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145 True Fragrance

On the imperial throne, Emperor Chongzhen also watched coldly, watching the ministers below clamoring for opposition. In fact, this matter was predicted in advance when discussing last night. Therefore, he had a solution and was not in a hurry. He just waited for them to be "indignant". After a while, he would eat the shit he sprayed out and praise it again, and say it was so fragrant!

Finally, as someone spoke, he began to notice that the emperor's expression seemed wrong, and seemed a little dissatisfied with them. Thinking about it, when the court was in a hurry to lack money, he just fell asleep and gave him a pillow. As a result, before the pillow was on, he was sprayed on by others first. Seeing that the pillow was about to disappear, it would be strange if he could get better.

Thinking of this, these people knew that the emperor must be dissatisfied with them, and they felt a little timid and their voices became much weaker. Many people stopped talking as they talked.

Of course, they were afraid, but not too scared. Because in their opinion, this was their reasoning. Even if it was the emperor, it would have to be reasonable!

Seeing that the hall finally became quiet slowly, Emperor Chongzhen turned to look at the lonely man.

When Li Guochen saw it, he knew how to speak, so he immediately heard loudly: "Your Majesty, my father has indeed told Caomin that he is equally divided! Caomin is willing to guarantee his life!"

As soon as he heard what he said, several civil servants suddenly jumped out and accused him on the spot, asking who could testify, asking if there were any words in black and white... Anyway, it was just a sentence, and they asked Li Guochen to come up with real evidence.

"Your Majesty, it was when my mother begged her father, who agreed on the spot in front of my mother. At that time, my younger brother was also present." Li Guochen immediately defended, "But unexpectedly, my younger brother not only did not obey the order of his father, but instead treated the grass-roots people harshly after his father passed away unexpectedly, and wanted to drive away the grass-roots people. All the above are the truth, please give your Majesty a clear understanding!"

Obviously, even if Li Guorui is called, it will definitely be useless. Li Guorui will definitely deny it. Only the dead Wu Qinghou himself can tell who is true or who is false.

In this way, these civil officials were even more confident. Many people looked at the people who spoke before that they did not seem to have caused the emperor's anger, and then spoke again, accusing Li Guochen of coming, and yelling to punish Li Guochen for his crime of deceiving the emperor!

Seeing this situation, this time, Emperor Chongzhen did not allow them to continue attacking Li Guochen. Instead, he suddenly slapped the imperial case and made a "slap" sound, which shocked the palace to respond. At the same time, he also shouted angrily: "Rare, if you can make the money urgently needed by the court, I will let you make enough noise!"

When he got angry, everyone was shocked. He made the king and father angry so much that he could only kneel down and apologize.

In fact, they didn't dare to face the emperor's words. Let them make money? No matter how they make arguing, they will definitely not make money, so they can only be regarded as turtles with their heads.

Emperor Chongzhen seemed very angry, stood up and said sternly: "At the time, the East Factory found a major case of the Imperial Horse Supervision Bureau, and the corruption of some officials of the Jinyiwei, and obtained a batch of silver. It was difficult for him to resolve the shortage of money on the front line. At that time, would you share my worries?"

"Now the front line is in urgent need of money. What do you do? Can you share my worries?" Emperor Chongzhen became more and more angry as he spoke. He couldn't help but shoot the imperial case again, and continued to shout angrily, "No silver, how can the soldiers fight and win the war? Without silver, the Tartars continue to rage, and how many people and property of our Ming Dynasty are going to plunder? Without silver, that is to help the Tartars, and to continue to do whatever they want in the pass! Without silver, how many people will be displaced, and their wives and children will be separated and their families will be destroyed?"

"Where is the silver? Where does the silver come from? Do you solve it for me? Why don't you talk anymore? Why don't you talk when you want to share my worries?"

“…”

Emperor Chongzhen was furious in the thunder, and all the ministers below were bowing their heads, but no one responded.

They were not worried much. After all, there were so many ministers, so the law would not blame the public anyway. If they really wanted to find a scapegoat, they would definitely give priority to finding the chief minister or the Minister of Revenue!

However, they were wrong and heard Emperor Chongzhen shouting angrily: "Now Li Guochen voluntarily donate 200,000 taels to solve the urgent needs of the court. You think there is a problem in this, it's not possible! Okay, I will satisfy you. I will find a way to solve the problem of this money by myself!"

When almost all the ministers heard this, they were a little surprised. What could the emperor have to solve the problem of money by himself?

If this is true, you, the emperor, should solve the problem earlier. Why bother us!

While they were thinking, they suddenly heard Emperor Chongzhen shouting: "Where is the Grandpa Cao?"

