Zhou's husband, Yang Qian, is a small landowner in Jiangdu, with dozens of acres of fertile land, more than a dozen shops, and a silk business.

The family lived a prosperous life, so he found a clerk to do it.

After the civil fort, due to the lack of silver in the court, the restrictions on officials were relaxed, and the method of payment was implemented, that is, to donate officials.

However, in the ninth year of Jingtai, it was strictly stopped, and all the officials who did not have real talent and learning were dismissed.

Yang Qian's donation is the county government accountant, which is the accounting work.

But because of Jingtai's nine-year inspector, he failed the assessment.

He was relegated to a sanatorium.

The imperial court also issued an order to transport orphans from all over the world to Beijing and raise them in Beijing.

He became a transporter, and he had no real power, saying that he was a clerk, but in fact he was doing the work of a handyman.

He was indignant in his heart, and wanted to go through the door, transferred back to the county office, and made a lot of money, so he got acquainted with Gui Yi.

In order to please Gui Yi and get Gui Yi's appreciation, Yang Qian asked his wife to serve tea, and Gui Yi was amazed by Zhou's beauty and helped Yang Gan.

Yang Qian went to the warehouse to do the book, and then entered the tax bureau to do the book, and soon after entered the inspection department as a secretary, achieving a large-span triple jump.

And Yang Gan's price was to reconcile with his wife, and Gui Yi accepted his wife as a concubine.

Yang Qian sold his wife to seek glory, and he was also ridiculed among his colleagues, and everyone laughed at him and did not want to associate with him.

He also seemed to regret it, went to Gui Yi, and wanted to use the current one to switch back to his wife, but was kicked out of the house by Gui Yi.

The case of the thin horse in the nursing home in Gui Yi's solo was revealed by Yang Gan, and he wanted to use this secret to exchange his wife back.

However, in exchange for being killed.

Zhou said that Yang Gan disappeared, and she sent someone to find Yang Gan, and the people from the inspection department said that Yang Qian was sick, and she sent someone to Yang Gan's house to ask, but Yang Qian could not be found.

Yang Gan's house has been replaced by a different person.

Yang Gan, and her two children, all disappeared.

She inquired in many ways and learned that after Yang Gan disappeared, his mother-in-law died, and the two children became orphans and were sent to Beijing to be raised, and the fields in Yang Gan's family were divided by the family.

She doesn't care about Yang Qian, but she cares about her two children.

She went to ask Gui Yi and wanted to ask Gui Yi to help bring the two children back, but Gui Yi beat her badly, and she was not allowed to ask again, so that she forgot about the two children.

After such a painful day for more than a year, she has been inquiring about the whereabouts of her child.

Suddenly, I heard people talk about it, it seemed that Gui Yi was about to be promoted, and after inquiring, I learned that he had given the emperor a seal to the song, and the content of the song was actually the things that Yang Gan had said.

Suddenly, it made her think of the missing Yang Qian.

Every time the life and death of a child is uncertain, she is as painful as a hundred claws scratching her heart.

As a mother, she pretended to be as usual on the surface, and began to inquire about the news behind her back, and learned that this performance angered the emperor, and sent Dali Temple and Dongchang to investigate.

She has a concubine and lives in a high wall, how can she see outsiders?

And Gui Yi guarded her everywhere and forbade her to see people.

If you want to meet the officials of Dali Temple, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

"I just want to see this official, so I murder the court official, Zhou, don't you tell the truth?" Zhou Xuan looked at Zhou, his gaze calm and calm.

This woman looks charming, if he is ten years younger, I am afraid that he also wants to take her into the room, and it is not to blame Gui Yi for being tempted.

But compared with power, beauty is just an accessory, and Zhou Xuan is very determined.

Her husband Yang Qian, who gained power because of selling his wife, regretted it afterwards, it should not be true regret, but he wanted to further bind up with Gui Yi and drive Gui Yi to promote him.

Gui Yi was laughed at by his colleagues because he sought a wife, so he wanted to cut off with Yang Gan.

Yang Gan is like Lai Pi, relying on Gui Yi, and he is so clear about the skinny horse industry, it obviously touches the interests of some people, so Gui Yi borrows someone else's hand to get rid of Yang Gan.

"Because, because of my daughter, she may not have been sent to Jingshi, but was sold to the Qinglou!" Zhou kowtowed and wept.

Gui Yi participated in the case of the thin horse in the nursing home, that is, the good-looking children would be cut off and transported to the Qinglou, instead of being sent to Jingshi for support.

"And the culprit is Gui Yi!"

"There is a local religion, which is the Wuming Sect, which is a sect formed by the local gentry in Yangzhou to resist foreign business travel."

"Actually, this is a bad cult, a cult!"

"They believe in Shakyamuni Buddha, but they don't do good things, they only do evil things!"

"Gui Yi has a very deep relationship with them, and the concubine suspects that Yang Qian was killed by them, and my two children were sold by them!"

Zhou broke down and cried: "Please be the lord, be the master of the people's wife!" ”

Zhou Xuan looked at Xun Shuo, he hadn't heard of this Enlightenment Sect.

