This case is not difficult for the Jinyiwei to investigate. In particular, it involves Shangshenjian. Although Shangshenjian is a very rich department, he actually does not have much power in the court.

Shangshenjian, to put it bluntly, is just a department that serves the emperor's food and daily life. The Jinyiwei kept collecting evidence, and as the investigation deepened, the Jinyiwei could not help but secretly surprised him.

Qin Maosheng, the commander of the Jinyiwei, after reading Chen Degui's file, couldn't help but feel cold sweat. He called Qianhu Xia Dechao to his side and asked, "Can the investigation be clear about this case?"

Xia Dechao was also nervous, but he could only answer with a gritty bullet: "Sir, this case does involve Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of the country."

Qin Maosheng took a deep breath: "That's Your Majesty's grandfather. Although Zhou Kui, the father-in-law, is a bit despicable, and he is a little despicable. Yes, but if this case is handed over, I'm afraid that the emperor will find it difficult to make a decision."

Zhou Kui is indeed worthy of death, at least Zhou Kui has no choice but to be jealous of death in history.

Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of the current dynasty, had a mother in the world. Although his daughter was well-educated and polite, Zhou Kui was extremely stingy, short-sighted, short-sighted, and unstoppable. The country and the country of the Ming Dynasty were in turmoil and shaky. At the time of danger, Emperor Chongzhen ordered all the ministers and officials in the court to donate silver and help pay, but Zhou Kui was extremely stingy and did not know the truth that his lips and teeth were cold. Although in order to save his wealth, the Ming Dynasty eventually perished, and all the money he had accumulated was forcibly taken away by the thief Li Zicheng. In the end, he died of anger and resentment.

Zhou Kui was originally from Wuxian, Suzhou Prefecture, Southern Zhili. Later, he moved to Daxing County, Shuntian Prefecture, Northern Zhili. He made a living by fortune telling each other. He often set up stalls on Qianmen Street, but lived a very poor life. Fortunately, Zhou Kui had a good daughter. This girl was not only beautiful and gentle, but also studied with the famous scholar Chen Renxi. When she grew up, she was well-educated and polite, and was quite well-educated. She was a famous intellectual beauty. In the end, Zhou Kui successfully turned over with her daughter.

It was such a person who actually gave birth to a daughter and eventually became the queen of the mother's mother. Here, we have to explain the system of selecting concubines in the court.

In the sixth year of Tianqi, Zhu Youjian, who was the king of Xin, was at the age of marriage. Because his parents had died of illness, his brother, Emperor Xizong of Ming, was addicted to carpenter work. Therefore, Queen Yi'an, Zhang Yan, took charge of the selection of the princess as his eldest sister-in-law instead of his mother.

In the end, Empress Zhang chose Zhou Kui's daughter Zhou from many candidates. After Zhou became Princess Xin, Zhou Kui was rewarded by the court and appointed as the deputy commander of the Nancheng Military and Ma Si. Although it was just a false position, it had a status after all.

Later, Emperor Tianqi passed away, and his brother Zhu Youjian inherited the throne as Emperor Chongzhen. The Princess of Zhou naturally became the Empress of Zhou, and later gave birth to Zhu Cilang. After Zhou became the empress, his father Zhou Kui was upgraded to the father-in-law, and his treatment and status were naturally improved. Because Empress Zhou was gentle and virtuous and had good governance of the harem, Emperor Chongzhen also took good care of the Zhou family. In just two or three years, he was promoted to Zhou Kui as the right governor and was granted Jiading Bo, and Zhou Kui's son was also promoted to the governor and the general.

But the old guy Zhou Kui was obviously not so authentic. After watching his daughter become the queen, he started his own money-making mode.

The Ming Dynasty at that time was already corrupt, and I don’t know how many high-ranking officials tried their best to curry favor with each other. Zhou Kui also refused everyone. Anyway, he was the father-in-law, so why should I?

Even if the truth is revealed in the future, I will never die because I am the queen's biological mother. The emperor will most likely be open to me.

Since this is the case, I’m still afraid of making money!

At that time, Zhou Kui was promoted to the right governor of the capital by Chongzhen, second only to the left governor, responsible for commanding the various commanders and guards inside and outside the capital. He was one of the highest military chiefs of the Ming Empire. However, Zhou Kui had no military talent, so this appointment was just a formality, and he did not have real power. Despite this, Zhou Kui was a first-rank official after all, and the emperor's father-in-law, and had a great influence in the officialdom. Because of this, there were many noble officials who curled up and bribed him. In just a few years, Zhou Kui accumulated amazing wealth.

Three million taels of wealth, and the annual tax revenue of the imperial court was only more than four million taels. It can be said that Zhou Kui made the tax revenue of the imperial court for nearly a year.

If this money was used to resist Jiannu, pacify bandits or provide relief to the victims, the Ming Dynasty would definitely not have been destroyed so quickly.

Sure enough, Zhu Cilang, who later traveled over, squeezed out Zhou Kui's money that was corrupt and abused by force little by little.

But after all, people like Zhou Kui cannot change their shit. Zhu Cixuan also knew his grandfather's temper, so he pulled Zhou Kui into the water and asked Zhou Kui to build a glass factory in Xishan.

Zhou Kui did invest a lot of money in building a glass factory in Xishan. Moreover, he also put in a lot of effort. The scale of the glass factory in Beijing has expanded dozens of times, and even so, it is still in short supply.

Especially for overseas trade, it can be said that there is as much order as the glass there is. The imperial court also made a lot of money for this.

Now the ocean-going fleet of the Ming Dynasty was in full swing and even arrived in the European and American continents. After seeing the silk, porcelain, tea and beautiful glass of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial emperors immediately regarded it as treasures.

The trade between the Ming Dynasty and overseas was also in full swing. A large amount of silver and gold also flowed into the country continuously. This allowed the people of the Ming Dynasty to accumulate huge wealth.

Although this will cause a certain amount of inflation, with the influx of silver, the lives of domestic people will be getting better and better every day.

Who would have thought that in the Ming Dynasty today, every household could have a chicken in their pot. This was something that even more than ten years ago, I didn’t dare to think about.

At that time, the people were still not covered in their clothes and food. There were famines everywhere, plagues and bandits everywhere, and the whole world was in chaos, and everyone was fighting.

The lives of the people were really hard at that time, and only more than ten years have passed. Especially after Zhu Cilang became emperor in recent years, the Ming Dynasty even sang and danced to promote peace and prosperity.

The threat of Jiannu in the north has long disappeared, and a large number of Manchus have been moved to the pass. A large number of Han people have moved to Liaodong, which has long enabled the nation to achieve great integration. Now, in the Changbai Mountain area, there are few tribes and the like. Instead, they are prefectures, counties and counties.

All of this originated from Zhu Cilang's food reform.
Chapter completed!