For a moment, only the emperor and the Marquis were left in the room. The emperor immediately asked, "Cousin, tell me, is there any good way to bleed these wealthy families?"
The Marquis smiled and replied, "I didn't have a clue at first, but I heard something on the way here, which gave me some inspiration."
"What's the matter? Cousin, tell me!" the emperor asked, not even bothering to eat the melon.
The Marquis said, "Have you heard, Your Majesty, that the eldest son of Duke Zhenguo was jealous in a brothel the day before yesterday and beat a wealthy businessman to death for a poor man?"
The emperor nodded, "I heard, but Duke Zhenguo was jealous. The palace has introduced a long-term follower to take the blame."
The Marquis smiled, "Your Majesty, the country has national laws, and the family has family rules. Who killed the person? How can it be left to the Duke's palace to have the final say? Even if Zheng Guogong only has an only son, he must give it to him. Go to Jing Zhaoyin and investigate clearly.
"If Duke Zhen is really distressed, I will go to the palace to ask for your mercy. If you understand Duke Zhen Guo's love for his son, Duke Zhen Guo will naturally also understand how difficult it is for you, Tian Wu, to be a family member, right? "
The emperor blinked his eyes twice and understood immediately.
This was to seize the tail of Zhen Guo Gong's only son and rob Zhen Guo Gong's house openly and openly.
Zhen Guo Gong has been hereditary for four generations. Although the population is not prosperous, he relies on the strength of his ancestors. With the power of the dragon and the ancestral property accumulated for many years, he is also extremely rich.
Not to mention tens of thousands of taels of silver, hundreds of thousands of taels are not a problem.
The emperor already has millions of people in his heart who agree, but as an emperor, He still had to save the face he deserved.
He coughed twice and said, "The prince breaks the law and is as guilty as the common people. The only son of the Zhenguo Duke committed a crime, so he must be punished. But if this is the case, will the wealthy family be in trouble and cause turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River? "
No," the Marquis shook his head, "it is reasonable for the Duke's office to share the emperor's worries and the emperor's pardon." In addition, I heard that the eldest son of the Duke's Mansion was in love with the legitimate daughter of the second wife of the Jiangning Marquis Mansion, even to the point of obsession. If the emperor could decree the marriage, I am afraid that the Duke's Palace would only be more grateful to the emperor. "
The legitimate daughter of the second wife of the Marquis of Jiangning Mansion?
The emperor didn't react for a moment. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry until he thought about it.
"So my cousin is waiting for me here! The Queen has always wanted to marry this cousin to you, but you are the one holding the string for her! "
The Marquis raised his hand to pour tea, hid the coldness in his eyes, and responded, "I said, until the barbarians are exterminated and half of the country is recovered, I will never have a family. Therefore, it is not good to drag other girls to wait until they are old and yellow. What's more, I have a daughter! Fu Niu'er is filial, even if I don't have a biological child, Fu Niu'er will take care of me until I die. "
The emperor has no good opinion of the Wu family, and he refuses to go against his cousin's wishes, just to make the queen and the Wu family happy.
What's more, the daughter of the Wu family gave a marriage to the eldest son of the Duke of Guo, in exchange for a large amount of money for the national treasury. The pension problem can be solved.
Thinking of this, he smiled and said, "This is not bad. It not only solves the emptiness of the national treasury, but also solves the problem of the Wu family's daughter's hatred of getting married. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone." "
Unfortunately, what the Marquis wanted to achieve was far more than that. He asked again, "Is the Emperor satisfied now? No need to raise money to repair the river?
The emperor was shocked at that time and asked, "Cousin, don't you still want to squeeze money from the Duke's mansion? " "
The Marquis shook his head and said with a smile, "Of course not, even if you cut meat, you can't always cut it from a pig's body! "
The emperor looked strange when he heard this. My cousin used to be such an unsmiling person, but now he speaks so... so down to earth!
Has he lived in Broken Gold Beach for a long time?
The Marquis didn't know what he was thinking, so he took it from his arms. He took out a soldier book and said, "This expedition has caused heavy casualties, so we must replenish our troops.