For example, today's Chengping, the people's lives are thriving, temples and Taoist temples are everywhere, and people of faith are constantly burning incense.

"Teacher, you can ask someone from the Black Ice Terrace." Xun Shuo said.

The Black Ice Terrace is the patrol camp.

It holds the incense of the world.

This Enlightenment Sect must have been recorded in the Black Ice Platform Dossier.

Zhou Xuan nodded and sent someone to ask.

"Zhou, you didn't say why you killed Gui Yi." Zhou Xuan felt that Zhou still had something to hide.

"Isn't that enough?"

Zhou raised his head in surprise: "Then Yang Qian and Gui Yi push me back and forth as goods, the concubine is a daughter of a good family, and her father is also a talented man, and he has known the ethics since he was a child, but now he wants to be a concubine who entertains people with sex, isn't it enough for me to kill Gui Yi and take revenge?" ”

"Yang Qian is dead, otherwise I will definitely cut him with a thousand knives!"

"This beast, for the sake of his official position, charmed me and gave it to Gui Yi, and tricked me into ransom me to go home, so that I could rejoice in vain, but he disappeared!"

"Who can understand the pain of separation between me and my flesh and blood?"

"I changed from a wife to a concubine, and I was despised and laughed at by the world, and who can understand my humiliation?"

"Shouldn't I have killed them?"

Zhou roared.

Only then did Zhou Xuan realize that women are also human beings, and human beings have emotions.

Moreover, Zhou's work is thorough, planning and then acting, quite wise, such a woman can no longer use common sense.

"Who are your accomplices?" Zhou Xuan asked again.

Zhou kowtowed: "The women are willing to do things by themselves, and the women are willing to die, so I just ask the adults to rescue my children and send them to Beijing, where they will be supported by the emperor, and the women will die without complaint." ”

Zhou alone can't kill Gui Yi.

The accomplice is in this courtyard.

"This official is the Siqing of Dali Temple, even if you kill people for a reason, but the law is the law, and there is no mercy outside the law."

Zhou Xuan said slowly: "Zhou, this official can find out the cause of Gui Yi's death, and can also find out Ling's accomplice. ”

Zhou closed his eyes tightly and did not say a word.

At this time, Xun Shuo led a fan of the black ice platform in, with a dossier.

Above is the sales record of incense.

There is a detailed record of the Enlightenment Sect.

Yangzhou is rich and religious, and many sects have taken root here.

The Enlightenment Sect is one of them.

The members were all local gentry and gathered at the Kaiyuan Temple.

Zhou Xuan asked Gui Yi's house to be sealed off, not allowed to enter or leave, and did not arrest Zhou, maybe there is a little tolerance for beauties.

He began to investigate the Enlightenment Sect.

"According to Zhou's words, Gui Yi Shangshu His Majesty was instigated by Wuming, and it is obvious that exposing the thin horse case is beneficial to Wumingjiao."

Zhou Xuan first asked the host of Kaiyuan Temple, and lived in the meditation room at night: "According to the investigation, most of the people who believe in Wuming Sect are small landlords in Yangzhou, or the downstream of salt merchants. ”

"These people can't eat the big profits from selling salt, and they can't help but be jealous."

"And the imperial court cleaned up the salt administration."

"The biggest beneficiary is the local small landlord class, or the downstream supply chain of the salt merchants, who will become the new salt merchant class because the big salt merchants are caught and killed."

Because, salt must be eaten, and these downstream traders, who have the tools to collect salt, and the imperial court redivides the cake, so they naturally fatten them first.

Zhou Xuan muttered to himself: "These people are vested interest groups, and they are the most benefited from salt politics, why do they make it bad from it?" ”

"Gui Yi has been in Yangzhou for less than two years, and he has become one with the local small landowners."

"And Gui Yi's death has revealed such a layer of secrets and pushed the hidden vested interests to the forefront."

"It's weird! Everywhere there is contradiction, it is all the opposite, strange, very strange. ”

He looked at Xun Shuo: "Shi Ling, what do you think?" ”

"Teacher, do you remember that the Zhou family was given to Gui Yi by the salt merchant."

Xun Shuo said: "But in Zhou's mouth, she is the wife of a good family, and Yang Qian sold his wife for glory, so she was sent to Guiyi's mansion." ”

"And Yang Qian is dead, we don't know what the real situation is."

"Even, we don't know the truth or falsity of Zhou's identity."

"If you follow the teacher's thinking."

"Gui Yi's case, behind it is the salt merchant borrowing the hands of the Zhou family, telling us that these small landlords are not a good thing."

Yes, Zhou's confession has many loopholes.

If she was only for her children, why did she have to kill Gui Yi?

The identity of this person is still very doubtful, isn't it strange that a woman as beautiful as a flower like her is married to a small landlord like Yang Gan?

Moreover, Zhou's things are too smooth, how can there be such a coincidental thing in this world? You are a concubine, you can find out whatever you want, you can do whatever you want, don't you think it's weird?

Zhou uncovered Gui Yi's case at the right time.

Using Gui Yi's death to tell Zhou Xuan that it is unfair for the emperor to forcibly shuffle the cards and redivide the cake, isn't this a grievance for the salt merchant class?

