Reborn as a tyrant in the Ming Dynasty

"Mr. Wei Chang, you'd better get up quickly."

Outside the Qianqing Palace, Liu Ruoyu held a fly whisk, lowered his head and said to Wei Zhongxian who was kneeling on the ground: "Your Majesty said, let Wei Banban go back to rest tonight and come back to the Qianqing Palace tomorrow."

"Your Majesty really said that?"

Wei Zhongxian stared at Liu Ruoyu as if grasping a life-saving straw.

"This is what the emperor said."

Liu Ruoyu nodded slightly.

"Okay, okay, let's come back tomorrow."

Wei Zhongxian nodded repeatedly and struggled to get up from the ground. The pain from his knees made Wei Zhongxian frown slightly. Seeing this, Liu Ruoyu hurriedly reached out to help Wei Zhongxian.

"Eunuch Liu, go and serve the emperor."

Wei Zhongxian waved his hands and said: "Our family is fine. We can't leave the Emperor's presence. As soon as the Emperor arrives at Haishi, he will be a little weak. But if there are military and political measures, the Emperor will cheer up. Even if the Emperor really wants strong tea , and you must not go up, otherwise..."

Listening to Wei Zhongxian's casual instructions, Liu Ruoyu didn't feel impatient at all, but listened attentively.

Has the emperor really alienated Wei Zhongxian?

I don’t know how much time passed, but Liu Ruoyu, who was standing with a whisk in his hand, looked at Wei Zhongxian disappearing under the night, and he couldn’t help but sigh in his heart. After all, since the farce at Huangjimen ended today, Wei Zhongxian came to Qianqing Palace and knelt for more than an hour, but from the beginning to the end, the emperor No summons.

This is somewhat intriguing.

It is difficult to guess the holy will, which is a terrible thing.

Because you don't know whether what you do is right or wrong, whether it will be loved or disliked by the emperor. Especially in the extremely realistic inner court, if something really spreads, secret changes will occur quietly.

While feeling emotional, Liu Ruoyu straightened out the python robe he was wearing and hurriedly turned around and walked towards Dongnuan Pavilion.

"...The fox hiding among them smelled the danger signal first and ran away!" Liu Ruoyu, who walked into Dongnuan Pavilion with his head lowered, was inevitably surprised and suspicious in his heart when he heard what the emperor said.

So many people have been arrested, is there still something that has slipped through the net?

"Your Majesty, are you talking about merchants from Shanxi?"

Fang Zhenghua said uncertainly.

"Nine times out of ten!"

Zhu Youxiao frowned and said: "If they were caught by the people from the West Police Factory, then I would not suspect anything else. But now, except for the treacherous and evil ministers in the center and the demons and monsters in the local area, I have not caught the connection." I can’t think of any other group besides these rebels.”

"From what Wu Changchun and the others confessed earlier, as well as what Shuntian Prefecture found out when they inspected the imperial village, I discovered that starting a few years ago, the Jianlu who were ravaging Liaodong were in urgent need of food!!"

"As for what Wu Changchun and the others told them in the past, the people who maintained close contact with Jianlu in our Ming Dynasty were not only the hidden stakes sent by them, but also people scattered in certain places on the nine sides. As for who they are, apart from the old slave knowing, Even Li Yongfang doesn’t know much.”

Fang Zhenghua suppressed his surprise!

If that's the case, the matter is far from over.

"In addition to the large amount of grain produced by Huangzhuang, which was enriched by those scumbags, the large amount of gunpowder, firearms, etc. that disappeared during the past wars are also worthy of people's vigilance."

Zhu Youxiao continued: "With so much food, gunpowder, firearms, etc., even if it is really distributed to the people, who can eat it? It is very easy to use these to gather refugees and then set off local rebellions. thing."

"Since Xu Ni's rebellion, there has been no major rebellion in Beizhili and other places, so the only most likely possibility is that most of these grains, gunpowder, firearms, etc. were smuggled out of the Ming Dynasty!!"

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to believe this conclusion, but based on the current situation, this was the only one that made sense, and even had a lot of room for maneuver.

Under the Ming Dynasty, in addition to various parties and factions, and general forces in various places, there were also many interest groups. The most famous one engaged in smuggling was a smuggling group of Shanxi merchants in the north. They were mainly involved in the export smuggling trade. A southeastern smuggling group in the south, they are mainly involved in the maritime smuggling trade!

It is precisely because of this existence that Ming Dynasty not only reduced a lot of business taxes and tax assessments, but also brought a lot of trouble to Ming Dynasty.

'If all this is true, the influence of Shanxi merchants has penetrated into the capital and Gyeonggi, and Xiong Tingbi fell in the first year of Tianqi, there must be many secrets hidden! ! '

Zhu Youxiao clenched his fists tightly and thought to himself, "Even the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Saarhu must have some conspiracy hidden behind it. Compared with the power struggle that appears on the surface, there is a turbulent undercurrent hidden in the dark." , this is undoubtedly the most difficult to prevent. '

The Donglin Party cannot wash away the sinners who led to the fall of Liaozuo, Liaonan, Western Liaoning and other places.

Yuan Yingtai succeeded Xiong Tingbi as Liaodong manager.

Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, was at odds with Xiong Tingbi.

These two guys are both Donglin Party members! ! !

It is even said that Mao Wenlong's rise during the turmoil of the Liao Dynasty was directly related to Wang Huazhen, and Wang Huazhen did not betray the Donglin Party at that time!

Zhu Youxiao didn't dare to think deeply about the deeper interests involved behind this!

"Go to Shanxi!"

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao pulled out a stack of files from the imperial case and looked at Fang Zhenghua with cold eyes, "I will ask Luan Wei to go with you. I have made my thoughts clear on how to investigate when we get to Shanxi. "

Luan Wei is also going?

Zhenghua below was extremely frightened. Luanwei had contributed a lot to the arrest of so many treacherous officials this time. Although Luanwei had just been set up not long ago and very few people knew about it, Fang Zhenghua knew that the representatives of Luanwei What are you wearing?

"Your Majesty, what about Beizhili's sweep..."

Fang Zhenghua suppressed his surprise and looked at his emperor and said.

"I will arrange it."

Zhu Youxiao said: "In addition, you sent someone to tell Gao Shiming and others to secretly go to Shanxi in batches. Don't scare the snake. This trip to Shanxi must be done once and for all. Don't let these traitors run away again!!"

Originally, Zhu Youxiao wanted to wait a little longer and then choose an opportunity to eradicate this cancer, but what he experienced now made Zhu Youxiao change his mind.

If those Shanxi merchants who betrayed the Ming Dynasty are not eradicated quickly, then who knows what they will do to the Ming Dynasty in private during this period.

"The slaves obey the orders!"

Fang Zhenghua immediately bowed and responded.

"When I go to Shanxi, everything must be stable."

Zhu Youzhan said with a smile: "Shanxi is not as good as Beizhili, and don't think that the place is not as complicated as the center. The situation in Shanxi is different. In addition to border town generals and local officials, there are also a large number of gentry and merchants, even in Shanxi. Zongfan, you should consider the overall situation in everything and send urgent deliveries to Beijing regularly!"

"My slave understands!"

Fang Zhenghua bowed again.