The crown prince and the other two princes were brought to Huang Zide, and the people next to them ordered them to kneel, but the prince stood tall. Seeing that the prince refused to kneel, the other two princes naturally refused to kneel either. However, Huang Zide was in a good mood at this time, so he didn't care, just asked people to take them down and take care of them.

However, Huang Zide's good mood did not last long, and in the afternoon, a reported number made Huang Zide's mood suddenly deteriorate.

"What? Only five thousand taels of silver in the treasury? How could there be only that?! Huang Zide was taken aback, and hurriedly asked again, "Which library is this?" Is the inner library counted? ”

In addition to the treasury under the control of the six ministries, the treasury of the Jokhang court also had an inner treasury that was directly controlled by the emperor. This was originally one of the means by which the Jokhang Dynasty strengthened imperial power. With an independent treasury in his hands, the emperor had more confidence to control the bureaucracy. Of course, the bureaucracy has always hated this set of things, especially the financial power that cannot be controlled by them. Therefore, there has always been a legend that the emperor was greedy for money, and the gold and silver in the inner treasury were piled up, but he refused to use it, and blindly apportioned it to the people.

"With the inner library, there are only so many." Huang Guo replied.

"Who is in charge of this inner library? Is there a ledger? Huang Zide hurriedly asked.

"The minister has already called Wang Dehua. This inner library is managed by the eunuchs with the help of the emperor, what is going on, the emperor will definitely know if he asks. ”

Huang Zide turned to Wang Dehua, who was kneeling on the side, and said, "Wang Dehua, what's going on?" Why is there such a small amount of silver in this inner treasury? ”

"Emperor!" Wang Dehua, who was kneeling on the ground, quickly kowtowed and said, "There is really only such a little silver in the inner library." The slave and maid have a booklet of the income and expenditure of the inner treasury over the years, one by one, and it is clear. Emperor, there is really no money in the inner library. ”

"Nonsense! How could Neku be so poor? Did you eunuchs take all this money? Liu Jiexuan, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but shout.

Huang Zide also frowned, I don't know if it was because he suspected that Wang Dehua and others had embezzled the silver in the inner treasury, or because Liu Jiexuan spoke directly without getting his instructions. But he also said: "Wang Dehua, are you embezzled this silver?" ”

"Hooray!" Wang Dehua hurriedly kowtowed a few times on the ground, "The slave doesn't dare to say that there has been no corruption in the expenses of the inner treasury all along, but this silver can only be embezzled after it is transported out of the inner treasury first." For example, Emperor Chongde recently got 100,000 taels of silver to use to labor the army to resist Wang Shi. After the silver went out of the inner treasury and was handed over to the ministers, it was first divided in half, and then it fell into the hands of the leaders of the various armies, and was divided again, and finally the soldiers who defended the city received no silver at all. Over the years, there have been famines, wars, where can there be silver in this inner treasury, if there is silver, how can the Emperor Chongde come to this time, and refuse to agree to the emperor's request? ”

"Hehe," Huang Zide smiled, "what you said is also true, if there is still money in the inner treasury, with the temperament of Emperor Chongde, I am afraid that I would have already taken it out to organize an army to deal with me." A record of the expenses of the inner treasury is available, and I will show it. ”

"Yes." Wang Dehua got up while responding, took a booklet from the eunuch next to him, and handed it over respectfully.

Huang Zide took the booklet, flipped through it slightly, and handed the booklet to Liu Jiexuan, who was sitting on the side, and sighed: "Old Liu, you see that Emperor Chongde really invested a lot of money in order to exterminate us. If this money had really been implemented, I'm afraid we would have ...... it long ago How can we be today? ”

Liu Jiexuan took it, flipped it slightly, and then said: "Your Majesty, so much silver has been thrown out, even if it is thrown into the water, there will be a splash." Is...... If Weichen has so much silver to train his troops, what kind of Mongolian Tartar children are really Tartars, then he really wants to destroy them. With so much money, it turned out that the army was like this! Where did they spend all this money? ”

Wang Dehua hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the general, the slave knows where all the money has gone. ”

"Where have you been?" Huang Zide asked.

