Chapter 154
Emperor Chongzhen looked at Cheng Shijie with a face full of reluctance. He knew this very well. In fact, due to the issue of ancestral system, the prince-in-law of the Ming Dynasty did not have the right to participate in the political affairs and could not be an official. The prince-son-in-law himself had no real power. You also have to go to the Imperial College to study. Of course, apart from good looks and decent moral character, there are no other requirements.
Therefore, except for the princesses who married the sons of the founding heroes during the founding period, most princesses married the common people.
Emperor Chongzhen was also thinking about one thing. If Cheng Shijie became the Prince Consort, who would lead Ning Haijun? Let Cheng Shijie take a casual job at the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion? A salary for a white-collar worker?
This was not in the interests of Emperor Chongzhen.
Emperor Chongzhen did not explain to Cheng Shijie. Gao Qiqian understood, walked to Cheng Shijie, and whispered softly: "General Cheng, you are not the lord, but the princess!"
Cheng Shijie said with a depressed face: "Is there any difference?"
"Of course there is a difference, the difference here is huge!"
Gao Qiqian said: "If she is Princess Shang, her consort is not allowed to be an official, and her son is not allowed to be appointed to the imperial rank." The father-in-law "if he is an official, he will be promoted to an official position"... General Cheng married a princess, and he married Princess Le'an, Zhu Weiti, who was the wife of the Cheng family, not a princess. "
Cheng Shijie understood that he didn't have to be like other princes-in-law, where the princess lived in the princess's house and the prince-in-law lived in the prince-son-in-law's house, and he himself became an idler.
Cheng Shijie also knew that once the emperor opened his mouth, there would be no room for easing the matter.
In fact, the idea of Emperor Chongzhen was Li Zhen, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. He was the father of Li Wenzhong, the famous general of the Ming Dynasty, and the second brother-in-law of Emperor Taizu. In the first year of Hongwu, he worshiped the prince consort and the general of Zhenguo, and was granted the title of Enqinhou. In the third year of Hongwu's reign, he became a doctor of Ronglu, a founding auxiliary of the founding of the country, a military minister of Xuanli, and a right pillar of the country, and was granted the title of Cao Guogong.
Emperor Chongzhen thought further. In the future, Cheng Shijie and Princess Zhu Weiti of Le'an would have a son, who would be his nephew. In the future, when the prince succeeds to the throne and Cheng Shijie's son grows up, he will become the prince's assistant.
The current Emperor Chongzhen hates some of the policies of the Ming Dynasty very much. The prince-in-law cannot believe it, and the clan cannot believe it. The emperor is a loner, and there is no one who really shares his heart with him.
"I am not an unreasonable person. If your eldest son Cheng Jialong is found in the future, he will be your legitimate eldest son. All children born to the original wife, Xiang, will be legitimate children."
"My lord, Cheng Shijie thanks you!"
Gao Qiqian was very happy. Cheng Shijie's marriage to the royal family would be of great benefit to his future development. After all, he could be regarded as one of the emperor's own family members, and it would be easier to gain trust.
Only Cheng Shijie was depressed because he was arranged to get married.
The opposite of Cheng Shijie is Princess Zhu Weiti of Le'an. She is actually considered an old girl. She was born in the 39th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1611) and is already 21 years old. In later generations, she was still as young as a flower, but in the Ming Dynasty, she was already an old girl.
Because of her biological mother, Concubine Li Kang, the relationship between Concubine Li Kang and Emperor Chongzhen was very stiff. Living in the palace, her life was very frustrating.
That's right, it's just frustrating.
Any palace maiden or eunuch who wants to take shortcuts will find fault with their mother and daughter. Of course, the luckiest thing for her is that her mother is Li Kangfei, a ruthless character. She is the biological mother of Emperor Lian Tianqi and the main palace of Emperor Changtai. Queens, queens, and queens are so ruthless that they dare to beat them to death.
In the palace, all the maids and eunuchs who tripped her up did not end well.
However, Zhu Weiti is different. She is not as ruthless as her mother, nor is she as strong as her mother, but it is tragic. In the palace, this is a place that eats people without spitting out their bones, and she usually suffers a lot.
