In the Qianqing Palace.

After Cao Huachun left, Chongzhen walked out and looked at Lao Zhu with a puzzled face.

Cao Huachun saw Lao Zhu's intentions, and he naturally guessed it, so he looked at Lao Zhu and asked with some doubts: "Grandpa, are you planning to support the power of Dongchang?" ”

When Chongzhen was in power, Dongchang and Jinyiwei were suppressed at the beginning.

Later, Chongzhen found that the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military capital was not a good worker, so he reused Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and even sent supervisors to each army because of his distrust of the generals.

It's just that reuse is reused, because of Wei Zhongxian's experience, Chongzhen has been very cautious when using Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and he is very worried that Dongchang's power will grow and make another eunuch.

But now listening to the meaning of Lao Zhu's words just now, it is clear that he wants to fully delegate power, isn't this another eunuch party?

Therefore, Chongzhen, who has always had a psychological shadow on the eunuch party, immediately raised his own doubts after Cao Huachun left.

"What, I'm afraid that we will make another eunuch to cause trouble in the court?"

Lao Zhu saw Chongzhen's careful thinking at a glance, he looked at Chongzhen with a disappointed expression, sighed, and said: "Dongchang and Jinyiwei have been the emperor's eagle dog since the beginning of their establishment, and they are the emperor's eyes, ears and knives. ”

"If you're worried that future generations won't be able to control them, that's fine."

"But you, a knife wielder who leads dogs and eagles, are actually afraid of your eagle dogs and the knives in your hands, so why do you still use them, isn't it good to just abolish them?"

Lao Zhu looked at Chongzhen angrily, and said: "Also, how have you used Dongchang and Jinyiwei all these years, they can't find the news outside the capital, and they don't know the news in the capital." ”

"Why, do you really treat them as honor guards?"

"Also, you actually sent out the people of the inner court to be tax collectors and prison soldiers."

Speaking of this, Lao Zhu remembered one more thing, and said angrily again: "Eagle dogs are only called eagle dogs when they are held in their own hands, and after they are scattered, do you think they will prey on you or fill their stomachs first?" ”

"Zhu Yijun, that idiot, has used a few years to be a tax supervisor, how many civil uprisings have been stirred, you idiot doesn't learn a lesson, and you actually use the tax supervisor again under this current situation, are you afraid that you will die early enough, and the Ming Dynasty will not die fast enough?"

When Lao Zhu said this, his fingers were almost pointed to Chongzhen's nose, if it weren't for Chongzhen's ghost state now, Lao Zhu didn't think of turning him back, which would have beaten him up.

In the past few days, he has become angry when he sees Chongzhen, and he has completely realized what it is like to have a stupid child at home, and it is precisely because of this that he misses Zhu Biao even more.

This person and people, the gap is compared, originally Lao Zhu was very satisfied with Zhu Biao, and now compared with Chongzhen, Lao Zhu really feels that his son is really perfect.

Not to mention Zhu Biao, even if he was not very satisfied with the fourth Zhu Di, he is quite satisfied now.

It's just that every time he thinks that the idiot in front of him is the descendant of the fourth child, he instantly feels a little awkward, and the original satisfaction with Zhu Di in his heart has dropped greatly again.

Chongzhen has been scolded every day in the past few days, and sometimes Lao Zhu is so angry that he will transform him into an entity and beat him with his head and face, so Chongzhen has become accustomed to the somewhat irritable Lao Zhu.

After being scolded, Chongzhen didn't react, and said cheekily: "Grandpa, I don't want to send a tax supervisor." ”

"But I can't help it, the local officials collude with the local tyrants, the imperial court can't collect taxes, even if it is useless to send the imperial history, I can only try to send the tax supervisor over."

"And the tax supervision has indeed achieved some results, and has collected a lot of silver taels from the imperial court."

"The imperial history can't solve the problem of local heroes, why do you think those eunuchs can solve it?"

Looking at Chongzhen's appearance, the tax supervisor collected a little tax, he seemed to be a little proud, and Lao Zhu was suddenly angry and didn't know what to say.

After a long time, he said, "Yes, the tax supervisor you sent collected the taxes, but these taxes were all scavenged from those poor people. ”

"Originally, these people were forced to breathe by all kinds of harsh taxes imposed by those powerful officials, and you sent the tax supervisor down, not only did they have an extra penny, but they also had to find a way to give a share to the imperial court."

"But will the rich and powerful people come out with this money? They won't! ”

"Not only will they not, but they will increase their share and follow these eunuchs who collect taxes to get an extra share."

"It seems that you have sent the tax supervisor to collect taxes, but in fact, you have invisibly added three more places for the people to pay, and they are all big heads."

Speaking of this, Lao Zhu almost gritted his teeth and said: "So this little money you collected, every penny, every centimeter carries the blood of the people." ”

"That's it, you still feel proud!!"

As a person who has lived at the bottom of society, no one knows better than Lao Zhu the dirty methods of those low-level officials.

It is precisely because of this that during his reign, he was so harsh on those officials.

Because those officials have the power of life and death of hundreds of people in their hands, as long as they move their minds a little, they will not know how many people have destroyed their homes and destroyed their homes.

Nowadays, although history is constantly moving forward, some things are constantly repeating.

It's just that what happened at the beginning happened in the Yuan Dynasty, when he was a rebel, and now what happened in his Ming Dynasty, when others rebelled against his descendants.

Chongzhen was dumbfounded by what Lao Zhu said, and Lao Zhu said these things, he, the emperor, was not ignorant.

But the problem is that Da Ming is really short of money, natural disasters are continuous, and wars are not stopped, so Chongzhen knows that this behavior is drinking to quench his thirst, and he can't stop.

In the past, no one would dare to say these things in front of him, so he simply covered his ears and pretended that he didn't know anything.

At this moment, these things were unabashedly exposed by Lao Zhu, and he was silent for a long time before he said weakly: "I am ...... Too short of money. ”

"In order to continue the Ming Dynasty, we can only ...... I can only suffer the people first. ”

"I ......"

When Lao Zhu heard this, blood rushed to his head, he clenched his fists and tried his best to restrain himself, otherwise he was really afraid that he would slash the unworthy descendant in front of him with a knife.

After a long time, he took a deep breath several times, and it was easy to suppress his anger Lao Zhu looked at Chongzhen, and said coldly: "We have a data here, saying that it is not counting the silver that my Daming originally had, just after Zhu Zaikun opened the sea ban, the silver that flowed into my Daming was at least more than 30,000 taels." ”

"This silver, which cannot be eaten, drunk, or consumed, will certainly not disappear out of thin air."

"Now, the people of the Ming Dynasty have no money, and the court has no money."

When Lao Zhu said this, he shouted at Chongzhen and asked, "Then tell me, where did all this money go!! ”