Chapter 52: Selling at a Premium

Chongzhen saw that Li Yan was making a price for himself, and he was happy in his heart, I had already prepared it for you.

Chongzhen still pretended to think a little, "What about this General Ma, he is one of Li Chuang's twenty-two generals, and he is General Guoyi of Zuoying, and it is easy to get a thousand troops, but it is difficult to find a general, so it is worth 3 million taels of silver." These four or five hundred captives also saw it, all of them had the true character of heroes, they were loyal to Li Chuang, and they regarded death as home, and each of them was worth 20,000 taels of silver, which was rounded up to 3 million taels, and when added together, it was 6 million taels."

Chongzhen rounded it up, and Wang Chengen and Wang Jiayan next to him didn't dare to be happy, Your Majesty is really wealthy, clever and clever, and treats these thieves as cash cows, but can these thieves come up with so much silver?

At this time, Li Yan smiled very chicly, "A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase. I'll go back and raise money from His Majesty."

Chongzhen nodded, "Childe is hard. But the ugly words came first, and I only waited for three days, and after three days there was no money, so I had to send their corpses out of the city."

I asked you for this bit of silver, of course, I can't delay it, and it is also a test of how much money Li Zicheng has.

6,000,000 taels of silver is no more, no less, less is not my original intention.

But if there are more, it will be to force the thieves to torture the officials and help them, and to loot the people's fat and ointment, and I can't carry the black pot for Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin.

Li Yan didn't bargain at all, and readily agreed, "Your Majesty, rest assured, Li Yan will definitely do his best to facilitate this matter."

After Li Yan finished speaking, he flew out of the main hall and flew on his horse, and was sent out of the city by the prince's gift.

Looking at the background of Li Yan's disappearance, Wang Chengen didn't dare to say more.

Wang Jiayan, who is good at direct advice, doesn't care about this, Your Majesty Lion opened his mouth, it won't be a bamboo basket to draw water, and he will rejoice in the air.

6,000,000 taels of silver, that's money!

How much does Daming earn in a year? It's only one or two million taels of silver, just with these thieves captive, I expect Li Zicheng to send 6 million taels of silver, it's a bit mysterious!

"Your Majesty, can a thief come up with so much money?" Wang Jiayan was blunt.

"Aiqing just rest assured, it will definitely hurt to cut their flesh, but with Li Gongzi's kind words and the suspense of Zen concession, good things will definitely be done."

Seeing that Chongzhen was confident, Wang Jiayan was inconvenient to say more, but he felt that even if Li Zicheng was willing to give it, did he have so much silver? Three days is a blink of an eye.

Chongzhen's eyes were deep, "Aiqing is worried that the thief has no money?"

His Majesty saw through his thoughts, and Wang Jiayan did not hide it, "Your Majesty Mingjian."

"I'm a little worried. The thief alone may not be able to take out 6 million taels in three days, but I have silver in my daming. Don't look at my treasury is empty, and my internal treasury has bottomed out, but I know that some of the officials are silver, and those civil and military officials are all fat. Don't look at the time when I took the lead in donating silver to help the salary, they all cried poor, but when they opened to welcome the king, they were much more generous. In order to save his life and protect his officials, which prince and prince should not give some gold and silver to King Chuang?"

Wang Jiayan's face was a little uncomfortable: The emperor is too poor now, and he didn't have much blood when he took the lead in fundraising, didn't the emperor take the opportunity to mock himself, right? Fortunately, I, Wang Jiayan, am not a corrupt official.

However, the emperor is aware of everything, and this is indeed a way to break the king and hold the silver, so it depends on his reluctance.

"Your Majesty." Wang Jiayan only said this, and he didn't say much about the matter.

Chongzhen sent an edict to bring down hundreds of thieves outside the palace, so that Wang Jiayan would take a good look at them and not abuse them.

In particular, Ma Shiyao can't make mistakes.

How dare Wang Jiayan not pay attention to the order, these captives are not captives now, they are all cash cows, of course they have to take care of them, if they die or run away, they will lose tens of thousands of taels of silver!

Therefore, Wang Jiayan took the soldiers to personally take care of the inspection, and the soldiers under him naturally did not slack off.

Chongzhen also passed down a decree to Wang Chengen to assist the crown prince in collecting the captives.

Of course, these captives are Ma Shiyao's old department, who were captured during the ambush battle in the palace two days ago, and after being tested and eliminated, they were used together, Chongzhen felt that these thousand captives could be incorporated into the Ming Dynasty.

Let them guard the city and defend the palace.

Wang Chengen and the crown prince received the order to gather these 1,000 soldiers and horses, disorganized the establishment of the four or five hundred Ming troops in the city, mixed them together and unified the sequence, and named 1,500 men and horses as Xinjing Ying.

Then the military uniform was unified, and the salary was paid on the spot according to the roster, and each person varied according to his rank and merit, but he could also receive at least 10 taels of silver.

Then they paid for the Jinyi guards, they can't be the Xinjing camp, but Chongzhen's guards and pro-army.

This time, a total of 30,000 taels of silver were distributed.

For the first time in this way, these soldiers will take the silver, be grateful, and swear allegiance to the Ming Dynasty.

On the evening of March 22, Li Yan left Miyagi.

"Brother......

Li Nian and Li Mu have been waiting here for a long time.

Li Yan entered the palace, and the two brothers never left. Seeing that Li Yan was safe and sound, Li Nian and Li Mu were overjoyed, turned over and dismounted, and ran over.

"Brothers, are you?" Li Yan also dismounted, and the three brothers hugged their heads and cried.

I thought it was yin and yang this time, but I didn't expect to see it again.

For a moment.

"Brother, how is it, it's not difficult for the faint king to be a brother, right?"

Li Yan shook his head, "Chongzhen is worthy of a generation of kings, it's a long story, let's go......

The three brothers flew on their horses, and on the way, Li Yan simply solved the doubts of the two brothers.

"The Ming Emperor has become a master of martial arts, even the crown prince is so powerful, killing and releasing prisoners, with both the power of the emperor and the virtue of benevolence and righteousness......

Li Nian and Li Mou's views on Chongzhen have also changed, in the past, as long as they mentioned it, they were faint and short, but this time Li Yan entered the palace, and they made the worst plans.

The brothers even secretly informed the red lady that as long as Li Yan suffered an accident, they would inevitably splash blood in the palace, and now it seems that although Chongzhen is at the end of the road, he is not without virtue.

Li Yan kept going, and his brother Li Nian and Li Mu came to see Li Zicheng.

According to the old rules, Li Nian and Li Mu took their own soldiers, took the reins of Li Yan's war horse, and waited outside.

The eunuch Du Xun was guarding outside the palace.

Of course, the imperial palace here is the title of Li Zicheng's temporary stay, which is actually a simple renovation of the Ming Cabinet Office.

Li Zicheng finally established a government in Xi'an and became the emperor, which is the founder of the Dashun regime, and calling this place the imperial palace is also his due treatment.

It's like a dragon chair, no matter what kind of chair it is, no matter where the chair is, as long as the emperor sits on it, it's a dragon chair.

Du Xun was stunned when he saw Li Yan: This Li Gongzi didn't know the current affairs, so he had to go into the palace to talk about what kind of Zen concession with the faint king, which was simply whimsical.

But shouldn't he have been caught and slaughtered by Chongzhen or placed under house arrest, why did he come back again?

Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen