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It was still very profitable to sell arms in this late Ming plane, especially when there was no cost.

Zhang Cheng set up to accelerate the end of the Ming plane, from 1616 to 1641. Anyway, his time will not change, and the time in the time and space gate will just move faster.

Entering the late Ming plane again, history still crushed everything in the 14th year of Chongzhen.

Although there are a large number of new continuous firearms among the people, Liaodong is not like that, but various uprisings are still constantly due to floods, droughts and locust plagues in various places. Moreover, the peasant army has repeatedly defeated the official army because of a large number of firearms. The firearms of the Ming Dynasty's official army are all supervised by the Ministry of Works. The quality is, well, it can be said that killing one's own people is definitely much better than killing the enemy.

Eunuchs and officials who supervise must take benefits from it. The cost of a musket increases greatly and the quality decreases. Therefore, many various firearms in the Ming army have invented, but soldiers would rather use cold weapons than those muskets and cannons made by the Ministry of Works.

As for the generals, they often buy some new type of firearms for their personal soldiers. The equipment of the entire army is not fun, they are the soldiers of the court, not their own, but their own servants.

Later, the real combat power of the Guanning Army was the 3,000 servants under generals at all levels - this servant army was raised after tens of thousands of people's empty salary.

When I arrived at my own warehouse, I asked the robot to count the income and found that the business of selling arms was the easiest thing to make money. No wonder the five gangsters couldn't stop selling arms, and the amount of money was definitely too busy to stop.

Not to mention the various porcelains and antique calligraphy and paintings collected from the collection, the gold was about 85 tons - in fact, there were nearly 100 tons, but as everyone understands, ancient people did not use red gold. There were more or less impurities inside. After purifying nearly 100 tons of gold, only 85 tons were left.

The Ming Dynasty was a silver society, so there were more silver, with 5,120 tons of silver. This was after purification. According to the Ming system, it was also a large number of more than 100 million taels of silver.

However, modern times do not need silver much. Gold or can also be used as reserve gold to issue currencies. Silver has to be used in industry. Its price has fallen to 100 to gold. You can buy 2 grams of industrial silver with a single dollar. The United States is a major silver producer, perhaps second only to Mexico. Americans themselves have a large amount of silver that cannot be processed, so they have to pile it in the bank to eat soil.

There is no copper coins at all, because they also need copper and lead to build bullets, so they are all used.

As for gold, Zhang Cheng is planning to take it away. There is so much silver, so it won’t make money when you take it back, but it will destroy the silver market. Just stay here.

But that's it.

Zhang Cheng checked the records of major events in 1641 and found that the famous Chen Yuanyuan was plundered to the capital by Concubine Tian’s family and later sent to the palace. There were not many such famous women in history, and even Zhang Cheng wanted to meet him.

Putting the gold and silver into the storage ring, Zhang Cheng drove a helicopter to fly straight to the Forbidden City.

As soon as I arrived at an open space in the Forbidden City, I was surrounded by the guards. I actually had the courage to see that the helicopters had not run away. However, these people seemed to have not resisted much when the peasant army entered the city. It might be that the previous plague wiped out all of them - it can only be said that it is possible.

After getting off the plane, a guy wearing bright yellow clothes said to Zhang Cheng: "Who are you? Why are you here?"

Zhang Cheng lit a cigarette for himself, vomited a cigarette ring and said, "Simply put, I am a businessman from another place, here to buy things."

Chongzhen surrounded the guards of the Great Inner and asked, "What are you going to buy here? Don't you know this is the Great Inner and the Imperial Palace?"

"I know this is from the palace."

Zhang Cheng said, and the storage ring in his hand flashed, and the ground was covered with silver mountains made of silver bars weighing ten kilograms: "This is 100 million taels of silver. I want to buy Chen Yuanyuan."

A large inner guard stepped forward and moved two silver bars, cut them with a knife, and looked at the gap: "Back to the emperor, it's silver."

Zhang Cheng laughed: "My reputation is very good."

Chongzhen asked the people around him: "Who is Chen Yuanyuan? Who knows?"

Wang Chengen knew a lot and replied: "Emperor, Chen Yuanyuan is a palace maid next to Concubine Tian, ​​and the Tian family has recently sent it in."

Chongzhen: "Tell me my will and go to Concubine Tian to bring people."

Since Chongzhen took office, floods, droughts and locust plagues have followed one after another in various places. In fact, his brother started various natural disasters in the Little Glacier climate during the Tianqi period. However, at that time, Wei Zhongxian and eunuchs from all over the country were making money for the emperor, so if you have money, you can provide disaster relief and support soldiers.

After Chongzhen came to power, he first dealt with Wei Zhongxian, then dismissed eunuchs from all over the country and sacked the Jinyiwei, which was like a slaughter. It was no wonder that warlords from all over the country gradually became bigger during the Chongzhen period. To put it bluntly, they did it themselves. If they don’t do it, they will die. Chongzhen’s fate is easy to judge.

Although there were no Liaodong warlords and Qing Dynasty entering the pass to loot in this era, disasters of all sizes and constant peasant uprisings in various places still took away all the foundation left by Tianqi for Chongzhen.

The person with a very bad personality in Chongzhen is that he refuses to admit his mistakes. He is all his mistakes. The emperor is right, but in the face of natural disasters, he still has to constantly issue self-criticism under the pressure of his ministers.

However, for the hungry people in various places, especially the north, the crimes cannot be used as food. In a province, the imperial court will often allocate tens of thousands of taels of disaster relief money. Faced with millions of victims, this amount of money cannot even be spent, and it disappears from the layers of fat distribution of officials at all levels.

Taking advantage of Wang Cheng'en's time to find someone, with Zhang Cheng's acquiescent, the guards of the inner guards began to check the authenticity of the silver, which was to check it out in a random manner. Of course, it was impossible to make a mistake.

Seeing that the pieces of silver were verified to be true, Chongzhen, who had already decided to sell his wife for the sake of the money, looked much better. In order to raise money to raise soldiers to suppress rebellions and provide disaster relief, Chongzhen even used many gold and silverware in the palace to dissolve them. He was also very saving in food and clothing. But this was useless. The peasant army in various places became more and more suppressed. It was the same after several elections. It was fine to face the peasant army to win a few battles, but the adversary bandits could not do it.

Someone counted the number of silver mountains and found that there were about 100 million taels of silver.

How much is the annual income of the Ming Dynasty? It is not clear that local expenses are not clear. The treasury income is about two million taels of silver and millions of dans of grain. This is what happened after Zhang Juzheng carried out the reform. Zheng Zhilong, the guerrilla general in Fujian, could earn tens of millions of taels of silver every year when selling flags.
Chapter completed!