Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 126 What the hell is going on?

Zhao Wen walked up and down the hall, his face uncertain.

The armor that hadn't been taken off on his body reflected rays of light, revealing a chilling aura.

Liu Wenzhong sat on a chair and looked at Zhao Wen with a silent expression.

After a long time, Zhao Wen said, "You mean they will arrive in seven or eight days?"

"Yes!"

"Then who led their team here? Are they investigating openly or secretly?"

Liu Wenzhong thought for a while, and said, "I don't know exactly who it is, but I heard that they came here to investigate. I heard that the emperor didn't quite believe that you would rebel, so I just..."

It is also fortunate that the officials of the Shanxi merchant faction dealt with Chongzhen, otherwise, the result would be really difficult to say.

That's right, now Zhao Wen is the cash cow of Shanxi merchants and the sweet pastry in their eyes.

They will not let Zhao Wen fall anyway.After all, if Zhao Wen falls, their wallets will be gone.

Since the sale of cement and mirrors began, Shanxi merchants have been smiling from ear to ear almost every day.

Before Liu Wenzhong could finish speaking, Zhao Wen directly interrupted Liu Wenzhong, "I understand, that is to say, the emperor doesn't believe that I will rebel, so he sent some random people to investigate ?”

Liu Wenzhong nodded and said, "That's pretty much what it means."

"However, this incident caused a great repercussions in the court. For a period of time, the officials in the court were divided into two factions, and they kept arguing about how to deal with this matter.

In this quarrel, the officials in the court are mainly divided into those who say good things for us, and those who add insult to injury.

It was officials from the Shanxi Merchants faction who spoke good words for us, while it was the Donglin Party who made trouble and wanted to put us to death. "Liu Wenzhong frowned and said slowly.

Zhao Wen was taken aback, "Donglin Party?"

This is the Donglin Party, which pushed the Ming Dynasty into the abyss, is notorious, and is rich in "the water is too cold, and the head is very itchy", which claims to be an upright gentleman!

Unexpectedly, this group of guys actually hit my head with ideas.

Liu Wenzhong looked at Zhao Wen with a surprised face, and said in a deep voice, "The one who danced the most was the new cabinet boss, Zhou Yanru."

Zhao Wen's eyes flashed with murderous intent. To some extent, these guys are even more hateful than Shanxi merchants.

The group of people in the Donglin Party did a few good things when they were first formed, and the officials who joined the Donglin Party were quite honest and responsible.

But since the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, the young emperor couldn't hold them down at all, so they showed their true colors.

All of them are full of benevolence, justice and morality, shouting that the commercial tax and mining tax are competing for the interests of the people, and requesting the abolition of the commercial tax and mining tax, while constantly grabbing rights that do not belong to them.

They didn't care about the emperor at all. In their view, the emperor should be a clay bodhisattva in the temple and should hide in the harem.

Better to do nothing, better to leave everything to them.

But if you leave the matter to them, they can't handle it well.Don't say it can't be done well, but he is good at kicking balloons.

This group of people are basically a group of nerds who can only show off their lips. How can they get things done?
And you can't talk about them yet, if you talk about them, they will bring out the teachings of the saints, Confucius sayings, and Huang Mingzu's teachings to educate you, and they can still make you speechless.

Their greatest ability is not to do things, but to stir things up.

There is nothing in this world that they can't mess with.

All in all, this is a group of greedy, cunning and incompetent people.

How can the young Zhu Youxiao be the opponent of this group of people?They were directly forced to the harem and started carpentry.

But the emperor is still the emperor after all, and he is the most sensitive person in the world to rights.There are almost no fools who can become emperors.

It is impossible for the young Zhu Youxiao to watch his own rights being taken away and remain indifferent.

The Emperor Tianqi, who was forced to do nothing, imitated his ancestors and directly sacrificed Wei Zhongxian, the big killer, in desperation.

Although Wei Zhongxian is not a good person, at least he is loyal to the emperor.

But in this way, these people from the Donglin Party are not willing.

They had to compete with Wei Zhongxian.But in this way, the entire court became smoky.

