My father is Chongzhen? Then I have no choice but to rebel.

Chapter 37 Even if the Zhu family is finished, the Donglin Party can still control the world!

Thinking of this, Zhou Yanru quickly regained his composure and asked:

"whats the matter?"

Zhang Sizhi thought for a moment, then said:

"First of all, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of War came to me and said that because of the issue of nobles receiving unpaid salaries, they wanted to check the accounts of the Beijing Camp and the Five Military Commandery."

"What they didn't expect was that they couldn't enter the Beijing Camp and the Five Military Commandery at all."

"The guard at the gate said that both Xinjianbo and Xiangchengbo were ill, so they were not seeing any visitors at the moment and asked them to come back another day."

"They were very surprised at the time. How could two healthy people suddenly fall ill together?"

"They had previously jointly reported to His Majesty the cases of other nobles drawing salaries without doing anything."

"The Ministry of War feels that this matter is not normal, but due to what happened before, it is not appropriate to bring it up in the court, so they want to ask our opinion."

After Zhang Sizhi finished speaking, Zhou Yanru's brows immediately furrowed.

He also felt that this matter was a bit strange, because the Ministry of War was just conducting a routine inspection and there was nothing wrong with it.

This kind of thing happened frequently in the past.

But he didn't care too much about it. He just thought that Wang Xiantong and Li Guozhen were scared by what happened in the past two days, so they acted like this.

After all, the emperor has indeed killed many nobles in recent days.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yanru said:

"Go tell the Ministry of War that the situation is tense lately and that they shouldn't check the accounts for now. It's making everyone panic. Let's wait until this period is over before we do anything else."

When Zhang Sizhi heard this, he did not refute it, but just nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'll go there in a minute!"

After a pause, Zhang Sizhi continued:
"The second thing is that the emperor wants to mobilize 10,000 Guanning cavalry to the capital. The imperial edict arrived at the Ministry of War early this morning."

"The Ministry of War originally wanted to consult the Cabinet, but the eunuch who announced the decree was too aggressive and even brought up the Emperor. The Ministry had no choice but to agree."

what?
When he heard this, Zhou Yanru's brows, which had just relaxed, frowned again.

What is the emperor trying to do by transferring border troops to Beijing without consulting the cabinet?
And isn’t there a war going on in Liaodong?
If the Guanning Cavalry is deployed at this time, what will happen in Liaodong?
"Do you know why the Guanning Iron Cavalry was mobilized?"

Zhou Yanru asked.

Zhang Sizhi shook his head.

"I don't know, I only know that it was the Duke of Ying who went to Liaodong to announce the decree!"

British Duke?
Zhou Yanru's brows furrowed even deeper.

He really couldn't understand what the emperor was going to do?
But he couldn't ask, after all, the emperor was seriously ill and refused to see any foreign officials.

Go find the prince?

It seems to be of no use, because the prince is young and has no military experience, so he is probably unaware of this matter.

After a pause, Zhou Yanru could only say:

"Forget it, let's not worry about these things for now. The imperial edict has already been issued. It's too late for us to stop it."

"I guess the Emperor did this because he was irritated by those corrupt and rebellious nobles and wanted to mobilize the Guanning Iron Cavalry to suppress them."

"The Guanning Iron Cavalry will have to return to Liaodong in just a few days. After all, they are still needed for the war in Liaodong."

When Zhang Sizhi heard this, he quickly nodded in agreement.

"What the elder said is correct. I think so too."

Afterwards, Zhang Sizhi continued to busy himself with his own affairs.

Obviously, none of them took this matter to heart.

He didn't even take the 'young' prince seriously.

After Zhang Sizhi left, Zhou Yanru's bad mood still did not improve.

Whenever he thought about the emperor re-establishing the Imperial Guards, he would get a headache.

He had experienced the period of Wei Zhongxian, when the eunuch party headed by Wei Zhongxian made the Donglin Party suffer terribly.

