In the imperial study, Zhou Ze only waited for less than half a pillar of incense, and Wang Chengen led an old man with a rickety head and silver hair to walk in.

"Your Majesty, Wei Zhongxian has already brought it!"

"Hmm, let him in!" Zhou Ze nodded and put down the brush he was playing with.

"Old slave, meet Your Majesty!" Wei Zhongxian now, the disaster of many days of imprisonment made him look extremely sad, but the moment he saw Zhou Ze, his spirit was extremely excited, and he desperately wanted to grasp this last life-saving straw.

"Wei Zhongxian, the civil and military officials have urged me to order you to be executed several times, do you know why I have not issued an order to execute you for a long time?"

"Old slave... The old slave is stupid, and I hope Your Majesty will explain it in detail. ”

Zhou Ze looked at the old man on the ground who kept kowtowing with some playfulness, and only after a while did he slowly speak.

"When the imperial brother passed on the throne to me, he once told me that he was loyal and virtuous, but he could keep the throne stable, I never understood this sentence, Gonggong Wei, can you explain it to me?"

"Your Majesty, do you know why the first emperor was obsessed with carpentry and did not want to go to court when he was alive?" Hearing Zhou Ze talk about the first emperor, Wei Zhongxian's expression suddenly became excited.

"Oh, tell me about it!"

"When the first emperor ascended to the great treasure, he also thought about being a Ming monarch who left his name in history, but unfortunately, today's Ming Dynasty has already been in turmoil, and most of the court is a rotten Confucian who talks about it without real materials, and the sage cloud and Taizu Xun at every turn forced the first emperor to retreat to the harem and indulge in carpenter work!"

"As a last resort, the first emperor cultivated the old slave to fight against the rotten Confucians in the court!"

"Your Majesty, the old slave is a dog raised by the royal family, if Your Majesty wants to kill the old slave, you only need a will, you can easily deprive the old slave of his authority and give the old slave to death, and the old slave has no power to resist!"

"But has Your Majesty ever thought that when the old slave died, who would share the firepower of those corrupt people in the court for Your Majesty in the future? Without the vicious dog of the old slave, those who sell their fame and reputation are actually male thieves and female prostitutes, will target Your Majesty. ”

"When the time comes, Your Majesty, are you willing to be a Ming Jun in the mouths of the courtiers and act under their control, or be a faint monarch who hides in the harem and ignores the affairs of the court?"

Wei Zhongxian looked at Zhou Ze with anticipation in his eyes, he had already said it so thoroughly and explicitly, if this emperor wanted to kill him, then he would also accept his fate.

Zhou Ze was silent for a long time, and finally, stretched out three fingers.

"Three requests!"

"Your Majesty, please speak!" Hearing Zhou Ze's request, Wei Zhongxian's heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, he was not afraid of the emperor's request, he was afraid that this young emperor was stunned, and he didn't understand the emperor's weighing technique at all.

"First, I need money, lots and lots of money, and you can't scavenge this money from the people!

"Your Majesty, rest assured, now in the Ming Empire, there are countless powerful and rich gentry, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, it is even more innumerable! The wealth in the hands of these families ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions of silver, and the old slave only needs to find a few serious criminal families every year to raid the house, which is enough for His Majesty's money!"

Zhou Ze shook his head, "This is not a long-term method, I need you to carry out the business tax, ten taxes and one, no one can stop it!"

Hearing this, Wei Zhongxian frowned, "Your Majesty, you may not know that when the first emperor was here, the old slave once implemented a commercial tax according to the first emperor's wishes, and it was a very slight twenty tax one, but as a result, the tax collector sent to collect taxes was beaten to death by the people as soon as he walked to the land south of the Yangtze River!

"Hehe, whether it's twenty taxes or ten taxes, they can't accept it, so why not raise the tax rate?"

"The matter of commercial taxation, there is no hurry for the time being, and I will completely control the military power of the Beijing camp, and then slowly implement it!"

"In this way, as long as Your Majesty gives the old slave military support, the old slave has the confidence to completely carry out the commercial tax!"

Zhou Ze nodded and continued: "Second, from today onwards, you will step down from the position of chief supervisor of ceremonies, serve as the commander of the East Factory, and supervise the West Factory. I need this court to be basically stable, but I don't want the courtiers to be too idle and come to me for trouble!

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the old slave is the best at this! Under those rotten butts, few of them are clean, whoever provokes Your Majesty is not happy, the old slave will clean up whom!"

Zhou Ze smiled, "This is your old business, but there is one thing, I want real evidence, not arbitrarily framed criminal evidence, this one, you have to remember it clearly!"

"Your Majesty, rest assured, just with the various incriminating evidence that the old slave has in his hands, it is enough to pull out most of the people in the court and cut off their heads, and there is no need to frame them out of thin air!"

Zhou Ze believes this, he knows very well that above the Ming Dynasty today, there is almost no good thing in the so-called Donglin Party Qingliu. The two-sleeved Qingfeng family is poor, but in fact, they are all huge greedy, and they are all pulled out and cut, and few of them are wronged!

"Third, you should be familiar with the five military camps, the three thousand battalions, the Shenji battalion, and the battalion guards in charge of the Imperial Horse Prison in the capital, right?"

"Your Majesty's meaning, the old slave understands, and soon, the old slave will hand over the list of factions of the generals in each military camp to Your Majesty, and help Your Majesty control the military power as soon as possible!"

"In this way, then there will be Lord Lao Wei!" Zhou Ze nodded with satisfaction and smiled.

"It is the duty of the old slave to share your worries for Your Majesty!" After being reborn from the dead, Wei Zhongxian had a feeling of being suddenly separated from the world, and even the sound of kowtowing was a little louder.

"In this case, you go down and start arranging these few things that I have given you! As for your appointment as the commander of the East Factory, it will be issued soon!"

"No! The old slave will live up to His Majesty's expectations!" Wei Zhongxian bowed and kowtowed, and slowly retreated.

After Wei Zhongxian left, Zhou Ze set his sights on Wang Chengen.

"Cheng'en, I'm going to appoint you as the head of the celebrant and the head of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, are you willing?"

"Your Majesty, these two positions have great responsibilities, and the slaves and maids are afraid that they will not do well, and they will be entrusted by Your Majesty!"

"Haha, I still have confidence in your ability!"

Patting Wang Chengen on the shoulder, Zhou Ze couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, there are still too few people he can use now, Wei Zhongxian, this vicious dog, in fact, he doesn't like it, but he still has to use it, otherwise without this vicious dog to balance the courtiers, some follow-up plans, it will be difficult for him to carry out normally.

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In the boundless void, Cheng Hao's figure appears from time to time.

The trials of hundreds of students, every move, can be said to be under his nose.

When he saw all the actions of Zhou Ze after waking up, he couldn't help but nodded, this guy, although he looked a little lazy, but his heart was very sober, if nothing else, this mission would be stable.