"Naturally, the officials are all divided." Wang Dehua replied, "Your Majesty, you think, Liao has been in affairs for decades. For decades, the state spent millions of taels of silver on this every year. After this large amount of money was spent from the state, at least more than half of it was not sent out of the capital division at all, but after being assigned to the military generals in Liaodong, it was sent to the mansions of officials at all levels by those military generals. These officials took the money and colluded with the generals of Liaodong. In fact, when the old slave first started, there were only thirteen sets of armor. Even if he can fight again, how can he beat the army of the imperial court? It's just that some people want to take this opportunity to ask for money and support themselves. Your Majesty, you think, if you really wiped out the Tartars in one go, wouldn't there be no millions of salaries every year? It's just that I didn't expect that the more this tartar is raised, the stronger it gets, and the Liao affairs will be out of control. In fact, "internal affairs ......" Speaking of this, Wang Dehua stopped, because the so-called "internal affairs" actually refers to the elimination of Huang Zide.

"Hehe, if it weren't for these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, I wouldn't have rebelled because I couldn't survive. Naturally, there are not so many internal affairs. Huang Zide didn't care too much.

"Your Majesty, now that it has not been captured, how can you appease the officers and soldiers?" Niu Juming asked again.

This is indeed a big problem, if the military salary cannot be guaranteed and the soldiers do not have enough to eat, then neither combat effectiveness nor military discipline can be maintained. Even the unarmed people know that "if you don't do An'an, you will starve"; And even more so an army with weapons in their hands? When Huang Zide entered the city, he ordered the whole army to stay in the barracks and not to disturb the people. This is also sincere, but if he can't get the military salary, even if he is about to ascend the throne and become the emperor now, he will definitely not be able to control these soldiers.

"There is actually silver in the capital, but it is hidden in the hands of ministers and nobles." Wang Dehua said again.

"Your Majesty, these greedy silvers should be handed over!" Liu Jiexuan said loudly.

"Yes, Your Majesty, they should be asked to hand over the silver. Your Majesty, as long as you give me a team of cavalry, I will immediately go and arrest these fellows and get their silver out!" Huang Guo also said loudly.

"Mr. Niu, what do you think should be done?" Huang Zide asked.

Niu Juming hesitated a little, and said after a while: "Now that the Great Jin Dynasty has just been established, and it is about to clean up people's hearts, it is still not appropriate to be too strict with these scholars...... Why don't you make a decree and let them return the stolen goods themselves......"

"Let them return the stolen goods themselves?" Huang Zide frowned, "Are they willing?" ”

"Long live, when Long Live approached the Beijing Division, Emperor Chongde wanted to mobilize the army of Shanhaiguan to defend and resist the Wang Division, but there was no military salary. So they collected money from the nobles and their ministers. Emperor Chongde thought that this matter needed someone to take the lead, so he asked Queen Zhou to talk to Zhou Guozhang and asked Guozhang to take out 20,000 taels of silver to be an example. I didn't want to, but the national abbot cried poor and said that he had no money. Empress Zhou sold a lot of things in the palace, made up 5,000 taels of silver, and then handed it over to Zhou Guozhang and asked him to get another 5,000 taels himself, a total of 10,000 taels, so as to set an example for everyone. But who knows, the next day, Zhou Guozhang took the lead in donating three thousand taels of silver - he actually swallowed up two thousand taels of five thousand taels given to him by the queen! The emperor asks them now, and I'm afraid they won't take it out honestly......"

As he was talking, someone came in to report that he had found the body of Emperor Chongde.

"Where did you find it?" Huang Zide hurriedly asked.

"Back to the emperor, it is on Jingshan outside the Xuanwu Gate. It was there that Emperor Chongde hanged himself. The eunuch hurriedly replied, "In the clothes of Emperor Chongde, such an edict was also found. ”

Huang Zide listened, and hurriedly said, "Bring it to me and show it." ”

The eunuch handed him a garment belt. Huang Zide took it and looked at it, sighed and said, "Pitiful, lamentable, hateful!" After speaking, he handed the edict to Liu Jiexuan.

Liu Jiexuan looked at it, but said with a smile: "It's just right, it's just right." Emperor Chongde said that all civil officials should be killed, so let's do it according to his edict, which can be regarded as avenging him. ”

Huang Zide thought for a while and said, "It's better to salute first and then soldier." The Taoist chief said before that it is not appropriate to punish without teaching, let's give these people a chance first. If they don't change their ways, we won't be to blame. ”

The book didn't do very well, and the editor had already informed him that he was going to be shot. In the future, I can only find time to update one or two chapters, and now I can use all my energy to prepare for a new book.