From Fan Jingwen's perspective, what he thought was to calm down. After all, Jiangnan was the most important part of the Ming Dynasty at the moment. Of course, he did not want any trouble in Jiangnan.

After listening to Fan Jingwen's words, Emperor Chongzhen frowned again, but did not express his opinion.

He also needs to wait for other cabinet ministers to make more statements.

Other cabinet ministers also spoke one after another, and their opinions were roughly the same as Fan Jingwen.

"Your Majesty, this matter is still of great importance. We should indeed find out carefully, otherwise it will affect the people's hearts of the court in Jiangnan."

"Jiangnan is now the place that is most loyal to the Ming Dynasty. The old minister is a little worried. If the prince's methods are too fierce, will there be any big trouble?"

"Your Highness is very motivated to do everything as a young man. This is of course a good thing, but Your Majesty should also know that sometimes your Highness is too reckless and lacks consideration."

In fact, the people present are basically politicians in their forties and fifties. When they think about things, they often like to think from a more steady and rigorous perspective, which makes them naturally stand on the opposition of young people like Zhu Cixuan.

As a young man, he is always excited and often he is more willing to choose the kind of adventure in everything he does. Although he is of the same race as the middle-aged and elderly people whose passion has faded, he often makes decisions in the same way.

After hearing everyone say this, Emperor Chongzhen was obviously shaken.

He thought for a while, then said, "What you all said is indeed very reasonable. Let's do it, Li Aiqing, just go to Jiangnan as an imperial envoy to see what's going on over there."

After all, Li Banghua was also a left-level censor and was one of the leaders of the three judicial departments. It was natural to ask him to take charge of this matter.

After seeing that Chongzhen had announced the order, everyone also let down a big rock in their hearts.

In fact, there is another thing that Emperor Chongzhen does not know, that is, the arrival of Jiangnan, not only these impeachment memorials, but also some letters of help from many families in Jiangnan who secretly sent to the desks of cabinet ministers.

As we all know, the Ming Dynasty adopted an imperial examination system. In the imperial examination system, the achievements of scholars in the south were better than those in the north. When the Ming Dynasty was founded, there was even a situation where the entire imperial examination list was monopolized by scholars in the south.

Although in order to avoid this situation, the Ming Dynasty specially divided it into two lists for publication, this did not change the fact that most officials were still born in the south.

It is precisely because of this fact that the voices of officials in Jiangnan, especially those representing almost half of the officials of the Duke of Wei in Jiangnan, can be clearly conveyed to the ears of these cabinet ministers, and this force can also push these cabinet ministers to say some good things to them.

Of course, that minister is not a fool. They will not directly oppose the future Prince. What they have done is the most common strategy in the officialdom of facing difficulties.

Procrastinate time.

Sending an imperial envoy to delay time is what they want to see.

The imperial envoy will find out the truth of the facts. No matter what the truth is, at least these cabinet ministers have enough reason to explain to their friends and relatives from Jiangnan.

After Emperor Chongzhen announced the personnel appointment of the imperial envoy, he planned to announce the resignation of the meeting, but at this moment, Wang Chengen suddenly walked into the palace with a memorial very quickly.

"This is a memorial sent by His Highness the Crown Prince through the East Factory channel. Please check it out."

After hearing Wang Chengen's words, the cabinet ministers present, who originally wanted to leave, suddenly stopped.

They all knew very well that since the memorials had been sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, it means that His Royal Highness had more or less known the news, and he wanted to submit the memorial to fight for it from Emperor Chongzhen.

In other words, there are still variables in this matter.

After Chongzhen finished reading the memorial from Zhu Cixuan, his face changed significantly. These changes made the cabinet ministers present jump in their hearts, knowing that things were indeed beginning to have new changes as they just thought.

Chongzhen raised his head and said to several cabinet ministers in front of him: "It is quite difficult to explain this matter. Please pass on this memorial."

With curiosity, several cabinet ministers quickly circulated the memorials.

As the chief minister of the cabinet, Fan Jingwen was naturally the first. When he looked at the memorial in front of him, his face also changed a lot.

The content on the memorial is actually very simple, mainly talking about two things.

First, the Duke of Wei embezzled a large amount of land in Nanjing city, and colluded with officials to evade taxes. As a Nanjing garrison, falsely reported that soldiers were vacant salaries, killed people in front of Zhu Cilang, etc., totaling 54 charges.

Second, Zhu Cixuan has confiscated all the Duke of Wei and the corresponding 31 official residences. The total cash collected exceeded 50 million taels, and the value of various furniture, treasures, gardens, etc. cannot be counted. These cash silvers will be set off next spring and transported to Beijing to alleviate the crisis in the Ming Dynasty.

Fan Jingwen widened his eyes: "...50 million taels?"

What is the concept of 50 million taels?

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, that is, last year, the Ministry of Revenue had not collected military pay, tariffs, salt quotas and warehouse assistance, with a default rate of 85%, and the actual money to be put into the warehouse was only 1.85 million taels.

Yes, one hundred and eighty-five thousand taels, that's the money that was really passive for the whole year last year...

Let’s turn back two hundred years ago. When Emperor Yongle Zhu Di was alive, how much tax could the Ming Dynasty’s Ministry of Revenue receive in a year? 30 million taels!

Now, Zhu Cilang said that he could hand over 50 million taels to the Ming Dynasty court, and all of them were cash...

White silver.

If these 50 million taels are calculated based on the actual inventory income of the Ming Dynasty last year, it is equivalent to a full 27 years of income!

I would like to mention it here that as the chief minister of the cabinet, Fan Jingwen is currently the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion and the Minister of Revenue. He is the real person in charge of money in the Ming Dynasty and the person who was urged to pay money by various bureaucratic agencies across the country.

With a bang, Fan Jingwen overturned the case, his old face turned red, and his tone was passionate when he spoke.
Chapter completed!