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Chapter 15 Go to Jiangnan, where the Donglin Party's nest

Looking at the Forbidden City that has existed for more than two hundred years, Zhu Youxiao never thought that this place would become his home.

Here are my own queens, my own concubines, countless palace maids and eunuchs who serve me, as well as civil and military officials who wear birds and animals, as well as countless people and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

However, if the development of history has not changed, the owner here will become Aisin Gioro in 17 years.

These red walls and green tiles are just braids and boards.

Kang Mazi would ascend the throne here, and Qianlong, who wrote countless poems but the worst, would use a book called Siku to destroy the accumulation of civilization in China for thousands of years.

Countless houses and fields near the Gyeonggi will be occupied by the Eight Banners, and tens of millions of people will be massacred. The blood-stained earth is probably as bright as the sunset at this moment.

"Will I become the king of the country like Chongzhen?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help asking himself.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor, walked in: "Your Majesty."

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao sat back on the dragon throne and listened to Wei Zhongxian's report.

After Wang An, the eunuch in charge of the seal of the Sili Supervisor, was removed by Zhu Youxiao for colluding with the Donglin Party, Wang Tigan became the seal of the Sili Supervisor.

However, Wang Tigan was old and weak, so the Sili Supervisor was represented by the Sili Supervisor and the Admiral Wei Zhongxian.

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian is responsible for reporting on major events in the court.

Fortunately, Wei Zhongxian has a strong memory and is good at grasping the lifeline of problems. Zhu Youxiao is also very easy to use.

If it weren't for winning the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, Zhu Youxiao really didn't want him to leave Silijian.

"These are several important notes today. Zheng Sanjun's family's property in Huizhou has been seized, with a total of more than 780,000 taels of silver. Except for 200,000 left in the Nanjing Governor's garrison, all of them have been escorted to Beijing. In addition, 300 gluts of land were collected, except for 100 mu of land left for his mother to support him, according to your Majesty, you have been included in the royal village. 10,000 households have been recruited for farming, and the rented land price is 50% lower than that of the private land."

"In addition, since King Xin joined the vassal, he sang and sang every night, visited prostitutes and invited favors, and he became completely different. In addition, the ministers of the Liaodong governor Wang came to report that the weather was getting cooler, and the Liaodong military and civilians urgently needed something to spend the winter. They specially asked the court to allocate 800,000 taels of silver."

After Wei Zhongxian made a reply, he handed the note to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "It's great, but why does Liaodong still burn so much money? I finally got hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and had to use it in Liaodong. Then I raised a traitor and warlord like Wu Sangui."

Wei Zhongxian didn't understand what Zhu Youxiao was talking about, and he didn't know who Wu Sangui was now, so he could only smile.

"By the way, is there any comments about you?"

After hearing Zhu Youjian's question, Wei Zhongxian's heart was already thumping. At this moment, he was like a sentenced prisoner and handed Zhu Youxiao the memorial to impeach Li Mingrui to him.

It seemed as if Wei Zhongxian was giving Zhu Youxiao a butcher knife and asked him to kill him.

Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything, took the note and looked at it, and then couldn't help laughing, because there was only one crime in Wei Zhongxian impeached by Li Mingrui, that is, since Wei Zhongxian entered the Silijian, he became more and more arrogant and tried to restore his reproductive function. I don't know who believed, but he actually accepted the hearts of boys and girls in the world. It was really tragic!

In fact, this is just a plot in Journey to the West. Zhu Youxiao did not expect that Li Mingrui used this to impeach Wei Zhongxian, and this also completely met the requirement that the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian was committed a serious crime but not a crime of treason.

"Wei Zhongxian, do you know your guilt?" Zhu Youxiao asked coldly.

Wei Zhongxian knelt down in a hurry: "I confess my guilt, but I deserve to die. Please punish you for your death!"

"Get up," Zhu Youxiao said and stood up: "The situation is forcing me to comfort those hypocrites of the Donglin Party. Otherwise, I am afraid that the next Zheng Sanjun will appear again, so I have to abandon you."

"I know that civil servants have never tolerated us. Your Majesty has been able to favor me until now. I am already satisfied. I ask Your Majesty to leave me a complete body!" As he said that, Wei Zhongxian couldn't help crying.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel moved and advised:

"I don't mean to kill you. Wouldn't that make your relatives hurt your enemies? Since the Donglin Party members can't tolerate you, I will disgust them again. I will let you go to Nanjing and go to the Donglin Party's nest outside the court to fight them!

There, I will give you three tasks: one is to make friends with a large number of scholars, especially poor scholars, to compete with the Donglin Party; the second is to open a newspaper and publish publications to take away the public opinion advantages of the Donglin Party members in Jiangnan! The third is to continue to secretly monitor the Xinwang and the Donglin Party members, and once they have close contacts, report to me at any time!”

"His Majesty!"

Knowing that Your Majesty would not kill him, Wei Zhongxian was so grateful that he burst into tears and hurriedly kowtowed on the floor.

You know, he has already made the right to become the second Liu Jin, while Zhu Youxiao is the second Zhu Houzhao. In order to compromise with the civil servants, he had to cut him into pieces.

But Wei Zhongxian did not expect that his Majesty had no intention of compromising with the civil servants at all. It was just a more sophisticated emperor's mind.

"Get up, this is the Ming Dynasty, not the Great Qing Kingdom with wild boar skin. There are no slaves here, nor the reason for kneeling down and kowtowing at any time. Even eunuchs can't do it!"

Zhu Youxiao personally helped Wei Zhongxian up: "After going to Nanjing, when I fulfilled my instructions, I will also hand over my imperial village in the south to you, allowing you to do business and buy land."

"Your Majesty, please rest assured. I understand your Majesty's meaning. Jiangnan is the world of the Donglin Party, and the imperial court has always been difficult to control it. Now it is just right. Even if I fight hard, I will snatch Jiangnan's wealth and people's hearts from the Donglin Party to your Majesty!"

"Go, you came from the Nei Shutang. You are not inferior to those civil servants in terms of talent and virtue. I believe you, Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and I will ask them to help you. However, before leaving, who will be the admiral of the East Factory, and what advice do you have?"

Zhu Youxiao asked.

Wei Zhongxian said: "Wang Chengen, the young supervisor of Shangyi, is loyal and intelligent and studious. The gentlemen in Nei Shutang praised him as the top scholar if he was profession."

"Wang Cheng'en?"

Zhu Youxiao naturally knew that Wang Chengen was the eunuch who accompanied Chongzhen and Zhu Youjian to hang Meishan together, but he did not expect that this loyal and wise eunuch had been in the Forbidden City all the time.

"It's so good, you go down first."

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian stepped back and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, but soon a small yellow gate chased after him: "Eunuch Wei stayed, Your Majesty asked me to give you these books. There are all strategies on how to deal with the Donglin Party members in Jiangnan. Your Majesty asked Eunuch Wei to read them carefully."

"Transfer to Your Majesty for me, I will definitely fulfill my mission!"
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