It's easy to investigate clearly, but Zhou Xuan didn't come to investigate this case.

"Enlightenment."

Zhou Xuan said slowly: "There is a cat hidden here, Zhou hopes that we will investigate this Enlightenment Sect." ”

"Teacher, we were led by the nose, what we saw was most likely what they let us see, this is the truth you taught me."

"Shi Ling, you're right, but since we came to Yangzhou to investigate this case, we have to let them lead the way."

Zhou Xuan was quite helpless, because the emperor wanted a truth.

An emperor needs the truth.

The emperor did things, made good use of violence, and used violence to destroy everything in the original salt administration, and did not hesitate to make the people of the world lack salt for several months, such a heavy price.

He likes to use violent means to force the redistribution of society.

As a result, it provoked opposition from all classes.

The big salt merchants were slaughtered, the small salt merchants were fattened, and the stove households and salt buters were also worried about their gray hair.

A salt revolution has left all strata without benefit, and it is impossible to say whether it is good or bad.

In less than twenty years, the little salt merchant will form a new dragon, can the emperor kill it again? That's not the cure.

However, the emperor is such a character, he has always been like this in politics, opening and closing, vertical and horizontal.

And all this backlash is borne by the bottom stove households, salt ding, and even the people of the world.

The imperial power was too strong, the people and ministers in the court did not dare to persuade it, and the non-governmental newspapers did not dare to publish it, only His Majesty himself felt that he was doing the right thing.

Therefore, in the case of the thin horse in the almshouse, the emperor did not want the truth.

Zhou Xuan knew from the moment he left Beijing that the truth was not important, the distribution was the most important, this gluttonous feast of sharing the cake, the person with the knife was the emperor, and how to divide it was decided by the emperor, as long as the distribution was done well, the new salt policy was also good.

"There are masters among the salt merchants!"

Zhou Xuan smiled bitterly: "I have seen through Your Majesty's chess move, and use the Gui Yi case to expose the injustice of Your Majesty's distribution and let Your Majesty redistribute it." ”

The Gui Yi case has changed from a homicide case to a political case.

There is no right or wrong in political cases, only interests.

"Teacher, I'm afraid it's better not to be too deeply involved in these things." Xun Shuo just wanted to investigate the case.

"You and I are both in the court, why can't you be implicated?"

Zhou Xuan smiled bitterly: "The party struggle in Beijing is fierce, you and I leave Beijing and come to Yangzhou, we have to act as His Majesty's eyes and hands with knives, and there is no other choice." ”

"Then how should this case be investigated?" Xun Shuo was helpless.

"Follow the Wuming Sect and check it out."

At night, Zhou Xuan wrote the investigation record into a diary and analyzed the case before going to sleep.

Nanjing, Qianqing Palace.

Wang Cheng lay on his stomach on the ground.

"The dignified king, how can you kneel in front of me!"

"Without you, I would have been taken away from the throne by the King of Wajun a long time ago, and you are my benefactor."

"You just eat some empty salary, drink some soldiers' blood, appoint a few relatives, and promote your cronies at will without going through the military aircraft department, but for this little mistake, should I punish you? Dare to punish you? ”

Zhu Qiyu is yin and yang.

Wang Cheng was frightened and kept kowtowing: "If there is no emperor, the slave and maid are not as good as the wild dogs on the side of the road, where is the benefactor?" ”

"The emperor lets the slave and maid live or die, it's just a matter of one sentence, let the slave and maid be rich, the slave and the maid will be rich, let the slave and the maid be poor, and the slave and the maid will be poor!"

"The slave has been following you for more than twenty years, and your holy purpose is heaven in the eyes of the slave."

"You strictly ordered that you are not allowed to drink the blood of soldiers and eat empty wages, where do slaves and maids dare to commit crimes? These are slanderous words, slanderous slaves! ”

Zhu Qiyu stared at Wang Cheng.

This most faithful old servant, who has been released for four years, has gone bad.

Whether he was loyal or not is not yet known, but he was greedy for authority, abused power for personal gain, and even began to steal imperial power to the detriment of the public and private interests.

It's easy to dispose of him.

But to consider the serious consequences of dealing with him, the people in this palace are loyal to him, because he is kind to the palace people and gives him wealth and wealth.

If he disposes of Wang Cheng, will these palace people be separated from morality?

Do you feel that you are working hard with such an emperor, living a precarious life, unhappy, and will be instigated by someone to kill the king?

Zhu Qiyu has already offended people from all walks of life in the world, if he offends the palace people again, maybe whoever will enter the main hall and strangle him.

He seems to be the emperor's power, but in fact, he is walking on thin ice, and if he is not careful, he will die on the spot.

In the final analysis, he did things fiercely, changed society too much, too quickly and violently, and caused all strata in the world to be offended, and even the profiteers resented the emperor.

The emperor's situation is not very good.

Zhu Qiyu moved his fingers.

A few eunuchs brought in a few sedan chairs, and they were full of sedan chairs.

"Look, it's all about impeaching you!"

"How many things have you done in Anhui that have brought disaster to the country and the people?"

"The officials of the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Supervision Department, and even the Military Officials Department are impeaching you every day!"

"Every day!"

