"Divination?"

Zhu You looked at the notebook handed over by Qian Qianyi in his hand, and he was really dumbfounded.

The Donglin Party has already reported the list of the six departments, five temples, one courtyard and one department of the yamen and deputy officials of the court, but there is no list of cabinet ministers, and Qian Qianyi's suggestion is: Bu.

The meaning of the piece is, draw lots!

Let's talk about it again, draw lots.

Prepare a big box, write the names of dozens of people on the wooden plaque and put it in the box, and then Zhu Youzhen will catch it, and whoever catches it will be the cabinet minister of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

And what is the size of this cabinet, seven people!

That is, seven ministers.

The orthodox government of a country, the central organ of a country, to select officials by drawing lots and drawing lots, such a child's trick, is simply a big joke in the world, a big mistake in the world!

It's really outrageous, open the door to the outrageous, outrageous to the home.

Even if you turn off the lights, it's good for us to do internal pushing.

However, such a ridiculous thing was put in front of Zhu Youzhen, and it happened in history like this.

Coming back from the initial shock, Zhu Youzhen smiled.

"It's just the thing itself, but it's definitely not a person, I still think that the Donglin Party has a lot of means, but it turns out to be nothing more than that."

In the current Ming Dynasty, it is not surprising that Zhu Youzhen is not surprised by how ridiculous things happen.

The selection of cabinet ministers was just a political trick made by Qian Qianyi or the Donglin Party, and it was just a political trick to give him, Zhu Youzhen, the new emperor.

If even such a ridiculous thing can be pushed by Zhu Youzhen to adopt it, then the momentum of the Donglin Party will reach a higher level.

This is the same nature as Wei Zhongxian, a person who has no descendants, who wantonly built ancestral halls for himself throughout the country.

It's just a means of political assertion.

Wang Chengen pondered it carefully, and said tentatively: "The selection of officials is ridiculous, how can you be trusted. ”

"Why can't you be trusted?" Zhu Youzhen asked rhetorically: "It's a good thing, the fortune is taken from heaven, whoever is chosen is the will of God, I am carried by heaven, how can I not respect the will of heaven." replied to Qian Qianyi, and said that I was right, and let him preside over the matter. ”

Wang Chengen didn't say anything more, and answered in a loud voice.

"Donglin is a capable minister who is loyal to the monarch and the country, I should believe it, let Qian Qianyi, Cheng Jiming and others handle the affairs of the court, and let Wang Tigan and Li Yongzhen come to visit."

"Yes."

The effort was not large, Wang Li and the two came together, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing.

Zhu Youzhen did not exempt the two of them from courtesy, and said bluntly: "At today's court meeting, Geng Yingchang of the Donglin Party was impeached and demanded the banning of the East and West No. 2 Factory. ”

The two of them were shocked when they heard this, and hurriedly raised their heads and said, "Your Majesty, you must not." ”

"Look at you, what are you panicking about." Zhu Youzhen frowned slightly: "Anyway, he is also the factory governor, a high-ranking and powerful person, don't shout when something happens." ”

The two laughed, and Wang Tigan then said: "Your Majesty, you know what the virtues of civil officials are, the West Factory was shut down in the Zhengde Year because of the civil officials, but as a result, as soon as the West Factory was closed, Emperor Wuzong was convenient." ”

"I accidentally fell into the water and contracted a disease, and I died, right?"

"Yes." Wang Tigan cautiously glanced at Zhu Youzhen: "Your Majesty, when Grandpa Cheng opened the East Factory, it was because he found that hundreds of officials had repeatedly committed illegal acts during the Northern Expedition to the grassland.

But even so, the hundred officials still did not give up the coveting of imperial power, so there was a West Factory, since the Zhengde year of the West Factory was shut down, so many years, until the first emperor, Wei Gonggong secretly ordered the West Factory to be rebuilt in the dark, the capital did not set up a factory division, but chose in the south of the Yangtze River.

Since then, the imperial court can collect taxes in Jiangnan, and now the Donglin Party wants to abolish the two factories, in order to eat all the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, the two Huai Yancao Operation, and the City Shipping Division, and put all the money of the country into their own pockets.

Your Majesty, you must not be on guard. ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded again and again, and then asked, "What you said is very reasonable, but I have a question for the two of you." ”

"The slave knows everything."

"Last year, my Ming Dynasty household income was 2.2 million taels, I want to ask, is this true?"

Wang and Li looked at each other, and they all hung their heads in a weak heart.

"Don't speak, then I said." Zhu Youzhen sneered: "Since Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, my Ming Dynasty canceled the discount in kind, and paid taxes entirely with silver, in the twelfth year of Wanli, Taicang received 4,224,700 taels of silver, and Nanzhi was 1,180,000 taels of silver, and there were 43,522 horses of high-quality silk in the carrying warehouse, and a horse was converted into five taels of silver.

In addition, there are statistics from various provinces, do you need to report them to the two of you one by one?

Now, the local provinces are crying poor, saying that the silver collected is not enough to spend, and Nanzhili is connected to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and only squeezed out 2 million taels to the imperial court.

I just want to know, where did all the money of my Ming Dynasty go! ”

Seeing that the two still didn't speak, Zhu Youzhen became angry.

"Then I will approve Geng Yingchang and ban the east and west factories, and the two of you will wait for a thousand cuts."

