The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 5 Became a Tyrant
Zhu Cihong directly killed Luo Yangxing, the commander of Jin Yiwei, and the three court officials in the harem, and soon word spread among the high-ranking civil and military officials in the capital.

For a moment, the civil and military officials in the capital were all shaken.

However, after the shock, there was a collective silence.

Because at this time, the civil servants have already inquired about what happened in the palace last night.

Last night, the crown prince led a group of eunuchs and maids to force the palace directly, and even almost killed the king and father.

In addition, on the day of enthronement, there was a big killing spree.

Killed all the senior officials of Jinyiwei.

So let the officials choose to be wise and protect themselves.

Even if the signboard of the Dongji Incident Factory was hung up again, none of the censors dared to write a letter to persuade them.

On the contrary, some tribute students of the Imperial College privately accused the prince of treason, in vain, and cruelty.

But he didn't dare to go outside the palace gate to force the palace to make trouble like his predecessors did.

Obviously everyone is not stupid, an emperor who can even kill the king and father will not care about anything at all.

Even some scholars who were still loyal to Daming just lamented in their hearts, and then chose to leave the capital with a look of sadness and despair.

The situation was already grim, but now there is a rebellious, cruel and ruthless emperor, which makes things worse. How can Daming be saved?
But Jin Yiwei's internal staff didn't think so, on the contrary, they were rather excited, gearing up and full of energy.

In the past, Luo Yangxing was greedy for life and afraid of death, which caused Chongzhen to lose trust in Jinyiwei and completely relied on eunuchs.

Coupled with the fact that Chongzhen was suspicious, Jin Yiwei was also walking on eggshells, fearing being impeached.

He only dared to bully some ordinary people, and the civil servants did not dare to offend them at all, not to mention how aggrieved they were.

But looking at the current situation, His Majesty obviously wants to use Jin Yiwei again.

Because Li Ruolian, who just took over as the commander of the Jinyiwei, has the greatest power and the most favored, and he is the most commander of the Jinyiwei in the past.

Not only was Zuodu Dudu granted, Prince Shaobao was granted, Shangfang was also given the sword, and his power was approaching Dongchang.

So Li Ruolian took over Jinyiwei easily, and got the support of all Jinyiwei, and inspected all four houses the next day.

The male relatives of the four families were directly beheaded on the spot, and the female relatives were all charged into the Jiaofang Division according to the usual practice.

.........

"Your Majesty, this is the property confiscated from the home of the traitor Luo Yangxing and his followers!"

Li Ruolian handed over the brochure respectfully.

Zhu Cihong received the booklet from the eunuch when he was a child, and couldn't wait to read it. What he lacks now is money and food.

The four families obtained more than [-] taels of cash in cash alone. Other gold and silver jewellery, antique calligraphy and paintings, houses and shops, and manors with title deeds were also listed.

Even knowing that there must be serious moisture in it, Zhu Cihong is still very satisfied.

There is no way, in the market situation at the end of Ming Dynasty, it is definitely more difficult than the sun coming out from the west to make the house raiders not greedy and report the truth.

Even if Li Ruolian doesn't want to be greedy, his subordinates won't agree. It's not something that one person can change.

For the time being, he doesn't want to worry about these things, as long as Jin Yiwei can carry out his orders without compromise.

That's why he wants to get rid of Luo Yangxing, that guy is too greedy.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you are greedy at all, the key is to carry out the emperor's orders without compromise.

And Luo Yangxing's old fritters, greedy for life and afraid of death, looking forward and backward, obviously is not a good knife.

"Li Aiqing is indeed loyal and prudent in her work, I am very relieved!"

"Aiqing can take 5 taels out of it and give it to the staff who handle the affairs this time, and send all the rest to the inside."

Zhu Cihong nodded, put down the booklet and said.

Corruption is corruption, but rewards are still indispensable, and the two cannot be confused.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Ruolian saw that His Majesty gave out 5 taels of silver as a reward, he felt guilty, but he didn't say much.

Although he concealed more than 30 taels of silver this time, he actually only took 3 taels.

So I plan to reward the 5 taels truthfully.

"Well, now that the enemy is at hand, Jinyiwei is the emperor's own army. After Aiqing returns, he can recruit a lot of people. Those with less than a thousand households can be appointed or dismissed by himself. The rewards and punishments can also be executed first!"

Zhu Cihong knew that not only he himself had to centralize power at this time, but also his subordinates who were able to do things should also delegate power to them.

If it were someone who was greedy for life and afraid of death, the emperor would be somewhat scruples when he was so favored by the emperor, but at this moment Li Ruolian was so moved that he wanted to dig out his heart and soul, and all he thought about was how to repay the emperor's kindness.

The two monarchs and ministers staged a bitter scene, and Zhu Cihong gave him a gold medal that could enter the palace at any time, and Li Ruolian bid farewell with tears in his eyes.

Kunning Palace.

After two days of rest, Chongzhen was able to get out of bed and walk around, and his complexion looked much better.

At the moment, he is listening to Wang Chengen's report.

Knowing that yesterday's enthronement ceremony was actually only Ni Yuanlu who stood up to question her, she felt extremely sad.

He had originally waited for the objections of the dignitary officials, so that the crown prince could supervise the country instead.

Who would have thought that those civil servants who used to be inseparable from the ancestral etiquette would pretend to be deaf and dumb this time.

It's so annoying!
When he heard that the prince had directly killed Luo Yangxing and four other people outside the Qianqing Palace that afternoon, he was also shocked.

"What did you say? That Nizi gave out another 5 taels of silver as a reward?"

"Yes, my lord!"

Originally, when he heard that the crown prince had copied 40 taels of silver, Emperor Chongzhen was shocked and overjoyed at the same time.

But knowing that Zhu Cihong rewarded another 5 taels, he couldn't help but cursed: "This rebellious son, An Neng is so squandered?"

"Your Majesty, the concubine thinks that Lang'er is clearly rewarded and punished." Queen Zhou couldn't help but retort.

Obviously, now that his son is the emperor, his waist has straightened a lot.

"How much do you know as a woman? Now that the country is in a difficult situation, you can't wait to spend a penny in two, and even spend it on the tip of a knife. How can you reward me like this?"

Emperor Chongzhen snorted coldly, then looked at Wang Cheng'en and said, "Big Companion, go and call that Nizi."

"It's the emperor."

Wang Chengen was so loyal, he left the bedroom in response, and returned after a quarter of an hour.

When Chongzhen saw his appearance, his face darkened.

"The traitor won't come?"

"Go back to the emperor, your majesty said that the two dragons will not meet each other... let the emperor rest at ease, don't... don't... again..."

"Don't say anything else? Say it, don't leave a single word behind!"

"Don't... don't worry about it anymore!" Wang Chengen fell to his knees after finishing speaking.

"Tianzi..."

Chongzhen was so angry that his face instantly turned from black to red, he staggered and fell backwards.

Fortunately, Empress Zhou quickly supported her with her hand, and begged: "Your Majesty, my concubine is begging, so don't be angry anymore, and take care of her!"

"Queen... you go, tell that Nizi, let him immediately send someone to take the silver to Xuanda, first send some additional military orders to the soldiers of the two towns, and then order Jiang Guan, the general soldier of Datong, and Wang Chengyin, the general soldier of Xuanfu, to lead the troops Come to the aid of Ningwu Pass!"

After Chongzhen gasped for a while, he said to her.

"Go!"

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the concubine will just go!"

Empress Zhou had no choice but to agree, turned around and left the palace.

(End of this chapter)