The seat of Wu Qinghou Li Chengming was empty.
His family is a cousin, and he came up through nepotism by giving birth to a beautiful daughter. Not to be treated with military meritorious service. Therefore, you are not eligible to participate, but your seat will be reserved.
The title of Marquis Wu Qing came from selling his daughter to the royal family. The person selling it was Wanli’s mother, Li Caifeng, Queen Mother Li. Notice! The point is to sell, not to marry. Li Wei was a plasterer, and the only outstanding thing in his life was that he gave birth to a beautiful eldest daughter.
Li Caifeng, the daughter of a mason, was originally sold into Prince Yu's Mansion as a slave by her father Li Wei. That's why Empress Dowager Li especially hated being called slave.
She was not a matchmaker. The biggest reason why Li Caifeng was favored by Prince Yu was because she was so beautiful.
Wanli favored the maid beside the Queen Mother and gave birth to his eldest son. Then he tried to lift his pants and refused to admit it, but was confronted by the Queen Mother.
Wanli was forced to say that the eldest son's biological mother was a slave and her status was too low. In his desperation, he forgot that his mother was also a slave. As a result, Empress Dowager Li lost her temper and scolded Wanli so much that Wanli had no choice but to accept his son obediently.
Not to mention, everyone in the Li family is ridiculous and weird. Everyone is a talent. Queen Mother Li is also going to be pissed off by her brothers.
Her third brother Li Wensong is also a strange person. If you don't do good honors, you have to move yourself from the palace to the palace to become a eunuch. In the palace, he is in charge of the Royal Horse Prison, which is the only department in charge of military affairs among the Thirteen Yamen. What's even weirder is that he no longer wanted to be a eunuch. He became a monk and became the first generation master of Ningxu Temple in Jinshaping, Shifang Jungle, Wudang Mountain of the Quanzhen sect.
Yang Fan has always suspected that he is a martial arts master hidden in the palace.
Li Wei (1510-1583), the first Marquis of Wuqing, whose courtesy name was Shiqi and also nicknamed Yizhai, was from Miao (Yinhuo) County, Shuntian Prefecture (now part of Tongzhou District, Beijing), and his ancestral home was Yicheng, Shanxi.
After his grandson Emperor Wanli ascended the throne, Li Wei (father of Empress Dowager Li) was named Wu Qingbo and later Wuqinghou.
After Li Wei's death, his son Li Wenquan inherited the title of Marquis of Wuqing in the fifth lunar month of the twelfth year of Wanli (AD 1584). Li Wenquan died, and his son Li Chengming ("Mingcheng" in "Outside History of the Ming Dynasty" and "History of the Ming Dynasty") attacked Wu Qingbo in the 37th year of Wanli (1609 AD).
In the second month of the lunar calendar in the forty-fifth year of Wanli (AD 1617), he was granted the title of Marquis of Wuqing.
After Li Chengming's death, his son Li Guorui attacked and granted the title of Marquis of Wu Qing during the Chongzhen period. Later, it was passed to Li Cunshan, whose fate is unknown after his death in Ming Dynasty.
His family was looked down upon by nobles. In addition to relying on nepotism to get to the top, his family had no military power or strength. And they are too soft when facing the emperor, but their family's wealth is a reward from the royal family, so how can they be tough when facing the emperor.
Although Yang Fan is the last count in the queue, he has soldiers, money, sacred scrolls, and strength. If you can bring down Duke Wei, you will naturally have a status in the hearts of the nobles.
After all, this world is still a world that values strength. Even if your family background is not good, you can still gain recognition if you have strength.
The Li family was later brought to death by Chongzhen.
Xue Guoguan joined the cabinet as the second assistant because of Wen Tiren's recommendation. When Xue Guoguan was in the cabinet, Zhu Youjian once told him about the shortage of national finances.
In this regard, Xue Guoguan suggested that to solve the problem of insufficient state expenses, we can start from two aspects: externally, ask for it from the gentry; internally, ask for it from the imperial relatives. If the request is from the squire, the ministers and others can handle the matter together; if the request is from the royal family, it requires His Majesty to make his own decision.
Xue Guoguan was also a master who risked his life to solve the financial crisis for the imperial court. How dare you give Chongzhen this idea.
Chongzhen, who was desperate and had nowhere to make money, listened to Xue Guoguan's advice. Zhu Youjian secretly conveyed the secret order and began to "borrow money" from the royal relatives.
First, he borrowed 400,000 taels from Wu Qinghou's family. Borrow 10,000 taels of silver from Prince Consort Ran's family. Borrow 10,000 taels of silver from the Prince Consort Wanjia.
Chongzhen did not dare to use the nobles of the army and the nobles of the soldiers, so he first used these nobles of his relatives to practice.
However, the breakthrough point he chose was the former dynasty's relatives who had lost power, and his own relatives remained untouched.
