Let's move on to the subsidy.

"Li Zicheng, a traitor who confuses the world, dare to insult Sven so much, and you can do such a thing that is inferior to a beast."

In order to let everyone enthusiastically help, the Dashun army invited about 1,800 people to the barracks as guests, these people are a group of servants, the family is big, the number of people involved is probably more than 100,000, and now the capital is completely fried.

Li Zicheng and the old brothers also quarreled over the matter of help, and everyone wanted to be in charge of this work, because the oil and water in this errand were too big. That's right, can there be no oil and water for the house raid?

In order to ensure the smooth development of this work, the Dashun Army set up a corresponding organization, the full name of which is "Biqi Zhenfu Division". In the end, it was General Liu Zongmin who won the task of being in charge, of course, the deputy must also be equipped, this work is very cumbersome, after all, a person's energy is limited. There are two deputy positions, one of them is named Liu Minzheng, who is Li Zicheng's old subordinate, and the other is named Li Guo, who is Li Zicheng's nephew. In this way, the leadership team is complete.

The subsidy work was carried out smoothly, after all, General Liu Zongmin's work experience is very rich. Wang Dehua, the chief eunuch, was the first to give silver, and the shot was 50,000 taels. Zhou Kui, the former national abbot of Jiading, gave an astronomical amount of 500,000 taels of silver. Chen Yan, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, took the initiative to give 40,000 silver, and cried to Liu Zongmin and said, Xiaguan really has no silver, please spare me. Unexpectedly, he was denounced by his servants, saying that he had tens of thousands of silver hidden in the ground in his home (look at this kind of villain, eat others, drink others, and report others, or say that this report is hated by others), Dashun Army dug it, and saw that the ground was full of silver, Liu Zongmin was furious and ordered a big punishment to serve, but Chen Yan spit out hundreds of taels of gold, and the pearls became Hu. Anyway, in such a situation, the scene is very miserable, and I can't bear to write it. To put it bluntly, if you refuse to give money, you will be beaten, and you will be beaten with sticks, cannons, etc., and if you are hard to resist, then invite your sons and grandsons to beat them in front of you. I really don't want to write this paragraph, it's too miserable.

Let's talk about the result directly, the torture lasted for more than 40 days, and a total of 70 million taels, 70 million taels, 70 million taels of silver, and important things were said three times.

There must be some copies in this, most of these people have big families, there are pavilions, pavilions, ponds, rockeries, of course, there are thatched houses, if you bury the silver under these places, it is really difficult to find. Not to mention these places, even if you bury them directly in the yard, it is not easy to find, you can't dig up all the residences of these 1,800 people, that's a lot of work. Therefore, this time the salary will be copied out at most two-thirds, and there must be at least more than 30 million taels of silver in the capital, which means that there are no more than 100 million taels of silver in the hands of the nobles and scholars in the capital.

Now, will anyone still say that ten taels of silver is a lot?

The next question is, Zhu Youzhen is not a fool, didn't he call on the nobles and hundreds of officials to help pay him? I must have called for it. Didn't you donate money? I have donated, Zhu Youzhen is the emperor, the emperor has spoken, who will not donate. The civil and military officials have basically donated, and the donations that the family really can't open the pot have not donated, and we don't know, or they have basically been donated. The question is, how much was donated? Basically, each person is to donate twenty or thirty taels, there must be one thousand taels of donations, and there are also those who donate ten thousand taels, and Zhou Kui, the former abbot of Jiading, donated 10,000 taels of silver, and the remaining 200,000 taels of silver in the treasury were obtained through fundraising.

Why can't people donate more?

Definitely not, our Ming Dynasty's income is so low, it is one hundred and eighty taels of silver a year, if I donate more, doesn't that mean that I am corrupt, and I must not donate more.

It is worth mentioning that Zhou Kui, the lord of the country. Zhu Youzhen originally wanted Zhou Kui to set an example and donate more silver, which is not a lot, 20,000 taels. After getting this bad news, Zhou Kui, who had already donated 10,000 taels of silver, couldn't sit still, that's ah, whose silver didn't fall from the sky, why let us set an example, besides, we have donated a lot of silver, haven't we already donated 10,000 taels, we are just a national abbot, not the God of Wealth, if you want to set an example, it should also be someone from your old Zhu family. What can I do, what can I do, no way, go through the back door. So, Zhou Kui hurriedly entered the palace and went to ask his daughter Queen Zhou for help. Queen Zhou's mother was well-aware of the righteousness and asked her father to take the initiative to set an example and share worries for the country when this national disaster was at hand, and gave her five thousand taels of silver to her father. Unexpectedly, after Zhou Kui got the silver, he did a strange thing, he donated three thousand taels of silver from it, and by the way, put another two thousand taels of silver into his pocket. Look at this matter, dare to love Zhu Youzhen, not a penny of silver, but two thousand taels of silver. Hey, there are too many smart people in the Ming Dynasty to blame.

