For people in this era, the pursuit is to win the name before and after death, which needs to be inherited by the family unit, so in this case, when Yang Yi is allowed to pay money out of the city, it is not surprising that everyone pays a large amount of money.

In particular, Yang Yi is still constantly lifting old accounts, and every moment there are nobles or civil officials or eunuchs who are arrested and then raided their homes......

Under this kind of murderous threat, there is no rebellion, so you can only follow it, after all, this money will not be in a few days, and it is likely that it will no longer belong to you, so it is not surprising to take it out and buy a place at this time.

At this time, the army outside the city has not yet arrived, the siege has not yet begun, and there is still transportation inside and outside, especially to the east, and you can also go to sea and go along the canal.

It's only two or three days, and if you can't grasp it, you can only calculate the death date by yourself, so it's not surprising that you donate so generously!

Hearing Gu Hengbo's name, Yang Yi suddenly remembered that there are a few well-known Qinglou women in this capital, and Qin Huai Bayan has a few, which can't be let go, of course, Yang Yi doesn't want to include them in the harem, but at the time of this national crisis, these women can also contribute, at least they can also give condolence performances.

"Why are these people? Where have all the people gone? Where have all the Jingguan of my Ming Dynasty gone! ”

Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty finally couldn't bear to roar, it was a tear in his face, Yang Yi took advantage of the situation to force the palace the night before, and let Chongzhen give the ruling order, at least in the Xungui family and the eunuch family, they all understood who should call the shots.

And the civil official system, at this time, is useless, now the decree does not go out of the capital, the capital is not small, but it is not big, Yang Yi does not need too many civil officials, and even those eunuchs who are just the celebrant are enough.

The eunuchs of the ceremonial eunuchs are also both civil and military, and even in terms of talent, they are not weaker than those officials who were born in Jinshi, and the civil official group is now very helpless, wanting to die to repay the country's kindness, but those who do this were then turned over by Yang Yi and raided their homes!

Yang Yi made them wait for death, but he also gave them a glimmer of life, and Chongzhen was also frightened after the Xungui family was completely finished, and he desperately wanted to get back a little bit of power, so he held a noon dynasty!

There is no way, the time of the early dynasty has been occupied by Yang Yi to issue military affairs, although most of the civil officials are idle at this time, but they still come on time, and Chongzhen can only open the noon dynasty.

Then he also has reason to be angry at this time, because the number of officials who came to the court to give him face is too small, less than fifty people, and among them, there are several old eunuchs that Chongzhen used to fill it; In the past, there were at least two or three hundred people, so at this time, this person stood in the wide Qianqing Palace, and it looked sparse, no matter how you look at it, it looks like the general trend has gone, and the birds and beasts are scattered.

In the past, because Chongzhen's early court was too diligent, so most of the officials couldn't stand it, and it was not strange that the court was late, that is, Emperor Chongzhen also took the matter of officials being late in the court, not one or two people were late, but often only a dozen or dozens of people were on time, and the rest were either late or asked for leave.

Emperor Chongzhen can't open all the officials who are late and ask for leave, so the court will have no officials, and the early dynasty is really tiring, and it is understandable that the officials can't stand it, so Emperor Chongzhen doesn't pursue tardiness and leave, anyway, the officials who have something to play will come.

But not today, this is for them to stand in line, whether he, the emperor, counts or not, and whether there is a future, if he does not stand in line, he can't see it at all; However, it's been a long time since these civil officials came, which is too little!

And today is the first day that Chongzhen is ready to cheer up, and he is facing this situation, this invisible war, almost before it starts, will be lost!

"Your Majesty is angry, and the minister hears it...... "Now there is only one remaining scholar in the cabinet, who is only forty years old, and Wei Zaode, who was born gentle and elegant, hurriedly went out to play, "The Beijing official who did not come to the court may have gone to raise funds and donate." ”

"Nonsense!" Emperor Chongzhen shouted angrily, "Wei Zaode, do you think I am a brainless faint monarch? Would you believe such outrageous lies? I have long asked the co-organizers, nobles, and chamberlains to donate military salaries, and it took so many days to get more than 200,000 yuan, and almost everyone in the Manchu Dynasty was crying poor! What day is it today, and you have all the money? All rich? You're a bully! ”

Wei Zaode was reprimanded by Chongzhen, but he lowered his head a little lower, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister is not a bully...... Before the ministers waited for the court, they met the eunuchs sent by His Royal Highness to persuade them to lose outside the noon gate, and many officials didn't care about going to the court, so they went to donate military salaries. ”

That's impossible!

