Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 27 If you dare to threaten me, then I will copy your home

Senior officials in the ministry and hall generally do not meet the emperor directly unless they encounter an emergency. They usually inform the cabinet in advance and decide on a basic solution before presenting to the emperor.

But now, Guo Yunhou obviously encountered an urgent matter, and he didn't bother to go to the cabinet to discuss with Wei Guangwei, and went directly to Zhu Youxiao to play the matter.

"Your Majesty, the price of food in the capital has skyrocketed. Many rice shops were sold out in less than an hour as soon as they opened in the morning, and then they were four or five times higher when they opened again in the afternoon, and many people have no rice to buy. Buy, even some of the poorer court officials have been out of rice for a few days, if things go on like this, there will be riots!"

Guo Yunhou's words reminded Zhu Youxiao of what Wang Chengen reported a few days ago about the Fan family, one of the eight Shanxi merchants, buying a large amount of food from Huguang and Gyeonggi and taking the opportunity to hoard it.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao has learned from Sun Zhixie that Zhang Yong, one of the main emissaries of the assassination, is the power of the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants. In addition, those Tartars also sneaked into the capital with the help of the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants.

From this point of view, the eight Shanxi merchants and the Donglin Party have long colluded together, and together with the Qing forces, what I am facing now is not three separate hostile forces, but a united three forces.

However, because of Nurhachi's death and Huang Taiji's accession to the throne, the internal struggle has not yet ended, and there is no time to organize a large-scale military force to go south.

The main officials of the seven major border towns, which are closely related to the eight major Shanxi merchants, have been deployed by themselves, and they have formed a circle of encirclement for the eight major Shanxi merchants.

The Donglin Party has been attacked by the Eunuch Party year after year since the second year of the Apocalypse. Although its power is still not to be underestimated, it cannot make much waves.

In this case, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help clenching his fists: "Since I want to take my life and country, then I will take your property and lives first!"

As soon as Zhu Youxiao said this, Wang Chengen came in suddenly, handed over a copy and said: "Your Majesty, the Criminal Division has given Hou Xun a memorial for the matter, and the memorial is for His Majesty to release the Qingshan Guild Hall that Dongchang sent to arrest not long ago. Jin merchants, according to Hou Xun, these Jin merchants are all grain merchants, if they are not released, there will be a grain shortage in the capital."

"I just caught them, and these Shanxi merchants can't sit still and threaten me, good, good!"

As soon as Zhu Youxiao said that, he turned around and asked Wang Chengen: "Have everyone been dispatched, and when are you going to do it?"

"It's all arranged," Wang Chengen replied.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Okay, then you can tell Guo Aiqing that in a few days, the food shortage in the capital will be completely resolved."

"One day," Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youxiao, and said this to Guo Yunhou.

"one day?"

Guo Yunhou couldn't believe Wang Cheng'en's words, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that now we can only discuss with those big grain sellers such as Shanxi merchants, but even so, it will not be resolved in a day."

"Hmph, discuss with them. This is what you, the second-rank Shangshu, said, so why didn't they come to discuss with me when they murdered me!"

Zhu Youxiao was a little annoyed. Many of these court officials had more or less relationships with Shanxi merchants. Knowing that the food is in the hands of Shanxi merchants, what he thought of was not to attack these profiteers in the name of the court, but to discuss with these Shanxi merchants.

"Your Majesty's words are wrong. Your Majesty is a man of gold. Who would dare to murder His Majesty? Those businessmen just love to make some money, and they will not harm the foundation of the country after all."

It's fine if Guo Yunhou didn't say this, but when he said this, Zhu Youxiao immediately pointed at Guo Yunhou angrily and shouted: "Presumptuous! When it's your turn to teach me a lesson, you court officials who grew up with the Four Books and Five Classics on their backs Is there still Zhen in my eyes, are there still people in the world, and now I have been speaking for those profiteers!"

"Your Majesty, forgive me!"

Seeing that Zhu Youxiao was suddenly furious, Guo Yunhou fell to his knees in fright.

With a cold snort, Zhu Youxiao asked Guo Yunhou to stand up, fined Guo Yunhou half a year's salary, and demoted the left servant of the household department to temporarily manage the household department.

Guo Yunhou, who felt as if he had walked outside the gate of hell, was sweating profusely at this moment, and did not dare to say a word, fearing that he would offend the emperor again by accident.

"I used to think that although these Donglin Party and Shanxi merchants sometimes did not agree with me, they were all subjects of Ming Dynasty and they were all for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. That's why I adopted a soft policy. First, I activated a large number of people who were dismissed. The officials rehabilitated them again, but they didn't expect that these rebellious officials and thieves would not die in their hearts, and even colluded with the Manchu Tartars to harm me. The so-called emperor was angry and laid down millions of corpses. In this case, I will let them taste Taste my iron-blooded blade!"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but not be angry. After he became the emperor, he was killed several times in a row. It is impossible for anyone to ignore it and just tolerate it, unless that person is a coward by nature!
"Wang Chengen!"

"Chen is here!"

"Arrest immediately! Anyone who resists can be killed on the spot, and the criminal department who helped the eight major Shanxi merchants to threaten me just now will also send me to the Imperial Prison, and I will be punished together with the Donglin thieves !"

Zhu Youxiao gave an order.

Wang Chengen immediately retreated without saying a word, and in a short time, the crazy revenge of Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao began to be staged.

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Fan Yongdou, a great Jin merchant who didn't know that his actions had already annoyed the emperor, was talking and laughing happily with Han Kui, the butler of the former chief assistant Han Yu, in the private room of the No. [-] Restaurant in the capital, and said triumphantly:
"Brother Han doesn't know. Although Fan is only a member of his life, he also knows a lot of dignitaries in the court. Now the one in the Forbidden City is still being played by me between applause and applause. Even within three days, there must be someone. The court officials are going to come to me and sell it to the court at a price that is [-]% higher than the current price. Zhu Youxiao will not only reward me with gold and silver, but maybe even give me an official title, because I help him A big crisis has been resolved, but I, Fan, don't care about these things, I only care about money."

As he said that, Fan Yongdou laughed out loud, and asked Han Kui: "Is there any clue about your master's comeback?"

Han Kui sighed, and whispered in Fan Yongdou's ear: "I thought His Majesty would reactivate the Donglin Party, but who knew it was just going through the motions to deceive the world's scholars, and my master had a deep friendship with King Xin, so he really did it. A few things that I am sorry for His Majesty, the people in Dongchang are investigating, I am here in Beijing now, I am ordered by the master to go to various parties to deal with it, and the other is to find a way to find out if the things of the past have been exposed."

Fan Yongdou nodded. He was also involved in the murder of Zhu Youxiao, and his Fan family and the Han family are family friends, so Han Kui dared to tell himself these things.

But hearing Han Kui talk about this, he was secretly worried, but when he thought that the lifeline of the court was in his own hands, he felt relieved a lot.

However, at this moment, there were several screams from outside the house, followed by a stream of blood splashing on the window, scaring Fan Yongdou and Han Kui to stand up immediately.

(End of this chapter)