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64 The party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty really lived up to its reputation

As for the series of things that happened in the prison of the Ministry of Justice, Hu Guang logged into the chat group as soon as he woke up and learned about the development of the matter, and no one else needed to report it.

When Li Fengxiang finished speaking, Hu Guang couldn't help but praise: "Very good, you and Manqing handled it well, I know!"

When Li Fengxiang heard this, he was filled with joy and quickly said modestly: "This is what Your Majesty expects, and I and General Man have just done what we should do!"

Hu Guang nodded after hearing this, and then remembered what happened last night, and couldn't help but frown slightly, feeling a little moved.

If this emperor follows the rules, it will be really difficult to do things! When I was an emperor in the past two days, if I wanted to do something, a bunch of people would object to the argument. Just look, when the Jianlu army was still in the capital last night, many people were busy making trouble.

This morning, the agenda I set before was to ask them to give advice on finance and taxation. But now it seems that there are a lot of things. I don’t know how many people can really make suggestions on finance and taxation.

The party struggles in the late Ming Dynasty were indeed well-deserved!

Hu Guang thought so and entered the chat group. He saw that the achievement value was 543. However, he had no intention of adding people at this time. Seeing that Gao Yingyuan and Liu Wangshi had left messages, he switched to the working group first.

"Your Majesty, we met the defeated Ming army in Tongzhou on the road, and there were many Jianlu insiders. They recognized Oboi and said hello, Oboi had already taken us to find the Khan of the Jin Kingdom."

"My second brother said, don't let those defeated soldiers enter the capital. Jianlu always does this trick. He sneaks into the inner support first, and he will definitely come to fight the capital in the afternoon."

When Hu Guang heard the news that was very important, he immediately said to know. Then he left the chat group and immediately looked at Li Fengxiang who was standing on the side and said, "Immediately, let me notify Manqing, some of the defeated soldiers in Tongzhou came to the capital, and there were a lot of Jianlu internal responders in it."

When Li Fengxiang heard this, he was surprised. The defeated soldiers from Tongzhou were mixed with Jianlu's internal response. Can the emperor be able to calculate?

To be honest, he didn't believe it. But at this time the emperor had already ordered that even if it was a joke, he had to take it seriously and do it seriously.

Therefore, he quickly showed surprise and immediately took the order to withdraw.

Hu Guang watched him leave before he re-entered the chat group, went to the elementary group, and clicked on Liu Wang's message to listen.

"There are all living beings, and Jianlu seems to be about to start attacking the city. Everyone is very panicked. The child's father has not come back for a night. What should I do?"

As the war approached, Liu Wangshi panicked again. Hu Guang understood her mood and immediately explained: "Don't think too much at this time. Just remember, don't let Jianlu attack the city and fight with them. Don't think too much about other things!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Wangshi didn't respond, but Ruhua spoke, her voice seemed to be a little tired, but she was more surprised: "Little monk, you are so magical! The capital was so chaotic last night. I told the little sisters that they were embarrassed to praise them this morning!"

Before Hu Guang could react, she immediately said worriedly: "If Jianlu came over and the capital was still so chaotic, would there be something wrong?"

"Don't be afraid, there will be no trouble." Hu Guang said without hesitation when he heard this.

"Haha!" Ma Fugui's disgusting voice sounded again.

"Ha, do you want my foot wash?" Hu Guang didn't say anything, Ruhua was already furious, and he was extremely disgusted with the son of the salt merchant. "Didn't you want to eat shit last night? How about..."

Hu Guang didn't have the idle intention to quarrel with people like Ma Fugui, but he was still a little depressed after being interrupted by him repeatedly. He immediately asked the system: "System, I am the host, do you have no right to punish the people in the group?"

The currently known authority is to let people in the group know their true identity to trigger whether to pull or kick people. This limitation is too great, such as meeting someone like Ma Fugui, it is very passive.

"Host, please work hard to increase the number of chat groups, more functions and other host experiences."

Well, it’s useless to ask! Hu Guang thought about it, and then he withdrew from the chat group and focused on preparing for his first grand ceremony.

The bell rang out on the ground. Based on Emperor Chongzhen's memory, Hu Guang knew that the civil and military officials should have lined up to enter from the left and right junction gates on the Meridian Gate.

Next, civil and military officials stood in line at the south of Jinshui Bridge according to their grades. After the "pa" sound of whips, they crossed the bridge in sequence. The civil officials were on the left and the military generals were on the right. Before the Danbi of Fengtianmen, they stood opposite each other on both sides of the Imperial Road.

Not long after, Hu Guangjia got to his seat, and the sound of whips sounded again. An official from the Honglu Temple dragged his long tone and shouted: "Enter the class..."

Hu Guang looked at the thousands of civil and military officials below coldly, and saw them walking into the imperial road, facing him, and performing a ceremony of bowing and bowing three times. With more people, it was a bit spectacular.

But he knew that these were just etiquette. Although they were worshiping, they didn't know what they were calculating. Wait for a while and see how many people were thinking right.

After all the process was completed, Hu Guang said slowly with a cold face: "I have said yesterday that today's major court discussion is for the empty treasury. I hope all the officials will give suggestions. Where is the Minister of Revenue?"

A man walked out of the civil servant and came to the imperial front and replied: "I am here!"

Hu Guang looked at him and said seriously: "Tell me about the current financial situation of the court!"

"I obey the order!" Bi Zi strictly accepted the order, then turned to face the civil and military officials below and said loudly: "In the first year of Chongzhen, the annual tax revenue could be truly sent to the capital, and the Ministry of Revenue was under the jurisdiction of 3.964,200 taels of silver. After that, due to the arrears, the situation has been getting worse and worse. Now it is less than 3.8 million taels."

"In the first year of Chongzhen, the expenditure reached 5.252,500 taels, with a deficit of nearly 1.29 million taels of silver. Later, due to the increase in military pay expenditure of the Guanning Army, the annual deficit is now more than 1.5 million taels..."

After Bi Ziyan finished speaking, he stepped down. Hu Guang glanced at the civil and military officials below and said loudly with a cold face: "In fact, even if all the annual expenditures of the Ministry of Revenue are spent on military pay, it is far from enough to pay!"

As he said that, he turned his head and signaled that Wang Dehua, the eunuch who was waiting on the side, took a few steps forward, took out a memorial and began to recite loudly: "The governor of Shaanxi reported that the salary in Gongbian was short of 7 and 8 years, and the number was more than 300,000; Jingluo Bianbao was short of 4 years, and it lasted for six years. From the 47th year of Wanli to the 2nd year of Chongzhen, Guzhen Jingyun owed more than 199,000 taels of silver. At the beginning of the army, they sold their clothes and arrows, but now they sold their sons and wives; at the beginning of begging for food, now they fled, but now they still spoke in the sand, and now they were still shouting openly."
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