As a princess, she has not lived a good life since the first year of Chongzhen. She misses the old days very much. At that time, Emperor Tianqi did not anger her because she was the daughter of Concubine Li Kang. Empress Zhang also often took care of this little sister, and Wei Zhongxian would also give her delicious and fun things.
Unfortunately, nothing can be undone.
For more than five years, she has been living like a year, and she really wants to get married. Once she gets married, she can move out of this suffocating palace.
But the problem is that even if she gets married, her end may not be too good, because the stewards, maids and eunuchs of the princess's house are actually the same.
At first, she identified Gong Yonggu because Gong Yonggu was tall and didn't look like someone who was easy to bully. However, now that she saw Cheng Shijie, especially Cheng Shijie's unflappable aura, Zhu Weiti My heart suddenly moved.
What's wrong with being more than ten years older than her?
Cheng Shijie's tall figure gave Zhu Weiti a sense of security.
Now Zhu Weiti's personal maid Gu Ziyi said: "Princess, the consort is a general, can he kill people?"
"Of course he can kill people. I've asked about it. He killed many slaves in southern Liaoning!"
Gu Ziren took out her small notebook, which recorded a series of black accounts. She looked at a mean-looking palace maid outside the arch: "Du Weiniang is very annoying. She always snatches the chicken legs from the slaves. The slave only has one chicken drumstick in a month. When the time comes, let the consort find a man for her, preferably an old and smelly old man who doesn't wash his feet for half a year and likes to fart...it will stink her to death..."
Zhu Weiti said with a bitter smile: "Zi Yi, what about you?"
"What? Princess, of course I will follow you!"
Gu Ziyi smiled and said: "There is also Fat An from the Food Department, who sent the prince-in-law to the front of the army and made him take the blame. He was exhausted..."
"Meet Concubine Kang..."
While Zhu Weiti and Gu Ziyi were joking, Concubine Li Kang came to the side hall of Renshou Palace.
The surrounding palace ladies and eunuchs all saluted.
Concubine Li Kang can be regarded as a legendary woman. During the Wanli period, as Zhu Changluo's chosen attendant, she colluded with Emperor Wanli's favorite concubine Wan Guifei and flattered each other. Concubine Zheng requested that Concubine Li Kang be made queen, while Concubine Li Kang requested that Concubine Zheng be made empress dowager.
Unexpectedly, Ming Guangzong died inexplicably in the Hongwan Case, one of the three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty, just one month into his reign. Li Kangfei made a huge fuss and did not get any title. She was unwilling to give in. Under the instigation of Concubine Zheng, she stayed in Qianqing Palace, using offense as defense, and instigated some old officials to ask for a title for her. At the same time, he detained Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, and ordered that all memorials from the imperial court must be handed over to him for review.
As a concubine, she beat Zhu Youxiao's biological mother, the Queen, to death, and detained the emperor, which was considered the best.
"You guys all stand down!"
Speaking of which, none of the eunuchs under Emperor Chongzhen were ruthless enough. If someone really killed Concubine Li Kang, Emperor Chongzhen would definitely send her to Fengyang Guarding Tomb first. After a while, it would not be a problem to even upgrade her to the third level.
The problem is, no one dares.
Concubine Li Kang's powerful aura made the eunuchs and concubines around her afraid to breathe.
As the eunuchs and concubines left Renshou Palace, Concubine Li Kang's eyes softened: "Le'an, have you seen General Cheng?"
"Saw it!"
"How does it feel?"
"Not bad!"
"What is acceptable!"
Zhu Weiti sighed and said: "The appearance is acceptable, the figure is acceptable, and the character is unknown..."
"This is not okay. I'm going to beat the emperor to find out!"
Although Emperor Chongzhen hated Concubine Li Kang, he had no way to deal with Concubine Li. The main reason was that Emperor Chongzhen was raised by Concubine Li Kang since he was a child, and he wanted to call Concubine Li Kang's mother.
To be disrespectful to Concubine Li Kang is to be unfilial.
In the Ming Dynasty, unfilial piety was the biggest moral problem. Once such rumors spread, Emperor Chongzhen would be trolled to death by trolls from other dynasties.
Seeing that her daughter couldn't explain why, Li Kangfei said: "Someone is here!"
"The slave is here!"
"Is General Cheng gone?"
