Since he was able to travel to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zilong has liked to read history books and various materials related to the Ming Dynasty.

Especially on March 18 every year, I always read a few pages of Ming history. Because on this day, in the original history, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, Chongzhen committed suicide, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed.

In the last days, Chongzhen, the stubborn and face-loving emperor, made his last efforts to save the country and the country. He gave up the emperor's honor and begged ministers and relatives to donate money to pay the soldiers defending Beijing.

The result: the royal relatives were silent, and the civil and military forces in the court were crazy and stupid.

To put it in a popular saying: Chongzhen was unlucky enough to get into a strange ex, and encountered strange subordinates and strange relatives.

So, the question is: As a vested interest group, the powerful should understand that they and the Ming Dynasty are a community with a shared future, but why do they have such a strange manifestation?

After Chongzhen issued a call for donation, an old man in his 60s came to the Ministry of Revenue and burst into tears. He donated 400 taels of silver he had accumulated throughout his life. After Chongzhen learned about it, he immediately gave him a position of "Thousand Households in the Bright Clothing".

The name of this donor was not left in history. After he was a thousand households for a day, the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, and there was no record of this person in historical materials.

But this nameless person should be the very few people who could make him feel warm before Chongzhen died.

Compared with the old man who donated all his wealth, the civil and military officials in the late Ming Dynasty were very unbearable.

Wei Zaode, the chief assistant of the cabinet, donated 500 taels; the richest eunuch, Wang Zhixin, donated 10,000 taels... Chongzhen meant "30,000 is the best", but none of them reached this amount.

The powerful are crying, playing tricks, and escaping. For a moment, all kinds of weird things have come out:

Some people took their own pots and pans to practice stalls on the street, while others posted "This house is urgently sold" on the doors of luxury houses... All this is telling the emperor: We really don't have money to donate, it depends on what you do. It's just that I don't give it money. It's all my business to be alive in the Ming Dynasty?

Chongzhen also asked every minister to cited a rich man who was able to donate from his hometown. As a result, only Nanzhili and Zhejiang each selected one, "it was not enough for me to register in other provinces."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, internal and external troubles were in trouble, and the national finances had collapsed.

As early as the eighth year of Chongzhen, Li Guan, a martial artist in Jiangnan, submitted a memorial to raise military funds.

The root of the chaos in the world is that the land annexation is serious and the gap between the rich and the poor is too huge. Large households aggregate land and operate businesses, only know how to wear luxury and compete for luxury, and do not think about the difficulties of the country.

Even in the harvest year, the common people could not help crying hungry and cold; when they encountered a famine, the weak had to go to death by starving to death, and the strong would rise up and rebel.

In his memorial, he asked the emperor to issue an edict, ordering the large households in Jiangnan to automatically report their property and pledge military pay. If there is any disobedience, his property will be confiscated and not tolerated at all.

However, the roots are rotten. As the commander of a bachelor, it is impossible for the emperor to do this.

There was no official property declaration system in the Ming Dynasty, nor the Forbes rankings.

Chongzhen clearly knew that these people were corruption and bribery, and some were money. He also repeatedly used the national justice to illustrate them, but the powerful people were unwilling to bleed. Although he was the emperor, he had no mistakes at all. (The personality was related to the system, and he did not have a direct military force in his hands)!

Sun Chuanting was the last new force in the late Ming Dynasty.

The emperor repeatedly urged him to leave Tongguan and fight the army of the King of Chuang. However, when the war requires money, the court has owed wages for a long time.

In desperation, he asked the local tyrants to raise funds. But the tyrants were protected by the court and did not take him seriously at all. In the end, he gave him a few money, just like sending a beggar.

After drinking a glass of wine, Sun Chuanting laughed wildly. Everyone looked at each other, not understanding why Sun Chuanting was so incompetent.

It turned out that Lao Sun knew that he would die when he went there, so he was not afraid of making it clear.

He accused Mr. Gu, the representative of the local tyrant, of privately occupying military fields and defrauding taxes: "What crime should we be punished?"

Mr. Gu was very awesome and believed that there were people in the court. He said to Sun Chuanting very arrogantly: "What do you want? What can you do? I just have money, I just don't donate, I care about your life or death!"

Sun Chuanting waved his hand: "Good statement!"

Immediately a soldier came up and cut off Mr. Gu's carotid artery with one knife. Blood suddenly blew, and Mr. Gu fell to the ground and died, his property was used as military pay.

This is also Sun Chuanting's last madness.

He has given up his promise, and he is about to die in the battlefield anyway, so he will kill a few evil gentry first. He knows the shamelessness of these powerful people. If you ask you to donate, don't you?

Well, just beat the local tyrants and divide the land and confiscate your house!

