Those civil officials hid behind and tried some tricks.

But I really saw five civil officials and were killed in an instant. Looking at the heads, seeing the bloody red blood, and seeing He Xuan's indifferent expression after killing people, I was really scared.

Moreover, what's even more terrifying is that He Xuan's killing move was too fast.

He was obviously on the third floor at the beginning.

In a blink of an eye, I reached the first floor.

The third floor must be more than two feet high.

A normal person will fall down at such a high level and will be injured even if he doesn't die.

But he can come down in an instant and kill people.

horrible!

These ministers of the Ming Dynasty were all frightened.

"Clang!" He Xuan put the sword into the sheath, walked back to the original place slowly, poured himself a glass of wine, and drank it with great pleasure: "I don't have to worry, you don't have to worry. After paying the money, you can go home."

These ministers, you look at me and I look at you, are helpless.

They were considered as scholars who met a soldier, and He Xuan did not give them a chance to reason at all, and they couldn't explain it clearly if they were polite.

However, it is absolutely impossible to ask them to take out the money so happily.

So, they all fell silent.

He Xuan was not in a hurry and was drinking and waiting.

Time passes by minute by minute.

After an hour of stalemate, some officials finally found something was wrong. They came to attend the dinner on hungry, but He Xuan did not prepare any dinner for them at all, and let the people from Yaoyuelou be exposed.

In other words, they were in a stalemate on hunger and had no food at all.

Time passes by minute by minute.

In the second half of the night, among the hungry and sleepy officials, an official in his thirties could not bear it: "I accept the punishment for this money, but God General, this is called the silver for the punishment, which means that all my past sins have been paid."

"Wrong is just the crime of corruption." He Xuan said slowly.

The official in his thirties thought for a while: "Okay, I'll ask the butler to go to the house to get it."

What the young official had to pay was 20,000 taels of silver.

After an hour, 20,000 taels of silver were given.

People have the mentality of following the herd.

When one person began to pay the penalty, other officials also began to pay the penalty.

Even the strongest person had to hold on until the next night, and the person was about to faint from hunger. In the end, he honestly handed over the silver. Finally, he came together and found that he had collected 31 million taels of silver.

He Xuan couldn't help but sneer: "Everyone, don't be too corruption in the future, otherwise, don't blame my sword for not knowing you."

...

He Xuan took a big step towards the palace.

In the palace, Emperor Chongzhen was already waiting anxiously.

Regarding this matter, He Xuan had discussed with Princess Changping earlier, and in fact, he discussed with Emperor Chongzhen through Princess Changping's mouth. Emperor Chongzhen really had no money and had no choice but to deal with these officials. When he heard He Xuan's general approach, he agreed.

What Emperor Chongzhen is most curious about now is how much silver He Xuan could squeeze out.

Can you squeeze one or two million taels of silver?

The annual income of the entire court was three to four million taels of silver.

If there are one or two million taels of silver, 500,000 taels can be distributed to provide relief to the victims in the northwest. There are more than one million taels that can be sent to the border troops. Those troops call for money, grain, and grain every day, and if they don’t give money, how can they deal with the Tartars?

Emperor Chongzhen himself had made similar donations before. What was the result?

He set a standard, and he wanted 30,000 yuan to be the best, hoping that everyone could donate more or less.

But, hehe.

First of all, let’s talk about Zhou Kui.

At that time, Chongzhen sent eunuch Xu Gao to Zhou Kui's house, indicating that the situation is critical and everyone is closely related. Zhou Kui, as the father-in-law, should set an example and give 50,000 to 100,000 taels to the court for emergency treatment.

In the end, Zhou Kui agreed to donate 10,000 taels of silver as an example, but when things came to an end, he still couldn't bear to leave. In the end, he donated 13,000 taels of silver. Among the 13,000 taels of silver, 5,000 taels were given by Queen Zhou. In fact, he donated a total of 8,000 taels.

Zhou Kui is pretty good.

Wei Zaode, the chief assistant of the cabinet, donated 500 taels.

Most of the other ministers donated money, ranging from dozens to hundreds of taels, and not many of them exceeded a thousand.

Finally, after counting, hehe, I got a total of 200,000 taels.

This was the result of Emperor Chongzhen begging his grandfather and suing his grandmother.

Basically, in one sentence, it is: "The royal relatives are silent, and the civil and military forces in the court are crazy and stupid."

Don’t think that these 200,000 taels were donated by civil and military officials of the court and royal relatives.

In fact, most of them are donated by ordinary people.

When the country is in trouble, it is rich and has the money to contribute. After Emperor Chongzhen issued a call for donation, an old man in his sixties came to the Ministry of Revenue and burst into tears. He donated the 400 taels of silver he had accumulated throughout his life. After Emperor Chongzhen learned about it, he immediately gave him the title of a thousand households in a brocade.

These are the fucked civil and military officials and royal relatives.

The Minghui demise in history is the demise of these civil and military officials who pretend to be crazy and stupid, and the royal relatives who are unscathing.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that He Xuanda stepped in and asked immediately: "How much donation did you get this time?"

He Xuan stretched out three fingers.

"Thirty thousand taels?" Emperor Chongzhen asked. As the emperor of a country, he donated for a long time and collected 200,000 taels of silver. He Xuan went to donate for two days and got 30,000 taels, which was normal.

He Xuan shook his head.

"Three hundred thousand taels?" Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be stunned. He Xuanmo wouldn't have donated more than himself, that was he was capable.

He Xuan still shook his head.

"That's three thousand taels." Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but feel a little lost. If it was three thousand taels, it would be useless: "Three thousand taels are three thousand taels."

He Xuan still shook his head.

Chongzhen was confused: "Don't tell me, you donated three million taels of silver? This is unlikely, the annual income of the imperial court is only three or four hundred taels of silver."

If three million taels are needed, Emperor Chongzhen would be frightened directly.

He Xuan still shook his head.

Emperor Chongzhen was even more confused: "How many taels of silver have you donated suddenly? It's not three thousand taels, not three thousand taels, not three hundred thousand taels, and you said it's not three million taels."

"Three thousand one million taels, silver." He Xuan finally reported the answer.

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned: "What did you say? 31 million taels of silver? Are you kidding, those ministers have so much money?"

"Haha, of course they have it. In fact, their net worth should be more than this. I estimate that their net worth should be between 70 million taels and 80 million taels." He Xuan smiled.

"How is it possible? How is it possible? How is it possible?" Emperor Chongzhen kept shook his head, and the national dynasty's income was three to four million taels a day. Then he told him now that the ministers in Beijing donated more than 30 million taels this time, which was equivalent to nearly ten years of income from the court.

This is so scary!

Are his civil and military officials so rich?

Are his civil and military officials so greedy?

"It should be killed, all these civil and military officials should be killed." Emperor Chongzhen said hatefully.

"Yes, these civil and military officials are too greedy. However, it is a time of turmoil and it is not appropriate to change. Therefore, we cannot move their collective for the time being. We can only let them pay the money first." He Xuan said.

"These civil and military officials really deserve to be killed. If you didn't threaten, I'm afraid no one could squeeze out the money." Emperor Chongzhen said with emotion: "With this money, I can use it for disaster relief in the northwest, and on the food and grass of border soldiers. I can also loosen some taxes, so that the people's taxes will be much looser and they can live a better life."

No matter how capable Emperor Chongzhen was in being an emperor, he really wanted to be a good emperor.

In history, he forced the officials below to be taxed by the people below several times.

In history, when Beijing was destroyed, he also shouted that Li Zicheng would slaughter his body and not hurt his people.

This is also why He Xuan is willing to help him.
Chapter completed!