"Not yet. It is said that General Cheng is telling His Majesty about the great victory of Haizhou..."
“I’ll go take a look!”
Concubine Li Kang was going to the imperial garden, and the eunuchs around her looked in their eyes, thinking they were going to cause trouble.
However, a eunuch just wanted to run to report the news.
"Omnipotent, hold him down!"
"yes!"
The eunuch named Wan Neng kicked the young official to the ground with a flying kick.
Concubine Li Kang quickly went to the Imperial Garden.
At this time, Gao Qiqian transported the things Cheng Shijie had brought to Emperor Chongzhen into the palace.
Cheng Shijie was holding a sewn sweater and introduced it to the emperor and Queen Zhou: "Your Majesty, Queen, you see, this is made of lamb wool mixed with traditional cotton and linen. The best wool sweater fabric, light and warm, delicate and gorgeous, feels delicate and smooth, and comfortable to wear.”
Queen Zhou was extremely surprised: "Is it possible to weave wool with wool?"
"Queen, please touch me!"
Empress Zhou reached out and took over the woolen sweater. This was the standard of later generations. You can put it on directly by pulling it over your head. Empress Zhou frowned slightly: "Who can wear such a small piece of clothing?"
"Um...I thought that Princess Kunxing and His Highness the Crown Prince are still young, so they should be able to wear it!"
Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said: "Cheng Qing is determined. Come and bring the prince and Princess Kunxing over!"
Not long after, Princess Kunxing, who was now three years old, and later Princess Changping, came to the Imperial Garden under the leadership of Gong E. She very obediently bowed to Emperor Chongzhen and saluted: "Greetings to the father and the queen!"
Looking at Princess Kunxing, who was about the same age as Cheng Jiayue, Cheng Shijie's heart melted. He did not give Princess Kunxing his luggage, but held a small woolen sweater and cape in front of Princess Kunxing. Compared with other children, the heights of three- and four-year-old children are basically the same, but some children grow faster.
Princess Kunxing looked at Cheng Shijie warily and looked at Queen Zhou with pleading eyes.
Cheng Shijie also felt that it was almost the same and smiled and said: "Come put this on and try it!"
Princess Kunxing stepped back repeatedly.
Queen Zhou smiled and said: "Just accept the cloak that General Cheng gave you!"
Princess Kunxing accepted it happily.
Cheng Shijie put the cloak directly on Princess Kunxing and tied it with a belt: "Little princess, how do you feel?"
At this time, the weather was already a little cool at night. Princess Kunxing felt pretty good, so she gave a slight blessing to Cheng Shijie: "Thank you, General Cheng!"
Only then did Cheng Shijie realize that the little prince was sleeping and had no intention of waking up.
Cheng Shijie walked to the cart in the Imperial Garden and started rummaging around.
"found it!"
Cheng Shijie found sesame candy made from sweet potatoes from a cart. This is the memory of many people's childhood. It is so refreshing to have a bite of mahjong.
Cheng Shijie handed a jar of sesame candy to Princess Kunxing.
Queen Zhou looked at Princess Kunxing with longing eyes, but did not dare to accept it. She smiled and said: "General Cheng gave it to you, take it!"
Princess Kunxing reached out to take the sesame candy, but she didn’t know how to eat it.
Cheng Shijie took one out of the jar and bit it directly into his mouth: "It's crunchy and very delicious!"
After saying that, Cheng Shijie directly stuffed the sesame candy into Princess Kunxing's mouth.
A young eunuch shouted: "Bold..."
Before the young eunuch could finish speaking, Chongzhen glanced over with a sharp look, and the young eunuch's face turned pale with fear.
If he were a minister, it would be disrespectful to treat Princess Kunxing like this, but the problem was that in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie was his eighth brother-in-law.
Cheng Shijie, an uncle of his own family, gave Kun Xing a piece of candy. It was a gift from an elder and he went without saying anything.
Princess Kunxing took a small mouthful of sesame candy in a very ladylike manner. When the sweetness stimulated her taste buds, her eyes turned into crescent moons when she smiled.
Children definitely like sweets.
Queen Zhou stroked Princess Kunxing's head: "Thank you very much, General Cheng!"
"Thank you, General Cheng!"
"Little princess, wait, there is something good!"
