Among the hundred officials.

Some people may indeed consider Da Ming, but they oppose it because they don't know the inside story.

But there are also people who are afraid of losing the biggest channel for greedy money.

After the world was told that after the peasants were exempted from all taxes, corrupt officials and corrupt officials would not be able to levy tax increases on the common people under the banner of the state and enrich their own pockets.

Zhou Lu looked at the face of the hundred officials as if watching a play, took a puff of cigar, slowly exhaled the smoke, and said leisurely:

"Shut up."

When the emperor spoke, the minister was immediately silent and did not dare to speak.

The noisy Jinluan Hall fell silent.

"You don't have to worry," Zhou Lu said with a smile, "Lao Wang, tell them about it." ”

Well, this old king next door has no second child.

"Yes."

Wang Chengen and Yourong talked about the captured Shun army worth nearly 70 million taels of money.

The house was shocked!

The calculating courtiers knew best what it meant to be nearly 70 million taels of silver.

In the last emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the treasury has never been so full.

No wonder the emperor was so arrogant and exempted the peasants from taxes for ten years at once.

The exclamation was loud.

"Nearly 70 million taels of silver?!"

"Oh my God......"

"Great, great, great, God help Daming, Your Majesty is wise......"

The ministers cheered and were pleasantly surprised.

"Wait, this money ...... There are also ours. Chen Yan reminded.

The court officials suddenly calmed down, remembering that their homes had been looted by the Shun army.

After the capital was broken by the Shun army, the Shun army flocked to it, penetrating everywhere, and specially broke into the big households to loot.

As long as people who are not stupid know that those who live in big mansions are generally rich people.

And among the richest class, either rich businessmen or officials.

At present, business is not too developed, but corruption is rampant in officialdom, and officials make more money than rich businessmen.

Chen Yan, Zhu Chunchen and other court officials immediately reacted that the nearly 70 million taels of silver seized by the emperor also included the money that the Shun army forcibly snatched from their mansion.

Ladies you look at me, I look at you, with strange expressions, as if you have just swallowed a fly.

Zhu Chunchen relied on being a relative of the emperor and the emperor's most trusted minister, and opened his mouth to play: "Your Majesty, the minister's family was robbed by thieves, and he lost all the silver taels in stock, and I am afraid that it will be used ...... in the future."

"Yes, the minister's house has also been looted by thieves, and there will be no money to buy rice tomorrow."

"The old minister also suffered heavy losses, Your Majesty is gracious."

"Your Majesty, the minister was also tragically violated by the thieves, there are eighty old mothers in the family, eight children, one wife and three concubines, and twenty-one house slaves, maids, etc., now, not only the accumulation of silver is lost, but there are also people who are injured and have no money for medical treatment, and they will not be able to live in the future."

The courtiers behaved in pain and sorrow, beating their chests and feet, and while talking, some of them began to wipe their tears and weep, and their voices were choked, as if they were extremely miserable.

is full of emotions, the expression is in place, and the lines are also well matched.

Those who hear are sad, and those who listen are weeping.

The eunuch Wang Chengen's eyes were also moist.

Zhou Lu admired them a little.

It's really good to act.

All of them are drama spirits.

They are ostensibly crying poor.

In fact, the subtext is nothing more than a reminder to the emperor to return the money to them.

Who wouldn't be able to act?

"Zhong Aiqing has suffered, don't worry, I will help you."

Zhou Lu put on a comforting gesture of pity for the ministers, "Old Wang, how much they each lost, write it down immediately." ”

"Yes."

Wang Chengen led a few little eunuchs, took pens and paper, and asked the courtiers to report it, and they wrote it down one by one.

The process and documentation are simple, as long as the approximate loss figures.

The ministers were overjoyed, thinking that the emperor was preparing to make up for their losses, and enthusiastically reported the lost wealth.

A few cunning speculators even make false reports, after all, they have the final say on how much they lose in this kind of thing, and there is no way to find out.

What was seized was nearly 70 million taels of huge wealth, so why not take more if you have this righteous opportunity?

