Chen Xinjia has been in a good mood for the past two days, because Chongzhen has adopted his advice and is ready to send Yue Yang to carry out this mission, which everyone considers to be a death mission.

For this matter, Chen Xinjia not only ordered the military department and the yamen to have a division to give the green light when Yueyang came to go through the formalities, but also openly and secretly instigated a lot of officials and imperial historians to stare at the inner city with wide eyes, once Yueyang and those rich gentry had any conflicts, they would immediately write down the matter as soon as possible and hand it to Chongzhen's dragon case, and then a big hat was buckled on Yueyang's head, this set of processes The Ming officials have been doing it for hundreds of years, and they are more skilled than eating and sleeping, Chen Xinjia felt that this Yueyang would have to shed his skin if he didn't die, no matter whether Yue Yang could raise grain and grass or not, there would be no good fruit for him to eat.

Chen Xinjia's good mood lasted until just now, Yue Yang took his soldiers into the city, as Chen Xinjia expected, Yue Yang began his journey of raising food and fundraising, Chen Xinjia's prediction was correct, Yue Yang's guy really began to move, he took his wolf-like sergeants to break into a wealthy merchant surnamed Zhou, loaded all the grain and silver in his house into a cart and transported it back to the camp outside the city, I heard that it was still a means called overlord hard bow, and then they pounced on the second one.

At the beginning, Chen Xinjia was still very happy, the more brutal Yue Yang's methods were, the more the imperial historians and officials could impeach him violently, and the worse his fate would be in the future. But Chen Xinjia slowly couldn't laugh, because he heard that this rude guy had started to kill people, and dozens of family guards were killed on the spot in the process of resisting, and even the wealthy businessman was injured, Chen Xinjia was immediately keenly aware that the development of things had begun to deviate from the track he had set, and slowly developed in an unpredictable direction.

Sure enough, as the robbery in Yueyang progressed, more and more wealthy merchants in the inner city were forcibly expropriated for grain and wages, and hundreds of large wheels transported countless grains and silver taels to the camp outside the city. According to Chen Xinjia's estimate, the amount of silver and grain collected by Yue Yang at this time had already reached the predetermined amount, but this guy had no intention of stopping, he still knocked on the door of those rich merchants one by one with a group of wolf-like sergeants.

Then things got bigger and bigger, more and more rich families were anxious, they gathered their own families and began to resist, but these waste materials who can only bully the common people and homeless people on the street on weekdays are the opponents of those sergeants who are not even afraid of Tartars, in the face of the Jiading Courtyard who rushed towards them with knives, guns and sticks, those sergeants did not hesitate to raise the fire gun in their hands and pulled the trigger, and for a time the city rang out one after another gunfire from time to time.

Right now. Chen Xinjia is finally about to taste the bitter fruit he has planted.

"Chen Xinjia......" Chongzhen's voice floated to his ears as if from the sky.

Chen Xinjia, whose thoughts had drifted to the point where he didn't know where he was, didn't hear Chongzhen's voice at first, until the Hubu Shangshu Hou Sui who was standing next to him kicked him on the calf, he came back to his senses, opened his eyes and looked around, and found that Chongzhen and the ministers were staring at him, he hurriedly came out of the column and knelt down and said in a trembling voice: "The ministers are here!" ”

Looking at Chen Xinjia, who was kneeling on the ground and didn't even dare to raise his head, Chongzhen was angry in his heart, it was this bad idea, and now it has led to chaos in the inner city. Thinking of this, Chongzhen couldn't wait to slap himself. Yesterday, I took the wrong medicine, and I actually listened to the words of the guy in front of me, and put a wolf in the sheepfold, and I was complacent that as long as I grabbed the handle of this wolf, I could beat it hard. But he forgot that the wolf is always a wolf, that it will eat meat after all, and that the consequence of putting the wolf in the sheepfold is that it will not give up until it eats the sheep in the sheepfold.

"Chen Xinjia, this is your idea. Raise grain, grass and silver taels from the rich families in the city, this is the person you promote? ”

There was no trace of anger on Chongzhen's face at this time, and the tone of his speech became as if he was narrating an ordinary matter. But no one below dared to think so. At this time, the calmer Chongzhen's expression was, the more angry it proved in his heart, Chen Xinjia didn't dare to raise his head, and said tremblingly.

"Your Majesty, Your Minister...... The minister originally thought that ...... I thought that Yue Yang could handle that mission, but I didn't expect him to ...... It turned out to be ......"

Looking at Chen Xinjia, who was lying on the ground, Chongzhen couldn't help but shout anymore: "You didn't expect him to be so bold and reckless, he dared to shoot and injure many family members, and changed from raising food and wages to public plunder, right?" What haven't you thought of yet? You want to declare your personal vendetta for your own selfishness, knowing that Yue Yang is unruly and ambitious, you even gave me the idea to let him lead troops into the city to raise food and salary, now it's okay, the inner city is in chaos, but I have no choice but to let him plunder openly, now you are happy, right? ”

Chongzhen's roaring voice echoed in the Warm Fragrance Pavilion, and he had long forgotten that just yesterday he was still thinking about how to take this opportunity to beat this thorn on the head, and if he didn't know how to do it, he wouldn't even mind throwing him in prison. But when things were out of his control, he quickly forgot about them selectively, and attributed all the mistakes to the guy kneeling on the ground in front of him, and for a while the silence in the Warm Fragrance Pavilion was almost audible.