Li Yongzhen suddenly cried: "Your Majesty, it's really not that the slaves and maids don't want to say it, I'm really afraid that Your Majesty, you can't listen to it." ”

"It's all like this, and there's nothing I can't listen to."

Li Yongzhen then lowered his heart and kowtowed.

"Back to Your Majesty, since the first year of the Apocalypse, the local provinces have never transported a tael of silver to the central government, and the tax silver has all been divided among the local officials!"

"Fart!" Zhu Youzhen shouted: "My Ming Dynasty is not dead, how dare local officials do such a bastard thing of the Nine Clans." ”

"So Grandpa Wei used the East Factory!"

Wang Tigan took over the words, and said for Wei Zhongxian: "All the officials who are greedy for ink and the officials who cover up are all hunted down and killed in Dongchang, but there is no way, those local officials rush forward one after another, and even worse, raise private troops in the local area, lie to the court that they are traitors to the party, and the people who rise up from the pole, and use these private armies to fight against the factory guards."

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, there were many rebels and bandits in all provinces of the world, and Dongchang had completely lost the supervision of the local provincial government.

Nanzhili was connected to Zhejiang, and last year, the annual silver income was 4.77 million taels, 2.2 million taels were handed over, and 2.57 million taels were withheld, which were used to divide up the officials of the six yamen departments in Nanjing and the political envoys in Zhejiang.

The slave maid and others know, but we can't manage it, and if we manage it again, the Donglin Party will fight with the slave maid and the other people's Dongchang and Jinyi Wei to the end, this silver, part of them, part of the court, Your Majesty! ”

After speaking, Wang Tigan suddenly burst into tears.

"Father-in-law Wei and the slave maid and others did take bribes, but the sum of the silver that the slave and the maid and others were greedy for ink was only six or seven hundred thousand, and the greed for this money was just to eat better at ordinary times, and to get over the addiction of the tongue. Slaves and maids and a group of eunuchs, even if there are mountains of gold and silver, if the court dies, the Donglin party raised by the son of a bitch can go to Jiannu to continue to be high-ranking officials, and who can the slaves and maids vote for.

Gonggong Wei hanged himself in Deling, this is the only fate of slaves and maids, Your Majesty, Your Majesty. ”

The corners of Zhu Youzhen's eyes twitched.

He thought that after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the atonement money made up by the hundreds of officials was tens of millions of taels!

This is just a city in Beijing, and the more affluent Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

In the 17th century, a third of the world's silver was in China!

Where did the money go?

"The Liao salary has been increased to 3.91 million taels, but this silver is only enough to hold the Ningjin defense line, and it is powerless to recover the lost land." After Wang Ti finished crying, he stepped forward on his knees and said to Zhu Youzhen: "Yuan Chonghuan once wrote a letter to Gonggong Wei, begging the imperial court to increase the salary to six million taels for the expansion of the Guanning Iron Cavalry.

Father-in-law Wei had no choice, so Yuan Chonghuan went to vote for the Donglin Party, hoping that the Donglin Party would raise money for him, but where did the Donglin Party care about the country, and how could they be willing to smash the money in their pockets into the bottomless pit in Liaodong.

Your Majesty, if it goes on like this, the Ningjin defense line will definitely not be able to hold it, and the Jiannu thief chief Taiji has been demagogic on the front line all day long, and has made a Han Eight Banner, and now there are tens of thousands of people, all of whom are generals and officers and some civilian officials who have broken away from the Ningjin army. ”

Zhu Youzhen closed his eyes.

Li Yongzhen glanced at Wang Tigan and hurriedly cried: "Your Majesty, the two factories can't be abolished." ”

"That's it!"

Zhu Youzhen shouted irritably to stop the two of them crying: "I know that the two factories cannot be withdrawn, but now that the Donglin Party has been forced in front of me, they even moved out to demonstrate to me today.

I obviously have no way out, but I still have to find a way to continue to retreat, if I don't retreat, they will dare to go to the emperor tomorrow, if I don't retreat, the country will die next year! ”

Wang Tigan's eyes rolled: "Your Majesty, either or kill them all." ”

"Huh." Zhu Youzhen sneered: "Can killing solve the problem?" What's the use of killing them all, these Donglin Party members in Beijing are just the spokesmen of the Donglin Party interest groups in the court and in front of me all over the world, even if I kill them all, what I fall into is nothing more than a lonely city in Beijing, plus a crumbling Shanhaiguan and Ningjin defense lines.

Beijing can't even achieve self-sufficiency, what do you want me to use to feed Shanhaiguan and the 50,000 troops in the hands of Yuan Chonghuan on the Ningjin Defense Line. ”

The harmony between the monarch and the minister on face must continue to be maintained, and even more closely maintained.

This is a top priority, and it is the bottom line that must be kept.

"Don't wait for the Donglin Party to force my palace." Zhu Youjian stood up: "Didn't Wei Zhongxian teach you a trick, from light to dark, it is not a way out." ”

Wang Tigan was suddenly anxious: "But Your Majesty, once this is the case, then, then we will no longer have any name to continue to hold on to the few taxes in Jiangnan." ”

"I know better than you do, but I can't help it!"

Zhu Youzhen pointed to the outside of the hall with one hand: "If you have the ability, why didn't you wipe out the Donglin Party back then, and now that you have come to this point, will you throw all the mess to me, I have now tried my best to save your lives, if you don't even have your life, then there will be no chance." ”

Wang and Li looked at each other in despair, and after a long time, they wept.

"Slave and maid, thank you, Your Majesty."