please make me king

Chapter 1150 Excited

"Li Guorui, I heard that you have [-] family properties. I wonder if you can donate some for military use?" Chongzhen looked at Wu Qinghou in front of him with a cold face and said.

There was no trace of warmth between relatives in his eyes, but full of greed and viciousness.

"Your Majesty, I'm a noble marquis with an annual salary of less than a thousand shi, how can I get such a lot of silver?" Li Guorui was startled when he heard the words, and quickly denied it.

"No?" Chongzhen sneered, turned his head and said, "Big companion, show it to him!"

Hearing this, Wang Chengen handed a piece of paper to Li Guorui, and Li Guorui, Marquis of Wuqing, took it over and saw that it read "Somewhere, somewhere, a set of houses, worth more than [-] taels of silver; At this moment, the interest for buying and selling is [-] taels; in a certain month of a certain year, [-] taels of farm grains are collected", and so on.

Then Li Guorui, Marquis of Wuqing, broke out in a cold sweat, and he couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart. His first reaction was "there are spies"!
Is what is written on this paper true?
It was indeed true, it was as if he had checked his own account books, which made Li Guorui terrified.

"How is it? Are you donating or not?" Chongzhen asked Li Guorui with staring eyes like a hungry wolf.

"Donation, is it not enough for the minister to donate!" Li Guorui cried.

These family properties have been accumulated from generation to generation since his great-grandfather Li Wei, and now they are seized by the "tyrant", how can he not be inexplicably sad and indignant?
Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian saw that Li Guorui left the Qianqing Palace like a chicken, and couldn't help but feel a little bit unbearable.

It's just that this bit of intolerance was overwhelmed by the fear brought about by the two hostile forces of the Eastern Captives and the Western Bandits.

It can't be done, we must fight hard!

Zhu Youjian murmured to himself: This time is my chance to turn the tables. I must collect enough silver taels to recruit soldiers, train soldiers, recover the homeland, and rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty!

It turned out that Xue Guoguan led Li Guochen to meet Emperor Chongzhen last night. Only then did he learn from Li Guochen that the Marquis of Wuqing's family had "millions of capital. Diaoyutai in the suburbs and many other places.”

"Each place ranges from hundreds of acres, and thirty to fifty acres of various flowers are planted. Among them, the ten scenic gardens are surrounded by restaurants, wine shops, pawnshops, cake shops, fish markets, and villages. "

"From the capital to Zhangjiawan, Lugouqiao, Linqing market, etc., there are official stores, collapsed houses, commercial firms, and shops, and I don't know how many."

"As a result, the family has rice that will not be used for eight or nine years, silk that will not be worn in ten years, and gold and silver that will not be used in a lifetime."

"Although a certain person has no virtue, he also knows that no country means no family, and he is willing to donate it to the country, use it as military aid, and wipe out bandits and captives!"

This is how Chongzhen ordered Li Guorui, Marquis of Wuqing, to enter the palace and forced him to "borrow money".

Not to mention how Chongzhen thought about it, but that Wuqing Hou Li Guorui couldn't help crying when he returned home.

When his wife heard the sound, she hurriedly asked why, and Li Guorui cried and said this.

"The sky is big and the earth is big, and reason is the biggest. Even the emperor, Lao Tzu, definitely has no reason to take other people's wealth." Li Guorui's wife thought for a while, and couldn't help but come up with an idea.

"In the past, your cronies and friends looked like a person, but now something happened, why don't you discuss it with them?"

"That's right!" Li Guorui, Marquis of Wuqing slapped his forehead when he heard the words, and laughed through tears, "Which one of them doesn't have millions of dollars?"

"It's me today, how can I know it won't be them tomorrow!"

Immediately, Li Guorui, Marquis of Wuqing, set up a private banquet and invited other dignitaries to the banquet.

Who are the people who have been invited?

There are Xu Yunzhen, Duke of Ding, Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Cheng, Zhang Zhiji, Duke of England, Xu Yingyuan, Marquis of Wuding, Chen Yanzuo, Marquis of Taining, Xue Lian, Marquis of Yangwu, and Zheng Zhijun, Marquis of Wu’an. Floor.

"Is Uncle Jiading here? Is Uncle Jiading here?" someone shouted early.

"Here we come, dukes, marquises and earls, please be polite!" Jiading Bo Zhou Kui said with a smile on his face.

"This is one of our own!" Someone else laughed and said, "Thanks to him in the court a few days ago, it's not as good as everyone's face!"

"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed when they heard the words, and they couldn't help but say everything.

Uncle Jiading was startled inwardly, and said to himself, "My dear daughter, my dear daughter, it's not that my father cheated on you."This time, thanks to the old man, I have always been diligent and thrifty in managing the family, otherwise our family will be in great trouble!

Sure enough, someone immediately shouted: "Marquis Wuqing, what are you afraid of? This time, you just hide the gold and silver jewelry and other valuables, and only sell the clumsy and old things on the street."

"You just said: just because the captives are flourishing and the country is not enough, the Marquis of Wuqing's family is willing to sell their property and subsidize the imperial court with [-] taels of silver. Which family can still sit?"

"Okay, this plan is good, this is Chi Guoguo hitting someone in the face!" Someone laughed and said.

"This... such a tough top, can it be done?" Marquis Wuqing Li Guorui hesitated a bit.

"A certain person has the best face, and everyone can't get off the stage. Let's see how he ends!" Hearing this, the man sneered.

"Okay, let's do it like this, and we will rely on everyone to contribute more." Li Guorui thought for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth.

"If you can't bear it, please give me some good words. You must know that today is me, how can you know that tomorrow will not be you!"

Everyone agreed, and early the next morning, Li Guorui ordered his servants to fetch old clothes, furniture, chaff and other things, and sell them along the street.

Anyone who came forward to inquire all said that "Li Guorui, Marquis of Wuqing, destroyed his family to relieve the difficulties, and wanted to sell all his family property, so as to collect enough [-] taels of silver to fund the country."

For a time, the city was full of disturbances, and everyone was in danger.

It turns out that today's Ming Dynasty "no official, no business", can be regarded as a model for the whole people to do business.

From the royal family and vassals to the literati and petty officials, they all racked their brains.

One is the occupation of "state-owned assets" such as Huangzhuang, Huangdian, Guandian, landslides, pastures, and farmland.

The second is to make huge profits by taking advantage of privileges, encroaching on official camps, buying and selling by force, and monopolizing operations.

Now that the old emperor has broken the "rules", how can these "officials and businessmen" not be surprised?

But the common people in the capital still have lingering fears about the "Jisi Change" in the second year of Chongzhen.

Now that suddenly came the matter of "destroying the family to relieve the difficulties, confiscating the public and borrowing money", who doesn't understand that Daming can't even pay the money?
Immediately, the crowd became angry and public opinion was in an uproar.

"What a treacherous thief, you openly oppose me!" Not long after the incident happened, Jin Yiwei reported the matter to Emperor Chongzhen.

Chongzhen became more and more furious when he heard the words, and could not help but order: "Wu Qinghou Li Guorui enters the palace, I want to ask him what he wants to do!"

"The minister leads the decree!" Jin Yiwei had already responded, and he was going to summon Li Guorui.

"Wait, big companion and help me to draw up an order." Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian suddenly changed his mind again.

"There is Li Guorui, Marquis of Wuqing, who is treacherous and cunning. He resisted the order and refused to obey. He will immediately lose his salary as a marquis. He has no other garden, and he will use it for military purposes. I respect you!"

(End of this chapter)