Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 164 Four hundred and fifty million taels of silver

With the support of Wang Daoqiu, Eunuch Chen and Li Qian went down to work.And because all the local officials in Jinan went in, all the provincial officials in Shandong Province were slaughtered by the bandits.Wang Daoqiu had no choice but to take on the daily administration of Shandong Province and Jinan Prefecture. He was really one man against a certain big country with a tolerance of [-], Wang Shiwan.

After three busy days like this, the official letters from the court and the emperor's secret decrees all arrived at Wang Daoqiu.The imperial court authorized Wang Daoqiu to have full authority to judge whether local officials in Jinan and Qingzhou had taken advantage of chaos to embezzle the property of King De, King Heng, and local gentry.

The secret decree of Emperor Jiajing to Wang Daoqiu was to let Wang Daoqiu figure out the situation of the minerals in Yanzhou, Jinan, and Qingzhou as soon as possible.Where there are mines, they must not be sold, and they will be dealt with after the order is issued.

Emperor Jiajing's secret edict to Wang Daoqiu did not mention the secret investigation of the properties of the three vassal kings in Shandong outside Shandong.It seems that Emperor Jiajing still trusts the Chief of Ceremonies and the Jin Yiwei more about this kind of thing.

After receiving the order from the imperial court and Emperor Jiajing, Wang Daoqiu first went to Eunuch Chen and Li Qian to discuss things just in case.As soon as he saw the two people, Wang Daoqiu asked in a low voice: "How are those people doing? Is it okay to go to court?"

Wang Daoqiu's question was very vague, but both Eunuch Chen and Li Qianshi understood what Wang Daoqiu was asking.So it was Li Qianshi who came out to answer Wang Daoqiu: "Don't worry, sir. With the means of our Jin Yiwei and Chen Gonggong Dongchang, in the past three days, those people just want to die quickly. One of them just wants to be freed and die as soon as possible." What do we want them to do? How dare they say no? Besides, we promised them that as long as they follow our instructions in court and only say what they can say, we will spare their parents, wives and children. "

So that's it. Since he is a professional in handling cases and has many years of experience in deceiving people, Wang Daoqiu is relieved about this matter.So he said a few more polite words, and wanted to go back and be his Wang Shiwan again.

But just when Wang Daoqiu was about to leave, Eunuch Chen, who rarely spoke, said in his high-pitched duck voice: "Your Majesty, please stay. The Za family has something to say."

"Oh, what can my father-in-law teach me?"

"Ouch! Your Excellency, you have disgraced the Za family. How can you, your Excellency, be qualified to teach you, Your Excellency, if you are a scumbag in the Za family? Your Excellency, I will not say that again in the future. Otherwise, if Eunuch Lu and the Emperor hear it, I thought the Zajia were just showing off in front of you, Your Excellency, because they were members of the palace! If that were the case, the Emperor and Eunuch Lu had misunderstood, then the Emperor and Eunuch Lu wouldn’t have killed the Zajia with a cane! Shizhong! Mr. Zhongda, you really can't say that again in the future, the Za family only has one life."

As the eunuch serving Emperor Jiajing in the palace, Eunuch Chen knew very well what importance Wang Daoqiu had to Emperor Jiajing.That's why Wang Daoqiu spoke so respectfully to his Eunuch Chen. If Emperor Jiajing really misunderstood that it was Eunuch Chen who was taking advantage of his power and showing off in front of Wang Daoqiu, then Emperor Jiajing would most likely reward him with "one foot of red".

So now, when Wang Daoqiu spoke to him, using the honorific "teach me", this scared Eunuch Chen half to death, and he begged Wang Daoqiu not to talk to him in the future, his tone was so respectful.

Eunuch Chen looked nervous now, and Wang Daoqiu understood his fear of death.So Wang Daoqiu smiled awkwardly at Eunuch Chen, and then said in a very calm voice: "Every job has its own difficulties, and the things that need to be avoided are also different. The words he just said to Eunuch Chen , but I didn’t think about it. Well, I’ve written this down today, and I won’t embarrass you again, father-in-law.”

"Thank you, Your Excellency. Thank you, Your Excellency. Although you are the youngest, Your Excellency, you are the most considerate and considerate of others..."

