Ming Dynasty: I, Emperor Chongzhen, swear not to go to Meishan

"It is said that by copying He Kun, Jiaqing will be enriched. This is absolutely true. Zhu Youjian made several fortunes by copying houses. He found that he seemed to like copying houses more and more, especially those from powerful families. and the home of a wealthy businessman.

To be honest, you can make a lot of money by ransacking homes. Anyone who is an emperor doesn't like having their homes ransacked.

This time, the Liu and Rong families were confiscated. The gold, silver and jewelry alone amounted to more than five million taels of discounted silver, not including many valuable antiques, calligraphy, paintings and other ancient objects, fields, real estate and shops.

The Liu Rong family is a very powerful local tycoon and the largest landowner in the area. Not only do they have many fields, but they also have many serfs to support. The two families together have more than 5,000 serfs, and they have a large amount of grain stored in the farm. , as well as bacon, dried meat and other foods.

Since it was a house raid, everything confiscated would naturally be confiscated. With a stroke of his pen, Zhu Youjian turned the more than five million taels of cash confiscated into more than 500,000 taels, all of which were transferred to the national treasury, and the rest went into his pocket. .

The two public real estate shops were sold and realized, and all the proceeds were put into the treasury. Zhu Youjian only spent a little money to become the owner of these properties, and all the invisible properties were also transferred to his false name.

It stands to reason that the confiscated fields and serfs should be sold and liquidated, and the money should be put into the treasury. However, Zhu Youjian did not want to take advantage of those corrupt officials, and also wanted to win over people's hearts. He issued an order to cancel the slave status of all serfs, let them register in a register, and then collect the confiscated people on a per capita basis. The fields were given to them.

More than 5,000 freed people all cried bitterly, knelt down and kowtowed in thanksgiving, and called the Emperor, His Majesty, "Long live, long live, long live."

Except for giving some of the confiscated grain to these serfs, he kept the rest for himself, including all the bacon, dried meat and other food.

The war is about to begin. If you have soldiers and food in your hands, you won't be afraid if the sky falls.

The aftermath of the house raid was still there, but it did frighten many people with ulterior motives. They suddenly discovered that Chongzhen, the foolish emperor, seemed not as easy to fool as before, and it seemed that they had to find another way.

"Your Majesty, these are the secret folds presented by the Jinyi Guards to scold you." Song Xiance pointed to the secret folds that were almost piled on the desk and said carefully.

Although the emperor is a sage, even the most sage emperor has his own backslidings. If he accidentally offends him, he will lose his head. Moreover, he was also the military adviser of the bandit leader Li Zicheng, so he must be more cautious in what he says and does.

Nowadays, most of the secret documents submitted by Jinyiwei are sorted and sorted by him. Although he is a bit busy, he is actually happy. This shows that the emperor trusts him and also uses him.

The greedy civil servant group originally thought that they could do some tricks and get some benefits from it, but they didn't expect that the Dog Emperor took the wrong medicine or had his head caught in the door. He actually issued an order to release more than 5,000 serfs from their slavery and let them regain their freedom.

That's all. He actually distributed a large amount of confiscated fields to the serfs. Seeing that the money they were about to receive was just gone, why didn't they make them so angry that they vomited three liters of blood and privately cursed the shameless emperor. Anyway, Chongzhen Eighteen generations of the emperor's ancestors all sent greetings.

Zhu Youjian knew the importance of Jin Yiwei, so he paid special attention to it. Even if he had no money to allocate money for the operation of Jin Yiwei, he acquiesced to acting commander Tian Boguang to use some shady means to maintain the operation of Jin Yiwei.

With Tian Boguang's efforts, Jinyiwei grew rapidly. Their most important job was to secretly monitor hundreds of officials, characterized by the civil service group headed by the Donglin Party, and then local powerful families and wealthy businessmen.

Shanxi merchants were included in Zhu Youjian's list of key surveillance. The reason is that anyone who knows a little bit about history will understand that these businessmen only have money in their eyes. In order to make money, they will do anything to make money and betray their country. Zhu Youjian still has no time to deal with them.

The Jinyiwei are everywhere and pervasive. All the complaints of the officials are recorded by the Jinyiwei secret agents. The important ones are directly reported to the emperor. Those officials who are so angry that they greet the emperor naturally have to be recorded immediately. Zhu Youjian The desk at work is usually piled with these secret folders.

No matter how good-tempered a person is, he will get annoyed if he is scolded too much. What's more, Zhu Youjian is not very broad-minded in some aspects. He asked people to write down the names of these people in a small notebook so that they can settle the accounts in the future.

"Old Song, I just like to see those people who are so angry and helpless about me, hehe."

"..." Song Xiance had a strange look on his face. The emperor seemed a bit rogue, but such an emperor was a living, flesh-and-blood emperor.

"Your Majesty, the cabinet, Ruan Cifu, would like to see you."