"What are you Wang Cheng going to do?"

Zhu Qiyu picked up a notebook casually: "Look, this is the impeachment of you by the Military Officials Division, the Anhui army is all your Wang Cheng's private army, and the rewards and punishments are from the heart...... If the officers disturb the people, they will not be punished but rewarded, because they give gifts to your eldest sister, and there will be nothing to do. ”

"This is the Metropolitan Procuratorate impeaching you, saying that you, Wang Cheng, drove his lover to be a slave, built a mansion for you, and stole the wood of the palace."

"Look, this is the Supervision Department impeaching you, saying that you Wang Cheng sold his official position in the army, and the officers did not rise by virtue of their military merits, but by their financial resources."

Syllable!

Zhu Qiyu slammed the piece on his face: "This is just Nanjing's impeachment note!" What about Beijing? Do you know how much I receive every day! ”

"Dozens of pieces a day, the backlog of music in the past two years, a hundred sedan chairs can't fit it!"

"I don't even dare to look at it!"

"The slave is guilty, the slave is guilty!" Wang Cheng kowtowed.

"You!"

"Relying on my momentum, I am doing nonsense outside!"

"Whip it!"

Zhu Qiyu roared, and Feng Xiao handed over the whip.

He whipped Wang Cheng fiercely, the skin opened and the flesh opened, and Wang Cheng snorted.

Syllable!

"You are just an old slave of the palace, but a slave assigned to me by the emperor, you are loyal to me, do you dare to ask for a reward? Should it? ”

"If there is no imperial examination, what are you? If not, what are you? ”

"When you took the door, you did make a meritorious achievement! You are meritorious in defending against me! ”

"But what do I do to you?"

"I'll give you what you want and what you don't want!"

"What else do you want?"

Syllable!

"Publicizing your military exploits to the outside world, is it a discord between the royal family? Did I force me to kill the king of the Wajun? Let me be that disloyal and unrighteous brother-killing bastard? ”

Zhu Qiyu dropped another whip: "You dog!" ”

"Your riches are given to you by me!"

"Without me, you're not even as good as a wild dog on the side of the road!"

Syllable!

Zhu Qiyu dropped another whip: "I asked you to take charge of the army, what did you tell you?" ”

"Is it to let the Anhui army become your Wang Cheng's private army?"

"What are you going to do!"

"You eunuch, do you still want to usurp the throne?"

"Ahh

Zhu Qiyu was furious, and the whip fell like raindrops.

Wang Cheng didn't dare to scream, just lay on the ground, his back was completely broken, and blood flowed out.

"I don't let you drink the blood of soldiers, and I don't let you eat empty salaries!"

"No one in the world dares to disobey my holy decree, but you, relying on my personal eunuch, are doing nonsense outside! Do you really lack those taels of silver? If you don't want me, I'll give it to you! ”

"The rewards and punishments in the army are all determined by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and then approved by the Military Officials Department before they can be stamped by the Military Aircraft Department!"

"But what about you? Relying on being my personal slave, I reward and punish privately, buy and sell officials! ”

"You're in charge of the army, or making money!"

"A good Anhui army, up to 100,000 people, has been made into a miasma by you!"

"What can I expect from you?"

"Do you expect you to spoil the army? Mess up the world? ”

Zhu Qiyu beat him hard, and Wang Cheng went from a kneeling position to lying on the ground, and the person was already dying.

"Emperor, the prince is going to die, please, please stop fighting." Feng Xiao cried and begged.

Zhu Qiyu stopped the whip, and his eyes flashed fiercely.

If Wang Cheng is executed at this time, it will naturally be able to deter everyone in the world, let the people of the world see the emperor's justice, and even the personal eunuch can be killed.

can make those unjust souls who have died be revealed.

Let justice appear in the Ming Dynasty.

However.

Although he is the emperor, he is also a human being, in the palace and the palace, where is not the place where people gather?

He executed Wang Cheng today, and he didn't get any justice, it would only make all the palace people deviate from him, and it would only make people laugh, and the emperor couldn't even keep his house slaves.

In this world, from ancient times to the present, how can there be any fairness!

Zhu Qiyu threw the whip on the ground with hatred: "Damn old dog, why is it so unbeaten?" ”

"Come on, Imperial Doctor Xuan will treat him, don't let him die, wait for him to recover from his injuries, I will beat him again!"

Then he sat down on the throne in a daze.

The palace people who served in the Qianqing Palace also put down their hearts.

The emperor really misses the old feelings, don't look at these whips fiercely, but it is worth it, and all the sins have disappeared with these whips.

If it falls into the hands of the court ministers, Wang Cheng will only be killed.

Zhu Qiyu smiled bitterly, he couldn't help himself when he was in the game.

With Wang Cheng's crime, execution is the best outcome.

But if he wants to keep it, he has to argue with the minister and give the minister some benefits, and all the victims in the Anhui army must be pacified.

Kill one, very happy, the matter passed gently, and the follow-up troubles did not have to be solved, because the culprit died.

If you don't kill you, you have to clean up all the hands and tails, you should compensate for it, you should demean it, and the emperor will have to be scolded.

The former doesn't get any benefits, but it's very happy.

