Zhu Qiyu nodded, Gao Ping has made a great contribution to himself, and he really needs to be rewarded.

Now that Ruan An, Ruan Rang, and Chen Mian have gone home to retire, and they will kill Xing'an and Cao Jixiang next month, and the inner court will be much quieter.

Thinking of this, Zhu Qiyu instructed Su Xi: "You prepare the treasury, our family will make a fortune next month." ”

Su Xi asked curiously: "What else do you need to prepare, just load it directly, our storehouse is very large." ”

Zhu Qiyu shook his head very firmly: "No, no, no, I'm very sure that our warehouse is definitely not big enough."

I can't toss for so many days in vain, and if I want to play, I can play big, to a degree that you can't imagine. ”

When Su Xi heard this, her eyes lit up, and she hurriedly leaned over and sat on Zhu Qiyu's lap with Qianxue left and right, waiting with an expectant face for her husband to tell how the windfall flew to the house.

Seeing this, Lin Xiangyu teased: "You are a pair of small wealth fans, when you heard that there were gold, silver and jewelry in the warehouse, your eyes were full of gold. ”

Su Xi retorted: "Hmph, don't you just want to say that the two of us are covered in copper smell, you and Ning Xiang, the two little girls, don't worry about anything now, they are more like uncles than our husbands."

If you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, do you know how much our family spends a day? ”

Lin Xiangyu shook her head with a smile: "This palace doesn't know, and this palace doesn't want to know, this palace only knows about the bed." ”

Su Xi shook Zhu Qiyu's arm and sued on the spot: "Husband, open your eyes and take a look, she has completely lost her face and skin, and she has begun to play with hob meat." ”

"Don't shake it, my eyes are already open, what are you telling me to open my eyes to?" Don't sue you, she just lay down on the bed and couldn't move, give me a jade body, I can't do anything about her.

Let's hurry up and talk about money, I want to carry out a complete purge of the inner court, and I will leave him at most 2,000 with the eunuchs and palace maids, and the palace people at the bottom will be scattered and resettled, and the rest of the people will be raided. ”

Several favorite concubines were stunned after hearing this, and Su Xi asked curiously: "Now there are almost 10,000 eunuchs and palace maids in Beijing, and there are at most 2,000 left, wouldn't it be necessary to lay off 8,000 people?"

Nanjing's eunuchs and palace maids must also have 8,000 people, and the husband must also be eliminated? ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "They don't wait for us, what do they do." We cut all the ones that can be cut, and then Guanglu Temple still has more than 4,000 cooks who cook for the palace, and most of them can also be cut.

However, those warehouses in the West Garden can be greatly expanded.

The three major weaving bureaus in the south no longer need to supply the royal family, and the silk cloth woven can be used to trade with the West.

Then the money earned was used to build the Great Ming Water Master. With the invincible sailor, go outside to grab the silver mine.

In one or two decades, a virtuous circle can be formed. ”

Several favorite concubines nodded again and again and praised for a long time.

After everyone finished praising each other, they continued to look at the notebook. Su Xi turned to a heavy topic: "Husband, listening to the news from all sides, it seems that the illness of the second prince is only a matter of one or two days. ”

"In the end, it was not saved?"

Su Xi shook his head: "The person is too small, and the imperial doctor said that he has no power to return to the sky." ”

"Hey!"

Zhu Qiyu also shook his head and sighed, the royal struggle pitied the innocent children.

Early the next morning, the three law divisions, who had received the emperor's approval, summoned Sun Zhong, the marquis of Huichang.

These days, Sun Zhong doesn't eat well, he doesn't sleep well, he worries excessively, and he has lost a lot of weight.

When they came to the lobby of the Criminal Department, Wang Wen, Wei Ji, Xue Xuan, Kou Shen, Xiao Weizhen and others were very polite.

Sun Zhong was summoned just to understand the attitudes and trends of all parties when they were abolished.

The Three Law Divisions were just conducting routine investigations, and they didn't have much hope for Sun Zhong.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that Sun Zhong talked endlessly in the hall: the causes and consequences of the abolition, what role Sanyang played in it, what role Jin Ying and other eunuchs played, and how Empress Dowager Sun made decisions and how to win over courtiers.

In addition to hiding for His Holiness, he concealed what Xuanzong did, and talked about the rest of what should be said.

And Jin Ying and the other eunuchs involved who were kneeling in the hall felt that they could not refute it, and they all lowered their heads and remained silent.

This made it difficult for the chief officials of the Three Law Divisions.

The criminal department is still the book, the squire, the left and right of the Imperial Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple and Qing are among each other, you look at me, I look at you.

Empress Dowager Sun's father, the previous national abbot, personally came to the Criminal Department to expose Empress Dowager Sun's conspiracy to abolish the queen, is this to kill relatives in righteousness?

