"There are only one hundred and thirty-eight taels of silver left in my treasury!" Chongzhen changed his anger just now and sat in his seat weakly.

"What?" Liu Hong gradually stayed directly, a dignified Ming Empire, there are only more than 100 taels of silver left in the treasury, what a liar!

can see Chongzhen's loveless expression, and it doesn't look like crying poor, Liu Hongjian has to accept the facts, mom! This Daming treasury is estimated to be not as rich as Wang Ermazi, the owner of the pharmacy where his father works.

"What about the soldiers?"

"In addition to the nearly 100,000 border troops belonging to Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, there are only 20,000 soldiers left in my Beijing camp! In the past few years, in order to support the war on the nine sides, I have done my best to support the war on the nine sides, but the border army is arrogant, I am only in arrears for half a year's military salary, and the thief army is besieging the city. ”

Speaking of the sore spots, Emperor Chongzhen's eyes were full of tears, it was a good banquet, but Chongzhen made it a grievance speech, and Liu Hongjian couldn't cry or laugh.

Dare you owe someone half a year's salary, and you still want people to work for you? Don't say that you owe half a year's salary, how many people do you think you owe a month's salary? And you can't kill all the border troops with one shot, there must be something wrong with Wu Sangui! Well? Wu Sangui, why is this name so familiar?

Oh no, that guy will surrender, the only little fruit left of Guan Ning's iron cavalry was given to the Jurchen savages by Wu Sangui, a kid.

Counting the days, Wu Sangui should have been after Li Zicheng captured the capital, he felt that the Ming Dynasty was hopeless, and was forcibly cuckolded by Li Zicheng, so he switched to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and now the capital is still there, and the thief was also killed by me, and he has not been cuckolded yet, it stands to reason that he should not surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty so soon!

No, I have to guard against it! Liu Hong gradually said darkly.

"Your Majesty, Wu Sangui is certainly guilty of not coming to King Qin, but thinking that they are shouldering the burden of resisting the Manchus, and it is currently a plan to use troops, the emperor can still win over him, and he must not be rash, and the minister feels that he should send someone to closely monitor his family!"

"Humph! If you don't say it, I forgot, because Wu Sangui is arrogant and arrogant, and his father was already imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department a month ago. Chongzhen remembered what happened before and said resentfully.

"It's better for the emperor to pardon Wu Xiang and appease Wu Sangui!" Liu Hong gradually asked.

"Hmph, how can I give in for that disloyal and unrighteous person, needless to say, I will not pardon Wu Xiang!"

It's really a stubborn temper! Liu Hong gradually said darkly.

"Then at least let Wu Xiang write a letter to his son Wu Sangui, stabilize Wu Sangui first, and the north is safe, so that we have time to carry out our next plan!" The emperor should focus on the overall situation! ”

Chongzhen's face was cloudy and uncertain, and he leaned less, and finally succumbed to reality.

"Just do as you say! What about the money? What about the silver taels, you are talking about? Chongzhen rolled his eyes, not at all the bearing that a monarch should have.

"If the emperor can stabilize the border army, and the Beijing camp is still loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the emperor can reactivate Jinyiwei and Dongchang." When it comes to making money, Liu Hong's eyes gradually become shining again.

"And the minister said it before! Just find a suitable opportunity to check on those ministers who occupy the pit and don't, and check a quasi-child, and the ministers guarantee that each of them has hundreds of times richer pockets than the emperor's treasury! Liu Hong gradually didn't care about Chongzhen's face and said bluntly.

"But if you arrest all the ministers, who dares to do anything for me!"

"Has the emperor ever eaten leeks?"

"Nonsense!"

"Then the emperor can see how leeks are harvested?"

"You bastard, if you have something to say, just say it! What I hate the most is beating around the bush! ”

If this Emperor Chongzhen lives in the present. It's definitely a dick and a straight man, Liu Hong gradually slandered.

"After the leeks are cut off with a sickle, they don't need to be replanted, it only takes some time to get back to the same state!"

"This corrupt official and mediocre official is like a leek, cutting it will not affect anything, there are countless scholars in the Ming Dynasty, is the emperor still worried that no one wants to be an official? I don't know how many people are staring and looking forward to those mediocre people going down, so that he can climb up by himself! ”

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen was still hesitant, Liu Hong gradually decided to add another bargaining chip.

"Your Majesty, this is a troubled time, in troubled times, you should use heavy codes, kill decisively, in order to achieve great things, thunderbolt means, more Bodhisattva heart, the emperor should think more about the poor people of the Ming Dynasty, not the so-called scholars who only know what to do in the court, don't put the cart before the horse, the emperor!"