"Okay, okay, father-in-law, for more than a month, we have been working hard together on this Shandong matter. Although we don't talk much usually, I, Wang Liangzhen, think from the bottom of my heart that your father-in-law Chen is a friend. Since we are friends, then Those polite words between friends seem to be out of touch. By the way, father-in-law, you stopped me just now, is there something wrong? "

Wang Daoqiu's style of dealing with people was not like that of the great masters of this era or the trash of later generations who thought they were individuals.When he usually talks to people, he always puts others on an equal footing with himself. This is reflected deep in his soul.

Therefore, as long as they have dealt with Wang Daoqiu, as long as that person is not the trash that Wang Daoqiu hates, they can feel Wang Daoqiu's respect for them from Wang Daoqiu.

Eunuch Chen is a eunuch who serves the emperor. He can observe words and emotions and figure out other people's thoughts. This is a survival skill that their eunuchs must know.As for Eunuch Chen, he can be among the eunuchs and can represent the inner court's control. Naturally, he is very strong in observing words and emotions.

So Eunuch Chen has spent more than a month with Wang Daoqiu, and he has discovered that although Wang Daoqiu is a young man, he is in a high position.But Wang Daoqiu didn't have those youthful arrogance at all. He respected everyone around him from the bottom of his heart, and he didn't look down on anyone at all, including his Eunuch Chen.Therefore, although Eunuch Chen didn't talk much to Wang Daoqiu at that time, as the most respected eunuch, Eunuch Chen had a good impression of Wang Daoqiu's respect for others.Now when he heard that Wang Daoqiu regarded him as a friend, Eunuch Chen was even more moved at this time, and he had an inexplicable feeling towards Wang Daoqiu that a scholar would die for someone who knew him.

Of course, as a chamberlain in the palace, Eunuch Chen's master is Emperor Jiajing, so he cannot show that he wants to serve Wang Daoqiu.So now when facing Wang Daoqiu and saying that he should be regarded as a friend, Eunuch Chen automatically skipped it and changed the subject to talk about business with Wang Daoqiu.

Eunuch Chen said: "Your Excellency, just like you, the Zajia family has just received a secret order from the palace today, asking the Zajia family to fully cooperate with the Jin Yiwei to complete the errands here. At the same time, the palace also explained that this time Your Excellency Shizhong has made great contributions to your hard work. The merchants in Shandong and Zhejiang will reward you, Your Excellency. There are also acres of farmland in Zhejiang. If Your Excellency is interested, Your Excellency Shizhong can buy it at half the price. Of course, you can buy it at half price. The emperor also knows these things, and it is not convenient for you, my lord, to come forward on your own. Therefore, the emperor has told you that these matters can be covered up for you by the eunuchs of the inner court, the eunuchs guarding Hangzhou, and Jiangnan weaving, in cooperation with your lord, Lao Taishan, the richest man in Zhejiang."

Damn it!Emperor Jiajing was really willing to reward him. At this moment, he rewarded the three kings of Shandong, King Lu, King De, and King Heng, with all their secret properties in Zhejiang!

Thinking of Emperor Jiajing's generosity, Wang Daoqiu couldn't help but think of that eternal Mingjun Chongzhen. That guy's stinginess and meanness to his employees were really enough!

I remember when Li Zicheng led the bandits to the city walls of Beijing, Chongzhen called for help everywhere.He asked Wu Sangui from Shanhaiguan to save his life, but only sent a eunuch with a bullshit imperial edict.Chongzhen was so talented, but he only had a bullshit imperial edict and no military expenditures at all. He didn't even think about how without military expenditures, how could Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of troops march out?When the three armies finally move, food and grass go first. Do you understand Chongzhen?The emperor has no shortage of hungry soldiers. Do you understand Zou Zhen?

What's funny is that later Li Zicheng asked someone to take the 4 taels of silver stolen from Chongzhen to recruit Wu Sangui.If the man Wu Sangui hadn’t heard that the thieves had harmed his father Wu Xiang and his wife Chen Yuanyuan along the way, his masculine self-esteem had been seriously injured, wouldn’t Wu Sangui bring his soldiers to Beijing to surrender?
Therefore, it can be seen from what happened later that it was not that Wu Sangui at that time did not want to help Chongzhen, but that Chongzhen wanted money rather than his own life, begged for help, and asked people to pay for their travel expenses.Really economical.

