Wen Tiren almost choked himself to death after hearing Chongzhen's words.

Look, is this what people say? Didn’t you agree to the situation last night, and then Emperor Chongzhen climbed along the pole, and they played the majesty of destroying Donglin with a double act.

Now, he mentioned that the Ming Dynasty should learn to impose commercial taxes in the Song Dynasty. Emperor Chongzhen not only did not agree, but instead said that this was competing for profit with the people. Now he was urging Chongzhen to impose commercial taxes.

Didn’t this put him on the stove and roast him? After that, he added a handful of cumin. How could His Majesty deceive people?

"Report to Your Majesty, I'm brave enough to fight for profit with the people, which citizen do you mean?" Wen Tiren was so angry that he threw the problem to Chongzhen.

"What do you mean by my dear? Could it be that I, the Ming Dynasty, have other people besides the people?" Chongzhen pouted and looked surprised.

When did Your Majesty become so thick?

Wen Tiren was in a state of confusion, but said, "Your Majesty, this people are not that people. My Ming Dynasty has been drought for years, and the people are hungry all over the ground. Your Majesty's business tax collection will not affect the people at all.

As for the so-called competition for profit with the people... it is just a rhetoric. That little money is just a drop in the bucket for those people."

Wen Tiren thought about it but still couldn't say it directly. He said it to this point. People who understand naturally understand that people who pretend to be asleep will never wake up.

"Then I'm going to ask, Qian Aiqing, since the people you are talking about are not those people who are not fed, who do you mean?" Chongzhen looked at the boss Qian Shisheng of Donglin with a smile.

"This... I don't know." Qian Shisheng clearly felt Chongzhen's eyes staring at him like a poisonous snake, and he felt a little sweaty on his forehead.

But he knew in his heart that if he really admitted it, he would be Donglin's sinner.

Chongzhen smiled without saying a word, and then turned his eyes to the Grand Secretary and the left censor Wang Yingxiong. Wang Yingxiong lowered his head and dodged for a moment, and the other ministers also looked at him.

"Qian Aiqing." Emperor Chongzhen glanced around and finally returned to Grand Secretary Qian Shisheng.

"Ah?" Qian Shisheng thought he had already fooled it, but he was still secretly glad in his heart that he was unconsciously showing his nervousness when Chongzhen called him.

"I heard that there are 30% of your family members in the Food and Sky Restaurant in Beijing. I wonder if this is the case?"

"Your Majesty! There is no such thing. As a minister of the cabinet, how could I do the business? How could Your Majesty humiliate me so much?" Qian Shisheng was shocked and hurriedly defended.

"I just asked casually. Qian Aiqing was so nervous. I would like to verify whether it was true or not.

I heard that it was your nephew's opening of the brothel in the east of the city?" Chongzhen still smiled and said in a calm tone as if he was a family.

"This... I really don't know, so I will look for my nephew to ask." Qian Shisheng's forehead was sweating more and more, and he felt a chill on his back.

"What are you going to explain the fabric shops, grain shops in the west of the city, and the Xiaoxiang Pavilion in Nanjing?

Humph! What you said about competing for profit with the people is probably competing for profit with you?

After becoming a bitch, you have to set up a archway! There are such shameless people in this world! Qian Shisheng, do you know that they are guilty?" Chongzhen finally couldn't pretend anymore. He stood up with a smile and pointed at Qian Shisheng's nose and said angrily.

With a plop, Qian Shisheng could no longer hold on and knelt down on the ground and dared not lift it up.

Since his family's property has been figured out, no matter how thick-skinned he is, he can no longer deny it. His career must have ended. He just couldn't understand how Chongzhen knew these things.

He lowered his head and glanced at Wen Tiren, and he knew in his heart that it must be this old guy who couldn't get into the air! He glared at Wen Tiren hatefully and decided to avenge his today in the future.

"Come here! I will be forty in the jail of Qian Shisheng to me and take him to the Ministry of Justice!"

"Your Majesty, I am not convinced! Even if I have done some business, the Ming Dynasty law does not stipulate that officials are not allowed to go to business. What crime did I commit?" Qian Shisheng was shocked when he heard the stick.

He originally thought that at most he would be dismissed from his official position. He was old and would be pretty good to enjoy family life in the future. He never thought that Chongzhen would be 40 as soon as he came up.

The punishment of the Ming Dynasty's stick can be light or severe. Those eunuchs who have no eggs play the stick with perfection. If you don't want to die, don't look at the mighty force of the big stick. At most, it will be a flesh-and-skinned pain when you hit the butt. After a three or two days of rest, you will be fine.

If you want to die, you can beat someone to death with a big jujube stick, even twenty sticks can kill you.

"Your Majesty! Although Lord Qian is wrong, he has no credit for serving the imperial court for decades. I hope your Majesty will be kind!" Wen Zhenmeng, Minister of Rites and Grand Secretary of the East Pavilion, knelt down and asked.

As soon as Wen Zhenmeng spoke, almost all the other ministers knelt down from the cabinet to the six ministries and pleaded for Qian Shisheng, as if if Chongzhen did not give up his gratitude, he would not be a saint.

Chongzhen became even more angry when he saw this situation. This was the real power of the Donglin Party. If he hadn't understood the shamelessness of this group of people in his heart, ordinary people would have been frightened.

After all, the huge imperial court needs these people, and if these people are missing, who can help him do things?

They thought Chongzhen was on the first floor, but he was on the fifth floor. At this time, Chongzhen was no longer the blind man who had been blind and had thousands of literati in the world, but he didn't believe that no one would come to be an official for him!

"You want a crime, okay, I will give you a crime. Last time I raised a donation, you all cried poorly. Qian Shisheng only owned so many industries in the capital, but he only pledged three thousand taels. Is this considered deceiving the king? Is the crime of deceiving the king considered a crime?

However, if I use deception to convict you today, you will definitely not accept it. Today I will let you die clearly!

Wen Aiqing, take out the evidence you have!" Chongzhen waved his sleeves and sat on the dragon throne again.

"I followed the order and found out that in the sixth year of Tianqi, Qian Shisheng collected 15,000 taels of silver from Wu Zhiwen in the capital to seek food for him as a Tian Restaurant, and occupied 30% of the profits of the restaurant.

In the first year of Chongzhen, his nephew Wang Huaming came to Beijing. Qian Shisheng ordered his family slaves to set up Xiuwen Pavilion for him, forcing his former boss Sun Cai to death.

In the third year of Chongzhen, he collected 30,000 taels of silver from Fanjiawen in Shanxi to gain convenience for him.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen...

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Every time Wen Tiren said something, Qian Shisheng's momentum became a little bit, and later he collapsed into the court.

The court officials were silent immediately. Everyone knew that Qian Shi had been promoted. If these crimes were true, they could be described as "Big Book" and it would not be an exaggeration to die ten or eight times.

Chongzhen suddenly felt much more comfortable, just like when he saw a corrupt official fallen in later generations. He hated these country worms, but he was powerless at that time, but now, he suddenly felt a sense of gratitude, as if he had lost interest in the mobile phones, games, and the Internet in later generations.

He is now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the emperor of the ten thousand people of the Ming Dynasty. He wants to establish his life for the people, and he must start from today.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen suddenly laughed again.

"I often hear my dear friends talk about various ancestral systems. Today, I suddenly remember one thing, which was the ancestral system set by Emperor Taizu back then.

Emperor Gao also wrote this system into the Ming Dynasty law that year - embezzling sixty taels of corruption and peeling the skin. I wonder if you have heard of it?"

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Chapter completed!