Chapter Eighty-Six: The Emperor Gets No Donations

The head was sent over, and there was no reaction from the Jiading Bo Mansion.

Mu Tiantao knew that he should still have seven or eight days of buffer time, and only after this Jiading Bo figured out his details would he have further actions.

It is a good habit for many nobles to plan and then act.

They don't care about killing, but they must find out the bottom of the enemy before they do it.

In this huge capital, there are always some people who can't be moved or touched.

In many stories, there are always gentlemen who offend people regardless of their family background, which is the most stupid, Mu Tiantao's education since he was a child is not like this.

His mother, his brother, always told him that it didn't matter if he was bullied, he had to be quiet first, and he wanted to figure out the details of the enemy, if there was some unexplained relationship behind the opponent.

At this time, you have to shout grievances first, and then act secretly......

If the strength of the other party is really strong, then you must admit it, you must endure it, and it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years.

Of course, if the other party is a fool for no reason, at this time, he must use thunderous means to eradicate it in one fell swoop, so as to show the majesty of Mu Wangfu.

When Mu Tiantao was in Guanzhong, he learned the news of the occupation of Mu Wangfu in the capital from his mother's letter.

And then...... He begged his senior brother who worked in a key department to find out how King Mu's Mansion was invaded at the price of two bottles of good wine.

Along the way, I have already thought of a strategy to deal with it, and when I arrived in the capital, I fart. Before he could sit down in his chair, he launched it brazenly.

There's a reason why it's so unsparing.

Three months ago, the emperor, who really had no money, launched a fundraiser, hoping that hundreds of officials and nobles could donate some money, so that the military department could recruit more warriors who dared to fight to guard the capital where everyone depended.

Chongzhen reigned for sixteen years.

"The war is scarce, and the rogue spreads".

"The party situation of the ministers has been completed, the material resources of the grasslands have been consumed, the laws and regulations of the country have been broken, the seizure of the frontiers has become very serious, the internal and external difficulties of the state affairs, the accumulation of evils is difficult to return, and the current situation is irreparable."

There has never been a time for the wind and rain. In addition to the constant cessation of warfare every year, it is also necessary to deal with droughts, earthquakes, locust plagues, and epidemics in various places. To suppress the outlaws, to provide relief to the disaster areas, and to prevent border troubles, all of these are inseparable from one thing, that is: money!

In such a situation, a serious financial crisis is inevitable. Wanlishi's annual military expenditure was only more than 3 million.

In the year of Chongzhen, the "salary", "training salary", and "liao salary" that were only used for military affairs were as high as 16 million.

Naturally, the emperor felt that the treasury was empty and that he was strapped for money. After the financial crisis is passed on to the people, the result is that "the land is becoming scarce due to the increase in wages, and the people are becoming less and less urgent," leading to a vicious circle and worsening the situation of "famine and hunger, external strife and internal rebellion."

In desperation, Chongzhen, who was the emperor, couldn't take care of it anymore, so he had to smash the pot and sell iron, take out the gold and silver utensils in the palace for emergency, and even sell the old ginseng accumulated from Wanli time.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen found Li Guorui, the imperial prince of Wuqing, who was rich in armor, and asked him to share his worries for the country and contribute 400,000 silver taels as a salary.

Li Guorui saw that the amount was huge, and he refused to come out, so he insisted that he couldn't come up with so much money. However, Chongzhen also knows a little about the details, of course not, and the urging is more urgent.

This Li Guorui simply played the scoundrel, and also came to smash the pot and sell iron, selling his house at a marked price, and pulling household utensils and other things outside to sell them to show that he had nothing.

This made Chongzhen furious, so he imprisoned Li Guorui and took away his title. Li Guorui couldn't afford this, and soon died of anger.

As a result, relatives were in an uproar, complaining that Chongzhen disregarded kindness and family affection, and even united to boycott fundraising.

Chongzhen himself regretted it afterwards, and crowned Li Guorui's seven-year-old son Li Cunshan as a marquis, and the 400,000 silver taels recovered were finally returned. Since the imperial family repented, the officials would not be enthusiastic, and the matter of fundraising would be over.

However, this year, Li Zicheng had arrived in Shandong, and the Beijing division was in a hurry. At this time, the capital lacked soldiers and food, and the garrison was weak.

Chongzhen had no choice but to raise donations again, and he sent the eunuch Xu Gao to inform the father of Empress Zhou, the national abbot Jiading Bo Zhou Kui, and asked him to take the lead in advocating and set an example.

Zhou "insisted on thanking nothing", but refused in one mouthful. Xu Gao repeatedly explained his intentions, but Zhou was careless and didn't mind. Xu Gao "cried angrily: 'My stepfather is like this, and the state affairs will be gone'."

Zhou Kui saw that when he said this, he was also afraid that Chongzhen would be guilty, so he promised to donate 10,000 taels, but Chongzhen thought it was less and asked him to take out 20,000.

Zhou wrote a secret letter to tell the empress, begging for help, and the empress promised to help him with five cadres, and persuaded him to meet the amount of Chongzhen's request as much as possible. The eunuchs in the palace were the richest with the heart of a king, but they only gave ten thousand gold.

Wang Yongqi and Cao Huachun donated 30,000 to 50,000 yuan.

The ministers and officials of the DPRK and China behaved the same, pretending to be poor and shouting poverty.

