There were constant natural disasters everywhere, and almost no quiet paradise was left in the entire Ming Dynasty. At this time, what should I do if the court had no money?

The country is to pacify the enemy, the border is to resist the Jiansen. There are also disaster relief and refugees. All of this requires money.

Emperor Chongzhen repeatedly reduced the expenses in the palace, but it was still like a drop in the bucket. What should I do? In the end, I could only continue to collect taxes.

The people can no longer survive, and the court is still expending heavy taxes. As a result, more people can only be displaced and lost their homes, which forces these people who cannot survive to rebel.

Emperor Chongzhen never knew this truth, but what could he do? He could not fight a war without money and could not support the Ming army. However, if he wanted to receive taxes, he would easily force the people to rebel.

The Ming Dynasty had fallen into a vicious cycle, and the final outcome was the demise of the country. The world was in chaos, drought, locust plagues one after another, and there was also the Qing Dynasty who was eyeing it in Liaodong. This was just in line with the saying "God wanted you to die, you had to die." But God might think that the fire was not enough, so he sent another person, who was Zhang Xianzhong, who was later as famous as Li Zicheng!

The famine in Shaanxi became more and more serious, and Zhang Xianzhong had to gather people from all over the country to form a team to ask for a meal. However, because he had studied, served in a military service, was brave and decisive, and had command skills, his team developed rapidly and soon reached tens of thousands of people. At this point, Zhang Xianzhong had become a climate and began to fight with the government army, and even dared to challenge the court.

At the beginning, Zhang Xianzhong lived a relatively comfortable life, constantly fighting guerrillas in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places. The enemy retreated and we went forward, and we were backward, and we were in great pleasure in the fight. But in 1634, when Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan and was preparing to attack Taiping, the general Qin Liangyu arrived in advance. Zhang Xianzhong was afraid of Qin Liangyu, so he led his army to escape. Unfortunately, Qin Liangyu's son happened to lead his army back to Sichuan, and happened to meet Zhang Xianzhong, so the mother and son attacked each other, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated and fled to Huguang in panic.

Later, various peasant troops were besieged in Henan. Faced with increasingly unfavorable situations, the leaders decided to hold a military meeting in Xingyang to make a living. As the saying goes, "Three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang." A group of leaders with little culture came up with an idea and then did an earth-shaking thing!

After the military meeting, various armies divided their troops to break through, while Zhang Xianzhong's troops advanced eastward. The purpose was obvious. Zhang Xianzhong was going to Fengyang and Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown!

Not long after, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Fengyang City, killed more than 20,000 defenders, and executed the Fengyang Prefect in front of the people, and distributed the food to the people. Then he cut down all the trees around Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral tomb, demolished all the surrounding buildings, and even demolished the Huangjue Temple where Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk. The most amazing thing was that Zhang Xianzhong directly dug Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral tomb and burned a fire! Then he patted his butt, left, and rushed his troops south.

Even the ancestor of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Taizu of the Zhu family, was dug up by someone. What a great hatred. All of this is because of lack of money and the court has no money.

If the treasury had the tax and silver of these three provinces, what would it be like? Will it be, everything would be different?

Although 500,000 taels of silver may not change anything, at least it would not be that countless people would be troubled by hunger. At least, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty would have money to fight. At least, these 500,000 taels of silver can play a huge role.

At the beginning, Zhu Cixuan took a million taels of silver from Zhou Kui and took 800,000 to solve the urgent need of Liaodong. It was with the money Zhu Cixuan got that the situation in Liaodong gradually stabilized.

Otherwise history will repeat itself, and the tragedy of the Battle of Songjin will cause countless Liaodong soldiers to die on the battlefield in the Ming Dynasty.

Who knew that these were originally 500,000 taels of tax silver that could change the country's destiny, because this damn is far enough and the usual deep, and there is also Zhao Juren. If they had written to the court at that time, saying that Hui'an Kingdom was still alive, the tax silver could be found.

Why was Emperor Chongzhen so difficult at the beginning? But they didn't. The two of them were stunned by greed. They concealed the secret that Hui'anguo was still alive and locked him in a jail in the yamen, trying every means to trick Hui'anguo into the whereabouts of the tax silver mentioned.

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Zhu Cixuan seemed to be more interested in Zhao Juren: "Zhao Juren, right? I'm here to ask you, how did this little lady of the Zhang family who sells tofu on the East Street die?"

When talking about tofu Xishi, Zhao Juren's face changed drastically; "Your Highness, the prince, the villain, it's nothing to do with me. This is all the little lady of the Zhang family who committed suicide by jumping into the well and has nothing to do with the villain."

Zhu Cixuan sighed helplessly: "Even if you don't believe what you say, how can I make me believe you? Zhao Juren, tell you this. I will tell you the truth. The charge of your Heping County Magistrate is less than a thousand times. Just because you two hide and do not report the charge of the three provinces' tax bank, it is light to cut it into pieces. I will give you a chance. Anyway, you are dead anyway. Instead of living a life as if this Ping County Magistrate is better than dying, it is better to confess obediently. How did you force her to deal with her? How did you frame the little lady of the little lady's husband? This makes the young couple die unjustly. Come here quickly!"

Every word from Zhu Cilang was nailed to Zhao Juren's chest like a nail. His throat was dry, and his soul was already scared.

Not to mention, the end of him, who is not as bad as death, is the result of his life. If you talk about it, I am afraid that I will be even worse.

No one knew what the Jinyiwei used, but he saw that he was usually wailing deep on the ground and was determined to die. However, he couldn't use any strength on his body, and he couldn't even die if he wanted to die.

This is the unique secret technique of the Jinyiwei. After the torture, it makes people feel like they are falling into the eighteen levels of hell. Then, the Jinyiwei will give the prisoner a kind of decoction.

This decoction is to keep the prisoner awake so that he will not faint in pain. Under the torture of this severe pain, the prisoner is extremely sober.

Xi Shi was a beauty dedicated to Wu Wang Fuchai by King Goujian of Yue during the Spring and Autumn Period. Later, she was regarded as a synonym for beauty. She was also called Xizi. There are many sources of tofu Xi Shi, one of which is Yang Ersao in Lu Xun's "Hometown". She called Yang Ersao "Tofu Xi Shi", which seemed to praise her youthful beauty and indicate her identity as "the one who opened a tofu shop."
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