The latter got the benefits, but the emperor was scolded.

People's hearts are things that can never be grasped, and those who use public opinion to gain power will die above public opinion sooner or later.

"Bring in the kings, the third and the fourth."

Soon, two trembling men came in and saw Wang Cheng lying on the ground, being treated by the imperial doctor, as if he was dead, and his heart was even more frightened.

"I heard that the two of you are going to pass on to Wang Cheng?"

Wang Si was more bold than Wang San, and whispered: "Back to the emperor, the slave and maid look like grandpa, and grandpa and the slave and maid are intimate, so they want to succeed us." ”

Zhu Qiyu sneered: "So, you are relying on Wang Cheng's affairs to do nonsense in Anhui?" ”

"The emperor spares his life, the emperor spares his life!" The two of them were scared.

"Listen to you both......"

Zhu Qiyu spoke, Wang San and Wang Si were still begging for mercy, and the eunuch in the palace used a ring ruler to slap the back of his head, and the two of them screamed.

"Since you two have filial piety to Wang Cheng, now that Wang Cheng is in a coma, he needs to be called by his relatives to wake up, you two call him to wake up."

Wang San and Wang Si didn't understand what the emperor meant, thinking that they were just waking up Wang Cheng.

But.

Several eunuchs came in and held them down, and the wooden staff fell down and beat them hard.

"Ahh The four kings and the four kings screamed.

It's to wake up Wang Cheng with a scream!

Feng Xiao sent a signal to the eunuch who was executed, don't kill him.

"Grandpa, wake up...... Yes! ”

Boom!

"Grandpa, wake up...... Yes! "The kings are calling and the kings are calling.

Every time I called, I hit my buttocks.

In the midst of the screams, Wang Cheng woke up quietly, first heard the screams, found that the sound was a little familiar, and opened his eyes to find that they were two cheap grandsons.

Wang Cheng's face was bitter, what this sister was looking for was considered to have made herself miserable.

He got up and knelt on the ground: "Thank you for the grace of the emperor not to kill!" ”

"Wang Cheng, after all, you have served me for more than 20 years, and this feeling is difficult for ordinary people to understand." Zhu Qiyu said quietly.

In the original owner's heart, Wang Cheng existed just like his father.

After all, from childhood to adulthood, Wang Cheng has accompanied him.

"I can scold you for beating you, but I can't kill you, I can't get over this hurdle in my heart."

Zhu Qiyu's voice was low: "Get up, recuperate in the palace for a few days." ”

"Thank you for the grace of the emperor, the old slave knows that he is wrong." Wang Cheng couldn't cry.

In the first half of his life, he either did lowly work, or served the emperor in the palace of the king of Yu, and there seemed to be nothing else in his life that could replace the emperor's position in his heart.

The original owner regarded him as a father, why didn't he treat the emperor as a son?

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand and signaled to stop fighting.

Wang San, Wang Si cried endlessly.

"Silence!" Wang Cheng thought they were noisy.

The two of them were very afraid of Wang Cheng, so they immediately stopped talking, but their bodies hurt too much, and they hit thirty boards.

Wang Cheng knew that this was the mercy of the emperor's subordinates, otherwise he would be able to kill the two of them with three or five rods.

"Slave and maid, thank the emperor for his grace." Wang Cheng endured the severe pain and kowtowed.

"Go recuperate, don't show up for now."

"Don't go to the army, Mao Sheng will take charge of the army on your behalf."

Zhu Qiyu's tone was quiet: "Take these pieces back, take a look at them when you are recuperating from your injuries, see what you have done, and reflect on it." ”

"Slave obeys!" Wang Cheng kowtowed.

But there is no place for him to live in the Forbidden City of Nanjing, and Wang San and Wang Si are not eunuchs, so they can't live in the palace.

Feng Xiao arranged a place to live and did not dare to slack off.

Looking at what the emperor said, you know that he can't let go of Wang Cheng, where can he dare to snub Wang Cheng.

As for the three kings and the fourth king, they have to be placed outside the palace.

"Let my concubines serve me." Wang San couldn't stand this suffering.

"We were seriously injured, but there is a sedan chair to take us out?" Wang Si doesn't want to leave, after these thirty boards, it hurts so much to speak, and it is fatal to go out of the palace.

Syllable!

Wang Cheng gritted his teeth and slapped Wang Si in the face: "You dare to take a sedan chair in the palace?" ”

"You want to die, don't take me!"

"Take care of your stinky mouth in the future, and if you dare to say a word, I will execute you immediately!"

"Get out of here, disappear into the palace immediately! Get lost! ”

Wang San cried, what's the big deal, who wants to come in this broken palace.

But they didn't know that Wang Cheng's injuries were worse than theirs, and he also came from the Qianqing Palace.

Wang Cheng saluted the eunuch who led them out of the palace: "The countrymen are not sensible, don't be surprised, please send them out of the palace, don't bother to leave the palace." ”

"Don't dare to accept the prince's great gifts."

Wang Cheng watched Wang San, Wang Si staggering out of the palace.

He limped into his new accommodation.

After a while, the sedan chair with the song soothing entered the courtyard, and two little eunuchs were sent to serve him.