The chief officials of the three law divisions couldn't accept it for a while, and no one would have thought that Sun Zhong would talk about this in the public court.

If everyone accepts Sun Zhong's testimony, it will inevitably cause an uproar inside and outside the government and the opposition, and even the entire Ming Dynasty will fall into violent turmoil.

But if you refuse to accept Sun Zhong's testimony, it will not work, the three law divisions will be tried, this is the most authoritative trial scene in the Ming Dynasty.

Sun Zhong has already said that the testimony has been recorded, and no one dares to tear up the testimony, just tell everyone that nothing happened just now.

Besides, even if someone dares to tear up the testimony, Sun Zhong can still go to the emperor to say it again, unless Sun Zhong is killed, the matter can be closed.

No one dares to decide.

Wang Wen looked at Wei Ji and asked for advice.

Wei Ji shook his head, saying that he had just arrived at the Criminal Department, and he was not familiar with all aspects, so it was inconvenient for him to express his opinions.

Wang Wen looked at Kou Shen again, and Kou Shen saw that no one else dared to take responsibility, so he quietly replied: "Let's try here today, the stakes are very high, and the testimony doesn't need to be detained first."

We will seal the testimony in a confidential letter and deliver it to the Imperial Majesty, and your Majesty will judge it. ”

Wang Wen nodded, and that was the only way. Ask Xue Xuan and Xiao Weizhen again, and neither of them has an opinion.

So Wang Wen explained to Sun Zhong: "Marquis Huichang, let's get here first today." Let's move on tomorrow. ”

Sun Zhong nodded: "Okay, I'll draw today's testimony first." ”

Afraid of something, Wang Wen and the others were stubborn, so they persuaded Sun Zhong to leave.

After sending Sun Zhong away, Wang Wen and others immediately sealed the testimony and sent it to the western suburbs.

The emperor lived in the western suburbs, and the speed of handling government affairs was a day slower than normal, which gave Empress Dowager Sun time to react.

Kou Shen used the excuse of asking the family to go home to pick up things, and passed the news to Zou Gan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

On the pretext of inquiring about the condition of the second prince, Zou Gan hurriedly went to Nangong to meet Emperor Gongrang.

This big circle came down, and by the time Zhu Qizhen understood what was going on and sent Zou Gan away, it was already past noon.

Zhu Qizhen leaned back in his chair and was silent in thought.

Chen Xiang cautiously asked, "Emperor, do you want a slave to report to the Queen Mother?" ”

Zhu Qizhen hesitated for a long time before he reluctantly nodded.

Chen Xiang received instructions, turned around and walked out.

Waiting for Chen Xiang to walk out for more than a dozen steps, Zhu Qizhen suddenly stopped Chen Xiang with a word: "Wait a minute, don't go yet." ”

Chen Xiang was quite surprised, but he didn't dare to ask, so he had to turn around and stand still.

Zhu Qizhen thought for a long time before he ordered: "You don't have to worry about this matter, Zou Gan is just here to inquire about the second prince's condition, and nothing else is allowed to be mentioned."

You go and arrange it, I'm going to turn over the cards. ”

"Huh? Emperor, the previous fourteen noble concubines have all been demoted to ordinary palace maids, and if they turn over the cards again, the officials will still make trouble, and the queen is not easy to say. ”

Zhu Qizhen said with a smile: "I just want the official to be impeached, and I want to make the queen make trouble." When the time came, everyone knew that I was busy with women, but I didn't get involved in these messy things. ”

"But the queen mother and the emperor share weal and woe, and the lips and teeth are cold."

"Hmph, what kind of lips and teeth are cold, let the Queen Mother be wronged first. My chance only exists in the Mutiny, and there is no chance to turn the tables by relying on the boring political struggle of the Queen Mother.

Now it just so happens that the Queen Mother is in the light and I am in the dark. The Queen Mother was defeated by her younger brother in front, and when her younger brother got carried away, I launched another fatal blow to completely turn the tide.

Chen Xiang, you go and secretly contact some Taoist priests and offer some prescriptions to your brother. ”

"Prescription?"

Chen Xiang was puzzled.

"It's the kind that my father ate it, as well as the Taoist room technique, the spring palace map, and I also collected some and offered it. In the past, my father was obsessed with these broken things, but now it is rare for my younger brother to like it, this is called having a father and having a son, we might as well do what he likes. ”

"Gao, it's still the emperor."

Chen Xiang slapped another big sycophant, and arranged for the woman to sleep for his emperor, and then went out of the palace on an errand.

However, he said that when Zou Gan left Nangong, he happened to meet Xing'an, so he talked about the trial situation of the three law divisions and Xing'an.

After hearing this, Xing'an was shocked, and wanted to meet his own emperor and discuss countermeasures, but he didn't want his own emperor to summon the concubine instead.

Xing'an had to hurry to the Yinghua Hall and report to the Empress Dowager Sun in person.

(End of chapter)