Borrow the day to change the day

() On one side are infantry who have been marching for a long time, and they responded hastily.On the other side are the elite Ba Yala soldiers of Jianlu, who came prepared.Therefore, the two sides in this battle are not opponents of the same level at all, and the outcome is obvious.

Soon, the Ming army's infantry were wiped out, and the leading general surnamed Liu died in battle.Jianlu only injured a few people, a big victory.

But Jierharang and Abatai, the leaders of Jianlu, didn't look happy at all. The general surnamed Liu was not Liu Xingzuo who they deliberately came to arrest, but Liu Xingxian, Liu Xingzuo's younger brother.

After interrogating the captured captives, Jierhalang and Abate learned the specific situation.

Bai Yangcui was right, this team is Liu Xingzuo's team.Just because of Zhong Jinwei's butterfly effect, Liu Xingzuo rushed to the capital yesterday to report to Sun Chengzong.The infantry was handed over to Liu Xingxian, who went to Shanhaiguan to help defend.

In history, Liu Xingzuo was caught up and died in battle. Afterwards, his body was chopped into meat sauce by Huang Taiji to vent his hatred, and his brother Liu Xingxian was captured alive. Now history has changed their fate.

Jierhalang and Abatai were very helpless, Liu Xingzuo rode away, and it was not clear which way to go, so it was impossible to talk about chasing them again.

The two brought Liu Xingxian's body with them. After all, Liu Xingxian was also one of the fugitives back then, and he was also the younger brother of the mastermind Liu Xingzuo. He always had an explanation for Huang Taiji.

Jierhalang and Abatai returned dejectedly. In the capital of the Ming Dynasty, there was also a person who felt the same as them.This person is the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Jiming.

Cheng Jiming thought that he was also a person in the ups and downs of the officialdom. With years of official contacts, he won over various forces and became one of their leaders, and finally became the chief assistant as he wished.

Never, never, never, never forget that the factory guards have already come out to act.It's because of the good days in the past few years that I have lived comfortably, and I forgot how powerful the factory guard is.

More importantly, his own affairs may have something to do with the assassination of Uncle Zhongxing.Although the emperor didn't arrest him, he had already revealed his dislike for him.

Cheng Jiming fidgeted in his study, stood up simply, walked to the yard, and let the cold north wind blow him to clear his mind.

Baodinghou and Li Fengxiang, who assassinated Zhongxingbo, had been determined to be treason. Dongchang was in charge of the case and was imprisoned in Jinyiwei Imperial Prison.For the time being, those censors were only imprisoned in the Ministry of Criminal Justice for corruption. From this point of view, the emperor did not want to expand this matter.

Fortunately, I have a good habit and didn't collect the money in advance. These censors can deny even if they want to bite themselves.

Cheng Jiming was stimulated by the cold wind, his mind was no longer in a mess like before, and he slowly figured out the clues.

While looking at the sky subconsciously, he thought, he has already annoyed the emperor, in the future, in front of the emperor, if he contradicts the emperor's affairs again, violates the bottom line that the emperor can tolerate, he is afraid that he will be caught by the emperor if he makes a mistake Let it go, when the new account and the old account are calculated together, it will be dangerous.

Cheng Jiming thought about it, and his attention returned to reality, and he found that Dongri had reached the west and was about to fall soon.

Suddenly Cheng Jiming's heart moved, he was quite old, why bother to hang around in front of the emperor anymore.Although Shoufu is under one person and above ten thousand people, how can it compare with his own life.

Cheng Jiming made up his mind, and suddenly felt his whole body relaxed a lot. Facing the cold wind, he spread his arms and stretched his waist, as if he wanted to embrace the nature.Then he went back to his study to write his resignation.

The Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City was crowded with court ladies and eunuchs.There was a small space between them, and there stood six big Han generals in Jinyiwei, holding torture sticks, four of them pressed down on the man on the ground, and two stood holding sticks.

Wang Chengen was standing next to them, shouting in a high voice: "Whoever is like Wang Xuan, who is not strict with his mouth and dares to send news outside the palace, will be punished. Look carefully, and remember , our family doesn’t want to be imprisoned again.”

Although the Meridian Gate was full of people, there was no noise, only Wang Xuan begging for mercy on the ground.

Wang Chengen glanced at the eunuchs and maids with their heads down, and shouted dissatisfied: "Whatever you look at with your head down, look up, remember for a long time, it will be good for you."