Taking a deep breath, Chongzhen closed his eyes, took a few deep breaths, opened his eyes and refocused on Chen Xinjia's body, he said slowly: "Chen Xinjia, you caused this matter, what do you say?" ”

Chen Xinjia fell to the ground, his body trembled like chaff, and when he heard Chongzhen asking, he whispered: "Your Majesty...... Minister...... Yueyang is a man who is flying and domineering, and the court is ...... The imperial court should punish ......"

Listening to Chen Xinjia's words, Yang Sichang, Wen Tiren, Hou Sui and others on the side couldn't help but shake their heads secretly, this Chen Xinjia can be regarded as able to speak well on weekdays, but once something happens, he is so panicked, it is really unseemly. In fact, in another time and space, later generations only had one paragraph of evaluation of Chen Xinjia: "Courageous, slightly talented, but it is difficult to turn the tide after all". This also shows that although Chen Xinjia is a little smart, he has no courage and is difficult to take on heavy responsibilities.

Sure enough, a hint of disappointment flashed in Chongzhen's eyes after hearing Chen Xinjia's words, and he shook his head and shouted, "Someone! ”

With Chongzhen's shouting, two Han generals wearing armor walked in outside. Chongzhen pointed at Chen Xinjia and shouted: "Take off his black gauze hat, pick off his official robe, and drive him out of the palace!" ”

"Yes!"

The two tall Han generals immediately stepped forward, and took off Chen Xinjia's black gauze hat and official uniform with three strikes and five divisions, and then the two of them set up Chen Xinjia, who had already collapsed to the ground, out of the Warm Fragrance Pavilion on the left and right.

Looking at Chen Xinjia, who was dragged out like a dead dog, everyone was terrified, and they all lowered their heads and said nothing. Chongzhen looked around at everyone and said coldly, "What? Do you still want to intercede for Chen Xinjia? ”

"Don't dare! Emperor Shengming, Chen Xinjia deserves his crimes, and he really deserves to be punished! Everyone hurriedly stated their position in unison, and now the inner city is a sensation, making the crowd boiling. Now that it's happened, someone has to be responsible, right? There are two people who cannot shirk responsibility in this matter, one is Emperor Chongzhen, who is in charge of making decisions, and the other is Chen Xinjia, who came up with the idea. But Chongzhen is the emperor, the emperor is naturally right to do anything, after all, who dares to let the big boss be responsible, since the boss is not guilty, then this black pot has to be carried by other people, whether it is tall, short, fat and thin, long or short, who is more suitable than Chen Xinjia, everyone is an old fritter who has been immersed in officialdom for decades, and this kind of thing of falling into the well and pushing the boat down the water has already been played perfectly, no need for Chongzhen to say more, the small stone still has to be called a whooshing sound.

Chongzhen waved his hand weakly: "Okay, don't shout about the emperor and the like to coax me, you say, how should this matter end now?" ”

Yang Sichang looked around and found that everyone, including Shoufu Wen Tiren, was frowning and silent, obviously they hadn't thought of a countermeasure to this matter in their hearts. His heart moved, and he hurriedly stood up and bowed his hand to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, no matter what the plan for the present is, the first thing is to send someone to Yueyang to send a decree, asking him to immediately stop raising food and salaries, and immediately withdraw the soldiers and horses from the capital!" ”

"Well, that's reasonable, but Yang Aiqing, can you guarantee that Yue Yang will withdraw from the capital immediately after receiving the order?" Chongzhen pondered for a while before asking.

"Of course!" Yang Sichang replied without thinking.

"Oh, why?" Chongzhen came to the spirit at once, and what he was most afraid of now was that Yue Yang would take chicken feathers as an arrow, and hold his holy decree to scourge the entire inner city to one side, and when the time came, not only would the crowd be angry, but even his face would be lost.

According to the spies, now Yueyang has blackmailed dozens of wealthy families, although I don't know how much silver and grain and grass he plundered, but according to Chen's estimates, it has already been able to meet the needs of the army outside the city. Now the reason why the imperial court has not reacted to it is only because he did not dare to cause large-scale riots in the city, so he was allowed to run rampant, but if he continued to blackmail, once the imperial court was angry and ordered to be cleared, it would not be half beneficial to him, as long as the emperor's holy decree arrived, he would naturally descend from the donkey and lead the troops back to the camp outside the city. Yang Sichang explained the original situation in an orderly and reasonable manner, which made people have to be convinced, and Chongzhen nodded frequently when he heard it, and said victoriously.

"Good...... Aiqing has a point,"

Chongzhen heard that it was a dragon's heart, and couldn't help but pat the armrest of the dragon chair and praised: "Aiqing is worthy of being a pillar of the country, and it is indeed something to say, since this is the case, this matter will be handed over to Aiqing, how about it?" ”

Yang Sichang's face did not change and said respectfully: "The minister obeys the order, ......" (to be continued......)