In fact, it's not just the old brothers who fight the country together who need to explain. Even those newly converted Beijing officials also need to be explained.

How many honorable officials are there in Kyochu?

There is no quota for this, anyway, there are many officials who participated in the early dynasty, take the fifteenth year of Hongzhi as an example, one day in the early dynasty, a total of 1,160 people did not come to the court, which provoked the Hongzhi Emperor to be furious and ordered a thorough investigation.

More than 1,000 people were absent from work in the early court, and how many officials should have participated in the court.

Two thousand?

Three thousand?

That is still eligible to participate in the early dynasty.

What was the early dynasty like?

The emperor sat on the dragon chair and looked down, and it was estimated that it was densely packed with human heads, just like the temple fair on the first and fifteenth days of the new year.

Anyway, there are more than one word......

How many noble officials are there in the capital at present?

If you have a grade or a grade, you have to have three or five thousand!

The emperor was martyred, the country died, how many of so many Beijing officials and their families died?

There are only a few dozen people, and there is even a slight shortage.

And what about the rest?

They are all looking forward to the new dynasty in the city!

Of course, not all, after all, there are some people who fled in disguise, but there are also people who fell behind because they ran too slowly, or were caught back to Beijing, or went back to Beijing by themselves.

How many nobles and officials are there in the capital now?

There must be 2,000 people anyway, and most of these officials come from all over the Ming Dynasty, and they can be said to be representatives of the Ming gentry class.

Although they are looking forward to the new dynasty, they are also observing the new dynasty, if they fall, basically the whole world will fall, there is no way, from the Tang Dynasty onwards, those civil officials who have been promoted by the imperial examination, what they believe in is to learn literature and martial arts and sell them to the emperor's family, as for the emperor, for them...... Never mind.

And these people have long formed a close network of relationships with various chaotic relationships such as teachers and students, classmates, teachers, and the same year, and one person can persuade dozens of people, if all the Beijing officials are demoted...... Yes, then the world is almost peaceful.

A Hong Chengchou said that he persuaded half of Jiangnan, let alone the two thousand high-grade Beijing officials in the capital?

It's not difficult to get them to speak for the new dynasty, but the question is what can the new dynasty give them?

What can Li Zicheng give?

What can you give them an explanation? Li Zicheng, the emperor, still owes a lot of debt to the founding heroes of Dashun!

When the emperor was regarded as Huang Shiren, Li Zhicheng, who owed a lot of debts, waited to repay the debt by relying on the treasury of the Ming Dynasty. But who would have thought that the treasury left by the Ming Dynasty was empty......

What to do?

Li Zicheng, who was in a big position, could only invite everyone to come over and discuss this matter together. Two days later, General Liu Zongmin rushed to the capital. He originally led the troops outside and waited for Wu Sangui's reinforcements? After learning that Wu Sangui withdrew to Shanhaiguan? He led his troops and Li Laiheng to arrive in the area of Sanhe and Baodi, and maintained vigilance against Wu Sangui.

After deployment? Liu Zongmin immediately left for Beijing? came to discuss with Li Zicheng, Sun Ke, Song Xiance, Gu Junen and others how to solve the current crisis.

"Isn't it still silver? Where is the money? Isn't it in the capital? Your Majesty, how have we raised money over the years? Isn't it all about raising food and money on the spot after the city is broken? Now the brethren are all looking at it? Waiting for His Majesty's reward, you can't chill everyone's hearts! ”

Among so many old brothers, Liu Zongmin is definitely a responsible master, and as soon as he went to the Wuying Palace, he directly made his words clear...... In fact? When you haven't returned to the capital yet? When he learned that His Majesty had a headache about this, he laughed, what happened to this emperor?

How to sit in the Jinluan Hall and forget the craft of eating by yourself.

"Liu Hou ......"

As the co-owner of the world, Li Zicheng, of course, speaks more gently? You can no longer shout nicknames at every turn like you did in Chang'an in the past, and those civil officials have been admonished several times.

Are they right? After all, he is already an emperor? It can't be like it used to be. But in front of him, he seems to have forgotten his housekeeping skills.

