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Chapter 190 Zhou Yanru Falls Out of Favor

"What an idiot." In the imperial study, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the memorial in front of him, then at Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren in front of him, and finally threw the memorial on the ground viciously.It's just that I don't know whether this sentence is scolding the two people in front of me, or the person who said this story.This is the memorial submitted by Zhou Daodeng, the former Prime Minister of Wujiang. There are hundreds of Jiangnan gentry's joint names on it. It records Li Xin's actions in Jiangnan, either out of nothing, or infinitely exaggerated, etc., describing Li Xin as a villain full of evil. guy.It's just that all of this didn't arouse Li Xin's interest at all, and even made him feel extremely angry.

"Your Majesty, Li Xin is full of evil. He has done all sorts of evil. He slaughtered countless of our gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. I implore Your Majesty to order troops from all over the country to assemble Xuanfu and destroy Li Xin." Zhou Yanru lowered his head and sighed.

It's just that Wen Tiren sneered in his heart. Only he knew that Emperor Chongzhen certainly hated Li Xin, but more importantly, it was because of the incompetence of Zhou Yanru in front of him.Li Xin entered the Central Plains from Guihua City, killed all the way to Jiangnan, and took away his unmarried wife, and even messed up the whole Jiangnan, even Zhou Daodeng was almost killed.Zhou Yanru's matter was acquiesced by him. As the chief minister, Zhou Yanru could use so many resources, but Li Xin escaped with great fanfare, which further highlighted Zhou Yanru's incompetence.How can such a person be the chief minister again?
"Is it still possible to hunt down Li Xin now?" Emperor Chongzhen said calmly with his head down and his face gloomy.

"At this moment, Li Xin is not in Yunzhong City. The old minister heard that Li Xin will stay in Shandong for a period of time. The dragons in Yunzhong City have no leader. If they attack Yunzhong City at this time, they will definitely destroy Li Xin's army in Yunzhong City. In Yunzhong is Li Xin. The foundation of faith, Li Xin, who has destroyed the foundation, is nothing to worry about." Zhou Yanru didn't know that Emperor Chongzhen was somewhat dissatisfied with him, but he also had difficulties, that is, from Xuanfu to Jiangnan, there were only civil servants. I am supporting myself, but as for those generals, I don't care about myself at all, not to mention that this civil servant is only a part of it.And Jinyiwei and Dongxichang fanzi everywhere are not Li Xin's opponents at all.Under such circumstances, how can Li Xin be killed.

"Will Li Xin stay in Shandong? What does he want to do?" Emperor Chongzhen suddenly thought of something and asked curiously.

"This?" Zhou Yanru hesitated.

"Your Majesty, this Wei Weichen knows about it." Wen Tiren stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I heard that Li Xin is because of Kong Youde's rebellion in Shandong."

"What? Does he want a piece of the pie?" Emperor Chongzhen's complexion changed, and he stared at Wen Tiren viciously and said.

"That's not it." Wen Tiren quickly explained: "The old minister heard that it was because Li Xin heard that Kong Youde had joined Jiannu, and that Kong Youde's soldiers were proficient in firearms. Li Xin was afraid that after these soldiers followed Kong Youde to Jiannu's place, The envoy Jiannu has mastered a lot of firearm technology, so he wants to kill Kong Youde in Shandong and stop Kong Youde from doing things."

"Kong Youde really has the heart to become a slave?" Chongzhen's complexion changed, and he glanced at the two nervously, and finally his eyes fell on Zhou Yanru, with a faint gleam of coldness.Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant minister, doesn't know about such an important matter?This made Emperor Chongzhen even more dissatisfied.

"Lord Wen, how do you know Li Xin's thoughts? Or, you have been in contact with him for a long time?" Zhou Yanru felt the murderous intent of Emperor Chongzhen.I was even more angry with Wen Tiren in my heart, and couldn't help asking.

"Wen Qing, how did you know?" Emperor Chongzhen was indeed attracted by Zhou Yanru's words, and he looked at Wen Tiren suspiciously.Thinking that Emperor Chongzhen was suspicious by nature, Zhou Yanru who followed him knew him very well, so he pointed out the key point without hesitation.

"Don't dare to lie to the emperor, the old minister got the news from Shandong." Wen Tiren said unhurriedly: "Recently, the old minister is worried about the situation in Shandong. In addition, there is someone in the old minister's family whose hometown is in Shandong. The old minister listens to him. He said that although Li Xin had not yet arrived in Shandong, the news had already spread in Shandong. It was said that Li Xin not only wanted to attack the rebels, but also transported millions of stones of food for the victims of the disaster in Shandong, and he planned to provide disaster relief in Shandong. "

"All these news came from Li Xin?" Zhou Yanru felt a shock in his heart. These days, he has been paying attention to Li Xin's affairs and trying to deal with Li Xin. He really forgot about the Shandong matter!

"The old minister thought that Li Xin would not deceive people in this regard." Wen Tiren said without thinking: "You know, the person Jiannu hates the most now is Li Xin. If Li Xin is not dead, Jiannu will not go south for a moment. And once Jiannu gets Kong Youde's soldiers who are proficient in firearms, Li Xin will face great pressure from Jiannu, so it is impossible for Li Xin to let Kong Youde join Jiannu."

