Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 642 Poison Eunuch

"The Guo family in Yixing, the Chang family in Wujin, the Yu family, and the Ge family in Changzhou! There are seven families in the front and back, hundreds of people, men, women, old and young, all killed! This Song Lianghuai is really a black hand, so ruthless." heart of!"

He didn't even think that he was the killer who moved first, and seeing the secret report sent, Lu Daqi, the Minister of the Ministry of War, couldn't help gasping, shook his head, and immediately stood up angrily.

"Everyone, we must not sit idly by when the Song thief slaughtered so bloodily the people of Jiangnan! Everyone, let's go to the palace to face the saint, and we must impeach the Song thief no matter what!"

"Do you have any evidence?"

Gao Hongtu's old-fashioned words suddenly seemed like a bucket of cold water was poured on Lu Daqi's head every three or nine days, and he sat back decadently, and Lu Daqi yelled angrily.

"Could it be that you're just watching the bandits Song messing around on the ground in Jiangnan?"

"It's not a fool's errand!"

Picking up the tea bowl and taking a sip, Qian Qianyi shook his head emotionally: "In more than ten days, more than 20 hidden households, 340 million mu of hidden farmland, and 200 million taels of taxes were collected. This is only half of the southern Zhili area. , if Lord Chongzhen reused him as a competent official while he was alive, maybe the capital could not be lost!"

"Competent official? Cruel official is almost the same!" Lu Daqi, who had the straightest temper, yelled angrily again. The dead Guo Juren was not only his student, but also his most promising student during the imperial examinations.

"Qingzhang's land is indeed a good government. The taxes in Jiangnan are the heaviest, and the common people really have no tax to increase!" Liu Zongzhou, the censor of Zuodu, said something fair, but soon his words changed again.

"But this achievement must not be given to Thief Song! Otherwise, the power expansion this time will be more harmful than Yan Song and Wei Zhongxian back then! In any case, he must be dismissed!"

"But now that the Song bandits are making a move, those weak bones are scared, and even the Huizhou guys seem to want to let go!" Lu Daqi said sadly and helplessly again, listening to Qian Qianyi and Liu Zongzhou. His face was gloomy, and after a few seconds, Qian Qianyi hummed in a dark voice.

"I have to find something for Song Thieves to do. On the Zuozhen side, the Houhu Department has contacted him. I have already agreed, but it will take time to prepare. I have a plan to delay it for you!"

"Oh? The plan will be released?"

A group of Donglin party leaders at the party immediately came over, listening to Qian Qianyi's slow approach, everyone had a smile of a successful plot on their faces.

After a while, the gathering of politicians finally came to an end. A group of Donglin gentlemen were chatting and laughing, and offered to leave one after another. Before leaving, Gao Hongtu suddenly looked back and asked Qian Qianyi with his fists clasped.

"Can you negotiate with Shi Kefa, the governor of Yangzhou?"

"Master Shi is still hesitating!"

"Zhuzi is not enough to plan! Fortunately, he is still a disciple of Zuo Guangdou, Mr. Zuo is decisive and ruthless, he has not learned at all. If he hadn't hesitated back then, how could the song thief and the three warriors in Jiangbei be able to follow the dragon! Dead wood cannot be carved!"

Gao Hongtu immediately scolded him angrily, but Qian Qianyi shook his head in distress when he heard it: "Forget it, Mr. Gao, Mr. Shi is a descendant of our Donglin after all, and he will figure it out! We just need to do things well now! Hold Thief Song!"

"That's the only way!"

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It is impossible for Song Qingshu to be unaware of the grand gathering of the Donglin Party, but he doesn't care too much about it. If the seven families in the south of the Yangtze River are exterminated, if these Donglin bigwigs are not in a hurry, he will be uneasy on the contrary.

On the one hand, he sent people to monitor closely, and on the other hand, he also stepped up to continue to carry out land surveying. With this bloody lesson, in addition to the prevailing style of writing, Huizhou, the hometown of rival Huizhou merchants, Chizhou, Ningguo Mansion, and Guangdezhou on the south side of the Yangtze River have been subdued one after another. The land was promoted in turn, more fields were reclassified and recorded, and almost a few million acres of land were returned to the normal taxation system of the country.

Nan Ming began to show a glimmer of light.

