Whether it is Jiang Hao, Du Xun, Wang Chengyun, or even Wu Sangui who is far away from the gate, Emperor Chongzhen has high hopes.

But I don't want these people to be so unbearable. One by one, they disregarded the emperor's grace in vain, and they were shameless and obscene.

There are also the civil and military nobles of the Manchu Dynasty, including his father-in-law, Jiading Marquis Zhou Kui, all of whom are hateful and killable.

Wu Xiang's mouth is a million silver, how can Emperor Chongzhen have it? Moreover, Zheng Zhilong has already arrived, and he is really not very urgent about Wu Sangui.

But this army needs money and food to defend the Beijing Division. The treasury is already empty, and if King Qin's army gathers inside and outside the capital in the future, he will always reward the soldiers, right?

All of this requires money.

As a result, Emperor Chongzhen stretched out his hand to the Manchu Dynasty civil and military and nobles for the first time, which was the emperor who had always had a face and threw away his dignity. 、

The suspension order stipulates that if you donate different amounts of silver taels, you can get different official titles. Relatives, officials, and eunuchs of the DPRK and China all had to donate. In reality, however, there are very few donors.

Emperor Chongzhen urged him to donate silver, wanting to take the tree as an example, asking him to donate 100,000 taels of silver, but Zhou Kui was only willing to give 10,000 taels alive and dead, and even Queen Zhou couldn't look past it, so he took out 5,000 taels of silver and gave it to Zhou Kui, asking him to make up another 5,000 taels and donate 20,000 taels, but her father deducted 2,000 taels and only donated 13,000 taels; Among the great eunuchs, Wang Yongzuo, Cao Huachun, and Wang Zhixin donated 30,000 taels, 50,000 taels, and 10,000 taels respectively. That Cao Huachun has already returned to his hometown for a while, and now he has somehow returned to Beijing. Among the ministers, only Taikang Bo Zhang Guoji donated 20,000 taels, he was the father of Zhang Yan, the empress of the Apocalypse.

The donations of civil and military officials are only "a few hundred or dozens of taels". Chen Yan said that he has always been bitter and unstoppable; Wei Zaode donated 500 taels. Purely perfunctory.

One by one, they all cried poor and put on old clothes with patches, which is no longer shameless.

Zheng Zhiguan wrote down the faces of these people one by one in the capital. Compared with the industries of the civil and military nobles that he had made people visit before, he now seemed to understand a little bit why his eldest brother had done what he did.

It's just that he's still a little incredulous.

That's going to be a big stab.

In order to squeeze oil out of the courtiers and eunuchs, Emperor Chongzhen adopted a variety of methods, one is to donate according to different yamen, stipulating the amount of donations that each yamen should donate; The second is to stipulate the amount of donations to be made by each province according to the place of origin of domestic and foreign officials. But in the end, the results were not great, and until he issued an edict, a total of 200,000 taels of silver was raised.

Zheng Zhilong's army had already arrived at Jinmen, and along with the edict of Feng Bo, there were 30,000 taels of army silver. At this time, Tang Tong also rushed to Yanjing with seven or eight thousand people. This may be a big reason why Emperor Chongzhen is not in a hurry to go crazy now.

Tang Tong once followed Hong Chengchou to participate in the Songjin War, and he is also a veteran of the battle. As the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, he was the closest to the Beijing Division, and led the men and horses to arrive first.

He had to arrive, Zheng Zhilong was about to arrive, he hadn't arrived yet, it would be too much.

Emperor Chongzhen was very happy, and squeezed out some silver from the inner treasury to pay the soldiers, and was carried by Du Zhizhi, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, and walked with Tang Tong. The latter was immediately assigned by him to Juyong Pass.

Zheng Zhilong counted his men and horses in Jinmen, and the people and soldiers did not decrease, and hundreds of vehicles were damaged, but there were still 4,000, that is, the loss of livestock was quite large. Along the way, cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, and other livestock, some of them died of exhaustion, and some of them were wounded, and all of them went into the wombs of the soldiers and the people.

Xuanfu is 300 miles away from the capital, and Jinmen is 200 miles away from the capital.

If he didn't arrive in the capital too early, then he would be worthless. If you save people, it's better to leave people under the knife than to send charcoal in the snow, right?

At the same time, he was not prepared to wait for Emperor Chongzhen to hang the southeast branch before going to release the afterthought, there was still a lot of wealth in Yanjing City, and he was not ready to be cheap Li Zicheng.