"En." Emperor Chongzhen nodded, thought for a while and asked again: "Li Xin's roots are in the grasslands, and he only brought dozens of people to kill Jiangnan. How can he have this million stones of grain?"

Now Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren stopped talking immediately. How did these two people not know where Li Xin's food came from? It's just that it's hard to say.Jiangnan is a fertile land, and those gentry don't know how much food they have in their homes.Li Xin travels across the southern Zhili area, and he doesn't know how many wealthy households have been blackmailed by him, and Wujiang is even the richest of the wealthy households, surrounded by tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land, and the granaries in the homes of these rich locals do not know How many.Li Xin's million-dollar grain is even more easily available.It's just that these can't be explained to Chongzhen. What the court lacks now is nothing more than money and food.The imperial court was short of money, but those rich merchants in the south of the Yangtze River did not lack any. The imperial court was short of food, and the gentry's homes did not have a few or even dozens of granaries.But these people are dedicated to the emperor.

"Hey!" Although Emperor Chongzhen was self-willed and suspicious by nature, he was also a wise master, otherwise it would not have been possible to get rid of Wei Zhongxian smoothly.At this time, seeing that neither of them spoke, he instantly understood the mystery.They even know that the two people in front of them have better food and clothing than themselves, and their family property even has more money than their own internal treasury.This is even more true for those gentlemen in the south of the Yangtze River.Which one is not rich in clothes and jade food.Otherwise, how could Li Xin easily search for a million stones of grain!Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen even felt a little bit of the same hatred, and felt gloating.These people who are not loyal to serve the country deserve to be searched by Li Xin.

"How is the situation in Shandong?" Emperor Chongzhen sighed softly. Although he is an emperor, he has a good reputation. Regarding the lack of money and food in the court, he would rather save a little by himself, but he never asked those Gentlemen ask for money and food, not to mention Jiangnan, even in the city of Beijing, I don’t know how many wealthy households there are. , Chongzhen would rather borrow from them than rob them for a crime.He looked at the two people in front of him with complicated eyes. He also knew that these two people might have more money in their families than himself, and each of them had never focused on state affairs. It may be to transfer this topic and ask about Shandong.

"The situation in Shandong has improved. Although Kong Youde is cunning, he has fewer and fewer soldiers and horses. He must be wiped out by the army soon." Wen Tiren said quickly.

"It's so good, Shandong is corrupt, and the Ministry of Household Affairs, hey! Order the Shandong government to resettle refugees, and use civil and military aid to govern Shandong together." Emperor Chongzhen originally planned to order the Ministry of Households to allocate money and food, but when he thought that the Ministry of Households had no money now , and can only be handled by Shandong itself.As for what Shandong will do, he doesn't know, and soon he thought of Li Xin again, saying: "Since Kong Youde is going to surrender and become a slave, he must go by sea, and order Huanglong, the commander of Lushun Navy, to attack Kong Youde."

"I will obey the order." Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru hurriedly obeyed.

"Okay, Zhou Qing, let's come here today! You should step down first!" Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while and said to Zhou Yanru: "The cabinet drafted a decree, and passed it on to Lushun quickly, so that Huanglong can do things cheaply!"

"Yes, the old minister will do it now." Zhou Yanru hesitated for a while, and quickly retreated.His expression was calm, but in fact, thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.Emperor Chongzhen let him go out, leaving Wen Tiren behind, which made him feel uncomfortable.I hated Wen Tiren even more in my heart.

"Hmph, the two thieves Li Xin and Wen Tiren are not good people." Zhou Yanru thought as he walked out of the imperial study.Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, his eyes lit up, and his footsteps immediately picked up, and he seemed to feel much younger.

"Your Majesty." In the imperial study, Wen Tiren was anxious, not knowing what Emperor Chongzhen would do for him.

"Zhou Qing is old and lacks energy." A long and leisurely sigh pulled Wen Tiren from the [-]th floor of hell to heaven, his whole body seemed to eat ginseng fruit, with hundreds of millions of pores venting.This sentence is sweeter than eating honey.Wen Tiren's face suddenly filled with a smile.When an ordinary king utters this sentence, it means that Zhou Yanru, the chief minister, may not be able to serve for much time.

"Master Zhou is 40 years old, young and strong, and can be the first assistant." Although the emperor thought that Zhou Yanru was useless and old, Wen Tiren, who was the second assistant, did not dare to speak ill of Zhou Yanru at this time. When you are most proud, you must never speak ill of your opponent, otherwise, not only will not achieve good results, but it will even arouse the suspicion of the emperor.

Sure enough, as soon as Wen Tiren's words fell, Emperor Chongzhen showed a look of relief on his face, nodded, and said in approval: "Wen Qing can have such an idea, he is the minister of my Ming Dynasty. Some people are not capable, but they have a jealous heart." , with a pair of old and dizzy eyes. Hey! The prime minister can hold a boat in his stomach, but he is far behind." Emperor Chongzhen shook his head as if thinking of something.

(End of this chapter)