"Marshal! Marquis Anyuan sent someone to bring you 10 taels of silver, a box of red coral, and some jewelry! There is also a big beauty."

This time Qingzhang's land, Song Qingshu does not distinguish between relatives, even those nobles who are still on good terms with him can still be checked. These nobles who have been passed down since the time of Taizu and Chengzu, which one is not a big landlord in the south of the Yangtze River?Here, the bribes were sent directly to Song Qingshu.

However, while reviewing the news from various places, Song Qingshu nodded without looking back: "Accept everything as ordered!"

"receive?"

Li Xiangjun's bright eyes and white teeth immediately turned into almond eyes, and his small mouth was pouted dangerously. Fortunately, Song Qingshu's next words came back in a hurry.

"Isn't it just that we are short of money to develop the southeast of Borneo? Just treat him as a shareholder and give him a farm of a thousand acres. As for that woman, Yangzhou Shouma can read and manage the house, so I just let her take care of it, so I replied to Anyuan like this. Hou."

After all, you can't make too many enemies, and this is a way to win over in disguise. Hearing Song Qingshu's reply, Li Xiangjun immediately became beaming again, like a chicken pecking at rice.

"Subordinate to do it immediately!"

"Wait! Is there any movement on Gao Jie's side?"

Now that the household department has money in hand, the military pay required by the three Jiangbei towns and Chu town is also sufficient, but Song Qingshu doesn't want to give it like this.Song Xiance went back, added a sum of food, and brought the name of Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng's precarious situation in western Henan, Qindong and other places was slightly stabilized, and the trend of losing thousands of miles was slightly eased. , he once again marched into Huaiqing, and won a series of victories in Baixiang Town.

The victory of the capital made Dorgon arrogant. While fighting against the Chuang army, he sent Prince Yu Duoduo to lead the Eight Banners with [-] troops to attack Jiangnan with Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and other troops. Zhang Haocai reported that the forward had entered Shandong.

Wanting to get money, Song Qingshu asked Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Zeqing to march northward, go to Shandong to entangle the Qing army, and support the Henan Chuang army.

Otherwise, what's the use of spending millions of dollars to support them?

The order was officially issued to Yangzhou Superintendent Shi Kefa in the name of the Ministry of War, but it has been three days and there is still no response!Song Qingshu has become a little anxious in his heart.

It's a pity that Li Xiangjun shook his head helplessly: "Officials, there is no movement from the north, but the Bachelor of History has sent an urgent report, urging the payment of military salaries, otherwise there is a danger of mutiny."

"Oh, mutiny! It's not good to defend against foreign enemies, but threatening the court is good! The soldiers' pay will continue to be withheld, and I want to see how he mutinies?"

"Yes!"

With a promise, Li Xiangjun went out to be busy again like a hardworking worker bee. Recently, Liu Zeqing's subordinates have been very arrogant. Scarface, who is in charge of the overall situation there, Fu Shan, let them teach Liu Zeqing a lesson and beat him up.

But at this time, Xiaobao hurried in from outside the door again, saluted Song Qingshu with an ugly expression.

"Marshal, Eunuch Tian Chengtian is here! Said to have brought the emperor's order!"

It is no secret that the begging army and the eunuchs are at odds with each other. Tian Cheng took the post of supervisor of ceremonies, and the first one he took aim at was Song Qingshu's Longjiang shipyard, and the first slap was Song Qingshu's slap. He kept bombarding the eunuchs, and at this moment Tian Cheng had already fought with Song Qingshu.

When this guy came to the door, it was probably a weasel giving a New Year greeting to the chicken, so he had no good intentions!With a stinky face, Song Qingshu reluctantly left his work and went to the living room in front.

Here, Tian Cheng is the old god, with his legs crossed and drinking Song Qingshu's tea leisurely. Seeing Song Qingshu coming, the old eunuch stood up enthusiastically and greeted him first.

"Hey, this old slave has seen the son-in-law!"

"Eunuch Tian, ​​I'm busy with military affairs, so please make a long story short!"

Smiling, if it's nothing to do with adultery or robbery, Song Qingshu was even more annoyed, and directly clenched his fists, making Tian Cheng's old face stiffen, but this eunuch also has a city mansion, and immediately smiled like a flower, respectfully Bowing.

"My son-in-law, forgive me! That's how it is. Your Majesty wants to build a garden in Qixia Mountain. He sent an old slave to pay another 90 taels of silver!"

