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At this moment, Chongzhen had been attracted by Yu Xiaotian's words, and he didn't have the energy to get angry. He didn't hide anything, and nodded: "That's right! Xue Guoguan came forward and asked me to issue an edict to encourage donations, but the result was not good.

, only raised less than 50,000 taels of silver!"

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said: "It's just as expected! I think there must be an imperial edict from the Holy Spirit. It is estimated that many ministers will complain and cry endlessly!"

Chongzhen nodded and said nothing, but Yu Xiaotian continued: "That's true! But does the Holy One know that just when the Holy One is thinking of ways to raise wages, are these ministers really too poor to take the blame?

No! If nothing else, let me just talk about Gao Qiqian and Xue Guoguan. After the ministers came to the capital, they captured Gao Qiqian and Xue Guoguan, and then confiscated their family properties. Gao Qiqian alone was in the capital.

During the period, four houses were purchased, just in the high rise

One hundred and seventy thousand taels of hidden silver were confiscated from Qian's family. In addition, nearly two hundred thousand taels of evidence for loans he lent to merchants were also seized. In addition, Gao Qiqian's private residence also contained

All kinds of precious jewelry, as well as a large number of valuable cultural toys, calligraphy and paintings!

If totaled, the wealth accumulated by Gao Qiqian alone over the years would exceed 500,000 taels!

Everyone in the capital knows that the eunuch Wang Zhixin, Wang Youzuo, has a lot of gold. It is said that the Holy One persuaded them to donate this time, and each of them only donated two thousand taels of silver. But does the Holy One know that just Wang Zhixin's house has a lot of gold?

The amount of dirty silver is nearly 200,000 taels, and it is only cash silver, not including other property!

In Wang Youzuo's house, 130,000 taels of dirty silver were found, and there were many other properties that totaled at least 300,000 taels!

Although Xue Guoguan was not the first assistant before, and was promoted to the first assistant after Liu Yuliang was captured, in the past few years, Xue Tie had been serving in the capital, and he was highly valued by the emperor.

There is a lot of power in the court, and Xue Guoguan himself is actually a greedy person. Over the years, he has accepted bribes in the capital. I'm afraid the emperor doesn't know this!

This time, the minister just visited Xue Guanguan's house in the capital and found more than 200,000 taels of hidden silver, as well as a large number of other valuables.

And Xue Guoguan proposed a plan to ask the emperor to persuade the ministers to donate, but he himself only donated a mere three thousand taels of silver. What a big joke. For him, these three thousand taels of silver were just a drop in the bucket!

Also, when Your Majesty, those relatives of the Emperor and the country were soliciting donations this time, they were said to have complained bitterly and cried endlessly for poverty. But does Your Majesty know how many evil things these people have done over the years? How much wealth have they amassed?

Let’s not talk about anything else. Let’s talk about Empress Zhou’s father, Zhou Kui, Zhang Guozhang. Everyone in the world knows that Zhou Guozhang’s family is as rich as the country. However, this time when the Holy Spirit asked for donations, Zhou Guozhang didn’t get a dime, not even a tael of silver.

Instead, the queen went to the queen to complain about her poverty. The queen was afraid that the emperor would be embarrassed, so she gave Zhou Kui 20,000 taels of his private money to Zhou Kui. But what happened after Zhou Kui got the money? He only donated 2,000 taels of silver!

The remaining 18,000 taels of silver were actually put into his own pocket. It was a good thing that Zhou Kui not only did not donate the money because of the Holy Spirit's advice, but instead made nearly 20,000 taels of silver!

There is also Natian Guozhang, who also lost a penny this time. However, his family has occupied nearly a thousand hectares of fertile land in the Gyeonggi area, and secretly colluded with unscrupulous Shanxi merchants to resell the grain and sell it to

Build a slave! Profit hugely!

Okay, Wei Chen only said this much, and I won’t list the others one by one. Think of people like Yang Sichang and Liu Yuliang. Each of their families has received a large amount of bribes, even if they are not as good as those listed above.

But he also has nearly one hundred thousand taels of dirty silver hidden in his house in the capital!

These are the ministers that the Holy One relies on! While the Holy One is worrying about state affairs and having a headache due to the lack of finances, they are all trying their best to collect money and line their own pockets.

When the imperial court was in trouble and the Holy One wanted them to help the Imperial Court overcome the difficulties, these people cried out for money and even gave up their money, sitting back and watching the Holy One being in trouble!

Does the Holy Spirit still think that these people are the pillars of the country, loyal ministers and capable officials? Worms! The Ming Dynasty was eaten away by these worms, which led to the current situation! To say that they are rats is too cheap.

Got it!"

Yu Xiaotian said loudly and loudly to Chongzhen.

When Chongzhen heard this, his blood surged up again, and he almost wanted to crash to death on the dragon case. Over the years, he had been worried about financial shortages almost every day. This time, Yu Xiaotian led troops to invade the capital, and the court could not come up with anything.

They wanted to recruit soldiers, buy horses, pay and boost morale, so they had no choice but to persuade these people to donate.

But what was the result? All he heard were voices complaining about poverty. The same was true for the royal relatives and the officials, including the eunuchs. Everyone was holding their own money bags and not plucking a dime. It was better now. It turned out that

Each of these people is extremely wealthy, and they make a lot of money by using their power. Anyone can just hide a hundred or eighty thousand taels of silver in their home just for fun.

Although Chongzhen had guessed that these people would not be very clean and should not be too poor, Chongzhen never expected that these people's families would be so wealthy. The amount of silver stored in their homes far exceeded his own money.

