Chapter 86 The Emperor Cannot Get Donations

The head was sent over, but Jiading Bo Mansion did not respond at all.

Mu Tiantao knew that he should have seven or eight days to buffer, and he would take further action after this Jiading Bo understood his background.

Planning and then acting is a good habit for many nobles.

They don't care about killing people, but they must figure out the enemy's details before taking action.

In this huge capital, there are always some people who cannot move or touch them.

In many stories, there are always playboys who rely on their family background and offend others. This is the stupidest thing. Mu Tiantao received this education since childhood.

His mother and brother always told him that it doesn’t matter if he is bullied. First of all, you have to calm down and find out the details of the enemy. If there are some unexplained relationships behind the opponent.

At this time, you have to complain first and then secretly attack...

If the other party's strength is really strong, then you have to admit it and endure it. It will not be too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years.

Of course, if the other party is a fool who has no reason, you must use thunder to eliminate it in one fell swoop to demonstrate the majesty of the Mu Mansion.

When Mu Tiantao was in Guanzhong, he learned from his mother's letter that the Mu Mansion in the capital was occupied by someone.

Then... he begged his senior brother who worked in a key department to clearly understand how the Mu Mansion was occupied by others at the cost of two bottles of good wine.

Along the way, he had already thought of a strategy to deal with it. When he arrived in the capital, he started the trip without having to sit firmly on his chair.

There is a reason why there is no room for nothing.

Three months ago, the emperor, who was really poor, launched a donation, hoping that all officials and nobles could donate some money so that the Ministry of War would recruit more warriors to guard the capital on which everyone relied for survival.

Chongzhen reigned for 16 years.

"There are four wars and the bandits spread."

"The party bureau of the ministers has been established, the material resources of the grass and wild have been exhausted, the laws of the country have been broken, the border has been seized, the national affairs are in trouble, the internal and external affairs are difficult, and the accumulated problems are difficult to recover, and the current situation is difficult to recover."

There has never been a time to take care of the weather. In addition to never stopping military affairs every year, we also need to deal with droughts, earthquakes, locust plagues, and epidemics in various places. To suppress bandits, to provide relief to disaster areas, and to prevent border disasters, all of this cannot be separated from one thing, that is: money!

The current situation is like this, and a serious financial crisis is inevitable. Wanli's annual military expenditure is only more than three million.

In the Chongzhen period, the "suppression and exercising wages" and "suppression wages" were only used for military affairs, and the "Liao wages" had reached 16 million.

The emperor naturally felt that the treasury was empty and his money was tight. After passing this financial crisis to the people, the result was that "the salary was increased and the land was famine every day, and the expropriation was urgent but the people were fewer", which led to a vicious cycle, which made the situation of "famine was exaggerated, external strife and internal treason" worsened.

At the helplessness, Chongzhen, who was the emperor, didn't care much anymore, so he had to sell the gold and silver utensils in the palace for emergency treatment, and even sold the old ginseng accumulated from Wanli period. After that, he had to call on the royal relatives and civil and military officials to help with the money and adopt a policy of fundraising.

In the 12th year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen found Li Guorui, the rich royal relative of Wuqing, and asked him to share the country's worries and contribute 400,000 silver taels as salary.

Seeing that the number was huge, Li Guorui refused to give it up and insisted that he could not afford so much money. However, Chongzhen knew a little about his background, so of course it was not possible, so he was even more urgent.

Li Guorui simply acted like a scoundrel and also sold his own house for sale, and brought his house to the outside and sold it to show that he had nothing.

This move made Chongzhen angry, so he imprisoned Li Guorui and seized his title. Li Guorui could not withstand this, so he died soon afterwards.

As a result, the relatives of the foreigners were uproar and complained that Chongzhen ignored his kindness and family ties and even joined forces to resist the fundraising.

Chongzhen himself was quite regretful afterwards and appointed Li Guorui's seven-year-old son Li Cunshan as a marquis. The 400,000 silver he recovered was finally returned. Since the royal family regretted it, the officials would not be enthusiastic, and the fundraising matter was left in vain.

However, this year, Li Zicheng had already arrived in Shandong and the capital was in a hurry. At this time, the capital was short of soldiers and food, and the garrison was weak.

Chongzhen had to raise funds again. He sent the eunuch Xu Gao to inform the father of Empress Zhou, Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of the country, to take the lead in advocating and set an example.

Zhou "resented Wuyou" and refused. Xu Gao repeatedly explained the above intention, but Zhou was careless and did not mind at all. Xu Gao "cried angryly and said, 'If my father is like this, the country's affairs will be gone'."

Seeing that Zhou Kui was talking about this, he was afraid that Chongzhen would blame him, so he agreed to donate 10,000 taels. Chongzhen thought it was a little less and asked him to take out 20,000.

Zhou wrote a secret letter to tell the queen, begging for help. The queen agreed to help him and advised him to meet the amount required by Chongzhen as much as possible. The eunuchs in the palace were the richest as the king, but they only offered tens of thousands of gold.

Wang Yongzha and Cao Huachun donated 30,000 to 50,000.

The ministers and officials in the court performed the same way, and they all pretended to be poor and called for poverty.

