"Stop bragging, go and clean the battlefield." He Xuan shouted to his subordinates.

After seeing that the Qing Dynasty soldiers had really left, their subordinates put down the city gate of Qingshan Military Fort and began to clean the battlefield.

He Xuan looked at his sword and began to use it to block countless arrow branches, but there were no cracks. Sure enough, the famous sword is a famous sword, which is much higher than an ordinary sword. If it were replaced with an ordinary sword, it would probably be broken directly when blocking the arrow branches.

After a while, Zhang Heizi ran over and said, "Boss, this time I cleaned up the spoils, and there was no gain. These Qing soldiers walked too clean when they left. They took away all the corpses of important people, such as Jirgalang's bodies. Only some real corpses of Niulue were left, and no one cleaned them up. If the head level was used to calculate the merit, I would be afraid that they would suffer."

"What are you afraid of? No one can miss this battle." He Xuan said disapprovingly.

"That's right. After all, our Ming and Qing dynasties have fought for so many years. The best record we have ever had before was only to kill Jialaezhen. But now, we have killed the owner of the Lan Banner. This is a great contribution. Hehe, it seems that this time, I have been promoted again. Of course, you will definitely be promoted to a greater official position." Zhang Heizi smiled.

He Xuan shrugged: "By the way, He Maming, come here."

He Maming immediately ran over quickly: "Boss, what's going on?"

"I used to work happily with Su Ding and Su Qianhu. Generally speaking, he was allowed to report his merits to the top. But this time in Jinzhou, he was also transferred by Hong Chengchou. You passed the Tongsheng exam, and then you can write the merits to express merits to the top." He Xuan said.

"I'll write?" He Maming paused for a moment, but nodded immediately: "Okay. I'll write."

Zhang Heizi immediately shouted beside him: "Old He, remember to write more about the wise and magical martial arts of the head. When the head was shooting archery, a golden light directly descended from the sky to show the handsome and extraordinary things of the head. This is the way the gods and Buddhas should have when they descend to earth. By the way, you should also write that in Qingshan Military Fort, there is a Baihu named Zhang Heizi. He followed the head to fight and was very brave. He shot a Niu Luezhen with one arrow. Remember, you must remember that it means that Zhang Baihu shot Niu Luezhen on the opposite side. Brother's future promotion and wealth will depend on you."

He Maming was amused and crying: "A golden light descended from the sky, not a novel. I will write your credit for you, but remember to invite me to drink."

"No problem." Zhang Heizi patted his chest.

...

The palace of the Ming Dynasty, the Forbidden City.

Very big and very big.

It is also very prosperous inside.

Huagai Hall is the time for court discussion.

In the audience, there are all civil and military officials and ministers.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian sat on it.

However, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian felt a cold feeling.

At this time, Liu Yuliang from the cabinet first discussed: "Your Majesty, Wujiang, Su, Song, Hu and other places, Gui'an and other places, the water was pouring heavily, and the water suddenly surging, regardless of the embankment, and the houses were pouring. The rice price rose, and the rice was 30 or 4 cents, and the wealthy families were mostly closed, and the people ate grass, wood, and the roots and skins of their wives were thrown away. The powerful people were grouped together, and the clamored for food, the neighbors stopped the market, and the rural households were closed with great affection."

Emperor Chongzhen's expression changed.

Su, Song, Hu and other governments were originally the government's financial and taxation areas. If there was a disaster in that place, the taxes paid would not look very good. If it were in previous years, such losses could be withstood. But over the years, the weather has been much colder than in previous years. In the whole north, many places have no revenue. If there were less financial and taxation areas in Su, Song, Hu and other governments, how would the government do it?

Not to mention, Hong Chengchou is now leading an army of more than 100,000, and is squatting with the Qing Dynasty.

The army of more than 100,000 yuan had a large amount of food and grass. Although the court had prepared food and grass before this war, if the war was prolonged and the confrontation became longer, and disasters occurred in Su, Song, Hu and other governments over there and they could not pay taxes, what should we do?

A minister next to him also stood up and said, "Your Majesty, recently the province has been famine. However, there are people in the capital, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi who eat local food and vegetables, but they have no vegetables. They have cut out meat and bones and sucked them to death, which makes them cry."

Emperor Chongzhen said with a headache: "My ministers, what about you? What do you think? Now there are disasters everywhere, what do you think?"

The ministers below were silent.

How do these ministers answer? To put it bluntly, this matter is just because there is no money.

The Ming Dynasty's finances were so poor, they were terriblely poor.

This is a problem that money can solve, but the Ming Dynasty's finances did not have money.

Of course, the Ming officials were very rich. When Li Zicheng broke into the capital, he earned tens of millions of taels of silver by robbing the wealth of these Ming Dynasty officials. The Ming Dynasty finance was only a few million taels of silver a year.

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but show a sarcastic smile on his lips: "The Ming Dynasty has been raising scholars for three hundred years, and you have always been paying for official salary. Now it's time to work hard, why can't you think of a solution?"

The ministers below didn't say anything, but they all looked like they were not afraid of boiling water.

But there is no other way, I have to come up with a solution.

Emperor Chongzhen said with a headache: "Well, the court really has no money. But the disaster must not be saved. Otherwise, the whole country will become like the northwest, and there will be civil unrest everywhere. Everyone's life will not be easy. You officials, donate some money. Jiading Bo, how much do you donate?"

The Jiading Bo he mentioned was Zhou Kui, the father of Emperor Chongzhen’s Empress Zhou. When Emperor Chongzhen thought that his father-in-law would support him.

With Zhou Kui's lead, no matter how others say, they have to donate more or less, so that the money can be collected and there will be disaster relief.

Let's talk about it if you can survive.

Zhou Kui had no other hobbies in his life, just likes large pieces of gold and silver. His family collected gold ingots from twenty warehouses and silver ingots from forty warehouses. However, recently Jiading Bo has built dozens of new warehouses, and he couldn't get so much gold and silver to fill the warehouse. Looking at the empty warehouse, Jiading Bo felt endless sadness, and often a feeling of despair appeared in his heart.

Life is cold!

The world is difficult!

Gold and silver are really hard to make.

It’s too much for my son-in-law to donate money by himself!

Zhou Kui immediately said, "I am honest, where can I get the money?"

"Puff!" Zhou Kui said that he was clean and there were already eunuchs below that couldn't help laughing. There were really few people in this capital that were richer than Zhou Kui.

Emperor Chongzhen also looked at Zhou Kui with his eyes, with a cold feeling in his eyes.

Zhou Kui originally wanted to pretend to be silly and insisted that he had no money. But when he saw Emperor Chongzhen's eyes, he couldn't help but shiver. This Emperor Chongzhen was the most fierce emperor in history who killed ministers. Although he was the national uncle, he was really ruthless and the possibility of doing it was very high.

"Okay, after I go back, I will sell the furniture in the mansion to see if I can get enough silver for 3,000 taels." Zhou Kui said with heartache. Although his family has nearly 100 taels of silver, it is really heartbreaking and uncomfortable to donate 10,000 taels of silver. He is almost unable to breathe.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard that there were only three thousand taels, he wanted to kill Zhou Kui on the spot, but after all, he was the queen's father, so he could only bear it.

With Zhou Kui as the leader, the remaining minister said: "Go home to sell furniture and get one thousand taels."

The one said, "Go home and sell antiques and get two thousand taels."

The other one said: "Go home to sell the land, hoping to get one thousand five hundred taels."

It seems that if you have collected one or two thousand taels, these ministers have reached the point of selling their wealth.

Finally, it took a court meeting time to collect all the money. Although so many ministers only paid one or two thousand taels each, there were still quite a lot of money, which was enough for this disaster relief.

Emperor Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief, and the matter was resolved.

"Report!" A man rushed in anxiously: "There is a war report coming from the border."
Chapter completed!