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"A Qing, the Yue girl, sees the lord."
The Yue girl saw Zhu Youjian bowing slightly to salute, and seeing her bodyguard coming, Zhu Youjian smiled and raised her hand.
"Excuse me, I will go out for something later, you are here to protect Princess Changping, don't let anyone enter the palace without my permission.
"obey"
越女
Ah Qing is a shepherdess from the Yue Kingdom. Although Ah Qing has a handsome appearance and a beautiful body, she is the female swordsman with the strongest martial arts and actual combat ability in history.
When Ah Qing was shepherding sheep, he happened to meet a white ape that could wield bamboo sticks. Since then, he has often fought with it with bamboo sticks, thus realizing the superb swordsmanship.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for getting [-] points."
Wang Chengen came back soon, he looked at Zhu Youjian with strange eyes, the corners of his mouth twitched when he spoke, and his old eyes were full of tears.
"Your Majesty, I have already counted all the taels of silver. There is a total of 10 taels of silver. Your Majesty's treasury only has 300 taels of silver in total."
How could Chongzhen have any money? He spent almost all of his money on military pay. He called on ministers to donate two days ago, but he only raised more than 3 taels.
You must know those ministers, which one did not have 10,000+ taels, but they were unwilling to take it out. Wang Chengen had already given out 1 taels of silver at that time.
Hearing the system prompt just now, Zhu Youjian already knew how much money Wang Chengen had. As a eunuch who was in charge of etiquette and Bingbi, it was not surprising that he had so much money.
"Wang Chengen, estimate the wealth of Ming officials and eunuchs, and make a list for me. The sooner the better."
"obey"
Wang Chengen picked up the pen, without thinking at all, and soon a list was listed by him. Zhu Youjian took the list and looked at it. The names on it were almost the same as those described in history.
"Qinglong, let's go. Aren't they unwilling to share Daming's worries? We can go and rob them. The country will be ruined. Do you still care about killing all these corrupt officials?"
"obey"
Zhu Youjian decided to start with those officials who were the first to surrender and go against the rebellion. After the rebellion entered Beijing, he extorted tens of millions of taels of silver from them.
If they were willing to donate half of it earlier, how could the Ming Dynasty be destroyed? These damned officials, the rich don’t pay taxes, and they are all supported by the farmers’ taxes. Can the farmers not rebel.
There is no need to go out of the palace, the first person Zhu Youjian is looking for is in the palace. He is Wang Dehua, the eunuch who opened the city gate. Liu Zongmin extorted 15 taels of silver from him.
Chapter 3 Earning Points
When seeing Zhu Youjian appearing in his home, Wang Dehua's face was a little indifferent and flat, he stood up unhurriedly, and bowed slightly to Zhu Youjian.
"Your Majesty, why did you come to the humble home? What's the matter?"
The corners of Zhu Youjian's mouth turned up slightly, and he gave the old eunuch a cold look:
"Wang Dehua, I want to borrow some money to pay the army."
Hearing that Zhu Youjian came to ask for money, Wang Dehua's face changed slightly, but he was thinking in his heart, you have nothing to do with me if you don't have money, so why borrow from our family.
Although he was upset, Wang Dehua couldn't turn his face for the time being. After all, Zhu Youjian was his master. Even if Zhu Youjian had become a loner, he was still the emperor.
So the old man burst into tears and began his performance:
"Your Majesty, I want to contribute to the country even in a humble position, but the family does not have more than 100 taels of silver in total. If you don't think it is too little, I will give it to you..."
"Go to hell, Qinglong, search."
Before Wang Dehua finished speaking, Zhu Youjian suddenly had a sword in his hand. The sword flashed a cold light, and Wang Dehua's head moved immediately.
With a promise, Qinglong led Jin Yiwei to search Wang Dehua's house, and soon found 15 taels of silver.
"Your Majesty, the count has been completed, a total of 15 taels of silver."
Zhu Youjian nodded, put the found money into the system warehouse, and prepared to rush to the next location.
As a modern person who came from time travel, Zhu Youjian knew very well that why tens of thousands of captive cavalry were able to bloodbath Daming and massacre the city everywhere, it was these traitors and lackeys who did the crimes.
"Ding, congratulations to the host, you have obtained 25000 points. Now you can draw a lottery once."
"Not for the time being, I want to earn more points before drawing prizes."
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For the sake of face, the queen gave him 5000 taels and asked him to take the lead in collecting donations, but he actually took 2000 taels privately.
Later, when the rebellious army entered the city, they actually took away more than a dozen carts of gold, silver and jewelry from his house. How could Zhu Youjian let this big fish go.
"Bang bang..."
Zhu Youjian stood in front of the door, and Qinglong raised his hand and began to knock on the door. His strength was so strong that the trembling door began to shake violently. The door quickly opened from the inside, and a servant stuck out his head.
"Who doesn't have eyes, is he tired of work, and doesn't look anywhere..."
"Boom, get out"
Before he could finish speaking, Qinglong raised his leg and kicked open the gate. The servant of the Zhou family who had a fierce mouth just now was kicked away by Qinglong along with the gate.
People who are a little smarter now know that Daming is finished, and the officials are all looking for ways for themselves.
Governor Zhou Kui and his son Zhou Ping are of course no exception. They were discussing plans after the city was destroyed when someone came to report:
"My lord, the emperor is here."
"Who, Emperor Chongzhen, what is he doing in my house now? Isn't this causing us trouble? No see!"
"See you? I've already come. You white-eyed wolves are not worthy of my people, let alone being the head of the country."
Before Zhou Ping finished speaking, Zhu Youjian and Qinglong had already walked into the hall, and of course they heard clearly what Zhou Ping said just now.
The current Zhu Youjian is not the former Emperor Chongzhen, let alone Zhou Kui's son-in-law. He has no affection for Zhou Kui and just scolds him directly.
Emperor Chongzhen had always respected Zhou Tai very much, and today he suddenly started scolding when they met, which made Zhou Kui suddenly furious, and pointed at Zhu Youjian and started to fight back.
"Zhu Youjian, Daming will be finished soon, you can be emperor for another day at most, and see which minister is willing to follow you, come here, and throw me out."
"Yes"
Their families all raised soldiers, and some even had hundreds of soldiers. When Zhou Kui gave an order, more than a dozen soldiers came forward to bombard Zhu Youjian out of the mansion.
Qinglong was furious, drew out the steel knife and swept across, killing seven or eight soldiers of the Zhou family directly. As soon as the remaining few stepped forward, Zhu Youjian's palm moved, and the sword appeared in his hand.
"Shh..."