Chapter 558

Wen Tiren's reputation is very bad in both the government and the public. In terms of the court, he is a mediocre man. More importantly, he certainly can't join the cabinet without the recommendation of Zhou yanru that day. However, after he joined the cabinet, he kicked Zhou yanru out and sat in the position of the first assistant.

This also continues the consistent political style since the late Wanli period, that is, the first auxiliary is promoted from the second auxiliary, which means that the first auxiliary is squeezed out this time.

Therefore, the first thing to do after the successive first aides have stabilized his position is not to help the emperor to help the world, but to clean up the position around him and kill it. Otherwise, it is easy to have an accident on his own, which also makes the struggle for the party constitution at the top of Daming more intense.

Wen Tiren is an expert in party struggle. If he is asked to deal with military and state affairs, he can't bring anything effective, and can't calm the party struggle of all departments of the imperial court. However, when it comes to playing tricks, he is an expert, especially good at it and excellent.

Since he was promoted to Shoufu, the people have no wind and rain. There is neither early morning nor heavy flood. There is no good life, so the people give it a nickname called fawen Shoufu.

You should know that, like the first aides in the early Wanli period, they were the first of the courtiers, leading the courtiers and echoing with each other, but like Wen Tiren, he absolutely did not have such authority and boldness of vision. His influence was limited to the cabinet. Even when he arrived at the court, the six Shangshu, ducha yuan and Dali temple could compete with him.

This time, he put forward the method of asking everyone to raise money, which is indeed a feasible method at present, but the official hates him. You shouldn't reach out to anyone who is an official. It's the so-called same root. Why is it too urgent to fry each other?

What everyone hates is that you made this idea at the emperor's place. You wear a flower hat, but you want everyone to take out white silver. Who doesn't hate it?

The Ming Dynasty was so poor that it raised money from ministers. If it was not at the end of the mountain, the emperor would not do so. Instead, he wanted to apportion. Unfortunately, it was strongly opposed by Shandong, which led to the rebellion of Liu thieves. Even the canal was blocked, making the government's finances more difficult.

It is conceivable that the imperial court has relied on the apportionment to support Liao Xiang and Lian Xiang in recent years. If there is no apportionment, I don't know where to get so many military salaries to fill these two huge holes.

Another thing is certain, that is, since the Liu family strongly opposed the apportionment and achieved good results, I believe that the governors and governors of other provinces or local giants will learn the same thing. It is difficult for the imperial court to collect the apportionment.

It can be said that the Liu family blocked the canal, which made the imperial court's finances exhausted, and all at once forced them into a corner.

They can't support this situation, so they can only do everything they can.

Now even fools know that the best way is to directly use troops in Shandong, destroy the Liu family, copy the Liu family's money, recapture the canal and restore water transport, which can solve the immediate crisis.

However, the imperial court had a more urgent crisis, that is, it had prepared more than 100000 troops to go south and find trouble for the Liu family, but the army they prepared was unable to let them go because they didn't have enough food.

There is a saying that the emperor is not bad for hungry soldiers, which refers to the dignity of the royal family, but now it is not the problem of dignity, but that you can't let people fight with an empty stomach and bare buttocks?

The soldiers have no strength to fight if they don't have enough to eat. Now the weather is getting colder and colder, and it's going to snow. The soldiers are still wearing single clothes. They must have enough cotton clothes and cold proof things before they can let the soldiers go. Otherwise, after they arrive in Shandong, it's estimated that it's snowing. Without Liu Jiajun's hand, they'll be finished, frozen and starved.

Therefore, Wen Ti Ren's method coincides with the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen was a man with solid eyes. When the imperial court was in trouble, he always allocated the money in the internal money to deal with emergencies, but when the imperial court was not rich, he finally filled the pit and built himself in.

You should know that Emperor Wanli was very smart. He clearly divided the internal money and the Treasury. He sent people to collect taxes everywhere and put all his income into his own pocket. It's your business that the Treasury has no money. It's your business that you have no ability, the Treasury has no money, the Minister of household is poor, crazy, hanged and dying. That's your business, It's none of my business. Just do it yourself. If not, don't be an official.

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty scolded the emperor for being mean and stingy. So what? I have the money? What else can I do if I don't give it to you? Anyway, Emperor Wanli is a powerful role. You officials have to do it or not.

At the back of emperor Chongzhen, he saw that the court had no money and he had it in his hand, so he took it out immediately. As soon as the hole was opened, it turned into that the court had no money, so he had to pull the money into the water. Everyone had no money together.

