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The next day, Li Zicheng's men found the bodies of Emperor Chongzhen and the eunuch Wang Chengen on the coal mountain. Li Zicheng had already entered the palace at this time, and was checking the people in the palace, and he had just seen Princess Changping who had an arm cut off by Emperor Chongzhen. Li Zicheng sighed: "How can the emperor be so ruthless, and he can do such a poisonous thing to his daughter." At this moment, someone came in and reported: "Your Majesty, you have found the Puppet Emperor." ”

"Where?" Li Zicheng asked.

"In the coal mountain, he hanged himself with the eunuch Wang Chengen." The man replied.

"Have you confirmed that it's the emperor?" Li Zicheng asked again. To be honest, he didn't want Chongzhen to die, for him, a captured living emperor was certainly more useful than an emperor who committed suicide and martyrdom. However, although he was a little unhappy about Chongzhen's toughness, he still admired it a little.

"Take me to see it." Lee became a self-enlightened man.

As soon as he finished saying this, someone came to report that he had taken control of the treasury in the palace.

"Found Neku?" Li Zicheng said happily. Today's progress far exceeds Li Zicheng's expectations when he sent his troops, but this also brings another problem, that is, the cost of maintaining the war has greatly exceeded his original expectations, after all, at the beginning, Li Zicheng's logistics preparations were only for 50,000 people for short-term military operations preparations, and now, counting the surrendered Ming army, Li Zicheng's Dashun army swelled very much, although he tried hard to dismiss those troops who were not very capable of fighting, and they were all scum at first glance, just like those prisoners in the original Beijing camp, who surrendered, Li Zicheng basically sent them back to their respective homes, but even so, the Shun army still swelled to the point of three or four hundred thousand people. The materials that Li Zicheng originally prepared were already difficult to support such a huge army, and he also knew that the discipline and order of the army were all based on logistics and supply, and once the logistics collapsed, these would immediately collapse. And the combat effectiveness of the army is largely based on the order and discipline of the army, and once these things collapse, then the army becomes a rabble, not only the combat effectiveness or anything else that does not need to be thought about, but also almost immediately mutinies. And once hundreds of thousands of troops mutinied, relying only on tens of thousands of descendants, it would be impossible for Li Zicheng to suppress them, and even if Li Zicheng's descendants really reached the point of insufficient logistics, they would also mutiny. Therefore, finding the money as soon as possible is almost an overwhelming thing for Li Zicheng.

"Yes, General Liu and General Li Guo are there, but there is no money in there......" The soldier who came to report the news knelt on the ground and bowed his head.

"What? I'll check it out! "Obviously, looking at the money in Necuri is more important than looking at Chongzhen's corpse. Li Zicheng immediately changed his plan.

Li Zicheng led a group of guards into the treasury in the palace, this treasury is called the inner treasury relative to the treasury used for general state financial expenditures, and the money in it is called the inner treasury, in my Ming Dynasty, this money is generally used to support various expenses of the imperial family, as well as various expenses of border wars. During Zhang Juzheng's time, through the strict liquidation of land, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, which had begun to be empty, was refilled. Immediately after Zhang Juzheng's death, his political opponents liquidated him and his policies, and the caustic behavior of the distrustful scholars and gentlemen who had harshly liquidated the land was canceled, and the regular income from the land began to dwindle. The treasury is empty again. Fortunately, I still have a Wanli Emperor who wants money and shamelessness, although he has not been in court for decades, but in these decades, he sent a large number of tax supervisors and mine supervisors everywhere to collect commercial taxes, he opened up sea trade, and collected sea taxes, forcing maritime merchants to make their ships bigger and bigger, (at that time, the sea tax was charged according to the number of ships, regardless of large ships or small ships, all the same) The ministers wrote that the taxes were so much, and the maritime merchants were going to starve to death. But Emperor Wanli shamelessly replied: "If they really starve to death because of paying taxes, they sink the ship, won't they starve if they go to farm?" Now they don't sink their own boats to farm, which means that I don't pay a lot of taxes. Relying on such a shameless act of competing with the people for profit, the Wanli Emperor filled the inner treasury of the palace with gold and silver, and even because there was too much gold and silver, the treasury was too small, and he had to build a new treasury. At the peak of their heyday, tens of millions of silver were stored in these two warehouses, and with these silvers, the Wanli Emperor won the so-called "Three Great Expeditions of Wanli" in a row.