Wang Cheng thanked the emperor for his kindness.

Then lie on the bed and read a book with a notebook.

If the emperor asks him to read it, he has to read it, saving the emperor from asking him, if he can't answer, he will lose the emperor's favor.

Huang En, the critical moment can save his life.

Whoever is replaced, he has been impeached so much, he must have lost his life, and if he is unlucky, he may be beheaded all over the house, but he Wang Cheng is safe.

It is because of the emperor's grace that he has served the emperor for more than 20 years, and this kindness has been exchanged for today's life.

Kerosene lamps are used in the palace, and sixteen lamps are used in Wang Cheng's house.

Wang Cheng was really tired when he saw it, so he fell asleep, woke up to eat something, and continued to watch, and the little eunuch waited for the medicine halfway.

In this recital, there is also a secret performance of the factory guard.

He Wang Cheng's every move in the place, the emperor knows it well.

This frightened Wang Cheng.

Until, he saw a newspaper from Dongchang, saying that after Yang Niang left the palace, he said to everyone that Wang Cheng's work can tear the soil and seal the king, is it possible that there is no place for two children in this huge world......

Let's go!

Tantra fell to the ground.

Wang Cheng was terrified, tearing the earth and sealing the king, this is something that even Yu Qian didn't dare to think about!

At that time, Emperor Taizu said that Xu Da had made great achievements and should tear the earth and seal the king, but Xu Da insisted on not accepting it, but since then, Xu Da has never left Nanjing City again......

And he!

A mere eunuch, what are you going to do if you tear the earth and seal the king?

Wang Cheng finally understood that the emperor's anger was not these impeachment notes that could not be put down in the official sedan chair, but Yang Niang's words, which made the emperor feel dangerous!

Tearing the earth and sealing the king, it is something that people surnamed Zhu can't even think about!

Yu Qian's contribution is not great, can he be crowned king?

Absolutely not!

Not to mention ripping the soil, even if you are crowned a king, you can't do it.

There is no living king in the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Jingtai is not the same as the previous emperors.

Looking at how stingy he is with the prince, even the clan is reluctant to seal it, let alone others?

Think deeper.

The eunuchs all have the idea of becoming kings, so do Yu Qian, Fang Ying, and Wang Yue also have them?

The emperor needs to seal everyone from having thoughts that they shouldn't have.

Therefore, Wang Cheng was whipped.

Perhaps in that moment, the emperor wanted to kill him.

"Help, help me pass the word, I, I ask to see the emperor!" Wang Cheng said in horror.

"Princess, the emperor has ordered, let you recuperate with peace of mind, and then go to serve when your injuries are healed."

The little eunuch didn't say it explicitly.

But the implication is that the emperor doesn't want to see you now.

Wang Cheng was even more frightened: "Help me pass on Father-in-law Feng." ”

He had promoted Feng Xiao before, and he had this incense.

The little eunuch had no choice but to invite Feng Xiao.

But Feng Xiao told him that the emperor couldn't leave people by his side for a moment, let him recuperate from his injuries with peace of mind, don't think about it too much, and when the emperor's anger is gone, he will be activated.

Wang Cheng's brain thumped.

Feng Xiao had obviously seen this secret recital, maybe he handed it over to the emperor.

When the emperor saw it, he was so angry.

My sister's mouth is the source of the trouble, I can't keep it, and let her talk nonsense all over the world, I'm afraid that the remaining kindness in the emperor's heart will turn into resentment......

Wang Cheng closed his eyes in despair.

The sun is rising as usual, and Zhu Qiyu has been handling government affairs in the Qianqing Palace.

"Emperor, the news just came that Yang Niang hanged herself." Feng Xiao whispered back.

"Why did you hang yourself?"

Zhu Qiyu raised his eyes and glanced at him, full of surprise: "Is it your means?" ”

Poof!

Feng Xiao knelt on the ground: "The slave and maid are guilty, and the slave and maid sandwiched the secret music of the East Factory in the recital, so that the prince could see it." ”

Zhu Qiyu's pupils shrank.

"Emperor, it is said in the secret music that Yang Niang will say when she meets people, Wang Cheng's work should be torn apart and crowned as king."

Feng Xiaodao: "The slave maid thinks that his nonsense will affect the court situation, so he makes his own opinion......"

Hearing that the earth was torn and crowned as the king, Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said with a smile: "A eunuch, what kind of king is it?" He didn't even have a queen, who did he pass the king on, did you react too much? ”

"Emperor, he recognized Wang Sanwang and Wang Si as his own grandsons, and he wants to inherit the incense."

"If you keep to yourself, that's it."

"These two brothers have made the Anhui army into a miasma, if they are allowed to make trouble, I am afraid that even the Beijing division will not be at peace."

Feng Xiao kowtowed: "The slave maid saw that during this time, she was worried about the affairs of the princess, so she made her own opinion and begged the emperor for forgiveness!" ”

Cool!

Zhu Qiyu narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "Don't do it next time, get up." ”

Feng Xiao has a sense of crisis.

was worried that Wang Cheng would come back and steal his position, so he set up a trap for Wang Cheng in advance, dividing the relationship between the emperor and Wang Cheng, so that the emperor no longer trusted Wang Cheng.

can be a minion who dictates the master's affairs.

