Since the last time Chongzhen delivered the news of fundraising to the relatives and nobles of the Ming Dynasty, in the past month, most of the princes, county kings, and nobles of the princes and nobles in various places have not pulled out a dime, and the imperial court has achieved little success.

But not everyone is short-sighted, Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo who is far away in Yunnan, donated 400,000 taels.

Zhu Yousong, the blessed king of Luoyang, pledged 380,000 taels, and King Gui and several other vassal kings pledged a total of 860,000 taels.

Zhang Weixian, the son of the British prince, also donated another 260,000 taels behind his father's back.

There are also a few counts and marquis who have pledged different amounts, and they have raised more than two million taels in a month, and even then it is still a drop in the bucket.

Soldiers who died in battle needed silver, silver was needed to dig dikes and canals in the north, silver was needed for disaster relief, and military salaries, officials, and royal honors were needed......

More than two million taels, thrown into the Ming court at this moment, were divided up without even splashing a splash.

On the afternoon of the day when Liu Hongjian returned to the capital, he rushed to the palace with his personal guards.

The two commanders of Dongchang Factory Governor Cao Huachun and Jin Yiwei were also present with Liang Yang and Zhang Shuncoefficient, and even He Guoxing, deputy governor of Beijing, came.

There were no courtiers, not even a cabinet involved, and the six of them deliberated in the warm pavilion until the evening.

"Your Majesty, have you really thought about it?" Liu Hong asked gradually.

He is not an indecisive person, but now he wants to move the nobles who have been in love for three hundred years, these people have the princes of the previous dynasties, and the clan vassal kings who have multiplied for three hundred years.

They may not have many soldiers in their hands, but don't forget, not to mention the princes, just the members of the Ming clan are more than 200,000, and they are only men.

What is this concept?

That is to say, even if each person in this group of clans has ten pro-soldiers who can fight, and the gathering is more than one million, how many soldiers can the Ming Dynasty currently fight?

Although Chongzhen Xiaoming has a stake, but when it comes to this stall, it is Chongzhen who bears the biggest risk, and it is useless to say more.

"Youming, I know you're worried, but I've made up my mind, I'm done right, and there's no turning back when I open my bow, just let it go." Chongzhen sighed.

As early as more than half a year ago, Liu Hongjian mentioned to Chongzhen that Xungui was a tumor that overwhelmed Daming, and it was a vampire bat clinging to Daming.

Liu Hongjian is right, according to the current tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty, the annual income is only five or six million taels, and every year only the nobles will have to share one-third of their income.

But at that time, Chongzhen was still harsh on Liu Hongji, after all, from Chongzhen's own point of view, the clan was the blood relative of his Zhu family, and even if the court was in difficulty, he couldn't attack his relatives.

But now it seems that he was wrong.

He treats these clans as relatives, what about these clans?

When he was desperately trying to save Daming from danger, what were these clans doing?

Okay, the clan vassal king has no soldiers in his hands, and there is no way for King Qin to contribute, but now that the court is embarrassed, I want you to give some silver, is this too much?

Crying poor? I had already cried once a year ago, and that time, Chongzhen believed it.

Is there really no silver?

The Ming Dynasty treats the clan well, where the prince is 10,000 stones, the county king is 2,000 stones, and the court pays for the wedding and funeral, which is only a small part of it.

There are countless sub-grains that have been divided into clans, and besides, which one doesn't have a business?

Since Jinyiwei and Dongchang were appointed, Chongzhen was shocked by the family property accounts submitted to the nobles from all over the country.

But this time Chongzhen still gave them a chance, what was the result? Except for a few feudal kings who symbolically expressed it, the rest were indifferent.

In fact, hundreds of thousands of clan members, even if they pay 5,000 taels per family, can help the imperial court help the Zhu family survive the temporary embarrassment.

What Chongzhen didn't expect was that the blood relatives of the clan he hoped for would be so indifferent and short-sighted, and he was disappointed and resentful and couldn't sleep at night.

Xungui, who has been raised for 300 years, is really not as good as a pig that has been raised for 300 years!

So what are they left to do?

"I will do my best to do this! The emperor rested well, and the minister retired. Liu Hong gradually knew that he was the one who made this suggestion, but it was Chongzhen who ultimately bore the consequences.

Chongzhen not only has to bear the risk of rebellion of the nobles, but also has to bear the condemnation of conscience, after all, it is the Zhu family to use a knife!

The next day, it was business as usual in Beijing, but the two world's largest secret services were already operating at full capacity.

At the same time, in the camp of Xishan in the capital, Lin He, Lu Haibo, Wu Binghao and many other original members who returned from the Northern Expedition were ready to go.

On September 20, Chongzhen issued a decree that Lin He, the general of the Beijing camp, took over the defense of the capital, and the whole city of the capital was under martial law, and ordered that anyone who was not allowed to enter or leave without his will.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were shocked, and all the officials knew that something big would happen in the near future, but what was the specific matter, but no one dared to touch Chongzhen's moldy head.

Today's Chongzhen is not the Chongzhen who was at their mercy a year ago, the courtiers should deal with government affairs, they should be on duty, and they should not know anything.

Taining Hou Mansion.

On the side of a sumptuous banquet, Taining waited for Chen Yanzuo and Wei Guogong Xu Yunjue to push the glass and change the lamp, and there were as many as seven or eight maids waiting next to the banquet.

"Brother Xu, it seems that something is not quite right in the capital in the past two days, I don't know what the emperor is going to do." Chen Yanzuo gave Xu Yunjue another full cup and said.

"The ghost only knows that the prince of the country really shouldn't have come this time, and he blames the few unlucky losers in the family, and now the old man can't even get out of the capital." Xu Yunjue was indignant in his heart.

Today he went to the palace to meet Chongzhen and was turned away, and after being a prince all his life, Xu Yunjue felt so aggrieved for the first time.

"According to my brother, this matter is not so simple, the street is full of Dongchang's fans, the lights on the side of the Jinyi Wei Yamen were on all night last night, brother, you said, is the emperor dissatisfied with our style at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, and wants to ...... Hiss-"

Chen Yanzuo originally talked about it casually, but after speaking, he realized that something was wrong, the emperor ...... Is he real......

"Humph! We are the hereditary lords of Emperor Taizu's imperial seal, and the silver is earned by ourselves, why should we donate it to the court in vain?

What about the emperor? Can he still defy the testimonies? Although Xu Yunjue was also a little uneasy in his heart, he still didn't believe that Chongzhen dared to take the nobles.

"That's what you say, the emperor and his old man, we understand, but what about that kid?" Chen Yanzuo thought of Liu Hongji, the king of Anguo County, and suddenly felt a little chilled.

Duang—Duang—Duang—there was a sudden knock on the door outside.

"Open the door! Open the door! ”

"Who is so presumptuous, dare to be arrogant in the Hou Mansion!" Several Hou Mansion members angrily carried sticks to open the door, and planned to teach a good lesson to the people who were shouting outside the door.

But as soon as the door opened, all the family members were stupid.

"Jin Yiwei handles the case, and on the orders of the saint, arrest the criminal Chen Yanzuo, and those who resist will be killed!"