What? Learn from Zhu Chunchen?
Do you want to follow his lead and go to the city to kill thieves and then return home to donate your money?
What is there to learn from this? What are the benefits of learning this?
A group of distinguished royal relatives were speechless.
They are all masters who have no strength to kill thieves and are really reluctant to donate money. If you were really willing, you should have bought the edict to leave the city this morning. You have arrived in Tongzhou now, what are you doing in Beijing?
Besides, even if they thought about it and were willing to pay for the edict, it's too late now. There are already rogue cavalry in the east of Beijing. Although Li Zicheng adopted the tactic of surrounding three buildings, it does not mean that he has completely let the east of the city go in and out at will. He still sent a lot of small teams of cavalry.
If a large group of troops protruded from Beijing, these small groups of cavalry would not be able to stop them. However, the few servants in the Xungui Emperor's family are not strong enough for them to take care of. If they go out, they will die.
Therefore, Zhu Cixi's order to leave the city can no longer be sold.
Seeing that there was no reaction from the royal family members, Zhu Cixiang just smiled and looked at Zhu Chunchen - it's time for you, a role model among the nobles, to show off!
Zhu Chunchen immediately understood and saluted Zhu Cihong and said: "Master Qiansui is really too generous. How dare I set an example for you? I donated these 250,000 taels of silver for the sake of my own family!"
Yeah?
The nobles and royal relatives don’t believe it! Two hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver! Do you think money takes up space?
Zhu Cixi just looked at these stupid nobles coldly. Unlike the history of Beijing where civil servants mostly served as ministers, most of these nobles died for the country after the city of Beijing was destroyed. There was a shortage of civil servants on Li Zicheng's side. A group of robbers cannot govern a country. Therefore, most civil servants were given preferential treatment, and only a few high-ranking officials were tortured and paid.
But there is absolutely no shortage of honors on Li Zicheng's side!
At this time, Zhu Chunchen said again: "Don't think that I, Zhu Chunchen, am talking nonsense... I am telling the truth, because my family, Zhu Chunchen, has more than 250,000 taels of silver! My family has more than 400,000 taels of silver. Now I will donate Out of 250,000 taels, there are still 160,000 taels left.
One hundred and sixty thousand taels of silver is not much to keep at home, but why don't you try to drive it away in a big cart? Sixteen taels of silver per catty, 160,000 taels is ten thousand catties... plus the box containing the silver, it is more than twelve thousand catties. One horse can pull three hundred kilograms of cargo, and it would take at least dozens of horses to pull twelve thousand kilograms!
In addition to money, I also have a family and a wife. When traveling far away, I have to bring food and horse feed, all of which require carriages and horses to transport. Therefore, my horse and cart can carry away 160,000 taels of silver. No matter how much it is, you will really be out of luck! If it's not lucky, should it be given to a stray thief? It is better to donate it to a thousand-year-old master than to give it to a stray thief. Let Mr. Qiantose recruit more soldiers, so that I can protect my father and all the honorable ministers from going to Jiangnan together! "
Zhu Chunchen suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "We are all honorable ministers! We are different from civil servants, eunuchs and military attachés who lead troops outside.
We live together with the country... Most of your ancestors and Zhu's ancestors were from the dragon when they were Emperor Taizu and Gao, and a few were later ministers and royal relatives of several dynasties. But there is absolutely no ancestor who was a hero of the Yuan Dynasty!
In the same way, over there in Chuangni, there will never be the splendor and wealth of the Ming Dynasty ministers like us! He has fought countless battles in his rebellion, but today, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, will Thief Li still lack honorable ministers? Therefore, we have no choice but to follow him to the death and go to Jiangnan with the Holy Lord and Qiantui Master.
As long as we can go to the south of the Yangtze River, even if we only have half of the country, we are still honored! "
After saying this, the courtyard became deathly quiet.
Zhu Chunchen revealed what everyone is most worried about! They are not even qualified to surrender and rebel!
Because Li Zicheng didn't need the nobles like them. Li Zicheng himself had a lot of ministers to settle, so why did he need the ministers of the Ming Dynasty? The Ming Dynasty did not support the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty back then!
It would be benevolent to confiscate all the property and keep someone alive. Historically, Li Zicheng's torture and salary recovery policy after entering Beijing was quite criticized, but what needs to be criticized is the torture of civil servants, not the torture of nobles and eunuchs. Because these two types of people are not needed by the new dynasty. If we don’t fight their rich people, whose rich people will we fight?
In the courtyard, the atmosphere was gloomy, with only the flickering light from torches and lanterns making the air even more tense.
I don’t know how long it took for someone to react and ask loudly: "Master Qiantose, are you really going to give up on the capital and move south?"
