Chapter 258: The Great Tribulation is Coming
Zhu Youxiao was forced to give him three million taels again, originally Zhu Youxiao had copied so many officials' homes in the past two years, and only 26 million taels were left after accumulation, but now half of them are directly gone.
Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao directly confiscated the Donglin Party members who intended to rebel, as well as Cheng Guogong, and got a total of almost 20 million taels.
But two halves of the silver were allocated to the inner treasury, and the other half was given directly to the Guards as a reward for the great battle.
As soon as this Zhu Youxiao made a move, it was almost 10 million taels of silver, and many officers and soldiers had never seen so many taels of silver in their lives, and their loyalty to Zhu Youxiao rose even more sharply.
Indeed, for ordinary soldiers, if they only pay attention to their feelings for their family and country, I am afraid that it will not have such a great effect, after all, most soldiers in the Ming Dynasty did not read too many books.
But like Zhu Youxiao, while paying attention to the feelings of the family and the country and serving the Ming Dynasty, he stuffed them with a large amount of silver, and this effect was very obvious.
Of course, these are not all of Zhu Youxiao's silver, and then he got a large amount of gold and silver treasures from the Chahar Department, that is, Lin Dan Khan, which can also make up for some of the losses, so that Zhu Youxiao now has almost 40 million taels of silver in his internal money.
It can be said that the entire Ming court has not been so rich for many years, and the emperor's amount of silver is far beyond the savings of Zhu Youxiao's many ancestors.
However, it also takes money to raise an army, especially Zhu Youxiao's plan to form an army with a full amount of 210,000 people, just eating, drinking, and Lazar, as well as monthly military salaries, it is not a small amount.
This amount can be said to be much beyond everyone's thoughts, and many officials directly appealed to Zhu Youxiao, begging Zhu Youxiao not to appear so many troops.
Because from the current point of view, the army of the Ming Dynasty is enough, and now the Jiannu is no longer a threat to them, and now it is time for the horses to put Nanshan, and the soldiers should be sent back to work, so as to enrich the treasury of the Ming Dynasty.
Not to mention, now that winter is coming again, as soon as this winter comes, the Xishan Coal Mine will be left to produce silver taels again, and it will be able to add seven or eight million to his income at that time, and at the same time, the silver taels collected by the generals of the Liaodong Inner Circle over the years will be sent back, and it is estimated that there are four or five million.
There are also the eight Jin Shang families, he especially pinned his hopes on the Jin Shang Eight Da families, hoping that the Jin Shang Eight Da families would not let him down.
It is said that the second one set off much slower than Lu Xiangsheng, so after Lu Xiangsheng solved all the things here, he had not yet arrived in Shaanxi, but the whole family of the eight families of the Jin Merchants had already been clearly infiltrated by their Dongchang and Jinyiwei people.
Even for the sake of cooperating with Dongchang this time, Zhu Youxiao also specially sent horse soldiers to come over with Tian Ergeng, of course, everything was headed by Tian Ergeng, and they practiced this matter countless times, and even the treasure of the eight families of the Jin Shang Dynasty were clearly investigated.
Then they were followed by nearly 4,000 soldiers and horses, which can be said to be the best men of Dongchang and Jinyiwei here, these people are not only good at eating knives and spears, but Pingshan is also a good hand at firing muskets, not to mention that this group of people is loyal enough to Zhu Youxiao.
When this group of people rushed to the lair of the eight Jin Shang families, they thought that the Jin Shang Eight families asserted that there was no hope of survival, and the Jin Shang Eight families were also very chaotic, and their investment in the Donglin Party and Chengguo Gong Zhu Chunchen could be said to have been withdrawn from the beginning and the end of the failure.
They couldn't imagine why Zhu Youxiao could carry 30,000 troops to knock down the capital, and then he heard that this year it was Zhu Youxiao who was supported by those miners from Xishan, and in the end, there were traitors directly in the capital, and the city gates were opened, and Zhu Youxiao's army was put in, they were also very surprised, they didn't expect such a thing to happen in the end.
The affairs of Liaodong, the affairs of Xifengkou, and the affairs of the capital this time must have been exposed, and it is impossible for them to hide themselves again.
Over the years, they have been involved in the Donglin Party, and have given a lot of silver taels to the people of the Donglin Party, and they were optimistic about the Donglin Party back then, and felt that the future of the Donglin Party was limitless, so they paid a lot.
Although they knew that the Donglin Party was the yuan pushed out of the southeast map, they still invested a lot of silver taels, they had a good relationship, and even their support for the Donglin Party once surpassed the earth group in the southeast.
Over the years, they have used the Donglin Party to stop the imperial court's ambition to accept three-year-olds, and also stopped some corrupt officials from taking advantage of them and harassing them.
It can be said that since the Donglin Party became strong, everything they paid was cost-effective, and just like this time, they also felt that they had decided to succeed, and the Donglin Party people were able to maintain the entire Ming Dynasty.
But how they were defeated, and at the same time, they learned from the people who the imperial court bought from the capital, and even from the Jinyi guard, that the news that the imperial court was going to clean him up now was almost confirmed, and they were not stupid, they understood that the things they did could not be found out, and this time they were planted.
Now only eight families had gathered, and it was clear that everyone had a look of fear on their faces, and they had already imagined what would happen to them next.
Tian Shenglan came to Fan Yongdou's side, and the winning streak was also a few steps, "You people have completely lost their high-spirited appearance in the mall now, they seem to have just remembered now, they are just a businessman, if Your Majesty wants to take care of them, as long as they commit something, maybe no one can save them." ”
"I wrote letters to the officials in the capital and in various places who took our silver taels, but these letters were like eating into the sea, and there was no reply, it seems that this group of dog mongrels also said it when faced with such a thing."
Fan Yongdou closed his eyes in pain, things have developed to such an extent, he can imagine, only to see him said, "Those people of them are just greedy for principles, now that we have such a big thing, if they are involved in it, and they are punished by the Nine Clans, it will be a sure thing, so they will definitely not be so stupid to involve themselves in it again." ”
This Tian Shenglan felt a little unhappy and said, "They took our silver taels, and we still have a complete account book in our hands, they can't hide from these things at all, as long as our family is gone, can they still have a good life?" At that time, they will at least have a championship-winning temperament, and they can't keep their heads if they can't say it, can they give up these things? ”
"Brother Shen!"
"Hmm!"
Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.
But it doesn't matter who it is.
There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.
on this.
Shen Changqing is used to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.
Arguably.
In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.
The Demon Suppression Division is huge.
The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.
Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.
Have memories of the predecessor.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.
Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.
At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.
Access to the attic.
The environment has changed in vain.
A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.
The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.