Glancing at Chen Hong who was standing not far away, Zhu Youxiao said coldly with a sullen face, "Go get Wei Zhongxian!"
Seeing that his emperor's face was not very good, Chen Hong quickly bowed and said respectfully: "Yes, Your Majesty."
After saying this, Chen Hong hurried out.
Looking at Chen Hong's hurriedly leaving back, Zhu Youxiao showed a thoughtful expression.
This time, Wei Zhongxian had to handle the Meridian Gate incident. The Jinyiwei couldn't be moved for the time being, and the two groups couldn't be combined. If he had to deal with one person one day, he had to at least ensure that the other one was still available.
Later, Emperor Chongzhen made a mistake. He cleaned up the East Factory and the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and even grouped all of them into a eunuch party, killing them all without leaving any way out for himself.
In fact, Wei Zhongxian was too powerful at that time, and it was not a big deal for the new emperor Chongzhen to kill Wei Zhongxian. After all, a new emperor chooses new ministers, especially a powerful minister like Wei Zhongxian.
But Emperor Chongzhen couldn't kill everyone, so he could keep people like the Jinyiwei. They were already a nobody, and everyone wanted to kill them.
Apart from Emperor Chongzhen, the Jinyiwei had no one else to rely on. These people were the knife in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen. You can choose not to use it, but you must hold the knife in your own hands.
When you need it, you can just take it and stab it out, instead of finding out that there is no knife when you want to use it.
Zhu Youxiao adopted this strategy for Wei Zhongxian and Luo Sigong. If one day Wei Zhongxian had to be abandoned, Luo Sigong would take over from outside the palace, and Chen Hong would take over from inside the palace.
This is why Zhu Youxiao always used Chen Hong.
Although Chen Hong was far inferior to Wei Zhongxian in terms of ability, he was still quite obedient.
Zhu Youxiao felt that if he couldn't find a more suitable person to replace Chen Hong, then there would be no problem using Chen Hong in the future. By the time he used Chen Hong, the situation would definitely not be the same as it is now.
After a while, Wei Zhongxian arrived at the Qianqing Palace.
After entering the hall, Wei Zhongxian immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhu Youxiao, "Long live the emperor!"
Looking at Wei Zhongxian, who was lying respectfully on the ground, Zhu Youxiao said nonchalantly, "The East Factory has been quite idle these days, let's get some action going. Didn't you say a few days ago that some people were colluding? They should all be members of the Donglin Party. Let's arrest some of them."
"Yes, Your Majesty." After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian was shaking with excitement.
He had wanted to do this before, but the Emperor hadn't agreed. Unexpectedly, the Emperor agreed this time. It seemed those people had done something to anger the Emperor again. But it didn't matter. He could finally take action.
"Okay, go ahead." Zhu Youxiao nodded, waved his hand and sent the man away.
Wei Zhongxian got up from the ground, bent down, took a few steps back, and then ran out quickly. He was going to do something big.
"Your Majesty, Minister of Works Zhao Nanxing requests an audience."
Soon Chen Hong came in to announce it, bowing and saying, "Jinyiwei Commander Luo Sigong came with him."
Zhu Youxiao nodded, knowing that what he had said before was effective.
You should know that before this, Zhu Youxiao asked the Jinyiwei to speed up and let Chen Hong pass on the message.
Now Zhao Nanxing and Luo Sigong came together, it seemed that the matter had come to a conclusion.
Zhu Youxiao said expressionlessly: "Let them both come in!"
Not long after, two people walked in from outside and saluted Zhu Youxiao.
Waving his hand, Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "We are not in the main hall, so let's forget about these. Since you two are here together, it must mean that the matter has come to a conclusion, right? Then tell us about it."
"Your Majesty, the matter has been investigated clearly." Zhao Nanxing spoke first.
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Then tell me about it!"
"Yes, Your Majesty," Zhao Nanxing agreed, arranging his words before continuing, "After my detailed interrogation and investigation, I found that as many as 90% of the officials in the Ministry of Works were implicated, from top to bottom. Only a few minor officials were implicated. Among them, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works was the most seriously corrupt."
"Here are my interrogation records and names." Zhao Nanxing bowed and handed over a petition book.
Taking the manuscript from Chen Hong, Zhu Youxiao quickly flipped through it, glanced at Zhao Nanxing, and asked in surprise, "Why is your name on it?"
To be honest, this surprised Zhu Youxiao. He knew Zhao Nanxing was not clean either, and he must have accepted money.
But for the emperor, whether you receive money or not is never the key point; whether you can do the job is the key point. As long as Zhao Nanxing can use it for his own benefit and help him do things, it doesn't matter if he receives some money.
Just like what Emperor Jiajing said in a TV series in his previous life: "If four cents of one tael of silver go to them and twelve cents go to the national treasury, I will accept it; if six cents go to them and ten cents go to the national treasury, I will accept it too." But in the end, more than 13 cents, even close to half, were taken away, so Emperor Jiajing was furious.
The same applies to Zhu Youxiao now. If Zhao Nanxing took the money and didn't say anything himself, Zhu Youxiao wouldn't ask.
Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that Zhao Nanxing would write his own name on it.
Zhu Youxiao sighed after looking at the amount at the back: two taels. It didn't seem like much, but with layers of exploitation and corruption at all levels, the amount was enormous.
Putting down the test paper in his hand, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhao Nanxing, waiting for him to give him an answer. In fact, Zhu Youxiao really wanted to know his answer.
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