - let alone being an official?" ”

gave Emperor Chongzhen more than 10 million taels of silver, which seems to be a lot, and it is almost equal to the entire income of the Ming Empire in a year - however, his boss is only Emperor Chongzhen, and his subordinates have thousands!

The number of bribes given to himself by these tens of thousands of people has long exceeded the bribes he gave to the emperor alone—this is called a million profits!

The expectation that he will "die in office" is probably not far from ten......

Just when Wen Tiren was "brushing his beard", Zhou Yanru, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, was standing behind him. I've been staring at Wen Tiren's back all the time.

Zhou Yanru and the eunuch Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, had a good bus, because in the eyes of the prince. The "Donglin Party Leader" Zhou Daren naturally belongs to the side of the "loyal ministers". That Wen Tiren has a very poor reputation in officialdom, and he hooked up with his sworn enemy, the eunuch Cao Huachun, who was the master of ceremonies. That's necessarily not all the way-

Well, I'm afraid the latter reason is more primary......

Therefore, Wen Tiren gave Chongzhen a red envelope - uh, no, about the dedication of gold and silver treasures, Zhou Yanru knew about it through the prince early in the morning.

At this moment, Zhou Yanru's heart was full of regret! Alas, that regret -

Nima, the ginger is still old and spicy! Wen Tiren was ten years older than himself, and sure enough, he didn't live to a dog......

At present, the thief is firmly in control of the government. After such a play, the position of the first assistant of the cabinet must have become more and more stable.

Now I go to give the emperor a red envelope, it's not a wise man's doing. Picking up people's teeth and wisdom is light, to put it seriously, you Zhou Yanru cried and pretended to be shabby before, and now when Lord Wen sends a red envelope, you also come to send it in a hurry, what kind of intention are you?

Zhou Yanru sighed slightly, and became more and more angry in his heart-

This time, there is still no comparison between the auxiliary and the first assistant. The efficiency of the second-in-command and the first-in-command to make money is simply worlds apart!

For example, the Ministry of Industry is responsible for various construction, manufacturing and other official affairs such as building bridges and paving roads, and half of the funds are paid to Shousuke. The household department is in charge of the money and food taxes, and the benefits are needless to say, so you can wipe the beginning of the number of the first assistant anywhere. That's a seven- or eight-digit deviation. Because the officials were in charge of the personnel promotion, demotion, assessment, transfer, and so on of the officials, the officials of the Ming Dynasty sent too many fees and care fees to the Shoufu Lord to count - and these are only a small part, and the largest source of income for the Shoufu is the Ministry of War.

Due to years of conquest. Military spending is the largest expenditure of the imperial court, and of course it has become the largest source of income for the first assistant. The Ming Dynasty has nine sides. It is equivalent to nine military regions, and the silver issued by the imperial court will not be transported out of the capital at all. Instead, it was directly sent to the warehouse of the "civil official master who should be dotted". Eighty percent of all military salaries were coveted by civilian officials at all levels, and eighty percent of them went into the pockets of Lord Shoufu.

Think about those big-headed soldiers, it's also quite miserable, and the salary of the imperial court is one or two silver a month according to the system. However, when the silver went out of the capital, the soldiers could only get two cents of silver, and the remaining eight cents of silver were fed to the "dogs".

Eighty percent of the officers at all levels are greedy for ink and money, and eighty percent of them are greedy for ink by civilian officials, and the officers are greedy for only two percent, and it is strange that the soldiers do not rebel. Therefore, the officers invented the "empty salary" to drink the blood of the soldiers, don't look at the remaining 20% of the military salary, 10,000 brothers reported 30,000 male divisions, that is also "another way"!

It can be seen that more than half of the annual salary of 10 million taels and the military salary of 6 or 7 million taels in other border towns fell into the pockets of Lord Shoufu alone!

Zhou Yanru sighed heavily again, hating that he had only been the first assistant for more than a year, and he had made too little and too little!

Wen Tiren made this move, but I am afraid that it will be at least three or five years away from the position of the first assistant, right?

Cake sellers, slaves and thieves must not be pacified! If Nima had Jiannu and had returned to Hetuala, and King Gao Yingxiang had been arrested and executed, there would be no fight!

If you are not greedy for military salaries, can you be greedy for a few silver dollars just by selling officials?

Selling officials has always been despised by the old man - well, mainly those who can't afford to buy officials, all of them are mad dogs with explosive combat effectiveness......

Zhou Yanru had goosebumps all over his body, and he repeatedly muttered silently:

"God willing, fight for a few more years...... God forbid, the thief should get out of here soon-"

Over and over again, that's just these two sentences......

The longevity ceremony had come to an end, and after a few hours, Emperor Chongzhen's limbs were sore and numb. In fact, attending this kind of ceremonial activity is a painful thing to live in, and it is often regarded as a daunting thing among the impatient emperors in the past—

For example, Emperor Zhengde, who loves to play, Emperor Jiajing, who loves to be a Taoist, Emperor Wanli, who loves to hide in the deep palace and count money, and Emperor Tianqi who loves to do carpenter's work......

However, Emperor Chongzhen was not tired of it, because through this kind of ceremony, he could get a lot of psychological satisfaction and all kinds of hallucinations that made him happy.

Lacking self-confidence, he always has a kind of doubt on weekdays, for fear that others will not take him as an emperor in their eyes. And now at this ceremony, that doubt is immediately dispelled.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen was high up, and his golden clothes concealed the emptiness and fragility in his heart, making him look extremely noble. Every minister at his feet knelt on the ground and sang his praises and praised him!

Chongzhen glanced at Shoufu Wen Tiren, and his eyes were full of "appreciation" - isn't it, without Wen Aiqing's charcoal in the snow, uh, no, the public is loyal to the country, how could there be such a grand "longevity celebration" today? (To be continued.) )