Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 15 It's time for my Ming Dynasty to perish!

"Long live, the types and amounts of Zhou's property are all recorded in this booklet."

Wang Chengen handed over a sorted brochure to Chongzhen, and then he did not forget to report it.

"There are a total of 73 taels of silver, 8000 taels of gold, 33 boxes of jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and hundreds of valuable silks and brocades. The total value is about 200 million taels."

Hearing Wang Chengen's words and looking at the booklet in his hand, Chongzhen couldn't help but tremble.

Not happy, but angry.

Zhou Kui, as the head of the state, even if he receives preferential treatment from him, the money he can accumulate through formal channels in 20 years is less than one percent of what he currently has.

So where did the rest of the money come from?
There is no doubt that it must have come from extortion, corruption and bribery!

The most abominable thing is that the Zhou family obviously has so much money, but he asked the ministers to donate their salary twice, and the second time he even sent a confidant eunuch to persuade Zhou Kui, but Zhou Kui still didn't get anything out of it, but instead took money from the queen. Thousands of taels.

And according to what Hao Guangming said, in the end Zhou Kui's money was all cheap for the intruder!
How can this make Chongzhen angry?

If it wasn't for empress Zhou's feelings, he wished he could behead Zhou Kui right now!

Taking a deep breath, Chongzhen finally calmed down, and immediately said: "Wang Daban, you will be in charge of the silver for the time being, but don't keep it and be reluctant to use it. You should distribute it to a city gate guard and soldiers as soon as possible to boost morale. Understand?"

"I understand." Seeing so much money, Wang Cheng'en felt very complicated at this moment, and couldn't help sighing: "Hey, if you had had so much money a month earlier, Long Live Lord, maybe you wouldn't have let intruders besiege the city. "

Chongzhen also sighed when he heard the words.

If his daughter had had today's adventure a month earlier, not only would he not let the intruders besiege the city, but he might be able to rejuvenate Daming.

It's a pity that it's too late now.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen couldn't help looking outside the palace, especially in the direction of Guangning Gate, but just in time to hear the shouts of killing over there, accompanied by the sound of cannons being fired again and again.

This made Chongzhen's face change, and he thought to himself, could it be that someone opened the Guangning Gate to meet the intruders as Mr. Hao said?
When he came back to his senses, he immediately said to Wang Chengen: "Send someone to check the situation at Guangning Gate!"

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Internet is addictive.

Especially for a girl who has just learned to surf the Internet, it is more like opening the door to a new world.

Therefore, when Auntie Zhu checked all kinds of relevant information about the late Ming Dynasty and her family on the Internet, it seemed that she could not feel the passage of time.

Hao Guangming was also surfing the Internet nearby, and did not intend to remind Aimi Zhu.

It wasn't until Auntie Zhu felt sleepy that she suddenly realized that a long time had passed, so she hurriedly asked, "What time is it now?"

Hao Guangming said: "There is time on the phone, so you can see it this way."

Hao Guangming taught Aimee Zhu how to check the time on her mobile phone.

"However, we use the time, minute and second system here. There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 1 seconds in a minute. One hour for you is equal to two hours for us.

Now it is 23:05, which is the beginning of the sub-hour in the twelve o'clock. "

Auntie Zhu who finally understood what time it is now stood up abruptly, and said anxiously, "It's already midnight? No, I want to go back and have a look."

Hao Guangming nodded and said, "Then be careful."

After all, the capital is being attacked by the Chuang army, and the war is changing rapidly, and he has already affected the people and things there. It is hard to say what the situation is now.

Auntie Zhu nodded, took the mobile phone and hurried towards the west wall, and quickly disappeared.

After returning to the Hall of Martial Ying, Auntie Zhu could smell the smell of alcohol, but she saw that it was Chongzhen who was drinking.

Seeing that Chongzhen didn't look happy again, she immediately understood that something bad might happen.

Because she knew that Chongzhen had always been strict with himself in life, logically speaking, it was impossible for him to drink alcohol now that the battle in the city was critical.

At the same time, she also heard the shouts of killing outside seem to be getting closer, so she hurriedly asked: "Father, but the outer city has been breached?"

Chongzhen smiled bitterly and said, "Yes."

"Where did you break through?" Auntie Zhu frowned.

Chongzhen said: "It is exactly the Guangning Gate that Mr. Hao said."

"How is this possible?" Zhu Yu was puzzled and surprised, "Didn't the father send Master Shi to lead people to strengthen the defense of Guangning Gate?"

Chongzhen laughed at himself and said: "The military strength in the capital is already stretched. I even sent out the Shangzhi Army (Jinyi's pro-army) and eunuchs, but it is still not enough. Even if Shi Bangyao is asked to strengthen the defense, how many people can we give him?
What's more, this time it was Hui Hui who rebelled near Guangning Gate, attacked the defenders, and cooperated with the intruders inside and outside to open Guangning Gate.How can this situation be broken unless we know it in advance? "

Hearing this, Auntie Zhu couldn't help but said guiltily: "Father, it's all because of the daughter's fault. I couldn't find out about it over there, otherwise the outer city wouldn't have been breached."

Unlike Chongzhen who was still full of resentment towards his courtiers when he died in history, he learned a lot from Hao Guangming in this life, but now he looks away.

