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  Chapter 365 363【Copy payment】

   Concubine Tian Gui is not dead, she is not afraid of death, but reluctant to die.

  The year before last, she lost a son; last year, she lost another son; this year, she gave birth to another son.

  Historically, this son would also die young, so Concubine Tian Gui was overly sad, and she died in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

   Now that the youngest son is not yet a hundred days old, how can Concubine Tian Gui commit suicide?

  Although she kicked down the stool when she hanged herself, she grabbed Bai Ling with both hands and insisted on maintaining the position for a quarter of an hour, making sure that Chongzhen left before jumping to the ground.

   Concubine Tian left the island in the middle of the lake by rowing a boat, and quickly ran to the elephant house, and brought out a strong royal horse.

   "Drive!"

   Concubine Tian got on her horse and rode her horse towards Miyagi very skillfully.

  Because she was afraid of being recognized, she changed her clothes and let her hair loose to cover her face.

   Seeing a waist knife halfway, I don't know which guard threw it away, Tian Guifei hurriedly dismounted and picked up the weapon. She galloped around in the palace city, wandering around for a quarter of an hour, and finally heard the cry of a baby.

   Concubine Tian came to the baby, gritted her teeth and said: "The people in the palace are really untrustworthy!"

  Chongzhen also made arrangements for the youngest son, so that the confidant **** and wet nurse were taken out of the palace to Tian Hongyu's house to feed.

  Tian Hongyu is the father of Concubine Tian Gui, the official to the left commander of the rear army, and the commander of Jinyiwei. In the unofficial history, Tian Hongyu brought Chen Yuanyuan to the capital and tried to dedicate it to Chongzhen but failed, so there was a story about Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan.

   Obviously, both the **** and the wet nurse ran away and abandoned the prince in the palace, and they were not willing to abide by Chongzhen's will at all.

  Concubine Tian Gui picked up her youngest son and returned to her bedroom. She wanted to find gold and silver for money.

   As a result, the gold and silver jewelry disappeared without a trace, and most of them were taken away by eunuchs and maids. After looking around, she only found a piece of broken silver on the ground. Concubine Tian Guifei picked up her bamboo flute and left.

   Concubine Tian held the child in one hand and held the rein in the other, rushed out of the Forbidden City and came to the foot of Meishan Mountain.

   At this time, Chongzhen had not hanged himself, and Concubine Tian Gui didn't know the situation, so she rode around Meishan and went straight to Xuanwu Gate. After leaving Xuanwu Gate, she didn't dare to ride a horse to show off anymore, and ran along the inner prison with her young son in her arms, and escaped from Bei'an Gate to the vicinity of Shichahai.

   "Whoa whoa whoa whoa..."

  The baby kept crying, and Concubine Tian Gui was extremely anxious.

   The streets and alleys were in chaos, and many city guards were fleeing back to their homes.

  The soldiers of the Dashun Army also came in from Deshengmen and Andingmen, and were heading towards the imperial city.

   Concubine Tian Gui hid in a remote place, made herself unkempt, and her clothes were stained with a lot of dust and mud, and then she opened her chest to breastfeed her child.

  Because she has been breast-feeding all the time, Concubine Tian Guifei has almost regained her milk.

  The baby sucked for a long time, but couldn't **** it out at all.

   Concubine Tian Gui could only keep rubbing and stimulating herself, and the baby gnawed hard, which immediately hurt her to death.

  …

   Coal Mountain.

  Li Zicheng stood in front of Chongzhen's corpse, looking at the last blood book on the ground, with an extremely wonderful expression.

  For more than half a year, although Chongzhen died on a flat bed, he was full of resentment towards his ministers.

   In other words, it was the absurd fundraising last year that made Chongzhen completely give up on officials. He left this suicide note purely to vent his anger through Li Zicheng's hand!

"It has been fourteen years since I ascended the throne...every time I ask myself, I am not the king of a subjugated country, and all the ministers are also the subjugated ministers of the country. I died without a face and saw my second ancestor, and my ancestors were buried in the ground. Now I take off my clothes to cover my face with hair , Let the thieves split my corpse to repay the suffering of the common people in the world. If there are loyal and heroic men among the thieves, I will kill all the civil officials and all the military commanders on my behalf, so as not to hurt any of my people."

  Li Zicheng put away Chongzhen's suicide note, and ordered: "Give a generous burial, and the martyred **** should also be buried generously."

  After only one day of chaos, order was restored in the city of Beijing, and no large-scale looting occurred.

  Niu Jinxing once again spoke, hoping not to copy the salary, even if the money and food are not enough, the honorable officials can donate.

  Li Zicheng thought about it, and felt that he was about to ascend the throne, and he really shouldn't do what he did before. So he put up notices all over the city, hoping that rich people can donate money and food, and then the miraculous scene happened again.

   Xue Guoguan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, took the lead in donating three thousand taels.

   Xue Guoguan felt that donating so much was enough to show his loyalty. If he directly donated tens of thousands of taels, wouldn’t it prove that he was a corrupt official?

  With Shoufu as an example, nobles and civil servants donated money one after another, ranging from a few dozen taels to three thousand taels. And there are also funny shows, listing houses for sale, setting up stalls on the street, selling calligraphy and paintings...all pretending to be poor there, it seems that after donating money, they can no longer afford to eat.

   "Copy pay! Copy pay!"

  Li Zicheng met a court lady in the palace, and when he learned of the ugly behavior of all the officials, he immediately flew into a rage.

  The soldiers of Dashun quickly dispatched to pick out the big houses inside and outside the city. They can't determine which family is an official, they can only judge by the size of the house, and many wealthy businessmen have also become targets of copying.

  As the head of the state, Zhou Kui, a nobleman of this level, will be interrogated by Liu Zongmin.

   "Your Majesty, I am wronged. The court has not paid a salary for half a year, and the family of the lower officials really has no money!" Zhou Kui was still stubborn.

  Liu Zongmin brought Queen Zhou's mother and Zhou Kui's wife under escort: "You hang yourself, and you can leave a whole body."

  The old woman dared not disobey. If she didn’t commit suicide, she would be hacked to death. At least she could hang herself to die more decently.

   In front of Zhou Kui and his son, he committed suicide very quickly.

  The father and son still refused to confess, because the family had too much money, and if they revealed the location of the hidden silver, they would undoubtedly die, and there might be a way to survive if they carried it to death.

   So Zhou Kui's daughter-in-law was also forced to hang herself.

  Both father and son were trembling with fright, but they still refused to let go.

   "Very good, the mouth is very stiff, I don't know if the neck is so hard." Liu Zongmin drew his knife angrily, and hacked Zhou Kui's son to death.

  Blood spattered, Zhou Kui fainted from fright.

  Liu Zongmin had no choice but to report the truth, and Li Zicheng decided to come to the trial in person.

  Li Zicheng's ability to copy wages is very rough. After meeting, he said one sentence: "Beat him to death!"

  The whip is not only dipped in water, but also in salt water.

  Zhou Kui was beaten badly, and when he was about to die, he finally couldn't stand it anymore, and begged: "I said, I said, don't beat me again."

  Zhou Kui has houses both inside and outside the city, and Zang Yin is divided into several places.

  Two days later, after the statistics were completed, Liu Zongmin came to report: "Zhou Kui's family has 500,000 taels of silver."

   "It's not too much." Li Zicheng commented.

  Of course not too much, because Xue Guoguan, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, was tortured out of a total of 2.8 million taels!

   Half a month later, tens of millions of taels were credited.

  If divided by groups, eunuchs have the most money, nobles have the second most money, and civil servants come next, while wealthy businessmen rank last.

   This is logical, those big eunuchs are often sent to supervise the army, and there is even a director who supervises the soldiers and horses in the world! How much military spending is embezzled?

  In addition, a few years before Chongzhen ascended the throne, eunuchs were sent to local governments as tax supervisors, and the financial power of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households was also handed over to the eunuchs. How much money is embezzled?

  Xungui ranked second, purely the savings of past dynasties.

  For more than two hundred years, Xungui has made money from generation to generation, and the accumulation is a massive wealth.

   Facing more than 60 million taels of silver, Li Zicheng sighed.

  He found that the silver was indeed there, and it was more than enough, but where could he go to buy food? An army of hundreds of thousands of people eat horse chews every day, how much food will be consumed!

  Poor Li Zicheng, he is so poor that he only has silver left.

   If this continues, the Dashun army will have to run out of food in three to five months at most.

  Searching the grain was of no avail. The grain stockpiled by the grain merchants and wealthy households could barely supply the people of Beijing. Once Li Zicheng used all of them as military rations, the people in the entire Beijing city would starve to death.

  If all the people in the capital died, what kind of emperor would Li Zicheng still be?

   It’s still the change brought about by Zhao Han. There is not enough food in the south, so how can it be transported to the north? There was no transportation of grain from the north to the north, and years of famines in Henan and Shandong made it impossible for Beijing to obtain commercial grain from other provinces.

   "We still have to fight!" Li Zicheng called Liu Zongmin and the military adviser.

Niu Jinxing said: "Northern Zhili still has soldiers from Jizhen. Maybe we can recruit Hong Chengchou and Ma Ke, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan. Order Ma Ke to guard Shanhaiguan, and we will take Hong Chengchou to Shandong to destroy Zuo Liangyu. Maybe you can get a lot of military rations. It’s best to go all the way south and fight to Jianghuai, Jianghuai is the real place of wealth.”