"I am here!" Cao Huachun knew that it was time to appear when he heard this, so he quickly stepped out and replied loudly.

"You did a good job in the case of the Imperial Horse Prison!" Emperor Chongzhen looked at him and said loudly, "not only did he find out the borers of the court, but he also solved the urgently needed money for me..."

When he heard this, most people in the hall immediately guessed how the emperor wanted to make money quickly. They immediately complained in their hearts.

Sure enough, I heard Emperor Chongzhen instruct Cao Huachun: "Cao Dalian should continue to work hard and investigate me hard. No matter who it is or what background it is, as long as the problem is found, I will never tolerate it and punish the crime strictly. I will not believe it. The current borer in the Ming Dynasty is only Wang Zhixin and the others!"

Obviously, the consequences of pushing the emperor into a hurry are also very serious.

Hearing this, Cao Huachun was about to answer the order loudly when he suddenly heard someone below him premiering and saying loudly: "Your Majesty, I have the foundation to report!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he turned to look and found that it was the censor Liu Meicai. He looked cold and asked angrily: "Speak up if you have something, and let go if you have nothing to do!"

This was a swear word. It was obvious that the emperor was really angry just now.

Liu Meicai thought to himself, but did not dare to be negligent and quickly said, "Your Majesty, I just thought about it for a while and felt that Li Guochen was loyal and honest, and would definitely not lie. In my opinion, the court should preside over justice for him."

As long as he is not a fool, he can hear the subtext of his words. It means that there is not 200,000 taels of silver here? It just happens to be aided. Your Majesty, please relieve the fire, you already have silver!

The reason why he was the first to jump out and say this was that in the Ming Dynasty, he never lacked money in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, because there were Shanxi merchants who provided him with him. In order to speak to Shanxi merchants, he even often distributed money to his colleagues and asked them to help him speak together.

If Dongchang really wants to get crazy and bite people, maybe he, the censor, has a more conspicuous target, and will be the first to be the first to be the one to be arrested. Once Dongchang is arrested, if there is anything wrong, there will be something wrong. He is afraid!

In fact, it was not just him who was afraid, but most of the officials in the hall were afraid. They just started to see Liu Mei. For a moment, the others followed suit and agreed to his proposal, completely forgetting that they were condemning and opposing Li Guochen just now.

If Dongchang had not been angry before, Wang Zhixin was not investigated and punished, Fang Fengnian and others, maybe these officials would not be particularly scared. But at this time, they already knew that Dongchang's knife was sharp again, and if you were not careful, you would hurt people. Those who have ghosts in their hearts were even more afraid of being hurt.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but sneer: "This is Li Guochen's one-sided statement, and there is no real evidence, so I'm afraid it won't work?"

"..." Hearing this, the ministers couldn't help but be speechless, knowing that the emperor was still angry and controlling them.

There is no way, the situation is better than people. No matter what, it is better than letting the East Factory bite people crazy?

Thinking of this, Liu Meicai replied to Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, the matter of Wuqing Marquis treating Li Guochen, I have heard of it. From this we can see that Wuqing Marquis invading and robbing his brother's property will not be fake!"

When the other ministers heard this, they all agreed, saying that they also heard that the Marquis of Wuqing Li Guorui treated Li Guochen with nothing, and even drove him out of the Marquis of Wuqing. His behavior was really outrageous, and it can be seen that his character is probably a problem.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he seemed to be no longer so angry, but he still asked a little angry: "There is a difference between legitimate and illegitimate, isn't family finances the legitimate son should belong to?"

Since the emperor mentioned the things that were impossible, he had to refute these things he had put forward before. No matter what, he had to let the emperor calm down and put away the knife of Dongchang.

"When you go back to Your Majesty, since you have the last words of the Old Wu Qinghou, you should follow the wishes of the Old Wu Qinghou!"

"really?"

"really!"

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to think for a moment, but hesitated and said, "It's so appropriate?"

At this time, how could these talented people in the Ming Dynasty officialdom not knowing that Emperor Chongzhen was angry with them to stop them before and was still controlling them? But in order not to do anything randomly in the East Factory, they had to nod and responded: "It's appropriate, it's extremely appropriate!"

Emperor Chongzhen looked at them and finally felt anger in his heart. He immediately said to Li Guochen: "Okay, since all the ministers support you, then I will ask the Dongchang and the Ministry of Revenue to send someone to accompany you to hand over the inheritance. The court is waiting for this money, okay?"

"The people are following the order!" Li Guochen had no problem and quickly replied.

"Okay!" Emperor Chongzhen immediately praised, "I will not treat you badly after this matter is done!"

