Li Guodong talked about his layout in Julu, but ignored the fact that he had prepared for Julu a year in advance. He just explained that he was in the Qing army and therefore learned in advance that the Qing army would go deep into Julu, so he made preparations six months in advance, and the result was really effective.

At this time, the Jinyiwei was already a waste snack. As the leader of the Jinyiwei, Luo Yangxing, should be on the side of the emperor, who showed his teeth at any time, and was loyal to the big wolfdog. However, Luo Yangxing has now been raised by the civil servant group to become a husky. Such a Jinyiwei boss is definitely unqualified. The big wolfdog whoever the emperor asked him to bite, would show his teeth without hesitation; even if there was no emperor's order, if a civil servant came to steal the silver from the original treasury, the big wolfdog should take the initiative to catch the thief. But the Husky is different. The thief came to the door, and the Husky wagged his tail at the thief. In the end, the thief could put a rope on the Husky and let the Husky help him pull away the stolen goods.

It is precisely because the Jinyiwei has become a Hakka that Li Guodong dared to develop his own spy agency unscrupulously and use Li Hong's hands to eradicate the gentry group. However, his courage to do this does not mean that Emperor Chongzhen could be concealed in the two matters of the Julu Battle and the Jinan Battle. No matter how a Jinyiwei was deposed, he would not be concealed in such matters.

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly looked stern: "Li Aiqing, I believe that you have installed a detailed work in Jiannu, and can save the people of Gaoyang and the whole family of Sun Ge Lao. I know the news in advance and plan in Gaoyang. But I don't understand something. Since you have installed a detailed work in Jiannu, you must know that Jiannu is going to attack Qufu, why did he stand by Qufu and Yansheng Gong all the families who are not saved?"

Li Guodong hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the thief slave attacked Qufu, which was also a temporary intention. I know that the captain Emperor Taiji had great ambitions, and the people were not in a good mood and wanted to swallow my elephant, and he tried to annex my China! Therefore, Huang Taiji used Han officials to please the scholars of the world. He would definitely not be able to arrange an attack on Qufu in this invasion plan. Therefore, this matter must be because someone in Jiannu saw that Qufu was rich, so he temporarily wanted to attack Qufu without authorization."

Wang Chengen said on the side: "If you destroy the Confucius family in Qufu, just destroy it. In the opinion of me, there are not many scholars who are good things! Every time they need to collect commercial tax, they say they will not compete for profit with the people! Your Majesty, I have long disliked them!"

Chongzhen sighed: "It's just about Qufu, and the memorials of ministers in the court were filled with dragon cases. I will never be at peace every moment. The thief conquered Fengyang and destroyed the imperial tomb. The civil officials were not angry, but the Wensheng Temple was destroyed, but the ministers were as if they had lost their parents."

Li Guodong said: "Your Majesty does not need to worry, you just need to sign Nanzong as the new Yansheng Gong. The chief Yuetuo, who destroyed the Holy Temple, has been sentenced to the law, which is enough to explain to the gentry all over the world."

Chongzhen nodded and asked again: "Li Aiqing, what you just said is that Huang Taiji is trying to annex China, is there any such thing?"

"It is true that the captain Huang Taiji once said that the Ming Dynasty is like a big tree, and it is impossible to cut down it. So cutting down the Ming Dynasty is like cutting down the trees, first removing its branches and leaves, making it weak, and finally cutting down the main trunk. Jiannu first surrendered Mongolia, and then went to the leaves of the Ming Dynasty. He invaded the Central Plains again and again and plundered the people, and then cut down the branches. When the Ming Dynasty lost all its branches and leaves, Jiannu entered the pass and annexed my Ming Dynasty."

But Chongzhen just heard Huang Taiji's attempt to enter the Central Plains and was furious: "Huang Taiji actually wanted to steal the Central Plains? He was simply overestimating his ability! My Ming Dynasty has millions of people, millions of troops, and how many people are Jiannu?"

Li Guodong hurriedly said, "Your Majesty calmed down. Jiannu repeatedly invaded and plundered our Ming Dynasty. First, to plunder the population, increase their population, and reduce our Ming Dynasty population, and second, to save the thieves who were about to be wiped out by the court! Every time Jiannu invaded, the court had to transfer troops to serve the king, so that the thieves would have a chance to breathe their respite. Our Ming Dynasty consumed a lot of food and money, and the results of the thieves were about to wipe out the bandits, and they were left to the east. The thieves made a comeback soon after. Jiannu invaded again and again had a great impact on our Ming Dynasty. However, the thieves took the opportunity to become bigger, and the consequences were unimaginable."

