"My servant Wei Zhongxian comes to see the Emperor."
After Wei Zhongxian saw the ceremony, he didn't hear the emperor asking him to get up, so he couldn't help but look up in confusion.
Meeting Li Yunze's teasing eyes, my heart suddenly thumped, and I had an ominous premonition.
Before he could say anything else, Li Yunze raised his hand and smashed the tea cup on the gold brick, and the door of the imperial study room was immediately closed.
Luo Yangxing rushed out with a group of Jinyi guards and surrounded them with steel knives.
Nine Thousand Years Old was shocked and turned pale, shouting tremblingly, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty! I am loyal to your Majesty~~~"
Li Yunze didn't say anything nonsense, he raised his hand and waved vigorously without hesitation.
Luo Yangxing had a ferocious smile on his face, and he raised the steel knife and dropped it with his hand.
Li Yunze lowered his eyelids to suppress the nausea in his heart. Li Yunze, who refused to die from talking too much, took a deep breath.
"I want to do something, but you are fighting for power and blocking my way. In order to prevent Middle-earth from falling into the hands of foreigners, I can only ask you to go on the road."
There is no doubt that Wei Zhongxian is a powerful official who is good at power.
He gathered together the forces in North Korea and China that had been suppressed by the Donglin Party, and vigorously attacked the Donglin Party, which unintentionally met the needs of justice.
This great cause is to attack the Donglin Party.
The Donglin Party represents the border smuggling groups of gentry and local tyrants, pirates and sea owners, and budding capitalists.
These forces don't care whether it's the Ming Dynasty or Dashun or the Qing Dynasty. As long as it meets their interests, it's no problem even using wild boar skins and blood-stained gold and silver jewelry as shopping items.
The gentry and local tycoons from all over the country are the local emperors. They often have tens of thousands of acres of land under their names and never pay taxes. They also put the tax on ordinary people, forcing them to lose their families and become slave tenants for themselves.
The most typical representatives of border smuggling groups are the Eight Shanxi Merchants.
Don't look at TV dramas in the modern world, where they appear to be benevolent and trustworthy. In fact, the capital for their fortune is the blood of millions of people.
He smuggled iron, food, cloth and other materials that the boar skins urgently needed in exchange for blood-stained gold and silver, and even got the name of an imperial merchant. He was really a cute little kid.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the maritime power of the Ming Dynasty was very developed.
All kinds of merchants and pirates are like countless crucian carp crossing the river.
The seas of East Asia are full of their ships, and overseas trade is in full swing.
But the problem is that except for the Municipal Shipping Department, which can collect some money for the emperor's internal funds, they don't pay taxes.
Customs duty is a very important source of tax revenue, but unfortunately, under the protection of the Donglin Party, the court cannot receive it.
The Donglin Party even tricked the emperor into abolishing the Shipping Department, not even wanting to give him any money from internal funds.
As for the budding capitalists, they were mainly big businessmen who made silk fabrics, tea leaves, ceramics, and even opened shops in various places.
What they hate most are the tax collection checkpoints in various places, and most of these checkpoints are used by the guarding eunuchs to collect money for the emperor.
The most famous saying of the Donglin Party in protecting them is 'Don't compete with the people for profit. '
With just such a sentence, the business tax has become a joke, like the tea tax, which is only a dozen taels of silver.
These people made a lot of money, but the court had no money to do anything.
The Ming Dynasty, which had no money, was tormented by natural and man-made disasters. It would be really unreasonable not to perish.
Of course, the Donglin Party was not so bad at the beginning.
They were also enthusiastic and energetic in the early days.
It's a pity that the Donglin Party, which had real ideals later on, basically died, and those who joined in the later period were all the ones with "itchy scalp and too cold water".
In this case, anyone who travels through the late Ming Dynasty will attack the Donglin Party.
Wei Zhongxian fought for power with the Donglin Party. Although they were still fighting for power in essence, they objectively dealt a blow to the Donglin Party, which made many people have a favorable impression of him.
But now for Li Yunze, he urgently needs time to save Daming.
After all, Huang Taiji, who had completely torn off the last fig leaf of the Ming Dynasty, had only two years left to enter the country.
It was impossible for Li Yunze to spend more than a year slowly tormenting Wei Zhongxian and finally driving him away, and then in a few months he would face Huang Taiji's army.
In order for the people of the Ming Dynasty to no longer be slaughtered wantonly, blood will flow everywhere.
