Just after the hour, the sun at the beginning of April was warm and very comfortable to shine on.

Chongzhen played around the imperial city, and finally returned from Chengtianmen through Xuanwu Gate and entered the palace, Chongzhen sweated slightly, which was just right than the effect of morning exercise.

The palace maid and eunuch had already prepared breakfast.

Chongzhen had just finished breakfast, Wang Chengen handed over a fragrant tea, and Chongzhen took the jade cup and tasted it.

A little eunuch ran in from outside, "Emperor, they're here...... Several marquis, all of whom were relatives of the imperial court, as well as court officials, knelt outside the noon gate...... I look forward to seeing them."

When Wang Chengen heard this, he stared at Chongzhen's white and red face.

Chongzhen took another sip quietly, and the little eunuch knelt there and didn't dare to get up.

Chongzhen then slowly put down the jade cup, and then put down a sentence without being salty, "Let them kneel first."

Chongzhen didn't even ask his name.

What a monkey and a tiger, what a noble member of the court, bullshit!

Now I know that I have come to kneel, what did they do when I beat the drum and the bell myself a few days ago? In the early morning of March 19, when I charged with the eunuch soldiers, what did they do?

Although Chongzhen is not that Zhu Youzhen.

But he has to fight for that Zhu Youzhen.

These civil officials and nobles only know how to follow the court as a prestige, once there is something in the court, one is farther away than the other, and one is faster than the other.

Zhu Youzhen took the lead in donating some money and asked them to follow suit, in order to raise soldiers and horses to fight well for the court, and to protect the Ming Dynasty is also to protect themselves.

But these officials and old men cried more and more than one another, and they just didn't want to give out the silver, and it wasn't until Liu Zongmin's clamp was served that the silver in their house flowed out in an uproar.

When the thief city was broken, they refused to swear to follow the emperor to the death.

What else are you talking about the emperor's relatives and court officials? They are all ministers who have misled the country!

"Emperor Shengming, it's time for them to kneel for a while, as a courtier, I don't know what to do for the emperor!"

Wang Chengen was also indignant, when Chongzhen was the most depressed, only he, the eunuch, was by his side, and all of the ministers and relatives were gone.

The emperor himself beat the drum and rang the bell, but he couldn't shout.

Now that the emperor has recovered the imperial city, you have seen that hope has been reversed, which is really hateful!

At this time, someone came to report that 20 million taels of silver and 2,000 quintals of grain had all been put into storage, and that they had been registered in the account, and that the formalities had been completed, but the warehouse was full, and there was nowhere to put some grain and silver.

The little eunuch in charge of the grain depot and the silver treasury came to ask Wang Chengen for his life.

"Emperor, our income has skyrocketed recently, and the treasury is limited, is it to expand the warehouse?"

Revenues are definitely skyrocketing.

Not to mention grain, take silver as an example, first 6 million taels, then 10 million taels, and then 20 million taels, and in just half a month, a total of 36 million taels of silver came in from Li Zicheng's side.

Then the seizure of Zhu Chunchen's Chengguo Mansion recovered hundreds of thousands, and then Gong Yonggu and other ministers got more than 100,000 taels, plus Chongzhen's original family background, this family also has 1 million taels.

After subtracting the 12 million silver consumed by Chongzhen's cultivation, and subtracting the reward expenses and monthly salaries of the 5,000 thousand generals and ministers in the city, and more than 1,000 eunuchs and palace maids, there are at least 32 million taels of children in the palace now.

According to historical records, the income of pure silver in the first year of the Apocalypse in the Ming Dynasty was less than 10 million taels of silver, not counting grain and other conversions. In the last years of Chongzhen, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, and the annual income was less.

That is to say, in Chongzhen's palace now, the silver he has accumulated is at least equivalent to the financial income of the Ming Dynasty for three years.

With so much income added at once, this is definitely an upstart, where will the treasury be able to put it?

When there is no money or food, they are anxious to procure money and food.

Now that I have silver and food, I worry about where to store it.

Wang Chengen I also had no recruitment.

Chongzhen was happy: "The treasury is naturally going to be expanded, but not now, the grain can also be stored in the main palace and the west palace, and the silver can be used for my internal money, and the excess silver will be sent to my Heart Cultivation Hall and Qianqing Palace for preservation."

Fill my little private vault first.

Then use these two halls. These two halls have to be filled, so how much silver does it have to hold, and it is convenient to use silver when I cultivate, so I don't have to trouble Wang Chengen to send eunuchs to move around.

Now that the main palace and the west palace are empty, these two queens were forced to death by that Zhu Youzhen.

Such a good hall was wasted when it was idle, just used to store food to relieve urgent needs.

In the future, I will need to expand my army and recruit horses, and there will be more places to use silver and food!

"The old slave obeys."

sent away Wang Chengen and the little eunuch.

Chongzhen rested in the palace for a few hours.

It's sunset in the afternoon.

Wang Chengen came in again, "Emperor, the ministers outside the noon gate are still kneeling there, I don't know what the master plans to do about this matter?"

"I almost forgot," Chongzhen said as if he had just remembered, "Okay, follow me to the top of the city."

Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen