I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"Who, who dares to occupy the country's mines?"

"Give me...give me the tax! I want to get my internal money!" As he said that, Zhu Youxiao slumped on the maid's lap in a daze.

Wei Zhongxian was not without surprises, he had already guessed the meaning of the emperor's establishment of the Capital Supervisor's Mansion.

If it is said that the military supervisor is for the convenience of generals like Mao Wenlong, then the mine supervisor is an opportunity for the royal family to collect taxes from wealthy households and set up various names.

For example, there is a mine vein in the courtyard of this so-called large family. I don’t know if there is a mine vein. Anyway, this family must have a lot of money.

Under such circumstances, it is necessary to collect taxes in a targeted manner. It can be said that there are mine veins under the yard of his family, and the children of this household are forced to move out.

If you don't want to move, you have to see how hard the money "filial piety" comes up.

Anyway, in the end, the mine supervisors of the Dujian Mansion got [-]%, Wei Zhongxian and others got [-]%, and the remaining [-]% went to the emperor's internal funds.

Wei Zhongxian was also staring sullenly, not to let the people below be greedy too much, but he also had to turn a blind eye and let them get some.

If you want the horse to run, you have to feed the horse.

Naturally, tariffs, mining taxes, these tax types that have changed in the Apocalypse Dynasty, the treasury cannot be taken away. Once the treasury is taken away, these tax money will basically be divided up by the civil officials of the outer dynasty.

These foreign civil servants are merciless when they spout people, all of them are sanctimonious hypocrites, but they are quick-eyed and quick-handed when they pick up money.

Wei Zhongxian looked at Zhu Youxiao, and knew in his heart that the current emperor, even though he looked like he was completely drunk, was actually smarter than himself in his heart!

This is a clever trick to make money for the royal family, so why not?

"Your Majesty, you are drunk." Wei Zhongxian said with a slight smile.

"Nonsense!" Zhu Youxiao sat up suddenly from between Gong'e's legs, widened his eyes and said, "I'm not drunk, I, I'm very sober!"

Looking at the emperor's appearance, Wei Zhongxian was overwhelmed with admiration.

In fact, in his opinion, the brilliance of the Metropolitan Government and the Supervision Department is to integrate the original idle tax collection together.

You know, although Emperor Shenzong also collected mine taxes during the Wanli Dynasty, he always collected whatever he wanted, and let the eunuchs around him become mine supervisors.

The eunuchs can collect whatever they want, and there is no clear restriction at all.

But what about this one now?

First, a Supervision Department was set up to collect tariffs from all over the canal, and then the Metropolitan Government was set up to deal with the recovery of mining taxes in the Gyeonggi area.

Taxes have been increased, but the imperial court is not chaotic at all, because of these two yamen.

Moreover, of these two yamen, Jin Yiwei is currently in charge of one, while the other is directly under the emperor's control. Even Wei Zhongxian cannot intervene.

Even if Jin Yiwei and the emperor are watching, the people below will still be greedy, but they know who they are working for, and the big head will be left to the palace.

As long as the greed is not too much and the emperor has no intention of doing anything, Jin Yiwei will just turn a blind eye and close his eyes like this.

After a while, Wei Zhongxian said with a smile again:

"Your Majesty, it's been said everywhere that tariffs have been increased, and there have been changes in Jiangnan and other places. The East Factory of the slaves discovered that the food prices in Suzhou, Changshu and other places... have gone up."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's sleepy eyes suddenly became sharper, and he sneered: "Why, is this someone driving up food prices in order to resist taxes?"

Chapter 90 Counting Cases and Investigating

"Check, whoever you find out, report back to me immediately."

A sneer appeared on Wei Zhongxian's mouth, and he hurriedly agreed.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao said again:

"The decree will be passed on, and the valued ministers of the Xinuang Pavilion, Wang Zaijin and Gu Bingqian, will follow the decree immediately without delay."

"From now on, ministers' advances and retreats will be determined by the Xinuang Pavilion, and the minister's decision to stay or leave is still up to the ministers. If there are those who do not follow the clear order and resign without authorization, my fate will be with the law of the country!"

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he fell into Gong'e's arms again, drowsy.

Hearing this, Wei Zhongxian's heart shuddered, and now he finally understood what the emperor was going to use this Xinuange minister for.

This is to elevate the six ministries of the cabinet and monopolize the power!

