Li Xinyu reported to Xiao Tianjian, saying that they had raided the treasury of the household department, but after opening the treasury, they found that the current Daming treasury was already clean and could run mice, and in the huge treasury, after the Dazhong army searched closely, it only found less than 10,000 taels of silver in the treasury of the household department, even if this silver was only used to help the hungry people in the city, it was a drop in the bucket, so even if it was added to the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver seized from the internal treasury, It's far from enough, so Li Xin feels quite a headache for this.

After listening to Li Xin's complaints, Xiao Tianjian did not feel too annoyed this time, speaking of which, after the army entered the city, Li Xin immediately arranged for the soldiers and horses to rush to the treasury of the household department, but he already knew that in the treasury of the Ming household department, there would not be much silver deposit at all, I am afraid that even the amount of silver in the household department in Nanjing could not be compared, although there were only less than 10,000 taels of silver left, but he was not too disappointed.

After all, he has crossed over from later generations, although he didn't know how much silver Chongzhen would have before entering Beijing, but he clearly remembered that when Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he forced out 70 million taels of silver from the officials and people in Beijing in just one month, in addition to I don't know how much gold and countless precious cultural toys.

So at present, although there is not much silver in the palace and the treasury of the household department that have been confiscated, he knows that there is still a lot of wealth hidden in the capital.

Especially in the homes of those officials who are not benevolent in the Beijing Division, as well as the homes of a large number of Ming relatives, there is a large amount of silver hidden, and these people's family wealth can be said to be all of the people's fat and people's ointment that have been scavenged from the people for so many years, not to mention that Li Zicheng has set his sights on these moths, even if it is replaced by Xiao Tianjian, he has not thought about letting go of these bastard things at all.

However, unlike when Li Zicheng entered Beijing, now Xiao Tianjian has solved the big trouble of Jiannu entering the customs in Shanhaiguan before entering Beijing, so now after controlling the Beijing Division, there is no need to worry about the sequelae of cleaning up these moths.

What's more, the difference between him and Li Zicheng is that he cleaned up these guys and confiscated their family property, and the fundamental purpose was to use these assets to reorganize the rivers and mountains in the future, rather than extorting money and goods just to satisfy the selfish desires of their civil and military people who followed Li Zicheng's family, so he didn't have a sense of guilt in terms of morality.

Therefore, in the past two days, he has ordered Cao Huachun and others to draw up a detailed list for him, and there are about 1,000 people on this list, all of whom are relatives who have been in the Beijing for many years and officials who have been rampant among the people, but they have eliminated many officials who are honest and honest in the capital and officials who are not very wealthy.

In Xiao Tianjian's view, even if it is robbed, it must be robbed above board, not only to rob, but also to win the hearts of the people, so as not to cause resentment in the capital.

After listening to Li Xin's complaints, Xiao Tianjian smiled, picked up a list from the dragon case, slowly walked to the crowd below, stretched out his hand and handed the list to Lu Xiangsheng and said: "Mr. Lu knows a lot about the situation of the Jingshi compared to us, this is a list drawn up by Cao Huachun and some big eunuchs and the special intelligence department, Lu Xiangsheng can take a look, which of them may be wronged!" If not, then follow this list! Compared to having confiscated the belongings of these people, we will be able to solve our financial difficulties in a short period of time! ”

Lu Xiangsheng bowed down and took the list from Xiao Tianjian's hand, and after unfolding it, he read it in detail from beginning to end, and couldn't help but secretly applaud, although he didn't know most of the people here, but he also knew a lot of people, basically they can be said to be the relatives in the capital and some officials with a very bad reputation, of course, there are also some giants who rely on the backstage to bully and dominate the market in the capital, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they should be killed.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was destroyed in one fell swoop cannot be said to be the emperor's fault, these people can be said to be the main reason for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, if Xiao Tianjian entered Beijing, he did not propose to clean up these people, he Lu Xiangsheng will also make a suggestion, clean up these people, and take the opportunity to use the confiscation of their family wealth to enrich the treasury of the Great Middle Dynasty, after all, Lu Xiangsheng knows very well that if he wants to re-establish a new order, it is necessary to completely smash the old things before, otherwise these people have too many resources, In the future, there is no doubt that the financial resources in their hands are likely to cause great trouble.

