Destroying the crown prince is an angry word from Emperor Chongzhen. However, what Zhu Cixuan did this time was really too much. If you swallowed the treasury money, it would be such a huge sum of money, 670,000 taels of silver.

The life-threatening soup of the Ming Dynasty, you took it all to Liaodong to pay military salaries. You kid said you are stupid, you did not leak out the water, and it was too late for Emperor Chongzhen to regret it. You are smart, why are you putting the cart before the horse? Why don’t you do important things? Just pay half of the military salaries, and the soldiers won’t say anything. You have to respect Liaodong first, what should you do in China?

Queen Zhou didn't expect that things would be so big. After all, she was her own son. She looked at Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, the emperor is young and ignorant. Since the matter has reached this point, I, a mother, have the responsibility. If you want to punish me, please punish you together with your concubines."

As she said that, Empress Zhou knelt down. When she knelt down, Wang Chengen next to her weakened his legs and he also knelt down.

Empress Zhou was gentle and virtuous, and everyone inside and outside knew it. After getting angry, Chongzhen also knew that things had reached this point, so he could only bite the bullet and agree to give the 800,000 taels of silver to Liaodong.

However, Chongzhen, who had already had a little anger, was immediately ignited again because of the man entering the palace alone.

The Huitongguan of the Capital Station is the main hub of the national station. News came from there that His Highness the Crown Prince sent postmen to Liaodong in the name of the court, informing Hong Chengchou, the governor of Ji Liao there that the court had allocated 800,000 taels of silver military pay on the way.

"This rebellious son is really careful. He knew that I would intercept the 600,000 taels of silver halfway, so he sent someone to Liaodong to inform the soldiers there. Haha, my good son has grown up, and I really underestimated this rebellious son!"

Maybe he had nothing to fall, the imperial table was lifted by Chongzhen and the stool was kicked. So he picked up a vase on the case next to him and 'bang'.

Queen Zhou's heart sank, and he didn't understand what happened to Zhu Cixuan, who had always been well-behaved and obedient,? Could it be that the ancestors appeared again and deliberately asked him to do this?

Queen Zhou raised her head, looked at Chongzhen who was furious, and swallowed it back. After all, what Zhu Cilang said about Emperor Chengzu was too illusory.

Luo Yangxing, who was kneeling on the ground, was secretly grateful. In order to clear himself, Chongzhen did not cause trouble for Luo Yangxing. So Luo Yangxing knelt on the ground with courage and said, "Long live, Your Highness, Your Highness, has left 70,000 taels of gold for the Beizhen Fusi. I dare not transfer the money. The 70,000 taels of silver will be handed over to the treasury."

Seventy thousand taels were left for the Jinyiwei. Chongzhen sighed: "You Jinyiwei keep it. I have not been so stupid that I can rob any money. Your Jinyiwei has been busy for so long and should always reward it. I will think of other ways to get the money from the various departments and yamen. Queen, as the lord of the six palaces. How much money can we raise in our harem?"

There is still money in the harem. Who would have thought that no one would believe that Emperor Chongzhen's underwear was even patched. These patches were sewn by Empress Zhou himself.

An emperor, is the emperor really that poor?

It was so poor. An emperor named Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty also wore patched clothes. However, compared with Chongzhen, he was really poor, and the other was showing off. Because Emperor Daoguang had to spend fifty taels of silver for one patch, Chongzhen did not spend a penny, and it was repaired by Empress Zhou.

Empress Zhou often wore cloth clothes and vegetarian food in the harem, and advocated frugality with the emperor. All matters such as female red textiles were handled by himself. Historical records show that the Queen Zhou set up twenty-four spinning wheels in the harem and taught the palace maids to spin, which can be confirmed.

Although the expenses in the harem have been reduced so much that they cannot be reduced, Queen Zhou still said: "Go to Your Majesty, I can squeeze out 20,000 taels."

A maid next to Empress Zhou wanted to speak, but when she looked at Chongzhen, she was so scared that she swallowed the words back. How could it be? I'm afraid that it would be impossible to squeeze out two thousand taels. Queen Zhou said this, it seemed that she wanted to sell some of her jewelry and dowry.

The Ming Dynasty was indeed a bit sad as a mother of the country and a poor emperor.

There seems to be always a solution. Luo Yangxing took out a letter from his arms and presented it: "Long live, this is a letter left by His Highness the Crown Prince in the Northern Town Fushi. Relieve your anger, Your Highness the Crown Prince said that this letter is only Long live, you can open it with your heart."

Chongzhen was stunned and said hatefully: "Is this rebellious son trying to piss me to death? He has caused such a big disaster and has the face to leave a letter to me, I won't see it!"

Your father was so angry that he was half angry. At this time, he would definitely not want to read such a letter. If you were in front of you, Chongzhen would probably slap you with a big mouth.

Empress Zhou was soft-hearted and said to Luo Yangxing: "Take it and take a look."

The maid next to Empress Zhou went over to take the letter from Luo Yangxing and gave it to her. The letter was sealed with a hot paint, but Luo Yangxing didn't have the courage to open it and read it.

Empress Zhou tore open the letter and looked at it for a few times, her face changed drastically.

Seeing that Empress Zhou’s face was a little wrong, Emperor Chongzhen couldn’t help but become interested. He walked to Empress Zhou: “What are he doing with this rebellious son?”

Empress Zhou seemed a little hesitant, but she still gave the letter to Chongzhen. When Chongzhen looked at it, she saw that the letter was written by Zhu Cilang:

‘Father, the son kowtowed to the south.

When my father received this letter, my son had already gone north. My son knew that my father was angry, and I was very angry. However, the Jiannu from the border was not willing to destroy my Ming Dynasty, so I must not let down the hearts of the soldiers. My son dared to send 800,000 taels of silver military pay, and the salaries of hundreds of officials in the court were unsustainable for disaster relief and bandit suppression.

The father is in power and at ease. The son's grandfather, Zhou Kui, still has 500,000 taels of silver. The father can come to borrow someone, but his grandfather is stingy and will never cry and be poor.

The son minister was in the third book hole on the left of the case table of the Beizhen Fushi. There was a book where grandpa bought and sold officials and accepted bribes privately. The father could ask Luo Yangxing to take this book to the father-in-law's house to question him. If grandpa was willing to hand over the fine of 500,000 taels of silver, he would be exempted from the crime. If he refused, he would collect the property.

Not to mention 500,000 taels, grandfather of the minister can also take out one million taels. With this money, the official salary, disaster relief, and bandit suppression can be slowed down...'

Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of the country? Why is it him the one who is unlucky?

That's right, when Zhu Cixuan took over the Jinyiwei, he had already sent someone to investigate Zhou Kui in secret. Otherwise, the borrowing of money would have to rely on the family. Zhou Kui made a full 3 million taels of silver. Zhu Cixuan did not dare to tell Chongzhen about this. After Zhou Kui handed over one million taels of silver, Zhu Cixuan began to collect evidence of his grandfather's corruption and abuse of power.
Chapter completed!