His family is a foreign relative, and he came up through nepotism because he gave birth to a beautiful daughter. He is not regarded by the military veterans, so he is not qualified to participate in the meeting, but his position is reserved.
The title of Marquis of Wuqing was obtained by selling his daughter to the royal family. The person who sold his daughter was Wanli's mother, Li Caifeng, Queen Mother Li. Pay attention! The point is to sell, not to marry. Li Wei was a plasterer, and the only outstanding thing in his life was giving birth to a beautiful woman.
Eldest daughter.
Li Caifeng, the daughter of a mason, was originally sold into Prince Yu's Mansion as a slave by her father Li Wei. Therefore, Queen Mother Li particularly hated being called slave.
She is not a matchmaker. The biggest reason why Li Caifeng was favored by King Yu is because she is so beautiful.
Wanli favored the maid next to the Queen Mother and gave birth to his eldest son. Then he tried to lift his pants and refused to admit it, but was confronted by the Queen Mother.
When Wanli was forced to panic, he said that the eldest son's biological mother was a slave and her status was too low. In his desperation, he forgot that his mother was also a slave. As a result, Empress Dowager Li lost her temper and scolded Wanli bloody.
Wanli had no choice but to accept his son obediently.
Not to mention, the members of the Li family are all ridiculous and weird. They are all talented people. Queen Mother Li will also be pissed to death by her brothers.
Her third brother Li Wensong was also a strange person. He did not want to be a noble man, so he had to move from the palace to the palace to become a eunuch. In the palace, he was in charge of the Royal Horse Supervisor, which was the only department in charge of the military in the Thirteen Yamen.
What’s even more bizarre is that later on, he no longer wanted to be a eunuch, so he became a monk and became the first-generation temple master of the Ningxu Temple in Jinshaping, Shifang Jungle, Wudang Mountain of the Quanzhen Sect.
Yang Fan has always suspected that he is a martial arts master hiding in the palace.
Li Wei (1510-1583), the first Marquis of Wuqing, whose courtesy name was Shiqi and also nicknamed Yizhai, was from Miao (Yinhuo) County, Shuntian Prefecture (now part of Tongzhou District, Beijing), and his ancestral home was Yicheng, Shanxi.
After his grandson Emperor Wanli ascended the throne, Li Wei (father of Empress Dowager Li) was granted the title of Uncle Wu Qing and later the Marquis of Wu Qing.
After Li Wei's death, his son Li Wenquan inherited the title of Marquis of Wuqing in the fifth lunar month of the twelfth year of Wanli (AD 1584). Li Wenquan died, and his son Li Chengming ("Ming Dynasty", "Ming Dynasty" as "Mingcheng") became the Marquis of Wuqing in the third year of Wanli.
In the seventeenth year (AD 1609), he attacked Wu Qingbo.
In the second month of the lunar calendar in the forty-fifth year of Wanli (AD 1617), he was granted the title of Marquis of Wuqing.
After Li Chengming's death, his son Li Guorui took the title of Marquis of Wuqing during the Chongzhen period. Later, it was passed to Li Cunshan, whose fate is unknown after his death in the Ming Dynasty.
His family was looked down upon by the nobles. In addition to relying on nepotism to get the upper hand, his family had no military power and strength. Moreover, they were too soft when facing the emperor. But their family's wealth was a reward from the royal family. How could they be so tough when facing the emperor.
Although Yang Fan is the last earl in the queue, he has soldiers, money, sacred scrolls, and strength. He can defeat Duke Wei, so he naturally has a status in the hearts of the nobles.
After all, this world is still a world that values strength. Even if your family background is not good, you can still gain recognition if you have strength.
The Li family was later brought to death by Chongzhen.
Xue Guoguan joined the cabinet as the second assistant because of Wen Tiren's recommendation. When Xue Guoguan was in the cabinet, Zhu Youjian once told him about the country's lack of finances.
In this regard, Xue Guoguan suggested that to solve the problem of insufficient state expenses, we can start from two aspects: externally, ask for it from the country gentry; internally, ask for it from the royal family. If it asks for it from the country gentry, then let the ministers and others take charge of the affairs together.
; To obtain a royal relative, His Majesty must make his own decision.
Xue Guoguan was also a master who risked his life to solve the financial crisis for the imperial court. He actually dared to give this idea to Chongzhen.
Chongzhen, who was desperate and had nowhere to make money, listened to Xue Guoguan's advice. Zhu Youjian secretly conveyed the secret order and began to "borrow money" from the royal relatives.
First, borrow 400,000 taels from Wuqinghou's family. Borrow 10,000 taels of silver from Prince Consort Ran's family. Borrow 10,000 taels of silver from Prince Consort Wan's family.
