Chapter 8 Loyalty is not earned, but bought
After listening to the introduction of the four people, Zhu Youzhen was immediately very happy.
At this time, Xu Yingyuan, the eunuch of Bingbi, walked in with more than a dozen little eunuchs and ten heavy boxes.
"Your Majesty, everything has been changed!" Xu Yingyuan trotted over and said.
"Two hundred thousand taels of silver, all exchanged for full gold!" Xu Yingyuan whispered.
Zhu Youzhen 'borrowed' 200,000 taels of silver from Wei Zhongxian, which was too heavy, so he asked Xu Yingyuan to find a money village and exchange it all for gold.
"Open them all, I'm going to see how many they are."
Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, and Xu Yingyuan hurriedly ordered the little eunuchs to open the box.
Swish!
The bright gold almost blinded Zhu Youzhen's eyes.
Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong, Chen Xin and Wang Dou, the four generals of the Imperial Horse Prison, were also shocked.
With so much gold, anyone who sees it has to be suppressed.
"Good, good!"
After Zhu Youzhen inspected, he patted Xu Yingyuan's shoulder with a smile.
"To serve Your Majesty, slaves and maids don't dare to embezzle the slightest!" Xu Yingyuan said very proudly.
Joke! He Xu Yingyuan will be the first person in the Ming Dynasty in the future, the first big errand ordered by the new emperor, how can he dare to be greedy, and even under Xu Yingyuan's supervision, no one who handles it dares to touch this gold.
is only 200,000 taels of silver, which is not worth mentioning compared to Xu Yingyuan's future.
"Huang Qing, the four of you come here."
Zhu Youjian stood next to the box full of gold and greeted Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji.
Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji hurriedly stepped forward and respectfully lowered their hands to stand by.
"Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji, Wang Dou, Chen Xin, the four of them are loyal to the army and the country, and they are quite popular, and each of them will be rewarded with twenty taels of gold!" Zhu Youzhen gave a serious speech.
Twenty taels? Or gold?
Huang Degong and the four of them were stunned on the spot!
Among the four of them, Huang Degong has the largest official position, but he is only a capital secretary, and he can get three taels of silver per month, but the imperial horse supervisor cannot deduct the military salary of his subordinates, and his income is limited to this.
Twenty taels of gold is equivalent to two hundred taels of silver, almost seven or eight years' military salary.
"You four, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and thank you!" Seeing this, Zhou Shizhi, the commander of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, urged.
Huang Degong and Wang Dou hurriedly wanted to kneel down again, but were stopped by Zhu Youzhen.
"Today's reward is not only to reward you for your loyalty, but in fact, I have something I want to entrust to you!"
Zhu Youzhen said earnestly.
If you want to recruit an army, you have to spend a lot of money.
As the saying goes, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, if he does not let his subordinates gain benefits, Zhu Youzhen, the emperor, will have to continue to be a bachelor.
"Your Majesty has a life, and the minister will never give up!" Huang Degong said excitedly.
"Yes, Your Majesty, even if there is no such bounty, the minister is willing to sacrifice his life to repay Jun's kindness!" Zhou Yuji also said.
"Your Majesty, I am the same!" Wang Dou and Chen Xin followed.
"Yes, your faithfulness, I understand! Come, get the gold first, and then listen to me! ”
Zhu Youzhen took out the gold from the box and stuffed it into the hands of the four loyal ministers with his own hands.
Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji threw down the heavy gold, and they only thought about repaying the emperor's Longen, even if they went up the sword mountain and went down to the sea of fire, they would never frown!
"The four of you are also old men of the Imperial Horse Prison, so you should have a lot of connections, right?" Zhu Youzhen asked.
"Yes, Your Majesty, the last general is very familiar with the battalions and guerrillas!" Huang Degong said first.
Huang Degong is a bold person, and he joined the army to cut off people's heads since he was a teenager, and he can be said to have become famous at a young age.
Zhou Yuji, Wang Dou and Chen Xin also have a lot of connections.
"Okay, since that's the case, then I don't talk nonsense, now Wei Zhongxian is in charge of internal and external power, arrogantly claiming to be nine thousand years old, ignoring the kindness of Emperor Daxing, vainly trying to rebel, I want you to help me eradicate the eunuchs?!"
Zhu Youjian stood in front of the four of them and said with burning eyes.
Huang Degong and the four of them are not fools, how can they not know that this is a great opportunity!
"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to be the vanguard and go and chop off Wei Zhongxian's dog's head!" Wang Dou said loudly.
Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji and Chen Xin were not far behind, and they also expressed their positions.
Zhu Youzhen looked at the performance of the four people and nodded with great satisfaction.
He is worthy of being a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty!
"Good!"
"However, Wei Zhongxian has many henchmen, no matter how brave the four of you are, you can't really be ten thousand enemies!"
"Now Tu Wenfu is the eunuch who oversees the Imperial Horse Eunuch, and he is Wei Zhongxian's sworn friend, I will give you 10,000 taels of gold, gather a thousand loyal and brave men in the Imperial Horse Eunuch, take down Tu Wenfu and others, and seize the military power, are you willing?"
After listening to Zhu Youzhen's words, Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji were already bright-eyed!
There are about 6,000 soldiers in the three battalions of the Imperial Horse Prison, excluding the soldiers who go out to supervise the army and the soldiers who are on duty outside the city, there are still 3,000 people in the Beijing Division.
If you mobilize a thousand people, it is enough to take down the entire Imperial Horse Prison.
"Your Majesty, 10,000 taels of gold, let alone 1,000 people, it will not be a problem to call all 3,000 people in the camp!" Huang Degong said excitedly.
Tu Wenfu's eggless eunuchs, without the blessing of the emperor's order, are not even as good as a dog in the eyes of Huang Degong and others.
Ten taels of gold for ordinary soldiers, it's too much!
"Three thousand? That's certainly better! When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he was even happier when he heard this good thing.
In the evening of the same day, Zhu Youzhen asked Shang Fuming to transport the gold out in the name of the eunuch procurement in the inner temple.
After having this batch of gold, Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji, Wang Dou and Chen Xin returned to the Yumajian camp and soon gathered almost all the middle and senior officers such as the capital division and guerrillas.
Everyone looked at the alluring gold, and everyone's loyalty to the king was very high!
Wei Zhongxian supervised the imperial horse supervisor with Tu Wenfu, and Tu Wenfu commanded the battalions with several commanders, and these people were the core of the eunuch party.
The future of the army of this group of capitalists and guerrillas has basically risen to the ceiling, and it is difficult to rise again even if they send money to go through the door.
Now it's okay, the new emperor will reward the gold first, and then let them kill their bosses, and they will be properly promoted and rich!
In just one day, Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji overfulfilled the tasks assigned by Emperor Daming.
The 3,000 soldiers in the battalion of the entire Jingshi Imperial Horse Supervisor were all sharpening their swords and preparing to make a move on the overseers, assistant governors and commanding envoys led by Tu Wenfu.
And the supervising eunuch Tu Wenfu and others did not know about it.
On August 26, a cloudy and windy night, the entire Beijing Division was pitch black, and I couldn't see my fingers.
The originally quiet camp of the Imperial Horse Supervisor suddenly erupted into a commotion and noisy sound.
"Oh no, Wei Zhongxian has rebelled!"
"The eunuch party has rebelled, I will enter the palace as soon as possible!"