The emperor became rich overnight, and he must be very generous and not too careful.

At present, when the imperial court is employing people, the emperor has to rely on hundreds of officials to do things, and he has to be generalized normally.

Zhou Lu didn't think so in his heart.

He held a cigar in his mouth, crossed Erlang's legs, and said: "By the way, in my edict, there is also an allocation of 10 million taels as disaster relief funds, and another 10 million taels as military salaries, grain and grass." ”

The ministers were stunned and moved.

Twenty million taels at once, a huge amount of money.

In the eyes of corrupt officials, it is super fat!

Shoufu Wei Zaode asked: "With such an important matter of the country, who is Your Majesty going to hand it over?" ”

The retainers pricked up their ears.

Including Chen Yan and Wei Xuelian, who reported the loss of family wealth to the eunuchs.

"It's the two who went out just now, you should have seen them." Zhou Lu said slowly.

Wang Shouren and Yu Qian came in and went out, and the officials naturally saw it in their eyes.

"This ......" Wei Zaode frowned, turned his head to look left and right, and made eye contact with Zhu Chunchen and the others.

Zhu Chunchen objected: "Your Majesty, disaster relief and military salaries, grain and grass are very important, and it is a huge amount of 20 million yuan, which affects the country's situation, and must not be dealt with by those who have rebelled." ”

"What Cheng Guogong said is extremely true, as far as the minister knows, these two people are anti-thieves, and they know at a glance that they are just farmers in the mountains and fields, they don't know Confucianism, they don't know how to learn, and they are not even as good as Xiucai, Your Majesty must not reuse such inferior pariahs."

Wei Zaode's implication is that they have no culture, they are not materials for doing things, and they must raise people and scholars to be officials.

Zhou Lu smiled: "The mountain farmer is an inferior pariah? Oh, no, if there were no farmers to grow food, you would have starved to death, so in my opinion, you so-called civil officials are not inferior pariahs. ”

Baiguan's face changed greatly.

Wang Chengen was also taken aback, the emperor's words would offend all the officials, and the relationship was stiff, he opened his lips, but did not speak.

The corner of Wei Zaode's eyes twitched: "This ...... Your Majesty, you, you are disrespecting the people of the world. ”

"It's also disrespectful to the ancient sages, and disrespectful to the Taizu Taizong." Zhu Chunchen echoed, "Such remarks are contrary to the ancestral teachings, Your Majesty thinks twice." ”

Move out all sorts of things to put pressure.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are all dissecting their hearts, only for the sake of Daming Sheji, for you." Chen Yandao.

"It's a good one to think about Daming Sheji, think about me. When I was short of money for disaster relief, I borrowed money from you, what did you do? Yesterday I rang the bell in Jingyang Palace to summon hundreds of officials, where are you? I fought in the long street, where are you? ”

At that time, the treasury was depleted and there was an extreme shortage of money, so Chongzhen borrowed money from interested ministers, but Chen Yan, Wei Zaode, and others all cried poor, saying that they were afraid of affecting the image of honesty and dedication, and Chongzhen borrowed very little money.

The capital was breached, Chongzhen summoned hundreds of officials, and no one came to the palace.

Usually this is just like this, but when the national disaster is like this, it is a great crime.

The emperor asked three questions in a row, and the ministers were immediately embarrassed, speechless, and silent.

At this point,

The eunuch brought up the list of plundered.

Zhou Lu glanced at it, and his tone turned cold: "Don't you all say that you have a clean breeze on your sleeves and no money at home?" The losses I see here are more than 10,000 taels. ”

"Your Majesty, the silver money is left over from my ancestors, and I dare not touch it lightly." Zhu Chunchen had already prepared to speak.

But the current emperor is not so easy to fool.

Zhou Lu had already seen through everything.

He stretched, took off the cigar in his mouth, and said lightly:

"I said that I will help you, you have no jokes. In this way, the people on the list are all beheaded, and when they are all dead, they are not afraid that they will not be able to support their wives and children, right? ”