Li Yunze decided to send Jiu Qiansui on the road as quickly as possible and take back the power of the government to prepare for the situation.
From the beginning, he never thought about letting Wei Zhongxian go home to take care of himself, or to put him in jail for interrogation or something like that.
This nine-thousand-year-old man was powerful, powerful and ambitious, and Li Yunze was unwilling to give him any chance of a comeback.
Suppressing the nausea in his heart, he picked up the imperial edict on the imperial desk and threw it to Luo Yangxing, "Go do it."
It is not enough to simply clean up Wei Zhongxian. His followers must also be wiped out. Only in this way can losses and turmoil be reduced to the greatest extent.
Outside the Forbidden City, Luo Sigong led the Jinyiwei to do things, while inside the Forbidden City, Luo Yangxing did the work.
When news came from Wang Chengen that he had successfully taken over the Royal Horse Supervisor, Li Yunze knew that the overall situation was decided.
All that's left is the follow-up work.
That night, the entire capital city was in trembling and uneasiness.
It was not until the next day that the officials and nobles who were anxiously waiting for the news finally got the exact message.
The new emperor, who had already shown the image of a cowardly king, actually silently took action and brought down nine thousand years old in one night!
For a moment, everyone in the eunuch party felt like they were mourning for their heirs, but the suppressed Donglin party cheered and shouted that the holy king was still alive.
They even mobilized hundreds of imperial students to petition the Forbidden City, asking the emperor to severely punish the eunuchs.
This is an important characteristic of the Donglin Party. It packages itself in a very positive light and always does things from the moral high ground, that is, it has no disadvantages.
Scholars from all over the Ming Dynasty have either joined the Donglin Party or have been influenced by the Donglin Party, an internet celebrity of this era, and are siding with them intentionally or unintentionally.
The Donglin Party, which controls public opinion, has great influence.
While the whole city was in turmoil, Li Yunze was getting angry.
He knew very well that if he wanted to salvage Daming who had fallen into the mud, it was not enough to be famous alone, he also needed to be profitable.
If you can do whatever you say simply in the name of the emperor, then the Ming Dynasty will not be destroyed.
When natural disasters come, money and food must be available to provide disaster relief.
When soldiers and horses fight, they must have money, food, food, and rewards.
Winning people's hearts to do things for oneself requires money and food, and doing projects and construction also requires money and food.
There is no money or food, only a reputation. Zhu Youjian, who hangs himself on the southeast branch, is the most vivid illustration.
After killing Wei Zhongxian, the first thing Li Yunze did was to ask Wang Chengen to check the internal funds quickly.
If you don't check, you won't know. After checking, he was so angry that he almost had a heart attack.
There was only tens of thousands taels of silver left in the internal funds.
"My little cutie!" Looking at the empty money, Li Yunze's forehead burned. "Where's the money?!"
Where has the income of several million taels a year gone?
The eunuchs in charge of internal funds were already trembling with fear.
Without any hesitation, they directly put the blame on Jiu Qiansui, "Eunuch Wei took them all away."
History books say that when Wei Zhongxian was searched, tens of millions of taels of property were confiscated, which makes sense.
But Li Yunze is not Zhu Youjian, he knows far more things than Zhu Youjian.
He pointed at the eunuchs in charge of internal funds and told Wang Chengen, "Take the troops from Dongchang and Jinyiwei to raid their homes."
It is a matter of course in this era that the guard of the bank steals money.
In the Forbidden City, guarding internal funds is already considered a lucrative job, and it requires all parties to pay filial piety and spend countless amounts to get in.
Regardless of whether others believed it or not, Li Yunze did not believe that these eunuchs spent all their savings or even borrowed money to enter the internal funds in order to fulfill their duties and guard the emperor's small treasury.
Seeing Wang Chengen and his men dragging the eunuchs who were crying and begging for mercy out for interrogation, Li Yunze was thinking about Cao Huachun.
"Admiral Cao Huachun of the East Factory, Eunuch Cao is doing something, tsk tsk~~~"
To do this kind of thing, it is best for Cao Huachun to take the lead. There is no doubt that it will be a famous scene.
It was a pity that the messenger who sent Eunuch Cao back to Beijing had not long left. Even if Cao Huachun came back quickly, it would be at least half a month.
Li Yunze really couldn't wait that long.
In terms of interrogation, Dongchang and Jinyiwei are both professional level.