Like magic, Cheng Shijie took out candied dates, persimmons, longan, dogwood and other dried fruits from the cart. Soon, the tables in front of Emperor Chongzhen and Queen Zhou were filled with gifts brought by Cheng Shijie from southern Liaoning. , in addition to dried fruits, there are also delicate tomatoes, green cucumbers, large yellow peaches, and pears. Some of these things are produced in southern Liaoning, and some are purchased.
Honey exuding the fragrance of rapeseed flowers is drizzled on a plate of walnut cake, as well as fried small yellow croaker, dried shrimp, dried fish and so on.
Emperor Chongzhen tasted a candied date first, then stuffed a small walnut cake into his mouth and chewed it. Then he took a sip of tea and swallowed it. He praised it profusely: "It's delicious. It's so delicious. Queen, please try it too." !”
Queen Zhou picked up a piece of dried sweet potato and bit it gently.
This sweet potato is steamed and peeled, then cut and dried naturally. It's a very delicious snack. Of course it tastes good, but it's a bit toothsome.
The little princess also moved towards Cheng Shijie.
Cheng Shijie took out the giant panda doll he brought from later generations. As the father of a son and a daughter, Cheng Shijie knew very well what little girls needed. Little girls had no resistance to furry toys like this.
Sure enough, in just a quarter of an hour, Princess Kunxing lost her guard against Cheng Shijie.
Emperor Chongzhen felt a little regretful. He had known that he would eat less during dinner, but now he didn't have the stomach to carry anything. However, Cheng Shijie made a lot of snacks, many of which Emperor Chongzhen had never eaten before.
Miscalculation, Emperor Chongzhen was very emotional.
When Concubine Li Kang came to the entrance of the Imperial Garden, she was watching Cheng Shijie amusing Princess Kunxing with a furry doll. She did not have the dignity of a general leading an army at all, but more like a kind father.
The eunuchs and palace maids standing in front of the hanging flower gate bowed and saluted: "Greetings to Concubine Kang, I will go and report to your majesty now..."
"Wait!"
Li Kangfei decided to stand at the hanging flower gate and observe Cheng Shijie.
The Chuihua Gate is about ten meters away from where Cheng Shijie is. In fact, Cheng Shijie saw it as soon as Li Kangfei arrived, but he did not make any announcement.
On the first day Emperor Chongzhen summoned him, he mentioned his marriage to Princess Le'an. Naturally, he had to accept the observation of Princess Le'an's relatives, friends, and parents. This was the inevitable first step.
When Cheng Shijie went to Xiang Hui's family, there were dozens of people watching Xiang Hui's seven aunts and eight aunts. Cheng Shijie had experience in handling such small scenes.
Li Kangfei looked at Cheng Shijie.
There is a saying that if you want to be pretty, be filial.
Although Cheng Shijie was not dressed in filial piety, he was dressed in silver armor. What Gao Qiqian prepared for Cheng Shijie was a paper suit painted silver. Although it looked dazzling, in fact it was neither heavy nor hindered Cheng Shijie's activities.
Against this set of silver armor, Cheng Shijie looked very majestic.
Cheng Shijie's appearance is considered excellent in the Ming Dynasty. He can kill at least 80% of the people in an instant. Of course, his height can kill at least 95% of the people in the Ming Dynasty.
Otherwise, Cheng Shijie was a poor boy with no money, no power, and even a wedding room. Why would Xiang Hui be willing to marry Cheng Shijie?
It was directed at Cheng Shijie's face.
Of course, good arms and legs are not as good as a good mouth.
Cheng Shijie has a high emotional intelligence and a sweet mouth, but Xiang Hui was deceived.
At this time, Concubine Li Kang was the mother-in-law who looked at her son-in-law as much as she liked Cheng Shijie.
Although Cheng Shijie is more than ten years older than Princess Zhu Weiti of Le'an, the problem is that Cheng Shijie is a fat man, but he has lost weight recently. His face has more collagen and no wrinkles.
Even though Emperor Chongzhen was more than ten years younger than Cheng Shijie, by comparison between the two, Emperor Chongzhen looked older than Cheng Shijie. This is an indisputable fact.