After reading this list, Lu Xiangsheng immediately shook his head and said: "The people on this list, Wechen don't dare to say that they all know, but they also know some people, since the Holy Lord wants to deal with them, Wechen has nothing to say, just listen to the Holy Lord's orders!" ”

Xiao Tianjian has long held this list with golden eyes, as the current lord of a country, he knows better than anyone else, he needs money, this Northern Expedition, although he did not dare to mobilize too many troops, only used about 100,000 elites to carry out the Northern Expedition, but it has already made his newly established big China and North Korea finances a little unbearable, originally their foundation is very thin, although through the southern conquest and the northern war in the past few years, by copying the property of the rich family, he has accumulated some old capital, but with the expansion of the territory he controls, As the strength of the army continued to increase, the consumption became greater and greater, and although many territories were taken over, in a short period of time, due to the destruction of the war, most areas could not produce in a short period of time, and on the contrary, in order to restore agriculture, a large amount of investment was required.

In addition to supporting the Northern Expedition, they also have to redress the armies in various places, whether it is smelting or weapons manufacturing, it costs money, in addition to being a soldier to get a military salary, the craftsmen are not working in vain, so the old bottoms accumulated before can be said to be spent like flowing water.

Fortunately, when he took Nanjing City, in addition to seizing a large amount of silver, he also obtained a batch of silver through the auction of confiscated real estate, otherwise, after the Northern Expedition in the past few months, he would have basically gone bankrupt.

No one needs to make money more than him, he knows very well that the next step is to reorganize the rivers and mountains, and the money needed to spend is simply astronomical, and now it is impossible for him not to do anything about those moths in the Ming Dynasty.

Seventy million taels of silver! Li Zicheng entered Beijing and tortured 70 million taels of silver in Beijing City for a month, which shows how rich this Beijing City is, fortunately he has controlled Beijing City now, otherwise, once Jiannu controls Beijing City, then even if he can finally expel Jiannu from Yanyun Land, these silvers are estimated to be taken captive by Jiannu outside the Guan, which is undoubtedly a disaster for his Dazhong Dynasty.

Of course, Xiao Tianjian didn't want to emulate Li Zicheng's method of scraping the ground, for the civilians in the Jingshi, it was impossible for him to let people loot them, and there were some smaller businessmen, he wouldn't go to them, so he didn't dare to think about 70 million taels of silver, but if he picked some key points, at least 30 or 40 million taels of silver, if nothing else, it was still very possible.

In this era, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, under the extreme greed of the landlords and magnates, not only the land was annexed in large quantities, but the social wealth was basically concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people, which is also the fundamental reason for the outbreak of social contradictions.

Now that he started by rebelling and established a new dynasty, he just took advantage of this opportunity to completely smash the disadvantages of the previous Ming Dynasty to complete a redistribution of property and land, and resolve this contradiction, which is probably the reason for the continuous change of dynasties in China's thousands of years of history!

Thirty or forty million taels of silver, thinking about Xiao Tianjian, he drooled, you must know that the annual financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty in its heyday was only 10 million taels of silver, which was considered good, but in the hands of local bureaucrats and giants in Beijing City, they had mastered the financial revenue for several years, and it can be seen that the money was not obtained through legitimate means at all.

Don't look at the early Ming Dynasty for the punishment of corrupt officials was very severe, but after the end of the Ming Dynasty, a set of unspoken rules had already been formed in the government from top to bottom, such as what kicks, fire consumes silver, etc., so that a large number of private capital, by these corrupt officials and corrupt officials received their pockets, coupled with the unlimited land annexation of the magnates, occupying a large number of fertile land but not paying taxes, so that the Ming Dynasty court and government in order to meet the financial needs, had to put the burden on the ordinary people, how could the land be reduced? After more than two hundred years of agricultural development, the area of Daming's fields, instead of increasing because of pioneering, has shrunk by nearly one-third, although there is the influence of the Xiaoice River era, but the main reason is that those imperial relatives and officials and dignitaries annexed the land and concealed the land area.

Therefore, the amount of wealth held by the magnates at the end of the Ming Dynasty is not at all imaginable by ordinary people, and after they obtain wealth, they more precipitate the money into their hands and bury it in their families, without reinvesting, so it led to more and more financial difficulties in the Ming court, and the economy began to lag.

Now that Xiao Tianjian has taken the city of Beijing, it is impossible to enter Baoshan and return empty-handed, so after asking Lu Xiangsheng, he got Lu Xiangsheng's support, so he immediately sent the list down, ordered Li Xin to lead, and the army was assigned to be responsible for the competent generals, and Lu Xiangsheng and the gendarmerie were responsible for supervision, and began to launch a large-scale raid in the capital.

(Special thanks to a drunken brother for his generous tip!) ）