   "Just do it like this!" Li Zicheng made a final decision.

   If you don’t go south, you are waiting to die. The Dashun army starved to death!

  So, Li Zicheng sent people to recruit Hong Chengchou and Ma Ke, and at the same time intensively prepared for the enthronement.

  After ascending the throne, you have to fight.

   Just like Zhang Xianzhong chose to attack Zhao Han, Li Zicheng's ultimate goal was also Zhao Han. They were all rushing for food—the whole world, except for the southwestern provinces, only Zhao Han's territory had food!

  These poor ghosts are very likely to join forces to attack Zhao Han.

  Because Zhao Han belongs to the big boss, after killing it, he can explode the food.

  …

  Sun Chuanting walked out of the prison in a daze. His imprisonment had nothing to do with Chongzhen, but was purely implicated by the aftermath of the party struggle.

   It was also miraculous to get out of prison this time. The officials in the prison were all arrested and tortured.

  Sun Chuanting doesn't have a mansion in Beijing at all. Where can he hide his money?

   It’s not that Sun Chuanting is so clean and honest, but that he was sent to Shaanxi as governor to suppress bandits before he had time to buy a house in Beijing. From then on, he fought east and west, and every time he returned to Beijing, he led troops to serve the king. The only two exceptions were when he returned to Beijing and went to jail.

   In the end, when he served as the governor, the imperial court could not even pay the military salary. Where did Sun Chuanting get corrupted?

   After being tortured, Sun Chuanting confessed truthfully. It seems that the torturers felt that it was outrageous, so they let him go.

  The wealthy families in the capital cried bitterly.

  Sun Chuanting was penniless, so he could only seek help from friends. As a result, after visiting the door, I found that most of my friend's family had died tragically, all of them were tortured to death. There were several coffins parked in the yard, and there was no money to hire someone to bury them.

  The people in the capital were also miserable. It was true that there was no military disaster, but Li Zicheng raided a large number of grain merchants, which caused the price of grain in the capital to skyrocket again.

   Six taels of silver and one stone of rice, who can afford it?

  You can see fallen corpses everywhere on the street, and some people even steal the corpses home to eat.

very hungry.

  Sun Chuanting was about to faint from hunger. He couldn't get enough to eat in prison, and he was handcuffed without food for a whole day.

  Drawing scars all over his body, he walked towards Beicheng District in a daze. There was a friend of Sun Chuanting there, and he might be lucky enough to get a meal.

   After finally reaching the destination, Sun Chuanting stood outside the door and could hear the wailing inside.

   It seems that there is no food to eat.

  Sun Chuanting went in to pay homage, asked some questions, and learned more about the officials.

   Only a very small number of officials committed suicide by committing suicide, and some hid at home and refused to surrender. Most officials fled to the new emperor. However, there is no difference, they will all be tortured, and countless people have been beaten to death these days.

   Stumbling away from his friend's house, Sun Chuanting didn't know where he was going.

  In a daze, he walked into an alley, and several thin-faced men ran past him.

  These people came to a small courtyard and began to chatter there.

   "It's here. The previous owner was Deng Xin. He went to the south to join relatives a year ago. A few days ago, a woman came here, holding a baby. I heard that she bought a few catties of sorghum."

   "How many catties of sorghum are there really? Can she keep it alone?"

   "This woman is very fierce. She carries a knife with her. She seems to be a practicing family. Wu Er grabbed food and was killed by her."

   "No matter how powerful she is, she is only a single woman. If everyone stands shoulder to shoulder, she will definitely be able to restrain her."

   "Her few catties of sorghum are probably almost finished. I don't know if there is any money left."

   "Let's go in and talk about it."

   "..."

  Sun Chuanting was so hungry that he panicked, and the scars all over his body had not yet scabbed over. He didn't know what to do, seeing a group of villains doing bad things, he just strode over to stop them.

"Leave far away!"

  Before Sun Chuanting could speak, the group of gangsters became fierce towards him instead.

"Collide!"

  The courtyard door was locked inside, and these guys took a few steps back, trying to knock the courtyard door open with all their strength.

   "Boom!"

  After seven or eight blows in a row, the gate of the courtyard fell down, and several villains couldn't stand still, and fell into the courtyard along with the gate.

"what!"

   "Forgive me!"

   Before these guys stood up, a woman with disheveled hair was slashing with a waist knife, and the sound of a baby crying came from the room.

   "What a nimble skill!"

  Sun Chuanting clapped his hands in praise, rushed over to **** the stick, and swung the stick to flank the woman back and forth.

   (There are things to do these two days, and there may only be two updates today.)

  (end of this chapter)