Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 100
"What's your Majesty's method to increase income and reduce expenditure?" Queen Zhou turned her head to glance at the other concubines, then turned back and continued, "I will obey it myself!"

"Your Majesty, please clarify the decree!" The other concubines agreed after hearing this.

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen was not polite, and said directly: "From next year, all palaces will reduce their expenses. There are also maids and servants who are not necessary or used to them. They will be picked out and I will arrange them separately. , the palace can reduce some expenses."

Speaking of this, in fact, he has already thought about it, not to embarrass his wife and children, but to fight against the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and the royal relatives.Although he was going to push Cao Huachun, Xue Guoguan and others in front of the stage, he only had one life, so he should be careful no matter how much he did.

This is not unfounded worry, let alone those unsubstantiated things, just talk about Emperor Jiajing, he was almost strangled to death by the maids around him, this is a historical fact.

Lessons learned from the past, we have to guard against it!
With fewer people in the palace, it will be easier to check and monitor and improve your own safety factor.

In addition, there is an advantage to doing so.It is to prove to the world that I am the emperor, very poor, I really have no money, and I am so poor!

Of course, even if this is done, it still cannot put an end to the rumors released by people with impure intentions.Emperor Chongzhen remembered that there was a rumor in later generations that the Emperor Chongzhen in history was a miser, stingy, the country was about to perish, and he refused to take out the internal funds. In the end, it was cheaper than Li Zicheng, who copied more than 3000 million taels of silver from the palace. .

Anyone with a normal IQ would not believe such rumors; but the point is, some people with abnormal IQs, and even those with normal IQs, deliberately believed it in order to discredit Emperor Chongzhen.In this way, the collapse of the Ming Dynasty is of course not worthy of sympathy!
Such an emperor, stingy and stingy, such a dynasty, regardless of the life and death of the people, should have been destroyed long ago!
Emperor Chongzhen does not want the face of the royal family now, and he does something that really increases revenue and reduces expenditure, just to prove to the world that he has no money, minimize being maliciously smeared by others, and let the people in the world know that the imperial court really has no money, and he, the emperor, really has no money!
What kind of emperor is rich in the world, in this Chongzhen Dynasty, especially in the last years of Chongzhen, it is really a big joke!

Emperor Chongzhen had another intention in doing this, which was to save them an excuse when they borrowed money from civil and military officials and imperial relatives in the near future.

Of course, what he wants now is not only to save money, but also to increase income.

For example, he looked at Queen Zhou at this moment and said, "I remember that the Queen can weave, right?"

Empress Zhou was taken aback for a moment, then she immediately recovered her senses and nodded, "I used to be from a poor family, so I know how to weave and so on."

Zhou Kui is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. In his early years, he made a living by practicing medicine and divination on the streets. It can be said that he has lived a long and hard life.Therefore, during that period of time, Queen Zhou was the same as girls from ordinary families. She knew how to be a female celebrity, weaving and so on.

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen told her: "After a few years, when the Empress is free, I will bring people to do some weaving work, and subsidize the expenses of the palace!"

Hearing this, everyone in the hall who was qualified to eat was stunned.They were all a little stunned, thinking they had heard wrong.

Let the queen subsidize the palace expenses through textiles?This... this is a bit appalling, right?

Empress Zhou was the first to come to her senses that it was related to the country of the Ming Dynasty. It was not unacceptable for her who has always been virtuous to tighten her belt when she had no money, so she nodded and said: "I have written it down !"

"Mother's Empress!" The crown prince Zhu Cihong couldn't help but shouted at this moment, "What's wrong with this, you are my Great Ming..."

"Prince!" When Empress Zhou heard this, she quickly glanced at the emperor, then immediately interrupted her son and said seriously, "It is precisely because you are the queen mother that you need to set an example in the palace. Your majesty is busy with state affairs, so the queen mother can only Do something like this to relieve His Majesty's worries! Do you understand?"

After all, Zhu Cixiang was only a child under ten years old. He grew up in the palace and was named a prince at birth.In his opinion, both the queen and the prince were the most respected people in the world, so how could they do such a lowly job?

Therefore, he did not understand the meaning of his mother's words, but continued: "But these things can be done by the maids and chamberlains, Queen Mother..."

Having said that, he turned his head to look at Emperor Chongzhen, and said sincerely: "Father, my son thinks that the queen mother doesn't have to do such lowly things by herself. If it gets out, it will damage the queen mother's reputation!"

The original Emperor Chongzhen doted on his son a little because of his background.Therefore, on the prince's side, he is not so afraid of his father.

At this moment, everyone turned their attention to Emperor Chongzhen, to see how he would reply?

Empress Zhou knew something was wrong in her heart, and quickly defended her son: "Your Majesty, the prince is filial, he..."

Before she could speak, she saw Emperor Chongzhen stretch out his hand to stop her from speaking, and then looked at Zhu Cihong, neither angry nor happy, but asked indifferently: "Your mother didn't think this was a lowly thing, why? Do you think this is a lowly thing? Who told you that the queen can't do weaving?"

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong finally felt that something was wrong, and lowered his head not daring to speak.

"Taizu started in the infancy, what hardships have not been suffered? Could it be that some people in the world think that Taizu has done lowly work, so some people look down on Taizu?" Emperor Chongzhen's voice gradually cooled down, and his voice became louder. After one o'clock, he suddenly yelled, "You are the crown prince, if you have such thoughts, how can I rest assured that I will hand over the Great Ming Dynasty to you?"

After finishing speaking, he stood up suddenly, shook his hands and left.

Zhu Cixiang was so frightened that he left the table and knelt down to plead guilty, but failed to retain Emperor Chongzhen.

Seeing this, Empress Zhou glared at her son with hatred, and hurriedly chased after Emperor Chongzhen.

Outside the palace, Empress Zhou chased after Emperor Chongzhen, and explained kindly: "Your Majesty, the prince doesn't mean that, he really just has filial piety."

The cold wind was howling, and the cold moon was half round in the sky. Emperor Chongzhen stood still, looked up at the sky, and said angrily: "You needn't say it, I don't know him, I don't know the sufferings of the people, how can I be the emperor of Ming Dynasty in the future? "

"Your Majesty!" Empress Zhou got anxious when she heard this, and quickly knelt down and said, "It's all my concubine who can't teach me well. If your majesty wants to blame, just blame my concubine. The prince is still young, so I will definitely try my best to teach you."

Emperor Chongzhen heard the movement and turned around to help her.But after thinking about it, he said cruelly: "I can't blame you alone for this matter, I was also negligent. I will consider this matter again."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and strode away regardless of Empress Zhou who was kneeling on the ground.

The New Year's Eve dinner, it's a bad break up!
(End of this chapter)