Speaking of the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the current Chongzhen was very impressed. He had been a beggar and wanted to eat, and had sex with monks and clocks. Later, even monks could not survive and chose to rebel.

Zhu Yuanzhang's Zhang specifically referred to a sharp weapon in ancient times. Zhu's homophonic was Zhu, and his name meant the sharp weapon to destroy Bao Yuan.

Due to the excessive taxation of the Mongolian Yuan, Zhu Yuanzhang's father Zhu Wusi, his brothers Zhu Sisi, Zhu Liuliu and Zhu Qiqi all starved to death, and his mother could not bear the hunger and hang herself.

Zhu Yuanzhang fought for half his life, expelled the Tartars and restored China, and only then did he have the Han people's world. It can be said that the country's integrity has never been better than his dynasties.

Even after becoming the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang hated corrupt officials extremely, so he immediately established the ancestral system of "60 taels of corruption and skinning".

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang did execute this way. All the corrupt officials he found were human flags at the yamen. There was even a major case of killing tens of thousands of people.

Speaking of which, the officials at that time were really miserable. They even left suicide notes before going to court every day because they themselves didn’t know if they could survive today.

But what Zhu Yuanzhang never expected was that the more corrupt officials were killing, the more they were, but his descendants were not so tough that this ancestral system was selectively forgotten by the court officials.

Qian Shisheng and the Donglin Party never expected that His Majesty would suddenly mention this ancestral system. Qian Shisheng's face was as clear as earth for a moment, kneeling on the ground, shaking like a sieve, and kept shouting in his mouth, begging His Majesty to beg him to beg him for mercy and spare him not to die.

"Your Majesty, although the Ming Dynasty has this ancestral system, Lord Qian is not a person who is unforgivable. I hope Your Majesty will forgive him for his death!" Wen Zhenmeng, a great scholar in the East Pavilion, finally couldn't sit still.

As soon as he started, most of the other court officials knelt down and pleaded.

They hoped that Chongzhen would have seen so many ministers pleaded with mercy and bypassed Qian Shisheng as usual. After all, the Chongzhen emperor would not offend the vast majority of court officials at the same time, and that would have been too expensive.

But this time they were wrong. Perhaps offending all civil officials at one time would be a great price, but in the face of the current situation in the Ming Dynasty, long pain is worse than short pain. These so-called children of saints who only know internal strife are useless to the country and the family.

"If I spare my death sentence, who can spare my Ming soldiers from death? And who can save me from hunger and war in the north? Who can save them from suffering?

You were in the capital with the salary from the court and enjoyed the delicacies that ordinary people would never enjoy, but they didn’t know how many soldiers and how many people couldn’t even drink porridge.

Qian Shisheng embezzled not money, but what he greedyed was the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. If the lives of the people are guilty of their hearts, they should be punished!

If someone pleads for this person again, he should be punished with this person." Chongzhen said very unpolitely.

In troubled times, he should use the dictionary, but to be precise, he needs money too much now, and all the big bosses in front of him are walking wallets.

Chongzhen's words immediately made all the ministers silent, and even fools could see that Chongzhen was angry now.

Alas, it seems that Lord Qian can't save him anymore. Wen Zhenmeng sighed in his heart and shook his head. Donglin lost his support and the country lost a pillar. Your Majesty, if you do this, the Ming Dynasty will really die.

"Why are you still standing there? Take Qian Shisheng to the Heavenly Prison and wait for the death to come!" Wang Chengen said in a very appropriate manner when he saw the two Han generals standing still.

After Qian Shisheng was pulled down, the atmosphere in the court became much more dull. The ministers' only good impression of Chongzhen suddenly disappeared, and they were absent-minded and didn't know what they were thinking.

"I have a few things to tell you about my dear ministers today. You always say that I am competing for profit with the people. Nowadays, droughts are frequent in the north and there are thieves raging. Therefore, I plan to abolish Liao pay, suppress and train wages, and exempt Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and Shandong from taxes for three years. The taxes owed in previous years were also reduced and exempted.