After saying that, he immediately named Cao Huachun and Li Huiwen, and asked them to send someone to accompany Li Guochen to the Wuqing Marquis' Mansion.

Seeing that the matter was settled and the emperor stopped mentioning the strict investigation of the East Factory, the civil servants in the hall breathed a sigh of relief. However, Yang Sichang was an exception, but he secretly complained in his heart.

He didn't believe that the emperor could really make the East Factory mess at this moment? The law did not blame the public. If all the officials united to boycott it, unless they really wanted to overturn the table, the emperor would have to compromise. Once the table was really turned over, the Ming Dynasty would be even more chaotic, and maybe something would happen.

What a pity, these people are timid and afraid that the East Factory will find out first and be unlucky first! Now that they see that Wu Qinghou is unlucky, they are fine, so they can't wait to sell Wu Qinghou one by one.

When Yang Sichang thought of this, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: Do you know that once the emperor acted as a Marquis of Wuqing, the next step would be to use Xue Manzi's bad idea! Looking back, he would still force you to pay one by one!

No, absolutely not, I must not be implicated by Xue Manzi!

Yang Sichang kept thinking in his heart that he had not yet come to his senses when the emperor left the court.

But at this time, he also had an idea in his mind to avoid being dragged down by Xue Manzi.

The solution is very simple, which is to let all civil and military officials and royal relatives know that he is not Xue Manzi's accomplice, but was forced.

In this way, once the civil and military officials and royal relatives and nobles rebounded, their target would be Xue Manzi, the messenger! Maybe he could still be a blessing in disguise. If Xue Manzi is defeated, he would be able to go further and take the position of the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, without being opposed by the ministers like Xue Manzi.

Thinking of this, he became scheming.

But after thinking about it, he remembered the suggestion that Emperor Chongzhen had warned not to reveal Xue Manzi. He hesitated again when he remembered that the emperor had become more powerful recently.

However, Yang Sichang is worthy of being a quick-witted person. After thinking about it for a while, he still came up with an idea.

Besides, after Li Guochen received the decree, he was extremely happy. He could not get the land anyway, so he donated it to the court, so he didn't care. Thinking that when the decree arrived at the Marquis of Wuqing, he saw the face that his younger brother would appear, and remembering that he treated his brother as a legitimate son, he couldn't help but want to go back and get back the previous shame as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, he was a little impatient. He said to Cao Huachun and Li Daiwen, who were preparing to return to the yamen to arrange personnel, "Master, Lord Li, the emperor is anxious. Otherwise, the people will take the lead and meet at the Marquis of Wuqing's Mansion?"

Cao Huachun and Li Daiwen can tell his thoughts at a glance, but no one cares. If you want to go, what does it have to do with them?

So, Li Guochen said goodbye to the two of them, and walked steadily, and rushed back to the Marquis' Mansion at the fastest speed.

"Dongdongdongdong..."

As soon as Li Guochen arrived at his doorstep, he looked at this place and remembered that after his father was gone, he couldn't help but reach out to pat the door, and slapped hard, as if he wanted to vent his anger on the door.

"Who, who is causing trouble at the gate of the Marquis' Mansion?" The gatekeeper was so scared that he shouted while quickly opening the door.

However, as soon as the door opened and found out that it was Li Guochen, his attitude suddenly became bad: "Oh, you dare to come. Be careful that the master is angry. This time I didn't just drive it out!"

"Dog guy, see who dares to drive me this time?" Li Guochen shouted sternly when he heard this, and then prepared to walk into the mansion.

When the gatekeeper saw it, he quickly stopped him and shouted: "My master has something to do. This marquis' mansion has nothing to do with you in the future. If you dare to break into the marquis' mansion privately, this is asking for a fight!"

"Bold, who dares to hit me?" Li Guochen looked angry. The faces of these servants were the same as before. "Go and tell me that brother, I am here to get half of the inheritance left by my father. This time, he has to take it, and even if he doesn't take it!"

Seeing that he was so confident, the gatekeeper and the other servants who rushed over after hearing the sound were a little hesitant. They also heard that the master who was driven out had defected to Xue Guoguan, the assistant minister of the cabinet. He would have had some support for this time to say this?

At this moment, the Marquis of Wuqing, Li Guorui, was about to go out. When he arrived at the door, he heard what he said. Suddenly, he drank his servant, walked to Li Guochen with his hands behind his back, and shouted with a cold face: "Everyone said that family scandals should not be made public. Do you deserve the ancestors of the Li family? Don't think that with Xue Manzi as your support, I, Wuqing Marquis, will be afraid! Haha, today I, this Marquis, want to see how you want to take it? Just because you are a slut, Xue Manzi can't help you!"
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