The internal funds were sent directly to Xinuan Pavilion, and the ministers went to stay to listen to the ruling of the ministers on duty. It sounds good to say that Xinuang Pavilion is the place where the emperor handles government affairs.

The minister's decision is the emperor's decision!

But this is also very good. The outer court cleans up by itself, and the emperor sets up an inner court by himself, which is also convenient for conveying government orders.

……

"Master, Master, please save me!"

In Dongchang Prison, Wang Huazhen, who had been tortured beyond recognition, was kneeling before Wei Zhongxian begging for mercy.

Seeing him like this, Wei Zhongxian was also surprised, saying:

"You guys from Donglin, don't you all have hard bones? Why, are you playing hard to get with Ben Du?"

Subconsciously, Wei Zhongxian would never believe that someone like Wang Huazhen would beg for mercy, that is, he sneered all over his face, unmoved at all.

Wang Huazhen was eager to prove himself, and said: "Mr. Chang, the Donglin party members pushed me to serve as a councilor in Guangning, in fact to embezzle the Liaodong army's salary."

"Phi Dao, Liaoshen's grain and salaries were all sent to Guangning. As long as the factory owner saves me, I am willing to testify in court!"

Wei Zhongxian rolled his eyes when he heard this.

As Wang Huazhen said, holding an upright joint trial of the three divisions is enough to wipe out all the personnel of the Donglin Party in Liaodong.

"Are you willing to draw a bet?" Fu Yingxing got Wei Zhongxian's signal and stepped forward to ask.

"Yes, yes!"

Wang Huazhen knew that the Donglin Party building was about to collapse, and the emperor relied heavily on the Wei Party. If he wanted to survive, it was impossible to rely on the Donglin Party's talkative guns to run for him.

There is only one way, change the family and join the Wei Party!

In Xinuang Pavilion, Zhu Youxiao looked at the secret performance of Dongchang and found it extremely ridiculous.

Right next to him, there were still a bunch of memorials from the Donglin Party still pleading for Wang Huazhen. They gathered all forces to save him.

Wang Huazhen did a great job, he directly joined Wei Zhongxian in the Dongchang prison, kicked Donglin, and even Wei Zhongxian pleaded for him.

"Ye Xianggao, let's see what disciples you have taught." With a sneer, Zhu Youxiao said, "Tell Wei Zhongxian, I know."

Not long after, when Wei Zhongxian received the news, he also burst out laughing sadly.

In his opinion, the four words "I got it" are tantamount to "I don't care about it". Since the emperor wants to, he must make some noise first.

……

There was news from the palace that Wang Huazhen would be held a joint trial by the three courts.

Hearing this, the Donglin Party members were overjoyed. The Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment, and the three judicial divisions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were almost all of them.

The joint trial was held as scheduled. In this matter, the Donglin Party had already made arrangements. They wanted to protect the king's virginity, so they just took a chance.

The presiding judge, Zou Yuanbiao, is a great Confucian of the Donglin, he has always boasted of integrity and honesty, and hates evil like a hatred. The Donglin Party pushed him to interrogate, and it was also to block the mouth of the court.

In the hall, Zou Yuanbiao said solemnly: "Your servant, do you know what your crime is?"

Wang Huazhen replied: "I don't know what the crime is!"

Zou Yuanbiao glanced at the people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and said again: "It is said in the court that you were ordered to go out of the customs, lost your land and lost your city. You have made a lot of merit and crime, and you cannot shirk your responsibility."

Wang Huazhen sneered: "Since I arrived in Guangning, I have followed your orders in everything. If I have made meritorious service, how can I be held accountable for it?"

Zou Yuanbiao was taken aback when he heard the words, thinking that he did not expect such an answer from him.

Everyone in the three judges in the hall was talking about it, what does he, Wang Huazhen, want to do, and bite himself back?

Since there was no preparation in advance, Zou Yuanbiao had no choice but to act casually, and asked angrily: "What did we tell you? My sinful minister, don't talk nonsense!"

Wang Huazhen said again: "Phi Dao's food and salaries, Liao and Shen's military funds, if you hadn't trusted me privately, how could they have withheld them based on my devotion to serve the country?"

"Today, I won't be with you again!"

Zou Yuanbiao realized later that Wang Huazhen had joined the eunuch party, and if the trial continued, he was afraid that he would also be implicated.