Good guy, this household department has just collected some money, and it hasn't warmed up yet. The army outside is watching, and the eunuch inside is watching again. Good guy, the total annual income is only six or seven million taels, and the front line is fighting, the mountains and rivers In case of occupation, one third will be squandered by the emperor.

What's more, 90 taels, such a good other palace, which was built by the Emperor of Japan, only cost 10 taels. Song Qingshu understood that these eunuchs were greedy for seeing the Ministry of Finance's money, and wanted to make a name for themselves, so they took the opportunity to make a fortune. Pen, if you don't sink the wrecked ship of Daming, these moths really won't stop at a bite.

"no!"

Immediately waving his sleeves impatiently, Song Qingshu turned around in annoyance and wanted to leave. Unexpectedly, Song Qingshu was so shameless, and Tian Cheng's smile froze on his face. After a while, the dead eunuch laughed too, gnashing his teeth and screaming .

"Lord Song, this is an imperial decree. Your Majesty needs your approval to transfer the money from the treasury! Tomorrow, 90 taels of money must be transferred to the palace!"

Finally, Song Qingshu's patience was exhausted to the extreme, he turned around coldly, how many people has he killed!He was no longer the college student he was back then, the coldness in his eyes made Tian Cheng agitated.

"Eunuch Tian, ​​Mr. Song also advises you, don't take yourself too seriously! Your Majesty was established by me! Now that the country is in trouble, I don't want to care too much about it, but if the trouble is too shameful, I don't mind." Learn from the great general He Jin once! Come and wash the eunuch with blood!"

"You, how dare you threaten our family!"

"roll!"

Before Tian Cheng could finish speaking angrily, Song Qingshu flicked his sleeves unceremoniously, and with a slap in the face, several guards put down the bayonets directly, trembling, Tian Cheng turned around and left without saying a word.

Nanjing Forbidden Palace.

Millions of taels of silver were poured in, and within three months, a large area of ​​the palace had become full of flowers, as if it was rediscovering the glory of Taizu's era. Blindfolded, Zhu Yousong was like a fat ball, groping back and forth, more than a dozen A beautiful girl smiled like a silver bell, hiding around, sometimes letting Zhu Yousong touch a corner on purpose, and with a scream, a fragrant apron came into the hands of the faint gentleman.

He was having a good time playing, and suddenly a coquettish thing was hugged to his lap, which immediately caused Zhu Yousong to tear off the blindfold in disappointment.

"Dog slave, what are you doing!"

The slack old face was crying, like a shrew cursing the street, Tian Cheng was crying along his thighs.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong! The Marquis of Jingnan is about to rebel!"

"How is it possible, the Marquis of Jingnan is my sister-in-law! Besides, I was supported by him, how could he turn against me!"

Regarding this, Zhu Yousong waved his hands disapprovingly, but he still has some vision, knowing who can be trusted!Who knew that Tian Cheng was crying and rolling on the ground again, and said emphatically.

"Your Majesty, how dare this old slave lie to you! Just now when His Majesty wanted to go to Qixia Mountain for fun, this old slave asked the Marquis of Jingnan to dispatch a team of troops to protect him. When he entered the residence of the Marquis of Jingnan, he saw soldiers and horses from the mansion passing by endlessly! The old servant saw Jingnanhou, and as soon as he spoke his Majesty's words, who knew that the Jingnanhou was furious, and ordered the old slave to be beaten out without saying anything, and even uttered nonsense, asking His Majesty to stay in the palace honestly, not to be in the palace. Get him into trouble, otherwise, he will follow the example of Huo Guangyi Yin back then and abolish His Majesty!"

Finally, Zhu Yousong's complexion changed. Now he has limited desire for power, Zhu Yousong is not angry when all the ministers emptied him, but whoever hinders him from having fun has poked him on the back of his scales.

"The Marquis of Jingnan really wants me to stay in the palace honestly?"

"Return to Your Majesty, it is absolutely true!"

"Rebel!"

He patted the table and sat back under the sun umbrella, his face was ashen, Zhu Yousong spit out these two words angrily, a smug snicker suddenly bloomed in Tian Cheng's eyes, and then he knelt down on Zhu Yousong even more sadly. By Song's feet.

"Your Majesty! You are the king of a country!"

(End of this chapter)