It was noon, Chongzhen finished dealing with the folds handed over from all over the country, and was enjoying his luncheon, Wang Chengen stood beside him, and one arm was still bandaged on his chest, showing the mark left by the Beijing City Guard.

Wang Chengen not only had an injury on his left arm, but also an arrow in his leg, and now the wound is still aching, but now there is something more painful than the wound, so he has to limp to report to Chongzhen.

During the defense of the capital, there were 48,000 officers and soldiers in the Beijing camp who survived the plague, and there were two guard battles, and now there are less than 20,000 people left who can stand on the city wall alive.

It is understandable for the soldiers to protect their families and defend the country, but not only have these soldiers not received any military salaries for half a year, but now, they have not even had anything to eat, most of the soldiers are still wounded, and the barracks are wailing for days, some are hungry and can't stand the pain.

Wang Chengen really couldn't bear it, although he knew that the treasury had no money left, he still came.

So before Wang Chengen sighed alone, but now, it has become two people.

A plate of green vegetables and tofu, a plate of shredded potatoes, this is a Ming Emperor's lunch, Chongzhen pulled the two side dishes in front of him, and it was also tasteless.

At this time, the eunuch reported that An Guobo and Liu Hong gradually came to see him.

Liu Honggradually was about to kneel down and salute, and Chongzhen directly waved his hand to let Liu Honggradually sit down and say something.

Seeing that Wang Chengen and Chongzhen had sad faces, Liu Hong gradually asked Chongzhen to speak first.

Chongzhen didn't procrastinate, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, and then explained to Liu Hong the suffering of the Beijing camp, and sighed after speaking, and whispered that he was incompetent and let the soldiers who followed him suffer.

After listening to this, Liu Hong hurriedly comforted Chongzhen, and said that he was sending money to the emperor, and after speaking, he signaled Chongzhen to retreat left and right, and then took off the burden behind him and handed it to Chongzhen.

Liu Hongjian was not polite, directly poured himself a glass of wine, launched a crazy attack on Chongzhen's lunch, and he was also hungry after working for a long time.

While eating, Liu Hong gradually observed Chongzhen's expression, first confused, then shocked, and then angry.

With a snap, Chongzhen slapped on the table, startling Liu Hong, who was working hard, and shook off the chopsticks and shredded potatoes on the table.

"Audacious and reckless, deceitful and reckless, under my nose, these ministers dare to be so unscrupulous, their hearts should be punished, all the officials should be killed, they should be killed!"

Chongzhen was furious, although he had heard Liu Hongjian say that hundreds of officials had corrupt behavior, but he was just noncommittal, and now it seems that every word is punishable.

Liu Hong was gradually dissatisfied with Chongzhen's fuss, in his opinion, almost everyone in the capital knew about the corruption of hundreds of officials, and it was estimated that Emperor Chongzhen himself was kept in the dark, who let him die by himself, put aside the factory guards, cut off his arms, and his eyes were black.

But Liu Hongjian still admonished Chongzhen to calm his anger, now it is not too late to know this, Daming is not dead, there is still hope.

In the hall, only Yu Chongzhen, Liu Hongchuan, and Wang Chengen, who couldn't stand with leg pain, also found a stool to sit next to him, he had already thought about it, if he didn't get the money today, he wouldn't go back, he didn't have the face to go back to face, the wounded soldiers in the Beijing camp who were waiting to be fed.

"Kill, I want to kill them all and exile them, my rivers and mountains are all destroyed in the hands of these ministers, it's ridiculous that I have pinned my hopes on them, my heart aches! Heartache! ”

Chongzhen beat his chest, with tears in his eyes, half a year ago he called on hundreds of officials to donate to fill the military salary, the ministers cried poor one by one, the court became a walk, and they all wore clothes with patches to the court, and even worse, messed up the tiles of their own house and hung up the sign for sale.

After tossing for two months, this few hundred taels, that one thousand taels, and the silver taels donated were only a hundred thousand, which was not enough to stuff the teeth, so Chongzhen still believed that he really gave those who donated money to become officials and knights, and he felt a lot of tears.

Now that I think about it, I am like a clown who jumps off the beam, in the ridicule of the ministers, in front of the emperor, hateful! Damn!

Grievances and grievances have turned into anger at this moment, and only by killing these damned ministers can he relieve the hatred in his heart.

Liu Hong gradually signaled Wang Chengen to persuade Chongzhen, who was carried away by anger, but Wang Chengen was very self-aware, although he was now supervising the Jingying, but he was still a eunuch in the end, and the eunuch was a minister, and the most taboo thing was to interfere in political affairs.

Wang Chengen replied with a wry smile from Liu Hong, spread out the only right hand that could still move, and signaled that he could not do anything, and everything was up to him.

Liu Hong gradually scolded for being unrighteous, he knew that it was better not to pay these accounts, wouldn't this make trouble for himself, really wipe out these ministers, not to mention who will do things for you Chongzhen, so many ministers, how many troops do you have to use?

Liu Hongjian had no choice but to admonish Chongzhen with a bitter face to calm his anger, so he began to analyze the current situation for Chongzhen, first of all, the authenticity of this account is still to be discussed, and it will take a long time to investigate.

Even if the accounts are true, but now that the Beijing camp is in a semi-crippled state, and even the military rations have become a problem, how can they still act, do they count on the soldiers and horses of the five cities? The emperor looked at this account, and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division was also among them.

What about Weichen's brocade guard? It is even more exaggerated, there are 35,000 people registered, but less than 15,000 people are actually on duty, and more than half of the remaining ones are on errands in other places, and the remaining 7,000 miles, there are 5,000 Han generals.

Speaking of this Han general Liu Hong gradually became angry, these people are called 'generals', in fact, they are only responsible for serving in the major halls of the palace, responsible for delivering the emperor's orders, to put it bluntly, it is the pile of the palace hall, which is the emperor's performance of showing his prestige and respectful status.

Of course, these 'piles' are not idle people, they are generally tall and big, tigers and bears, and they are full of energy, with a loud voice, and they are quite majestic from the outside, and it is really possible for people who do not know the details of the Ming court to be bluffed.

Liu Hongjian also learned from Chang Yu's mouth that there were only more than 1,000 Jinyi guards he could dispatch in the entire capital, and the angry Liu Hong gradually stomped his feet, thinking that your country is like this and thinking about face, it is really sad that he is unfortunate and angry.

But Liu Hong's face did not dare to show dissatisfaction, but only explained the situation to Chongzhen, there are corrupt officials in Beijing, not one thousand, but eight hundred, rash actions involve the whole body, if you can't catch them all, those officials are not stupid, and they don't secretly transfer property.

Or if you feel that the crime is really impossible to hide, it is not impossible to simply take refuge in the new boss, after all, Dolgon on the side of the wild boar skin heard that he was recruiting Han magi.

Lao Tzu only has more than 1,000 people, how can he do it?

Take 10,000 steps back, even if Lao Tzu's more than 1,000 people are all the top tricks and take down all the corrupt officials on the accounts, won't the entire political center of the Ming Dynasty be paralyzed all of a sudden?

It's one thing to occupy a pit and not, but at least there's someone on the pit!

This also requires Chongzhen to find a reliable official to take precautions, which will take time.

Liu Hong gradually finished his opinion, and kicked the ball to Chongzhen, Lao Tzu said everything he should say, do you like to listen to it.

Chongzhen was silent for a long time, the atmosphere was a little awkward, and after thinking for a while, Chongzhen suddenly picked up the wine glass and drank it all, as if he had thought of a countermeasure, but as soon as he spoke, Liu Hong gradually knelt down directly.

"What does Aiqing think?"