He waved his hands and said, "Mr. Hao can't even get this information, let alone you just went to that world. By the way, have you ever learned how Cihong and the others ended up in the historical materials?"

Thinking of this incident, Chongzhen visibly cheered up again.

He knew that it would be very difficult for him to escape if the capital was breached, but the princes had a smaller target, and there were three of them, so if they were scattered, there would always be a hope of one or two escaping, right?

After asking, Chongzhen found that Zhu Wei's complexion was gloomy, and he knew that the fate of the three princes in the historical materials might not be very good.

Auntie Zhu hesitated for a while, and said: "Although the emperor and the two emperor brothers were arrested by the intruders, Li Zicheng said that the whole world was corrupted by the emperor and the ministers and had nothing to do with them, so he didn't kill them and gave them back. They were knighted.

It was only later that the intruders were defeated in a battle with the Qing army and Wu Sangui's Guanning army on a piece of stone near Shanhaiguan, and retreated to the capital in a hurry. After Li Zicheng hurriedly ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he withdrew to Shanshan.

The intruders were chased and killed by the Qing army and Guan Ning's army, and they were defeated for thousands of miles. In addition, many intruders were not restrained by Li Zicheng and others, and there was chaos when they fled. The emperor and two younger brothers were lost in the intruder army. . "

Hearing this, Chongzhen heaved a sigh of relief at first, but then rushed his head angrily, and asked anxiously, "Wu Sangui actually voted to become a slave?!"

Aunt Zhu sighed, "According to the information my daughter found out, Wu Sangui had long been in contact with Jiannu, and even had greater ambitions.

It is said that after Li Zicheng broke the capital, Tang Tong, the surrendered general, rewarded the Guanning Army with 4 taels of silver, and forced Wu Xiang to write a letter forcing Wu Sangui to surrender.

But Dorgon promised to give Wu Sangui the title of king, and it was a real seal, so Wu Sangui finally voted for Dorgon. "

Chongzhen couldn't help but sneered, "I didn't expect Li Zicheng to be such an idiot, 4 taels in an attempt to appease the Guan Ning army. Don't you know that I spend tens of millions of taels of silver on the Guan Ning army every year?"

After laughing at Li Zicheng, Chongzhen asked again: "Is there no other news about Cihong and the others being lost in the bandit army? As long as one of them lives and goes south, they will have the opportunity to rule the river with Jiannu and win a situation in the Southern Song Dynasty." what."

Hearing Chongzhen's question, and thinking of the information she found on the Internet, Auntie Zhu couldn't help sighing again.

"Father, the emperor's brother and the two younger brothers did have some news later on, but the most famous of them was the case of the two false princes in the north and the south.

The case of the fake prince in the north is what Mr. Hao said before, saying that the grandfather was greedy for wealth and honor, so he dedicated the emperor's brother to Dorgon, and the seller asked for glory. Behead grandpa and the false prince together.

Soon thereafter, the family of Honglu Temple Qing Gao Mengji ran into a young man in Shandong who asked to go south with him on a ferry. He was considered the prince.

At this time, Emperor Hongguang of Nanming, oh, that is, Uncle Fu, sent someone to check the authenticity of the prince after hearing the news..."

"Wait!" Hearing this, Chongzhen suddenly frowned and stared at Aimee Zhu, and asked, "You said that King Fu had already ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor at that time? How long before he ascended the throne was the capital captured by intruders?"

Aimee Zhu recalled the important information she had seen, and said, "After the news of my father's death spread to the south, they began to consider setting up a new king, but Uncle Fu's enthronement will be on April 26."

After hearing this, Chongzhen's eyes darkened, and he said, "It's only been a little over a month, and these courtiers in the south are really quick to support the new king. But who doesn't want the merit of supporting the establishment? I should understand them.

Aimee, if I'm not mistaken, the young man who claims to be the prince must not have been recognized by your Uncle Fu, right? "

Although Auntie Zhu didn't receive much education from the emperor, she was born in the royal family after all, so she knew a little about the cruelty of the struggle for the throne.

She didn't think much about it before, but now she heard what Chongzhen said in a complicated tone, and she suddenly understood something.

She replied subconsciously: "Uncle Fu's Hongguang Dynasty only lasted for a little more than a year before the capital was captured by the Qing army.

Uncle Fu Wang and the prince from the north were captured by the Qing army together, and were executed by the Qing army together the following year.

Over the past year, the Hongguang Dynasty once again fell into complicated party struggles. The Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party headed by Ma Shiying each colluded with the warlords, causing the government to be in chaos.

The identity of the prince from the north has always been one of the things they struggled with, until the capital was captured by the Qing army, there was no conclusion on this matter. "

Hearing this, Chongzhen was slightly stunned for a moment, and then remembered the various party disputes he had experienced in the 17 years he had been in the court, and the helplessness of seeing the government and state affairs deteriorating day by day in the party disputes, and suddenly laughed.

"Hahaha···"

Laughter originally represented joy, but at this time Emperor Chongzhen's smile made people feel extremely uncomfortable. He didn't laugh for a long time, and he began to cry, and his voice became hoarse.

"It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous, half of the country is lost, and seeing that the mountains and rivers are everywhere again, the monarchs and ministers are still fighting for power and profit, obsessed with party struggles, it's time for me to perish!"

(End of this chapter)