In order to make money, Wei Zhongxian even dared to collect commercial taxes. Wasn't this asking for their lives?
Although Chongzhen currently had no intention of collecting commercial taxes, as long as the factory guards were opened, all kinds of monsters would emerge. If someone really had no eyes to open the door to Chongzhen's idea, Chongzhen might not refuse to agree.

After all, everyone knows that Chongzhen is short of money!
The silver obtained from the house search seems to be a lot, but the Ministry of Revenue took away half of it today, and the remaining half will probably only last for a year at most.

By then, the Ming Dynasty will still have no money!
Hey!
Zhou Yanru sighed in his heart, not knowing how to solve this matter for a moment.

As it stands now, he can only order his subordinates to continue spreading various rumors about eunuchs' disorderly politics in the capital.

As long as he made a little more noise, he didn't believe that these words would not reach Chongzhen's ears!
Given Chongzhen's sensitive and neurotic personality, he would not have insisted on re-establishing the Factory Guards as long as he knew these rumors.

After all, he had been in the court for decades and he was very familiar with Chongzhen's character.

As a true Donglin Party member, Zhou Yanru would still do his best to serve the country as long as the interests of the Donglin Party were not affected.

But once the interests of the Donglin Party are involved, he will side with the Donglin Party without hesitation.

Anyway, this world belongs to his Zhu family, not to their Donglin Party.

Say something disrespectful.

Even if the Zhu family is finished and the world has a new master, it will still need scholars to help govern, right?
By then, their Donglin Party will still be able to control the world!

Thinking of this, a smile suddenly appeared on Zhou Yanru's lips.

East Palace.

Nothing major happened to Zhu Cilang today, but the Jinyiwei came to report that the rumors from yesterday were still circulating in the city.

Ask Zhu Cilang whether he wants to curb it.

Zhu Cilang refused without thinking and told the Jinyiwei to ignore it, allowing the rumors to continue spreading.

Because he knew that only by letting the rumors spread wider, the Daming Daily would be able to exert its true effect!
So before that, let the rumors fly for a while!
Overall, today was a rare day of leisure for him.

But when it got dark, two uninvited guests came to the door.

These two people were none other than Wang Xiantong and Li Guozhen.

As for why you have to come at night?
The reason is actually very simple, that is, they are afraid of being discovered by other nobles.
There was no way. After all, they had taken the blame for Zhu Cilang before, causing all the nobles to hate them so much.

The Duke of England took the mission and ran away. Those people couldn't find him, so they could only look for the two of them.

Their door was blocked so tightly that servants could be hit with bricks if they went out to buy groceries.

This resulted in Wang Xiantong and Li Guozhen not daring to go home in recent days, and they were eating and living in the Beijing Camp and the Five Military Commandery.

Even when he came to find Zhu Cilang, he did so after dark.

Zhu Cilang looked at the two people in front of him and felt amused, but he didn't say much, just asked:

"Tell me, what's the matter with you coming to see me tonight?"

Li Guozhen spoke first:

"Your Highness, I have been ordered to reorganize the Beijing Camp. After dismissing a number of the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled, the current number of soldiers in the Beijing Camp is 16,500."

"Adding to that the several thousand retainers and slaves we seized from the homes of other nobles, and the five thousand men Mr. Xue and his men gathered this afternoon, the Beijing camp now has a total of twenty-five thousand, three hundred men."

"I can guarantee that these soldiers are all young and strong men."

"In addition, the war horses and other military supplies that the nobles had previously borrowed from the Beijing Camp have all been returned to the Beijing Camp."

"The Beijing Army currently has 3,500 war horses, 5,100 muskets, 130 cannons, and other supplies. They are all listed in this account book. Your Highness, please review it!"

Li Guozhen said this while holding up a booklet.

Ma Bao hurriedly took it with both hands and handed it to Zhu Cilang.

Zhu Cilang flipped through it casually and had a rough idea in his mind.

But he didn't expect that the group of nobles would gather people so quickly.

We had agreed to give them three days, but they only needed two days.

It seems that these guys must have quite a bit of money!
But think about it, after all, most of them have been rich and prosperous along with the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years. How could the wealth accumulated over these two hundred years be just that little bit of silver?
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