The university scholar Wei Zaode only took out 100 gold, and Chen Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet who had been approved to retire, made a special trip to the palace to confess how innocent and honest he was during his tenure.

Some officials followed Li Guorui's example by writing on their doors: "This house is for sale urgently," and then took out some utensils and other things that were not worth a few dollars and put them on the market to sell.

In the end, in order to achieve balance, there was simply an apportionment, such as Zhejiang out of six cadres, Shandong out of four thousand, and so on. The maximum limit for individuals is 30,000, but no one in the Manchu Dynasty reached the standard, and only Taikang Bo Zhang Guoji alone reached 20,000.

In this way, this Yasukuni fund-raising finally raised a huge amount of money from the Shilu clan composed of imperial relatives and scholars and officials in the capital: 200,000 yuan.

If you have money or not, the emperor at this time can't do anything to them except for a sigh. I had to change my method again, calling for strong efforts, so that everyone could send grain and grass to supply the officials and soldiers, or support the wives and children of the soldiers, so that the defenders of the capital had no worries, but the reaction was even more indifferent, and no one responded, so they had to give up.

This "huge amount of money" is such that there is really no way to see the military spending. Therefore, all the 200,000 cash Chongzhen used to reward and comfort the defenders of the capital.

On this day, the small people wept bitterly and donated a lot of money, most of them had 300 gold or 400 gold, and in just 15 days, they donated as much as 460,000 yuan.

For this reason, the emperor cried to Empress Zhou in the harem: The people are kind, and the meat eaters should be punished!

What Mu Tiantao learned in Yushan Academy was how to govern and how to be a soldier.

When Yushan Academy publicized these things as jokes, Mu Tiantao invited many talented people in the academy to discuss—the only topic was—how could the emperor get donations from these corrupt officials!

In the end, everyone got a more reliable answer - cool officer!

It is a very shameful thing for the emperor to come forward to call for donations, which shows that the emperor has lost his grip on the regime!

The weaker the emperor became, the more reluctant his ministers were to support him.

One of the senior brothers of the Chief Secretary for Administration said it very clearly and clearly - the strong have everything, and the weak have nothing!

Mu Tiantao could imagine that if Yun Zhao asked the people, officials, and businessmen to borrow money, he would definitely get a warm response from the people, officials, and businessmen, and even would rather break his family than fund Yun Zhao, just ask Yun Zhao to praise him for all his contributions, even if he gives a positive smile, they will be satisfied.

That's what the strong are.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen's donation came out, even his father-in-law cried poverty, and finally relied on squeezing the daughter who became the queen to reduce his own losses.

Therefore.

Naturally, there is no way to use cool officials.

If it is in the peaceful years, using this method is completely damaging the imperial court.

However, now in the Ming Dynasty, the house has leaked on all sides, and the beams and pillars have been crackling with insects, and it looks like it is about to collapse.

At this time, the best way is to kill pigs and sell them for money!

The emperor originally had cool officials, such as Dongchang, and Jinyiwei was an excellent candidate for cool officials.

Once the emperor used these cool officials to achieve the goal, he killed two more Dongchang, and Jinyiwei's people told these officials that Dongchang and Jinyiwei had done something wrong, and they could completely get through this matter.

However, at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, the emperor abolished these two units, and the scene of the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty looked very good, but he just didn't do anything!

Therefore, Mu Tiantao didn't come to the capital for any bullshit scientific expedition at all!

He's here to be this cool official.

The scientific research is too slow, even if he becomes the champion, if he wants to achieve personal revenge on the corrupt platform of Daming, it will have to wait at least twenty years later.

He couldn't wait, and Da Ming couldn't wait.

Since normal methods could not save the Ming Dynasty from fire and water, he wanted to test the robbers' methods.

The robber's method works well...... Just two thousand miles from Chang'an to the capital, he had more than a thousand loyal subordinates.

Now, it's time to arm these people.

He once overheard a senior brother say that when Chongzhen was 14 years old, the county zun once ordered the people of Lantian in the capital, Hebei, and Shandong to evacuate quickly, the purpose was to leave a relatively fair battlefield for Emperor Chongzhen.

Of course, objectively, it also opened the door for Li Hongji to enter these three places.

The secret spy department, the order for the men in black to evacuate these three places was extremely urgent, and the people quickly evacuated, but a lot of equipment was left behind and was sealed in these three places.

And these equipment, because of the old reasons, are of little use to Lantian, who has been replaced with the latest weapons, and can be bought and sold......

Therefore, what Mu Tiantao has to do now is to find the secret spies that Lantian stayed in the capital to check the direction of the wind, and then buy these weapons back from them.

When he arms the thousand or so people under him, then he will definitely have more money to buy the weapons sealed in Lantian, and in that case, he will be able to arm more people.

Only in this way can he be qualified to have the capital to fight when Li Hongji's million-strong army attacks.

"If you want to be a good child, if you want it, you will turn the world upside down. In this way, I will live up to my name of Muwangfu and my great name in Yushan Academy!

Xia Wanchun, you have made meritorious contributions in Hexi, and see how Lao Tzu turns the clouds and rain in the capital! ”

In the first chapter, I will tell you a secret, the Tongrentang Liuwei Dihuang Pill sent by the book friend seems to be quite effective, and after eating it for a few days, I am in good spirits today.

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