"Really moving the capital?"
"The city of Beijing was won by our ancestors through hundreds of battles. Do you really want to give up?"
"All the cabinet ministers agree?"
The honorable nobles started talking about it. I'm afraid the matter of moving the capital to Nanxing won't be so easy to finalize, right?
Zhu Cixiang said: "On the 6th of this month, the Holy One gave an order to abandon Ningyuan and mobilize Guan Ning's army to defend the capital. So there are only less than 10,000 people left in Shanhaiguan General Soldier Gaodi's headquarters east of the capital. How can we stop the Manchu Chou attack? Soldiers? And there are no soldiers from the imperial court in Xuanfu, Juyong and the entrances of the Great Wall to the north of the capital. Even if the imperial court can rely on the hard fighting of the Guanning border army to repel the bandits, it is unable to guard Shanhaiguan and along the Great Wall. It is impossible to regain the lost territory in Xuan Dashan, Shaanxi and Henan.
In this way, the capital is no more than an isolated city. The only purpose of the imperial court's presence here was to isolate the bandits and the captives and prevent them from fighting each other. But for the imperial court, it would be more beneficial for thieves and uglies to fight against each other! Therefore, clinging to the capital is already a strategy to seek death, and abandoning it is inevitable! If you want to say that the inheritance of your ancestors cannot be abandoned, there is no need to speak! "
"Master Qiansui is right!" Zhu Chunchen shouted loudly at this time, "As soon as Guan Ning's army moves, there will be no barrier to the east of the capital. It will only take three or two months for the prisoners to break through the barrier. But Guan Ning's army does not move, and Liu Chou The thieves will break the capital again... so the only way to survive is to let Guan Ning's army escort the imperial court to move south.
And if you want to mobilize Guan Ningjun to escort you, can you do it without money? If you want the city of Beijing to hold on until Guanning's army arrives, can you do it without money? If I, the nobles, want to go to Jiangnan to continue to be prosperous and wealthy, we have to take out the money! Not only should the money be donated, but all servants, servants, and children who can fight should be allowed to join the army! Only in this way can we survive in death! As long as you can go to Jiangnan and continue to be a noble, are you still worried about not having money? "
The logic is good, and the nobles nodded in agreement.
"What Duke Cheng Guo said is absolutely true!" Someone finally stood up and echoed. The person who stood up was Li Guozhen...I don't know if he was being asked to do so?
Li Guozhen said loudly: "Master Qiansui, I am willing to donate one hundred thousand taels of silver and provide one hundred able servants and children to join the army!"
In fact, the strength of his family has been taken away by Wu Sanfu a long time ago, and now it is just empty talk.
"Okay!" Zhu Cixiang said loudly, "Uncle Xiangcheng is also a pillar of the country, a role model for nobles, and a hero in overcoming difficulties!"
"Master Qiansui, I am willing to pay 50,000 taels to you, Marquis Xinle, Liu Wenbing, and bring fifty of my family members to join the army!"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, I am willing to donate 30,000 taels and bring 20 of my family members to join the army!"
"Your Highness, your minister Zhangwu Bo Yang Chongyou is willing to contribute 20,000 taels and bring 20 of his servants to join the army!"
"I would like to give 20,000 taels to Zhang Qingzhen, Hui'an Bo, and take fifteen of my family members to join the army!"
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Just when some nobles were learning from Zhu Chunchen and everyone was striving to be a good nobleman of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, summoned Gao Yushun and Luo Yangxing in the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace.
Gao Yushun witnessed the Battle of Fuchengmen commanded by Zhu Cixiang in the afternoon! And Luo Yangxing found out about the murder of the crown prince! Du Xun was not killed by Zhu Chunchen, but by Zhu Cihong who was only sixteen years old! Kill with your own hands!
In addition, Chongzhen also learned that Zhu Cixiang made money by selling edicts to leave the city.
Emperor Chongzhen was also very cold-blooded. His son was so ruthless and cunning that he could kill someone with his own hands at the age of 16. Moreover, it scared Zhu Chunchen, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp, into tears, and defrauded several million taels of silver from a group of nobles and officials who were afraid of death...
"It's so treacherous and cruel..." Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but muttered after hearing the report, "You are so treacherous and cruel when you are only sixteen years old. How can you be so treacherous and cruel when you grow up?"
Luo Yangxing and Gao Yushun looked at each other, and then nodded at the same time!
This is incredible!
So treacherous, so cruel... When he becomes emperor, the bandits and luchou will be dead!
However, if the civil and military officials and the royal family are in his hands, life will definitely not be easy.
This person is not a dream entrusted by Taizu at all, he is simply possessed by Taizu!
