Chapter 44 Two hundred thousand taels VS 80 million taels
After hearing Zhu Biao speak and someone complimenting him, Han Cheng finally said:
"Prince, these guys made good calculations, but unfortunately, they didn't get any good results.
In other words, that is their best ending."
As soon as Han Cheng's words came out of his mouth, Zhu Yuanzhang took a reassurance.
However, Emperor Hongwu was also a strong man and did not turn his head back to listen to Han Cheng's story.
Still stubbornly turned aside.
He didn't seem to care about Han Cheng's story.
Regarding Lao Zhu's performance, Han Cheng smiled secretly in his eyes and didn't say much.
"After Li Zicheng's troops entered the capital, many ministers submitted to him one after another.
They all also started to welcome King Chuang.
However, Li Zicheng, who broke the capital, also faced a problem.
There is also a shortage of money and food.
He has too many armies to feed.
Coupled with the slogans he shouted before, such as not being paid for work and not being paid, Li Zicheng's life was not easy.
There is a big gap in terms of money and food.
What to do?
Of course, they borrowed it from these extremely wealthy officials and wealthy households in the Ming Dynasty.
Like Emperor Chongzhen, Li Zicheng quickly issued an announcement urging these people to donate money.
He also gave a standard of one hundred thousand taels for cabinet ministers, ministers, ministers, etc., ranging from 30,000 to 50,000 taels.
As soon as such a notice came out, these officials who were happy to welcome King Chuang were immediately confused.
Didn’t you say that King Chuang won’t pay you any food when he comes?
Why are you asking to donate money now?
During the Ming Dynasty, the emperor asked people to donate money. Now that King Chuang is here, he is still asked to donate money. Isn’t King Chuang here in vain?
These officials immediately stopped working.
They changed their identities and followed King Chuang to enjoy happiness and keep their wealth, rather than to donate money.
Faced with such a situation, what should we do?
These people have plenty of experience.
After all, they had dealt with Emperor Chongzhen not long ago.
Therefore, these people began to collectively cry out for poverty again, and then took out a little money to deal with errands.
In their opinion, this is the way to go and nothing goes wrong.
They used this method to deal with Emperor Chongzhen, the orthodox emperor of the Ming Dynasty, let alone a mere King Li Chuang!
Then, these people fell over.
When Li Zicheng got this pitiful amount of money, he was furious and felt that these people were humiliating him!
If you can't do it with words, you'll just use force.
A vigorous torture operation began.
They directly grabbed these guys, dipped their leather whips in salt water, beat them to death, burned them, broke their legs, etc.
Carrying out severe torture..."
"Good! Good! Good fight!!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been turning his head to one side before, finally couldn't bear it anymore.
I also forgot to vent my anger on Han Cheng.
He turned his head violently, clapped his hands vigorously, and shouted loudly.
Looking excited.
"Well done! Kill these sons of bitches!!
Li Zicheng has done a good thing!"
Zhu Yuanzhang unexpectedly praised Li Zicheng in a rare voice.
From this we can see how much Zhu Yuanzhang hated the corrupt officials of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Prince Zhu Biao did not speak, it could be seen from the changes in his expression that he also felt extremely relieved about such a result.
Han Cheng stood here with a smile on his face, waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to vent some of his emotional excitement before he continued:
"Do you know how much money Li Zicheng made from this torture?"
Through previous conversations, Zhu Biao already knew some of Han Cheng's problems.
I know that when he says this, someone needs to take over, otherwise, he will not continue.
With his father's temper, he would naturally not do such a thing.
So, this has to fall on him.
"Ten million taels?"
Zhu Biao spoke very sensibly and gave an amount that he thought was very large.
Now, there is a shortage of money in the Ming Dynasty, and money is very valuable.
In addition, when his descendant, Emperor Chongzhen, was collecting donations, he could only collect 200,000 taels of silver.
Therefore, Zhu Biao felt that ten million taels was already a lot.
This is the result of what he said in as big a way as possible.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang on the side did not speak, he made a certain assessment of this in his heart.
The psychological expectations he came up with were similar to those stated by Zhu Biao.
They are all around 10 million taels.
After Zhu Biao said the number, the two couldn't help but look at Han Cheng.
As a result, Han Cheng shook his head.
"What? Did I say too much?"
Zhu Biao said subconsciously.
He also felt that the amount of ten million taels was too large.
"Then...five million taels?"
Zhu Biao immediately halved the number.
Han Cheng shook his head again.
Seeing that Zhu Biao still wanted to reduce the number, Han Cheng stopped letting Zhu Biao guess.
He was worried that Zhu Biao would guess less and less.
At that moment, he stretched out his finger towards Zhu Biao and made an eight sign.
"Eight million taels?"
Zhu Biao was shocked when he said this number.
These guys are really rich!
So greedy!!
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but clenched his fists secretly, feeling that these guys really deserved to die!
How many people must have been harmed and how many holes must have been drilled into Ming Dynasty to embezzle so much money!
After hearing what Zhu Biao said, Han Cheng shook his head secretly. Although father and son, Lao Zhu and Xiao Zhu, were not simple, they were still not courageous enough and ambitious enough when it came to money and corrupt officials.
I underestimated those corrupt officials in the late Ming Dynasty.
It’s only eight million taels, who are you looking down on?
This seriously underestimates the business capabilities of these corrupt officials in the late Ming Dynasty.
"No, it's nearly 80 million taels."
As soon as these words were spoken, the indignant Lao Zhu and Xiao Zhu were both stunned.
"hiss!"
"Hiss~!"
After being quiet for a while, the sounds of cold air could be heard one after another in the Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and his son were all shocked by the number Han Cheng said!
I thought that when they mentioned the figure of 10 million taels, it was as high as possible. I felt that this number was outrageous enough.
Who would have thought that it was still so far behind!
These guys have made so much money!
"These people are all very rich. Not to mention the rest, Zhou Kui, the head of the state of Chongzhen, who complained about his poverty in front of the emperor's son-in-law and asked for money, was directly cashed out with more than 500,000 silver, and
Jewelry worth more than 20,000 taels..."
Han Cheng's voice continued to sound, and Zhu Yuanzhang's breathing became heavy again.
These thieves deserve to die!
It’s really damned!
The descendants of the emperor begged them, but they only came up with 200,000 taels. When the rebels came, they directly produced 80 million taels!
This gap is really huge!
They are really a bunch of killers and moths!
While he felt extremely angry, he also felt that Li Zicheng was not used to the methods of these corrupt officials, which was very much in line with his wishes.
Should!
These guys deserve it!
"So, the person who replaced our Ming Dynasty and established a new dynasty is Li Zicheng?"
After calming down, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Han Cheng and asked...
