Chapter 143: A Year Later
Time slipped by.
In the blink of an eye, it was 1645 AD.
In the original history, the Ming Dynasty had died, and the Southern Ming Dynasty was struggling to support it in the south. Duoduo led his troops to attack the city of Yangzhou, and began the most terrible ten days of Yangzhou, slaughtering for ten days in a row. Later, in the south, a bloody massacre began.
And Li Zicheng was also defeated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and died on Jiugong Mountain.
In history, the general trend of the Manchu Qing Dynasty dominating the world has emerged, and no one can resist it.
The whole Central Plains, the whole of China, began a nightmare that lasted for more than 200 years!
However, due to the presence of He Xuan, history changed.
Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty had 100,000 soldiers, they did not come up with a way to restrain He Xuan, and they still honestly nested outside the pass.
Although the Ming Dynasty is weak, after all, Emperor Chongzhen is not dead, and he is still living weakly except for the righteous name of Emperor Chongzhen.
And Li Zicheng's gang, since the defeat in Beijing, returned to Shaanxi. The middle and high-ranking generals in his army almost died, and in the end they stayed honestly and did not develop much in a short period of time. Moreover, Li Zicheng sent many spies to reconnoiter He Xuan's movements, and had already made up his mind that as long as He Xuan brought the Ming army, they would leave immediately.
That battle left a deep impression on Li Zicheng.
Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi in the Shuzhong area, was also shocked when he saw Li Zicheng being taught like this, and believed in the evil of He Xuan, a god general, and the scope of his activities was reduced a lot, and he was also a lot more honest.
Is...... There was a calm.
And everyone in the world is paying attention to He Xuan.
Want to see this one, why is there silence for a year, and what will he do?
......
In the middle of Beijing.
"Well, here's your lunch, it's mine. "The girl who spoke, dressed like snow and black as ink, smooth and gorgeous. The slightly upturned face is exquisite and clear, clear and beautiful like a fairy.
She handed a lunch into He Xuan's hands and opened a lunch herself.
"That's right, it's your palace's secret leg of mutton, I love this bite. And this wine, it tastes good. He Xuan habitually took the lunch box in Princess Changping's hand.
Although, at first, He Xuan was resistant to Princess Changping.
The real strong must be ruthless.
I want to be the strongest person in the world, not close to women.
However, in the past year, Princess Changping has sent food every once in a while. And many of them are secret delicacies made by the palace, and the taste is really good, gradually, He Xuan slowly did not refuse.
Gradually, I got used to the two of them having lunch together.
Although the names of the two have not yet been decided, basically, this is a recognized couple. It's almost time to get married.
He Xuan couldn't help but sigh, what about his own ruthlessness?
He Xuan drank the wine with taste, and glanced at the beautiful girl next to him: "Hey, your brows are furrowed, what's the trouble?"
"Actually, it's not my business, it's my father's business. The father and emperor now want to train the troops, while guarding against the Qing soldiers, and on the other hand, guarding against Li Zicheng. However, the training of the army requires food and salary, but the silver of the national treasury for a year is more than 4 million taels, and the court itself has to spend money, and in the end, even the training salary cannot be made. ”
"Now there is only one way, to increase the salary of the people, but my father also knows that now the people have three salaries in addition to the normal taxes to be paid. I really can't hold on, and I can't raise my salary anymore. The treasury, there is really no money. ”
The three salaries are the combined names of the three taxes of the late Ming Dynasty, the Liao salary, and the three taxes of the levy and the training of the salary.
Princess Changping is not the kind of little girl who only has wind and snow.
She was born in the imperial family, and she is the eldest princess of Chongzhen, and she also knows a lot about national affairs.
Usually, He Xuan's relationship with her is mostly biased towards national affairs, rather than wind and snow.
"Without money, you can't do anything. ”
"yes. Princess Changping nodded again and again.
"Actually, I know where the money is. He Xuan took a sip of wine and said.
"Where is the money?" Princess Changping's eyes immediately turned into an asterisk, she listened to her father sigh every day and said that there was no money, and now when she heard that she was rich, her eyes couldn't help but bend, very beautiful.
"Officials, these officials in Beijing City, I am afraid that the money hidden in their homes is only 60 or 70 million taels. Do you believe it or not?" He Xuan smiled.
"Officials are greedy for ink, this is known. But they are greedy for 60 or 70 million taels, which is impossible. Princess Changping's little mouth opened very wide.
"Hehe, this is how you underestimate their ability to embezzle, definitely only more than this, not less than this. ”
This is also a historical fact, in the original history, Li Zicheng entered Beijing, copied the homes of these ministers one by one, and copied 60 or 70 million taels of silver, which made Li Zicheng himself frightened.
Princess Changping was still a little stunned, she must have believed He Xuan's words, but sixty or seventy million taels was too big. Is it possible that the treasury is only three or four million taels of silver a year, which is equivalent to more than ten years of treasury revenue?
"I'll solve the problem of the treasury's poor money. I've wanted to scare these bureaucrats for a long time. He Xuan sneered.
Princess Changping has been by Emperor Chongzhen's side for so long, and she also knows that the collective bureaucracy is not so easy to deal with. It is the father who is known as the emperor, but he is also embarrassed by these bureaucrats.
"Bureaucrats, a single individual is nothing, but if they become a group, their strength is inferior even to that of the emperor. My father has been powerless many times. If you want to deal with these bureaucrats, can you accept the bureaucrats' counterattack?" Princess Changping's beautiful eyes looked at He Xuan seriously.
"Hehe, of course I can accept the backlash of the bureaucracy. I didn't eat white rice this year. I've been preparing an invincible weapon for the past year. Now, the weapon of mass murder has been practiced. Whether it is the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which has more than 100,000 soldiers, Li Zicheng, who defeated Shaanxi, and Zhang Xianzhong, who stayed in Shuzhong, they are not my opponents. I'm invincible. ”
"No matter how much the bureaucrats fight back, they can't be my opponents. He Xuan sneered.
Hearing He Xuan's confident words, Princess Changping couldn't help but be stunned, and her beautiful eyes flashed with an incredible look: "Ah Xuan, you are already invincible in the world, even the more than 100,000 male soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they are not your opponents?"
"Of course. He Xuan sneered: "I think in today's world, there are two major kills. ”
"The first one to be killed is the Manchu Qing, and the Manchu Qing are outright barbarians. They kept committing massacres, and they interrupted the inheritance of Chinese civilization. ”
"The second thing that can be killed is those corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for their constant oppression and exploitation of the people. Will the world of the Ming Dynasty be rotten like this?"
"Manchu Qing is a little farther away. ”
"The corrupt officials in Beijing are close. ”
"I, who am already invincible in the world, first scold these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and then go to destroy the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”
When He Xuan said this, his sharpness was revealed.
The world is invincible!
That's going to make trouble!
(The world is invincible, the volume begins, saying that the world is invincible, the world is invincible.) )