Today, when there was no money, Emperor Chongzhen knew what the word was, a penny is a hero.

But he knows one thing. If he can't get enough food today, he can't use this army to attack Liu thief south. If he doesn't kill Liu thief in time, everyone knows and understands how serious the consequences are.

At this moment, everyone knew that although JianNu had retired, the crisis of the Ming court had just begun.

For the first deputy, Wen Tiren came up with such a bad idea to make money, but the ministers hated it. Since ancient times, officials only stretched out their hands to the people. Where did they stretch out their hands to the officials and gentry, which made the officials unable to make a living?

Moreover, the imperial court solicits donations from everyone, which is not good. Everyone works for the imperial court. Why should we pay when the imperial court has no money?

There is also a more serious problem, that is, the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty are very low. Even the Shangshu of each department has only two or three thousand liang of silver a year. What can we do if we donate it?

We all know that it's hard to be an official in Daming. If you don't donate, others will say you are mean and stingy and ignore the safety of the country's life and death. If you donate, others will ask you, where did you get the silver? Is it corruption? Stolen? You should know that your salary for a year is only a little. You also need an old snack to drink. You need money for everything. Where did you get so much money? It's hard to say when others ask.

Therefore, Wen Ti Ren really offended the public anger by doing so. However, since they can be officials and are all human spirits, they immediately came up with an idea that you wen ti Ren can put forward such an idea. Everyone depends on how much you wen ti Ren can donate?

So everyone waited first to see how Wen Ti Ren donated, and then others made a decision.

In fact, when Wen Tiren put forward this idea, he was a little elated. He showed his face in front of the emperor and solved the problem for the emperor. The emperor also praised him a few words, but in the twinkling of an eye, the big guy kicked the ball back to him and asked him to deal with the problem, which made it difficult for him to do.

Asking him to raise money from all the civil and military officials of the imperial court is tantamount to asking everyone for money. However, he knows how important these officials attach to money. They simply want his lifeblood. This is to bake it on the fire.

Moreover, these officials are not easy to mess with. They immediately fight back and let you take the lead. It depends on how much you donate first.

Don't mention that Wen Tiren is really loyal and patriotic. Because Daming is down, he has no place to go. He's afraid that he will be beheaded, so he also hopes Daming is good. It's not a problem to donate 180000 yuan for such things. Wen Tiren focuses on power, followed by silver. As long as he sits in the position of first assistant, it's not easy to get money.

But he was also embarrassed about it. Why? As an old saying goes, the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty is very low. Even if you are the first assistant, the silver given to him by the imperial court is two or three thousand Liang. It is a huge sum of money to put in an ordinary family, but it is not enough to raise so many people in the first assistant's house. Fortunately, there are all kinds of ice respect, carbon respect, common practices, corruption and bribery, which stabilize the situation.

If he donated less warm body benevolence, others will say that you started it. As the first auxiliary in the court, you dare to donate so little money. Do you want to face it?

However, if you donate too much silver, there will also be a problem. That is, everyone will accuse, and even the censor of the ducha court will impeach him in the six departments. How did you get your money? You only get a little salary a year and can donate so much money. Is this from corruption? Is this stolen?

Therefore, Wen Tiren was embarrassed. He didn't know what to do. He regretted that he put forward such an idea to please the emperor, but he lifted a stone and hit himself in the foot, which also aroused public anger. Stealing chickens can't erode rice.

But when the work was spread to him, he had to do it or not. What should I do? He discussed with his screen friends, who gave him a good idea, that is, as the capital of the imperial court, Wen Tiren could not ignore the difficulties of the imperial court. This fund-raising was caused by himself. He must donate. If he doesn't donate, it may cause public anger.

But donating more or less has become a technical problem. His screen friend suggested: "you can donate a year's salary to the old cabinet. In this way, all aspects have been explained. The emperor and the minister have also been explained. Everything is covered."

As soon as Wen Tiren heard this, it was a good idea. He donated 3000 liang of silver. This is his one-year salary. He can tell others that I don't want a year's salary for the sake of the imperial court. I'm loyal and patriotic. How did I get the money? I saved it by living frugally? Those used for providing for the aged were taken out to help the imperial court solve problems.

Even the imperial censor of the ducha academy, when asked by the speech officials of the six departments, he can say so, and he has explained everything.

Therefore, Wen Tiren organized a fund-raising in the imperial court, mainly to donate a sum of money and food to the army outside the city and let them go to Shandong as development fees.

Wen Tieren also took the lead in making donations. One donation is a year's salary, which can be regarded as an example.