Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 19 Remember Liu Weichao's words

"Long Live Lord, Duke Cheng visited Jiadingbo Mansion last night."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen asked curiously, "What did he go for? What did he say?"

Cheng Guogong is a hereditary title, and the first one is Zhu Neng, the hero of Yongle Jingnan.

Emperor Chongzhen also had a lot of trust in Zhu Chunchen, the current Duke of Cheng, and let him be the governor of the capital.

"The servants just saw from outside that Cheng Guogong stayed for about a quarter of an hour. As for the matter in Jiadingbo's mansion, we still need time to find out!" Wang Chengen replied quickly, and then he thought of something, and quickly added , "Duke Cheng entered through the back door!"

Emperor Chongzhen, who has been in Chongzhen for 15 years, has become more suspicious.Hearing this, he immediately frowned.

At this time, in his mind, he suddenly remembered the "eyes but no eyes" defined by Liu Weichao!He wondered at the first moment, is this Cheng Guogong also the person he misunderstood?
Because if he read Cheng Guogong correctly, according to his trust in Cheng Guogong, or his expectation of Cheng Guogong, he must be famous in history, right?

But Liu Weichao never mentioned Cheng Guogong at all, instead he mentioned Zhou Yuji, Sun Yingyuan and Huang Degong!

Thinking about it this way, Emperor Chongzhen kept this matter in his heart, and was going to ask Liu Weichao, is there any news about this Cheng Guogong in later generations?
Thinking of this, he temporarily put aside the matter and looked at Wang Chengen.

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen looking at him, Wang Chengen understood his intentions, and continued to report: "Today, all civil and military officials go to court, which is very different from the past!"

"What's the difference?" Emperor Chongzhen was a little curious when he heard it.

Wang Chengen hesitated for a while, and then replied with a firm expression: "When they went to court, they all hugged each other, sat in sedan chairs, and rode horses. They were all chosen. To say something that slaves shouldn't say, They are all suspected of overstepping the rules. But today they are going to court, and they keep everything simple. The slaves feel like they are back in the time of Emperor Taizu!"

"Oh?" Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard this, and asked, "This is for..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly came back to his senses, and immediately, his face became very ugly.

What else could be the reason, just pretending to be poor!

To be honest, although Emperor Chongzhen heard what Liu Weichao said about the situation, he still had a little luck in his heart. He felt that all civil and military officials, especially those civil officials, were all Jinshi, Confucian children, and knew the way of being loyal to the emperor and serving the country.They are not allowed to fight in battle and serve the country with their lives. It is just a little external object, and it will not be too ugly.

But now, he was hit!

He can even imagine what the situation of fundraising will most likely be like after going to court for a while!

According to his previous temper, he would probably go up in anger.

However, he thought a lot last night, and played the voice of Liu Weichao to him repeatedly, which was very inspiring to him.

That is to focus on the key points when doing things, just like in the case of Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, if the key to their strategy of paying for food and clearing the village is grasped, then there will be no wrong decisions later.

Now, raising money is the most important thing!Others, you can take a break for a while!
So, Emperor Chongzhen rushed to see Empress Zhou immediately and asked her to call Jiading Bo for questioning.

To be honest, Empress Zhou was actually worried about his father, because she must know his father well.

Hearing that something seemed to be wrong, I felt a little angry. I summoned her father for the first time, but as soon as we met, I didn't care about the etiquette, so I couldn't wait to ask: "Father, you promised your daughter yesterday. Did you change your mind?" ?”

"Ah?" Zhou Kui was a little surprised when he heard it, but he looked normal, and immediately replied, "How could father change his mind and promise his daughter to take the lead in donating money, then he will definitely do it!"

However, Empress Zhou knew him too well, upon hearing this, she immediately asked: "How much did you promise your daughter to donate?"

At this moment, Zhou Kui paused a bit. He looked around and suddenly said to Queen Zhou: "Ah, it's getting late. Look, it's almost dawn. It's bad if you're late for the court. Your Majesty will be angry." Yes. I should go!"

When Empress Zhou saw her, her expression turned ugly.

Behind the bead curtain, Emperor Chongzhen stopped listening, turned around with the same anger, and shouted in a cold voice: "As expected, Uncle Jiading, if you dare to mess around, don't think that I won't kill people!"