In this way, you all can’t say that I am competing for profit with the people, right?”

Chongzhen regained his smile as before and said his plans very peacefully.

Either starve to death or rebel to have a chance to survive. As long as you are not stupid, everyone knows how to choose.

He knew very well why Li Zicheng and his group fought more and more. In fact, these four provinces have caused disasters for years. The taxes and the three additional salaries assigned by the court have long been unable to survive.

Only by exempting taxes from severely affected areas and giving these distressed people hope to survive, everything may turn around.

On this land, the people of the Chinese nation are actually the most tenacious. In all dynasties, as long as the people do not starve to death, basically no one will choose to rebel. Emperor Chongzhen knows this very well.

"Your Majesty, the court's finances are already in short supply. If all taxes from the three paychecks and four places are exempted, how can the court supply soldiers from the nine sides? This is absolutely not allowed!" Hou Rong, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, hurriedly replied.

"So commercial tax is bound to be collected. I have no intention of this matter. My dear friends just need to negotiate a reasonable charter as soon as possible, and there is no need to discuss this matter again.

In addition, when I went to Jingying yesterday, I found that Jingying was so deteriorating. I wanted to promote Sun Chuanting to supervise the rectification of Jingying. Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji were the general of Jingying. The Ministry of Personnel handled relevant matters for these three beloved ministers as soon as possible in the past few days.

Also, I plan to reopen the factory guards. The eunuch Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor, was appointed as the seal manager of the Sili Supervisor, and also the governor of the Dongjishi Factory. The current commander of the Jinyiwei Luo Yangxing, the corrupt Chengxing, was immediately dismissed, and Han Shanhe, the assistant commander of the Jinyiwei, took over." Chongzhen thought for a while and said.

Chongzhen's series of appointments almost fooled the court officials. Not to mention the commercial tax, the Beijing camp will not be mentioned for the time being. The reopening of the factory guards will have a great impact on them.

They tried their best to get the emperor to abolish the Dongjiye Factory and set aside the Jinyiwei. It was only a few years before they were about to reopen it?

The court officials with relatively high qualifications seemed to recall the horror of the factory guards during the Tianqi period. At that time, the vendors on the streets and even the turtle men in the brothels might have been the spies of the Dongchang or the Jinyiwei.

They were everywhere and everywhere, exploring all the news that the emperor wanted to inquire. The torture of the Jinyiwei still made them scared to the point of being heard.

It can be said that the factory guards are almost a nightmare for the Donglin Party members. Many colleagues have never come out after entering the gate of the Jinyiwei Zhao Prison.

You must never let Your Majesty reopen the factory guards, and you must do whatever it takes to do.

Wu Zongda, a Grand Secretary of Zhongji Palace, looked at each other with Wen Zhenmeng, the Minister of Rites who are also a cabinet minister, and then quietly turned his head to look at Xie Sheng of the Ministry of Personnel and Hou Rong of the Ministry of Revenue, both saw the same concerns in the other party's eyes.

"Your Majesty! The disaster of the factory guards has caused the people to change their emotions when they hear it. They must not repeat the same mistakes. Wei Chen dared to take them back and hoped that your Majesty would take them back!"

"I hope Your Majesty will take back his life!"

Now almost all the court officials fell to the ground, with surprisingly consistent opinions, and even some court officials who did not belong to the Donglin Party joined the opposition.

"I just told you that I was not discussing with you. There is no need to discuss this matter. If there is nothing else, let's retreat to the court!" Chongzhen was not willing to listen to their noise. Why are these court officials so afraid of factory guards? No one knows better than him.

"If Your Majesty insists on doing this, I... resign!" Wen Zhenmeng suddenly raised his tone and said loudly.

"Resign!" The other court officials said in unison.
Chapter completed!