Unfortunately, Comrade Lao Sun is not a time traveler after all, and he only dares to do this once in his heart, otherwise he would learn from Li Zicheng.

Haha, Sun Chuanting rebelled and became the emperor was much better than letting Li Zicheng go!

In the original history, there was probably no second emperor like Chongzhen who was humble and asked for money in Chinese history. The genius of powerful people like the late Ming Dynasty who did not give the emperor any face was extremely rare.

But why are they so weird and stupid?

Don’t they know that there will be no end in their entire nest? If the country is destroyed, how can they protect their own property and life?

It turns out that the reason is that the selfishness is too strong!

Civil and military officials, royal relatives and relatives have a common psychology: the emperor is not short of money.----"Is it the king's land the shore of the land?" The whole world is yours, why do we need to pay?

However, in fact, Chongzhen was very poor, and he was one of the poorest emperors in history.

After taking office, he took over a mess and saved himself from frugality. Even if there were not enough palace maids, he would not dare to expand his enrollment. He even used gold and silver utensils in the palace and even copper pots in the hall to serve as military pay.

Back then, after Li Zicheng conquered Beijing, he discovered all Chongzhen's property in the palace.

Apart from the dragon robe, there are only coarse cloth clothes, and a few handfuls of pieces are all discounted, and the inner treasury is only tens of thousands of taels of silver.

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Whenever Zhu Zilong studied the history of the Ming Dynasty, he felt amused and laughed.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the relationship between the monarch and the ministers was also very strange. They did not trust each other and no one was willing to take responsibility. The emperor cried and the poor, and the powerful thought to himself: Who should we deceive?

So the emperor asked them for money, and they cried poorly. It seemed that they were playing a tacit game with each other!

So after this, after the habit becomes natural, they have deeper considerations: This is the world of your Zhu family, if you throw it away, it will be thrown away. What does it have to do with me? Why do you have to pay me?

It’s okay if Li Zicheng calls him. If the emperor gets on his way, it doesn’t matter who becomes the emperor. We have to help you manage the country, right?

This society has a illiteracy rate of 99%. If you don’t need us, you have no talent available at all.

All officials take it for granted, and even more so for ordinary people: Whoever is the emperor is our business, what does it have to do with us? Wouldn't we still be ordinary people?

As a result, it was like an infectious disease.

The same is true for the soldiers guarding the city. Without military pay, why should we work hard? At worst, we can serve the new emperor in the army!

According to historical records, when the King of Breaking Army besieged the city, the defenders of the capital fell to the top of the city, "one person raised up and one person lying back". The same is true for the cities in other places, and you can imagine it!

A country that lacks trust and consensus will inevitably be in a mess.

No one is willing to take responsibility when encountering problems. Everyone wants to blame the other party. If they blindly blame the other party, they will surely die together in the end.

Unfortunately, in the original history, neither Li Zicheng nor Huang Taiji were good people, nor were they destined people!

After Li Zicheng attacked the capital, he arrested and imprisoned all the officials and scholars of the Ming Dynasty in a few days.

As a bandit, he had no ability to manage the country, and even thought it was easy to be an emperor, but he didn't need these officials of the previous dynasty.

Those iron roosters who cried in poverty in front of Chongzhen handed over amazing wealth before the torture of the rebel army.

Historical records: After cruel torture, Li Zicheng's army received more than 70 million taels of silver. With some treasures and supplies, he only obtained nearly 200 million silver wealth. However, the local tyrants and officials in the city were basically all dead, and the whole family died.

This is really a great irony!

If these people are described in one word, they are "bad". If they are described in two words, they are brainless!

Zhou Kui, the father-in-law, was crying and shouting, and was willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver. The eunuch Xu Gao was ordered by Chongzhen to persuade him to donate. He was so angry that the eunuch Xu Gao was so angry that he stood up and said, "The old royal family is so stingy, and the big thing is gone. What's the benefit of saving and producing more!"

It means: If the skin is gone, where will the hair be attached? The country is almost gone, why do you want so much money? Do you bring it into the coffin?

But there are people, countless people, are so confused...

It doesn't matter if they are confused, but the land of China has become the territory of the Later Jin and Qing dynasties.

The Ming Dynasty was destroyed and the catastrophe came. What followed was dozens and hundreds of years of cruel wars, and no one could stay out of it.

Only hundreds of millions of Chinese people died at the hands of the Qing army (this algorithm is counted together, including the early, mid-term, and during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Basically, it is all directly or indirectly, and died at the hands of the Qing army.)

Now, Zhu Zilong, who has traveled through time, has laid a slightly better foundation in the Ming Dynasty in advance.

In this life, he will never let such dark history repeat itself on the land of China. Never, never, never!

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Chapter completed!