However, since the Wanli Emperor, I have never been able to ask for money so firmly and shamelessly bad emperor, so the sea trade was banned (but the scale of smuggling is larger than the previous legal sea trade), because the sea trade is prohibited, the sea tax is naturally not collected, although more than half of the world's annual silver production is flowing from Japan and the Americas into China, but my Ming court can not get even a copper plate from it. After Emperor Chongzhen of Shengming ascended the throne, the mine supervisor and tax supervisor were further abolished, so the inner money in the underwear basically could not go in and out.

"Just a little bit of silver?" Li Zicheng looked at the inner warehouse, which was empty enough to starve rats, and asked with a frown.

"Your Majesty, there are really only more than two thousand taels of silver in the inner treasury, and even if you add other things, add them together, it will only be five or six thousand taels......," a eunuch knelt there and bowed his head and replied.

"Wang Dehua! You eggless bitch! Did you smuggle the money? Liu Zongmin scolded and whipped it over, and the clothes on the eunuch's body were immediately torn open by the horse whip.

"Lao Liu!" Li Zicheng frowned.

"Your Majesty, these eunuchs ......," Liu Zongmin said.

"Old Liu, I think that there is really no money in this inner curry. Otherwise, the court can starve those soldiers like that? In the early years, what was the official army like, you don't know it, along the way, many Ming troops who surrendered to us have not seen military salaries for more than a year, and this inner treasury is only afraid that it will be empty long ago, otherwise, why is this? Li Zicheng shook his head and said.

"Your Majesty, that's what you said." Liu Zongmin said, "But the Ming Emperor has no money, and the Ming army has no money, so there must be a place for the money!" Maybe it's these geldings who are greedy! ”

Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide on the coal mountain, and it was the great eunuch Wang Chengen who accompanied him to die. Chongzhen, he is poor and dead, Wang Chengen is also a eunuch......" Speaking of this, Li Zicheng pointed at Wang Dehua, who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "If the money is greedy by them, how can Wang Chengen not know the truth, Wang Chengen is so loyal to the Son of Heaven, at such a moment of life and death, how can he shield them, and these eunuchs are just the house slaves of the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven wants to deal with them with nothing more than a word...... Besides, Lao Liu, look at it, people's clothes are originally good, but you will tear them with a whip, even if you want to torture others, don't waste things like this. ”

"Well, the emperor, the minister knows. That money must have been greedy by those dog officials! Liu Zongmin arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, now that this inner library is so empty, how can it be good?" ”

"Alas!" Li Zicheng sighed, but didn't speak, just turned around and walked out.

……

"I have been on the throne for seventeen years, although I have bowed down to the bandits, and the heavens are angry, but all the ministers have mistakenly me, causing the rebels to go straight to the capital. I died, I saw my ancestors underground without a face, and I took off my crown to cover my face with hair. Let the thief divide the corpse, and don't hurt a single person. Li Zicheng read the words on Chongzhen's corpse robe softly, sighed and said, "This poor man, only now do I know that I have been cheated by others." ”

"Your Majesty, I can't get any more money, but something big is going to happen!" Niu Jinxing also said hurriedly, "Now, there are complaints in the army, saying: 'The emperor let him do it, but he didn't even have a little reward.'" 'There is no reward for the labor army, but I am afraid that the army will mutiny!' ”

"Your Majesty, the money must be in those dog-day officials, as long as you give me a word, I will immediately take my brothers and get the money out!" Liu Zongmin said on the side, "Could it be that you really want to continue to use these dog things as officials?" ”