After shouting, Wang Chengen gave the order to General Jin Yiwei: "Execution."

Wang Xuan's begging for mercy immediately turned into howling and screaming, his voice was loud and loud, and the eunuchs and maids at the Meridian Gate were terrified.

The screams slowly turned from high to low, and eventually they were no longer heard, but the sound of "poof, poof" from the torture stick was still spreading around.

After about a quarter of an hour, Wang Chengen called to stop, and then asked the eunuchs and maids to line up to circle around the two corpses on the ground before returning to the palace to work.

After dealing with the Meridian Gate matter, Wang Chengen went directly to the Wenhua Palace to hand it over to Emperor Chongzhen.Emperor Chongzhen listened, thought for a while, and said to Wang Cheng'en: "The secrecy system proposed by Wen Qing, there must also be a copy in the palace. You go back to deal with the affairs in the palace, and together with the servants and maids of the Supervisor of Rites, draw up a copy for me. have a look."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Cheng'en also agreed that all matters, regardless of their size, are forbidden, but it is easy to prohibit all of them.

"Go and send me Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. It's time to deal with the properties obtained from the house raids."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Chengen bowed out. Although he was the admiral of Dongchang, he was still the emperor's servant and had to do errands.

Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, heard that there was a silver collar, so he took three steps and two steps, and quickly came to see Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Bi Ziyan who looked at him expectantly after the salute, and couldn't help but feel a little funny, so he said to him: "Bi Qing, here is the list of properties that were confiscated from the former Marquis of Baoding and the admiral of the Beijing camp. Do you know how many there are?" ? The property equivalent is as much as 130 million taels of silver."

Emperor Chongzhen sighed after finishing speaking, the property of the two families accounted for one-third of the national treasury's annual taxes.

Looking at Emperor Chongzhen, Bi Ziyan was just sighing with emotion. He didn't see the next move, so he was anxious and urged: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

"Don't worry, I called you here because I intend to allocate these properties to your household department, and use them as military pay for Qin Wangjun and disaster relief money for the refugees in the capital."

"Thank you Your Majesty, this minister's hair can be a little less gray." Bi Ziyan was in a good mood and dared to joke with Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Bi Ziyan's hair protruding from the brim of his hat, which was basically gray, and couldn't help sighing: "I know Bi Qing's hard work."

Bi Ziyan looked at Emperor Chongzhen gratefully, not afraid of suffering, but afraid that his superiors would not understand.

"Bi Qing, you said that if I arrest more corrupt officials and confiscate more homes, will your hair turn back to black?" Emperor Chongzhen suddenly made a joke of Bi Ziyan.

"Ah, Your Majesty, don't do it. This road is not the right one. It's not a blessing for the Ming Dynasty to fear that all officials will be panicked and the government will be paralyzed." Bi Ziyan was startled when he heard this, and hurriedly persuaded him.

He knew the situation, and if Emperor Chongzhen really wanted to do this, there might not be many people standing in the court.In the troubled times of the country, if this kind of strong medicine is poured, unimaginable events will occur.

Emperor Chongzhen actually knew that he couldn't do this, he just confided the tempting wish in his heart.Looking down at the list of house raids on the imperial table, he suddenly raised his head and said to Bi Ziyan solemnly: "You have to use this money well, and put it to practical use. I will let the inspectorate and factory guards watch over it. Don't let me disappointed."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely keep an eye on the money and won't let anyone reach out for it." Bi Ziyan promised.

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, picked up a piece of paper on the imperial table, stood up, walked up to Bi Ziyan, looked at him and said, "Then I will give you the money, and you can go back to Dongchang to get the money." , I have already explained to Wang Chengen."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Bi Ziyan solemnly agreed, and then reached out to pick it up.Unexpectedly, Emperor Chongzhen would not let go, so he pulled a little bit harder, but still couldn't pull it off, so he raised his head and reminded: "Your Majesty."

Emperor Chongzhen let go of his hand reluctantly, and repeatedly urged: "Use it practically, Bi Qing."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty." Bi Ziyan promised while looking at the paper in hand.Suddenly he realized something was wrong, didn't he say that there were 1305 million taels of silver, so he raised his head and said to Emperor Chongzhen, "Your Majesty, why is there only 100 million taels?"

While talking, Bi Ziyan thought to himself: No way, your emperor will bleach it first.