The dignified queen even took out her jewelry and her own money, and begged her father to give some money for the country to help her husband! But what is the end result?

The queen's persuasion, and Chongzhen was also extraordinarily gracious, and raised Zhou Kui's title from Xiangcheng Bo to Xiangcheng Marquis, a big face, and finally in exchange for Zhou Kui's donation of more than 5,000 taels, and there was no value of jewelry brought out by Zhou Hou in the palace.

No matter how much he wants, he won't take it anyway.

With this benchmark, the honorable officials launched a new round of donations, this one thousand taels, that five hundred taels, plus one piece, so to say that they made up 300,000 taels for Emperor Chongzhen.

Even half of Wu Xiang's request for 1 million taels of military salaries was not collected.

A few silver boxes were placed in front of the emperor, and the desolation in Emperor Chongzhen's heart can be imagined, and he sat there speechless and looked at those boxes sluggishly, for almost an hour, he came back to life.

Surprisingly, this time the emperor did not get angry, and in the middle of Wang Chengen, Xu Gao, and several eunuchs kneeling in fear, he just shook his head helplessly.

"If the skin does not exist, the hair will be attached? Let's go down! ”

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Emperor Chongzhen, who has always been diligent in government, is rarely absent from the court, waiting for the letter, the early dynasty is dismissed, and the result is no longer the heart to go to the court, and the routine noon dynasty is also stopped, and the eunuch also passed down the edict of the emperor, and tomorrow's morning and noon dynasty will also be dismissed, so that the hundred officials waiting outside the palace gate are mixed with joy and sorrow, and slowly disperse.

In the evening, looking at the evening scene in the palace desolately, the heart of the emperor of the end could not calm down for a long time, and when he was most bored, a burst of noise in the direction of the palace gate came, making him wave his hand irritably.

"What's wrong!"

The last bit of the emperor's majesty was still there, and Xu Gao, the k's close attendant, hurriedly walked out of the palace gate for a while, and then trotted back.

"Your Majesty, Dingbei Gong Mao Wenlong asks to see you!"

At this time, there is nothing I want to see more than these rebellious ministers and thieves in my eyes! The matter of donating to the palace has nothing to do with Mao Wenlong at all, listen, Chongzhen waved his hand in disgust.

"Let the brocade guard rush back!"

"But Your Majesty ......"

The eunuch, who has always been obedient, hesitated this time, for a long time, and Xu Gao kowtowed again.

"Dingbei Gonghe, he's here to donate money!"

"Salary?"

Chongzhen, who heard this, couldn't help but raise his voice in astonishment.

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In the most difficult time, help comes from the most boring and estranged people on weekdays, Chongzhen's heart, and there are mixed tastes.

Heavy silver boxes, as well as silk, cloth, jade, even if the palace wrestlers are difficult to carry, from the disturbing front palace to the middle palace, it took a whole hour, there is an idiom called bankruptcy, Mao Wenlong is really bankrupt, Dingbei Hou Mansion was almost all emptied by him, Emperor Chongzhen twice rewarded 300,000 taels, plus Mao Jue three days and two ends of the silver sent to the Beijing Division, all the items were moved by him, large and small together almost 1.1 million taels.

However, what shocked Chongzhen even more was still to come.

"The old minister knocks on Your Majesty, please ask Your Majesty to put the old minister in prison immediately!"

Looking at Mao Wenlong, who was kowtowing heavily to the ground, Chongzhen asked incredulously: "Old man, what do you mean?" ”

Maybe it's really a touching scene, Mao Wenlong is old tears connived, and once again kowtowed to the ground.

"The old minister is disloyal, the godson has no way, let the dog do such a rebellious thing, it is already ashamed of the grace of the first emperor to pick up, but the minister is in Beijing, and he is helpless against the unfilial son! But now, the country is in trouble, and the minister's father and son are in a high position, how can they stand idly by? Once the country is defeated, even if the minister has tens of millions of family assets, what is the use? Please Your Majesty put the old minister in prison! That unfilial son will be panicked, but what is the use of Your Majesty, although you want to ask for that unfilial son!"

"The old minister only has one invitation, once the thieves attack, please allow the old minister to fight, although the old minister is old, but before he dies, he will kill a few thieves for His Majesty!"

How is the icing on the cake like charcoal in the snow? Even if his nature was as cold as Chongzhen, he couldn't help but choke up a little at this time, he stood up from the dragon chair suddenly, and pulled Mao Wenlong up from the ground, and then the slap fell heavily on Mao Wenlong's strong shoulder.

"Old man! I will not fail you!"

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At the most critical moment, it was the Liao clan that gave the most powerful support to the Ming Dynasty, two days after Mao Wenlong sent millions of family assets to the palace, at the mouth of Tianjin, Liaodong and several Dongjiang galleons docked, sending 400,000 stones of grain and 150 cannons, and the precious military salaries for the empire to defend its capital were finally gathered.