Yin, thanks to him, the emperor is so poor every day that he can't get out of the blame, but these bastards are all so rich, but they completely ignore that he, the emperor, is so anxious every day because of lack of money.

Yu Xiaotian's words were a very heavy blow to Chongzhen. Originally, Chongzhen still had some illusions about these nobles, dignitaries and officials, but after hearing Yu Xiaotian's words, his illusions were completely eliminated.

It was smashed into pieces, and the pieces were like slag.

At this time, Chongzhen's hatred for these people has exceeded his hatred for Xiaotian. If it weren't for these bastards who deceived the superiors and deceived others into making huge profits, why would Ming Dynasty be in such a state? He

Why do you have to suffer this pain every day?

Even at this time, Chongzhen felt an inexplicable pleasure. He felt that this time Yu Xiaotian came to Beijing and caught, killed, and ransacked all these guys. This was at least a very satisfying thing.

Aren't you guys all holding on to your money bags? I tried to persuade you to give me a little money to help me tide over the difficulties. If you didn't do it, it would be better now. Aren't you still ending up with a traitor?

Didn't Xiaotian get nothing at all after all the speculation? Damn it! He really deserves it to the extreme!

Now he finally understood. Seeing how hard he worked on the surface, going to bed late every day and getting up early, and even staying up all night to work hard for the future, in fact, the officials and powerful people in the Ming Dynasty were already rotten to the extreme.

If you become an official just to make money, you will do anything to make money.

Yu Xiaotian said that these people were treacherous people, but he was indeed right. Just from the amount of money these people made, you can know how many shady things they did in private.

As an emperor, of course he was well aware of this. He had never thought that all the officials of the Ming Dynasty were as honest as a mirror. It would not be a big deal to accept some gifts or do some small things in private, as long as these people could serve the court.

, then these small mistakes are actually tolerable.

But what he never expected was that these guys were so big in business and amassed so much wealth at every turn. Of course he knew where the money came from. It was either corruption or bribery, but the money always came from

If it comes from somewhere, it is either extorted from the people or deducted from public funds.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty is in such chaos right now is that these people are definitely to blame. They drink the blood of soldiers for the generals, embezzle military pay and rations and line their own pockets. Soldiers will certainly not sacrifice their lives for the Ming Dynasty court.

The officials are trying their best to enrich their own pockets, and the people must have a very difficult life. No wonder the officials and soldiers are so unable to fight, and no wonder the Ming Dynasty is in such chaos. It is all caused by the misbehavior of these guys.

At this moment, Chongzhen's mouth was filled with bitterness, and he even had a nauseating feeling of wanting to vomit. His whole heart was broken into pieces at this moment. Only he knew this kind of pain, and he could not express it to anyone.

Expression.

Yu Xiaotian glanced sympathetically at Chongzhen, who was almost collapsed, and said after a while: "Your Majesty, now you should know that the minister has not wronged these people. These people do have a way to kill them, and it will not be a pity to kill them!"

Chongzhen closed his eyes, leaned on the dragon chair, and said through gritted teeth: "Kill! You kill! These people deserve to die! They do have a way to die!"

"Your Majesty, there is no need to feel sorry for these people. Once they are not eliminated, our Han nation will have no hope of revival. Only by killing them all can we regain the former glory of our Han people!" Yu Xiaotian continued.

Chongzhen opened his eyes feebly, glanced at Yu Xiaotian, and sneered: "These people really deserve to die, but are you, Yu Xiaotian, so innocent?

Although you keep saying that you are doing it for me, the Ming Dynasty, but you have done so many things with all your heart, do you think I will believe that you are really so selfless?

Since it is for my sake to protect the Ming Dynasty, you can submit a memorial, but do I really not know what you did in Fujian?

You started provocations without authorization and invaded Taiyuan Island privately, but refused to place Taiyuan Island under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. You surrounded Weitou Bay, forced merchants to pay taxes, occupied land in various places in Fujian, and stole large quantities of land from the mainland privately.

transport immigrants.

You respect your own troops, eclipse the government, bring harm to the countryside, bully men and women, buy and sell by force. Are these things what you call loyalty to the court?

You know that I am on guard against you and intend to control you, but this time you took advantage of Jiannu's march south to enter the pass and plundered, and brazenly raised your troops to march north to Tanggu, coveting the capital.

With what you have done, how can I not guard against you? Now that you have been wronged one by one, are you really wronged? Is it true that I have wronged you by treating you like this?

I am afraid that your disobedience is not something that lasts only a day or two, and it is definitely not a temporary intention to come to the capital to come to the side of the so-called Qing emperor!

You led the army to the north this time and made full preparations. You built a strong army in Fujian early, and you must have made sufficient material preparations in advance for this time to go north. You kept asking me to allocate food and salary to you.

They say you don’t have enough food, but do you really think you don’t have enough food?

If you are short of food and supplies, even if you have tens of thousands of powerful soldiers, you may not be able to fight Jiannu in a decisive battle, let alone sustain your battle for such a long time!

So don’t take me seriously as a fool. You just want to use this despicable method to deceive the people!

This time you went north, step by step you took advantage of my fear of you to put me at a disadvantage, step by step you let me step into the trap you set in advance, and made the people's hearts turn against me!

Now you have indeed done it! But you still keep saying that you are doing it for the Ming Dynasty. I see that what you have done is just Sima Zhao's intention! You can deceive the people of the world, but you cannot deceive me!

In fact, what you really want to do is to seek power and usurp the throne, so stop praising yourself in front of me!"

(Thanks again to Brother Xiaochunfeng of the Desert for the generous reward!)