"My son wants to say, please ask the emperor to rehabilitate Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong." Zhu Cilang raised his head and looked firm.

Emperor Chongzhen was so angry that his whole body was trembling. He pointed at Zhu Cilang tremblingly: "You, you, you are rebellious, you, you are unfilial!"

Why did Chongzhen's reaction so great that he could rehabilitate Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong? In any case, Emperor Chongzhen could not accept it. The silver mine case had not been settled yet, and now all the eyes of the court were staring at the silver mine case.

There are thousands of officials involved in the case. It can be said that this is the case second only to Hu Weiyong Lanyu since Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty, and even has a wider radiation.

The Jinyiwei almost made a series of rounds of things, scouting the houses, exterminated the clans, and countless heads fell to the ground. All officials were shocked by the emperor's thunderous means, and the government system was almost at the verge of collapse.

Too many officials arrested and too many officials killed. This has caused unstable court situations and fears overwhelmed the entire capital. The civil and military officials even had to pray at home before going to court. Some even went to court after giving some funerals.

The consequence of everyone's own danger is that the entire government system is at risk of collapse. If there is another external and internal trouble at this time, just a slight push will make the entire Ming Dynasty look like a domino.

It was not that Emperor Chongzhen did not understand this truth, but this time he was determined to fight corruption. Just officials from Henan were almost gone.

Its unprecedented strength has never happened. Even among the people, rumors that Zhu Youjian was a tyrant have begun to spread.

What an emperor is most afraid of is that his reputation will be defiled. If he has been deviled for thousands of years and is praised as a foolish emperor by later generations, he will be doomed.

But Chongzhen knew what to do and what not to do. This time, his travel in a veil opened his eyes. Although he really understood the sufferings of the people, at least, Chongzhen was no longer the ignorant emperor in the deep palace.

When investigating a case, the most feared thing is that it involves a lot of people. No emperor is willing to do this, which will shake the foundation of the country.

For example, when Emperor Chongzhen overthrew Wei Zhongxian, he did a very beautiful job. At the beginning, he did not get involved.

At the beginning, the entire government was controlled by Wei Zhongxian, and all officials in the court were his members. Those who did not obey Wei Zhongxian would either be dismissed from office or were killed directly.

Emperor Chongzhen only punished the evil people and did not involve much. This was a very beautiful thing for him who had just ascended the throne.

At the beginning, Emperor Chongzhen did show the potential that a wise monarch should have. Even Zhu Cilang may not have done better than him.

However, a series of things later became uncontrollable. The demise of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be because the country was destroyed, and it was like the sky was about to destroy my Ming Dynasty.

Corruption of the administration, frequent natural disasters, bandits everywhere, and Jiannu's attack on the gates. This also added some coincidences, which led to an irreversible situation.

This forced Emperor Chongzhen to issue a self-criticism several times, but it was still useless. It was already good that Chongzhen was not driven crazy.

Of course, this cannot be said that Emperor Chongzhen is really a wise ruler. Like Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, Emperor Chongzhen was just an unlucky person in the end-of-life dynasty.

Among the many feudal dynasties, the Ming Dynasty can really be regarded as an alternative. Although it is not as good as the Qin, Han, and prosperous Tang Dynasty, it can be called the most backbone dynasty. We know that although the strong Qin Dynasty is strong, it also cedes land and pays compensation during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Although the Han Dynasty was mighty, it also pursued a policy of marriage to the Huns. Even the Tang Dynasty, which was prosperous later, had humiliated marriages with ethnic minorities many times.

It is said that Chongzhen gave Wei Zhongxian a warning the day after he succeeded to the throne, and Wei Zhongxian was very scared at that time.

To put it bluntly, the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty were different from those in the late Tang Dynasty. In fact, although Wei Zhongxian had great power, he did not have any real power in his hands.

Although Wei Zhongxian is arrogant, he actually does not really hold power. He has been using his power to rely on others and relying on his power, relying on the emperor like a parasite.

In fact, the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty wiped the emperor's butt. Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao was incompetent, so naturally the government was controlled by Wei Zhongxian.

However, once the emperor and his ministers came to power, they would naturally re-cultivate their confidants, and Wei Zhongxian would naturally be not far from his doomsday.

Is Wei Zhongxian really useless? In fact, it may not be the case. When Wei Zhongxian was in power, everyone hated him to the core and imposed heavy taxes among the people. However, there was a strange phenomenon, during this period, there was a famous Ningjin defense line, from Jinzhou to Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan.

This line of defense was established by Sun Chengzong, a famous general promoted by Wei Zhongxian. At that time, the Later Jin Dynasty, Nurhaci of the Qing Dynasty, could not be penetrated no matter how he fought, because Shanhaiguan was very strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Jinzhou also leaned against the coastline, so no matter how Nurhaci sieges, as long as the sea transportation and supplies were guaranteed to be normal, Jinzhou could not conquer it.

All military pay and food pay on Ningjin defense line were provided to Sun Chengzong continuously by Wei Zhongxian, including the cost of casting the red-clothed cannon, which was also provided to them without hesitation by Wei Zhongxian.

In fact, whether it is the East China Factory or the Jinyiwei, although it is powerful, it is just the emperor's vassals. They can easily become the emperor's scapegoats.

However, in the hands of Wei Zhongxian, the Ming Dynasty did not have much turmoil. Emperor Chongzhen was right to come to power to kill Wei Zhongxian. The only mistake was that he did not allocate his own power to deal with the Donglin Party.

After Emperor Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian and eliminated the eunuch party, he should quickly support the Jinyiwei or rebuild the East-West Factory. In this way, the Donglin Party and the eunuch party will balance each other, thereby achieving the goal of mutual restraint. Only then can the imperial power be consolidated.

But Emperor Chongzhen believed in these civil officials so much that he became the dominant member of the Donglin Party after he cut off his arms. When civil officials were loyal, they did have the character of literati. When civil officials were in trouble with the country, they were also crazy.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had already expanded the case of dealing with the private mining of silver mines. Countless court officials were implicated, and countless people were imprisoned for this.

Even those evil people were implicated in the nine clans. Punishing the nine clans was an extremely cruel punishment. No emperor in history easily used the serious crimes of implicating the nine clans. After all, he did not want to lose his reputation as a tyrant.

Except for Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di, his country was originally taken away by usurping the throne. Therefore, when he killed Fang Xiaoru's ten clans, he was not ruthless. Because Zhu Di was not afraid of being scolded by later generations, he would not bite people if there were too many lice.
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