Chongzhen did not dare to use the honorable men of the army and the honorable men of the army, so he first used the honorable men of his relatives to practice.
However, the breakthrough point he chose was the former dynasty's relatives who had lost power, and his own relatives remained untouched.
The royal relatives who were closest to him, such as Jiading Bo Zhou's family and Zuo Dudu Tian's family, were not on Zhu Youjian's "borrowing money" list. Although these royal relatives were in hot demand and were being cooked by fire.
The Jiading Bo Zhou family is the natal family of Empress Zhu Youjian Zhou, his father-in-law. The Tian family of the Zuodudu Governor is the natal family of Emperor Zhu Youjian’s concubine Tian.
The two consorts are both wealthy merchants and princesses. They do not have much power. The consort Wanjia is the husband-in-law of Princess Ruian, the fifth daughter of Emperor Muzong (Zhu Zaijing, also known as Zhu Zai) of the Ming Dynasty. The Ran family of the consort is the family of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty.
The in-laws of the seventh daughter, Princess Shouning, are all outdated princesses.
Chongzhen himself had two older sisters and one younger sister. Huang Bamei’s husband Gong Yonggu’s family was also very wealthy, so why didn’t he spend all his money? He was so precious to his younger sister, how could he let go of her.
There was not a single fool in the court, and everyone could see that the emperor was just throwing stones to see if the idea proposed by Xue Guoguan would work.
At this time, whether the Li family can withstand the emperor's pressure becomes the key to the battle between the emperor and the noble group.
Li Chengming's approach was to refuse to pay because he had no money. Later, he was forced to panic, and he died of an unknown illness. He thought he would die and his account would be ruined.
It's a pity that Chongzhen was determined. Like Jiang Wen, the bandit leader, he would ask for money from anyone who had money. After Li Chengming's death, the "borrowing money" matter was not resolved.
The imperial court continued to pursue loans from Li Chengming's son, Li Guorui.
The Li family knew that if they surrendered, they would offend the noble group and the princes, so they refused to surrender. The Li family was also detained by the government and suffered harsh punishment and persecution.
Why did Chongzhen want to borrow the figure of 400,000? It was caused by the internal fighting within the Li family.
Li Guorui's brother-in-law, Li Guochen, failed to win the title, so he asked for a division of the family and demanded 200,000 taels of silver.
After being rejected, he ran to Chongzhen and said that his father had an inheritance of 400,000 yuan, and he had half of the inheritance rights. He was willing to donate all of it to the emperor for military expenses.
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Li Guorui complained to the emperor about his poverty, and even pretended to take the furniture and utensils to the street to sell them. This move made Emperor Chongzhen Long Yan furious, and ordered to deprive Li Guorui of his title. Li Guorui was so frightened that he died. It was a really useless death.
Although he died in a shocking situation, the court's pursuit of the Li family did not stop. His family was detained and his property was confiscated.
Li Guorui's daughter was betrothed to Zhu Youjian, the grandson of Jiajing Bo Zhou Kui, the father of Empress Zhou. Zhou Kui also went to the court to plead for the Li family. Chongzhen ignored it and continued to pursue the Li family.
Yang Yuhong, secretary of the cabinet, and Zhou Guoxing were relatives of the Li family. They gave advice to the Li family to secretly transfer property, but they were reported. So they were imprisoned by Chongzhen. Because of their old age, they died on the same day.
The next night, when Xue Guoguan came home, a supernatural incident occurred. He saw two people standing in the door of his house. Xue Guoguan almost died of fright.
Seeing that the Li family was in danger, the relatives united and bribed the eunuchs and maids in the palace with large sums of money. They took advantage of the illness of the fifth son of the emperor and made a new story.
There is a rumor that a god will descend on the emperor’s five sons.
Chongzhen sneered. He continued to pursue, he was not afraid of these at all.
Then, the fifth prince died.
This time it shouldn't be the relatives who can do it, it can only be the nobles who are in charge of the army.
In the end, it was the powerful people who took action to resolve the crisis, so they thought the Li family was not good enough.
Emperor Chongzhen finally believed it this time. History records: "The emperor was so frightened that he hurriedly made Guorui's seven-year-old son Cunshan a marquis and paid back all the gold and silver he received." Because of this, Li Wei's fifth grandson Li Cunshan was still young.
He was granted the title of Marquis at the age of 18 and returned all the gold and silver confiscated from Li Guorui.
Soon, Chongzhen killed Xue Guoguan, the initiator of the figurines, and gave an account to the nobles.
This time, Chongzhen's attempt to get money from nobles and royal relatives ended with the death of the fifth prince. He no longer dared to use extraordinary means to borrow money.
Later, he launched voluntary fund-raising activities in the court several times and almost begged everyone for money, but he did not get much money. The nobles had already seen through his lies.
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