Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

"What a stupid thief, why don't you open your eyes!"

The father-son and father-in-law of the previous dynasty were reduced to tears!

Just when people around them felt that the two men had changed their minds and were regretting their previous stinginess...

But I heard the two of them curse together, and then sighed:

"I'll give you some money~!"

"The money I saved with great effort~!"

"How can I live without money~!"

The people watching looked at each other in shock.

"whispering sound!"

"Shut up!"

"what!"

Everyone ridiculed him with contempt.

What a pair of idiots who don't know right from wrong!

What a fool who wants money at the expense of his life!

What a girly little man!

……

In the yard, the father and son complained again and again...

Somehow, the two complained for a while, and instead blamed their son-in-law and brother-in-law.

"It's all that damn dog emperor's fault. If Zhu Youjian hadn't been so incompetent, my old Zhou family wouldn't have had such a disaster!"

Lao Zhou was crying with snot and tears.

He couldn't stop cursing that damn son-in-law.

Xiao Zhou on the other side was not to be outdone:

"Dad, I told you a long time ago that the emperor is not a wise king. Look, look, all the wealth of our family has been destroyed by the emperor!"

……

The two of them had completely forgotten that if the emperor had not chosen his daughter because of the smoke coming out of the ancestral tomb, Lao Zhou would still be setting up a stall on the street to tell fortunes!

As for Xiao Zhou on the other side...

If the emperor didn't marry his sister, where would he come from?

Lao Zhou is so poor that he has become a trouser, where can he marry a beautiful little wife with more than ten rooms...

Lao Zhou, whose first wife had died long ago, had no choice but to paint her on the wall!

……

Zhao Shijin was exempted from payment because of Li Zicheng's appreciation.

These days, he has been walking in the prosperous old capital of the past, and has seen with his own eyes that the soldiers of the rebel army have gradually lost their restraint...

When Li Zicheng first entered Beijing, he followed the example of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty and made a three-chapter drama.

Even a few days before the intruders entered the city, military law was strictly enforced.

There were dozens of soldiers who were publicly whipped or had their heads chopped off for harassing and harming the people.

Dozens of bloody heads hung on the flagpole at the city gate.

however……

Since Li Zi became the keeper of the army and distributed the soldiers to the common people's homes, the soldiers became restless.

When the forced pay began, military discipline gradually lost control!

In just half a month, the military discipline of the Dashun Army gradually deteriorated from not committing any crimes to committing all kinds of evil.

even……

Zhao Shijin sighed and wrote down a sentence in a letter to his friend:

Since Jichun (the third month of the lunar calendar), many soldiers have been infected by the disease. On the fourth day, the thieves carried more than a hundred sick soldiers from various places to Zhongguan Village...

(Zhongguancun, near Zhongguancun in later generations, was the place where the bodies of eunuchs, beggars and others were burned and buried in the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Gangtie Temple was also used for this purpose.)

……

However, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others were unaware of the abnormalities in the army.

This is related to the fact that the Chuang army has always been accustomed to coercing the people and does not care much about the soldiers.

Seeing how generous the pay was, Liu Zongmin, after asking Li Zicheng for instructions, set the rules for paying court officials:

The silver for cabinet bachelors is 10 taels, the ministers and ministers of various departments have 7 taels of silver, Kedao and Yuanwailang have 5 taels of silver, Hanlin officials have 1 to 3 taels of silver, and the rest of the minor officials range from several thousand taels. There is no fixed number of relatives of the emperor, princes and nobles, and their duties are to recover the stolen goods.

The reason for setting this price for civil servants is not because these people only have this little money.

The reason why Li Zicheng cut off his salary was because the military salary was insufficient and he could not afford to support the millions of troops in his hands.

Rather than just making a small sum and leaving, he no longer wants this country.

Li Zicheng still expected officials to do things for him!

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others set this standard.

After all, if Li Zicheng had really wiped out all his family's wealth, the civil servants would not have surrendered to Li Zicheng, they would have all run away long ago!

Without civil servants, who will govern the country?

……

If Zhou Kui was still alive after being blackmailed out of his money, then the other person would be much worse off!

Wei Zaode, who previously only stuck his butt out to ask for the Holy See and did not do anything practical——

You even lost your life!

In the court that day, Wei Zaode knelt down to flatter Li Zicheng and said, "How can I dare to die if I want to be useful?"

Li Zicheng hated that he was useless to the country as the chief minister, so he directly appointed him to try something new.

In this way, Wei Zaode won the title of "Da Shun Pay No. 1"!

Wei Zaode, who was ordered to be tortured by Li Zicheng himself, was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and prayed repeatedly as soon as he was taken into Liu Zongmin's prison.

In order to survive, Wei Zaode offered up 2 taels of silver.

Liu Zongmin sneered, as a chief minister of the cabinet, how could he only have this little money?

So Liu Zongmin took matters into his own hands and pinched Wei Zaode's fingers with a stick.

With just one click, the champion and his assistant donated another 2 taels of silver.

The price of 4 taels is obviously not enough for the high position of chief minister of the cabinet.

Liu Zongmin ordered the torture to continue!

The torture lasted for five days and five nights. In the end, Wei Zaode's head was clamped with an iron hoop and a wooden wedge was inserted inside.

Just like that, the butt-protruding champion chief minister vomited out all his belongings.

Liu Zongmin did not let him go and ordered the torture to continue!

Wei Zaode finally suffered a mental breakdown and died...

After the incident spread, scholars wrote down in their notes that Wei Shoufu shouted before his death: "I didn't serve the Lord faithfully before. Today, it's too late to regret it!"

Wei Zaode shouted no, no one knew, and it was impossible for Liu Zongmin to let civil servants watch...

Let's just say Wei Zaode regretted it.

However - it's too late!

As soon as Wei Zaode died, Liu Zongmin did not let the old Wei family go. He immediately arrested his son and continued to demand it.

The young master of the Wei family who had brought trouble to the capital in the past cried with snot and tears and prayed repeatedly:

“General Liu, please have mercy!

Now that the family has been emptied out, where is the money left?

If my father were still alive, with his former reputation as the chief assistant, he could still ask relatives and friends to borrow money. But now that my father is dead and I am a playboy, who will lend me money? "

"Can't pay?" Liu Zongmin sneered and slowly wiped the blade:

"Then go to hell!"

After saying that, Liu Zongmin chopped off Mr. Wei's head with a knife!

The father and son, the dignified butt-protruding champion and the first minister, bid farewell to the colorful world hand in hand...

After Wei Zaode died, the people in the capital passed down a story orally:

It is said that Wei Zaode was forced to have no choice, so he knelt down and said to Liu Zongmin:

'I have a daughter whom I would like to give to the general as my concubine!'

According to the legend in the market, Liu Zongmin, who has a nose and eyes, immediately took the Wei family daughter into the cell and performed the jin ceremony in front of Wei Zaode...

After Liu Zongmin used it, he rewarded it to the soldiers...

……

As the saying goes, no harm comes to the wife and children, but the market can make up such a story——

The people's disgust for Wei Zaode is evident.

If the incompetent Wei Zaode met this end, then Chen Yan, the former chief assistant, had been detained for three months by King Chongzhen Qin's edict.

Although the benefits were not lost, the outcome was slightly better.