"Weird?" Emperor Chongzhen was confused and asked, "What do you mean?"
Liu Weichao was about to gloat about his misfortune when he suddenly remembered that Emperor Chongzhen had just said that it might be a slander by future generations.
This situation really needs to be considered. After all, history is written by the victors. The truth cannot be said with 100% certainty. What is recorded in history is correct.
So, Liu Weichao became serious and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "According to records, at the end of the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign, you really had no money, so you wanted to raise money first from civil and military officials and royal relatives. For this reason, I wanted to
Let your father-in-law take the lead in donating money to set an example for others..."
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he suddenly thought that this idea seemed possible. Moreover, Xue Guoguan had mentioned it before, but it was not implemented.
"...As a result, Zhou Kui said that there was no money left in the family. Even if Queen Zhou went to tell her, it would be of no avail. In the end, Queen Zhou had no choice but to secretly sell her gold and silver jewelry from the palace in exchange for 5,000 taels of silver and give it to Zhou Kui.
Zhou Kui donated money in his own name to avoid making other ministers laugh."
When Liu Weichao said this, he shook his head slightly and said, "Guess what? After Zhou Kui received it, he deducted 2,000 taels of silver from it, and then reluctantly handed over the remaining 3,000 taels of silver to the national treasury."
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he frowned and his expression remained unchanged. It was obvious that he was in a bad mood.
If it is true, it not only proves that he is blind, but also the head of state is like this, then the others...
Liu Weichao didn't care that the person he was chatting with was the emperor, and continued: "When other civil and military officials saw Zhou Kui like this, they naturally imitated him and started crying. You can guess the result. But..."
When he heard that there was a turning point, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but feel refreshed.
"...Later, after the bandits entered the capital, they still implemented the policy of recovering stolen goods and asking officials to donate money!" Liu Weichao said with emotion, "Of course it was coercive. Guess how much money he got in the end?
"
"How much?" Emperor Chongzhen asked quickly after hearing this.
If the money is not much, then it won’t be a big problem if he can’t donate the money.
But who knows, Liu Weichao said to him: "Seventy million taels of silver!"
Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen was immediately dumbfounded.
Seventy million taels of silver, this is simply a mountain of silver! It’s overwhelming!
But when he came back to his senses, his face suddenly turned very ugly.
If he had these 70 million taels of silver, how could the Ming Dynasty be destroyed?
No, even if you only have ten million taels of silver, you can still do a lot, and you won’t feel like you are at the end of your rope like you do now!
At this moment, Liu Weichao continued to say to him: "Of course, no one knows the specific number. There are also rumors that most of them were found in the Forbidden City, saying that you hid money.
Even if the country is about to be subjugated, they will not save a dime, but in the end, they will get an advantage in vain!"
"What?" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he was immediately furious. "How is it possible? I am not that kind of person! Since I came to the throne, the treasury has been empty. For this reason, I have to collect more money..."
Hearing his defense there, so fast and urgent that he couldn't hear clearly, Liu Weichao couldn't help but yawned, interrupted Emperor Chongzhen and said: "Yes, yes, I didn't say this is true, don't
Excited. By the way, why are you calling me about something?"
When he changed the subject, Emperor Chongzhen tried hard to suppress the indignation in his heart. Feeling that business was more important, he replied to Liu Weichao: "I have established the West Factory according to your proposal and asked Wang Cheng'en to supervise the West Factory. In addition, I have also made him eight
Baili rushed to recall Sun Chuanting, Zhou Yuji, Sun Yingyuan, and Huang Degong."
After hearing this, Liu Weichao was satisfied. After all, Emperor Chongzhen could listen to him. This was a sense of accomplishment.
Then, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Have the affairs of the West Factory been announced? If not, you can try it first to see what your father-in-law and your civil and military officials are like.
How about it? Ask them to donate money first and see how they react? If it is indeed as recorded in the history books, then you are welcome to your West Factory!"
Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately felt that it made sense. However, he remembered that the decree to establish the West Factory had been given to Wang Chengen, and he had to stop this first.
Of course, he also really wants to know what his ministers are like!
So, I became a little anxious and quickly said to Liu Weichao: "Then I have to go and get busy first. I have to call Wang Chengen back first."
After hearing this, Liu Weichao yawned again and stood up and said: "Okay, I have to go back and take a nap. I didn't sleep all night last night and I'm sleepy!"
At this time, it was almost noon, and the sky was bright. As soon as Liu Weichao stood up, Emperor Chongzhen saw through the video that there was something very, very high behind him!
It looks like it's a house, right?
That’s not right, even the house where the legendary gods live is definitely not that high!
It's higher than a mountain. Is this a house?
The first time he saw it, he was dumbfounded!
Previously, when he had a video chat with Liu Weichao, it was at night, in Liu Weichao's room, and he couldn't see anything more.
The next morning, when the sky was slightly bright, Liu Weichao's body happened to be blocking the camera and there was no background. He asked Emperor Chongzhen to do something, so Emperor Chongzhen neglected other things.
Therefore, this time, suddenly seeing the high-rise buildings behind Liu Weichao was definitely a dimensionality-reducing blow to ancient people who had never seen it before!
Liu Weichao asked, and found that Emperor Chongzhen was stunned again. He couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, so he asked casually: "What's wrong?"
After hearing his words, Emperor Chongzhen came back to his senses. Just as he was about to speak, he saw a strange thing coming quickly on the street behind Liu Weichao, and then disappeared in the video.
"..." Emperor Chongzhen was stunned again when he saw it!
What is that thing? Lying on the ground, it’s so fast?
Before he could figure it out, another similar thing appeared in front of him very quickly, and then disappeared from the video.
this……
Emperor Chongzhen couldn't react at all. He was probably even more shocked than Grandma Liu when she arrived at the Grand View Garden!
After all, it was during the same era when Grandma Liu came to the Grand View Garden. But what Emperor Chongzhen saw was something he could never have imagined.
Seeing Emperor Chongzhen's sudden stunned look, Liu Weichao was a little puzzled, but according to Emperor Chongzhen's sight, he turned around and understood.
When Emperor Chongzhen saw him like this, he had already come to his senses and asked with that incredible expression and a very surprised tone: "Then... what is that thing behind that... that is so tall? And what's more?
, and what was that flash past just now? It was so fast!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Weichao immediately laughed. He really shocked this ancient emperor!