Should it?

Zhu Qiyu found that in this palace, he was so spoiled that he couldn't look good.

If you don't rectify it, you will ride on the head of the master and be a blessing.

"Thank you for your forgiveness." Feng Xiao had a relaxed smile on his face.

The emperor doesn't trust Wang Cheng, so the only one he trusts is me, Feng Xiao.

"Emperor, do you need to send some supplements?" Feng Xiao asked.

Zhu Qiyu glanced at him.

Feng Xiao was so frightened that he knelt on the ground: "The slave didn't assert herself, but asked you, asked you." ”

"When you don't know, there's no need to spread it all over the world, it's me who harmed other people's sisters, and I haven't been ruthless to this point."

Zhu Qiyu's eyes were on Song Shu: "Go down!" ”

Feng Xiao did things, like him, and went too far.

You only need to mention a few words to Wang Cheng, Wang Cheng will understand, wouldn't it be better to send Yang Niang back to her hometown for retirement, but she died on the road because she couldn't stand the rush?

At least the face is passable.

Why would you want people to kill themselves?

Do you think I won't need Wang Cheng in the future? Can Wang Cheng still be sincere?

You, Feng Xiao, can harm Wang Cheng in front of me today, will you bite others tomorrow because of power?

Do things, you have to moisten things silently, do it little by little, so obviously, for fear that others won't see it?

Zhu Qiyu was very helpless, what kind of master he really has, what kind of slave he has.

"The slave obeys." Feng Xiao kowtowed and retreated.

Zhu Qiyu sighed faintly.

The struggle in this palace is really fierce.

Zhu Qiyu single-handedly provoked party disputes, in order to make the government stable and the state apparatus normal during his time away from Beijing.

And the party strife burned into the palace.

The eunuchs in the palace are vying for power and profit with each other, and even he, the emperor, knows about it, and I don't know what the trouble will be outside the palace.

He tried his best to create a relaxed social environment and urge all sectors of society to flourish.

But there are people who are blocking his way, blocking the way of the development of the Ming Dynasty.

We have to change a group of eunuchs.

Just as he was wandering out of the world, Feng Xiao came in carefully: "Emperor, the secret recital of the Yangzhou Guiyi case came. ”

As he spoke, he sent it to the imperial case.

Then he withdrew and served at the door.

Zhu Qiyu opened it and looked at it for a while, his brows furrowed: "That's right, I used violence to destroy the existing machine and force secondary distribution. ”

"The world is unfair, and the distribution is unfair."

"I am the emperor, the one who divides the cake."

"If I don't share the cake well, the people of the world will be dissatisfied."

"If you don't get the cake well for many years, it will form diseases, people who eat too much will get cancer, people who eat less will get hunger, so many diseases, sooner or later they will break out."

"Therefore, I use power to divide the cake and detonate the contradiction in advance."

"First, it is to re-carry out social distribution and alleviate social contradictions."

"Second, it is to use the Jiangnan gentry to open up the central and southern regions, and even the entire Southeast Asia."

"Even if I can't enrich the treasury, and I can't make me a saint of the ages, I can continue the Ming Kingdom for many years."

The Jiangnan gentry are the best candidates to open up a new world.

These people are grouped, educated, wise, rich and discerning, and it is a waste for such people not to open up a new world.

"Song Wei supervised salt, promoted affordable salt, brought down salt merchants, replaced salt merchants with small landlords, and broke the salt monopoly."

"The Gui Yi case made me see the dark side of the small landlord."

"This group of vested interests is laughing at my stupidity."

"Could it be you, old lady?"

Zhu Qiyu's eyes flashed: "Come on, go and announce the old lady." ”

Soon, Hu Hu came.

Zhu Qiyu showed Hu Hu the secret recital.

Hu Hui's pupils shrank: "Your Majesty, big fish eat small fish, it is a business rule, it will never change, you replace the big salt merchant with a small salt merchant, but one day, the dragon slayer will eventually become an evil dragon." ”

"What do you think I should do?" Zhu Qiyu tested him.

"Since Your Majesty has done it, you should be consistent to the end, and you can just investigate Gui Yi's case as an ordinary case."

"Your thoughts, the old minister knows that after the sea is opened, you don't want to form a large consortium, especially a consortium that can threaten the imperial power."

"In the same way, the opening of the sea also requires business travel, so you must use it and guard against it."

Hu Hu lowered his eyebrows and said: "The old minister also said before that heavy taxes can be set and heavy taxes can be used to control the gentry in Jiangnan. ”

"Old lady, is it interesting to fight left and right?" Zhu Qiyu said with a smile.

"What does Your Majesty mean by this?" Hu Hu pretended to be stupid.

In the world, there are no more than five people who know the emperor best, and Hu Hu is definitely the first!

If he hadn't given advice to the Jiangnan gentry, would these fools have been able to find the emperor's weakness?

The small landlord in the salt merchant mocked the emperor with the Gui Yi case?

"Old lady, do you think this makes sense?"

Zhu Qiyu gave Hu Hu a choice, and Hu Hu finally chose to support the Jiangnan gentry.

