Just as Yang Yiqing and Zhang Yong went to the palace to report to Emperor Zhengde to the quelling of the rebellion of King Anhua, Liu Zhong left Yang Tinghe's mansion and began to summon the Qingliu ministers everywhere.

The eunuch Zhang Yong, as the original plan, also took advantage of the opportunity to offer prisoners to accuse Emperor Zhengde of Liu Jin of his crimes...

"Haha, Zhang Baobao, Liu Baobao told me about this before. He said, you want to frame him for rebellion." Zhengde looked at Zhang Yong kneeling on the ground with a smile. Zhengde still favored Liu Jin and Zhang Yong and other eunuchs who grew up with him. Moreover, there were conflicts between the Eight Tigers, and Zhengde would even personally help to talk to him.

After receiving Gu Dayong's secret letter, Zhang Yong was not in a hurry and did not talk about Liu Jin's rebellion. He only saw him wonderingly:

"Your Majesty, how could I frame others for rebellion? However, Lao Liu did too much this time and has caused public anger!"

"What a tremendous public anger?" Emperor Zhengde didn't care, just thought it was listened to the story.

"Does Your Majesty know what the banner of King Anhua's rebellion this time?"

"I know, 'kill Liu Jin'. Didn't the Han Dynasty's 'Seven Kings Rebellion' also use the banner of 'killing Chao Cuo'? But facts prove that Chao Cuo is innocent."

"But after an investigation in Ningyixia Town, I found that this matter was indeed related to Lao Liu. After investigation, I found that Zhou Dongdu, the Shaoqing of Dali who was responsible for farming in Ningyixia Town, exploited the people and military households in the local area in order to bribe Lao Liu, which made the local military and civilians extremely angry."

"When King Anhua saw that the local people and military households were extremely angry, he became interested in rebelling. According to what he thought, the people hated Liu Jin so much that they called out, and they should respond in groups. However, the border general Qiu Yue was both wise and brave. He first pretended to surrender to King Anhua, and then took the opportunity to seize the military power. After that, he personally led more than a hundred heroes to attack the Anhua Palace, captured King Anhua himself, and caused the thief army to collapse..."

"Okay! This Qiu Yue is a talent! Alas, no, remember the battle report said that it was Cao Xiong, deputy general of Yansui, who led people to suppress the rebellion?"

Previously, in order to promote Cao Xiong, Liu Jin deliberately attributed Qiu Yue's contribution to the head of Deputy General Cao Xiong of Yansui. Cao Xiong was a relative of Liu Jin's boss Cao Yuan...

Zhang Yong said speechlessly:

"After sending someone to investigate this matter, how dare I deceive the emperor in person? Moreover, Cao Xiong is a descendant of Master Cao, and Master Cao has always followed Lao Liu as his leader..."

"This..." Zhengde was speechless. Damn, it's too worthless to occupy other people's credit. Moreover, he completely embezzled other people's credit, and he didn't even leave any soup for others.

Zhang Yong carefully observed Zhengde's expression and knew that Zhengde had not been murderous to Liu Jin, so he sighed and said:

"Your Majesty, the rebellion of King Anhua was because Lao Liu's followers had too much exploited the local military and civilians, so that King Anhua saw the opportunity..."

"Please say something else. Old Liu did a good job. Look at the 'meal fine' he made, didn't it stop the deficit of the imperial warehousing?" Zhengde still didn't want to attack Liu Jin.

Zhang Yong said again:

"Your Majesty, I also think that the 'rice fine' is a good idea. However, I heard that the rice and grain that was fined by the 'rice fine' was not all put into the warehouse..."

"Don't all of them have been put into the warehouse? That means Lao Liu is greedy? Isn't this strange? Who is not greedy for money?" Zhengde said indifferently.

"But, I heard that Lao Liu took most of the confiscated rice and grain back home, and the ones who were put into the warehouse were only a fraction..."

"What? Is there such a thing?" Emperor Zhengde was shocked.

