"Long live the Zhou family's property types and amounts are all recorded in this book."

Wang Chengen handed a compiled booklet to Chongzhen, and then he did not forget to report it.

"There are a total of 730,000 taels of silver, 18,000 taels of gold, thirty-three boxes of jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and hundreds of pieces of precious silks and brocades. The total value is about more than two million taels."

After hearing Wang Chengen's words and looking at the booklet in his hand, Chongzhen couldn't help but tremble.

Not happy, but angry.

As the head of the state, even if Zhou Kui received preferential treatment from him, the amount of money he could accumulate through formal channels in ten or twenty years would not be less than 1%.

So where does the remaining money come from?

There is no doubt that it must have come from plunder, corruption and bribery!

The most disgusting thing is that the Zhou family obviously had so much money, but he asked ministers to donate money twice, and the second time he sent a confidant eunuch to persuade Zhou Kui, but Zhou Kui still didn't get any money, and instead took the money given by the queen.

Several thousand taels.

And according to what Hao Guangming said, in the end, all Zhou Kui's money was given to the intruder!

How could this make Chongzhen not angry?

If he hadn't been concerned about Queen Zhou's feelings, he would have wanted to behead Zhou Kui right now!

Taking a deep breath, Chongzhen finally calmed down and said immediately: "Wang Daban, this silver is temporarily under your control, but you don't want to keep it and be reluctant to use it. You must distribute it to a city gate guard and soldiers as soon as possible to boost morale.

Understand?"

"I understand." Wang Chengen felt very complicated when he saw so much money at this time, and couldn't help but sigh: "Hey, if you had had so much money a month earlier, Long Live Lord, maybe you wouldn't have let the thieves siege the city.

"

Chongzhen also sighed when he heard this.

If his daughter had had the adventure she had today a month earlier, not only would he not have allowed thieves to siege the city, he might have been able to revive the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, it's too late now.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen couldn't help but look outside the palace, especially in the direction of Guangning Gate, but happened to hear loud shouts of killing over there, accompanied by continuous cannon fire.

This made Chongzhen's face change, and he thought, could it be that someone opened the Guangning Gate to welcome the intruder as Mr. Hao said?

When he came back to his senses, he immediately said to Wang Chengen: "Send someone quickly to check the situation at Guangning Gate!"

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Internet access is addictive.

Especially for a girl who has just learned how to use the Internet, it is like opening the door to a new world.

Therefore, when Zhu Yurao checked various related information about the late Ming Dynasty and her family on the Internet, it seemed that she could not feel the passage of time.

Hao Guangming was also surfing the Internet and did not want to remind Zhu Ainao.

It wasn't until Zhu Yuluo felt sleepy that she suddenly realized that a long time had passed, so she quickly asked: "What time is it now?"

Hao Guangming said: "There is time on the phone, so you can see it like this."

Hao Guangming taught Zhu Yurao how to tell the time on her mobile phone.

"But we use the hour, minute and second system here. There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. One hour for you is equal to two hours for us.

The current time is 23:05, which is the beginning of the twelfth hour."

Zhu Yuyao, who finally understood what time it was, stood up suddenly and said anxiously: "Is it already midnight? No, I want to go back and take a look."

Hao Guangming nodded and said, "Then be careful."

After all, the capital is being attacked by the Chu army, and the war is changing rapidly, and he has already affected the people and things there. It's hard to say what the situation will be like now.

Zhu Yasuo nodded, took her cell phone and hurried towards the west wall, and soon disappeared.

Returning to Wuying Hall, Zhu Aona smelled the smell of wine, but saw that it was Chongzhen drinking.

When she saw that Chongzhen didn't look happy, she immediately understood that something bad had happened.

Because she knew that Chongzhen had always been strict with himself in life. Logically speaking, it was impossible for him to drink alcohol now that the war in the city was critical.

At the same time, she also heard the shouts of killing outside that seemed to be getting closer, so she quickly asked: "Father, but the outer city has been attacked?"

Chongzhen smiled bitterly and said, "Yes."

"Where did it break through?" Zhu Ainao frowned.

Chongzhen said: "It is exactly the Guangning Gate that Mr. Hao mentioned."

"How is this possible?" Zhu Yurao was confused and surprised, "Didn't my father send Lord Shi to lead people to strengthen the defense of Guangning Gate?"

Chongzhen laughed at himself and said: "The capital's military strength is already stretched thin. I even sent out the Zhizhi Army (Jinyi's personal army) and eunuchs, but it was still not enough. Even if Shi Bangyao was asked to strengthen the defense, how many men could be given to him?

What's more, this time the Hui Hui rebelled near Guangning Gate, attacked the defenders, and cooperated with the intruders inside and outside to open Guangning Gate. Unless we know this situation in advance, how can we break it?"

Hearing this, Zhu Aona couldn't help but feel guilty and said: "Father, it's all because of my daughter. I couldn't find out about this over there, otherwise the outer city would not have been breached."

Unlike the history where Chongzhen was still full of resentment towards his ministers when he died, in this life he learned a lot from Hao Guangming, but now he has looked away.

