Chongzhen said angrily: "Bold Wei Zhongxian, the first emperor is something you can talk about casually?" ”

Wei Zhongxian said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty is a little restless, but the old slave feels that since Your Majesty is willing to listen to the old slave talk openly and honestly, then the old slave has to tell everything about everything, so that Your Majesty can understand more clearly." ”

Chongzhen rubbed his forehead, didn't speak, and reluctantly took a sip of tea.

In fact, without speaking, he already represents the attitude of Emperor Chongzhen, but after all, as a younger brother, he can't say his own brother's faults, and as an emperor, it's even harder to deny the many bad things of the previous emperor, so even if he is now an emperor, some things can't be said casually.

"The old slave thinks that the first emperor is really a holy king." Seeing Chongzhen looking at himself full of doubts, Wei Zhongxian continued: "When the first emperor ascended the throne, the Donglin party people had become a big trend, and the first emperor originally tried his best to open up the commercial taxes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to fill the treasury, but he was met with crazy resistance from the Donglin party, including the official Yanguan, who had been advising the first emperor to learn the concept of sharing the world with scholars, which once made the first emperor exhausted, and the first emperor was unwilling to lose the reputation of slaughtering loyal ministers, so on the surface, he was obscure and obsessed with carpenter's craft, but in fact, he never stopped controlling the government. ”

Chongzhen was secretly frightened when he heard this, because he had always felt that his brother was a weak and incompetent person, but he didn't expect that there would be such a means in the city, and he couldn't help but doubt the truth of Wei Zhongxian's words.

"Your Majesty, do you know why the emperor died directly at a young age, because during the day the emperor was always keen to indulge in the work of knives, saws, axes, chiselings and paints, whenever someone reported that he was always careless, in fact, the daily recitals, twists and turns, as well as the secret music of Dongchang and Jinyiwei, every day the emperor had to deal with it until the early hours of the morning, and the emperor was tired and tired." Wei Zhongxian said with tears streaming down his face.

"Yes, but I heard that you were in charge of all these things when the first emperor was alive."

Chongzhen snorted coldly and said.

"Your Majesty Mingjian, although the old slave is known as the eunuch of Bingbi, but the old slave is only good at strong memory, the old slave is illiterate, how to deal with these Xu government affairs, and then Your Majesty, you see that although the previous dynasty Wanli Ye was alive for a long time, although he was not in the dynasty for a long time, but the government and the army were firmly controlled by Wanli Ye, including the former emperor, indulging in carpentry does not mean that he is not in charge of politics, Your Majesty, think about the seven years of the emperor's reign, there is a big chaos in this court?"

"The original intention of the emperor was to first paralyze the Donglin Party with his appearance of passivity and neglect of government, and at the same time use the old slaves to suppress the Donglin Party members on fabrication charges, reopen the commercial tax, and the salt tax of Lianghuai to fill the treasury and use it as military expenses to completely rectify the rule of officials when Liaodong fought a few beautiful victories, and then ask these scholars and scholars who do not want to contribute to the country and only know how to take care of their own interests."

"If these things make sense, I won't say anything about your suppression of the Donglin party, but you form a party for personal gain, build a shrine in the world, and even promote your children and nephews, how do you explain it, and how do you make me believe you?"

"Your Majesty Mingjian, these are indeed such things, you will naturally understand this when you look at this." After speaking, Wei Zhongxian took out a round of scrolls and came out.

Chongzhen slowly unfolded, the records in it were very detailed, the five tigers, five biao, ten dogs, ten children, and forty grandsons were recorded in great detail, and even many people Chongzhen was very familiar with, including Cui Chengxiu who was taken down by himself, as well as Ni Wenhuan who was just in the guest hall, and even saw Tian Ergeng's name, including the heads and positions of the various state capitals in Dongchang are all clearly displayed on it.

"Are you showing this to the widow to show off your influence and control in the government and the opposition?"

"The old slave didn't dare, the old slave dared to beg His Majesty to take a closer look at the handwriting on this scroll."

When Chongzhen heard this, he watched it carefully again, and after a while, he asked suspiciously: "Is this the imperial book written by the emperor himself?" ”

This can confuse Chongzhen, listening to what Wei Zhongxian said today, it seems that there is indeed some truth, but if he directly gains his trust with a few words, he will never be able to do it, but the handwriting on the scroll has repeatedly confirmed that it is indeed the handwriting of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, so he simply listened to him patiently.

"Back to Your Majesty, it is indeed written by the emperor himself, since the old slave began to take charge of the Dongchang and the Donglin Party antagonist, the old slave will serve his own people one by one with the emperor to report, the first emperor recorded these people in the scroll, and at the same time the emperor of these people is also recorded one by one, these were originally the emperor himself to use for the later accounting, but the emperor entrusted this to the old slave the day before his death, and instructed the old slave to hand over the scroll to His Majesty, so that His Majesty will be sacred."

Chongzhen listened more and more confused, what's the situation? It is understandable that the Emperor of the Apocalypse was too powerful to attack directly, so he showed the enemy to find an opportunity to uproot him with weakness, and at the same time used Wei Zhongxian as a check and balance point to suppress him; This is exactly the same as Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang also tolerated Hu Weiyong for seven years and then directly exterminated Hu Weiyong, because the monarch centralized power and did not allow others to interfere; At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang tolerated it because Hu Weiyong inherited the prime minister system for thousands of years, and the reason why Emperor Tianqi tolerated it was because of the Jiangnan Shi clan behind the Donglin Party. But Wei Zhongxian took out this scroll, aren't the people on this scroll all Wei Zhongxian's own people, what else do you have to settle the account? Or even leave this to yourself?

"You have confused me, aren't the people above all the people you attached to when you were on an errand for the first emperor? Why do you have to settle accounts? Is it possible to kill these people? Since he couldn't figure it out, Chongzhen simply asked directly.

"Your Majesty, this is exactly what the emperor intended, when the government is purged, in order to block the mouths of the people in the world, and to appease the hearts of the scholars in Jiangnan, the people on this scroll, including the old slave, will be sent by the emperor according to what they do! The first to be beheaded was the old slave. Wei Zhongxian's face turned pale and said with a wry smile.

His cheap brother is really a big move, first use Wei Zhongxian to fight the Jiangnan Shi clan, and wait until it is almost time to kill Wei Zhongxian to give the world an explanation. In this way, all party strife is eliminated, and the imperial power is supreme, if it really lasts for another year or two, I am afraid that it will really be recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty as a "Heavenly Apocalypse Zhongxing".

"If that's the case, then Wei Daban won't regret it?" Chongzhen was slightly moved, and even changed his title.

"Regret, there is nothing to regret, the old slave received the grace of the first emperor, these years of delicacies and seafood, silk and silk have also enjoyed enough, and even enjoyed the feeling of power in hand, a cheap life is nothing, the old slave is afraid that his death is worthless, unable to complete the last wish of the first emperor, if so, the old slave has no shame to face the first emperor."

"Wei Daban, don't worry, as long as you do things well and abide by your duty, I won't let you die."