Since then, no one cares about Jiangshan Sheji, and everyone only cares about official positions and money.

Above the entire court, party disputes continued every day.It is not you who impeach me today, but I will impeach you tomorrow.

In the Apocalypse Dynasty, more land was lost in Liaodong than the Wanli Dynasty and Chongzhen Dynasty combined.

The saying that the Ming Dynasty died due to party struggles is not casual.

But there are no absolutes, and there are honest and loyal people in the Donglin Party.It's just pitiful.

Emperor Sun Chengzong is also a member of the Donglin Party, but he is not as shameless as other Donglin Party members.He has made great military exploits throughout his life, building the Ningjin line of defense, and stopping Jiannu's footsteps.

Although Sun Chengzong is a member of the Donglin Party, the Donglin Party members only regard it as a golden signboard to promote the Donglin Party.

"In my opinion, the emperor just dealt with it casually to silence the Donglin party members, not to really target the adults." Liu Wenzhong looked at Zhao Wen who was in deep thought, and said slowly.

Zhao Wen let out a long breath, and said in a slow voice: "Even though that's the case, what should be done must be done, at least superficial skills must be done."

"Then are we going to drive out the refugees?"

"What refugees are you driving away? There are so many refugees, how can I drive them away? Besides, these refugees are the strongest capital in my hands, and I will not drive them away no matter what.

All right, let's not talk about it. Zhao Wen sat on the chair again, looked at the documents on the table, and asked, "Is there anything going on in Longmen Fort recently?" "

Liu Wenzhong said: "Recently there is no major event in the castle, the textile factory has also started work, and the iron factory has officially started production. However, it has only been in production for a few days.

The coal needed in the iron and steel plant was brought in by Shanxi merchants, my lord, do you see? "

Zhao Wen squeezed his chin and said in thought: "Datong is indeed rich in coal mines, and Shanxi merchants can also transport them. Oh, by the way, how long do you think the food I brought back can last?"

"I took a rough look, and there are almost 5 stones. There are not many people in our Longmen Fort now, and those refugees basically have jobs now, and they have earned a lot of money.

Shanxi merchants saw that they had money in their hands, so they opened many grain stores in the market outside the fort, so we can eat these grains for a long time. "Liu Wenzhong explained to Zhao Wen in detail.

Zhao Wen listened to Liu Wenzhong's explanation, and picked up the documents on the table casually.

"There are already more than 4000 people in our castle, nearly [-]? I have only been out for such a short time, how come there are so many more people?" Shocked.

Liu Wenzhong replied: "Since my lord led the army to set off, the number of refugees coming to Longmen Fort has never stopped. Almost every day, more than 300 refugees come here.

Most of these people are young and strong.Among these young men, I got some of them to work in ironworks and cement plants.

Since our cement started selling, it has been very popular.The cement we produce is simply in short supply.

Under the constant demands of Shanxi merchants, I more than doubled the size of the cement plant and added more than 30 cement kilns.

Fortunately, so many cement kilns have been added, otherwise, I really don't know how to deal with the refugees who came. "

Zhao Wen asked casually, "How is the quality of the steel produced by the steel factory?"

"My lord, the steel from our steel factory is all high-quality steel, which is much better than Sugang in the south. Shanxi merchants want to sell our steel one by one after seeing our steel. But the steel Things are no different than others, and the matter is of great importance, so I am not good at making decisions." Liu Wenzhong said word by word.

Zhao Wen squeezed his chin, put down the paperwork, and said, "You did a good job. Steel is no different than anything else. It is military supplies and cannot be sold at will. Besides, many of the Shanxi merchants have connections with Liaodong Jiannu collusion.

If these steels are sold to them, there is no guarantee that they will sell them to Liaodong.

If it is really sold to Liaodong, it will really be worth the loss. "

After Zhao Wen finished speaking, he flipped through a few documents.

After a while, Zhao Wen pointed to these documents and said to Liu Wenzhong: "You move these documents to the study. I still have something to do. I will check it in detail tonight."

(End of this chapter)