Grand Secretary Wei Zaode only took out a hundred gold coins, and Chen Yan, the chief minister of the cabinet who has been approved to retire, made a special trip to the palace to confess his innocence and integrity during his tenure.

Some officials followed Li Guorui and wrote on their doors: "This house is urgently sold", and then took out some utensils that were worth a few dollars and were sold on the market.

In the end, in order to achieve balance, we simply made an levy, such as Zhejiang and Shandong, and Shandong, which were 4,000 yuan. The maximum limit was 30,000 yuan, but no one in the court met the standard, only Taikangbo and Zhang Guoji paid 20,000 yuan.

In this way, the Jingguo fundraising event finally raised a huge sum of money from the squatter clan composed of relatives and literati and officials of the imperial royal family in the capital: 200,000.

If you have money, you can't pay for it. At this time, the emperor could not do anything to them except sigh. He had to change his method and call on him to make efforts to make everyone send food and grass to the official army, or support the wives and children of the soldiers, so that the defenders in the capital had no worries, but the reaction was even more indifferent and no one responded, so he had to give up.

The amount of this "huge sum" is so, so there is no way to see the military expenses. Therefore, Chongzhen used all the 200,000 yuan cash to reward and comfort the defenders in the capital.

On this day, the common people cried and donated money, with many people including three hundred gold and four hundred gold. In just fifteen days, the donation amounted to 460,000 gold.

For this reason, the emperor cried in the harem to tell the Queen of Zhou: The people are good, and those who eat meat should be punished!

What Mu Tiantao learned at Yushan Academy was how to govern and how to command soldiers.

When Yushan Academy promoted these things everywhere as jokes, Mu Tiantao invited many talented people in the academy to discuss - the only topic was - how could the emperor get donations from these corrupt officials!

In the end, everyone got a relatively reliable answer - the cruel official!

The emperor came out to call for donations, which was a shameful thing, which showed that the emperor had lost control of the regime!

The weaker the emperor is, the more unwilling the ministers will be to support the emperor.

A senior brother from the Government Affairs Department said it very clearly - the strong have everything, while the weak have nothing!

Mu Tiantao could imagine that if Yun Zhao asked the people, officials, and merchants to borrow money, he would definitely receive enthusiastic responses from the people, officials, and merchants. He would even show that he would rather destroy his family than fund Yun Zhao, just to ask Yun Zhao to praise him for all his contributions. Even if he gave him a smile of affirmation, they would be satisfied.

This is the strong one.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen’s donation was released, even his father-in-law was urging to the point of crying for poverty. In the end, he had to rely on exploiting the daughter of the queen to reduce his family’s losses.

therefore.

There is naturally no way to use cruel officials.

If it were in peacetime, using this method would completely destroy the court.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, the house has been leaking from all sides, and the beams and pillars have been crisscrossed by insects, and they are about to collapse. At this time, do you still care about the group of pigs raised in the house?

The best way at this time is to kill pigs and sell them for money!

The emperor originally had cruel officials, such as Dongchang and Jinyiwei were excellent candidates for cruel officials.

Once the emperor uses these cruel officials to achieve his goal, he kills two more Dongchangs, and the Jinyiwei people tell these officials that Dongchang and Jinyiwei have done something wrong, and they can completely mess up the matter.

But - when the emperor ascended the throne, he abolished these two units. The scene of Zhongzhengying Dynasty looked very good, but he just didn't do anything!

Therefore, Mu Tiantao came to the capital for some bullshit scientific research!

He came to be this cruel official.

The scientific examination is too slow. Even if he becomes the top scholar, he will have to wait at least twenty years later to realize personal revenge on the decaying platform of the Ming Dynasty.

He couldn't wait, and the Ming Dynasty couldn't wait.

Since normal methods cannot save the Ming Dynasty from the fire and water, he wanted to test the robber's method.

The robber's method is very useful... He had more than a thousand loyal subordinates on the two thousand miles from Chang'an to the capital.

Now, it's time to arm these people.

He once accidentally heard a senior brother say that in the 14th year of Chongzhen, the county master ordered the Lantian troops in the capital, Hebei, Shandong and the three places to quickly evacuate, with the purpose of leaving a fair battlefield for Emperor Chongzhen.

Of course, objectively, it also opened the door for Lee Hongji to enter these three places.

The secret spy department, the orders for the men in black to evacuate these three places were extremely urgent, and the people quickly evacuated, but a lot of equipment was left behind and sealed in these three places.

Because of the old reason, these equipment is not very useful for Lantian, which has been replaced with the latest weapons, and can be bought and sold...

Therefore, what Mu Tiantao has to do now is to find the secret spies who stayed in the capital to check the wind direction, and then buy these weapons back from them.

When I armed the thousand people under my command, I would definitely have more money to buy the weapons sealed by Lantian, so that I could arm more people.

Only in this way can he be qualified to have the capital to fight when Li Hongji's million-strong army attacks.

"Do I want to be a good boy? Do you want to make the world a big upside down. In this way, I will live up to my name as Prince Mu's Mansion and my great reputation in Yushan Academy!
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