"What Liu Hou said is very true, but after all, the capital is the best in the world? We can't mess around! Moreover? When did we first enter the city? But he made an appointment with the people. ”

The so-called covenant is actually to let the people write the word "Shun Min" on yellow paper, so that the government and the people will not be disturbed. This yellow paper should be pasted not only on the door, but also on the hat, in short, it is still the same sentence, the emperor does not kill the people.

But this agreement ...... Does it count?

"Your Majesty,"

Song Xiance said,

"The ordinary people of Jingshi don't have much money, and we raised troops to do the right thing for heaven, and the common people can't touch it, but we can ask officials and businessmen for money."

In the past few days, Song Xiance has also had a headache, as a military advisor, he doesn't know that now Dashun is also spending money like running water, and the money paid in Taiyuan has already been spent, and if he doesn't want to find a way to get silver, there will definitely be a mess.

How to get silver, of course, is the old way!

The housekeeping skills of the Dashun Dynasty back then, why did they forget it one by one when they arrived in the capital, if it weren't for Liu Hou's reminder, I'm afraid I wouldn't really be able to remember it for a while.

In fact, even if you think about it, you may not dare to say it so openly. At this time, it's up to you to be casual and responsible. If there was a lord like him Liu Zongmin in Chongzhen's court back then, it is estimated that this would not be the case.

In fact, it is only people like Liu Zongmin who are born recklessly who will have this responsibility, and others may not have it, after all, most people who have been up and down in the sea for many years, what they have learned in the officialdom is four big words, and they are wise to protect themselves.

"That is, Your Majesty, those officials are corrupt officials, and businessmen are profiteers, let's ask them for wages, that's right, and do the right thing for heaven."

"Your Majesty, we are raising troops to do the right thing for heaven. In this case, we cannot let go of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials. ”

How full do you see here?

In fact, the problem is not that the reason is sufficient, but that the need can always be found.

"It's not like that, we don't want the people to pay food, but how can these hundreds of thousands of troops feed and eat? What to drink? With what? In the end, don't you still have to rely on silver? But where does the money come from! You have to get rid of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials from those profiteers! ”

"That's it, Your Majesty, what do we rely on for so many years of crusade? Isn't it just torture, let's not forget this! ”

"Yes! We are all from poor families, but we can't help but let those corrupt officials and profiteers feel comfortable! ”

A group of people who are unwilling to forget their roots do it together, and naturally mention their old business, torture corrupt officials and gentry, this is their old business!

Big guy is professional!

Isn't it funny not to do the professional counterpart things, and to make it difficult to make it like a fool here!

Li Zicheng, who was still talking about the people, frowned.

"This ...... Corrupt officials, corrupt officials, profiteers, and inferior gentry, not to mention just letting them help, even if they are killed, they are doing the right thing for heaven, but they are just ......"

Frowning, Li Zicheng asked again.

"It's easy to ask for money from merchants, and when you see someone who opens a shop to do business, you go to ask for money, and those people are used to being oppressed by the government, and they dare not refuse to give it. But what about the officials? At the beginning, Emperor Chongzhen asked them to pay silver to help the country, but they didn't have a few people who paid silver! ”

When Emperor Chongzhen was in power, they were reluctant to pay for silver, let alone now.

"Hmph, it's the other way they go, they don't want to take it, just put a stick on it, if we are polite, no one wants to pay the silver. Guilty and polite to them. ”

"Be polite, who will be polite to them? What worries me is that many officials of the Ming Dynasty are hiding at home now. If they don't come out, how can we ask for silver? ”

"It's easy to do."

Song Xiance said with a smile,

"Your Majesty only needs to issue an edict to let the civil and military officials in Beijing report their names. Those who are willing to use the amount of officials are promoted, and they are not willing to embarrass them. Leave it to your hometown. In this way, the Ming Dynasty officials in the capital will run out on their own! When the time comes, they will use it if they can, and if they can't use it, they will be asked to pay for it. ”

Li Zicheng laughed when he heard this:

"Hahaha, there is still a way for the military division! That's it! ”

"But what if they don't want to pay for it?"

"You are stupid, who in this world would willingly take out money for no reason, and they would not want to pay it. We have a way to let them take it out, why did you forget the housekeeping skills? ”