Chapter 45

These scholar-officials felt they still had a chance to jump off the cart!

So they firmly believed the Great Ming had lost the world!

One by one, they ran excitedly to Li Zicheng to congratulate the new monarch on ascending the throne.

But they never, ever imagined this.

Li Zicheng, once inside the city, simply had no martial ethics at all and wanted no money from the poor.

He only wanted the money of the high officials and nobles!

At that moment, they abandoned Li Zicheng in their hearts once again.

Thus, Wu Sangui invited the Qing troops to enter the pass.

As a result, they discovered they were wrong again.

These Tatars from beyond the pass were even less bound by martial ethics than Li Zicheng himself.

Li Zicheng at most just confiscated their households and let whoever was an official remain an official.

The Qing army entered the pass.

The original Eight Banners nobles suddenly transformed and directly seized their official posts.

These scholar-officials who once "shared the world with the Son of Heaven."

First, Li Zicheng took away the surplus value they had accumulated over many years.

Then the Eight Banners nobles seized their means of production.

The scholar-officials who hurriedly crossed the river suddenly slapped their thighs in Jin Ling and remembered.

Our Great Ming was still the best!

Thus, only after the Qing army crossed the river did the resistance they encountered truly reach its peak.

Unfortunately, it was already too late.

At this point, even sacrificing one's family to relieve the nation was not as good as distributing a few more steamed buns to the border soldiers of the Nine Garrisons before the Qing army entered the pass.

When you protect your home and country for a long time, many people will feel that protecting home and country is merely your own obligation.

Little do they know that for the nation and family, all who possess a nation and a family must protect them.

Zhu Yuanzhang merely pondered for a moment.

Then he suddenly realized the brilliance of this operation.

Could the kings, dukes, and high ministers of our Great Ming all be useless?

If they were all useless, how did they climb out of the imperial examinations?

Why were they so indifferent?

It was simply because they felt they could jump off the cart at any time!

When the Great Ming existed.

You all scrambled desperately to scoop up money.

Now the Great Ming is about to fail.

You want to jump off the cart?!

No way!

A ruthless expression suddenly appeared on Zhu Yuanzhang's face.

He nodded slightly on his own and leaned against the dragon throne, lost in thought.

After a long while.

Zhu Yuanzhang slowly nodded, waved his hand at Zhu Yunwen, Qi Tai, and Su Qiao, and said in a low voice,

"It's done. You all go back; I know."

Watching Zhu Yuanzhang, who sat on the dragon throne lost in thought.

Su Qiao could not help but fall into deep contemplation.

Damn it!

Exactly what must I do for Old Zhu to kill me?!

I can't just find an opportunity to beat up Old Zhu, can I?

Looking at the burly and broad-shouldered Zhu Yuanzhang.

Su Qiao could not help but abandon this terrible idea.

Old Zhu is ultimately not Zhu Yunwen.

Don't look at the fact that Old Zhu is over sixty years old this year.

His spirit is still vigorous and alert.

Pulling a bow of one shi without any problem is nothing.

If I fight with Old Zhu, who will teach whom is uncertain...

43, Zhou Kui: Life is unbearable!

Before Su Qiao could come to his senses.

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He was already led out of the Qianqing Palace by several young eunuchs.

And inside the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang stared seriously at the chat group panel before him and sent a message.

Emperor Taizu Gao:

"Where did you run off to? I found a way for you!"

Emperor Sizong Lie:

"Great-Grandfather, please speak."

Emperor Taizu Gao:

"Can you, young one, not control all these civil and military officials now?"

"You dare not even raid their families?"

After seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's message, Zhu Youjian could not help but let out a bitter smile.

Emperor Sizong Lie:

"Great-Grandfather, it is not that your son dares not kill people."

"At present, Great Ming faces internal troubles and external threats; it is precisely the time when people are needed."

"These people put in effort without producing results, but that is better than having no one available!"

In fact, after raiding Zhou Kui's family,

Zhu Youjian had already intended to take action against all these civil and military officials.

But these dukes and ministers of the entire court,

although indeed they do not do much work on ordinary days,

at least they can keep the state machine of Great Ming running normally.

Zhu Youjian, though having the heart of a model worker,

is ultimately not Old Zhu.

He lacks the ability to be a model worker.

Seeing that Zhu Youjian was useless,

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately sent a message.

Emperor Taizu Gao:

"Change the method to raid their families; make them willingly take out their silver."

Emperor Sizong Lie:

"Willingly? Great-Grandfather, are you going to manifest your spirit?"

"If you come, your son will immediately appoint you as the Supreme Emperor; all military and state affairs will be entirely submitted to..."

Emperor Taizu Gao:

"Tsk! You young one are dreaming beautifully."

"I wipe your backside for you, and you eat the ready-made meal?"

"Find a few people yourself, go out of the palace to deceive and bluff; in short, just engage in fraud."

"By the way, I think your father-in-law is quite good."