Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 264

As usual, Zhu Chunchen followed Emperor Chongzhen during his shifts. As the left governor of the Jingwei Dudufu, he was in charge of the imperial guards in the palace city and the imperial city, and held a very heavy authority.

However, during the recent period, Zhu Chunchen was not in a good mood.

Since the tax resistance case supervised by the Shuntian government government, a group of people were killed by hanging, the matter has not come to an end.

Even the business in Beijing that they secretly control under the name of Cheng Guogong's government has been slightly affected.

Many times when Zhu Chunchen was upset, he would secretly scold the dead Zhang Weixian, you old bastard will gain both fame and fortune once you die, and I will be pushed into the eye of the storm.

Die, don't pick a good time to die.

You must die when the situation in the court is dark!
"Cheng Guogong, what do you mean Your Majesty?" Tang Guozuo sat on the official hat chair, looked at Zhu Chunchen with a gloomy expression, and asked, "Li Ruzhen and others who were arrested and imprisoned seem to have disappeared. , there is no rumor at all, Ben Hou always feels that this matter is not simple."

"Your Majesty's mind, is it something we can figure out?"

Zhu Chunchen frowned slightly, staring at Tang Guozuo and said, "Isn't it possible that you have something to do with their Li family in private at the Marquis of Lingbi's mansion?"

"Where can it be!"

Tang Guozuo immediately denied it and said: "A mere Li family, even if Li Chengliang did have some background in Liaodong when he was alive, it's a fart now!"

"It's better not to!"

Zhu Chunchen snorted coldly and said, "Since Jianlu invaded our Ming Dynasty, His Majesty seems to have changed. Under the current situation, especially the Yuan case has not yet been settled, don't get angry!"

Hearing Zhu Chunchen's words, Tang Guozuo nodded his approval on the surface, but he didn't take it seriously in his heart. What did Jin Yiwei have to do with Yuan's case.

During this period of time in the court, although there were a group of officials who were affected by the Yuan case or were dismissed from office or arrested, they were all small fish and small shrimps.

"Cheng Guogong, guess who I saw!"

Excited, Liu Kongzhao walked in quickly from outside the hall, stretched out his hand and said, "Zhang Shize, who was missing before, showed up, like a beggar, and ran to the Military Aircraft Department."

"Who?!"

When Zhu Chunchen heard the words, his heart skipped a beat, he looked at Liu Kongzhao in surprise, and said, "Are you sure you read it right? It's really Zhang Shize?"

"Mr. Cheng, I still have this vision." Liu Kongzhao frowned and said, "What does Zhang Shize look like..."

Zhu Chunchen, who was sitting, ignored the chattering Liu Kongzhao in front of him. At this moment, he was wondering what Zhang Shize, who had disappeared before, was doing.

His grandfather Zhang Weixian passed away, and he didn't show up when such a big event happened. If the Emperor Chongzhen hadn't sent his confidant eunuch Wang Chengen to spread the word during the funeral that Zhang Shize was on an official errand, the label of unfilial piety would definitely be on Zhang Shize's head superior.

……

At the same time, in the office of the military aircraft.

"Get up and talk."

Emperor Chongzhen frowned slightly, looked at the haggard and unshaven Zhang Shize, got up and said, "How are you doing with the errand I entrusted to you?"

"Your Majesty, you should see for yourself."

Zhang Shize took out a document from his bosom, suppressed the agitation in his heart, and said with trembling hands: "The matter over there in Zhangjiakou has been resolved by our department."

Ok?
Hearing Zhang Shize's words, Emperor Chongzhen narrowed his eyes slightly, and thought in his heart, it seems that Zhou Yuji and the others must have divided up their troops after they knew what they were going to do.

After receiving the memorabilia handed over by Wang Chengen, Emperor Chongzhen looked through it. Standing Zhang Shize, his tiger eyes shone brightly, and he was extremely excited.

At this time, Zhang Shize still didn't know about his grandfather's death, let alone that he was ordered to be Zhongyong Bo. His thoughts were still stuck on organizing the war to suppress the forces of the Eight Shanxi Merchants in Zhangjiakou.

"Good! Good!"

Under Wang Chengen's watchful eyes, Emperor Chongzhen stood up against the table, clutching the memorial in his hand, and said: "Sure enough, I saw you right, the errands were handled beautifully.

When you left Zhangjiakoubao, what was the situation there?Has there been unrest? "

"no!"

Zhang Shize clasped his fists and replied: "After suppressing the eight thieves, I found a large amount of silver, grain, iron, and even prohibited firearms and crossbows, so I immediately sent people to inform Hou Shuai..."

Listening to what Zhang Shize said, Emperor Chongzhen showed a smile on his face. This Cao Wenzhao is worthy of being a famous general, and he is more cautious and decisive than anyone else in his actions.

As an important place for foreign trade in the Ming Dynasty, since the Ming Dynasty abolished the market, and wanted to use the method of economic warfare to completely seal off the Eight Banners of Jianlu, this family fortress was no longer as prosperous as before.

But the lack of prosperity on the surface does not mean that the smuggling business in the dark has also become depressed.

In particular, the eight Shanxi merchants headed by Fan Yongdou saw the huge profits of smuggling inside and outside the pass, and one by one they started their treacherous trips.

On the surface they are citizens of Daming, and they have a high reputation in Shanxi, but in private, they use money to open the way, corrupt a group of officials and generals, and act as a protective umbrella for their smuggling business, and even when necessary, It will also spread false news to provide Jianlu Eight Banners with all kinds of shortages.

"It is estimated that more than 800 million taels of silver can be confiscated from Zhangjiakou Fort alone?" Emperor Chongzhen whispered, looked at Zhang Shize and said, "It really opened my eyes. With so many thieves and rats, even running dogs and traitors!
If this is the case, then let me check the Zhangjiakou area, and even the Xuanfu Town area, and kill anyone who has anything to do with the eight great thieves! "

According to the memorials submitted by Cao Wenzhao and the others, Emperor Chongzhen knew how serious the existence of the Zhangjiakou Fort area was.

Even though he knew exactly what kind of virtues the eight Shanxi merchants headed by Fan Yongdou had, the Emperor Chongzhen couldn't restrain his anger when the truth began to be gradually revealed.

Speaking of which, this Jiakou Fort is just the advance base for smuggling by the eight major Shanxi merchants. Over the years, most of the money earned from smuggling has been smuggled back to their hometowns.

This also made Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help thinking about what amazing results the generals, such as Zhou Yuji, who led the troops to rule Shanxi and went straight to the nests of the eight Shanxi merchants, would lead their troops to achieve.

At this moment, we must take this opportunity to clean up Xuanfu Town. The big house thieves and rats must be killed, and the small flies and mosquitoes must not be let go!

Especially in Xuanfu Town and Zhangjiakou Fort after the cleanup, corresponding changes must be made to prevent this blank smuggling market from being secretly infiltrated by others in a short period of time.

(End of this chapter)