He didn't say punishment, but directly said murder!
The sudden appearance of Emperor Chongzhen had already startled Zhou Kui.Then when he heard the words of murder, he was shocked again.

Seriously, even Queen Zhou who was next to her was taken aback, murder?Who to kill?Kill Jiadingbo?
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had strode up to Zhou Kui with a gloomy face. He stared into Zhou Kui's eyes and shouted again in a cold voice: "What did Cheng Guogong ask you for last night? Tell the truth! Otherwise, don't blame me. Let's be sympathetic, I'll take you to the knife!"

He had never spoken so nakedly before, and Zhou Kui's sweat immediately came out.

But he didn't answer immediately, but turned to look at his daughter immediately.

When Empress Zhou saw her, she originally wanted to tell Emperor Chongzhen to speak well.However, she thought about the situation of Emperor Chongzhen in the past two days, she couldn't sleep at night, and she was really worried about the state affairs.

In addition, the appearance of Taizu's treasures also greatly affected Emperor Chongzhen.

Thinking of all this, Empress Zhou immediately changed her mind, and walked a few steps forward to Emperor Chongzhen's side, and said to Zhou Kui in the same way: "At this time, don't be confused anymore!"

Zhou Kui felt a little chilled when he heard that, and turned back to look at Emperor Chongzhen. Immediately, he couldn't stand the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen staring at him. He felt the majesty of the emperor that he had never felt before, as if he was in front of a tiger. His legs softened, Then he knelt down and played: "Duke Cheng told the minister... that I must never start this way. If there is one time, there will be a second time. If the minister takes the lead and donates too much, everyone else will blame the minister. .Therefore...therefore, the minister thought of donating 1000 taels..."

"Father..." Queen Zhou heard this with her own ears, and immediately yelled with hatred, but for a while, she didn't know what to say about her father, and finally said with hatred, "The daughter gave you Jewelry, how come there are seven or eight thousand? You... you... confused!"

"I...I..." Facing his daughter, Zhou Kui obviously wanted to justify a few words, but because Emperor Chongzhen was right in front of him, "I" couldn't come out.

Seeing this, Empress Zhou was a little mad, and said to her father: "Are you still not convinced? Do you know that you are being used as a gunman! You are really... really sold to others Count the money!"

"No...impossible?" Zhou Kui was a little surprised when he heard this, and felt that he was called a fool. Facing his daughter's accusation, he finally distinguished, "Old Zhu and I are best friends, he can't possibly harm me Ah, don't you think he has a point?"

Empress Zhou felt dizzy when she heard this, took a few deep breaths, and then said bitterly: "You are my father, the prince's grandfather, are you afraid that everyone will blame you? If you take the lead in contributing to the court, it is also for you Contribute to the future of the Zhou family by yourself! Only when the court is good can you be good; if the court is not good, can you be good? Why are you so confused?"

The Emperor Chongzhen on the side heard what Queen Zhou said, and for some reason, he suddenly thought of what Liu Weichao had said to him.

Doing things, looking at people, etc., is to grasp the root and essence of things.

What the queen said should be in line with this principle.

And Zhou Kui couldn't see this essence clearly, so that he was bewitched by others!

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help thinking of his former self.Thinking of how his previous self would be similar to this Zhou Kui, he felt a little ashamed all of a sudden!

Is it true that in the hearts of those courtiers, he is as easy to tease as this Zhou Kui?

Thinking of this, his face became very ugly.

"I...I..." Zhou Kui still wanted to distinguish, but he found that there seemed to be no reason.

Then in a blink of an eye, he suddenly found that Emperor Chongzhen's face was very ugly, and he was shocked, thinking that Emperor Chongzhen was really going to take him under the knife.

So, he was so scared that he was sweating all over his body, and begged for mercy incoherently: "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong! I won't dare anymore..."

People with small families are easy to be deceived and petty, but at the same time, they are also easy to be scared!Especially in the face of Emperor Chongzhen who showed his cannibalism.

For the sake of the overall situation, remember your own purpose...

After repeating it several times in his heart, Emperor Chongzhen finally suppressed his anger and delivered an edict to the court.

(End of this chapter)