"Tianwu is the Tianwu of the common people, and it is also the Tianwu of wealthy families and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. It makes no sense to just let the common people send their children and grandchildren to kill the barbarians, but instead the powerful and wealthy families stand behind and watch the fun.
"So, I propose, this The soldiers for this period are selected from the young children of each family. Each family must have two children, and they must have legitimate sons. In this way, each family will be more concerned about regaining the mountains and rivers, and will have a better understanding of the difficulties of the battle. "
The tea bowl in the emperor's hand tilted and he almost spilled the tea.
This...
Yesterday in the court, all the civil and military officials and wealthy families were watching from the sidelines about the pension issue.
The emperor was chilling and angry just looking at it, let alone his cousin. Yes, he must be furious. But he didn't expect that his cousin actually wanted to grill all the courtiers and dignitaries of Tianwu.
Take the fire out of the cauldron!
The snake hits seven inches!
This is to pinch the necks of all the wealthy families and tie them all to the chariot of the Northern Expedition!
They may not care about the lives of ordinary soldiers, but they cannot ignore the life and death of their own bloodline!
"This... I'm afraid this will offend the public. Will my cousin really want to be a lonely minister in the future?" The emperor objected, "Cousin, you can't do this! Let's think of other ways!"
The Marquis smiled nonchalantly, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, those children from aristocratic families are not necessarily required to enlist in the army. If they can imitate the ruler of the country and understand that the Emperor is worried about the empty treasury, then it would be better to send only one to enlist in the army.
"As for them to be angry, then just be angry! When I vowed to regain the mountains and rivers and exterminate the barbarians, I had already put everything aside. Whether they are courtiers or dignitaries, it makes no difference whether they hate me or respect me. As long as the emperor believes in me, I have nothing to fear! "
Cousin, I don't trust anyone, but I will trust you..." The emperor's heart was burning, and there were too many things he wanted to say, but they were all blocked in his throat.
As an emperor, there must be no human tenderness.
Because even his wife and children cannot There was no guarantee that one day they would kill him for the chair under his butt.
But he was so lucky to have such a cousin who grew up with him.
When he was too weak to fight against everyone, his cousin took care of him. The secret guard always walks on the edge of life and death, collecting intelligence for him and handling some matters that cannot be seen in the light.
Now that he has taken charge of the government, he has the capital to fight against certain people, and his cousin has begun to lead troops to fight for him. He recovered half of the fallen country.
Now he is solving the problem of the emptiness of the treasury, single-handedly carrying all the dignitaries of the family!
Seeing the emperor's eyes red, the Marquis sighed and laughed in a low voice, "Why are you still acting like this? Same as when you were a kid? I don't have any pine nut candy to coax you. "
The emperor also smiled, with a hint of nostalgia in his smile.
When he was a child, his mother-in-law and concubine died early. At that time, the concubine and the empress had to give birth to princes. Naturally, the late emperor could not care about this poor little thing. He wished that all the maids and eunuchs in the palace could do it. He could bully him at will.
At that time, his cousin's parents and relatives all died of the epidemic, and only his cousin was left.
He deliberately knelt on the road that his father must pass, and asked his father's permission to send his cousin to the palace to be his wife. Companion reading.
When my cousin leaves the palace every half month, he will secretly bring him pine nut candies.
When he is bullied and has no ability to fight back, and is angry and sad, his cousin will secretly bring him pine nut candies. Talking in the corner.
He eats sweets while his cousin practices martial arts.
Even after so long, everything seems to be still before his eyes...
In the past few years, he has been in power, and people have begun to take sides and work for him.
His cousin is not the only one around him He even only saw his cousin once every few months.
Occasionally, he would also suspect that his cousin had hidden selfish motives, and whether he was like those courtiers who wanted something from him and concealed something...
But this For a moment, he suddenly felt extremely ashamed!
His cousin was still the same cousin, but he was already a "qualified" emperor!
The emperor took a deep breath and said, "Cousin, you don't have to be like this. I am the emperor of Tianwu, so it is my turn to do such things! As you said, Tianwu is my Tianwu, the Tianwu of the common people, and the Tianwu of ministers and powerful families. There is no reason for them to just sit on the sidelines! "