This is not a trivial matter. Greedy is nothing to be put into the warehouse. But generally speaking, it is at most a small part of the money and food. However, it would be too bad to leave most of them to only a small part of the treasury. At this time, Zhengde had already planned to teach Liu Jin some lessons. But it was just a lesson, not a complete defeat.

When Zhang Yong saw that there was a chance, he continued to add more to the fire:

"Your Majesty, I heard that the money in Lao Liu's mansion, the national treasury and the inner treasury are far less than that."

"Oh? How much money does Lao Liu have? It can be more than the national treasury?" Zhengde just turned 18 and had never handled government affairs alone before, so he was not very clear about many things.

Zhang Yong looked around and whispered:

"According to several of our estimates, the money in Lao Liu's family is estimated to be more than 50 million taels of silver..."

"What?" Zhengde stood up in fear. Even though he didn't like to deal with government affairs, Zhengde still often reviewed memorials. The annual fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty, including rice and grain, was only worth 10 to 20 million taels of silver.

However, most of the rice and grain are placed in the official warehouses of each county and are not allowed to be imprisoned. Therefore, the money and grain that really enters the national treasury every year is only worth several million taels.

Moreover, because the Zhengde Dynasty's military expenditure was huge, it was good that the court could ensure a balance between income and expenditure, and it was difficult to have any surplus at all. Therefore, it was amazing that Liu Jin had a wealth of more than 50 million taels. Strictly speaking, even Emperor Zhengde was a little jealous and jealous at this moment.

"Be serious?" Emperor Zhengde still didn't believe that Liu Jin had so much money. In his opinion, it would be great that eunuchs could embezzle hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. He knew that even those people bribed eunuchs, they would just stuff some broken silver. And 50 million taels of silver could scare people to death. But he didn't know that people bribed Liu Jin in cars to pack silver, not stuff some broken silver...

Those civil servants may not have estimated how much money Old Liu has, but can the eunuchs who are also "Eight Tigers" still not know? These eunuchs are the most sensitive to money. These people are also the most concerned about how much money Liu Jin collected. Therefore, although Zhang Yong said that the number is relatively small, it is not too much different.

...

But Zhengde just started to hesitate, but still didn't make up his mind to touch Liu Jin...

Until the next morning, the morning gate was full of ministers...

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "What's going on? What do these people want to do?" Zhengde woke up and was confused. He didn't have morning court today, so he got up late. However, as soon as he woke up, he heard that the palace gate was full of ministers...

"Emperor, it is said that these ministers are here to ask you to eradicate Lao Liu." Gu Dayong, who served Zhengde today, took the opportunity to speak out.

"Why do they want to eradicate Lao Liu?"

Gu Dayong said:

"It seems that Lao Liu has caused resentment in the world, and people are in trouble, and they have rebelled and so on... Moreover, it is said that some people also say that Lao Liu has the intention to rebel..."

"Hmph, this is the other way, who is the one who takes the lead?" Zhengde was a little annoyed. Naughty kids disliked someone to coerce him the most, and they had a strong rebellious mentality.

"It seems to be Liu Zhong and Liu..."

"This Liu Zhong is so old and confused. Do you really think I'm easy to bully me? Old Liu told me that someone wanted to frame him this time, but unexpectedly, someone really jumped out!" Zhengde said hatefully while having breakfast.

At this time, another eunuch Ma Yongcheng couldn't help but interrupt:

"Since that's the case, it's better for Your Majesty to send someone to Lao Liu's mansion to search. If there is no evidence of rebellion, it would be better to clear Lao Liu's innocence."

"This..." Zhengde hesitated a little.

And Zhang Yong, who was also standing aside, also added:

"Your Majesty, I am very curious. How much is the 50 million taels of silver? Will the whole room be filled with silver..."

Zhang Yong's reason made Zhengde very moved. In fact, he also wanted to know whether Liu Jin had so much money, so it would be good to open his eyes...
Chapter completed!