On February 25, the long-lost court meeting was held again, and it was rare for the emperor's face to show some excitement and joy, facing the hundred officials, it was also rare for Zhu Youzhen to speak in person, and the ministers asked loudly and happily.

"I plan to recruit Ning Yuan's soldiers and horses into King Guanqin, why do you want your ministers?"

However, unexpectedly, Chen Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet who has been playing the role of soy sauce, was the first to jump out and kneel in the middle of the road, and he kowtowed heavily.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's impossible!"

"An inch of mountains and rivers is an inch of gold! The Liao domain is already a foreign domain! Once the troops of Ning Yuan are withdrawn, the Liao clan will definitely follow them, outside the Shanhai Pass, there is no more Ming half an inch of land, the minister knows about the Liao king's salary, but the contemporary Liao king is obedient, what about the next generation? Unpredictable! Shanhaiguan is only one hundred and twenty miles away from Jingshi, and the old minister thinks that he should not give up Ning Yuan if he is far-sighted! ”

The words are conclusive, and the love is deep! If you are not familiar with it, you still think that Chen Yan is worried about the country and the people! But his reasons are ridiculous! Jingshi can't keep it, what's the use of talking about it in the future?

But for this absurd reason, he got a match from the important ministers, Li Jiantai, who should have gone out on behalf of the emperor in history, Wei Zaode, a scholar, and Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, all kowtowed to cater to Chen Yan.

"Your Majesty, the first assistant is the words of the old Cheng to seek the country!"

"Your Majesty, the old minister seconded the proposal!"

"Your Majesty, the land of your ancestors must not be lost!"

This ordinary minister really didn't dare to let go, if he agreed, wouldn't he become a minister who fled and surrendered like the Southern Song Dynasty? Historical stigma!

Besides, this emperor consulted himself, and once he agreed to let this resolution pass, he repelled the thieves one day, and what should the emperor do after settling accounts? Is it to blame yourself for the crime of abandoning the land of your ancestors, isn't it to lose your official position, or even lose your head? When their eyes met, the ministers who couldn't even reach an opinion on what to eat for dinner were amazingly united this time, and one by one they kept coming up like kowtow worms, and even some people who didn't learn and couldn't say anything big about it, they were all shouting in the back of their heads, no, no.

Even at this time, a group of important ministers of the imperial court, the highest position in the entire Ming Empire, and the most elite group of people, still cared about their own name, selfishness, and selfishness!

But it can't all be blamed on them, if it weren't for Emperor Chongzhen's irsense of responsibility, repeatedly letting his subordinates take the blame, and being mean and unkind, killing ministers at every turn, and forcing those who are responsible to either die or kill, can An be left with this group of irresponsible selfish scum today?

It can only be said that the unresponsible monarch gathered together with these irresponsible courtiers, resulting in the tragedy of this era.

Looking at the one-sided court in disbelief, one by one, with their heads to the ground and their buttocks facing the sky, kowtowing and shouting that they can't, but they were the ministers who did nothing, Emperor Chongzhen's face was angry and blue, his chest rose and fell violently, his eyes became blood-red, and his fists clattered on the armrests of the dragon chair.

The confrontation lasted for more than ten minutes, and finally there was a bang, and the chaotic sound finally stopped abruptly, and in the stunned eyes of the ministers, he slammed his sleeves, and Emperor Chongzhen brushed his sleeves away.

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The world is not a game, the general trend will not stagnate because of the hesitation of the Beijing Division, just when the hundred officials are still playing their own small ninety-nine, the army that has just entered the customs for a few months is magnificent from the Yulin nest, the soldiers are divided into two roads, the southern route is led by Liu Fangliang, out of Henan, harassing Hebei and Shandong, containing the imperial court reinforcements, and the northern route is Li Zicheng's pro-rate, and unlike in history, after experiencing a bloody battle with Yuan Chonghuan, for fear of encountering a strong enemy again, and Yuan Chonghuan's Tuntian cultivated land did let Li Zicheng eat a mouthful of fertilizer, and the grain and grass were sufficient, Li Zicheng did not leave the main force in Guanzhong and Henan to defend the place, but poured more than 500,000 of his heavy troops all the way eastward, attacking the Beijing division along the nine sides of the Great Wall, and the first to bear the brunt was Taiyuan Town in Shanxi.

There seems to be only one word to describe the invasion of the army! There was no siege at all, Taiyuan City was besieged on all sides, and the firepower of the first time the army exceeded the officers and troops defending the city, Wu Fu's surrender also handed over the firearms that Yuan Chonghuan had painstakingly prepared to the army, three hundred and fifty cannons roared overwhelmingly, the city head of the city crackled with broken shells and grenade shotguns, the defenders couldn't even raise their heads, and tens of thousands of soldiers carried ladders in the roar and charged towards the city.

Personally guarding the Chinese army, looking at the battled city through the telescope, Li Chuang couldn't help but raise his head and laugh, pointing to the city and talking to his civil and military officials.

"Oh Er Daming, most of the numbers are gone!"

(End of chapter)