Senior officials in the ministry usually do not face the emperor directly when encountering an emergency. They usually inform the cabinet in advance and determine the basic solution before they meet with the emperor.

But now, Guo Yunhou has obviously encountered an urgent matter, so he didn't bother to go to the cabinet to discuss with Wei Guangwei, and came directly to Zhu Youxiao to report the matter.

"Your Majesty, the grain prices in the capital have soared. Many rice shops have just opened in the morning and snatched them in less than an hour. Then when they opened in the afternoon, they have increased by four or five times. Moreover, many people have no rice to buy, and even some poor imperial officials have no rice to cook for several periods. If this continues, they will be in chaos!"

Guo Yunhou's words reminded Zhu Youxiao of the incident reported by Wang Chengen a few days ago that the Fan family, one of the eight Shanxi merchants, purchased a large amount of grain from Huguang and Jingji and took the opportunity to hoard goods.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao had learned from Sun Zhixie that one of the main envoys of the assassination this time Zhang Yong was the power of the eight major Shanxi merchants. In addition, those Tartars also sneaked into the capital with the help of the eight major Shanxi merchants.

In this way, these eight major Shanxi merchants and the Donglin Party have long been colluded together. In addition to the Qing Dynasty, what they are facing now is not three separate hostile forces, but three forces that are united.

However, because Nurhaci had just passed away and Huang Taiji ascended the throne, his internal struggle was not over, and he had no time to organize a large-scale military force to move south at this time.

The main officials of the seven border towns closely related to the eight Shanxi merchants have been assigned by themselves and have formed an encirclement of these eight Shanxi merchants.

Since the second year of the Tianqi period, the Donglin Party has been attacked by the eunuch party for many years. Although its power cannot be underestimated, it cannot cause much trouble.

Since this is the case, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but clench his fists: "Since I want to take my life and country, then I will take your property and life first!"

As soon as Zhu Youxiao said this, Wang Chengen suddenly walked in and handed a memorial and said, "Your Majesty, Hou Xun, the chief minister of the Criminal Department, made a memorial. The memorial was to let Your Majesty release the Shanxi merchants from the Qingshan Guild Hall that were sent to the East Factory to arrest not long ago. According to Hou Xun, these Shanxi merchants are grain merchants. If they don't let them go, there will be a grain shortage in the capital."

"I just captured them, and these Shanxi merchants couldn't sit still and threaten me. OK, very good!"

Zhu Youxiao said that, then turned around and asked Wang Chengen: "Is it okay for everyone to be sent? When will I take action?"

"All arranged" Wang Chengen replied.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Okay, let me tell Guo Aiqing a few days later, the food shortage in the capital will be completely resolved."

"One day", Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youxiao and said this to Guo Yunhou.

"one day?"

Guo Yunhou couldn't believe Wang Chengen's words and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, now I'm afraid I can only discuss with those big grain sellers such as Shanxi merchants, but even so, it cannot be solved in one day."

"Hmph, let's discuss with them. This is what you said as a second-rank minister of the Shang Dynasty. Why didn't they come to discuss with me when they were plotting to murder me?"

Zhu Youxiao was a little angry. Many of these imperial officials had more or less relationships with Shanxi merchants. For example, Guo Yunhou and former chief minister Han Du were friends of the same year. Because of this, Guo Yunhou, as the Minister of Revenue, knew that the grain was in the hands of Shanxi merchants, but what he thought of was not to attack these unscrupulous merchants in the name of the court, but to discuss with these Shanxi merchants.

"Your Majesty is such a bad word. Your Majesty is a body of thousands of gold. Who dares to murder Your Majesty? Those merchants just like to make some money and have no roots to harm the country."

It would be fine if Guo Yunhou didn't say this. As soon as he said this, Zhu Youxiao pointed at Guo Yunhou angrily and shouted: "It's your turn to teach me a lesson too? Are you the court officials who grew up carrying the Four Books and Five Classics still in their eyes? Are there any people in the world? Now they have been talking to those profiteers!"

"Your Majesty, please spare me!"

When Guo Yunhou saw Zhu Youxiao suddenly furious, he was so scared that he hurriedly fell to the ground.

Zhu Youxiao snorted coldly, asked Guo Yunhou to get up, then fined Guo Yunhou for half a year's salary, and demoted him to the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue for temporary management of the Ministry of Revenue.

Guo Yunhou, who felt like he had been walking outside the gates of hell, was so scared that he was sweating profusely and did not dare to say another word, fearing that he would annoy the emperor again by accident.

"I used to think that these Donglin Party and the Shanxi merchants sometimes did not agree with me, but they were all subjects of the Ming Dynasty and were all for the country and country. Therefore, I adopted the policy of mercy. First, a large number of dismissed officials were activated and rebelled for them. However, I did not expect that these rioters and thieves would not die, and they colluded with the Qing Tartars to harm me. The so-called emperor was angry and buried in millions of corpses. Since this is the case, I will let them taste my iron-blooded blade!"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be angry. After becoming emperor, he was killed several times in a row. No one could ignore him and just tolerate him, unless that person was born a coward!

"Wang Cheng'en!"

"I'm here!"

"Catch it now! If there are any resistance, you can kill it on the spot. The Hou Xun, the chief clerk who helped the eight major Shanxi merchants threaten me, was also sent to the imperial prison for the imperial prison and punished the Donglin rioters!"

Zhu Youxiao gave an order.

Wang Chengen immediately retreated without saying a word. Suddenly, the crazy revenge of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of Ming Dynasty began to take place.

...

Fan Yongdou, a great Shanxi merchant who didn't know that his actions had annoyed the emperor, was chatting and laughing in the private room of the first restaurant in the capital, and said proudly:

"Brother Han doesn't know that although Fan is just a lifelong member, he also knows a lot of dignitaries in the court. Now the person in the Forbidden City is still played with by me in the applause. In less than three days, there must be a court official coming to me. At that time, he will sell it to the court at a price higher than 30% of this time. The child of Zhu Youxiao will not only give me a reward of silver, but may also give me a bonus, because I helped him solve a big crisis. However, Fan doesn't care about these things, I only care about silver."

As he said that, Fan Yongdou laughed and asked Han Kui: "Your master's comeback is a matter of good news."

Han Kui sighed and whispered in Fan Yongdou's ear: "I thought that Your Majesty is going to re-activate the Donglin Party, but I didn't know that it was just a matter of going through the motions and blinding the scholars of the world. Moreover, my master had a deep friendship with King Xin at the beginning, and he did a few things that were sorry for Your Majesty today. People from the Dongchang are investigating. Now I am here in Beijing to come to all parties to handle the matters of restoration, and the second is to find a way to find out if the matter was exposed."

Fan Yongdou nodded. He also participated in the murder of Zhu Youxiao and his Fan family and the Han family were family friends, so Han Kui dared to tell him these things.

But when Han Kui said this, he was also a little worried, but when he thought that the lifeblood of the court was in his hands, he felt a lot more relieved.

However, at this moment, a few screams came from outside the house, followed by a stream of blood splattering on the window, which scared Fan Yongdou and Han Kui immediately stood up.
Chapter completed!