"Rong Zhen thinks about this matter again, what else do you have to say." It seems that although Liu Hongji's method is extreme, it is a clever plan, after all, he has listened to the various opinions of the Donglin Party for more than ten years, not only has it been fruitless, but the empire has become worse and worse.

"Your Majesty, the minister suggested that all taxes in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Beizhili and other places be exempted, and that the southern provinces should also be exempted from some taxes."

"In recent years, natural disasters in the northwest have been repeated, and the people have no harvest, and they are already struggling on the edge of life and death. took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and Liu Hong gradually continued to be tempting.

"In recent years, in order to suppress bandits, the emperor must have tried his best, but why is it always ineffective, the wildfires are inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows and grows, we must find the root of the problem, exempt from taxes, and the thieves will have no available soldiers, so they will get twice the result with half the effort, the emperor!"

"I know, I will consider this matter, I suddenly remembered one thing, where did the strange firearms when Aiqing killed the bandit leader, and how many? Can they all be equipped to Beijing Camp? Chongzhen seemed to be a little tired, but when he remembered the firearm that had been bothering him for a long time, he suddenly came to his senses.

"Weichen knew that the emperor was going to ask this, and at that time, the old man calculated that I had such a catastrophe, and specially designated Weichen to come to King Qin, and these firearms were also given by the old man!

But not only are the number of these firearms extremely small, only one hundred and twenty, and with the current ability of the Ming Dynasty, they cannot be manufactured at all, and they are not of great effect on the current Ming Dynasty. ”

Seeing Chongzhen's dissatisfied look, Liu Honggradually knew that this answer could not satisfy Chongzhen.

"Wechen can give one to the emperor for self-defense, the Ministry of Industry Fan is also very interested in this gun, Wechen can also send one to the Ministry of Industry for research, as for the rest, Wechen intends to build a hundred households with all firearms for the Ming Dynasty, they will be specially designed to assassinate the emperor's resentful people, and specially to punish the people who are fishy and fleshy!"

Chongzhen saw that Liu Hong's thoughts and worries were all Ming, and the training of divine soldiers was also for him and his subjects, his face was a little calmer, Liu Hong gradually said secretly, he finally passed the test, he has been worried that Chongzhen covets his treasure.

In fact, Liu Hongjian underestimated Chongzhen's strength, although Chongzhen was stubborn and self-serving, but now Chongzhen trusts Liu Hongjian very much, as long as he believes that Liu Hongjian is doing all this for him, all for the sake of Daming, then everything else is easy to say, not good, it is his code of conduct.

"Oh! By the way, the emperor, what Weichen said just now about exempting the people from paying taxes, please also ask the emperor to consider it, the emperor still needs to collect commercial taxes, the empire needs silver taels, businessmen have no way, but they have money, the emperor just said, for the sake of the century-old foundation of the Ming Dynasty, you are willing to do anything! ”

Merchants are the ninth class, as the supreme ruler of the feudal empire, such things as the collection of commercial taxes have always been very disdainful, although in Liu Hongji's eyes it is really ignorant to the extreme, but he must convince Chongzhen.

"The collection of commercial taxes will inevitably be opposed by the ministers, and the emperor, please remember that anyone who opposes the collection of commercial taxes is either on the same page as the merchants or mediocre ministers, and they are not allowed to use it."

"I know, I have a certain number in my heart!" Chongzhen's eyes were complicated.

"What Weichen should say and what he shouldn't say has been all said, Weichen is only shallow in learning, and he has many offenses to the emperor, and he asks the emperor to forgive him, if there is nothing else, Weichen will retire!" As he spoke, he bent down and saluted Chongzhen.

Seeing that Chongzhen was not allowed, Liu Hong gradually turned around and wanted to leave.

"Oh, by the way, Your Majesty, what kind of earl am I, I don't need to go to the court, if I go to the court every day, I'm afraid Weichen won't be able to do it!" Liu Hong suddenly remembered that he was now a hereditary earl, and if he had to get up early in the morning every day to go to the court, how annoying it would be, and it would be better to be a rich man.

"Humph! I don't want you to go to court if you have nothing to do, but you have to come tomorrow, I have something to explain! In the end, the corners of Chongzhen's mouth went up, and there was a little yin smile.

Liu Hongjian left satisfied, what he never expected was that in fact, the earl could not have been in the court, not the privilege specially given to him by the emperor.