In addition to Wu Sangui, Liu Zeqing, the commander-in-chief of Shandong at that time, also received the imperial edict for help from Chongzhen.Liu Zeqing was better at playing. He told Chongzhen that he had fallen while riding a horse and was injured and would not be able to travel far.At that time, Chongzhen was also funny. After hearing that Liu Zeqing was injured, he sent the eunuch to send Liu Zeqing 40 taels of soup and medicine, and asked Liu Zeqing to come quickly.

Then Liu Zeqing argued again and again that his injury was not healed, while Chongzhen asked the eunuch again and again to give him three to forty taels of medicine.Damn, from this incident, everyone can see how stingy Chongzhen is and his extremely worrying IQ.

He didn't even think about Chongzhen. At that time, Liu Zeqing was a warlord with tens of thousands of soldiers and occupied a territory in Shandong Province. How could he like Chongzhen's dozens of taels of silver each time?
They have shied away time and time again, neither agreeing nor rejecting. What they are waiting for is not the dozens of taels of silver from you Chongzhen, but the money they are waiting for you Chongzhen to pay a big price for your own life and the fortune of your old Zhu family.

Chongzhen didn't understand this little skill of getting along with others.At the time of life and death, he still wanted to spend a small amount of money to accomplish big things. If you say that he Chongzhen will not perish the country, is that still justified?
So later when Li Zicheng entered the Forbidden City, facing the emperor's treasury full of gold and silver, he thought that Emperor Chongzhen only rewarded Tang Tong, the only soldier in Jizhou who came to rescue him, with 40 taels of silver, and let Tang Tong's eight thousand men share 4000 taels of silver. Two pieces of silver were rewarded, and a soldier received half a piece of silver.

We came thousands of miles to save your emperor's life, but you only rewarded us with half a tael of silver. We think you are the emperor, but what do you think we are?In your eyes, Chongzhen, the lives of our soldiers are only worth half a tael of silver?
Chongzhen's reward of silver is really inhumane.Therefore, it completely chilled the hearts of the eight thousand Jizhou reinforcements, prompting these eight thousand Jizhou reinforcements who originally came to rescue Chongzhen to defect to Li Zicheng in anger.So when Li Zicheng faced Chongzhen's mountain of private money, he left his eternal sigh: It is unreasonable for such a man to prevent Chongzhen from subjugating his country!
Emperor Chongzhen can be said to be the ceiling of stinginess among Chinese emperors, so in the end he reaped the consequences, watching those thieves rob him of the gold and silver he had accumulated over more than ten years, despite the criticism of thousands of people in the world.His love for money couldn't stand it anymore, so he finally hung himself up on the crooked tree.

Chongzhen deserved to lose his country, and meeting such a monarch can be regarded as my Han family being punished by heaven.Thinking about the catastrophe of my Han family in later generations, Wang Daoqiu's heart was suddenly clouded, and he completely lost the joy of getting a batch of windfall.

The next day, Wang Daoqiu sent a letter to his father-in-law, Shen Yishi, to bring the Shen family fleet to Jinan for this national fund that would enable him to achieve great things in the future.Then he waited for Shen Yishi to arrive, and asked Shen Yishi to take the tens of thousands of antique calligraphy and paintings he had collected this time to Hangzhou. He also ordered Shen Yishi to cooperate with the Supervisor of Rites, Hangzhou Guarding Eunuch, and Jiangnan Weaving, to bring King Lu to Hangzhou. The secret properties of King Heng, King De and King Heng in Zhejiang were all transferred to the name of the Shen family.

After finishing the affairs in Zhejiang, Wang Daoqiu gave Wang Shiwan's job to the administrative officials who had been transferred by the court in the past few days, and he went to pretend to be a geological expert.

And when Wang Daoqiu was prospecting for minerals all over the world in Qingzhou, Jinan, and Yanzhou, the Supervisory Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the people from the Ministry of Household Affairs also put the two kings, King De of Jinan and King Heng of Qingzhou, before the incident. The amount of cultivated land occupied in their respective fiefdoms was confirmed, and the final price was 5000 million taels of silver based on the local land price.

(End of this chapter)