Chongzhen lacked exercise, walked less than two hundred steps to get tired to stick out his tongue, returned to the imperial case and sat down again, he glanced at the Huang Daozhou's Song Shu on the imperial case, it happened that his eyes were good to see a few words in the Song Shu criticizing the love, and couldn't help sneering from the tall nostrils, Chongzhen said in his heart: "I rule the world with filial piety, why do you use you to attack in vain such a thing! Since ancient times, the minister died of his parents, because of state affairs, confined to the emperor's edict, and did not abide by the three-year mourning, 'seizing the love of things' or' If Wu Aheng and Chen Xinjia both go to guard the three-year funeral, will you be able to act as the superintendent of the army? Can you serve as the secretary of the military department?...... It's ridiculous, you're just a useless fart who seems to have a belly, but I don't want to let you out!"

Fortunately, according to Chongzhen's own words, he was open-minded, and he felt that his fart was finished, so he picked up a letter from the imperial case, which was the matter of Xue Guoguan's bribery by Wu Changshi, the director of the Ministry of Rites.

Wu Changshi was originally a pedestrian in the pedestrian department, and this pedestrian was a low-level idle official of Zhengjiupin, and it sounded good to make you different from the grass people, but in fact, there was not much interest. When the imperial court encountered such things as issuing edicts, canonizing feudal domains, condolences, sacrifices, and envoys to the feudal domains, it would send pedestrians to run errands to participate, and most of them made up the number.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Wu Changshi took advantage of the opportunity of the Beijing official examination to ask someone to intercede with Xue Guoguan, asking for help to promote him to the official department, and Xue Guoguan accepted his gift at that time and verbally promised to help, but he knew in his heart that he had a few catties and a few taels, and he despised Wu Changshi.

As soon as the results of the examination were announced, Wu Changshi was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Rites, which disappointed him with a hot heart. The Ministry of Officials is a hot yamen, and the dismissal, transfer, promotion, demotion, and dismissal of officials throughout the country are all under the control of the Ministry of Officials. Although the officials are only from the seventh grade according to the grade, they have always been valued by the middle-level cadres in the court, and they are the so-called ministers of the officials and attendants, who not only have the right to supervise the work of the officials, but also have more opportunities to speak on the government affairs, and most importantly, there are more opportunities for bribery, blackmail, and blackmail, so that the future is much easier.

Although the director of the Ministry of Rites is said to be the sixth grade, the Ministry of Rites is a cold yamen, and the person in charge is the ministry Cao is the affairs officer, so it is better to be valued from the seven grades. Wu Changshi didn't get the position he longed for, thinking that Xue Guoxian had tricked him, but he was not much older than a minor official and a little smaller than a substantive official, so he could only say that he held a grudge and waited for an opportunity to vent.

Recently, it was rumored in Wuchang that the emperor was dissatisfied with Xue Guoguan because of Wu Qing's wait for Li Guorui, and the emperor's relatives were secretly conspiring with several big eunuchs to expel Xue Guoguan from the court.

Emperor Chongzhen was indeed trying to find an open excuse to expel Xue Guoguan from the cabinet, and after reading this bullet seal, he decided to punish Xue Guoguan strictly without waiting for a clear review or for Xue Guoguan to defend himself. The emperor, who was much better in spirit, immediately lifted the red pen in high spirits, and wrote a handwritten edict domineeringly: "Xue Guoguan is the first assistant, and he is greedy and desecrated.

Chongzhen took a eunuch and immediately sent his edict out of the palace, and he was relieved, he wanted to look up to the sky at this time and let out a long roar, "Who else?

After all, he is an emperor who wants to be prosperous, and after a little pride, he continues to review the documents that can never be finished. Emperor Chongzhen, who soon entered the state, found that among the neatly stacked notes, there were more than a dozen letters from the local officials of the provinces of Jifu, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Jiangnan, calling on the imperial court to reduce money and grain and to report on the disaster situation of that year.

In their book, they said: "Now the livelihood of the people is on the verge of extinction, and if we do not quickly reduce the emperor's favor, exempt the old and the new from levy, put an end to the excesses, and allocate funds for relief, the weak will die on the road, and the strong will rise up in groups and take risks, and the chaos will become more and more difficult to contain." ”

Chongzhen frowned and read this book, he knew that more than 1,000 people from his Jifu and Shandong Shimin had come to the capital to write to themselves, and his brain capacity could not accommodate more than one trillion of information.

Just when Chongzhen's hair was about to be bare, it happened that Cao Huachun, the eunuch of Dongchang, came to the Qianqing Palace to do something, and the eunuchs and palace maids in the Qianqing Palace secretly rejoiced that Cao Huachun was comparable to Zhang Guang 101; Chongzhen was also very pleased that he saw Cao Huachun at this moment, so he gave up picking his nostrils and pulling his hair and asked him: "Cao Banban, there are more than 1,000 scholars in Jifu and Shandong, do you know?"

Cao Huachun saw the sad urging on the emperor's face, and hurriedly bowed down and replied affirmatively: "The slave knows." These more than 1,000 scholars had come to Beijing three days ago, and the slaves and maids also knew that their first time was to hand over a folded copy to the Yamen of the General Administration Department, because there were typos in the transcript and a format did not match, and some of them violated the words, and it was not written that it was Long live Your Majesty, and the General Administration Department did not accept it. ”

Cao Huachun still remembered the suffering of the people of Gyeonggi, and his own hometown was also plagued, so he mustered up the courage to say to Chongzhen, whose brain was down for a while: "They wrote a new book overnight in accordance with the specifications of my Ming official documents, and they only sent it to the imperial front today." ”

"Are they all really good citizens?" Chongzhen was very disgusted by the accusation, he thought that this was a violation of the regulations, and it was not safe and non-standardized.

"Dongchang and Jinyi Guard's detectives are reconnoitring at any time, and they haven't seen any off-the-road words and deeds of these people. They beg for food on the streets during the day and sleep on the streets outside their front doors at night. The Imperial History of the Five Cities and the Terracotta Division of the Five Cities sent people to investigate at any time, and they did not hear of anything illegal. Cao Huachun changed the past only promises, today is out of the way, he simply poured beans in a bamboo tube and did not hide or fold them, the pigs in the small alley went straight to and fro, and the shallots mixed with tofu were clear......

Chongzhen looked at this temporarily frustrated and ignorant Cao companion in confusion, and then turned his head to Wang Chengen, the eunuch of Bingbi who was standing beside him, and asked, "Didn't I issue an edict a few months ago to exempt Shandong and Jifu from money and grain?"

Bingbi eunuch Wang Chengen roared in his heart, as if his whole body was burning, but he was the emperor's minion, so he had to bow his head and play: "The emperor has indeed rabbit the money and grain of the affected states and counties in the two provinces, but their book says 'although the yellow paper is free, the white paper is still urging', it seems that these small people have not benefited." ”