You, Wei Zaode, look dignified, you are still from the top rank, it turns out that you are also a traitor who deceives the king, and you don't know how to repent!

"Where is Cao Huachun!" Emperor Chongzhen roared, this Gonggong Cao, who had originally returned to his hometown, had not left the capital before, and now he can't leave, so he was activated by Chongzhen.

Because Cao Huachun was very interested, he gave his family assets early, but he had seen how miserable Wei Zhongxian was back then, and understood the great truth of "a son of heaven and a courtier", and he didn't even need Yang Yi to blackmail him into his mansion, so he directly offered his net worth, and thus saved his life.

Of course, he won't go to Yang Yi anymore, so naturally he will be reactivated by Chongzhen, who has no one to use.

Trembling walked out, and then said, "The old slave is here...... According to the old slave's investigation, what Master Wei said was true, because the old slave was also persuaded to donate, but the old slave had already presented the family wealth before......"

Yes? Is there such a thing?

Chongzhen thought about it wrong, in the past, it was a dime, before Chongzhen was anxious to raise military salaries, and ordered officials to donate money to "help pay", Wei Zaode in order to keep his family wealth, took the lead in saying that his family had no surplus wealth, and opposed Chongzhen's levy, and the levy did not see its results and hastily did it, what happened to these people at this time?

Chongzhen asked suspiciously: "If you donate over there, everyone is willing to donate money?" ”

"Yes," Cao Huachun nodded, "I can't bear what those people say is reasonable, it can touch people's hearts, the old slave has no money, and the officials who have surplus money have gone to donate money......"

Is there such a thing? Emperor Chongzhen will be suspicious, those eunuchs are really so powerful? I should have known that they should have been responsible for soliciting donations, and the issue of military pay would have been solved a long time ago.

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it or it was still wrong, "Wei Zaode, Cao Huachun said that they are quite able to speak, but they can touch people's hearts, how much did you donate?" ”

Wei Zaode felt bitter, he didn't want to take Chongzhen's broken ship, according to the rules of the cabinet, the first assistant died and the second assistant was on it, and now he is the only one in the cabinet, he is the nominal first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, but he doesn't want this position.

The few civil officials who were killed, he saw it very clearly, he just wanted to stay at home, and the other people could be turned over because they were not clean, and he was quite clean, so in other words, he was poor!

He really wants to donate money, and if he donates money, he can let his son leave Beijing in a bright and bright way, and he can also take some of his savings away and go to Jiangnan to inherit the lineage, but the problem is that he has no money!

Of course, he can't make this clear, he can't say it, because he has no money, he wants to hug Chongzhen's thigh, if he says so, Chongzhen is afraid that he will eat him!

This can only be blamed for the season, now the capital is equivalent to being divided, there are soldiers who have power, and soldiers are masters! Now that there are money and soldiers over there, naturally he is a real master!

And Chongzhen is still the emperor only on face, of course, it is not without a chance to turn the tables, if this wave of Li Chuang is not able to attack the city, waiting for the gathering of the Qin Wang army from all over the country, the capital will have to be replaced by the old master, and at that time, he will be useful as the first assistant.

So Wei Zaode had no choice but to cry and say: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister is really a clean official, and he has no savings......

Will you run out of money?

Emperor Chongzhen rolled his eyelids, he was completely disappointed with these officials of the Ming Dynasty, those concubines in the harem could still have a private house of tens of thousands of taels, and those nobles were all millions of dollars, especially the Zhou family, it is said that Yang Yi disregarded his family affection and directly sent people to torture and plunder, and obtained millions of silver, which also gave Yang Yi the first money to buy the Beijing camp and train the young!

You must know that before Chongzhen hung an order to help the salary, the special eunuch Xu Gao Jiakui Jiadinghou, after mobilizing in many ways, Zhou Guozhang was very reluctant to donate 5,000 taels of silver, Xu Gao said at the time: "The old emperor is so stingy, the court is in a hurry, and the big thing must not be done!" ”

However, Rao is like this, and he didn't let Zhou Guozhang take out another penny, but he didn't want to be tortured by his granddaughter to rob millions of family assets, Chongzhen was a little gloating!