Now starting from Jinmen, it shouldn't be a short walk of two hundred miles for five or six days. I arrived in the capital at the beginning of mid-March, and at that time the Juyong Pass should have been broken, which was really good.

People in the capital are still panicking. Every day, people flee south with their families, and the streets are full of traffic and people. I don't know that I still think that the Ming Dynasty has been going on for hundreds of years, and the huge Yanjing City is still prosperous again.

Zheng Zhiguan stood in front of the window and quietly watched the scene on the street outside. There was not a ripple in my heart.

Those people who fled south with their families are worthy of pity, but he has not seen too many poor families over the years.

Besides, in the current troubled times, who can pity anyone?

If the Zheng family is defeated, he, Zheng Zhiguan, will also become a prisoner and a ghost in the blink of an eye, his children and grandchildren, his wife and concubine, aren't they also pitiful?

Time passed little by little, the sun set, and there was a sound of hurried footsteps behind Zheng Zhiguan.

"Sir."

"Is there any movement in Yishengyuan?"

"Sir, there's movement. Fan Yongliang made people prepare a batch of carriages and horses, all of which have been sent to Yishengyuan. ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Yinhao Qian Zhuang had not been thoroughly carried forward, and its capital and storage scale were far from comparable to the Qing Dynasty's Rishengchang or the heyday of the Four Hengs. However, as the general base of all the operations of the Fan family in Gyeonggi, Yishengyuan's capital should not be a few tens of thousands of taels or more, and it is a pity that it flew away.

What's more, this is the money of the Fan family, this is the silver of the traitor and the thief, and flying away will make people feel especially distressed.

Especially Fan Yongliang, a birdman.

If you can't catch Fan Yongdou, you can also solve the hatred in your heart if you kill Fan Yongliang first, right?

In these days, as the situation in Beijing has deteriorated day by day, Zheng Zhiguan thought that he would find the fleeing nobles first, but he didn't want the dignitaries in the capital to be "loyal" one by one, as if everyone had to live and die with the Ming Dynasty. Zheng Zhiguan quietly stared at more than a dozen people, not to mention that he found that someone had slipped away, that is, he found that someone had transferred property on a large scale.

It's also a rarity of TN.

He didn't believe that these people were all loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Chongzhen put down his face and asked the courtiers and nobles to help him, if those people were loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, how could they be indifferent?

The celebrant eunuch Xu Gao said on the same day: "The old emperor (Zhou Kui) is still so stingy, the court is in a difficult situation, and major events must not be done!" ”

But these people didn't move. Those civil officials are okay, Li Zicheng has taken over the world, and someone must govern it. But what about the many nobles? They and Daming complement each other, rest and share the momentum, don't they still want to serve Li Zicheng and continue to enjoy the glory and wealth?

Is it good to be delusional, and people also have a group of brothers?

It's not enough for the title to be passed on only to his henchmen, where is there still a share of the subordinates?

Besides, these nobles are all very rich, and they really have fallen to their own devices, do you still think you can get well?

Zheng Zhiguan thought that he was not a stupid person, but now looking at the actions of those nobles, he was extremely puzzled.

Because no matter how Li Zicheng looks at it, he is not the Jin Emperor Sima Yan who treats Liu Chan and Sun Hao well.

When successive dynasties changed dynasties, two conditions must be met for the people of the old dynasty to be treated well: first, the new dynasty itself is stable and rich enough, and there is no need to encroach on more wealth, land and other resources to reward merit, that is, there is not much desire to redistribute wealth. Second, the people of the old dynasty must also have the value of being treated well by the new dynasty.

At present, there are many civil and military nobles in Yanjing City, do they feel that they are very valuable to Li Zicheng and his Great Shun Dynasty? Or was Li Zicheng and his Great Shun Dynasty wealthy?

Don't forget Li Zicheng's slogan of "King Chuang comes and doesn't pay for food", then he has to carry it in the short term, and if he wants to raise hundreds of thousands of troops, he will use tens of thousands of taels of silver in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty.

Fighting local tyrants is his only way out.

And Li Zicheng also has to use officials, wealth and land to satisfy those subordinates and forces who have taken refuge in him, this is the reward. So where are all the riches, the rulers, and the land? At this time, in Yanjing City, they are all in the hands of the dignitaries and dignitaries in the city. But they were still like the old turtles in the urn, motionless, but they didn't know that they were going to be stewed.