He waved his hands and said, "Mr. Hao can't even get this information, let alone the world you just went to. By the way, have you ever learned about the ending of Cixi and the others in the historical data?"

Thinking of this, Chongzhen obviously cheered up again.

He knew that it would be difficult for him to escape if the capital city was breached, but the princes had a smaller target, and there were three of them. If they were spread out, there was always hope of one or two escaping, right?

After asking, Chongzhen noticed that Zhu Yuyao's face was gloomy, and he knew that the fate of the three princes in the historical data was probably not good.

Zhu Yuyao hesitated for a moment and then said: "Although the emperor brother and the two emperors were captured by the intruders, Li Zicheng said that the world was corrupted by his father and the ministers and had nothing to do with them, so he did not kill them and returned them to them.

Knighted.

However, the bandits were defeated in a battle near Shanhaiguan with the Qing army and Wu Sangui's Guan Ning army, and they hurriedly withdrew to the capital. Li Zicheng hurriedly ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and then withdrew to Shanshan.

The intruders were chased by the Qing army and Guan Ning army in succession, and they were routed for thousands of miles. In addition, many intruders were not restrained by Li Zicheng and others. There was chaos when they fled. The emperor's brother and two younger brothers were lost among the intruders.

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Hearing this, Chongzhen was relieved at first, but then he became angry and asked urgently: "Wu Sangui actually voted for Jiannu?!"

Zhu Aao sighed and said: "According to the information my daughter found out, Wu Sangui and Jiannu have been in contact for a long time, and they even have greater ambitions.

It is said that after Li Zicheng broke through the capital, he asked the surrendered general Tang Tong to reward Guan Ning's army with 40,000 taels of silver, and also coerced Wu Xiang to write a letter to force Wu Sangui to surrender.

But Dorgon promised to grant Wu Sangui the title of king, and it was a real title, so Wu Sangui finally voted for Dorgon."

Chongzhen couldn't help but sneer after hearing this, "I didn't expect that Li Zicheng is such an idiot. He only tried to appease Guan Ning's army with 40,000 taels. Don't you know that I spend tens of millions of taels of silver on Guan Ning's army every year?"

After mocking Li Zicheng, Chongzhen asked again: "Isn't there any other news that Cixi and the others were separated from the intruder army? As long as one of them survives and goes south, they will have the opportunity to rule across the river with Jiannu and create a situation in the Southern Song Dynasty.

ah."

Hearing Chongzhen ask this question, and then thinking about the information found on the Internet, Zhu Auao couldn't help but sigh.

"There was indeed some news about the father, the emperor brother and the two younger brothers later on, but the most famous one was the two cases of fake princes in the north and the south.

The case of the fake prince in the north is what Mr. Hao has said before. He said that his grandfather was greedy for wealth and offered the emperor's brother to Dorgon. The seller wanted glory. However, because many Ming ministers claimed that the prince was fake, Dorgon

Beheaded the grandfather and the false prince together.

Shortly thereafter, the family of Gao Mengji, the minister of Honglu Temple, met a young man in Shandong and asked to go with him on a ferry to the south. He was considered to be the prince.

At this time, Emperor Hongguang of the Southern Ming Dynasty, oh, Uncle Fu Wang, heard the news and sent someone to check the authenticity of the prince..."

"Wait!" When Chongzhen heard this, he suddenly frowned and stared at Zhu Yura, and asked: "You said that King Fu had already ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor at that time? How long had it been since the capital was invaded by thieves when he ascended the throne?"

Zhu Yuyao recalled the important information she had seen, and said: "After the news of the father's death spread to the south, they considered establishing a new king. However, the specific time for Prince Fu's accession to the throne was April 26th."

After hearing this, Chongzhen's eyes darkened and he said: "It's only been a little over a month. It's really fast for these ministers in the south to support the new king. But who doesn't want the merit of supporting the new king? I should understand them.

Auntie, if I am not mistaken, the young man who claims to be the prince must not have been recognized by your Uncle Fu Wang, right?"

Although Zhu Yuluo did not receive much imperial education, she was born in the royal family after all, and she knew a little about the cruelty of fighting for the throne.

She didn't think much about it before, but when she heard Chongzhen say these words in a complicated tone, she suddenly understood something.

She subconsciously replied: "Uncle Fu Wang's Hongguang Dynasty only existed for a little more than a year before the Qing army captured the capital.

Uncle Fu Wang and the prince from the north were captured by the Qing army and executed together by the Qing army the following year.

In more than a year, the Hongguang Dynasty once again fell into complex party disputes. The Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party headed by Ma Shiying each colluded with warlords, causing chaos in the government.

The identity of the Northern Prince has always been one of the matters they fought over, and until the capital was captured by the Qing army, there was no conclusion on the matter."

Hearing this, Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered the various party disputes he had experienced in the seventeen years since he was in power, and how helpless he had seen the government and state affairs being corrupted day by day in the party struggle, and he suddenly laughed.

"Hahaha···"

Laughter originally represented joy, but at this time Emperor Chongzhen's smile made people feel extremely uncomfortable. After laughing for a while, he started crying and his voice became hoarse.
Chapter completed!