This person who makes Zhu Zilong feel crying and laughing, even has a feeling that you are here to dismantle the stage, right?

He is none other than Zhou Kui.

That is, if Zhu Zilong hangs (of course, it is impossible for him to hang now), in the original history, this Zhou Kui is none other than the father of Emperor Chongzhen's empress.

Of course, now he can only be regarded as the father of his Zhu Zilong, his younger brother's wife, but he is also one of the royal relatives.

In the history that Zhu Zilong did not cross over, Ding Wei in March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and Li Zicheng captured Beijing in the first half of the month.

Chongzhen, the emperor who loves face, once made a final effort to save the country, he put down the emperor's dignity, and begged the ministers and relatives to donate money to pay the soldiers guarding the city of Beijing.

At that time, Wei Zaode, the first assistant of the cabinet, donated 500 taels. (Afterwards, Li Zicheng went into the city to raid his home and copied out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which was cheaper than the money Li Zicheng, and he was also tortured to death!) ）

Other officials also donated a few hundred taels at most, which was purely perfunctory. (When Li Zicheng entered the capital, he basically raided their homes.) It's a veritable pig teammate, a group of characters representative of the brain-dead faction! ）

At that time, Zhou Kui, as the national ruler, shared weal and woe with the Ming royal family, Chongzhen thought, how could he have some responsibility, right?

As a result, Zhou Kui cried to death in the face of Emperor Chongzhen, and said: The old minister is more golden? (Meaning: How can I have so much money?) He also tried to present himself as a thrifty and incorruptible official, for example, when his family was so poor that they could only buy moldy rice to eat.

In this campaign of the emperor begging the magnates to donate money to save the country, Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, raised a total of 200,000 taels.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a system for declaring the assets of officials, nor did it have a Forbes ranking. Chongzhen clearly knew that these people were corrupt and bribed, and some of them were money, and he repeatedly told them about the country's national righteousness, but the powerful just didn't want to bleed.

Although Chongzhen is the Son of Heaven, he has no rut at all. (His own ability and courage are not enough, the emperor who is suspicious and cheats, but his character is okay!) ）

Later generations did not understand the matter of this tentative donation at that time. Why are the elites reluctant to donate money to save the country?

Zhu Zilong, a traverser, naturally understood what these officials and royal relatives who were unwilling to donate money were thinking.

It's nothing more than one reason, these people's thoughts are: the whole world, it is not the king's land, the whole world is yours, why do you want us to pay?

In terms of villain thinking, there is nothing wrong with them thinking so.

However, the problem is that they are not ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, they are the ruling class.

As an old minister of the former dynasty, if the country really perishes and falls down, how many can escape with their whole body?

Let's see, when Li Zicheng entered the city, what happened, and you will know.

Wei Zaode is the cabinet chief assistant who reluctantly donated 500 taels of silver. wanted to surrender, but was rejected, Li Zicheng is not blind, how can this kind of person still reuse you?

After Li Zicheng entered the city, he was arrested and imprisoned, and handed over hundreds of thousands of taels of silver under the threat of being clamped with sticks and ten fingers broken. And then including himself, all his parents and children were killed, and his children and grandchildren were cut off, which is really a good NB for retribution!

Those civil and military officials who were still crying poor in front of Emperor Chongzhen half a month ago. But before the torture of the army, they handed over amazing wealth. At that time, in the capital, sticks flew wildly, cannons were branded, eyes were gouged out, and the miserable voices of Ming Dynasty officials were everywhere.

(It's so refreshing to scream!) ）

Zhou Kui, the national ruler, couldn't help but be tortured, and was copied out of countless treasures and dozens of carts by the breaking army, and the cash alone was nearly one million taels.

It's true!

If the skin is gone, the hair will be attached, the country is gone, why do you want so much money?

Funeral companions?

At this moment, facing Zhou Kui, he stood up and said that he was willing to donate 1,000 taels of silver as an example.

Zhu Zilong really wanted to let the knife and axe hand pull him down immediately and cut him directly.

Such a bad example of your TM, Lao Tzu wants you to be a chicken wool!

However, fortunately, Zhu Zilong had done kung fu before he came, and there was first-hand information available.

In the next minute, he sneered and took out a few notebooks and asked Wei Zhongxian, who was standing on the side, to read them in public.

On May 13, he talked about state affairs with XXX and others at night, and the prefect of Henan confessed to him for corruption and gave him a gift of 100,000 taels. In the third year of the Apocalypse, his brother Ye Xiangliang ......"

"The right deputy is Yu Shi Ruan Dacheng, playing X duty, so that the history is wrong......"

"Shangshu Sun Shenxing, the case of the red pill, bears unshirkable responsibility......"

"Zhang Wenda in the matter, popular at home, confusing people's ......"

“……”

As Wei Zhongxian read more and more people, the faces of all the officials did not look good, and some even trembled.

They shouted in their hearts, the hateful West Factory, the hateful East Factory, the hateful Jinyiwei, everywhere.

That's right, only 80% of the sins that Zhu Zilong let read are real people with real things.

In other words, only 90% of these officials who oppose donations or do not want to donate money are not clean under their buttocks. There are more or less criminal facts!

And these things used to be controlled by Wei Zhongxian's East and West Second Factory, but now they are in the hands of Zhu Zilong and Jin Yiwei.

In the past, he didn't want to startle the snake, but now Zhu Zilong is planning to make an example.

Don't you guys want to donate money?

Now my brother has found a good reason, but anyone who doesn't want to donate money is ready to go to jail or be killed.

"Your Majesty, this is a slanderous word, and you can't believe it all......"

The officials below immediately knelt and knelt profusely. Of course, they also know that they are not clean under their buttocks, so they dare not say that it is not 100% true.

The West Factory and East Factory of the Ming Dynasty, as well as Jinyi Wei, really didn't eat dry rice, they did have some ability.

For example, Jinyiwei was a special military and political agency in the Ming Dynasty, and its predecessor was the "Gongwei Division" established by Zhu Yuanzhang, and was later renamed the "Pro-Military Governor's Mansion".

The main function of the Jinyi Guard is to "take charge of the guards, patrol and arrest", and its leader is called the commander of the Jinyi Guard, which is generally served by the emperor's cronies and generals, and is directly responsible to the emperor. (Super Secret Service)!

They were directly subordinate to the emperor and could arrest anyone, including relatives of the emperor, and conduct closed interrogations. There are also people who participate in the work of collecting military intelligence and plotting against enemy generals, and they are almost pervasive!

In the Republic of China, that is the work of the Central Unification and other institutions, and in the United States, that is the work of the CIA and the Pentagon.

At the moment, the officials who knelt down knew that there was a big trouble today.

The emperor was first dissatisfied with the move of the capital, and now he was dissatisfied with the donation.

Yes, in order to avoid suffering losses and going to prison, we are not all officials who are not afraid of death, so let's take money to eliminate disasters!