It didn't take too long to seize millions of taels of cash from the homes of the eunuchs who were guarding their money. This did not include the fields, antiques, calligraphy, painters' houses, etc.
Regarding these oil-stealing rats, Li Yunze only gave one sentence: "They will all be dealt with by Wei Ni."
The eunuchs need to be tried by three divisions to determine the crime before the operation. This is to respect the laws of the Ming Dynasty.
But the eunuchs in the palace don't need it. They are all the emperor's domestic slaves. How they want to deal with it is just a matter of words.
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty earned millions of taels from internal funds every year, and the palace expenses reached the top of millions of taels a year.
Even if they often use money to subsidize the court, after so many generations of emperors, they must have accumulated a huge number.
Li Yunze didn't believe that Wei Zhongxian had taken everything away.
All the eunuchs who had guarded the internal funds in previous dynasties must be strictly investigated.
At this moment, Li Yunze hoped more and more that Eunuch Cao Huachun would come back soon.
The Jinyiwei and Dongchang fans were very busy. Wei Zhongxian fell, taking with him a large eunuch.
Li Yunze referenced history books and gave many lists. Like Wei Zhongxian, these people also had their homes confiscated.
Large amounts of cash and gold were seized.
All the silver was given away to internal funds, because silver could not be sold at a high price in the modern world.
Gold is the common hard currency in all parallel worlds.
Modern world, Li Yunze's leather bag company office.
Li Yunze, who was sitting on a chair, lit a cigarette and silently looked at the shining gold in front of him.
Here is a full 10,000 taels of gold, which translates into a full 373 kilograms.
They are all re-smelted gold bricks without any markings.
"It's a big loss to give to the pawnshop, at least one-third." Li Yunze thought hard, "This is all the hard-earned money of the people of the Ming Dynasty. I must at least bring them enough supplies in return."
Of course, he came here in such a hurry to change money, not for his own enjoyment, but purely because natural and man-made disasters were becoming more and more serious.
Droughts in various places are becoming more and more serious. The reduction in food production has caused the people who cannot survive to become bandits. In addition, there are more and more natural disasters every year. Li Yunze is now in urgent need of a large amount of materials to transfuse blood to the Ming Dynasty.
It is very clear from the history books that this round of drought lasted from the first year of Chongzhen to the fourth year of Chongzhen. During this period, there were various derivative disasters, such as the typhoon in Jiangsu and Zhejiang that lost nearly 100,000 people.
In the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, heavy rains caused floods in various places, and rivers burst their banks and destroyed countless buildings.
Then starting from the sixth year of Chongzhen, there was a new round of drought, mixed with various disasters until the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Yunze is in urgent need of supplies now, a lot of supplies.
With the horrific productivity in the modern world, there is certainly no shortage of supplies, but purchasing these supplies requires money.
If the gold is sent to a pawn shop, the loss will be too great.
"Go to the bank!" Li Yunze reached out and put out his cigarette in the ashtray, stood up and started carrying the gold bricks to the rented car. "This is gold, and it is hard currency wherever you go."
After driving to a famous bank, Li Yunze put on sunglasses and a hat and strode in.
"Come to your manager." Facing the receptionist, Li Yunze was full of magnanimity, "We have a big business to discuss."
When customers come to visit, the bank's attitude is very correct.
Li Yunze was invited into the VIP room, and a business manager received him.
"Don't ask anything." Li Yunze raised his hand to interrupt the manager's greetings. "I said, just respond."
"Does your bank accept precious metal depository business?"
"certainly."
"How to calculate the price?"
"The price is calculated based on the average international gold price on that day, after converting the exchange rate."
"Whether customer privacy can be guaranteed."
"Sir, you can open an offshore company and open a precious metal holding account in the name of the company. The financial affairs will be handled by the company's accounts, and there will be no personal involvement."
Li Yunze nodded with satisfaction and reached out to the business manager, "Give me your business card and wait for my call."
Banks will not collect gold directly. Their business in this area is called precious metal holding and deposit.
To put it simply, gold is stored in the bank. When money is needed, the money is transferred to the corresponding account according to the price and exchange rate. Holding the gold on behalf of the bank will correspondingly reduce part of the money to be paid and becomes the bank's.
Li Yunze acted quickly. In this city with a very developed financial system, he found a specialized service company and spent a sum of money to open several offshore companies.
After the account was opened, Li Yunze took his business card and called the business manager.
"Come and collect the goods."