Chongzhen said angrily: "Our Great Wall has been built in the Ming Dynasty and the heavy troops stationed at each pass cannot stop the Jiannu from invading! All the officials in the border can be killed! Apart from being greedy for food and money, they colluded with the thief slaves and Tartars inside and outside, I wonder if they have done anything good?"

"Your Majesty calms down your anger. The border troops have long been overwhelmed. In fact, the troops of the various guards are just a group of farmers. How can they resist Jiannu? Your Majesty can recruit bandits, reward them with food and wages, and then ask them to go out to attack Jiannu."

Emperor Chongzhen sighed: "It's a pity that the court lacks silver. Otherwise, if you recruit thieves and attack Jiannu, wouldn't it be a killing of two birds? But without food and money, you can't comfort the thieves at all, so the thieves surrendered and rebelled again. How can you get out of the thieves? Li Aiqing almost didn't spend the imperial court, but he could raise 20,000 elite troops. I wonder how Li Aiqing did it? I want to hear how you made money."

Li Guodong would definitely not teach Chongzhen to increase the commercial tax, so that he would become the mortal enemy of scholars all over the world. Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. Such things can only be operated secretly and must not be openly confronted with the gentry. So Li Guodong said: "Your Majesty, I suggest that when a variety of corn and sweet potatoes are produced very high, they can solve the problem of famine. As long as the people can fill their stomachs, they will not rebel. In addition, this is not the invasion of Jiannu, and countless gentry from the north were killed, leaving a large number of unowned lands, which can be allowed to reclaim unowned lands, and the problem of silver can be solved. In addition, court officials and nobles can also send people to supervise the salt tax. Weigong heard that some salt officials colluded with private salt dealers to make profits, so this matter should be investigated carefully."

In fact, these ideas that Li Guodong came up with could not fundamentally solve the problem, and might be able to take a breath, but the problems of vassal kings, gentry problems, and military household problems were not solved at all. In the end, Emperor Chongzhen could not avoid going to the coal mountain to find a crooked tree.

Planting sweet potatoes and corn may not necessarily make people fill their stomachs. The sweet potatoes and corn in this era have not been improved for generations. Although the yield is higher than rice and wheat, it cannot solve the problem. Li Guodong himself had to steal a batch of land. The remaining fields, civil servants, hereditary nobles in the court, garrisons and some remaining local gentry had long been staring at this. Emperor Chongzhen could not make up his mind and could not handle this problem without knowing balance. As for sending the salt supervisor, it was even more nonsense. I was afraid that the people sent by the above would collude with those salt officials and salt merchants and could not receive much salt tax.

The salt tax was indeed lost significantly during the Chongzhen period. Calculated by the salt consumption of the Ming Dynasty, the annual salt tax revenue should be between 13 million taels and 20 million taels. However, the salt tax during the Tianqi period was about 2.5 million taels per year, which was still suppressed by Wei Zhongxian. During the Chongzhen period, the civil servant group was even more unscrupulous, and the salt tax was even reduced to 1 million taels! It can be seen that even those civil servants and gentry killed them, it was not unfair to them.

But what else could the indecisive Chongzhen do besides being fooled by civil servants?

Seeing the poor Chongzhen, Li Guodong felt a little reluctant, so he wanted to continue to enlighten Chongzhen. As for whether he could listen, it was Emperor Chongzhen's own business.

Thinking of this, Li Guodong said, "Your Majesty, please dare to tell you a story."

"But it's okay."

Li Guodong said, "I have heard that all the countries in Taixi believe in virtue and elegance, which is the kind of religion preached by the foreign monks of the Red and Barbarians. It is called Catholicism. There are also foreign temples for foreign monks in the capital. Although they were like foreign monks in the Ming Dynasty, they were so arrogant when they were in Taixi. Yes, they were similar to our civil servants, and they dared to scold the emperor. Why? Because they are actually gentry from the countries in Taixi. They have foreign temples in every village to control public opinion.

, control the people. Their pope, like the descendants of our Confucius saints, had a city assigned to them by the state, allowing them to live in it as popes and manage all bishops and missionaries. And they had more power than the gentry of our Ming Dynasty, because their papal power was much greater than our Yansheng Gong. They controlled all the countries of Taisi through faith and missionary work, and their words were the law, and they could judge the monarchs and ministers of any country of Taisi."

"There was a scholar named Bruno from a noble family. Because his views were different from those who controlled public opinion, they were sentenced to death by them and tied to the cross and burned to death."
Chapter completed!