The royal relatives who were closest to him, such as the Zhou family of Jiading Bo and the Tian family of the left governor, were not on Zhu Youjian's "borrowing money" list. Although these royal relatives are in the hottest time, the fire is cooking oil.
Jiading Bo Zhou's family is the natal family of Queen Zhu Youjian's Zhou family, his father-in-law. The Tian family of the left governor was the natal family of Tian, the imperial concubine of Emperor Zhu Youjian.
The two consorts are both wealthy merchants and princesses. Not much power. Prince Consort Wanjia is the in-laws of Princess Ruian, the fifth daughter of Emperor Mu Zong of the Ming Dynasty (Zhu Zaijing, also known as Zhu Zaihe). Prince Consort Ran's family is the husband's family of Princess Shouning, the seventh daughter of Emperor Ming Shen Zong. They are all has-been princesses.
Chongzhen himself also had two older sisters and one younger sister. Huang Bamei’s husband Gong Yonggu’s family is also rich, so why doesn’t he go bankrupt? He is so precious to his sister, how could he let her go.
There was not a fool in the court, and everyone could see that the emperor was just asking for directions to see if Xue Guoguan's idea would work.
At this time, whether the Li family can withstand the emperor's pressure becomes the key to the battle between the emperor and the noble group.
What Li Chengming did was to refuse to hand over money. Later, he was forced to panic, and he died of an unknown illness. I thought people would die.
It's a pity that Chongzhen is determined. Like Jiang Wen, the bandit leader, he will ask for money from anyone who has money. After Li Chengming's death, the matter of "borrowing money" was not settled.
The court continued to pursue loans from Li Chengming's son, Li Guorui.
The Li family knew that if they turned over, they would offend the Xungui Group and the princes, so they refused to turn over. Li's family was also detained by the government and suffered harsh punishment and persecution.
Why did Chongzhen want to borrow the number 400,000? It was caused by internal fighting within the Li family.
Li Guorui's brother-in-law, Li Guochen, failed to win the title, so he asked for the separation of the family and demanded 200,000 taels of silver.
After being rejected, he ran to Chongzhen and said that his father had an inheritance of 400,000 yuan, and he had half of the inheritance rights. He was willing to donate all of it to the emperor for military expenses.
If you don't give it to me, I won't get a hair from you.
Li Guorui complained to the emperor about his poverty and pretended to sell furniture and utensils on the street. This move made Chongzhen Emperor Long Yan furious, and he ordered to deprive Li Guorui of his title. Li Guorui was frightened and died, which was a really useless death.
Even though he died in shock. The situation is already like this, and the court's pursuit of the Li family has not stopped. His family was detained and his property confiscated.
Li Guorui's daughter was betrothed to Zhu Youjian, the grandson of Jiajing Bo Zhou Kui, the father of Queen Zhou. Zhou Kui also went to the imperial court to intercede for the Li family. Chongzhen ignored it and continued to pursue the Li family.
Yang Yuhong and Zhou Guoxing, secretaries of the cabinet, are relatives of the Li family. They gave the Li family advice to secretly transfer property and were reported. So he was sent to Chongzhen's court, and he died on the same day because of his old age.
The next night, when Xue Guoguan went home, something strange happened and he saw two people standing at the door of his house. Xue Guoguan was almost frightened to death.
Seeing that the Li family was dying, the relatives united and bribed the eunuchs and maids in the palace with large sums of money. They took advantage of the illness of the fifth emperor's son to make a fuss, and concocted the story "The Empress Dowager Xiaoding has become the Nine Lotus Bodhisattva, and she blames the emperor in the air for neglecting her family, and all the princes are gone." There is a rumor that a god will descend on the emperor’s five sons that day.”
Chongzhen scoffed. He continued to pursue, and he was not afraid of this at all.
Then, the fifth prince died.
This time it shouldn't be the relatives who can do it, it can only be the nobles who are in charge of the army.
In the end, the crisis was resolved by the powerful people, so they thought the Li family was not good enough.
Emperor Chongzhen finally believed it this time. History records: "The emperor was so frightened that he hurriedly made Guorui's seven-year-old son Cunshan a marquis and paid back all the gold and silver he received." Because of this, Li Wei's fifth grandson Li Cunshan was still young. He was granted the title of Marquis at the age of 18 and returned all the gold and silver confiscated from Li Guorui.
Soon, Chongzhen killed Xue Guoguan, the instigator of the tombs, and gave an account to the nobles.
This time, Chongzhen's attempt to get money from nobles and royal relatives ended with the death of the fifth prince. He no longer dared to use extraordinary means to borrow money.
Later, I launched voluntary fund-raising activities in the court several times and almost begged everyone to contribute money, but I didn't get much money. The nobles have seen through his lies.
