In fact, Li Guodong is not completely performing. He is the most respectful country. When he lives such a life, he thinks of those civil servants' interest groups. Their lives of living a life of debauchery, and naturally he feels a little sad. The Ming Dynasty was fooled by those corrupt officials. Poor Chongzhen saved money and ended up hanging on the crooked tree in Coal Mountain.

Li Guodong himself can enjoy it and will never treat himself badly. He is also a good chef and knows how to cook many kinds of vegetables. When fighting, it takes strength and supplementing energy and protein. Li Guodong will not be stingy.

Seeing Li Guodong's expression, Emperor Chongzhen sighed: "The finances are not enough to make ends meet. If I don't take the lead in thrift, how can the country turn around?"

"Your Majesty, I have been to Jiangnan. Jiangnan is richest in the world. Even ordinary people and weaver can afford to support concubines and maids at home. Not to mention those officials in Jiangnan, they live a life of living a life of debauchery every day. But why did the court have no money?"

Chongzhen understood Li Guodong's meaning, but was he capable of receiving taxes from the gentry in Jiangnan? Most of the industries in Jiangnan are in the hands of gentry, and there is no way to receive taxes from those people. As today's decay, only ruthless people like Emperor Gao can make the gentry pay taxes honestly. However, in the writings of literati, Emperor Gao was such a tyrant, killing people like a scattered person, killing innocent people. Every time Chongzhen thought of raising commercial taxes and increasing taxes in Jiangnan, there were always a group of censors crying for the sky and robbing the earth, so that His Majesty would not compete with the people for profit.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen could only sigh.

Li Guodong knew that his current strength was not enough, so he naturally did not dare to persuade Chongzhen to train Wang Chengen to become the second nine thousand years old and revitalize the factory guards to deal with the civil servant group. If he said such words at this time, even if Chongzhen did not make things difficult for him now, it might not take long to know how he died.

Chongzhen asked: "Besides receiving the reward as a thief slave, Li Aiqing has never received a penny of military pay from me. How did he support the elite army? I have heard that Li Aiqing has made money well, so I can't argue with him?"

"Weichen has his own caravan, and caravan is the way to make money; weichen also has some civil servants and gentry saying that the skill is a good way to make money. The gentry said that craftsmen are a cheap man, but because of the help of craftsmen, we can take out some new things for silver. As for why the quality of the works made by the imperial court is too poor and cannot be used? It is because the craftsmen have a low status and cannot even support their own family. How can they build good weapons? There are also greed, and even stealing treasury weapons and handing them over to illegal businessmen to sell them to Jiannu!"

Emperor Chongzhen sighed deeply: "Li Aiqing said that I already know about the officials in the court colluding with profiteers and stealing supplies to Jiannu, and I also asked the Jinyiwei to investigate thoroughly. However, the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants are now dead and fleeing, and the officials behind them are no longer able to track down."

Wang Chengen next to him smiled and said, "Emperor, General Li is a good fortune. I don't give it to the inner treasury and most of the money I have given to the court is given by General Li."

Only then did Li Guodong realize that a large part of the tribute he paid to Wang Chengen was taken away by Emperor Chongzhen. It has to be said that Wang Chengen was really loyal to Emperor Chongzhen. As a eunuch, Wang Chengen was naturally greedy for money. Emperor Chongzhen naturally knew about eunuchs being greedy for money, so Wang Chengen gave Chongzhen some of the filial piety he received. However, before Li Guodong climbed to Wang Chengen's line, Wang Chengen did not receive much filial silver every year. However, Li Guodong was generous and gave Wang Chengen a lot of jewelry every year. Wang Chengen exchanged the jewelry for silver, and most of the silver he received was handed over to Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen smiled: "Since Li Aiqing is good at making money, then I will give Wang Parcel more money in the future. If Wang Parcel has money, I will be much better than that."

Afterwards, Emperor Chongzhen asked about Li Guodong's mission to Chahar and Mongolia in the northern desert, and then the war to annihilate Jiannu in the Hetao grassland. When he heard that the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces intercepted Dorgon in the Yellow River and a large number of elite Jin troops died in the Yellow River, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but slam the table and shouted: "Okay!" When he heard that Dorgon, who had cut off food and grass, was surrounded and attacked by the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces, Emperor Chongzhen clenched his fists nervously. Finally, he heard that Huang Taiji rescued Dorgon, and the Khalkha Mongolian and Chahar people dispersed, Chongzhen looked depressed and lamented: "Oh! It's really a waste!"

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly stood up and slapped the table: "Zhang Fengyi should be killed!"

Seeing Li Guodong's expression in shock, Emperor Chongzhen explained: "Li Aiqing, you don't know anything. Yang Aiqing rushed to report for 800 miles, saying that Li Aiqing, you have joined forces with the Mongols to trap Dorgon, and Huang Taiji will definitely send troops to rescue him. Liaodong is empty, which is a good opportunity to take the opportunity to send troops to Liaodong. But Zhang Fengyi made an excuse not to send troops, which led to a missed opportunity!"

Wang Chengen advised: "The emperor calms down. Our Ming army has repeatedly faced Jiannu. The more we lose, the fewer we win, and Zhang Shangshu is helpless. Who dares to go out of the city to fight Jiannu?"

Chongzhen pointed at Li Guodong and said, "Parent Wang, why does Li Aiqing fight so beautifully in every battle? Jiannu suffered many losses in his hands. If there were more generals like Li Aiqing, how could the Jiannu bandits be worried about not being destroyed!"

"The Emperor, General Li is a strange person like Sun Wu, Bai Qi and Han Xin, and he is not many. Now I can get one in the Ming Dynasty, which is the blessing of the court and the blessing of the emperor." Wang Chengen said.

When Chongzhen heard Wang Chengen say that Li Guodong was the talent of Sun Wu and Bai Qi, he was very happy, so he pulled Li Guodong and talked until Shen time. The king and his ministers talked almost all day long from Si time to Shen time.

It was getting late, and Wang Chengen led Li Guodong to prepare to leave the Forbidden City from Xuanwu Gate to the north.

Crossing the back garden, he saw several palace maids playing in the garden with a girl about five or six years old. When Wang Chengen saw the girl, he quickly bowed: "Your Highness the Princess!"

Li Guodong looked at the little girl quietly and saw that she was so pink and jade-like. Her big black eyes looked very clever. She was a little beauty and she would definitely be a beautiful girl when she grew up. Then look at her age. This little girl is Princess Kunxing.

So Li Guodong also saluted: "I have met His Highness the Princess."

"Huh? You are General Li Guodong, are you the one who your father mentioned?" Princess Kunxing widened her eyes curiously and looked at Li Guodong.

"It's the weak minister."

"So young, I look like a civil servant. I have also seen several generals invited by my father, all of whom are black and fierce." Princess Kunxing smiled happily.

Wang Chengen bowed and said in a tone of teasing children: "Your Highness, although General Li is neither black nor fierce, he killed more bad people than the generals he has seen to kill. "

"General Li is a great hero! I like the great hero the most!" The young Princess Kunxing said in surprise, and like an adult, he blessed Li Guodong.

"Your Highness, you can't say such things!" An older palace maid heard what Princess Kunxing said, and hurried up to pull the princess away.

Several palace maids took Princess Kunxing away. Wang Chengen also realized that the young princess, Tong Yan Wuji, might be a bit inappropriate, so he pulled Li Guodong: "General Li, let's leave the palace from Xuanwu Gate, and we will send you to the palace gate. What your highness said just now may not be appropriate. I hope General Li will pay attention to it, so as not to be known by the censor, which will make the emperor lose his face and cause trouble for the general."
Chapter completed!