He got up in anger, and temporarily withdrew from the courtroom, ending the first day of cross-examination.

The procedure of the joint trial of the three departments is complicated, and it is difficult to get a result after more than a month. In order to avoid suspicion, Wei Zhongxian only manipulated the whole process secretly, and never went out in the Dongchang yamen.

But this day, a person came to visit, which made him sneer happily.

"Ge Lao, you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, let's get straight to the point, why are you here looking for the Governor?"

In the Yamen of Dongchang, Wei Zhongxian held a glass of Hangzhou Longjing in his hand, smiling all over his face.

The person who came to him was the cabinet minister, Han Mining.

Wei Zhongxian has a good impression of Han Kuang. Although he is also one of the leaders of the Donglin Party, he is a moderate faction. He behaves differently from Yang Lian, Gao Panlong and others.

At this time, I came to find myself to make peace.

Sure enough, Han Kuang said: "Eunuch Wei, Xia and Dongchang have always been well waters and river waters. If you want to be implicated in Wang Huazhen's matter, please... hold your hand high."

"Hahaha."

In front of him, Wei Zhongxian laughed, until Han Kuang's complexion was not right, then he said seriously:

"What is Mr. Ge thinking? This governor was ordered by the emperor to investigate the embezzlement of Liaodong's military salary. What does it have to do with you?"

"Thank you, thank you..."

Han Kuang wiped his sweat, turned and left, he was really frightened by Zhang Heming's killing of the three clans.

Looking at Han Kuang's back, Wei Zhongxian beckoned Fu Yingxing to come over, said something in a low voice, and sneered again.

……

In the end, the joint trial of the three judicial divisions failed.

Zou Yuanbiao and other officials from the Sanju Division couldn't come to trial, and they didn't dare to inquire further.

However, within a few days, Wei Zhongxian presented the results to the imperial court.

Looking at this so-called result, Zhu Youxiao also knew that the dispute between Wei Dang and Donglin finally came to a conclusion.

Since then, Cui Chengxiu, who has been promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War, and other members of the Wei Party have gone to the shuffle to add fuel to the flames.

In order to create a greater effect, they summed up the three major cases and the Wang Huazhen case together, concisely and concisely, all of which were done by the Donglin Party.

Regarding the shooting case, the "eunuchs" commented like this.

"Use this to start a fraternal strife, to frame Shenzong, and to blame the late emperor."

The general meaning is that the Donglin Party used this case to provoke the relationship between the emperor and his son, and was ashamed of the kindness of the former emperor.

Regarding the Hongwan case, the discussion is even more "incisive".

"Creating the saying of 'not tasting medicine', falsely saying that the late emperor died without a good death."

It means that the Donglin party members made "wild guesses" about Guangzong's death into a bad death, which is an act of treason and immorality.

In the case of moving the palace, Wei Zhongxian obviously did not intend to let go of Yang Lian who had returned to his hometown to be idle, and involved him again.

Cui Chengxiu was hinted by Wei Zhongxian, and Shang Shu impeached, saying: "Yang Lian and others colluded with the servants and deliberately aggravated Li Xuan's crimes in order to invite support."

This so-called servant was naturally the great eunuch Wang An who had already returned to his hometown. As for why he was not nominated, it was probably because Wei Zhongxian didn't want to beat Wang An to death.

The conclusions of the Wei party members on the three major cases can be summed up in one sentence.

Donglin people are not meritorious ministers, they are the chief culprits of the three crimes, if the emperor brings them to justice, they deserve what they deserve, and it will be a joy to the hearts of the people.

Convict, cleanse, set the tone.

It took Wei Zhongxian almost a year to finally complete the homework assigned to him by the emperor.

Chapter 91 Bloodbath of Donglin

Wei Zhongxian stepped into the Wenhua Palace with one foot, and saw the emperor was writing, so he tiptoed a few steps forward and called softly:

"Your Majesty, why haven't you been to Nanhaizi recently?"

"The admiral Li Chaoqing of Nanhaizi told the servants that he has not seen him for a while, and that he misses His Majesty very much."

Zhu Youxiao didn't say a word, just held the pen and practiced calligraphy by himself.

Wei Zhongxian also stepped forward and said something in a low voice. After these words, Zhu Youxiao raised his head suddenly, and the words on the paper were also destroyed.

"Your servant deserves to die, your servant deserves to die..." Wei Zhongxian hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy.