Chapter 15: There Is No Faster Money in the World than Raiding the House (Part 3)
For Mao Wenlong, Zhu Youzhen once felt very complicated.
Mao Wenlong's Liao people opened the Dongjiang River, which is a rare general, so he was promoted to the general of the Dongjiang River of Pingliao in a short period of time. However, Mao Wenlong was very domineering, looting business travelers, robbing the people, embezzling military salaries, and lying about war exploits, all of which are real. And the results of the Dongjiang Army are not very good, and in Zhu Youzhen's heart, he is sorry for the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver paid every year.
So in the previous life, when Yuan Chonghuan beheaded Mao Wenlong with Shang Fang's sword, although Zhu Youzhen felt displeased, he didn't care too much.
However, in the second year of Chongzhen, Jiannu detoured Mongolia to invade from Jizhou and looted Gyeonggi, the imperial court was shocked, and Zhu Youzhen was furious, so Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao at that time, became the biggest sinner, and the government and the opposition discussed that if Yuan Chonghuan did not kill Mao Wenlong, Jiannu was worried that the back road might not dare to detour to Mongolia to invade.
However, the soul of life and death has traveled for 400 years, and combined with the understanding of 400 years later, Zhu Youzhen's view is different.
Mao Wenlong's role was not as big as imagined, even if Yuan Chonghuan didn't kill Mao Wenlong, he couldn't stop Jiannu from bypassing the Mongol invasion.
Because Mao Wenlong's army is only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the armor is not complete, the combat power is average, and Jiannu only needs to deploy more than 10,000 troops in the area of Zhenjiang Fort and Kuandian, which is enough to block the Dongjiang army. And the main force of Jiannu still had the option of making a detour to the south via Mongolia.
It's not that Dongjiang Town is not important, it's that the combat effectiveness of Mao Wenlong's department is not enough to give full play to the geographical advantages of Phi Dao. If Phi Dao really has an elite army that can resist the Eight Banners, Jiannu will definitely be like a thorn in the back and a fish in the throat, and he will definitely not dare to invade with all his strength if he does not pull out Phi Dao.
However, at present, there is only Mao Wenlong on Phi Island, and Mao Wenlong has no merit and hard work in guarding Phi Island, and Zhu Youzhen is not willing to be too demanding of such a dedicated person.
After thinking about it carefully, Zhu Youzhen agreed to allocate 300,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury to help the Liao people in Dongjiang Town.
"Your Majesty, at the end of last month, there was an earthquake in Sichuan, and according to the report of the governor of Sichuan, thousands of houses collapsed, and tens of thousands of people were left homeless." Huang Liji continued.
Zhu Youzhen said unhappily: "What does the governor of Sichuan eat?" Every year, the local government withholds more than half of the tax, where does all this money go? Aren't they all greedy? Everything is counted on the imperial court, how much money does the imperial court have enough money to build? The Sichuan government raised its own money and food for disaster relief, and the Inspectorate sent the imperial historian to supervise the disaster relief situation, and the disaster relief results were used as the basis for the performance evaluation of local officials. ”
"After the minister returns, he will draw up the decree," Huang Liji said, "Your Majesty, Shaanxi ......"
"Are you still finished?" Zhu Youzhen was a little angry, and directly interrupted Huang Liji's words, "Everything has to be resolved, what do you want your cabinet to do?" ”
Huang Liji smiled bitterly: "It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and now the autumn fu has not yet been solved to the Beijing Division, and the treasury is empty." ”
Zhu Youzhen snorted coldly: "I know, you just fell in love with this bit of silver that I copied from my family, if I didn't copy Wei Zhongxian's house, without this silver, wouldn't the imperial court be over?" By the way, what did you just say went wrong? ”
Huang Li said busily: "Shaanxi, the Shaanxi political envoy reported that there was a locust plague in the area of Fengxiang Mansion, and the crops in the five counties were eaten by locusts and there was no harvest, and this year's autumn tax could not be collected. ”
"Reduction, all reduction." Zhu Youzhen hurriedly said.
Shaanxi, there can be no civil unrest.
"I will allocate another 200,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury to buy food for disaster relief, this winter, we must not let a person freeze to death and starve to death, and the Inspectorate will specially send the imperial history to be responsible for supervision."
"Minister, let's arrange it." Huang Liji was very happy, but he was also a little strange, why was His Majesty reluctant to pay at the beginning, but when it came to Shaanxi, he was so simple?
"Alright, if you have nothing to do, you can go back to the cabinet." Afraid of asking for silver from him again, Zhu Youzhen hurriedly rushed away.
After three days of raiding, Wei Zhongxian and his family's furniture in Beijing were raided, and a total of more than 5.37 million taels of silver, 68,000 taels of gold, and thousands of pearls, jade, agate, and coral, equivalent to hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, were only floating wealth, and real estate, shops and fields were not counted.
According to statistics, Wei Zhongxian and his family have a total of 12 mansions in Beijing, all of which are more than four mansions, Wei Zhongxian and Wei Liangqing's mansions are as luxurious as the prince's mansions, and there are more than 40 shops.
In addition, in the counties of Gyeonggi, the Wei family has a total of more than 60,000 acres of land, all of which are occupied by skillful and arrogant people's land, and the original owners have become their tenants. In Wei Zhongxian's hometown, there are also large fields, and Xu Xiancun is sending people to Wei Zhongxian's hometown to check.
All the family property is worth nearly 10 million taels of silver, which is enough for the national treasury for more than two years, which makes Zhu Youzhen excited and very angry.
Zhu Youzhen suddenly had a thought in his heart, perhaps, the emperor's brother Emperor Tianqi left Wei Zhongxian's intention for himself, in order to fatten and slaughter? But he didn't understand it in his last life, and he didn't get benefits from taking down Wei Zhongxian, it's really stupid!
One Wei Zhongxian was greedy for so much silver, so many vassal kings, so many nobles, and an incomparably large number of gentry, how much wealth did they plunder from the people?
It's not that Daming doesn't have money, but that money has gone into the pockets of these people.
In this world, there is no faster than copying the house to get money, at this moment, Zhu Youzhen had the idea of continuing to raid the house and keep raiding the house.
The notes of the impeachment of the eunuchs continue to be sent to the inner palace, so let's continue to copy them.
Following Wei Zhongxian, the other great eunuchs in the palace were copied, the master of ceremonies and the seal of Wang Tiqian, and the master of ceremonies and supervisors Li Chaoqin, Li Yongzhen, and Tu Wenfu were all taken down.
Except for Liu Ruoyu, who was not too close to the eunuchs, the celebrant and other supervising eunuchs were swept away. These eunuchs had no descendants, and their favorite was silver, and the silver copied from their homes ranged from tens of thousands of taels to hundreds of thousands of taels, all of which went into the inner treasury.
The eunuchs in the palace were all taken, and the eunuchs from the Xindi took the throne. Liu Ruoyu was promoted to the palm seal of the celebrant supervisor, Cao Huachun became the celebrant and the commander of Dongchang, Wang Chengen became the celebrant and the emperor with the emperor, and the other eunuchs were also controlled by the old man of the Xindi.
After cleaning up the inner palace, Zhu Youzhen continued to work and began to clean up the outer courts, Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Zhou Yingqiu, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, Wu Chunfu, and Xue Zhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, were all taken down.
However, unlike in the previous life, Zhu Youzhen did a fairly restrained job, and in order to avoid shocks in the court, he did not implicate these eunuch backbones after taking them down. After all, Wei Zhongxian's power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all relied on the eunuch party, so there was almost no one who did not have anything to do with the eunuch party, and if it was really implicated, it would inevitably be the same as in the previous life.
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