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"What, there is still a lot of silver hidden in this palace, why don't I know, and no one tells me, I really deserve to be killed...... Yang Tingjian, how do you know? ”

This stumped Yang Tingjian, this is all said in the books of later generations, but Yang Tingjian can't use this reason to explain why he knows about the silver hidden in the Forbidden City, Yang Tingjian is also a white-collar worker, this ability to lie is still there, and Yang Tingjian said without changing his face at the moment:

"Your Majesty, this is all analyzed by Wei Chen's teacher and Wei Chen, thinking that Wei Gelding has been in charge of the inner court for many years, and the wealth accumulated by Wan Li Ye has disappeared out of thin air, it can only be that Wei Gelding is greedy for these silver, and Wei Chen estimates that some of these silver have been taken home by Wei Gelding, and this part of the silver has been confiscated by His Majesty.

However, His Majesty only found more than 4 million taels of silver from Wei Gelding, and more than 3 million taels from other henchmen, so where did the tens of millions of taels of silver go from the inner court?

The only answer lies in this palace, because there is no safer place than this. ”

This reason can be regarded as a reasonable explanation, but Chongzhen no longer thinks about the reason that Yang Tingjian said, but is thinking about the tens of millions of taels of silver.

"Okay, good Wei Gelding, Yang Aiqing, can you find out this silver for me?"

"Weichen received the order, and tomorrow Weichen will enter the palace to find silver for His Majesty, and he doesn't dare to have negative hopes."

After Wei Zhongxian was executed by Chongzhen, Chongzhen only got part of Wei Gelding's property, and the other part was missing.

According to the Qing Dynasty historical records, Kangxi once said: "During the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse, two million gold in the back cellar of the Yangxin Palace, I went to the soldiers, and fled with gold, and abandoned the Yellow River because the pursuers were very pressed."

So who hid the cellar silver in this Heart Cultivation Palace? Was it the emperor of the Ming Dynasty? This doesn't fit in! It doesn't make sense! The dignified Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is the king of a country, and the whole world is his, so is it necessary to hide the silver secretly? What's more, the carpenter emperor doesn't care about political affairs at all, so the only one who hides the silver is the giant traitor Wei Zhongxian!

There is a passage in Wu Weiye's "Suikou Jiluo" that is described by an old eunuch in the palace:

"Later, those who know the hidden Shen Shen in the Great Inner have gone from the eunuch to the Great Rebellion, and those who are the guardians of their origins, seeing the above, are afraid of being guilty of crimes, and they are warned!"

The meaning of this sentence is that only a few of Wei Zhongxian's cronies knew that since Wei Zhongxian was executed, those remnants of Wei Zhongxian, seeing that Emperor Chongzhen was tracking down the eunuchs, were afraid of being linked, so they colluded with each other and kept secrets.

This pointed out that Wei Zhongxian secretly hid a large amount of silver in the palace, and deliberately concealed it from Chongzhen because he was afraid of being connected by the inner people in charge.

According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", it is recorded: "When the first emperor punished Wei Zhongxian, he was malicious when he was in charge, and those who were in charge of the ancestors' inventory, although the country was embarrassed, did not tell them, and they were all thieves!" ”。

This also pointed out that there was a large amount of hidden silver in the palace, and the remnants of Wei Zhongxian hid a lot of it for various reasons. This corroborates with what the "National Legend" said: "There are more than 40 gold cellars in the big interior, and the internal supervisors are afraid of the first emperor and do not hear about it".

After Li Zicheng was defeated from a piece of stone, he fled from Beijing with about 70 million years of silver, where did the money come from?

"The Glory of the Nation" said: "The plundered and lost a total of 70 million. About four-tenths of the honorable relatives, three-tenths of the eunuch temple, and three-tenths of the hundred officials and merchants. The first emperor reduced the food and withdrew, cloth, vegetables and food, copper and tin utensils were all returned to the army, and on the day of the city's destruction, there were countless thousands of gold. Thieves are rich and rich, and they threaten to get all of them, and those who know hate them. ”

Mao Qiling also said in "Later Records":

"(Dashun Army) into the torture of 70 million taels of silver, the Hou family tithes three, the eunuch tithes four, the palace tithes two, the estimator tithes, the gold and silver utensils in the Yu palace and the Ding's ear door knocker silk inlay, cut and peeled all over, less than 100,000. The thief's claim comes from within, and he tortures his name.

From these records, it can be seen that Li Zicheng did plunder more than 70 million taels of silver from Beijing, but all of this silver came for the purpose of plundering rich merchants, relatives, bureaucrats, and eunuchs, and the approximate proportion was 30% of the Houmen nobles, 30% of the eunuchs and eunuchs, 20% of all the officials and ministers, and 20% of the merchants, adding up to exactly 100 percent.

None of it came from the palace treasury, or at least it was a negligible fraction of it! What is the absolute amount of gold and silver in the palace treasury, and the unanimous saying is that there are countless treasures in the palace! What Mao Qiling said was more specific, that is, Li Zicheng put all the valuable utensils in the palace, even "Ding's ear door knockers and silk inlays, and stripped them all over", all of which were "less than 100,000", and the proportion of one thousandth of the wealth they obtained by torture may not account for one-thousandth.

These two records can already clearly show that the 70 million taels of silver that Li Zicheng took away from Beijing were all obtained by torture, and Li Zicheng became the source of covering up the source of these silvers, claiming that they were obtained from the inner treasury, which is to frame Chongzhen as a faint monarch who loves money as much as his life. This is obviously just a means for Li Zicheng to cover up.

Of course, one may wonder why Wei Gelding hid a large amount of gold and silver in the palace and not in his private house or elsewhere. This is not difficult to explain. Wei Zhongxian had a rebellious heart after the death of the Apocalypse, and from August to October of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he still firmly controlled the palace, he had enough time and motivation to hide silver in the palace.

Wei Zhongxian hid a large amount of gold and silver in the palace, which was prepared for rebellion, but the eunuchs who knew about it were afraid of Zhulian and hid it from Emperor Chongzhen, so everything could make sense.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen's silver hidden in the Forbidden City did not belong to Chongzhen, because Chongzhen didn't know that this poor emperor, he didn't know until he died that there was still so much wealth hidden in his palace, and what kind of salary was added, and there would be a lot of gold and silver if he scraped the palace land three feet away.

This poor emperor (I have every reason to say again that he is pitiful) has carried this charge of stinginess for three hundred and sixty-nine years, and has been scolded for three hundred and sixty-nine years.

……

After Yang Tingjian said goodbye to Chongzhen, he hurried back to the "Dragon Gate Inn", Yang Tingjian just walked to the door of the inn, and saw the gold inlaid jade looking around under the red lantern at the door, it seemed that the gold inlaid jade was waiting for Yang Tingjian's return at the door.

Yang Tingjian's heart melted instantly, not to mention the coquettish strength of Jin Jianyu on the bed, it can be said that Yang Tingjian is served so that every pore is cool, the main thing is that Jin Jianyu always has him Yang Tingjian in his heart, which can't help but make Yang Tingjian inexplicably moved, with a flat wife like this, what more can a husband ask for.

"Xianggong ......"

Jin Jianyu saw Yang Tingjian who had returned, and hurriedly ran over, Yang Tingjian also hurriedly jumped off the horse, stretched out his hand and held the galloping Jin Jianyu in his arms and turned around a few times:

"Why hasn't the lady rested yet?"

"The concubine is waiting for her husband to come home!"

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