Chongzhen was surprised, but he couldn't help but ask Yang Tingjian:

"Your Majesty, if the cellar has not been ventilated from the outside world for a long time, the oxygen in it will be very scarce, and as soon as people enter it, they will have to worry about their lives."

"Oxygen?"

It's a word that Chongzhen doesn't understand, but Chongzhen is embarrassed to ask, so it seems that he is too ignorant, so he has to respond with "oh oh", in fact, Chongzhen doesn't understand the fart, and the typical one doesn't pretend to understand.

Soon, those chamberlains found a windmill and blew wind into the black hole in the deep pit, and there was a burst of musty and unpleasant smell coming out of the black hole, and after half an hour, the air coming out of the black hole did not have much musty smell, Yang Tingjian let several chamberlains hang them from the black hole with ropes.

These attendants were holding a torch in their hands, and after a while, there was a "crackling" sound inside, but the people above couldn't help it, and hurriedly asked loudly:

"What's wrong?"

Immediately a loud answer came:

"We're smashing boxes...... Silver, a lot of silver...... 陛xià......"

At this time, Chongzhen smiled, and hurriedly sent more than a dozen attendants down, and at the same time ordered the attendants below to tie the box containing silver to the rope, and then the attendants above pulled it up.

Soon a large box of silver was pulled out of the black hole, Chongzhen couldn't help but let people smash open the box to see, it was really a silver ingot and a white flower, and this big box was afraid that there were as many as five thousand taels.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the silver transported out like flowing water, and couldn't help but dance with joy, and kept saying:

"Good, good". ”

Suddenly, a small chamberlain hurriedly ran to Chongzhen and whispered:

"Your Majesty, a few cabinet lords are asking to see you outside the door of the left ear room."

"Ahh …… Fast...... Hurry up and move the silver to the library...... "After Chongzhen finished speaking, he looked around, there were dozens of big boxes outside, and they were full of silver inside, each big box was estimated to be five thousand taels of silver, which was more than three hundred catties, how could it be easily transported away in this short period of time.

It seems that Chongzhen didn't want the grandsons of the cabinet to know about the fact that they had dug up the silver, and several members of the cabinet heard that the emperor had dug up the silver in the duty room, so they were like sharks smelling the smell of blood, and hurriedly came together.

Chongzhen saw that the silver and the excavated soil were really impossible to hide, and said unhappily:

"Hey...... Let them in! ”

There are a total of five ministers who came in, they are Zhou Yanru in the first shop, Wen Tiren in the second shop, Qian Xiangkun, He Rulong, etc.:

"Weichen see His Majesty."

When several cabinet bigwigs saw Emperor Chongzhen, they didn't need to kneel and bow on an informal occasion, they only needed to bow down, and Emperor Chongzhen must have known in his heart that these ministers were definitely coming to these silvers, but Chongzhen still planned to pretend not to know:

"Why don't you Aiqing go to work in the duty room, why are you here?"

The dozens of large boxes of silver outside, these ministers who came to check the situation had already seen it, and several people looked at each other and smiled, which everyone understands, don't look at these ministers who usually fight for power, but in the treatment of the emperor, it is amazingly consistent.

Zhou Yanru is the first shop, of course, he was the first to reply:

"Your Majesty, Lord Sun Chengzong of Liaodong has come to urge for food and salary several times, and the drought in Suiyan is extremely serious, and it has reached the point where it is easy to eat, but the household department has no silver to support, and the few ministers are really unable to solve the current predicament, so please send internal currency to solve the crisis of the imperial court."

All right! This is really here to ask for silver, Chongzhen is so angry in his heart! In the past, Wei Zhongxian's hundreds of taels of silver were confiscated, and all of you civil servants were hollowed out by dividing them by two, which caused me to eat bran and swallow vegetables every day, reduce food and withdraw pleasure.

The result? The outer court is a bottomless pit, the more than 10 million silver he has received since he ascended the throne, plus more than 8 million taels of internal currency, have been smashed into it, not a single bubble has risen, Liaodong continues to fight one battle and lose one battle, and also let the Tartars fight under the capital city, slaughtering nearly 500,000 people, and plundering more than 300,000 people to go to the Guanwai.

The thieves in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces are also more and more, and they are attacking cities and territories every month, so much silver is smashed, and the rebellion in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces is still in full swing, so Chongzhen is so angry! That's in a hurry!

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen's personality is still relatively easy-going, why did he keep changing ministers and killing ministers who made mistakes, it was all forced by these ministers! and the situation in Daming is getting more and more sinister, which is also one of the reasons why Chongzhen's character has deteriorated.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this autumn tax is coming soon, why don't you Aiqing think of a way to get through the difficulties? …… My inner library is empty enough to run mice, hey......"

Of course, Chongzhen didn't want to hand over the silver he had just arrived, but even if Chongzhen played the sad card, he couldn't make these cabinet ministers flinch in the slightest.

Wen Tiren took a step forward, and then waved at Chongzhen:

"Your Majesty! This disaster is like fire, the military situation is like fire, it can't be delayed for a moment, the thieves are raging, poisoning the place, the Tartars outside the customs are eyeing our Ming Dynasty, this can not be delayed, once those soldiers in Liaodong mutiny because of the silence, if the Tartars know, maybe they will be detained again. ”

This Wen Tiren is using a method of intimidation, which means that if the emperor does not give the silver, the tartar will soon hit the guannei.

Chongzhen's whole face turned white when he heard it, but there was no way, but Chongzhen still didn't want to give away the silver that had just arrived.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I also know that you are in difficulty, it is now mid-October, at most one month, the autumn tax should arrive, and this autumn tax should be nearly two million taels! It should be able to support it for a while.

Wu Zongda took another step, and then started:

"Your Majesty, Weichen only knows, this world is the world of His Majesty, now Liaodong Tartars are eyeing the tiger, the northwest thieves are raging, whether it is a thief or Liaodong, that place can not be delayed for a moment, just the salary of the 150,000 army in Liaodong, it is as high as 4.8 million taels, if you add the reward silver, at least five million taels are needed, this bit of silver does make the household unable to support.

Therefore, Weichen asked His Majesty to levy Liao Xiang and issue internal currency, and the military salary was sufficient, so that the soldiers could go outside to the Tartars and suppress the thieves inside. ”

This Wu Zongda is even more ruthless, not only to let Chongzhen issue internal currency, but also to let Chongzhen levy Liaoxiang, now the tax income of the Chongzhen Dynasty is only four million taels, and the expenditure has reached more than 10 million taels, which meets the military salaries of Liaodong, and the military salaries of other armies can only be in arrears.

The border army in Shanxi was also in arrears, this problem is strict, Shanxi was in a drought, the flames of rebellion rose one after another, and those border troops who could not survive had to flee to the rebel ranks, which also indirectly strengthened the strength of the thieves.

(Historically, the Shanxi Frontier Army was owed 22 months' military salaries, and more than half of the soldiers of the Frontier Army were directly guided to join the ranks of the thieves.) ）

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