Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 429 The Chaotic Era of Ming Dynasty

He directly let the inner court manage the shops in Qixia Mountain.

Merchants in this era are not stupid. Knowing that these feudal lords are local tyrants, they all scramble to buy the shops here. Even the most famous Fengyuedi on the Qinhuai River has opened a branch here.

All of Zhu Youjian's stores here were sold out within a few days, proving once again that the Daming real estate industry is also booming, and at the same time, Zhu Youjian's internal money has also made a lot of money.

In less than half a month, the formerly deserted Qixia Mountain area has a lively atmosphere.

The vassal kings are more luxurious than before.

Nanjing City has always been a bustling place, and most of the scholar-bureaucrats came here to pursue sensuality.

Therefore, there are not many services that make people want to die.

Some vassal kings who have been in remote areas for a long time now feel fresh when they come to Nanjing.

It didn't take long for the news of a certain old prince's sudden death on a certain girl's body to spread, and he became the first feudal lord to die in the Qixia Mountain villa area, and almost caused an unjust case, which caused a sensation in Nanjing City Fortunately, it was finally found out that the girl was not killed, and the pain of punishment was avoided.

Although Zhu Youjian has been knocking the bones and sucking the marrow of these vassals,
But now his relationship with these vassals is not bad, and the relationship between the king and the king is also harmonious.

Even if the vassals complained that they were extorted too much, Zhu Youjian all blamed the civil servants:

"Hey, my uncles and uncles don't know something. It is difficult for me to be an emperor. It is reasonable to give you mansions and rewards, but all the officials said that the military budget is tight and you need to rest with the people. , can only wrong the royal family!

Not only did you not give rewards to your mansions, even Zhen's palace and imperial tomb were not repaired!
Tell me, what can I do, even now, I can only eat five dishes per meal, can you tell me this is what an emperor should live, hateful, hateful! "

The civil officials wanted to blame the emperor Zhu Youjian for the complaints of the vassals.

But Zhu Youjian first blamed the cabinet and the civil service group he represented.

Moreover, Zhu Youjian directly said that the things he was unwilling to do directly were deliberately targeted at him by the civil officials.

In addition to earning money from the vassal king, Zhu Youjian did not directly intervene in many things, but the Ministry of Household Affairs, so the vassal kings also believed in Zhu Youjian's words, and asked Zhu Youjian why he didn't dismiss the cabinet chief assistant Gao Hong picture.

Zhu Youjian continued to cry, saying that Gao Hongtu had made great contributions in defending Nanjing, and he was highly regarded by the government and the public. He had no way to dismiss Gao Hongtu, the chief assistant of the cabinet. .

Zhu Youjian also said some unspeakable secrets, saying that dismissal also needs a reason. Without the impeachment of the officials below, he could not dismiss the dignified household ministers at will. After all, the current household ministers are all recommended and appointed by the cabinet chief assistant.

The vassals understood Zhu Youjian's meaning, and they really wanted to vent their anger, and wanted the officials in the court to be afraid of them, the vassals.

Therefore, the vassal kings started their own political show, and some people began to bribe some censors with silver or other means, and then impeached Liu Wanchun, the minister of the household department.

Liu Wanchun, Minister of the Household Department, was not stupid, he knew that this was done on purpose by his cunning majesty like a fox.

He knew what His Majesty wanted, so without saying a word, he gave Zhu Youjian [-]% of the income from the auction of the so-called state-owned assets by the household treasury.

However, soon, Zhu Youjian fined Liu Wanchun half a year's salary.

Liu Wanchun, Minister of the Household Department, knew that His Majesty meant that the share he gave was not enough, so he increased it to [-]%.

Therefore, Liu Wanchun, Shangshu of the Household Department, was suddenly granted the position of Sangu as a prince and Taibao after he was fined half a year's salary, and he was also added as a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, jumping from the sixth rank of cabinet bachelor to fourth!
The vassals were shocked!

They have been away from the court for a long time, only to realize that imperial politics is not as simple as they imagined.

Some vassals with sensitive political senses discovered that it was Liu Wanchun, Minister of the Household Department, who sent money to His Majesty.

His Majesty who has been "bribed" will naturally not punish Liu Wanchun again.

The vassal kings were busy instructing some civil officials who spoke for money to accuse Liu Wanchun, Shangshu of the Ministry of household affairs, of being a huge and corrupt courtier who only made money, while also sending money to His Majesty Zhu Youjian.

Liu Wanchun, Minister of the Household Department, has been at the center for a long time, and after being deeply influenced by the shameless Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty, he also became shameless, and continued to hug Zhu Youjian's thigh, sending money and warmth, only missing a woman .

The vassal kings couldn't stand it anymore, and rushed to send money to Zhu Youjian in order to overwhelm the civil servants.

For example, King Gui Zhu Youlang took the initiative to borrow money to undertake the reconstruction project of Fengtian Temple.

Zhu Youjian was very happy about this, and immediately awarded it to Zhu Youlang, the official of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Nanjing.

Zhu Youlang suddenly became the youngest high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, and he was also the vassal king directly and concurrently.

Other vassal kings also looked jealous and scrambled to send money, and some Qingliu civil servants were not far behind. While collecting money and scolding the six cabinet officials, they also reprimanded the vassal kings for breaking the ancestral system, but they did not dare to point the finger at them. Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian seemed to be a person who was looking at the scenery from the top of the city tower, and he could see the vassal princes and civil officials below making a fuss.

In addition, there is still a struggle for succession, and the Ming Dynasty seems to be very chaotic in this era.

Some ministers who were eyeing the position of chief assistant also began to instigate their party members to directly reprimand the chief assistant Gao Hongtu for his inaction.

Gao Hongtu's people were naturally not to be outdone, they caught Ruan Dayue and other hostile factions and began to scold him.

For a moment, Daming seemed to have returned to the old era of "three elders on paper and six masters on clay".

But the fact is that both Zhu Youjian's internal funds and the revenue of the treasury began to increase significantly, especially after July 21 of Chongzhen, with the end of commercial tax collection, the treasury's annual revenue jumped to [-] million silver dollars!

And Zhu Youjian's own internal savings also exceeded one billion silver dollars!
This is the prosperous chapter in the chaotic era of the empire.

The officials quietly discovered that the wealth of the empire had reached billions of dollars.

When these vassals stopped eating and waiting to die or only focused on exploiting the bottom people and started a political game with civil officials, Zhu Youjian still hadn't started telling the vassals how to expand their fiefs.

But after August, Zhu Youjian suddenly ordered the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dongchang, and the General Military Law Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion to jointly set up a special team to start the execution of a war criminal and traitor in a unified manner.

Zhu Youjian ordered all feudal lords and civil and military officials of the second rank or above to go to Taiping Gate to observe the execution at the beginning of the execution on the fifth day of the eighth month. The article writes thoughts.

Of course, except on duty days.

The reason for doing this is that Zhu Youjian naturally wanted to let these feudal lords know what would happen if they disobeyed themselves and betrayed Daming through real and severe punishments.

The first to be tried was of course Hong Chengchou, who had been designated a Class A war criminal by the Ministry of Punishment of the Ming Cabinet for inciting the Manchus to go south again to destroy the Ming Dynasty and personally commanded the country to perish.

(End of this chapter)