A tall and strong figure is the first step to gain a woman's favor. At least in Li Kangfei's view, Cheng Shijie is tens of thousands of times stronger than Gong Yonggu.
Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said: "Cheng Qing, how is the situation in southern Liaoning now?"
"The situation is naturally very good!"
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "The grain harvest in southern Liaoning has been good. I have reached a cooperation with Shanxi merchants and sold 400,000 shi of grain to them. Now there is a shortage of food everywhere. There are many grain merchants going to southern Liaoning to buy grain. There are also Many people and businessmen want to buy cloth and salt from Liaonan, and demand exceeds supply..."
Emperor Chongzhen's face suddenly darkened: "How dare you join the enemy!"
"Your Majesty, I am wronged!"
"It's unfair. Why have I wronged you?"
Cheng Shijie said with an innocent face: "If I am in this situation, I will be considered as an enemy. All the officials and gentry in the Ming Dynasty, at least the officials and gentry in the north, one by one, no one can escape!"
Hearing this, Gao Qiqian really wanted to cover Cheng Shijie's mouth.
He was so anxious that his eyes almost squeezed out, and he winked at Cheng Shijie repeatedly.
Cheng Shijie didn't pretend to be confused. It was better to pierce some window paper.
Emperor Chongzhen's expression softened: "Gao Banban, Wang Banban, and Cao Banban stay, and everyone else leaves!"
"yes!"
Queen Zhou picked up the prince, held Princess Kunxing's little hand and left the imperial garden.
Of course, Concubine Li Kang was among the people leaving at any time.
"I also heard some faint rumors."
"Actually, there is no smoke without fire. They are the ones who like to do business with Jiannu the most in the world. There is nothing such as military rations, ordnance, horses, cannons, swords, guns, and cities that they dare not sell.
Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "It's just like in the second year of Chongzhen, when Jian Nu defeated the pass, there were dozens of passes in the Great Wall defense line. Which one was not one man in charge of the pass and was invincible by ten thousand people? Which city and pass was defeated by Jian Nu's real sword and real gun? ?”
Faced with this situation, Emperor Chongzhen had nothing to say.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the restoration of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang followed Hua Yunlong's suggestion and established garrisons in Yongping, Jizhou, and Miyun for more than 2,000 miles to the west, and 129 passes. Especially when Qi Jiguang served as the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, he began to rectify the twelve passes of Jizhen, and there was danger everywhere.
The first pass that Jiannu took the lead in breaking through was called Lengkou Pass. Anyone who has been to Lengkou Pass in person will know how difficult it was to break through Lengkou Pass in the era of cold weapons, even if the defenders did not face the enemy and stayed in seclusion. , let Jiannu try to break through the barrier?
Like Hangu Pass, Lengkou Pass is not an independent pass city. Hangu Pass is a narrow Hangu Pass with a length of more than 30 kilometers, and Lengkou Pass is not as good as Hangu Pass.
Lengkou Pass is built on the steep Phoenix Mountain. From a distance, Phoenix Mountain looks like a phoenix with its head held high and its wings spread. There are two turquoise rocks on the mountainside of the main peak in the middle, which look like the eyes of a phoenix. There are green, brown and yellow rocks on both sides of the main peak, like spread out colorful phoenix wings, and the twelve consecutive peaks are like spread out phoenix tails. There are castles built on the twelve peaks of the mountain, so it is called "Twelve Camps Phoenix Mountain".
Even if a few soldiers throw stones down the mountain from a mountain fort, Jiannu will suffer heavy casualties if he wants to cross the border. The key to the problem is that only Jiannu's eagle shooters can shoot bows and arrows up the twelve-hill fort.
Such a dangerous barrier could not be withstood for even a day. In the middle of the night, Jiannu broke through in less than an hour. Zhou Yanru, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites at the time, said: "Our country's border defense is a natural chasm, and the generals are like clouds. And. What happened today is like walking in a deserted place, and it is the most amazing thing in history and history."
That's right, throughout the Battle of the Breach, building a slave was like entering an uninhabited land.
Cheng Shijie wanted to tell Emperor Chongzhen not to be naive. At least he should know what the civil and military officials under him were like.
If the water is clear, there will be no fish. Some things can be touched, but some bottom lines cannot be touched.
"How can this be unreasonable? How can there be no such reason? It is simply lawless..."