The next question, Zhu Youzhen and Li Zicheng have no silver, so why did Zhu Youzhen hang himself, but Li Zicheng lived in the Forbidden City and sat in the Jinluan Palace. It's a long question, and I don't know if you want to hear it. Anyway, it's a word count, so let's talk about it briefly.

Before talking about this issue, let's clarify a concept, that is, in our Ming Dynasty, what is the truth of the world?

It sounds like a bit of a big question, but it's worthless to put it bluntly, and some readers may have guessed it, yes, two words, silver! Let's extend it a little further, if silver is the supreme principle of the world, then is there anything more important than silver? The answer is, yes, what is it, fame! Fame and silver, combined, fame and fortune!

First of all, Zhu Youzhen cares about his reputation very much, how can the emperor not care about his reputation. No, as soon as he came to power, he forced Wei Zhongxian to death, this is to eliminate traitors for the country, not only that, Zhu Youzhen also raised the policy of canceling the reduction and exemption of commercial tax, mining tax, and sea tax. To put it bluntly, this is to exchange silver for fame. The effect must be there, our literati and scholars in the Ming Dynasty, don't they all praise Zhu Youzhen as the king of Yao Shun. That's for sure, Zhu Youzhen has saved everyone money, who can scold him. The problem is, as long as fame, not silver, it won't work. After all, Zhu Youzhen is the emperor, the emperor wants to govern the world, and when it comes to governing the world, does it lack silver?

Of course, theoretically, Zhu Youzhen has silver, and there is a lot of it. He owns the country's tax revenue, that is, agricultural tax, salt tax, tea tax, etc. (our government has abolished the agricultural tax), and the other is the three salaries, which is enough to more than 15 million taels of silver, which is simply astronomical.

The question is, did you Zhu Yu come up? These silver are basically levied on the mud legs, the nobles, the scholars and doctors don't pay to you, that is, the squires in the countryside, he doesn't pay, we have an ancestral system in the Ming Dynasty, and people with meritorious names are exempted from taxes, this is not the end, Zhu Youzhen has come up with some rotten policies to cancel the reduction and exemption of commercial tax, mining tax, and sea tax.

The mud legs don't have any silver at all, and some of the farmers have never seen silver in their lives (this is true), and if you ask someone for silver, they will ask you what the silver looks like. Therefore, what is the effect of the three salaries levied by Zhu Youzhen in addition to forcing the mud legs in the world to rebel. It can be seen that Zhu Youzhen doesn't know where the silver in the world is, and he went to the sweet potato field to find pork, isn't he a fool for such a person.

can't collect the silver, this is just one of them, and the most important thing is that it ruined Zhu Youzhen's reputation. Because in the eyes of the mud legs, you Zhu Youzhen is doing this, which is completely tyrannical. really didn't wronged Zhu Youzhen, in fact, he was expropriating violently. These people in the group of scholars, wealthy merchants, and squires must have said that Zhu Youzhen was a holy monarch, because Zhu Youzhen saved them money. The question is, how many of these people are compared to the mud-legged people in the world?

Some people must say that the right to speak in the whole world is controlled by these people, as long as these people say that Zhu Youzhen is good, it will be done. Well said, that's right, the right to speak in the whole world is indeed held by these people, but he didn't have a newspaper in the Ming Dynasty, and even if there was a newspaper, the mud-legged people were illiterate, that is to say, your public opinion space could not meet the needs of society. Besides, the mud-legged people are not fools, how much they paid before, how much they pay now, people will compare, you just tell him that Zhu Youzhen is a holy monarch, and people don't believe it.

In this way, it seems basically clear that Zhu Youzhen's silver can't be collected by Zhu Youzhen (there is no money at all), and Zhu Youzhen's silver from scholars, wealthy businessmen, and squire groups can't be accepted, and its reputation can't be said to be none, but it is only spread in a small range among these people in the scholars, wealthy businessmen, and squire groups, that is, Zhu Youzhen wants to gain fame, but the reputation he obtains is limited, and he wants silver, but he doesn't have much silver. In particular, the main source of Zhu Youzhen's fame, these people in the scholars, wealthy businessmen, and squire groups do not necessarily say that Zhu Youzhen is good.