However, he glanced at the officials in the Qianqing Palace, most of the officials of the Six Ministries and Jiuqing were not there, but Zhou Guozhang and Tian Guozhang, the two richest people in the imperial family, were there, and there was also a former Li Guozhang, these people, Chongzhen didn't want to say anything, these were the first batch of nobles who were tortured by Yang Yi, and they were also where Yang Yi's money and silver came from.

These people are useless now, the money has been taken away by Yang Yi, the servants in the family have also been incorporated into the youth and strength by Yang Yi, and the maids and everything have been incorporated into the city defense logistics, and there may be only the old and young left in the family, and maybe there will be some rations, in addition, it is this skin.

Yang Yi was still a little worried, after all, the royal family's money was taken, but they couldn't starve to death, but left some food for them so that they wouldn't starve to death, but that's all.

After glancing at it, looking at the few civil officials, Chongzhen was stunned for a while, and he could be sure that his time seemed to be really over!

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen still looked hesitant, Wei Shoufu said at this time: "If Your Majesty has any doubts, it is better to send an internal official to ask His Highness." ”

Chongzhen looked left and right at this time, trying to find reliable eunuchs, but this time he found that there were few eunuchs! Wang Chengen, Gao Yushun, Wang Zhixin, etc. are no longer serving in front of him, and the ones around him are a few old eunuchs brought by Cao Huachun!

After thinking about it, he still looked at Cao Huachun and said, "Cao Huachun, you go over there to see the situation of the donation over there."

"The old slave obeys!"

There are also people who burn cold stoves, but most of the eunuchs are not, and Cao Huachun is not a loyal and virtuous person, his plan is to serve Chongzhen and wait for the opportunity.

When he received the will and slowly rushed to the Huangji Gate, the big scene of hundreds of officials queuing up to donate money was gone, because Li Zicheng's banner had already appeared near the Diaoyutai less than five miles away from Fuchengmen at this time.

appeared with King Chuang, and the old battalion soldiers and horses of the Dashun Army were also majestic and high-spirited! And there are 350,000 people, and most of them are cavalry, and they have formed a formation in front of Diaoyutai, although they are not very neat, but they are murderous!

However, for Yang Yi, who has already raised millions of taels of silver and hundreds of thousands of taels of gold, it means that the circle of money has ended, and this money is actually enough to pay the young people raised, not to mention supporting it for a month, or half a year, and it is absolutely no problem to reward these money.

Today's living materials are all controlled by Yang Yi's people, operated by internal officials, and sold in limited quantities every day, in addition, there is a young and strong recruitment home, and the young Zhuang himself receives the family rations every three days, and takes one day off on three days, there are too many young and strong people in the capital, and now even if they come in rotation, they are still too much!

If the money is enough, then the fundraising will naturally end, and the city gates such as Fucheng Gate, Xizhi Gate, Desheng Gate, Guangning Gate and the nearby city walls have begun to prepare for martial law.

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After Li Zicheng arrived at Diaoyutai in the western suburbs of Beijing, according to the original plan, he should have rested in the Diaoyutai Palace for one night, and then sent troops to attack the city tomorrow morning.

However, at this time, Li Zicheng was in extreme excitement, and the attack on defense had not come, which meant that the Ming army might be afraid; Then this final victory seems to be grasped as soon as you stretch out your hand!

But if you think about it carefully, the final fruits of victory are under the protection of the world's strongest city.

So the excited and apprehensive Li Zicheng changed his plan and launched a "battle to attack the heart" of Beijing in advance.

On the way to Diaoyutai, he ordered Li Guo, who had come to greet him, to find a suitable place to set up a formation on the west side of the Jingshi Castle, and at the same time set up a huge yellow felt tent.

After Li Guo was ordered to rush back to the west of Beijing, he first made some observations, and then set up a formation in the open space outside the Fucheng Gate.

On this day, Li Zicheng, the emperor of Dashun, who had finished his lunch, arrived at the periphery of the capital amid the shouts of hundreds of thousands of Dashun soldiers.

At this moment, the decisive moment in this plane will also come, and the preparations used by Yang Yi in the past three days will also usher in acceptance, whether it can pass the acceptance depends on how effective Yang Yi's work as an engineer is.

Yang Yi actually has no bottom, after all, the time is too short!