Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 543 Chaos (Part [-])
People like Qin Liangyu who donate their family wealth as military pay are really rare.

Under the Daming system, it is very normal for nobles to make money, but it is not normal to send money out.

Our ancestors have already suffered and lost their lives, and our descendants deserve to be blessed.

Therefore, everyone was silent about what the Chongzhen emperor said about the rise of the emperor.

There is no way to do things like this!
Not even if he is the emperor.

Every year, the emperor collects gold flowers and silver and puts them into the internal treasury, which amounts to a million taels a year!

The emperor's internal money was also reluctant to take it out. In order to cope with the increasing military expenditure, the court continued to increase taxes.

What's more, which of those vassal kings is not richer than us?
He rushed to the hammer bandit to congratulate him on capturing Jin Wang, and countless wealth fell into his hands.

Look at Gao Yingxiang, Zijinliang and other thieves who are still beating people to death, He Jinzhao eats hot food and drinks spicy food in Shanxi, and I heard that he will sleep with seven big yellow girls in one night.

The key is that people will return the money, not in vain!

We can take a peek at the leopard, Jin Wang is so rich!
For King Rui's farmland, in addition to the existing land, Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Sichuan and other places have to share the number of acres of land and pay taxes to obtain rent.

Even though most of the land fell into the hands of princes, nobles and bureaucratic landlords.

But the Zhu family's royal family didn't take out the money, but let us courtiers take out the money.

How can there be such a reason in the world?

If you love the money in your inner treasury, we can't feel sorry for the money in your cellar!
What does the emperor think?

Do you really think everyone is like that prodigal son of Qin Liangyu?
Don't look at Qin Liangyu who destroys the family and relieves difficulties, except for Chongzhen rewarding her with a few taels of silver and four poems, the rest of the courtiers don't like her behavior very much.

It shows that you are a great loyal minister, making it difficult for others to step down!

Look at you Qin Liangyu, what's the use of dissipating all your wealth?
The emperor didn't just give you this reward.

Chongzhen didn't even have the means to prove his faith, so how could he ask his courtiers to pay you with empty words.

In the political ecological environment of Ming Dynasty, it is very difficult for you to be a good official.

In the end, Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen said that the minister's family had no money left, so the matter was just dropped.

Chongzhen was so angry that he left Huangjimen before dark for the first time, and no longer dealt with government affairs.

As for Zhangjiakou Lin Danhan's going to make a big fuss, he has his own calculations in mind, so he doesn't care.

But the nobles' goal of keeping Zhangjiakou was not achieved.

The emperor does not expect to make money from here, but everyone has to count on it!
Wealth cannot be broken.

In short, although Xungui and the emperor have the greatest interests, they will not cooperate with the emperor to make money, otherwise they will all belong to the emperor in the end.

Which official is willing to let the emperor know how much money he has?

Therefore, in the face of the crisis in Zhangjiakou, Cheng Guogong can only be the leader, and quietly gather all family members to go to the Xuanfu to support, so as not to prevent the Mongols from entering and delaying their earning money.

The news of Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang's riots in the Forbidden City spread like flying everywhere.

Chuang general Li Zicheng invaded Henan from the big mouth at the junction of the two provinces south of Jincheng.

After he conquered Xiuwu, his troops went straight to Huaiqing Prefecture.

In fact, the prefect of Qinyang in Huaiqing Prefecture was not the most panicked group of people.

A total of eleven vassal kings were enfeoffed in Henan.

King Wei was enshrined in Huaiqing Mansion but did not take over as a vassal.

But the vassal kings of the rest of Henan became restless.

Because the hammer bandit He Jinchao broke through Taiyuan and captured King Jin, other rebels also targeted the Prince's group.

I don't know how long Lu Wang can last.

Even the burglar Gao Yingxiang broke into the palace, trying to rob the emperor's inner treasury!

The brothers of the vassal kings may have no money to eat, but the money of the vassal kings cannot be counted by themselves. The accumulation of the past two hundred years is dusty.

Li Zicheng's troops encircled Qinyang not to attack this fortified city, but to expand his troops in Henan in accordance with the plan specified by He Jinzhao so that more people could join the rebel army.

He found that the people in Henan were about to become like those in Shaanxi.

Because of the successive severe droughts in Henan in the three and four years of Chongzhen, it seems that the next few years will also be in a drought pattern.

This is how Shaanxi came here, and Li Zicheng believed more and more in He Jinzhao's words.

The weather is getting worse and worse, and the people can't farm the land, and they can't survive at all.

Now in Henan, there is no harvest in autumn, and it is difficult to grow wheat. There is no grass in the wild, and ten rooms are empty.

There are those who have a bucket of rice worth five qian, and those who work hard for a day without getting enough rice.

There are those who pluck grass roots and leaves to satisfy their hunger, those who abandon their wives and children from their mothers, and those who sell a child for not enough food.

There are those who hang themselves in empty forests and willingly fill ditches, those who starve to death on the side of the road, those who beg for quail clothes and vegetables, those who die with pillows on their pillows, those who flee with mud doors and burdens, and those who cannibalize each other.

This tragic image is exactly the same as in Shaanxi, and the reality is repeating itself.

But even if the common people are like this, in the year of great famine, Daming not only does not provide relief, but also sends more.

They asked the people in Henan to supply more rations, equipment, rice beans, and bamboo shoots, and asked for money to meet the request of the capital.

In addition to the regular tax, there is not only an increase in distribution, but also the pursuit of tax arrears that were not paid a few years ago.

Moreover, one-third of the pre-collection must be compiled first, even if the wasteland was many years ago, the tax must be recovered.

The old taxes have been confiscated, and the new rates have been urged.

After paying the newly levied taxes, you have to continue to pay the taxes owed in previous years.

This action resulted in no barking dogs in Henan village, and they still knocked on the door of reminders.

There are cuckoos singing on the tree, and the blood of whipping is sprinkled.

If you dare not pay taxes, you will be beaten to death, and you will have to pay taxes.

The loess is red, and the villages are almost unpopulated;
White bones and phosphorus, I often hear ghosts crying every night.

The people in Henan ~ suffering!

Li Zicheng was deeply touched by this scene.

It turns out that the people in Daming can no longer survive, not only in the mountains and Shanxi!

Does Daming still have any meaning to exist?
When the rebel army led by Li Zicheng arrived in Henan, they hardly had to forcibly coerce the young and strong, and the people who couldn't pay the taxes took the initiative to seek refuge.

In just one month, the footprints of Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others in Henan covered all counties in western Henan, and people everywhere joined them.

It's not that the people want to rebel, it's really the operation of the Ming court, which makes too many people have no way out.

If you want to live, you can only save your life by joining the "bandits" in the eyes of officials.

But even so, the officials who called for the payment of taxes still did not stop.

Because once they stop, how can they have the money to support them to destroy the "bandits"?

It's really not that the rebel army is too powerful, but the operation of the imperial court and local officials, which made Li Zicheng have too many people now, and it is impossible to organize and train an effective army in a short time. .

In addition, to provide food for such a large population, it is simply not enough to just learn from He Jinzhao and beat a few typical big landlords to ask them to sponsor food.

As long as the landlords who have food, no matter whether they have a good reputation or not, they all have to die to seize their food in order to feed so many subordinates.

The class antagonism in Henan is becoming more and more serious.

Li Zicheng rode a horse, wearing the red hat unique to Ming soldiers to shade his head, and his clothes were no different from ordinary soldiers.

He looked at the common people who joined the rebel army, and frowned deeply. He didn't know what happened to Brother Gao and Brother He in the capital?
　It's too hot, so I wrote a chapter at night, and I'll read it tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)