Chapter 12 If I want to rebel, I need money
As soon as Huang Liji's words came out, there was an uproar in the court.
As we all know, although Huang Liji is not the backbone of the eunuch party, he only sat in the position of first assistant with the support of Wei Zhongxian, and he also obeyed Wei Zhongxian's words on weekdays, even in the recital, he also called Wei Zhongxian as a "factory minister" and did not dare to call him by his name.
In the eyes of many people in the government and the opposition, Huang Liji is a eunuch. Unexpectedly, now he proposed to let the Three Law Divisions convict Wei Zhongxian.
Some eunuch cores couldn't help but glare at Huang Li angrily, while some, such as Cui Chengxiu, were thoughtful. The Three Law Divisions are full of eunuchs, and letting them try Wei Zhongxian may be the best outcome.
Really smart people such as Shi Fenglai glanced at Huang Liji vigilantly.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that Wei Zhongxian will be taken down, and Huang Liji's proposal is, to a certain extent, a return to Wei Zhongxian, and will definitely be grateful to other eunuchs. In this way, after the fall of Wei Zhongxian and his henchmen, other officials who had joined the eunuch party also had a core and would quickly gather around Huang Liji.
In this way, even if the Donglin Party returns to the court on the occasion of the castration, these officials in the court who were once attached to the eunuch party can also compete with it.
However, Huang Liji is not afraid of being implicated? If the emperor is bent on eradicating the eunuchs, Huang Liji is not afraid of angering the emperor?
Shi Fenglai's heart was full of doubts, and his eyes cruised over Huang Liji and Zhu Youzhen.
Suddenly, Shi Fenglai remembered that just a few days ago, because of the emperor's military training in Xiyuan, Huang Liji went to see the emperor, could it be that at that time, a tacit understanding was reached between the monarch and the minister?
"The minister seconded the proposal!" Almost instantly, Shi Fenglai thought clearly, and hurriedly followed Huang Liji.
"The minister seconded the proposal!" Other cabinet scholars also hurriedly followed.
Some officials in the court who impeached the eunuchs felt that something was wrong, but they could not say anything.
"I don't think it's appropriate." Zhu Youzhen rejected the cabinet's suggestion, "Wei Zhongxian is a minister, and most of his actions involve palace officials, so it is not appropriate to conduct a public trial."
In this way, Wei Zhongxian is guilty of a great crime, but he remembered that he had served the first emperor for many years to avoid his death, so he ordered the brocade guard to lock it and assign him to guard the tomb of the first emperor.
Xu Xianchun, the secretary of the Jinyi Guard, led the Xiyuan Janissary New Army to confiscate all his family property, and the proceeds were all filled into the inner treasury!
Retreat! ”
After that, Zhu Youjian stepped down from the throne and turned around and left the main hall!
"Your Majesty......" Some ministers still had to speak, but when they saw that the emperor was gone, they could only give up.
Forget it, next time the court will impeach again, and sooner or later all the eunuchs will be completely removed from the court.
"How can the Xiyuan guards confiscate the family property?" There are also some who mutter.
It seems that the emperor is more concerned about Wei Zhongxian's family property than about how much he has sinned.
If Zhu Youzhen heard this, he would definitely laugh, that's what I thought.
In the previous life, Zhu Youzhen only cared about eliminating the eunuchs and reviving the dynasty, and he didn't care about gold and silver at all.
Wei Zhongxian was not arrested all at once, but sent to Fengyang for resettlement, and Wei Zhongxian's family property was not investigated. When Wei Zhongxian went to Fengyang, he brought dozens of cars, and there were hundreds of people in his entourage alone. At that time, someone impeached Wei Zhongxian for his bad intentions, and Zhu Youzhen ordered Jinyi to lock it.
After Wei Zhongxian received the news from his henchmen in Beijing, he hanged himself in fright, and many of his followers scattered after robbing the money.
The property of Wei Zhongxian Jingshi was confiscated by the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Shuntian Mansion, and all the proceeds were put into the state treasury. As for how much silver was confiscated, Zhu Youzhen didn't know much about it, anyway, there wasn't much. At that time, Zhu Youzhen's mind was full of cleaning up Wei Zhongxian's remaining party, and he couldn't care about such a trivial matter as money, now think about it, how ridiculous!
For ordinary people, money is the basis for the survival of the whole family, but what about a country?
If the court was rich, why did he repeatedly raise taxes back then? provoked the people of the world to mourn.
If the court is rich, why should he abolish the post station and force the post man to rebel?
If the court is rich, why don't you have money for disaster relief? It has made countless displaced people in northern Shaanxi riotous!
After experiencing the moment of life and death, the soul traveled for 400 years, and Zhu Youzhen had a clear understanding of why he was defeated.
I lost because I was defeated, and Daming died, the biggest reason was that I had no money! It's not that the Ming Dynasty has no money, it's that the court has no money!
The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, whether it is the people or the officials, they are busy all day long for the sake of profit. It's a pity that he is a dignified son of heaven, he is frugal in food and clothing, and his daily consumption is not as good as that of ordinary rich people, and he doesn't even have the silver to make jewelry for the harem concubines!
The gentry and rich households have fine clothes and jade food, the princes and princes of the vassal are poor and luxurious, the people of the world are waiting to be fed, and their own son of heaven is also poor!
All the money in the world went into the homes of the gentry and officials, into the families of the vassal kings, and into the families of the nobles, but not into the hands of the emperor and the people of the world!
From this point of view, the emperor and the poor people of the world are the same group, and the gentry and noble clans are the enemies of themselves and the people of the world!
However, the imperial court was in the hands of civil officials who represented the gentry. The civil officials controlled the court, the gentry controlled the countryside, and the civil and military armies were also controlled by them. It's too difficult for the emperor to do things, the more he does, the more he makes mistakes, and the more he struggles, the faster he falls.
Therefore, if you want to save the people of the world, if you want to prosper the Ming Dynasty, if you want China to avoid the sinking of three hundred years, Zhu Youzhen, who lives again, knows that the only thing he can believe is himself.
Jump out of the shackles of the court, set up another system, and "overthrow" the court!
In a word, I want to rebel! The rebellion of this court overthrows all the ruling classes, and everything is decided by the people, and the people are the masters of the world. Of course, I represent the people of the world.
Therefore, the first thing Zhu Youzhen did after his rebirth was to establish the Xiyuan Guard, he wanted to establish an army completely under his control, and based on it to carry out innovation, eliminate the exploiters of the gentry and noble clans, and establish a new Ming Dynasty.
Building an army is not a simple task and requires a lot of silver. Zhu Youzhen is the emperor, but he can't take the silver from the household treasury to raise the Xiyuan guards. It's not that there is no such power, but that the treasury does not have much money at all.
After more than ten years of fierce battles with Jiannu, the little money left by Emperor Wanli has long been exhausted. Although the treasury had some money, it had to be used to support the border army, the court officials, and disaster relief.
If you want to build a new army, you can only try to make money yourself.
Wei Zhongxian has controlled the court for many years, and the power is leaning towards the government and the opposition eunuchs all over the world, if he doesn't have money, he won't believe it!
In the tenth year of Wanli, the eunuch Feng Bao was raided, and he obtained 30,000 taels of gold, more than 2 million taels of silver, and millions of taels of silver for other property.
Wei Zhongxian's power far surpasses Feng Bao, and his family wealth may be more than Feng Bao!
In the last life, after the fall of Wei Zhongxian, I don't know where these properties went, and in this life, how could Zhu Youzhen let it go?