"Your Majesty, you can also think about it, why is it that the armor of Jiannu is better than that of the most elite army of the Ming Dynasty? The red-armored soldiers of Jiannu are all wearing fine steel armor, and the arrows made by the Staff Bureau are like scratches on them. Itchy, and their white-armored soldiers, wearing three layers of iron armor, are difficult to penetrate even with powerful crossbows!"
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Your Majesty, where do you think Jiannu's armor came from?"
"It is said that our Ming Dynasty was captured..."
"Which of our Ming armies is equipped with heavy armor?"
Cheng Shijie continued: "Now the Eight Banners of Jiannu have as many as two or three thousand white-armored soldiers. Where did these two or three thousand heavy armors come from? In addition to the white-armored soldiers, there are also Jiannu's armor-piercing heavy arrows. Our Ming Dynasty The most elite troops, equipped with iron armor, can easily be penetrated by Jiannu's armor-piercing heavy arrows, so the question is, where do their armor-piercing heavy arrows come from?"
"this?"
"Since Nurhaci started the rebellion, Shanxi businessmen Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa, and yes, plus Cao Sanxi, nine of them have at least tens of millions of taels of property. , it can also be said that they are as rich as the country, how do they get their money?"
Emperor Chongzhen heard the most critical issue, tens of millions of taels of silver.
His eyes widened: "Ten million taels of silver, so much?"
Cheng Shijie said with a serious face: "Fan Yongdou can sell seven to eight thousand cattle and seven to eight thousand horses to Wei Chen at one time. How much is this worth? He even gave one hundred thousand taels of silver in order to bribe Wei Chen! "
"What?"
Gao Qiqian's eyes widened, and the veins on his neck bulged with anger.
"Damn it, Fan Yongdou is really nothing. He gave Cheng Shijie one hundred thousand taels of silver, but only gave himself fifty thousand taels. What do you mean, our family can't compare to Cheng Shijie?"
Cheng Shijie said: "These things are not secrets to begin with. With the capabilities of the Jinyi Guards and Factory Guards, it shouldn't be difficult to find out, right?"
"Cao Banban!"
"The slave is here!"
"Go check it out!"
"yes!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Your Majesty, don't you have no money in the treasury? Let Fan Yongdou's house be confiscated. His family has at least tens of millions of wealth!"
"Without proof, how can I..."
"They are all the top merchants who established slaves in Tongli. Countless officials from the court to the local government have been corrupted by them. However, it is not easy to investigate them. As long as you open your mouth, there will be countless people who object. As long as they object to the investigation of Fan Yongdou's People are basically officials corrupted by Fan Yongdou, there are too many of them!"
Emperor Chongzhen glared at Cheng Shijie and said, "They are them, how can you be as depraved as them?"
"What's wrong with Guan Chen?"
Cheng Shijie explained: "I just sell some grain..."
"That's also an enemy!"
"It was Fan Yongdou who supported the enemy, not Wei Chen. Wei Chen just sold the grain to Fan Yongdou. Fan Yongdou is always a commoner of the Ming Dynasty, right? Is there no problem for Chen to sell the grain to him?"
Emperor Chongzhen's expression changed, he put the tea cup heavily on the table, and shouted sternly: "Shut up! You are getting bolder and bolder. Just for your rebellious words just now, it's enough to kill the whole family!"
"I'm right, do you know why there are more and more refugees recently? It's not a natural disaster, it's a man-made disaster!"
Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "It is they who have taken over the people's fields, and they have pushed the taxes they should pay onto the people, sucking the blood and tears of the people and living a life of good food and clothing! The country has raised taxes again and again, and it is all cheap. After killing these bastards, one tael of silver entering the treasury means that ten or twenty taels of silver have entered the pockets of these bastards!"
Listening to these words, Gao Qiqian felt like the world was spinning. He hurriedly took Cheng Shijie's hand and said, "General Cheng, I beg you, please stop talking!"
Cheng Shijie said: "I must speak frankly, Your Majesty, if you want to save the world, there is only one way!"
"Please, stop talking. As soon as you say this, blood will flow like a river!"
Emperor Chongzhen suddenly asked: "You mean Fan Yongdou has tens of millions of wealth?"
(End of chapter)
