Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Li Yan lamented:

"Who knew that Emperor Ming was so poor that he only had 2300 taels of cash!

But the army is getting more and more uneasy...

Now, the most urgent thing is to find the silver and appease the sergeant!

This is an army of more than 100 million people..."

"It's not a problem if you're short of pay, you'll end up mutiny!"

The red lady herself is also a leader, so she naturally understands what it means to have no military pay.

If these people can surrender to King Chuang, they can naturally surrender to others too!

"Yes!" Li Yan smiled bitterly: "This is the purpose of His Majesty's extortion."

No one is to blame!

It's all that damn Wei Zaode's fault!

As the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, he did not want to be loyal to the country, but only cared about corruption and perverting the law.

The Ming Emperor persuaded the emperor to donate money to the military, but the dog actually tore off the tiles of his residence, covered it with thatch, and tore up the yard to make it look dilapidated. He even used black paint to make the door look old, and even deliberately patched his clothes to show off. Very poor looking.

The last time Emperor Ming persuaded people to donate, three thousand officials from the capital only donated a few hundred taels of silver!

Upon seeing this, the eunuchs donated 20 taels of silver as military supplies. Who knows...

These sons of bitches were actually exchanged for yellow coins, and each soldier guarding the city was given a hundred yellow coins!

The whole mother is so greedy!

("Northern Strategy of the Ming Dynasty": Xin Chou, set up red cannons at each city gate, and give one hundred yellow coins to the gatekeepers.

Yellow money: Yellow paper is folded into ghost coins. Today, there is still a custom of folding yellow money in Shandong area. )

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Straight girl thief!

People are risking their lives to defend the city, but these idiots are giving people money!

It's fine if they don't donate the money themselves, but they embezzled the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver donated by other prison guards!

After His Majesty came to Beijing, he hated him and threw him into prison. Who knows...

This guy, who had nothing to lose before, immediately offered 4 taels of silver!

It was only five days apart!

His Majesty ordered Wei Zaode to be tortured, but he actually forced out another 10,000 taels of silver!

A minister who had only been a chief minister for a year actually defrauded nearly 20 silver, not counting his real estate, shops, antiques, calligraphy and paintings!

And the money brought home!

It was this thief who completely convinced His Majesty to pay him.

In order to temporarily stabilize the capital officials, His Majesty issued an order the day before yesterday, stating that officials below the fourth rank should be retained in their posts to handle government affairs.

Secretly, Liu Zongmin was asked to establish the Kao Zongfu Division, and 94 people were selected and sent to Liu Zongmin for torture...

……

Li Yan sighed and reached out to stroke the red lady's hair. The red lady huddled in Li Yan's arms like a little bird.

"Ms. sir, how about we go back to our hometown and live in seclusion, and no longer care about the bad things in this world."

The red lady looked hopeful.

"Ugh!"

Li Yan sighed:

"Your Majesty is kind to me, how can I dare to leave him alone?"

The red lady's eyes were filled with tears: "But my husband's blunt advice this morning has angered Your Majesty. I'm afraid that my husband is in danger!"

Li Yan was silent.

For Li Zicheng, his contribution was the greatest. When he defected to Li Zicheng, King Chuang was still hiding in Shangluo Mountain to lick his wounds.

It was he who disguised himself as a businessman and traveled around Henan singing "The king's benevolent and righteous troops will not be killed or plundered"; he also made up nursery rhymes for children to sing everywhere:

"The gate was opened to welcome King Chuang, but King Chuang did not accept food when he came";

"Open the door early to pay homage to King Chuang, and the discipline will make everyone happy."

In this way, after seven years of severe drought, the hungry people of Henan are crying out for food, just like the hope of sweet rain in the face of a severe drought——

"I'm afraid that I won't succeed by myself", "There are tens of thousands of people who will succeed by themselves"...

Li Zicheng has since emerged from the trough crisis when he was hiding in the Shangluo Mountains, and there is a bright turning point in front of him.

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However, everything has changed!

Before entering Beijing, he was King Chuang's most trusted adviser, and Li Zicheng almost obeyed his words.

However, this morning, he advised Emperor Yongchang not to impose high taxes, but could temporarily charge half of the Ming Dynasty taxes to solve the military pay problem.

He also pointed out that since five families were ordered to support a soldier, incidents of disturbing the people have occurred frequently, and there have even been incidents of robbing civilian girls!

It has only been ten days since Dashun entered the city!

Military discipline has been so corrupted!

Li Yan was heartbroken and repeatedly urged Emperor Yongchang to rectify military discipline and strictly prohibit disturbing the people.

However, what came back was Li Zicheng's three cold words - "I got it."

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Seeing Li Yan's silence, the red lady instantly understood her husband's situation as a husband and wife, and she cried even harder:

"Ms. sir, let's go. The world is so big, where can't we find a thatched cottage for you and me to rest in?"

The worst thing is that the slave family will go out to perform arts again. We can be together and be happy, which is better than anything else! "

Li Yan was silent.

If Li Zicheng secures his position in the world, he will naturally be willing to retire to the mountains and forests.

However, seeing that Dashun was in danger of being destroyed at this moment, how could he dare to leave!

……

At this moment, Li Yan’s second brother Li Nian came in a hurry:

"Little brother, Your Majesty is in urgent need of help."

He shouted hurriedly, but saw his younger brother and sister-in-law clinging to each other, and his sister-in-law seemed to be crying.

Li Nian immediately stopped his feet, his face flushed with embarrassment.

The red lady quickly sat upright and lowered her head to wipe the tears from her face. She was too embarrassed to say hello to her eldest brother.

Li Nian, on the other hand, hurriedly lowered his head, not knowing what to say.

Li Yan patted the red lady's arm:

"Don't worry, I will find a way."

After saying that, without waiting for the red lady's reaction, she hurried towards the palace with Li Nian.

"Little brother, this is a leak from the governor of Bazhou. It says that he fought two battles with Emperor Ming. Li Laiheng has already verified the military merits of the first battle, and the first level of military merits of the second battle is on the way."

Li Nian followed Li Yan on horseback and explained in a low voice.

"This is a good thing. Why did your Majesty recruit me so urgently?" Li Yan was very puzzled.

"Zhizhou sent a total of three memorials, one of which was an urgent report. It was dated later, but it arrived at the same time."

"Is this an urgent letter?" Li Yan's eyes widened.

Li Nian looked around, waved his hand to the soldiers to guard the surrounding area, and then whispered:

"Brother, it's a disaster. I bribed Niu Jinxing's steward Ding Ada, and got the news from him. It said that this memorial said that Li Laiheng had been captured by Emperor Ming, and Emperor Ming went straight to Dezhou. Go, want to burn Texas Cao Liang."

After Li Zicheng took over the capital, all the memorials were handled with the help of Niu Jinxing, who was recommended by Li Yan. Although Niu Jinxing was the prime minister, much higher than Li Yan who was indifferent to fame and fortune, on the surface he wanted to fulfill his duties. Love for the Li brothers.

"What!" Li Yan exclaimed, his face full of disbelief.

"Brother, please keep your voice down!"

Regardless of the risk of falling off his horse, Li Nian leaned over and pulled Li Yan's sleeve hard.

His face was full of vigilance:

"Only His Majesty, General Quan Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance know this news. Ding Ada only found out because Niu Jinxing screamed when handling the memorial. Little brother, don't yell, you don't want your life." Got it!"