Signed to Zhu Cihong, Prince of the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 218 Chapter 218, Zhu Cihong arrived at the memorial, and Fan Jingwen changed his face instantly
From Fan Jingwen's point of view, what he really wanted was to calm things down. After all, Jiangnan was the most important place for Daming right now, so he certainly didn't want any troubles in Jiangnan.

After listening to Fan Jingwen's words, Emperor Chongzhen frowned again, but did not express his opinion.

He also needs to wait for more statements from other cabinet ministers.

Other cabinet ministers also spoke one after another, and their opinions were generally the same as Fan Jingwen's.

"Your Majesty, this matter is still of great importance. It is indeed necessary to investigate it thoroughly, otherwise it may affect the people's hearts of the imperial court in the south of the Yangtze River."

"Jiangnan is already the place most loyal to Daming. The old minister is a little worried. If the prince's methods are too harsh, will there be any big troubles?"

"As a young man, His Highness is very aggressive in everything he does. This is of course a good thing, but His Majesty should also know that His Highness is sometimes too reckless and lacks consideration in doing things."

In fact, the people present are basically politicians over the age of 50 or [-]. When they think about things, they tend to like to think from a more calm and rigorous perspective, which makes them naturally stand on the side of Zhu Cihong. Young people stand against it.

As a young man, he is always full of enthusiasm, and he is more willing to take risks in whatever he does. Although he is the same race as the middle-aged and elderly people whose enthusiasm has subsided, they often do things in the same way. The decision is not the same way at all.

After hearing what everyone said, Emperor Chongzhen was obviously shaken.

He thought for a while, and then said: "What you Aiqing said is indeed very reasonable. How about it, Li Aiqing, as an imperial envoy, go to Jiangnan to see what happened there."

After all, Li Banghua had also been the censor of Zuodu and was considered one of the leaders of the Three Laws Division. It was logical for him to be responsible for this matter.

After seeing that Chongzhen had announced the order, everyone felt more or less relieved.

In fact, there is another thing that the Emperor Chongzhen did not know, that is, those who arrived in Jiangnan were not only these impeachment memorials, but also some letters for help secretly sent by many families in Jiangnan to the cabinet ministers' desks.

As we all know, the Ming Dynasty adopted an imperial examination system.In the imperial examination system, scholars in the south performed better than those in the north. When the Ming Dynasty was founded, there was even a situation where the entire imperial examination list was monopolized by scholars from the south.

Although it was said that in order to avoid this situation, Daming specially divided the list into two lists, the North and the South, but this did not change the fact that most of the officials were still born in the South.

It is precisely because of the existence of this fact that the voices of Jiangnan officials, especially the voices of Wei Guogong officials who represent almost half of Jiangnan, can be clearly conveyed to the ears of these cabinet ministers, and This force can also push these cabinet ministers to say good things for them.

Of course, those ministers were not fools, they would not directly oppose the future His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, what they did was the most common strategy in the face of difficulties in the officialdom.

Delay the time.

Sending imperial envoys to delay time is what they want to see.

The imperial envoys will find out the truth, no matter what the truth is, at least these cabinet ministers have enough reasons to confess to their friends and relatives from Jiangnan.

After Emperor Chongzhen announced the appointment of the imperial envoy, he planned to announce the adjournment of the meeting, but at this moment, Wang Chengen suddenly walked into the palace very quickly with a memorial.

"This is a memorial sent by His Royal Highness through the Dongchang channel. Please have a look at it, Your Majesty."

After listening to Wang Chengen's words, the steps of the cabinet ministers present who were about to leave suddenly stopped.

They knew very well in their hearts that since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had already sent the memorial, it meant that His Royal Highness more or less knew about some rumors, and he wanted to submit the memorial to fight for Emperor Chongzhen.

In other words, there are still variables in this matter.

After Chongzhen finished reading the memorial from Zhu Cixiang, his expression obviously changed. These changes made the cabinet ministers present feel a jump in their hearts. They knew that things were indeed as they thought just now, and something new had begun to happen.

Chongzhen raised his head, and said to the cabinet ministers in front of him: "It is still quite laborious to explain this matter, please circulate this memorial, dear dear ones."

With curiosity, several cabinet ministers quickly circulated the memorial.

As the chief minister of the cabinet, Fan Jingwen was naturally the first one. Looking at the memorial in front of him, his face also changed a lot.

The content of the memorial is actually very simple, mainly talking about two things.

First, Duke Wei's government embezzled large tracts of land in Nanjing City, colluded with officials to evade taxes, falsely reported soldiers as Nanjing's garrison, killed people in front of Zhu Cihong, etc., a total of 54 charges.

Second, Zhu Cilang has confiscated all the homes of Duke Wei's mansion and the corresponding 31 official mansions. The total amount of cash confiscated exceeded 5000 million taels, and the value of various furniture, treasures, gardens, etc. was incalculable.The cash will set off in the spring of next year and be transported to Beijing to ease the crisis on the side of the Ming court.

Fan Jingwen's eyes widened: "...five, 5000 million taels?"

What is the concept of 5000 million taels?

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, that is, last year, the Ministry of Households did not collect military pay, tariffs, salt taxes, and warehouse aid amounted to 53 million taels, the delinquency rate was 85%, and the real money in the treasury was only 1805 million taels.

Yes, 1805 million taels, this is the money that can really be used in the whole year of last year...

Turning the time back to 200 years ago, when Emperor Yongle Zhu Di was alive, how much tax could the Daming Household Department receive in a year? 3000 million taels!
Now, Zhu Cihong has said that he can hand over 5000 million taels to the Ming court, and all of them are cash...

White silver.

If this 5000 million taels is calculated according to the actual treasury income of Ming Dynasty last year, it is equal to 27 years of income!

Here I want to mention a little bit, Fan Jingwen, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, his current position is Wenyuange University scholar and household secretary, he is the real money manager of Ming Dynasty, and he is also desperately urged to give money by various bureaucratic organizations in the whole country of Ming Dynasty people.

With a bang, Fan Jingwen stood up to overturn the verdict, his old face was very red, and his tone was impassioned when he spoke.

"Your Majesty, what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did in Jiangnan was absolutely carried out by God, won the hearts of the people, and was for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. I think this is not an imperial envoy. It's okay not to send it!"

(End of this chapter)