That's his answer.

Hu Hu knelt on the ground: "The old minister is loyal, and the sun and the moon can be seen." ”

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "Let's go back to the solution." ”

"I want to set up a Ministry of Finance, and the six ministries will be changed to seven ministries, referred to as the Ministry of Finance, which is precisely related to commerce."

"Mainly responsible for budgeting, spending, tax collection and other matters."

"Who do you think can be a scholar?"

Hu Hu did not expect that the emperor would reform the rule of officials again, add a Ministry of Finance, change six ministries into seven ministries, and raise the collection of commercial taxes to the highest level.

This is in preparation for the opening of the sea.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Household Affairs is the Ministry of Finance, why do you want to set up a separate one?" Hu Hu thought it was unnecessary.

"There is no conflict between the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Household is still responsible for issues such as household registration, land, land endowment, grain, prices, and transshipment, and its functions remain the same as before."

"At the beginning of each year, the Ministry of Finance, to be precise, calculates the national expenditure budget for the year, and after the calculation, properly arranges the expenditure, and tries not to overspend."

"At the end of the year, we have to calculate the annual expenditure, including the world's expenditure, and we must calculate it clearly."

"Tax collection, as long as it is a commercial tax, the normal commercial tax is collected in China, and the import and export customs duties are collected, and the Ministry of Finance must formulate a detailed tax rate table to urge the world's business travelers to pay taxes according to the tax rate."

"This is just a rough idea of mine, how to set up the Ministry of Finance, and what specific affairs it is responsible for, will be discussed by the Cabinet Department."

"Old lady, you can recommend a book."

Zhu Qiyu split the merchants and peasants with the intention of using commercial taxes to support the Ming Dynasty's finances.

"What does Your Majesty think of Yu Gang?" Hu Hu was helpless.

The emperor used commercial taxes to control the formation of consortia, so that the people would not give birth to large consortia and threaten the imperial power.

And what about the Royal Comptoir? Will it form a big consortium?

"Yu Gang is weak, he is from my palace, but his position is not firm, and such people cannot be reused." Zhu Qiyu said.

Then Yu Shan will not be able to do it.

Yu Shan also has the merit of Yingli.

Speaking of the rule of officials.

Hu Hui immediately thought of Li Xian, the emperor suddenly set up one, in fact, he wanted to take away the authority of the first assistant, worried that Li Xian would be powerful.

This makes sense, the emperor wants to set up a finance department, it is not an overnight thing, but it has been dragged on, after Yu Qian was defeated, the battle between the first and auxiliary was fierce, and the emperor added another one, which is used to appease Yao Kui, right?

It is also to restrict Li Xian.

It is also prepared for the opening of the sea.

The emperor is a good strategy.

Hu Hu was almost fooled by the emperor, his candidate, the emperor would not adopt it at all, it was just to test his ideas.

He was silent: "There is no candidate for the old minister, please make it your majesty." ”

Zhu Qiyu laughed: "The old lady has also learned to pretend to be deaf and dumb? ”

He has two candidates for the Ministry of Finance in his heart, one is Ma Jin and the other is Xiang Wenyao.

Ma Jin supervised Jiangxi and made great contributions.

Xiang Wenyao supervised Guizhou, and after Guizhou was flattened, he also made great contributions.

When he enters the cabinet department, he is in charge of the world.

However, Xiang Wenyao is Yu Qian's person, and he can calm the anger in Yu Qian's heart, and he can also balance the new first assistant Li Xian.

If you use Ma Jin, you can calm Yao Kui's mood, because Ma Jin and Yao Kui are good friends.

It's just that I didn't expect that Wang Fu would oppose Yao Kui's camp and fight with Yao Kui, and Wang Fu saw it more clearly than Yao Kui, Wang Fu wanted to be the second assistant, ranking above Yao Kui.

Li Xian's appointment as the first assistant is basically a sure thing.

And using Ma Jin or Xiang Wenyao has its own advantages and disadvantages, some good and some bad.

"The old lady thinks, who is better to serve as the first assistant?" Zhu Qiyu asked deliberately.

Hu Hu knelt on the ground: "The old minister begs for bones!" ”

"Why did the old lady say this?" Zhu Qiyu frowned.

"Li Xian is a person recommended by the old minister, and now he has entered the cabinet as the first assistant, a very popular minister, and the old man is in charge of the ministry, he is a heavenly official."

"If the cabinet and the ministry form a party, the world will be shaken."

"It's because the old minister is willing to ask for a retreat, and let Li Xian serve His Majesty wholeheartedly."

Hu Hu is not pretending to be nervous.

Instead, the secretary of the ministry and the head of the cabinet are one party, which will inevitably make the emperor taboo, and over time, he will get rid of a person.

"The old lady is too careful, I use Li Xian, it is with his ability, not who it is, I am still confident in the grasp of the situation."

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "I haven't reached the point where I'm old and faint, so I won't be so confused." ”

Hu Hui's face changed slightly, how do you feel that you are connotating me?

Am I old and deaf? Old confused?

"Don't be careful, old lady." Zhu Qiyu helped him up.

Four thousand are still owed

(End of chapter)